January 2005. Clark Takes Office. Your Reaction?

[FDRLincoln]

It's January, 2005. Clark has defeated Bush 52-47-1 in the popular vote, the 1 going to Nader, and does well enough in the Electoral College to keep Bush from stealing it. The GOP still controls Congress, but the Dems have made gains in the House, and the GOP has just a 2-vote margin. Senate remains as is.

Rate your level of enthusiasm for President Clark.

[Mz Pip]

1. I'll sleep

through the night for the first time in 4 years.

MzPip
:dem:

[Speck Tater]

2. You forgtot one option that might be popular...

Move to Bolivia and change my name.

[Catch22Dem]

3. ???

[zeemike]

7. or Canada

[Lefty48197]

4. Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we're free at last!

[eleny]

5. I'm the one who will pee my pants

[Jackson4Gore]

6. I would be pissed

Because a man is not a Dem who praised Rummy, Bush, Condi, ect 2 years before the election. For god's sake, he just said he was a Dem! He doesn't even know where he stands on most issues!

If the party was smart, they would call on Al Gore to come and run and take his rightful spot in the oval office.

[leesa]

8. Give it a fucking rest!

[Vogon_Glory]

9. Things Might Not Bode Well For Incumbent GOPer Politicos

I would be concerned that a Clark presidency would be stymied by the same sort of detestable partisan spite and obstructionism that afflicted the former Clinton White House. On the other hand, a President Clark would control the Justice Department.

This would not be such a good thing for the GOPsters. What with the Enron scandals still lumped under the carpet, four years of Republican control of the Oval Office and the Republicans usually in control of the House and Senate, the GOP might have gotten sloppy.

I suspect that Clark administration prosecutors would probably find at least a few GOP congress critters and GOP Senators who didn't keep their noses clean and their fingers out of the public's cookie jar.

Of course, if President Clark wanted to be particularly cruel, he could do some venue shopping. Here are all these hard-right, anti-civil rights federal judges that Shrub and Co put on the federal bench. What better fun than to shop the political defendant to someplace like New Braunfels or Frericksburg, Texas, where the Germanic mentality of "Dey got themselves arrested by der polizei. Obviously they did something wrong" mentality still lingers among prospective jurors. :evilgrin:

[Gringo]

10. I would pinch myself, wake up, and realize it was all a wierd dream

Then I would go turn on the TV and watch President Dean's inauguration.

:-)

[Northwind]

11. yeah baby!

:evilgrin:

[LSdemocrat]

12. Needed option: Are you kidding? Bush is GONE! I'm ecstatic!

[ShimokitaJer]

13. I would ask the new president to address the problem...

of monkeys flying out of my ass.

[Loyal]

14. I'm cool with Clark

n/t.