Democracy for New Hampshire - Republicans

Convicted criminal loses election in Alaska

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:21:42 -0500

SOURCE: Yahoo.com

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens loses re-election bid
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press Writer

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, narrowly lost his re-election bid Tuesday, marking the downfall of a Washington political power and Alaska icon who couldn't survive a conviction on federal corruption charges. His defeat to Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich moves Senate Democrats closer to a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority.

Stevens' ouster on his 85th birthday marks an abrupt realignment in Alaska politics and will alter the power structure in the Senate, where he has served since the days of the Johnson administration while holding seats on some of the most influential committees in Congress.

The crotchety octogenarian built like a birch sapling likes to encourage comparisons with the Incredible Hulk, but he occupies an outsized place in Alaska history. His involvement in politics dates to the days before Alaska statehood, and he is esteemed for his ability to secure billions of dollars in federal aid for transportation and military projects. The Anchorage airport bears his name; in Alaska, it's simply "Uncle Ted."

Clarence "rape and pillage under cover of law" Chambliss

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:21:02 -0500

Republican politicians have a way with words. I don't know if it started with Spiro Agnew's "nattering nabobs of negativism," making fun of people who happened to notice that there was something wrong in the empire of Richard Nixon, but the deception of the public by seeming to say one thing and meaning another was already pervasive in the mid-seventies when "urban renewal" really meant that the inner cities were to be emptied of people and handed over to commercial interests.

This Is Really Sad

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:10:33 -0400

SOURCE: Tampa Tribune Online

Text Of Forwarded E-Mail
Published: October 30, 2008

This is the e-mail forwarded by David Storck, chairman of the Hillsborough County Republican Party:

This e-mail was sent to me from one of our Volunteers in the Temple Terrace office. If you think it can help us win this election please pass it on. This election is now in our hands everyone can make a difference.
Thanks
Dave

The Dishonorable Candidate

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:33:58 -0400

Former President Bill Clinton, speaking in Florida at an Obama rally, made the point that this election cycle is unique in that the nation had the opportunity to observe the major candidates make two, rather than one, presidential decisions. He was referring to their response to the collapse of the Wall Street bubble in addition to the normal selection of the Vice Presidential candidate. But, Clinton was wrong. There were actually three presidential-caliber decisions and, to give him credit, Clinton did mention the other one in an other context--i.e. the execution of the campaign itself.

Obama presented himself as an expert executor, not just a policy wonk.

LA Times Suppresses Damaging Obama/Khalidi Video

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:46:00 -0400

The latest media outrage is the LA Times’s refusal, a mere week before the election, to show the video of Obama toasting the welfare of and commenting on Yasser Arafat’s media spokesman, Rashid Khalidi, at a party.

Olbermann: GOP REAL GOP election fraud v. PHONY voter fraud

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:54:37 -0500

Transcript:

OLBERMANN: It was less than one week ago when Senator John McCain on national television warned the nation about a grave threat to democracy, maybe even quote "destroying the fabric of democracy." So, in our third story tonight, why have McCain and Sarah Palin stopped sounding the trumpet on this grave threat over the last few days? No, he didn't just forget. McCain's charge was that the national grassroots group, ACORN was committing widespread voter fraud, disenfranchising voters by registering fictional voters and Barack Obama had helped to fund ACORN. As we have explained previously, some part-time workers have been accused of ripping off ACORN because fictional voters do not vote.

Republican Leaders Who Participate in Attacks on ACORN Could be Prosecuted as Part of a Criminal Conspiracy

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:55:36 -0400

Republican Leaders Who Participate in Attacks on ACORN Could be Prosecuted as Part of a Criminal Conspiracy

SOURCE: BUZZFLASH: MARK KARLIN'S EDITOR'S BLOG
October 20

Let the GOP muck-a-mucks across the nation who are participating in a nationwide RNC/McCain diversionary campaign against ACORN be warned: In a new administration of light and truth - instead of Cheney's dark shadows and Bush's lies - you may be subject to prosecution for participating in a criminal conspiracy to suppress votes and violate the Voting Rights Act.

We do not exaggerate.

The unrelenting and profoundly dishonest and misleading attempt to brand a national community organizing group as some sort of minority enterprise of ghetto thieves is nothing more than a GOP tradition of using ACORN as a scapegoat to justify voter suppression. And organized voter suppression is a crime. In fact, a creative prosecutor under Obama could apply the RICO Act to the RNC/McCain daily deluge of attempts to get voters to believe that ACORN is engaged in voter fraud and then using that cover to disenfranchise voters.

"Brother, Where Art Thou?"

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:22:54 -0400

Not in the Teoc Community in Carroll County, Mississippi. That's not one of the places John McCain has bothered to visit in his quest for the Presidency. Brother Joe has. And, according to the Wall Street Journal, there was a time when John Sydney visited there, too.

