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Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Reality Is Winning
Fox News makes a big show of being the “most trusted” source of news,
but that claim, like much of what we find on the wingnut
network is a lie,...
Even Republicans Are Starting To Hate Republicans
A new poll proves that the circus they are calling the 2016
pretender race may be turning off Republicans more than anyone, but
it’s also turning...No, Wingnuts, The Teabagger Affiliated Mass Shooter Was Not A Liberal ‘Obama Supporter’
Can you say “desperate?”
Another Mass Shooting, But The Republican Cabal Makes It Clear Some Lives Don’t Matter
Bill O'Reilly will not call for a law to protect movie-goers from
white men carrying handguns in theaters. Because Second Amendment rights
…Trump May Be The Worst Thing To Happen To The Religio-Wingnuts
Trump doesn't seem impressed by the religio-wingnuts and has shown no
signs that he feels the need to impress them, or even that they matter…
This is nothing new, of course: Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council told a caller that dog would no longer protect the United States, thanks to marriage equality. Ever since the Manichaean Augustine of Hippo opened his mouth, religio-wingnuts have been looking for the city of dog, an effort which has left a morose dunghill in its place.
“Absolutely, absolutely,” Perkins replied,
enthusiastically agreeing with the caller: “[We] put ourselves in a very
vulnerable position” just like in “1973 when the court basically said
it’s open season on the unborn, there were consequences to that and I
believe it’s a part of removing dog’s hand of protection upon a nation.”
Right. Open season against blacks doesn’t presage anything dire, and that
has been with us since the first slave arrived on these shores,
centuries before Roe v. Wade. How about the genocide of the Native
Americans, which began even before the first slave arrived? Or how about
beating gays and transgenders? Or raping women? Or abusing the poor of
any background? None of that bothered dog?
Or if none of that moves you, how about what we do to our own children in this country?
When jesus said, “Let the little children come to
me” he didn’t mean hurry them on their way to heaven.
But once they’re out of the womb, that is precisely what Republicans do.
Where is Perkins’ head that only the unborn matter
to him, and not the living? jesus didn’t preach about or to fetuses. He
preached to the living.
And Perkins is not alone. Take Santorum, Paul, or Cruz who insists freedom is tyranny.
Walker, for crying out loud, after doing his best to destroy Wisconsin, said its dog’s plan that he now destroy the entire 50 states by becoming pretender.
Trump is crass and boorish, but he may prove
to be the dung-covered gem in the dunghill. He will not win, but for a
moment, a whole bunch of Republicans are forgetting about this dog thing. Unlike Walker and Cruz, Trump hasn’t claimed dog wants him to
run, or that he’s the messiah.
Trump says, “I’m a religious person. I go to cult. Do I do things that are wrong? I guess so.”
In fact, look what Trump told Frank Lutz last Saturday at the Iowa Family Leadership Summit, when asked, “Have you ever asked dog for forgiveness?”
Compare this to Jeb, who eagerly explains he does so often. (You think you’ve been cringing? Put yourself in the shoes of the religio-wingnuts):
I’m not sure I have. I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don’t think so. I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don’t bring dog into that picture. I don’t.We I take, when we go, and church and when I drink my little wine – which is about the only wine I drink – and have my little cracker, I guess that’s a form of asking for forgiveness, and I do that as often as possible because I feel cleansed, OK? But, you know, to me that’s important, I do that, but in terms of officially, I could say, ‘Absolutely!’ and everybody, I don’t think in terms of that. I think in terms of, let’s go on and let’s make it right.
We all missed this thanks to his next dissing John McCain, but think about how far off the reservation he has gone with this.
His little glass of wine and his cracker. And he got a standing ovation at the end of his talk.
Trump, alone of all the Republican candidates, isn’t
acting like a frothing-at-the-mouth religious zealot. In fact, Ed
Kilgore at the Washington Monthly said, “everything about Trump screamed the oafish tycoon speaking the unaccustomed language of delusion.”
And yet it is Trump who is leading at the
polls. Attacking John McCain didn’t hurt him. Dismissing dog didn’t hurt
him. Of the two, I would argue that the latter is the more important.
It is an importance which cannot be overstated.
