On Jun 1, 2006, at 6:26 PM, ravi wrote:
> At around 1/6/06 4:28 pm, ravi wrote:
>> At around 1/6/06 3:37 pm, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/
>> was_the_2004_election_stolen
>>
>
> As before, the arguments put forth are quite strong. So, why is nobody
> (i.e, Democrats) following up on this? (please, I beg you, no answers
> about how Democrats are wimps, etc).
They're not "wimps" in the sense of lacking, um, testicularity. But they're structurally incapable of responding, because to push this hard would provoke a serious constitutional crisis, and they don't dare do that. As Al Gore said the other day <http://newyorkmetro.com/ news/politics/17065/index2.html>:
> Does he, like many Democrats, think the election was stolen?
>
> Gore pauses a long time and stares into the middle distance. “There
> may come a time when I speak on that,” Gore says, “but it’s not
> now; I need more time to frame it carefully if I do.” Gore sighs.
> “In our system, there’s no intermediate step between a definitive
> Supreme Court decision and violent revolution.”