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