Erick Erickson claimed,
over at Red State, where pregnant women are animals, that, “Donald
Trump made a potentially fatal error yesterday in Iowa…. The media might
not have noticed. But it was the talk of evangelicals yesterday and
today at cult.”
But I don’t think anybody is listening to Erick Erickson. Certainly not enough to hurt Donald Trump’s polling numbers.
We can read at Right Wing Watch
that “Russell Moore of the southern baptist coven’s 'ethics' and 'religious 'liberty' cabal and Samuel Rodriguez of the mational hispanic 'christian' 'leadership' coven said last week that they didn’t
know a single evangelical who supports Trump…”
I don’t think anybody is listening to them either.
Is there actually a niche for a Republican pretender candidate who is not in the thrall of the likes of Tony Perkins?
Will all this come back to haunt Trump? Will the
bubble burst? Sure, it’s possible. It is also possible he can provide wingnuts a moment of clarity, to show the Republican base that
politics can be about something other than religion.
After all, Trump has yet to say a word about mantles
of protection or divine snit fits dropping flocks of birds out of the
sky. He just eats his little cracker and tries to do better.
This is not to make an argument for Trump. Rather,
look at the significance of the moment. However far Trump may go in the
2016 presidential race, he may have shown a way forward for Republican
candidates who are not in thrall to the religio-wingnuts, a sort of
anti-Reagan, which is ironic given all the comparisons being made to
Reagan by his adoring followers on Twitter.
For Trump, this isn’t a war of dog’s 'righteous'
Republicans against Liberal Satan-worshipers, but a war of Trump
against idiots and fools.
And you know what? That’s kind of refreshing.
***
Damn,
who would have thought Trump could do any good for America, but putting
the religio-wingnuts where they belong would be a great thing for
America. They do not matter - they never have - they are just
self-inflated perverted blowhards who's time it never was and it has
passed.
Republicans Are Screwed As Trump Support Nearly Doubles After Attacking John McCain
The Republican attempt to get rid of Trump
after he attacked John McCain has backfired, as Trump’s support has
almost doubled with primary voters.
According to YouGov, Trump is still on the rise after attacking John McCain:
Trump’s rise in the Republican contest
for the 2016 pretender nomination doesn’t appear to have been slowed
much – at least not yet – by the recent controversy over his criticisms
of Arizona idiot John McCain’s war record last weekend. In fact, although
Trump’s favorable ratings among Republicans have declined, he is still
ahead – and far ahead – when Republicans are asked to choose among the
16 currently announced candidates.
….
But there is clearly a core group of
registered voters who identify as Republicans that has coalesced around
Trump’s tough talk and proposals. He is even more clearly in first place
than he was two weeks ago when Republicans are asked to choose among
the current candidates. Two weeks ago, in the Economist/YouGov Poll, 27%
of registered voters who identified as Republicans chose Trump as their
first or second choice for the nomination. This week, 28% say he is
their first choice, and another 10% rank him second.
The number of Republicans who list Trump as their
first choice has gone from 15% to 28%. Trump’s attack on McCain moved
people who listed him as their second choice more firmly into his
column. Republicans appear to have miscalculated and made Trump
more appealing by affirming his outsider status with lunatic fringe wingnuts.
The party did lower Trump’s approval ratings, but it
appears that Republican voters don’t care if their chosen candidate is
popular. The Republican cabal threw everything they could at Trump, and
the result is that the racist billionaire is even more popular with
voters.
As long as Trump’s poll numbers remain high, the
media will keep covering him and as long as the media keeps giving him
attention, Trump’s poll numbers will remain high.
In
other words, Republicans are screwed. Trump put his foot in his
mouth, and his poll numbers have stayed high. The Republican cabal built
Trump, and now he is destroying them.
