Mixed Bad Political Shite
Well, there’s a bit of good and bad political news today.
Good news is that Representatives of the United States actually represented their consituents today by voting down recent FCC rulings on media ownership. Not in a long time has the public been so politically engaged, demanding their representatives do something about a very bad decision. Bravo.
On the other hand, a VERY dirty California Republican trick has succeeded. The effort to recall California Governor Gray Davis has succeeded and sometime within the next two to three months a special election will be held.
Now, I’m very much liberal politically and Gray Davis is a Democrat, but I fucking hate the idiot. He’s lack of guidance during his term has proven disastrous for California. Certainly, since the Bush Administration took office the Davis camp has received little support from Washington, but he’s shown no ability in overcoming this roadblock. A good politician would have gone much more on the offensive, but he didn’t. I did NOT vote for him, instead I posted a protest vote by writing in former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, a Republican. I LOATHE Gray Davis.
BUT, he did win. The Republicans fucked up bad by running that nit-wit Bill Simon. Sure, they tried running Riordan, but Davis ran a very effective (and full of shit) smear campaign against Riordan in the primary, which left the Elephantmen with Simon. It’s pretty amazing that Simon proved to be even more inept than Davis, yet Davis barely squeaked out a victory. Note, he won, fair and square. There was no recount. No debate as to the validity of the votes cast. He won.
U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa deviously took advantage of the state’s growing dissatisfaction with Davis by running a recall drive. The means by which he obtained signatures are questionable, but he got enough under California recall laws. Issa is new to the public service game and has much grander plans for himself beyond being in the House and is in fact going to run against Davis in the upcoming recall election. The problem is this, if every time a political group saw their opponent’s popularity fall and we held a recall election, we’d have mass chaos on our hands. For example, note President Bush’s sliding approval ratings. So, when it goes below 50% (and I believe it will), should we hold a Presidential recall election? First, I don’t know if that’s feasible and second, fuck no. The man won (some would debate that, but the decision was made and I’m very able to move on) and 2004 is the country’s next chance to choose their leader.
Currently it’s not known whether the recall election and the replacement election will be held at the same time. What I know is I will watch this closely and may reluctantly vote in Davis’ favor just because this is really dirty politics. I LOATH Davis. My friends know of my intense dis-satisfaction with the man. His recent plan to raise DMV registration fees three-times is the most idiotic move ever. But I can’t support Issa in his scheme to steal, steal, the Governorship of California.
Fuck you Darrell Issa.
