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Barry's running around, yammering about "voting rights" again. Photo ID, which you have to have in order to drive or board a plane, among other things, is once again being portrayed as somehow "disenfranchising" people of their right to vote, and it's all a plot by those wascally Wepublicans.

Obama previewed that sentiment earlier this week while raising money for Democrats in Houston: "the idea that you'd purposely try to prevent people from voting."

When one donor shouted out that the Republican effort was "un-American," the president promptly concurred. "Un-American. How is it that we're putting up with that?"

Not to worry; that paragon of justice, Eric Holder, is all over it:

Meanwhile, the administration is stepping up its offensive. Attorney General Eric Holder has challenged the North Carolina election law as well as one in Texas.

"Let me be very clear. Protecting the right to vote - the action that truly makes our nation an exceptional one - will continue to be a priority for this administration, for this Department of Justice, for this president and for this attorney general," Holder said Wednesday at Sharpton's conference.

It seems rather clear that they don't like the idea of states' rights any more than they like the U.S. Constitution, and they're doing everything they can to limit both - including bringing in U.N. "observers" in a fruitless effort to prove that voter ID requirements prevent people from voting:

The United Nations, accustomed to more chaotic places on the globe, has overseen selected elections since 1991, and 44 observers from Europe’s Organization for Security and Cooperation were sent to the United States in 2012 to determine if photo identification requirements, including those in Tennessee, affected voter turnout.

For some reason, that little scheme didn't sit well with Tennessee legislators, who overwhelmingly passed a bill barring future such escapades. Naturally, some people have a problem with this, and accuse the state legislators of having something to hide. Evidently, they can't wrap their little heads around the fact that Democratics and Republicans both voted to pass the bill.

As one commenter correctly noted:

In the 1950′s the first real civil rights amendment was put before congress by President Eisenhower (a Republican) and Democrats north (JFK himself included) and south (Al Gore’s dad included) voted against it en masse.

Southern Democrats coordinated their efforts to kill Civil Rights legislation in the 1950s and ’60s.

All of the Southern Governors that opposed the Civil Rights movement were Democrats and they all remained LOYAL Democrats until the day they died….

And remember this; if it hadn’t been for the Republicans voting FOR the “Civil Rights Act” under President Johnson, it would have never passed. 84% of Republicans voted FOR the “Civil Rights Act” whereas ONLY 63% of Democrats voted for it. How racist of them.

Heck, every time I go to the doctor these days, they want to see a photo ID. Ditto for CT/MRI scans, lab tests, and more.

Obama and Holder are deeply afraid that voter ID will cost them the support that Democratics have long enjoyed among their reliable bloc of dead voters.

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Those Wacky California Democratics

Seal of the Senate of California 

Not content with the 2/3 supermajority they've held in the California state Senate since 2012, they've given it up.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- State Senator Leland Yee has been arrested on bribery and public corruption charges in a sting that has led to the arrest of 30 people across the Bay Area.

He was led out in tastefully matching cuffs. Dang, and he was running for Secretary of State and all.

Yee is one of three Democratic state senators facing criminal charges. Ronald S. Calderon, of Montebello, is facing public corruption charges. Roderick Wright of Inglewood was found guilty of eight felony counts of perjury and voter fraud, for lying about where he lived when he ran for the senate office.

Calderon's decided to take a leave of absence, so he still gets his $95,000 a year salary. He's charged with 24 felony counts of taking bribes in exchange for legislative favors. Not that he's giving up much now; he'd already lost his committee assignments, and he term-limits out at the end of the year.

Wright's also taken a paid leave, but somehow managed to avoid expulsion. If these guys were Republicans, they'd be so out of there. But Democratics protect their own, no matter what. Curiously, Wright was convicted of voter fraud, which every Democratic knows never occurs. Imagine that.

 

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Left Behind

Barack Obama's signature on the health insurance reform bill at the White House, March 23, 2010. 

Latinos are staying away from Obamacare in droves, and that has His O'liness really upset. So he's back to doing the only thing he really knows how to do: he's campaigning.

“You don’t punish me by not signing up for health care,” Obama told Hispanic audiences during a recent televised town hall. “You’re punishing yourself or your family.”

Like a candidate hunting for votes in the closing days of a campaign, Obama was back on Hispanic airwaves Monday as Univision Radio broadcast his latest pitch.

“The problem is if you get in an accident, if you get sick, or somebody in your family gets sick, you could end up being bankrupt,” the president said.

