The WSJ describes the Franken win perfectly. No need to actually win an election, just find all the fraudulent voters you can::

The unfortunate lesson is that you don’t need to win the vote on Election Day as long as your lawyers are creative enough to have enough new or disqualified ballots counted after the fact.

Mr. Franken trailed Mr. Coleman by 725 votes after the initial count on election night, and 215 after the first canvass. The Democrat’s strategy from the start was to manipulate the recount in a way that would discover votes that could add to his total.

Not a whole lot to be happy about with this win by Franken but at least now they own everything. They have a filibuster proof Senate. Either everything they have whined about for the last eight years gets fixed or they are outright liars. Scott said it best in the comments: Read the rest of this entry »

BREAKING: Official Document says Black Panther was “representing the Democratic Party”

Yesterday, Curt posted on this highly racial statement by the Black Panthers at a Philly voting location:

Racially charged statements by armed black panthers who happen to work for the Dem party in Philly.  No surprise the DOJ spiked the charges against the three black panthers.

Letting thugs outside polling station go with a slap on the wrist!

From the Washington Times:

Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews.

The incident – which gained national attention when it was captured on videotape and distributed on YouTube – had prompted the government to sue the men, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring would-be voters with the weapon, racial slurs and military-style uniforms.

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The career Justice lawyers were on the verge of securing sanctions against the men earlier this month when their superiors ordered them to reverse course, according to interviews and documents. The court had already entered a default judgment against the men on April 20.

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People directly familiar with the case, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because of fear of retribution, said career lawyers in two separate Justice offices had recommended proceeding to default judgment before political superiors overruled them.

Tensions between career lawyers and political appointees inside the Justice Department have been a sensitive matter since allegations surfaced during the Bush administration that higher-ups had ignored or reversed staff lawyers and that some U.S. attorneys had been removed or selected for political reasons.

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The president has now decided that although the fight against terrorists might not be war as usual, it nonetheless calls for special powers and the infringement of certain liberties. In this he is surely correct. The attacks of September 11 2001 and subsequent terror plots show that the US is dealing with a tenacious and resourceful enemy, willing to kill as many innocents as its weapons allow, loosely organised around the world but organised nonetheless. This enemy is no ordinary criminal enterprise and suppressing it calls for extraordinary measures.

Mr Obama has conceded, in effect, that the Bush administration was right about this

Call it Karma. Pelosi, Rockefeller, and other Democrats knew for YEARS about the interrogation techniques being used against captured arch-terrorists, and they did nothing. They knew in great detail. Then when the interrogation techniques were revealed to the public, those same Democrats who had been briefed in great detail for years, pretended to be shocked. They claimed they didn’t know. They even attacked the Bush Administration for having used those interrogation techniques (though they themselves had been completely silent and approving in secret for years). Then, the issue faded away after the 2006 elections in which Democrats took control of both houses of Congress. It disappeared until 2009 when-on the eve of President Obama’s 100-days report card, the “torture” memos were released to distract people from his lack of accomplishments, his historically high spending, and his foreign policy failures. Unfortunately for President Obama and the Democrats…they pissed off the CIA too much. It was a lesson the Bush Administration should have taught them. The CIA fought back by releasing and leaking more documents showing that the so-called “torture” saved thousands-perhaps tens of thousands of Americans, and-worse yet-the CIA showed in several documents that the Democrats who claimed to have been so shocked and outraged….had known all along.

Now, instead of Democrats trying to use the Bush Administration as a scapegoat and distraction again via hearings, investigations, and indictments, it’s those Democrats who are coming under the legal looking glass.

During a scantly noticed exchange in a Thursday Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) asked Attorney General Eric Holder a potentially explosive question — given the furor over Nancy Pelosi’s 2002 interrogation briefing.

Alexander wanted to know if the AG would consider investigating what House and Senate members knew about torture and when they knew it. And Holder didn’t exactly reject the idea.
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Maybe now that President Obama’s in charge of the war in Iraq, and there’s no need to lie, distort, or half quote truths to oppose the war (can’t oppose it if it’s run by a Democrat)…maybe now people will realize:
1) the matter was never closed by any investigation
2) there’s hundreds of times more information demonstrating ties than there is dismissing them

BAGHDAD — The government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki said Al Qaida worked closely with former operatives in Saddam Hussein regime.

Officials said leading members of the Al Qaida network have coordinated operations with Saddam aides since 2003. They said Al Qaida and Saddam forces attacked Shi’ites in an effort to spark a civil war in Iraq.

“They agreed that Al Qaida would carry out the suicide attacks, while the Baathists [Saddam's ruling party] would do the remote-control bombs,” Al Maliki said.

The Al Qaida-Saddam link, asserted by then-U.S. President George Bush in 2002, came in wake of the reported capture of a leading Al Qaida commander in Iraq.

At the very least, it’s 100% clear (hindsight is 20-20) that yes, Saddam’s regime and the Al Queda network did have operational ties in 2003, and that means the invasion of Iraq
HAS ALWAYS BEEN PART OF THE WAR ON TERROR.
ht regimeofterror
Mark Eichenlaub

For the past month or so I’ve been reading an unusual number of articles asking ‘why the left is angry?’ Each cites a number of examples of angry (pseudo) liberalism, but mostly it’s just oped writers reacting to hate mail. Of course, that alone does warrant the question. After all, all three branches of government are to be controlled by Democrats very soon (Congress has been held by them since 2006). So, why the anger?
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Another day, another evil Bush policy brought back without an iota of resistance or even complaint,

“The Obama administration is moving toward reviving the military commission system for prosecuting Guantánamo detainees, which was a target of critics during the Bush administration, including Mr. Obama himself.”

