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ICYMI: PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton

November 20, 2012 / Catherine Crier / No comments

When you take anti-choice policies such as Ohio’s heartbeat legislation to their logical extremes, the rhetoric goes way beyond pro-choice or pro-life positions—it endangers the health and welfare of women. We’re not talking about saying “stupid things” (as Bobby Jindal so aptly phrased it), we’re talking about doctors literally allowing women to bleed to death due to fear of prosecution.

On Monday night’s PoliticsNation, I joined Reverend Al Sharpton and Irin Carmon of Salon.com to discuss this and other issues. What are your thoughts on anti-abortion legislation currently being discussed in numerous state legislatures? Watch the following clip from last night and share your thoughts.

From PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton

Category: catherine crier, msnbc, Patriot Acts, women / Tags: abortion, al sharpton, gop, heartbeat bill, msnbc, ohio, politics nation, republican, salon.com

GOP Voter Fraud Accusations, or “The Wolf Who Cried Wolf.”

October 27, 2012 / Catherine Crier / 2 comments

Over the past few months, Republican Party members have been tied to numerous reports alleging voter registration misconduct. Despite GOP claims that voter fraud is a widespread issue, the case for its effect on the 2012 election may have slowly become a story of “The Wolf Who Cried Wolf.”

The expansion of voting rights is essential to our democratic electoral process. Republican attempts to impose limitations on the franchise of Americans citizens have been repeatedly shot down by courts, so shady, even illegal suppression tactics are growing.

From The Huffington Post

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Category: catherine crier, political parties, politics / Tags: Colin Small, gop, Gop Voter Fraud, Politics News, Video, voter fraud, voter registration, Voter Registration Fraud, Voting Rights

Modern Conservatism and ‘The House That Reagan Built’

October 23, 2012 / Catherine Crier / No comments

During the Reagan years, a dramatic shift took place within the Republican party. While President Reagan maintained his welcoming persona, conservative attitudes and policies became increasingly hard and authoritarian, exploiting cultural differences and financial inequities to serve powerful special interests. Today’s modern conservatives would likely find themselves at odds with many of the policies he touted in the ’80s.

We must stop voting on the rhetoric without examining the record. Remember Reagan’s “Trust, but verify.” Forget what you’ve been conditioned to believe is the liberal or conservative approach — both sides push a modern narrative that ignore real democratic values. Read Rick Perlstein’s latest op-ed on modern GOP ties to Reagan and share your thoughts.

Republicans love Ronald Reagan. First in 2008, and again in 2012, they had nomination debates at the Reagan Presidential Library, each candidate jockeying to establish their bona fides as the most dedicated Che Guevera in something they call the "Reagan Revolution". | Rick Perlstein, Al Jazeera

From Al Jazeera English

Category: Mitt Romney, political parties, politics / Tags: conservatism, conservative values, democratic values, gop, liberalism, modern conservatism, reagan, republican, republican party, ronald reagan

Romney’s Business Ties to An E-Voting Manufacturer Operating in 13 States

October 18, 2012 / Catherine Crier / One comment

In 2011, Romney’s former business partners at Bain Capital acquired Hart Intercivic, a voting machine company known for their vulnerable, insecure, and often 100% unverifiable voting and tabulation systems now being used in all or parts of CA, CO, HI, IL, IN, KY, OH, OK, OR, PA, TX, VA, and WA.

Unsurprisingly, the frenzied GOP legislators who claim voter fraud is real threat to our democracy haven’t yet disputed the conflicts of interest for public officials and voting machine manufacturers who could electronically flip the 2012 presidential election in their candidate’s favor. Truthout takes a look at how this scenario played out in Ohio during the 2004 presidential election.

Hart Intercivic machines have famously failed in Tarrant County (Ft. Worth), adding 10,000 non-existent votes. The EVEREST study, commissioned by the Ohio secretary of state in 2007, found serious security flaws with Hart Intercivic products.

From Truthout

Category: journalism, politics / Tags: bain, bain capital, democracy, e-voting, electronic voting, gop, hart, hart intercivic, Mitt Romney, ohio, ohio elections, romney, truthout, voter fraud, Voting, Voting Machines

Modern “Conservatives” Are Quick to Impede Progress Without Offering a Different Course

October 3, 2012 / Catherine Crier / One comment

The Republican Party I knew growing up was brimming with “progressive” visionaries who valued national investment in science technology and infrastructure—building, innovating, and investing, publicly and privately, in America’s future. Now, modern “conservatives” are quick to put the brakes on progress without offering a different course.

