That is simply a nonsense talking point.
“Oh we’d stop filibustering everything, if only Obama showed leadership!” :rolleyes:
It’s meaningless.
Yeah, I get it, the new talking point since 2009 is that Presidents have no power over their own administrations. It’s expiration date: Jan. 2017.
The 2008 Farm Bill in the article was enacted on May 22, 2008, long before Obama was sworn in. His only involvement was in 2010 when more money was needed to settle claims.
That was not the limit of his involvement. His administration made a decision to process claims quickly and not worry about fraud.
But when vets need help, all of a sudden it’s gotta be by the book.
So, adaher, what do YOU think, in your own words if you would please, should be done to ensure a Republican victory for the office of the POTUS in 2016?
Or, to be more in line with the OP, what lessons did the GOP learn and how do you suggest they remedy them in order to secure the presidency?
Well, the difference between the two claims is that republicans have been strongly backing legislature that would actually suppress the vote of minorities, the young, and the poor, demonstrably so, with effectively no benefit (despite searching for 10 years for evidence of said benefit), whereas there have been absolutely no attempts by democrats to stop the military from voting. There was that one story in Ohio, but it was shown to be bullshit incredibly fast - yet another incredibly stupid lie.
So in short, the difference between assertions that republicans want to suppress various groups in voting and that democrats want to suppress military votes is evidence. Evidence evidence evidence evidence evidence. We have it, you don’t.
SPEAKING OF WHICH.
The Republicans need to be “kindler and gentler” to quote an old Republican President, and more optimistic, to reference an even older one. Again, the platform simply is not a problem, because if it was, Democrats would focus their attacks on it rather than try to “me too” it. Instead, they focus on gaffes and identity politics.
The other thing the Republicans need to learn is simply how to govern. The Republicans didn’t lose in 2006, 2008, and 2012 because of demographics. They lost because of George Bush and the corrupt Republican Congress of the time. The Republicans need to elevate their better governors in 2016, like Christie, Walker, and Jindal.
If the Republicans govern well, they will win. It’s really not any more complicated than that.
False. There was pretty solid evidence of military vote suppression in 2012:
Even as state election officials across the U.S. have noticed a rise in military voting, a disturbing trend has appeared. The rate active-duty military voters who reported not receiving a requested absentee ballot almost doubled from 16 percent in 2008 to 29 percent in 2010, according to a survey done by the Defense Department’s Federal Voter Assistance Program (FVAP).
And in Illinois, they just “forgot” to send military ballots out:
Military voters from the land of Lincoln could be shut out of the midterm election after the Justice Department reached an agreement with Illinois that gave the state “a pass” for violating federal election law, an advocacy group warned Monday.
The Justice Department hammered out the court agreement Friday addressing the failure of 35 Illinois counties to send military and overseas absentee ballots 45 days before the election – a requirement of the MOVE Act. The agreement gave voters from six of those counties a few extra days to send back their ballots but did not specifically address the other 29 counties.
Eric Eversole, a former Justice voting section attorney who runs the nonprofit Military Voter Protection Project, told FoxNews.com the deal effectively lets wayward Illinois election officials off the hook and does little to ensure the state’s military voters get their ballots in time.
“For at least 29 counties, there were absolutely no consequences,” he said. “Illinois is precisely the reason why you can’t wait until a week before the election to try and resolve a clear violation of military voting rights.”
For some overseas military voters, he said, “it might not get there.”
The Illinois agreement was the final deal struck by the Justice Department to address states’ failure to send their ballots out in time. While agreements with other states had tougher provisions compelling them to send out more express ballots and extending the deadline to receive them by many more days, Eversole’s group said the Illinois decree gave “no meaningful relief” to military voters.
You left something out.
http://www.elections.il.gov/votinginformation/military.aspx
There were 35 counties in Illinois who sent out late military ballots. As you can see here, almost all counties voted Republican. So it was almost all Republican controlled counties who failed the military voters.
OK, so we start from Obama suppressing the votes of veterans. The evidence of this is to be found in the disgraceful clueless fumbling with veteran’s records, which is Obama’s fault because he hates veterans for voting against him.
OK, got it.
Sure, they get bad publicity, they take a few steps. Most of the time there is little or no publicity when military voters get disenfranchised.
By Republicans. As not covered by Fox News.
You assume that just because a county voted REpublican, that government union workers in those counties are also rooting for Republicans. In fact, they have more incentive to suppress military voters there than in bluer districts.
So tell us how they managed to co-ordinate this across that many counties with no one getting wind of it.
Tell me how so many counties can be incompetent in a way that just happens to benefit the party government workers favor.
They sure get those voter cards out to the people ACORN registers in a hurry. Even if the person doesn’t exist.
But again, with anything having to do with the military, all of a sudden Democrats become paragons of good government.
ACORN closed down in March, 2010. For your information, they reported the phony registrations as required. They were not allowed by law to refuse the forms.
ACORN
From your own cite, adaher:
What was your complaint about the VA situation again? :dubious:
That the facts of the matter aren’t making Obama look bad enough, dammit.