With A Stroke Of His Pen, President Obama Renders Hobby Lobby Ruling Obsolete

According to the catholic wingnuts' ruling, the Obama Administration 'must' provide an accommodation for "religious" for-profit corporations and on Friday, President Obama did just that in response to…

There is a phrase, “you’d complain if you were hung with a new rope” that loosely means there are some people that can never be satisfied regardless of the accommodations other people make for them. The phrase can also mean that the people who complain incessantly and can never be satisfied is because they cannot always have things their way. In 21st Century America, evangelical Republicans are those who demand it is “their way or the highway” and there is no greater example than the religious Republican crusade to control women’s reproductive health; or better put, to force every woman in America into being perpetual birth machines. Last year a wildly popular evangelical shrieking point to support their demand for control over American women was they would not tolerate any woman, married or single, having “consequence free sex;” restricting birth control was the religious right’s method of punishing women who failed to toe the evangelical line and remain celibate or perpetually pregnant.

The idea of 'christian' wingnuts wielding control over women’s reproductive health was behind the Hobby Lobby v. Burwell lawsuit that the vatican-5 on the Supreme Court decided was evangelical employer’s religious liberty to control women and prevent them from having consequence free sexual relations. According to the catholic wingnuts’ ruling, the Obama Administration ‘must‘ provide an accommodation for “religious” for-profit corporations and on Friday, President Obama did just that in response to the High Court’s decision. In fact, what President Obama did was effectively neuter the Hobby Lobby ruling and ensure that all women, even those employed by ‘religious corporations,’ will still have birth control covered at no cost to them; even if their evangelical employers object and refuse to provide it. The sad, unfortunate women who happen to work for a cult, or place of worship though, are still bound to adhere to their employer’s religious edict that under no circumstances will they be allowed to have ‘consequence free’ sex.

The way the new rule is written, a religious corporation that refuses to allow their employees’ health plans to provide contraception will write a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and claim that their religious freedom demands they control women’s sexual activities. The HHS will then notify a third-party insurer that the company’s theocratic owners’ insist on controlling women and the third-party insurer will provide birth control coverage to the employees at no additional cost to the religious corporation or the female employees. The Secretary of the HHS released a statement saying that “Women across the country should have access to preventive services, including contraception. We recognize the deeply held views on these issues and are committed to securing women’s access to important preventive services at no additional costs while respecting religious beliefs.”

There were already provisions and accommodations for religious non-profits in the contraception mandate within the Affordable Care Act, but catholics were not satisfied and joined Hobby Lobby’s evangelical owners to sue the Administration. Their absurd religious delusions 'informed' them that all forms of contraceptives are abortion. Although the High Court conceded that according to all known medical and biological science birth control is in no possible way abortion, the papal-5 ruled if that was the ‘deeply-held‘ view of the vatican, the United States coven of catholic bishops (USCCB), and 'christian' corporations, then by dog birth control is abortion. The President’s “official” accommodation came just after a ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals striking down yet another evangelical attempt to control women’s sexuality and deny their access to basic reproductive healthcare.

The 5th Circuit’s ruling came down from an “ultra-wingnut judge,” Jerry Smith, who told a cabal of evangelical employers that if they insisted on restricting women’s reproductive choices by refusing to include contraceptive coverage in their health insurance plans, they “had to submit letters to HHS” so their female employees could have a semblance of control over their own reproductive health. The evangelical employers, who are not houses of worship, religious non-profits, or churches, complained bitterly to the courts that if they were forced to submit a form to HHS, they would lose their control over women and they would “be allowed” to get the contraception coverage elsewhere. The ultra-wingnut judge was not the least bit impressed or sympathetic to the bovine excrement religious liberty complaint and threw the evangelicals out of court.

Religious fanatics, and particularly Republican religious fanatics, are at the forefront of the war against any woman who believes they have a right to choose when they give birth. Republicans claim they are against abortions, but their only motivation in restricting women’s reproductive rights is forcing them to become birth machines or celibate. This was particularly the case in a state like Colorado where anti-choice Republicans are livid because for the past six years when young and poor women were offered free long-acting birth control, the birthrate among teenagers fell a not-so-astounding 40 percent, and abortions plunged by 42 percent according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.  There were similar declines among unmarried women under 25 who had not finished high school. The results are incontrovertible that if religio-wingnut Republicans really want to reduce abortions and teen pregnancies, they would not restrict access to any contraception method.

