Approval ratings for Gov. Pat McCrory and the Republican-led General Assembly have plummeted in recent weeks, according to a poll released Wednesday. Public Policy Polling says McCrory’s job approval is at a record low 39 percent, with 51 percent of respondents saying they disapprove of his performance as governor. Lawmakers did even worse, with an approval rating of 24 percent.
PPP is a reliable pollster, but in 2012 national conservative pundits and paid media shills refused to believe polls and just made up some numbers to keep donors happy, and apparently they’re sticking with that strategy.
Renew North Carolina, a foundation set up last fall to support McCrory’s agenda, countered the PPP poll numbers by releasing the results of internal polling it conducted Aug. 8-12.
That poll, which surveyed 800 likely voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points, shows a 48 percent job approval rating for McCrory and only a 22 percent disapproval rating.
Far Right Governor Pat McCrory is very unpopular in his state, so it’s time to put some job protections in for elected conservatives:
Within hours of Gov. Pat McCrory signing a Republican-backed bill this week making sweeping changes to the state’s voting laws, local elections boards in two college towns made moves that could make it harder for students to vote.
The Watauga County Board of Elections voted Monday to eliminate an early voting site and election-day polling precinct on the campus of Appalachian State University.
The Pasquotank County Board of Elections on Tuesday barred an Elizabeth City State University senior from running for city council, ruling his on-campus address couldn’t be used to establish local residency. Following the decision, the head of the county’s Republican Party said he plans to challenge the voter registrations of more students at the historically black university ahead of upcoming elections.
That’s a nice touch, targeting students at historically black universities.
Democratic lawmakers repeatedly tried to amend the bill to allow student IDs from state-supported universities and community colleges to be used at the polls, but that was blocked by the Republican majority.
In a contentious meeting Monday, the new GOP majority on the Watauga elections board voted over the objection of the board’s lone Democrat to eliminate early voting at the Appalachian State student union.
The Watauga board also voted 2-1 Monday to combine the three Boone voting precincts into one, eliminating an election day polling site on campus. More than 9,300 Boone residents will now be slated to cast ballots at a county building that only has about 35 parking spots.
“Why are they making it harder for students to vote?” said Sen. Josh Stein (D-Wake), who has been a vocal opponent of the new law. “Because young people tend to vote more Democratic than Republican. I think that’s disgraceful.”
Belafon
I know these guys would like to have this go up to the Supreme Court, but since in 1978 it ruled that a college student could claim their college state as their state of residence for voting purposes, a legal challenge would at least stop some of this.
smintheus
Ingenious new strategy in the war against voting: eliminate all election districts but one, and place that single polling place where there’s minimal parking.
EconWatcher
They don’t do subtlety. And that will be their undoing.
Another Holocene Human
Well, I must admit some naivete, wondering what the upshot was to forcing students to vote in their home districts … I mean, I did that when I was in college (same state) and how did that affect the powers that be? But now the truth comes out… historically Black colleges and universities. So it’s Civil Rights Era cosplay here. Like their parents’ generation who walked out of their high schools to march on the supervisor of elections office. Grandparents for some of these kids. And their home district is going to be gerrymandered majority-minority where their vote won’t affect the lege.
The lack of shame on display here is unsettling.
Tokyokie
It’s apartheid, pure and simple.
smintheus
@EconWatcher: How many subtle ways are there to obstruct voting? It has to be invisible, behind the scenes stuff. Caging and rejecting voter applications over card stock were the most subtle recent GOP ploys I can think of, and those ran aground in the courts.
feebog
It’s kind of tough to vote at your home address if you are resident student in another state. Or for that matter, within the state. I work at a polling place adjacent to a State University. While many of the students are local, a substantial number live in dorms or student housing because they are from other parts of the state. And classes are usually going full bore in November, its not like a student can pick up and go home to vote in the middle of the week.
This part of the law is going to be overturned IMHO. I would love to be able to cross examine one of these Republican Legislators under oath about his reason for not allowing Student ID.
Baud
I hope the people of North Carolina prove to the world that the Republicans were right to make the attempt.
jl
Hit racial minorities and college educated young people with with the same swipe. Now, that is good efficient voter outreach. Bravo GOP!
And I believe that college educated with BAs are an important part of GOP voters.
Hell, the GOP might as well try to ID everyone who voted GOP in the last election and try to suppress everyone else.