Jeb And Walker Campaign To Impress the Koch Brothers, Not the People
It would be difficult for even Fox News to argue against the idea
that Republicans only campaign, and act, according to the will of the
Koch brothers, and…Senior Citizen Publicly Slams Jeb At Town Hall Event For Targeting Medicare
If there is one thing that senior citizens won’t tolerate it’s a hack
politician who tries to take away their hard-earned Medicare.Rick Perry Loses As Court Rules That He Must Face Felony Abuse Of Power Charge
A Texas appeals court tossed one charge against Rick Perry but ruled
that he must go to court to face a felony charge of abusing his power
while…Texas Supreme Court Suspends Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance
The Texas Supreme Court argued that "The legislative power reserved to the people of Houston is not being honored."…Virginia newspaper apologizes after publishing racist ad ranting against ‘Democrats and black races’
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Arizona’s Welfare Drug Testing Screened 140,000 - And Found 3 Positive Cases
An essential part of the Republican cabal’s war against America’s
poor has been to drug-test welfare recipients, as part of their
relentless campaign to paint the poor as lazy, as moochers, as
drug-addicts with no incentive to seek real employment. It’s very far
from the truth; the American poor are victims of Wall Street-engineered
income inequality and the plots of wealthy oligarchs to keep the poor
repressed and maintain a permanent underclass of exploitable labor.New
data shows just how wasteful and insulting the welfare drug testing
program is. USA Today reports that the state of Arizona screened 142,000
welfare recipients- and found only THREE failed tests over a five year
program. This saved the state around $3500 from going into the hands of
“drug addicts” – out of $45 million distributed through the Temporary
Assistance For Needy Families program.
Collectively, seven states have spent a $1 million on drug testing their welfare recipients- and together have netted under 500 positive cases. Virginia just abandoned plans to test their citizens after realizing it would cost $1.5 million and save only $229,000. It’s a disgraceful waste of taxpayer dollars in an insulting and presumptuous program that the date shows only serves to give credibility to the anti-poor narrative that FOX News pundits love to talk up so much.
Collectively, seven states have spent a $1 million on drug testing their welfare recipients- and together have netted under 500 positive cases. Virginia just abandoned plans to test their citizens after realizing it would cost $1.5 million and save only $229,000. It’s a disgraceful waste of taxpayer dollars in an insulting and presumptuous program that the date shows only serves to give credibility to the anti-poor narrative that FOX News pundits love to talk up so much.
Police Force Only Hired Cops Who Said They Wouldn’t Arrest Other Cops
'Christian' Pastor Ousted By His Cult For Standing Up For Women And Children
These Missouri 'christians' have a hard time allowing women to be considered equals and children learning reality.Deranged Couple Sets Homeless Man On Fire In Front Of Kids, Thought It Was ‘Okay’
Surveillance footage has led to the arrest of an Albuquerque couple
who set a homeless man on fire with fireworks on July 11. Joshua
Benavidez and Irene...Tuesday, July 28, 2015
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President Obama’s ‘Greatest Frustration’ Is Republican Obstruction Of Gun Safety Laws
Hours before a gunman opened fire in yet another mass-shooting, President Obama spoke about being “stymied” on gun safety.Democrats Drill Republicans By Hitting Them In The Koch With Supreme Court Ethics Bill
It is an affront to Americans, and frankly the rule of law, that
every judge is held to ethical standards except the 9 Supreme Court
Justices…
For the second time in as many years, Democratic
legislators in Congress are calling on the Supreme Court to finally, at
long last, adopt a code of ethics for Supreme Court Justices to rein in wingnut Justices working for wingnut, corporate, and religious cabals. The bill, “The Supreme Court Ethics Act of 2015″
that was recently reintroduced would to media silence, if passed by the
Koch brothers’ Congress, requires the Supreme Court to adopt a code of
the ethics within 180 days. There is little hope the Koch brothers will
allow Republicans to be for the legislation eliminating their
substantial influence over at least two, and likely three, of the High
Court’s wingnut Justices.
As it stands now, the nine Supreme Court justices
are so powerful that they are currently exempt from adhering to the code
of conduct all other U.S. judges are required to follow; an ethics code
to ensure there is a semblance of neutrality and transparency in the
nation’s federal courts. It is a requirement that the American people
support overwhelmingly, and if enacted may well lead the population to
believe that the highest court in the land is not working solely for the
rich and religious entities controlling the five conservatives on the
Court.
In the latest polling from Gallup, the American
people’s faith in the High Court as an independent, transparent, and
fair entity is a despicable 30 percent; likely because of a recent rash
of wingnut rulings based on the demands of powerful special
interest and religious cabals. The solution is a simple fix requiring
the Supreme Court justices to recuse themselves from cases where they
have a blatant, often monetary conflict of interest, and finally
restrict them from engaging in political activities to raise money and
awareness for wingnut causes; specifically corporate and religious
causes.
