The GOP is the party with its irony meter permanently turned off or it might find last night in Arkansas just a little bit ironic, when Asa Hutchinson in the primary election for Governor got his own vote in the election delayed because of the id law he himself has championed.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2014/05/in-arkansas-asa-hutchison-victim-of.html
Not to worry, though as the party has no sense of irony.
"Olson said Hutchinson thought the incident was a "little bit of an inconvenience" but still believes the law is necessary."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-candidate-thwarted-by-arkansas-voter-id-law-at-polls
"Maybe if you're a well-heeled gubernatorial candidate with an army of staffers that can bail you out with one phone call its a mere inconvenience, what about a poor black person in a state like Arkansas? It may be more than just an inconvenience."
The GOP was supposed to learn all these lesson-after 2012, but this apparently didn't happen as even in the one area of policy they were supposed to have seen they needed to change-rather than just the packaging which was their tendency to focus on with regard to everything else-ie, the American people support our policies like Medicare privatization and regressive taxation they just don't know it because our packaging isn't good enough.
The GOP is just determined that the answer can't be that it actually needs to change its position on any important issues, it's just packaging-and that too many black people, poor people, and other undesirable Democratic voters get to vote in these elections too-particularly, Latino people.
This is the genius behind voter id laws. If someone like Hutchinson has a problem they can get their staff to fix it and while inconvenient it's a small price to pay for preventing the wrong voters from voting at all.
They've had some setbacks with these laws, certainly in 2012 most of these laws didn't take effect in time. However, they've had some victories too, like the SJC striking down part of the Voting Rights Act. Now Yolo is proving yet again the maxim that 'you give them an inch, they take a mile.' Nowhere is this more true than with GOPers and reactionary state laws. Yolo wants to take us back to the days when only property owners can vote-this was all the rage in the early 1800s.
"Ted Yoho strikes again.Speaking at the Berean Baptist Church in Ocala, Fla., during his 2012 campaign, the first term Republican congressman appeared to speak fondly of limiting voting to property owners -- laws not seen since the days of the Founding Fathers."
The GOP was supposed to learn all these lesson-after 2012, but this apparently didn't happen as even in the one area of policy they were supposed to have seen they needed to change-rather than just the packaging which was their tendency to focus on with regard to everything else-ie, the American people support our policies like Medicare privatization and regressive taxation they just don't know it because our packaging isn't good enough.
The GOP is just determined that the answer can't be that it actually needs to change its position on any important issues, it's just packaging-and that too many black people, poor people, and other undesirable Democratic voters get to vote in these elections too-particularly, Latino people.
This is the genius behind voter id laws. If someone like Hutchinson has a problem they can get their staff to fix it and while inconvenient it's a small price to pay for preventing the wrong voters from voting at all.
They've had some setbacks with these laws, certainly in 2012 most of these laws didn't take effect in time. However, they've had some victories too, like the SJC striking down part of the Voting Rights Act. Now Yolo is proving yet again the maxim that 'you give them an inch, they take a mile.' Nowhere is this more true than with GOPers and reactionary state laws. Yolo wants to take us back to the days when only property owners can vote-this was all the rage in the early 1800s.
"Ted Yoho strikes again.Speaking at the Berean Baptist Church in Ocala, Fla., during his 2012 campaign, the first term Republican congressman appeared to speak fondly of limiting voting to property owners -- laws not seen since the days of the Founding Fathers."
"I’ve had some radical ideas about voting and it’s probably not a good time to tell them, but you used to have to be a property owner to vote," Yoho said in unearthed footage uploaded on Tuesday by Right Wing Watch."
"The tea party congressman has made quite a name for himself in the last two years. He endorsed birtherism, said the nation's credit rating would actually be better if the United States defaulted on its debt, and called Obamacare racist toward white people.Yoho also opposed giving furloughed workers back pay during last fall's government shutdown, doubted the constitutionality of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and saidallowing in-state tuition for undocumented students would reward "bad behavior."
"But Yoho's lament about voting isn't original. Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips said in 2010 that returning to 19th century voting laws "makes a lot of sense."
"If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners," Phillips said.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/20/ted-yoho-voting_n_5360208.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
With a law like Mitt Romney would have won so it must be a good idea.
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