Speaking of Washington’s pollution, we’re going to have yet another recount in the governor’s race thanks to some out-of-state money raised by the Howard Dean blog. These people have no shame. This recount will be fully manual, making it substantially less accurate than the first two, and the only possible reason for it is to go fishing for enough ballots, legal or otherwise, to alter the certified outcome of the election.
The one bright spot to this debacle is that losing the third count will brand Christine Gregoire a sore loser and end her political career forever. If her people are able to find enough mystery ballots to win the election for her, she’ll have no legitimacy either, as the fraud stories are bound to come out. It’s becoming increasingly clear that the Democratic Party can’t win a fair election so they have no choice but to hope for the other kind.
This is a sad day for democracy.
Sad but true.