‘Puter’s reminded constantly of this old saw when he reads just about anything written by a liberal columnist in any major publication.  On just about any topic, Democrats make up “facts” to fit their preferred world view.

How come when liberals’ policy wishes become enacted statutory horses, liberals turn into this guy, spreading death and decay wherever they go?

As liberal columnists who make stuff up to support their policy preferences go, there are few better than the Washington Post’s Harold Meyerson.

In today’s Washington Post, Mr. Meyerson pens a piece so detached from reality, it’s almost shocking.  Mr. Meyerson is concerned (again) with new voter identification requirements in several states.  To say that Mr. Meyerson assumes facts not in evidence would be polite.  To call Mr. Meyerson a sycophantic suck-monkey who lies, cheats and steals to get his way would be much, much closer to the truth. 

You really ought to read his entire column to take the full measure of Mr. Meyerson’s unique brand of crazy, but here are some highlights:

a. Voter identification laws do not address a real problem because there is no such thing as voter fraud.

Mr. Meyerson states without any justification whatsoever that “[i]nstances of voter fraud are almost nonexistent, but the right-wing media’s harping on the issue has given Republican politicians cover to push these laws through statehouse after statehouse.”

‘Puter’s a generous guy.  He’ll assume that Mr. Meyerson, a nationally syndicated columnist (and self-proclaimed socialist) whose job requires being up on current events, was unaware of repeated instances of voter fraud and intimidation carried out by liberal Democrats’ allies.  See, e.g., Black Panther voter intimidation, dead/make-believe/ineligible people voting in Philadelphia and Chicago and Los Angeles and New York and Milwaukee, the entire 2008 election ACORN scandal, etc.

The most likely conclusion, however, is that Mr. Meyerson’s lying in order to get to the result he wants, a world in which Republicans are motivated solely by racism. Which conclusion just so happens to bring ‘Puter to his next point.

b. Because there is no such thing as voter fraud, voter identification laws must have at their base racist motives.

Mr. Meyerson calls Republicans racist because they believe that in order to vote, you should be eligible to vote.  Or, put otherwise, ineligible voters should not be permitted to water down the votes of the eligible. Here’s a few choice words from Mr. Meyerson for your perusal.

Republicans supporting voter laws are the modern day equivalent of poll tax supporters. Incidentally, poll tax supporters were by and large Democrats, a fact Mr. Meyerson conveniently ignores.

By contrast, this year’s suppression would be the intended outcome of laws that Republicans publicly supported, just as the denial of the franchise to Southern blacks before 1965 was the intended result of laws such as poll taxes.

Republicans supporting voter identification laws are modern day Dixiecrats.  Again, Mr. Meyerson conveniently forgets to mention that Dixiecrats were by and large his fellow travelers, White Democrats.

If voter suppression goes forward and Romney narrowly prevails, consider the consequences. An overwhelmingly and increasingly white Republican Party, based in the South, will owe its power to discrimination against black and Latino voters, much like the old segregationist Dixiecrats.

Republicans are secretly planning to incite a new race war and build their White Power majority on the backs of brown-skinned people, much like the plantation owners and slave masters of the Antebellum South.  Well, Mr. Meyerson’s not quite that direct, but what else to make of this quote?

More ominous still, by further estranging minority voters, even as minorities constitute a steadily larger share of the electorate, Republicans will be putting themselves in a position where they increasingly rely on only white voters and where their only path to victory will be the continued suppression of minority votes. A cycle more vicious is hard to imagine.

So what’s our takeaway here? If Mitt Romney and the Republicans prevail in November, it is because they are racist.  Yup.  That’s got to be it.

c. All laws must address a real problem in order to be legitimate.

Mr. Meyerson never actually says this in his column; however, it’s the unspoken assumption underpinning each and every aspect of his argument.  Mr. Meyerson claims there is no voter fraud problem, therefore having a law to deal with it is unnecessary.

If all that were needed to overturn a law was a showing that the law didn’t address a real problem, Democrats would be out of business.  How about the incandescent light bulb ban? There are entire websites dedicated to the collection and dissemination of stupid laws.  Heck, ObamaCare may be the dumbest law ever conceived, one that needed to be passed so we could know what’s in it.  ‘Puter doesn’t hear Mr. Meyerson bemoaning stupid laws when he likes the results.

Like it or not, voter identification laws, much like ObamaCare, were passed by duly elected legislatures in a constitutional manner and signed into law by the appropriate executive officer (governors and president, respectively).  There is no requirement that a law be wise, or good for the citizenry or necessary.

d. If Romney wins in November, Americans are free to ignore the election’s results. 

Really.  No, Mr. Meyerson really said that.  If you won’t believe ‘Puter, here’s Mr. Meyerson’s own words for your perusal.

And what should Democrats do if Romney comes to power on the strength of racially suppressed votes? Such an outcome and such a presidency, I’d hope they contend, would be illegitimate — a betrayal of our laws and traditions, of our very essence as a democratic republic. Mass demonstrations would be in order. So would a congressional refusal to confirm any of Romney’s appointments. A presidency premised on a racist restriction of the franchise creates a political and constitutional crisis, and responding to it with resigned acceptance or inaction would negate America’s hard-won commitment to democracy and equality.

Mr. Meyerson has broken with reality.  Not only that, he seems to call for insurrection against a duly elected government, which, in ‘Puter’s estimation, it borderline treasonous, but we’ll leave that aside for now. 

Mr. Meyerson fashions a dream world, an alternate reality, one in which the facts are as he wishes they were rather than as they actually are.  Mr. Meyerson then takes his fantasy land and applies its tortured logic and false facts in a weak attempt to discredit voter identification laws.  Laws that exist in the real world, laws that deal with real problems and laws that protect our franchise.

If Mr. Meyerson insists in living in his self-created Land of Make Believe, so be it. But Mr. Meyerson cannot insist that we all live there with him, however fervently he may wish otherwise.

'Puter

Always right, unless he isn’t, the infallible Ghettoputer F. X. Gormogons claims to be an in-law of the Volgi, although no one really believes this.

’Puter carefully follows economic and financial trends, legal affairs, and serves as the Gormogons’ financial and legal advisor. He successfully defended us against a lawsuit from a liquor distributor worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid deliveries of bootleg shandies.

The Geep has an IQ so high it is untestable and attempts to measure it have resulted in dangerously unstable results as well as injuries to researchers. Coincidentally, he publishes intelligence tests as a side gig.

His sarcasm is so highly developed it borders on the psychic, and he is often able to insult a person even before meeting them. ’Puter enjoys hunting small game with 000 slugs and punt guns, correcting homilies in real time at Mass, and undermining unions. ’Puter likes to wear a hockey mask and carry an axe into public campgrounds, where he bursts into people’s tents and screams. As you might expect, he has been shot several times but remains completely undeterred.

He assures us that his obsessive fawning over news stories involving women teachers sleeping with young students is not Freudian in any way, although he admits something similar once happened to him. Uniquely, ’Puter is unable to speak, read, or write Russian, but he is able to sing it fluently.

Geep joined the order in the mid-1980s. He arrived at the Castle door with dozens of steamer trunks and an inarticulate hissing creature of astonishingly low intelligence he calls “Sleestak.” Ghettoputer appears to make his wishes known to Sleestak, although no one is sure whether this is the result of complex sign language, expert body posture reading, or simply beating Sleestak with a rubber mallet.

‘Puter suggests the Czar suck it.