losing freedom and life itself
"Suffrage for unwealthy, differently hued people can only lead to more trouble," said House Majority Leader John Boehner. "I know it's not 'PC' to say this, but these people are on the whole incredibly selfish. I think our founders understood that when they extended voting rights only to people rich enough not to really need political representation. Given political power, America's idle poor will just vote themselves more social welfare programs, and we just can't afford that right now. If you haven't noticed, there's an unnecessary war on at the moment."
Voting Rights Act of 1965 is being strangled by our wonderful republicans.
House leaders have opted to allow the Voting Rights Act to expire as its sunset provision later this year, thereby passively repealing it and protecting themselves against being accused of voting against the popular law.
In his own testimony, indicted lobbyists Jack Abramoff told authorities that he arranged quid-pro-quo agreements with lawmakers not to fill their campaign coffers to pay for television ads or mailings, but to for armies of "fixers" to turn black voters away from the polls in 2000 and 2004. Without the Voting Rights Act, Southern Sherrif's deputies would be doing that work as a matter of duty and the fundraising culture in Washington would simply poof into nonexistence.
Even more imporant than its corrosive effects, Republican lawmakers say that the Act itself was ill-conceived from the beginning.
"Suffrage for unwealthy, differently hued people can only lead to more trouble," said House Majority Leader John Boehner. "I know it's not 'PC' to say this, but these people are on the whole incredibly selfish. I think our founders understood that when they extended voting rights only to people rich enough not to really need political representation. Given political power, America's idle poor will just vote themselves more social welfare programs, and we just can't afford that right now. If you haven't noticed, there's an unnecessary war on at the moment."
above taken from article in ridiculopathy at this site:
http://www.ridiculopathy.com/news_detail.php?id=1607
in personal meanderings, attended a barbeque this weekend and came to grips with some aspects of my own loser status as well as other things while prepping and completing a feast for the gang. received some warranted jabs and taunts but still came through with near perfect north california cuisine. then, without appetite of my own watched the other happy munchers.
life goes on.
posted by jimlando at 7:26 AM
5 Comments:
d,
thanks for the kindness.
vct.
j.
I am such an idiot - I don't know what those initials mean --- vct.
what is that?
d.
d,
you're not an idiot. it's one of my regular crumples of language that I use all the time and take for granted that everybody remembers.
via con todos.
it alludes to the little piece of us that's more of a god than the one that people have externalized and think they need to wind up on sundays. (wind up on sundays from album aqualung by ian anderson/jethro tull)
ergo, "go with all"
j.
I do not go with all..I follow my heart. Sometimes that is a good thing and some times it is not because following your brain gets in the way too.
over and out.
didi
guess somewhere in the middle there's a balance perhaps.
bet it starts in the throat.
over and out,
j.
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