Woops ! Should be U.S. citizens above.

"We still don't know who actually voted"...typical losing rant of a government union hack. When the SEIU folks are just about dragging uninvolved folks to the polls to get registered and then vote how the SEIU tells them to vote...we get the "one man-one vote" mantra.

But when a vote turns out in a way the unionistas don't like, well then they need to take a closer look at "who actually voted". "One man-one vote" goes out the window if the union hacks don't like the results.

Public sector unions represent democrats!!!

Get rid of PUBLIC sector unions, we want tpo be "fair" don't we?

Democrats are out to run the middle class broke with their need to fund their union votes.

Private sector unions are OK with the majority of Americans.

I just love the "enact STRICT" voter requirements". IDENTIFICATION? How cruel!!!!

The United States is a UNION.

I support working people and voting rights for the people.

Our country has many problems. There is a REAL NEED for more people to understand and VOTE.

Union workers DO SUPPORT BUSINESSES AND GOVERNMENT.

Business wants to be successful and grow. Government is a neccessary evil. We need GOOD government. Every single person United or otherwise through voteing can help make the changes for better life here in America.

I ask anyone who can to vote. I feel voting is only ONE of the most important things you can do as an American.

I also ask that YOU support Union workers. There is good and bad with most anything if you want to find it or make it so. BUT ! If you want better for yourself and the country get out and vote on election day. IT IS IMPORTANT.

I do not support people who REFUSE TO VOTE. Especially the ones who have never voted and have complaints about the Government, ecomony, and just about anything that happens. They to me are wasteing their time and mine.

Get out and vote. It will do you good.

Ah yes, the "Progressive" Unions seeking to keep illegal voters on the voter registration lists. And they still can't see the connection between the massive loss of manufacturing jobs to 3rd world labor, and the union pressure on businesses to raise wages and benefits. It's a changing world. The unions didn't adapt, and so they go the way of the Dinosaur.

The problem for the Democrats this time around is lack of enthusiasm, because Obama did almost nothing he promised, in spite of having complete control with a Democratic Congress for his first 2 years (part of it filibuster proof).

With such a dismal economic record, Obama is perceived as a FAILURE.

To: Leftists, Occupiers, Unionists, Malcontents, etc.

Thank you! What an election! We couldn't have done it without you. Without your tantrums, outbursts and boorish behavior we might have stayed home for this election. Without your filthy, pot smoking hemp-headed minions occupying and violating the Capitol we might have been complacent. Without your obnoxious protests, boycotts and other actions from your union playbook, we might have sat this one out. But you couldn't hold back. You couldn't restrain yourselves and behave like adults. You couldn't accept the 2010 election results. We sat and watched as you erupted in a juvenile hissy fit that embarrassed Wisconsin .. The spectacle you created is what motivated us.

And thanks to your ill-mannered behavior, we won. We turned out. Big time! And now we are organized and energized -- committed -- "all in". And we aren't going away. We now have our own organizations (no dues required), an army of volunteers and the means to communicate, as well as countless new sources of funding, including a donor base from all 50 states. And we have "verify the recall" to ferret out your infiltrators in our future local elections.

So thank you Mike Tate, Graeme Zielinski, Fred "Loony" Levenhagen, Ismael Ozanne, Maryanne Sumi, Noble Ray, Charles Tubbs, Joanne Kloppenberg, Segway Boy, public employee union activists, UW TA's, WEAC, SEIU, MTI, AFSCME Council 24 in Union Grove and WI prison guards. Thanks for the death threats, the intimidation, the bullying, belligerence, thuggery and goonish behavior and the lack of ethics and the failure to enforce rules and laws. Thank you for putting your selfish, greedy motives on display for all taxpayers to see. Your antics might have made you feel good but they didn't make you look good. They sickened the rest of us.

Thank you Shirley Abrahamson and Ann Walsh Bradley. Your petty politics woke us up. Thank you Miles Kristan for dumping the beer on Robin Vos' head; University doctors for writing the phony excuses; Madison teachers for calling in sick or dragging your students to the protests without permission; Katherine Windels for making death threats against the Governor; the noontime capitol singers who taunted Sheboygan high school students; WEAC Trust for raping Wisconsin taxpayers. Especial thanks to Gwen Moore for her embarrassing minstrel show and all those ignorant folks for harassing the Walker family at their private home. You have all been exposed. Your tactics have been rejected. Your bad behavior has been forever captured on You Tube.

Some additional thanks go to Peter Barca and fellow Assembly members for donning your foolish orange T-shirts and screaming "shame" at legislators just doing their jobs and to Mark Miller and all 14 senators for fleeing the state and making fools of yourselves in the process. Illinois needs a few more village idiots. Thanks for showing us what democracy doesn't look like.

And Mayor Barrett -- how grateful we are that you chose one low road after another in your issue-less campaign against the Governor. This was your strike three. You are out. Take a seat on the bench and stay there. We have a hunch this was your final at-bat.

All of you are helping turn Wisconsin permanently red. Your Governor, Scott Walker, will not just complete his first term, he is all but assured as many future terms as he seeks. He will be your governor for a long, long time. Get used to it. And his national "rock star" status just might lead him to be your President some day. Just think, it couldn't have happened without you! So to all of you blue fisters, thank you from the bottom of our happy, red hearts.

