Well, looks like Kerry hadn’t counted on the most dangerous element in the Republican repertoire, more dangerous even than Karl Rove off his leash: the factual result of the election in November may not matter, if the Bush regime needs it not to matter.
The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''
Presumably, including creating the reality of an electoral college victory.
DRMA: If I Had My Way by Rev. Gary Davis
"These are not the election results you are looking for"
These aren't the election results we were looking for.
"You can go about your business."
You can go about your business.
"Move along."
Move along.
Posted by: Josh Narins at October 19, 2004 07:53 PM