Hillary Clinton blasted birther Trump for his fallacious claim
that her 2008 campaign started rumors about Barack Obama’s muslim-y-ness and non-citizenship.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Hillary Clinton: No, Morons, I Did Not Start The Birther Movement, And Trump Is A Paranoid Bigot
Hillary Clinton blasted birther Trump for his fallacious claim
that her 2008 campaign started rumors about Barack Obama’s muslim-y-ness and non-citizenship.
Democrats Use the Mainstream Media to Hammer Republicans For Looming Republican Cabal Shutdown
The media is very unhappy about the Republican cabal shutdown and Democratic
Leader Nancy Pelosi's office is all too happy to use them to hammer
Republicans.…
So this is refreshing and different. Due to the fact
that Republicans cater to corporations and our media is corporate and
that media needs things from the Republicans in office, the media is
rarely on the side of the people, which is to say (usually, not always)
the Democrats.
But here comes another shutdown threat from
Republicans and their shutdowns hurt business, so suddenly the media
isn’t pretending that facts are debatable. The media is very unhappy
about the looming Republican cabal shutdown and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s
office is all too happy to use them to hammer Republicans.
The following is from a press release from the Leader’s office:
The House Republican cabal leadership still has no commonsense plan to avert another Republican Government Shutdown with a mere five legislative days until the deadline. Yet the impact of another #GOPshutdown would be so catastrophic that the media continues to underscore more of the harmful effects:…anyone who lives paycheck to paycheck will have a hard time making ends meet.Anyone applying for a job in the federal government or for a federal grant might want to start twiddling their thumbs.Small businesses that rely on tourists and government workers for their livelihood could see a big drop-off in revenue during the shutdown.Omaha.com (Nebraska):“…the unpredictability of it all, that makes it a little bit more difficult to plan, train and equip,” Maj. Gen. Daryl Bohac, adjutant general of the Nebraska National Guard, told The World-Herald on Tuesday.Old Faithful would erupt with no one watching, because Yellowstone National Park and 407 others would close to the public.Homebuyers would find their mortgage applications stalled because the offices they need to approve paperwork for loans would be shuttered. And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would have to stop monitoring the spread of the flu to direct vaccines where they are needed.Republican cabal leadership Members may attempt to downplay the impact, but the damage is hard to ignore.Boehner – as CNN Money puts it: “even the threat of a shutdown is a waste” of time because…”it would inconvenience Americans across the country…” The House Republican cabal must remove this threat off the table and stand up to the lunatic fringe teabagger extremists who want to take our country to the brink of collapse. Americans cannot afford this obstruction, distraction and dysfunction.
Republicans used to be the cabal of business, but
with their shutdowns and sequestration and refusal to renew the Ex-Im
bank charter, business leaders have been coming after Republicans. They say some of these wingnut Republicans don’t know what they are doing, as if this is news.
What is news is that the media has something at
stake when Republicans mess with business. So unlike the way the media
trolls any legislation that might actually help the people, aka in
Republicanese as the lazy 47% of the country, when Republicans set their
eyes on destroying this country’s businesses, the media calls foul.
Won’t Get Fooled Again: New Video Shatters The Illusion Of The “Moderate” Republican
The Hillary Clinton campaign put out a video
exposing Republicans — not just the nutters either — for being
extremists, from Jeb saying “we should not have a
multicultural society,” to Kasich.
It is, quite frankly, too appalling to even break down.
Just watch and weep:
Jeb: “We should not have a multicultural society,”
Trump: “This is a country where we speak English, not Spanish.”
Carson: “I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation.”
Republican supporter: “We have training camps
growing where they want to kill us. That’s my question. When can we get
rid of ’em.”
Jeb re using term “anchor babies”: “Don’t regret it, do you have a better term?”
Jeb on his claim that Asian people take advantage of birthright citizenship: “Frankly, it’s more related to Asian… people.”
Trump re babies born to “undocumented workers”: “They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists.”
Kasich: “A lot of ’em do jobs that um, they’re willing to do. And that’s why in the hotel you leave a little tip.”
Okay then.
Kasich, the lone 'sane' person in this sad
Republican primary posse, is an uncultured buffoon who should never,
ever be given a chance to represent this country internationally.
So go ahead, share this little video with your
friends and neighbors, the people who say they are moderate Republicans,
and ask them who exactly represents them in the party today? Who and
what policies?
