Let’s look at 50 reasons, some large and some small, why dumbya inspired so much anger.
Friday, October 23, 2015
Team Jeb claims Dumbya 'inherited' 9/11 and recession
by Jon Perr
"If I had one humble criticism of President Obama, it would be to stop this notion of somehow framing everything in the context of 'Everything was bad before I got here' and focus on his duties, which we all want him to succeed. But constantly pushing down the previous president to make yourself look good I think is a bad thing."Of course, these are pretty amazing statements for Jeb to make. After all, from the moment the shrub first took the oath of office Republicans—including Dumbya himself—have never stopped blaming Bill Clinton and even Barack Obama for the slaughter of 3,000 Americans and the dismal economic performance that occurred during the shrub's watch.
Just ask Republican agitator and former Dick Cheney adviser Mary Matalin. In December 2009, she could have been speaking for the entire shrub team when she offered this masterpiece of Republican turd polishing:
"I was there, we inherited a recession from President Clinton, and we inherited the most tragic attack on our own soil in our nation's history."Just because the talking point was wrong on both counts didn't prevent conservatives before and after her from vomiting it up.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
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All Politicians Have To Dance But This New Twitter Account @BernieDancing Is Everything
What happens when you take political nerds and make them have rhythm
is hilarious. But this new Twitter account makes it awesome!
Jeb campaign and super PAC using the same consulting firm for the same services
This isn’t the first time Jeb has done so, and Jeb isn’t the first candidate to do so.
Jeb, crony capitalist, unironically promises to end crony capitalism as president
If Jeb knows anything about how to stop crony capitalism, it’s because he knows how to be a crony capitalist.
Trump Is Lying About Immigration—Here Are The Facts
Trump doesn’t care about immigrants. He also thinks he is the
American Savior who would have saved us from 9/11… except the
terrorists...
Wingnut Brooks: Hillary Clinton will be first president ‘subject to impeachment’ on her first day
This Wingnut’s Reaction Is PRICELESS When He Gets Treated Exactly How He Treats Hillary
KARMA! Gowdy doesn’t like the scrutiny very much, now that he’s
being treated EXACTLY the same way he’s treated Mrs. Clinton this past
year. These words of defiance from him are worth a million bucks.
A Bad Day For The NRA As Federal Court Upholds Gun Safety Laws In 2 States
CONCLUSION
To summarize, we hold as follows:
(1) The core prohibitions by New York and
Connecticut of assault weapons and large ‐capacity magazines do not violate the Second Amendment.
(a)
We assume that the majority of the prohibited conduct falls within the scope of Second Amendment protections. The statutes are appropriately evaluated under the
Constitutional standard of “intermediate scrutiny”—that is, whether they are “substantially related to the achievement of an important governmental interest.”
(b)
Because the prohibitions are substantially related to the important governmental interests of public safety and crime reduction, they pass constitutional muster. We
therefore AFFIRM the relevant portions of the judgments of the Western District of New York and the District of Connecticut insofar as they upheld the constitutionality of state prohibitions on semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity magazines.
New York State Rifle and Pistol Association has a close relationship with the NRA. The organization’s president sits on the NRA board, so today’s loss was a defeat for the powerful gun lobby.
The Court found that the prohibitions on semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity magazines in each state did not violate the Second Amendment. At a time when public support for gun control has jumped to 55%, the ruling is in line with the public’s frustration over the easy availability of guns.
Actively Trying To Make Maine Dumber, Teabagger LaPage Anoints Creationist Education Commissioner
Lunatic fringe teabagger LePage is trying out the ultimate Republican election strategy: Keep people ignorant.White House Busts Republicans For Being Scared of Letting People Vote
In a press briefing today, Press Secretary Josh Earnest acknowledged that “the amount of time and energy that Republicans have spent trying to make it more difficult for people to — for eligible voters to cast a ballot is mind-boggling.” Earnest deadpanned, “I’m not really sure what they’re scared of.”
Earnest also called out the point, “(t)here is documented evidence that those were strategies that were predicated on a political benefit for Republicans.”
