Peggy’s story: The cruel cynicism of the voter ID crusade
Hans von Spakovsky, a former Fulton County Republican party official and now a star of the right’s nationwide effort to suppress voting through strict voter ID protocols, continues to pretend that in-person voting fraud constitutes a major threat to American democracy.
Yet when challenged to present evidence of such a threat, as he was in a recent article in The New Yorker, he continues to fail.
For example, in responding to the New Yorker article, von Spakovsky listed a series of recent alleged voting fraud cases that to his mind justified the expense, bureaucracy and obstacles to voting created by voter ID laws. They were:
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– the Democratic nominee for Maryland’s first congressional district removed from the ballot after it was discovered that she had registered and voted in both Maryland and Florida in the 2006 and 2008 elections;
– an Arkansas legislator resigning after pleading guilty (with three other defendants) to committing voter fraud;
– a Canadian couple and a Mexican citizen arrested for illegally registering and voting in Iowa;
– a New Jersey resident convicted on multiple counts of voter fraud;
– three Indiana residents (including a former Democratic mayoral candidate) indicted for voter fraud;
– three Ohioans indicted for double voting;
– a Mexican drug dealer’s guilty plea for voting illegally in the 2008 presidential election;
– Florida’s discovery of nearly 200 non-citizens illegally registered to vote, and
– a city-council race in Vernon, Calif., overturned owing to voter fraud.
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That’s the best he could do?
Once again, none of the examples could have been prevented through voter ID. Requiring a drivers license to vote, for example, does nothing to prevent non-citizens from voting because citizenship is not noted on the license.
Also note that none of the examples cited by von Spakovsky involved an organized effort to alter an election through fraudulent in-person voting. Several involved absentee balloting, the easiest and most popular way to abuse the electoral process. However, it is noteworthy that the Republican Party has in general tried to expand absentee voting without tightening oversight because that’s the means that many of its own voters tend to prefer.
Peggy Cobb
Which brings us to the story of 97-year-old Peggy Cobb of Sandy Springs, as related in an email from her son Bill:
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“I now have a crystal clear, visceral understanding of why some politicians think voter ID laws are so important. The suppressive power of this law to deter people from voting is far greater than I realized. Meet my mother.
She is 97, in good health and with virtually all her marbles (bad hearing loss, though), living an active, independent life in Sandy Springs. She moved here four years ago or so. Had one knee replaced a couple years ago.
Peggy has voted in every presidential election since she was eligible, and most if not all others, too. She pays attention to this stuff more than a lot of people I know. She insists, often with me chafing, on hearing the other side.
She has a Fulton County voter registration card and has voted in every election when she’s been here. Her expired Indiana driver’s license used to be enough ID at the polling booth. No more.
But all she had to do was go to a driver’s services office, show the necessary documents, and get her Georgia Voter ID. Some waiting. No fees. Great deal.
So Peggy gathered up her voter registration card, some utility bills, bank statements, rent receipts and tax returns and went to Driver Services. They said “Great, you have everything you need. Except a birth certificate.”
She went back home and eventually figured out how to order a birth certificate from Minnesota, where she was born and married. Six weeks later, it arrived. Peggy returned to Drivers Services very enthusiastic, since the election was only a couple weeks off. They said “Great, you have everything you need, except the last name on your birth certificate isn’t the same as on all these other documents.”
Well of course not, she got married in 1943. What else could that middle initial “V” stand for except her maiden name, Vanstrom?
No Georgia voter ID card for Peggy without a marriage certificate.
I rarely ever see my mother near tears, but I did then. Some combination of rage and foreboding maybe. Luckily, the Minnesota county that has her marriage certificate is very user friendly. They even do same day turn-around and overnight delivery, if you pay for it. Time was short. $53. But UPS screwed up and misdelivered it, so Minnesota sent another one (no charge) to my house. My wife and I made sure one of us was home all day to sign for it.
Yesterday, back to Drivers Services. A friend drove her. They said, “Great, you have everything you need, except your Social Security number doesn’t match our system. Sorry, no exceptions.”
The friend, who had only bargained for lunch really, drove Peggy home to search for more papers with her Social Security number on it, then drove her to a Social Security office in Marietta. The agent could find nothing amiss, and gave her some papers.
