GOP Attorneys General Target Voting Rights Act, Ask Supreme Court To Strike Down Key Section
My take - Just another day in Republican paradise.
They can't win by the rules, so lets throw them out.
Looks like another end run around the law by the GOP and another attempt to stop the Democratic voting majority from coming to the polls.
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LBJ's Voting Rights Speech
Lyndon B. Johnson Signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965
And what is really sad, is the fact that Republicans passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, go figure?
My take - Just another day in Republican paradise.
They can't win by the rules, so lets throw them out.
Looks like another end run around the law by the GOP and another attempt to stop the Democratic voting majority from coming to the polls.
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LBJ's Voting Rights Speech
Lyndon B. Johnson Signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965
And what is really sad, is the fact that Republicans passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, go figure?
1 comment:
One plank of the GOP's 2012 platform:
Return to the values and tenets of our Founding Fathers. If they wanted a Civil Rights Act in America, why did so many own slaves?
If they believed that women and ethnic minorities should be able to vote, then why didn't they include these rights in their final draft of the U.S. Constitution?
And while we're at it, let's repeal the 17th Amendment, because we really cannot trust the simple-minded electorate with important decisions such as who should represent the states in the U.S. Senate.
Republicans are not even attempting to hide their contempt for the democratic process. In true Machiavellian fashion, they have displayed a willingness to take an ideological dump on the U.S. Constitution in order to further their political agenda.
Team Romney pretty much wrote off the African American vote with his insulting, condescending speech during and interviews after his NAACP convention visit. Support from the Hispanic community was also a lost cause, in part due to the GOP's stance on the Dream Act and their recent distraction with trying to make English the "official" language of the U.S. And policy approval from middle class senior citizens is likely to drop significantly due to the Republican Party's continual attack on Medicare and Social Security.
Since Republicans cannot count on the votes from these demographic sectors of the electorate, they have opted for a different approach -- reduce the number of these citizens who are able to participate in the election process.
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