Comments on: Matt Entenza's Claim Rejected By Three Judge Panel

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:37:55 +0000

Here’s my take on how a President Gore’s two terms might have gone:

http://firedoglake.com/2007/03/31/2001-a-timeline-of-what-could-have-been/

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 20:01:00 +0000

parabarbarian: In all fifty of them, as far as I know, after citizenship.

By: parabarbarian

parabarbarian — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:38:41 +0000

In what state would “recent african immigrants” be allowed to vote legally?

By: Kevin O'Neill

Kevin O'Neill — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:03:18 +0000

I realized a long time ago that if a Republican accuses someone of something the simplest explanation is that said Republican is, in fact, guilty of the charge himself.

They have made psychological projection a basic campaign tactic.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 01:06:48 +0000

I put images of one of his mailings, which refers to Voter ID and Otto, on my facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203507589787084&set=a.1575408381829.86033.1134172133&type=1

By: Eric Lund

Eric Lund — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:13:10 +0000

Entenza sounds like a piece of work. I infer from the fact that this is a primary that he claims to be DFL, so Republicans don't have a monopoly on boorishness or insanity (not that you ever claimed they did). The rise of efforts to require voter ID seems to follow the rise to prominence of a certain politician from Illinois, the then state senator who gave the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Party convention. Most of the noise about changing voting methods that I heard in the 2003-2005 time frame concerned touch-screen voting machines--specifically concerns that they could be rigged (that the CEO of one of the largest providers of such machines was a loud and proud Republican was a significant part of that concern). Some states adopted such machines to get rid of the hanging chad problem. My state did not: state law requires paper ballots here (RSA 656:1-a). Voter ID was not required in this state until 2012.

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 20:23:10 +0000

What’s really strange is the nasty reaction of the Neo-Cons whenever an accurate, non-sniping description of them is published anywhere.

Either they’re proud of who they are (makes sense) or they’re ashamed of who they are… But if the latter were the case, wouldn’t they seek to change their ways and align their behavior/values to what they say they are?

My only explanation is that calling a spade a spade ratchets up the tension of cognitive dissonance and makes it harder to claim to be one thing while espousing another. The PC posturing blows a fuse if threatened with a public unmasking. The emperor cannot have his wardrobe discussed openly!

So I suppose all this should evoke a response of nasty anger… Well, it does, doesn’t it?

By: Michael Kelsey

Michael Kelsey — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:01:21 +0000

@Greg #2: But, but…How can you call the Repugnicans “homogeneous”? After all, some of their best friends are .

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:25:07 +0000

Spoken like a true antiprogressive! I guess that’s why you call yourself that!

By: antiprogressives

antiprogressives — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:20:47 +0000

“The Lockstep Party, Republican, is more homogeneous and generally privileged”

grotesque progressiste crap