Drivers Services finally relented and gave Peggy a Georgia voter ID yesterday, 5 days before the election. What would she have done without that determined friend?
You probably can’t truly appreciate the physical and emotion toll this ordeal has taken on Peggy. She definitely can’t believe it.
“Why is Georgia doing this to me! Do they want me not to be here? I thought government was supposed to make voting as simple as possible. I don’t understand it!”
I explained the reason for Georgia’s anti-fraud requirements with a joke I heard a long time ago. It begins with a guy standing around constantly snapping his fingers.
“Why are you doing that?” someone asked.
“I’m keeping the elephants away.”
“What? There’s never been an elephant within a thousand miles of here!”
“See, it’s working.”
The reality, of course, is much more mean-spirited and pernicious. Peggy got the joke right away. But she’s still not happy. It’s not funny. At all.
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No, Peggy’s not happy. In a later message, she herself spoke of her frustration with what she calls “Beautiful Georgia, my adopted state as I finish life’s journey.” Voting absentee, she says, “seemed sensible.” But on the other hand, she wanted to once again feel the excitement of voting in person, on Election Day.
“This year 2012 held new significance … my last year ever to vote in a presidential election. I wanted to feel part of this great privilege, wanted to again walk out of my precinct tapping my Georgia Peach voter sticker. Even if the day were dark, gloomy and cold, the sun would be shining.”
But “government intrusion stripped me of my established legal right to vote in 2012 unless I complied with new restriction laws…. I will vote in person on Nov. 6 but my spirit is broken. Trust in the government of my adopted state is shattered, a cruel joke.”
– Jay Bookman
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josef
November 4th, 2012
4:17 pm
SCOUT
And sometimes you don’t know who your friends are…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 4th, 2012
4:19 pm
josef:
That’s true …………. until it’s do or die.
St Simons
November 4th, 2012
4:24 pm
My milk carton has a picture of Paul AynRyan on it
Brosephus™
November 4th, 2012
4:26 pm
P.S. I like to be around unbiased people.
So, you’re a loner, huh??? Everybody has biases.
josef
November 4th, 2012
4:36 pm
BROSEPHUS
Well, they do if they have personalities!
SCOUT
Yep. And it has been my experience that they often come from the least likely places…it’s why I’m still and optimist…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 4th, 2012
4:42 pm
What kind of ID do the SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS! have to supply?
paulo977
November 4th, 2012
4:46 pm
josef ….”nquirers: Students develop their natural curiosity.etc etc etc etc…
_______________________________________________________
This is what ALL schools ought to be focusing on . Unfortunately the testing requirements AND some other directions that have recently come down to the schools from some dumb ass bureaucrats at the state dept are making it almost impossible to encourage real holistic growth
St Simons
November 4th, 2012
4:50 pm
The Flori-duh Republicans shortened early voting from 14 to 8 days
and banned voting on Sunday (when minorities vote 25/1). Waiting times
of 3 hours occurred in Orange, Broward, Dade, & several other counties.
Requests to extend early voting were denied by Fla Republicans.
So a Judge had to intervene, ordering polling places to remain open.
How did Fla Republicans respond?
The Winter Park, Florida library (Voting place) was evacuated when
a suspicious package was found outside. It was later detonated by
the local bomb squad.
stay classy, cons
josef
November 4th, 2012
4:52 pm
K’CHAK
PAULO
I much agree. Interesting on those values and what the kids report. By far and away, it’s “caring,” but second is “inquiring.” It tells you a lot about what they consider to be the most important things in life…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 4th, 2012
4:57 pm
josef
Jay’s piece today in the AJC dead tree edition is pretty good and would go real well on a lazy cloudy Sunday afternoon apropo to reminiscing.
We’ll probably get that in the morning.
josef
November 4th, 2012
5:05 pm
So, what IS the price of eggs in China? Ain’t google grand?
Eggs (12) 12.53 ¥
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 4th, 2012
5:07 pm
Well, I don’t know where my manners has went to. I want to welcome Midori to codgerdom and let her know I’d of paid more mind to her opinions if I’d of knowed she
was so oldhad that many years behind her.josef
November 4th, 2012
5:10 pm
K’Chak
Look forward to it…
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
November 4th, 2012
5:14 pm
wow, 2 solid days of wilderness first aid training. I’m wiped.
