DRINKING LIBERALLY

Virginia Beach
Second Thursday of the Month

Croc's 19th Street Bistro, 6 p. m.
620 19th St.
Virginia Beach, VA (map)

Drinking Liberally Website

Join us at Meetup.
Follow the conversation at Facebook.

In the latest migration to a new virtual private server, some of the links to images in the earliest posts to this blog were broken. If you encounter one of these broken links, please let me know. I have backups and can restore the images.

Hacker Public Radio

Podcasts for the community,
by the community.

Stop pretending that your racism is patriotism.

Image via Job’s Anger

Electronic Frontier Foundation

There’s only one person who agrees with me on everything, and, as I’m not running for office, that person is not on the ballot.

Learn more about registration

2025: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2024: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2023: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2022: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2021: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2020: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2019: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2018: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2017: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2016: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2015: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2014: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2013: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2012: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2011: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2010: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2009: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2008: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2007: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2006: J F M A M J J A S O N D
2005: J F M A M J J A S O N D
0: J F M A M J J A S O N D

From Pine View Farm by Frank Bell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.pineviewfarm.net.

Closing the Corridors of Power 0

Gene Nichol sees an ominous trend in the behavior of North Carolina’s Republican Party (emphasis added).

In order to make “consent of the governed” operational, to open securely channels of political participation, and to assure the full dignity and opportunity of the commonwealth’s membership, we prohibit government from distorting or debilitating the effective functioning of democracy. Majority rule demands a policing of access, a constraint on the “ins” ability to unfairly exclude the “outs” – lest the commitment to self-governance itself be defeated.

(snip)

The Republican General Assembly has not been content to merely enact its substantive policy choices to stamp an imprint on life in North Carolina. It has moved repeatedly to reject the pillars and infrastructure of democratic governance.

Follow the link to find out why he says that.

Afterthought:

It’s not just in North Carolina, folks.

December 11, 2016 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre, Republican Hypocrisy | Bookmark this post

Comments are closed.

Contact Me

DRINKING LIBERALLY

Just the Facts, Ma ‘am

Missing Links

Hacker Public Radio

Support Marriage Equality

Patriot Gamers

Support the EFF

Vote in the real world.

Meta

Search This Site

Registration

Pages

Music that Swings

Old Time Radio

Reading Rainbow

Required Reading

Updates from the Field

Blue Delaware

Delaware Liberal

Eschaton

Philadelphia Phillies

Progress Pond (was The Booman Tribune)

Rubber Hose

Blogroll

Categories

Archives by Month

Closing the Corridors of Power 0