~ “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.
“An administrative processing error” or a bunch of bureaucrats too lazy to do their jobs. Technology has wreaked havoc on elections and California’s system is no different.
…”The 14 Bay Area locations are the only stores that will receive a DMV Now Self-Service Terminals,” Jessica Gonzalez, the DMV’s assistant deputy director of public affairs, told us via email. “It was challenging to get more SF locations because of ADA requirements.”
The DMV Now Potrero Center kiosk can help drivers renew their registrations and dispenses license plate tags on the spot. Previously, these documents took days to receive in the mail even if users completed the transaction online[…]
Technology makes it so easy to cheat and commit fraud.
Enter October and the DMV is reporting that at least 1,000 people who are not American citizens have been registered to vote. Another error. Not buying it. Four weeks to go and the whole thing stinks beginning with the true amount of voters “incorrectly” registered to vote including illegal aliens.
An error at California’s Department of Motor Vehicles caused more than a thousand people, including some who were not U.S. citizens, to be incorrectly registered to vote, state officials said Monday.
The DMV admitted that a “processing error” at agency field offices resulted in as many as 1,500 people being added to voter rolls between April 23 and Sept. 25.
The widespread glitch was discovered after Randall Marquis, a Canadian citizen and legal U.S. resident living in California, notified the DMV he had received a piece of mail from the agency saying he was registered to vote. In response to Marquis’ alert, the agency ordered an internal audit and discovered hundreds of similar cases.
“This error occurred when DMV technicians processed customer requests at field offices to change voter eligibility responses on driver license applications,” the DMV wrote in a letter to California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “Due to the order in which the change was processed, the customer’s initial responses were retained instead of the correct and revised responses.”
The DMV said the improper registrations were made “through no fault of the customer.” None of the people who were registered to vote due to the error were illegal immigrants, the agency added.
“We have worked quickly with the Department of Technology to correct these errors and have also updated the programming and added additional safeguards to improve this process,” DMV Director Jean Shiomoto said in a statement Monday, according to ABC News.
The spate of improper registrations was the second major statewide error at the California DMV in the last two months. The agency admitted in early September that it had mishandled about 23,000 voter registrations by assigning them to the wrong political party or mislabeling vote-by-mail preferences.
Padilla said Monday he was “deeply frustrated and disappointed” by the errors at the DMV. He called on the agency to hire an outside consultant to help shore up its voter registration process.
An audit of California’s DMV voter registration program—commonly known as “motor voter”—is likely to turn up more instances of mistaken registration, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a nonprofit that investigates election integrity issues. A Public Interest Legal Foundation report released in August found that hundreds of noncitizens were recently purged from voter rolls in three major California counties, most of them after having registered through the motor voter program.
“There can be much more to come on this front, given Secretary Padilla’s quick call for an audit and quoted claims from noncitizens caught in the system,” Public Interest Legal Foundation spokesman Logan Churchwell told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Too many noncitizens learn of … their unlawful registrations from federal authorities during immigration procedures thanks to sloppy motor voter enforcement like seen here. We’ve seen thousands document those rude awakenings across the country.”
Every week, the WoW! community and our invited guests weigh in at the Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day, the culture, or daily living. This week’s question: What Are Your Feelings On The Kavanaugh Hearings?
Don Surber:The Kavanaugh Debacle was the best thing to happen to Republicans since passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. With the exception of Joe Manchin, Democratic senators in red states are toast, maybe even in the purple ones.
Kamala Harris and Spartacus Booker are not ready for prime time, or even SNL.
Chuck Grassley, Mitch McConnell, and Susan Collins shine. And what can I say about Lindsey Graham? Freed from McCain, he soars like an eagle.
I am ashamed that Judge Kavanaugh cannot go to church on Sundays because protesters block the entry. I am ashamed that his daughters need bodyguards to go to school, that his wife receives death threats, that his mother and father have to endure idiot comedians calling for their son’s castration.
I am ashamed that, as Judge Kavanaugh himself said yesterday, “This conformation process has become a national disgrace.”
I am ashamed that this circus revolves around the fear that Justice Kavanaugh would overturn Roe v. Wade. There have been sixty million abortions since Roe v. Wade. People who celebrate the killing of sixty million lives will stop at nothing.