At least it distracted me from the election for a moment…..
Tom(Independent Viet Vet-USAF)
November 4th, 2012
5:19 pm
Ok. I’ll say it, I usually say what is on my mind anyway. All this racial back and forth is foolish! One candidate is white and the other is half black and half white, so what? It should be about what their positions are to better this country, not anything to do with the color of their skin. I will vote for the guy with the business experience this time and give him a chance. If he does not do better than the previous guy, next time I’ll vote for someone else! Eventually,someone will get it right, I hope!
USA Patriot
November 4th, 2012
5:19 pm
Great, Carolina beat the Redskins! Last 18 elections, Redskins win at home just before election – incumbent wins, Redskins lose the last home game before election, challenger wins! Baaaawwwwwwaaaaahhhhhhhaaaaaa! Be afraid, be very afraid!
indigo
November 4th, 2012
5:20 pm
Joseph – “those values and what the kids report”
Since you are a kid yourself, I’m sure it’s interesting. In fact, a good blog for you would be the honey boo boo website. This site is a perfect fit for your limited education and intelligence. And, as a bonus, the rest of us would not have to put up with you bothering intelligent people here.
josef
November 4th, 2012
5:23 pm
I won’t match wits or spelling skills with anybody on the blog…the Romany Lady IS laying odds there, and they ain’t in my favor…
USA Patriot
November 4th, 2012
5:24 pm
Boy, a bunch of you people need to change the clocks on your IBM XT’s, the time changed last night – or did “the one” declare another “executive order” for the outdated technology…….chumps!
Don't Tread
November 4th, 2012
5:24 pm
“Requiring a drivers license to vote, for example, does nothing to prevent non-citizens from voting because citizenship is not noted on the license”
So your solution is to lossen up the voter registration law?
My solution is to tighten the requirements for a permanent driver’s license, including proving you’re a citizen to get it. Illegals can move to California…I’m sure they will issue them a drivers license.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 4th, 2012
5:24 pm
And, as a bonus, the rest of us would not have to put up with you bothering intelligent people here.
Now, now. Even gay schoolteachers that think they can see five or six worthless people on this blog have some use.
josef
November 4th, 2012
5:26 pm
DANG
Is it just me, or has the posting time gone into chaos…?
atlanta1
November 4th, 2012
5:27 pm
Stop it…
You need I.D. to cach a check.
You need I.D. to board a flight. (An expired Drive’s License doesn’t qualify)
In many cases you need I.D. to use your own credit card.
You need a Pass Port to enter another country and vice-versa.
You should have to prove who you are with a picture I.D. for the privilege to vote…
Doggone/GA
November 4th, 2012
5:27 pm
“So your solution is to lossen up the voter registration law?”
Nope, the issue isn’t voter registration
Doggone/GA
November 4th, 2012
5:28 pm
“My solution is to tighten the requirements for a permanent driver’s license, including proving you’re a citizen to get it”
Yep, that’s a solution alright…having all those “illegals” driving around with no license. That’ll show ‘em!
josef
November 4th, 2012
5:28 pm
Okay, IMAM, since you are evidently here, what’s going on with the time warp?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 4th, 2012
5:30 pm
Illegals can move to California…I’m sure they will issue them a drivers license.
Then you would merely be bitching about illeeeegalz voting in California.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 4th, 2012
5:32 pm
Just contributed my last time to the Democrat Party. I’m no Koch brother but I bet my ratio of contribution compared to my earnings is a lot more that theirs. Insert grin here, ha ha.
marko
November 4th, 2012
5:34 pm
Ted Nugent said that if Obama were to be re-elected he’d either be dead or in jail within six months. Though I have a preference, I have to admit that either option sounds pretty good.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 4th, 2012
5:35 pm
Indigo,
If I may, before you go matching wits with anyone, you should at least show you know how to read and spell Josef’s name correctly. That would be a good start, yes it really would.
Brosephus™
November 4th, 2012
5:36 pm
Well, they do if they have personalities!
Could you imagine someone with multiple personalities having biases against each of their personalities…
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Then you would merely be bitching about illeeeegalz voting in California.
