I’d Like To Thank the Democratic National Committee-For Nothing

First of all, let me take this opportunity to say thank-you to the DNC. Thank-you for affirming our suspicions that you are Republicans in sheep’s clothing. Thank-you for proving once and for all that you have no imagination. Thank-you for using every penny we gave you for everything but winning this election. Thank-you for betraying millions of scared democrats who were doing everything in their power to make sure these maniacs weren’t reelected. Thank-you for dashing our hopes that the leaders of our party knew what they were doing. And thank-you for not putting one inch of fight into what we mistakenly thought you understood was a pretty worthy cause

Before the election did you happen to see any of the articles about the paperless voting machines and how easy they were to tamper with? On the off-chance that maybe you missed it, I’ll try to get you up to speed. You see a lot of people were worried about the fact that these scanners were all made by this company called Diebold who’s based out of OHIO. The other slightly unnerving thing was that the current CEO, Walden “Wally” O’Dell, promised Bush he would hand him the election. And Wally’s a man of his word. It warms the heart, really, to see someone follow through on what they promised. The other kind of scary thing is that J. Kenneth Blackwell, the Ohio Secretary of State, is not only a Republican but he’s on Bush’s Ohio campaign team.

When is somebody going to have the guts to stand up to these guys and say enough already? The thing is that we would have liked it if you had given this election... oh... maybe more than 12 hours to see what came up...especially since for the first time ever...the exit polls were totally wrong. And not just in a sort of an “Oh how interesting” sort of way where one or two counties in random states got them wrong. No, it was in an “oh my god, how could this have happened and especially in these states. It seems kind of fishy” way. What you would have seen had you been willing to check it out was that the exit polls were wrong in swing states and only in counties with these machines. Maybe you missed the statistic from the University of Pennsylvania statistician that the chances of this happening were...oh...1 in 250 MILLION.

I cannot tell you the amount of frustration that you caused all of us by allowing our candidate to concede before breakfast. But I’m guessing that you all had planes to catch to the Caymans or wherever and that you never really wanted the grassroot movement to succeed. I’m guessing that’s because a lot of you don’t want to change the election process so that small donations from real people are what get people elected.

That was never more obvious than when you all put your heads together to stop Howard Dean from putting the Democrats back on the map. And then when we thought Kerry had the election in the bag...when Kerry did have the election in the bag...everyone was falling all over themselves to give Howard Dean the credit for waking up the Party.

But No...the party regulars barged in and took over and VOILA... Another 4 years of the scariest administration this country has ever seen. Another 4 years of Dick Cheney’s war that will last forever. Another 4 years of running roughshod over our natural resources and water and air quality. 4 more years of if-it-looks-like-a-meadow-put-an-oil-well-on-it. Good work guys. We’ll be lucky if we even have elections in 2008.

And I have never been more convinced of this than when I read, “Former presidential candidate Howard Dean has called party regulars, expressing his interest in the DNC job. Other Democrats interested in the job or being asked to pursue it include... Leo Hindery, former chairman of the Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network LLC, a New York-based sports cable channel that televises New York Yankees’ baseball games.... Former Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., said Monday that the Democratic Party is fortunate that Hindery wants the job, describing the former chairman and CEO of AT&T Broadband as a successful New York City businessman who understands the Republican-leaning regions of the country.’ He can be a unifier and be a neutral broker,’ Kerrey said in a telephone interview.” (From an article by Mike Glover of the AP.)

THE YANKEES !!! Sheesh. I can barely stomach it. (Sorry New York. I’m from Pittsburgh.)

THE REPUBLICAN-LEANING REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY. Excuse me but isn’t this why we’re in so much trouble? Aren’t we the ones who are scratching heads wondering why we didn’t get the swing vote while Tom Delay changes the law to suit his criminal behavior, the Marquis de Sade takes over as the country’s top attorney and Porter Goss “revamps” our intelligence agencies. Do you think we’ll ever have an honest election in this country again? Do you think we’ll ever be able to get these guys out of office if it isn’t possible to have an honest election? You see these are the things I’m wondering.

And here’s my last question. What did you do with the money that I gave you all for attorneys to make sure this election was on the up and up? Are you all splitting it as you run off to your Caribbean vacations? And it just takes balls to already be e-mailing us for more.

Yea, thanks Democrats. Thanks for this knot in my stomach, for the fact that I haven’t a clue when we’ll see our son-in-law who’s supposed to come home from Iraq in February. And for giving me a nightmarish image of Bush, Rove, Cheney and Rice rolling on the floor as they publicly tell the people in the Ukraine that they SHOULD contest their election.

Thanks for making me wish I lived in the Ukraine.

Ms Burgwin will happily let everybody in on her bio as soon as she gets a life. However feel free to contact her with critiques and suggestions on post-election pastimes. rburgwin@aol.com

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