Arkansas Blog

How would Woodrome prove his citizenship? Or that he isn't brain dead, for that matter.

I'm with you on this one, Max.

Good grief...

If that isn't a campaign killer I don't know what is...

Let's just ask all of the scary brown people for their papers there Woodroome...

Yeah, just a good stamp across the forehead would do it...LEGAL...

No need for a stamp on the forehead: A yellow armband would work just fine.

Would it not be easier to just assume all brown people are illegal?

How about a sombrero emblem on the yellow armband?

Tattoo Bar Codes on foreheads? It would be cheaper to mark the bigots like Woodrome, than all the brown people.

Unfortunately the US Supremes are aligned with the Woodrome mentality if you noticed their recent ruling Indiana voting ID requirements. I wonder if this put a dent in Pryors pending anti immigrant bill?

Voter ID is investing scarce resources in a problem that doesn't exist.

Indiana Democrats challenged the GOP to produce one case of voter fraud when they introduced and passed the stupid law the Supremes validated today.

They produced no evidence.

"Voter fraud" was invented by Karl Rove's predecessor in voter suppression, William Rehnquist of Arizona. Yes, that William Rehnquist. It's how he made his bones in the Arizona GOP.

Investing government resources in voter suppression (and that's what voter ID is voter suppression) is more Disaster Capitalism at work. Solving a problem that simply
does.
not.
exist.

So if the Arkansas SOS office sent you a free voter ID card, how would that suppress you?

Our friend Arkansas Red knows full well that the intent of the voter ID movement is to suppress the vote among groups perceived as Democratic voters. Suppressing this vote has been the strategy of the Republican dirty tricks department for several years, and the voter ID is just one tactic in this effort. Pretending that the intent is to eliminate voter fraud is just a smokescreen, an ostensibly acceptable rationale for what is at its heart antidemocratic and reprehensible.

Pay-pahs! Vee must hahve your pay-pahs! (Vee hahve vays of makeeng you tahllk...)

I'll lose most of you because I agree with old Red that a little proof of who I am equal to what is required to use my credit card or get into Silver Dollar City seems reasonable enough to vote.

But this Woodrome guys is a scary reminder that many "conservatives" these days are really fascists, not civil libertarians. They claim to honor our Founding Fathers, but Jefferson and Washinton would be appalled that police might stop one and ask for papers just to continue on one's way.

From today's Wall Street Journal:

Justice Scalia, joined by Justices Thomas and Alito, concurred in upholding the Indiana law, but went even further, and in a footnote suggested that even poll taxes, if imposed equally, might be constitutional.

The poll tax--a draconian, discriminatory measure designed to prevent both poor whites and African-Americans from voting--was abolished by the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Antonin Scalia, who came across so charming and smooth and self-effacing on "60 Minutes" the other night, unequivocally supports suppressing the right to vote. It's no accident that George W. Bush named Scalia as his "model" for a Supreme Court justice.

Brandon...more like Brandon't

Okay, Pavel. I put the question to you:

So if the Arkansas SOS office sent you a free voter ID card, how would that suppress you?

Arkansas Red,
it suppresses people because the SoS office doesn't drive to your house and give you a free government ID card...you have to have original birth records or other documents to prove who you are...which you must pay for if you don't have the originals (less likely if you are poor)
If you can't come up with those documents to get the ID, then you would have to file for indigency to vote...requiring you to travel to your county courthouse at least once per election...and if you've seen gas prices you should understand why this could be an economic burden equivalent to poll taxing.
Also, Arkansas doesn't exactly have statewide affordable public transportation.
ID laws = voter suppression.
If an election looks fishy we go to great lengths to recount anyway...

Your gas argument doesn't hold water. If it did, you could argue that Barack Obama is encouraging voter suppression by being opposed to a reduction in federal gasoline taxes.

You could craft a law where the SOS will come to you, if needed.

What's that you say, Red? Are you calling for expansion of government services? Do, please, have "someone from the SOS" come to my house to help me out. That sounds very convenient. I live three hours from Little Rock.

