skippy the bush kangaroo: while the corporate media salivate

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

while the corporate media salivate

over the non-story of the president's birth certificate, some serious news slips by under reported. how the gop is making it harder for americans to vote. they have a vote vendetta. and their motto: better never than early.

voting is overrated.

especially for democrats.

that must be the thinking of florida's republican-led legislature, which is doing its best to invent new ways of keeping democrats from voting in next year's general election.

making it tougher for college students to vote. check. making it tougher for groups to register new voters. check. finding new ways to hassle low-income people who changed addresses. check.
and finally, derailing the success of early voting. - palm beach post

less than a year before the 2012 presidential voting begins, republican legislatures and governors across the country are rewriting voting laws to make it much harder for the young, the poor and african-americans — groups that typically vote democratic — to cast a ballot.

spreading fear of a nonexistent flood of voter fraud, they are demanding that citizens be required to show a government-issued identification before they are allowed to vote. republicans have been pushing these changes for years, but now more than two-thirds of the states have adopted or are considering such laws. the advancement project, an advocacy group of civil rights lawyers, correctly describes the push as “the largest legislative effort to scale back voting rights in a century.” - nytimes

Labels: florida, gop, vote, voting integrity, voting rights

posted by Cookie Jill at 1:42 PM |

2 Comments:

I hate to break this to you, but that's exactly why we have a war on drugs; to eliminate people of color from voting their natural political affinities (Democratic).

The Rethugs have known for decades just how effective the program has been, as millions of potential minority voters have been permanently excluded from participating in determining their own political and social fates via voter disenfranchisement...with the hearty help of milquetoasty Dems who were pee-their-pants scared of speaking out against the drugs laws because of the laws having exactly that effect.

Said Dem 'progressives' didn't want to get slapped with that nasty ole "Soft on crime!" epithet...when the Rethugs would have smeared them if they wiped themselves with 4 sheets or five.

'Progressive' Dems are reaping what they've allowed to tacitly be sown in their name with their acquiescence on the increasingly punitive nature of the intentionally racially bigoted drugs laws...largely ratcheted up by Rethugs.

And they're crying the blues now that they need every vote to counter the hacked voting machines?

Karma's a beetch, ain't it?

commented by

nemo, 6:28 AM PDT

I don't know why anyone's surprised.

They've been talking about a "permanent Republican majority" for some time. There's another name for this: one-party state.

Yes, while Repubs love to blather about "freedom and democracy", that's just lip service. They're more comfortable with a nice authoritarian government. Y'know something like the old Soviet Union...(and preferably one with only Christian white people in charge...)

And when they achieve that goal, I have a new national motto for them: "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer!"

commented by

Anonymous, 10:21 AM PDT

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