Eyes Wide Shut

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was just interviewed by Charlie Sykes on his WTMJ radio program.

The man is STILL arguing against a photo ID bill. He insists showing photo ID at the polls would not prevent certain elements of election fraud, such as the felon and phantom voters. That is his rationalization for continuing to be against such legislation.

While a photo ID bill would not solve ALL the problems, it certainly would take care of some.

For instance, as a caller into the Sykes show pointed out, the dead people that voted in Milwaukee in the 2004 election would not have been able to do so because dead people can't get photo IDs.

Barrett isn't the only one in denial about the Wisconsin election train wreck.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editorial Board has not backed away from its belief that a photo ID bill is discriminatory.

From the JS editorial "What's the fraud threshold?":

Was the state Legislature right to pass a voter ID bill? Was Gov. Jim Doyle wrong to veto it? We said at the time that the Legislature was wrong and the governor was right - an opinion we still hold. Lawmakers had jumped the gun, prescribing a remedy for identification fraud before probes were completed into what extent it was a problem. And the legislative remedy was too extreme; Wisconsin would have had perhaps the most rigid identification requirement in the country.

...We would favor tightening ID requirements if identification fraud is proven to be a significant problem. This local-federal task force - consisting of the Milwaukee police, the FBI, the Milwaukee County district attorney's office and the U.S. attorney's office and others - should give officials an idea of whether that threshold is reached as its investigation progresses. But any tightening should be more voter-friendly than what the Legislature passed.

When presented with the hard evidence of fraud they claimed did not exist, the mayor and the JS editorial board now have shifted their argument to rest on how much fraud is an acceptable level of fraud.

What's the threshold? NO VOTER FRAUD IS ACCEPTABLE.

It's clear that Barrett, Doyle, state Democrat legislators, and their liberal media mouthpieces have a vested interest in maintaining Wisconsin's current status as a voter fraud paradise.

Rather than supporting every possible measure to eliminate fraud, they are apologists for it.

Disgusting, as well as completely predictable.