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Sep. 30th, 2004
no, I did not watch the debate.
Sep. 30th, 2004 11:12 pmAlthough I regret the missed opportunity to play the Dubbya Drinking Game (every time he stammers, do a shot).
I rarely watch debates. Especially when they're oh so scripted. Now, if the candidates would agree to an unscripted debate, THAT might get me to watch. Especially if the networks agree not to bleep anything out.
I'd have been front row and center with popcorn for the Lincoln-Douglas debates, you know it.
And in other more important political news...
Majority Leader DeLay (R) gets his hand slapped by the House ethics panel for "improperly trying to win the vote of a Michigan lawmaker last year during a heated floor fight over a health bill." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/politics/01ethics.html?oref=login&hp
A New York Federal judge struck down an important surveillance provision of the antiterrorism legislation known as the USA Patriot Act yesterday, ruling that it broadly violated the Constitution by giving the federal authorities unchecked powers to obtain private information... http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/30/national/30patriot.html
The Republican-controlled House emphatically defeated a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes pushed to a vote by GOP leaders in the run-up to Election Day.
The vote was 227-186, 49 votes shy of the two-thirds needed for approval of an amendment that President Bush backed but the Senate had previously scuttled. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6144351/)
I rarely watch debates. Especially when they're oh so scripted. Now, if the candidates would agree to an unscripted debate, THAT might get me to watch. Especially if the networks agree not to bleep anything out.
I'd have been front row and center with popcorn for the Lincoln-Douglas debates, you know it.
And in other more important political news...
Majority Leader DeLay (R) gets his hand slapped by the House ethics panel for "improperly trying to win the vote of a Michigan lawmaker last year during a heated floor fight over a health bill." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/politics/01ethics.html?oref=login&hp
A New York Federal judge struck down an important surveillance provision of the antiterrorism legislation known as the USA Patriot Act yesterday, ruling that it broadly violated the Constitution by giving the federal authorities unchecked powers to obtain private information... http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/30/national/30patriot.html
The Republican-controlled House emphatically defeated a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes pushed to a vote by GOP leaders in the run-up to Election Day.
The vote was 227-186, 49 votes shy of the two-thirds needed for approval of an amendment that President Bush backed but the Senate had previously scuttled. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6144351/)
