Michael Steel:They gutted the Votings rights act

[bigdarryl]

Well that's one republican on our team http://thegrio.com/2013/06/25/michael-steele-supreme-court-gut-the-voting-rights-act/

[deutsey]

1. Wonder how he feels about Clarence Thomas thinking the decision didn't go far enough n/t

[bigdarryl]

2. I just listened to him being interviewed

On the Joe Madison show he wasn't to pleased with uncle Thomas he said if the republicans don't resolve this before 2014 they will loose the House

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

7. They may lose the House anyway. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision has galvanized a people.

I was talking to my peeps down in Atlanta, and seem more energized than ever to get involved and VOTE!

[1StrongBlackMan]

12. I’m afraid …

Not if …

That if our “friends” on the “progressive/libertarian left” keep up their “Cry of Freedom” campaign, it’ll move enough young folks to counter any increase in African-American/Hispanic (read: Mexican-looking) voters.

But then again … I think that was the point from the start. And I’m starting to believe that, while a significant portion of this is simply anti-President Obama; a larger measure is to gain/hold likely gop voters/disillusion likely Democratic voters, without having to draw attention to the sorry lot that is the modern gop.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

13. I think you're absolutely right. I'm worried about the young folk.

[Doctor_J]

15. Maybe the president will try to engage them like he did in 2008

instead of abandoning them like he's done since. If he signs off on KeystoneXL, you are damn right some environmentally conscious voters will stay home. Since he's abandoned and/or ignored them, labor, anti-big brother types, single payer HC advocates, friends of Don Siegelman, anti-torture advocates, and some others, he (and you) can't really expect them to flock to the polls like they did before they realized what his presidency would actually be like.

[1StrongBlackMan]

18. Okay ...

But, if Du is to serve as the measure, whatever he does (within the contraints of the Congress that he has) and it still wouldn't be enough, even if things have to be invented.

But that said, will YOU be informing those inclined to satay home, how short-sighted the staying home thing is. You can start by telling them (and yourself, if necessary) that if they want FPresident Obama to produce FDR results, we must first give him an FDR congress.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

3. Interesting....

The face of African American Conservative Apologists has turned on the GOP. If they've lost Michael Steele (and those like him) , then they have most decidedly lost the African American vote for the next couple of generations.

[Myrina]

4. They're not planning on African Americans

Being able to vote much longer, anyway.
I honestly believe the GOP wants to take us back to when only white men who owned property could vote.

[Robbins]

5. GOP

If they could get away with making It legal for only whites to be able to vote In this country they would do It.And there would be
permeant one party rule In country.Since It appears at most only 39 to 44 percent of white voters will ever vote for democrats.

[Katashi_itto]

9. GOP would make it legal for only landowning white males to vote

[LeftInTX]

14. Landowning white males with annual income of at least $1 million

[Katashi_itto]

16. good point

[AlinPA]

11. Yes, they will try to stop minorities from voting, starting in the republican controlled states.

One more GOP SC justice and they can stop minorities from voting across America.

[Ter]

19. No they can't

That's a bit extreme, on no grounds can the SC make laws, they just uphold and strike them down. We are not on the verge of whites-only voting.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

6. Not really. He's thinking of running for Governor here in Maryland.

And coming from him, that's rich. He and his running mate, Bob Ehrlich, were notorious for trying to suppress the vote in Baltimore and PG County.

[craigmatic]

8. Even some sellouts can only be pushed so far it seems.

[RBInMaine]

10. Any wonder why people of color vote DEMOCRATIC in overwhelming numbers? R's are CORRUPT & RACIST.

[okaawhatever]

17. Voter suppression laws are step 1. When they have a larger majority in certain states, they will

move to change the way electoral votes are granted in time for 2016 Presidential election. the gotp ignoring large swaths of voters is only allowed because some in the party have given up on trying to get the vote and have gone back to their earlier Rovian electoral college scheme.