Supreme Court denies bid to block Texas voter ID law

No matter where you are on the political spectrum, I guarantee I can find you a 5 to 4 decision that you will believe to be a complete travesty.

Well, that was the margin of the vote on the Boy Scouts case in 2000, where a bare majority affirmed the constitutional right of the BSA to set membership requirements. Unbelievable. Today, that decision would have been 5 to 4 against the BSA. That's how arbitrary and capricious this process is.

Obama may as well pack it in.
Trump stoke the narrative, he stole the bully pulpit, and he is crushing his party with the truth.

When the media and courts start turning on you, they do it to save themselves in hopes of living to fight another day.

Obama may as well pack it in.

Here is something that keeps me awake at night.

Under the 20th Amendment, the new Congress takes office on January 3 but the new President does not take office until January 20. That means that if the Democrats retake the Senate (which is looking more and more likely), then regardless of who the next President is, Senate Majority Leader Chuckie Schumer will have almost three weeks to push through confirmation of all of Obama’s pending nominations, from the Supreme Court to the district courts and all of the federal agencies, and there will not be a damned thing that the Republican minority can do to stop it.

When Harry Reid unilaterally eliminated all filibusters except for Supreme Court nominations, the only reason he did not eliminate Supreme Court filibusters as well is because there were no open Supreme Court seats at the time. If Obama’s nomination for Scalia’s seat is still pending, the first thing that Chuckie Schumer will do is unilaterally eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

I think it was Heinlein who suggested that when you enter the voting booth, you are presented with a quadratic equation with random values generated just for you.

Solve it and you vote, get it wrong and you're locked out.

Works for me.

"IMHO, a having to show proof that you are a property owner (dwelling or land) would be better."

I would settle for paying federal income taxes.

Not payroll taxes, or gas-taxes.

Otherwise we get "see, I'm a taxpayer, too!"

Someone with no skin in the game should not be allowed to decide how much in taxes *I* should pay.

Particularly as those who pay no income taxes are often the ones that we have to spend the most money on. Like welfare, police and jail.

I personally "cost" the government very little.

Even though I pay for those who DO.

The cops never have to keep rousting me out of public parks for vagrancy, nor arrest me for shoplifting.

Yup. Liberals are the kids that grew up with no rules, or disdained the rules their parents tried to get them to follow. Conservatives are the kids that were taught good rules, and followed them.

It really is just that simple.

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