I don't like to e-mail my friends about politics, except when I am certain of shared interests, but this time is quite important. Tomorrow, if enough Republicans win, for the first time in a long time, a single political party will have monolithic control of the executive office, the senate, and the house of representatives. There will be no checks-and-balances left for whatever Bush and his cronies come up with. If you trust Bush and voted for, do you trust him so much that you would like to see all such checks and balances removed from him, nothing to temper his impulses? One of the things that has historically hurt conservatives is that they thrive best when tempered by an opposition and when they lack such an opposition when they most often shoot themselves in the foot. If you distrust Bush, are you going to allow him to have such unprecedented power? One of the things which has historically hurt progressives is that too many refuse to vote, not realizing that in their failure to cast a vote for progressive/liberal thought they are giving de facto vote for conservative/ fundamentalist thought. Please vote! I fear for this country, and tomorrow, if enough of us vote to continue the checks-and-balances between the two parties, there may be some hope after all. yours, - "evvie" w. everett chesnut ===== ~ solvitur ambulando ~ "The problem is solved in the walking." [-- St. Augustine] * * "Not all who wander are lost." [-- J.R.R. Tolkien] * * . . I'm on an unnamed walkabout . . . . with no whither nor whence __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/