This week marks the third anniversary of the SOTUS decision

[CatWoman]

that give us this illegitimate numbskull.

Are you still angry? I am.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Yes, I am still angry.

Democracy in this country died 12/12/00.

On edit: That line is in my user profile here.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. I'm angrier now than then

I knew it would be fucked but who woulda guessed? The country handed over to AEI, our citizens turned into bombs against our other citizens, two wars and 40% of our armed forces not ready for duty, white men pictured limiting women's reporductive rights, overtime pay quickly becoming a relic of the past, WalMart taking over labor rights, the list goes on and on.

[keopeli]

3. Angry? I'm despondent. I never thought we would lose Democracy...

while I was still alive. Now, our only hope is that enough of us can fight together to get it back.

[MoonAndSun]

4. Yes, and I will NEVER get over it.

[DeepModem Mom]

5. "a ransom note penned by Kafka"

Margaret Carlson described the decision in Time magazine as "an unsigned opinion tossed over history's transom like a ransom note penned by Kafka." She seems to have gotten over it. Not me.

[Vitruvius]

6. IF we get our democracy back, I hope we have the guts to send the

felonious 5 to PRISON -- along with the Rethug rioters who stopped the vote count in Miami, along with Bu$h, Cheney, Baker et al, who offered inducements to 3 out of the felonious 5, and funded and thanked the rioters. So that no other set of Rethug crooks ever dares try this again.

If we had properly punished Prescott Bu$h for his Nazi collaboration (prison or execution, plus asset forfeiture), we would never have had a problem with either George Bu$h; they would have been drunken paupers from a disgraced Nazi family.

If we had properly punished the Iran-Contra criminals, half the top members of Bu$h II's administration would have gone to prison and would have been ineligible to hold their present positions -- or even vote.

As things stand now, rich Rethugs are never punished for their crimes -- they are above the law -- which means that they have everything to gain and nothing to lose by subverting our democracy.

[dreissig]

7. They Damaged The Court

The Gang of Five damaged the Supreme Court, and they know it. History will judge them harshly.

A judge likes to be well remembered and appreciated by future generations. But that won't happen to Rehnquist ... there will always be a big smudge over his record. A hundred years from now, when scholars do legal research, they'll see the names Kennedy, Thomas, Scalia and O'Connor and think of Bush v. Gore.

[opihimoimoi]

8. I agree, History will assign them places in the HALL of FOOLs

They clearly showed their bias in the matter.

They thought they could get away with it.

Enormous pressure was put on them and they caved in like wet sand.

In doing so, made America weak and sullied our credibility. The Capotalist System has fucked us again, we got sold out to the highest bidder. Those 5 know little of the enormous damage they bestowed upon this Nation. A triple POX on them. May they fall into a pool of smegma. I blow my nose on them. Pht pphhhitt

For they lack of a fair vote, the Nation was lost.....

For the lack of a fair Nation, the World was lost....

For the lack of a Fair Species, Earth will not be among the Species reaching across the Universe.

We have fucked ourselves into a lifestyle fit for misery and pestilence.

Screw it,

Come, we go eat

[CatWoman]

12. but the thing that really burns my ass

is the lack of support from the Democrats.

They should have shown better support for Al Gore.

He deserved better.

We deserved better.

And the Democrats wonder why they lost so much of their base's support.

[Davis_X_Machina]

9. In the cold light of retrospective...

... historians will conclude that 12/12/2000 was a far greater injury to this nation than 9/11/2001.

[Octafish]

10. Don't blame Kerry.

He voted against confirming the neo-NAZI Rehnquist as Chief Justice. An all-too-familiar echo in a report on what's left out of the traitorious turd's official biography ...


Just our Bill

By Dennis Roddy
Saturday, December 02, 2000

Lito Pena is sure of his memory. Thirty-six years ago he, then a Democratic Party poll watcher, got into a shoving match with a Republican who had spent the opening hours of the 1964 election doing his damnedest to keep people from voting in south Phoenix.

"He was holding up minority voters because he knew they were going to vote Democratic," said Pena.

The guy called himself Bill. He knew the law and applied it with the precision of a swordsman. He sat at the table at the Bethune School, a polling place brimming with black citizens, and quizzed voters ad nauseam about where they were from, how long they'd lived there -- every question in the book. A passage of the Constitution was read and people who spoke broken English were ordered to interpret it to prove they had the language skills to vote.

SNIP...

Charlie Stevens, then the head of the local Young Republicans, said he got a phone call from the same lawyer Pena remembered throwing out of Bethune School. The guy wanted to know why Charlie hadn't joined Operation Eagle Eye.

CONTINUED...

http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20001202roddy.asp

[pruner]

11. Lieberman is holding an online fundraiser tied to the anniversary…

if the current donation rate continues, he's gonna end up a Loserman here too.

It all started on December 12, 2000.

That is the date that the U.S. Supreme Court issued its infamous ruling on Bush v. Gore, and effectively overturned the will of the people by installing George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in the White House.

Let's mark the three-year anniversary of this outrage by fighting back.

Al Gore and Joe Lieberman would have won the state of Florida with just 538 more votes. It's time to set things right. Join us in our campaign to raise $538,000 by December 12, 2003 - that's $1,000 for every vote that cost us the 2000 election.

http://www.joe2004.com/site/PageServer?pagename=florida_fundraising

total amount raised as of 4 pm EST: $118,746.60