And that is the greatest shame of all.
Then there’s the question of what happens next. I am very pessimistic. I expect that the next nominee will be subjected to even more pressure. The Left won’t stop.
Rob Miller: The vote turned out as I expected, although there were some surprises. As I predicted, Susan Collins was not to be bullied or threatened into submission. Jeff Flake and Ben Sasse pleasantly surprised me. Lisa Murkowski didn’t.
I think it was absolutely wonderful that only Joe Manchin had the smarts to be the only Democrat in a Red State up for re-election to vote to confirm Kavanaugh. Joe Donnelly, Heidi Hightkamp, Claire McKaskill, Jon Tester and Bill Nelson didn’t, and they will pay a price come November.
The actual Kavanaugh hearings were one of the best things to happen for the GOP for some time. First it showed America the true face of the hysterical left, and creatures like Kamala Harris and Cory Booker were revealed as the cadres and ideologues they really are. So were a number of other Democrats as well as their trained seals in the media. The American people now truly see the commie behind the curtain, and many of them who were sitting on the fence now know why it’s so important that these people never gain control of government again. Even career never trumpers like Erick Erickson now see this and are admitting they had Trump wrong all along. Women looked at their sons, husbands, fathers and brothers and realized how easy their lives could be ruined simply for expediency by any woman for any reason. The hypocrisy of the Left in ignoring sexual predators in their own ranks like Keith Ellison while ignoring the rule of law and manufacturing these kind of allegations with zero proof just for po0litical purposes horrified quite a few Americans. Some like the brilliant Camile Paglia even took it farther, understanding that false accusations like this would directly harm real victims of sexual assault and prevent them from being believed.
Meanwhile, Trump’s courage in not abandoning Judge Kavanaugh, Mitch McConnell’s steadfastness during the Kavanaugh hearings and the courage of Lindsay Graham, Ted Cruz, and Susan Collins are showing Republicans disgusted with the previous lack of spine and commitment that things have changed and are giving them the fire to get out and vote.
As a side note, while I liked most of Susan Collins’ speech, it annoyed me that she still referred to Dr. Ford as a ‘survivor.’ There’s absolutely no proof that she survived anything except being charged for slander like the pathological, Trump-hating politically partisan liar she is.
Until there is a real cost for doing something this despicable, they’ll keep at it. IMO, that needs to change if this sort of thing is ever going to end.
Doug Hagin: That the Republicans finally found some spine, and did not slink away will do things. Give their base some real hope for a stronger party, and it will make the Left become even more unhinged. The Trump presidency has absolutely ripped the “moderate” mask off of the Democratic party. And now their far left faces are showing.
Scott Kirwin: I waited for the final vote to respond. I’ve been so disgusted with the GOP recently that I didn’t trust them.
Now that it’s over I feel I can breathe again. And more importantly be proud of my party affiliation.
From Lindsay Graham channeling Boston lawyer Joseph Welch’s “Have you no sense of decency sir? Moment against Joe McCarthy, to Flake – of all Republicans Flake – standing up to the leftist bullies, ending with Maine Sen. Susan Collin’s impassioned speech defending Kavanaugh I don’t think I have ever been prouder to be a Republican.
There is really nothing more important for conservatives than the Supreme Court. All the issues that matter to us are decided by that court and the only way to get a fair hearing is to have people on the bench who agree with our view of the Constitution. The Gorsuch appointment made Trump’s victory in 2016 worthwhile. Kavanaugh’s appointment cements his legacy.
We conservatives owe Graham and Collins for this victory. They both had plenty of reasons to fold and could have, but when it mattered they showed guts and dare I say it, spine. In the coming years we must remember their actions over the past two weeks and stand by them when they need us.
Jeffrey Avalon Friedberg:Politics have been broken since way before even Bill Clinton and can never be repaired because they are outdated and just don’t work—if they ever did. Hubert Humphrey and his oldtime ilk are all dead and gone.
Greece invented democracy. Is Greece a paragon of democracy now today? No.