Sincerely,

Wisconsin Taxpayers

voter fraud is a red herring put out there by the radical right in order to keep people from voting, i.e. the poor who are more likely not to have a driver's license and minorities, especially those who live is in big cities and live in depressed areas and don't normally have i.d. and of course it will affect the elderly, many of whom don't drive and don't have an id. many of them can't get to the dmv to get a state id because they are disabled and don't have anyone to help them. my own mother never had any kind of id for 83 years because she was never able to drive due to a severe disability and she relied on my dad. when he died and she came to live with me, we had to get her a state id. it was a nightmare! they wouldn't accept her birth certificate because she had married! if she hadn't have had her marriage certificate, i guess she would have been deemed a non person and although her family has been in this country for hundreds of years, under your ideal SHE wouldn't have been allowed to vote! something you don't understand about voting and registering. now listen carefully-if you don't vote in a general election you are no longer registered and even if your name is still in some list, you have to re-register! don't believe me? go ask your state voting registration organization. so, all those dead people who are on the roles whose names are being used in the HUGE conspiracy by the left to STEAL the elections isn't going to happen. in this country voter fraud is something that until the right wing radicals decided to make it an issue was nothing. for crying out loud, we can't even get 50% of the voting public to get off their lazy butts every four years and spend 10 minutes of their precious time to go vote! and you think there's some conspiracy? show me PROOF!

there is none. what there is, is a push by very powerful people to take away the rights of valid, honest americans from voting because they might not vote the way you want them to. if anyone is involved in a conspiracy, it is the right. my mother, who for her entire adult life voted for republicans, is so sick of all of the lies being told, the dirty name calling of our president (she didn't vote for him in 2008) and the disgusting record and party politics going on in congress that she is going to vote against the republican party for the first time in her life. she's been around a lot longer than most of you here and she's seen her party of favor, (as have i because i also was a republican for years) change from an organization that cared about people to one who has sold its collective soul to the radical religious right and big business overlords for 30 pieces of silver. she's a better person than all of you put together and deserves to vote probably more than any of you, yet you would keep her from doing that if you could. won't work.

I will vote on behalf of what is good for the American worker, not what is good for the so called job creators. Teabaggers hurt the people in 2010 when they ran on jobs and never passed a jobs bill. Gov, rick scott in fl told all voters he had a 700 jobs plan. 700 million jobs in 7 years, but he did not tell the voters where these jobs were going. All I have seen is thousands of lay offs, police, fire fighters, teachers. I see a pattern, maybe that was the Teabaggers plan all along, it was to get rid of big government and government at the state and local level too? I do not believe in what the teabaggers say. Since they have been in office you hear nothing from them that will help the workers in America.

Unions only usefulness is that they are the fund raising arm of the democrats. They do not listed to their members at all.

Union or no union, I feel voting should be mandatory for every American 18 and above... I'm first generation American and both my parents immigrated from Ireland the both were naturalized in the early 1920's and never once after that did they ever not vote in all elections... The same goes for myself...

We need to get interested in voting and also getting money interest out of Washington...

Unions are bloated, greedy, corrupt business for profit now. Of course they are going to be scrambling trying to keep the money coming in. They are running scared after WI wised up and told them to pack their parasitic bags.

That should have been listen. Here is the info.

http://holgerawakens.blogspot.com/2011/03/chart-of-day-union-contributions-to.html

binfl

Republican House bills that went to the Senate:

HR910

HR1633

HR10

HR3010

HR527

HR3012

HR3094

HR2930

HR2940

HR1965

HR1070

HR1904

HR2273

HR2681

HR2250

HR2401

HR2587

There could be more, but I think you see the point.

Ask the Democrat controlled Senate when we can have a discusion on these items. Afterall they are mostly designed to help the American people with job creation. I know that some on the left will not agree with most of them but shouldn't the American people be able to see a discussion in the Senate regarding them? And I call BS on the fact that no jobs have been created since the republicans gained control of the House. The left cries that they haven't seen any jobs created by the republicans and then they spew all that crap about how many jobs this adminstration has created in the last two years. The only thing that changed was the control of the House. You lefties don't make a lot of sense sometimes. Your time will be up in November.

Wow, that's pretty amazing how corrupt they REALLY are! Union=democrat. We all KNOW they bought Obama's election, pretty funny though, he promised to put on his marching shoes for them, and then all he could do in WI was send a tweet.

Voter Requirements, Strict Voter Requirements, What's the difference, Bold Type? As far as I'm concerned I don't recall anybody saying we need the Unions for voter security. If that were the case I vote for The Hells Angels for my security. If the unions are there I'm going to need their help just to get to the door.

AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker refused to tell reporters how much the labor confederation will spend on the voter effort.....

The Unions dumped MILLIONS of dollars into trying to defeat Walker in the Wisconsin recall election and lost a heck of a lot of Union Workers fees/dues.

Now, they are going after voters in Six States ? I suppose the NLRB is behind this effort.

More UNION WORKERS $$$ going down the drain.

Time for the Union Workers to join hands with the OWS crowd and march to, and hold demonstrations in front of, the homes of the Union Leaders. (No violence please.....no rocks through the windows, no vehicle flatten tires, etc.)

Maybe it is time for a RECALL OF THE UNION LEADERS.

JH as long as strings are attached like the Tax Cut extension then I support telling them no way..... It is time for the Tea Party to get on board with making this country a better place rather then being Obstructionist..... Yes we need to reduce spending but we also need to increase income..... I know that if Mr. Romney gets to be president then what we went thru in 2008 is going to look like a walk in the park.....

Having to spend money and resources in 6 states that were "blue" in 2008...not a good sign for Obama's re-election bid.

Funny fact...democrats worship FDR...but, even FDR was against government sector unions while he was for public sector unions.

OHGuy

I don't think that there are any strings attached to the bills that were sent to the Senate. If the Senate wants to attach strings then let them. At least it is brought up to consider. I am for ALL the Bush/Obama tax cuts to expire. Iyt is the only way to really increase revenue to a point where it will matter. All cuts expiring would generate $trillions in ten years versus $billions. We need $trillions, it is only FAIR. We all benefit from government services. This administration has its eyes only on increasing taxes for the rich. They are the ones that are not negotiating.

