Does anybody give a rat’s behind that the GOP is clawing for power by any means necessary, the latest being by passing unnecessary, unjustified laws to prevent people from exercising their Constitutional right to vote?
Unnecessary and unjustified. That’s what today’s Republicans are all about. They invaded Iraq in March of 2003 and have spent upwards of $805 billion – and caused the deaths of 4,488 Americans and at least 117,953 Iraqi civilians – for no reason other than to fatten the wallets of Dick Cheney and the other greedy, dishonest, rich old white guys who profit from war. They’re waging war on the middle class and destroying the economy so that those damn Obamas get sent back to Chi-town and rich white folks repossess the White House. Today’s Republicans are all about doing whatever they want regardless of need, consequence, illegality or immorality.
As Jon Stewart brilliantly conveyed (see video clip below) a few days ago on the only real news show on television, voter fraud is a bigger problem than ringworm but not as big as Bieber fever. In fact, in the last decade there have only been 340 cases of voter fraud in all of America – which, as Stewart calculated, represents a whopping 0.7 cases per state per year.
Holy crap!
I refuse to use the word “conservative” to describe today’s Republicans because there’s nothing conservative about regulating female genitalia, running up massive deficits, increasing the size and scope of government, trashing the environment, forcing Christianity down our throats, expanding oil drilling in sensitive areas, robbing from the poor to give to the rich, outlawing some love because it’s sacrilegious, voting 19 times to increase the debt ceiling by $4 trillion during Dubya’s presidency, mandating that fetuses and corporations enjoy the same rights as people, giving the richest one percent of Americans almost $750 billion in tax cuts over the last decade, spying on law-abiding Americans or executing the innocent and the mentally challenged.
Teddy Roosevelt was a conservative. Frederick Douglass was a conservative. Warren Burger, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Booker T. Washington were conservatives. It’s not only wrong but downright offensive to include them on the same list as Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, Karl Rove, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh – five of the most corrosive, divisive, derisive, destructive personalities in the history of American politics – as one pro-conservative website does.
An excellent article entitled, “Voter ID Laws: The Greatest Election-Stealing Conspiracy in US History” reveals a “widespread and pernicious phenomenon occurring in many critical swing states – one that, unless checked, could erase Obama's electoral edge.” The author points to “efforts by Republican governors and Republican-controlled state legislatures to pass restrictive new voting rules just in time for Election Day. As a result, at least 5 million Americans could essentially lose their right to vote, according to the non-partisan Brennan Center in New York.” (Notice the many attempts to marginalize the messenger in the comments section that follows the article. By any means necessary...)
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| Josef Stalin |
Today’s GOP has clearly embraced the wisdom of beloved statesman and humanitarian Josef Stalin, who said, “It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.”
Sources: Commondreams.org, costofwar.com, blackstarnews.com, boycottliberalism.com, thinkprogress.org, thenation.com, iraqbodycount.org, The Daily Show, antiwar.com.
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