The results of the past six years did not sit well with anti-choice Republicans and evangelical cabals like Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family, who are pushing the Colorado Assembly to deny funding for the state program that was previously funded by a private grant and the reason is clear. Reducing the number of teen or unwanted pregnancies, or abortions, is not the driving force behind the evangelical Republican opposition to contraceptive services or abortion; controlling women’s sex lives and punishing them for having “consequence free” sex is whether they are married or single. The President’s Hobby Lobby fix, along with the contraception mandate in the ACA will go a long way to provide women with control over their reproductive choices.

Of course, evangelical Republicans in Congress have a different idea of allowing women to choose when they give birth and are crusading to restrict their options; particularly low income women. Republicans in Congress are crusading and on pace to abolish the Title X program that provides reproductive care for 4.6 million poor and low-income women. Republican Richard Nixon said Title X was created specifically to guarantee that “with broad bipartisan support we will provide adequate family planning services to all those who want them but cannot afford them.” Everything changed when horrid  B-movie actor and Republican demigod Ronald Reagan became pretender and granted the religio-wingnuts unquestioned authority to control women’s lives.

Religious Republicans have demonstrated that they will continue complaining, and pushing catholic dogmata in the Humanae Vitae, that they be allowed to exert authority over women’s sexuality and reproductive health choices. Just this week in Wisconsin, for example, at the urging of their idiot Scott Walker, the religious Republican legislature passed an unconstitutional 20-week abortion ban with Walker’s express demand that included in the ban there is no exception for rape, incest, or life of the mother.

Earlier this year, Walker eliminated state and federal funding from nine of the state’s Planned Parenthood health centers; not to prevent unwanted pregnancies or abortions, but to control women. The funding elimination infuriated Republican state Senator Glenn Grothman because it did not completely eliminate family planning from Wisconsin entirely. Grothman said,  “There’s a very ugly side to this organization, and I regret that they’re going to take such a tiny cut in this budget.” The ugly side, according to Grothman’s complaint and religio-wingnut ideology is that as long as there is even one family planning clinic in Wisconsin, some of the state’s women will not lose control over their reproductive choices.

Wisconsin was the fourth evangelical Republican state to defund the family planning provider after Indiana, Kansas and North Carolina did so and their intent was not to prevent unwanted pregnancies or abortions, but to control women and impose their evangelical edict that no woman, married or otherwise, will ever have “consequence-free sex,” control their own reproductive health, or choose when they give birth and start families.

In evangelical Republicans’ world, that control and those decisions are the purview of the religious right, Hobby Lobby’s owners, Focus on the Family, the personhood movement, and the United States coven of catholic bishops. As long as Barack Obama is President, women will have a firewall against yet another form of religio-wignut tyranny to force them into celibacy or become perpetual birth machines which is the evangelical Republicans’ ultimate goal.

Hillary To Jeb: Workers ‘Don’t Need A Lecture. They Need A Raise’

Workers ‘Don’t Need A Lecture. They Need A Raise’

Every Republican Candidate is Campaigning Against the Year 2008

The world Republicans are campaigning against doesn't exist. It hasn't existed since 2008 and they're 7 years too late to save the economy…

It is almost as if the past seven years have gone by without Republicans noticing. They are all carrying on about the need to create jobs. To restore the economy. It doesn’t matter who you listen to. It’s Pete and repeat.

Just the other day in Phoenix, Trump said,

“Mexico — I respect the country. They’re taking our jobs, they’re taking our manufacturing, they’re taking our money, they’re taking everything, and they’re killing us at the border.”

He has said the same thing about China, that it is a “country that is ripping our heart out… And we [U.S.] do nothing to protect ourselves.”

Yet his own clothes line, as David Letterman pointed out, is made in Mexico and China. Donald Trump stole those jobs, gift-wrapped them, and personally shipped them overseas.

And then blamed Obama.

Take any Republican you wish and listen to them on the American economy. You will find that they are ignoring that in March, we had the lowest unemployment rate in seven years, ignoring not just 63 consecutive months of job growth, but now, 64 straight months, and the addition of 12.8 million jobs (since the ACA was passed, 90 percent of them full-time).