JH

Of the bills listed, how many provide funds for new jobs and how many are for tax cuts for the rich? Tax cuts for the rich do NOT produce jobs, never have and never will.

Unions represent America !!!!

Unions Represent Unions!!!!

Go to a right to work state and you find ... the lowest wages and standard of living ..the worst teachers and the dumbest students .. the most discrimination against women and poor .. shoddy workmanship in manufacturing and service ... you cant expect people that work for a below standard wage to take pride in anything they manufacture .. pig farmers are pig farmers that is what you have with out unions ... Ronald Reagan wanted to bust the unions in America while he praised the solidarity union in poland

I'm not for any Union but maybe everyone needs to look at the Lowest average paying states, yep they are RED states, so people need to take off the blinders, do you all like living in poverty while your GOP puppet masters live like KINGS .....

It really isn't all that hard, leftys have to lie, if they come out and say, we want some one to pay our way, people won't like it

Independent voters swing elections. Independent voters are all ready registered voters.

I see the trolls of the plutocrats are out in force. Shilling for the failed policies of the republicans, trickle down, destroy the middle class, protect the elite. One day you will all feel really stupid for helping to destroy the foundation of the country.

Archie

Except that's not what they are saying and not what they want. You listen to the Fox liars too much who prey on the ill informed and the gullible.

"I'm not for any Union but maybe everyone needs to look at the Lowest average paying states, yep they are RED states, so people need to take off the blinders, do you all like living in poverty while your GOP puppet masters live like KINGS ....."

I'm non-union and I don't live in poverty. But then I don't pay union dues and live where the cost of living hasn't been driven up by falsely high union wages. You can have the high taxes and expensive housing in the union states.

I think politicians across the country are learning from the Wisconsin vote as well as the votes in San Diego and San Jose, California. The unions are fighting for their existence and President Obama was a "no show". The Democratic national party was a "no show". Personally, I don't have a problem with private sector unions. But, I believe that it should be left up to the individual if they choose to be a member. I have seen some pretty shady deals throughout the years where I have seen some people get some really raw deals. I do not believe in government sector unions. It pits government sector union members against the tax payers. Hardly a recipe for unity.

"Still assessing the lessons of its crushing defeat in last week’s Wisconsin recall election... to battle any legal impediments to voting."

"legal impediments to voting"? You mean like proving you are a LEGAL CITIZEN of the country whose future you are attempting to influence?

Obviously Unions haven't learned any more than the Democrats they own. American citizens do not support, and will never support, the use of their tax dollars for purchasing the votes of foreign criminals.

@ Ido, wrote "The Unions dumped MILLIONS of dollars into trying to defeat Walker in the Wisconsin recall election..." and to be exact here are the accounting of the Unions contributions to the Walker Recall Campaign = $4.5 million (with nearly $1.5 million during Democratic Primary) still that is 4.5 million out of a total 19.5 million (raised by Barrett) in comparison to Walker's 48 million. Here are the approximate contributions from the Unions.:

• NEA, AFSCME and the SEIU: $2 million total (much prior to Democratic Primary)
• The American Federation of Teachers, United Food and Commercial Workers, Teamsters and the United Autoworkers: (unknown) earlie estimate: $1.5 million total
• March 7, the NEA's super PAC, the NEA Advocacy Fund. sent $500,000
• April, the SEIU sent $500,000

Here is the approximate breakdown: http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/06/03/9039/wisconsin-recall-breaks-record-thanks-outside-cash

Outside Wisconson contributions: $33.5 million total. Walker supporters: 18 million, Barrett supporters: $15.5 million = $2.5 million (in Walker's favor)

In-state Candidate Campaign: 34.5 million total, Barrett (entered race in March 2012): $4 million, $30.5 million though Barrett didn’t enter the race until late March. = 25.5 million (in Walker's favor)

Hence overall, even with outside Wisconson Union help, Walker and his supporter out spent Barrett's campaign by 28 million dollars. That is a HUGE amount and well beyond the Union 4.5 millions in contribution!

Well, no one has to purchase votes for foreign criminals in Washington State. Heck, it is easier to register to vote than it is to go to the store and buy a gallon of milk.

The Washington State Voter Registration Form requires a date of birth, but not the City and State you were born at:

• https://wei.sos.wa.gov/agency/osos/en/voterinformation/Documents/WAVRFSept2009.pdf

And, Washington State hands out drivers licenses to Illegal Aliens (Immigrants) like a piece of candy:

Just how many illegal aliens might have Washington State licenses? In early 2011, DOL
released a list showing a total of 350,353 drivers who obtained their licenses
without divulging a Social Security number - if ever they possessed one. At a
town hall meeting in March, Washington State Senator Mary Margaret Haugen, who
chairs the state Transportation Committee, said that the number is over 400,000.

http://www.vdare.com/articles/why-are-400000-illegal-aliens-in-washington-state-driving-with-licenses

So, no need to verify or even indicate your place of birth on the voter registration form, just use your FRAUDULENTLY given Washington State Driver's License as an I.D. to vote.

Yep, DEMOCRATICs control Washington State.

thturd......I am so sure the Union Workers are really ovderjoyed by their Union bosses spending "Union 4.5 million in contribution" of their Union Worker fees/dues toward a frivolous Recall effort.

All this voter ID stuff has been studied already by the universities of Missouri, Delaware and Nebraska if i remember the right 3. In the 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006 elections and none were found to be detrimental to minority turnout. In fact the minority turnout increased in Indiana in 2006.

If it is racist to show an ID to vote, then why is it not racist to show ID for Beer, Cigarettes, cash a check, board a plane, rent a car, rent a hotel room, rent a book from the library, rent a movie and the dozen other things we are required to show ID for?