Sen. McCain's family lived primarily on military installations around the world. But they remained attached to Teoc, visiting repeatedly during Sen. McCain's childhood, often for long periods. When they went to the farm in the 1940s and 1950s, the future Sen. McCain and his brother stayed in the rambling house, now abandoned, of their great-uncle, Joe McCain, who had become the plantation's owner.

Sen. McCain's younger brother, also named Joe, said that though their father "moved around as the son of a naval officer, he too always thought of Teoc as his 'blood ground' and loved visiting there."

But, no longer.

The phony GOP "voter fraud" story - a distraction from real election fraud

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:42:45 -0400

SOURCE: nytimes.com

The Acorn Story

In Wednesday night’s debate, John McCain warned that a group called Acorn is “on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history” and “may be destroying the fabric of democracy.” Viewers may have been wondering what Mr. McCain was talking about. So were we.

Acorn is a nonprofit group that advocates for low- and moderate-income people and has mounted a major voter-registration drive this year. Acorn says that it has paid more than 8,000 canvassers who have registered about 1.3 million new voters, many of them poor people and members of racial minorities.

In recent weeks, the McCain campaign has accused the group of perpetrating voter fraud by intentionally submitting invalid registration forms, including some with fictional names like Mickey Mouse and others for voters who are already registered.

Based on the information that has come to light so far, the charges appear to be wildly overblown — and intended to hobble Acorn’s efforts.

"Country First"--then the world

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:19:14 -0400

I'll embarrass a Democrat any time I get the chance.
*John Sydney McCain, April 12, 1988

John McCain has a habit of telling half truths.

Olbermann: McCain campaign--clear and present danger to the peace of this nation

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:38:40 -0400

The GOP ticket is inciting supporters to violence against Barack Obama.

Transcript

1:25 PM Eastern Time, today, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. During the warm-up act by a Red Meat Congressional Candidate aptly named Chris Hackett, Hackett mentions Obama and a Palin audience member shouts "Kill Him."

And Gov. Palin, as usual, does nothing about it says nothing to these thugs and psychos. She may not have heard this one. It is impossible to believe that by now she has not heard about the other ones. Her silence is deafening. Just as, Sen. McCain, you have done nothing when violence has been asserted. Correction. You have done one thing.

Asked why in real time you do not repudiate this hatefulness you act as if you are the victim. Speaking today to our NBC Station in Washington.

McCain: "Sure and I repudiated it as I have on several occasions. Unfortunately, Congressman John Lewis is an American hero who I admire who made the worst, most unacceptable statement a couple days ago that I have ever heard. He accused me and Sarah Palin of being involved in segregation, George Wallace and even made reference to a church bombing where children were killed. Senator Obama has not repudiated that statement. Senator Obama should do so immediately. Its the most outrageous thing that I have heard since in politics…it is disgraceful."

Ex-GOP Operative in New Hampshire Indicted

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:10:03 -0400

SOURCE: TPM

Ex-GOP Operative in New Hampshire Indicted
By Zachary Roth - October 14, 2008, 11:48AM

Former Republican operative James Tobin has been indicted for making false statements to the FBI in connection with the bureau's investigation of a phone-jamming scheme in New Hampshire in 2002, according to court filings examined by TPMmuckraker.

Details to follow...

Update: Here's the indictment. It contains two counts, both related to making false statements to the FBI during its investigation into the New Hampshire GOP's effort to jam the phones of the Democratic Party on Election Day 2002.
It charges, in part:

"Tobin stated that when he first called Allen Raymond to discuss the phone-jamming scheme, Raymond and Charles McGee had already spoken with each other about the plans. In fact, as Tobin well knew, Tobin spoke with Raymond before Raymond was contacted by McGee, and Tobin requested that Raymond assist McGee with the plan."

Alphabet Soup ala John McCain

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:34:01 -0400

John McCain has a fondness for the acronym P.O.W. and can't seem to hold a conversation without bringing it up. M.I.A., on the other hand, seems to have fallen out of favor ever since he decided that making the Vietnamese Communists hand over Americans who'd gone Missing In Action had to take a back seat to American enterprise doing business in Southeast Asia. Some people still hold that decision against him and bring it up every chance they get, as their web presence, VVAJM attests.

One suspects that the veterans are a minor irritation for a man who can claim responsibility for the first volleys of the Fourth World War and directs so many other alphabet organizations.

Does John McCain Have a Walter Mitty Complex?

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:03:55 -0400

I ask that question in all seriousness and not just because John McCain actually owes the start of his political career to a Walter Mitty sort of guy, Darrow "Duke" Tully, the publisher of Arizona's largest newspaper when McCain arrived in Phoenix. A profile in the Arizona Republic outlines the particulars:

Palin in her own words: Middle East boils down to "good guys" and "bad guys"

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:49:33 -0400