There are times when I go a little overboard in my condemnation of the left. My excuse is that they are such ridiculously easy targets for ridicule and spite that I just can’t help myself. The venom and vinegar that pour forth from this site directed at liberals is simply a matter of taking an easy out and letting common sense and logic take their course and effortlessly reveal the stupidites and inanities of the left in all their glory. I hardly break a sweat most of the time.
But every once and a while, I come across something so outrageous, so ridiculous, so unsettling in its denial of reality that the words simply won’t come. Try as I might, I can’t conjure up the outrage, the humor, or the snark to describe what some nitwit on the left has written. Usually, it’s Lambchop who elicits this kind of response. For sheer hyperbole, hysteria, exaggeration, and hate, there are few who can match Mr. Ellison.
But we have a new entry in the Idiot Sweepstakes. This post by Phoenix Woman at Firedoglake is an updated version of an article she evidently wrote a while ago:
Ever wonder how the last six-odd years might have gone, had all the votes been counted in 2000?I’d like to think that they might have gone something like this…
I know, I know. Liberals aren’t satisfied until all of their votes are counted at least twice. And the military overseas? “Out of site, out of luck” is an adage liberals all but spit in the face of our soldiers serving outside of the United States. So much for counting all the votes.
But I challenge you to follow that link above and read the post without your jaw hitting the floor and an unnerving feeling overtake you that suicide might actually be a viable option as opposed to having to finish this…this…
No words.
December 1, 2000: After a night on the town and too much lobster in champagne sauce, Sandra Day O’Connor has a horrifically vivid dream of how the ascension of George W. Bush to the Oval Office would mean the destruction of the American economy, the senseless deaths of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, the loss of American prestige both at home and abroad, and — worst of all — the utter dissolution of her beloved Republican Party as, upon being deserted by even the corporate media, it suffers a series of definitive electoral ass-kickings in 2006, 2008, and 2010 before giving up the ghost. She goes on to provide the swing vote that allows the Florida count to continue, thus guaranteeing that Al Gore’s election is confirmed. Media pundits attack O’Connor so viciously that she decides to retire three weeks later…February through April, 2001: The members of the Republican Congress, with the US corporate media backing them up, start a barrage of conservative legislation — tax cuts for the rich, gutting environmental laws, et cetera — that they plan to browbeat Gore into signing. President Gore vetoes each bill and the vetoes are sustained. He is called “obstructionist” by Tucker Carlson, Robert Novak, and the spokespersons of the Heritage Foundation, the Club for Growth, and the American Nazi Party…
May 5, 2001: National Security chief Sandy Berger, at the urging of his staffers John O’Neill and Richard Clarke, presents President Gore with a PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing) warning of imminent plans by bin Laden to attack New York, America’s financial center, with hijacked commercial jets used as flying bombs. The suspicion is that Al-Qaeda will try to succeed where they had failed eight years earlier and attack the World Trade Center. Gore consults with former Senators Gary Hart (D-CO) and Warren Rudman (R-NH), who chaired a terrorism commission formed by President Clinton in the late 1990s; they concur with the PDB’s findings.
After some heroic countermoves, we come to 9/11:
August – early September, 2001: Dozens of students at flight schools are arrested in a major FBI operation. Thirteen of these students turn out to be directly involved in what will come to be called “the September Plot”.September 11, 2001: At the Houston, LAX and Minneapolis International airports, seven Saudi and Algerian men were forbidden from boarding their flights after airport security personnel found box cutters, wire and other banned items on their persons. These men turn out to be the remnants of the band of Al-Qaeda’s September Plotters; all the others had been caught in the FBI’s sweep of the flight schools.
Armed with this evidence, Gore demands and gets Congressional authorization to send US troops to Afghanistan. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough ridicules the idea that “idiots with box cutters” could take over an airliner. Rush Limbaugh claims that “Gore is sending our young men and women off on a wild goose chase.” Bill O’Reilly, William Kristol, and Ann Coulter demand that Gore invade Iraq, even though none of the would-be hijackers is Iraqi or has any connection to Iraq or to Saddam Hussein.
