Republican Lies category archive

Thom reviews the history of the Electoral College and its roots in chattel slavery, as well as Republican efforts to use the voter fraud fraud to institutionalize actual election fraud.

Aside:

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Update:

The bug appears to have been exterminated.

Darryl Lease, in my local rag, excoriates the Republican gut-out-the-vote efforts.

No summary or excerpt can do it justice. Just read it.

Addendum, Early That Same Evening:

In related gut-out-the-vote news, in Florida:

Analyzing data compiled by the Orlando Sentinel, Ohio State University professor Theodore Allen estimated last week that at least 201,000 voters likely gave up in frustration on Nov. 6, based on research Allen has been doing on voter behavior.

The Republican steal-the-vote campaign is reheating up.

Orly Taitz, birther babe extraordinaire, gets thrown out of yet another courtroom.

The judge was less than charitable. Scathing, even.

It’s a little late for this Christmas, there’s always that birthday . . . .

The San Jose Mercury-News investigates why the Republican Party has lost Silicon Valley. It seems to be another manifestation of Stephen Colbert’s observation that reality has a liberal bias.

A nugget:

“We all work on evidence-based reasoning, and that’s much more of a Democratic mindset than a Republican mindset,” said Johnvey Hwang, 34, a San Francisco software engineer who volunteered with the Obama campaign. “It’s hard to side with a party that’s still trying to reach out to their base of creationists.”

Mosque arsonist: “I only know what I hear on Fox News.”

Via C&L. IF the embed doesn’t work, follow the link to C&L.

Dick Polman shares this nugget:

Anyway, at a Pew-sponsored forum on Monday, Republican campaign consultant Scott Tranter uttered this gem:

“A lot of us are campaign officials – or campaign professionals – and we want to do everything we can to help our side. Sometimes we think that’s voter ID, sometimes we think that’s longer lines – whatever it may be.”

From the Philly Daily-News: The phony phiscal cliff is a steamy pile of Republicanism, nothing else.

Remember, Congress set the deadline and could extend it – or make adjustments after it has passed. Congress could allow all, some or none of the cuts to take place. It could restore some or none of the Bush tax cuts. It’s totally in its own hands.

Read the rest.

The gut out the vote movement is alive and well.

Virginia’s voter identification policy will become tougher than it currently is if Del. Mark Cole has his druthers.

Cole wants to remove several forms of ID now accepted for voting based on his belief that the recently revised law doesn’t do enough to thwart potential voter fraud. The Republican legislator would like the General Assembly to strike provisions that allow voters to present a current utility bill, bank statement, government check or pay stub with an address as valid ID at the polls.

These folks won’t be happy until they are able to guarantee stealing elections.

Things people say about the election that aren’t true, but that make them feel good:

Via Raw Story.

Watch Soledad O’Brien reduce hack Republican Congressman to incoherent doubletalk over Republican attempts to gin up a scandal over Susan Rice and Benghazi:

He’s a member of the House Intelligence Committee. Same like Michelle Bachman.

Via ABL.

Honestly, you can’t make this stuff up.

Update: Link fixed.

Facing South rounds up some stats about the Republican Party’s efforts to gut out the vote. Here’s a few:

• According to an election night survey conducted for the AFL-CIO, percentage of Romney supporters who had to wait 30 minutes or more to vote: 9
• Percentage of Obama voters who had to wait that long: 16
• Percentage of white voters who had to wait 30 minutes or more to vote: 9
• Percentage of African Americans: 22
• Percentage of Hispanics: 24

Follow the link to hear more numbers speak for themselves.

The Richmonder has a personal encounter with the workings of Fox News.

Pay no attention to the electrons behind the curtain:

The Facebook page for Gaston Memorial Hospital, in Gastonia, N.C., offers a chicken salad recipe to encourage healthy eating, tips on avoiding injuries at Zumba class, and pictures of staff members dressed up at Halloween. Typical stuff for a hospital in a small town.

But in October, another Facebook page for the hospital popped up. This one posted denunciations of President Obama and what it derided as “Obamacare.” It swiftly gathered hundreds of followers, and the anti-Obama screeds picked up “likes.” Officials at the hospital, scrambling to get it taken down, turned to their real Facebook page for damage control. “We apologize for any confusion,” they posted on Oct. 8, “and appreciate the support of our followers.”

The fake page came down 11 days later, as mysteriously as it had come up. The hospital says it has no clue who was behind it.

More frolicking Facebookers at the link.

Turnout.

Via Americablog.

Hoist on their own petard. Delicious details at the link.

Two Republicans in separate states were taken into police custody during the past week for allegedly attempting to test how easy it would be to commit voter fraud.

They found out that it wasn’t so easy. Both of them may be charged with felonies.

Perhaps this will help them separate fact from reality in the future.

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Republican strategist Steve Schmidt: It’s a Republican myth.

Via Raw Story.