By the same token, the whole Brett-Nancy-Streisand -Graham thing is just more bullshit. It’s all about personal power and self-aggrandizement. What did Susan Collins get in return for her vote?
The supreme court will now be “resisted” and never obeyed again. Gang-Mobs will assault public spaces. Screaming 20 year olds in black masks will spit and hit.
Politics are now handmaiden to the communist party and its agents in government, media, kitchens, and bedrooms everywhere.
Trump knows this. It’s why he does not seek to “Presidentially” govern. Rather, he seeks to
get
stuff
done.
Puma By Design: The shock of the first series of allegations levied against Brett Kavanaugh lasted for a moment. Before I could wrap my head around what was going on, the second set of allegations followed and it was at this point that I became concerned at the revelations of what was at stake hit.
I have friends who were victims of sexual assault and couldn’t help but feel resentful of Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony which had too many blanks and didn’t add up.
The very idea that sexual assault would be used as a tool to stop the advancement of a Supreme Court nominee or anyone else for that matter is shameful.
My heart broke as Judge Brett Kavanaugh before the world was forced to vigorously defend himself, his honor, his family before a tribunal of Marxist bureaucrats’ hell bent on destroying an innocent man for the sake of dismantling the patriarchy and satisfying their lust for power.
I have a 39 year old son, brother, uncles, great nephews, nephews, grandson, male cousins and friends and as I listened to Judge Kavanaugh respond to stupid questions about his yearbook, not only was I pissed off, I became angry and concerned that the Republican Party would fold like a suitcase full of cheap suits so as not to offend women and in so doing permit these rabid Marxists to crush Kavanaugh, his family, the President and the liberties of every American born man and boy.
But then Senator Lindsey Graham took a stand and as my nieces and nephews say, “it was on from there.”
My first thought as I observed Senator Graham, “Lindsey, what took you so long?” My second thought was something on the line of, “Damn, I’m sure glad that John McCain’s not here,” after which I asked God’s forgiveness for thinking such a thing.
I thought about the effect of McCain’s absence more than once this past week as the Republican Party from Graham to Senator Chuck Grassley to Senator Susan Collins, seemed to have found their will to fight, not their constituency but the hard-left.
Just as Progressives did not see Kavanaugh coming and handled it badly, it never occurred to them (or me) that Republicans were up for the fight. Progressives leaned hard expecting Republicans to buckle under and got the reverse.
Republicans gave back as good as they got. It appeared that with each new wave of false allegations, Americans became angrier and Republicans fought back harder.
It is unfortunate that we had to go there but, in the end, Kavanaugh, the President, the GOP and liberty came out on top.
As for the hard left, they showed Americans just how bad they are for our country.
We’re not done yet.
Laura Rambeau Lee:The Kavanaugh hearings were a mockery of our process for appointing Supreme Court justices. With Kavanaugh’s distinguished career as a judge and volumes of decisions there was no question of his qualifications. There wasn’t even much discussion regarding it because everyone knew he was eminently qualified. The Senate interviews and hearing were concluded and this last minute accusation of an uncorroborated sexual assault over 35 years ago was nothing more than a ploy to delay, delay, and further delay. Senator Diane Feinstein sat on this information since July and did not bring it up until it was pretty certain he would be confirmed. The Republicans allowed themselves to be manipulated by the Democrats and the media to re-open the FBI investigation, which found not a single individual who would corroborate Ford’s assault allegations. We are nothing if we allow such an erosion of one of the basic tenets of our founding and legal system; that an individual is innocent until proven guilty. Personally I believe the Democrats did not want Kavanaugh to be confirmed because of his record in support of the Second Amendment.
When President Trump has the opportunity to nominate the next Supreme Court justice, and he will, I hope Republicans remember this debacle and not permit Democrats to grandstand and go to such extremes to challenge his candidate. Remember, elections have consequences, and one of the consequences is that the president gets to nominate Supreme Court justices. Republicans accepted, albeit grudgingly, President Obama’s appointments of Justices Sotomayor and Kagan as they agreed they were both highly qualified. The understanding is the president is elected by the people and through the president the people get to choose who sits on the Supreme Court. Many of us voted for President Trump for this very reason.
