If you're one of those ambivalent voters who claims an inability to find motivation to head to the polls today, I offer this: A list, compiled by Brendan Skwire at Drinking Liberally Philadelphia, of reasons. Enjoy.
"The list of reasons to vote is as long as it is Repugnant: lend me your ear that I may turn your stomach.
The suspension of habeas corpus.
Torture as a legitimate interrogation tactic.
The gay bashing.
Terri Schiavo.
The war in Iraq.
And today, attempts to restrict the travel of ordinary Americans, attempts to put us all on a no-fly list: http://sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid =3023
Shall I go on? I think I shall.
2000.
2004.
The lying.
The corruption.
The K Street Project.
The failure to provide adequate body armor.
The failure to provide enough troops.
"Cakewalk".
"We'll be greeted as liberators".
"Last throes".
Hurricane Katrina.
The Superdome.
The drowning of New Orleans.
"Osama bin Laden Determined to strike in the US."
The deliberate attempt by the neocons to wash their hands of Iraq (shades of Bart Simpson as the "I Didn't Do It Kid): http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12 /neocons200612 (print and read on the toilet, into which you'll probably need to regurgitate).
The thuggish behavior of throwing people into windows for asking uncomfortable questions, in the Virginia campaign.
The thuggish behavior of having people detained for decorating their car with the wrong bumpersticker, in Denver.
The thuggish behavior of having people arrested for telling a certain foul-mouthed politician he was wrong about Iraq, again in Colorado.
And when you pull that lever or touch that screen or whatever the machines in your district do, remember the words of Babs Johnson: "You stand convicted of assholeism! Your proper punishment will now take place."
NO MORE ASSHOLEISM. VOTE TUESDAY NOVEMBER 7."
