Suppressing the Vote

Conservatives are scared shitless, they are so scared for the coming of the 2012 elections and the liberal onslaught that they want college kids, the elderly and the disabled banned from voting!

This from Alan Colmes  in it's entirety.....
Republican New Hampshire House Speaker William O’Brien is part of a nationwide effort to deny voting rights to students, the disabled, and the elderly. In O’Brien’s case, it’s because college students tend to be liberal.

He said that Plymouth, a college town, experiences 900 same-day voter registrations.

“They are kids voting liberal, voting their feelings, with no life experience,” he said.

So, “life experience” must mean you’re a conservative. Right, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates?  Think Progress notes 22 statehouses in America where conservatives are similarly working to disenfranchise voters. Some examples:

NORTH CAROLINA: Republican legislators have introduced a photo ID bill that the Institute for Southern Studies estimates will cost taxpayers more than $20 million…the legislation’s target is phantom “voter fraud” — even though in 2008 authorities reported only 40 voting irregularities out of 4.3 million votes cast.

SOUTH CAROLINA: Despite dying in the state senate last year, a bill requiring voters to present a photo ID has passed both legislative houses in contentious party-line votes. The two houses will now have to resolve their two different versions. One local NAACP official called the legislation “Jim Crow Jr.”

TEXAS: Despite facing a $10-11 billion budget shortfall, Gov. Rick Perry prioritized a voter ID bill as an “emergency item” last month — forcing the Texas legislature to act on the bill before dealing with the state’s budget crisis. Since then the Senate has passed a voter ID law that would be the most restrictive in the nation…

KANSAS: Monday the State Senate approved legislation, originally proposed by Secretary of State Kris Kobach, that would require proof of citizenship upon registering to vote…

TENNESSEE Two weeks a go, the State Senate passed a bill requiring voters to present a driver’s license before voting. The bill would create a significant burden to voting for the state’s more than 500,000 adults without a driver’s license.

Funny that with states crying poverty and the need for budget cuts that they are promoting voter ID plans that would cost millions of dollars.

OKAY, I know some will boo hoo this post, they will say this is liberal hysterics. But no, it is about conservatives realizing they can not win elections fair and square, there is just not enough Americans who vote republican, so they MUST suppress the vote! They do it every fuckin' time! This NH House Speaker is saying what he truly believes, young voters vote Democrat in hoards, and for 2012 this will destroy the GOP's plans to take the White House back from the evil liberals.


From a Yahoo news article..
Targeting students is nothing new: The "arguments against student voting" have been around for decades, says Susan Milligan in U.S. News & World Report. And they're still bunk. If students spend at least three-quarters of the year living, often working, and even paying taxes in their college town, they deserve the right to vote there. And that "lack of life experience" complaint? Funny you don't hear it when the GOP wants to send 18-year-olds off to war.
"New Hampshire Republicans wrong to attack college student voting"
Who's next... older voters? The GOP is right that "college students tend to be liberal and not think about consequences," says Alexandra Petri in The Washington Post. But so what? That's better than conservative elderly voters, who have "no incentive to make any sacrifices or enact any reforms, well, ever." So "where are the campaigns that scream, 'Don't let old people vote! They're conservative!'"
"Before limiting college students' voting rights, stop old people!"

America IS NOT BROKE!

If you love Michael Moore like I do then take some time and watch this clip of him speaking at the Madison protest.



"Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the uber-rich." -- Michael Moore

How they did it, and how Wisconsin taught us to fight back, at:

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/america-is-not-broke

Fuck the Rethuglican Party

Fox and Hell talk

from Think Progress...

Fox "News" had as guest today the Westboro Baptist "church" "attorney" margie phelps. This dreadful person is the daughter of "church" "leader" fred phelps. here's her analysis of the Supreme Court justices and President Obama.

QUESTION: Are the nine justices going to Hell?

PHELPS: I have no objective indicator otherwise. The default for mankind is Hell. [...]

 QUESTION: So the justices are going to Hell? The President is going to Hell?

PHELPS: Absolutely on the President. That’s a big ten-four. I already answered on the justices. The President is going to be king of the world before this is all said and done and he is most likely the Beast spoken of in the Revelation.

It’s telling that in a week which featured deeply manipulative anti-worker tactics by the Ohio GOP, growing unrest in the Middle East, a court decision allowing implementation of the Affordable Care Act to move forward, and the Main Street Movement’s first steps to recall eight anti-worker lawmakers in Wisconsin, Fox decided to ignore these stories in order to focus on the important question of whether President Obama is the Antichrist.

Fox likes to keep us informed on stories like the Anti-Christ and hateful church people. Why would a national "news" show put those hideous satanic people on for all to see? It's shameful, but everything Fox does is shameful. Just sowing some seeds....it is Spring afterall

Huckabees book tour

                                         OOH now I get it, Mike Huckabee is trying to sell his book!

 A Simple Government: Book Tour  February 27, 2011 to March 14, 2011 – IA, MO, KS, OK, TX, NC, SC, TN, GA, LA, MS

This is why he's talking Obama on all the rightwing TV and radio shows!  Steve Malzberg, WOR radio station had guest Huckabee on Tuesday. He asked the Huckster if he thought the people deserved to know more about President Obama, Huck said, "I would love to know more, what I know is troubling enough. And one thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for example, very different than the average American." Then this "ordained minister" said "Most of us grew up going to Boy Scout meetings, and our communities were filled with Rotary Clubs not madrassas."  So when this moron tries to set the record straight he just makes it ten times worse, now he's calling Obama a Muslim!

