Tuesday, October 17, 2006
The Washington Post recently published an article that stated that president Bush and Karl Rove are not worried that their party will lose control of either the House or the Senate in the November elections. It is speculated that this is denial. Hogwash.
Think back to the election of 2004. Conservatives were predicting that Kerry would win by a comfortable margin. There were rumors that president Bush was briefed on the fact that he might lose. It didn't happen.
All one needs to do to understand the cool confidence of Rove and Bush is to watch the video produced by Princeton University. It shows a mock election between George Washington and Benedict Arnold. A disembodied hand votes 4 times for Washington and once for Arnold. When the vote totals are printed by the machine, Arnold beat Washington 3-2. The no paper trail electronic voting machines are produced by corporations with strongly partisan CEOs. The software for these machines is proprietary. The act of fixing the machines to produce desired results is ludicrously simple and nearly impossible to detect. The machines that have wireless capabilities are even easier to fix. They can be fixed from a remote location. The hacker doesn't need to physically access the machines.
I too am confident that the GOP will maintain control of both houses after the November elections. There are members of this administration that have worked diligently for almost 30 years to secure the unfettered power that the Executive Branch now wields. They are not going to relinquish that power easily. Considering that Democratic control of the Legislature would result in impeachment proceedings, and many indictments, just raises the stakes.
The only variable in this November's election is what Rove will choose as the reason that the Democrats were again defeated.
Think back to the election of 2004. Conservatives were predicting that Kerry would win by a comfortable margin. There were rumors that president Bush was briefed on the fact that he might lose. It didn't happen.
All one needs to do to understand the cool confidence of Rove and Bush is to watch the video produced by Princeton University. It shows a mock election between George Washington and Benedict Arnold. A disembodied hand votes 4 times for Washington and once for Arnold. When the vote totals are printed by the machine, Arnold beat Washington 3-2. The no paper trail electronic voting machines are produced by corporations with strongly partisan CEOs. The software for these machines is proprietary. The act of fixing the machines to produce desired results is ludicrously simple and nearly impossible to detect. The machines that have wireless capabilities are even easier to fix. They can be fixed from a remote location. The hacker doesn't need to physically access the machines.
I too am confident that the GOP will maintain control of both houses after the November elections. There are members of this administration that have worked diligently for almost 30 years to secure the unfettered power that the Executive Branch now wields. They are not going to relinquish that power easily. Considering that Democratic control of the Legislature would result in impeachment proceedings, and many indictments, just raises the stakes.
The only variable in this November's election is what Rove will choose as the reason that the Democrats were again defeated.
# posted by Billing Anders @ 10:12 AM 