BigATC...............To answer your question. Buying beer, cigarettes, cashing a check, getting on a plane, renting a car, or hotel room or a book from the library...............these things are not guaranteed to us by the Constitution. Voting is our guaranteed right. And we as citizens don't need to show I.D. for that. We are guaranteed that right. Are you old enough to remember when Adolph Hitler used "showing papers" to take away rights in Germany? Is that really the direction you want to go in?

All this voter ID stuff told us by the Repugs that there is rampant voter corruption is a myth, too. Look up the statistics for that. So all of the hullabaloo about I. D. is not needed. Not wanted. And by the looks of the court decision on it..........is on it's way down the toilet where it belongs.

SoSick ;...............these things are not guaranteed to us by the Constitution. Voting is our guaranteed right. And we as citizens don't need to show I.D.

Gee SoSick, the right to vote is guaranteed to citizens. In no way is it unfair to require that you prove that you are a citizen to vote! All of the Motor voter registration and same day voter registration curtail the ability of the States to confirm citizenship. In effect, allowing people without the legal right to vote to vote anyway. This runs counter to the One Man, One Vote right guaranteed to CITIZENS. If you don't see the difference then you don't have any sense of logic or justice. In other words your call for fairness is a LIE.

Mr. Obama wins re-election if his campaign can find enough people who do not pay federal income taxes and enough people who are incapable of correctly spelling the President's full name. In this country, it won't be too hard to find plenty of both.

Tony- The presidential race is not a write-in.

Is that what the fox network told you ???

bodividesthepeople

There has never been an election where one party has made it it's sole objective and that is to make a President a one term president much to the detriment of the country. That is where your "Divide" began my friend bodi---- I would say that is why YOU and the entire right deserves the label "rabidly partison" 10 fold over anything the Democratic party has done. It will be one disaster for the country if enough people believe everything Romney and his super pacs have been saying in their speaches and tv ads. That my friend is where the ignorance lies.

Dan Rowland

Do you even have a clue where we would be today if President Obama had been able to implement everything he wanted? I thank the lord for the Republicans stopping him. His policies suck for America and he needs to to be a one term president.

Wesdg007

" Did I leave anyone out ? "

Aaaaaaa Yeaaa You Did. YOU left yourself out. The FREAKIN Haters. One step below a terrorist.

Well this is America. You are intitled to your opinion.

I just wonder. Were you born that way? or YOU BEEN THAT WAY ALL YOUR LIFE ? : (

Eliminate Public Sector Unions!!!! They work for "us" not a company or corporation. No more gouging your fellow citizens! FDR had it right, the "public work force" should never be unionized.

"voter suppression" a liberals term to allow voters to vote without a photo ID. No photo ID, no vote, period.

I see Fox news and the radical right have been pretty successful in their distortions or is it that they are better organized on these blogs. Musta read the book.

I liked voting in the old days, all you had to do was figure out which one was lying the least. now a days Democrates, Republicans, on the right, on the left, need another direction? we'll invent the Tea Party still not enough to confuse? let's throw some @!$%# in the mix and call it Super Pac. And now Unions telling me my rights. And all the minority and race oriented groups telling me more of the same. Oh yeh, let's not forget the Racist with Skinhead Rights. YEP, life used to be so simple.

Tell us DAN? Did you really think we were going to allow the inept, lying, quasi socialist in the white house to redistribute wealth?

Jesus Christ, do any of you right wing shills know anything about the economy? We are still under the goddamn Bush/republican trickle down policies because republicans refuse to work with Obama even if they used to agree with what he did. What moron would want to double down on those failed policies? Obama is a centrist and it is the radical right that has moved to crazy.
No wonder the republicans want to trash our education system, anybody with a brain can see what they are doing from a mile away.

A centrist?

Proving who you are when you register, does not insure that the same person will be attempting to vote under that name. That is why many states require voter I.D. and some want picture I.D.

dont feed leftardz inconveniant facts; they get agida

Job....

So any old witless voter without a clue is the target voter that you support and want more of. I'd almost prefer stealing an election because it shows ingenuity, rather than win election on the votes of uninterested nitwits.

All voters must sign their name at the polling place. The signature is compared with the one on file from registration.

Tony- You have to steal elections - like you said - so you make it harder for AMericans to to vote.

So far I myself have gotten 46 people registered.

Why weren't they already registered? Because they could care less. The only way you can them to vote is by going to their door with the registration forms, mailing it in for them and then arranging for an early voting station at a time and location you know they will already be.

Yo chief - "we the people" just handed the Unions their @s ses and will do again in every state where they challenge the peoples state gov't.

I'd get used to it if I were you - it will make dealing with your own incompetence much easier.

How bout the schools stop giving out them free condoms and bring in a couple sample voting machines and prepare the students how to use them around election time. Maybe if the students could get some pratice they would grow up and be better prepared for THE REAL WORLD.

Correct me if I'm wrong but, I never heard of anybody getting sexually transmitted desease from a voting machine. Sure sounds alot safer than some of them proms they go to. Another thing. When you go in to vote and if you're not pregnant you COME OUT NOT PREGNANT. Sounds safe to me. Voting does not require anyone to pay child support. So it's cheap. Does not cost a dime to play. Voting gives you POWER. You have some POWER of your destiny. Voting puts the odds in your favor. Less chances of picking a loser. The benifits voting brings YOU far outweigh other risk.

JUST SAY YES ! YES to vote. Some people even claim how well they feel after they voted.

It's good for YOU and GOOD FOR WHAT ALES THIS COUNTRY. So MAMMAs LET YOUR CHILDREN grow up and be voters. TEACH them the world is a mess. Don't let them sit around and suffer. Get them involved. Teach them respect and trust.

Scum bag unions ..time to heard the sheep in..vote our way..you don't even think..Union magats

Great register them, with a photo ID

You guys shilling for the plutocrats in the Philippines or India?

