Consider the politics

Post #59,707 by kmself 10/27/02 12:17:52 AM Reply	Consider the politics The most liberal Democrat in an evenly divided Senate is killed in a plane crash. In a modulo on the Carnehan incident two years ago, both the Senator's wife & daughter are killed, leaving a two-generation gap in Wellstone's political legacy, not to mention his current support staff with three key aides killed as well. \r\n\r\n The state is typically liberal. Replacement rules allow the party to specify a new candidate, but the governor has the power to appoint a replacement senator for the term of Wellstone's term (through December, 2002). The governor, in this case, is neither a Republican or a Democrat, but an independent, who has previously announced he is not up for reelection -- and thus much critical leverage over his decision on the appointment is foregone. Which is to say that the fulcrum of power lies elsewhere within the state. Look for a serious windfall to Minnesota out of this situation. \r\n\r\n The decision of Governor Ventura will swing the balance of power in the US Senate, and hence Congress (House & Senate are split Repo & Demo, respectively), in the period of time leading up to a likely invasion of Iraq, hence: war votes, and any additional domestic "Homeland Security" legislation. \r\n\r\n I'd decline to buy a book based on this premise, too unlikely. The reality frightens me. --\r\nKarsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n \r\n Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n
Post #59,717 by boxley 10/27/02 12:37:40 AM Reply	It looks like the politically fair thing will happen Rumors have it that ex VP Mondale will run, he is well respected in Minnesota and the repo's would sit still for it otherwise lose the election anyway. Now could Ventura appoint himself and resign the governorship in favor of the female vice gov as he has quipped about doing? Wouldnt put it past him thinking about it. thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] "Therefore, by objective standards, the leading managers of the U.S. economy...are collectively, clinically insane." Lyndon LaRouche
Post #59,724 by deSitter 10/27/02 1:41:40 AM Reply	Saddest Thing Mondale, the all time weasel of the century, may soon be back. -drl
Post #59,738 by boxley 10/27/02 9:33:30 AM Reply	yabbut a very liberal weasel so status quo is achieved will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] "Therefore, by objective standards, the leading managers of the U.S. economy...are collectively, clinically insane." Lyndon LaRouche
Post #59,785 by Ashton 10/27/02 6:38:53 PM Reply	Ah.. so this guy represented what you deem Librul Weasel - (assuming here that you ever managed to read what any of his positions were. Chancy, that?) Besides, after your Alaska VS Injuns screeds, this be a nonsequitur. OK now we know about you - but what does 'Liberal' mean actually, any more? And where does Moderate fit-in? (goshes.. when was the last time anyone used that word anywhere) Ashton
Post #59,788 by boxley 10/27/02 7:08:14 PM Reply	eh, doc called him a weasel I just further defined it and deemed it acceptable. Yes I have read of some of his accomplishments the largest was D2 which repealed the magna carta and reapplied King John's ban on commoners entering the Kings Forest. Fuck you very much. Sold the Panama canal to the Chinese, wants to take away my guns, empty my pockets so his friends and cronies running the government can buy new vacation houses(repo's contract that all out, same cash different scam) and all in all want to decrease freedom in favor of the federal government just like shrub. Weasel and of the liberal wing of the one weasel party. thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] "Therefore, by objective standards, the leading managers of the U.S. economy...are collectively, clinically insane." Lyndon LaRouche
Post #59,790 by Ashton 10/27/02 7:23:09 PM Reply	Oh is that all..
Post #59,808 by deSitter 10/27/02 10:42:39 PM Reply	Re: Oh is that all.. Mondale, and Dukakis, and (too many to name) are a large part of the decline of the Democrats. Mondale in particular has a self-serving unction that turns the stomach. He tried to make political captial out of the death of the Apollo 1 astronauts while on the investigative committee following. The traditional, strong, pro-labor Democrats of the Kennedy generation were sucker-punched by Mondale, Proxmire, McGovern, and a million other hangers-on who sucked the life out of the Party. Yes, he's a weasel - he was also dead wrong about the Russians in 1984. -drl
Post #59,830 by Ashton 10/28/02 7:15:34 AM Reply	Mondale ain't Wellstone. We were talking about Wellstone,so I don't buy Box's encapsulation either. I don't pretend to have followed his career minutely, but the few speeches I have read periodically make him: not a Mondale kinda guy IMO. Unfortunate that Mondale is the only replacement anyone in Minn. can imagine. Maybe better that an Ashcroft rerun occur, meaning: let dead guy win again! Let the Gov. pick successor from entire state. (Maybe though, the Repub would shoo in with chants of Unity, God and The Flag.) The fact that imagination Is this impoverished follows from the general One-Party Republicrat fossils everywhere. That these 'Democrats' have had no guts to perform the duties of the Loyal Opposition\ufffd since 9/11, went ovinely along with the original Welfare destruction bill years ago (as did Clinton, to score points {ugly} via out-Repoing the Repubs) - merely underscores that only the Right is represented anywhere - until another party forms from the wreckage. Any mere moderate rates 'librul' in this surreal scene. 'Two Parties' my ass. Ashton Ignorance is Truth Freedom is Slavery

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