PsiFighter37
Is it beyond the pale to call the GOP racists? Seriously, everything they do in the South nowadays stops just short of screaming the n-word from a mountaintop, but they are good as ever at blowing that dogwhistle.
Yatsuno
@feebog: When I was in college, I registered as a permanent absentee. But I also live in WA where they allow socialist shit like that.
Has anyone done the maths on how much the myriad lawsuits are costing the state?
J.D. Rhoades
My daughter goes to App State, and she’s a staunch Democrat. I told her I’d drive up there and take her to vote if I needed to.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
@PsiFighter37:
Of course it’s beyond the pale. Racism is over, John Roberts said so, and Trayvon “SuperThug” Martin proved that the only racists left in the country are those who call others racists, making black people the super ultra-mega worst racists in the history of ever.
These laws are just counterbalancing the pernicious and pervasive reverse upside down double-dog racism those dirty uppity blahs are perpetrating on good ol’ folks.
I mean, DUH.
Another Holocene Human
@smintheus: Obama’s not as dumb as some people think he is. If we can get a Dem sweep in 2016, expect a federal voting law that forces precincts to be right-sized to their max influx. It’s a matter of party interest that coincides with the rather popular notion of universal suffrage.
Good luck running propaganda against THAT, Chamber of Commerce.
The Moar You Know
Democrats stayed home. Too bad, so sad.
As they say, elections have consequences.
Kay
@EconWatcher:
It’s exactly what voting rights people warned the SCOTUS about. That they would move to limit minority participation at the local candidate and precinct level.
But John Roberts knew better than people who have spent their whole lives working on this. He ignored all evidence.
PsiFighter37
@Kay: John Roberts knows all, because he’s part of the Real ‘Murika (TM)
Baud
@Kay:
You are smarter than that, Kay.
shelly
I hate the governor’s and other proponents of these laws when they try to present it as oh-so-reasonable.
‘We’re tryting to protect voter integrity.’ Show us some actual data on voter fraud.
‘You have to have an ID to board a plane..cash a check…” We’re not getting on a plane or cashing a check. We’re trying to exercise our legal right to vote.
“Well, 30 other states have the same kind of laws….”
I refer you to your mother when you were a stupid tween. “If all the other kids were going to jump off a cliff, would you?”
dmsilev
@Kay:
John Roberts knew exactly what was going to happen. He’s been working towards this for the last 30 or so years. It’s just that he’s working on the other side of the issue, so to speak.
Kay
@Baud:
He’s had a dogmatic theory about race for 30 years. Nothing was going to get in the way of “post racial America”.
I continue to be surprised at how blatant they are. I knew they’d suppress voters at the precinct level. I didn’t know they’d immediately move to bar candidates. That’s a whole other discussion. Obviously, candidates have to start in local races. If they can never get to the big leagues, well, problem solved!
Another Holocene Human
@jl: And I believe that college educated with BAs are an important part of GOP voters.
Yes, because BA exactly–not some college, not some grad school–is a proxy for white petty bourgeois, exactly the people who don’t know what the “big deal is” about voter ID and voter suppression laws, who can vote absentee from the parental house, same ballot as their parents, whose identity documents are all paid for and stored in the fire safe, who have a passport from the Europe trip, whose parents’ lawyer fixed their felony moving violation ticket problem down to misdemeanor with community service.
Don’t think they’ll learn from their classmates because they can and do travel in segregated circles, especially in the larger schools. Different housing, classes, social events.
PopeRatzo
It’s not accidental that Republicans have tied up long-term majorities in a majority of states. When it comes to taking power, they do not fuck around.
And yet, knowing this, even in a blue state like Wisconsin, so many Democrats refused to come out and remove Scott Walker.
The GOP is already laying the groundwork for the 2020 census. At the rate they are steamrolling state governments, they’re going to end up running 70% of the states after the 2020 election unless Democrats start getting smart and tough. But I fear it’s going to require a slightly more engaged Attorney General than the feckless Eric Holder. And, unfortunately a more engaged POTUS.
Baud
@PopeRatzo:
You remind me of type of thinking that got us into this mess.
ranchandsyrup
McCrory is trying to give himself cover by vetoing the mandatory drug test for welfare recipients bill. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/08/15/2476571/mccrory-welfare-drug-testing/
Turd sandwich covered in a tangy mustard sauce.
Kay
@dmsilev:
Right, but that’s why he’s impervious to evidence. I hope they blow the doors off on election day with turnout. Apparently conservatives didn’t learn anything from ’12.
bemused
It’s not only disgraceful as Sen Josh Stein said but it’s chicken shit cowardice.