From the press briefing:
Q All right. On another subject, there’s a big controversy brewing in Alabama. Thirty-one DMV offices in minority, rural, urban communities have been shut down, and that at a time when there is concern about the infringement on voting rights as well as this upsurge with voter ID. What does this administration feel about that? And what particularly is this White House looking at in reaction to this, if there will be a reaction?
MR. EARNEST: Well, I did see that Secretary Clinton had an opportunity to talk about this issue, and she expressed I think some legitimate concerns about measures that we’re seeing, once again, being put in place to try to make it harder for people to vote. The amount of time and energy that Republicans have spent trying to make it more difficult for people to — for eligible voters to cast a ballot is mind-boggling. I’m not really sure what they’re scared of. But the fact is the President, I think on a number of occasions, has made clear that the principle of allowing eligible voters to cast a vote is central to our democracy. And I think the President said that much more eloquently than I just did when he traveled to Alabama himself earlier this year to mark the 50th anniversary of the march in Selma.
That continues to be our principle here. And we hope that both Democrats and Republicans in Alabama, and in every other state in the country, can live up to that principle.
Q So the governor of Alabama is saying that it’s not racial. The two issues here — voter suppression and possibly racial discrimination — do you see both clearly? Does this White House see both clearly?
MR. EARNEST: I’m not going to comment on this specific matter because I haven’t had an opportunity to look carefully at it. I do think that it sort of — I think that the reason that we’re having this conversation is because there are legitimate concerns that have been raised about voter ID laws in the first place. And we’ve seen reports that some Republicans — many Republicans across the country acknowledge that this has a political impact that benefits Republicans, and in some cases, has a disproportionate impact on certain populations.
Q But when you get into the weeds of what you just said, that’s race. Am I correct?
MR. EARNEST: Well, I think that’s what some people have observed. But again, I’m not talking about this particular incident because I don’t know enough about the details to talk about it. But when it comes to voter ID laws, when it comes to the way that Republicans have, time and again, taken steps and implemented policies that make it more difficult for eligible voters to cast a ballot, yes, in some cases, there is documented evidence that those were strategies that were predicated on a political benefit for Republicans. And that certainly runs counter to some of the basic and most important principles of our democracy.
Earnest wouldn’t answer as to whether the Department of Justice would be getting involved, and directed reporters to them.
As reported here by Keith Brekhus on October 1 of this year,
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/01/passing-voter-id-law-alabama-closes-drivers-license-offices-democratic-counties.html
In 2011, Alabama passed a voter ID law that required voters to provide a government-issued state ID to vote in elections. Critics charged that the law would make it disproportionately difficult for poor voters and African-American voters in the state to vote. Republicans brushed off those criticisms by suggesting that the voter ID law was instead designed to eliminate in-person voter fraud, despite the fact that in-person voter fraud is almost non-existent.
However, Alabama has announced that it is now closing 31 driver’s license bureaus throughout the state, leaving 29 of the state’s counties without an office where voters can easily obtain a state-issued driver’s license. Not coincidentally, the impact of closures will be disproportionately felt by low-income voters. Also unsurprisingly, offices targeted for closure are heavily concentrated in predominately African-American, Democratic-leaning counties.
Republicans are desperate to keep people from voting because it’s the only way they have a chance of winning. How pathetic is that?
2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called the closures a blast from the Jim Crow past, urging Republicans to “listen to their consciences.”
Insert laughter here.
Republicans should be afraid of getting a reputation as the party against liberty because that would make their flag waving, and war drums a bit difficult to sell.
