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Because this site has been so unrelentingly pessimistic

I’m not going to reference the plan by Obama to deploy thousands upon thousands of lawyers this election season so that, should he lose, he can claim he’s really won, save for all the racism and fraud,  and file lawsuit after lawsuit to keep himself in office.

I’m not going to reference that because that’s just too depressing to think about.

Instead, I’m going to do this:

Puppies!  Licking babies!  Who are themselves holding ducklings!  Ducklings eating ice cream cones and wearing little tiny duckling sunglasses.   With kittens on them!

Oh. And the sky is the color of very clean toilet water!

You’re welcome.

43 Replies to “Because this site has been so unrelentingly pessimistic”

  1. sdferr says:

    Tiny kittens give the lie to Thomas Hobbes.

  2. McGehee says:

    He’ll need those lawyers to cover his Nov. 7 bugout to Rio.

  3. motionview says:

    You do know how to paint a picture with words.

  4. Squid says:

    I feel much better now.

  5. George Orwell says:

    Better add to the six thousand lawyers a handful of top psychiatrists. Someone is going to have to administer the anti-psychotic drugs in the Oval Office on the morning of November 7th.

  6. dicentra says:

    Yes, well, nothing beats a couple fistfuls of owls.

  7. RI Red says:

    dicentra, that was just . . . wierd. But very happy and shiny.

  8. geoffb says:

    This paragraph …

    This year in that state alone, Obama and his Democratic allies are poised to have thousands of lawyers ready for the election and hope to have more than the 5,800 attorneys available four years ago. That figure was nearly twice the 3,200 lawyers the Democrats had at their disposal in 2004.

    Could be read to say that they will have 6000 just in Florida alone. What with Obama’s money woes that’s a lot of pro bono there.

  9. geoffb says:

    Considering these two pieces from 2008 I’d say the 6000 is just Florida.

    I saw the list of certified Democratic poll watchers for Broward County, which was about 20 pages long. There were two pages of certified Republican poll watchers. There was no Republican poll watcher at my precinct, which made my job a lot easier.

    But what about the thousands of lawyers who will be pressed into service on Election Day itself? Thankfully, they don’t all work for the two campaigns. Jonah Goldman, director of the nonpartisan National Campaign for Fair Elections, says they will deploy 10,000 legal volunteers on Election Day; some will be tasked with manning hotlines and others will be on the ground at the polls. Elite New York law firms will oversee call centers, including one Spanish-language hot line, all intended to provide “nonpartisan straight advice,” to voters encountering problems, says Goldman. Professor Richard L. Hasen, who teaches election law at Loyola Law School, confirms that most of the thousands of lawyers working on Election Day will not necessarily be racing to a courthouse to file dramatic pleadings, but hanging around the polling places, making sure new voters are not being harassed, using faulty machines, or forced to use provisional ballots (if Democrats) or that election officials are properly checking everybody’s IDs (if Republican). If nothing else, all these teams of vigilant lawyers will be watching one another, which in a tense and angry election year may not be such a bad thing.

    Lawfare, before, during, and after elections.

  10. BurtTC says:

    Maybe I just don’t understand lawyering, but does more really equal better? I could understand this more if they said they were going to have thousands of armed and trained thugs ready to “challenge” election results. Not only would I understand it, but I might actually respect it.

    Thousands of lawyers in one spot? Good, we’ll need fewer cluster bombs.

  11. jdw says:

    A: Bluebirds, sunshine, and happiness!

    Q: What to discuss with your 80-y/0 Aunt who has trouble remembering who you are, given her Alzheimer’s and dementia.

    Trust me on this.

  12. sdferr says:

    A judge rejected an effort to bar the state [Florida] from resuming a voter purge that is already on hold, issuing a ruling that could severely undermine the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against an initiative aimed at removing suspected non-citizens from the election rolls.

    At the same time Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle said his ruling was driven in part by assurances from the state that it would not forward any more names to county elections supervisors based on a list of potentially ineligible voters that even the state concedes is inaccurate. That list is drawn from driver’s license and voter-registration records.

    “One message I did want to send along is, I’m still here,” Hinkle said.

    But for the most part, the ruling served as a major victory for the state in the first significant ruling in the complicated legal battle over the effort to remove allegedly ineligible voters from the rolls. At least two other lawsuits have been filed against the state, which is in turn suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to gain access to a federal database that officials say would make future efforts more accurate.

  13. Benedick says:

    We’ll be out in force as well. And Burt is spot-on. There’s usually one judge in each county assigned to handle election-day issues (and perhaps one federal judge, if you’re in the home seat of a judicial district). And election court is a clusterfuck every time. Having hundreds of lawyers in that county is useless.

  14. sdferr says:

    “Thousands of lawyers in one spot? Good, we’ll need fewer cluster bombs.”

    A single beehive round might even suffice.

