Elaine Meinel Supkis
The GOP scream team is now blatantly obvious about all this: they don't want us to vote. These same screamers made a huge thing about Iraqis voting and they jumped up and down with joy as the Iraqis held up purple fingers but these same clowns now want Americans to not vote and are pulling every possible rhetorical or dirty trick to stop voting.
Thank you, Media Matters, for pulling this charming snake out of his hole!
On the October 18 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, Fox News host Sean Hannity encouraged Democratic voters to "stay home on Election Day," adding that, "your vote doesn't matter anyway." He added that Democrats should not turn out to vote "for the sake of the nation" because Democrats' votes "won't change who occupies the White House" and Democratic "candidates have absolutely no idea how to win the war on terrorism." Hannity also appeared to predict he would be criticized for his remarks, stating: "This is how the press is going to report this: 'Hannity says Democrats should stay home on Election Day.' " He did not explain how that would be a mischaracterization of his comments.
The Republicans would dearly love to have 5 Republicans win the House with a 18181 vote again. Of course, that blatant, obvious rip-off has to be covered up but vote rigging can't happen if the vote isn't at all close. Shifting a million or two votes is easy. Shifting 22 or 23 million is very risky.
General Motors pays Hannity for spouting off. I own a General Motors car and now regret not only the purchase but telling others to buy Aveos, too. Corporations that sponsor thugs threatening my civil rights don't deserve to be saved. I hope they go bankrupt. It would serve them right.
If GM wants us to consider them in the future, they should fund liberal commentators on the radio. Since there are hardly any, I feel no need to support corporate America. And the TV stations that carry this TRAITOR: they should lose their license. I don't care about obscene language but I care a lot about killing democracy. And so, arrest Hannity for treason. Like Tokyo Rose, he is destroying America and endangering our troops by demanding we suspend our collective right to vote. Arrest Bush too, might as well take both of them in and book them.
By PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press Writer Thu Oct 19, 6:26 PM ETGARDEN GROVE, Calif. - Orange County Republican leaders on Thursday called for the withdrawal of a GOP congressional candidate they believe sent a letter threatening Hispanic immigrant voters with arrest.
Tan D. Nguyen denied knowing anything about the letter in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press but said he fired a campaign staffer who may have been responsible for it.
County Republican Chairman Scott Baugh, however, said that after speaking with state investigators and the company that distributed the mailer, he believes Nguyen had direct knowledge of "obnoxious and reprehensible" letter. He told the AP that the party's executive committee voted unanimously to urge Nguyen to drop out of the race against Democratic U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez (news, bio, voting record).
Drop out? He should be arrested. What he did was as illegal as what Hannity tried to do. Voting is the fundamental basis of our democracy. If the GOPredators are going to lose this election, they should admit to themselves that they are very unpopular and that is the end of it. Goodbye, don't let the door hit your trunk as you leave, guys!
The GOPredators also want us to remember that Bush hasn't done a thing about bin Laden.
(CNN) -- Republicans took a page from President Johnson's Cold War-era presidential campaign with an advertisement set to air this weekend called "The Stakes," which prominently features al Qaeda leaders threatening to kill Americans."Just like in the Cold War, the reality is that our nation is at war with an ideology and not a country," said Republican National Committee spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt.
Democrats, however, have called the commercial, which is reminiscent of Johnson's 1964 "Daisy" ad, a "desperate ploy to once again try to scare voters."
The advertisement, which is available on the Republican National Committee Web site, is scheduled to run on national news networks Sunday. Republicans are emphasizing national security and terrorism issues in their bid to maintain control of Congress with about two weeks before the November midterms. (Watch how terror has been a popular theme on the campaign trail -- 2:10 )
Bin Laden didn't have so much as a toe-hold in Iraq and now is a big player there. And in Afghanistan, we are losing the war too. And so it goes. If there are any people out there who imagine Bush is making it safer for Americans, they should ride the subways more often.
Of course, these commercials are for bin Laden's propaganda targets, not his actual targets. Namely, since both he and Bush are terrorists, they both are working in concert to scare people. This is what 'terror' is all about. We will note that these dumb commercials don't say a thing about how Bush is going to stop the 'terrorists.' Or anything constructive.
By Cameron W. Barr
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 20, 2006; B01The FBI is investigating the possible theft of software developed by the nation's leading maker of electronic voting equipment, said a former Maryland legislator who this week received three computer disks that apparently contain key portions of programs created by Diebold Election Systems.
Cheryl C. Kagan, a former Democratic delegate who has long questioned the security of electronic voting systems, said the disks were delivered anonymously to her office in Olney on Tuesday and that the FBI contacted her yesterday. The package contained an unsigned letter critical of Maryland State Board of Elections Administrator Linda H. Lamone that said the disks were "right from SBE" and had been "accidentally picked up."
We can easily vote with paper ballots. Then we can slowly count them over the course of several weeks. Geeze. This is very simple. Of course, our corrupt government doesn't want to do this because this means they can't rig the voting like they did so obviously in 2002.
A new poll commissioned by the Council for the National Interest Foundation shows that a significant number of Americans are wary of the power of the Israel lobby, and believe it is behind the invasion of Iraq and the current belligerent tone of the White House and Congress toward Iran.
The poll, which was carried out by Zogby International, reveals that 39% of the American public "agree" or "somewhat agree" that "the work of the Israel lobby on Congress and the Bush administration has been a key factor for going to war in Iraq and now confronting Iran." However, a similar number, 40%, "strongly disagreed" or "somewhat disagreed" with this position. Some 20% of the public, or more than one in five, were not sure.
This would have never happened if it weren't for the internet. Now, all the parties corrupting our political system can be tracked and harrassed. PNAC, AIPAC, the gun lobby, the insurance lobby, bankers, all of K Street are scared because we can now not only 'see' them but track them on a daily basis and poke our noses in their business and interfer with their smooth propaganda machines.
Eventually, we hope all Americans avail themselves of the tremendous volume of information that is parked on the internet. Mining this for information is now laughably easy thanks to the search engines and busy bloggers.
Oh, and O'Reilly wants to kill bloggers with a hand grenade. Today, the FBI arrested the stadium terrorist attack hoaxer. I wonder why they haven't arrested both O'Reilly and Hannity.
They are trying to give a ratioal explanation for the return of GOP politicians, after they fiddle the results!
Posted by: Old Ari | October 21, 2006 at 09:19 AM
"Fox News host Sean Hannity encouraged Democratic voters to "stay home on Election Day"
Since Democrats don't listen to Fox, I fail to see what Hannity hopes to accomplish.
Posted by: JSmith | October 21, 2006 at 09:53 AM