the humiliation of rick scott, the disaster by design in florida elections is why today pink flamingos turned up on the statehouse lawn in north carolina. the pink flamingos were a silent protest in hard plastic that was supposed to remind everybody of florida. the flamingos planted on the statehouse lawn as a message to the republic ans in that state, a message to the republicans in the north carolina legislature and north carolina's republican governor, the message was, please do not make our elections look like florida's. in north carolina, which has gone crazy this year, republicans are making one more last-minute grab the silverware drawer and throw it in the air chaos move in the legislature. an old bill to change voter i.d. laws in state had been sitting dormant for about three months, but all of a sudden today the republicans in the legislature brought it back to lifetimes a million. they rewrote the old bill. they stuffed it full of a whole bunch of new stuff that never gets debated and never has