Unfortunately for Holder and ObamaCo, this time that state is Texas — and they don’t seem to be in the mood to be used as yet another Obama vibrator.
First, Holder’s agenda:
Two important developments this morning. First: Attorney General Eric Holder will announce that the Justice Department will initiate broad nationwide attacks on election integrity measures like Voter ID using the remaining portions of the Voting Rights Act. Last month, the Supreme Court struck down the 1965 triggers that forced 15 states to submit election law changes to Washington D.C. for federal approval.
Second: despite the Supreme Court’s ruling, the Justice Department announced it will try to recapture Texas under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act by showing the state continues to act with a racially discriminatory intent when passing voting laws.
Some of Holder’s reaction is because dozens of highly paid federal employees are now idled. James Buchanan won the Nobel Prize in economics by explaining Holder’s actions as public choice theory — bureaucrats announce policies to help bureaucrats, even if disguised as an act inspired by a public purpose.For the last few weeks, Voting Section employees have taken extended coffee breaks, and even more extended lunches. But there was hope — outgoing Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez referred to the state of Louisiana as the “full employment for Voting Section lawyers state.”
That means Governor Bobby Jindal can expect more targeting by the DOJ Voting Section.
But this announcement is all about the midterm elections. Obama wants the House back, and the Justice Department is again being turned into a political weapon using the cloak of civil rights. This has become the new civil rights model. Because Democratic interests are so perfectly aligned with the civil rights establishment — in no small measure because of extreme bloc voting by American blacks — the DOJ is now an arm of the DNC.
And next, the reaction in Texas, with my paraphrasing:
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is responding quickly and forcefully to Obama Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to rope Texas back into the Voting Rights Act. The US Supreme Court just struck part of that law down.
(Essentially, he says “bring it, bitches.”)
A minute later, Abbott followed up with another Tweet.
(Essentially, noting that Holder is the baby lapdog bitch to Obama’s Alpha bitch, both of whom plan to treat SCOTUS as a fire hydrant)
The facts are on Abbott’s side. Texas specifically modeled its voter ID law on Indiana’s. That law has already been taken all the way to the US Supreme Court and was upheld. The Texas law enjoys widespread support across all ethnicities in the state. Only the Texas Democrat Party and its allies oppose it.
The Obama administration has been very consistent about opposing laws that buttress election security, and it has been very consistent about punishing states that don’t get in line with Obama’s radical agenda. Holder’s lawsuit is just another example of both.
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Update: Texas Gov. Rick Perry posted the following statement on his Facebook page.
“Once again, the Obama Administration is demonstrating utter contempt for our country’s system of checks and balances, not to mention the U.S. Constitution. This end-run around the Supreme Court undermines the will of the people of Texas, and casts unfair aspersions on our state’s common-sense efforts to preserve the integrity of our elections process.”
Update: Land Commissioner and Lt. Gov candidate Jerry Patterson responds.
DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS – The latest federal attack on Texas has been launched today, and Eric Holder is back in his role as Barack Obama’s chief aggressor. There is no longer any pretense about hiding the partisan agenda to target our state. This latest attack is not about voting rights, and everything to do with destroying and diminishing the success of the Lone Star State. Our very existence is an affront to this administration, but we aren’t going anywhere, and we aren’t scared of a fight. Better dig in for the long haul, my fellow lovers of liberty – this is just the beginning.
Update: True the Vote, which is one of the victims of the scandals that President Obama called “phony” yesterday, responds.
(Yup. We think you’re a mouthy little lapdog bitch and race hustler, too, Eric. So prepare to watch us stand our ground.)
Update: State Sen. Dan Patrick, who is also running for Lt. Gov. gets a bank shot on Wendy Davis.
