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Sen. Boxer Quits 'Flawed' Political System
Scrapple Face ^ | 1/06/05 | Scott Ott
Posted on 01/06/2005 5:16:51 PM PST by pookie18
Just minutes after failing to halt the certification of President Bush's electoral victory, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-CA, announced her resignation from the Senate today, saying she is "wracked with doubt" about the precise margin of her own victory in November.
While the official vote count showed that Mrs. Boxer trounced Republican Bill Jones by nearly 2.4 million votes, she said today that if even one voter was disenfranchised in California, then her "election is tainted and American troops in Iraq are dying in vain."
"I feel dirty," she said at a hastily-called news conference. "I'm leaving the senate so I can sleep at night and face myself in the mirror. If I stayed, I would be no better than George W. Bush."
Former Sen. Boxer encouraged her Democrat colleagues to "follow my principled leadership and abandon your ill-gotten seats of power."
President George Bush, when told of the resignation, said, "Sen. Boxer has fought for years to make America better. Today, she has won that fight, and deserves the gratitude of all Americans."
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KEYWORDS: BOXER; KERRYDEFEAT; SCRAPPLEFACE; YOURLIPSTOGODSEAR; Click to Add Keyword
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1 posted on 01/06/2005 5:16:51 PM PST by pookie18
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To: pookie18
Good one...
2 posted on 01/06/2005 5:18:22 PM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: pookie18
LOL!
3 posted on 01/06/2005 5:18:39 PM PST by KoRn
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To: pookie18
ROFL
This is a good one.
4 posted on 01/06/2005 5:18:39 PM PST by af_vet_1981
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To: pookie18
oh oh oh I wish
5 posted on 01/06/2005 5:18:51 PM PST by MikeinIraq (Out of Baghdad!!!! But still boycotting boycotts)
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To: pookie18
OH HAPPY DAY!!!
6 posted on 01/06/2005 5:19:12 PM PST by Sterco
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To: pookie18
Ha, that last line is great.
7 posted on 01/06/2005 5:19:43 PM PST by Nathaniel Fischer
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To: pookie18
I'd pay money to see that posted on DU. Anybody registered in the pesthole?
8 posted on 01/06/2005 5:20:42 PM PST by EllaMinnow (Dems are drunk on sour grapes!)
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To: pookie18
That hurt. I was actually happy for a moment.;^)
9 posted on 01/06/2005 5:20:53 PM PST by pipecorp (I am, therefore, I think... At least I think I think, maybe I thought I think, or I think I thought.)
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To: pookie18
"I feel dirty," she said at a hastily-called news conference. "I'm leaving the senate so I can sleep at night and face myself in the mirror. If I stayed, I would be no better than George W. Bush."
Quick! How can we convince all of them that this is best for all concerned? Maybe if we tell them it's "for the children...?"
10 posted on 01/06/2005 5:20:53 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: pookie18
Well, I hopes she doesn't let the Senate door hit her in her derierre on the way out... Does Arnold get to appoint her successor?
11 posted on 01/06/2005 5:21:21 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: pookie18
Don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out.
God bless our troops wherever they may be.
12 posted on 01/06/2005 5:21:43 PM PST by JusticeTalion (Vulcan's never bluff.)
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To: EllaMinnow
yeah, gotta couple of names, lemme grab a PW and post
13 posted on 01/06/2005 5:21:58 PM PST by SoftballMominVA
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To: EllaMinnow
What were they doing over there today?..howling at the TV..
14 posted on 01/06/2005 5:23:13 PM PST by ken5050
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To: pookie18
Irrespective of what she does, I reckon she'd still have trouble "facing herself in the mirror". Last time I saw a head like that it had a hook in it!
15 posted on 01/06/2005 5:23:36 PM PST by Aussie Dasher (Stop Hillary - PEGGY NOONAN '08)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Stupid me....I actually believed that for a second, hence my overly hasty post about her successor. I've been away from the news for a while. Ooops!
16 posted on 01/06/2005 5:23:40 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: pookie18
I hate it when I get half-way through a scrapplepost before I realize it's a scrapplepost. Just damn!
17 posted on 01/06/2005 5:23:40 PM PST by PjhCPA (Armed with what?.....SPITBALLS!!!)
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To: pookie18
Go Scrappleface!
18 posted on 01/06/2005 5:23:52 PM PST by Califelephant (What's freedom worth?)
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To: SoftballMominVA
Bah, I can't post--I'll blow my cover! They lurk here hard, you know that right?
19 posted on 01/06/2005 5:23:53 PM PST by SoftballMominVA
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(:
20 posted on 01/06/2005 5:24:20 PM PST by EllaMinnow (Dems are drunk on sour grapes!)
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To: pookie18
*sigh*
I hate the Onion and people with sadistic senses of humor!
21 posted on 01/06/2005 5:24:29 PM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
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To: pookie18
In a perfect world.....
22 posted on 01/06/2005 5:25:08 PM PST by conservativeharleyguy (Peace through superior firepower!)
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To: pookie18
Yes. It appears to be the case that idiot liberals consider democracy a profoundly "flawed" system.
They're egomaniacs with a fine opinion of themselves.
23 posted on 01/06/2005 5:25:14 PM PST by Reactionary
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Yes, there for a Nanosecond I actually thought it was true also until I realized it had to be from scrappleface. Worst luck.
24 posted on 01/06/2005 5:27:10 PM PST by calex59
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To: ken5050
The DU "Election Results" forum is imploding in pure vitriol, and the DUmmies who hang in General Discussion and Loser Lounge are mocking them.
