Crooks Cook Dems' Books?
This is astounding, and coming to you straight from the "liberal media." Jonah Goldberg, a hack of the first order, gets this lead-in to his LA Times op-ed: "For Democrats, allowing felons to exercise the franchise isn't a matter of justice, it's a way to get votes."
Just the sort of snappy line that makes right-wingers drool and people who like to think shudder. At least he's, uhhhh... intellectually honest. After all, Goldberg admits that it isn't just because Democrats have a "simpatico outlook with thieves, robbers and rapists." What a relief!
His grand conclusion? "If you are having an intelligent conversation with somebody, is it enriched if a mob of uninformed louts, never mind ex-cons and rapists, barges in?" Classic GOP reasoning-- screw the people, voting should be a right of the privileged. Undoubtedly, Goldberg believes that his cronies at the Weekly Standard are just the folks to decide who qualifies. After all, they've produced several thought-provoking and intelligent arguments on the right to vote (thanks to Kevin Drum for this, link to follow):
"The [Weekly Standard] ran an article in 1965 opposing the Voting Rights Act because, "Over most of this century, the great bulk of Southern Negroes have been genuinely unqualified for the franchise[.]" The [magazine's founder] wrote sympathetically that, "In much of the South, what is so greatly feared is irresponsible, mobocratic rule, and it is a fear not easily dissipated, because it is well-grounded that if the entire Negro population in the South were suddenly given the vote, and were to use it as a bloc, and pursuant to directives handed down by some of the more demagogic leaders, chaos would ensue[.]"
Hopefully they'll have a spot for Rush Limbaugh on the committee-- the man who advocated maximum penalties for casual drug users, then enlisted the aid of the ACLU to help him beat his own drug rap. Oh, and George W., who was arrested, but conveniently managed to avoid doing time.
Think about it, folks: GOP activists are publicly suggesting that we curtail citizens' rights to vote. Unless they're connected. Sounds like fascism to me.
Here's Drum's piece:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_03/005798.php
Just the sort of snappy line that makes right-wingers drool and people who like to think shudder. At least he's, uhhhh... intellectually honest. After all, Goldberg admits that it isn't just because Democrats have a "simpatico outlook with thieves, robbers and rapists." What a relief!
His grand conclusion? "If you are having an intelligent conversation with somebody, is it enriched if a mob of uninformed louts, never mind ex-cons and rapists, barges in?" Classic GOP reasoning-- screw the people, voting should be a right of the privileged. Undoubtedly, Goldberg believes that his cronies at the Weekly Standard are just the folks to decide who qualifies. After all, they've produced several thought-provoking and intelligent arguments on the right to vote (thanks to Kevin Drum for this, link to follow):
"The [Weekly Standard] ran an article in 1965 opposing the Voting Rights Act because, "Over most of this century, the great bulk of Southern Negroes have been genuinely unqualified for the franchise[.]" The [magazine's founder] wrote sympathetically that, "In much of the South, what is so greatly feared is irresponsible, mobocratic rule, and it is a fear not easily dissipated, because it is well-grounded that if the entire Negro population in the South were suddenly given the vote, and were to use it as a bloc, and pursuant to directives handed down by some of the more demagogic leaders, chaos would ensue[.]"
Hopefully they'll have a spot for Rush Limbaugh on the committee-- the man who advocated maximum penalties for casual drug users, then enlisted the aid of the ACLU to help him beat his own drug rap. Oh, and George W., who was arrested, but conveniently managed to avoid doing time.
Think about it, folks: GOP activists are publicly suggesting that we curtail citizens' rights to vote. Unless they're connected. Sounds like fascism to me.
Here's Drum's piece:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_03/005798.php
posted by Matt Sandwich | 10:27 PM
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