Or live in a neighborhood like mine. When you show up at the polling place, they call you by name and have it all ready for your signature. Of course, I think we only have something like 289 registered voters in my township (that's 94% of the population, by the way). And the volunteer fire department across the street has a chicken dinner from noon to 7:00 pm.

"Still assessing the lessons of its crushing defeat in last week’s Wisconsin recall election... to battle any legal impediments to voting."

"legal impediments to voting"? You mean like proving you are a LEGAL CITIZEN of the country whose future you are attempting to influence?

Obviously Unions haven't learned any more than the Democrats they own. American citizens do not support, and will never support, the use of their tax dollars for purchasing the votes of foreign criminals.

Duh, that is why you vote .... you vote in primaries and then again in the general election !

You can play the "corporate fear" game all you want, but at the end of the day "people" get elected.

Koch got the best government money can buy...

We did select. Walker. That's why the Unions are joining with La Raza and Obama to make sure illegals flood in and register to vote.

Jeff-1570172

" That's WHY the Unions ARE joining with La Raza and Obama TO MAKE SURE illegals flood in and REGISTER TO VOTE. "

Hmmmpt. I know I am sick. BUT ! Well some people are just SICKER than others I suppose.

Well of course

Jeff is there ANY evidence for your claim? Of course not, just a Hannity.

'TR' Rose II,

You are an idiot. First, our country is not a true democracy. It is a democratic republic. There is a difference between the two. Our founding fathers were smart enough to believe that a simple majority rule should not determine the most powerful individual (aka president) running the country. They rightfully felt that too many people are not educated enough to make an informed decision. Sadly, this is still the case in today's modern society. People like you only illustrate that point when you don't even know what form of government our country has. Second, what were Obama's qualifications when he ran? One year in the Senate before he ran for office. Wow, his resume' is so impressive that I failed to realize he had all the qualifications needed to serve in his current position. He has failed at creating jobs. Three and a half years and all I hear is blame Bush. I am sick of him and devisive policies. His time is done. Stick a fork in him as the fat lady has started singing. Third, MSN is a liberal website, and you are blind if you cannot see that. MSN is owned by GE. Very high ranking GE executives make generous donations to the Democratic Party. Last but not least, your 99% argument also does not hold any water. Envy is a powerful emotion. That is what the Democratic Party has been using as a campaign platform. Basically, they are saying tax the rich. I don't care if someone is wealthy as long as they did it by legal means. More power to someone for taking a chance at starting a new company. More power to someone for taking a chance to better them-self. This administration would like to start the class warfare. They are trying to rock the vote, but not in a good way. You cannot better others by bringing successful people down. You cannot create future entrepreneurs by punishing those who are already at the top because it will stifle others from wanting to achieve that level of success. As for the new liberal champion of tax equality, Warren Buffet, you are a bold faced hypocrite. As you made your fortune, you were one of the best tax cheats of all time. Now that you are a billionaire, you realize the PR nightmare it would be for you to continue on as a tax cheat.

Another lesser known fact, did you know that every Democratic candidate to run for the presidency since Kennedy has been a lawyer? I can't think of a more vile and useless group of people as a whole. This is the new Democratic Party. Wow, I guess it depends upon what the meaning of the "is" is.

So are you saying you want Corporations to run this country, really, just remember that when your wages plummet, no benefits, and we will be lucky to put a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothe ourselves. The will get rid of ALL regulations( which is how we got in this mess in the first place, how soon we forget) they will or should I say they are succeeding in destroying the middle class, gee I wonder who are going to buy those big ticket items, sure the h... won't be us.

Oh don't forget all those tax breaks they get, and they will make sure the everyone pays for them. I'm sure your glad that some billionaires don't pay any taxes at all, you know those job creators. So sure vote for Romney, but don't come crying when your in the poor house, because you won't get any sympathy from me, actually I will just smile and walk away.

You can see why republicans are trashing education. They need as many stupid fools as possible to win.

kfilly

Whatever you said that was true was irrelevant (lawyers) but the rest was just untrue. Your pedantic republic/democracy non-issue is also irrelevant and just posing. Let me see, where did you get that? Like I haven't heard it before and it was just as much a non-issue as it is now. And the lies

divisive policies...., what divisive policies? Here, make some up, I'd like to hear your creativity.

As for tax the rich? Tax them the same way I'm taxed, no more no less. And nobody is asking for a handout, just a level playing field.

Amazing pathetic and scary.

lib50 - "You can see why republicans are trashing education. They need as many stupid fools as possible to win."

At least they would be stupid AMERICAN fools, Democrats can't even muster that much support. They have to import uneducated, greedy, foreign criminals and then promise to give them handouts; pathetic and treasonous.

Yopu are 100% out of phase....wrong!!!

In FL of the thousands of names they tried to purge, only 2 were inappropriate and neither ever tried to vote.

Also there were NO, repeat Zero, instances of voter fraud.

Thousands of legitimate people with Hispanic last names would have been disenfranchised, except the county officials often refused to participate.

The unuins want to make sure those people who will be refused the right to vote get a chance to vote.

Republicans have become the party of the un-Americans. Sadly.

I think the elites on the right are hiring bloggers to swarm the boards. I just wish they would hire people with brains so you could at least debate them.

Ferrosyn - Nice liberal rant, but try paying attention to reality sometime.

"Scott said Monday that Florida has found nearly 100 noncitizens on state voter rolls."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/florida-gov-rick-scott-defends-voter-purge-doj-162723770.html

P.S.

"Thousands of legitimate people with Hispanic last names would have been disenfranchised,"

Why don't you explain how this would have happened? Are you saying that Hispanic citizens cannot deal with the complexity or skill required to show an I.D.?

