Politics!

[Delwin D Fandrich]

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RE: Politics!
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  From: David Ilvedson=20
  To: pianotech@ptg.org=20
  Sent: November 12, 2000 9:27 AM
  Subject: RE: Politics!


  Ah, Dave...

  I guess I should have put in the happy face.  I thought the sarcasm =
was pretty evident, but apparently not.

  David I.


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Just so we can put the whole thing to rest, here is how it is all going =
the shake out:

Washington state is going to finally finish counting all of the absentee =
ballots cast for its open US Senate seat and it is going to turn out =
that Maria Cantwell (D) has won the election she spent so many millions =
purchasing.  That makes it a draw in the Senate.  So...

Florida is going to get so tied up in the so-called legal challenges to =
their election process and to the ballots that a few folks with =
attention spans of less than 30 seconds could not figure out that on =
December 18th the Electoral College is going to vote without the Florida =
electors.  As is their right and duty.  (Florida has until December 12th =
to work their way through all of this and to certify their results. =
Normally this would give them adequate time, but never in recent history =
has there been a political system or a court system that has shown the =
slightest willingness to move that fast.)  As it stands now, that vote =
could well result in a tie.

So, the responsibility to select a new President will then go to the =
House of Representatives.  There being a slim, but significant, =
Republican majority in the House, this vote, obviously, will go to =
Herbert W Bush (R) -- despite his behavior of late hardly being what one =
could call presidential.

The responsibility to select a new Vice President, however, will go to =
the Senate where, with neither party dominate, there will be much =
haggling back and forth with, of cour$e, $everal more billion$ of =
dollar$ being $pent on new poll$, political televi$ion ad$ and lobbying =
effort$.  Ultimately, however, in a rare display of Fairness, Truth, =
Justice and the American Way, Joe Liebermann (D) will be selected to =
serve as Vice President. =20

Could be interesting, no?

There is, of course, one other possible scenario that comes to mind:

Both candidates, their respective parties and the various Federal and =
Florida courts will manage to get themselves so tied up in political and =
legal wrangling that neither side will win the current squabble until =
sometime in 2007.  December 18, 2000 will come and go and the Electoral =
College will not vote at all and on January 20, 2001 (Inauguration Day) =
the likely Republican Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, will be =
sworn in as President.  The then-President Hastert will select his own =
nominee to serve as Vice President, subject to confirmation, of course.  =
If Mr Hastert is unable, or, most wisely, unwilling, to serve, the lot =
would then fall to the next-in-line, the president pro tempore of the =
new Senate, Strom Thurmond (R) who will, by then, be 98 years of age and =
who would surely not pass up the opportunity to invade Cuba or Puerto =
Rico or someplace before passing on.  Before doing so, however, he is =
going to surprise everybody by selecting Ralph Nader to be his Vice =
President.  The House and Senate will be so stunned by this that they =
will confirm Mr Nader's nomination in record time.

Ain't we got fun?  It all makes me so very glad that I did not vote of =
either Bush or Gore...

Del

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