More Examples of Leftwing Voter Fraud

Video: Who wants to cast Bill Maher’s ballot?

 by Allahpundit    at HotAir:

Via Breitbart.com, another fun one from James O’Keefe and Project Veritas. Just try not to laugh at the line about sealcoating driveways. One interesting difference between this clip and the now-famous vid in which Eric Holder’s ballot was obtained: In that case, the impersonator at least provided the ballot registrar with Holder’s address as evidence that he was the Eric Holder who was registered to vote there. That’s the most rudimentary “proof” of ID possible, but at least it’s something. In this clip, all the impersonator offers is a name. Maybe he gave an address in each case too and it was edited out in the interest of brevity, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the registration process is so arbitrary that the information demanded differs from one polling place to the next. In fact, there’s proof that that’s true in this very clip. Watch to the end and you’ll see that the registrar did ask for ID from a female impersonator. Why did she need ID when the male impersonator didn’t? No one knows.

Exit question: They’re really going to give you a ballot in exchange for signing “X” on a line? Good lord.

Click below for video of voting poll visist:

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/16/video-who-wants-to-cast-bill-mahers-ballot/

Obama’s Democrat Senate will Vote to Kill Buffett Rule……and Does!

from the leftwing National Journal:

Though the Buffett Rule should die quickly and quietly on the Senate floor on Monday, fear not: The political idea of taxing the rich will continue to dominate the campaign trail.

The Buffett Rule, after all, gives President Obama the chance to sharpen his image as a candidate, while simultaneously showcasing the stark differences between the Republicans and the Democrats this election cycle.

It highlights the Democrats’ desire and willingness to raise revenues to reduce the deficit, as the Republicans, including Romney, continue to adhere to their no-new-taxes orthodoxy.

(RELATED: Obama Doesn’t Qualify for the Buffett Rule)

And, perhaps, most importantly, the Buffett Rules puts Romney on the defensive about his own wealth. It reminds voters that Romney wants to cut taxes for guys like him—guys who earn millions in income from carried interest, capital gains, and dividends. These types of investments provide income for one-third of top earners, according to Donald Marron of the Tax Policy Center, but across the economic spectrum, just 6 percent of Americans’ income comes from such investments. Try explaining that in a swing state.

Critics of the Buffett Rule on both the right and the left can offer up a litany of reasons as to why the Buffett Rule is bad policy.

(RELATED: Some Businesses, Millionairs Call for Buffett Rule)

It does not delve deeply enough into the real issues of comprehensive tax reform, they say. Conservatives argue it unfairly asks wealthy people to pay even higher taxes when low-income people pay no federal taxes thanks to deductions such as the earned income tax credit. And, many scoff at the estimated $47 billion that the Joint Committee on Taxation estimates the Buffett Rule would collect for the federal government over the next 10 years—as if $47 billion is chump change, the price of a bad cup of coffee.

None of this matters, though, to voters outside of the beltway. Have they ever cared about the deep intricacies of tax policy, apart from the rate of taxes they pay?

The Buffett Rule gives President Obama a clear, distinct talking point for the campaign trail: a rallying cry for swing states hard hit by job losses and by a generation invigorated by Occupy Wall Street’s idea of the 99 percent. It gives Obama an opening bid and a marker, if re-elected, for whatever tax debates occur during the lame-duck session, when Congress and the president will decide the fate of trillions of dollars of expiring tax provisions.

The Romney camp has responded to the Buffett Rule by dismissing it and using it as an opportunity to pivot to Obama’s and Romney’s previous job creation records: also, worthy topics.

But, Americans aren’t going to turn away from the Buffett Rule just yet, even if it’s a political gimmick. A Gallup poll from Friday showed that 60 percent of Americans support the concept, and among independents, that number rose even higher, to 63 percent. Who cares in the short run if the Buffett Rule is mediocre policy, if it’s captured the imagination of Americans outside of Washington and if it keeps inspiring those who care about economic fairness, enough so that they go to the polls? Voters, right now, are the real prize through November 2012.

Click below for HotAir report on Senate vote:

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/16/breaking-senate-vote-on-buffett-rule-fails-of-course/

Obama Pushing his Racist Buttons again……to Get Illegal Alien Vote

Obama Tells Univision Romney Supports Racial Profiling

realclearpolitcs

“We now have a Republican nominee who said that the Arizona laws are a model for the country, that — and these are laws that potentially would allow someone to be stopped and picked up and asked where their citizenship papers are based on an assumption,” President Obama said in an interview with Univision that aired over the weekend.

“Racial profiling?” Univision reporter Enrique Acevedo asked.

“Very troublesome. And this is something that the Republican nominee has said should be a model for the country,” Obama said.

“So what we need is a change, either of Congress or we need Republicans to change their mind. And I think that this has to be an important debate throughout the country,” he said.