Some on the left are now speaking of impeaching Justice Kavanaugh if they win the majority in Congress in November. This alone should energize the conservative base, and even some independents and Democrats, to vote Republican to prevent these anti-American ideologues from obtaining power ever again.
We must continue to be vigilant and never rest, for as President Ronald Reagan said “freedom is never more than one generation from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” The vote, 50 to 48, was the closest vote for a Supreme Court justice since 1881. Once again it appears Providence is looking favorably on our nation and giving us another chance to right our course.
Bookworm: Gosh, you guys are so thoughtful and intelligent. Truly, I have nothing to add that all of you haven’t said better. Instead, I’ll just quote part of the short speech Churchill gave after the victory at El Alamein (a battle in which my father took part). I’ve merely made a few interlineations, indicated by square brackets, so that the speech better applies to America, in 2018, rather than to England in November 1942. You can find Churchill’s original speech here.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Henceforth [the Democrats’ foot soldiers, including organizations such as Antifa] will meet equally well armed, and perhaps better armed troops. Hence forth they will have to face in many theatres of war that superiority [on college campuses] which they have so often used without mercy against other, of which they boasted all round the world, and which they intended to use as an instrument for convincing all other peoples that all resistance to them was hopeless….
We mean to hold our own. [We normals are not prepared] to preside over the liquidation of [a constitutional America]. For that task, if ever it were prescribed, someone else would have to be found, and, under democracy, I suppose the nation would have to be consulted. I am proud to be a member of that vast [collection of sane, normal people, committed to individual liberty, strong national security, and the free market] without which the good cause might well have perished from the face of the earth. Here we are, and here we stand, a veritable rock of salvation in this drifting world….
[snip]
I recall to you some lines of Byron, which seem to me to fit the event, the hour, and the theme:
Millions of tongues record thee, and anew
Their children’s lips shall echo them, and say —
“Here, where the sword united nations drew,
Our countrymen were warring on that day!”
And this is much, and all which will not pass away.
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Well, there it is!
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Republican Senator Susan Collins is under attack due to her “yes” vote that put Judge Brett Kavanaugh over the final lap toward becoming the next Supreme Court Justice. on Saturday Collins’ speech which spoke to the rule of law, advise and consent touched on many issues leading up to the moment was not only compelling but historic.
If she is not remembered for anything else, Collins will be remembered for her performance on the floor of the U. S. Senate prior to the final vote confirming now Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
Sixty-eight years ago, on June 1, 1950, in a nation tearing itself apart over the Joseph McCarthy accusations regarding Communist infiltration of our government, the Senate’s first female senator, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, rose to deliver an historic speech on the Senate floor, a speech that has become know as A Declaration of Conscience.
In this speech, as reviewed on the official U.S. Senate web site, Mrs. Smith was one of the first senators to challenge the process by which Joe McCarthy was damaging the fabric of the Senate, and consequently our nation.
Four months earlier, McCarthy had rocketed to national attention. In a well-publicized speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, he claimed to possess the names of 205 card-carrying communists in the State Department. Smith, like many of her colleagues, shared McCarthy’s concerns about communist subversion, but she grew skeptical when he repeatedly ignored her requests for evidence to back-up his accusations. “It was then,” she recalled, “that I began to wonder about the validity… and fairness of Joseph McCarthy’s charges.”
At first, Smith hesitated to speak. “I was a freshman Senator,” she explained, “and in those days, freshman Senators were to be seen and not heard.” She hoped a senior member would take the lead. “This great psychological fear…spread to the Senate,” she noted, “where a considerable amount of mental paralysis and muteness set in for fear of offending McCarthy.” As the weeks passed, Smith grew increasingly angry with McCarthy’s attacks and his defamation of individuals she considered above suspicion. Bowing to Senate rules on comity, Smith chose not to attack McCarthy, but to denounce the tactics that were becoming known as “McCarthyism.”
“Mr. President,” she began, “I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition…. The United States Senate has long enjoyed worldwide respect as the greatest deliberative body…. But recently that deliberative character has…been debased to…a forum of hate and character assassination”[…]
Last evening President Donald J. Trump held a MAGA Rally at the Kansas Expocentre in Topeka, Kansas on behalf of GOP Congressman Kevin Yoder who is running against Democratic opponent, Sharice Davids.
