May 19, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

GOP VOTER SUPPRESSION EFFORTS

The Republican party does not represent the majority of Americans. It caters especially to the economic elite. A few crumbs are tossed to the religious right, but the major objective is to attain power, use government as a tremendous cash cow for the rich, and pursue a foreign policy that will enrich corporations. The Republican party doesn't like a high voter turnout because most people will not vote for Republicans. The GOP opposed statistical sampling for the census, for instance, because that census would result in counting people not friendly to Republicans and carve out districts that would vote for Democrats. There is mounting evidence that the U. S. Attorneys scandal is related to voter suppression. This article by Stephen Pizzo is at www.smirkingchimp.com:

What we've learned is that, once Gonzales was promoted from White House Counsel to Attorney General his top assignment was to do use the heavy hand of Justice to intimidate and suppress Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts around the nation.

Suddenly US Attorney's in key states were being pushed to start aggressively charging and prosecuting Democratic get-out-the-vote groups under the guise of fighting vote fraud. When prosecutions did come quickly enough, or at all because of lack of evidence, heads began to roll. Eight US Attorney's, seven of whom had stellar performance records, we fired and replaced by GOP toadies. The message was, “get with the pogrom or we'll free you up to pursue other interests.”

In all 26 US attorneys were on the White House hit list before the new Democratic-controlled Congress began holding the first real oversight hearing in six years. It wasn't long before those hearings blew the administration's cover story, that those fired were let go because of “poor performance.” What they did not say, and could not say, was precisely what assignment they had performed poorly on – using their power to suppress Democratic votes through intimidation in future elections.