Voter Fraud Case in NY

Massive Voter Fraud Trial in NY: "Two veteran Democratic political operatives in Troy said voter fraud is an accepted way of winning elections, and faking absentee ballots was commonplace"

How is it that whenever these come up, a Dem is involved?
You know, Holder took the occasion of MLK Day to further whine and squall about Voter ID, because, you know, it "disenfranchises" voters.

Well, Vocal Minority treats us to this graphic:

I'll also add that if poor people are really the issue, why on earth do limited-income admissions discounts to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Science Museum of Minnesota require Photo ID and an EBT card?

Furthermore, the State of New York requires additional ID for EBT applicants.  That includes a photo ID.  For all members of the applying household!

The Children's Hospital at Philadelphia offers free child car seats at no cost to qualified applicants.  But you need to present an EBT and...guess what...a photo ID.

In New Jersey, in order to get a replacement for a lost or damaged EBT card, you must present photo ID.

Now, this one is wacky.  You can get a special rate to have your pet spayed or neutered in Honolulu.  But you have to show both an EBT card and a photo ID.

And, the coup de grâce, photo ID, or some other form of verification, is generally required in all states for some form of EBT application.

Go stick it, Holder.  We know your real concern is for preserving a time-honored Dem election-stealing tactic.

So, He Wants to be Like Teddy, Eh?

I'm reading through Andrew Breitbart's Righteous Indignation, and am very much enjoying his tale of everything he has seen since his political awakening and re-education in the 1990s.  Mostly because he's only nine months older than I, and I well remember everything he recalls from then until now.

He gives a little history lesson on the development of progtardianism, starting with Marx's materialistic dialectic, and going on to other major figures in proglodytianism as they have affected our country.  I am now at the point where he discusses Teddy Roosevelt, who was not a Conservative, but a Progressive.

Breitbart relates two quotes.  One, the famous "We grudge no man a fortune in civil life" line which morphs into "only so long as the gaining represents benefit to the community."

The second quote is far more ominous:  "To hell with the Constitution when the people want coal!"  The link leads to The Mises Institute's book review on Thomas Woods' 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask.  In the review, the article's author states:

"But who bears responsibility for this 'imperial presidency'? Woods places much of the blame on Theodore Roosevelt, who 'loathed inactivity' (p. 136). Though highly intelligent — my late friend Mel Bradford rated him the brightest of all the presidents — he was dominated by passions he made little effort to control."

Such passions led him to hold the Constitution in contempt every so often.

So, Obama's speech in Kansas two weeks ago, with his attempt to invoke the ghost of TR, should have prompted more foreboding about how worse things can get if this type of mentality occupies the Oval Office for another four years.

Just Think What He Could Do in Four More Years!

President Pee Wee.  (h/t Doug Ross)

But, it's the excessive abuses of power to push an incredibly stupid agenda that gets me.  Make absolutely sure we don't get this dolt in again.

No, No, No!

Obama Seeks New Powers from Congress

President Obama will reveal a new proposal to consolidate federal agencies at a White House event later this morning, an official tells Fox News. The problem is that the authority he seeks to carry out the plan will have to come from a Congress he's had bitter battles with over the past year.

I do hope that House & Senate Republicans and the more reasonable Dems (I know I'm asking a lot there) will not grant this to Øbama.

Not just because he's Øbama.  Let's establish that right off-hand.  But, Chairman Zero has demonstrated over the last three years quite the disdain for Rule of Law if it stands in the way of his agenda.

I suppose if we needed to put someone in office to point out the weaknesses of the system, cracks through which authoritarianism can establish itself instead of the principles of a Democratic Republic, Øbama has been the perfect man for the job. 

And he does not need any further help in that department.

Now, supposedly, the request is meant to cut down on the cost and bulk of government.  That sounds fine, right down to invoking Reagan, but I get nervous whenever someone uses the term "consolidate" in reference to the Executive Branch.  Reminds me too much of the years leading up to Mussolini.

Autocratic Hypocrisy

Those of us who lived through the Cold War well remember the rather paradoxical names of the Communist countries.  The "Deutsche Demokratische Republik" (German Democratic Republic), The "Democratic People's Republic of Korea", "People's Republic of China," "People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia," "Democratic Republic of Vietnam," and so on.

And, we well remember that none of the above were Democratic Republics.

Well, here's another misleading name:  "Constitutional Scholar," as applied to Øbama.  Remember back in 2007 when he said, "I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution."

 

My, how times have changed.  Too bad there isn't any published works attached to his name, his academic transcripts are still not available to the public, and I don't think there have been any interviews with any former students of his.

And how's this for another whopper, as found over at Cato (Will Congress Stop King Barack the First?): 

"But the worst hypocrisy here is Obama's. 'I've studied the Constitution as a student, I've taught it as a teacher,' he piously intoned in 2009: 'I know that we must never, ever, turn our back on its enduring principles for expedience's sake.'"

*snort*  *guffaw*

Well, we've already had a good look at how enduring these principles are in the eyes of Obama when his agenda must be expedited.

On Consolidation of Power

By James Madison from Federalist Papers 47 (h/t Flopping Aces)

“When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body, there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.”

That's why we have Separation of Powers.

Occupy Candidates?

Funny how you don't hear about 'em. I think we can easily point to several "Tea Party Candidates" and "Tea Party Favorites"—Bachmann, DeMint, Rubio, and Rand Paul, for example.

We heard—still hear—about them in the legacy and alternate media, both left and right-leaning.

But where are the OWS favorites & candidates? It is an election year, you know.

Maybe the reason we haven't heard about them is because #OWS is politically irrelevant.