Republicans go on about how bad the economy is, despite Obama’s accomplishment of giving America the fastest GDP growth rate in more than a decade, a booming Wall Street, and the fact that, as of February, Obama had cut the deficit by two-thirds. The deficit shrank to a five-year low in 2013, and a year later, the deficit as a percentage of GDP fell below the 40-year average.

Think about that: FORTY year average. Forty years will take you back to the mid-1970s.

You would never know from listening to Republican pretender hopefuls that, as Rachel Maddow pointed out in 2013, we were witness to the fasted deficit reduction since the end of World War II, and that the deficit continues to shrink.

In December, the United States reached its highest growth level in 11 years, five percent in the third quarter. Eleven years, going back to 2003. Have Republicans noticed this?

If they’ve noticed, they steadfastly ignore it. We already touched on Trump above. Jeb Bush wrote a few days ago that “Barack Obama’s policies have given us a zombie economy where no matter what else happens, most Americans are falling behind.”

Just the other day, everybody noticed Jeb Bush say Americans need to work longer hours. Did anyone notice him say, “My aspiration for the country and I believe we can achieve it, is 4% growth as far as the eye can see”?

Reagan’s average was 3.5 percent. Clinton managed 4 percent for four years. The United States has never seen a constant growth rate of 4 percent. It has averaged 3.24 percent from 1948 until 2015.

Just to put things in perspective, average growth rate under the shrub was a dismal 1.6 percent (dead last since Eisenhower) while Obama in the last year of his first term managed 2.8 percent in 2012, and began his second term with 1.9 percent in 2013, despite the shrub-engineered economic collapse of 2008.

The fact is, it is difficult to understand where Jeb’s problem with productivity comes from, since, as Newsweek has pointed out, “Under the shrub, American workers put in an average of 34.6 hours of work a week. Under Obama, they worked an average of 34.3 hours a week.”

I guess Jeb thinks we’re being 3 minutes and 36 seconds lazy. But it wasn’t unproductive American workers who destroyed America’s economy. It was Jeb’s brother. And Jeb’s cabal.

Here’s the rub: The world the Republicans are campaigning against doesn’t exist. It hasn’t existed since 2008. In 2013, again, during Obama’s presidency, S&P affirmed America’s AA+ rating and upgraded America’s credit outlook from negative to stable, after being downgraded in 2011 as a result of the Great Recession of 2008. S&P cited “deficit reduction” and reduced borrowing as the reasons.

In other words, though they use Obama’s name, they are campaigning against the shrub.

Not to put too fine a point upon it, everything they say needs to be addressed, has been addressed, and with no help from them. Everything the Republican cabal has done since 2008 has either created no jobs at all, or actually cost America jobs, has not reduced the deficit at all, but added to the deficit through tax breaks for the rich.

Apparently, having said that Obama would destroy the economy means that despite all the evidence to the contrary, Obama has destroyed the economy, and that they are therefore in the position of being saviors. But this is cognitive dissonance rearing its ugly head.

A Republican inability to deal with facts does not point to them as the best people to lead. It is the Republican inability to deal with facts that got us into the mess we were in by 2008. And arguably, their tendency to say things that make them feel better about themselves has gotten worse over the past seven years.

This is just more evidence of a complete lack of ethics and a complete disregard of the facts in the Republican cabal.

Where Trump is concerned, he asserted in Phoenix that he is a “really smart person,” yet claims of his 4,000-strong rally “This crowd today blows away anything that Bernie Sanders has gotten,” even though Sanders got 10,000 in Madison. I’m not a rich business man, but I know 10,000 is more than 4,000. Bombastically claiming 20,000 for a building that holds 4,000 isn’t a sign that we can trust anything Trump says.

While the Republican cabal shrinks into a small-tent, regional cult, he claimed “The silent majority is back, and we’re going to take the majority back, and we are going to make America great again.” Politico points out that for his supporters, “Trump is a straight-talker.”

Being loud and opinionated doesn’t make you a straight-talker. Republicans must learn not to conflate the two. To be a straight-talker, you must remain cognizant of the facts. What Trump is, in fact, is what is called in the vernacular, a “bullshitter.” There is a difference.

