That Other Cliffhanger
Nov. 10th, 2000 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sanpaku_backupYes, the landlady's letter arrived yesterday. It made no reference to anything I had said in my letter. It just basically reiterated some of the charges she had made, and somehow she came up with another $40. The only indirect reference to my letter was her agreement that we were due $100 interest (still too low, actually). So there was this and a check for $140 and no reference to anything else.
Part of me thinks that another whack at the pinata, in the form of another letter, will disgorge some more money. Maybe this one would be more conciliatory and offer to pay for something as an offer of good faith. I still think $200 is too little. But it would be tough to file suit in another state-- it could easily cost what I would gain from the suit just to go down there and pay for court costs etc. And although I think I have a good case I want it to be airtight before embarking on a horrible and gutwrenching ordeal, which it undoubtedly would be. I served on jury duty last year and just being in the courtroom gave me the willies. It's hard to fight even when you're right. I think I will actually call someone in the legal profession and see how I might actually fare, or perhaps go to a mediator. I still think she's offering too little too late.
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I have already responded to Tim with my thoughts on the election, which are similar to Frank Lloyd Wrong's. And as an American historian I think I am entitled to pontificate on this a little (right, "Frank"?). No other country in the world would put up with the national will being held hostage by antiquated constitutional machinery dreamed up to protect the rights of Southern slaveowning. As I pointed out to Tim, the system is weighted in favor of small states, and that alone gave Bush the victory. No one will accept as fair a system that lets a couple of hundred confused oldies overturn a 200,000 vote plurality out of millions.
The Republicans are all ready with their talking points about the Constitution blah blah blah. Never mind that they were absolutely 100% ready a week ago to fight if the opposite result occured. Karl Rove, Bush's manager, said so here. They proved with impeachment that they have no qualms about overturning the results of an election or the popular will in their desperate desire to win.
But in a lot of ways I think this is the best of all possible worlds. Gore would be unable to do much of anything anyway.
I hope Dan Quayle... er Bush, wins Florida by exactly one vote. Let him take office with all of the charges, and a Senate split 50-50 and a House also tied up. The man doesn't have a bipartisan bone in his body-- his choice of Cheney proved as much. Let him try to govern. Given his stupidity and the fact that the economy has to go into recession sooner or later, the chances are excellent that the Republicans would lose Congress in the usual midterm backlash. In the meantime the Democrats can find someone more likeable to nominate for 2004.
So let 'em win. Bush will get none of the power and all of the blame. He will be illegitimate from the get-go and he has none of the Clinton wiles to save him. I think Republicans will greatly come to regret their "victory." That's my sense of it.
Part of me thinks that another whack at the pinata, in the form of another letter, will disgorge some more money. Maybe this one would be more conciliatory and offer to pay for something as an offer of good faith. I still think $200 is too little. But it would be tough to file suit in another state-- it could easily cost what I would gain from the suit just to go down there and pay for court costs etc. And although I think I have a good case I want it to be airtight before embarking on a horrible and gutwrenching ordeal, which it undoubtedly would be. I served on jury duty last year and just being in the courtroom gave me the willies. It's hard to fight even when you're right. I think I will actually call someone in the legal profession and see how I might actually fare, or perhaps go to a mediator. I still think she's offering too little too late.
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I have already responded to Tim with my thoughts on the election, which are similar to Frank Lloyd Wrong's. And as an American historian I think I am entitled to pontificate on this a little (right, "Frank"?). No other country in the world would put up with the national will being held hostage by antiquated constitutional machinery dreamed up to protect the rights of Southern slaveowning. As I pointed out to Tim, the system is weighted in favor of small states, and that alone gave Bush the victory. No one will accept as fair a system that lets a couple of hundred confused oldies overturn a 200,000 vote plurality out of millions.
The Republicans are all ready with their talking points about the Constitution blah blah blah. Never mind that they were absolutely 100% ready a week ago to fight if the opposite result occured. Karl Rove, Bush's manager, said so here. They proved with impeachment that they have no qualms about overturning the results of an election or the popular will in their desperate desire to win.
But in a lot of ways I think this is the best of all possible worlds. Gore would be unable to do much of anything anyway.
I hope Dan Quayle... er Bush, wins Florida by exactly one vote. Let him take office with all of the charges, and a Senate split 50-50 and a House also tied up. The man doesn't have a bipartisan bone in his body-- his choice of Cheney proved as much. Let him try to govern. Given his stupidity and the fact that the economy has to go into recession sooner or later, the chances are excellent that the Republicans would lose Congress in the usual midterm backlash. In the meantime the Democrats can find someone more likeable to nominate for 2004.
So let 'em win. Bush will get none of the power and all of the blame. He will be illegitimate from the get-go and he has none of the Clinton wiles to save him. I think Republicans will greatly come to regret their "victory." That's my sense of it.
