I Hate Reading Stuff Like This

Some days, I just don't want to hear anymore about how the G.O.P. is ruining this nation. Whether it be BushCo's evil positions on global warming, or on torture, or on our fallen war dead, or on the domestic dissemination of illegal "covert propaganda" using taxpayers' money, or on how BushCo routinely commits acts of treason by compromising the War on Terror merely to score political points, the whole thing just wears me down sometimes.

The Bush Regime and its co-conspirators know that most Americans feel this way most of the time, and that is why they are able to get away with all of their crap. And it certainly doesn't hurt them to have media whores like David Broder stating that the whole debate on whether Bush lied this country into spending its blood and treasure on the Iraq Debacle is "largely irrelevant" and that we should "move past that."

I am sure Broder probably feels the same way about news like this (thanks for the link, Slic[k]):

A political operative with hacking skills could alter the results of any election on Diebold-made voting machines -- and possibly other new voting systems in Florida -- according to the state capitol's election supervisor, who said Diebold software has failed repeated tests.

Ion Sancho, Leon County's election chief, said tests by two computer experts, completed this week, showed that an insider could surreptitiously change vote results and the number of ballots cast on Diebold's optical-scan machines.

Is it any wonder that the final tally in Florida and Ohio for the 2004 election failed to match the exit polling when the results of every other state did? Don't forget that the head of Diebold -- well, I should say the former head of Diebold given that he was recently forced to resign due to alleged violations of federal securities law and God knows what the hell else -- committed himself to "helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes" for Bush in 2004.

The problem is that there will never be a real investigation as to what really happened either in the 2000 or 2004 elections. Someday, in the distant future, an historian will write a book called "The Great BushCo Deceit: How America's Worst President Was Able To Serve Two Full Terms" wherein all this fraud will be fully exposed, but I won't live to see it.

UPDATE: OK, so I guess it is possible that I might live long enough to read such a book (but I'll be pretty old, that is for sure).