And you can tell them apart by looking at the numbers. The Republican base is too lost to ideology and bigotry to notice facts, but they’re out there, they do matter, and the America their candidates are campaigning against no more exists than the country they say they want to take back ever existed.

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Donald Trump Isn’t Polling Well Despite Racist Comments. He’s Polling Well Because of Them.

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The AFL-CIO Rises Up And Takes Apart Scott Walker With Just One Sentence

Hours before the idiot Scott Walker’s (R-WI) impending announcement that he is seeking the presidency, the AFL-CIO issued their statement on and it is only one sentence long, “Scott Walker is a national disgrace.” 

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The AFL-CIO statement on Scott Walker isn’t that long

Well. That about sums up Scott Walker’s record on workers’ rights, women’s rights, the economy, his stealing from the poor to give the rich even more policies… National disgrace. Perfect. Scott Walker is also proving that the lies about “trickle down” are utter garbage, as these policies have kept Wisconsin dragging behind the national recovery.

The AFL-CIO describes itself as an umbrella federation of U.S. unions fighting for working men and women:

We are the umbrella federation for U.S. unions, with 56 unions representing 12.5 million working men and women. We work to ensure that all people who work receive the rewards of their work—decent paychecks and benefits, safe jobs, respect and fair treatment. We work to make the voices of working people heard in the White House, on Capitol Hill, in state capitals across the country and in corporate boardrooms. We provide an independent voice for working families and ways for working people to be actively engaged in politics and legislation. We also hold corporations accountable for their treatment of employees and ensure the voice of working people is heard in the financial system. We also work with federations of unions in other countries toward global social and economic fairness.

Scott Walker has made a name for himself as a wingnut darling by attacking hard-won and long-fought for workers rights in Wisconsin. Walker is on record as being willing to do pretty much anything the Koch brothers ask of him, and the Koch brothers’ biggest goal is to be allowed to make more money without having to share or be responsible when they kill people (literally).

The Republican agenda to kill any government reforms that protect workers and keep the environment reasonably safe for humans is perfectly encapsulated in Scott Walker. If Donald Trump speaks for the base, Scott Walker speaks for the corporate puppet masters, the 2% who want to buy our government for their own greedy purposes.

Walker will be announced his candidacy Monday evening in Waukesha, Wisconsin — yes, home of the torn ballot bags, miscounts and “found votes” that have been so helpful for Mr. Walker.

Challenged By Mary Fallin, Paul LePage Fights Back to Be America’s Worst Governor

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, Maine’s Paul Le Page will be damned if he’s not considered the worst governor in this great nation of ours.
Yes, as a political payback Le Page withheld money from a school for kids with special needs. But Mary Fallin, folks. Her governin’ of Oklahoma is noteworthy in its awfulness. Fallin seems to have difficulty understanding the separation of cult and state, as my colleague John Paul Brammer pointed out earlier this week. Additionally, her grasp of the relations between the three branches of government is, to be charitable, tenuous.
For the purposes of this race to the bottom we’ll exclude those governors who wish to plumb America to the same depths with which they’ve taken the states they “lead.” So Bobby Jindal, Chris Christie (endorsed by Le Page!), Scott Walker, and John Kasich, you’re all disqualified. Admittedly, that clears the field of some serious contenders.
But Le Page and Fallin still must reckon with Rick Scott of Florida, Kansas’ Sam Brownback, Pat McCrory in North Carolina, and Texas’ Greg Abbott, all of whom are formidable in their ineptitude.
Which brings us back to Le Page. Le Page, bless his heart, doesn’t understand the rules of his own legislature after five years as governor.

