{"id":29844,"date":"2012-08-29T05:12:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T10:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29844"},"modified":"2012-08-25T09:28:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T14:28:41","slug":"the-koch-brothers-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29844","title":{"rendered":"The Koch Brothers Speak!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Koch Brothers, speaking at a Breitbart meeting at Fox News headquarters while eating Chick-Fil-A and carrying an assault rifle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That racist peckerwood! \u00a0Why, 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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;well, no. \u00a0It was one of the men that liberals inexplicably admire the most; Jimmy Carter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCUQqQIwAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fopinion%2Finquirer%2F20120823_Voter-ID_resistance_runs_amok.html&amp;ei=Dd44UP2hIpS29gTD8oDACA&amp;usg=AFQjCNEckIijo17rYPhRdgvKZxQziSNmKg&amp;sig2=Sp34mihtgoI-3Sgfi4wwQw\">back in 2005<\/a>. \u00a0Carter, 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 \u00a0in the amount of wood pulp consumed by making ballots to jam into boxes.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, under pressure from fellow lefties, Carter had to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCIQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cartercenter.org%2Fnews%2Feditorials_speeches%2Fvoter_id.html&amp;ei=qOA4UJ3bKomQ9QTi3IGgCQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNEHq2wCpyRn28emOYQ2c8nZdNq5kQ&amp;sig2=cLrP60FGoI49AST18EEt5g\">expand on his comments in 2008<\/a>, noting that it has to be easy and cheap for the poor to\u00a0<em>obtain\u00a0<\/em>IDs. \u00a0And the GOP has not only agreed with this, but acted on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Koch Brothers, speaking at a Breitbart meeting at Fox News headquarters while eating Chick-Fil-A and carrying an assault rifle: &#8220;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-integrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29845,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29844\/revisions\/29845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}