A mere few hours after the well-deserved and hard-fought victory, the President stated,
“This is a truly historic night. I stand before you today on the heels of a tremendous victory for our nation, our people and our beloved Constitution…”
President Trump celebrated a historic chapter added to his legacy that occurred Saturday afternoon, i.e., the U. S. Senate’s vote 50-48 vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh as the next Associate Supreme Court Justice. Kavanaugh was sworn in a few hours later and the President signed “the Judge’s Commission aboard Air Force One.”
In addition, Kavanaugh will be sworn in Monday night at 7 p.m. in the White House.
The President giving credit where credit is due thanked Republicans for refusing to stand down, “in the face of the Democrats’ shameless campaign of political and personal destruction.”
Triumphant or trolling rabid Communists in meltdown mode (depending on which side of the fence one sits) over the Kavanaugh vote and swearing in, Trump mentioned the possibility of having to appoint future Supreme Court Justices.
…The commander-in-chief also noted that Gorsuch and Kavanaugh may only be his first two Supreme Court appointments.
“You will have other Supreme Court justices to file, could be three, or could be four, could be a lot,” Trump said. “If you allow the wrong people to get in office, they could change that and they could change it fast”[…]
Trump called out Communist bureaucrats, their search and destroy mission, nasty lies, rancorous and partisan actions of Democrats and domestic terrorists on their behalf and the left’s sense of entitlement, promise of theft and to make America “ungovernable.”
Let’s face it, since President Trump was inaugurated, it has been one battle after the other, however, a few back, by the Democratic Party Communists (name them) launched a vicious all-out war against an innocent man and his family because he was nominated to become the next Supreme Court Justice by a man they despise, i.e., President Donald Trump. Oh yes, and the fact that Brett Kavanaugh while we may not agree with all of his future rulings means a win for the U. S. Constitution and the rule of law.
Trump deserves that victory lap, as do those Republicans (can’t believe I’m saying this) who learned to fight, blocked the Red Wall, stood with Kavanaugh, stood up to rabid protesters (all but one) and with media cameras in their faces, exposed Senate DemonRATS as the R-E-S-I-S-T-E-N-C-E.
Mindful of his many other victories, i.e., the economy, MCUSA, low unemployment rates, etc. Trump reminded voters not to be complicit, what is at stake and why we must vote this November, “Democrats have become ‘an angry mob,’ while Republicans are ‘party of law and order and justice.”
I have included multiple videos of the rally because some footage is clearer than others. Feel free to decide which one is best for you.
The rally in the above video begins at 3:28:35. President Trump enters at 4:09:05.
The rally in the above video begins at 1:51:21. President Trump enters at 2:31:21.
You don’t hand matches to an arsonist, and you don’t give power to an angry left-wing mob. Democrats have become too EXTREME and TOO DANGEROUS to govern. Republicans believe in the rule of law – not the rule of the mob. VOTE REPUBLICAN!
When his turn came to talk, had Brett Kavanaugh walked out to his desk, sat his notes down, then walked around the table and walked up to Dick Durbin and popped him square on the nose, he couldn’t have made his case more masterful.
He took off the gloves, which in the Republican world of Washington, no one ever considered an option anymore.
It’s Thursday, October 4. and the shock of the way Brett Kavanaugh made his case on Thursday, September 28, has still not worn off.
By Sunday, the Democrats were clearly no longer on offense. Kavanaugh was no longer an attempted rapist, a serious felony offender justifying many years in prison, (I’ve defended just such cases) but now a drunk…including some talk of being a bar brawler. Without using a shillelagh (stick) or driving a car recklessly, we’re now only talking about a misdemeanor, where jail time is rare indeed. Certainly no more punishment than Code Pink or Antifa gets for breaking up a congressional hearing.
Yes, though Kavanaugh has dropped from a felony rapist to a college kid who got loaded every weekend…but who always seemed to still get straight A’s anyway for seven straight years…and not those crip courses over in the Sociology Department either…the Democrats are still trying to keep the alleged violence of that original assault claim by portraying him as a violent drinker[…]
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