September 12, 2001: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan agrees to a call by Madeline Albright, US Ambassdor to the UN, for an international force to enter Afghanistan to root out Al-Qaeda. France and Britain, whose intelligence services have worked closely with US intelligence agencies, strongly back the Gore Administration’s position as copious evidence of planned Al-Qaeda attacks in Europe has come to light. To buttress further the case for invasion, well-documented human rights abuses committed by Afghanistan’s Taliban government, which is allied with Al-Qaeda, are brought forth as evidence.
PNAC’s Donald Rumsfeld, while taking care not to seem to oppose the planned intervention in Afghanistan, goes onto Rush Limbaugh’s radio program to complain that even though Afghanistan’s terrain is ruggedly mountainous and therefore has proved to be historically less vulnerable to aerial attacks than other, flatter nations, recent developments in high-tech weaponry mean that the US need not send quite so many troops Kabul’s way — and besides, the real problem is in Iraq!
September 16, 2001: 150,000 UN-led troops, 100,000 of whom are US forces, leave for Afghanistan. Saddam Hussein, who as a secularist Muslim leader despises Osama bin Laden and is in any event eager to get back in the world’s good graces, assists in setting up staging areas in Iraq for the UN. In Teheran, Iran’s moderate leadership, which needs the help of the world community in beating back the conservative mullahs, agrees to let UN troops and planes pass through Iran unhindered.
It’s the “Al-Qaeda War.” And our buddy Saddam is so accomodating, no? Especially after Clinton bombed the sh*t out of him for 8 years.
One last jaw dropper:
December 15, 2004: In exchange for his aid in rooting out Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and his sons Uday and Qusay are encouraged by Gore and by former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter to work out a plan for Iraq’s transition to a secular democracy after Hussein’s death, with Hussein and his sons in pivotal roles on the democracy commission. American conservatives immediately decry this as “appeasement”, whereas Iraq-based observers congratulate Gore, Clinton and Carter for working on a plan to stave off the horrifically bloody civil war that would likely follow Saddam’s death or removal from power.
As I said. No. Words.
5:47 pm
“September 16, 2001: 150,000 UN-led troops, 100,000 of whom are US forces, leave for Afghanistan. Saddam Hussein, who as a secularist Muslim leader despises Osama bin Laden and is in any event eager to get back in the world’s good graces, assists in setting up staging areas in Iraq for the UN. In Teheran, Iran’s moderate leadership, which needs the help of the world community in beating back the conservative mullahs, agrees to let UN troops and planes pass through Iran unhindered.”
June 2007 : US and coalition forces still tied down by viscious guerilla war in Afghanistan. Iraq, Iran suspected of dealing arms to Taliban Guerillas.
5:55 pm
Is there nothing in that imbecilic claptrap that you find the least ridiculous or fanciful or downright loony?
MODERATE leadership of Iran? Are those the mullahs who only want to destroy Israel and not wipe them off the map as well? “Beating back the conservative mullahs…”
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
You really are a knee jerk idiot, Drongo. Your comments are shallow, inane – I rarely read them, they are so predictably banal.
5:57 pm
[...] Indescribably paradisaically awesome. How awesome? December 15, 2004: In exchange for his aid in rooting out Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and his sons Uday and Qusay are encouraged by Gore and by former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter to work out a plan for Iraq’s transition to a secular democracy after Hussein’s death, with Hussein and his sons in pivotal roles on the democracy commission. American conservatives immediately decry this as “appeasementâ€, whereas Iraq-based observers congratulate Gore, Clinton and Carter for working on a plan to stave off the horrifically bloody civil war that would likely follow Saddam’s death or removal from power. [...]
6:24 pm
“National Security chief Sandy Berger, at the urging of his staffers John O’Neill and Richard Clarke, presents President Gore with a PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing) warning of imminent plans by bin Laden to attack New York, America’s financial center, with hijacked commercial jets used as flying bombs”
Wow. We would have had that kind of if algore had won? I’ve got to admit, that would have been pretty cool.
