A Perfect Storm

[kster]

May 10, 2006

A Perfect Storm
by Ernest Partridge


http://www.opednews.com


SNIP........As significant as the false reporting has been the non-reporting. The “Downing Street Memos,” the top-secret notes from British cabinet meetings which exposed the treachery of Bush’s decision to go to war with Iraq, were essentially absent from the mainstream news. “Old news,” said the Washington Post. Steven Colbert’s performance at the White House Correspondent’s dinner was initially deemed unworthy of mention by the New York Times, and only a passing comment by the Washington Post. And to this day, there is virtually a complete ban on even mentioning the question of fraud in the 2000, 2002 and 2004 elections. Even so, these issues and more have been “kept alive” by the independent progressive internet.

SNIP.... The Pivotal question: Will the election fraud issue finally break out?

The electronic voting industry is under attack in several states. An epidemic of machine failures in primary elections has been discovered and disclosed, and numerous law suits are being filed against e-voting companies and election officials. And yet, at the same time, thanks to the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), an ever-growing percentage of votes are being cast, recorded and tallied with “black boxes” designed and operated by GOP partisans using secret software and without independent means of verification. Despite the absence of so much as a mention of these problems in the MSM, the public continues to lose confidence in the integrity of the elections.

Suppose that the approval ratings of Bush, the Republicans, and the Congress continue to fall, and that by November, the polls show Bush’s numbers in the high twenties and the Congress in the teens. And suppose that the same polls reveal that the Democrats have a thirty-point lead over the Republicans in the “generic” vote for Congress. Now imagine that the election returns show that despite losses in both houses, the Republicans retain control, thanks to a few “miraculous” upsets in key races, all in favor of the GOP.

Will the public accept this? The voters have accepted the very suspicious results of the 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2005 elections, essentially on the word of the media. But with the declining credibility of the MSM, and a nation-wide clamor to “throw the rascals out,” will the public stand for yet another “miraculous” but unverifiable “upset” by the GOP?





http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ernest_p_060510_a_perfect_storm.htm

[Joe for Clark]

1. No, I don't think so -

And we better be in the position to call bullshit and make it stick.

Joe

[Kurovski]

2. Recommended and kicked to the top.

I can't believe that the American public would buy a Republican win when the numbers are so low, even with the Corporate Media working overtime creating crapola rationale. Even a "gay marriage" type diversion and any attacks on Iran or on the "homeland", as the fascists like to call our country--will not be able to cover the fraud.

In fact, an attack on Iran will likely be the very last straw for Americans, seeing as such a high percentage clearly perceive Iraq as the mess it is, and that the country is headed in "the wrong direction".

As chicken-shit George likes to say in that dim-witted, bollixed way of his: "fool me once...won't get fooled again"