If You Really Loved Me You'd Let Me Eat Your Brain

From USA Today (The Nation’s Coloring Book)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a possible White House candidate in 2008, joined 2004 nominee John Kerry and other Democrats Thursday in urging that Election Day be made a federal holiday to encourage voting.

She also pushed for legislation that would allow all ex-felons to vote.

Now, if I didn’t believe everything I read on the Internet I’d think one of my friends was setting a trap for me. Clinton? Ex-Felons? Vote? Those three terms should never be in such close proximity to one another, but there it is.

Under her proposal around 4.7 million ex-felons would regain their voting privileges in the 2006 election cycle. How will they vote? They've been institutionalized for part of their lives, which makes them Democrats by default in my mind. They've already captured the unions, teachers, college campuses, minorities, and the perpetually impoverished underclass created by their misplaced attempts at social engineering. What comes after the ex-felon vote? Palestinian prisoners? The French? Provisional ballots in the recreation yard?

A federal holiday for voting is something Kwik2Jujj has suggested to me before. Not such a bad idea, but do our federal and state employees really need another paid holiday?

One suggestion: Let's do it Iraqi style and dye our fingers when we vote. No dye, no discussing politics with me until the next election.