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Can falsified registrations become votes? If the feds push universal voter registration by overriding state elections procedures, you bet, says John Fund of the WSJ.

“What does universal voter registration mean?  It means all state laws will be overridden by a federal mandate.  At that point you will have destroyed the integrity of the registration process.  This is their stealth bill . . . it is even more sneaky than the healthcare bill.”

John Fund, Wall Street Journal

If you think ACORN voter registration and fraud threaten the integrity of the American electoral process, just wait until Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank get their way.  *

For many years, John Fund has been warning about Democrat efforts to redesign the electoral process.  These ‘reforms’ are sold as ways of improving the process.  Fund insists they are designed to manage favorable outcomes for Democrats, going so far as to say last November that the Democrats are working to subvert and corrupt the voter registration process.

Here is Fund’s word-for-word presentation on this topic last November at the David Horowitz forum:

“Democrats were very rattled by the November 3rd (2009) election results.  What do liberals do when they lose elections?  They change the rules.  In January, Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank will propose universal voter registration.  What is UVR? It means all of the state laws will be overridden by a federal mandate.

“The feds will tell the states: ‘Take everyone on every list of welfare recipients, take everyone on every list of unemployed you have, take everyone on every list of property owners, all driver’s license holders, and register them to vote, regardless of whether they want to be. Oh, and by the way there will be felon re-enfranchisement too.

“At that point you have destroyed the integrity of the registration process.

“Now, they will sell this very cleverly.  They will say, ‘Well, OK, ACORN did have some problems with voter registration . . . we should not have these third-party rogue groups out there, so let’s put ACORN out of business.  Let’s register everybody!’

“Now, the problem is of course is there are a lot of duplicates. And there are a lot of people on those rolls who are illegal alients.

“There are a lot of people on those rolls . . . it’s not a clean list.

“They (the Dems) don’t care.

“So this is the issue you haven’t hear about.  There is a reason you haven’t heard about it.  They don’t want you to hear about it.

“The path between the day this bill is introduced and the day it hits the House floor will probably be less than two weeks.

“Get ready for it.  You can stop it.  Don’t get me wrong, but this is their stealth bill that is even more sneaky than the healthcare bill.

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You will soon hear the hard Left wail about how corrupt John Fund is and how conservative nutjobs and rightwing loons are simply pushing another conspiracy theory to advance the ‘destroy Obama witch hunt.’

As far as this citizen journalist is concerned, the fact Fund is attacked by Media Matters and Mother Jones and others only serves to increase his credibility.

Back to the central issue however, the question is: can falsified registrations become votes?  Read all about it right here.

We have always held to the tradition that individuals register themselves.   This is a built-in system to maintain integrity.  Allowing the federal government to jam universal voter registration opens the process to corruption, but that is the purpose.

Democrats know full well they’ll reap millions of votes in the process, once the process is corrupted in this way.

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* Note that the Obama DOJ has refused to investigate ACORN in the wake of the sex slave scandal coming from student investigative journalism work.  Notice that ACORN board members that called for a full audit have been fired.  Notice the Senate voting 83-7 in September in favor of a ban on further ACORN funding.  Pelosi had prevented many attempts to place the issue on the floor of the House.  Evenso, in September the House voted 345-75 to cut ACORN funding via a student aid bill.

And guess what? ACORN is still receiving federal funds. ACORN sued and in the first round, won. The votes to cut funding in Congress were ruled unconstitutional.  Any bets on whether or not the Obama DOJ will appeal?

Here Rep. Steve King promises an investigation of ACORN and predicts it will lead to the White House and President Obama who once worked for ACORN.

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From Michelle Malkin.

INTEGRITY OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS AT RISK

Even more concerns as detailed here by Jim Simpson, former White House economist.

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We know that the Dems have no shame- but this takes the cake, as does cap and tax, obamascare, TARP, stimulus, you name it.

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Democrats Reject DeMint Motion 53-46: Will Continue Bribes & Vote Buying

Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 7:13 PM

Jim Hoft

Senate democrats today approved of bribery and vote buying.

Democrats voted down the DeMint Amendment tonight 53-46. The amendment would have prohibited the practice of trading votes for pork and pet projects.
Jim DeMint reported:

Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, made the following statement after the Senate defeated his amendment to prohibit the practice of trading votes for earmarks in the United States Senate. Senator DeMint’s motion was defeated on a 53-46 vote.

