This guy says it all

[Soggy in NOLA]

...the greatest President of the 20th Century, Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Calling FDR the greatest President is like calling the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers the greatest football team ever. Neither won a single game.

What kind of comparison is that?

Football is determined by score cards with true values to compare - politics is a popularity contest.
At the very least, compare him to a figure skater or gymnast.

Not to mention... 4 times elected POTUS is pretty fucking popular by any standards.

Stalin lasted for 31 years.. he must have been real popular too.

 

[AmericanFirst]

Calling FDR the greatest President is like calling the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers the greatest football team ever. Neither won a single game.

What kind of comparison is that?

Football is determined by score cards with true values to compare - politics is a popularity contest.
At the very least, compare him to a figure skater or gymnast.

Not to mention... 4 times elected POTUS is pretty fucking popular by any standards.

Stalin lasted for 31 years.. he must have been real popular too.

Maybe all the people he killed voted for him.

 

[daveman]

It always bothers me when someone uses the words of others instead of their own individual thoughts.

Not everyone has individual thoughts.

 

[daveman]

What kind of comparison is that?

Football is determined by score cards with true values to compare - politics is a popularity contest.
At the very least, compare him to a figure skater or gymnast.

Not to mention... 4 times elected POTUS is pretty fucking popular by any standards.

Stalin lasted for 31 years.. he must have been real popular too.

Maybe all the people he killed voted for him.

What a coincidence -- dead people vote Democrat, too.

 

[shintao]

It always bothers me when someone uses the words of others instead of their own individual thoughts.

That's because you are a 2 sentence whore, never on topic, and always an insinuating insultive bitch.

 

[shintao]

Stalin lasted for 31 years.. he must have been real popular too.

Maybe all the people he killed voted for him.

What a coincidence -- dead people vote Democrat, too.

And invisible men in the sky, UFO aliens & Big Foot vote Republican, too.

 

[Mustang]

Daily Kos: Now THAT's how you respond to the right wing



August 24, 2011

Michael Quinn Sullivan
Empower Texans
PO Box 200248
Austin, TX 78720

Dear Mr. Sullivan:

Thank you for your letter regarding Empower Texans 2011 legislative scorecard. Upon reading it, my first thought was of George Bernard Shaw, who responded to one of his critics thusly: "I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. Your critique is in front of me. Shortly it will be behind me."

Then I realized this thought was perhaps too harsh and too confrontational for, in fact, I am proud to have earned an "F" from Empower Texans for my work in the 82nd legislature. I know I am doing things right in Austin, and would seriously question both my judgment and values were I to receive any higher grade.

I am proud to have opposed Voter ID, which does nothing to protect the sanctity of the ballot and is designed only to limit the participation of the disenfranchised; I am proud to have fought against those who held the Rainy Day Fund hostage and to use an additional $3 billion to alleviate devastating cuts to vital programs; I am proud to have voted for other bills that would have reduced the impact of those cuts, and to get rid of tax loopholes that provide billions in tax breaks to huge oil companies even as we cut funding for our children's schools and health care; I am proud to have voted against hypocritical "look at me" votes calling on Congress to balance the federal budget while we failed to actually balance our own, and against the interests of the predatory payday loan industry. I will wear my "F" grade from Empower Texans as a badge of honor and look forward to further disappointing you in the future.

To paraphrase the greatest President of the 20th Century, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: I welcome your hatred. After all, I'd much rather be a champion of the powerless than a lickspittle of the powerful.

Sincerely,

Rodney Ellis

So he is proud of maintaining voter fraud. Proud of shutting down industry and sending our hard earned money overseas.

He must be a democrat.

I am just shocked.

For all the talk about voter fraud, I must say that I can't recall anyone ever producing any examples of voter fraud. That's not to say that it never happens. But how bad a problem is it really? If voter fraud is an extremely rare occurrence, does it make sense to possibly disenfranchise many thousands of voters to stop a problem that hasn't even been documented as affecting elections? In other words, it seems to me that the so-called solution (of possibly disenfranchising eligible voters) is more likely to affect the outcome of elections than the problem (of voter fraud).

That's kind of like treating an imaginary or relatively harmless disease with a cure that's fatal in 5% of cases.

 

[daveman]

Maybe all the people he killed voted for him.

What a coincidence -- dead people vote Democrat, too.

And invisible men in the sky, UFO aliens & Big Foot vote Republican, too.

