James Baker has to be kicking himself right now. After all, it’s largely his fault this num-nuts is in power. Serving as co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, and having its recommendations likely dismissed by the Cretin in Chief, is just a small pay-back for cursing us with this idiot to begin with.
Climb into the Way Back Machine and go to the fall of 2000. Baker led the Bush team petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to void the decision by Florida’s high court which allowed a recount of suspicious ballots. Baker held a press conference to condemn the “activist” Florida justices and plea to set things right.
The vote here in Florida was very close, but when it was counted Governor Bush was the winner.
Now, three days later, the vote in Florida has been recounted. Over two-thirds of the state election supervisors overseeing that recount are Democrats. At the end of this recount, Governor Bush is still the winner, subject only to counting the overseas ballots, which traditionally have favored the Republican candidates. No evidence of vote fraud, either in the original vote or in the recount, has been presented…
Let the country step back for a minute and pause and think about what’s at stake here. This may be the last chance to do that. There is no reasonable end to this process if it slips away.
…For the good of the country, and for the sake of our standing in the world, the campaigning should end and the business of an orderly transition should begin.
Where to start? Palm Beach County’s Democratic Elections Supervisor, Theresa LaPore, was later forced to resign in disgrace. Vote fraud, in both the original election and the Katherine Harris-supervised recount, was presented and proven. And as for this country’s standing in the world…
But Baker was also right. There was a lot at stake, and it was our last chance to avoid the horrible consequences. I’m not happy that it looks like Bush is rejecting the ISG’s work because we need to figure out how to make the killing in Iraq stop. But there is, as my cousin Jon likes to say, a certain schadenfreude in all this. How do you like your president now, James Baker?
Baker is as corrupt as Bush and only a little smarter. Remember that Baker, along with Bush the Elder, are members of the Carlyle Group, a group of scummy war profiteers. The two Bushes and Baker would be hanging side by side on the gallows pole, in a just world…
LIKE I ALWAYS SAY!!!! LIKE FARTER LIKE PUTER ONLY PUTER IS PRODUCING MORE SHIT!—WHY? PADDING HIS AND PAP AND CHENEYS POCKETS MORE AND MORE!