Baud
@Kay:
I think it’ll backfire, because it will create more activists who are interested in actual politics.
Hungry Joe
Do people in any other non-third-world country experience anything like this –waiting in line for hours and systematic disenfranchisement?
It’s not that Americans are incapable of organizing elections. I’ve lived in SoCal most of my life, and before I started voting absentee a few years ago I always walked or drove a minute or two to my white, middle-/upper-middle-class neighborhood polling station — usually a church or somebody’s garage — stood in line for about 45 seconds, and voted. Then came the day when I had to wait about six or seven minutes; I said to myself, “The hell with this,” and started voting by mail.
Kay
@PopeRatzo:
This is just wrong. It’s inaccurate to say Holder hasn’t “engaged” on voting rights. He’s the best AG on voting rights in my lifetime. It is widely understood that he’s good on voting rights. Whatever your complaints on Holder, this one is way off base.
Chyron HR
@PopeRatzo:
It’s okay, you True Progressives are allowed to just openly call Holder a “nigger” now.
Kay
@Baud:
I actually think it will, too. Unfortunately, the effort to knock out local candidates can’t be remedied by turnout. If the candidate isn’t on the ballot, people can’t vote for him.
Roger Moore
They’re judging likely voters according to whether they’re likely to be able to vote after the new, more restrictive voting laws go into effect.
celticdragonchick
@The Moar You Know:
Bullshit. I travel to Watauga County several times a year for the Grandfather Mtn Highland games as well as general camping and winter sports stuff. The place is dominated by far right wing blue collar populism and culture war stuff determines everything else. This is Virgina Foxx country, and everything that goes with it. Mountain Dems move to Asheville…where the the NC legislature is trying to confiscate the municipal water supplies to sell for frakking.
? Martin
@feebog:
A lot of these states only have show-cause absentee voting. Not many states explicitly accept ‘being a full time student in college’ as an excuse. Here’s the rules for Pennsylvania:
There’s no obvious carve-out for students. Is college an ‘occupation or duty’? Plus it’s an additional hurdle for students to clear which can only serve to reduce the number of participants (it can never increase the number). Plus it improves the effectiveness of gerrymandering by keeping voters tied more closely to the data (voter registration) that was used to model the districts.
Kay
@PopeRatzo:
It’s actually Thomas Perez (who headed the Holder civil rights division and now is labor secretary) who did the good work on voting rights but obviously it’s Holder’s DOJ, so he gets the credit. Holder is also a good public advocate on voting rights, but Perez is the one who did the enforcing after the Bush DOJ ignored voting rights for 8 years.
Kay
@Baud:
I think working to stop candidates from qualifying will be treated differently than working to disenfranchise voters. It’s worse. That’s the big leagues in dastardly deeds, because minority candidates won’t be able to move up unless they are able to run in local races. They need a “bench”.
Another Holocene Human
@Kay: AGs have been a favored punching bag of the discontent for years but it seems like Holder just gets punched repeatedly for no reason. He’s no John Ashcroft and I really don’t understand the hatred. Also, Bush&Co fucked up DoJ so bad from what I understand (and to be fair, I have a mole on the inside who swears it’s really NOT as bad as you would think from the news) that it’s not like Holder could fix things overnight. Besides which, Obama has not been a “let’s lay waste to the civilian bureaucrats in an ideological purge” kind of guy so the Bush dead wood has to be picked off for cause, if at all. (In my experience, the buropeeps are not all that political anyway. They’re mushy middlers, have to be or they’d be adversely affected by the ups and downs of Washington.)
I don’t remember emoprogs hating on an AG this bad, not even Ashcroft (even though the guy was pretty vile), so I have to wonder what’s different this time. **props head on hands and smiles innocently**
Fast&Furious even to the extent it happened under Holder happens because you just can’t get fucking prosecutions with our dumbshit weakass gun control laws. It’s a series of failed operations revived independently by good law enforcement people who are not lawyers who are trying to stop the crooks. A lawyer told me this.