(Dear Wendy: I’d tell you to bring your army of supporters with you to DC to speak with the President, but in a kind of surpreme irony, you’ve advocated for aborting most of them. So…)
Here’s a thought.: I’m no military guy, but the land mass of Texas and a few neighboring states that may be lured into forming a separate republic, is certainly substantial enough to fit classical liberals, constitutionalists, libertarians, and legal conservatives all quite comfotably. So all that would need be done in preparation for a new Declaration of Independence would be to wait for the universities, particularly in Austin, to go on spring break, use that moment to sweep in and remove the other statist hippies and performance artists / buskers from their squats and coffee houses, then lock down the statw’sborders — requiring those who wish to get back in to pass a test on our Constitution, the Declaration, the Bill of Rights, and some basic national history – the kind of tests we’ve given those wishing to become citizens.
Those who either can’t or who refuse can head to California, Maryland, Illinois, or what have you, and live the remainder of their selfless, tolerant, progressive lives out in Utopian bliss — free from the racists and the xenophobes and the bitterclingers with their guns and their religion that have so poisoned the country.
And of course, cheap fuel.
Let California worry about border enforcement, and let the liberal wonderland of diversity assimilate all the noble roofers and nannies and dishwashers they can handle.
Honestly, they get what they want and we get what we want. It’s a win win! And when in five or ten years the entire country outside of the new republic collapses, we can buy much of it back, bail out the rest, and create new laws that will forever prevent progressivism and Marxism to darken our doors again.
Like Attaturk, only with cool hats and snakeskin boots.
Serious question: Just what sort of punishment does Holder and Co. think they can dish out?
Withhold federal dollars? Um, well, Texas can just stop sending dollars to Washington.
Arrest Gov. Perry and cohorts? (Texas would be turning away citizens at the border who want to get a piece of whomever tries to arrest Perry)
I’ve got it…Holder will mail a sternly worded letter, guaranteed to raise an eyebrow hair on Governor Perry.
That’ll teach ’em!!
Reminds me of George Straight singing, “All my X’s live in Texas.”
Q: How many chiggers does it take to hold a free and fair election?
A; None. Chiggers are incapable of holding elections.
Serious question: Just what sort of punishment does Holder and Co. think they can dish out?
That gets to the heart of my argument for states fighting back to reclaim some lost liberty and sovereignty. I’ve started calling it the “Yeah? Or else what?” campaign.
Squid, I can see where a few States might decide it’s better to fall in line than hold the line. However, Texas isn’t one of them.
I suppose Holder making the statement about suing Texas is part and parcel of the current White House campaign of “Distract and Deny.”
Most of the states in vast middle of the country, including Texas and Oklahoma, have been quietly passing legislation with regard to state sovereignty since the Wan has held office. We’re bullet-proof.
“I’ve started calling it the “Yeah? Or else what?” campaign.”
I’d really rather not see Civil War II, personally.
However, the outcome might be different this time around. Last time the North had all the money, the industry, and the population. That’s no longer the case.
The “red” states also have most of the food, energy, and guns, and account for a vastly disproportionate number of military personnel (the last one was also true in Civil War I, which is why the South was able to hold out so long).
The DoJ statue of blindfolded LadyJustice extending a balance has become the victim of Eric Holder’s rapey sexual advances, though unlike his boss’ use of force on LadyLiberty, it is Holder’s distinct pleasure to make for the backdoor so to avoid the possibility of conception.
It is only means civil war if Obama wants to keep the the treasonous racists cracker states and the Chinese will lend him the money.
This would seem to be a very stupid move for the administration, given SCOTUS recent ruling and the Indiana precedent which has passed Constitutional muster. I cannot see how the administration gets a win, either in court or if Texas invokes its rights under the 9th and 10th Amendments. Unless, of course, this is precisely the reaction the administration wants . . .
Until somebody tells John Roberts that reconquering the middle states and turning them into massive internal Gitmos is just a tax.
Insty:
Consistency indeed. If there’s a power to be had, Obazmites will use it for partisan political purposes.
What were they afraid of –a bruised ego?
David Ubben, the severely wounded Diplomatic security agent who was with Ambassador Stevens and Sean Smith is approached by Fox News. We can hope to hear more from him in the coming months.
What were they afraid of –a bruised ego?
