December 12, 2000, a date that will live in infamy

[mahatmakanejeeves]

I know; Roosevelt said "which," not "that."

The Supreme Court delivered its decision in Bush v. Gore on this day in 2000, declaring that Bush would occupy the White House for the next eight years.

Also, if you own an Oldsmobile, you know that it was on the same day that General Motors announced that it would be stopping production of Oldsmobiles.

Dead at 106: Oldsmobile

[riqster]

1. The day the Supremes openly became partisan hacks (nt)

[UTUSN]

2. & Jeb Crow Shrub took it as a sign from the Virgin of Guadalupe on her feast day

that his efforts in the theft had her, uh, blessing. (Her feast day is 12-12.) The Church inherited from the Romans the technique of incorporating the deities of conquered people, letting them keep their religions alongside the Romans'. So the indigenous Mexicans worshipped the sun, and that's a sunburst BEHIND her, her blotting out the sun, get it, there's a new kid in town?!1

So we thought the B.F.E.E. machine had the 2000 "election" covered, with a brother in the crucial state for manipulating the vote, and the SCotUS stacked, and various Shrub offshoots in key places in other states and media. But Jeb Crow Shrub had La Virgen up his sleeve, with his Mexican born wife, his own Catholic convert status, and his beautiful Spanish, to sew up that and potentially future campaigns, since a segment of Mexican Americans will take all these things as: Signs...

[stevenleser]

3. The decision was very bad, but the FL Legislature stole the election the day before when they

voted to give Florida's electors to Bush regardless of what happened with the recount. That, plus the Katherine Harris purge of legal African American voters gave the election to Bush.

If the SCOTUS had ruled in Gore's favor and the recount produced the result most of us agree that it would, Gore's FL electors would have shown up to vote along side Bush's who would have shown up as a result of the FL legislature vote. That would have resulted in the FLorida electors being disputed and ultimately would have thrown the election into congress. Since the House's state delegations were Republican, Bush would have been installed and the Senate would have voted for Lieberman for VP.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. I was about to say I'd take Lieberman over Cheney for VP but...

...I suspect another equally "influential" post would have been found for crashcart.

[Arugula Latte]

4. Dead at 226: U.S. democracy

[HughBeaumont]

6. The Filthy Five.

L to R (back): Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Hackett Souter, Uncle Thomas Clarence, Steven Breyer.
L to R (seated): Nino the Fixer, John Stevens, The Fundie's Inside Man, Mrs. 5-4, "I side with the Pigs on what matters".

To the aliased: PIGS. You deserve no fucking legacy for ruining this country. NONE. How can you bastards sleep at night?? HOW? Especially YOU, Mrs. 5-4? With that fateful and supremely selfish action, you just ruined any precedent your term set. Rotten bastards.




Here's some Brillo, dumb frat fuckers. Scrub the blood off of your hands!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. Another year has passed, but the horror has not diminished.

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