In the past several elections, the Republicans have been great at accusing election fraud and give some stray examples that country-wide, do not constitute even .0001 percent ( that’s one in a million votes) and lied about many of them to convince voters they would issue new laws to prevent it. Keep in mind that the few real cases of election fraud there were, were fully prosecuted. There are more cases of voter intimidation today than voter fraud.
The end result is very targeted laws that have a impact on those they do not want votes counted, disaffecting more than one million people nationwide. Of course only in states that would or could tip the balance of so-called swing states where margin for victory is very slim.
OK most of you reading this probably have herd of a bunch of those laws being overturned. And could yet be overturned to their original form before election day as they are appealed.
So when I ran across this article in the examiner.com, I was astounded and thought this to be bogus but the more I thought about it, and my memory of the events at that time, the more this seemed to be true but why no major media has pick up any parts of this makes me wonder even more.
I am not a conspiracy theorist of any kind but I’m having some second thoughts on this one that states the GOP manipulated everything down to the straw pool in Iowa in the beginning.
In any case, there is probably enough provable information here for a investigation to be started. If true, someone needs to go directly to jail as there is nothing more dear to an American than the right and ability to cast a vote.
Romney states if he looses election, “he will climb to the top of his money pile and jump off”.
Obama states “not to worry, if he wins, he will reduce that pile to a safe level” -M.Mays
Mitt Romney says he don’t understand why they call it “FREE SPEECH” because he pays a lot of money for it and very soon he will corner the market. – M.Mays
News Flash: Paul Ryan goes into emergency cosmetic surgery after his speech at the RNC Convention. Apparently his nose had to be 99% amputated to get out the convention center. Someone at the scene said they seen him pant-less and that he suffered severe burns on his legs. – M.Mays
News Flash: Romney and Pinoakio on the stump, Romney states “And let me make this very clear — unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class.” Fact Checkers say this is true because under his plan, there will be no middle class. – M.Mays
I always knew that one day, probably when it was to late, the folks that follow the tea party mouthpieces would one day wake up and find the ungoverned companies that they fought to get the government out of the way for, staring them in the face in a way they would not much appreciate.
I never dreamed it would come so soon. Tea Party activist along with environmentalist and ranchers are fighting a eminent domain action for the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline in Texas.
The pipeline builder would be TransCanada. They are the oil sands extractor in western Canada. They do not want to call it the TransCanada Pipeline because it sounds foreign doesn’t it. So they call it Keystone Pipeline and this section noted as the XL tract as most of this was built some time ago.
I followed this because I thought it bizarre that a foreign company could use eminent domain to seize private land for its use. But much to my surprise when I found the tea party out with the environmentalist in a protest.
Well as it turns out, to have the power to pull eminent domain in Texas, you are required in your paperwork to “check the box” that you are a “common carrier”. No proof required and no inquiry will be preformed to this fact. You know the standard government-out-of-the-way stuff.
Having made it though the county courts it will now be appealed. They vow to go all the way to the Supreme Court if needed.
The low value oil is only to be shipped to one or two companies but more important, it can be shipped overseas as it will go to a export bay where the oil will not benefit the U.S.
So there you have it. A clear case of the tea party having got the government out of the way and not liking it ! But what about the jobs? What about the government staying out of the way? I hope this gets a little publicity so other tea party folks can see what they have been asking for, in action, firsthand.
The main thing these folks fail to understand, by not being a steward of history, is that these rules you fight to remove were hard fought for in the past by those severely disaffected and those in the fear of the same. Problem is those fighting to remove them probably will not be the ones newly disaffected. Now some blood will have to be spilled “again” to get it back to where it was.
If you want a example, look up the post bank crash – Glass-Steagall Act of 1932 and the repeal in 1999 that led to the banking crisis. Rules they are still fighting to get back in place.
So Mitt Romney did a fair job of expressing on a personal basis just who he is. It was needed. Problem is, along with false jabs at the President was the only thing else presented. Clint Eastwood’s performance was a major distraction in what could have been favorable news coverage after the event.
OK, he rallied his troops. I thought he was after the undecideds?
The end result will be what soon follows ” his big mistake “.
Along with showing his true personality, This was a time to bring the big picture in a message about what he wanted to do and how he wanted to do it. I somehow have a feeling that he did not do that because he knows he will sink with it.
If the public can get a reasonable idea of just who gets hurt in his policy’s he looses, hands down. Better to wait until the last possible moment before a debate so the opposition has not enough time to attack it effectively.
This lost opportunity will be defined by the democrats maybe as soon as their convention. The Republicans will now be playing defense till election day. Not a nice place to be right after your acceptance speech.
Moot Predictions!
So, now it looks like we shall be seeing and hearing all of that money in the Romney campaign and his super pac be spent on very negative adds. The super pac will need to spread a bunch of lies playing over and over. This method is normally effective like the DJ playing a song you did not initially like but after you hear it a hundred times you may be dancing to its tune. Remember the “HEAD ON” commercial ?
If they did not know it was very effective, they would not do it.
