Memorial Day Ain’t Just for Bikers
By dcmediagirl on May 26, 2008 at 9:31 AM in Current Affairs
Those of us who live in the Washington, D.C. area are dealing with an event that pops up a couple of times a year: The arrival of Rolling Thunder in the nation’s capitol. TV folks love them. Those of us who live in the city and want to do some holiday shopping in neighboring Virginia? Well, the bikers can kinda get on your nerves, what with the closed streets and bridges and ensuing traffic jams. But what the hell. They’re here, they noisily gather to remember their fallen comrades and force the nation to respect the vets. God bless ‘em for that. At least someone gives a damn.
But I’m commemorating Memorial Day by remembering another kind of war and commemorating the fallen while reminding myself that no one learns a damn thing from history. Ever. Particularly Democrats, I’m sad to say.
I re-subscribed to HBO yesterday just so I could watch Recount. For those of you who haven’t seen it, I urge you to do so. The cast is excellent, the writing snappy, and the film still manages to be a cliffhanger even though we all know to well how the story ends.
For those of us who remember this national nightmare as if it was yesterday (and I’m definitely one of them), watching the film borders on the masochistic. I found myself yelling “NO, NO, NO” at the screen whenever Warren Christopher insisted that the Gore campaign fight by Marques of Queensbury rules, while James Baker brought an Uzi-packing army to the knifefight. Democrats, I thought. How naive. How pathetic. And when Gore gave up the ghost after the Supreme Court ruling I couldn’t help but wonder “what if?”
How ironic, how twisted, how pathetic, that Florida is again figuring so prominently in a presidential race, but now there are no Katherine Harrises or Jeb Bushes or white “rioters” or sneaky Supreme Court justices to blame. Now the culprits are Howard Dean and his minions at the DNC, the most notorious of whom, Donna Brazile, was Gore’s campaign manager in 2000. How sick that she’s now assumed the role of James “Stop the Vote Count” Baker in 2008. They apparently didn’t learn a damn thing from Florida 2000; that disenfranchisement pisses people off and that voters want their votes counted and their voices heard.
But then again, maybe they did learn something. They learned that a scorched earth policy gets your guy in office. If a few voters get screwed along the way, well so be it. They’ll either get over it or they won’t. In the meantime, your candidate wins.
Democrats screwing Democrats. On this Memorial Day, we should remember the travesty that was Florida 2000 – but we should also gird our loins to battle the forces of evil who have told the people of Florida, yet again, to shut up. But this time Democrats can be super proud of having outdone Republicans for once. They just stole Florida. Howard Dean and his cronies have shut down Florida and Michigan. Way to go, guys.
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