Steve K.: If true, it would be unconstitutional, violates the 1st amendment for one thing. Not voting is one way of protesting.
Rayn: Indeed! Penalizing those New Yorkers who choose to Vacate The Vote in an effort to Withdraw Consent is not only an assault against free speech, and freedom of choice – it also represents a shameless effort to run an extortion racket, too! These political parasites are nothing more than a legally-protected criminal caste!
(Glenn Blain) A state lawmaker from Manhattan wants to make it costly for New Yorkers not to vote.
Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, a Democrat, introduced legislation this week that would establish “compulsory voting” in the state and punish those who don’t vote with a $10 fine.
“Mandatory voting would drastically increase civic participation and transform the political arena by making politicians more reflective of the constituents that elected them,” Glick wrote in a memo submitted with the bill.
(Gene Healy) President Obama will deliver his Farewell Address tonight to a capacity crowd in Chicago’s McCormick Place convention center. It’s the right venue for the speech, the president explained last week, because Chicago is “where my career in public service began.”
Indeed, it’s the city where, as a young state senator in 2002, Obama gave an antiwar rally speech railing against the “dumb,” “rash” rush to war in Iraq; and where, as a presidential candidate five years later, he promised to “turn the page on the imperial presidency” and usher in “a new dawn of peace.” And yet, 2008’s “peace candidate” will leave office as the first two-term president in American history to have been at war every day of his presidency, having dropped over 25,000 bombs on seven countries in 2016 alone.
My Commentary: Or, as his supporters say, “no scandals for eight years.” Pffttt! You can’t make this stuff up!
Perhaps, the war hawk should be awarded another Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts?
Oh, and Obama also prosecuted more whistle-blowers than all previous presidents, combined. Or, as he would call it, “the most transparent administration in history.”
Statists gonna State! Try voting harder, next time, voting cattle! That’ll *really* show the government who’s in charge!
Ha! Actually, Hillary, the corrupt, pro-war, sold-out, corporate puppet, deserves most of the blame, along with the pathetic, primary-rigging DNC that propped her up. And, after that, blame Democratic voters, who didn’t protest the DNC’s Clinton selection, along with the weak and ineffectual Bernie Sanders, who capitulated to, then quickly began shilling for, Clinton. Last, but not least, blame the professionally-lying mainstream media monopoly, who projected a Hillary win all the way up until the evening of election day, giving Democrats a false sense of comfort, and made them arrogantly complacent about Hillary’s underhanded take-over project.
Rayn: Oh, snap! Killary’s “we came, we saw, he died” sound byte was turned into a song! This is just perfect!
(Amy Chozick) Hillary Clinton on Saturday cast blame for her surprise election loss on the announcement by the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, days before the election that he had revived the inquiry into her use of a private email server.
In her most extensive remarks since she conceded the race to Donald J. Trump early Wednesday, Mrs. Clinton told donors on a 30-minute conference call that Mr. Comey’s decision to send a letter to Congress about the inquiry 11 days before Election Day had thrust the controversy back into the news and had prevented her from ending the campaign with an optimistic closing argument.
“There are lots of reasons why an election like this is not successful,” Mrs. Clinton said, according to a donor who relayed the remarks. But, she added, “our analysis is that Comey’s letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum.”
My Commentary: Ha! Actually, Hillary, the corrupt, pro-war, sold-out, corporate puppet, deserves most of the blame, along with the pathetic, primary-rigging DNC that propped her up. And, after that, blame Democratic voters, who didn’t protest the DNC’s Clinton selection, along with the weak and ineffectual Bernie Sanders, who capitulated to, then quickly began shilling for, Clinton. Last, but not least, blame the professionally-lying mainstream media monopoly, who projected a Hillary win all the way up until the evening of election day, giving Democrats a false sense of comfort, and made them arrogantly complacent about Hillary’s underhanded take-over project.
