I love your site. I have started a new one myself and under the assumption that you might appreciate some of things I have to say, I have linked your site on mine.
This whole Governor thing...well, it's a tragic mess. But then again, I live in Kulifornea.

In that picture, her mannerisms are reminiscnet of some Robert Blake photos I've seen.

What a mess! I don't think it really helps the dems at all in the public eye. She'll have an interesting term to say the least.

Love your site! Turned onto it by Michelle Malkin. Best wishes in job hunting. I got my own Christmas "bonus" on the day before Thanksgiving, and formal notification the day before Christmas! Gotta love these liberal institutions. Always looking out for the little guy!

Anyway, back to Gregoyle. Isn't it just amazing how the Democrats, so very, very desperate for any kind of win this election cycle can have three recounts and only call the last one, the one they won, the "good" one! Malkin shows a very apropos and misspelled sign calling Republicans "facists" (sic) for daring to question the voting of the dead.

This has to be the first time that best one out of three ever won!

Why is it every time I see her, I hear the theme to the Wicked Witch of the West in the back of my head?

Good luck finding a new job.

First Gentleman?

First Gentleman?!

Please tell me that he's rich and can easily buy back his dignity.

Dear Ambra,

This is my first visit to your blog (linked to it from Michelle Malkin's) and Michelle's right - some great company is missing out on their best employee by not hiring you.

You have a great head on your shoulders and I'm looking forward to reading your site daily now.

I've been laid off a time or two in my life and I know how disheartening it can be. No worries, though, where God closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

Dear Ambra,

This is my first visit to your blog (linked to it from Michelle Malkin's) and Michelle's right - some great company is missing out on their best employee by not hiring you.

You have a great head on your shoulders and I'm looking forward to reading your site daily now.

I've been laid off a time or two in my life and I know how disheartening it can be. No worries, though, where God closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

Dear Ambra,

This is my first visit to your blog (linked to it from Michelle Malkin's) and Michelle's right - some great company is missing out on their best employee by not hiring you.

You have a great head on your shoulders and I'm looking forward to reading your site daily now.

I've been laid off a time or two in my life and I know how disheartening it can be. No worries, though, where God closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

I think scare quotes should be mandatory whenever referring to "Governor" Gregoire, throughout her term.

I agree with you, Washington is getting the "governor" it deserves. The thing to do is, make sure this never happens again. Unfortunately, since most of the voting precincts are controlled by Democrats, and they have no incentive to fix a system that they view as not broken because they know quite well how to scam it -- nothing will be done.

Sigh.

Oh, and First Gentleman? Please. It's not as if he's the Unofficial Ambassador for the state of WA. Call him "Mr. Gregoire" and get over it.

Ambra,
Jim Miller at SoundPolitics has a good column about Democrats and voter fraud. You can also read a synopsis at my blog.
Get used to the Democrats cheating in elections. This is one problem that will only get worse.

P.S...
"Gentleman" is the companion to "lady" (as in "ladies and gentlemen"), so "First Gentleman" is the correct nomenclature.

Nykola,

I'm new to this site. I learned about it from Soundpolitics. It is refreshing to see positive things from "young" people. I've got about a decade on you. I'm raising 5 kids. The oldest is 16. You give me hope that my efforts may pay off.

The name I came up with for our new "Governor" is LewdiChris.

Thanks for not being shy about the truth.

"Manners", when used in reference to Democrats, should always be in quotes.

I wish you conservatives would stop complaining about this.

Consider it payback for 2000.

People (minorities) were disenfranchised in 2000...Bush "won." I got over it.

People (military) were disenfranchised in 2004...Gregoire "won." You get over it.

Both cases only further provide testimony as to why our voting systems in this country must be SEVERELY overhauled. And both sides should be rooting for such change.

Mike, you just don't get it. NO-ONE should be refused an effective vote--ONE vote and only one, in ONE state, ONE county and at ONE voting place. When I say no-one, I mean those who are breathing and upright. This assumes they are entitled to vote by state law (exclude felons and imaginary friends)and they have homes--not federal and civil buildings. Also, you might want to thank AL Gore for the defeat in 2000--he pulled a Gregoire there and it ended up blowing up in his face, as this one will if we get a revote.

This crosses party lines, dude. If my vote ain't safe, ain't no-ones' vote safe, okay? And we need to police ourselves first or we all get the shaft. That means that if you have a "friend" whom you know intends to commit voter fraud and you don't tell them off bigtime, you are as much or more at fault for being an enabler and passively condoning a federal offense and YOU should go to jail, too.

Can you deal with THAT?

Reporter: "Who was that gentleman I saw you with last night?"

Gegoire: "That was no gentleman, that was my husband!"

"There's no crying in politics."

LMBO...

Hey, it worked for Jimmy Swaggert... oh that's religion.

Steve

I agree with everything you said...which is why I asserted the need for a dramatic overhaul for the way our current electoral system currently works.

I question Gregoire's "victory" just as much as Bush's 2000 "win."