Done and done.
Blackburn invents new way to deny global warming: Humans are not ‘the cause for carbon emissions’
Busted: Florida wingnut hatches diabolical plan to redraw Democrat’s district with black inmates who can’t vote
Florida wingnut Janet Adkins
was recently caught on tape explaining her plan to defeat state Representative
Corrine Brown, a black Democrat, by redrawing the district lines to
include African-American inmates who cannot vote.
Boehner Ally Calls Cruz Republicans “Wingnut Marxists”
"The wingnut Marxists have teamed up with Pelosi. They're the ones
who always team up with Pelosi. They are the Pelosi Republicans."…
Although Republicans will never admit openly that
the deal they made with the Koch devils to create and install extremist
teabaggers in positions of power in Congress was a disaster, the
five-year inter-cabal civil war reveals their obvious distress. Now,
Luntaic fringe ultra-wingnut extremists in the House are conspired to unseat
Boehner for not embracing Cruz and the House Freedom
Caucus’ crusade to shut down the government; this time over, among other
things, religious opposition to women’s reproductive healthcare
providers. The latest threat is that if Boehner dares move ahead with
funding the government with Planned Parenthood funding in place, after
the extremists shut down the government they will shut down Boehner’s
tenure as house speaker. One way or another, the extremists want to
close the government and if the Republican leadership is not with them,
they are the enemy.
Many Republican voters are convinced that shutting
down the government is a winning tactic based on their near-sweep in the
2014 midterms and their belief is hard to dispute. After all, Cruz
told them to shut down the government for 16 days costing the government
tens-of-billions of dollars, killed thousands of jobs and they still
increased their numbers in the House and won control of the Senate
despite “creating havoc with the budget over the course of several
years.” Republicans typically hate everything about the federal
government, and as in the mind of un-American immigrant Cruz, if Republicans cannot eliminate it permanently, they can at least
shut it down just to show their supporters they mean business.
Although the primary driver of the current shutdown
threat is Republicans’ belief that Congress exists to pass legislation
founded on a bastardized form of christianity, there is more than just
Planned Parenthood funding at play for extremist Republicans. There is,
of course, women’s reproductive health, the debt ceiling, the Iran
nuclear deal, raising military spending, and slashing most domestic
spending to death; all valid extremists’ reasons to shut down the
government if “wingnut Marxists” fail to get what they demand.
The Republican who labeled shut-down agitators
“wingnut Marxists” was Boehner’s ally
Representative Devin Nunes. Nunes lashed out at “Republican insurgents”
in the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) for “undermining Boehner’s authority
and stirring up this trouble.” Nunes said, “The wingnut Marxists
have teamed up with Pelosi. They’re the ones who always team up with
Pelosi. They are the Pelosi Republicans. The Freedom Caucus is an arm of
Pelosi.”
Obviously the HFC, although they are like all
Republicans wingnut Marxists, have not “teamed up with” House
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, their antics do provide House Democrats
with a measure of power a minority party seldom enjoys. Nunes has had
sharp words for the Cruz-inspired Marxists in the past when he called
them “lemmings with suicide vests” in 2013 for the “Obamacare shutdown
fight” Democrats were instrumental in ending to save Boehner. Perhaps
Nunes’ goal was insulting the HFC by linking them to the Democratic
leader, but he obviously does not comprehend the resolve of the “right
wing Marxists” to shut down the government to show their theocratic
leader Cruz and extremist base that their raison d’être is eliminating the federal government.
The House Freedom Caucus has been eyeing this shutdown for some months because “none
of the House committees have done their jobs, there is no budget
proposal to send to the Senate, and the deadline for the current budget
appropriations is rapidly approaching.” There are not even plans in
the works for Congress to pass a continuing resolution to run the
government because a shutdown was always the goal of the wingnut
Marxists. And according to a “longtime congressional observer” Stan Collender, the odds are at 75% that the Marxists will succeed because the “ongoing dysfunction is most likely an insurmountable challenge for Boehner and McConnell.” Translation: Boehner and McConnell do not lead their respective caucuses, Ted Cruz does.
The man expecting to emerge victorious
from a seemingly certain shut down is the leading wingnut theocrat
and Marxist Cruz. Cruz successfully engineered the last government
shutdown and although some Republicans were put off, the Canadian
immigrant made major points with the theocratic anti-government
Republican base; the base Cruz needs for his Republican pretender
nomination bid.
