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ACORN Faked Thousands of Voter Registrations in Indiana, Officials Say

CNN:

CROWN POINT, Indiana (CNN) -- More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana's Lake County by a liberal activist group this week have turned out to be bogus, election officials said Thursday.
An official enters the Las Vegas, Nevada, ACORN office, which is under investigation for alleged voter fraud.

The group -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN -- already faces allegations of filing fraudulent voter registrations in Nevada and faces investigations in other states.

And in Lake County, home to the long-depressed steel town of Gary, the bipartisan Elections Board has stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.

Ace of Spades:

ACORN in Lake County, Indiana: All 2,100 of First 2,100 ACORN Registrations Fraudulent

Every. Single. One.

From Drew Griffiths, apparently the only reporter at CNN capable of doing a negative story on Obama and his stooges. ...

Power Line:

This is one of those news stories you can hardly believe. In Lake County, Indiana, ACORN turned in 5,000 new registrations. The authorities there started reviewing them, and quit after they found that the first 2,100 were all fraudulent. The mind boggles: ACORN turns in thousands of new registrations, and not a single one represents a legitimate voter.

30,000 Florida Felons Registered to Vote

WOKV:

A newspaper investigation finds more than 30,000 felons who should have been stripped of their right to vote are still registered in Florida.

The Sun Sentinel discovered that at least 4,900 felons turned out in past elections and another 5,600 are still in prison.

Of the felons who are registered, Democrats outnumber Republicans more than two to one. ...

Via Insty.

PREVIOUS: Obama courts the felon vote.

Remember the Keating Five!

The Keating Five was four Democrats, plus John McCain. And McCain was cleared.

McCain Advisers Lobbied for Airbus Contract

Gateway Pundit:

Senator John McCain has some serious explaining to do.

-- Top McCain advisers lobbied for the Airbus tanker contract.
-- Airbus was not even in the running in the beginning.
-- Airbus was thinking of scrapping their bid for the DOD tanker contract because they did not see themselves meeting the capability metrics
-- The original contract was altered last year to favor the larger Airbus tankers over the Boeing planes.
-- The contract was awarded to Airbus over America's Boeing Company ...

New York's Governor Eliot Spitzer Implicated in Prostitution

This Ain't Hell:
oon-to-be-former Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, has just admitted that he frequented hookers (Syracuse Channel 10 link);

Spitzer has built his political legacy on rooting out corruption, including several headline-making battles with Wall Street while serving as attorney general. He stormed into the governor’s office in 2006 with a historic share of the vote, vowing to continue his no-nonsense approach to fixing one of the nation’s worst governments.

During his two terms as attorney general, his cases included a few criminal prosecutions of prostitution rings and into tourism involving prostitutes.
Lilyea adds:

Do I sound pleased? Yes, I am. Spitzer was one of the reasons I left New York State - I figured if my neighbors were stupid enough to elect him to the office of Attorney General for being a “pragmatic Liberal”, I didn’t want to live among them anymore.

Go to the post, and don't forget to bookmark This Ain't Hell on your browser and feed reader - it's a great blog, and one of my daily must-reads.

UPDATE: Roger Simon has some thoughts.

The proverbial train wreck in slow motion.

Otherwise known as the 2008 Democratic primary.

This situation has come about because the Democratic party is no longer about principle but personality. Because 21st century liberalism is bereft of real ideas it has become vulnerable to the cult of personality. Ideology has now been demoted to rhetoric or talking points. Who really believes that either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton are determined to preserve the national security of the United States? But anyone can readily see they are devoted to preserving the interests of themselves. That's what counts. And as Morris and Chait will now see, it's all that counts. 'How could she?' Chait wonders. The Clintons always could. It's just that he was the last to know.

Remarks. As a pro-McCain Republican, I obviously see "good news" in anything that helps McCain. But I can't feel good about the nastiness that seems destined to overtake the Democratic side in this election. Of course it's not up to me; but the sad thing is, it's not really up to America's Democrats either; it's up to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the power brokers behind the scenes. That's the real shame, because the millions of good, honest, decent American voters who are also loyal Democrats deserve better.

The only silver lining is that maybe this will result in much-needed electoral reform - for both parties, and for the election process as a whole. It would be nice if "hope" and "change" were more than slogans.

Ocean Guy: Against Term Limits

Ocean Guy makes a compelling case against term limits:

I’ve written numerous times about my opposition to term limits legislation applied to elected officials. The ballot box should be all the power we need to “t’row da bums out.” Having lived in two different European countries, Italy and England, and having served as the US representative to a European based international organization, I have witnessed the problems caused by civil servants accumulating too much power and influence. If we decide to place term limits on our elected officials we will simply invite the congressional staffers to take more and more authority and power than a government elected by the people, for the people should have. ...

Name that neocon!

Power Line:

It is President Bush who has has been saying since 2002 that the longstanding Western policy of accommodating corrupt dictatorships in the Arab world has contributed to the rise of terrorism, and that the only long-term solution to the problem of Islamic terrorism is our effort to bring modernity, including democracy, to the Muslim world. This was the chief reason for overthrowing Saddam Hussein, and those who share Bush's view of the matter are conventionally called, for no very good reason, "neocons."

To find out who's talking like a neocon now, go to the link.

JMK to conservatives: No ad feminam attacks on Hillary, please.

Jeremayakovka:

This past weekend TAPPED blogger Kate Sheppard reacted to something I've sensed from the very outset of Ms. Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign: ad feminam attacks against the former First Lady do nothing to engage the left nor (more importantly) the middle during the long, rhetorical slogfest underway between now and November 4, 2008. Here Sheppard is less than impressed with talkradio personality Mark Levin for having dubbed Ms. Rodham Clinton "Her Thighness."

As matters of principle and strategy, conservatives should not dismiss Sheppard's complaint. Principle, because the candidate needs to be confronted on her record; strategy, because "ideologically moderate white women" just might hold the key to the White House. Indulging a conservative chuckle now could easily lead to hearing the roar of many a woman voter later. For believe it or not, as this poll suggests Ms. Rodham Clinton could in the end (if only by default) end prove "a uniter, not a divider." Then again, if we grant that a woman deserves to be respected for her mind, we should also insist that a woman be disrespected for her mind, if she so deserves....

Log Cabin: Senator Larry Craig Should Resign

*** UPDATE: He will. ***

Log Cabin Republicans, via e-mail release:

Log Cabin has been providing a strong voice in the midst of the scandal involving Senator Larry Craig (R-ID). His behavior has been inappropriate and illegal. His explanation is not credible. He should take responsibility for his poor judgment and illegal behavior by resigning.

Senator Craig has a terrible record on gay rights issues, so obviously hypocrisy is part of this story. However, even if he had a good record on gay issues his behavior would still be illegal and inappropriate.

See also:

Log Cabin's Patrick Sammon on CNN.

UPDATE via Insty: Senator Larry Craig will resign tomorrow, Saturday, September 1, 2007.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig will announce Saturday he will resign from the Senate amid a furor over his arrest and guilty plea in a police sex sting in an airport men's room, Republican officials said Friday.