Perhaps the 300 MILLION U.S. citizens that could be affected by allowing foreigners with no allegiance to America to determine its future outweighs people (who according to you) don't care enough about voting to suffer through showing their I.D.

pjam-you ARE and IDIOT...the people were being PURGED from the registers...they wouldn't be able to vote, even with a photo ID. This is the same ploy that RETUGLICANS have used since the 1980s to prevent legal voters from being able to cast ballots--that is legal Democrat voters--funny how no registered Republican ever shows up on these purge lists.

ever get tired of being a tool of fat cat Big Laobr bosses and the DNC?

TR Rose II: Have you NOT been reading the news lately. Organized labor are NOT the 99%. Did you know 2 out of 3 new jobs created in the USA are by small business owners. NOT UNIONS. The corruption and scandals of this administration are like the neverending story. President Obama doesn't care about the middleclass. He only cares about the 1% and this is fact. Take a look record profits of the big banks and big corporations today and the bonuses of CEO's. The only reason the Richie Rich of Hollywood are supporting President Obama is that they want to stay rich. The small business owner who is the middle class has almost disappeared.

Talk about being out of touch, just look at yourself!

TR rose - "msn Republican news media"

Wow. Never has a human proved themselves so far out of touch with reality.

You had your 8 years of corruption! Stick your head in the sand! How shameful! It's people like you that barely understand the English language is why your corrupt Republican party can sway you! Wake up, before it's too late! After our coming 2nd Depression which is being brought on by your corrupt Republican corporates & their "hand-picked" political puppets then come tell me how great they are!

what are you babbling about? are you even capable of thinking for yourself??

bodividesthepeople

Get back to class and finish your education. Put extra effort into learning what Fascism is.

The only way the teaparty knows how to win is by lying, cheating, and using SuperPac monies for all their mostly lying ads. We all saw it in WI. They called people who signed the petition and told them that if they signed the petition they did not need to vote, since that will be counted as their vote, but they got caught and now the Republican party is being investigated(all on tape). They also had people at the polls trying to stop people from voting, by telling them they needed a voter ID, which is totally false, once again they got caught. They will do anything and I mean anything to win, boy aren't you proud to be part of them.

Republicans like 'em stupid, the easier to brainwash and manipulate. It's no accident they are going after education and teachers.

Yes, the Democrat target of greedy, lazy, leeches and hordes of illegal immigrants are of the highest education. (sarcasm)

I do believe Mr. Bodi that the purpose of the voter id requirement is to suppress the Democratic vote. that is also the reason Republican governors are busting the unions who tend to vote Democratic. Now, who is stealing elections? Corporate infusions of cash to Republican super pacs are a buyout of the elections.

Corporate cash is legal according to Scotus. Registering illegals is not. Just because illegals vote Democrat is no reason to violate the law.

What are union corporation infusions of cash about Dan? Aren't they about buying elections? And why would anyone not want to know that the people voting in any election are legal registered voters? Can anyone walk in and vote in a union election? No, they can't you have to prove who you are and your eligibilty to vote in a union election. If it's good enough for the union hall why isn't it good enough in the town hall? You hypocritical do gooders!

Jeff comment #8.3. Your TOTAL ignorance is showing. Find me were illegals are voting ANYWHERE. Do some research then get back to me with your answer. Wait, my apology. I didn't mean to use an obscenity (Research). Because that is EXACTLY what it is to the majority of conservatives.

ok mr. knowitall, you've been railing against the evil democrats for stealing elections, so SHOW ME! show us PROOF of voter fraud by the democrats! show us where anyone has been caught, tried and imprisoned for voter fraud on some HUGE scale that is in immanent danger to taking over this country and turning it into the 'commie' state you're so afraid of. SHOW me where Obama has taken over the country, declared marshall law and ordered the military to go around the country and supress your rights. You no longer have the right of freedom of speech? are you being blocked from going to chruch? has someone from the government come and beat you up because you're a conservative? have you been forced to marry a gay person and did the authorities take your wife away and force her to have an abortion while you watched? ...no.

you're afraid of demons and monsters just like the ancient people who didn't understand how the world worked and believed everything the preachers and kings told them because they were denied the simplest of educations. wake up! and if you're REALLY going to stand for what you say, take a good long hard look at what the conservatives have been doing. before Obama was even inaugurated, Mitch McConnell stood in front of the ENTIRE country and declared that the only job of the Republican party was going to make sure that Obama would be a one-term president-not getting the country back on its feet, not finding jobs for americans, not getting us out of two wars where thousands of our young people are being killed-no-just make sure Obama is a one-term president at any cost and to h*ll with the country. and then WHO CHOSE to sign a declaration put forth by governor Norquist that they would not vote to raise taxes under any circumstances whatsoever? the republicans-forget about their pledge that they took to the people of the united states and their vows to uphold the laws of the constitution, they pledged their allegiance to some governor who seems to be confused into thinking that HE'S the president. they should all be charged with treason. instead, they go around the country spouting their deep religious faith and use God as a tool, like a hammer to convince the ignorant populace that THEY are somehow God's gift to the world, all the while shoving the money they are getting from their corporate overlords into their pants pockets while the rest of us are being told we're LUCKY to have some low paying job with no benefits and that we should all just shut up. you know what happens when people get hungry enough and poor enough and desperate enough? they rebel and revolution isn't far behind. on the other hand, what do you get with workers who have enough money to live on and take care of their families? a bustling, growing society where people spend money which makes the economy grow check out this country after wwii). you hate the public unions so much, well then let's just do away with those jobs-teachers, police, firemen, trash collectors, street cleaners, nurses, doctors, your friendly postman, the secretaries that do all the work for your friendly right wing politicians. let me see, what kind of society would THAT be to live in?