Pretending is a lot more fun than dealing with reality, isn’t it?
6:27 pm
“that kind of intel” Urk!
6:37 pm
“Is there nothing in that imbecilic claptrap that you find the least ridiculous or fanciful or downright loony?”
I found it all hilarious, of course. An absurd excercise in wishful thinking.
“You really are a knee jerk idiot, Drongo.”
And yet, oddly, I, the idiot, am the one who said 4 years ago “This is going to be a horrible mess” and you were the one cheering for it.
Funny that.
“I rarely read them”
Fair enough, free country and all that.
6:43 pm
you know rick, if you were to make a web site and make that stuff up and then attribute it them, they would cry out that they had been libeled.
You really cant make up that sort of idiocy.
7:03 pm
I excerpted and linked at Whatever she’s smokin’, get me some.
7:12 pm
And in the twilight zone of Phoenix Woman’s Phoenix, the cherry trees sing magic madregals of the paradise of Moorish Spain …
7:51 pm
A leftist so-called feminist thinks Uday the serial rapist would be an asset in the War on Terror in Gore’s world?!
Cue the black helicopters, stat.
8:00 pm
Well, that all looks plausible with one exception…in this version Hurricane Katrina does little damage thanks to St. er, President Gore. I think we all know that no hurricane would have the guts to come near America during a Gore administration.
Other than that it’s all pretty obvious that this is how history would have played out.
Oh, she forgot the ‘Saving America Act’ which would have outlawed the Republican party (not that anyone would have ever voted for one again after 8 years of Gorean paradise). Besides I am sure we would have done away with elections anyway and simply proclaimed our undying allegiance to Albert the Magnificent.
They really are delusional.
8:30 pm
Ugh… I couldn’t bring myself to follow the link. The excerpts alone were moronic enough to make my teeth hurt.
8:46 pm
What else to say but “liberal la la land.”
Well, actually, it would be something like:
“September 12, 2001: President Gore holds a press conference preaching tolerance, and promising the Muslim world to work together, while chiding them for contributing to global warming through the destruction of the twin Towers, which released massive amounts of pollutants into the atmosphere.
Gore went on to say that all American troops would be immediately withdrawn from Saudi Arabia, and support for Israel would be cut off, as former President Carter suggested.”
8:49 pm
This is pretty insane.
Really the craziest part for me is the whole “9/11” wouldn’t have happened. This is proof that BDS exists (hell, I don’t like Bush but I don’t idiotically and ahistorically claim 9/11 wouldn’t have happened had he not been president). The plan for 9/11 was years old by the time he took office, you expect him to perform some voodoo to uncover something happening during Clinton’s tenure? Oh, sorry, only Democratic presidents have that magic pixie dust to save the world single-handedly.
And Saddam Hussein…assisting us? This woman is either very stupid or mentally ill. Not only that, but it seems that a lot of people cling to this “secular Saddam” like rabid dogs. No mention of his pan-Islamic conferences. No mention of giving payouts to the family of suicide bombers (who weren’t doing it for secularism) in Palestine. Saddam was a harborer and funder of terrorists, just not the guys who hit us.
I also find the label “moderate” hilarious in terms of Middle Eastern leaders. You can find numerous quotes from “moderate” leaders about how the West needs to succom to Islam or about how evil Israel is or about how the Holocaust is a Zionist hoax.
9:04 pm
[...] Right Wing Nuthouse found an old post at liberal moonbat haven FiredogLake.com. Here is a sample of what Phoenix Woman says would’ve happened, if Gore had won. Miraculous predictors, these liberals. Oh, and all the commenters believe it would’ve happened, just as she said, too. September 11, 2001: At the Houston, LAX and Minneapolis International airports, seven Saudi and Algerian men were forbidden from boarding their flights after airport security personnel found box cutters, wire and other banned items on their persons. These men turn out to be the remnants of the band of Al-Qaeda’s September Plotters; all the others had been caught in the FBI’s sweep of the flight schools. [...]