Another funny note about federal bureaucracy is that IRS is pumping out guidance and response letters and shit lately after sitting on requests through THE ENTIRE 8 YEARS OF GWB. I don’t know what dumb nonsense Bush was wasting their very limited resources on (although something something Earned Income Credits had something to do with it) but it’s really wacky watching this happen.
burnspbesq
According to PACER, as of today, plaintiffs in the private litigation in NC haven’t requested a TRO, although the complaint asks for a preliminary and permanent injunction AND Section 3 bail-in. I don’t know whether there is a local rule or custom in the Middle District of North Carolina that you can’t ask for a TRO against the state government ex parte (note that Wake County is in the Eastern District), so I’m not going to speculate about why they haven’t asked for a TRO.
It doesn’t appear that any of the defendants have been served yet.
The case is League of Women Voters of North Carolina v. State of North Carolina, no. 13-cv-00660
Kay
@Another Holocene Human:
I probably agree with that. I know there are career lawyers who would do the job regardless of the President. Still, I think we have to remember that Bush had a huge DOJ scandal that was centered around fake voter fraud investigations. That’s why they removed those US attorneys and replaced them with campaign hacks. Because the real lawyers wouldn’t prosecute fake voter fraud. Bush’s AG had to resign. That’s big.
Baud
@Kay:
Any chance of going to court to challenge the residency restriction? I still don’t get how they can say you can’t run for a local position that you can vote for.
burnspbesq
@Another Holocene Human:
Cute.
burnspbesq
@Another Holocene Human:
False. Demonstrably false. I practice tax law. There was no lack of guidance from 2001-09. A one-minute search of any commercial tax law database (CCH, BNA, Tax Analysis, take your pick) will give you a deluge of guidance from that period.
Villago Delenda Est
Because students fairly consistently do not vote for Rethug scum, that’s why.
Kay
@Baud:
That isn’t what they’re claiming. They’re saying he can’t vote using that residence so that also bars him from qualifying as a candidate:
Residency is weirdly hazy in state law. I deal with it all the time because juvenile courts deal with it all the time. You’d be surprised how complicated “where do you reside?” can be. I have this really nice state appeals court opinion for military “residency” that came out of “my” court. I pull it out all the time. I should just make 100 copies, because I’m always attaching it. It’s particularly big where I practice, because people move across the (close) IN and MI borders frequently.
Baud
@Kay:
I see. Thanks.
So how does that apply to people on military bases? Or do they not move as much?
kc
Totally OT, but I could kill whoever fucked up gmail beyond all recognition.
Any suggestions for an alternate email provider?
kc
That’s a nice touch, targeting students at historically black universities.
Jesus, I hate these people so much it’s unhealthy.
I just hope this backfires on them in a big way.
Seanly
I like the logic quoted by Wonkette that it’s too easy to vote since people died for us to have the right to vote and to appreciate voting it should be much more difficult, that’s how you honor people who died for us. Ipso facto argle bargle.
Roger Moore
@kc:
You don’t need an alternate email provider. You just need to stop using Google’s webmail client. Get a decent IMAP mail program and use it to access Gmail instead.
Kay
@Baud:
In my world, military people can keep their county residency as long as they’re enlisted.
I don’t know if there’s an argument that says otherwise, because no one ever pulls out anything that contradicts me and my dog-eared state court of appeals opinion . They talk al lot, but they never have anything :)
Another Holocene Human
@Kay: Ah, so that is why the right hates Perez and called him a communist. Got it.
Another Holocene Human
@Kay: Where are the Liberty/King’s College grads now? In the DoJ equivalent of rubber rooms?
aimai
@The Moar You Know: Please, not this old canard. This may be in a very Republican district. For all you know the voters got what they wanted.
Roger Moore
@Seanly:
Yeah, there was a post on that one a day or two ago. Interesting how it’s never rich white people who need to have a harder time voting to remind them of how precious the right is.
Another Holocene Human
@burnspbesq: Is it normal in your world to ask for a ruling in 1998 and get a response in 2013? Just asking. For a friend.
Also–and I know this doesn’t really affect your clients because their collars aren’t blue–but there was a big shakeup in nontaxable/taxable fringe benefits two years ago. And all of the sudden the IRS peeps are running around doing reviews after years of silence. Just things that make you go hmmmm.
Just Some Fuckhead
Hah. If Renew America is just going to make shit up, why don’t they at least have the Governor’s favorability rating over 50%?
Morans.
burnspbesq
@Baud:
The complaint in the LWV case doesn’t address college student residency issues, because none of the individual plaintiffs have standing on that issue. It addresses the curtailment of early voting, the curtailment of same-day registration, and something about right church wrong pew that I’m not sure I understand.