In Maine, if the governor does not veto a bill 10 days after it passed in the legislature, the bill automatically becomes law. But if the legislature has adjourned for the session and the governor does not veto or sign a bill within 10 days, the bill dies. Sure, these are unusual rules but hey, that’s why we call states the laboratories of democracy.
The key word in this set of rules is the word “adjourn.” The rules are meant to give the legislature an opportunity to override the governor’s vetoes, which is impossible after it’s adjourned. This session, Le Page let 19 bills pass without either or vetoing or signing them within 10 days, utilizing the so-called “pocket veto.” He claims the legislature had adjourned. Except it most definitely hadn’t adjourned, which means the bills Le Page wanted to prevent from becoming law will now do just that thanks to his own incompetence.
The dispute will ultimately be settled in court, to the chagrin of Le Page and his staffers — imagine being on Paul Le Page’s staff for a moment. Yikes!
The mess achieved Full Le Page Farce when the governor managed to insult an entire group of people, the French, who are not a small population in Maine. Speaking about his interpretation of the state’s constitution regarding vetoes, Le Page said, “even I can understand it and I’m French.”
Nice.
One lawmaker responded of the latest Faux Pas Le Page by saying, “I can’t even process this right now.” Join the club, sir.
In the meantime, it’s your move Fallin.

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70 Years Ago, The Wingnuts Declared War On The America

Show trials, forced convictions, freedoms stripped, rights destroyed — a legacy of war against this nation.

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George Will Is The Canary In American Democracy’s Coal Mine

The Declaration of Independence proclaims that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed." In his latest column, wingnut hack George Will boldly rejects this founding principle.

‘This Is War': The Future Of Voting Rights Heads To Court In North Carolina

"This is a racist attack on our sacred right to vote," said North Carolina NAACP President Reverend William Barber, the lead plaintiff in the trial.

Texas judge will perform same-sex weddings — but only if couples acknowledge his anti-LGBT beliefs

A Texas judge concedes that the U.S. Supreme Court may force him to perform same-sex weddings – but he wants couples to know he doesn’t like it.

Texas judge will perform same-sex weddings

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OK.
There is not a problem 'acknowledging' his bigotry as long as he performs his duties as the law mandates. Just HOW he wants his bigotry acknowledged can be a huge problem.
Should he desire acknowledgement to be officially recorded in legal documentation then he is going to be sadly disappointed  - if a nod of the head in the affirmative is what he desires as acknowledgment of his bigotry ... then there is no problem, however it is likely such acknowledgment shall be given in the form of the middle digit of either or both hands in a raised position.

Wingnut Shrieking Head Falls For Fake Story About Pope Francis

Wingnut hack Michael Bresciani, who spews for the christian post and barbwire, railed against Pope Francis  for his “ignorant” statements about how the bible and the koran are the same book. “The one world religion nonsense of the liberals across the globe just got a boost from Pope F... MORE

Orly Shot Down

Birther Orly Taitz has latest round of lawsuits against Obama smacked down by Texas judge

Gun nuts cry bitter tears on Twitter over Whataburger’s ban on openly carried guns inside restaurants

Whataburger bans on openly carried guns inside restaurants

Burger-craving gun lovers are outraged over Whataburger’s policy against openly carrying firearms inside the fast food chain’s Texas restaurants.

Fox Hack Says Chick-Fil-A ‘Is The Official Chicken Of jesus’

No, It Is Not From The Onion

Whom would jesus endorse? According to Todd Starnes, Chick-Fil-A is the “Official Chicken of jesus.”
You can’t make this shit up!

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Bill Nye Ruins Every Republican’s Day: Homosexuality Is Part Of Evolution

Everyone knows that Republicans absolutely hate science, and popular science commentator Bill Nye has just dropped a bomb that’s going to make their...

Bill Nye: Homosexuality is everywhere in nature and is part of the evolutionary process

Bernie Sanders Destroys Boehner After The Moron Calls Him Out Of The Mainstream

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders destroyed Boehner with facts after the moron called him out of the political mainstream on CBS’s Face The Nation.

Earlier on Face The Nation, Boehner said that Bernie Sanders came to Congress as a socialist and that both Sanders and Hillary Clinton are out of step with mainstream America.

In a later segment when Bernie Sanders appeared on the same program, he destroyed Boehner with the facts.

Transcript via Face The Nation:

DICKERSON: Senator, we had Boehner on. He said he came to Congress with you and that he characterized you by saying that there’s not a tax increase that you haven’t liked. What is your response to that? He says you’re out of the mainstream of America.

SANDERS: All right. Well, let me respond to that issue by issue. And you determine who is out of the mainstream.

I want to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. A recent “Wall Street Journal” poll said a majority of the American people want to do that. Boehner is not going to bring up any legislation in the House to raise the minimum wage at all. And many of his members want to do away with the concept of the minimum wage.

