Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Beck ignores the Romney voter suppression efforts under way and pushes fraud myths 






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While Glenn Beck is promoting his latest effort at producing a "documentary" about virtually nonexistent, in-person voter fraud, he ignores -- of course -- the efforts under way by the Republican Party to disenfranchise as many voters as possible who may vote to re-elect the President or any Democrat for that matter. Despite the premise of his propaganda, called "The Machine," that there is wide-spread in person voter fraud, there is in fact no such thing! From the Brennan Center for Justice is the article "Policy Brief on the Truth about 'Voter Fraud' " is this statement:


    

  • Fraud by individual voters is both irrational and extremely rare.
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So how did this notion that there is wide spread fraud in U.S. elections begin? This was covered in some detail on Up With Chris Hayes last Sunday. On his program, Jane Mayer, writer for The New Yorker, and author of "The Voter Fraud Myth," explains how the idea, pushed by Beck and others on the right, that in-person voter fraud is a problem in the United States came about. Via MSNBC:







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Damn, it's becoming more and more difficult to remain a Republican. You can read the entirety of Mayer's article here. If you (have) watch(ed) Beck's "The Machine," you now have a name to listen for (or remember): Hans von Spakovsky.



On a later segment, Hayes discussed the history of claims that ACORN committed voter fraud, something that Beck and his colleagues harped upon during his time with Fox "News." In this segment ACORN CEO, Bertha Lewis, explains her former organization's side of the story on allegations of voter fraud.







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Hopefully, readers, who watched Beck specifically -- and Fox in general -- smear ACORN and successfully undermine their operation, better understand now why the right destroyed ACORN. They don't want all eligible people voting. They understand that the more democratic an order is, the less unequal is the distribution of wealth. The reactionary right, like Mr. Beck, fear the political equality of one man, one vote. "Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was."



In the progressive Nation of Change, a piece yesterday reported that Romney campaign is training poll watchers, a normal activity, to mislead voters, a fraudulent activity. From the article are four examples of misleading or incorrect information being disbursed by the Romney campaign. This  example appears to be one attempt to suppress the vote for possible Obama supporters:



CLAIM: Any “person [who] has been convicted of treason, a felony, or bribery” is not eligible to vote. (Page 5)





FACT: Once a person who has been convicted of a felony completes his or her sentence, including probation and fines, that person is eligible to vote. 





This could be an extremely close and exciting election. There is clearly information that the corporate media on both sides is hiding, different levels of potential election fraud possible, the current possibility that the winner of the electoral college (something else Hayes discussed on his show Sunday) will not be the candidate with the most votes (again, remember 2000 Supreme Court choice of President Bush) not to mention the 1% or so chance that the electoral college will come out even at 270 electors each. For a partisan, this has to be one of the most exciting finishes of any campaign for American President ever. For a libertarian or a radical, this race is between the left and the right sides of a terrible center of a corrupt system. Their candidates cannot win any electoral college votes.



It is always possible that one vote in one state could tilt a presidential election, but this year seems like an especially close and important election. The choice of Beck's soulmate by Gov. Romney turned this race into a basic question that the President has framed in a single word theme of this candidacy: Forward. No matter how disappointing Obama has been, how many of Pres. Bush's foreign policies he's embraced and escalated, this election remains a choice between two men who want to take the nation in two different directions, forward (in baby steps aptly called liberal corporatism and the neo-liberal world order) or backward. Because Gov. Romney is so much of a flip flopper, who's seemingly devoid of a core set of beliefs, it is impossible to even guess just how regressive President Romney would be. 



If you are undecided and reading this post, just ask yourself whether you think the United States should move forward toward a more perfect union or backward toward a less perfect one, when fewer people had rights. Forward progress or backward regression in the direction of Glenn Beck's ideals? 







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If Beck were not a hypocrite, he'd be supporting Gov. Johnson, the libertarian candidate. Again, not long ago, Mr. Beck told a "reporter" that he hates the Republican Party. A supporter of Mr. Beck could just argue that he has changed his mind about his hatred. Uh huh.



Update, 10/31/2012: Beck's "news" site is reporting that some voting machines seemed to be rigged in support of the President, and The Blaze never gets their stories wrong, right? What do you think?













If you're still undecided, ask yourself how many liberals are supporting Gov. Romney?







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In a coming post, the issue of voting in swing states will be looked at from two sides. It will analyze the choice for progressives between the lesser of two evils vs. voting for a candidate that really reflects progressive values. 



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These previous posts  show just how extreme, dishonest and of poor judgment Gov. Romney has indicated he is.


If you doubt that Gov. Romney is trying to lie his way into the White House, check out the 49 lies listed on just one of 39 web pages listing his many false claims. See "Chronicling Mitt's Mendacity, Volume XXXIX."













