Period.
Here is how it should be punished:
Posted on 08/13/2013 2:47:48 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) on Tuesday called on the Justice Department to review her state’s new voter identification law, calling it one of “the most restrictive in the country.”
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) signed into law a bill on Monday that would require voters to show government identification when voting, shorten early-voting days, cut off same-day registration and end a program to preregister teens who would be eligible to vote by Election Day.
“I am deeply concerned that H.B. 589 will restrict the ability of minorities, seniors, students, the disabled, and low and middle incomes citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote,” Hagan said in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder.
Hagan is one of four Senate Democrats up for reelection next year in red states won by presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012. Her Senate campaign will not be immediately affected by the law, which goes into effect in 2016.
“Protecting the fundamental right of our citizens to vote should be among the federal government’s highest priorities,” she said.
Some Democrats argue that the law targets a segment of the population that traditionally votes for Democrats.
The Justice Department is considering taking action against North Carolina and a handful of states after the Supreme Court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act earlier this year.
In a narrow decision, the justices invalidated a portion of the law that required a number of Southern states with a history of voter suppression to clear all new voting regulations with the federal government.
The court ruled that the criteria are outdated and gave Congress the option of updating it.
The Justice Department has already said it would challenge a voter ID law in Texas and has not ruled out similar action in North Carolina, where lawsuits have already been filed by other groups challenging the law.
Hagan leads all potential Republican Senate opponents in a new survey from the Democratic-affiliated Public Policy Polling.
Some of her opponents — including state House Speaker Thom Tillis (R) — are dragged down by voters’ disapproval of the North Carolina state legislature, which has passed a number of controversial bills since Republicans won control in Raleigh.
Hagan sounds like a standard Democrat liberal ahole. Repeating “Big Lies” like an automaton or a member of the Hitler Youth/Komsomol.
Pretty some she will be on the Endangered Feces list of Democratic politicians in No. Carolina.
Let the purges begin!
Yawn. Answer my questions.
How would they be empowered?
They’d be held more accountable by the state legislatures that send them there. And given the fact that republicans are the majority in the majority of the states right now, then I doubt we’d be having, at least, some of the problems we’re having now.
Vice-President McGovern under Nixon would have been the ONLY way to “restore our Republic”. No doubt since the original 1787 wording of the U.S. Constitution provided for that and we mustn’t EVER tamper with what the framers came up with. ;-)
Some other fun ones:
Vice President Charles Evans Hughes in Wilson’s 2nd term, when he suffers a massive stroke.
Vice President William Jennings Bryan in a McKinley administration. He would have taken oath in 1901 and veered this country on the path to socialism, 12 years BEFORE the “progressive era” the anti-17thers are screaming about.
Vice President Horace Greeley in a Grant administration
Vice President John C. Breckinridge in an Lincoln administration (talk about a Civil War!)
Vice President Winfield Scott in a Pierce administration
Also, if the 12th was repealed: we have gotten a President Winfield Scott Hancock in 1881, a President Thomas Dewey in 1945, and a President Nixon in 1963.
Period.
Here is how it should be punished:
The founders allowed modern day Americans to CHANGE what the founders had provided for in the Constitution?! Yikes! The founders must have really hated the founders. We should immediately amend the constitution to repeal the section that allows us to amend it. Only then we will be able to get back to the government that the founders provided. ;-)
Oh BTW, you know Jesse Helms? He never would have been a Senator under your plan cause the rats only recently lost control of the North Carolina legislature.
Honestly, you people. Think. Putting more power into the hands of politicians? Seriously? Jesus.
Politicians are scum, your state legislator is no more likely to have your “state’s interests” at heart than your Congressman. What matters is are they a non-corrupt conservative Republican or not, that’s all that matters. That is the only distinguishing feature. If they are they do, if they are a democrat or RINO then THEY DON’T.
You know who virtually the entire Republican membership of the Texas legislature thought should be a Senator? Why the boss of the State Senate RINO David Dewhurst. Thank goodness the people had other ideas. Can you say cronyism?
You’d have a small handful of state legislative leaders making the choices. No sale.
Aww, you’re sleepy. G’night.
Keep on reading.
“Now you’re blaming an amendment in 1913 for a bunch of legislation that didn’t come up until the 60s and 70s. Liberals will blame the 2nd amendment on modern day school shootings, their argument doesn’t have any more validity than yours.”
If you think gun control started in the 1960s, you need to sue your history teachers for fraud or buy a new set of reading glasses.
The rest of your strawmen are poorly constructed and fell down in the wind.
Greeley died before they even counted the Electoral Votes.
James Cox becoming President with Harding’s death in 1923 (instead of Coolidge). Theodore Roosevelt becoming Vice President again in 1912 under Wilson (since Taft placed 3rd).
You would’ve had the pompous “perfumed prince” McClellan taking the Presidency with Lincoln’s assassination (now he definitely would’ve been impeached and Lafayette Foster would’ve become President probably before 1866 rolled around, with Ben Wade next in line had he lasted until 1867).
Winfield Scott Hancock becoming President with Garfield’s assassination in 1881...
It’s curious to realize how much more dangerous the role of President would’ve become with your electoral enemy VP waiting to succeed you if any harm were to come to you. I think there would’ve been countless assassination attempts and retaliations (McClellan alone would’ve been a marked man after John Wilkes Booth, and probably considered a spiritual conspirator).
Yes, indeed, a very destabilized place we would be today. Thank heavens we could amend our Constitution to correct such unforeseen errors.
His arguments are entirely sound. Your side ignores reality. Face it, Sarge, it just won’t work... unless your goal is to keep out the last remaining vestiges of decent Conservatives in that body.
But you need an ID for government assistance, to rent an apartment, section 8 housing, get food stamps, to cash a check, get utilites,etc. Recently when I had to go get an xray, I had to show my insurance card and my driver’s license to prove I AM the person with the insurance card (due to fraud)...I wonder if folks will have to show identity cards for Obamacare....ohhh but that would be racist right?
They’ve been told that repeatedly, they choose to ignore it (you’ll note they never address the subject of individual Senators). The NC legislature of 1973 would’ve elected Helms’s opponent, the liberal Democrat Congressman Nick Galifianakis (uncle of that bearded boob actor, Zach), in a landslide (as there were very few Republicans in their leg. in those days).
Jerome Corsi writes in his book "What Went Wrong" in 2012-----that swing state Dem voter fraud is a fact of life unless voter ID happens.
“Your side ignores reality.”
Well, you and I disagree on our conclusions. In the meantime, we are both on the same side. I look forward to carrying on our discussion at a later date.
Best wishes to you and yours.
It makes a big difference if your senator sees himself working for the federal government or sees himself working for the state.
If the state is your boss, then YOU are the one standing there saying to any encroaching federal government, “Hell NO!”
My State Senator sees himself doing neither. He's is in a gerrymandered safe Democrat district and see his job as a rubber stamp whatever the Democrat Party boss tells him to. That's why they anointed him to be their standbearer and he knows how to play the game and place his overlords. He is a political hack and lifetime politician who doesn't give a hoot what's best for the state, or his constituents. Whether the 17th amendment is in place or not won't change that.
You’re talking about your state senator and I’m talking about your senator who is a member of the US Senate.
You’re the one who wants my State Senator to select my U.S. Senator for me. Anti-17th amendment freepers live in a fantasy world that career state politicians actually give a crap about “the best interests of their state”
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