Doggone/GA
November 4th, 2012
5:36 pm
“Though I have a preference, I have to admit that either option sounds pretty good”
I wouldn’t argue that…but I figure it’s just about as likely to happen as it is for Rush Limbaugh to move out of the country.
Tundra Dude
November 4th, 2012
5:36 pm
$6 a gallon gasoline by election day –
Another broken promise…..
We’re gettin’ shafted…big time!
We’re down to 3.21 in the Tundra.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 4th, 2012
5:38 pm
Indigo,
If I may, before you go matching wits with anyone, I suggest you learn how to read and spell Josef’s name correctly. That might help validate your claim to mental acuity,.
Tundra Dude
November 4th, 2012
5:39 pm
“Actually, I thought you just didn’t like me very much.”
If I thought you were real, I probably wouldn’t
“Can’t we all just get along…??”
~Rodney K
marko
November 4th, 2012
5:42 pm
I enjoyed the Salt Lake City Tribunes observations on Romney. Clearly he achieved the nomination by presenting himself as a “severe conservative”. Following his nomination echo sketch man suddenly becomes moderately moderate. He even seemed to be winning over a few binders full of women in the process. Unfortunately for Mitt his magic with the girls seems to be failing him. Obama currently shows a 13% lead among those of the female persuasion. It would seem that they’ve decided that Mitt really won’t still respect them in the morning after all. Those Democrats are a sneaky bunch. Evidently they’d sink so low as to climb into bed with women to pursue their political ambitions.
I digress, who is the real Mitt? I doubt that even he knows for sure.
TaxPayer
November 4th, 2012
5:44 pm
Women favor Obama or Romney by 13 point margin. I’m surprised it isn’t a bigger margin than that.
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indigo
November 4th, 2012
5:45 pm
Doggone/GA
I rely on you to correct my spelling. I want you to be good for at least something here.
indigo
November 4th, 2012
5:46 pm
joseph
Who is the Romany Lady?
josef
November 4th, 2012
5:49 pm
indigo
You don’t seem to like me very much…glad to oblige…
josef
November 4th, 2012
5:51 pm
indigo
The Romany Lady knows all and sees all…she’s a relative of Thulsa’s, I think…
marko
November 4th, 2012
5:54 pm
Friday the Salt lake City Tribune endorsed Obama. Can’t say I saw that one coming. Though I can’t imagine what they must have been thinking, You definitely have to admire their stones.
They charged him with servile courtship of the Tea Party, shameless pandering to various constituencies, Called him a republican shape shifter and even dared to ask who is this guy really, and what in the world does he truly believe.
That, boys and girls, is an outstanding example of a critical thought process. Who would have thought that you’d discover intelligent life in Utah?
indigo
November 4th, 2012
5:55 pm
joseph
Get a grip and take a pill.
Actually, I thought you just didn’t like me very much.
josef
November 4th, 2012
5:56 pm
marko
“Who would have thought that you’d discover intelligent life in Utah?”
Me.
josef
November 4th, 2012
5:58 pm
indigo
“Actually, I thought you just didn’t like me very much.”
If I thought you were real, I probably wouldn’t.
josef
November 4th, 2012
5:59 pm
Okay, it must just be me, since I’m the only one complaining…I’ll just wait until 6:13 and see if it clears up….
Thomas
November 4th, 2012
6:00 pm
The Redskins moved to Washington in 1937. Since then, there have been 18 presidential elections. In 17 of those, the following rule applied:
If the Redskins win their last home game before the election, the party that won the previous election wins the next election. If the Redskins lose, the challenging party’s candidate wins.
Truly the final blow. Shouldn’t even bother with the election.
Ken
November 4th, 2012
6:00 pm
21 Newspapers have switched to ROMNEY !! Looking good.
RF
November 4th, 2012
6:00 pm
“This site is a perfect fit for your limited education and intelligence.”
From what I know of Josef, you best not go there indigo. I suspect his education alone would take you a couple of lifetimes to catch up to…if you could. One would hope that at some point you’ll grow past the inane banter and engage in real, substantive debate. The children’s blog is elsewhere.
marko
November 4th, 2012
6:01 pm
Chill out Josef. I was joking.
Doggone/GA
November 4th, 2012
6:01 pm
Josef – you know how I like to “collect” advertising mistakes? Heard ont the other day…side effects include “new or worsening heart failure”
If your heart fails, how can it get WORSE?
