Today's Must-Read: By Any Means Necessary, Again

This post by Tom Sullivan at Hullabaloo starts off with a quote that -- well, hide your irony meter:

"Once you start down the path of diluting, obviating, nullifying the results of an election, it’s very hard to pull back from that," Norman Ornstein tells NBC News. Ornstein, an American Enterprise Institute scholar, responded to the domino-like chain of events in states from North Carolina to Wisconsin to Michigan in which controlling parties seen to have lost ground in the last election quickly moved to undercut the powers of the incoming electeds — governors of the opposing party, most notably.

In case you're not familiar with the American Enterprise Institute, it bills itself as non-partisan, stating on its website:

AEI actively seeks and encourages engagement with those who hold different points of view. We welcome civil disagreement because we believe that a competition of ideas is essential to a free society. This is the same approach to scholarship that AEI has taken since our founding in 1938.

It is unusual in Washington, DC, to embrace open debate, intellectual freedom, and human welfare—and to do so unencumbered by partisan considerations and special interests. As a result, decision makers and leaders in Washington and across the country trust our work, and we are able to foster cooperation at a time of deep division in our country and abroad.

Everyone else considers it a right-wing organization. As you can see from the quote above, they're absolutely correct.

At any rate, Ornstein is talking about the investigation into the chicanery in the election for North Carolina's 9th District Congressoinal seat, based on strong evidence of illegal activities by the Republican campaign. As Sullivan points out, the ones who are trying to nullify the results of elections are, in fact, Republicans.