South Carolina’s mystery Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate (the one whose election “victory” is only explicable<\/a> through malfeasance or malfunction of the 100% unverifiable ES&S iVotronic touch-screen voting systems) was indicted on obsenity charges<\/a> yesterday. One of the charges was an “extremely rare” felony count<\/a>. The state Democratic Party chairwoman, Carol Fowler — the one who presided over the 5-hour Executive Board protest hearing<\/a> by Greene’s primary opponent Judge Vic Rawl who argued that voting machine failure was the only explanation for the unknown, jobless, money-less, campaign-less Greene having “won” — has asked him, again<\/a>, to voluntarily step down from the nomination. When asked if he’d be willing to accept the nomination if Greene steps down, Rawl has told The BRAD BLOG<\/a> previously that he’d cross that bridge when\/if he came to it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Appelate Court Backs Congressional Defunding of ACORN<\/b><\/p>\n
A 3-judge panel (two Rs, 1 D) on the 2nd District Court of Appeals has unanimously reversed [PDF]<\/a> the ruling of a federal district court judge last March concerning the Congressional defunding of ACORN in light of deceptively-edited video tapes<\/a> published by Rightwing propagandists<\/a> Andrew Breitbart and James O’Keefe. The appellate court determined that Congress can<\/i> target a specific group for punishment, despite what the district court judge had identified as an unconstitutional Bill of Attainder in light of the government having “offered no…unique reason to treat ACORN differently from other contractors accused of serious misconduct.” U.S. District Court Judge Nina Gershon had previously granted injunctive relief to the four-decade old community organization after finding they were barred “from federal funding without either a judicial trial or an administrative process applicable to all government contractors.” The 3-judge appellate panel disagreed. ACORN’s legal representation has called the decision<\/a> “deeply flawed,” says they are planning to ask the full court for reconsideration, and added “We cannot let Congress act like judge, jury and executioner without any hearings at all.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
O’Keefe Accidentally Admits to Being Immoral<\/b><\/p>\n
And speaking of ACORN, the Rightwing dirty trickster and federal criminal<\/a> James O’Keefe who hacked together secretly-taped videos<\/a> in order to phony up<\/a> the idea that the anit-poverty, pro-democracy community group was committing some sort of crimes, has, according to Think Progress<\/a>, admitted during a recent speech that what he does is “the nadir of morality.” (“Nadir” means “lowest point”, versus “zenith” which means “highest”.) No worries though. O’Keefe’s employer, the discredited, pathological liar Andrew Breitbart<\/a>, has plans to deceptively re-edit the video of O’Keefe in order to “fix” that little Freudian slip.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Stephanie Comes Out!<\/b><\/p>\n
Finally, the most fun news of the day comes from progressive radio talker and friend of The BRAD BLOG<\/a>, Stephanie Miller. During a moving program yesterday, Miller announced to listeners that she was gay, noting that it’s been an “open secret” among close friends and family for years, but that a “perfect storm” of events (the recent federal court ruling that CA’s Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional<\/a> and the fight to repeal the federal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in the military, etc.) led her to the belief that it was the right moment to come out to her listeners and the public. The BRAD BLOG<\/a> sends our props and kudos to Stephanie for her courageous decision. The audio of her “coming out” segment, follows below…<\/p>\n
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