RF
November 4th, 2012
6:02 pm
“21 Newspapers have switched to ROMNEY !! Looking good.”
Rupert owns that many still?
Tundra Dude
November 4th, 2012
6:02 pm
testing wun tue
indigo
November 4th, 2012
6:03 pm
Joseph
Real or not, here’s a civil question for you. Withou being overly political, who will win on Tuesday?
I think Obama will win a very close election. I certainly hope it doesn’t go to the courts and we wind up with another Supreme Court elected President. If that happens, then the winner, either way, will have a dark cloud over his head.
Agree?
RF
November 4th, 2012
6:04 pm
Doggone: it’s like those lawyer ads on TV that say something about “if you’ve experienced injury or death…” Somehow I think if you’re dead, you’re a whole lot more worried about the Judgment Seat of God than whether or not a lawyer can get you some money for it.
Jm
November 4th, 2012
6:04 pm
I ended up at an Allen West rally
Nice people. Met his wife, she was very nice as well
He obviously has some crackpot supporters
But Allen West, despite some occasionally heated rhetoric, seems a perfectly good guy
indigo
November 4th, 2012
6:04 pm
RF
Plain and simple to you – I’ll match my knowledge and awareness with anybody here.
josef
November 4th, 2012
6:05 pm
Tundra…
Yeah…testing three four @ 6:04
Jm
November 4th, 2012
6:06 pm
Obama rally this afternoon
Supporters left a giant mess with tons of litter
They’re still cleaning it up…
Orange12
November 4th, 2012
6:06 pm
Barack Obama – The biggest fairy tale I’ve ever Seen —– Bill Clinton
Doggone/GA
November 4th, 2012
6:06 pm
“Somehow I think if you’re dead, you’re a whole lot more worried about the Judgment Seat of God than whether or not a lawyer can get you some money for it.”
Yep! Those crack me up too…but at least some of them have finally gotten clued in and are saying something like “if you or a loved one” etc.
Dharma Bum
November 4th, 2012
6:08 pm
There is nothing funnier than watching liberals turn into hypocritical close-minded conservative bigots right before an election
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 4th, 2012
6:09 pm
$6 a gallon gasoline by election day – The Biggest Fairy Tale I Have Ever Seen — Kamchak
josef
November 4th, 2012
6:10 pm
marko
I’m aware of that. I just answered the question. Gotta remember, Utah gave us Butch Cassidy and Joe Hill!
indigo
The Romany Lady is making still not laying odds, and I generally follow her advice in such matters..
DOGGONE
Good one, that!
.
RF
November 4th, 2012
6:11 pm
“I’ll match my knowledge and awareness with anybody here”
hehehe, careful what you wish for…
Does this mean you’ll act like a grownup and quit with the childish name calling? That does NOT demonstrate matching wits with most of the folks here who are pretty decent to one another (except for those 5 or 6 Josef mentioned- but you gotta have some variety to keep things interesting.)
Orange12
November 4th, 2012
6:11 pm
kamchuk — The biggest fairy troll I’ve ever seen.
Doggone/GA
November 4th, 2012
6:12 pm
“I’ll match my knowledge and awareness with anybody here.”
But not your spelling ability, I’ll bet.
josef
November 4th, 2012
6:13 pm
Okay, are we in real time yet?
Brosephus™
November 4th, 2012
6:16 pm
I think so.
josef
November 4th, 2012
6:17 pm
BROSEPHUS
I thought the Romany Lady had got a’hold of the blog…
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6:19 pm
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Brosephus™
November 4th, 2012
6:29 pm
josef
If it was her, I think it would have been far worse than what was going on.
Tundra Dude
November 4th, 2012
6:32 pm
testing 1 2
TaxPayer
November 4th, 2012
6:34 pm
3 4
josef
November 4th, 2012
6:34 pm
BROSEPHUS
No doubt!
