Republican Lies category archive

Things are getting creepier in Texas.

Texas Former U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright was denied a voter ID card Saturday at a Texas Department of Public Safety office.

He’s going to try again Monday with a copy of his birth certificate in hand.

Can anyone seriously believe that anything about this law was legitimate and above-board?

Details at the link.

So much for the claim that the ACA is hurting people:

As TWiB pointed out, the fact that a very small percentage of persons might have to pay more is old news (yes, it’s a long listen, but worth it–subscribe; I did). And, in the great majority of cases, the plans that are no longer “allowable” are no longer allowable because, to be blunt about it, they suck.

And what’s the Republican alternative? As Alan Grayson said, it’s

Don’t get sick. If you do get sick, die quickly.

Me, I’m just trying to stay alive until I qualify for Medicare.

My individual policy premium is going up next year, but that’s because my age keeps going up. Beats the alternative, as far as I am concerned.

Via TPM, which has commentary.

Texas Attorney-General would appear to be a voter fraudster under the terms of Texas’s new voter ID law.

Heh.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

Sometimes, the mask slips:

Via TPM, which reports that the man who told the truth has been canned, even though, according to him, one of his best friends is black.*

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*Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, yes, he said that.

Thom and Ari Rabin Havt (full disclosure: he has a new book) discuss the mechanics Republicans used to dream drum up the Benghazi Scamdal:

When the rather hysterically-phrased stories broke last week that the latest gut-out-the-vote efforts in Texas might disproportionately affect women (for example) because of differences in documents occasioned by marital name changes, much skepticism was exhibited.

Take this, skeptics:

A new voter ID law requiring strict uniformity across all forms of identification nearly kept a Texas district judge from being able to cast her ballot in the state’s early voting session. According to Think Progress, Judge Sandra Watts was challenged at the poll when she presented her usual ID.

(snip)

Watts said she has voted in every election for the last 49 years and that her name on her driver’s license has remained the same for the last 52. The address on her license and voter registration card have been the same for more than two decades. However, on Tuesday, at the outset of early voting for the Nov. 5 election, the judge was asked to sign a “voter’s affidavit” saying that she is who she says she is before she would be allowed to vote.

The problem was that her maiden name was listed as her middle name on her driver’s license, whereas on her voter registration card, her actual middle name is listed.

Bill Maxwell has been reading his son’s history assignments and has discovered something about teabaggery: Its willful misreading of history.

A nugget:

And not surprisingly, considering how many other misstatements come from the mouths of people waving around pocket-sized copies of the Constitution, their take on it is mostly wrong.

More history at the link.

Chauncey Devega tries to understand the Republican Party’s threat to shoot the economy. A nugget:

Outside observers are unable to grasp the Republican Party’s political logic because they are not among its true believers and faithful. The Republican Party is now a cult. Here, faith, as in religion, is a belief in that which cannot be proven by ordinary means. As such, how can we as a society resolve political disputes if one group of people is committed to magical thinking, and is therefore immune from appeals to empirical truth?

“It is true because we believe it to be so” is a logic that has brought down many societies and governments. Unfortunately, such a slogan is also the motto of the contemporary Tea Party GOP.

Read the rest.

Gutting out the vote, because Republicans know they can’t win a fair election . . . .

Ebony Wright, a 37-year-old paralegal from Suffolk, has voted in the past three Virginia general elections and in two Democratic primaries.

Yet on Sept. 27, Suffolk Registrar Susan Saunders sent Wright a letter saying her name had been stricken from the voting rolls because she’d moved to another state.

Wright’s was one of 57,293 names on a list sent by the state Board of Elections to voter registrars across Virginia 10 weeks before the Nov. 5 election for governor, House of Delegates and city offices.

State officials told registrars that simply being on the list was sufficient grounds for removal from the voting rolls.

Gory details at the link.

Gutting out the vote in Virginia:

Under the guise of cleaning up the voter rolls, the Virginia Board of Elections, which is comprised of two Republicans and one Democrat, sent a list of approximately 57,000 voters to county election officials in August and directed these officials to cancel their registrations. The board is claiming that all of these voters have registered in other states, and must therefore be removed to prevent them from voting in two states.

Every state periodically cleans their lists to remove duplicate registrations. However, unlike most states, Virginia officials are sending notices to voters stating that their registrations have already been cancelled, with no prior notice, only weeks before the October 14th deadline to register for the November election. If a legitimate Virginia voter’s registration is cancelled by mistake and that voter doesn’t see the notice in time to re-register, they’ll be effectively disenfranchised.

Follow the link. Sign the petition.

It likely will not stop this, but do not sit by quietly. Remember, Republicans do this stuff because they know that cheating is their best strategy.

There is virtue in protesting the detestable.

Afterthought:

For all I know, I’m one of the 57,000. I don’t know whether I’m still on Delaware’s or possibly even Pennsylvania’s roles.

I expect the great majority, perhaps almost all, are persons who have moved, registered legally in their new locations, and have no intention of gaming the system.

System-gaming is a Republican thing.

In Republican World, democracy is all well and good, as long as it votes Republican.

A clear and present danger to the Republic:

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.