  15. sdferr says:

    Democrat sniveling almost as delightfully, exquisitely cute as the tiniest fuzzy baby bunny.

  16. cranky-d says:

    One of my comments was read on the online Special Report yet again. Yay me!

  17. sdferr says:

    “One of my comments was read on the online Special Report yet again. Yay me!”

    Hey, sometimes you can link to an online vid of those. Y’should look into it.

  18. cranky-d says:

    The vid isn’t ready yet, and it will go for a half-hour when it is ready. I doubt anyone would want to search through it.

  19. sdferr says:

    hells bells, I would

  20. newrouter says:

    what were you commenting on?

  21. sdferr says:

    More sniveling, and a promise to act childishly from the Congressional Black Caucus. Couldn’t be cuter.

  22. cranky-d says:

    I commented on the subject that the Marines were the most vocal opponents of the repeal of “Don’t ask, don’t tell,” but have done the most work to implement the policy of any branch of the military.

    Marines know how to suck it up, even when they disagree. This is not a surprise.

    That was my comment.

  23. John Bradley says:

    OT… assuming there is a topic to be off of:

    Frank of IMAO and PJM is busting out the Intentionalism, fwiw.

    Some people have recently coined the term “originalist.” That’s a fancy term meaning “you read the Constitution like it actually means something.” You don’t see this term applied to many things other than the Constitution.

    “This road sign says, ‘Wrong Way,’ so we probably shouldn’t go down this street.”

    “Oh, so you’re one of those simplistic road sign originalists.”

    By default, most Americans are originalists, because they have this wacky habit of reading words as if there were meaning to them. They assume this philosophy applied to the Constitution when it was written, because if that document didn’t actually mean anything, how in the world was it supposed to hold back the powers of the government?

    Good stuff, and the phrase “constitutional fan fiction” in reference to “precedent” as a guiding principle seems particularly apt.

  24. geoffb says:

    Re: sdferr’s 5:45.

    We should expect that they will also report (falsely) at their press conference that Republicans hurled racial slurs at them as they walked out as was done on the Pelosi Obamacare victory march.

  25. palaeomerus says:

    “New Black Panther Declares: We Will Hunt ‘Pink A**es’ Down, ‘Kill ’Em, Dig ‘Em Up & Kill ‘Em Again & Again & Again!’”

    Maybe after Obama is out on his ass that kind of talk will get shitheads put in jail again.

  26. Ernst Schreiber says:

    most Americans are originalists, because they have this wacky habit of reading words as if there were meaning to them.

    Most Americans haven’t been through four years of college, plus three years of law (or 4+ years of graduate school) where they loboomize that part of the brain.

  27. TaiChiWawa says:

    Tiny kittens give the lie to Thomas Hobbes.

    Lawyers, on the other hand…

  28. McGehee says:

    “One message I did want to send along is, I’m still here,” Hinkle said.

    Good for you, judge. Here’s another juice box. <pats head>

  29. sdferr says:

    Musics, for temporizing

  30. leigh says:

    Activist courts being those you disagree with, according to Volokh.

  31. newrouter says:

    so some abc loser on greta tonite brought out the pottery barn thing with barackycare. these losers are despicable.

  32. BigBangHunter says:

    – I’m not sure, but I think the topic for this thread is “you pessimistic bastards better leave my little tiny duckling sunglasses the fuck alone or I’ll sick my 190lb ‘puppy’ Bullmastiff on your sorry pessinistic asses.”

  33. BigBangHunter says:

    – Also, come November, we might have to change the opening line for that old joke to:

    “What do you call 15,000 Obama lawyers at the bottom of the Potomic river?”

  34. George Orwell says:

    “What do you call 15,000 Obama lawyers at the bottom of the Potomic river?”

    I have no clue, but if they were at the bottom of the Potomac, I would call it toxic waste.

  35. palaeomerus says:

    ““What do you call 15,000 Obama lawyers at the bottom of the Potomic river?””

    ‘Aqualawyers’ is yet another stupid waste of our stimulus tax dollars…

  36. BigBangHunter says:

    – The original punch line was “A good start” but your lines are better.

  37. sdferr says:

    So have ya’ll heard the proudly progressive Obama administration and its defending friends have all trotted out their stale claim that the mandate was cooked up by evil Republicans!? They don’t honestly go any further into the details than that (mostly, we can guess, because they don’t know the actual history tenuously attached to the statement and in fact could care less about it, but there we are), the lying charge is quite as far as they care to go.

    These sweet lil’ Democrat critters could be starting to become tedious, if they weren’t so cuddly cute, nigh on as cute as King George III in the midst of one of his seizures.

  38. And those puppies are sitting next to flowing rivers of chocolate in the shade of kites being flown by children.

  39. palaeomerus says:

    Chocolate can be very poisonous to dogs. Sounds about right.

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