“The American people are disgusted by the earmarks, kickbacks, and backroom deals that have been used to buy votes for this health care takeover,” said Senator DeMint. “We had a chance today to put an end to this practice but Senate Democrats voted for business as usual. 53 Democrats just gave their personal seal of approval to the Louisiana Purchase, Cornhusker Kickback and other earmarks used to bribe senators into supporting this atrocious bill.”

“Democrats have truly hit the bottom on their reckless pursuit of a government takeover of health care. The Democrat majority just voted to retain the culture of corruption in Congress. Just two years ago, Democrats bragged about draining the swamp, but now they’re endorsing political bribery. This is Washington at its worst.”

Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska), who secured a special earmark for his state that forces taxpayers in 49 states to fund Medicaid in Nebraska, first voted against the ban on trading earmarks for votes but switched his vote before the final tally. Senator DeMint responded, “Senator Nelson, unfortunately, is trying to have it both ways, he was for trading his vote for earmarks before he was against it.

And, the House that Pelosi built is no different– Rep. Bart Stupak (D., Mich.) tells NRO that he’s disappointed that Democratic leaders have offered him legislative favors in exchange for supporting Obamacare

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Michelle Malkin & Mark Steyn Report on the National Joker Outbreak (Video)

Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 9:39 PM

Jim Hoft

Mark Steyn and Michelle Malkin talked tonight on Hannity about the growing backlash against the crappy Obamacare bill. Michelle also mentioned the “Obama’s joker” signs that are popping up across the country this week.

Michelle Malkin says this jokerizing trend is just the beginning of the end for these log rollers and bribe takers.
(It was nice of Michelle to mention this blog.)

After the bribes were handed out…
Obama’s Senate Jokers lined up to support his crappy nationalized health care bill this week.
Here are a few–

Obama’s Jokers: Senator Claire McCaskill, Senator Carl Levin, Senator Ben Nelson, Senator Al Franken, Senator Mary Landrieu, Senator Dick Durbin (The Nose on Your Face, Michelle Malkin & Frisk a Liberal)

More… RMartin from California sends this T-Shirt idea- “Obama’s Henchmen”

Repeal the 17th Amendment. Nuke the Federal Reserve.

Repeal the 17th Amendment. Nuke the Federal Reserve..

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Repeal the 17th Amendment. Nuke the Federal Reserve.

by Smitty (h/t Patriot Room)

The 17th Amendment’s short-circuit of the chain of command, combined with the Federal Reserve’s Cosmic Credit Card, are ruinous:

At first, Mr. Nelson defended his Medicaid buy-off as a service to his constituents, two-thirds of whom tell pollsters they oppose the overall bill. But the lucre was denounced by Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman and Republican Senator Mike Johanns.

“Nebraskans don’t want a special deal,” said Mr. Johanns. “The special deal for Nevada was wrong, the carve-outs for Louisiana, Vermont, and Massachusetts are wrong, and the same applies to the backroom deal for Nebraska. All of the special deals should be removed. If the bill cannot pass without carve-outs, what further evidence is needed that it is bad policy?”

The Senator should represent the interests of the individual State, and the funding for entitlements should be derived from a level of government exhibiting fiscal sobriety.

Entitlement programs that are not funded from a balanced budget are simply theft. It’s a game of musical chairs where the participants, across time, stand still and rip the chair from the hands of the next generation.

This is an not an argument that there would be less corruption without Amendment 17. No, if you could measure it, the net corruption would be equal. However, instead of a positive feedback loop:

And, sure enough, Mr. Nelson admitted yesterday amid a defensive near-meltdown on the Senate floor that “Three Senators came up to me just now on the [Senate] floor and said, ‘Now we understand what you did. We’ll be seeking this funding too.’” Mr. Nelson now says “it’s not a special deal for Nebraska. It is in fact an opportunity to get rid of an unfunded federal mandate.”

…keeping the corruption at a State level would spare 95% of the country from outbursts of Nelsonism, and, possibly, allow federal oversight to review processes.