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Monday, October 29, 2012


          

        







Romney's record shows plutocratic view toward America workers



















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Many voters are being taken in by Governor Romney's experience as a businessman. However, his experience with Bane Capital was described by Romney opponents in the primaries -- other Republicans -- as "vulture capitalism." However, with Romney's selection as running mate, Glenn Beck's "soulmate," Paul Ryan, there is a hell of a lot more at stake besides the speed at which the nation recovers from the worst economic collapse since the great depression. 



We live in, and execute our professional lives in, a global economy. We have to compete with rising nations, and that is going to require investments in education. Romney has flip flopped on the issue of hiring teachers, like he has flip flopped on so much else. It seems that he is more concerned with the well being of corporate investors than he is with the workers. Romney is clearly of the 1% or more accurately the 0.01%. He is, in no uncertain terms, a plutocrat, a member of the plutocracy. This was clear, for those who have listened to the entire recording, when Gov. Romney was addressing his donors earlier this year and not expecting his words to be made public. What does this mean?







Plutocracy:  1.the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy. 2. a government or state in which the wealthy class rules. 3. a class or group ruling, or exercising power or influence, by virtue of its wealth.

A recent interview on The Colbert Report with Chrystia Freeland, the author of Plutocrats, helped shed some light on what the priorities are for the plutocrats in the contemporary global economy.






So what would it mean to have a plutocrat in the White House? Predictions are impossible to make with any kind of certainty. Circumstances change, and challenges arise when you're a president of an "empire." The case has been made that Governor Romney is willing to say anything, no matter how inaccurate, to win over voters. Lately, he's been saying and running ads, that are so false that some of the national, objective media are picking up on the deceitful nature of the ads. That lie is covered in this graphic as is the plutocracy as well in the second sentence. This is what plutocracy looks like:



















When you're a plutocrat running for national office and your tax plan will mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, it is probably a good strategy to lie about what your intentions are, lie about your opponent and lie about your record. Otherwise, most Americans will simply vote for the other guy.














But isn't Obama lying about Romney and his record as well? According to Beck, he's the only candidate who is lying. Beck does not publicly mention Romney's lies. (Cherry-picking facts is an element of propaganda.) Indeed the President has been dishonest, but take a careful look at the following charts developed by PolitiFact. Which candidate is mathematically more honest?







 








The President's claims are true more often and "Pants on Fire" false far less often than Romney's are. However, voting for the lesser of two liars is not exactly inspirational. If the President no longer inspires, he is something that Gov. Romney is not: consistent. Unlike Romney, we know what Obama wants for the country. The point of this piece though is that Romney is something that Obama is not: a plutocrat. There are many reasons for someone the left to vote for or against President Obama, but opposing a plutocrat who believes that corporations are people is one of the best reasons to vote for anyone but Governor Romney. What is more interesting for Beck's programmed followers, who have been conned into thinking Obama is a Marxist socialist, are the highly informed conservatives who are either supporting Obama or leaning toward supporting Obama.





If you're still undecided, ask yourself how many liberals are supporting Gov. Romney?







Update, 10/31/2012: There is an excellent piece today in WaPo which describes the class war "waged by the upper class."  describes Romney's plutocratic nature splendidly. 



Update, 11/03/2012: According to WaPo columnist, Dana Milbank:








“It's difficult to quantify a candidate's relationship with the facts, but The Washington Post's fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, has calculated that, for much of the campaign, Romney and Obama were roughly even in their prevarications until the past few months.  Back in May, Romney's average "Pinocchio" rating from Kessler was 1.97 on a scale of 0 to 4. Obama was at 1.91. Now, Obama is at 2.11 and Romney is at 2.40 -- putting him at the level of hogwash perpetrated during the primaries by Rick Perry (2.41) and Newt Gingrich (2.44)….  Romney is in a whole new category….  When is comes to truth, Romney still lives in Defiance.” 











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Sunday, October 28, 2012


          

        







Romney, the judicial extremist



















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There are virtually no voters who list Supreme Court appointments as an important issue when deciding who to vote for, but that does not mean it is unimportant. One can make the argument that aside from whether to go to war or not, Supreme Court appointments are the most important decisions a president can make. They have a long-lasting effect because judges are appointed for life. As much as Governor Romney has flip-flopped around on virtually every major issue out there, he has been consistent (if only because it did not come up during the debates) about Court appointments. Romney will appoint judges like the extremists on the Court that he admires, judges like Antonia Scalia, Clarance Thomas and Samuel Alito. One reason we know this is because his adviser that Romney has selected is Judge Robert Bork.