If it comforts your tiny, closed mind to feel that way.

 

[TexM3]

[/quote]

For all the talk about voter fraud, I must say that I can't recall anyone ever producing any examples of voter fraud. That's not to say that it never happens. But how bad a problem is it really? If voter fraud is an extremely rare occurrence, does it make sense to possibly disenfranchise many thousands of voters to stop a problem that hasn't even been documented as affecting elections? In other words, it seems to me that the so-called solution (of possibly disenfranchising eligible voters) is more likely to affect the outcome of elections than the problem (of voter fraud).

That's kind of like treating an imaginary or relatively harmless disease with a cure that's fatal in 5% of cases.[/QUOTE]


When Catherine Engelbrecht and her friends sat down and started talking politics several years ago, they soon agreed that talking wasn’t enough. They wanted to do more. So when the 2008 election came around, “about 50” of her friends volunteered to work at Houston’s polling places.

“What we saw shocked us,” she said. “There was no one checking IDs, judges would vote for people that asked for help. It was fraud, and we watched like deer in the headlights.”

Their shared experience, she says, created “True the Vote,” a citizen-based grassroots organization that began collecting publicly available voting data to prove that what they saw in their day at the polls was, indeed, happening -- and that it was happening everywhere.

“It was a true Tea Party moment,” she remembers.

Like most voter watchdog groups, she said, her group started small. They decided to investigate voting fraud in general, not just at the polling places, and at first they weren't even sure what to look for -- and where to look for it.

“The first thing we started to do was look at houses with more than six voters in them" Engelbrecht said, because those houses were the most likely to have fraudulent registrations attached to them. "Most voting districts had 1,800 if they were Republican and 2,400 of these houses if they were Democratic . . .

"But we came across one with 24,000, and that was where we started looking."

It was Houston's poorest and predominantly black district, which has led some to accuse the group of targeting poor black areas. But Engelbrecht rejects that, saying, "It had nothing to do with politics. It was just the numbers.”

The task was overwhelming. With 1.9 million voters and 886 voting precincts, Houston’s Harris County is the second largest county in the country -- and the key to Texas elections.

The group called for help and quickly got 30 donated computers and “tens of thousands of hours” of volunteer work. And then the questions started to arise.

“Vacant lots had several voters registered on them. An eight-bed halfway house had more than 40 voters registered at its address,” Engelbrecht said. “We then decided to look at who was registering the voters."

Their work paid off. Two weeks ago the Harris County voter registrar took their work and the findings of his own investigation and handed them over to both the Texas secretary of state’s office and the Harris County district attorney.

Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Sean Caddle, who also worked for the Service Employees International Union before coming to Houston. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid.

The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications from one Houston Voters collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures.

Caddle told local newspapers that there “had been mistakes made,” and he said he had fired 30 workers for filing defective voter registration applications. He could not be reached for this article.

"The integrity of the voting rolls in Harris County, Texas, appears to be under an organized and systematic attack by the group operating under the name Houston Votes," the Harris voter registrar, Leo Vasquez, charged as he passed on the documentation to the district attorney. A spokesman for the DA's office declined to discuss the case. And a spokesman for Vasquez said that the DA has asked them to refrain from commenting on the case.

The outcome of the efforts grew in importance the day after Vasquez made his announcement. On the morning of Aug. 27, a three-alarm fire destroyed almost all of Harris County’s voting machines, throwing the upcoming Nov. 2 election into turmoil. While the cause wasn’t determined, the $40 million blaze, according to press reports, means election officials will be focused on creating a whole new voting system in six weeks. Just how they do it will determine how vulnerable the process becomes.

Read more from source: FoxNews.com

 

[AVG-JOE]

Calling FDR the greatest President is like calling the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers the greatest football team ever. Neither won a single game.

What kind of comparison is that?

Football is determined by score cards with true values to compare - politics is a popularity contest.
At the very least, compare him to a figure skater or gymnast.

Not to mention... 4 times elected POTUS is pretty fucking popular by any standards.

Stalin lasted for 31 years.. he must have been real popular too.

There's an accurate comparison.....

 

[eflatminor]

...the greatest President of the 20th Century, Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Calling FDR the greatest President is like calling the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers the greatest football team ever. Neither won a single game.

FDR was the biggest socialist potus, up until obamaturd.

Wilson, then FDR, then Obama...it's a tossup.

 

[boedicca]

"This Guy" may say it all...but TMN says nothing of value.