Call me unpatriotic for suggesting that Obama and the Democrats’ spending is completely out of control, and that WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE are not so naive as to believe that it’s a bill we’ll never have to pay.

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writer Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press Writer – Thu Apr 30, 8:08 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Millions of Americans enjoying their small windfall from President Barack Obama’s “Making Work Pay” tax credit are in for an unpleasant surprise next spring.

The government is going to want some of that money back.
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Last night on MTV’s The Real World: Brooklyn, a cast member and Iraq War vet, Ryan, was called back to serve again in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It was his greatest fear-understandably!

(Ryan is seen here on election night at an Obama Rally wearing an Uncle Sam costume and cheering as Senator Obama is elected President)
“I know that if I vote for Obama, I won’t have to go back to Iraq.”

Ryan was decorated for valor several times in his first tour of Iraq. He seems to be a really nice guy by all accounts and of unusually good character for the MTV series.

Ryan voted for Obama
Ryan voted to end the War in Iraq
Ryan was happy
Obama did not end the War in Iraq.
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Apparently Al thinks the rejected absentee voters, whose ballots were rejected for sundry reasons, need to be contacted to find out the specifics of why their ballots didn’t count… and he’s filed a lawsuit to do just that.

The latest twist in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate recount came this morning, when the Al Franken campaign hit Ramsey County with a lawsuit, seeking the names of voters whose absentee ballots were rejected.

The DFLer’s campaign hopes to force counties across the state to cough up the lists of rejected voters who, if later found eligible, could tip the balance in the closest Senate race in the country, between Fanken and incumbent Repubilcan U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman.

Marc Elias, lead recount attorney for the Franken campaign, said that both Ramsey and Hennepin counties had already rejected its request, forcing the campaign to take legal action.

His justification for such a move? It seems the Franken crowd have found a woman who’s signature doesn’t match that of her “pre-stroke” signature.

Is this guy banking on a vast amount of “strokes” in the electorate??

How convenient, then, that the HBO movie, which aired this past Sunday, has this disclaimer: “based on certain facts”. Like the fact that this movie is written by, for, and about Gore-supporting Democrats? No revisionist partisan parsing of the facts present, right? Wrong.
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The London Telegraph has a report today about the voter fraud that occurred in the Ukraine. All the whining leftists need to read it to see what real voter fraud actually looks like.

“It was 5.30pm on election day in Ukraine when the thugs in masks arrived armed with rubber truncheons.

Vitaly Kizima, an election monitor at Zhovtneve in Ukraine’s Sumy region, watched in horror as 30 men in tracksuits stormed into the village polling station.

“They started to beat voters and election officials, trying to push through towards the ballot boxes,” he told The Telegraph.

“People’s faces were cut from blows to the head. There was blood all over.”

The thugs – believed to be loyal to the pro-Russian presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich from his stronghold, Donetsk – were repulsed only when locals pushed them back and a policeman fired warning shots.”

“Maya Syta, a journalist working at polling station 73 in a Kiev suburb, witnessed ballot papers destroyed with acid poured into a ballot box. “The officials were taking them out of the box and they couldn’t understand why they were wet,” she said.

“Then I saw they started to blacken and disintegrate as if they were burning. Two ballots were wrapped up into a tube with a yellow liquid inside. After a few moments they were completely eaten up.”

“And late last week Mr Yushchenko’s headquarters released an audio recording in which senior members of Mr Yanukovich’s campaign team were allegedly caught red-handed discussing how to fix the election result.

In the telephone conversation, a member of the team can be heard saying that he ordered a local election commission to disqualify votes.”

What is the MSM reporting about this situation? Not a damn thing. You have incidents of real voter fraud and they are still crying about exit poll data.

Now news today from Ukrayinska Pravda

“Yuschenko lays down an ultimatum to Kuchma ? otherwise former president will be blocked in his dacha

www.PRAVDA.com….ua , 29.11.2004, 00:33

The national salvation committee has laid down an ultimatum to current president Leonid Kuchma.

The committee requires Kuchma to perform 4 main conditions during next 24 hours:

1. to dismiss Prime minister Yanukhovich for his support in falsifying elections and participating in separatist actions;

2. to present new composition of the Central elections committee pursuant to the request of the Supreme Council, formulated in the resolution of Supreme Council from November, 27.

3. to dismiss the chiefs of Donetska, Luganska and Kharkivska oblast administrations ? who in fact are igniters of separatism.

4. to order, that the Security Service of Ukraine and the office of Prosecutor General initiate criminal proceedings against the separatist governors.

Should Mr. Kuchma fail to comply with the request contained in the ultimatum, “his inactivity will be considered as the crime against the people of Ukraine, and it may have the consequences, stipulated by the Criminal code of Ukraine,” the ultimatum continues.

“Should the request be ignored, we will start blocking movements of Mr. Kuchma on the territory of Ukraine. We know well, where he is now and what would be his further movements. And we are able to disable his only step, should he fail to follow our request,” ? Julia Tymoshenko said, while reading the ultimatum on the meeting.

Add the following from Captain Joe

“Yushchenko warns of a possible attempt to break up the rallies and declare emergency law about 20:00.
Victor Yushchenko has warned that the authorities are considering declaring emergency law and moving to break up the rallies in Kiev.

“Already for two days there has been talk about introducing emergency law which would allow them to break up this demonstration and raze the tent city around 20:00″ – Yushchenko said at the rally in Kiev’s Independence Square.”

and you can see a real disaster about to take place.

Tulip Girl who is reporting from the Ukraine that the police may be gathering for an assault on the tent city.

“There are several reports of Kuchma planning on declaring martial law and possible attempting to raze the tent city at 8pm local time. Please pray that peace will prevail, Kuchma will not use violence, and the protesters will remain level-headed.”