Tales of Congress, Part I: Elections for Congress - the aftermath

Day 1,437, 12:05 • Published in USA USA • by pure_evil

Short version: They're back in power. But not with ease.


First of all, I'd like to say kudos to Stanley Ibcus for developing - and Gnilraps, for publishing the Election tracker (sadly defunct, and, asking for a username and password now). Thanks to that, it was possible to monitor the elections in real time. Thanks to my laziness, though, I now can't access the data to give you the precise details. I could've at least screenshotted the darned thing.

It was very interesting to see the candidates on the list always lagging behind their opponents, only for them to snatch a last-minute re-election.

Yeah, yeah, vote buying, mobile voting groups, party members voting by order, voting buffers, you know the drill.

Now, whether or not those actions are questionable is quite another story. It's nice to see RL Americans selling and buying votes, and voting on orders from the party like the proud people of [TODO: Insert current or past communist state name here].





I sincerely hope that Joe Voteseller got enough money out of it to cover his daily losses due to taxes for a sufficiently long time, and, well, the people that followed the party orders are poorer, but proud enough that they put their man in Congress to consider it the right action on their behalf.

I, for one, am a Fed, but voted with my gut, rather than my party line. I hope I don't get expelled from the party, publicly executed and/or stoned* for that, but, that's life for ya.

Anyway, even if one can rig a horse race seeing his horse somewhat lagging doesn't necessarily mean that he'll be happy to put a slow horse in the race - and get out there on the track and push. Let's see if PP's will still support some unpopular candidates next month?

I'm going to do a somewhat longer series of articles showing the Congressmen that all overturned their loss (with one exception). What, Christmas miracles might happen - but a long time before Christmas?



Also, I'm going to go Mythbusters on your collective, albeit virtual (and slightly communist. Or is it communal?) asses.
(wait, why are you running behind that blast screen there? I still haven't gotten to changing the light bulb with TNT part.)

I'll bust the myth of the "reserve", for one, and a few more that might actually make you believe that the poor souls on the list aren't destroying the USA from within, but building a stronger military force with the taxation without representation stunt of theirs.

So, first, the right stuff:




It's good to see that Colin Lantrip and Heero Blaze are in this Congress.



Steven s unfortunately didn't make it.

So, two out of three Congressmen that cared enough to think before voting are in Congress. Let's see how much of those that "Ja Ja Ja Ja"'d their way through the proposal made it. And number one on the list is... (drum roll)



Eli Crownover**. Now, he's a really swell and cool guy***. Read his comments full of vigor and wisdom and enjoy giving him another term - and, another next month, perhaps? Eli's state of mind is all over the comments as wisdom flows unrestricted.

If con is the opposite of pro ... what is the opposite of progress?
-- Eli Crownover, Day 1,437, 05:35

Ah hah ha. That joke never ceases to crack me up, coming from a Congressman. Oh wait, is he being serious? In his case, I can't tell...




Anyway, we'll be back with more Tales of Congress next time. Which has to be before the POTUS race as the wrong stuff**** might go for POTUS as well.

* Have stones thrown at. What did you think I meant?!
** Hey, he asked for more "name recognition". 100 bucks, Eli, cough up! You've got 5 Gold there, bro. Times are hard, and, taxes are... just fine and reserve-building.
*** He's a guy, and likes to make sure people know it. I like to have 100 bucks, so it's fair to emphasize it, maybe he'll like me enough to cough up!
**** Leroy Combs not withstanding. He's the (only?) one to claim that overtaxation was a bad (though necessary) move in his congress candidacy article, the others ignored the issue altogether.