9:23 pm
That was truly unbelievable. Unfathomable idiocy. In “All In The Family” Archie Bunker referred to his son-in-law as “Meathead,” as in, “dead from the neck up.” I think we’ve found a new candidate for that moniker.
The “reality-based community” indeed.
9:55 pm
you know what would be a great alternative history of the last six years?
what if we never proceeded into iraq?
progressives would never have had to shelve their “silent genocide” accusations. nor the “harsh afghani winters” in the afghan pakistani mountains which have been the “graveyard for all invaders” defeatism. nor the “talibans suffocated in oil barrells” story. nor the uncal pipeline conspiracy theory. nor the….
11:48 pm
My first reaction (as you predicted) was for my jaw to drop to the floor. My second reaction was how this woman actually functions in life!
I do find the comment about Saddam allowing U.N. staging areas in Iraq for a military push into Afghanistan intriguing. Talk about a turnaround! Saddam would have gone from not allowing a nerdy U.N. inspector with a pocket protector into his country but would let 150,000 Christian troops assemble in Tikrit?!
There is one bright spot in all of this – I don’t live next door to “PhoenixWoman.”
12:16 am
“UN led troops” snort…giggle..BWAHAHAA
12:34 am
Wow. I mean… wow!
That be some hi-octane moonbat spittle right there, splashed in all it’s pixelicious glory.
Ya think she’s jealous that Rosie’s getting credit for being the most delusional chick on the planet, and decided to up the ante?
Or is she Janie Hamsher’s “reality-based” strategerist and having a vision of what the world would be like if the sky was pink?
12:37 am
Gee Rick, you seem quite smug and boastful about your rhetorical efforts. It kinda boggles the mind.
Perhaps you havent noticed, but America is in the midst of takng a decided turn to the left, and there doesnt seem to be any end to it in the near future. And I bet it is the case, that you, and people like you, with your mindless, childish rantings, have contributed to that, in some tiny way.
How can I put this a bit more dramatically? Here we go – the Glenn Greenwalds of this world are WINNING the argument. The Rick Morans of this world are LOSING the argument. What are we up to now, a 50-35 partisan divide favoring the democrats? A growing army of rats fleeing the conservative / Republican ship?
And yet you sit here congratulating yourself over your brilliance in effortlessly beating back the rhetoric of the left? “Denial” used to be a pretty useful word, but I sense that you are way beyond that.
Sure, the article you reference is kinda silly. Big yawn. You arent going to seriously try to argue though that this country and this world wouldnt have been enormously better off if Gore had been inaugurated, are you?
Heh.
1:13 am
My God do we have to witness the piercing off her nipples to put surgical steel thru them?
Get a bone in your nose lady it would somehow fit.
I would hate to see the video of her typing this screed.
Sad demonstration of how bad things can get when you have a loss of character.
3:31 am
I spotted another blooper:
“September 11, 2001: At the Houston, LAX and Minneapolis International airports, seven Saudi and Algerian men were forbidden from boarding their flights after airport security personnel found box cutters, wire and other banned items on their persons.”
Those items weren’t banned until AFTER the 9-11 attacks, as a result of those attacks. So if no attacks happened, box cutters etc wouldn’t draw attention.
3:49 am
Fantasyland…
While Rick Moran is struck dumb by some lefty idiot’s vision of a country ruled these last six years by the wise and just Manbearpig, well, me, I’ve got a song in my heart:
One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning
...
5:28 am
Wow. Those guys at fdl are tough on opposing veiwpoints.
One mention of Clinton/Gore administration military action against Iraq and the delete my post and then close comments completely.
I feel as if I’ve passed a milestone.
But following a well worn path.
7:11 am
I’m sorry but I have no problem here commenting. That was absolutely the most ridiculous fairy tale I have ever read. That honey must be on the sane juice as the author of Alice in Wonderland.
Are the Democrats all that stupid? No wonder I left the party. The Socialists are in power in the Democratic Party because the party just let them waltz in and buy them out.When you sleep with dogs you get fleas. Had she invested as much time in actual fact finding she would have found out that the socialists plans to take over the party started a long time ago.