TUNDRA
You’re okay, now…
Brosephus™
November 4th, 2012
6:34 pm
5, 6
Tundra Dude
November 4th, 2012
6:36 pm
Josef
Kinda looks like peeps are drifting from the topic….whatever it was….
josef
November 4th, 2012
6:37 pm
Wait a minute…Brosephus and I were 1 and 2…wannabes!
josef
November 4th, 2012
6:37 pm
TUNDRA
Lost in time and space…
Brosephus™
November 4th, 2012
6:40 pm
Tundra
That’s due to the Bookman Thread Drift™ Theory. At some point, generally by the 3rd page, the thread becomes a free for all as opposed to staying on topic. It sometimes kicks in before page 3 when it’s something that one side doesn’t really want to discuss for fear of having to call out their own shortcomings.
Brosephus™
November 4th, 2012
6:43 pm
josef
Sent you a note….
Tundra Dude
November 4th, 2012
6:46 pm
Bro:
That’s due to the Bookman Thread Drift™ Theory
O…I..C..
Think I remember the topic now….. the cruel hoax of voting, or something similar…?
Recon 0311 2533
November 4th, 2012
6:46 pm
“But Allen West, despite some occasionally heated rhetoric, seems a perfectly good guy”
Jm, He is a good guy who has served his country well….it’s only the puny ant-American unwashed who’ve attempted to paint him otherwise.
josef
November 4th, 2012
6:48 pm
BROSEPHUS
Back atcha…
F. Sinkwich
November 4th, 2012
6:52 pm
“He is a good guy who has served his country well….it’s only the puny ant-American unwashed who’ve attempted to paint him otherwise.”
Libs ilks hate real men, Recon, except for their women. They prefer girly men like their metro-sexual messiah, O’bozo.
Ever see him throw a baseball?
stands for decibels
November 4th, 2012
6:52 pm
so, why DO white people want Romney to be President?
interesting take here…
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/scocca/2012/11/mitt_romney_white_vote_parsing_the_narrow_tribal_appeal_of_the_republican.single.html
This has been the foundation of Republican presidential politics for more than four decades, since Richard Nixon courted and won the votes of Southerners who’d turned against the Democratic Party because of integration and civil rights. The Party of Lincoln became the party of Lincoln’s assassins, leveraging white anger into a regional advantage and eventually a regional monopoly. It’s all very basic and old news, but it’s still considered rude to say so, even as Republican strategists talk about winning the white voters and only the white voters.
And so we have two elections going on. In one, President Obama is running for re-election after a difficult but largely competent first term, in which the multiple economic and foreign-policy disasters of four years ago have at least settled down into being ongoing economic and foreign-policy problems. A national health care reform bill got passed, and two reasonable justices were appointed to the Supreme Court. Presidents have done worse in their first terms. In my lifetime—which began under the first term of an outright thug and war criminal—I’m not sure any presidents have done better. (The senile demagogue? The craven panderer? The ex-CIA director?)
In the other election, the election scripted for white voters—honestly, I’m not entirely sure what the story is. Republican campaigns have been using dog-whistle signals for so long that they seem to have forgotten how to make sounds in normal human hearing range.
josef
November 4th, 2012
6:55 pm
Romney and Ryan are real men…? Now thass jus’ too funny…
Boondoggle
November 4th, 2012
6:55 pm
So how about it, West Virginia? You up for four more years of the domestic energy hater?
“More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants. Never before have so many EPA resources been devoted to a single regulation. The independent and non-partisan Manhattan Institute estimates that the EPA’s greenhouse gas coal regulation will cost the U.S. economy $700 billion.”
And then there’s Bill Clinton’s latest gem:
“One of the things the decider-in-chief has to do is decide whether he’s going to bring this country together across all its diversity or let it drift apart. Look at how much stronger the American military is because it is less racist, less sexist and less homophobic and we’re just looking for people who can do the job.”
^^That, from a former president that signed the DON’T ASK DON’T TELL policy into law. Flip flopping liberals…
And let’s talk about voter disenfranchisement, shall we libs?
“TAMPA BAY, Florida – Local service members who have spent years serving the country are discovering this fall that they aren’t allowed to vote in the presidential election.Valrico resident and Navy Captain Peter Kehrig, who has been abroad for five years tells 10 News he feels cheated by a system that removed him from the rolls.”
And go Panthers!
“5:42PM EST November 4. 2012 – Carolina Panthers fans are likely pretty pleased with their team’s ability to win for the first time since Week 2, but one man is likely even happier. History dictates that the Panthers 21-13 victory over the Washington Redskins at FedEx Field bodes well for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. In the 18 presidential elections that have taken place since the Redskins moved to Washington in 1937, 17 have been predicted by the team’s performance in its final home game prior to the election.”
