"Failed economic policy"

One of the mantras I heard several times last night, I didn't stop to count them, was Obama's repetition of "failed economic policies of the last 8 years." I have to wonder how failed those policies actually were and what can truthfully be attributed to the Bush administration.

In my memory, I don't remember the economy being an issue, until the last couple of years. Prior to that, we enjoyed a robust stock market and it even reached 14,000 last year. It has only been in the last year that some problems have become evident and they can be mainly attributed to Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and others of the same ilk. It has been the Democrat Congress that seems to have been the primary instigator of economic woes and credit problems. Problems stemming from their insistence on extremely risky loans, when they knew those people didn't have the means to repay what they borrowed.

In my opinion, this has not only been the height of stupidity, but it is an example of a "failed economic policy". So, let's put the shoe on the proper Democrat feet and see how they like wearing what they created!

Disenfranchised?

There's a big deal being made in Ohio over potential voter fraud and ACORN registrations. The Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, contends voters would be disenfranchised if the mismatched registrations are sent out to the counties for flagging.

It makes one wonder how that is a disfranchisement, since Ohio has the same provisional ballot that we have here in Texas. When I was an election judge, we always had provisional ballots that were for situations like people wanting to vote in the wrong precinct or presenting the wrong address. That doesn't mean they couldn't vote, it just meant it was going to be a provisional ballot, that could be checked for accuracy before it was put in the ballot box with the other votes. After all, we weren't against someone voting, but they should only get one vote, just like the rest of us!

According to Democrat Brunner, the vote should go straight into the ballot box, but there isn't any way to identify that vote, should it later prove to be fraudulent. When you have people in Cleveland being registered 72 times, and if they are allowed to vote all 72 registrations, it's a convenient way of stuffing the ballot box and that isn't what America is all about.

It's past time to prosecute voter fraud, but not just for the pawns of ACORN and the Democrat party. The organization perpetrating the fraudulent registrations and the one doing the registering should be prosecuted also.

Ohio Elections Chief Appeals Court Ruling

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio's top elections chief has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a dispute over whether the state is required to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility. A spokesman for Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said Thursday that an appeal has been filed with the high court. On Tuesday, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati sided with the Ohio Republican Party and ordered Brunner to set up a system that provides names of newly registered voters whose driver's license numbers or Social Security numbers don't match records in other government databases. The GOP contends the information will help prevent fraud. Brunner, a Democrat, has called the issue a veiled attempt at disenfranchising voters and that other checks exist to help determine eligibility.