 



Bork: rejected as Court Justice and  Romeny: takes advice from Bork


First, listen this this video from the liberal People for the American Way:






Romney said that he wishes Robert Bork were on the Court now! Let's consider more about what that would mean for Americans.



From "Robert Bork: Mitt Romney's corporate-power tool" by Jamie Raskin are the following paragraphs:



But the Roberts Court majority sees no evil, handing out victories by the bushel to big business. Without even being asked to do so, five Justices in 2010 overrode their colleagues in the Citizens United case and bestowed upon the CEOs the power to spend trillions of dollars from corporate treasuries promoting compliant politicians to the public in campaign season.





Yet, just when it looked like things couldn’t get any worse, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney selected as his top legal adviser Robert Bork, a conservative polemicist whose career has been devoted to the proposition that corporations can basically do no wrong, the courts should faithfully serve the corporate agenda, and democratic government should step out of the way.







While Bork is an authoritarian statist when it comes to the rights of individual Americans to obtain birth control or read books, have sex or watch movies that Bork disapproves of (see Borking America: What Robert Bork Will Mean for the Supreme Court and American Justice), he is a laissez-faire libertarian when it comes to the rights of large corporations to ditch environmental regulation, fire pro-union workers and generally have their way with the rest of us without regulatory restraint. He seeks hierarchical discipline for natural persons but maximum freedom for big businesses to merge with one another, purge their workers, and splurge on pet politicians.







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We can fully expect a Bork-infused Supreme Court and federal judiciary to continue promoting the basic infallibility of corporate power. With Bork at the helm, we will see more impunity and more unaccountability in corporate structures that are “too big to fail” and “too big to jail.”






It is not just corporations that will be allowed greater influence in our elections. If Romney wins this election and appoints judges for the Court, Romney will most likely use those appointments to overturn Roe v Wade and end legal abortion in this country. In a piece at Think Progress (a source that Glenn Beck's supporters have been programmed by convincing propaganda to ignore, disrespect, etc. no matter how accurate their views are), Ian Millhiser offers four ways a Romney Court would change the Constitution without amending it:






    

  1. Eliminating The Right To An Abortion: Roe v. Wade is already on life support. The Court’s current majority weakened the longstanding rule ensuring that women may terminate pregnancies that threaten their health, claiming instead that a federal abortion restriction should be allowed in part because “some women come to regret” their own reproductive choices. If Romney were able to add an additional conservative to the Supreme Court, Roe would likely be forfeit.
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  2. Judges For Sale: Romney named Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito as his models should he be allowed to pick new judges. All four said the Supreme Court should have done nothing when a wealthy coal baron payed $3 million to place a sympathetic justice on the West Virginia Supreme Court. That justice then cast the key vote to overrule a $50 million verdict against the coal baron’s company. Romney may even want his justices to go much further in permitting the very wealthy to buy elections — he previously endorsed allowing billionaires to give unlimited sums of money directly to his campaign.
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  3. Government In The Bedroom: Only five of the Supreme Court’s current justices joined the landmark Lawrence v. Texas decision, which struck down Texas’ “sodomy” laws and held that the government cannot “demean” a couple by “making their private sexual conduct a crime.” An additional conservative justice would place Lawrence in jeopardy.
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  4. Tossing Out The Constitution’s Text: As a top conservative judge who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush once explained, the legal case against the Affordable Care Act has no basis “in either the text of the U.S. Constitution or Supreme Court precedent.” Romney would appoint more justices who embrace this lawless legal theory.
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Millhiser reminds his readers that  four of the justices on the Court are over 74 years old. Because voters are unlikely to consider this when the vote this year, Gov. Romney's economic policy will be analyzed in the coming days. Meanwhile, if you are one of those undecided voters out there, please consider any other points that have been made up to this point. These posts clearly show just how extreme Gov. Romney has indicated he is.


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Friday, October 26, 2012


          

        







Guess who hosted a fund-raiser for Gov. Romney



















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Thanks to the coverage on The Rachel Maddow Show of a fundraiser held for Governor Romney on the very day that former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed the campaign of President Obama, this post doesn't need to be written. Maddow covers virtually everything that needs to be said about Glenn Beck, who Mitt Romney introduced in 2009 as a "stateman," hosting a fundraiser at this stage in the campaign. When Gov. Romney is turning from his extremist policy positions that helped him win the primaries, with 12 days to go to impress upon moderate, independent voters how moderate and reasonable Romney is, he turns to Glenn Beck to help him raise money. Really? Romney is associating with extremist Beck at this point in the campaign?









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The only point worth adding is that Beck himself did not consider this fundraiser important enough to mention in his newsletter the day of -- or the day after -- this event in TX. One has to wonder why not? Even more strange, one has to wonder how Romney could need money at this point enough to be reported associating with Glenn Beck. 
















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