… and Florida Is Fixed Part TWO
Skip past Bush’s renaming of what was formerly known as the “War on Terror” (better throw that off your cable news banner and replace it with the the “The Struggle Against Ideological Extremists Who Do Not Believe in Free Socities Who Happen to Use Terror as a Weapon to try to Change the Concious of the Free World”.*)
So, Mr. President, what does “tribal sovereignty” mean to you?
Tribal sovereignty means that, it’s sovereign. You’re a —
you’ve been given sovereignty, and you’re viewed as a sovereign entity. And,
therefore, the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one
between sovereign entities.
And… then there’s this question:
In 2000, an estimated 2 million people — half African American
— had their votes discounted, from Florida to Cook County, Illinois to other
cities. (Applause.) Come on, that cuts into other questions. Are you going to
order Attorney General John Ashcroft to send federal election monitors to
Florida and other southern states? And in this age of new constitutional
amendments, will you endorse a constitutional amendment guaranteeing every
American the right to vote in federal elections?
Which gets this answer:
[…] Now, I — the best thing we did was to pass the Helping America Vote Act with over — I think it’s $3 billion of help to states and local governments
to make sure the voting process is fair. And it’s not just the South, by the
way. The voting process needs help all over the country to make sure that
everybody’s vote counts and everybody’s vote matter. I understand that. And
that’s why I was happy to work with the Congress to achieve this important
piece of legislation.
Just don’t focus on Florida. Now, I’ll talk to the governor down there to
make sure it works. (Laughter.)
* Hm. Throw out the slight and really understandable stutter at the start “the the the”, and you actually get a defense agains the Bush stereotype.