http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7102435/site/newsweek/pullquote
Do liberals who oppose state laws denying felons the right to vote also oppose laws denying felons the right to own guns?
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Under the stopped-clock principle—even a stopped clock is right twice a day—let the record show that Sens. Barbara Boxer and Hillary Clinton and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Democrats from California, New York and Ohio, respectively, have a tenuous hold on a piece of a point in their election-reform bill that is, however, generally dreadful and, in parts, patently unconstitutional.
The Count Every Vote Act, which might better be called the What's a Little Fraud Among Friends? Act, reflects monomania—the idea that anything that increases the number of ballots cast is wonderful. So the act would make Election Day a federal holiday—and would require states to have Election Day registration, which is an invitation to fraud.
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This op-ed is is just so full of smug bullshit and liberal vilification I can't even see straight. The comparison between allowing felons the right to vote to the right to bear arms has got to be the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard.
He suggests that the proposed bill is a calculated move by Clinton/Boxer/Tubbs to increase democratic votes because most felons would likely vote that way. Then he goes on to say that the better "conservative" argument for allowing felons to vote has more to do with involving felons in the community and there is something wrong with criminal penalties that don't end. He doesn't say what grand poobah conservatives have argued this, just that it's a good idea and a conservative one. Refers to the contesting the election by Boxer and Tubbs as a collaboration "in delaying for two hours the certification of George W. Bush's Ohio electoral votes to protest alleged Election Day voting problems in that state."
Later he cries crocodile tears over Clinton who "....seems to be in the chrysalis stage, about to flutter forth as a butterfly of gorgeous moderation. Association with this legislation cannot be helpful. ...she has distanced herself from her party's chairman and OTHER CRAZIES regarding Iraq." (The ALL CAPS are mine.)
I say, Fuck you George Will and the stinking carcass of the conservative nag you rode in on.
Whadayasay people? Shall we give this guy a little reality check?
Let's set this asshole and the editors that printed this tripe straight.