Friday, March 14, 2008

The Two-State Travesty

In other absurdity, everybody's running around frantically trying to figure out how to deal with Michigan and Florida--re-vote? How? When? Who Pays? Other solutions? Split 50-50? And not to serve democracy so much as to save the state politicians who got those states in this mess in the first place. If these delegations don't get seated at the convention, these folks lose power within the party and look real bad to their constitutents, who sooner or later are going to realize that this immense screw-up is their fault.

Meanwhile, Hillary’s positions keep changing so fast that reporting can't keep up with them. Thursday it was that the votes in Michigan and Florida should stand, because in Michigan it was the other candidates’ choice to take their names off the ballot. This is just one more instance of Hillary sounding exactly like George Bush, on FISA and Iraq. There’s always a new assertion, always involving tortured logic (if any) and in defiance of the facts, but everybody reacts to it. And neither of them have any shame about doing this. How can Hillary look in the mirror and not see Bush staring back at her, grinning?

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