[geeks] Re: [rescue] It's official, the U.S. is screwed for 4 more years

[Lionel Peterson]

> From: "Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez" <lefa at ucsc.edu>
> Date: 2004/11/09 Tue AM 02:21:45 GMT
> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Re: [rescue] It's official, the U.S. is screwed for
> 	4 more years
> 
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 23:31:34 +0000
>   Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:

> > Some folks are not taking this well...
> 
> I guess Bush is to liberals what Clinton was to certain
> elements of the Republican party.

8 years ago it was called the "ABC Party" (Anybody But Clinton ;^), but the effort was much smaller that the seemingly widespread anti-Bush sentiment evident this election...

> In any case, I don't
> think the office of the president is that important when
> dealing with a "decoupled" system like the US. I do not
> like however when the house, senate, presidency and soon
> judiciary are tilted towards the same political party, as
> it tends to render the whole process a bit powerless to
> check itself.

I was suprised by the "clean sweep" of both houses - that will be interesting...

> It is going to be an interesting future though... whether
> that is good or bad it is obviously debatable. Interesting
> none the less...

Agreed...