Sunday, July 11, 2004

No Longer Tin-Foil Hat Territory

It's even on freaking CNN, for crying out loud:

U.S. officials have discussed the idea of postponing Election Day in the event of a terrorist attack on or about that day, a Homeland Security Department spokesman said Sunday.


Here's the kicker:

The department wants to know about the possibility of granting emergency power to the newly created U.S. Election Assistance Commission, authority that [DoJ spokesman Brian] Roehrkasse said was requested by DeForest B. Soaries Jr., the commission's chairman.

Soaries, who was appointed by President Bush, is a former New Jersey secretary of state and senior pastor of the 7,000-member First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey.


Just what I want, a Baptist minister with emergency authority over our elections. Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-religious. You can have you religion and rejoice in it as long as you keep it off of my back. But given this administration's track record on elections, cronyism, and the separation of Church and State, a Baptist minister hand-picked by George W. Bush is the last person I want in that position.