I agree wholeheartedly with you, except one thing. Norquist is not a governor, he is a comedian turned lobbyists, who they signed this pledge to, not a governor at all!

Hey bodi, whats the matter, don't have anything except your script to go off?

The republicans know actual voter fraud is almost nonexistent, but they will repeat the lie until the morons believe it.

Big Oil's profit margin on a gallon of gas is about 9 cents; the federal gas tax is about 5 TIMES THAT AT 45 CENTS. that is what is supposed to repair and maintain infrastructure; along with state funds. your talking points are garbage

well there ya go; this is the Left's TRICKLE-DOWN ECONOMICS; endless CORPORATE WELFARE to mob-connected construction companies using your tax dollars; and hope they are nice enough to spend their money on the rest of us

I do believe Mr Bodi that you should seek pysychiatric help as soon as possible.

Most of the money that should have gone to our crumbling road and bridges now goes to government pension and healthcare plans. The billions of dollars that went to GM will also be paying for pensions. Read the article "GM says Pension talks with Unions are possible" today 6/12/2012. You'll discover how much in debt GM is to pensions right now. It's in the BILLIONS.

Democrats know that Americans do not support them and they are more than willing to let foreigners influence American government as long as they can keep their own personal power... that is why it is a big deal to them. It's called being desperate and shameless.

ROAD: Thanks so much for your insightful predictions for the election. However, REAL experts say this will be an extremely close election but no objective person can predict an election that is 6 months out. I realize this will have no effect on your, you'll continue to spew your bias and ignorance to fit your narrative.

Yes, unions have lost a great deal of power. Why are you so overjoyed about that? Do you trust Exxon/Mobil and the Koch brothers more than that of the average American worker? Do you know that many of the advantages that you enjoy today in the workplace were fought and bled for by unions? And as for "not matter how much money they pour in" you must be referring to Karl Rove and the Koch boys.

What is it that causes you to place your faith in the might, mega dollar corporations and the uber rich??? The Koch Bros. are in the oil business. And surprise, surprise, they support the rabid Right who promise them that they will undo the last 75 years of regulation and let companies like theirs do whatever the hell they please with the enviornment.

This rabid hatred for the working man and unions is downright patriotic. My suggestion is that read up a bit on the history of labor and learn something about the sacrafices they've made over the decades and the very real good they have produced for our entire country. I suggest you learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain as well as the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, which launched the organized labor movement in this country. Somewhere, deep down inside, I'm confident that you have a tiny bit of humanity within your soul.

My wife is union, my brother is union, my mother is union. Watching them do their "jobs" is why I am anti-union.

Ozzie,

I do have vested interest in seeing Big Business succeed. They provide me with work. Exxon-Mobil, Lurgi, Monsanto, Fluor, Infineon, Hercules, Olin, Mars, Proctor & Gamble, Glaxo-Klein, Bristol-Meyers, Calgren, Dow Corning, Amoco, Eli Lilly, Bayer. I do work for all these companies. I cannot survive without them. Neither can the hundreds of thousands of workers these companies hire. Unions are no longer needed. They have outlived their usefulness. What they have done to the Midwest manufacturing base speaks volumes.

Ossieboy, I guess that you know nothing about Jimmy Hoffa and the rest of the union crooks. Must be ok with you to them steal your money.

Good God, Hoffa has been dead for decades.

You must live in a red state, they have a jump on dumbing down the country.

A voter has a choice. You are either an American citizen or you are not. You can choose either one. Just prove it.

ROAD: As usual, you speak out of total ignorance. Citizenship has NOTHING to do with this.

Please list for me some of the rampant episodes of voter fraud. This is a solution in search of a problem.

The last I checked, citizenship has everything to do with the right to vote. Of course I understand the liberal point of view is everyone must have a fair share in the election, citizen or not. Well, we'll make sure ACORN won't be a factor this November.

Of course you realize that ACORN can't hurt you anymore. The organization was defunded after being "Breitbarted". Do TRY to stay current.....thanks

Like Van Jones, ACORN is out of the picture, but is still pretty much a force behind the scenes under new name and new management. They aren't going away quietly.

Yet you are fine with corporate money (including foreign) buying the elections they want.

Taxpayers tired of their money being taken to bribe the supporters of the current administration, their 5+ trillion added to the debt and so many people out of work or under employed. Just to identify 10's upon 10's of millions of register voters.

Nobody thought a Tea Party guy could win blue Wisconsin either. Funny things happen when you have a loser in the White House. Ohio just elected a Republican governor. So did Michigan. Russ Feingold got ousted. Evan Bayh retired. Indiana is poise to get a Republican governor. Minnesota got a Republican-controlled legislature. Pennsylvania just elected a Republican senator. Florida elected a Tea Party senator. It's going to be a transformational election. Oh, ObamaCare is going down in the next two weeks.

IN Gov. Mitch Daniels is Republican.

Its condescending. Why would we consider a post from someone so arrogant and lazy that they wouldn't use spell check to mean anything? By the way Massachusetts was 47th in job creation under Romney because we already had full employment, which is described as an unemployment rate of 5%. Romney took over at 6% and left us with a 4.5% rate, which under Federal guidelines is more than full employment. Tough to create jobs when there are no workers, but thanks for repeating statistics like a good mindless drone. Fact is Massachusetts was doing well under Romney. No one is more smug and arrogant than Obama, which is surprising because if he weren't half black no one ever would have heard of him.

Dahly,

I heard last night that Mike Pence is running for governor.

Yes, Indiana governor Mitch Daniels is a Republican, but he's not a crazy tea party Republican. If Indiana elects Mike Pence as governor we will have a crazy tea party Republican.

Please explain to me why, when private industry is 7% union, the other 93% of industry is outsourcing everything...

PEW,

Zoo animals are smart enough not to vote Democrat.

