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Bristol Palin urged her 'followers' not to
fall for the controversy over Starbucks’ holiday cups because it was “an
attempt by the LEFT to make 'christians' look stupid.”
Friday, November 13, 2015
Racist Facebook Rage Descends Upon President Obama As He Debuts His New Page
As predicted, the hate rolls in…
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Anyone Who Calls Obamacare a Job Killer is “Either Ignorant of or Not Interested in the Facts”
It's tough to find a Republican who is not pushing outright
falsehoods about Obamacare. They are either ignorant of or not
interested in the facts.…
We mention this today because you heard a lot about repealing Obamacare during the last Republican 'debat'e, and not much of it will be anchored in facts or truth. It’s tough to find a Republican who is not pushing outright falsehoods about Obamacare. Cruz has been falsely claiming for years that Obamacare is the biggest job-killer in America. Jeb has said, “You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn’t suppress wages and kill jobs.” Jindal has pushed the myth that Obamacare kills jobs, “Why not delay all of the mandates in Obamacare [which] has become such a job killer in our economy.”
Both writers are from the the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. They went over the latest job numbers and they agree with previous studies; Obamacare is not a job killer. Not only is Obamacare reducing the number of uninsured as intended, but it is also not a job killer. Sorry Republicans.
A few points to remember from the Washington Post:
Strong health-care employment growth shouldn’t surprise anyone. Demand for labor is derived from the demand for the goods and services that people want and need. Thus, we’d expect the expansion of health coverage to boost jobs in that sector — in addition to driving historically large reductions in the number of Americans without health coverage, saving states money and slowing growth in health-care costs.But but…Obama is just subsidizing jobs in healthcare with rich people’s money! Nope, not that either:
Yet House Republicans are still trying to repeal parts of the law, claiming that “many of the key elements of Obamacare [are] harming individuals and families [and] hurting job creation.” Fox News hack O’Reilly maintains that, “While some of the poor benefit, other Americans are punished because the job market is smaller.” Some presidential candidates agree: Jeb calls the ACA “the president’s job-destroying health-care law” and Cruz’s site asserts that “Obamacare is causing millions to lose their jobs.” Cruz and Rubio aren’t even content to repeal parts of the law — they want to repeal the entire thing.
Even if we’re generous here and assume that those shouting “job killer” mean that the gains in the health-care sector are coming at the expense of the rest of the job market, there’s no evidence to support that claim, either.“Well,” injured Republicans will huff, “Obamacare is certainly turning America into a part-time nation!” We’ve addressed this in the past when it was also found to be untrue, but as a reminder:
Nor is there any evidence that Obamacare is causing a shift from full-time to part-time jobs — the number of involuntary part-time workers is actually down since 2013 (and as Dean Baker notes, the evidence that the ACA’s premium subsidies may be encouraging voluntary part-time work is a good thing), while full-time employment has been steadily rising. Again, steady job growth is surely a function of the broad employment recovery, not health reform, but it is yet another trend going the wrong way for the critics.Discussing September’s job numbers, Jason Fuhrman, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, noted, “Full-time jobs more than fully account for all job gains since early ’10, with part-time jobs holding steady.”
In reality, Obama is setting records for job growth. The October jobs report showed that President Obama has overseen 68 consecutive months of private sector job growth. That’s 13.5 million private sector jobs over 68 straight months. He has also overseen the strongest three years for overall job creation (even with the Republican sequester impacting the public sector) since 2000.
Political Polls Less Accurate Than Ever
The fracturing of modern communication methods has made the standard political poll almost worthless. Polls conducted by landline phone tend to skew toward older, more conservative voters. Internet polls tend to skew toward younger, more liberal voters. And it’s harder than ever to get anyone to participate at all.
