Monday Night Video – Obama Hits Back at Romney’s Auto Lies

October 29, 2012 by Leave a comment

With the election increasingly close, it’s essential that President Obama’s team be quick on its feet to refute any new Romney lies, such as Romney’s suggestion that auto companies in Ohio are outsourcing jobs due to Obama policies. (Never mind the fact that Romney has been a chief proponent of outsourcing.) The Obama administration just released this ad, which is good. It’s direct, factual, and doesn’t pull punches.

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Monday Night Video – The Ed Show on Romney v. Democracy in Ohio

August 6, 2012 by 5 Comments

Ohio Republicans, like Fox News, are vocal opponents of democracy when it means actual democracy (enabling people to vote) rather than their version of democracy (allowing rich white males to vote). Hence the conservatives’ attempts to suppress the vote, including a move to restrict in-person early voting.

Ed Schultz is joined by former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland to discuss how Mitt Romney is attempting to spin the Democrats’ lawsuit to restore these rights as an attack on patriotism, soldiers, and patriotic soldiering apple pies. Schultz starts off his report on the situation by saying…

SCHULTZ: Once again, Mitt Romney doesn’t have the facts.

…but I disagree. Romney has all the facts. He just don’t care.

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Thursday Night Video – The Rachel Maddow Show on Voting Rights

August 2, 2012 by 2 Comments

The Rachel Maddow Show addresses Ohio Republicans cutting down on access to voting in that state, including reducing early voting by three days. Maddow is joined by Michael Waldman from the Brennan Center for Justice. They discuss the conservative fight against democracy. My worry is that even if courts strike down these voter suppression tactics, Republicans win anyway by intimidating and confusing voters.

Funny that conservatives don’t seem to be bothered by lengthy lines to vote and other obstructions to democracy. One might even be tempted to think that their concern for spreading democracy abroad was a front for corporate acquisition of material wealth and that their concern for voting IDs at home was a front for making it harder for minorities and Democratic-leaning voters to get to the polls. Democracy not as a value, but as a means for the acquisition of power…

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Does Democracy Mean Democracy to the GOP?

May 29, 2012 by 10 Comments

ThinkProgress is right to sound the alarm on Florida Governor Rick Scott’s attempt to suppress voting in his state. As they pointed out yesterday, he’s trying to purge voters from the voting rolls, using a list of ineligible voters from the DMV that is highly outdated and inaccurate. In Miami Dade, the list of purged voters has already turned out to be over 20% inaccurate, and that’s just based on the people who received the notice and were able to send in verification of their citizenship. How many others did not receive the notice or manage to send in verification for a second time? And what is the GOP doing relying on the Department of Motor Vehicles to secure our democracy? The party that distrusts the ability of government to tie its shoes is putting the future of our democracy in the hands of the DMV?

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