Normally, I don't post about politics, for a lot of reasons. I'm a very anti-conflict oriented sort of person--if it's going to cause arguments and strife, I don't want to be a part of it. Thus, if you flame me in comments, I'm going to have to hurt you. I'm only expressing an opinion, and an admittedly not-very-informed one. Okay? :)
So why, do you ask, am I posting this one? Well, I'll tell you.
I, for one, am really pissed off that this recall is happening in the first place. Not because I don't think that Davis is a shitty governor, but because it's costing me money. It's making my formerly cheap college education, one of the biggest benefits to staying in the state of California, not so cheap anymore. It's making my car registration triple--and man, is that ass-reaming going to hurt come January when I have to register a car that will just barely be a year old.
But, the recall is a reality. There were more than enough signatures on the initiative to pass it--rather overwhelmingly so. That's democracy in action, if you ask me. If people are allowed to realize that they made a really serious mistake, and they're allowed to take measures to *fix* that mistake, that's a good thing, isn't it? That's one of the things that sets the US apart from other countries, I thought.
Why, then, are there democrats (like the Democratic presidential hopefuls) who are saying that this is an attack on the very fundamentals of our government? Why, then, does Davis say shit like this: Davis, a Democrat, called the recall ``an insult to the 8 million people who went to the polls last November and made a decision that I should be governor" (source: this article from the Mercury News).
An insult to the people who voted last November. Hm. I don't think so. Some policy-maker somewhere must have recognized the need for a recall type of situation. How is this an insult, if people are exercising a right given to them by the government in the first place? (No, not getting into a 'the government is too big/too small' thing right now!) How is this an attack on the fundamentals of our government?
Bah. Grow up, asshats. Go away, Davis. You've whined so much about this that I'm going to turn up at the polls on October 7th and put in my vote to kick your ass out of office, just so that I don't have to listen to the bullshit anymore. Who'm I going to vote for? Who cares. Anyone but you.
Posted by Liz at August 13, 2003 06:17 AM