The modern public-opinion poll has been around since the Great Depression, when the response rate—the number of people who take a survey as a percentage of those who were asked—was more than ninety. The participation rate—the number of people who take a survey as a percentage of the population—is far lower. Election pollsters sample only a minuscule portion of the electorate, not uncommonly something on the order of a couple of thousand people out of the more than two hundred million Americans who are eligible to vote. The promise of this work is that the sample is exquisitely representative. But the lower the response rate the harder and more expensive it becomes to realize that promise, which requires both calling many more people and trying to correct for “non-response bias” by giving greater weight to the answers of people from demographic groups that are less likely to respond. Pollster.com’s Mark Blumenthal has recalled how, in the nineteen-eighties, when the response rate at the firm where he was working had fallen to about sixty per cent, people in his office said, “What will happen when it’s only twenty? We won’t be able to be in business!” A typical response rate is now in the single digits.There are real-world consequences to political polls, no matter how inaccurate. For example, only the top-polling Republican candidates take part in the televised debates during prime time. And even worse, politicians use polls to determine what issues American voters care about and what they think the government should do about them. The New Yorker explains the problems with polling and had some examples of elections that number crunchers failed to predict.
‘Voting Machines Are Fucked’
‘Voting Machines Are Fucked’: The Daily Show Explains Major Flaw In American Elections
This is definitely something every American voter who cares about the integrity of the electoral process needs to see.
New Hampshire Republican Proves Republican Cabal Correct About Voter Fraud By Committing It
Yet another Republican was busted demonstrating his cabal’s expertise in voter fraud.
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Bristol Palin: Starbucks cups ‘are an attempt by the left to make 'christians' look stupid’
Ah, no ... they do such a bang-up job of it themselves they need no assistance from we sane normal people.
13 things everyone would know if we really had a ‘liberal’ media
If we have a “liberal media,” where are the liberal stories?
Neil deGrasse Tyson infuriates wingnuts by pointing out simple gun violence statistics
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5 Republican governors who trashed their states in the name of wingnuttery
Bernie Sanders Responds To The Clown Car’s Minimum Wage Debate Garbage, And It’s Awesome
Bernie Sanders wasted no time tweeting his position as the Republican cabal candidates advocated for continuing the pandemic of poverty in America.
Trump Calls U.S. Wages Too High
Surprise, surprise. Trump wants a race to the bottom on wages just like the rest of the Republican pretender candidates.
Cruz Just Declared 'War' On Atheists, In The Campiest Way Possible
He really didn’t think this sentence through.
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Rachel Maddow BLASTS The Wingnut Candidates Who OPENLY Support ‘Kill The Gays’
Three Republican pretender candidates attended a “kill the gays”
rally this past weekend, and Rachel Maddow just beautifully TORE THEM
APART. Maddow Calls Out Wingnuts For 'Kill-The-Gays Rally' Appearance
As the three Democratic
presidential candidates were attending a South Carolina candidate forum
hosted by Rachel Maddow on Friday, three Republicans running for
pretender were at a conference organized by a radical right-wing pastor
who has defended the death penalty for homosexuality. MORE
Jeb Caught Bragging About His Disastrous Legacy On Education
Here’s something to keep in mind.
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Jeb Wants To Get Rid Of ALL Obama Progress, Go Back To His Brother’s Failed Policies
Stephen Colbert’s Utter Destruction Of What Little Cred Carson Had Left Is Magical
It didn’t seem possible to make Carson look any more ridiculous until Colbert took a whack at it. Wow!
Another Weird Carson Story: Did He Refuse A DNA Test In A ‘Blackmail’ Paternity Suit?
Carson literally wrote an op-ed where he told people to come clean and be honest. So, what’s with all of his lies?
Carson: 'People Who Know Me Know That I'm An Honest Person'
Ben Carson or Ben Ghazi?
Thursday, November 12, 2015
The Daily Drift
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Increasingly The World Sees Republicans As The Greatest Threat To America
Obviously President Obama has elevated America’s status and reputation around the world as he attempted, and still continues, to clean up eight years of the shrub junta abominations that drove international disdain for America. But after the past two midterm elections, and the extremist field of candidates for the Republican pretender nomination, people around the world are increasingly convinced that the greatest threat to America is the Republican cabal. It is important to note at the start that although the rest of the world specifically cites Republican politicians by name, they certainly comprehend that those Republicans threatening America are as much the religious and racist base as the politicians serving their interests. This little fact eludes many, many Americans who focus on a personality and not who puts them in the spotlight and position of power and influence; the voters.
