'Old' story. (Dec. 23.)

Now these are the kind of "Big Guns" I like. Thanks Applegrove. This is a victory for Democracy.

It wont do us any good to improve voter turnout if the votes can be stolen.

We were just talking in our local Progressive Dem Group in my state about Harry Reid and newly elected PBO and what happened when our Dem Party cut out of states like NC and left the newly activist Dems in the ditch. Howard Dean's "50 State Strategy" had worked and a purple state like NC got him elected. Then it all fell apart with lack of support by Dem Party Leadership from the top. And Harry Reid is a disgrace, imho, that he took this long to use the Filibuster. But, maybe it wasn't Harry's fault but that Dem Party Corporate rulers pulled the plug because Dem Activists were too dangerous. They sure didn't care much for "Occupy Wall Street" or other efforts against Keystone, Monsanto and TPP. They didn't care that activists were trying to work to get the Diebold Type Voting Machines out of their states and work for Paper Ballot and Verifiable Voting. We were even holding our own alternate Progressive Conventions to get our ideas into the Dem State Party platform.

WE SHALL SEE. But at least it's being admitted what they did even though it's mostly too late for 2014 when the Repugs have locked things down by gerrymandering as they swept through in 2010 because we Dems didn't have the backing and support we needed in those states which got taken over in their State Legislatures by the Alec/Koch Republicans.

This Snip:

Under Bush, the Voting Right Sections was essentially dismantled to a large degree. A couple of bush appointees illegally hired idiots like Christian Adams for this section. Adams could have never been hired without the bush appointees using political criteria to hire this idiot. Bush political appointees overruled the DOJ staff on issues such as redistricting and the Georgia voter id law. Here are some excerpts from the Inspector General report http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/03/justice_department_s_inspector_general_report_is_the_voting_rights_section.html

The record of political bias in the Justice Department’s voting section during President George W. Bush’s administration is well-known. (The department’s voting section is charged with enforcing the Voting Rights Act and other federal voting laws.) We know from earlier reports that election officials, including Monica Goodling, went on a hiring binge to hire conservative attorneys to work in the section and, in the words of Bush appointee Bradley Schlozman, to “gerrymander all those crazy libs right out of the section.” We know that senior Justice Department officials in the Bush era, including Hans von Spakovsky, overruled the recommendations of career civil-service attorneys in the section to approve Georgia’s controversial voter identification law. And we know that the Justice Department during the Bush era made decisions widely perceived to help Republicans, such as approving Texas’s mid-decade re-redistricting of its congressional seats to create more safe Republican seats, an effort partially overturned by the Supreme Court after finding it violated the Voting Rights Act.