“Life Is Full Of Irony For The Stupid”, Part MMMDCCCXXXI
By Mitch Berg
STOP THE PRESSES!
Yet another lefty writer has discovered that Republicans are TEH HYPOCRITES HYPOCRITES HYPOCRITES!
In this case, it’s one Brad Friedman over at the HuffPo:
For all of their years of claims that massive voter fraud is going on at the polling place, such that photo ID restrictions are required to ensure the integrity of the vote, youd think that when Republicans have a chance to run their own elections, theyd be sure to want it to be as “fraud”-free as possible.Nonetheless, despite onerous polling place photo ID requirements now passed into law in about a dozen states where the GOP controls both the legislative and executive branches, voters will be able to cast their ballot in next Tuesdays “First-in-the-Nation” Republican Iowa caucuses without bothering to show a photo ID — even though the Republican Party itself sets their own rules for voting there.
Wow. That could mean the GOP are a bunch of TEH HYPOCRITES HYPOCRITES HYPOCRITES!
Or it might mean that a statewide caucus is open only to registered activists, and that a party precinct will have a better-than-fair idea of who their registred members are, and it’s completely different than an actual election.
December 30th, 2011 at 8:21 am
What number is MMMLCCCXXXI? My abacus is broken.
December 30th, 2011 at 9:43 am
Don’t read Huffpo. You’ll get cooties.
I’ve never heard any Republican claim the “massive voter fraud is going on at the polling place”.
December 30th, 2011 at 10:55 am
What number is MMMLCCCXXXI?
Er, nonexistant. The “L” should be a “D”, in which case it’s “3,831”.
December 30th, 2011 at 12:00 pm
It’s all Roman to me.
December 30th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
“Brad Friedman”
Who? Another “journalist” who owns a laptop and thinks he has something important to say?
December 30th, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Keep in mind that when liberals talk about “voter fraud” they are using the definition of “voter fraud” given by the Soros-financed Brennan Center.
This defines voter fraud as a voter casting a ballot that they know is fraudulent, and that they are casting that ballot in an attempt to influence the election outcome. The actual wording is:
““Voter fraud” is fraud by voters.
More precisely, “voter fraud” occurs when individuals cast ballots despite knowing that they are ineligible to
vote, in an attempt to defraud the election system.”
The Brennan center offers no justification for this definition other than that they like it.
So an election worker stuffs a ballot box, no voter fraud. An Acorn person pays for votes, no voter fraud. You fill a van with mentally deficient patients, drive them to the polling place and “help them vote”, no voter fraud.
December 30th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Terry blathered: You fill a van with mentally deficient patients, drive them to the polling place and “help them vote”, no voter fraud.
Hey Terry, did you remember to reserve your seat on the SitD Election-Day Short Bus?
December 30th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
AssClown blundered: “You fill a van with mentally deficient patients, drive them to the polling place and “help them vote”, no voter fraud.”
That, in fact, was just how it came down in Cook county last election…the deficients were “helped” to find the Franken box.
Neeeeeeext!
December 30th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
You fill a van with mentally deficient clowns, drive them to the polling place and “help them vote”. The DFL model!
December 30th, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Haha, Angryclown forgets you rubes elected a senator who used to wear a bee costume. Still hurts, eh Swiftea?
December 30th, 2011 at 4:23 pm
Four people with their voting rights officially rescinded, taken to a polling place in Crow Wing county and “helped” to vote by workers for an openly DFL supporting adult day care home — and no indictments because there was no voter fraud:
http://m.brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-10-20/grand-jury-returns-without-indictments
One of the voters, who had not had his right to vote legally taken from him (though he was brain damaged and had been under full time care for over a decade) thought he was voting for Gerald Ford.
December 30th, 2011 at 4:50 pm
There’s a reason Senator Smalley earned the nickname “Frankenfraud”. Some people get Rickrolled. We got fraudrolled. George Soros’ has seen HUGE ROI in the SOS Project courtesy of Mark Ritchie. It has already been identified that Smalley won by a smaller margin than there have been invalid felon votes identified, but it is past the statute of limitations, so his invalid, fraudulent “victory” sticks.
December 30th, 2011 at 5:16 pm
Who you gonna believe, Bill C? Al Franken, the Crow WIng County Attorney, the Brennan Center for Justice, or your lying eyes?
December 30th, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Aw, boohoo, Bill C! Hey, ever think of taking that Florida plank out of your eye before criticizing your DFL brother for his Minnesota mote?
Nah, of course not.
December 30th, 2011 at 7:40 pm
Florida! The one election where the D’s weren’t able to pull a Franken.
