Politics Plus

A lot of people are saying that, when the fascist five Injustices of SCROTUS (Republican judicial VD) gutted the Voting Rights Act, it is not a big deal, because both individuals and DOJ can sue under other sections of the act.  In Texas, there is a lawsuit that the Texas redistricting plan is racist.  All the population growth comes from the Latino community, but all the new House seats are comfortably Gerrymandered for white candidates.  DOJ has also stated an intent to sue, but here is why that still isn’t good enough.

A federal court said Friday it will not delay Texas’ primary elections and ordered the state to use political maps drawn by the Legislature – but only temporarily, while the judges sort out a complex and possibly precedent-setting lawsuit.

The three-judge panel in San Antonio gave both sides in the lawsuit over Texas’ voting maps reason to claim victory. The court will not draw its own map for the 2014 elections, as civil rights groups wanted, but it also did not throw out the lawsuit completely, as Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott requested.

The court order, signed by all three judges, also allows the civil rights and minority groups to argue that all changes to Texas election law should be reviewed by federal authorities before they can be implemented. The Justice Department has sought to intervene in the case after a recent Supreme Court decision requiring Congress to make changes to the Voting Rights Act.

The fundamental issue of the lawsuit, filed in 2011, is whether the Legislature illegally drew political maps that intentionally diminish the voting power of minorities in Texas. Abbott’s office has argued in court papers that Republicans who control the Legislature drew maps to boost the chances of their party – which is legal – and that if minorities who vote predominantly Democratic are hurt as a result, that does not constitute a civil rights violation… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Huffington Post>

Section 4, was the section that required preapproval of changes to voting in states, like Texas, with a history of racism.  Without the requirement of preapproval, the lawsuits under other sections can get tied up in the courts for racist Republican tactics to remain legal long enough to steal elections, and win another majority in the House with a minority of the popular vote.

When Republicans want support for their travesty de jour, they attribute it to the patron saint of the Republican Party, St. Ronnie Ray Gun.  St Ronnie wore a white hat, rode a white horse, and could do no wrong.  That St. Ronnie may have been or done the exact opposite, matters not, because they have the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, to parrot their lies.  Now they are claiming how St. Ronnie would NEVER gave allowed chemical weapons use.

A top Republican lawmaker on Thursday invoked Ronald Reagan to say that Obama was weak for not acting more directly in response to Syria’s alleged use of chemical weapons, ignoring the fact that Reagan’s White House looked the other way when chemical weapons were used in the 1980s.

Former House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) appeared on Fox News arguing for a military response to the Syrian government’s alleged use of chemical weapons on civilians. While pushing the same limited strikes plan that the Obama administration wants, Ros-Leithein attacked the president for not moving more forcefully against Damascus. In doing so, she told Fox that Reagan never would have stood for the sort of attack that killed an estimated 1,400 civilians…

…What Ros-Lehtinen seems oddly unaware of, however, is that Ronald Reagan did exactly the opposite. For the majority of the 1980s, Iraq under Sadaam Hussein was locked in combat with the Islamic Republic of Iran in a war that killed more than 1,000,000 people on both sides. The United States explicitly backed the secular Hussein over the Ayatollah Khomeini’s government in Tehran, still smarting from the embassy hostage crisis that had only ended when Reagan took office. That backing not only included the shipment of tons of weapons to support Baghdad, but also looking the other way when Iraq unleashed its chemical weapons stockpiles — including sarin and mustard gas — against Iranian civilians and soldiers alike… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Think Progress>

That’s not all Republicans in the Reagan administration actually sold Saddam the components for chemical and biological weapons and instructed the Iraqi military in their use.  Lawrence O’Donnell has the story.

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As much as Republicans try to claim the moral high ground on this issue, the bottom line is this.  Republicans, led by their patron saint, are so morally bankrupt that they were responsible for Saddam’s use of chemical weapons.  They have no room to talk about Obama’s dilemma.

Here is the twenty-fourth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is White Student Union Fuhrer, Matthew Heimback. He is being honored, because he so perfectly illustrates the Republican views of race relations and accepting the will of the people.

A little over a year ago, Matthew Heimbach was annoying fellow students at Towson University with juvenile stunts like chalking “White Pride” and “White Guilt is Over” on sidewalks of the Maryland campus.

But in the last few months, since graduating at the end of the spring semester, Heimbach has been turning into a full-fledged neo-Nazi. No longer content with softer groups like the White Student Union that he started at Towson, Heimbach now rails about “conniving Jews,” goes on talk shows like that hosted by neo-Nazi David Duke, approvingly quotes terrorist assassin David Lane, wears a pistol when addressing a leading racist group, and calls for violent revolution.

“Revolution is the only answer to our plight,” Heimbach wrote in a post today on the Traditionalist Youth Network (TYN), an umbrella group he formed this spring with Indiana native Matthew Parrot and which now includes the White Student Union. “Our ancestors fought against the scabs, bosses, capitalists and Jews to make a better future for their children. Now we must do the same.”

In the same post, Heimbach said that “the Left has spent generations attempting to ‘help’ the worker by dancing to the tune of the Jewish elites.” Like Christ, he said, “we must … drive out the moneylenders and traitors in our midst.”

In an August post on the same site, Heimbach openly acknowledged a long-time interest in national socialism, fascism and white pride movements. He credited the Stormfront website, run by former Alabama Klan leader Don Black, as “crucial” to his own development as an activist. “[T]he time is right, and Trad Youth is here to be the vanguard of the youth movement for our folk. … While victory is a long way away and will be paved with blood, sweat, tears, and martyrs, we truly now have a chance to not only restore our race and our Tradition, but to become triumphant.”… [emphasis added]

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Here’s a report about him from the bastion of Republican bias, CNN.

In typical Republican fashion, he starts with lies, and uses them as the basis for the rest of his racist dogma.

Now, of course there will be those, like the subject of the 22nd Republicans on Parade article, that Heimback isn’t really a Republican.  Horse Feathers!  He was involved with the Republican Party, attends CPAC, aka CPUKE, and even headed his college chapter of Young Americans for Freedom!  It doesn’t get more Republican than this self-proclaimed Nazi!