If it secures the vote of the electorate, yes. Maybe we use some of that severance money.

As for three hours from LR, move out of the sticks?

Dear Jesus,
It's your number 1 Sebastian County detractor again. I shouldn't be bothering you, and I wouldn't be bothering you, but Jesus! er....uh, excuse my outburst.....I wouldn't be bothering you except it's kinda important to a lot of other people who live around me. You see, for many years the church folks in Fort Baptist have been digging up pure idiots and running them for office. Then because they got more buses than the rest of us, these bozos get elected over and over...and thank you Jesus for term limits!

These yahoos go around talking about you and your Dad 24-7 while wearing the flag like foreskin, but when their not in LR slanting the laws to favor their personal businesses, they're coming up with laws to require school children to pray every morning (sorry, unConstitutional) or think up a Jesus class or worse....thinking of ways to ship the black people back to Africa and new ways to harass the Mexican folks who are doing all the hard work in this county.

They make you look like a jerk, and I gotta say, if you're keeping company with these charlatans, you might oughta get a checkup and make sure you don't have the Alzheimer's. You just can't imagine how these dickheads (sorry Lord) make us look over here on the left side of the state. I've been telling people I meet that I'm from Pine Bluff.....yeah, Pine Bluff...that's how bad it's been.

So Jesus, I know you're busy with the Surge an all, but we really need your help electing someone from Fort Baptist that isn't corrupt or stupid or both. I know a lot of people over here and a whole lot of them are pretty smart and pretty good folks. So why do we have to keep having these buffoons making us look bad to the rest of the state. Jesus! Oh.....sorry again.

This Woodrome feller is about 12, so it's no surprise that he's got such FK'ed up (shit..oh....excuse me) ideas about how humans treat other humans. I just visited his website and threw up a little bit in my mouth. Can't you work a little magic and save FS from this goofy little bastar.....kid? Is it possible for Fort Smith to just forfeit our representation in LR? None would be a hell of a lot better than sending dumbasses (ack) down there year after year that reduce the collective IQ the minute they walk into the chamber.

You beat us up pretty bad with your little hailstorm the other night....can't you make it up by sending this stooge Woodrome to Iraq where he belongs? God knows we need more conservatives in Iraq instead of here hoping the war for oil lasts for 100 years.

Anyway, Jesus...I know you don't like me, but if you'll take a little look at Fort Smith's reps...you'll see that I'm a real peach next to them. Help us out a little here. I promise to go a little lighter on chasv if you'll throw us a bone now and then. So in the name of holy folks and yada yada.....Amen

PS....could you send us a sign that you too hate Mark W. Pryor? A hooker tell-all would be nice. Info on his secret Cayman Islands Bush Brothers bank account would be nice. Maybe him and LIEberman naked in bed? Just help....pretty please?

PS...the little girl running against Woodrome in the primary is cute, but can't be very smart if she works where she works. Might see a Democrat in this seat. (thanks in advance Lord)

I can't tell you the number of times I (and others) was ID'd because we were walking through town with backpacks, just like the ones that EVERYONE uses today. This was about 25-30 years ago, when if you looked ANYTHING like a "hippie" you were stopped and questioned.

Then there was the time we were walking through a town after eating, going back to the fleabag hotel we were staying at, and were stopped by the police and ID'd in the 80's. I didn't have an ID on me, because we were just going to the restaurant. They were aghast at that fact. We were aghast at the fact they stopped us for walking down the street and hassled us! Funny thing is, we were working as garbage haulers at the time and our vehicle had died, so we had to stay in town to work. They could have seen us every day out there picking up the garbage if they had just looked.

This seems to always happen when the Repubs are in power. They hate or are fearful of everyone that doesn't drive everywhere, it seems, and anyone that doesn't dress and look like them.

"little girl" ?? That's how you customarily refer to grown women now? And, she's cute? Hope that's not the standard for political office, or any other position.

I'm just sayin'