The Koch Brothers Speak!

One of the Koch Brothers, speaking at a Breitbart meeting at Fox News headquarters while eating Chick-Fil-A and carrying an assault rifle:

“Some critics of voter IDs think the government cannot do this job, but Mexico and most poor countries in the world have been able to register and give IDs to almost all their citizens. Surely the United States can do it, too. Free photo IDs would also empower minorities, who are often charged exorbitant fees for cashing checks because they lack proper identification.”

That racist peckerwood!  Why, you can just feel the contempt for women, whom the Brennan Center said were too stupid to carry IDs with them and were more likely to have had them stolen by their abusive boyfriends and…

…and…

…well, no.  It was one of the men that liberals inexplicably admire the most; Jimmy Carter, back in 2005.  Carter, who up until 2008 was the worst president of my lifetime, finally got one right; recognizes that the virtue of an election system is measured in the integrity and legitimacy of the votes, not  in the amount of wood pulp consumed by making ballots to jam into boxes.

Of course, under pressure from fellow lefties, Carter had to expand on his comments in 2008, noting that it has to be easy and cheap for the poor to obtain IDs.  And the GOP has not only agreed with this, but acted on it.

49 thoughts on “The Koch Brothers Speak!

  1. Whenever you mention the Koch brothers, DG (where’s your homework?) slips into an apoplexy induced psychogenic fugue state. As soon as the sensation returns to her fingers she goes out to the shed where she breeds and kennels her puppies, dresses them all in costumes from Showboat and sings the entire musical to the poor beasts. She slips out of the fugue in a few hours and denies that anything untoward happened to her inexplicably costumed prisoners.

    Oh Prince Of Darkness why did you give so much power to the Koch brothers?

    Carter, like a broken clock does get things right once in a while.

  2. Carter must thank God for Obama every night. It’s not often you have your stigma diverted to another.

  3. Angryclown thinks it’s totally cute how you teabillies keep up the pretense that voter suppression is all principled and stuff.

    “We’re all about protecting the right to vote!”

  4. Terry thinks that it is so totally cute that Angry Clown believes that zero voter fraud is the result of NOT requiring ID when people register to vote and then NOT requiring ID when people cast their ballots.

  5. Let me tell you how it works here in the People’s Republic of Hawaii, friends.
    Our local county clerk runs the elections.
    We got a new county clerk this year, Jamai Kawauchi. She noticed some odd ball stuff had been going on under the previous clerk. People registering in more than one district, people voting more than once, etc:
    http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/sections/news/local-news/hawaii-county-audit-4-people-voted-twice-2010.html
    She decided to audit the rolls. Then the phones started ringing. The calls were from Honolulu.
    She locked down the office for the day to avoid political interference with the audit.
    Kawauchi released her findings and the sh*t hit the fan.
    This happened a few weeks before the primary. Being a one-party state, most of the elections are decided in the primary.
    After she released her results detailing the multiple votes and illegal votes cast in the last few elections, her two highest-ranked employees, civil servants, decided to take leave through election day.
    With Kawauchi new to the job, and with the dept.’s two most experienced employees gone, the election was chaotic. Poll’s didn’t open on time, some polling places had the wrong lists of registered voters, etc. Almost looked like sabotage.
    So now the D party controlled legislature and the D controlled office of elections is holding hearings — on Jaime Kawauchi’s competence. The results aren’t in yet, but Kawauchi will likely be fired.
    You don’t mess with the machine here, and elections are how the machine controls the State.

  6. An avalanche of violence from teh testicle sucking koch machine!

    Twas fun to watch Doakes take Peevee and Deegee to task the other day. Yes, Peevee is still a coward.

  7. angryclown on elections: the only important part is that as many people as possible get to vote at least one time.

    angryclown on Voter ID: IDs are somehow inherently racist, and even if they weren’t, distributing IDs is just too hard to do in the USA. Sure, it may be possible in highfalutin’ places like Mexico and Guatemala, but for magical reasons we just can’t do it here.

  8. How many polling places in Democratic controlled cities will open late this November?

    When they open late they will get a court order to stay open late. When they have a good idea of how many votes they need. St. Louis, MO seems to always pop up on election night when polls have to be kept open late.

