Michael P Ramirez cartoon via Townhall
Mister Potato Head and now Dr Seuss. Madness.
Louis Debroux sounds the alarm at Patriot Post:
HR 1 Makes Election Fraud &
Chaos Permanent
The Democrat legislation aims to
secure their power by any and all means necessary.
If you liked the dozens of
post-election lawsuits, the ballot recounts and audits, and the utter chaos and
anger that prevailed after the 2020 elections, then you’ll absolutely love the
Democrats’ top legislative priority this year — passage of HR 1, the
ludicrously named “For the People Act.”
With a House vote expected this
week, the 791-page HR 1 is a massive power grab by
Democrats that takes the worst aspects of the 2020 elections and puts
them into federal law. Democrats aim to dictate from Capitol Hill
election law for every single state, county, and city. HR 1 intentionally
weakens election security, creating the very lawlessness and discord that made
the last election such a nightmare and guaranteeing that it’s the norm for all
future elections.
Veteran political reporter John
Fund calls it “the
worst piece of legislation I have even seen in my 40 years reporting from
Washington.”
For example, HR 1 would greatly
expand mail-in voting, despite election officials warning that mail-in
voting fraud is “vastly more prevalent than the in-person voting
fraud.” The CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project advised states to end mail-in
voting because of the “significant cost to the real and perceived integrity of
the voting process.” Even The New York Times admits mail-in balloting not only
makes it “much easier” to buy and sell votes but also makes voters, especially
elderly voters, vulnerable to fraud, threats, and coercion.
In many states that vote by mail,
registered voters are automatically mailed a ballot. Yet these states tend to
have poorly maintained voter rolls that have not been updated to exclude those
who have died or moved, making it child’s play to illegally cast a ballot in
ways that appear legal. In California, it took a lawsuit by watchdog Judicial
Watch to force California to begin removing more than five million ineligible
voters from state rolls.
The bill would also force states to
accept mail-in ballots for 10 days after Election Day.
Much more on HR1 here.
ACTION ALERT: Call
your Representative to
oppose house bill HR1. (At the link: members of the House listed by state with phone number.)
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A.F. Branco cartoon credits: Townhall and Legal Insurrection
Related headlines:
At RedState: New York Legislature -- Dominated by Dems -- Strips Gov. Cuomo of his Pandemic Emergency Powers
At The Federalist: Texas Governor Announces 100% Reopening, No More Mask Mandate After Months Of Closures (to take effect on March 10)
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Evan James at Big League Politics reports:
The second annual America First
Political Action Conference (AFPAC) took place Friday night in Orlando,
Florida, the same city where CPAC has been holding its own conference.
The speakers at AFPAC included
political commentator Vincent James, reporter Jon Miller, bestselling author
and columnist Michelle Malkin, former congressman Steve King, sitting
congressman Rep. Paul Gosar, and political commentator and activist Nick
Fuentes.
AFPAC is a conference specifically
for the dissident wing of conservative politics known as the America First
movement. The movement held its first political action conference last year in
Washington DC as an invitation only event, but this year’s event opened to the
public and sold tickets on a first-come, first-served basis.
. . .
The evening’s third speaker was
Michelle Malkin. Continuing the tradition of building her major political
speeches on a work of poetry, Malkin on this occasion chose William Ernest
Henley’s poem “Invictus.” Per
usual she delivered a fiery speech that pulled no punches. She tore into
globalist “conservatives” like Matt and Mercedes Schlapp, lobbyists and
organizers of CPAC, and she ridiculed the recent attempts by the GOP establishment
to coopt the term “America First.”
. . .
All of the speeches from AFPAC II
can be watched in their entirety below [at the link below]:
Full report here. President Trump made it clear in his CPAC speech that he
does not intend to launch a third party;
he is trying to drag the GOP back to the right. CPAC vs. America First PAC is the debate of
the day: many conservatives are not
optimistic that the GOPe can be reformed from within. Meantime, I have bookmarked Vincent James’ website TheRed Elephants.
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I am testing this blog because I have tried four times to load up a blog post contrasting CPAC with the America First PAC (AFPAC). Each time, the blog post has been theoretically accepted but has not shown up on the blog itself, so I am posting this to test the upload mechanism.
Sorry for the aggravation.
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Right Side Broadcast Network [RSBN] is live streaming from CPAC 2021 in Orlando, FL. President Trump will deliver his remarks today, Sunday Feb, 28, in the afternoon, sometime after 3:00pm (CPAC schedule specifies 3:40pm). Conservative Treehouse has the live-stream link here.
UPDATE at 3:47: One America News is broadcasting live as well. 3:58pm: President Trump's speech is evidently delayed. 4:49: One America News is cutting in and out of CPAC. The livestream link at Treehouse, above, is carrying it.
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In her American Thinker essay “RINOs: The Scourge of the
Republican Party,” Patricia McCarthy speaks for many:
How clueless are the swamp
RINOs? Very, very clueless. So confident that they can
dismiss President Trump like last week's news, a select few of them are
hilariously destroying their own brands — as if the 75M+ people who voted
for Trump are just going to forget Trump, the best president they've had in
decades, and go their establishment way. This scenario could be a
sitcom; that is how comical people like Liz Cheney, Mitch McConnell, Nikki
Haley, Adam Kinzinger, Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Pat Toomey,
and Mike Pence are at this sad moment in time. They all thought,
perhaps still think, that by denigrating President Trump, they will win over
those 75M people. They thought that by blaming him for what happened
at the Capitol on January 6, they would be rid of the man who so threatened
their cushy, establishment lives.
How can these lifelong pols be so
deluded? Because they live in a bubble of their own
making. They presume without thinking that they are smarter than
"we the people." Proceeding from that fixed belief, they
have no doubt that they can mesmerize us to forget Trump and all the good he
did, the promises he kept, the economy he built, the jobs he created, the
energy independence he made possible, the control of the southern border he
commenced, the wars he did not start, the rebuilding of the military after
Obama, the sex-trafficking he interdicted, and much more. The man was
and is the best kind of warrior for America.
No wonder the left has hated and
feared him with the "white hot intensity of a thousand suns"
(h/t Cheers). Donald Trump was and is their worst nightmare; he
actually does care about "we the people." That, for the
leftists, is a deal-breaker; the "people" are nothing more than units
of labor to the left. They should not have a voice or a
vote. For all their touting of their concern for "the
people," they have exactly none.
. . .
We are experiencing tyranny by executive order, and most of
the Republicans are sitting still for it when they should, as a group, be on
the steps of the Capitol every day warning the American people about what is
happening.
Read the full article here.
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