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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Republican Governor Rick Scott of Florida Orders Illegal Purge of Nearly 200,000 Voters to Steal Key Swing State for Mitt Romney

It's time for the DOJ to bring the hammer down, I'm afraid. I have no doubt that Obama will win a second term, but I cannot say that I think he will win as handily as he managed to do the first time -- not given this economy, not given the 24/7 GOP hate-a-palooza, not given the unprecedented unrelenting GOP obstructionism that made the new tone Obama promised and truly strove for and for which so many Americans hoped impossible -- and a closer election means GOP dis-enfranchisement and election-stealing and electronic voting shenanigans all come into play at the margins. Of course, Republicans will screech that stopping their patently illegal and grotesquely anti-democratic voter fraud MEANS that Obama's re-election is itself a fraud to them, but they will howl about all that anyway just as they have always done through all these four years (I sometimes think those two Black Panthers are like holograms hovering at their bedside at night, presiding menacingly over the table while they eat, filling the doorway while they try to watch their Fox). There is, after all, no way for "that man" to be President of "their country" anyway (perhaps you haven't noticed… he's black?), which is why they keep screaming they want to "take it back" for "Real Americans," which is why they wail that he should be "impeached" (for the impeachable offense of… being black?), blah blah black.

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