Quit Picking on the Republicans
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"...a more glaring problem: the author of the op-ed has been dead for several years."
In New Hampshire, dead men tell some tales | MSNBC
In New Hampshire, dead men tell some tales
10/27/14 03:22 PM
By Steve Benen
New Hampshire Republicans, still hoping to take down Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D), published an op-ed in a local newspaper this morning written by former state House Speaker Marshall Cobleigh (R). The piece isn’t quite as interesting as its author.
Even by 2014 standards, the Republican’s op-ed seems oddly detached from current events, referencing “skyrocketing gasoline prices,” a moratorium that no longer exists, and a House GOP lawmaker who’s no longer in the House. But given how frequently Republican criticisms bear no real resemblance to reality, this alone would hardly be noteworthy.
Dave Weigel, however, notes a more glaring problem: the author of the op-ed has been dead for several years.
What’s the matter with the column? Probably that Marshall Cobleigh has been dead for five years. In February 2009, the former speaker of New Hampshire’s often-Republican state House was felled by congestive heart failure. This op-ed is a reprint of a column Cobleigh wrote in July 2008, when Shaheen was running her first successful Senate campaign. Buzz Dietterle, the FDD’s opinion page editor, says that the New Hampshire GOP submitted the column (which originally ran in the conservative Union Leader).
“Shaheen, like a stopped clock, is often correct once or twice a day,” acknowledges the late Cobleigh in his column. He should hope so. R.I.P.
Now, there’s nothing necessarily controversial with recycling material, but Cobleigh isn’t in a position to criticize Shaheen’s performance in the Senate since he hasn’t, you know, actually been alive for the last five years.
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In New Hampshire, dead men tell some tales | MSNBC
In New Hampshire, dead men tell some tales
10/27/14 03:22 PM
By Steve Benen
New Hampshire Republicans, still hoping to take down Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D), published an op-ed in a local newspaper this morning written by former state House Speaker Marshall Cobleigh (R). The piece isn’t quite as interesting as its author.
Even by 2014 standards, the Republican’s op-ed seems oddly detached from current events, referencing “skyrocketing gasoline prices,” a moratorium that no longer exists, and a House GOP lawmaker who’s no longer in the House. But given how frequently Republican criticisms bear no real resemblance to reality, this alone would hardly be noteworthy.
Dave Weigel, however, notes a more glaring problem: the author of the op-ed has been dead for several years.
What’s the matter with the column? Probably that Marshall Cobleigh has been dead for five years. In February 2009, the former speaker of New Hampshire’s often-Republican state House was felled by congestive heart failure. This op-ed is a reprint of a column Cobleigh wrote in July 2008, when Shaheen was running her first successful Senate campaign. Buzz Dietterle, the FDD’s opinion page editor, says that the New Hampshire GOP submitted the column (which originally ran in the conservative Union Leader).
“Shaheen, like a stopped clock, is often correct once or twice a day,” acknowledges the late Cobleigh in his column. He should hope so. R.I.P.
Now, there’s nothing necessarily controversial with recycling material, but Cobleigh isn’t in a position to criticize Shaheen’s performance in the Senate since he hasn’t, you know, actually been alive for the last five years.
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Don't know what will happen election day... but boy the Dems (like Gopher) are freaking out!
I do. A minority of eligible voters will go cast ballots. Which may or may not be tallied correctly. Yay.
Yes that will happen for sure!
Its happening now.
And ineligible voters will also cast ballots. Some more than once!
''Rodent is Godwin's law personified.''
Says the one who projects President Obama in a Stalinist uniform.
The Republicans’ Profane Attack on the Sacred Right to Vote | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
There is a database housed in Arkansas with your name in it ... that is, if you live in one of the 28 states participating in the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program. It’s one of the growing components of an aggressive drive across the U.S. by Republicans to stop many Americans from voting.
Early voting has already begun in many states in the 2014 U.S. midterm elections. Control of the U.S. Senate hangs in the balance, as do many crucial governorships, congressional races and ballot initiatives. One question looming over this election is just how significant will be the impact of the wholesale, organized disenfranchisement of eligible voters.
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40,000 Voter Registrations Have Mysteriously Vanished, Could Determine Control Of The Senate | ThinkProgress
Earlier this year, organizers fanned out across nearly every one of Georgia’s 159 counties and registered nearly 90 thousand people who have never voted in their lives, most of them people of color, many of them under 25 years old. But when the groups checked back in late August, comparing their registration database to the state’s public one, they noticed about 50,000 of the registrations had vanished, nearly all of them belonging to people of color in the Democratic-leaning regions around Atlanta, Savannah and Columbus.
Georgia’s state minority leader Stacy Abrams (D), whose group The New Georgia Project led the massive registration drive in March and April, told ThinkProgress what happened next was “deeply disturbing.”
“We asked the Secretary of State to meet with us. We wanted to understand if we were doing something wrong, or if there was another database we didn’t have access to. But he refused to meet with us,” she said.
And how do we know if these votes will ever be counted? Could all this possibly lead to a Republican victory next month??
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Y'know, I really hate to introduce a little reality into your hate-Republiklans party, but one of the states with the worst problems in voting is Maryland. That's Maryland, Dumbocratic governor, majority Dumbocrat in both houses of the state legislature, two Dumbocratic Senators, and seven out of eight Congresscritters Dumbocrats.
Maryland, Illinois Voting Machines May be Rigged for Democrats
Tecumsehsbones; said:
Newsmax ???
Well, if that report is true (unlikely when you consider the source) it just brings to mind the old expression, turnabout is fair play. Let us hope that all rigging in all states (if true) is stopped and that a fair vote count takes place everywhere. As law abiding citizens we cannot ask for more.
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Good idea. If you can't refute the argument, attack the source.
And your old expression boils down to "It's wrong for you but OK for me." What an utterly juvenile moral and logical position.
The weird part is that when Bill Clinton was President, he proposed a national ID as an easy, fast way of voter verification and citizenship verification. The Dumbocrats all had orgasms, and the Republiklans all had conniption fits.
No Gopher. They are trying to stop many Americans from voting twice. They are trying to stop many dead Americans from voting. They are trying to stop immigrants from voting.
I know that the Democrats count on these 3 voting classes but it is illegal to do so.
Who knows what will happen but we do know that things are very fishy with some voting machines flipping votes from GOP to Democrat in two states.
We know that Dem Libs are willing to go to any lengths and condone voter fraud to win.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_uHDjk3fSc
If the GOP went nuts how wrong they were. And the Democrats are surely breathing a sigh of relief today.
Tecumsehsbones; said:
Funny how you quote me as saying,
Let us hope that all rigging in all states (if true) is stopped and that a fair vote count takes place everywhere. As law abiding citizens we cannot ask for more.
Then you accuse me of saying it's ok for one side to cheat.
Take some time now to have some morning coffee and to re-think what you have posted.
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