Apparently, Failure Is Never An Option

[Nbadan]

Bush Is Said to Have No Plan if GOP Loses
By Kenneth T. Walsh


Some Republican strategists are increasingly upset with what they consider the overconfidence of President Bush and his senior advisers about the midterm elections November 7–a concern aggravated by the president's news conference this week.

"They aren't even planning for if they lose," says a GOP insider who informally counsels the West Wing. If Democrats win control of the House, as many analysts expect, Republicans predict that Bush's final two years in office will be marked by multiple congressional investigations and gridlock.

"The Bush White House has had no relationship with Congress," said a Bush ally. "Beyond the Democrats, wait till they see how the Republicans–the ones that survive–treat them if they lose next month." GOP insiders are upset by Bush's seeming inability to come up with new ideas or fresh approaches. There is even a heightened sensitivity to the way Bush talks about advisers who served his father

At the president's news conference on Wednesday, allies of his father complained that the president seemed dismissive of former Secretary of State James Baker, who remains close to his dad and is cochairman of a bipartisan panel studying the war in Iraq

US News (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/061013/13bush.htm)

Prediction:

"Nobody could have anticipated the Democrats winning back the House!"

- Condi Rice, Nov 8, 2006

[Yonivore]

Bush Is Said...
'nuff said.

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Bush+plan=oil+water

[Extra Stout]

Eh, plan, schman. He'll just rig the elections like you always say, Dan.

[Nbadan]

Eh, plan, schman. He'll just rig the elections like you always say, Dan.

That maybe possible in states that use a wide margin of Diebold, Sequoia, and ES&S e-voting machines to tabulate their votes. I have yet to talk to one computer scientist who can refute this possibility, especially after the Princeton tape came out showing how easy it is to steal an election and leave no trace behind using Diebold machines. However, many states still rely on less technologically advanced ways to count their votes, thank god.

Enough to make a difference in the race for domination of the House or Senate? Well, the W.H. isn't confident they'll hold both houses because they think things will turn around for Republicans in the next 3 weeks, I mean, these guys are facing trials and nasty investigations if the Demos win the House. Whatever dirty-tricks they have to pull to make the traitor Liebermann the deciding vote in the Senate and hold the House they'll do, you can count on it.

[Nbadan]

Speaking of election-year dirty tricks...

Some States Making It Harder to Vote
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 12, 2006


NEW YORK (AP) -- Some states have enacted laws that make it harder to vote instead of correcting ballot problems that have plagued various parts of the country since the 2000 election, according to a study released Thursday.

Describing their findings as ''troubling,'' voting reform advocates sampled 10 states with past election difficulties. Especially worrisome, the report said, were laws passed by a handful of states, including Arizona and Georgia, that require a government-issued photo identification card and proof of citizenship before being allowed to vote.

Though both state laws were later blocked by judges, ''the damage has already been done,'' confusing would-be voters and severely hampering voter registration drives, said Tova Wang of The Century Foundation think tank, which conducted the survey with Common Cause and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.

Also troublesome was a lack of electronic voting policies that could make voting lines in the upcoming midterm contest even longer than those in 2004....The study found that the problems with electronic voting were not just malfunctioning machines, but also the lack of available machines. ''There were long lines because there were inequitably distributed voting machines,'' Wang said. Since 2004, most states have only vague guidelines. Florida and Washington, for example, have no formula for determining the number of voting machines in each precinct, the study said.

After the 2004 debacle in Ohio, a law was passed mandating one machine for every 175 registered voters. But it is not enforceable until 2013.

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All policitians are corrupt until proven otherwise.

Policitians and their boot-licking party henchmen certainly want the voting process to be corrupt or, at very least, corruptible and non verifiable.

Cheating, it's The Great American Way. :lol

Anybody who thinks that the voting process being abused by simple neglect is happening because of absentmindedness or incompetence is a naive fool.