Right now Nancy Pelosi and her bunch are planning a move for the Presidency. If the country lets her do it, it deserves the out come.There is plenty of accountability to go around for everyone. The Democrats just don’t have the “family jewells” to accept theirs.
By the way, did you notice comments were closed? Some opposing views were starting to trickle in!
7:14 am
And the version that’s actually played out?
How’s that working?
8:02 am
Delusional drivel is par for firedoglake, or smokin’ biyotch fever swamp. How’s Ned Lamont doin’ as Senator from Connecticut?
8:04 am
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8:33 am
[...] Rick at Right Wing Nut House highlights something that is sadly not a joke [...]
1:44 pm
[...] Right Wing Nuthouse finds an absolute pearl: But we have a new entry in the Idiot Sweepstakes. This post by Phoenix Woman at Firedoglake is an updated version of an article she evidently wrote a while ago: [...]
7:19 pm
“Sure, the article you reference is kinda silly.”
Kinda? Man, you must be off your rocker.
There still, most likely, would’ve been at least some sort of military action against Iraq even with Gore (or any other Democrat) in the White House. This is my major problem with the “Gore would be better, there’d be no Iraq war”. It’s nearly as foolish as “no 9/11, no Katrina” with Gore as president.
“And the version that’s actually played out?
How’s that working?”
I love the internet, people don’t know how to argue (or at least turns 99.9 percent of people into ten year olds). The fact that Bush sucks doesn’t mean that the discussed blog post isn’t utterly insane.
And I love the commenter up above who acted as if it’s alright that the Glenn Greenwalds (fool and sock puppet master) are winning. Does that mean that when more Americans than not were to the right, that the righties were correct? Nobody’s “winning” any debate, a vast majority of people are uninformed ignoramuses and are fickle as all hell.
8:44 pm
Sept. 11, 2001: Without warning, hijacked domestic flights are flown into both World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. One flight goes down in Pennsylvania due to the heroic actions of its passengers.
September 11, 2001, 9:00 PM: Pres. Albert Gore Jr. signs the instrument of surrender aboard the HMS Eurabia, anchored in the Shatt Al-Arab.
9:04 pm
Blind to the fact that a democratic Iraq fights terrorism. Blind to the fact that Saddam would not.
Que up the painting of Saddam smoking a cigar behind the burning WTC. Remember, moonbats, Saddam hates terrorism.
9:35 pm
So a Gore Presidency brings eternal peace in the Middle East? Why stop there?
Uday and Qusay convert to Southern Baptists and volunteer for “Habitat for Humanity”.
Gore invents a new form of “cold-fusion” in his spare time during evenings at the White House (while fine tuning all the Internet protocols he invented.) Hummers now run for a week on a single tablespoon of chunky style peanut-butter.
Kim Jong II meets with Dr. Phil, joins a 12 step program that cures genocidal addiction, and starts making guest appearances on “The View”. Rosie starts to rethink her sexual orientation.
Bill Clinton joins a Jesuit monastery and takes a vow of silence.
Hillary bakes cookies and launches a new career singing in a tribute band for Tammy Wynette.
Jimmy Carter retreats from making public appearances, saying that the job of being President was hard enough without being second guessed by former occupants of the White House. He goes out fishing and beats a rabbit to a bloody pulp.
10:56 pm
You can tell it’s nonsense from the very beginning. The Supreme Court decision to stop the recount wasn’t 5-4, it was 7-2. If O’Connor changes her vote, it doesn’t change anything.
From there, it just gets stupid.
11:12 pm
Hey, I agreed with a lot of what she had to say.
For instance, “the” “a” and “too”
Who could argue with that?
11:37 pm
If Al Gore Had Ascended To The White House In 2000 (Part I Of What May Or May Not Be More Than I)...
January 22, 2002: President Gore in his State of the Union address asks Congress to enact legislation that restricts cows’ access to tobacco. The cows, who started smoking after they were inspired by Gore’s 1988 “I’m a tobacco farmer” speech,...
