Might we suggest these Republicans get their lies straight before going public?
From Republican State Representative Tom Emmer’s press release today, on the defeat of his restrictive Photo ID voting bill in the MN legislature this morning:
Just now, from attorney James Langdon, arguing on behalf of former Republican Senator Norm Coleman, in the U.S. Senate election contest in MN:
But why quibble when we might be able to disenfranchise (Democratic-leaning) voters in a democracy? By the way, the RNC seems to agree with Langdon, not Emmer:
Not that any of that will stop any Republican anywhere from doing everything they can to keep legal (Democratic-leaning) voters from being able to cast their legal votes through Photo ID restrictions, or anything else they can think of.
There is something disreputable, grasping, might I say unholy about modern Republicans, truly starting with Nixon, although Harding was extremely corrupt. It happened when the religious “right” took over with a stated aim of turning the party from its unholy ways. (The GOP is the party that legalized abortion: it didn’t just happen under their watch (Nixon), they promoted it.)
Now we have one sliver of the party clinging to the ideals of big business and no regulations (Romney and Whitman), those just trying to survive until retirement (Judd and McCain), and those who are simply using the broken party for their personal reasons (DeLay, Coleman, etc.). This last group will say anything, so anything, steal anything to help themselves rob the public. Consistency is not paramount when anything that gets you what you want is right.
Thanks for the post! I read you everyday.
Woah! Norm Coleman’s Yearbook Photo:
http://www.vetocorleone.com/2009/02/norm-colemans-yearbook-photo-is-your.html
Did the poll workers slip up by letting people vote more than one time? That’s highly unlikely since voters have to sign in to vote, and once they sign in, they don’t get to vote again.
Or, did the secret vote counting computers just magically count more votes than were cast?