Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
Posted by unbrand on 8 January 2005 | 0 Comments
Democracy in America officially died on January 6, 2005. That’s the day that serious questions about vote fraud were shut down in the Senate 74-1. That one who stood up to the stolen Bush election of 2004 was Barbara Boxer. Remember the scene in the movie Fahrenheit 911 that showed Al Gore presiding over the House procedure for recognising the electoral votes? Many House representatives brought objections, accurately noting the extreme voter fraud in Florida, only to have Al Gore dismiss their objections because there was no senator to agree with the objections.
Fast forward 4 years, and this time, there was official Senate objection to the authorisation of Ohio’s electoral votes. At that point, there was a little bit of talking, then the vote came down, 74-1 against agreeing to the objection. 74 senators said there was no fraud. One (woman) had the balls to stand up and say “Enough.”
And where was John Kerry? In Iraq. If I had voted for Kerry, I’d be triply pissed-off. First, he “lost.” Second, he conceded before all the votes were counted. And third, he’s not even interested enough to show his face and vote in the single biggest test of democracy since the civil war.
Why did so many senators vote against the objection? One reason is they are afraid that it might open up scrutiny to their own elections. And Tom DeLay had the gall to say that the “Democrat party” (a term of derision by not correctly saying “Democratic Party”) was crying wolf and “what would happen if there really was vote fraud in the future?” Hmmm. I’m not sure, Tom. Say, what did you have in mind?
From the Geto Boys’ song “Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta” (written in 1999):
And now, a word from the president!
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
Gettin voted into the white house
Everything lookin good to the people of the world
But the mafia family is my boss
So every now and then I owe a favor gettin’ down
Like lettin’ a big drug shipment through
And send ’em to the poor community
So we can bust you know who
So voters of the world keep supportin’ me
And I promise to take you very far
Other leaders better not upset me
Or I’ll send a million troops to die at war
To all you republicans, that helped me win
I sincerely like to thank you
Cuz now I got the world swingin’ from my nuts
And damn it feels good to be a gangsta