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Failed GOP Prediction: Get Rid of Hispanics and American Workers Will Fill Those Jobs

October 19, 2011 by Left in Alabama

All our local Republicans predicted that passing HB56 would make everything come up roses for Alabama.  If we just make the "illegal" workers leave the state, then American citizens will start lining up to fill their shoes.

Senator (and HB56 sponsor) Scott Beason (R):

"This is a jobs bill. We have a problem with an illegal workforce that displaces Alabama workers. We need to put those people back to work. That's the No.1 priority"

HB56 sponsor Rep. Micky Hammon (R):

”This is a jobs-creation bill for Americans"

NRA-Backed Policy Pushed for Despite the Fact That It Harms Children (Commentary)

October 19, 2011 by Kenneth

Lobbyist Marion Hammer of the National Rifle Association pushed through the so-called “Docs vs. Glocks” bill in the last legislative session that prohibited doctors from asking their patients about whether or not a gun was in their home. In addition to the clear affront the bill is to free speech, it also increases the likelihood that people, particularly children, will be harmed. That’s why U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke, an appointee of George W. Bush, blocked the bill’s implementation:

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked enforcement of a first-in-the-nation law that restricted what Florida physicians can say about guns to their patients, ruling the law violates the U.S. Constitution’s free speech guarantees and does not trample gun rights.

U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke said it was important to emphasize “the free flow of truthful, non-misleading information within the doctor-patient relationship.”

Occupy Wall Street Issues Declaration

October 19, 2011 by Left in Alabama

WHEREAS THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION PROVIDES

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

 

BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

Roy Moore Wants a Re-Do as Chief Justice

October 19, 2011 by Left in Alabama

He's baaaaaaacccck!  Former Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from office in 2003 for being a self-righteous asshole refusing to abide by a federal judge's order to remove his 5,280-lb. graven image of the Ten Commandments (the second of which prohibits graven images) from public display in the state judicial building.

Now he's "seriously considering" running to regain that office.

Judge Roy Moore said Tuesday he's seriously considering running again for chief justice eight years after being kicked out of the job for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument.

Moore, 64, told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that lots of people have encouraged him to enter the Republican primary and he expects to decide by Jan. 1.

That sound you hear?  It's me retching.

Let us not forget that this is the man who wrote in reference to LGBT people:

Notes on the Occupation

October 19, 2011 by Left in Alabama

I suspect I am not the only American who watched the sudden, surprising upheavals of the Arab Spring with a small twinge of envy.  Here were ordinary people like us who had finally reached that moment of “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore”.  They woke up, out of the blue, and began the process of transforming their societies.  Like the dismantling of the Berlin Wall,  events unfolded in a way that seemed almost peripheral to the years of painstaking, elaborate diplomatic and political efforts that preceded them.  How simple it appeared—just wake up and smell the coffee, just put your foot down for once, just get a life.

Like many progressives, I was jealous of the Tea Party for being able to motivate such strong and vivid support in our own country and wondered how on earth we could get that same energy stirred up in our folks.  We have plenty of data and reason to go on, but we have lately lacked passion.