  9. It’s cute the way the Lefties thinks that they have common sense.
    The other day on NPR they did a piece on voter ID laws. They used anecdotes rather than argument, of course. They told the story of some woman — in Philly, I think — who said that under the new law in PA, she couldn’t vote.
    She had been born in Puerto Rico. No birth certificate. Moved to the U.S. mainland about thirty years ago. Never drove, had no ID.
    And now she couldn’t vote.
    A person with common sense would say “WHY WAS THIS WOMAN ALLOWED TO VOTE FOR THREE DECADES! THIS IS NOT AN HONOR SYSTEM”
    A liberal thinks “racis-s-s-s-st”
    And of course the NPR never checked her bona fides. For all the NPR reporter knew, this woman was not a citizen and had voted illegally for thirty years.

  10. JPMN: All references to any urban centers are racist as well. While we’re at it, any references to anything will, henceforth, be construed as racist.

  11. Any takers on St Louis? I’ll give $20 to the Salvation Army if I am wrong.

    I know, takers, St Louis, $, Salvation, Army=RACIST.

  12. Since so many would-be democrat voters seem to cons, ex-cons, the institutionalized, and the shiftless, maybe it should try to class up the joint and aim its message at more responsible Americans?
    Just a thought.

  13. Angry Clown is trying to make a point! Awh! Now that is cute!
    Remember the 2004 Dem convention? When the boy scouts were booed?
    Obviously that means the Dems hate boy scouts.
    There were more than 2 people booing, and none of them got thrown out. Party leaders to this day, probably.

  14. Re: Mr. Clown’s two links:
    The first link is to a Yahoo story about some odd occurrence at the convention.
    The only people saying that it had a racial connotation are Lefty pundits. The Yahoo story is really from AFP, and it gives no basis for using the word “race” in its headline. There is nothing about this incident that suggests race was a motivating factor. No one has even identified the race of the “attendees” who were ejected.
    CNN seems to have deep-sixed this story. I wonder why?

    The second goes to a Harper’s (always fair to Republicans!) article that has this “Editor’s Note” attached to it. When Harper’s backtracks, you know the story was crap.

    Editor’s Note: After this post was written, it was reported on Buzzfeed and elsewhere that the “U.S.A.” chant on the convention floor began as a response to chants of “Point of Order” by Ron Paul supporters. An RNC spokesperson denied to Fox News Latino that the chanting was related to Zoraida Fonalledas’s nationality.

  15. angryclown said:

    “Yeah, God forbid anyone thinks you loonies might be racist.”

    Whoa there, little mister!

    I never meant to infer that anybody, especially you and your fellow travellers, don’t believe almost anything that confirms your existing biases.

    I do mean to say that what you believe isn’t necessarily true.

  16. Angryclown is sure you’re right, Terry. The guys throwing peanuts at a black lady and calling her an animal were just showing the utmost in wingnut courtesy and sensitivity. The party officials who threw the guys out and condemned their behavior publicly (“Two attendees tonight exhibited deplorable behavior,” convention officials said in a statement. “Their conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated.”) were no doubt way off base.

    Angryclown is more than happy to concede your second point (third, if one counts the joint under your hat). Harpers backed off the original report and Angryclown has nothing but respect for facts and fact-checkers. One of many, many lessons you teabillies could learn from Angryclown.

  17. The story about the “USA” chanting as bigotry is being pulled back even by Lefty outlets. The peanut-throwing thing is weird. I’d love to know more, but the press isn’t following up. All the newsies say is that the offenders were “attendees” at the RNC, which means that they weren’t press. Maybe. No one is saying they were delegates, or what prompted the incident. The ball started rolling with David Shuster. Shuster’s mouth has gotten him in trouble before.

    So Clown is 0 for 2.

  18. The guys throwing peanuts at a black lady…

    …will, if years of experience show us anything, be eventually shown to be Democrat sleepers.

  19. What makes you think the guys throwing the peanuts were white, Angry Clown?
    Seriously. I spent a good ten minutes trying to find out more about this incident and was stymied. We have one tweet from Shuster (Shuster’s jumping to conclusions has gotten him in trouble before), and supposedly a confirmation (of what exactly?) by Blitzer. That’s it. Everything else is speculation.
    So shut up when you don’t know something. Better for your mental health.