I want to see this country expand Social Security benefits, not cut them. Boehner, his cabal want to either privatize Social Security or cut Social Security benefits to the elderly and disabled vets. The American people say overwhelmingly we have got to expand Social Security benefits by lifting the cap on taxable incomes.

I want to create millions of jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. And I have introduced legislation to do that. Republican cabal is very reluctant to spend a nickel to rebuild our infrastructure.

Bernie Sanders listed a series of positions that show that Boehner and the Republican cabal are completely out of step with mainstream America. In fact, the list of Republican positions that are out of step is much longer than what Sanders offered. Republicans oppose a path to citizenship and comprehensive immigration reform, Republicans are against equal pay for women and allowing women to control their own medical decisions. Boehner spent millions of taxpayer dollars defending the Defense of Marriage Act. Boehner supports cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans and corporations while opposing any legislation that would create jobs.

It is clear who is out of step with the mainstream of this country, and it isn’t Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic Party. Boehner has a 22% approval rating and a 62% disapproval rating. Despite the fact that the country is moving back more to the left, Boehner continues to harbor the delusion that the United States is a wingnut nation.

The facts were on the side of the Senator from Vermont, and Bernie Sanders used those facts to reveal that it is Boehner and his Republican cabal who are out of step with the rest of the country.

As Trump Calls Him Stupid, Jeb Complains President Obama Uses Big Words

"Big syllable words and lots of fancy conferences and meetings and - We're not leading. That creates chaos. It creates a more dangerous world"…

Jeb Bush says he wants a return to his brother’s dumbed-down, go-with-hunches junta. Because, you know, Obama uses big words. This is a strange complaint to utter and the timing could not be worse, as last night his biggest contender, Donald Trump, called him stupid.

Let’s face it: his brother was not known for being an intellectual. the shrub could barely speak intelligible English. Almost as if it was a second language. It was bad. Very bad. Great hilarity ensued.

Jeb is somewhat better spoken, but the difference is a matter of degrees, and it is more than language. Jeb, after all, has already said the guy who brought America to ruin is his biggest adviser. Jeb might want to be more conscious of his family legacy when he complains about Obama’s big words.

His brother’s malapropisms and other inexplicable lapses have entered the English language as the “shrubism.” There were some doozies:

They misunderestimated me.” [Bentonville, Arkansas; November 6, 2000]

“There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, ‘Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.'” [Nashville, Tennessee; September 17, 2002]

“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?” [Florence, South Carolina; January 11, 2000]

The answer to the last ought to be self-evident. After all, as the shrub said on Feb. 21, 2001, in Townsend, TN, “You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.”

Unless his name is Bush.

Which brings us to Jeb.

In an interview published by the Union Leader, Jeb complained that Obama’s big words harsh his buzz:

You don’t have to be the world’s policemen, but you have to be the world’s leader and there’s a huge difference. This guy — this president and Secretary Clinton and Secretary Kerry – when someone disagrees with their nuanced approach where it’s all kind of so sophisticated it makes no sense. You know what I’m saying?

Big syllable words and lots of fancy conferences and meetings and – We’re not leading. That creates chaos. It creates a more dangerous world. So restoring the alliances that have kept the world safer and our country safer – getting back to a position in the Middle East where there’s no light between Israel and the United States.

Yes. The world is certainly not a more dangerous place as a result of his brother’s inattention to detail when he destroyed a stable Iraq and replaced it with civil war and the new Assyrian Empire of the Islamic State. The shrub established a surveillance state, condoned torture, America’s reputation fell with its credit rating.

Mission Accomplished.

I think most of us understand the pretender, Jeb. We shouldn’t have to dumb down the discourse so you can follow along. Maybe we can produce some coloring books for you?

After all, it was your brother who said, “One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.” [Jan. 3, 2000]

It is obvious that events have proven the world is too complex for the Bush kids. They cannot understand it, they cannot articulate it – heck, they can’t even articulate the degree to which they can’t articulate it.

I would suggest Jeb Bush learn some big syllable words – what the rest of us call polysyllabic words – or he could just tell America what his brother told Brian Williams during a 2006 interview: “Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.”

