South Carolina: “The South’s Inbreds Will Rise Again!”

Mitt Romney’s vulture capitalism has already spread beyond the blogosphere and into the mainstream media.  It’s part of the national conversation.  And now the same thing is about to happen to the red states’ voter suppression laws — also known as Jim Crow 2.0.

Dozens of red states have marched in lockstep to pass these so-called “Voter ID” laws.  These laws are supposedly necessary to fight the non-existent problem of “voter fraud.”  Millions of qualified voters will be prevented from voting by these new Jim Crow laws — mostly the elderly, people of low income, minorities and the young.  Be sheer coincidence, the people in those groups tend to vote Democratic.  How conveeenient.

This interstate march-in-unison voter suppression drive has been financed by Koch Industries (among others) and choreographed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).  Until recently, this issue was confined to liberal blogs and a few non-mainstream news sites.

But now, with the South Carolina primary in full swing, South Carolina’s voter suppression law has burst into the mainstream media and the public consciousness.  The Justice Department has already started cracking down on South Carolina’s Jim Crow 2.0 law.  Republican candidates are dredging up the same tired “states’ rights” rhetoric they’ve been spouting since the Civil War.  This guarantees that Obama won’t carry South Carolina next November; then again he didn’t have a chance in South Carolina anyway.

But what about the rest of the country?  South Carolina voters will be perfectly happy to keep on keepin' the nigras down, as they’ve been doing since the 1800s.  But most of the country isn’t South Carolina.  When voter suppression laws are discussed over backyard fences and in coffee shops all across the country, how will the issue play out?  Or as the old saying goes, “will it play in Peoria?”

Meanwhile, back in South Carolina, the local rednecks are having a ‘bacca-spittin’ hissy-fit over the National Guard forcing public schools to allow colored children inside.  Er, I mean, the Justice Department cracking down on voter suppression laws.  Rick Perry — yesterday he was a raging leftwing populist; today he’s back to his old redneck self — said:

“Each of our states are under assault right now by this administration.  We may be under assault — South Carolina, they're actually at war with you.”

Yee Haw!  Let’s get them inbreds all fired up.

And last week Rick Santorum said the 2012 election will be the most important election since 1860.  He’s since revised that date to 1980.  Too late, Frothy — you can't un-ring a bell; you can't push the toothpaste back into the tube.

School Lunch Fraud

Most Republicans are so obsessed with voter fraud, they’re missing some of America’s other serious problems.  Rampant voter fraud is of course a crucial issue.  The very thought of immigrants, homosexuals, Negroes and poor people actually voting — [gasp] — it’s enough to make decent Americans long for the 1950s.

But now another type of fraud has been brought to America’s attention:  school lunch fraud.

It’s bad enough millions of low-income nobodies get to foist their children on our public schools where they eat for free.  Now, Rep. Dennis Rehberg (R-All Hat No Cattle) has revealed that some of these children aren’t quite low-income enough to qualify for those free lunches they’re getting.  Parasites!

Somebody somewhere is getting Something For Nothing!  And that’s just plain Un-American!

This isn’t the first time Dennis Rehberg has warned The American People about fraud and waste.  Last April, he warned us about another waste of taxpayers’ money:  Pell Grants.  He fumed:

“Why should they go to school?  I never did.”

Voter Fraud: How to Prevent Dumb Conservatives from Voting

It’s simple: make all voters pass the same test that immigrants have to pass in order to become U.S. citizens. No Republican candidate would ever get elected.

There are millions — tens of millions — of American citizens who think Obama was born in Kenya and he’s a Muslim, Social Security and labor unions are the cause of our multi-trillion dollar deficit, and the global financial crash of 2008 started AFTER President Obama was inaugurated in January 2009.

Can you imagine any of the above-mentioned dumbfucks passing the citizenship test?

Newsweek gave the U.S. citizenship test to a thousand American citizens. 38% of them failed the test. As this article by Andrew Romano says:

“The country's future is imperiled by our ignorance…the world has changed. And unfortunately, it’s becoming more and more inhospitable to incurious know-nothings — like us.”

Here’s just one example: 29% of the test-takers couldn’t name the vice president of the United States. “It ain’t Sarah Palin, so who cares?”

Republicans are paranoid — fixated! — over teeming hordes of ex-convicts, illegal immigrants and Negroes trying to vote. But they have no problem whatsoever with bone-stupid white ignoramuses voting, because they vote Republican.

Republican Plan to Disenfranchise Voters

Republicans have gotten tons of news coverage in their drive to castrate labor unions. But that isn’t the only part of their multi-pronged attack plan for annihilating all opposition.

Twenty-two states are planning legislation to require all voters to present a photo ID in order to vote. Rightwing demagogues have been getting their useful idiots all riled up about “voter fraud.” Talk about a solution in search of a problem.

There are already strict voting laws on the books. Fraudulent voting is a felony that can get you a huge fine and/or a prison sentence. The real problem is: too many of them poor people, minorities, senior citizens and college students vote. And they tend to vote Democrat, damn it.

In other words: “Voter Fraud!”

Some of these states are the country’s poorest and most debt-ridden, and yet for some reason they have millions of tax dollars available to enforce these proposed Voter ID laws. Oh well, the money will come from somewhere. Get ready for more cuts to mass transit, job training programs, libraries, schools…

If you’re part of the Far Right / Corporate drive for one-party rule, this is money well spent. Your tax dollars at work. If just a small percentage of low-income people, minorities and college students can be prevented from voting, think of all the close elections that could swing to the GOP column.

The linked article is worth bookmarking. This is valuable information, as unpleasant as it is. “Know Your Enemy” and all that.