2:40 am
i just noticed that a reply i wrote saturday morning…which was contrary to crazy lady’s belief system but not mean or snarky… has been removed from the thread.
also noted that other people not so delusionally inclined as miss moonbat wrote in to express themselves as well.
every one of those comments is gone now, and the thread is closed, leaving behind only shiny happy people holding hands.
no a big surprise though.
7:19 am
Tano
So the Sock Puppets are winning and in your mind that’s a good thing?
Thant said, I will never cower to the diseased mind of the post-modern anti-enlightened.
8:13 am
I like to pretend things, too. Sometimes I pretend I’m a fireman. Sometimes I pretend I’m a fire engine. And sometimes I pretend I’m a sleek jungle cat, padding around the veldt on four velvet paws.
8:22 am
She must have been a writer for The West Wing. Member of the Six Sigma, 20/20 Hindsight, Cafeteria Constitutionalists Party.
9:31 am
Hmmm…I did laugh at Sadam helping us and setting up a democracy. Very rich.
Of course the larger point is that Bush has screwed up in almost every way possible. I have no doubt most Americans wish Gore had been elected. It would be hard to do worse.
10:07 am
all the others had been caught in the FBI’s sweep of the flight schools.
Ah yes, because the left is just so interested in sweeping up all those Muslims in massive raids after howling for 5 years Bush has indefinitely detained Americans without trials, etc, etc, etc.
Liberals:
The party of “we’re for the opposite of what is actually happening now, no matter how silly it is.”
10:12 am
but America is in the midst of takng a decided turn to the left, and there doesnt seem to be any end to it in the near future.
Funny stuff.
Truly.
Tell us, in this “decided turn” why did barely any Democratic Congressional candidates run on pulling out of Iraq immediately?
Further, how can you explain that with a change in ~150,000 votes (out of ~7 million cast), the Senate would be R with Talent and Burns winning?
Oh, you can’t.
Nevermind.
10:43 am
Ha-ha-ha! (I can’t stop laughing!)
Perhaps it was just an April Fool’s joke?
11:32 am
Sorry Nick.
I can’t put your comment on the blog. I consider your wish for the lady beyond the pale.
12:08 pm
Sorry Rick, but these “womyn” of the left deserve to live with the consequences of their “multicultural” delusions. That IS how women are treated in that part of the world, and especially how Uday and Qusay treated oh so many women. If only these leftist “womyn” could suffer a similar fate. It would wise them up quickly.
Uday and Qusay working on a transition team to democracy indeed!
12:17 pm
“In exchange for his aid in rooting out Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and his sons Uday and Qusay are encouraged by Gore…to work out a plan…”
WTF? That doesn’t even make sense. That woman is an idiot.
1:34 pm
We have had good Presidents, even two great ones. We have had non-entities (Fillmore, Pierce, Benjamin Harrison, Harding), do-nothings and even racists (Buchanan, Hoover, Carter, Andrew Johnson); but until Clinton, none was ever personally corrupt.
Absent literal criminality, we’d compare WJC most closely to James Buchanan, on the brink of Civil War. What then of GWB, 2001 – 2008? The Executive that comes first to mind is Harry Truman—despite his Berlin Airlift, Marshal Plan, defense of Greece against Stalin’s slave-state Comintern, even his stance against Dixiecrat racists such as Byrd in 1948, HST was reviled by leftists for Hiroshima and Korea, as for accommodating the UN (carefully crafted to Stalin’s specifications by Harry Hopkins and Alger Hiss) —that is, for maintaining America’s defense against unprecedented Soviet Communist assault on every front.
Generations later, Truman for all his faults (and they were many) is seen as generous, resolute, battling for the right. Risen through the notorious Pendergast machine, he never touched a dime. Alien to America’s academic, cultural, and Wall Street elites, he succeeded by sheer force of character in binding them with him to America, in for the long haul.