That means “insist on recount after recount. Until your side is ahead”.
December 30th, 2011 at 10:28 pm
Insist on recount after recount. Until the votes are counted. Sounds very sinister to you vote-suppressing teabag kooks, of course.
December 31st, 2011 at 12:55 am
Plank shmank. Florida was violating FEDERAL law. Ritchie merely played fast and loose with MN State law. SCOFL got their ass spanked by SCOTUS, the SCOMN justices decided to look the other way at Ritchie’s shenanigans. As Mitch likes to say, quit comparing apples to axles. What I said is completely valid regardless of your ineffective attempt at spin.
December 31st, 2011 at 1:21 am
*Rolls Eyes*
Clown, you know that Gore only wanted to count votes in favorable districts. The FSC — mostly appointed by a corrupt Democrat governor — kept getting kicked down by the USSC on equal protection grounds. As much as it may pain you, the vote of a Palm Beach resident is not more important than the vote of a Pensacolan.
En banc decisions are not rare when the case is sui generis — especially when a politically determined outcome is more desirable but cannot be accomplished for reasons of timing, etc.
.Sometimes the New York Times is just flat out wrong, Angry Clown. There was no evidence that a truly fair recount would change the results.
People on the Left need to just move on. Fer Crisakes, do you think that if Gore had won after the umpteenth count he would have been seen as the legitimate winner? Grow up.
December 31st, 2011 at 1:25 am
Yeah, Bill C. the SCOMN decided that some votes were more important than others. I still think it should have gone to the Supremes. Coleman got outlawyered, and apart from his diffidence I think the main reason he got outlawyered was that he was an ex-democrat with connections to the MNGOP that were less strong than they should have been.
December 31st, 2011 at 6:49 am
“En banc decisions are not rare when the case is sui generis”
Um, you realize this is gibberish, right?
December 31st, 2011 at 8:41 am
Weren’t there three independent reviews of the Florida fiasco that upheld the Bush victory? And there were how many reviews of the Frankin v Coleman recount? Oh, we don’t need to review that one.
December 31st, 2011 at 9:19 am
The Miami Herald did one and I believe the Orlando Sentinel did as well. There was also a national consortium of newspapers. All said that Bush won under the standards that were at play. There were other standards that were not in play that might have delivered the election to Gore. But it’s 2012, so it really doesn’t matter that much any more. And while I’ll always believe Franken outlawyered Coleman, it doesn’t make him any less of a Senator. Move on.
December 31st, 2011 at 9:42 am
Regardless of “standards not in play,” the recounts showed that more people in Florida, as in the rest of the country, voted for Gore. That’s supposed to be how it works, which you far-right kooks only care about when it happens to be the argument that will get your guy in office. You’d be just as happy with a Soviet-style “election,” as long as it put in office whatever looney tune you happened to favor.
December 31st, 2011 at 12:24 pm
the recounts showed that more people in Florida, as in the rest of the country, voted for Gore
Well, actually no, they didn’t. Don’t let that hanging chad hit you in the ass on the way out.
December 31st, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Your ignorance is showing, Angry Clown:
en banc
(on bonk) French for “in the bench,” it signifies a decision by the full court of all the appeals judges in jurisdictions where there is more than one three- or four-judge panel. The larger number sit in judgment when the court feels there is a particularly significant issue at stake or when requested by one or both parties to the case and agreed to by the court.
http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=625
sui generis
(sooh-ee jen-ur-iss) n. Latin for “one of a kind,” unique.
http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=2058
Granted, my English prof would have red penciled me for using a Latin and a French expression in the same sentence Esp. w/o italicizing or using quotes), but this ain’t English class, is it?
No matter how many times you roll the dice in FL, they keep coming up snake eyes for the dems (Canicula L , dea double un F). The USSC saw that, Democrats are deranged on the topic.
I’m mostly disappointed in Ginsberg. Her dissent was a confusing mish-mash from the second sentence. “But instead of respecting the state high court’s province to say what the State’s Election Code means, The Chief Justice maintains that Florida’s Supreme Court has veered so far from the ordinary practice of judicial review that what it did cannot properly be called judging.”
The frikkin’ FL legislature was very clear on exactly how they intended Fl’s election code to be read.
Jesus Christ on a surfboard, you Dems put some lousy jurists on the Bench.
January 1st, 2012 at 6:39 pm
AC here’s something for you to sink your teeth into, your precious NYT agrees with us.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/12/us/examining-vote-overview-study-disputed-florida-ballots-finds-justices-did-not.html?pagewanted=all
vs. Coleman and Franken
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/12/felons-voting-illegally-franken-minnesota-study-finds/