As noted earlier, a potential government shutdown is
part of “religious Republicans, fiscal scolds, and military hawks”
strategy to force their extremist agenda on Americans. However, no-one
will benefit more than Cruz. Cruz is once again screaming loudest
that Republicans have to shut down the federal government to save
America. He is particularly opposed to any domestic spending for any
reason, he and his preacher-daddy demand an end to women’s reproductive
healthcare, and he wants the United Nations nuclear deal with Iran
scuttled and replaced with immediate plans for another Middle East war
on Israel’s behalf.
As the wingnut Marxists’ lead extremist, Cruz
laid out his set of demands to keep the federal government operational.
Cruz said, “Congress should pass a continuing resolution that funds
the government, but that provides two conditions. Number one, it does
not give taxpayer funds to a private organization — Planned Parenthood —
that is under multiple criminal investigations. Number two, it uses the
power of the purse to force this administration to hand over the
Iranian side deals.”
First, evangelical Republicans in states around the country have “called for” investigations and hearings on Planned Parenthood, and some inquiries were “announced” in Arizona, Indiana, Florida, Kansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio, and Texas; but the medical providers have been cleared of any wrongdoing. As an aside, the dirty outfit that created the video evidence is under
a Justice Department investigation. Second, the United Nations Security
Council members, including President Obama, have no side deals with
Iran to give to anyone, much less an un-American Canadian immigrant like
Cruz. Still, it has not stopped Cruz from claiming that “the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism, President Barack Obama, ‘did too’ make a secret deal with Iran.”
This drive to shut down the government is, as one observer noted, “a crucial part of Cruz’s presidential campaign strategy”
to make him heroic for pushing “squishy” Republicans to “confront the
President” over issues important to religious anti-American immigrants
like Cruz. When the possible shut down fails, Cruz will blame “Washington Republican insiders” for being weak and set himself up as the only “true wingnut” willing to go to war against President Obama.
Cruz, desperate to bolster his “anti-government and anti-Washington” bona fides with anti-government extremists lashed out at the Republican leadership on Tuesday claiming that “The
position of Republican leadership boils down to this: They will support
100 percent of the priorities of Democrats. Today, the leader in the
Senate is Harry Reid because Republican leadership has said nothing will
pass without Harry Reid’s support. Today, the leader in the House is
Nancy Pelosi.” It is interesting that the opposing sides in the
Republican civil war both accused the other of allowing Democrats to run
Congress, and it is just another signal that the Republican cabal is truly off the
rails; or as Devin Nunes said, “a bunch of right wing Marxists.”
Republicans are wingnut extremists, all of them,
and the current dysfunction the cabal is experiencing is its own fault
for embracing radical religious and anti-government maniacs. For many on
the left it is entertaining to watch the Republican civil war raging in
Congress, but like all wars there are always noncombatant casualties,
and collateral damage. Sadly, the only casualties are the American
people suffering yet another worthless Congress and tragically for this
country, none of the casualties are religious and anti-government
Republicans. However, that is something voters can reverse in 14 months.
Trump Speaks At A Black Business Owners Convention–To A Half-Empty Room Of White People
It seems the people who Trump came to speak to chose to “stay at the bar until the bigot leaves” option.
Jeb Just Admitted He Doesn’t Want The United States To Be Multicultural
Putting the “ass” in assimilation, Jeb must have noticed how well
Trump’s racism is working for him and wants a piece of the bigot vote
for himself.
Meet The Real Fiorina
by Dave Johnson
There used to be something called “the HP Way.” This was the description of the way Hewlett-Packard (HP) conducted its business and treated its employees and customers.
Management was informal, and the majority of the company’s engineers worked in an open environment, rather than offices, to encourage communication and teamwork. In Bill Hewlett’s word, “the HPa Way is a core ideology … which includes a deep respect for the individual, a dedication to affordable quality and reliability, a commitment to community responsibility, and a view that the company exists to make technical contributions for the advancement and welfare of humanity.”In a 2010 Reuters’ article, “Fiorina, Hurd: no practitioners of ‘The HP Way’?” Alex Dobuzinskis wrote,
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Breitbart Pays Up For Racist Attack Against Shirley Sherrod
A lawsuit filed in 2011 by former Agricultural Department official
Shirley Sherrod against lunatic fringe wingnut propaganda manufacturer Andrew
Breitbart was settled.. 
