By now most anyone concerned about any kind of vestige of democracy in this nation of ours has heard about the County of Maricopa in the newly formed Banana Republic commonly known as Arizona. Trying her hardest Tea Bagger Helen Purcell, Maricopa County Recorder tried to use a new play from the Tea Baggers bag of tricks, this time eliminating most places to vote and in particular eliminating almost all places to vote in neighborhoods where People of Color reside. Thinking she could use her double talk, like the current crop of Republican Presidential Candidates have done so well, when confronted by a novice reporter, Ms Purcell was upset and blamed the voters for wanting to stand in line to ACTUALLY vote. Not being pushed too hard by this second rate reporter, Ms Purcell blamed not only the voters for causing long lines, but reminisced about the days gone by when she supposed there were WAY TOO MANY polling places. Now Ms Purcell did not reinvent how not vote by herself, she was aided by the Republican majority in the legislature of this Banana Republic who relied on the failed policies of Republican’s nation-wide to limit, make exhaustive, restrict and suppress voting because if every American wanted to vote, EVERYONE knows they WOULD NOT vote for the party of NO.
The dictator of the Banana Republic of Arizona, Doug Ducy, I mean Governor, a Republican at first remained quiet about any and all discussion that his Banana Republic might have suppressed his citizens rights to vote. After all he oversees this Banana Republic and as is usual with most Republican dictators silence is golden, denial a personal triumph, and the act of ignorance a Profile in Courage. But, alas alack it seems that the dummies who identify as Tea Baggers, the ones who believe in a Constitution written by Jesus, did not have the last word, and real Americans who still believe we are a nation of democracy caught wind of this Tea Bagging plot and scheme and fought back. Governor Ducy, like most other Tea Bagging Governors has come forward, only because the blow back is so big, to voice his concern that something IS rotten (the something by which he and his fellow Fascists created).
Way back when, when we invaded Iraq, and Afghanistan we were told by Co-Presidents Cheney and Bush that America needed to establish American style democracies in those two nations. We were preached at that the American way of elections, of voting were great standards by which the rest of the world should adhere. Amazingly, at least for me, I have to agree with Presidents Cheney and Bush, because the fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan politics looks an awful lot like the kind of politics out current brand of Tea Bagging Republicans demonstrate in this nation. Here’s to American Exceptionalism.