The former Arkansas governor took to his political action committee's blog to issue the following statement late Tuesday:

I'm not surprised the NY Times chose to sensationalize this story. In fact, the New York Times, the AP, and other news organizations ran with the "sensationalized story" despite being specifically told by [WOR radio host] Steve Malzberg himself that they were incorrect in their assessment of the sound bite. You just can't help but laugh when my simple slip of the tongue, becomes a huge story - and a certain Presidential candidate claiming to visit all 57 states, gets widely ignored.

 This is so typical of these rightwingers, they have a book out, they tour around the red states, they spew lies about our president, ALL for their teabagger base!  Huckabee, like Palin before him, is out to make big bucks with his lame book. The only way these creeps can make a buck nowadays is to bash Obama. The wingnuts/teabaggers just LOVE IT!  They can't get enough of it!


Huckabees real belief, Obama is not one of "them", he didn't grow up in your typical  Leave it to Beaver home, he didn't have Ozzie and Harriet parents, he didn't play baseball or go to Boy Scout camp outs. OH SHIT, How dare this man call himself President of the United States!! Just who does he think he is taking our country from us! This is what the rethuglicans/teabagger ass kissers, really think. And dare I say it? How dare a black family live in OUR White House! It absolutely is what they think. It's the truth, face it, embrace the truth.
Palin, Gingrich, Huckabee, Bachmann, Trump(LOL), I don't believe any of these righties will actually run against Barack Obama. It's all about the money with them, not their love of country.

The Will of the People.... Yes WE Have Spoken...Loud and Clear!

                                              NBC/WALL STREET JOURNAL 

81%  of Americans say TAX MILLIONAIRES

68% of Americans say ELIMINATE THE BUSH TAX CUTS

74% of Americans say CUT OIL/GAS TAX BREAKS

77% of Americans  support PUBLIC UNION BARGAINING

36% of those polled described themselves as conservative,  24% were liberals.

Republicans consistently spew the same 'ole same 'ole... "The American people sent us to Washington, we are doing the will of the people".  NO THEY ARE NOT! This poll shows the will of the people and it sure as hell ain't pointing RIGHT!! 

FUX and their attempts at showing the Madison protests...LAME

Our Linda posted a lame FUX NOOZE video of a lame FUX reporter, Mike Tobin, in Madison at the protests. The lame "reporter" actually said after the camera was pointed away from him, he got HIT by a liberal union worker protester, imagine that! The video title says a reporter was ASSAULTED...He said their faces showed such hate, he said they blocked him with their signs and the chanting was so loud "FOX NEWS LIES", they were trying to shut down communication when they blocked his face, FUX  NOOZE host, Greg somebody, asked why these protesters had such vitriol for the media...  LOL! And while all this was going on all you could see were PEACEFUL, standing calmly around the capitol,  protesters.... what a shame for those who only get their news from FUX. It's shameful! Linda goes on to say the protesters were guilty of embracing violence and promoting violence against innocent people! Now come on.... we have seen many, many news clips of the very calm and PEACEFUL protesters, too bad FUX followers don't get to see those...

She said the protesters attempted to stifle free speech and then resorted to physical assault...omg...She said it is FUX who were trying to report the facts, the taxpayers deserve to know both sides of the issue...omg...then she babbles on about collective bargaining...then calls lefties lawless.....

Sorry, the woman amuses me..!  If you want an awesome retrospect on Madison and what it was like to spend a day with the protesters then go see my friend Mary, she has a great post up with great video clips!

A question for my bloggy friends in California

and for those who may know.....
Brother Bud was here today, we talked politics and religion like we always do. He said I need to start paying attention to the whole world, mainly the Middle East and Islam, then proceeds to tell me how Muslims have a plan to take over the world and are already here in the US infiltrating our schools, indoctrinating our kids. He says schools in the WHOLE state of California are teaching Islam, even having kids change their name to a Muslim name, etc etc...

So I went to GOOGLE and found this, even tho I'd much rather hear from my California friends! 
Rev. Elijah Abraham was born and raised as a Muslim in Iraq, but converted to Christianity when he found that Islam did not answer his most pressing religious questions. He was interviewed for The New American by James Heiser.

 Rev. Abraham said this,  The educational plan has been underway to indoctrinate our children. Go to an average public school in America and you will see the curriculum is very much advantageous to Islam and has Christianity in a bad light. In January 2002, right after 9/11, the California public schools had a mandate that the fifth, sixth and seventh grades were to practice Islam for two weeks. It took almost a week for the Christian community to bring it to light — Paul Harvey and James Dobson talked about it. California said it wasn't mandatory, that it’s just extracurricular activity, but they did not let it die. In the summer of 2007, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals approved public schools allowing these kids to practice Islam for two weeks. What does this mean? They wear Islamic garb, adopt a Muslim name, memorize verses from the Koran, chant “Allah is great and Mohammed is his prophet," and perform Jihad. The reasoning of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was that our children need to learn about world cultures. But Islam is not a culture. I'm still waiting to see if it will go to the Supreme Court because this is so wrong.



 Is this Glenn Beck chalkboard hysteria or is this true??