  20. It’s marvelous to see the cognitive dissonance working in your brain, live as it happens. The Republican press flacks publicly confirmed the incident. Meanwhile Terry’s pretending it never happened (“0 for 2”), while Mitch claims, without a grain of evidence, that it happened but it was them evil Democrats what done it.

    Not going to let your blog be dictated by fact checkers, eh Mitch? Or facts. Or gravity, if you can get that anti-gravity ray working, God damn it.

  21. The Republican press flacks publicly confirmed the incident.
    Link please? I don’t think that what was confirmed was what you think was confirmed.

  22. angryclown paraphrased:

    I’ll believe whatever makes it convenient for me to continue believing what I’ve always believed.

  23. The adjectives are where these “journalists” show their bias. “RNC incident reported and confirmed” would be a perfectly good headline, but then someone decided to put the word “racist” in the headline, and the story does not support it. A reporter shouldn’t add context that isn’t in the story unless the context is self-evident or it’s an opinion piece.

  24. This has the stench of lefty plants.

    It won’t stick, cuz it essentially didn’t happen. It was theater.

  25. Well, well.
    It looks like Shuster — who started the story — only heard about the incident 2nd or 3rd hand:
    http://globalgrind.com/news/david-shuster-cnn-camerawoman-peanut-throwing-republican-national-convention
    So what was Blitzer confirming? This is all CNN had to say abut the incident:
    “CNN can confirm there was an incident directed at an employee inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum earlier this afternoon. CNN worked with convention officials to address this matter and will have no further comment.”
    Big mouth Shuster at it again.
    Looking pretty weak, Clown.

  26. Damning, Terry. Absolutely damning. You mean a reporter found out something from – gasp – another person?

    Of course, in addition to Shuster’s source, the incident is confirmed by CNN and the Republicans.

    Pretty shaky.

  27. Isn’t clownie cute, pinning his hopes for his precious Obamessiah’s re-election on some possibly staged incident, by two or three people, in a country of 300 million plus.

    Yup, that’s gonna carry him to victory.
    .

  28. The racial angle goes solely to Shuster — not CNN, not the NRC — and Shuster got it from hearsay and won’t name his sources.
    Please check out Shuster, Mr. Clown. He’s the Joe Biden of journalism.

  29. Oh, turns out your link shows that Patricia Carroll understood it as a racial insult.

    She could be wrong, of course. The only ones who know for sure are the perpetrators and Baby Jesus. But it turns out you’re kinda full of shit, huh?

  30. There you go again, not questioning your premises, Angry Clown.
    Who were these people who (she says) did this is? What’s their story? Why weren’t they arrested? Has it eve happened that a black person thought something was a racial insult and it was not?
    You are a follower in a lynch mob, Angry Clown. Do you drool when you see them test the rope?

  31. Yeah, Terry. Lynch mobs usually target racist white guys.

    Yeah, what is their story? I’m sure you’re right – they’re completely innocent and somebody’s preventing them from telling it.

  32. Of course. Angryclown is part of the reality-based community and values facts. So far you don’t have any that support your preconceived judgments, however.

  33. From two people throwing “peanuts” at someone, acting like idiots, and getting ejected for it to … “lynch mobs”.

    Wow, the “reality-based community” sure knows how to “value facts”.

    angryclown: bringing the funny to SITD.

  34. The context, the story told by the CNN employee and the relatively swift, severe and public reaction of Republican officials. What makes you think they weren’t?

  35. You’re the one who said lynch mobs, Trojan Man. It’s called a straw man.

    You need to up your game if you want to play with the Clown. Angryclown will be ignoring you now.

  36. Now you’re just being stupid. The black camerawoman claimed the incident was a racial insult. If you want to pretend the guys were a couple of dred-locked Jamaicans at the Republican National Convention, by all means do so. There’s no law against stupid. You simply expose yourself to mocking from those of us in the reality-based community.

  37. So you don’t know the race or ethnicity of the two people who were ejected. Or if they were delegates. Or why they were their. Or what political party (if any) they belonged to. Or their names.
    But you are certain that you know all the important facts?
    Say, you really are a clown!

  38. Angryclown is setting you on mute, Terry, along with Troy. You’ve proven yourself unworthy of Angryclown’s attention.

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