Plenty of opportunity to add plaintiffs and amend the complaint, or for DOJ to raise that issue, or for a student at UNC, Duke, Wake Forest, High Point, UNCG, Winston-Salem State, or NC A&T (all of which are in the Middle District) to file their own action and have the two cases consolidated.
Mike in NC
Odd, I was just about to put up a link to this very same article from our local rag, which I read over dinner.
The NC GOP Voter Suppression Program is moving ahead right on schedule. This year they rolled back early voting from 17 to 10 days. Next year I guarantee they will abolish it completely.
burnspbesq
@Another Holocene Human:
Unusual but not unheard of. Sometimes they sit on ruling requests while they are working on a regulation project, or because the situation is so far out there that it takes them a long time to figure out what the answer is. Also, the list of no-ruling areas changes every year, and it’s possible that the issue on which your friend sought a ruling moved from “we will rule” to “we won’t rule” after it was filed.
The ways of the National Office are strange and inscrutable to us lowly Field mice (I was in the field in the Office of Chief Counsel from 1990 to 1999). Don’t believe me? Ask Yats.
kc
@Roger Moore:
Roger, thanks. I’ll look into that.
burnspbesq
@burnspbesq:
Also too, there have been a couple of hiring freezes during that period, which adversely affect the Office’s ability to manage its workload because the revolving door doesn’t stop spinning when that happens, it just becomes one-way traffic.
tif
@The Moar You Know: So you admit that the only reason to eliminate early voting is to swing elections to Republicans. That is NOT the excuse being given in NC. Better bone up on the conservative talking points and try again!
rikyrah
@smintheus:
Ain’t shyt subtle about this.
BillinGlendaleCA
@burnspbesq: Ya know, ol’ Rand Paul has a solution to all these problems with the IRS.
Bob In Portland
I’d suggest the students organize that they get thousands to the polls at five a.m. Bring camera crews, and any other people who live in the district can get in the back of the line.
Violet
@Mike in NC:
Early voting is popular with everyone. Some Republican-voting acquaintances I know love early voting, especially the ones who have to travel for work. Some older folks I know also love early voting. I feel like limiting early voting is going to backfire on them.
burnspbesq
@BillinGlendaleCA:
I do not think that word means what he thinks it means.
burnspbesq
@Mike in NC:
They can do all of those things if they’re willing to do them from jail. There will be an injunction, violating an injunction is punishable as contempt of court, and U.S. District Judges don’t take kindly to pissant state bureaucrats violating their orders.
Loviatar
Good job Obots, I see you’ve been taking negotiating lessons from Obama. You got Obamacare, they got the country.
fuckwit
@PopeRatzo: This, people, is why the 50-state strategy should NEVER have been abandoned, should have been escalated, and Howard Dean should still be running the DNC. This is Democratic Party’s fault for ignoring local races and giving up on “red states” instead going for “swing state” bullshit and broadcast TV buys.
Local precinct by precinct takeovers is how the right wing got to where they are, and they’ve been doing it since the 80s. This dates back well before Bush, to the Pat Robertson and Jerry Fallwell era in the 80s. The fundamentalist churches did this kind of local, door-to-door insurgency, under the radar, took over the party apparatus, the local precincts the local offices, county offices, states, and now they have everything. It’s called being organized, at a local level. Now they control the statehouses, voting laws, and census redistricting… and thus the House of Representatives.
They will maintain this control for a generation or more, or indefinitely if we don’t get our shit together with a new 50-state strategy. We have a lot of work to do in order to turn it around. OFA has been the best I’ve seen so far with grassroots organization; that’s how Obama won twice. But that’s not enough. There are off-year elections, state elections, county elections, local elections, etc.
Interestingly, go back 50-60 years and it was Democrats who knew how to do local door-to-door and precinct level politics, thanks to unions mostly. That all seems gone now, and we’re trying to reinvent it in the social-media era. The reality is it has to be local, has to be face-to-face, and has to be HUMAN BODIES SITTING AND STANDING IN ROOMS INTERACTING WITH OTHER HUMAN BODIES– like every week at church, which is how the right wing did it, or in union meetings, which is how Democrats did it way long ago. There is no way to do this digitally. It involves people in meatspace meeting with people.
Politics, alas, is a contact sport.
Anne Laurie
@Another Holocene Human:
Then you weren’t paying attention. Us DFHs were bitching nonstop about Ashcroft the Crisco-Anointed — among other turdblossoms of the GOP, let’s not forget Ed Meese for example — but the MSM didn’t pay much attention while it was only DFHs complaining. Historical memory, how the fuck does it work?