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This Shrub Versus Obama Comparison Will Make Everyone Who Voted Blue Proud They Did
A comparison of the final year of Dumbyah versus the final year of Obama shows just how far we’ve come from the brink of ruin.Hillary Clinton Unifies Democrats – Opposes Keystone XL On Climate Change Grounds
There must be ten or twenty immediate reasons a
person can give for opposing a foreign corporation, TransCanada’s
crusade to build a dangerous tar sand pipeline across America’s
heartland, and they are all valid. However, the overriding, and
immediate, cause for alarm should be the devastation tar sand
development, production, and transport will have on the Earth’s climate.
Now, after questions about whether Democratic candidate for president
Hillary Rodham Clinton will do as many disaffected “progressives”
claimed was inevitable and come down on the side of big oil and the
Koch brothers, the former Secretary of State and Senator announced she
opposed building the Keystone XL pipeline.
What is remarkable about Clinton’s announcement was
that it came in response to an audience member’s question during a
campaign stop in Iowa, and not at a specially-called press briefing to
make a major policy statement and grab headlines. Obviously, the subject
has been on Clinton’s mind for some time or she would not have come
back with such a forceful statement, or with the most valid reason for
opposing Keystone XL’s construction other than restricting profits of
the Koch brothers or Boehner’s stock
portfolio.
Former Senator Clinton made a promise
last week that she would finally make her position on the pipeline
public, and unlike lying Republicans, Clinton kept her word. This is
good news for the environment, efforts to combat climate change, and
Americans who are rightly terrified at the prospect of a leak-prone
foreign corporation’s pipeline over precious agriculture land and a
major water resource for millions of Americans. Many Americans concerned
about the environment were anxious because they claim President Obama
is “dragging his feet on deciding its fate.” Even if President
Obama decides to nix the pipeline, Republicans will continue doing the
Koch brothers’ bidding and push the foreign project on the next
administration.
Although Clinton was Secretary of State, the
department tasked with granting a foreign corporation’s permit to build a
project across America’s international border with Canada, the Koch
Republican push and resulting furor over Keystone was just beginning
when she left office. Just three months ago Clinton said, “If
it’s undecided when I become president, I will answer your question.
This is President Obama’s decision and I’m not going to second-guess him.” However, this is a presidential run and last week Hillary Clinton finally decided that, “I
have been waiting for the administration to make a decision. I thought I
owed them that. I can’t wait too much longer. I am putting the White
House on notice. I am going to tell you what I think soon.”
What Hillary Rodham Clinton thinks about allowing a foreign corporation to endanger Americans’ water and food sources is that,
“I oppose it. I oppose it because I don’t think it’s in the best interest of what we need to do to combat climate change.”
She also rightly said that the pipeline, or the push by Republicans to get it built tomorrow, was and has been “a
distraction for the work we have to do to combat climate change; we
need to move beyond the issue. I thought this would be decided by now.
And therefore, I could tell you whether I agreed or I disagreed. But it
hasn’t been decided, and I feel now I’ve got a responsibility to you and
other voters who ask me about this.” Apparently Clinton feels she
has a responsibility to speak out about the most important reason to
oppose the pipeline. As noted NASA climate scientist James Hansen has
been screaming for five years; building Keystone XL and further developing Canada’s tar sands means “game over for Earth’s climate.”
Clinton’s announcement was, for lack of a better
term, ‘responded to’ in a strange way by Senator Bernie Sanders and
former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley. Sanders said that,
“I am glad that Secretary Clinton finally has made a decision and I welcome her opposition to the pipeline.” He also added that he has opposed the pipeline “from the beginning.”
Martin O’Malley’s response was less-gracious than
Senator Sanders and naturally he took what some would call a cheap shot
at Clinton instead of welcoming another strong Democratic voice opposing
the climate-destroying pipeline. He said,
“On issue after issue-marriage equality, drivers
licenses for undocumented immigrants, children fleeing violence in
Central America, the Syrian refugee crisis, and now the Keystone
Pipeline, Secretary Clinton has followed – not forged – public opinion.”
Good to know that Martin O’Malley has forged public
opinion on so many important issues; particularly when most Americans
have little clue exactly who Martin O’Malley is much less how he “forged” their opinions.
