On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:12:23PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote:
Quite. And the specter of the Florida legislature selecting a new set of electors are providing one of the best civics educations citizens young and old have had this century. Its really quite healthy to have the myth of democracy we were all taught in grade school laid bare by the reality of a conservative and plain reading of the Constitution by some of the best and brightest.
Heh. For every Democrat (and perhaps some Republicans) who goes on TV and proudly proclaims this perpetual election as a good thing because it buttresses our civics knowledge, I want to ask: Why don't we encourage the president, say, to commit a felony? The subsequent prosecution and conviction would be fascinating to observe and would *really* educate America's children. Of course, I think the perpetual election (see perpetualelection.com) is a good thing for entirely different reasons than those I give above. See: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40200,00.html -Declan