Returning To The White House On The Shoulders Of Her Fellow Inmates
It looks to me like Hillary Clinton is setting her own 2008 table:
If America's convicted felons are allowed to vote, it's almost certain that Hillary Clinton will be the next President of the United States. That's the conclusion of the American Enterprise Institute's John R. Lott and James K. Glassman, who note in today's New York Post that in the handful of states where ex-cons are allowed to go to the polls, 93% voted for her husband in 1996.
I get a kick out of that 13-1 Dem margin amongst the incarcerated, inasmuch as here in Washington, where last fall's gubernatorial election is still being contested in court, screwee Dino Rossi (R) has presented evidence of 1,184 illegal votes cast by felons, and the best riposte screwer Christine Grinchoire (D) has been able to offer is that most of them "probably" voted for Rossi because Grinchoire was attorney-general for twelve years.
It's safe to say these illegal votes gave Grinchoire several times her final "official" 129-vote margin. Nation-wide, however, the numbers become staggering.
This week Hillary's Count Every Vote Act will be introduced in the Senate, co-sponsored by 2004 presidential loser Senator John Kerry.
Hillary's bill includes a measure to restore voting rights to "felons who have repaid their debt to society" from sea to shining sea - overriding the the Constitution's 14th Amendment, which explicity gives states the right to make that determination.
By Hillary's count, that would add a potential pool of 4.7 million voters to the mix.
A recent study by Jeff Manza and Marcus Britton of Northwestern University and Christopher Uggen of the University of Minnesota found that 30 percent of felons would vote if Hillary's law was passed. That's 1.4 million new voters.
If they vote the same way their formerly incarcerated brethren did in states where ex-cons can vote already, likely 2008 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton will pick up an extra 1.2 million votes - enough to put her over the top in an even not-so-close race.
And that's not all. With 1.2 million ex-cons voting Democrat, President Hillary will likely have a House and Senate controlled by her own party.
Will the majority leadership shrug off the same wheezy old demagoguery about Republican "vote suppression" and spike this bill before it can ever see the light of day? Or will it clear all the same supposed obstacles that "campaign finance reform" did and become law?
One thing I've always admired about the Democrats - probably the only thing - is that they've always been willing to do whatever it takes to win (until now, I guess, given that they desperately need to move to the center and are instead giving Che Guevera a run for his money). Republicans have never, EVER marshalled anywhere close to that level of ruthlessness, which is most of why they spend all those decades in the political wilderness.
With this insufferably pedanticly named, cynically dishonest piece of legislation, Mrs. Clinton is putting one more piece on the political chessboard.
If Republicans are serious about a hegemony that will outlast the Bush43 years, they'll use their majority power to squash CEVA flatter than Michael Moore's whoopie cushion.
If America's convicted felons are allowed to vote, it's almost certain that Hillary Clinton will be the next President of the United States. That's the conclusion of the American Enterprise Institute's John R. Lott and James K. Glassman, who note in today's New York Post that in the handful of states where ex-cons are allowed to go to the polls, 93% voted for her husband in 1996.
I get a kick out of that 13-1 Dem margin amongst the incarcerated, inasmuch as here in Washington, where last fall's gubernatorial election is still being contested in court, screwee Dino Rossi (R) has presented evidence of 1,184 illegal votes cast by felons, and the best riposte screwer Christine Grinchoire (D) has been able to offer is that most of them "probably" voted for Rossi because Grinchoire was attorney-general for twelve years.
It's safe to say these illegal votes gave Grinchoire several times her final "official" 129-vote margin. Nation-wide, however, the numbers become staggering.
This week Hillary's Count Every Vote Act will be introduced in the Senate, co-sponsored by 2004 presidential loser Senator John Kerry.
Hillary's bill includes a measure to restore voting rights to "felons who have repaid their debt to society" from sea to shining sea - overriding the the Constitution's 14th Amendment, which explicity gives states the right to make that determination.
By Hillary's count, that would add a potential pool of 4.7 million voters to the mix.
A recent study by Jeff Manza and Marcus Britton of Northwestern University and Christopher Uggen of the University of Minnesota found that 30 percent of felons would vote if Hillary's law was passed. That's 1.4 million new voters.
If they vote the same way their formerly incarcerated brethren did in states where ex-cons can vote already, likely 2008 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton will pick up an extra 1.2 million votes - enough to put her over the top in an even not-so-close race.
And that's not all. With 1.2 million ex-cons voting Democrat, President Hillary will likely have a House and Senate controlled by her own party.
Will the majority leadership shrug off the same wheezy old demagoguery about Republican "vote suppression" and spike this bill before it can ever see the light of day? Or will it clear all the same supposed obstacles that "campaign finance reform" did and become law?
One thing I've always admired about the Democrats - probably the only thing - is that they've always been willing to do whatever it takes to win (until now, I guess, given that they desperately need to move to the center and are instead giving Che Guevera a run for his money). Republicans have never, EVER marshalled anywhere close to that level of ruthlessness, which is most of why they spend all those decades in the political wilderness.
With this insufferably pedanticly named, cynically dishonest piece of legislation, Mrs. Clinton is putting one more piece on the political chessboard.
If Republicans are serious about a hegemony that will outlast the Bush43 years, they'll use their majority power to squash CEVA flatter than Michael Moore's whoopie cushion.
posted by JASmius at 9:35 PM
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