One risks outraged EmoProg’s condemnation, but
really, with something as dangerous to the Earth’s climate as Keystone
XL, it does not matter one iota who among Democrats opposed the project
first, or who thinks they drove public opinion against it. Frankly, it
is likely that no politician ever forges public opinion; not Bernie
Sanders, not Martin O’Malley, not Hillary Clinton and not Barack Obama
and it is political vanity to believe otherwise. Perhaps just welcoming
Hillary Clinton’s opposition would have sufficed in a unified Democratic
base, but Senator Sanders and former governor O’Malley both understand
that many of their supporters on the ‘Emoprog’ left demand attacks
against Clinton; even if they are tepid and amount to “I did it first;” they are childish like that.
For many Americans concerned about the devastation
already being wreaked on the environment, Americans’ health, and the
economy, a unified Democratic front in opposition to the pipeline is
great news. It is particularly great news because this week all eyes are
focused on Pope Francis’ visit to America and his address to Congress
that will surely include schooling Republicans on their obstructionist
tactics to block action on climate change. Whatever one thinks about
Hillary Clinton, or why they think she waited to come out against
allowing a foreign corporation’s project being built on American soil,
her statement that she opposes the pipeline because it is a distraction
for the work “we have to do to combat climate change” means that Democrats are unified on the subject; something that should worry Republicans.
Mathematician Declares War On Kansas Republicans For Committing Election Fraud
A Wichita State University statistician is on a mission to prove that Kansas Republicans have committed election fraud.‘Republicans Can’t Answer This One Question’
Bernie Sanders silences cocky Republicans on Capital Hill every time he asks them this one question.
Nine Things The Pope Said At The White House That Pissed Off The Republicans
Here are nine things Pope Francis said that will make the republican cabal and Fox News totally lose their shpadoinkle.
Religio-Wingnuts Encounter the Constitution and Toss their Collective Cookies
The Religio-wingnuts had a bad week with Constitution.
You wouldn't
think people could be this, well, dirt stupid, but they can, and they
are…
Oh, they are at it again, yes they are. Fresh from the Kim Davis martyrdom, we have just seen Republicans try (and fail) to impose a 20-week abortion ban on American women, and Carson state categorically (and in defiance of the United States Constitution) that a Muslim should not be president.
Not content, those who had not already jumped on the
stupid bandwagon, hastened to follow. Perkins, eager to reveal
that he, too, has failed to read the Constitution, jumped in with
Carson, claiming on his “Washington Watch” radio program that islam doesn’t have First Amendment protections because it’s not really a religion:
Religious freedom and our liberty is ordered liberty under the Constitution. And as Dr. Carson pointed out, and I know this is driving the left crazy, that Islam is not just a religion, Islam is an economic system, it is a judicial system, it is a compressive system which is incompatible with the Constitution. That’s what Dr. Carson said and he happens to be correct.
Of course, if islam is not really a religion, then
neither is christianity. How is it, if christianity is not a judicial
system, that the religio-wingnuts want to control our lives with its own
version of Sharia Law, called the Law of Moses? And if it is not an
economic system, why do they subject us to endless Barton
monologues on the subject? Why claim jesus was a capitalist, that
capitalism was in his DNA?
As far as what is or is not a religion, islam was understood by our Founding Fathers
to be a religion, just as was christianity. It is the world’s
second-largest religion, in fact. And the religio-wingnuts want to
delegitimize and disenfranchise it on the sole basis that it is not christianity.
Never mind that we could argue Perkins’ own
religion is not christianity either. Given the absence, you know, of
anything resembling christ.
But Perkins was far from the only one talking out of his backside.
Hate speech radio hack Savage says (and I’m paraphrasing here, but accurately, I think) that only psychopaths are tolerant. I know, right?
President Obama appointed a gay men
to be Secretary of the Army, and of course, the religio-wingnuts lost their cookies, heads exploded, and absolute mayhem ensued, along with the
death of all common sense and reason.
Huckabee already informed us all that “Homosexuality is not a job qualification,” but Savage went a step further and claimed on Friday,
You don’t understand that a person can be insane and not look crazy, you don’t understand the definition of psychopaths, do you? We have an openly mad president who is doing everything he can as quickly as he can to decimate everything that this country stood for, stands for and would stand for.
Savage isn’t making any sense. Apparently, gay men
“decimate” what he stands for, which as we can all see, is an
unreasoning hatred and bigotry of everyone not like himself (or as some
are sure to suggest, everyone like himself, if you take my meaning).
