Daze of Orange

Following up on the post below, let's harken back to the turbulent time of social transformation and quest for justice that was the Orange Putsch of 2004-2005.

From The Seattle Times of Jan. 12, 2005:

State Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance whipped up the crowd by listing the reasons Rossi went to court last week to challenge the election, such as allegations that illegal votes had been cast by felons and dead people. And he drew a friendly chorus of boos when he talked about an "avalanche of errors" by elections officials in Democratic-leaning King County.

"Dino Rossi's not going to give up, and neither are we," Vance bellowed.

Bob Williams, head of the conservative Evergreen Freedom Foundation, called on the FBI to impound King County's elections records and turn the matter over to a federal grand jury.

"You can give us a revote or you're going to cause us to revolt," warned the Rev. Ken Hutcherson, pastor of Antioch Bible Church in Redmond.

Sadly, the mighty ship Orange Putsch foundered on the rocky shoals of fact and was torpedoed by a liberal judge in Eastern Washington, and then it was set on fire by Vikings who raised taxes and enacted mandatory gay marriage. The rest, as they say, is history, or in the case of conservative bloggers, fantasy.

Anyone feel like an Orange Julius? I would too, 'cept last time I had one I spilled it on my Excel spreadsheet computer program, which tells me the truth about all things in the Universe. Plus it's a felony to spill an Orange Julius on an Excel spreadsheet computer program that one relies upon for the truth, according to a postcard I recently received but did not return to the Washington state GOP.

UPDATE 12 seconds later--I see in comments that there are already over 352 trolls demanding that I mention a certain conservative blogger by name. I was going to, but I don't want to go to rehab.