Without even waiting for the DNC convention, I am willing to predict that Oboma will win by a larger margin than last time around. That is a pretty good leap even with all of those Voter ID laws removing a bunch a voters who would most likely vote democratic. Gee, why should I trust them with my vote, they may find a way to keep me out of the polls if I should disagree.
After the DNC convention, I predict the democrats will soon define Romneys’ policy’s and go after Congress. I think a change hear is not out of the question if they play it right.
The Republicans, have come off to me as a group that is losing power and will try to change the rules so that they may keep it. I see a new Party emerging and replacing them. After all, what moderate conservative can stand a chance with those neo-capitolist… I mean tea-baggers… I mean tea party folks and the hard non compromising stance they push. The remnant tea party will go it alone through the RNC (where the money is).
The last prediction is that nobody will remember I said it first ! Moot!
Just how can the Republicans be so against cutting the deficit when since they could not agree on a real plan, a pre-arranged deal by both party’s across the board 10% cut in spending is like the end of the world.
Pretty simple. They do not have control of what gets cut.
Why does that bother them?
They only want to cut government oversight of company activity like Banks and include FDA, EPA, Education and most things that protect or provide the middle class with a decent standard of protection.
President Obama seems content to let the 10% cut go through as he will never get any deal with this congress. But there are those screaming that it will hurt if not end the recovery. Why?
Again, it does not cut what they want and precious pork provided to congressional districts back home will not have room in the system.
There was no study, but if you look back at the stats of taxation and job growth in the united states, they are one in the same so when the tax breaks expire. Good for that.
So whats wrong with a 10 % cut and a few percentage points of tax reduction expiration. After all, those tax cuts along with a few checks in the mail were a unpaid liability from the last administration. Yea, we had to borrow from India and China for those checks Bush sent us. It’s time we paid all of this back. Besides, the more they had cut taxes and borrowed more to do it, the worse it got.
Bring on the cuts and a little tax. Problem mostly solved for now so we can get on with the nations business.
Since they do not want the across the board 10% reduction, they first will have to make it a doomsday event in your eyes so they can change it to what they want. What part of deficit reduction that they will get that they do not want ?
3 percent of Americans have been headed to the edge of that cliff and nobody is talking about them and so nothing will be done !
Sharing the PAIN is the most reasonable approach yet. Bring it on !
Just before the RNC Convention, Mitt Romney announced his Energy Plan To Energy Independence. In reality, we are likely to be energy independent faster if he is not elected. The process has already began but he is making it his plan. If you read into his plan well, it would be a wonder he does not upset what would be a clear victory in Texas ( i’ll explain later).
Now that is a easy thing to say but let me give you some tough realities.
Just with the idea of Domestic Oil and Gas production has been increasing the past couple of years and most of this increase is do to hydrological fracturing or “fracking” deep shale deposits. The price of natural gas has been coming down swiftly as there is more supply than demand. So much more supply that most company’s drilling has come to a near limited halt until a new infrastructure of pipelines can be created to get it to processing plants and then to the end user.
Current drilling rigs have been displaced from western Pennsylvania to eastern Ohio where they have discovered oil and “wet gas” that make ventures a whole lot more profitable in the “Utica Shale” play.
Fleets of gasoline and diesel trucks are being converted to natural gas. That play should relieve any bottlenecks that the refiners complain about when they hike their prices.
Compressed natural gas (CNG) stations are springing up everywhere to serve these fleets and soon any car or truck.
Wind energy generation capacity continues to expand and is not near 2 percent utilized even at all those new wind generators. Some states like Ohio and Michigan could be key net exporters of electric energy from wind generation just from the massive wind in their lakes.
One could ask why Romney or anyone else would want to open for new wells of the coast of Virginia or North Carolina because the trend does not show we are going to need it and I would like to think of those as a last resort because in at peace time, the U.S. Military is the largest consumer of oil outside of the U.S. as a whole.
It is the same as we have seen for the last few decades. we allow it to be drilled, oil company bids it and they drill just a few wells to tie it up. Or they just drill and not pump. Don’t forget it is in the oil company’s’ interest not to produce very much as it keeps the price going up.
I think it is time to put expiration on lease contracts of public property drilling. Drill it, pump it in a set time before your lease is up !
Now why does this Energy Plan not upset folks in Texas?
Why should they be upset? Pretty simple. Even those in Texas thought they were for the XL pipeline until they were faced with eminent domain right of ways were being used to plow through private property for not a utility, but a private company. Yes, they are stormin mad and I can’t find a reason for Romney to say anything about it in his energy plan. If he should lose Texas, he would have to win Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida and some other unlikely states to win.
The other thing I just can’t figure out the purpose of in his energy plan is for the states to have control of the offshore drilling. Those states in question have bigger regulations stopping it than the federal government. Unless they figure it is more corruptible at the state level.
In any case we are already on a path to energy Independence with or without Romney and his plan. It could happen even sooner if demand goes down from effective use. Trends show as the baby boomers get older, we will drive much less.
As always, energy independence has been a national security issue to me but I can only think that if Romney gets elected and follows through with his plans, we might not achieve this and of course they will blame it on the democrats. But a whole bunch of folks will get rich over the matter that otherwise would not.