The Latest Reich-Wing Attempt to Hijack Democracy

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Tuesday July 07, 2009 · 7:16 PM PDT

2009/07/07 · 19:16

In Illinois, voters have rightly relegated the Republicans to the curb as idealess, clueless and lacking in leadership. In the Illinois Senate, they are an irrelevant minority whose numbers are so small, Republicans can simply be ignored even when supermajorities are required. In the Illinois House, the Republicans are only one vote away from similar irrelevance. Many pundits expect Republicans to LOSE seats despite the massive dysfunction here including Blagojevich's pending criminal trial.

The fact that they can't find an idea or a leader is shown by the fact NINE Republicans have declared their candidacies for governor and all poll in single digits. They are in a mad race to be beaten by whomever runs as a Democrat.

One would think they could at least attempt to tap into voter anger and turn that into political success even in swing districts, but alas, they cannot. So instead of trying to win at the ballot box, they are trying to rewrite the rules. Enter John Bambenek who infamously tried to shut down this site by calling the FEC to complain. He has hatched the idea of putting on a state constitutional amendment that will require voters to elect Republicans. You read that right.

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Sunday June 01, 2008 · 12:39 PM PDT

2008/06/01 · 12:39

Every 20 years, Illinois voters get to vote on whether to hold a constitutional convention to rewrite or amend our state constitution. I was more or less ambivalent to this (only vaguely aware the vote was goign to take place) until I saw this piece on Progress Illinois that lays out the discussion nicely.

To be fair, we have a dramatically incompetent governor who is unfortunately a democrat. He was elected after the previous republican governor went to jail for corruption that ended getting dozens killed. Republicans are in minorities in both chambers of our legislature as well as this state has long since realized the destructiveness of their ideas.

That is why it was with shock and horror I realized that a convention is being driven by the right and no one in the progressive community has called them out on this yet. It's not just any republican, but it is radically right-wing psychopath, John Bambenek, who is leading the effort to rewrite our state constitution.

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Wednesday April 02, 2008 · 1:25 PM PDT

2008/04/02 · 13:25

Once again, trying to outdo himself as the right-wing internet ubertroll, John Bambenek has proven himself once again to be wanker of the year. Not happy with his last year's wanker award over the FEC complaint against the Daily Kos that was not only criticized on all sides of the political spectrum, but unanimously thrown out of the FEC; he has chosen not to let his petty quest go.

Yesterday, continuing his ongoing obsession with this site, he registered an account an published his "conversion" to progressive politics and pledged support for Obama. He even managed to continue the charade long enough to get the one person who knew it was a troll to get "troll-rated".

All his right wing friends are, of course, laughing it up. The delicious irony is that while Obama and his many grassroots supporters are working to change this country for the better for everyone (including them), they are the ones resorting to childish tactics.

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Tuesday February 26, 2008 · 9:12 AM PST

2008/02/26 · 09:12

Everybody's favorite scary Catholic douchebag John Bambenek is back, this time with a column in the local campus rag, The Daily Illini about... gasp drinking at college!

Something is bizarrely tragic and sad for a 31-year old who can only get his trash published in college newspapers. I'm not sure that 30-somethings who spend all day hanging out with 19-year olds playing "journalist" has any standing to criticize, but that doesn't stop him anyway. That's why he can't even get elected to the local school board, everyone knows he's a nut... and this latest column doesn't disappoint.

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Wednesday February 20, 2008 · 11:22 PM PST

2008/02/20 · 23:22

If you are like me and most rational Americans, you consider the health care crisis to be the fact that over 50 million Americans lack access to health care. Right now, hard-working families lack access to health care for their children. This is a national disgrace that any rational individual can see. Conservatives, however, are not rational individuals. They're the same people who think everything is rosy in Iraq.

When conservatives talk about the health care crisis, it isn't about the 50 million people who don't have health care. They are worried that upper middle-class workers don't get enough choices in their employer-provided health care options. Resident knuckle-dragger John Bambenek writes in his latest steaming pile of excrement, The Health Care Crisis and Why it was Inevitable, that the health care crisis involves high-paid IT workers like himself having to get insurance from Blue Cross Blue Shield when they really want CIGNA. Boo Freaking Hoo.

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Monday February 11, 2008 · 8:42 PM PST

2008/02/11 · 20:42

In John Bambenek's latest semi-literate rant, The Problem with the Men's Rights Movement, we see the usually diatribe those of us who are feminist are used to. "There clearly is a need to stop the abuse men suffer from the excesses of the women’s rights movement."

Oh, wah. Women have been treated like chattel for millenia (and in most of the world we still are), in this country many women are beaten into submission by men, and yes, men are still taking that abuse out on their children too. Bambenek says, "Retraining orders are far too easy to get without any evidence whatsoever..." Excuse me? Over 10% of women who seek protection orders are STILL getting stalked, assaulted and even killed by those they seek protection from. Women don't run to court for protection orders because things are going great! We go to court to protect ourselves from misogynist Christian Taliban like Bambenek who think women belong in the kitchen.

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Monday January 28, 2008 · 6:23 PM PST

2008/01/28 · 18:23

Everyone's second favorite scary conservative Catholic after Mel Gibson is at it again. John Bambenek is apparently taking a break from trying to censor the Daily Kos off to internet with the FEC and is going after... Grand Theft Auto.

MercatorNet.org, an Australian religious magazine, published a piece by John Bambenek called Unsuitable for Children (and apparently publishes a good deal of Bambenek's excrement). In this article, Bambenek repeats the usual religious right fist-pumping horror about violent video games. Except he takes it one step further... he goes beyond keeping it away from children and is honest about the agenda of the religious right... he's about taking it away from grown adults.

He says, "If some video games are too violent to be suitable for kids, what exactly makes them suitable for adults?" So not only does Bambenek want to be the censor of political speech, he wants to censor video games too. Why? Because he's special and knows what's good for you, even when you don't.

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Monday January 21, 2008 · 12:45 PM PST

2008/01/21 · 12:45

Last week, John Bambenek made a complete fool of himself by sending a complaint to the Michigan Attorney General about us evil Kossacks using our voting rights by picking up a ballot for the "Democrats for Romney" campaign. He whined and cried that it is interfering with the "free assiociation" rights of the Republican Party by allowing Democrats to vote. That was last week.

This week it is a new week and John Bambenek has apparently changed his mind.

indigo5

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Wednesday January 16, 2008 · 11:46 AM PST

2008/01/16 · 11:46

Remember our friend, John Bambenek? The clown who filed an FEC complaint against Kos, and then complained to the Michigan Attorney General? It seems that he may himself have violated the law in actuality by engage in such banality during work time.

First, John Bambenek is an employee of the University of Illinois, a state university, and is a well-known kook there. The University is bound by the ethics act as are its employees. In fact, Bambenek is required to take annual ethics training (and filed a federal lawsuit last year to get out of it).

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