Raw Story: The bombshell IRS audit released in May omitted information about liberal groups at the request of House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration’s office.
A spokesman for Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George told The Hill on Tuesday that Issa had requested investigators “narrowly focus on tea party organizations.”
This whole thing has been a set up. What Issa and his Republican colleagues in the house are doing is a disgrace. They're not fit to hold public office. Republicans can't be trusted. It's a simple as that.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Just The First Poll Tax
TPM: Texas is wasting no time capitalizing on the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Voting Rights Act.
Shortly after the high court issued a sweeping 5-4 decision Tuesday striking down a centerpiece of the historic 1965 law, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R) vowed to immediately implement a controversial voter ID law in the Lone Star State that was blocked last year by the now-gutted preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act.
Well that didn't take long. What was that 4 hours? Granny better find her birth certificate.
This is but one way they're making it harder for the poor, the elderly, the disabled, minority, young and Democrats in general to vote. Others ways include but are not limited to making it impossible for college students to cast ballots on campus, limiting the number of voting machines in urban precincts so Democratic base groups have to wait hours in line to vote (many will abandon their effort), while ensuring there are plenty of machines available in suburban Republican precincts, keeping felons off the voting rolls, even after they've paid their debt to society, creating voter ID laws so restrictive, that even drivers licenses aren't good enough to vote and imprisoning people for registering voters.
This strikes at the very heart of our democracy. There's only one way to correct this outrage. We have an election in 2014. Work to elect a Democratic majority in congress and the ability to vote to vote will be returned to everybody the very next day. Keep the GOP in power and it could be your vote they take away next.
Shortly after the high court issued a sweeping 5-4 decision Tuesday striking down a centerpiece of the historic 1965 law, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R) vowed to immediately implement a controversial voter ID law in the Lone Star State that was blocked last year by the now-gutted preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act.
Well that didn't take long. What was that 4 hours? Granny better find her birth certificate.
This is but one way they're making it harder for the poor, the elderly, the disabled, minority, young and Democrats in general to vote. Others ways include but are not limited to making it impossible for college students to cast ballots on campus, limiting the number of voting machines in urban precincts so Democratic base groups have to wait hours in line to vote (many will abandon their effort), while ensuring there are plenty of machines available in suburban Republican precincts, keeping felons off the voting rolls, even after they've paid their debt to society, creating voter ID laws so restrictive, that even drivers licenses aren't good enough to vote and imprisoning people for registering voters.
This strikes at the very heart of our democracy. There's only one way to correct this outrage. We have an election in 2014. Work to elect a Democratic majority in congress and the ability to vote to vote will be returned to everybody the very next day. Keep the GOP in power and it could be your vote they take away next.
Gonna Party Like It's 1964
TPM: South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson (R) praised the Supreme Court's ruling on the Voting Rights Act Tuesday, claiming that a provision struck from the legislation had "imposed an extraordinary intrusion into state sovereignty."
Yeah, they said the same thing when we forced them to end slavery. In fact, the Voting Rights Act was a direct response to conservative efforts to answer the end of slavery with a massive terror campaign designed to among other things, keep black people from voting.
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the union in order to fight for slavery. Given that a return to slavery is out of the question, it stands to reason they would again want the right to keep black people from voting. We understand why conservatives do what they do, but that doesn't make them any less putrid and disgusting.
Yeah, they said the same thing when we forced them to end slavery. In fact, the Voting Rights Act was a direct response to conservative efforts to answer the end of slavery with a massive terror campaign designed to among other things, keep black people from voting.
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the union in order to fight for slavery. Given that a return to slavery is out of the question, it stands to reason they would again want the right to keep black people from voting. We understand why conservatives do what they do, but that doesn't make them any less putrid and disgusting.
Traitors To Democracy, Civil Rights, America
Huffingtonpost: The Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act on Tuesday, the provision of the landmark civil rights law that designates which parts of the country must have changes to their voting laws cleared by the federal government or in federal court.
The 5-4 ruling, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts joined by Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, found that “things have changed dramatically” in the south nearly 50 years after the Voting Rights Act was signed.
What hasn't changed at all is the movement represented by the 5 conservatives on the USSC, the five who voted to gut the voting rights act, the conservative movement - the Republican party - wants to steal elections by robbing all manner of poor, disabled, elderly, young, and minority Americans of their ability to vote.
The Voting Rights Act was the crown jewel of the Civil Rights laws. So basically, you can kiss the Civil Rights Act goodby as well. It seems congress no longer makes law in this country. At least no law the conservatives on the USSC don't like.
But back to the Republican party, they know that if all eligible voters vote, they lose. So they try to keep all eligible voters from voting. It's a simple as that. Remember that the next time you have the opportunity to vote (assuming they haven't already struck you from the rolls).
The 5-4 ruling, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts joined by Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, found that “things have changed dramatically” in the south nearly 50 years after the Voting Rights Act was signed.
What hasn't changed at all is the movement represented by the 5 conservatives on the USSC, the five who voted to gut the voting rights act, the conservative movement - the Republican party - wants to steal elections by robbing all manner of poor, disabled, elderly, young, and minority Americans of their ability to vote.
The Voting Rights Act was the crown jewel of the Civil Rights laws. So basically, you can kiss the Civil Rights Act goodby as well. It seems congress no longer makes law in this country. At least no law the conservatives on the USSC don't like.