With Donald Trump no longer barking at his heels but loping alongside him, and calling his intelligence into question, Jeb couldn’t have chosen a worse time to complain about his inability to understand big words.

(You can watch the full no-complete sentence or finished thought interview at C-SPAN here. Warning: it’s painful.)

McConnell’s Fox News 'Interview' Shows Why Fox Viewers Are Ignorant and Uninformed

Mitch McConnell’s Fox News Sunday 'interview' was a perfect example of why Fox News viewers are ignorant, uninformed, and filled with misinformation.

McConnell claimed that the Iran deal is going to be a hard sell for the White House, “So this is going to be a very hard sell for the White House. They’re going to have to get 34 votes. Assuming a resolution of disapproval passes, the President vetoes it, he’ll have to get at least 34 senators to go forward.”

Majority Leader McConnell said that Democrats are going to have the same concerns that Republicans do, “I think they are going to have the same concerns that I just outlined. I know they’ll be a strong pull not to go against the President on something as important as this is to him, but I hope there will be enough Democrats willing to look at this objectively. Look at the facts. Is this a good deal? Is this likely to achieve the outcome we hope for? If they can bring themselves to do that, and make an objective evaluation of it, I think it is going to be a very hard sell for the administration.”

Later when, guest host Bret Baier said that it was likely that Obama was going to win on Iran and Cuba, McConnell said, “I wouldn’t count on that. He can win on Iran with 34 Democrats because that’s the way the approval process is structured.” McConnell then spun the question on to trade.

Here’s the problem. Obama already has all the Democratic support that he needs to win on Iran. Politico reported days ago that there is nothing that Republicans can do to stop Obama on the Iran deal, “The law that Congress passed in May allowing lawmakers to weigh in on a nuclear agreement will do just that — give them a say. But it also makes it impossible to block an agreement absent a full-on Democratic rebellion against the president. If opponents could somehow manage to get a resolution expressing their disapproval and blocking the lifting of congressional sanctions through both houses of Congress — a big if, given the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold — they’d run straight into Obama’s veto pen. And even some of the fiercest opponents of an Iran pact concede the president could probably cobble together 34 votes in the Senate to sustain his veto.”

National Journal reported that most Republicans know that they won’t be able to stop the deal, “If the president presents a plan to Congress after Thursday, members will have 60 days to review it before voting. Even then, the Senate needs 67 votes and the House 290 to override a presidential veto. With the bar so high, most recognize it’s unlikely that Republicans could halt the deal through that process, barring significant Democratic defections.”

McConnell’s interview during which the Senate Majority Leader and the network refused to acknowledge reality is a textbook example of how Fox News misinforms their viewers. Even wingnut outlets like National Journal and the very non-liberal Politico acknowledge the reality of the situation, that Fox News and McConnell would not.

President Obama has the votes to overcome the Congressional resolution. Obama had the votes since the resolution process was set up. President Obama is going to win, but Fox News is intentionally misleading their viewers into believing that there is a chance that Obama will fail. Facts were not acknowledged.

The interview was so deep in delusion and misinformation that Mitch McConnell told Fox News viewers that fast track is a six-year deal which means that “the next Republican pretender” is going to get to use it. McConnell and Fox were already building up expectations that Republicans are going to win in 2016. The structure of the electoral map shows that Democrats will begin 2016 with a huge advantage and are heavily favored to keep the White House.

Fox News deceives and misleads their viewers on a daily basis, and the McConnell interview demonstrated why watching Fox causes viewers to be less informed

David Letterman returns from retirement to deliver scathing Top 10 list on Donald Trump

David Letterman returns from retirement to deliver scathing Top 10 list on Donald Trump

Saying he was “glad to be out of the house” a retired and now bearded David Letterman was a surprise guest at a Steve Martin and Martin Short show at San Antonio’s Majestic Theater Friday night.

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Lindsey Graham Admits That Trump Is Telling Hispanics Exactly What Republicans Think Of Them

Lindsey Graham (R-SC, idiot), who is running for his cabal’s pretender nomination, was trying to lead Republicans out of the hate-filled rhetorical quicksand that has propelled “wrecking ball” Republican pretender candidate Donald Trump to the top of the polls, when he inadvertently admitted on CNN’s State of the Union that what Trump was doing wrong was telling Hispanics “exactly what we think of you”.

