November 05, 2004
A Year Without Politics
By Jim Dallas
Win or lose, after one of these sorts of campaigns one tends to be a little bit burned out. Especially if you're on the side that comes up short.
We've tuned in, turned off, and dropped out. Time to tune out, turn on, and drop in for a while. It's part of the natural balance of things.
So now I think I'm going to take a year and try not to be so obsessive-compulsive about this politics thing. I'm going to play games (some of political nature*) and do some good works (the good thing about charity, compared to politics, is that you don't have to spend months or years fighting people in order to get something done). may... may... try to actually put more effort into school work.
That isn't to say that I am slacking off entirely. I'm still going to be a virtuous, civic-minded, well-informed American.
And I'm not going to stop blogging. But I'll probably be posting mostly fart jokes and sports scores for a while.
* The standard here is whether we're talking real-word politics or not. That won't keep me from fighting hard for, say, the Angry Troll Party in the online simulated Republic of Make-Believe.
Posted by Jim Dallas at November 5, 2004 10:41 AM
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Every now and then,one must ignore reality and play. Reality,unfortunately,never goes away,but your chances to blow it all off for awhile,do. So.... Run,flee,frolic,fuck off,take ibuprofen before you pass out.Because it will all still be here when you decide to come back. I was tear-gassed in Chicago in '68. I ain't done yrt!
What is underway in Harris County is a case of old-fashioned vote stealing with new-fashioned equipment.
County Clerk Beverly Kaufman, a parisan Republican with a history of questionable elections under her belt, hired David Beirne, anoither partisan Republican who was at the center of the South Florida debacle in 2000.
Together, these two have introduced so many irregularities into the Heflin-Vo race that it is already hopelessly tainted even BEFORE they resume the count tomorrow that they should have finished on Election Night.
Why are they doing this? Because Heflin is the most powerful member of the Texas House. He has been defeated, and the Republican establishment in Austin can;t stand it.
They have sent Tom DeLay's lawyer Andy Taylor in to overturn the results. Kaufman has admitted that she tried to rush through a recount "at the urging of Mr. Heflin" in a letter to the Secretary of State.
This is about Speaker's politics, not the will of the voters of House District 149.
If the Republicans steal this election, it will be especially ironic because Hubert Vo is an honorable man who came to this country 30 years ago to participate in what he thought was a free and open political process.
Turns out, it's no more honest that South Vietnam in the 1970s -- or South Florida in 2000.
