Vote.
Well, Tuesday’s the Big Day, and while I’ll refrain from making endorsements, I will remind you to VOTE. And bring a friend, so he or she can VOTE too. Then, come to Drinking Liberally from 6 until whenever at the Tangier, 18th and Lombard Streets, in Center City.
If you have time, volunteer to pollwatch: learn more at Do More Than Vote: http://domorethanvote.org/philadelphia.htm. They have links and contacts for all sorts of great groups working to win this election for progressives, and to finally ensure some long-needed oversight of the disaster in DC.
If anyone tries to deny you your rights, or you see shenanigans at the polls, call 866-OUR-VOTE.
Susie Madrak has some thoughts on election theft: http://susiemadrak.com/2006/11/03/10/25/neidermeyer-dead/.
The list of reasons to vote is as long as it is Repugnant: lend me your ear that I may turn your stomach.
The suspension of habeas corpus.
Torture as a legitimate interrogation tactic.
The gay bashing.
Terri Schiavo.
The war in Iraq.
And today, attempts to restrict the travel of ordinary Americans, attempts to put us all on a no-fly list: http://sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3023
Shall I go on? I think I shall.
2000.
2004.
The lying.
The corruption.
The K Street Project.
The failure to provide adequate body armor.
The failure to provide enough troops.
“Cakewalk”.
“We’ll be greeted as liberators”.
“Last throes”.
Hurricane Katrina.
The Superdome.
The drowning of New Orleans.
“Osama bin Laden Determined to strike in the US.”
The deliberate attempt by the neocons to wash their hands of Iraq (shades of Bart Simpson as the “I Didn’t Do It Kid): http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12/neocons200612 (print and read on the toilet, into which you’ll probably need to regurgitate).
The thuggish behavior of throwing people into windows for asking uncomfortable questions, in the Virginia campaign.
The thuggish behavior of having people detained for decorating their car with the wrong bumpersticker, in Denver.
The thuggish behavior of having people arrested for telling a certain foul-mouthed politician he was wrong about Iraq, again in Colorado.
And when you pull that lever or touch that screen or whatever the machines in your district do, remember the words of Babs Johnson: “You stand convicted of assholeism! Your proper punishment will now take place.”
NO MORE ASSHOLEISM. VOTE TUESDAY NOVEMBER 7.
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