"First Gentleman" assumes the "governor" is a lady - well she is female but it takes proper upbringing to be a lady. It is all in the name of legitamacy

I suspect that we will see two years similar to the Mike Lowery term where the Dems try to find Utopia by taxing and regulating all the producers to death. We already have a crisic in medical care so their solution is taxing doctors - just brilliant.

I think we need national ID's that could also be drivers licenses. Jees, it would be so tough to show a photo ID or write your ID number above the signature on the absentee ballot. But it would deny me my right to vote 5 times in 3 states.

Good luck on finding a new job, there are a lot of employers that crave employees that can think and write. It is a rare thing these days.

Mike M.--

With all due respect, everyone keeps screaming about minority disenfranchisement in Florida in '00, but where is the proof? I have never seen any sort of evidence, just a lot of inuendo and "so and so's third cousin's neighbor said her daughter..." type stuff.

Second, even if it were true, which I doubt, calling Gregoire's "victory" "payback" doesn't somehow make it right.

Mike H.

No, it doesn't make it right...but it's what it is.

Also, do you not remember when Bush and Harris contracted with Database Technologies to "scrub" and "purge" the voter lists of convicted felons? Well, thousands more who WEREN'T felons were purged, as well. That's called disenfranchisement. The majority of those scrubbed from the rolls were minority. That's called minority disenfranchisement.

I've gotten over it. Now it's time for Republicans in Washington to get over their "loss."

Read ths:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/20/ING2976LG61.DTL

Palast is definitely partial, but he has an excellent track record.

"There were times when the election was looking more like "Days of Our Lives", than a political race. I was just waiting for some political official to get amnesia and forget their identity whilst being buried alive by their evil sister-in-law who is actually their birth mother."

Did I ever mention that I like your writing style? Ha, Ha, Ha, He, He, He!!!!

This is exactly what Gore wanted to do in 2000!

Mike M.-- What you conveniently forget is that provisional ballots were available for anyone who was mistakenly removed from the voter rolls. Those ballots were counted. The canard you just offered, was, as always, tied to a "victimhood and oppressor" false construct, impugning Harris and Bush.

Felons were denied the vote, but others had recouse. They were not disenfranchised, although you want to cling to that victim fantasy.

Bleeding Heart,

Harris was a sham. She should have been impeached. I find it highly questionable when one holds such a high position in the state cabinet and is ALSO holding a high position on a partisan election campaign.

Here in Delaware we just fried some county executives (Democrats) who were using government employees for doing politicking on the job. I highly doubt that Ms. Harris DIDN'T use some of her taxpayer-paid job in 2000 campaigning for Mr. Bush.

The thing with Florida is that it simply didn't smell right. Read Palast's book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." It's a stunningly interesting look at the politics behind the Florida election. Of course, you all will say it's BS...

But, if I can read a Michelle Malkin or Ann Coulter book and say some of what they say is true, then you guys can also do the same with a liberal writer.

Mike, I find I must call you on the Florida election. Dozens of newspapers (including the most rabidly liberal in the nation), foreign newspapers and newsmagazines, reporters and mainstream TV media sent hundreds of investigators to Florida with one idea in mind. Find just ONE "disenfranchised" voter, especially a minority. Guess what. There could not find even ONE! Since these groups could not get the job "done", Mary Frances Berry herself went down there to show them how it was done. Even she, rabid Democratic politician that she was, could not find one.

If YOU found one, please let the rest of us know.

Be sure to provide the link, however.

Ken,

Check out a piece written by Palast himself. Voting in Florida was not kosher in 2000. And you're in denial if you feel there was total innocence on the parts of Jeb Bush and Kathleen Harris.

http://www.mediachannel.org/views/whistleblower/palast.shtml

Again, Palast is merely a commentator...much like Ann Coulter. If Coulter can spew some of the crap she does and I can take a look at it, then you can do the same with Palast.

Mike M, what about the media-sponsored recounts that happened in FL after the elections? There may have been one, very screwed up method of counting that gave Gore the victory, but IIRC, every single method that a reasonable person would call "fair" gave Bush the victory.

Let's not forget also that Gore's campain tried to disenfranchise FL's military voters, and the FL Supreme Court made a complete laughing stock of itself with its partisan decisions. Don't dump all this Harris's lap.

I just now realized what a wasted effort this. Anyone still hung up on the 2000 election is most likely beyond reaching.

I agree Joan, which is why I say it's time all of you conservatives get over the Washington election.

You conservatives told us all to shut up in early 2001. So, I suppose it's only fair that we liberals ask the same from you.

I agree Joan, which is why I say it's time all of you conservatives get over the Washington election.

You conservatives told us all to shut up in early 2001. So, I suppose it's only fair that we liberals ask the same from you.

Me thinks the quotations should be on Female in your title heading.

Me thinks the quotations should be on Female in your title heading.

Me thinks the quotations should be on Female in your title heading.

I always saw the term "First Lady" as a throwback to the old generic British terms for addressing a woman of high rank. Given that, I think the appropriate male term should be "First Lord."

Not that it sounds much better than "First Gentleman." It amuses me, though.

This morning on NWCN (Northwest cable news) "Gov.Gregoire" said she might have to raise taxes...Cripes, we already have the highest sales tax in the nation. Get out yer checkbooks.