An opinion piece in a New Zealand newspaper a few months ago gave particular attention to the extremism being displayed by the Republican cabal pretender candidates and actually cited the support they have from voters. The authors wrote that Republicans “are now essentially a cabal of religious fundamentalism” in citing Cruz’s typically Republican delusional mindset that America’s darkest day was not 9/11, Pearl Harbor, presidential assassinations, or the Civil War. No, according to Cruz and no small number of Republican voters “America’s darkest day was when the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot ban same-sex marriage.”
A citizen of Uganda and regular commuter to the United States recently noted that,
“The U.S. Constitution says the government’s responsibility is to provide welfare, security and safety to its population allowing every person the opportunity to live in a dignified manner; Republicans believe otherwise and have created a system that has become a rich man’s plaything.”
A resident of an EU nation remarked that,
“I am completely flabbergasted by what has become of America. In the Republican cabal stupidity is admired and encouraged, intelligence and education are viewed as ‘elitist’, money is their God and fear is their motivator. If more people outside the US continue to speak very loudly about this situation, it might help them turn things around. The hate and fear that Fox (NOT news) promotes helped the Republican Party create and fuel the atmosphere threatening America.
“The takeover of American wingnuttery by evangelical 'christians', Fox News and a handful of shady billionaires transformed Republicans into the cabal of willful ignorance where doctrinal purity is more valued than intelligence, tolerance has been supplanted by persecutory moralizing, and paranoia has replaced realism.”
After living through the shrub years, and well over a decade of wars against muslims, people around the world are astonished, and rightly alarmed, that Republicans and their bloodthirsty base are openly “signaling a frightening abandonment of diplomacy as a means of defusing tension, avoiding conflict and managing international affairs. Instead they remain disposed towards armed intervention despite it has accelerated, not suppressed, Islamic militancy. Something which shouldn’t come as a surprise since persisting with policies that achieve the exact opposite of what was intended is something of an American speciality.”
Citizens of communist China “compared the United States to lawless Somalia” and in Britain a leading newspaper cited the “racism the Republicans promote” as fueling the level and frequency of gun violence. Claire Taylor of Gun Free South Africa said, “The USA is completely out of step with the rest of the world” in promoting the proliferation of guns in an angry, racist, and religiously extreme population. Closer to home, a Mexico City newspaper wrote that “the U.S. has become a structurally violent state where force is frequently used domestically and internationally to resolve differences. Such a phenomenon reflects the feeling of extensive sectors about the supposed legitimacy of violent methods.”
Americans on the left tend to reserve all their outrage and criticism for whichever extremist Republican made the latest outrageous, racist, or offensive statement during an interview or stump speech. However, just the fact that Republican voters are comfortable with “monumentally unqualified extremists in the Oval Office” demonstrates the how twisted the cabal has become; that and that alone is the real existential threat to the nation. It is simple to single out any one, or all, of the Republican cabal pretender candidates as who is most unqualified, most extreme, or most offensive, but that misses the point that it is the base that is inherently extreme, offensive, and unqualified to be regarded as anything other than a serious threat to other Americans and the nation’s well-being.
Any and everything a Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Carson, Fiorina, Huckabee, or Jeb might say or support is precisely what the base demands they say and support. There are some Americans who understand that the Republican cabal and its base are an existential threat to America and they are joined by a substantial number of people from around the world. An Australian opinion writer made an assumption a couple of weeks ago that was only partly correct in saying that “Trump personifies everything the rest of the world despises about America; racism, crass materialism, relentless self-aggrandizement, vulgarity on an epic scale. He is the Ugly American.” Actually, the Republican base is the Ugly American and the Republican pretender candidates and politicians are simply acting, doing, and saying exactly what the base demands and they are, without question, the greatest threat to America.