The vampire that is the Federal Reserve desperately needs a stake in the heart. However, the combination of the 17th Amendment and the Federal Reserve has us on the ropes. The Federal debt alcoholic will not give up the bottle. It will just keep chugging until the public liver explodes.

The Progressive Left seems to think this situation all jolly good. The Progressive Right joins in mute support of the problem. I would like to see Senator DeMint speak out for something along the lines of the Federalism Amendment. The status quo is an unsustainable crock of compost. While I applaud and support the tactical efforts with the Congress at hand, the strategic vacuum grows depressing.

Progressivism will wait, undead totalitarian zombie that it is, until the Tea Parties run out of gas, and just continue the economic warfare of using debt to kill this country. If the Tea Parties don’t gel around reform ideas that remove the systemic drivers that have put us in this full Nelson, then the signs and the yelling and the blog posts and the slogans were all fun, but really just so many dying gasps of democracy.

Update: Blogprof, “We are now functioning under a parliamentary form of government”

Update II: Andy McCarthy says it well:

The Dems have already factored in that likelihood and are betting — over the long haul — that even if the GOP cuts deeply into Dem majorities or takes over Congress (and even takes over the White House in 2012), Republicans will lack the commitment (and perhaps the numbers) to roll back what the Left is accomplishing now.

That is, our guys are focused myopically on a battle the Democrats have already figured they can afford to lose. The real battle is: What do you do when you get back in power? Do you have a plan for how to undo what is being done? Do you frame the coming elections in a way that converts victory into a mandate not only to stop what Obama is doing but to undo what he has done?

I’m hearing a lot from our side about making big gains in the upcoming elections. That’s not strategy or victory. You have to have a plan for what those gains would translate into. Democrats, by contrast, have a real plan for how what they’re doing today will sustain Big Government, and themselves, over the long term, regardless of occasional electoral losses.

No kidding. Swapping out names is moot. If you haven’t explained the strategy for restoring the three-branch/three-tier government, you haven’t explained much. The Progressive GOP must destroy itself to preserve itself.

Failing that, let’s just have a national Prozac entitlement. This ‘Brave New World’ is not why I have served my country these years.

Update III: Having said all that, Moe Lane rocks.

EDITORIAL: Government’s abortion mandate – Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Government’s abortion mandate – Washington Times.

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

So much for Sen. Ben Nelson’s “line in the sand” against government funding for abortion.

“I don’t ordinarily draw a line in the sand, but I have drawn a line in the sand,” the Nebraska Democrat said on Dec. 4, promising he wouldn’t vote for government health care if it paid for abortion. Mr. Nelson’s principles barely lasted two weeks. By Saturday, he announced that he would provide the 60th vote needed to pass government care. The man’s word is meaningless.

Mr. Nelson’s capitulation was not over whether to ban abortion outright. The senator sold his soul to give government the power to force millions of taxpayers to pay for a procedure they view to be murder. Activists in favor of abortion “choice” don’t respect that those who oppose abortion want to be free to choose what their money should be used to support – especially when major moral issues about life and death are involved.

The current prohibition on government funding for abortion made exceptions for when a woman’s life purportedly was in danger or when the pregnancy purportedly was a result of rape or incest. If passed, the new law will charge an “abortion premium” tax on all Americans that forces everyone to fund abortions. The only escape will be if individual states pass opt-out provisions to the program, which will be difficult to implement.

On Page 41 (lines 5-8) of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s manager amendment, the proposed rules mandate that everyone buying insurance through new exchanges or through the new government-run plan must pay a monthly abortion premium to be used for elective abortion services. This fee applies “without regard to the enrollee’s age, sex or family status.” That means that people who have no possibility of wanting an abortion themselves will pay for others to have them. On Page 43 (lines 1-7), insurance companies will be required to assess the cost of elective abortion coverage, and on Page 43 (lines 20-22) they are mandated to charge a minimum of at least $1 per enrollee per month to cover abortion.

Rep. Bart Stupak, the Michigan Democrat who led a House revolt against abortion funding, calls the Senate language “a dramatic shift in federal policy.” The type of amendment approved by Mr. Nelson was voted down in the House.

Many Americans wanted to believe Mr. Nelson was a decent man of his word, but the senator caved in when his vote could have made a difference for the lives of the unborn. A politician can’t get any more despicable than that.