And he wasn’t finished:
As Brian Tashman describes it on Right Wing Watch:
Savage, who recently wondered if seltzer water’s “little bubbles of carbon dioxide poisoned the brains” of liberals, also beseeched his listeners not to listen to “the communist, Maoist vermin in the media” composed of “left-wing America-haters, family-haters, dog-haters, church-haters, family-haters, drug addicts almost every last one of them.”“Almost every one of those psycho-leftists are on drugs.”
Haters gonna hate. And then claim everybody else is
the hater. I think we know who the psychopath is. I can’t remember our
articulate president ever talking like this.
Which leaves us Cass of the 'christian' anti-defamation coven, who, in defense of Kim Davis, says elected officials should refuse to obey “unlawful” orders from “an increasingly tyrannical, statist, secular government” – because those orders don’t come from dog.
You would like to ask yourself what part of the
United States Constitution Cass doesn’t understand, but you’d be wasting
your time. Yeah, you don’t get this kind of stupidity every day. I’d
direct Cass myself to the Constitution but he wouldn’t read it anyway,
because it would violate his belief that it is something it is not.
Simply put, dog doesn’t run the country. Never did. Never will. Can’t hold office, can’t vote. Dog isn’t in the Constitution.
Political power belongs to us, the people. And we
don’t speak for dog. We speak for ourselves, and chose the leaders we
want – at least when Republicans aren’t rigging elections and turning
our votes into votes for them.
Collectively, the religio-wingnuts sound like a
bunch of little kids shrieking as they watch a horror movie. And that is
what the United States Constitution is for them: a horror movie. A
movie where everybody has equal rights, even people who follow other
religions, even women, and even gays and lesbians oh my.
They so badly want the United States Constitution to
be the bible that they insist they are identical even when they’re
nothing alike, even when the Founders expressly rejected religious
tyranny in their writings, and warned of mixing religion and government.
You wouldn’t think people could be this…well, dirt stupid…but they can,
and they are.
It’s been hard on the religio-wingnuts lately, and
its getting harder with Bernie Sanders, and now the Pope, piling on. If
you want them dry-heaving, you can do your part by choosing each day to
be a good human being and showing a little tolerance of the diverse and
pluralistic culture around you. They really hate that.
Really, we should be good people just because we should, but let’s face it, a little added incentive doesn’t hurt.
Texas wingnut cabal promotes viciously anti-muslim blog post
I Feel 'Sorry' For Coulter
She opens a window into her soul, and the fetid stench is enough to knock you over.
Even Republicans Reject Another Shrub as Jeb Falls to Sixth Place In Iowa
Jeb is tied for sixth place in Iowa with Huckabee at a weak 6 percent of the vote in the Republican cabal field.…
Conspicuously absent from the lead pack is former Jeb. Jeb is tied for sixth place in Iowa with Huckabee. Both men are polling just 6 percent in the Hawkeye state. Jeb continues to hemorrhage support in Iowa. A month ago he was in fourth place at 11 percent, but in the past thirty days he has seen his support nearly cut in half.
Jeb hasn’t done himself any favors by
reminding voters of his family connection with the failed juntas
of his brother and his father. While Republican cabal voters are less likely than the
general population to view the shrub’s junta negatively, even
they can become uneasy when Jeb says silly things about his brother
“keeping us safe”.
Jeb’s struggles in Iowa, and across the nation,
are likely to continue, because Republican voters do not particularly
like him. In Iowa, 40 percent of Republicans have an unfavorable opinion of Jeb,
compared to just 38 percent who hold a favorable opinion of him. With
such tepid support from the party’s base, Jeb has little room to
grow.
The only candidate who saw a comparable decline in
support in Iowa from August to September was Wisconsin's idiot Walker, and he saw the writing on the wall and quit. Jeb managed to
stay one percentage point above the Walker line in Iowa (Walker
polled 5 percent in the PPP survey, which was conducted prior to his
announcement that he was suspending his campaign).
However, unless jeb picks up momentum soon, he
could be the next major Republican candidate to exit the race for lack
of support. Given the direction his poll numbers are heading, it may not
be long before we say good bye to Jeb’s 2016 candidacy. Even
Republican voters seem uninterested in another shrub junta.
