The National Republican Senatorial Committee is spending $1 million on an ad campaign targeting Democrats’ voting rights bill known as the “For the People Act,” an 800-page bill meant to expand and federally standardize voting rights.
OMG. Assuring everyone a right to vote will cost money.
According to Rick Scott, quoted in the article, this will be the line of attack. Democracy costs money so we shouldn’t have any.
Please… why would anyone take anything Scott says seriously. He is preaching to the GOP faithful only, and hopefully that number will continue to dwindle as the Democrats point out more and more how the GOP doesn’t want anyone to vote.
The GOP’s attack on the “For The People Act”
Please G-d, can the Dems start a counter-campaign to point out the hypocrisy of the GQP position?
Why let the liars have the narrative and the microphone? The Dems have the money. Get on with it, already.
For instance, various head shots of black, brown, native American people saying ‘the GOP doesn’t want me to vote’. Then they should go with the disabled and the military head shots saying ‘the GOP doesn’t want me to vote’. And keep repeating this until the message is stronger than the GOP’s.
This can be done; where there’s a will, there’s a way.
NRSC Chairman, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), characterized the “For the People’s Act” as an “assault on American taxpayers” in a statement.
So, apparently paying taxes is more important in being an American than exercising our constitutional rights.
Republicans just cannot accept that America is a democratic republic, and not a 2-bit autocratic state where citizens have no rights at all. Anyone can pay taxes, whether to a democratic state or to an authoritarian dictatorship. Republicans seem to prefer the latter choice.
Dems are actually going to require voting re-education camps where detainees will be forced to take part in Two Minutes Hate against jesus, and fed only vegan food. It’s in the bill. Really.
a Democratic “power grab” that would “eliminate voter ID laws,” implement automatic voter-registration and “force taxpayers to fund” campaigns.
And … ?
Isn’t voting and rule by majority kind of socialism?
Shorter form
Republicans: “They won’t let us cheat anymore!”
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." – John F. Kennedy, from the Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11, 1962
Oh, heck, my late mother’s late cousin was complaining about these very things in the 1970s. This isn’t new. He used to complain about the new buildings and the soccer fields and why did he have to pay for them when he had no children to use them?
This stuff isn’t new.
My late father would be astounded every time the subject came up - which it did, every year when we visited.
I had a co-worker with no kids that mentioned not getting any benefit from public schools. And all I could think is, you want to live among a bunch of uneducated folks? All these folks that think they are so independent really need to look at all the stuff other folks do for them, even if they are mostly doing it to earn their money for their stuff.
Well that would be in keeping with his internal logic - back when he was a thief in the Health Care world - at the controls of Columbia/HCA they would come into a town and buy a hospital - and the first thing they would do would be to shut down the Emergency Room services - because the ER does not typically operate at a profit … typically it is is a money loser … because in a real emergency you can’t really turn people away just because they have no money - true urgent emergency care must be provided to those with urgent emergency needs - and since Scott & Columbia / HCA could not opt to only care for those with comprehensive all encompassing health insurance (they would have if they could but they couldn’t) - they deemed "Emergency Services " to be too expensive to offer - and shunted all of the expensive emergency cases to the other Hospitals in the area - effectively dumping losses on their competition.
The answer to that question for many is, yes, given that knowledge and education are viewed as elitist. It’s a shame that education has been so devalued over the last decade or so by far too many.
This is a $1 million ad buy across four states. The purpose of it isn’t to sway voters, it’s to scare these four senators into backing away. For at least two of these senators, the “For the People’s Act” is a necessity and a matter of political survival.
And right on cue: Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) has offered his support for many provisions of the Democrats’ voting rights legislation but cautioned that the Senate shouldn’t pursue it without Republican support.
Can someone tell this idiot that Republicans DO NOT support voting rights. WTF? He thinks voting against this is going to be good for his constituents?
And I guess it’s the Joe Manchin Show for the next year and a half.
The Right claims him as their own because he was legitimately Republican (in an earlier iteration, of course). But they don’t seem to talk anything about where he came from. Against, re-writing history by exclusion.
Doesn’t help when some media are calling him The Most Powerful Senator in the US.