For so long we’ve been chronicling the efforts of vote fraud bamboozlers to come up with ways to make it harder for minorities and poor people to vote. So let’s give credit to one of the top bamboozlers, Matthew Vadum, who’s just come out and said we just shouldn’t be making it easy for the working poor to vote in first place. It’s “like handing out burglary tools to criminals.”

If you listen to the establishment press the president’s speech will determine whether the president listens to “liberals” and ditches the move toward economic austerity or “moderates” and Republicans and sticks to budget cutting. In fact, it’s more like the most of the economics profession, the bond market and the “liberals” on one side and Republicans and beltway columnists on the other.

Make no mistake: the 2012 election starts next Thursday. My point isn’t to be over-dramatic or say that any die will be irrevocably cast. But any possibility of a real jobs plan and — just as importantly — the outcome of the congressional debt committee are what the 2012 election will be about. Or to put it more clearly, President Obama needs to make that what the election is about. Read More

Wow, so cutting government spending and eliminating government jobs doesn’t help put people back to work?