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Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

Read Chait on Jim Crow, Jr.

He’s right, you know.

Peter St. Onge tells the story of a voter who passed literacy tests, an earlier gut-out-the-vote tactic, to voter ID, the current rage amongst the oligarchs.

Eaton first voted more than seven decades ago, when doing so was a more difficult thing for blacks in the South. How difficult? When she was 18, she recalls, Eaton rode with her mother on her brother’s mule wagon to the county courthouse to register. Before young Rosanell could add her name to the rolls, however, a clerk told her to stand against the wall, look straight ahead, and recite the preamble to the Constitution without missing a word.

When Rosanell did just that, the clerk looked to her mother and said: “She’s a brave little girl.”

Now, Eaton is a plaintiff in a lawsuit, one of two filed this week after Gov. Pat McCrory signed one of the most restrictive voting rights bills in the country. According to the suit, the name on Eaton’s birth certificate doesn’t match the name on her driver’s license or the name on her voter registration card. She will, the lawsuit says, incur substantial time and expense to straighten things out and meet the state’s new requirements.

You see, somewhere along the line, she got married, so the names don’t match up.

Therefore, she must be a voter fraudster. There is no other possible reason.

Anyway, she probably wouldn’t vote for the “right” people, so her rights don’t matter. Q. E. D.

And that is logic in Republican-world.

Read the rest for more Republican logic.

Meanwhile, Sally Kalson points out that this is another case of both sides not (more at the link):

There is no corresponding effort by Democrats to suppress the Republican vote.

Gutting out the vote in North Carolina.

It ain’t pretty.

Well, that worked out pretty much as expected.

After Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler (R) compiled a list of 17 people last month suspected of illegally voting in the November presidential election as non-citizens, an investigation Wednesday easily verified their citizenship and cleared all 17 of wrongdoing, Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett told the Daily Camera.

There’s no there, there.

The state of Florida is poised once again to strike groups who lean Democratic possibly ineligible voters from the rolls.

It worked out so well the last time (emphasis added).

Over time, the state’s initial list of suspected non-U.S. citizens shrank from 182,000 to 2,600 to 198 before election supervisors suspended their searches as the presidential election drew near.

“That was embarrassing,” said elections chief Jerry Holland in Jacksonville’s Duval County. “It has to be a better scrub of names than we had before.”

Election supervisors remain wary of a new removal effort, which the U.S. Supreme Court effectively authorized in June when it struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act.

Jay Bookman reports on Eric Cantor’s claim that the Affordable Care Act will allow the IRS to rifle through your medical records.

It is also a bald-faced, blatant lie, a lie that exposes the moral bankruptcy of the case that Cantor and others are attempting to make. There is no conceivable means under federal law for the IRS to access “the American people’s protected health care information,” and he knows it. His intent is to foster paranoia and distrust in the government, and if he can’t make that argument by telling the truth, he is perfectly willing to make it by telling falsehoods.

The IRS performs two functions in the administration of ObamaCare:

• Use a taxpayer’s income to establish how much subsidy, if any, the taxpayer is entitled to receive to offset the cost of health insurance.
• Collect a $95 tax from those who do not choose to purchase health insurance.That’s it. Period.

Follow the link for details.

Were it not for hate and lies, Republicans would have no platform at all.

Zandar reports on Republicans in North Carolina:

And they’re not even pretending any more that they care about anything other than reducing turnout . . . .

See his reasoning at the link.

George Smith explains what it’s all about.

Via BartCop.

Daniel Ruth marvels at the magical disappearance of Darrell Issa’s phony made-up IRS scamdal.

Meanwhile, the Scramento Bee’s Bruce Maiman sees a missed opportunity. A nugget:

Groups promising to spend no money anywhere in the election process were spending more than half their dollars on TV ads for candidates, direct-mail campaigns, campaign ads posted to their YouTube accounts and for donations to political committees.

These tax-exempt applications are filled out under penalty of perjury, yet groups were committing perjury “again and again,” ProPublica noted, and the majority of these groups were conservative organizations backing Republican candidates.

With his committee’s enormous subpoena power, why didn’t Issa find any of this out?

Why, indeed.

Catch 22.

It’s the best catch there is.

Let J. M. Ashby explain.

Image via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

Lies and lying liars: Dick Polman post mortems the IRS non-scandal.

It was a put-up job, a con, a rigged game, a Republican snow job, a tissue of lies.

Last Monday, lest we forget, newly-surfaced IRS documents made it abundantly clear that the Republican scandalmonger’s central premise was a fraud. Issa had repeatedly alleged that Obama (or his White House minions, or his ’12 campaign team) had commanded the IRS to unfairly target conservative groups. But now it turns out that the Cincinnati IRS office targeted liberal groups just as often, using key words like “progressive” and “Occupy” and “medical marijuana.” Turns out, the IRS office took these shortcuts because it wanted to determine whether blatantly political groups – on the left and right – were trying to mask themselves as apolitical in order to get tax-exempt status.

But wait, didn’t the original IRS inspector general’s report single out the agency’s targeting of conservative groups? Why did it fail to mention the targeting of liberal groups? This week, we learned the answer. According to a spokesman for the inspector general, Issa himself specifically told the IG to “narrowly focus on Tea party organizations.”

More about lies and lying liars at the link.

Rachel predicts the effects of gutting the Voting Rights Act.

Via Raw Story.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

Has there been any organization since the Inquisition that has been as fascinated with the private parts of others as the Republican Party? Dick Polman:

Wow, did you know that the womb was a sexual pleasure zone? I didn’t know that, either! Here’s what Burgess said on Monday evening, in the early moments of a House debate on a Republican bill that would ban virtually all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy:

“Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful. They stroke their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to believe that they could feel pain?”

By suggesting that teensy male fetuses spank the monkey, Burgess was apparently trying to make a case for the pain canard.

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