Bush II is quite remarkable. Like Truman, he exhibits astounding resolve amidst reptilian partisans not seen since the Copperhead “Peace Democrats”, the extraordinarily blind and malfeasant Soviet/Maoist/Vietcong enablers of that same party’s McGovern wing, reincarnated as Jihad sympathizers since 9/11 in 2001. By 2030 or thereabouts, like Truman in (say) 1974, we think GWB will
be extolled as Horatius at the Gate (Macauley, “Lays of Ancient Rome”). By then, there will be no “youth cult” and vicious, irrational extreme-Left conspiracists will be lumped with Lincoln’s Union-hating Confederate slavocracy where they belong.
Think Henry Wallace over Truman taking office from FDR in 1945. Hammer-and-Sickle or Swastika, which armband do you prefer?
1:50 pm
I don’t know what’s funnier, the Marzy Doats speculation about all the future sweetness, or the unintended (I’m sure) criticisms of the failures of Clinton and Gore that amazingly are corrected after the fact.
Ok, I know what’s funnier. S. Weasel pretendin to pad about the veldt.
2:26 pm
The weird thing about this whole article is the idea that if Gore won the court case, that would have automatically caused his elevation to the presidency. The difficulty here is that no one seems to remember the course of events in Florida. Florida’s constitution provided for the State Secretary of State certifying the election, with a provision for recounts if the original count was too close to call. It also provided a deadline, with the state’s electoral votes going to the winner of an all-or-nothing vote in the State legislature. Gore’s difficulty was that the Republicans controlled the legislature in question, so a vote there was sure to be a defeat. As a result, Gore had to sue to get an indefinite extension to the election recounts, hoping that at some point one of them would result in a majority for him. He would then, of course, try to convince everyone that there was no need for any more recounts, and that (of course) they’d extended things past the deadline far enough.
The problem with this is that, if my memory serves correctly, Bush won that recount too. I seem to remember that one of the Florida papers paid to have the second recount finished, in the sure and certain hope that Gore would win it, and that they would have front page headlines certifying that the Supreme Court had hijacked the election for their Republican buddy. When the recount was done, however, Bush won it. As a result, the article recounting this was buried somewhere way in the back of the front section of the paper.
None of this undercuts the pure comedy of Al Gore catching Al Qaeda (both Als, maybe that had something to do with how he found them?) solving Global Warming, and otherwise fixing the country when he’s elected president. It’s a wonder she didn’t have him curing cancer, finding the grail, and writing the Great American Novel in his spare time.
3:19 pm
Monday afternoon links…
Throw the Jew down the well. Brits remove Holocaust from textbooks. Moonbattery. Comments from Dust My Broom.Powerline permits a bit of Iraq pessimism. View from the Right. Yes, there is cause for pessimism. The glass is half full.Rick Moran: "Wor…
4:07 pm
More looney than Phoenix Woman are all the moonbatters who are practically in tears, crying, “oh, for what could have been!” Get OVER it already. I’m so sick of rehashing 2000.
5:02 pm
What if the 2000 election had been decided by voters who decided not to vote for al gore?...
Phoenix Woman blogging at Firedog Lake has prepared an alternate history of the past 6 years assuming that Gore had the presidency handed to him by Supreme Cournt affirming the outrageous decision of Florida’s Supreme Court to recount only jurisdictio…
7:33 pm
I shudder to contemplate how a President Gore would have responded to 9/11. With an “alpha male” kiss? With a couple of cruise missiles launched into Tora Bora? With a few suggestions on how to spread the baksheesh? Oh, wait, that’s how he would have responded to the downing of our jet aircraft by the Chinese.
8:00 pm
May 5, 2001: National Security chief Sandy Berger, at the urging of his staffers John O’Neill and Richard Clarke, presents President Gore with a PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing
Funny, funny stuff.
Uh, he following is the text of an item from the President’s Daily Brief received by President William J. Clinton on December 4, 1998.
Response?
None.
8:19 am
This is proof of the old saying that, ‘if you do that, you’ll go blind.’ In this case the fantasy is mental masturbation.