The Repubs stock-in-trade lie: voter fraud. Projection much?
This is yet another fabulous, overwhelming Repub presidential scandal--exactly what they are famous for, year in, year out.
And it will matter squat to the pinhead degenerate citizenry. And probably to the Dems, although Steve gives them great advice here if they REALLY wanted to reform the manifest problems with our election "system".
I wonder what AIPAC thinks of this scandal? We should try to find out, as then we might have a clue what "our" Congress plans to do about it.
Posted by euzoius at March 13, 2007 08:29 AMDuring the 1st round of Senate hearings, the USA's listed the priorities of the Bush admin for their offices and terrorism related cases was at the top. To see on the face of this that Rove, with his power strategies for his party well in play, is able to leverage his agenda over the national security of this country...via dismembering the USA's offices nationwide is delinquent treason.
Even just contemplating the firing of all those attorneys in a time of war - leaving their cases and their FBI teams rudderless - thus leaving this country vulnerable - demonstrates the ultimate choices they favor of power over country.
Posted by mainsailset at March 13, 2007 08:31 AMEvery day there's a new scandal involving this administration.
Drip, drip, drip...., and where ARE the subpoenas?
Have Nancy and Harry decided to take a long vacation?
Posted by Christopher at March 13, 2007 08:32 AMI just think sometimes that the Dems don't which scandal to start with first.
Whatever it is they better start moving fast and furiously before the everyone moves to Dubai!
They have those nice little man made islands they are making!
As long as we're fantasizing about genuine oversight and maybe even Justice(?) we should pay attention to the huge, polka dotted Elephant shitting on the living room carpet.
I refer to the Sibel Edmonds case that's been festering for almost 5 years now. That one has everything needed to sink the traitorous pond scum that have been leaving a nasty dark ring around the White House. You have DoD and Congressional perps, (Feith, Perle Hastert and many, many more) involved with espionage, sale of state secrets, gun runners, terrorists and unfortunately, even AIPAC.
I believe I must agree with euzoius. The Democratic leadership have caved disgracefully yet again and it would seem to be to a large extent, due to the unholy influence of AIPAC. That group, the neoclown "heavy hitters" and LOTS of Republicans (and how many Democrats?) are all deeply involved in decades long practices of espionage and treason for fun and profit.
If you have time, read the diary and check out Sibel's story, again. This case just may be too big for even Henry Waxman's testicles. There are probably just too many Liebermans, Hillaries and "blue dogshit" assw*pes like Al Boyd, who just led the charge to kill the Iran provision. They would howl with outrage if the light were ever to shine too brightly in OUR Congress. Wouldn't be prudent!
Posted by DeminNewJ at March 13, 2007 09:28 AMThe Bush crime family wanted to bully federal prosecutors into investigating Democratic voting fraud? That's rich... The Bush gangsters have committed massive voting fraud in the last seven years: twu stolen Presidential elections (2000 and 2004), stolen Senate elections (Georgia and Minnesota in 2002 to give the GOP the "majority" in the Senate) and numerous House elections stolen in 2000, 2002 and 2004.
Below are my published comments that were penned a week after the Bush traitors stole the 2004 election:
The exit polls that showed a sweeping Senator Kerry Democratic election victory on November 2nd were exactly right. The pre-election polls also show that Kerry was ahead in most of the so-called “battleground states.” Unfortunately, the 2004 Presidential election was stolen by Bush. How, you say? With the help of Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia and SAIC, four interlocked secretive right-wing electronic voting machine manufacturers. We have entrusted the most important election task, that of actually
counting and tabulating the vote totals to extremist organizations with secret proprietary vote-counting computer software with no auditable paper trail for hand recounts. How
very convenient, how very clean, how very slick and with all the evidence of election rigging is buried deep on their computer hard drives.
Senator John F. Kerry won a landslide Democratic victory in the November 2, 2004 Presidential election by between two million and five million votes. Kerry actually won the elections in Ohio, Florida and New Mexico. The pre-election public opinion polls pointed to a large and growing Kerry election day majority and the election day exit polls also indicated a Kerry victory. Unfortunately, theocratic extremely right-wing
computer election machine manufacturing corporations were in charge of "counting" the votes of millions and millions of Americans. Some how, a few million Kerry votes didn't get counted and a few million bogus Bush votes showed up in the
final election tallies and voile, a Bush "victory." This is the basis of Bush’s supposed “mandate.”
If you examine state-by-state comparisons of exit polling data with the corresponding election returns there is one striking anomaly. In the states that used paper ballots for voting, the election returns were almost exactly the same as the exit polling data, while in the states that used electronic computerized voting, the Bush votes were much much higher in the election returns as compared to the exit polling data. From this, we can easily conclude that the electronic voting election returns were rigged to massively increase the Bush “vote” by the right-wing Republican voting machine corporations.
Democracy in 21st century America has been kidnapped and destroyed by extreme right-wing control of the new secret computerized electronic vote counting systems. We are very foolish to say the least to trust right-wing corporations to honestly count out votes in the 21st century. Verifiable hand-counted paper ballots are the only way to restore
legitimate elections in America.
Just search the Internet for any terms such as "black box voting," "Max Cleland," "Diebold," "Sequoia," "ES&S," "Greg Palest," "election fraud" or "election theft" and you will find a wealth of information to help arm you in the coming fight to restore legitimate free elections and democracy in our country.
