The Truth Be Told: 06/09/15

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Wisconsin Democrats Off To A Fresh Start

Wisconsin progressives make sweeping changes in the state Democratic Party

Off To A Fresh Start

How Bernie Sanders Would Put A Million Young People To Work

Bernie Sanders announced his initiative during an event for the H.O.P.E. project in southeast Washington.

Putting A Million Young People To Work

President Obama Is More Popular Than Bobby Jindal In Deep Red Louisiana

Gov. Bobby Jindal is going to be running for President, but his approval rating has sunk so low that President Obama is more popular than the Republican in deep red Louisiana.

While discussing Jindal’s failures in Louisiana, The Washington Post dropped this little nugget of information, “Jindal is now so unpopular in deep-red Louisiana that his approval rating plunged to 32 percent in a recent poll — compared with 42 percent for President Obama, who lost the state by 17 percentage points in 2012.”

In our current era of national geographic political polarization, President Obama is not popular in any of the red states. Being more popular than Obama in Louisiana should be a low hurdle for any Republican, but Bobby Jindal is ten points behind the President in a state that Obama was not competitive in during either of his presidential campaigns.

Bobby Jindal is running for president, but he has struggled for years to be more popular than President Obama. In 2013, Obama was 5 points more popular than Jindal. The margin has doubled in the last two years. Jindal’s popularity has plummeted in direct relation to his attempts to impose the Republican/Koch agenda on his state.

In 2013, Gov. Jindal tried to replace the state tax with a higher sales tax, but the opposition was so strong (63% opposed in polling) that he was forced to abandon his plan. Jindal has slashed spending for education and health care while cutting taxes on the wealthy and corporations. The result has been a historic budget crisis that the governor has shown no interest in solving.

Jindal has spent months pandering to national social conservatives by trying to pass the Marriage and Conscience Act, but the bill died in the state legislature. Bobby Jindal has completely wrecked the state of Louisiana by using it as a platform for his presidential campaign. He has shown no interest in the consequences of actions. For Bobby Jindal, everything is a presidential resume building exercise.

Bobby Jindal is less popular than President Obama in his home state, but he thinks that he can be elected president.

Jindal is the latest example of how overrated the Republican presidential candidates are. The supposedly deep Republican bench consists of current governors who aren’t popular in their own states, a bunch of senators who at best have regional appeal, a former governor who is under indictment, a failed business executive, a reality television star most famous for repeated bankruptcies, a Fox News created conservative media star who many believe is insane, and a clueless Bush brother who is doomed by his family’s unpopular legacy, and soon Bobby Jindal.

Jindal can’t beat Obama in Louisiana, yet he is going to run for president. The Republican field can best be summed up as when you have two dozen candidates and no leaders, that means that you really have no candidate at all.

Republican Cabal Has Reason To Fret As Clinton Leads Bush 47-40 In North Carolina

A Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey released on June 4th, found Democrat Hillary Clinton enjoying a modest 47-40 lead over Republican pretender hopeful Jeb Bush in North Carolina. The Tarheel State is a crucial battleground state that Republicans cannot afford to lose. Barack Obama won North Carolina in 2008, but lost the state to Mitt Romney in 2012.

The poll also found Clinton leading or tied with eight other GOP candidates. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul fared best of the Republican candidates. Walker managed a 45-45 tie with Clinton, and Rand Paul tied her 44-44. Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee and Marco Rubio all trailed Clinton by margins ranging from one to seven percentage points.

Clinton polled especially strong with women voters and African-Americans in North Carolina. Although Jeb Bush held a slight 45-41 advantage with male voters, Clinton held a dominant 51-37 lead with women voters. Clinton also had a crushing advantage with black voters. The poll found Clinton garnering 86 percent support from African-American voters compared to a pitiful 3 percent who backed Jeb Bush.

While the election is still 16 months away, Hillary Clinton’s strong numbers in North Carolina bode well for Democratic prospects in 2016. By amassing overwhelming support from black voters and a decisive edge with women voters, Hillary Clinton is well positioned to lock down North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes.

The poll also points to Jeb Bush’s weakness if he becomes the Republican nominee. His 7-point deficit to Clinton in North Carolina matched fringe candidate Ted Cruz’s poor numbers in the state. Rather than being one of the strongest GOP candidates, Jeb Bush appears to be one of the weakest candidates in the Republican field.

Republicans have reason to fret about the poll numbers in the Tarheel State, because without carrying North Carolina the GOP has no path to victory in the 2016 presidential election. If the current polling numbers continue to hold in North Carolina, Hillary Clinton would not only carry the Tarheel State but the nation as well, becoming the 45th U.S. President.

