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Home Front: Politix
US has 'democracy problem': NYC mayor
[Iran Press TV] The United States is confronted with a "democracy problem," which might be solved through reforming national voting laws, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says.

"We have a democracy problem in this country, we have declining voter turnout," de Blasio said on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
Perhaps because the voters see through you and yours...
"Our elections are governed by state law and for a long time," he said, adding "we need to make a fundamental series of reforms".
To ensure one-party control...
Many US politicians have sought "to discourage voter involvement and a lot of incumbents prefer a very small electorate," he noted.
The incumbents on both sides prefer that. The rest of it is just him looking in a mirror...
On Thursday, Gov. Chris Christie, a potential candidate for 2016 election,
sez who?
had an argument with his Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Abel P. Upshur ...
over New Jersey's voting laws.

During her speech last week, Clinton slated several Republican governors by name for trying to depress turnout among young and minority voters.

Clinton said that early voting rules should be expanded, calling for automatic voter registration at the age of 18. However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
Christie said Clinton does not understand what "she's talking about."
Posted by: Fred || 06/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Actually, we have a Republic with an idiot problem like you and those that vote for you.

You do not know ANYTHING, yet so haughty to preach as everyone flees your land to vote for more idiots in MINE.

When they flee you, you know you are a dumb tyrant. At least they have somewhere to go for now,
to flee
from you communist know nothing tyrants from the bowels of nothing but special interest a$$holes.

Posted by: newc || 06/08/2015 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Too much democracy, not enough republic.

The passions of the mob rules our politics which is why the founding fathers made it a republic to neutralize the passions of the mob.

They didn't count on a 24/h news feed....
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/08/2015 1:05 Comments || Top||

#3  The people who work for a living still have some influence?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/08/2015 2:56 Comments || Top||

#4  During her speech last week, Clinton slated several Republican governors by name for trying to depress turnout among young and minority voters.

The message here is clear. Pub politics at the local, state level is evil, racist, and corrupt....according to the Beest and the entrenched beltway power elites.

No mention made of the period of Clinton controlled Arkansas, present day Chicago, or New York of course.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2015 3:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Newspeak for today:

white privilege = democracy
diversity = oligarchy, autocracy, aristocracy, et al

Remember, these reds were all for 'black majority rule in South Africa' when it suited their agenda, but to hell with 'white majority rule in America'. When your program is to disenfranchise the majority, it's just another form of apartheid, but approved and practiced by the Left.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/08/2015 8:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Video record all voters. mandatory 12-hour, no return deportation for any non-citizen caught voting, even if only for dogcatcher.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/08/2015 13:15 Comments || Top||

#7  I meant mandatory deportation within 12 hours.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/08/2015 13:16 Comments || Top||

#8  I do agree we need a federal election law. The law should say if you attempt to vote in a Federal election but are ineligible, or have already voted, you must serve a mandatory 10 years in prison and lose the right to vote thereafter.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/08/2015 14:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Someone once told me that you demonstrate how serious you consider a law by the punishment you place behind it. Meaning a slap on the wrist means you don't really care.

Right now we aren't doing even that for illegal voting or for illegal aliens.
5 to 10 for knowingly casting an illegal vote and 10-20 for knowingly facilitating an illegal vote sounds about right.
But then we would have to build a lot more prisons to house all the Democrats (and not a few Republicans).
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/08/2015 15:16 Comments || Top||


Scott Walker: No need for US combat forces in Iraq
[Iran Press TV] Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has said that Iraq does not need any American combat forces to fight the ISIL Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorist group.

Walker made the remarks on ABC News's "This Week," aired Sunday when asked whether he would want to dispatch US troops "to Iraq now if he were commander in chief."

"I believe right now we have a capacity to reclaim Iraq with the Iraqi forces that are there as long as we unleash the power that is already there of the American armed forces".
Posted by: Fred || 06/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  Translation "Look for other suckers, Ahmad".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/08/2015 2:55 Comments || Top||

#2  If you are not going to win, you don't use them. If you can not articulate what 'win' is, you don't use them.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/08/2015 8:25 Comments || Top||

#3  When your enemies are killing each other only a fool would get in the middle and stop them.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/08/2015 14:55 Comments || Top||

#4  only a fool would get in the middle and stop them.

Which probably means that is exactly what the Obama Administration plans on doing....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/08/2015 15:17 Comments || Top||


Government
Scapegoating Petraeus - Now comes the finger pointing.
[American Thinker] The detachment from reality of that great military strategist, former House Speaker and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, has been well documented, from her defense of ObamaCare and the millions of jobs it would create instantly and that you had to pass to find out what's in it, to her current fable -- that the rise of the barbaric Islamic State and its victory over Iraqi forces we trained is, as the Democratic mantra now goes, the fault of President George W. Bush in general and Gen. David Petraeus in particular.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You cannot expect this poor woman to admit that she along with her pals is far more responsible for this debacle than any others. Naturally therefore she must blame others. It is her guilty conscience forcing her to speak up.
Posted by: Grins Snese4215 || 06/08/2015 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Really irks me that no generals resigned over Obamas decision to pull troops out. They never do that anymore and it would have been a powerful statement about the decision to piss away the blood and treasure spent to secure the place.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/08/2015 14:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Anyway, it's nice to have Obama quotes to throw back at her about how safe Iraq is. Assuming anyone in the media has the stones.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/08/2015 14:45 Comments || Top||



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