Well, why in the world would they not be signing right up for Obamacare? Oh, right - it's the same reason why Holder's DoJ and Democratics in general fight voter ID, despite the fact that 78% of  Americans favor it:

Fear that applying for health care will bring unwelcome scrutiny from immigration authorities. The health insurance exchanges are only for citizens and legal U.S. residents, but many Hispanic families have mixed immigration status. Some members may be native born, while others might be here illegally.

"Might be"? Why, who'd ever have thought it?

Tri-Met Reacts To Tigard Vote

After passage yesterday of a measure mandating a vote of the people on light rail projects, among other things, the reaction from Tri-Met was unambiguous:

The TriMet boss said his agency will follow the lead of the Metro regional government, which is in charge of the Southwest Corridor Transportation Plan to reduce traffic jams in the future. TriMet, he said, will put tracks, dedicated bus rapid transit lanes or regular bus stops wherever Metro plans for them to be installed.

In other words, if Metro tells them to run rails into Tigard, that's what they'll do, vote or no vote. And Portland City Council member Steve Novick, who just loves the inordinately expensive little two-car toy "trains" that run through downtown and elsewhere, had this to say:

Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick, who has supported a light-rail study for the Southwest Corridor, told the Tigard Times that he wasn’t sure the 36 percent turnout for Ballot Measure 34-210 reflects the will of all voters.

Really? That's a 6% higher turnout than Washington County managed for the last primaries. And it's interesting that Portland City Council seems to have had no such concerns about whether their "arts" tax vote actually reflected the will of all voters. Especially in view of the fact that after Portland City Council got done tweaking and "refining" the thing after the vote, the final product bears no resemblance to what was actually voted on. How very selective!

The general reaction of the politicians is perhaps best described in the words of an old Bare Naked Ladies song:

Everybody get in line, everybody turn and cough

Everything'll be all right; this won't hurt at all.

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No ID Required

Three states asked a federal commission to allow them to ask voters for proof of citizenship; naturally, the bureaucrats refused.

“The EAC finds that granting the States’ requests would likely hinder eligible citizens from registering to vote in federal elections, undermining a core purpose of the NVRA,” the commission said in its ruling, referring to the National Voter Registration Act, or motor-voter law.

Ah yes, they're trotting out the old "disenfranchisement" boogeyman again. There's no evidence to back their contention, it's just how they feel. So, once again, they're going to insist upon burning through more taxpayer dollars via the courts. And there's no question that it will be hashed out once and for all in federal courts:

Indeed, the states’ request to the EAC was in part spurred by a Supreme Court ruling last year. In that case, the justices said Arizona couldn’t refuse to accept the federal registration forms.

But Justice Antonin Scalia also specifically said Arizona could ask the EAC to include the request on forms distributed in that state, and said if the EAC refused, the state could come back to the courts.

When Democratics enacted that stupid "motor-voter" law back in 1993 (at the behest, of course, of liberal activists Piven and Cloward), those folks with functioning brains understood - and warned of - the potential for rampant fraud. Twenty years later, an abundance of evidence validates our concerns. When every state on the west coast cheerfully hands out drivers' licenses to illegal aliens, there's certainly no reason not to sign them up to vote as well. And twenty years on, Democratics are determined to keep it going.

After all, laws and little things like integrity are for Republicans and other idiots.

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Well, There They Go Again

Porkland City Council is mulling over half a dozen possible additional changes to its new head "arts" tax today. They've been tweaking at it ever since they conned Porkland voters into approving it last November; most voters were completely unaware of the fact that what was portrayed at the time as a funding measure to restore arts classes in public schools For The Children™ was in fact set up to divert half of the funds thus obtained to civic organizations with established endowment funds, such as Porkland Symphony and the Opera, among other selected trough-feeders. Because, after all, those black-tie affairs are so important to children.

Now the Council's considering additional tweaks:

The options range from leaving the arts tax "as is" to upending it by calculating taxes based on taxable income, which could lead to big bills for the city's highest earners.

We're still waiting to see how the legal action by Lewis & Clark tax law perfesser John Bogdanski challenging the constitutionality of the thing pans out, but in any case, we aren't paying because the wording of the measure provides a loophole big enough to drive a semi through:

You are generally considered a Portland resident (even if you live outside Portland) if you are “domiciled” in Portland. If you think of Portland as your permanent home, the center of your financial, social and family life, and Portland is the place you intend to come back to when you are away, you are considered to be domiciled in Portland.

Obviously, this wording was adopted in an effort to strong-arm residents of unincorporated Washington County (think Garden Home), Multnomah County, and even Clackamas County into paying up because they happen to live at or near the boundaries of the City of Porkland. However, the wording works in ways that they hadn't considered, as well: as an example, we happen to live barely inside the boundary of Southwest Porkland, but we do all of our grocery shopping, clothes shopping, automotive, banking, home improvement, and other shopping exclusively in Washington County. Our friends live for the most part in Washington County and Clark County. And so we don't think of Portland as your permanent home, the center of our financial, social and family life.

