Is Brancaccio pathological?

(FULL DISCLOSURE: I have not and likely will not be endorsing in this race. I freely admit that I am totally opposed to Marc Boldt's re-election since he's completely sold out to the left, forgotten/ignored GOP principles, supports the CRC scam in it's entirety and wants to hang tolls around our neck for the next several decades that will destroy a great deal of small business in Clark County as a result.

NO candidate or campaign or anyone involved or in any way concerned with any candidate or campaign was aware of or approved or had input into this post.

Further, Marc Boldt is my brother in law, and I worked for him as his legislative assistant for 6 years while he was in the state house.)  

I was looking over Loose Fact Lou's babble this morning as he took the typically fringe-left position that he's smarter than Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, and all the others who actually WROTE the Constitution with his stupidity that we should do away with the Electoral College.

Continuing to suffer from his leftist Bush 2000 hangover, This moron referred to the actions of the those who wrote the Constitution as "indefensible."

Typically, what's "indefensible" is the manure spewing from his keyboard, but that's not germaine to this issue:

Is Brancaccio pathological?  Does he even recognize when he lies?

We've seen the number of times he's engaged in self-denial about his fringe-left political positions: he supports legalization of pot, gay marriage, Marc Boldt; locally, only democrats in anything approaching competative races for the legislature... even though there have been multiple editorials decrying the public employee unions and their democrat lackeys continually screwing us (Apparently, Brancaccio is too damned dense to see the cause (democrats that he continues to support for election) and the effect of that support (democrat public employee unions continuing to screw us) in his endorsements, but that's an issue that goes to intelligence, not pathological lying.) with wages and benefits.  No, that's not the point of this... it's to set the table for it.

The point of this is the utter, rancid lie that Brancaccio spewed in his column of self-delusion today:

My conservative blogging buddy Lew Waters was one of the first out of the box defending this indefensible position.

Lew said the Electoral College is there to protect all of us from the "tyranny of the majority." Lew went on to say that it appeared the founding fathers "did not trust the people to do their homework."

Odd that my buddy Lew has been clamoring for a public vote on light rail, yet he supports no public vote to elect the president. Hey, Lew, don't we have to protect light rail from the "tyranny of the majority"? :-)

The stupidity of this observation is self-evident:  The presidential election IS, of course, a "public vote;" you know, the very thing idiot stick here just claimed we DON'T have?

Vancouver City Councilman Larry Smith was in full throat supporting Lew on this Electoral College stuff.

"Lew, on point!"

Now, I can see why some entrenched politicians like keeping the people's vote at a minimum. But Lew and Larry are pretty odd bedfellows.

So are Lou and Lew, since Brancaccio is to the left of Lenin and Lew is a conservative.

And I have to admit many of those who favor the Electoral College shenanigans are very bright people. Even some friends of mine.

Jack Quealy from Chicago writes, "The system works, leave it alone."

Sorry, Jack, it doesn't work. Because I happen to believe in the people's vote, I believe that the people's vote should count.

This, of course, is the lie of it.

Lou Brancaccio no more "... believes in the people's vote" then he could levitate.

What was this liar's position on the charter effort here in Clark County?  Did he "...believe in the people's vote" then?

What was the rag's position on downtown redevelopment? (It was to support Vancouver's efforts to sue the opponents into silence... not to demand a vote on that rip off.)

Where has his demand for a vote on the CRC been? 

Where's his outrage over Boldt's gerrymandered CTran district?

Where's his demand for county-wide votes for the tax increases he typically craves?

Where was his outrage over the ballpark scam he so strongly supported just a few months ago with absolutely no vote component?

Nowhere.

Instead, if a vote has been mentioned at all by this clown, it's been in derisive, dismissive tones.  He's specialized in generating excuses to keep us from having any say on the region-changing issues that begin and end with the theft of our money... without any say. Think "That blithering idiot Biden" with a keyboard.

See, the self-evident hypocrisy of Brancaccio is obvious to a blind man.  But he either doesn't see it, or he's so delusional that he sees it, but excuses his way around it.

But with all the issues confronting us, particularly the CRC where the people's input was excluded BY OFFICIAL POLICY

Now, supporters of the Electoral College say, "Hey, we only got it wrong a few times, where the guy with the most votes didn't become president."

I say again: Huh?

It's OK to get the wrong guy in as president even once? Let alone three times?

We never picked the "wrong guy."  We just wound up with the guy Brancaccio didn't want.

And that's yet another reason to continue the current system.

Changing it to ignorance, a not surprising position for a Brancaccio, would require a Constitutional Convention.  And that ain't happening.

But even that is not the point of this post:  The point of this post is the outright, obvious and historical lie that "Brancaccio believes in the people's vote."

Odd how situational he can be with that.

Yes, Washington State is going to be a lackey state for that moron Obama.  But democracy also includes the right to be stupid, and the leftists of this state rarely disappoint in that regard.

Even so, my faith is in those who wrote perhaps the greatest political document the world has ever known.  it's a document I took an oath to defend.  It's a document with occasionally infuriating rights attached... the same rights that allow Brancaccio to lie, exaggerate, manipulate, and delude under the blanket of "freedom of the press," even when the "press" are lying scum.

I, on the other hand, truly do believe in the People's Vote.  But I believe it should be applied to anything the people want, since we never abandon our political power, we merely delegate that power to those, rightly or wrongly, who are trusted to implement that power's will. 

Unlike Brancaccio and HIS buddy Boldt, who loath the vote of the people except when they believe their agenda will benefit from it.

So, who is right?

The Founding Fathers who put their lives on the line for the country we're working so hard to screw up right now?

Or a rabid fringe-leftist with an agenda... and a lie?