“What I have said to Latinos across the United States is that my compassion for this issue is undiminished. That, for example, when it comes for the DREAM kids, who have been raised as Americans and see themselves as Americans and want to serve their country or are willing to work hard in school, start businesses or working hard in laboratories or businesses, it is shameful that we cannot get that done. And so I am going to keep on pushing as hard as I can. And what I am going to do is encourage the Latino community to continue to ask every member of Congress where they stand on these issues,” Obama said.

“I will do everything that I can to try to get it done, but ultimately I’m going to need Congress to help me” Obama said of the DREAM Act.

Click below for video of Obama’s performance:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/04/16/obama_tells_univision_romney_supports_racial_profiling.html

Top Democrat Corzine, Former Governor of Jersey Steals Billions, Remains Untouched

Corzine Steals Billions Sans Charges, Errant Whale Watcher Faces Prison

By Bill Frezza   at realclearpolitics

“Justice may be blind, but who works overtime to make it deaf, dumb, and stupid?

Which would you imagine might attract more aggressive enforcement from the Justice Department: the theft of $1.2 billion from supposedly segregated customer brokerage funds, or lying about an alleged incident of whistling to attract the attention of a whale so that whale watchers could get a better peep? If you said the latter, then you appreciate the extent to which federal law enforcement priorities have run off the rails.

We know for a fact that enormous sums of money legally off limits have disappeared into the maw of disgraced Senator Jon Corzine’s gambling counterparties, all of whom seem to have taken the oath of omerta. We know that Corzine personally asked employees at MF Global, the financial firm he headed until recently, to transfer the funds. We know that his underlings balked at signing false statements attesting the transfers to be legal. So how is it that the man ultimately responsible for this brazen theft and spectacular bankruptcy gets away with performing a perfunctory Sergeant Schultz “I know nothing” routine in front of his old Senate buddies, after which he is left free to walk out the door without handcuffs?

 

Meanwhile, marine biologist and whale watching ship captain Nancy Black faces 20 years in prison, not for “harassing” whales (which believe it or not is a crime), but because she has been charged with lying to Justice Department prosecutors investing allegations that some of her crew members whistled at a whale to keep it hanging around their boats.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Title 18, Section 1001 of the United States Code is the successor to the False Claims Act of 1863, originally intended to punish crooked Civil War contractors. It has since metastasized into an all-purpose bludgeon that federal prosecutors routinely use to squeeze fines and plea bargains out of anyone unfortunate enough to become ensnared in one of the hundreds of thousands of regulations that govern everything from selling goldfish to the volume of your toilet flush.

As Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg characterizes it, Section 1001 has conferred “extraordinary authority” for prosecutors to “manufacture crimes.” That is because Section 1001 charges are both entirely discretionary and subsidiary to any primary charges, making every indictment an act of selective prosecution. In fact, Section 1001 prosecutions are so selective that primary charges are not even necessary, meaning you can go to jail even if there is no underlying crime. Ask Martha Stewart about that.

This is a horrendous misapplication of justice. But as long as it has become the norm in federal law enforcement whenever prosecutors are directed by their political masters to send a message about policy, why haven’t Section 1001 charges been thrown at Jon Corzine? How long do we have to wait for the feds to collect evidence from the hapless employees on whom Corzine has tried to pin the blame before the big fish gets hauled in for the perp walk?

Are prosecutors even trying to get their man or have friends in high places waved them off? Why haven’t Corzine’s gambling counterparties been squeezed to turn over evidence in return for immunity from prosecution – as well as the first pick in next year‘s draft of who gets to rotate back out of government service to return to one of the firms they used to regulate? It’s not as if prosecutors couldn’t bring all manner of securities cases against companies that did business with MF Global until they found someone willing to throw the mendacious Senator under the bus.

With all the securities regulations we now have on the books – from Sarbanes Oxley to Dodd Frank – and politicians incessantly bloviating about the importance of bringing Wall Street miscreants to justice, what are the rest of us supposed to think if the befuddled whale watcher gets hauled off to prison while the Willie Sutton of derivatives brokers hops in his limo and rides off into the sunset to collect his Senator’s pension?

Who has set the priorities at the Justice Department that is allowing this to happen, and why? How can an SEC that can’t catch a Bernie Madoff before he blows himself up or nail a guy like Jon Corzine after his hand, arm, neck, and head are caught in the cookie jar be expected to professionally, effectively, and impartially enforce the thousands of regulations inflicted on the rest of us?

But woe to anyone who messes with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s rules on harassing marine mammals. Or runs afoul of the Environmental Protection Agency when their backyard is declared a wetland. Or gets in a Davis Bacon labor dispute with a powerful union. Or fails to file accurate Affirmative Action Plan paperwork. Yet it seems that if you‘ve got the right Washington connections you can pick your clients’ pockets and even burn the economy to the ground without suffering any consequences.

This is more than just justice gone awry. It is the systematic destruction of the rule of law and its replacement by shameless cronyism.”