10 things I learned about the world from Ayn Rand’s insane ‘Atlas Shrugged’

Ayn Rand via Last Week Tonight (YouTube)

Here are 10 things I learned about the world from Ayn Rand’s insane ‘Atlas Shrugged’

If Rand were still alive she would probably say, "Thank you for smoking."

Republican Governor Has Super Lame Response To Hillary Clinton’s Call For Expanded Voting

John Kasich calls such plans to expand early voting "silly."

McConnell Calls For Extraordinary Blockade Of Obama’s Judges And Justices

If McConnell carries out his threat to confirm no appellate judges in the next year, that would be an extraordinary departure from prior practice.

NRA darling Ted Cruz requires background check for supporters who want to shoot with him

Warning: Hypocrisy Alert!

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

Ted Cruz is a hypocrite, but we knew that already

Texas Republican and Second Amendment dolt Ted Cruz has worked hard to quash legislation that would expand background checks for guns, unless those guns are going shooting with him.

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The Paranoia is deep in this one, Obiwan

Ann Coulter’s Appalling Demographic Engineering

Ann Coulter thinks it's "Adios America" unless we can keep out overweight women, the physically disabled, and the visually impaired…

Ann Coulter apparently thinks “This is Sparta!” Historian Susan B. Pomeroy speaks of the “eugenic principles” which “underlie much of Spartan demographic engineering.”

As most people likely know by now, the Spartans took Spartan Exceptionalism very seriously indeed, to the extent that if you were not a worthy physical specimen, you were not worthy of life as a Spartan.

If Coulter doesn’t want to actually expose unwanted infants, she seems to be just as fanatical about imposing certain physical standards on immigrants, and has in the past even embraced the eugenic principle of killing some people to intimidate others – namely, liberals.

She also recently whined to Breitbart, while promoting her book “Adios America,” that “When I’m in charge of immigration (after our 10 year moratorium), I will not admit overweight girls.”

It is difficult to see how barring overweight girls from entering the country will save America, but this is Ann Coulter and we shouldn’t expect her to make sense.

Perhaps she should re-title her book, “Adios Overweight Girls”?

Not so fast! She has now added more “undesirables” to her list.

Her latest method of demographic engineering is to keep out the disabled:

The INS has waived the English-language requirements for many immigrants, and it’s not just — that obviously goes to the heart of it, are you switching allegiance, do you love this country? — but beyond that, how about the wheelchair-only section? How about the section for the blind? Look, wish these people well, but we’re not running an international charity here.

We are also not running Sparta.

Regardless, her book would now be titled, “Adios Overweight Girls, the Wheelchair Bound, and Blind People.”

None of this should be surprising. In a 2012 post-election-day column, America Nears El Tipping Pointo, she wrote,

Any election analysis that doesn’t deal with the implacable fact of America’s changing demographics is bound to be wrong.

Perhaps the reason elections maven Michael Barone was so shockingly off in his election prediction this year was that, in the biggest mistake of his career, Barone has been assuring us for years that most of these Third World immigrants pouring into the country would go the way of Italian immigrants and become Republicans. They’re hardworking! They have family values!

Maybe at first, but not after coming here, having illegitimate children and going on welfare.

And don’t forget the other undesirables.

We already know how she feels about jews, that they just haven’t quite become “perfected” yet by becoming 'christians'.

How she feels about muslims might best be expressed by her claim that “News magazines don’t kill people, muslims do.”

She has already dismissed the idea of birthright citizenship as the work of a delusional Supreme Court Justice, so don’t even think about trying to get born into citizenship, you sneaky little embryos.

Given that she called Obama a “retard” during the third debate between Romney and the president in 2012, we can guess the mentally disabled make her short list as well.

Well…that will certainly save America for future generations of Joe McCarthyites.

Of course, on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty we find the words, “Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” a spirit alien to Coulter, and to her hatred of the constructed Other.[3] The statue that welcomed so many generations of immigrants doesn’t exclude overweight girls, the physically disabled, or the visually impaired.

Coulter’s reactionary demographic engineering is entirely out of step with the spirit of America, not only as captured on by Statue of Liberty, but by recent polling numbers.

We have already seen that nearly three in four Americans favor permitting undocumented immigrants to remain in the U.S.

And President Obama has just promised to keep fighting for undocumented immigrants.

It would no doubt gall Ann Coulter to see our first black president, allegedly both a Muslim and a Kenyan, in lockstep with current American attitudes, that is if she exhibited any self awareness at all.

The perfect world of Ann Coulter would be all white, all “christian,” and, it goes without saying, uniformly Republican.

It would, in short, with its commitment to ethnic nationalism and demographic engineering, more closely resemble Nazi Germany than the United States of America.