Well, Many Of Us Knew That Kerry Was Actually The Winner In Ohio

It is interesting that probably the biggest election steal in recent history just cannot get traction despite all of the related and seriously conclusive evidence!

"A new filing in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell case includes a copy of the Ohio Secretary of State election production system configuration that was in use in Ohio's 2004 presidential election when there was a sudden and unexpected shift in votes for George W. Bush," according to Bob Fitrakis, columnist at http://www.freepress.org and co-counsel in the litigation and investigation.

If you recall, Ohio was the battleground state that provided George Bush with the electoral votes needed to win re-election. Had Senator John Kerry won Ohio's electoral votes, he would have been elected instead.

Evidence from the filing suggests that Republican operatives — including the private computer firms hired to manage the electronic voting data — were compromised.

Yeah, as IF we didn't know that, thanks to all the hard work done over the years at The Brad Blog.

I suggest you read the full article for all the juicy facts.

Jury Deadlocks On 23 Counts, Find Blago Guilty Of One Count

So ..... does anyone think that Blago's high profile television campaign that aired just before the trial (think Celebrity Apprentice where Donald Trump mumbled at the end of the episode Blago was voted off, something to the tune of "I hope you beat the charges") tainted the pool across America of possible jury members?

The jury was deadlocked on 23 of the 24 counts. Deadlocked. That means that they couldn't come up with enough people that felt the prosecutor (Patrick Fitzgerald of the outing of Valerie Plame prosecution that really only got as far as getting Libby convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice) presented a coherent case.

PATRICK FUCKING FITZGERALD? The one we thought would really give us the "perp walk" we all wanted to see re kkkkkKarl Rove do?

We really are doomed. The stupid people are taking over, and no smart person has a key to the room they are escaping from.

Come on, stupid people! Do the right thing and stop being enamoured by faux famous people.

UPDATE: 8/18/10 - It appears that the jury had one renegade holdout and that the other 11 jurors were ready to convict.

"He was lucky," [John] Grover said of Blagojevich. "I hate to put it like that, but the amount of evidence that prosecution presented to us — there was so much of it. I don't see how anybody could come to any other conclusion."

"There Will Be Four People In My Old Office" Cries Rove. Oh My!

This is just too sweet to pass up! Rove believes Obama is on the road to failure in the White House because, get this, he has too many people working in the actual White House!

It is rumored that as many as 160 people will be in the West Wing under Mr. Obama. Under President George W. Bush there were about 60. My old, modest-seized office has been carved into four cubicles. This reduces the space for ad hoc meetings in personal offices, where so much West Wing work once took place.

The space crunch comes because Mr. Obama has moved several positions that once had offices in the EEOB into the West Wing. These include public liaison, intergovernmental affairs and political affairs. This reflects the importance he places on these offices' marketing efforts.

Space is also short because the ranks of senior staff have been increased. There is a chief of staff, of course, but also two deputy chiefs, and three senior advisers. Some senior aides now have chiefs of staff of their own. That is new.

All of this matters because management structure affects decision-making and determines the range and quality of voices the president hears. That impacts policy outcomes.

Mr. Obama's changes could overload Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. As power that was once diffused to cabinet officers is centralized in the White House, Mr. Emanuel will have to make more decisions and referee more turf wars than his predecessors. This will test his skills and likely inject chaos into the policy process as he prioritizes the decisions he can reasonably make.

You have to read the rest of the "opinion" piece by Rove. It's a scream. This is the man allegedly credited with giving the power to the Bush Administration, now complaining that "ad hoc" meetings will be compromised. Ha ha. Don't you mean "secret" meetings with oil lobbyists and the like, Mr. Turd Blossom?

And they still pay men like him to write this bullshit, and tout it on television.

The American people said "hell, no" in 2006, and a bigger "HELL NO" in 2008. Keep on keeping on you Republicans. You just may drive your party into extinction, which would, as far as I am concerned, not be a bad idea in this day and age.