Planned Parenthood Attackers Slam Group For Ending Fetal Tissue Reimbursements They Criticized
From the "Hypocrites are us" Department:
Over the summer, anti-choice
activists began accusing Planned Parenthood of illegally profiting
off the fetal tissue that a handful of its clinics allow women to donate
to medical research. Although only one percent of Planned Parenthood’s
clinics currently even offer that option, the women... MORE
Over the summer, anti-choice
activists began accusing Planned Parenthood of illegally profiting
off the fetal tissue that a handful of its clinics allow women to donate
to medical research. Although only one percent of Planned Parenthood’s
clinics currently even offer that option, the women... MORE
Penalties don’t work with insider trading
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
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Bernie Sanders announces speech to explain principles of ‘democratic socialism’ to US public
Bernie Sander’s Response To Trump’s Vicious Attacks Will Make Trump’s Hair Fall Out
Bernie Sanders sat down with CNN’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday,
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Maine’s lunatic fringe wingnut teabagger idiot appoints creationist dingbat buddy as education commissioner
Wingnut teabagger LePage tapped Beardsley to replace the retiring Jim Rier as acting education
commissioner, reported the Bangor Daily News.
George Stephanopoulos Makes A Fool Out Of Ben Carson Without Even Trying
The Republican field of pretender nominees is currently being led
by the most unlikely of people. 
A New Low For Wingnuts: Saying The Shrub Was Pretender During 9/11 Is A ‘Liberal Conspiracy’
Was the shrub pretender during 9/11? Wingnuts sure would like you to believe the answer is “No.”Trump’s Criticism of The Shrub Exposes Republican Cabal Foreign Policy Incompetence
Trump is shining a light on exactly what Americans have to look
forward to if they elect a Republican pretender; foreign policy
incompetence…
Nothing irks a liar more than exposing their mendacity with the truth or
brutal honesty, and the past couple of weeks have seen Republicans
getting very irritated. What has been extraordinarily stunning is that
although most conscious Americans understand that nearly every utterance
from a Republican is a lie, a few of them have inadvertently told the
truth. Subsequently, the moron Republicans that cannot maintain the Republican cabal’s practice of lying as a matter of course have incurred the wrath of
their wingnut cohorts. One is reluctant to label Trump and
Jeb cohorts, but they are both lying Republicans and both are vying
for the Republican nomination for pretender. The biggest difference
between the two candidates is that on one topic Trump (R-WWE) has
been brutally honest and it is getting to Jeb.No matter what one thinks of Trump, he has been consistently truthful in attacking Jeb for his brother, the shrub’s abject failure as pretender; but particularly his poor performance in keeping Americans safe and out of needless wars.
The exchange between Trump and Jeb during the Republican pretender 'debate' regarding the shrub’s debacle in Iraq and Afghanistan, and whether the shrub kept Americans safe continues unabated and Democrats should take advantage. During the 'debate', Jeb told Trump, “As it relates to my brother, there’s one thing I know for sure: He kept us safe. I don’t know if you remember, you remember the rubble? You remember the firefighter with his arms around him? He sent a clear signal that the United States would be strong and fight Islamic terrorism, and he did keep us safe.” Trump was unimpressed and persisted in assailing the shrub and giving Democrats ammunition against Republicans.
During a recent interview a Bloomberg journalist, Stephanie Ruhle, told Republican professional wrestling and reality television star Trump that as a pretender candidate “We need to know who Trump is as a man, and we need to know that you will make us feel safe and make us feel proud.” Trump replied with his usual bombastic self-aggrandizing and also spoke the truth; “I think I’m much more competent than all of them. When you talk about the shrub – I mean, say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time.” Ms. Ruhle was aghast and exclaimed, “Hold on! You can’t blame the shrub for that!” Ruhle to rushed defend the shrub’s incompetence because he was only pretender of the United States for eight months at the time of 9/11. However, Trump was unfazed and shot back with some uncharacteristic truth; “He was pretender, OK? Blame him or don’t blame him, but he was pretender. The World Trade Center came down during his reign.” And Americans were sent to fight two unnecessary wars.
Now there is no sane American who believes the shrub kept Americans safe, and yet wingnuts of all stripes continue parroting that notorious lie and Jeb is leading the pack. Jeb angrily responded to Trump and said,
“Look, my brother responded to a crisis, and he did it as you would hope a president would do — united the country, he organized the country and he kept us safe. There’s no denying that and the great majority of Americans believe that, and I don’t know why he keeps bringing this up.”