If they wish to revitalize the Republican Party, conservatives must be willing to strike a balance between free-market ideologies and traditional conservative principles. Balancing these interests does not mean confiscating and redistributing wealth or subsidizing people’s lives, but inequalities must be addressed. Your thoughts?

From The New York Times

Category: capitalism, catherine crier, congress, cronyism, economics, journalism, national budget, Patriot Acts, political parties, politics / Tags: conservative, conservative ideologies, gop, ideology, progressivism, republican, republican party, traditional conservatism

Corporate Lobbying Firm ALEC Now Sponsoring Overtly Political Events with the RSC

September 13, 2012 / Catherine Crier / One comment

The revolving door between Capital Hill, the lobbying sector, and corporate jobs is out of control. Unaccountable corporate lobbyists write laws, draft budgets, and create policies that protect personal and business interests.

As Bill Clinton might say, ‘It takes brass ones’. While claiming tax-exemption as a 501(c)3 charity, the corporate lobbying group ALEC is sponsoring overtly political events with the Republican Study Committee. Where’s the outrage? Where’s the IRS?

From Salon

Category: campaign finance reform, capitalism, catherine crier, congress, cronyism, hypocrisy, journalism, Patriot Acts, political parties, politics / Tags: 501(3)c, alec, american legislative exchange council, capital hill, congress, corporate lobbying, corporations, gop, Lobbying, nonprofit, republican party, republican study committee, RSC, tax exemption

Weapons makers now suggesting that GOP reconsider tax hikes.

July 21, 2012 / Catherine Crier / No comments

Our global military presence requires a mammoth defense industry, one that consumes nearly half of all military expenditures worldwide. In January, 2013, automatic defense cuts are scheduled to occur under the Budget Control Act. This sequestration has members of Congress and major defense contractors scrambling to dodge this bullet.

Desperate to protect their bottom line, weapons makers now suggest that the GOP consider raising revenues (taxes!). Just maybe those top tier Bush tax cuts should expire to facilitate a budget agreement before the New Year’s deadline. How will Republicans respond to this powerful lobby?

From The Huffington Post

Category: campaign finance reform, catherine crier, congress, economics, hypocrisy, Military, national budget, politics, war / Tags: Balanced Budget Act, Debt Ceiling, Defense Budget, defense spending, gop, Lockheed Martin, Politics News, Pratt & Whitney, Sequestration, Tax Hikes, taxes

Why aren’t more patriotic conservatives denouncing the reactionary ideologues?

July 11, 2012 / Catherine Crier / No comments

Without the push-pull of ideas between liberals and conservatives, and the tempering role compromise must play, our nation would become a place that neither side would like. Unchecked conservatism becomes authoritarian and tyrannical, while extreme liberalism moves toward socialism, even communism.

So why aren’t patriotic conservatives denouncing the reactionary ideologues (like Beck, Bachmann, Palin, West) that now epitomize the GOP? They should applaud more thoughtful leaders like Reagan-appointee Judge Richard Posner who are willing to challenge entrenched interests on their team while vigorously debating the political opposition.

Category: catherine crier, congress, hypocrisy, Obsessive Cognitive Dissonance, political parties, politics / Tags: conservatives, gop, ideologues, politics

Republican attempt to prevent an imaginary government takeover.

July 8, 2012 / Catherine Crier / No comments

Pennsylvania’s Voter ID law is nothing more than an attempt to suppress groups who traditionally vote democratic, of which there are 785k registered to vote who lack a photo ID.

According to MotherJones, UFO sightings are 3615 times more common than instances of voter fraud, and yet Republicans are treating this as a dire emergency to prevent some imaginary government takeover.

From The Maddow Blog

Category: catherine crier, congress, hypocrisy, journalism, msnbc, political parties, politics / Tags: gop, rachel maddow, ufo sightings, voter fraud, voter id, voter registration

Political extremism becoming more normalized.

June 5, 2012 / Catherine Crier / No comments

Political extremism cannot be allowed to compromise our core liberties. If we choose to remain gullible and ignorant, preferring partisan speeches at flag-waving rallies to hard truths, then we’ll get what we deserve–a Republic in name only.

This recent article from Glenn Greenwald examines how extremist attitudes in Washington are quickly eroding our modern understanding of civil liberties. Take a look, and let me know your thoughts.

From Salon.com and Glenn Greenwald:

Category: catherine crier, congress, Military, political parties, politics, Supreme Court, war / Tags: civil liberties, extremism, gop, obama

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