Who can say? Perhaps, when the Emperor prances past in his new clothes, it won’t do to have an observant child commenting by the wayside within ear-shot of anyone capable of hearing?
carlos danger had no problem showing off his new “clothes”
sdferr, reading stories like that, I’m reminded of what the military of Imperial Japan did after Midway: the survivors were sent all over the place except Japan to prevent news of the defeat from leaking to the public.
the chicago marxist school of politics
Obama Honors Japan’s Culture of Hard Work and Meritocratic Achievement By Naming Caroline Kennedy Ambassador
NR, why did I know that was an Ace post?
it is pithy?
or you saw minx.cc
or carlos danger told you
“Until somebody tells John Roberts that reconquering the middle states and turning them into massive internal Gitmos is just a tax.”
John Roberts has made his decision; now let him enforce it?
could someone in texas call holder “a creepy ass cracka”? it is rj3.O! approved.
He’s welcome to come and give it a try. We’re givers that way.
Scribe,
If I had the chance, the first question I’d ask Edward Snowden is “what does the NSA have on Justice Roberts?”
The link is subtly sarcastic.
That seems to be the Obamarrhoids’ attitude toward the VRA decision. Maybe making it unanimous would lead to… interesting times.
we need a darleen photoshop of the “creepy ass crackas” baracky and holder
Ray V. Hartwell: Lois Lerner’s Ace in the Hole
*** The odds that Lerner will choose to rely on ace-in-the-hole Holder are enhanced by the fact that she, her lawyer, her superior Mr. Wilkins, and numerous others involved are all reported to be staunch supporters of (and generous campaign contributors to) President Obama. They share a common interest in doing what’s best for Team Obama, and they were listening when the President said that his administration will reward its friends.
Lerner’s motivation to stonewall will be no different if the committee seeks to compel her testimony. A Congressional immunity order would not protect Lerner from prosecution based on evidence already in the record, which could be used without any reliance on her immunized testimony. Likewise, such an order would not protect her from prosecution for perjury or the like should she lie when testifying under immunity. But Congress itself has no power to prosecute her. Congress can only refer the matter to DOJ, where her ace in the hole — the political appointee who can kill the case — remains our Attorney General, Eric Holder. ***
Up against the wall, motherfucker.
see baracky and holder be “creepy ass crackas”
link
Didn’t those college Republicans get the message? The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet Obama.
oh my
link
embrace your outlaw: dc be filled with ” creepy ass crackas”
What have you being, say, Colorado? Newly blue and proudly progg?
Naw, I think something we need to wrap our brains around is, it isn’t necessarily states that are Utopian, but rather it seems to be an urban problem.
As with Colorado, where, after exiting Denver or the richer environs like Vail the people are staunchly individualistic, most of California, after exiting the coastal enclaves and DC on the Sacramento, rural Californians are about as patriotic as Texans.
I don’t know how you get around it; until the second world war or thereabouts, most of the population was involved in agriculture, rural, and self sufficient. Now, most of the population is urban and reliant on public services, like public transportation and the like.
Sometimes I wonder if societal evolution is just moving faster than “conservatives” can handle. With world population graphs going vertical, time and space being compressed through technology, and an ever increasing demand for energy, compromises incompatible with classical liberal philosophy might be inevitable for political survival.
This would be the “apocalypse” certain Jews foretold of…
orangeman: be a “creepy ass cracka” with his side kicks
attack the “creepy ass crackas” like baracky,reid, boehner and mcconnel. shut down with the “creepy ass crackas”
An ever increaseresources I shoulda said…
Shit. An ever increasing demand for resources…
If Holder & Co. can get to be you online just think of all the crimes you could commit and be charged for while you are sleeping or whatever. Ya’ll “creepy ass crackas.”
“An ever increasing demand for resources…”
yes let’s shut coal fired power plants NOW. hi baracky the aftershave.
– nr has wandered too far from his meds again.