Because they were union.

@!$%#, is this what we have to look forward to as republicans destroy our education system? I see some of you have already won your race to the bottom.

NAZI BOY; No, the rule of law means nothing to the sharks in $3,000 suits who lobby the GOP and line their pockets with millions in cash. You describe them as "animals"? So you're saying anyone who belongs to a union is an "animal" and also a "thug"?? What prevents the Koch brothers from being described that way? They buy and sell politicians at their whim and have completely corrupted the system.

Show me some proof of your idiotic allegations.

They have no proof, they pull it out of their ass (or should I say, pull their talking points out of the ass) and if you ask a question they just double down on the stupid. I think republican have outsourced their bloggers, which make it harder for them to go off script.

nazarite, it appears Ozzie and lib weren't able to actually READ the article or they'd see that you only repeated what is in the article.

LOL..

WHACK a mole, WHACK a MOLE...LOL

Why don't you tell republicans to stop selling off the country to the @!$%#ing highest bidder?

Organized labor pays no taxes? You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I am organized labor, and I pay plenty of taxes...

By that, I assume you mean Obama whose top 5 donors in 2008 were Goldman Sachs, UBS, Citicorp, JP Morgan Chase and U of CA. Independents and moderates have taken notice.

You obviously have not seen the rash of Voter Fraud convictions; mostly Democrats... But do you know that to vote if you are required to have an ID, is the same ID you would need to get Obamacare?

Ozzie, so what is it you Left people have against a state doing something legal? NOTE the article, The Unions are against legal impediments.......Passed by the legislatures elected by majority vote of the residents of that state. The USA is a representative republic, the people vote for representives they want in office. If that is something you dislike, move. You have to have a license to drive a car, to hunt, fish, an ID to present when using a credit card, ID to buy a home, ID to get a utility turned on and an ID to drink or smoke (So how do minorities purchase these types of products without ID ?) yet no ID to vote. Tell me this, what state/commonwealth votes on a Sunday?

You're right, I haven't seen them. Did you learn about these on Fake News??? Perhaps you have some links you can send me so I can see all this rampant fraud.

Drew, I am unaware of a rash of Voter Fraud convictions.......could/would you please provide a link or tell me where you found this information? Thanks in advance!

BETLYN: Thank you sweetheart, but I don't need suggestions from the likes of you as to whether I remain in this country or not.

There is something called the "Tryanny of the majority" which is illegal. Which is why the AG's office has shut Florida down and investigating them. The GOP has no right to turn away LEGAL voters by making the registering system totally convoluted. And what Florida has done is even worse. They are taking LEGALLY REGISTERED voters and advising them that they can no longer vote unless they jump through hoops to make the state happy. Imagine if we did that to every Republican voter, made them who are already registered go through countless machinations. I can promise you that the number of registered Republicans would drop dramatically.

Six years after Illinois legalized early voting, the chairman of the Chicago election board, Langdon Neal, says his election board and over 100 others around the state are losing millions of dollars because the early voting period is too long.

Neal says the state should consider reducing the number of early voting days from the mandated 18 down to 10 or 11

Election officials are closely watching voter turnout this year, especially following the passage of House Bill 92. Signed into law by Gov. Nathan Deal in May, HB 92 shortened the period for early voting in person from 45 days to 21 days. Proponents say the change will save money and prevent confusion.
The bill — which had bipartisan support — also for the first time required that a special early in-person voting session be scheduled for a Saturday........Georgia

Now I'm an independant not GOP but I hope this helps to understand why a lot of places are looking at reducing the days.It seems that most places want to reduce the days to save the taxpayers money and in this economy I would think that makes sense. Take special note of Illinois specifically Chicago I would believe that most consider those a left leaning area and they want to do it for savings.

OZZIE BOY, Lefty, The photo Id is free to poor people,. They have 5 months to get one.

Seems to me that the only people that would have a problem with that are the people that intend to commit voter fraud or expect to benefit from voter fraud.

There is NO voter fraud. Jesus Christ, can you right wing shills tell the @!$%#ing truth?

http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/policy_brief_on_the_truth_about_voter_fraud/

No wonder republicans are laying off teachers, they need morons to carry their water.

Drew, you are speaking logic, remember they cry foul when they have a problem if it is against illegal residents. What a group to fight for, illegal aliens just so their cause can be approved. I'd rather have legal residents on my side.

Betlyn Thomas,

I am a current US citizen, but I saw this offer and I am contemplating taking it. I know a good tax deal when I see one.

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(Actual letter from an Iowa resident sent to his senator,)

The Honorable Tom Harkin 731 Hart Senate Office Building

Phone (202) 224 3254 Washington DC , 20510

Dear Senator Harkin,

As a native Iowan and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you.

My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alien stems from the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted. If my understanding of this bill is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and income taxes for only three of the last five years. I know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started before everyone figures it out.
Simply put, those of us who have been here legally have had to pay taxes every year so I'm excited about the prospect of avoiding two years of taxes in return for paying a $2,000 fine. Is there any way that I can apply to be illegal retroactively? This would yield an excellent result for me and my family because we paid heavy taxes in 2004 and 2005.

Additionally, as an illegal alien I could begin using the local emergency room as my primary health care provider. Once I have stopped paying premiums for medical insurance, my accountant figures I could save almost $10,000 a year.

Another benefit in gaining illegal status would be that my daughter would receive preferential treatment relative to her law school applications, as well as 'in-state' tuition rates for many colleges throughout the United States for my son.

Lastly, I understand that illegal status would relieve me of the burden of renewing my driver's license and making those burdensome car insurance premiums. This is very important to me, given that I still have college age children driving my car.
If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal (retroactively if possible) and copies of the necessary forms, I would be most appreciative. Thank you for your assistance.

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