Just the Latest Outrage
I thought I had finally reached the point where nothing this administration could do would shock me. Silly me. There apparently is no limit to which the Emperor and his minions will go to subvert democracy in America, even while it fights wars allegedly to impose it in other countries. The latest outrage is noted in a NY Times editorial.
President Bush’s Justice Department has been criticized for letting partisanship guide its work on voting and elections. And party politics certainly appears to have been a driving force in a legal maneuver it just pulled off in Alabama, where it persuaded a federal judge to take important election powers away from the Democratic secretary of state and give them to a Republican governor....
Alabama is one of many states that have been late in meeting a federal requirement to create a computerized statewide list of voters. Secretary of State Nancy Worley says the delay is due to factors outside her control. Her critics disagree. But whatever the reason, the Justice Department has every right to try to speed things along. The trouble is, rather than work with Ms. Worley to get the job done, it decided to go to court to take away her authority and hand it to Gov. Bob Riley.
Sadly, a federal judge agreed yesterday to do just that, in a one-sided proceeding that felt a lot like a kangaroo court. The Justice Department and the Alabama attorney general, Troy King, both argued that Governor Riley should control the voter database. ...when Ms. Worley realized that Mr. King would not represent her interests, she asked him to let her hire a lawyer to argue her side. He refused. The Alabama Democratic Party tried to intervene in the case, so it could argue against giving control of the voter rolls to the governor. The judge, who was recently named to the bench by President Bush, would not let the Democrats in.
...The Justice Department is giving the impression that it is less concerned that elections be lawful and fair than that they come out a particular way. [Emphasis added]
Two things about this story are profoundly disturbing. The first is that the Justice Department, which is charged with keeping elections clean and with protecting the civil rights of all Americans has been so politicized by the current regime. This is not the first case in which the slant is noticeable. As the editorial pointed out in an unquoted section, the Justice Department also put its stamp of approval on a voter identification plan in Georgia which the Federal Court held openly unconstitutional.
The second disturbing thing is that a federal judge appointed by the Emperor not only went along with the Justice Department in this shameful maneuvering, he abetted it. That means that the last bastion holding out against the usurpation of power has been contaminated as well. The entire federal government has been infiltrated by what can only be seen as traitors to the American ideal of democracy.
I'm beginning to think that mere elections are not going to change what has happened to this country.
President Bush’s Justice Department has been criticized for letting partisanship guide its work on voting and elections. And party politics certainly appears to have been a driving force in a legal maneuver it just pulled off in Alabama, where it persuaded a federal judge to take important election powers away from the Democratic secretary of state and give them to a Republican governor....
Alabama is one of many states that have been late in meeting a federal requirement to create a computerized statewide list of voters. Secretary of State Nancy Worley says the delay is due to factors outside her control. Her critics disagree. But whatever the reason, the Justice Department has every right to try to speed things along. The trouble is, rather than work with Ms. Worley to get the job done, it decided to go to court to take away her authority and hand it to Gov. Bob Riley.
Sadly, a federal judge agreed yesterday to do just that, in a one-sided proceeding that felt a lot like a kangaroo court. The Justice Department and the Alabama attorney general, Troy King, both argued that Governor Riley should control the voter database. ...when Ms. Worley realized that Mr. King would not represent her interests, she asked him to let her hire a lawyer to argue her side. He refused. The Alabama Democratic Party tried to intervene in the case, so it could argue against giving control of the voter rolls to the governor. The judge, who was recently named to the bench by President Bush, would not let the Democrats in.
...The Justice Department is giving the impression that it is less concerned that elections be lawful and fair than that they come out a particular way. [Emphasis added]
Two things about this story are profoundly disturbing. The first is that the Justice Department, which is charged with keeping elections clean and with protecting the civil rights of all Americans has been so politicized by the current regime. This is not the first case in which the slant is noticeable. As the editorial pointed out in an unquoted section, the Justice Department also put its stamp of approval on a voter identification plan in Georgia which the Federal Court held openly unconstitutional.
The second disturbing thing is that a federal judge appointed by the Emperor not only went along with the Justice Department in this shameful maneuvering, he abetted it. That means that the last bastion holding out against the usurpation of power has been contaminated as well. The entire federal government has been infiltrated by what can only be seen as traitors to the American ideal of democracy.
I'm beginning to think that mere elections are not going to change what has happened to this country.
posted by Diane at 3:52 AM
3 Comments:
You are beginning to think? Wake up... a coup d'etat has been staged and the haves are laughing all the way to the bank.
If the dems don't win handily in november, forget elections... if the people's outrage has not inspired them to vote these criminals out then nothing will and the only hope is revolution or some other cataclysm where all hell breaks loose.
Depressing ain't it? We have to fight the revolution again.
alabama almost went blue in 'o2 by retaining a dem governor. incumbent don siegelman went to bed the winner, then the numbers flipped in one precinct in the middle of the night.
a blue southern state. sounds like a freak of nature now.
I'm beginning to think that mere elections are not going to change what has happened to this country.
They're not supposed to...
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