Inasmuch as we don't meet those criteria, there's no reason for us to pay their new tax.

And in any case, if the city still has to fiddle around with the thing a full eight months after they sold it as For The Children™, it clearly needs to be dumped, rewritten, and re-sold. And this time, not as a pig in a poke.

UPDATE: Bogdanski has filed an appeal with Oregon Tax Court.

Van Dyke was joined by Commissioner Nick Fish in his optimism that the tax would continue to withstand legal challenges. (Van Dyke did also suggest that making the tax more progressive would help that cause.)

But Commissioner Steve Novick was quick with a potentially applicable bromide, noting how resounding victories in one court can sometimes turn into resounding defeats in higher courts:

"As Yogi said, 'It ain't over 'til it's over.'"

Van Dyke is the city attorney; it's interesting that he favors a scheme, some eight months in, to amend the tax to make it "more progressive" - and thus more likely to withstand the legal challenge. As it was written, the new tax does appear to be a $35-a-head tax, which is unconstitutional in Oregon. By rewriting it to make it "more progressive", the city might be able to negate that argument entirely. On the other hand, it remains that what they've been doing, in tinkering around with it, renders it completely different from the tax proposal that they sold to gullivle voters.

UPDATED 4:33 PM.

 

 

#Korrupt Kate On Voter Registration

Kate Brown OR

Our corrupt Secretary of State's not happy with the old "motor voter" law and its subsequent iterations that provide opportunities for would-be voters to register to vote while at the DMV or applying for food stamps or applying for welfare or.... Nope, Kate Brown's pushing to have every holder of an Oregon drivers' license automatically registered to vote. She'd be willing to send each new licensee a letter with instructions on how to cancel their voter registration, or to affiliate with a political party, but she thinks the right to vote should be automatic.

Evidently, there's not enough election fraud going on already in this state - or not enough to suit the fiercely partisan Democrat SOS.

“Voter registration should be the responsibility of citizens, not the responsibility of state agencies,” said Sandy Raddue of Beaverton, who leads the Oregon Republican Party’s election integrity efforts. 

And there's the problem, in a nutshell: hyper-partisan Democratics like Kate aren't especially keen on that whole election integrity thing. Rachel Madcow and Kate and the other Airhead America refugees figure that if people are too lazy to register on their own, they're sure to vote Democrat.

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What If...

A jury in South Bend, Indiana has found that fraud put President Obama and Hillary Clinton on the presidential primary ballot in Indiana in the 2008 election. Two Democratic political operatives were convicted Thursday night in the illegal scheme after only three hours of deliberations. They were found guilty on all counts.

These are felony convictions. One of the guys was a Board of Elections employee, while the other, a longtime Democrat Party Chairman by the name of Butch, was tagged as the mastermind of the plan. They forged names and signatures on petitions, which were conveniently verified as accurate by the former Board of Elections employee. Slick.

If they hadn't done that, neither Billary nor Barky would have been eligible for the Indiana Primary. Of course, South Bend's only three counties away from Chicago....

Heaven Forbid That We Offend!

Democrat Rep. John Conyers is an idiot. But I repeat myself.

Opening the first immigration hearing of the new Congress, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee warned his colleagues not to use the term "illegal immigrant" as the debate goes on.

"I hope no one uses the term illegal immigrants here today. Our citizens are not — the people in this country are not illegal. They are are out of status. They are new Americans that are immigrants," said Rep. John Conyers Jr., Michigan Democrat.

No, Johnny - they're illegal foreign nationals, most properly referred to as illegal aliens. Next thing you know, the loon'll be banging on about how drug dealers are unlicensed pharmacists. It's really long past time to quit pandering to foreign invaders.

Ever notice how, amid all the yapping about a "pathway to citizenship", the Lefty loons never, ever mention something that all actual, legal immigrants must pass in order to gain entry: the health check.

And for an interactive examination into the extent of the illegal alien problem in America, look here. Remember - this map's three years old, and Oregon still had at minimum 160,000 illegals living here.

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Thanks, Karl!

Karl Rove's group, "American Crossroads", is determined to weed out conservatives in order to protect the sanctity of the Republican elite. In fact, they'll be throwing cash into campaigns to oust TEA party-backed candidates and even sitting congress-critters that they view as "too conservative".

This is excellent news, and should be welcomed by conservatives; we've been forewarned as to whom not to vote for - anybody supported by Rove and his machine can be automatically excluded from consideration.

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