Obama Devastates Republicans by Using Reagan To Prove The Success of His Presidency
“So where are we right now? The economy has improved by every measure,” President Obama said. “The fact of the matter is, is that if you ask the question Ronald Reagan said was the most important thing to ask about a presidency, and that is, ‘Are you better off than you were four years ago?'”
“You are,” the President said. “We’ve made great strides on health care. We’ve made strides in education and access to college. We’ve made serious strides in clean energy. You know the statistics.”
During the Summit, Obama talked about his accomplishments, mentioning the most recent jobs report as evidence of some of the progress made. The October jobs report showed, “Businesses added 268,000 jobs in October, making it the 68th consecutive month of private sector job growth. That’s 13.5 million private sector jobs over 68 straight months. Unemployment rate ticked down, wages grew, and overall the economy added 271,000 jobs in October — which makes the last three years the strongest years for job creation since… oh, 2000.”
President Obama isn’t just talking to make his supporters feel good. The President is making sure that the people hear about the good economy that he has overseen, since we don’t hear a lot about those things. Republicans are still pretending as if these positive things haven’t happened, and President Obama is making sure that during the next election, Republicans are held accountable for claiming they will “fix” the economy that they inaccurately claim Obama broke.
Reagan said to judge a president by asking if you are better off now than you were when they took office. President Obama is in an excellent position to borrow that question and use it to highlight his successes. Republicans still worship Reagan and each 2016 candidate is trying their best to show that they are the next Reagan, so this no doubt breaks their heart.
Federal judge orders NSA to stop collecting and searching plaintiffs' phone records
United States District Judge Richard Leon has affirmed his 2013 ruling
and has ordered the NSA to stop collecting phone records belonging to
J.J. Little and his firm J.J. Little & Associates, P.C., and to
segregate all the records collected to date so that they aren't
searched.
The NSA's legal authorization to continues the program is set to expire in 20 days anyway, and the ruling only applies to two plaintiffs but the judge's wording in his decision can be easily applied to future plaintiffs, suggesting that if Congress were to re-authorize bulk phone collection, Americans would be able to get court orders banning the practice.
United States District Judge Richard Leon issued the order in Klayman v. Obama, a case in which EFF appeared as amicus curiae. Judge Leon ruled in December 2013 that the program was unconstitutional because it violated the 4th Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches. But the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit sent the case back to him when it held that the plaintiffs in the case did not have standing to sue because they were Verizon Wireless customers, not Verizon Business Network Services (VBNS) customers, and the latter is the only provider the US government has acknowledged participated in the program. The plaintiff then amended the complaint and added two more plaintiffs, J.J. Little and his firm J.J. Little & Associates, P.C., both of which are long-standing VBNS customers.
Judge Leon found that these two new plaintiffs had standing to sue the NSA both over the past phone records collection as well as the ongoing collection. He then issued a preliminary injunction barring the NSA from further collection and querying of their records that had already been collected.
The Center For Public Integrity just released its annual report on ethics, accountability and transparency in state government
Americans Voted For Their Favorite Ex-President And Republicans Aren’t Going To Like The Results
This is sure to sting Republican egos a bit.
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There’s No Such Thing As ‘Compassionate Conservatives’ And Here Are 7 Reasons Why
Can we finally agree that this idea of compassion from the wingnuts is more like anything but.Nobody Has Destroyed Trump Like Bernie Sanders Just Did
You can all give up. Bern just delivered the greatest Trump roast.
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Cuban comrades say Cruz’s dad wasn’t a rebel blowing up buildings for jesus — as he has claimed
Now It Looks Like Cruz And His Dad Made Up Family Stories Of Cuba
Wingnut Bigots Lose Their Minds Over Mizzou President's Resignation
The stuck-pig howls of mean black people suggest protesters hit a sore spot.
Vitter Sorry For Banging Hookers, He Can Be Louisiana's Idiot Now?
It's been a while since family values poster boy and Louisiana moron Vitter (R-Brothel) has addressed the scurrilous accusations that
he was a loyal customer of the DC Madam, because oh gosh, that...
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