Another one of the Republican “Young Guns” bites the dust.

The only fraud at the ballot box to worry about are the candidates and how they got there. SNL tried to explain the choice between Carter and Ford, but I don’t remember how they got there.

With an electorate that doesn’t need no steenkin’ facts, fraud is basic to running for office.

Ford wasn’t Nixon, and Carter wasn’t Kennedy.

Good morning, pups. It’s Brooks and Krugman this morning. Bobo has a question in “The Segmentation Century:” How do you govern a diverging world? The answer to that question might help in dealing with the economic crisis in Europe. Bobo should sit down with The Moustache of Wisdom so they can start on the same page of the playbook. The Moustache says the world is getting flatter and more homogenous… Prof. Krugman points out some home truths in “The Austerity Agenda,” and says in America and in Britain, the push for austerity is not really about debt and deficits. It’s about using deficit panic as an excuse to dismantle social programs.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got waffles with warm maple syrup. I gave up screaming about voting fraud when I was forced to vote on a touch screen machine with no receipt and no real way of telling whether my vote was actually entered as I had made it. Have a great day.

So true…there is really no way to believe any of our election stuff is reliable….Think Fla, Ohio, machines, and voter roles…etc etc etc. Student govt results are probably more trustworthy;((

Good morning in June,

After the surprising results of the next election some more people are going to question the electronic touch screen gaming booths we enter in on election day.

After the 2000 vote rigging mess the republicans decided they needed intangible votes to avoid returning to the supreme court to steal another election because the Supreme Court said that that decision’s to steal an election president couldn’t be used to decide future cases. Diebold to the rescue with the help of some computer ace, who forgot to avoid flying in small planes, and walla no more messy vote voting recount just a redundant readout.

Hand marked, hand counted paper ballots counted out in the open on election night is pure democracy , the rest pure bullshit. What we call voting now is electronic masturbation in a electronic gaming booth.

Thanks, Marion, thinking Friedman’s flat world tries to include the rest of the planet, which happens to be diverse, but Bobo has the fencing off the border syndrome. Can’t see anything else out there.

I live in McCotter’s district, and I can say from first-hand experience that if the petition snafu ends his political career, it would be a most fitting end.

McCotter acts as though he is allergic to constituents. He holds no town-hall meetings. He blew off the League of Women Voters candidate forums the last two elections, after a near-meltdown at the 2006 forum. His personal appearances in the district are limited to Chamber of Commerce and GOP functions. And his media availability is limited to right-wing talk-show hosts and Fox News.

The man has thin skin, a tin ear, and, evidently, no sense of irony. Letters to the few constituents whom he deigns to write to end with “I work for you.”

I wonder if the Obama WH expected the Democratic love fest for Bain that has transpired?

Et tu, Bubba?

Investor loving is a sight to see.

this will get no coverage–zero-in the national media

Interesting to me is how exercised the Rs are about it, and how they seem to want to help Obama out by giving him election strategy advice. Morning Joke is absolutely obsessed with saying it’s a bad strategy. Makes one wonder.

And we all need to advise the wingnuts that Trump is the ideal choice for VP! and talk more about firing people.

McCotter is somewhat of a victim in this too. He hired the WRONG company to collect signatures, then screwed up by not checking their work.

This will cost him his seat, and almost certainly cost his campaign an impressive fine. But the real targets should be the people who put that mess together, not the ones who submitted them without checking them.

Boxturtle (I would note that none of the voter fraud laws would have impacted this)

Actually, I remember that they had a big counter showing the number of eligible persons, then eliminated those the country wasn’t ready for, blacks, jews, women, etc., until they got to a peanut farmer from GA and an unelected president. It was quite clever.

Obama has been incredibly lucky to be opposed by the clown car and have no primary opponent. The additional luck of getting the winning clown to pick Trump is almost too much to ask for.

Boxturtle (I think he might go with Condi)

Good morning all.

Has Edwards been taken to the woodshed enough for daring to talk about 2 Americas?

Kennedy wasn’t Kennedy either.

I think he might go with Condi

Which state does “No-One-Could-Have-Predicted” bring to Mittens?

If you want to go after the big boys, you have to keep it in your pants.

Not at all. Selective persecution based on his political speech. Nothing to do with all the alleged crap.

I don’t think she’d give him a state, but she’s popular across the political spectrum and would probably help him everywhere.

And since ObamaLLP has bas pretty much continued the national security policies of BushCo, she’d be tough for Obama to attack.

Boxturtle (Hey Mitt! Have you considered Holy Joe? :-) )

State of disarray. Never answered a question yet.

The National Enquirer (expiring minds need to know) was sitting on the story. If Edwards had gained some traction, they would have held it until after the convention. If he’d have won the nomination, Edwards would have dragged the entire Democratic Party down with him, and McSaim would be in the Offal Office now, with Caribou Barbie and Todd stuffing their pockets with as much cash as they could.

Edwards got off easy. He betrayed everyone, and he could have done incalculable damage. I personally want him to be disbarred and see some major jail time for that, if nothing else.

The alleged crap provided the opportunity.

Oh, I agree.

You have to have a mens for it to be rea.

How are you going to prosecute the chuckleheads who turned in these petitions, when what you want to claim was their fraud was so transparent that it wouldn’t fool anyone? There has to be a possibility that the fraudulent petitions you’re trying to pass off could actually be taken for the real thing, or where’s the fraud?

If I try to rob a bank with a water pistol, I could still be charged with the violent crime involved in threatening violence as long as I leave any doubt in the teller’s mind that the gun might be real. But if I douse him with a blast from my weapon, and tell him that, “There’s more where that came from if you don’t fill my bag with cash pronto!”, you’re going to have trouble making a case for anything but disturbing the peace.

That’s my solomonic solution to this affair. Charge McCotter with disturbing the peace. Also, maybe I should be able to recover damages for the newspaper that got ruined when I spluttered a mouthful of my morning coffee all over it reading about these cholos.

What ever happend to Ann Coulters’ vote fraud thingy.

Hystericalllll, where’s my mens? Missing.

A grammatical point

I think you meant to ask, “Where’s my menzes?”. Where I grew up, “menzes”, not “mens”, is the plural of “man”. Your roots are showing.

While I don’t totally disagree with you and your “take” on Edwards, from my perspective, Barack Hussein Obama managed to “take down the entire Democractic Party” whilst keeping his johnson in his pants.

JMHO, of course. Granted that we’re not subjected to the nails-on-chalkboard-screech of Trailer Trash Bible Spice whilst she & her brood stuff as much money in their pockets as feasible. But… small comfort, that. Unsure if there woulda been much of a diff with McSame in the Oval Office. He was beating the drums of WAR, Inc, and so has the BarackStar.

Onwards…

Is that snark? I thought I was following up on the mens rea….Ah, well.