Oh, and you’re doing a helluva job Brownie!
“NEW YORK, Nov 4 (Reuters) – About 1.9 million homes and businesses remained in the dark on Sunday as the pressure mounted on power providers to restore electricity to areas hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy nearly a week ago.”
Oh wait, Bush isn’t president anymore so, floating bodies in the flooded streets of NYC is not major news. Non-union utility companies being turned away to help out because they are non-union non withstanding of course……………
Boondoggle
November 4th, 2012
6:58 pm
“Romney and Ryan are real men…? Now thass jus’ too funny…”
Not only are they real men, but Conservative women have more balls than liberal men. Now THAT is funny.
Brosephus™
November 4th, 2012
6:59 pm
Tundra
Yep. I think the topic was all about the burdensome regulations that the state government has placed on the citizens of Georgia who simply want to exercise their Constitutionally protected right to vote. Only in bizzaro world, or maybe it’s simply just reality, do Conservatives actively champion burdensome over-regulation on the citizens that they govern.
Fred ™
November 4th, 2012
7:03 pm
Mitt Romney be Hustlin’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV6kSV1r-7M
St Simons
November 4th, 2012
7:03 pm
P90X trolls – blog confusion
F. Sinkwich
November 4th, 2012
7:05 pm
O’bozo’s plan is to KILL fossil fuel. The doofus has no clue about what makes America great.
Brosephus™
November 4th, 2012
7:07 pm
And let’s talk about voter disenfranchisement, shall we libs?
“TAMPA BAY, Florida – Local service members who have spent years serving the country are discovering this fall that they aren’t allowed to vote in the presidential election.Valrico resident and Navy Captain Peter Kehrig, who has been abroad for five years tells 10 News he feels cheated by a system that removed him from the rolls.”
Ummmm… I don’t think it’s “libs” that you need to talk to.
Florida’s Governor: Rick Scott (R)
Secretary of State: Ken Detzner (R)
The two people who are most responsible for what you’re complaining about don’t have a (D) behind their names. In most states where people are being purged from voter rolls, it’s not “libs” who are doing the purging. I think your issue is sorely misplaced. The “libs” have been voicing opposition to the added bureaucracy that conservatives have thrown into the voting process.
Fred ™
November 4th, 2012
7:07 pm
O’bozo’s plan is to KILL fossil fuel. The doofus has no clue about what makes America great.
Fossil fuels make America great? Really?
How utterly stupid is THAT lol……..
josef
November 4th, 2012
7:07 pm
BOONDOGGLE
I’ve no doubt that for a considerable number of so-called conservative men, they DO want balls on they call “their women! ”
stands for decibels
November 4th, 2012
7:07 pm
continuing from the piece because why not…
Romney is speaking fluent White. In white people’s political English, “personal responsibility” is the opposite of “handouts,” “food stamps,” and particularly “welfare,” all of which are synonyms for “n##gers.” This was Ronald Reagan’s rallying cry, and it was the defining issue for traumatized post-Reagan white Democrats. Like George Wallace vowing not to be out-n####red again, the Democratic Leadership Council and the New Republic and Bill Clinton made Ending Welfare as We Know It the policy centerpiece of the 1990s.
The actual policy never mattered. Now the Romney campaign is running ads in Ohio saying that Obama “gutted the work requirement for welfare” and “doubled the number of able-bodied adults without children on food stamps.” In mixed company, Romney glosses the food-stamp lines as concern about the country’s economic status, but that’s not why “work requirement” and “able-bodied” are in there. It’s the rusty old Confederate bugle, blown one more time.
I should add, I wish the above weren’t true, that it was a gross exaggeration, but it is not, and it is nothing short of shameful that a Presidential candidate is still resorting to this crap in 2012.
josef
November 4th, 2012
7:09 pm
FRED
Got the machines rigged and ready to go?
Brosephus™
November 4th, 2012
7:09 pm
Conservative women have more balls than liberal men. Now THAT is funny.
So, it’s really self-loathing, self-pity, and self-hatred when these so-called conservative men speak out against homosexuality. The truth is, deep down inside, they love women with more balls. I think that clears up a lot.