Last November, it became apparent that the 1%, combined with the assorted extremists they have embraced are not enough people to win presidential elections. Trickle down doesn’t work anymore, because Americans have seen the trickle down only gushes up. Jobs, jobs, jobs doesn’t work any more, because Republican jobs, jobs, jobs are in China. However, in 2010 they did so well that they have been able to gerrymander so many states that they can now exercise minority rule in many blue states, and they are trying to use that to steal the Presidency.
Attorney General Eric Holder has a solid record on voting rights, and he’s criticized Republican state lawmaker’s efforts to restrict the franchise in the past — at one point comparing voter ID laws to an unconstitutional poll tax. At a speech in New York yesterday, Holder added a new line to his previous attacks on voter suppression, suggesting that DOJ will respond with legal action if any Republican state lawmakers move forward with their proposals to rig the Electoral College:
Long lines are unnecessary. Shortened voting periods are unwise and inconsistent with the historic ideal of expanded participation in the process. Recent proposed changes in how electoral votes are apportioned in specific states are blatantly partisan, unfair, divisive, and not worthy of our nation. Let me be clear again: we will not sit by and allow the slow unraveling of an electoral system that so many sacrificed so much to construct.
There are two versions of the GOP’s election rigging plans, both of which Republicans want to enact exclusively in blue states. One version would allocate electoral votes in several targeted blue states by Congressional district, rather than to the winner of the state as a whole. The other version, which is currently being pushed by Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R), would allocate electoral votes proportionally — so that Mitt Romney would have won a significant chunk of Pennsylvania’s electoral voters even though President Obama carried the state. As with the congressional districts plan, Pileggi’s election-rigging plan would give away electoral votes to Republicans in his blue state, while still keeping all red state electors in GOP hands… [emphasis original]
Inserted from <Think Progress>
For the record, I think Holder is the worst Democratic AG in my memory, because of his failure to prosecute war criminals, Banksters, and other deserving Republicans, so I have no intent to blows his horn here. Nevertheless is is important that we support him in thoise issues where he is right, and this is one of them.
12 Responses to “The Fix Is In”
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It is really surprising that he is actually acting like a Democrat for a change.
Indeed, Patty!
Despite his obvious problems Edwards would have been a fantastic AG because he has always been an activist for the common people.
Of course if Obama had kept Dean as the head of the party none of this crap we're faced with would have ever come to pass.
Welcome Bob! 🙂
I was also an Edwards supporter for AG until he was exposed. Unlike Diaper Dave Vitter and Love Guv Sanford, once Democrats fall, that's it. I am also a howard Dean fan.
This gerrymandering has really been a change in the balance of politics, and I have to give the repugs a nod of political shennagins – hope our party learns to respond likewise – even with the horrors that the other party tends to promote – they have the stupid citizens by the short hairs – and we are never short on "stupid" in this country!
Agree totally on your take on Holder – but also wonder just how "involved" Obama is in some of his choices – seems there's a lot to be questioned!
Sadly Republicans are as skilled at politicking as they are unskilled at governing.
I agree with your skepticism about Obama, with the caveat that, on his worst day, he is infinately better than any Republican candidate on its best day.
They– the present distorted GOP will do anything- no matter how sneaky or unhanded — to gain their objective of total control–It seems many are just too darn lazy or ignorant to look at what is going on-
Phyllis, sadly you are too correct.
As a resident of Florida now after moving from Maine, I witness the gerrymander game played by the Republican/Tea-Bag party…
My sincerre condolences, Richard.
The sandbox is really starting to look like the cat box with piles of poop all over the place. I hope that Holder and the DOJ are able to clean out the Republican/Teabagger cat box so that it doesn't stink!
What an insult! No cat box is as foul as the Republican box! Call theirs a dawg box! 😉