In 2002, the Republican Party staged their test run of controlling the new Diebold computerized paper-trail-free electronic voting systems that were installed in every precinct in the State of Georgia. It worked like a charm. Two popular Democratic incumbents, the Governor Roy Barnes and Senator Max Cleland, were both "defeated" by Republican challengers. The Democrats were both ahead by several points in both the pre-election voter opinion polls and in the election day exit polls, yet the Diebold voting machines declared the two Republican challengers as winners. The local media claimed to be "amazed" by this election "upset." They should have been horrified and outraged. These elections were stolen electronically. There was no paper trail, no recount was possible and for good measure, Diebold Corporation "accidentally erased" the disputed 2002 election returns data from their computer hard disk drives a few days after the election. How convenient, how clean, how slick and how crooked is Republican election theft in the 21st century.
The 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections were both stolen by Bush & Company. The 2008 and 2012 Presidential elections will suffer the same fate unless we institute a complete and total return to traditional, verifiable hand-counted paper
election ballots.
The local, county, state and federal elections officials across the country must prove to us that election results are counted openly, honestly and with auditable paper trails. We cannot be stuck with “trusting” secretive right-wing voting machine manufacturers with determining the results of elections.
The Republican Party will never lose another Presidential election as long as we allow their corporate buddies to "count" our votes in secret.
Yours truly,
James K. Sayre
10 November 2004
Cheers.
James:
I think black box voting is finally changing...s-l-o-w-l-y. You are right it is outrageous that is has happened in the first place and should've been corrected almost overnight. But when there is a lot of money to be made in the private sector, profit will always over-rule principle...at least initially.
I'm literally laughing at this story. Of all the malfeasance this seems to me to be the perfect example of their arrogance.
A couple of suspected voices within the WH:
"They want to investigate voter fraud? We'll show them who's in charge here."
"Getting them to stfu on voter fraud issues will be a piece of cake."
This type of attitude without the least bit of examination of the consequences is the perfect framed picture of this complete idiots. Also a perfect example of why we call them idiots. Not because they can't be clever or creative, its because they appear to rarely consider or easily dismiss any potential downsides of their actions.
Posted by Simp at March 13, 2007 10:08 AMEvery Managment 101 student knows that, if you are going to fire a troublesome employee (or even one you just don't like) for 'performance' issues, you make sure to have a plausible paper trail in place beforehand, even if it means a few months of assigning 'can't win' tasks and an unachievable "performance improvement plan". You definitely don't give them an excellent review just before you can them. All that stuff will be reviewed when they sue.
These stooges can't even handle simple bureaucratic manipulations well. I guess they'd gotten sloppy from so much time in the bubble - they figured with the Republican Roundheel Congress, nobody would be checking up on them.
Haw-haw!
Posted by biggerbox at March 13, 2007 10:32 AMThe Patriot Act provision to eliminate the requirement for congressional approval of US attorney appointments was inserted by Senator Specter at the last minute prior to PA re-authorization a year ago, and passed with Democratic support in the Senate 89-11.
Did these senators actually read what they were voting on, and if so, what did they expect, that the administration wouldn't abuse its unitary power? More probably they didn't read it before voting on it.
Posted by Don Bacon at March 13, 2007 10:33 AMI wish I had a mailing address in PA. At least then I'd have hopes that at least some of the letters I've written to Specter would be read (actions used to speak louder than words.. before the time of Dobson, Robertson and Fox).
They don't know half of what is in most bills they vote on.. at least I seen statements to that effect (esp in the House).
They only make noise about stuff that is brought to their attention (mostly by lobbyists and sometimes constituents). I dunno, do a lot of them assume that if something makes it past committee that it is pointless to oppose it?
Posted by Simp at March 13, 2007 10:55 AMI believe even the senate Repubs admit they didn't know the Specter US attorney "amendment" was in the final version.
Don't you remember the recent hilarity that Specter HIMSELF claimed he didn't know about the law change his own office had inserted? I think it was explored over at TPM Muckraker in early Feb. You can't make this stuff up!
Posted by euzoius at March 13, 2007 11:33 AMJust one concern here: The Repubs may be laying this voter fraud thing out as a trap for any future Democratic investigation so that they may claim that its just Democrats, again, playing the "Repubs cheat to win, b/c they can't win" line. This will close the ears of many on the right who would otherwise listen to the details of this scandal. I would love to see some Repubs go down for conspiracy to violate civil rights, but tread slowly and with much forethought.
Posted by John at March 13, 2007 12:19 PMJames, Great post. We would all like to see shrub give up his post retroactively. Voting reforms won't happen. Their will not be an election in 2008 because shrub will take us to war with the world, declare marshall law and shove us back in time to pre-independence, or rather, monocracy. All this talk about investigations, supeonas is just wishful thinking.
Posted by sara swati at March 13, 2007 01:35 PMWhen the White House found out they couldn't replace all 93 District Prosecutors, they settled for 8. So these 8 must be the absolute worst in the system. Given the good to great annual reports given to these 8, the ones not fired must be walking on water.
Posted by Bruce at March 13, 2007 02:56 PMit's a useless case, the only way to beat this admin is to kill'em and you can't do that. We are stuck with this for our lifetimes.
Posted by sara swati at March 13, 2007 10:43 PM
carpetbagger doesn't see how abu gonzales can survive this scandal and neither do I. and boy do I sure hear lots of skeletons in the nixonian dirty tricks closet rattling their chains....
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10196.html
here's part of what he says:
"...And yet, there was Gonzales today, acknowledging the scandal, accepting responsibility, and insisting he hadn’t done anything wrong. (At some point, someone is going to have to explain to senior administration officials what “accept responsibility” means.)..."
my question is, who the hell IS the "someone"??? I've been waiting for that someone to come along for 6 damn years now. it certainly ain't the sycophantic Great Free Press. oh no.
Abu sounds just like a defensive neurotic who is 'smart enough' to know to say all the right words but doesn't understand anything of the meaning of his own words nor what being responsible means. like the kid who gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar but doesn't expect to pay - and considers it soooooo not-fair when he gets sent to his room. no more cookies for you, alberto!
I say, book 'em all Danno!