Constitutional Right to Vote Gaining Support

Constitutional Right to Vote Gaining Support (via Democracy Chronicles)

  Ballot Access News, written by election expert Richard Winger, had the following article, Bill to Put Right to Vote in U.S. Constitution Has Eleven Sponsors So Far, about the progress of the apparently partisan vote: The proposed U.S. Constitutional amendment, putting the right to vote into the…

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AFGE Statement On Michigan Anti-Worker Vote

Constitutional Right to Vote Gaining Support (via Democracy Chronicles)

  Ballot Access News, written by election expert Richard Winger, had the following article, Bill to Put Right to Vote in U.S. Constitution Has Eleven Sponsors So Far, about the progress of the apparently partisan vote: The proposed U.S. Constitutional amendment, putting the right to vote into the…

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voter ID | Uppity Wisconsin

voter ID | Uppity Wisconsin (via http://www.uppitywis.org)

This afternoon the State Supreme Court declined to hear the two voter id cases that Atty Gen J. B. VanHollen had attempted to fast track into the court.  In one case the court called the request "premature".  So it is now quite definite that there will be no voter ID required in the November election…

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The Insanity Of Texas Gov. Rich Perry That Social Security And Medicare Violate The 10th Amendment Of US Constitution « elmsprogressivemedia

The Insanity Of Texas Gov. Rich Perry That Social Security And Medicare Violate The 10th Amendment Of US Constitution « elmsprogressivemedia

Fox Business' Follow The Money Unmasks The Muppets' Liberal Agenda: "Brainwashing" Your Kids! December 02, 2011 11:29 pm ET From the December 2 edition of Fox Business' Follow the Money:

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Cenk Uygur has a message for corrupt politicians on both sides of the aisle: He’s coming for them.

Uygur, the outspoken former MSNBC host and internet commentator, debuts his new show, The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur on Current TV at 7 p.m. ET Monday. He’s the latest progressive pundit to join the Current family, and his show will be the lead-in to Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

“It’s not going to be your father’s cable news show,” Uygur told TPM last week. “Our show is going to be very aggressive. If you’re looking for a fun time, in terms of hardcore coverage of the issues, we’re going to be your show.”

So how does Uygur intend to set himself apart from Olbermann, who is literally the centerpiece of Current’s prime-time programming? The Young Turks will be “irreverent” and “free-flowing,” Uygur said, featuring a panel and some conservative guests. The show will be a “gathering place” for progressives, he added, but that doesn’t mean it will only appeal to the far left.

Uygur’s show, like Countdown and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s The War Roomafter it, will focus primarily on commentary and analysis. Uygur said original reporting in his show is “a work in progress” that will hopefully come after the program gets off the ground. The big stories Uygur intends to focus on are campaign finance reform and broader financial reform.

“Money has corrupted our politics,” Uygur said. “Washington is nearly entirely corrupt. The American people cannot win on any issue. We’ve lost our representative democracy.”

Uygur has done quite well for himself as an independent voice online. Asked why he wanted to team up with a cable company again, he said, “the more platforms, the better.” Uygur will continue to host his online news program during the day.

“The Young Turks” will feature prominent progressive contributors, Uygur said, including Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) co-founder Adam Green. On December 12, Jack Abramoff will be on the program.

To those turned off by traditional cable news shows, Uygur promises to be an alternative. “We’re not going to pull back,” he said. “Mainstream media, it’s a joke; come and watch a program that’s reality.”

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Seven Awful Things Ann Coulter Just Said About Occupy Wall Street

By Alan Scherstuhl Thu., Nov. 17 2011 at 5:00 PM

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The world does not exist unless Ann Coulter coats it in awfulness.

​Ann Coulter's job is to say as many awful things as she can in the increasingly tiny slices of media time that she is afforded. Currently, she's peddling her book on talk radio stations around the country and probably wishing the folks at Fox would call her more often.

This morning, she telephoned Bryan Sussman at KSFO, San Francisco's official media home for people who complain all day that their views have no media home. As you might expect, they talked about her book (SPOILER: The villain is liberals!) as well as the Occupy movement. A total pro, she managed to say at least seven awful things in her twenty minutes:

1. "I knew there would be mob uprisings again. They are demonic."

2. "What I like most about them is that they have no point."

3. "At the protest in Tel Aviv in Israel, they set up guillotines in the square. And you have the computer-generated voice speaking on behalf of Occupy Wall Street saying 'The voice of the people is anonymous. We are legion, for we are many' - directly from the demon in scripture."

4. "I guess it's fun to destroy stuff. As they found out during the French Revolution, it's lots of fun to just start randomly murdering people - this is the way it always is with mobs."

5. "Maybe it will take down a government, but it will be Obama's government."

6. "Remember the lesson from my book: It just took a few shootings at Kent State to shutthat down for good."

7. After Sussman declared that he wished that the arrested Bank of America occupiers had been thrown in with the general population of prisoners, and then admitted that he did not know whether or not they had, Coulter compared the "special treatment" the protesters receive at the hands of police to that of French aristocrats who brought along servants when imprisoned. NOTE: This is too stupid to transcribe.

Also, when mentioning Bill Ayers's "homosexual lover," Coulter said "homosexual" with the same sneering disbelief that cowboys in picante sauce commercials apply to "New York City." And mentioning Bill Ayers's "homosexual lover" during a conversation about Occupy Wall Street is just as relevant as me right now mentioning, say, that chunky kid from The Bad News Bears -- the original, not the remake. What ever happened to him?

(HE WAS PROBABLY GUILLOTINED BY OCCUPY WALL STREET.)

Finally, because she's a pro, Coulter laughed politely at the morning-talk dumbassery of Sussman and company, who made a game of coining new names for the Occupy crowd: "Occu-peers," "defocrats," "Communist Republic of American People."

This proves yet again that outrage is easier than comedy.

Van Jones Reveals Future Of Occupy Wall Street

VAN JONES REVEALS FUTURE OF OCCUPY WALL ST: ‘YOU HAVEN’T SEEN ANYTHING YET’

• Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:51pm by  Madeleine Morgenstern
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Van Jones said Occupy Wall Street is going to be recruiting 2,000 candidates to run for office for "phase two" of the movement. (AP File Photo)

Van Jones offered a prediction Wednesday for those who have been watching the Occupy Wall Street movement: “You haven’t seen anything yet.”

The former Obama administration “green jobs czar” — an ardent supporter of the Occupy movement since its inception — said in an interview with CNN that the movement is ready to evolve into the areas of politics and policy-making, much like the Tea Party did in 2010.

(Related: What connections does Beck make between Van Jones’ revolution group & Occupy Wall Street?)

“You’re going to see an evolution now as you go from protests, keep the protests, but now expand into politics,” Jones said. “And if you thought there was an earthquake in 2010 when the Tea Party moved into politics, wait until this 99 percent movement moves over into politics. You haven’t seen anything yet.”

Jones said the movement is “going to be recruiting 2,000 candidates to run for office now under this 99 percent banner“ as Occupy Wall Street enters ”phase two.”

“Phase two, you move from anger to answers. You move from pointing out the problem to pointing out the solutions,” Jones said. “What you’re going to see now is you have the Occupy movement at the center, that’s the beating heart.”