I think reality will set in tomorrow. They'll be even wilder tomorrow, then in abject depression by Monday.
25 posted on 01/06/2005 5:27:41 PM PST by EllaMinnow (Dems are drunk on sour grapes!)
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To: Reactionary
That made my day, until I realized it was a joke.
26 posted on 01/06/2005 5:28:24 PM PST by The Teen Conservative
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Fantasy world, but it sure would be neat to see!
27 posted on 01/06/2005 5:30:01 PM PST by Chieftain (Thank you Swift Boat Veterans/POWs/Vietnam Veterans for Truth - you did it for ALL your brothers!)
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To: EllaMinnow
You cannot use the word "reality" in the same sentence as DU..
28 posted on 01/06/2005 5:30:08 PM PST by ken5050
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To: EllaMinnow
"They'll be even wilder tomorrow, then in abject depression by Monday."<P.
It's high past time for the Cosmic Liberal Enema.
29 posted on 01/06/2005 5:30:36 PM PST by Reactionary
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Yes!
For the aborted ones.
30 posted on 01/06/2005 5:32:24 PM PST by franky (Pray for the souls of the faithful departed. Pray for our own souls to receive the grace of a happy)
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You cannot use the word "reality" in the same sentence as DU..
Please forgive me...I forgot for a moment that DELUSIONAL put the D in DUmmie.
31 posted on 01/06/2005 5:33:28 PM PST by EllaMinnow (Dems are drunk on sour grapes!)
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Did you purposely call DU a pesthole based on their Post Election Selection Trauma?
32 posted on 01/06/2005 5:33:42 PM PST by pookie18 (Clinton Happens!)
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You are good with toons and satire! Thanks as you are a must read for both!
33 posted on 01/06/2005 5:33:58 PM PST by Raffus (Thanks to all Veterans for their service to our Country.)
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To: pookie18
Had my hopes up for a second - until I went to the site.
34 posted on 01/06/2005 5:36:25 PM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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I was truly hoping this wasn't a Scrappleface... :-(
35 posted on 01/06/2005 5:37:17 PM PST by thchronic
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To: EllaMinnow
Apology accepted..but pay careful attention in the future...(G)
Seriously..the Dem party is in its last terminal stateg..THis may not be the best analogy a week after the tsunami, but people forget that you don't recognize a "high-water" mark unti the water has gone done..November 2004 was their high point..now they're going to elect Dean as Chair..
36 posted on 01/06/2005 5:37:37 PM PST by ken5050
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To: pookie18
Maybe she can get a job at the
Seventh Veil LOL
37 posted on 01/06/2005 5:38:46 PM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Raffus
You are good with toons and satire! Thanks as you are a must read for both!
Thanks, but I merely collect & cut 'n paste. This one came from the fertile mind of Scott "Scrapple Face" Ott. I do have ~ 40 toons so far for tomorrow
38 posted on 01/06/2005 5:40:03 PM PST by pookie18 (Clinton Happens!)
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Of course!
39 posted on 01/06/2005 5:41:41 PM PST by EllaMinnow (Dems are drunk on sour grapes!)
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bttt
40 posted on 01/06/2005 5:43:49 PM PST by tje
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Really? She quit?
Oh! I get it! Sarcasm!!!!! Damn!
41 posted on 01/06/2005 5:45:28 PM PST by Bushbacker1 (Kill 'em till they're dead! Then kill 'em again!)
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I'm usually too "trying to wake up" in morning to post to you in the am. We truly love your "Today's Toons --/--/--". I personally search if I miss it. THANKS!
42 posted on 01/06/2005 5:48:06 PM PST by Raffus (Thanks to all Veterans for their service to our Country.)
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I'm usually too "trying to wake up" in morning to post to you in the am. We truly love your "Today's Toons --/--/--". I personally search if I miss it. THANKS!
43 posted on 01/06/2005 5:49:00 PM PST by Raffus (Thanks to all Veterans for their service to our Country.)
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The evil double post.
44 posted on 01/06/2005 5:49:39 PM PST by Raffus (Thanks to all Veterans for their service to our Country.)
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I'm usually too "trying to wake up" in morning to post to you in the am. We truly love your "Today's Toons --/--/--". I personally search if I miss it. THANKS!
You're welcome. Would you like me to put you on my Today's Toons ping list?
45 posted on 01/06/2005 5:50:52 PM PST by pookie18 (Clinton Happens!)
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OH how I wish...but maybe this will remind her of her "principles" and she will do the right thing...
46 posted on 01/06/2005 5:51:05 PM PST by eleni121 (Four more years and then four more years)
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If Boxer had any honor she would do this as a follow-up to her actions today. It's a way of putting her money where her big mouth is - and claiming that the system is so corrupt she can't be a part of it any more might actually win her respect.
But, she's proven herself just another liberal crybaby.
47 posted on 01/06/2005 5:52:14 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves
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If Boxer had any honor she would do this as a follow-up to her actions today. It's a way of putting her money where her big mouth is - and claiming that the system is so corrupt she can't be a part of it any more might actually win her respect.
& while she's at it, could she PLEASE take the Congressional Black Caucus with her?!!!!!!!
48 posted on 01/06/2005 5:54:16 PM PST by pookie18 (Clinton Happens!)
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Yes, please. I'd appreciate it - that way I won't miss one.
49 posted on 01/06/2005 5:55:18 PM PST by Raffus (Thanks to all Veterans for their service to our Country.)
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Yes, please. I'd appreciate it - that way I won't miss one.
That was my thought...just added you...see you in the AM
50 posted on 01/06/2005 6:00:39 PM PST by pookie18 (Clinton Happens!)
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