Posted on 09/03/2013 9:56:33 AM PDT by jazusamo
My understanding is SCOTUS threw out Section 4 of the VRA which states the method used to determine which states fall under Section 5.
SCOTUS said Section 4 could be redone by Congress but it’s most unlikely with the Repub House, in effect what SCOTUS did basically killed the VRA.
Sensenbrenner wants to rework Section 4 and now this piece says possibly Boehner and Cantor possibly do too, lets hope not.
Supporting it? It’s his adopted baby.
It gets even more cynical. They know they can't "fix" the VRA. SCOTUS made clear that Congress could amend the VRA and bring back mandatory preclearance - based on new findings of discrimination in voting based on 2013 data. What is the state with the biggest discrepancy in minority population versus minority percent of the vote? Massachusetts. Yea, that's gonna happen.
Indeed, Sensenbrenner was once considered conservative, but I have found him to be erratic and driven by polls - his “brand” as he calls it.
He once pushed our Republican float out of a 4th of July parade and made us change our position because he didn’t want to walk next to a Republican entry — as if that would fool the people in his district where he was quite well known as a Republican. He was raving in front of all the other parade entries until the organizer moved us.
He also was the biggest spender in Congress on travel jaunts the last year that he was chair of the judiciary committee.
I once engaged him in argument when he (singlehandedly) prevented ANWR oil drilling from coming to a vote in the House. He voted with the Dems to block the vote. This was in Bush’s first term when we had majorities in the House, the Senate, and held the Presidency.
His reasoning?
1) The Alaskan oil is too thick and would be sold to Japan. (oil is a world commodity and any increase in availablity helps all.)
2) The oil wouldn’t help Wisconsin — just CA and Japan. (last I looked, CA was part of the US, as is WI. Also, see above on world commodity)
3) We should use up everybody else’s oil (keep importing and continue to be held hostage by OPEC) before we touch ours. (This argument is so self servng and stupid that it doesn’t deserve an answer.)
4) There is no way to get the oil to the US. It would take 10 years to build a pipeline. (My “debate” with Sensenbrenner was 9 years ago.)
What in the Wide World of Sports is a-going on here?
The Supreme Court finally gives us a good decision and these Republican idiots are trying to mess this up???? Its crazy. The want to be the permanent minority party
What the He// is going on here?
Man the phones and email!
Dirty rotten traitors are going behind our backs AGAIN!
Please Ping Your Lists.
There is no longer any reason to vote Republican - PERIOD.
Apparently, Sensenbrenner is nuts.
Thanks for the ping, Onyx. I’m all over it.
There are about 5 in congress I trust and only 1 in the senate I trust.
Only 6 people I trust does not make a government I can trust.
On the *heavy* issues, our phone calls and emails matter not anymore.
If we got a chance, it will come in 2014 and that is a damn big if.
Just totally disgusted today and ranting a little.
Probably should just go out and stomp around the yard some :)
Special PING!
Onyx, you’re right. We should all be calling and emailing our reps and telling them we don’t want Section 4 of the Voting Rights act that was shot down by SCOTUS to be rewritten by Congress.
Our elected representatives no longer even pretend to represent us. GTH GOP!
I’m holding up one hand. I can count on the fingers of that hand the aggregate number of minority votes this would get the Stupid Party in all General Elections around the country. I wonder how many thousands of votes will be lost?
3) We should use up everybody elses oil (keep importing and continue to be held hostage by OPEC) before we touch ours. (This argument is so self servng and stupid that it doesnt deserve an answer.)
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Please note that this has been US policy for a long time. Bush’s Sec Treas, John Snow, was asked at a press conference when we would drill in ANWR. He was leaving the podium and I saw him on TV, turn and over his shoulder, off mic, but loud enough to be picked up, say (paraphrased):”It will be 20 years, so we can keep our oil in the ground as the rest of the world uses theirs.”
As to self-serving, Snow came to government from a long career in the railroads. His policy inputs were formed, like Buffet’s, by regard for his own financial benefit.
We have been had for decades by the party that cynically assumes we will vote for them, no matter what. There hasn’t been citizen input for a very long time. We the people may win a round here and there, but then, as soon as we do, our own so-called *side* will turn on us and/or everything will be re-arranged by them, against our interests, ASAP.
Personally, I am on strike. No votes and no donations for hypocrites, fools and liars.
Add another scumbag traitor to the list. “Sensenbrenner”.
Where is my new party??
Paging Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz. Please pick up the red, white, and blue courtesy phone.
And HURRY.
Agree completely...The GOP-e are turning backflips to get the minority vote and it’s getting them nowhere and as you say it’s costing votes.
BTTT!
You are absulutely right on target with your observations. However, where would we be if we had approved (when we had the votes) expansion of drilling in ANWR in 2004? I say, we’d be looking at $2.00 per gal. gas today. We might even have a Republican administration.
Screw him. He can go to hell. I wouldn’t shed a tear if he got caught in the crossfire of a drive-by. Why should southern states be subjected to this travesty any further, when we are already more “integrated”, thanks to monstrous fedgov, than the north? What is this pool of vomit, stick it to whites left right and center? I am getting truly, deeply, and rapidly fed up with this crap. Despicable POS, I wish I could force everyone of them and their families to live in a New Orleans hood.
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