Eh, he’s just entertaining himself BBH. I wouldn’t worry about it.
no he has not he’s talking about fascist energy policy
the last Team R nominee wanted to shut down coal plants too
they gets you with the porn thing too:
do a google news: “child porn” search. the gov’t be taking down peeps left and right.
“- nr has wandered too far from his meds again.”
nah just watching the train wreck in slo mo
“- nr has wandered too far from his meds again.”
you be the the guy “defending the gov’t entrapping peeps” go team r
the bbh
ain’t no judeo/christian morality between the proggtard stupidity and the mohammed tribalism.
page 104 p-o-t-p
It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to check up on you Jeff, and also the Protein Wisdom Crew. It’s gratifying to see that you are still fighting the good fight. As always, Jeff, yours is the most precise voice, and your ability to see through the bullshit–virtual and otherwise–has not weakened a whit! [Wow, I said “whit”!]
For the time being, I can engage in what you folks are working on.
I’ll be reading, and when I can, I’ll drop a note.
Cowboy
That’s the kind of thinking that had people in the thirties arguing about whose “third way” was better –Stalin’s, Hitler’s or Mussolini’s.
havel @ page 189
None other than Touré asks “Why can’t we just get over racism??? :(
I guess we’d better answer him.
Cowboy?
I thought you’d kicked the bukkit. Good to see you topside of the sod.
Thanks, dicentra: As it turns out, I thought so too. But I am at worst, embryonic now, trying to figure out what to do with a much smaller life.
Cowboy
and yet life can be a fraud on the sunny side of the sod
in food stamp’s america anyways
it’s best just to drink reasonably-priced wines and not overthink it
i find “orangeman vino” repulsive. yea it is cheap but,
it’s stale Mr. newrouter
bachmann voted for stale then what did she do
she up and quit
god i just respect the shit out of that woman
she’s the real fucking deal
Trust me, happy, the sunny side is best, and America’s free enterprise system produces wonderfully yummy and financially reasonable wines. It’s one of the things we do best.
I think the fact that she’s quitting tells us everything we need to know; about the standing of the Tea Party withing the Republican caucus, and about the direction the Republican party is headed in.
i only buy foreign wines now except for bravery blend
it’s a thing
p-o-t-p page45
hi nsa
I know that the culture here is to avoid the personal–but good night. I don’t want anyone to think I was uninterested in their comment(s) about Holder or post-partisanship, but my guiding star has told me to come to bed. And I think it’s always best to listen to those.
It’s good to be back and reading you all.
Cowboy
good night Mr. Cowboy it was nice to see you
orange/mcconnel vino- half assed whine
hooray mr cowboy good dreams to you
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Great to see you, Cowboy, and hope to see more of you soon.
All Texas needs to do is to present Holder’s response to the New Black Panthers as an example of what isn’t happening in Texas.
… I’m lurking lately because all I want to do is rant like a lunatic.
Rep Sensenbrenner, Republican of Wisconsin, is found by a leftist news rag [headline “. . . Is Legally Justified . . . “] to have come to AG Holder’s defense.
Or does he?
Possibly in the same sense that Angela Corey was “legally justified” to end-run a grand jury and indict George Zimmerman on 2nd degree murder, type ‘justified’.
Apologies, I failed to leave the link above.
EXCLUSIVE: RNC Operatives Join Holder’s Campaign Against Texas, Several Other States
From your lips to God’s ears, Goldstein.
LMC? That’s all I ever do, and you’re far better at it than I, so please, rant away!!
If looking at real world 21st century problems is confined to the thinking of fascists and commies, our situation is more dire than I thought.
Incompatible with classical liberal political philosophy is little else than not reading books about it, then thinking the problems over. Surely it isn’t the case that human evolution runs past a commonality between men of the 16th century (or for that matter of 450 BC) and men of our time. Yet, it’s becoming a truism of a sort that this refusal to read, think and discuss is the common condition of American education, but nothing about technological advancement prevents reading. What prevents reading are conscious choices out of a political stance to avoid counter argument altogether, which the progressives in authority in American schools are more than happy to do.