This, Graham told CNN’s Dana Bash he would have no part of.

Graham also called Donald Trump a “wrecking ball” for the Republican cabal with Hispanics and said that they can’t win a national election without Hispanics, so shut up Donald. “I think he’s a wrecking ball for the future of the Republican cabal with the Hispanic community. And we need to push back.”

Watch here:

Graham is concerned because even he can see that calling illegal immigrants rapists is not the way to get the Latino vote.

Transcript from CNN:

Well, I’m very worried about where we’re headed as a party. I don’t think this is the way to get the Latino vote. At the end of the day, this is a defining moment for the Republican cabal.

Graham sounded almost like a Democrat having to deal with House Republicans here, having to respond to the accusations of a backseat driver who has never actually done anything as an elected official to solve problems and has no idea what he’s talking about:

There’s a lot of frustration with broken borders. I get that. I have been trying to fix the border for 10 years. I would double the Border Patrol, triple the number of drones. All the hijackers who attacked — attacked us on 9/11 were visa overstays. So it’s more than just the border. You have got to control your visa program.

A recap of the Donald’s electoral errors in publicizing the Republican cabal’s platform:

But, as to Donald Trump, he has said, openly, repeatedly, that he believes that most illegal immigrants are drug dealers and rapists, and there may be a few among them that are decent people. After 10 years of working on illegal immigration, I have come to conclude that most illegal immigrants are decent, hardworking people, and some are criminals.

This is a defining moment for the Republican cabal. We need to reject this. To all the candidates who think that Donald Trump is telling the truth, I think you have lost your way.

Somehow, Graham thinks the Republican cabal still has moral authority, even after lying about WMD and then spending the next seven years trolling the guy who is trying to fix their epic clusterfuck:

As to the Republican cabal, if we do not reject this way of thinking clearly, without any ambiguity, we will have lost our way. We will have lost the moral authority, in my view, to govern this great nation. And I hope we will reject this kind of thinking.

Bash was having none of it, because she knows the Republican cabal built the base that loves Trump’s racism, “But how do you do that? Look, he talked about the fact that he is awakening a new silent majority. And the fact is that, when he talks about building a wall and sending undocumented immigrants back to Mexico, that has a lot of appeal with a lot of the people in your cabal. And you know that.”

Graham clarified that the problem is that not all illegal immigrants are criminals and by saying this, Trump is “telling the Hispanic community…. exactly what we think of you.” I would presume he didn’t mean that if it weren’t a) true, and b) if Bash hadn’t just called him out on it, and c) if he hadn’t admitted that he was objecting because this is not how to get Latinos to vote Republican — none of which is actually an objection based on the reality that Republicans built this mess on purpose, as an extension of their Southern Strategy.

Well, I can tell you the majority of my cabal wants to secure the border, control who gets a job. They come here to work.

What happened in San Francisco is appalling. It’s a good example of why you need to fix the system. But to say that all the 11 million illegal immigrants for the most part are rapists and drug dealers is not only offensive at every level. You’re telling the Hispanic community, who are friends, neighbors, and relatives of the illegal immigrant population, exactly what we think of you.

And I’m not going to be part of that.

And with visions of Miley Cyrus dancing in his head, Graham invoked “wrecking ball” to denounce Donald Trump:

What I think he’s doing is being a demagogue. I think he’s uninformed about the situation regarding the illegal immigrant population. What happened in San Francisco is appalling. But it does not represent the 11 million. And I think he’s hijacked the debate. I think he’s a wrecking ball for the future of the Republican cabal with the Hispanic community. And we need to push back.

Graham is right, Donald Trump is a wrecking ball for the Republican cabal, because he is telling everyone exactly what the Republican cabal is all about. For years the Republican cabal has been fomenting hatred against the “other” as a get out the vote tactic. Their base knows it and responds to it.

Now, thanks to Donald Trump, the public knows it. If that is a problem, the Republican cabal needs to do more than silence Donald Trump.

If only House Republicans had been able to do something on immigration. But they couldn’t — precisely because they were busy pandering to the people who love Donald Trump for calling illegal immigrants drug dealers and rapists.

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