This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment RE: Politics! ----- Original Message -----=20 From: David Ilvedson=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: November 12, 2000 9:27 AM Subject: RE: Politics! Ah, Dave... I guess I should have put in the happy face. I thought the sarcasm = was pretty evident, but apparently not. David I. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- Just so we can put the whole thing to rest, here is how it is all going = the shake out: Washington state is going to finally finish counting all of the absentee = ballots cast for its open US Senate seat and it is going to turn out = that Maria Cantwell (D) has won the election she spent so many millions = purchasing. That makes it a draw in the Senate. So... Florida is going to get so tied up in the so-called legal challenges to = their election process and to the ballots that a few folks with = attention spans of less than 30 seconds could not figure out that on = December 18th the Electoral College is going to vote without the Florida = electors. As is their right and duty. (Florida has until December 12th = to work their way through all of this and to certify their results. = Normally this would give them adequate time, but never in recent history = has there been a political system or a court system that has shown the = slightest willingness to move that fast.) As it stands now, that vote = could well result in a tie. So, the responsibility to select a new President will then go to the = House of Representatives. There being a slim, but significant, = Republican majority in the House, this vote, obviously, will go to = Herbert W Bush (R) -- despite his behavior of late hardly being what one = could call presidential. The responsibility to select a new Vice President, however, will go to = the Senate where, with neither party dominate, there will be much = haggling back and forth with, of cour$e, $everal more billion$ of = dollar$ being $pent on new poll$, political televi$ion ad$ and lobbying = effort$. Ultimately, however, in a rare display of Fairness, Truth, = Justice and the American Way, Joe Liebermann (D) will be selected to = serve as Vice President. =20 Could be interesting, no? There is, of course, one other possible scenario that comes to mind: Both candidates, their respective parties and the various Federal and = Florida courts will manage to get themselves so tied up in political and = legal wrangling that neither side will win the current squabble until = sometime in 2007. December 18, 2000 will come and go and the Electoral = College will not vote at all and on January 20, 2001 (Inauguration Day) = the likely Republican Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, will be = sworn in as President. The then-President Hastert will select his own = nominee to serve as Vice President, subject to confirmation, of course. = If Mr Hastert is unable, or, most wisely, unwilling, to serve, the lot = would then fall to the next-in-line, the president pro tempore of the = new Senate, Strom Thurmond (R) who will, by then, be 98 years of age and = who would surely not pass up the opportunity to invade Cuba or Puerto = Rico or someplace before passing on. Before doing so, however, he is = going to surprise everybody by selecting Ralph Nader to be his Vice = President. The House and Senate will be so stunned by this that they = will confirm Mr Nader's nomination in record time. Ain't we got fun? It all makes me so very glad that I did not vote of = either Bush or Gore... Del ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/2a/63/ab/88/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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