Voting rights act

For anyone who doubts that the Republican Party has completely lost touch with reality I draw your attention to the events of this week. In their position of unchallenged power over the three branches of government the Republicans have blocked or stalled many useful pieces of legislation and reform that would greatly benefit the American people, this weeks victim; the Voting Rights Act.

You read that correctly, the Voting Rights Act.

Little background here, up until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in the 1960's there was no specific law that prevented African-Americans, or any other group a community deems undesirable for that matter, from voting. However there was no law that guaranteed their right to vote either. So many places, mainly in the south, could use a variety of measures to keep blacks, indians, and others from the polls. These included poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and good old fashioned bullying; it worked too. The Voting Rights act changed all that and deemed all barriers to allowing people to vote illegal. Good idea right?

Wrong. When the act came up for renewal this week the Rs shot it down in a straight party-line vote for reasons beknownst only to them and their Fox News addled brains. You figure this one out I'm tired.

Hey look there's Condi Rice walking behind the Dear Leader wearing an apron and head scarf calling him masser!