But back to the Republican party, they know that if all eligible voters vote, they lose. So they try to keep all eligible voters from voting. It's a simple as that. Remember that the next time you have the opportunity to vote (assuming they haven't already struck you from the rolls).
Monday, June 24, 2013
Wire Hanger Republicans
TPM: One Texas GOP state representative is apparently confused about what "rape kits" are used for.
While the Texas House debated an anti-abortion omnibus bill for 15 hours Sunday night, Rep. Senfronia Thompson (D) called for an exemption for victims of rape and incest, the Associated Press reported. Rep. Jodie Laubenberg (R) objected, saying "rape kits" make that exemption unneccessary:
Rep. Thompson made her case for a rape and incest exemption while a wire hanger hung from her podium's microphone, a symbol of pro-choice protests like the one recently held in Wisconsin.
As we've said before, Todd Akin and all these other Republicans are not saying these crazy things because they think they know something about how the female body works or because they believe whatever bullshit they conjure up about rape kits. They say this stuff because it's a plank in their party platform that abortion should be illegal even in the case of rape, incest, and danger to the mother. They then have motive to minimize pregnancy by rape because most Americans recoil in horror at the notion of being forced to have a rapists baby.
While the Texas House debated an anti-abortion omnibus bill for 15 hours Sunday night, Rep. Senfronia Thompson (D) called for an exemption for victims of rape and incest, the Associated Press reported. Rep. Jodie Laubenberg (R) objected, saying "rape kits" make that exemption unneccessary:
"In the emergency room they have what's called rape kits where a woman can get cleaned out," [Laubenberg] said, comparing the procedure to an abortion. "The woman had five months to make that decision, at this point we are looking at a baby that is very far along in its development."
Her apparent confusion about "rape kits" — a phrase generally used to describe the equipment used by medical personnel during forensic examinations to gather physical evidence following allegations of rape or sexual assault — sparked widespread ridicule on social media sites. Laubenberg then simply rejected all proposed changes to her bill without speaking until the end of the debate.Republicans in the Texas House passed the bill this morning, after hundreds flooded the state legislature to oppose the measure which would place new restrictions on how, when and where a woman could obtain an abortion in the state.
Rep. Thompson made her case for a rape and incest exemption while a wire hanger hung from her podium's microphone, a symbol of pro-choice protests like the one recently held in Wisconsin.
As we've said before, Todd Akin and all these other Republicans are not saying these crazy things because they think they know something about how the female body works or because they believe whatever bullshit they conjure up about rape kits. They say this stuff because it's a plank in their party platform that abortion should be illegal even in the case of rape, incest, and danger to the mother. They then have motive to minimize pregnancy by rape because most Americans recoil in horror at the notion of being forced to have a rapists baby.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Back of The Bus Bitch
Raw Story: A Republican county official in Illinois called a black woman candidate for the House of Representatives a “love child” of the Democratic Party and accused her of being a “street-walker” whose “pimps” are party leaders. According to the St. Louis Dispatch, Montgomery County GOP Chairman Jim Allen made the statements in an email in which he went on to say that after the election, candidate Erika Harold will end up “working for some law firm that needs to meet their quota for minority hires.”
Allen was writing to a Republican website about Harold, who is a former Miss America and Harvard-educated attorney. She is running for the Republican nomination for Illinois Congressional District 13, which encompasses Champaign, Illinois and eastern Chicago. Allen supports her opponent, incumbent Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Taylorville).
You got that? Harvard Law educated attorney gets called a stupid whore by a redneck Republican just because she's black. But to be honest, our first reaction was not that this was a racist screed, we've come to expect that from the party of the southern strategy, but more, where was he educated? She graduated from Harvard Law. Where did Dick Trickle Jim Allen go to school? Jefferson Davis U? Liberty University? Pray tell...
Allen was writing to a Republican website about Harold, who is a former Miss America and Harvard-educated attorney. She is running for the Republican nomination for Illinois Congressional District 13, which encompasses Champaign, Illinois and eastern Chicago. Allen supports her opponent, incumbent Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Taylorville).
You got that? Harvard Law educated attorney gets called a stupid whore by a redneck Republican just because she's black. But to be honest, our first reaction was not that this was a racist screed, we've come to expect that from the party of the southern strategy, but more, where was he educated? She graduated from Harvard Law. Where did Dick Trickle Jim Allen go to school? Jefferson Davis U? Liberty University? Pray tell...
The Moral Majority
TPM: Christopher Allen Simcox, the co-founder of the vigilante border group Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and a former Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of child molestation, according to The Arizona Republic.
Add another to the list. We figure the reason for such a high incidence of child molestation in conservative circles is the repressive nature of the fake morality in their movement. If they're gay they have to hide it. It they want a divorce they have to hide it. If they want to dress up in women's clothes, they have to hide it. They can't be who they are and so they hide and suppress their legal adult urges until they explode in fits of criminal perversion, all to often, with a child.
Add another to the list. We figure the reason for such a high incidence of child molestation in conservative circles is the repressive nature of the fake morality in their movement. If they're gay they have to hide it. It they want a divorce they have to hide it. If they want to dress up in women's clothes, they have to hide it. They can't be who they are and so they hide and suppress their legal adult urges until they explode in fits of criminal perversion, all to often, with a child.
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