Roger Moore
@BillinGlendaleCA:
The final solution to the IRS problem.
Frankensteinbeck
@PopeRatzo:
They’re not laying the groundwork for squat. They’re desperate, panicky, not too bright racists who are grabbing any straw they can think of at any moment. There is no plan here other than ‘But it’s not FAIR for a black man to become president!’
NobodySpecial
@Anne Laurie: They can’t remember when Firebaggers were Republican plants, how the fuck you expect them to remember the W administration?
El Cid
@Anne Laurie: Yeah, no fucking shit! God, the degree of energy poured out in opposition to Ashcroft, and the Cheney-esque super-creepy Gonzales was remarkable. But no, no, if you want a perfect narrative of ’emoprogs’ who only hate Democrats, forget all that.
Splitting Image
@Hungry Joe:
In the last provincial election here in Ontario, a guy tried to block me from voting when I didn’t provide him with a photo ID. Which legally I don’t need to do. Same shit as in Michigan, Pennsylvania, etc.
There was also a kerfuffle over Muslim women wearing the veil in Quebec a few years ago. The Conservative position is that they should have to uncover their faces in order to vote. Part of it was the usual Islamophobia, but I also think that part of it was about mainstreaming the idea that “Everyone has to show a photo ID to vote. Why should these people get special treatment?” when in practice, they don’t. The real goal is to boost support for requiring a photo ID.
pseudonymous in nc
It’s shameless. The line about student residency apparently doesn’t apply to members of the military or simply who work out of state for extended periods of time.
The shit that went down at the Watauga elections board is probably illegal, because video of the meeting showed that the two GOPers met in advance and colluded on how to ram the voter suppression stuff through. Let’s see if Roy Moore has the power to do something about it.
@ranchandsyrup:
Well, that’s meaningless, because both chambers of the GA have a veto-proof nutjob majority.
dianne
Just curious- I’ve noticed that many red states will have dots of blue around university towns (where the smart people are, of course). Does anyone with ties to ASU have any idea how the professors will react to this new ruling? Will they advocate for their students or for the powers that be? The person who said get out there at 5 AM and get to the head of the line and hog the voting booths away from the locals had the right idea. Hope that is what happens, I’m just wondering if the students will have support from their teachers.
Keith G
Access to voting is the most important issue of 2010s. More than Gay right, and I think even more important than ACA implementation. This is as crucial as it gets in a democracy.
And yet this is seemingly only faintly noticed, or at least examined, by many. If the Democratic grassroots do not get energized and involved to fight this, we will really regret it.
Really regret it.
TR
But I keep hearing how Republicans believe in Freedom!*
*offer limited to old white men
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Hungry Joe: Do people in any other non-third-world country experience anything like this –waiting in line for hours and systematic disenfranchisement?
Worth keeping in mind that the only reason much of the American South isn’t a third world country is because of the money they get from the rest of the country.
dianne
Many colleges have web sites that allow students to rate and comment on their teachers. If, for instance, a student was enrolling in a constitutional government class, wouldn’t it be nice if he or she could go on line and see how that teacher felt about the state of NC usurping the students’ right to vote. It would certainly make me think twice about a teacher who supported what the state was doing or spoke out against it or even declined to state. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the months ahead of 2014.
boatboy_srq
@PsiFighter37: Nope. Racist, sexist, statist, self-righteous religious bigot, homophobe, hypocrite, greedy insensitive f##k – there’s a plethora of descriptors that would be accurate, and yet somehow insufficiently descriptive, for the small-minded, short-sighted self-centredness that typefies today’s GOTea.
Between IOKIYAR, IGMFY and NIMBY – that’s where you’ll find them.
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik: Precisely.
@fuckwit: Blame the corporate state as well: with the squeeze firmly on for anyone not in the 1%, ever fewer have the bandwidth to do the kind of organizing required for that. Who says union-busting doesn’t have benefits?
@TR: *offer limited to old, white, Xtian, hetero (or at least “passing”), “job creating” men, you mean…
@PsiFighter37: Alt+0+1+5+3=™. ,-)
boatboy_srq
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: It would be worthwhile to handle the “makers/takers” argument on a state-by-state basis. Defunding all the Reichwhingers who insist Big Gubmint is spending too much money would be instructive, to say the least.