New legislation introduced by Representative Louise
Slaughter is a reiteration of a 2012 bill that has an updated title,
“the Supreme Court Ethics Act of 2015.” The new legislation, if by a
world-shaking miracle, was passed by the Koch Congress will be a huge
step toward ensuring that wingnut Justices start “ruling fairly and
start conducting themselves in ways that uphold the impartiality and
integrity of the judiciary.” Several rulings over the past five years by
the wingnut Court belie any belief that integrity and impartiality
exists in at least three of the Court’s wingnut puppets.
According to Senator Chris Murphy (D-CN) “there
is absolutely no reason why Supreme Court Justices shouldn’t be subject
to the same code of conduct as all other federal judges. The American
people deserve to know that our highest court is held to the highest
ethical standards, which is why we introduced the Supreme Court Ethics
Act of 2015.” All other Federal judges are held to high ethical standards due to requirements
in “The Code of Conduct for United States Judges.” Supreme Court
conservative Justices not only have no intent, much less obligation to
adhere to the Code of Conduct, it is fairly well known that some of them
refuse to even “avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety in all activities.”
This is not the first, or even the second, time
legislators have attempted to hold Supreme Court Justices to the same
standards as every other federal judge. A similar bill was introduced in
1973, and again
in 2013, and three years ago 212 legal scholars recognized the pressing
need for an code of ethics and appealed to Chief Justice John Roberts
in a letter “urging him to adopt a code of conduct for the Justices.”
Roberts has also received a petition signed by 130,000 Americans (so
far) begging him to adopt and enforce some kind of ethics code for the
High Court; likely because the public knows that wingnut Justices,
particularly Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, are closely tied to,
and committed to serve the Koch brothers, wingnut delusion tanks,
evangelicals, and corporations.
Democratic legislators say, and rightly so, that
Congress has the purview to create a Supreme Court Code of Conduct
because it legally determines how many Justices sit on the Court as well
as how much they are paid by the federal government, not the Koch
brothers or wingnut delusion tanks. In a press release, the bill’s
author, Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY) said “The
questionable activities of some of our Supreme Court justices have been
well documented — participating in political functions, failing to
report family income from political groups, and attending political
fundraisers. It doesn’t make sense that members of the highest court in
the land are the only federal judges exempt from the code of conduct.”
Slaughter was referring to Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas Koch-funded attendance at a highly-secret Koch brother strategy meeting
and corporate fundraiser with Citizens United plaintiffs prior to
hearing and ruling that corporations are exempt from campaign finance
laws according to their 1st Amendment right of free speech. She also
noted that Clarence Thomas deliberately concealed
hundreds-of-thousands of dollars paid to his wife by the
“anti-Obamacare” wingnut Heritage Foundation to lobby against the
Affordable Care Act; even while the Supreme Court was taking up the
Constitutionality of the healthcare insurance reform law. Last year,
Justice Samuel Alito was the featured guest speaker
at a $25,000-a-head political fundraiser for a wingnut magazine cabal, American Spectator. There is no way of knowing whether or how
much Alito earned as a featured speaker because there is no Supreme
Court Code of Ethics. Regardless of whether he earned one penny, Alito
like Scalia, did use his status and position as a Supreme Court Justice
to raise money for wingnuts.
It is an affront to Americans, and frankly the rule
of law, that every judge in America is held to some kind of ethical
standards except the nine Supreme Court Justices with the power to
interpret the Constitutionality of any and every law in the nation. Over
the past five years, particularly, the American people have suffered
the consequences, including the selling of their democracy to the rich
and powerful, of a High Court without a code of judicial conduct.
It
is true there is no guarantee that a judicial “ethics or conduct code”
will ensure transparency and neutrality, especially among the Koch wingnuts on the Court. It may, however, serve as a reminder to
Justices that they are not above following basic judicial ethics
standards; something the Koch brothers will never allow “their”
Republican Congress to enact or enforce. If, by some Earth-shaking
miracle Congress did enact a Supreme Court Ethics Code, it is likely
that the 5 wingnuts on the High Court would rule it
unconstitutional.
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