There’s Nothing Better Than Colbert Effortlessly Making Fun Of Trump To His Face
This entire interview was fan-freaking-tastic…
The Lunatic Fringe Is Melting Down: Trump Declares He Will No Longer Appear On Fox News
The Trump caused Republican meltdown has now consumed Fox News, as the
Republican frontrunner has announced that he will no longer appear on
Fox.
Donald Trump is tearing at the core fibers of the
Republican Party. Fox News is the media megaphone that keeps the right
united. If there is one thing that Republicans can agree on, it is that
they trust Fox. Well, they used to trust Fox News until Trump came
along.
The billionaire is using Fox News’s own argument
against them. Fox is built on the idea that the rest of the media is
liberally biased and treats Republicans unfairly. Fox News has spent
decades drilling the message into their viewers heads that the media is
out to get them.
The message itself built a weakness into
the Fox News/viewer relationship. If Fox News viewers believe that there
is bias in the media, since the network itself is a part of the media,
it has always been possible for their own viewers to figure out that
bias exists at Fox News.
Republicans don’t care if the network is biased
against Democrats, but they do care if Fox appears biased against other
Republicans. Trump is turning Fox News’s own viewers against
them, and Fox place as a crucial role in the Republican cabal.
As the Republican cabal has become more fragmented, Fox News has
been a consistently unifying message delivery system. By attacking one
of the few pillars of Republican unity, Trump is turning the cabal’s
primary into a total free for all.
If Republican viewers doubt the credibility of Fox
News, they will be open to getting their information from somewhere else
a.k.a. Trump. Fox News needs access to the Republican frontrunner more
than Trump needs access to them.
The worst possible scenario is becoming a reality
for the Republican cabal. Trump is exploiting the divides on the lunatic fringe, and blowing up the Republican cabal. This is great news for Democrats, as even
Fox News is being taken down a few pegs by Trump.
South Park Takes On Trump And The Anti-Immigrant Wingnuts
South Park is taking on Trump and the anti-immigrant wingnuts in America.
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Sunday, September 27, 2015
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Republicans Reeling After ObamaCare Enrollment Surges To 17.6 Million
President Obama’s signature health care law is
surging past 2015 expectations as 17.6 million Americans have signed up
under Obamacare.
HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced the new numbers during a speech at Howard University today:
According to a study we are releasing today, as
the ACA’s coverage provisions took effect, an estimated 17.6 million
Americans have gained coverage. And this progress has been even bigger
for people of color: The uninsured rate among African-American adults
has declined by more than 10 percentage points, compared to about 7.7
for the total population.”
….
The ACA is about more than the Marketplace.
People are beginning to understand that the ACA is improving their care
no matter where they buy their insurance. With new protections and
required benefits, like preventive services at no extra cost, it’s
improved the quality of coverage for all Americans.
The promises made by Republican
pretender candidates to repeal and replace Obamacare are looking like
a political suicide mission as ACA enrollment continues to grow. By
Election Day 2016, it is possible that the Republican nominee will be
running on a platform of taking health care away from 20 million
Americans.
President Obama’s health care law has not only been a
political victory, but the President has changed health care delivery
in a historic way. Thanks to the election of Barack Obama to the White
House tens of millions of people have access to healthcare that they
didn’t have before.
Hundreds of millions of Americans are benefiting
from the protections offered to consumers under the ACA. Obamacare has
been a raging success, and Republicans are reeling as they to figure how
to reconcile their repeal and replace rhetoric with the real life
outcome of taking access to health care away from 17.6 million people.
Republicans have been captured in their own
Obamacare trap, and the biggest winners aren’t Democrats, but the 17.6
million people who now have access to affordable health care.
People From These 5 States Will Soon Need Passports to Fly Within the U.S.
No reason was given for why these states and regions were singled out.
Thanks to provisions in the little-known Real ID Act – passed in 2005 – five states will soon require a passport to fly even within the continental United States.
The
Department of Homeland Security has named New York, Louisiana,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, American Samoa, and New Hampshire as locations
where the residents will be required to use their passports to fly on
commercial airplanes. Although there is no reason given for why these
states and regions were singled out, it could possibly be because
driver's licenses – the traditional form of identification used at
airports – have to be compatible with Real ID requirements, and it's
possible that the licenses in these states are not.
As an alternative, the Transportation Security Agency will accept
Enhanced Driver's Licenses, which are used in some border states to
allow travel to Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean, but few Americans
have them.
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