Damn cold in Oklahoma this morning. Convincing myself to go to yoga was quite a trick.
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Something reminded me of Lewis Black the other day. I remember his standup routine after the Lewinsky scandal. He was rightly mad at Clinton for dragging us through all that juvenile crap--though in retrospect, it just seems petty and trivial. Anyway, Black suggested that as a punishment, Arkansas could not have another President for a hundred years.
I initially thought that should apply to Texas as well, but have reconsidered. After all, a lot more people are responsible for the worst President in American history than just Texans. And so more people have to do penance.
I first toyed with a scarlet letter (red states and all that) idea, but with all the college teams and humorous t-shirts out there, that won't work. My solution? Those people who voted for Bush should not vote for a certain number of years. But both as a Democrat and democrat, I cannot sanction disenfranchisement, so I suggest it be self-inflicted. Secret ballot, secret penance. You all know who you are.
You alone can look inside your heart and recognize that you made a huge mistake. If you voted for Bush in 2000, but not in 2004, then you might be able to justify continuing to cast ballots. After all, you learned. But if, after the wmd-nots and the torture scandal and the outing of the CIA agent--and you still voted for Bush in 2004? You should self-punish yourself severely. No voting for 10 years. That means school board, church deacon, nothing. Not until you show you can use your vote for good.
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It's not the people who voted for Bush that put him in office. My beef is with the people who threw their vote away by either not voting at all or voting for someone without a snowball's chance in Hell of winning like Nader when their votes could have made a difference. They need to be forced to wear Dunce caps for the remainder of Bush's Presidency.
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