Thanks, Pinocchio…
Mitch speaks. The world gags. Then spits.
This was settled long ago. Bill Clinton asked one of his rivals “Why do you have to fight so dirty?” The answer was “It’s the only way we can win.”
Thankfully, lessons were learned, and the most vulnerable candidate in a century has hanged his shit out to dry.
(Note that Yertle was so pleased with the photo —the one widely distributed where a blurry picture of John Howard Ferguson[?] hangs crooked, just over his shoulder. It’s all about the visuals.)
“It’s not really about knocking down barriers. There are no serious barriers to voting anymore anywhere in America.”
You can’t just pretend that tens of millions of American adults currently potentially eligible to vote never vote in their entire lifetime. It is everybody’s Constitutional right to not vote, of course. But when only 126 million out of a voter pool of 220 million show up in the 2012 election, and non-participation rose, its seems fair to ask what is the barrier to voting.
The GOP seems to obtain many of its “facts” by proclamation as done here. I recall a decade or so ago when there was a fully GOP Congress I think in Bubba’s second term that they passed a resolution saying that there was never, ever any reason to perform a third trimester abortion, totally oblivious to the fact that a fetus can still die in utero up until birth and it would be better for the reproductive health of the woman to have the dead tissue removed.
In many cases years and years and years of apathy starting when the current voters parents were kids, for some even earlier, and their parents sat on their hands. Seems Americans love to bitch but are loath to actually do anything about it. As I would say to my MIL, in the 70s, don’t bitch if you have not voted, she would huff and puff but at least she would STFU.
Apathy is part of it, certainly. People are lazy. But the sheer numbers seem to imply something more. For example, there is the clear working-class discomfort in being partisan in any way as it might affect your promotion chances at, say, Walmart. If you aspire to management-level positions, you should take on the politics of the manager class, which might be pretty disgusting if those politics favor low wages for you – and no health insurance. So you have nice, fairly bright young people who make a big deal about not being “political” as if that would somehow be beneath them. Really? Policy is the mustard, the ketchup, the pickle relish, the horseradish, but voting is the hot dog.
To one of my senators, again: ha, ha, ha …
You are my hero this picture is a gift unmatched by any other recentl, may I steal it?
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Absolutely — But it is not theft, once freely given ! —
killed it
We think irasdad should have his own section at TPM.
Just wait in line for six hours.
Thanks. Less likely, and in many, many cases, completely unable. As those pushing the laws know very well; that’s just the icing on top for them.
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