Smile, Pennsylvania, You No Longer Have To Suffer The Agony Of Voting!
Good video, Pennsylvania! Very melting pot and clear-skinned and chipper, we're sure! There may be a little bit of an omission about how 10 percent of your voting populace won't get to actually vote under your new voter ID law, but we're sure if they just show up with the birth certificate and the marriage certificate and the name-change order from when they got their sex change and also four other forms of photo ID all notarized and with the raised seal (AND DON'T FORGET THE LONG-FORM!), they too can get state-approved papers in order to exercise their constitutional right of suffrage.
From MaddowBlog:
They're not even subtle about. Republican Mike Turzai, Pennsylvania's House Majority Leader, boasted that the state's new voter-ID law, ostensibly about the integrity of the electoral process, "is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania." [...]
Then there's this .
Republican Gov. Tom Corbett's administration has signed a $249,660 contract with a company run by Mitt Romney fundraiser, former state GOP party executive director, pharmaceutical lobbyist, and school voucher advocate Chris Bravacos to direct a media campaign promoting the state's Voter ID law.
Yes, that very same law, requiring that voters present identification at the polls, which critics contend will suppress Democratic-leaning non-white, poor, elderly and youth voters and which House Majority Leader Mike Turzai recently boasted (video) is “gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.”
One sample PSA on the Bravo Group's Vimeo page portrays voter ID as just the latest installment in a bright history of American voting rights, and features anodyne black and white photos―including one of suffragettes. Another spot portrays a lot of shiny-toothed middle class models holding ID cards.
Pfft. That's nothing George Soros gave Brett Kimberlin like $50 box and a box of donuts once. Guess we would only hear about that if Kimberlin were a Republican, HUH MADDOW?
Anyway, as our good friend James O'Keefe likes to remind us: the fact that he could conceivably fraudulently vote means that 10,000 times as many people as ever actually do so should totally be stopped from legally voting. If anything, it just makes too much sense.
[ CityPaper / Maddowblog , via Ashleigh_Joe at Wonkville]
“You could hold up a dead mouse with a sign ‘I love Bush’ and we’d still probably think twice about stomping that mouse underfoot.”
That's always the first question I ask about a candidate: "Would I stomp on a dead mouse if was carrying the candidate's campaign sign?" The Amish are weird.
Wanna bet people don't get them in time for the election?
These shameless fuckers stopped just short of requiring "photo ID or a GOP membership card" -- which is exactly what they'd have done if they thought they could get away with it.