Of course Trump is not going to be honest enough to admit that he, as much as the rest of the Republican candidates, would repeat George W. Bush’s foreign policy disasters, but that is not the point. The point is that Trump is shining a light on exactly what Americans have to look forward to if they elect any Republican as president; foreign policy incompetence and more wars. For dog’s sake, America is still paying dearly to clean up Bush’s debacle in Afghanistan and Iraq and unbelievably most of the GOP candidates want to restart and expand the wars. One can only hope that Trump ramps up his attacks on Jeb as a surrogate for his brothers’ incompetence and failure to keep Americans’ safe.
The reality is that any of the wayward Republicans forgetting their existence is dependent on mendacity are giving Democrats precious gifts; if they are savvy enough to use them. Whereas House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy put a stake through the Benghazi committee’s heart, and Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) damaged the evangelical Republican crusade to destroy Planned Parenthood, it may be Donald Trump who handed Democrats a nicely-wrapped gift they can ill-afford to squander.
Every time Trump truthfully states that George W. Bush did not keep Americans safe and embroiled the nation in two extremely costly and disastrous wars, he is criticizing and exposing the foreign policy aspirations of every Republican candidate for president. All of the Republican candidates have telegraphed their intent to repeat all of the catastrophic Bush policies, especially those in the Middle East; some have enlisted former Bush administration warmongers as foreign policy advisors.
Since most Americans have retarded memories, and extremely short attention spans, it is very helpful to Democrats that the leading Republican candidate is unwittingly reminding voters exactly what a GOP president will do to the country. Now it is up to Democrats to take advantage of Trump’s honesty.
Jeb Falls Apart When Asked Why He Blames Obama For Benghazi But Not The Shrub For 9/11
Jeb pulled off an epic faceplant on CNN when he was was asked
why he blames President Obama and Hillary Clinton for Benghazi, but
doesn’t his brother for 9/11.Transcript via CNN:
TAPPER: But how do you respond to critics who ask, if your brother and his administration bear no responsibility at all, at all, how do you then make the jump that President Obama and Secretary Clinton are responsible for what happened at Benghazi?
There were calls for security. It looks like they didn’t get it. And how was the response in the aftermath of the attack? Was there a chance that these four American lives could have been saved? That’s what the investigation is about. It’s not a political issue. It’s not about the broad policy issue, is, were we doing the job of protecting our embassies and our consulates, and during the period, those hours after the attacks started, could they have been saved?
TAPPER: Well, that’s — that’s kind of proving the point of the critics I was just asking about, because — you don’t want to have your brother bear responsibility for 9/11.
And I understand that argument and al Qaeda is responsible. But why are the terrorists not the ones who are responsible for these attacks in Libya?
JEB: They are. Of course they are. But — of course they are. But if the ambassador was asking for additional security and didn’t
get it, that’s a proper point. And if it’s proven that the security was adequate compared to other embassies, fine. We’ll move on.
There is a reason Jeb is polling in single digits everywhere, and that reason’s name is the shrub. Jeb’s hypocritical non-answer perfectly summarized why he never going to be elected pretender.
Jeb can’t both attack Obama, and defend his brother’s horrible record. His attempts to do both have resulted in the rewriting of history. Jeb’s answer left out the pre-9/11 intelligence that his brother’s junta ignored.
Jeb has been a disaster as a candidate, and answers such as the one he provided to CNN are a big part of why he is failing.
Republicans Taking Longer To Investigate Benghazi Than It Took To Investigate 9-11
On September 11, 2001, the United States experienced the worst act of
terrorism ever to occur on American soil. The attack destroyed the
World Trade Center, and...Gowdy tells Republicans skeptical of Benghazi committee to ‘shut up’ about it
The Republican head of the congressional
investigation into the Benghazi attack said on Sunday he is not
targeting Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and such
talk hurts the inquiry.
After Gowdy Caught In A Lie, He Runs To Politico To Whine
Poor Trey. He's had some tough days. Boo. Hoo.
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