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Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Fox Hack Throws A Hissy Fit Because Media Declares Benghazi Hearing A Hillary Victory
Everyone knows that Hillary Clinton came out of the Benghazi hearings smelling like a rose– everyone except Fox News. Of course.
Immigration Protester Attacked And Dragged Across The Floor At Trump Campaign Farce
Trump promotes violence against anyone who disagrees with him.
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Trump Says He Hides His Humane Side— Credits Larry King With His Success
“Something I’m really impressed with, is that I really think the public gets it,” Trump said. Ugggg….
Feds Bust Texas, Arizona Smuggling Illegal Drugs Into The U.S. For Execution Purposes
Can we please put these two states away for life?
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FTC Busts Walmart: Phony ‘Made In The USA’ Campaign Full Of Products Not Made In The USA
Walmart’s “Investing in American Jobs” campaign is bullshit.
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Monday, October 26, 2015
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The Things of Republican Nightmares ... !
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Congressman Loses Bet, Forced to Sing Song on the Floor of the House
My favorite line: "Mr. Speaker, please tell me my time has expired."
Rep. Schiff must also send a supply of gourmet popcorn to Rep. Israel as a result of his defeat.
Citizenship for immigrants creates stronger political integration
Obama Smacks Down Extremists By Refusing To Negotiate With Republican Hostage Takers
The Hill reported:
President Obama would veto any bill to raise the debt limit if spending cuts are attached, the White House said Friday.
“Yes,” spokesman Eric Schultz told reporters when asked whether the president would kill such a measure.
It’s the clearest sign yet from the White House that Obama will only accept a clean bill to extend the nation’s borrowing authority before a fast-approaching Nov. 3 deadline.
President Obama’s veto of the NDAA was a warning shot to Republicans. Obama wants the growth-killing sequester cuts gone, and this president is willing to go to the mat over the debt limit and the budget to get it done.
The myth that continues to consume the Republican cabal is that they can play hardball and get the President to back down. Trump recently advised Republicans, “If they were really unified and they took that 30 percent stance, assuming they wanted to really make changes and do it right, and cut the budget, cut the deficit, do things that they should be doing, if they took that group, and if everybody was unified, Obama would fold.”
Obama isn’t going to fold. In fact, he is gaining strength and making his move on the Republican cabal. Obama isn’t going to negotiate with the Republican cabal hostage takers. Republicans are going end up regretting what they wished for because President Obama is ready for a fight.
Obama Shocks Republicans Out Of Their Twilight Zone With A Fact Bomb On The Economy
While speaking at the DNC Women’s Leadership Forum, President Obama mentioned a New York Times article written by John Harwood, which detailed that Republicans have a data problem because the U.S. budget deficit grew during the juntas of Reagan and both shrubs, but was eliminated during Clinton and sharply cut during Obama.
Right after calling Republicans Grumpy Cat, the President said, “There was an article I think in The New York Times today, or maybe it was yesterday, where they pointed out that it’s very hard for them (Republicans) to make the arguments they make about tax cuts for the wealthy and doing the same stuff that they’ve been promoting, and trying to eliminate regulations on the big banks and all that when the empirical evidence shows that when Democrats control the White House and we’ve got a Democratic Congress, the economy does better; and when they’re in charge, it does worse.”
So here we go, taking a look — and the view is nice, I’ll start off with a quote sure to upset the Grumpy Cat doomsayers, “Today, the United States has the strongest major economy in the world.”
More from the NYTimes:
The (Republican) party still likes to invoke its success under Ronald Reagan, who cut taxes after defeating Jimmy Carter in 1980. By the mid-1980s, stagflation had turned into an economic boom.Republicans have been skating by on the already debunked notion that they are the cabal of fiscal business. Under this misguided belief, they have been treated as the experts on the economy. The media has gone along with this for years, even though the data told a different story. The shrub’s eight years at the helm told the story of a cabal of entitled, drunken frat boys racking up debt on daddy’s black card while refusing to feed a starving relative for “moral” reasons.
But neither of the two subsequent Republican pretenders fared as well compared with their Democratic successors. That has left the cabal vulnerable in three ways.
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Growth has remained modest under President Obama, but unemployment has dropped to 5.1 percent since the recession ended five months into his term. The budget deficit as a percentage of the overall economy has fallen to 2.5 percent from 9.8 percent.
A second problem for Republicans stems from their own rhetoric. Mr. Clinton and Mr. Obama pushed through tax increases despite warnings from partisan adversaries. Among many other Republicans, the current pretender candidates Rubio, Cruz, Kasich and Jeb all denounced the “job-killing” consequences of Mr. Obama’s policies.
Yet the economy gained 2.9 million jobs in 2014, more than in any year since 1999, during Mr. Clinton’s term. Net job creation during the 15 years that Mr. Clinton and Mr. Obama occupied the White House has topped 30 million. That is 50 percent more than were created in the 20 years of Mr. Reagan and both shrubs.
President Obama isn’t running in 2016, but he can deliver a devastating argument on behalf of Democrats in a way that few others can. Nobody in the U.S. understands the Republican Twilight Zone better than Obama. He has lived with it, challenged it, and defeated it throughout his presidency.
Pundits ridicule Republican cabal Benghazi committee members
Obama Owns The Republican Cabal After Their Benghazi Failure
Not Satisfied With Crushing Benghazi Committee, Hillary Clinton Goes After Republican Cabal Witch-Hunts
Clinton said:
For people who say they hate big government, Republicans sure spend a lot of time trying to restrict women’s reproductive health and reproductive rights. After my experience yesterday, I am just amazed that they are even talking about setting up another special investigative committee. This time to investigate Planned Parenthood.
Haven’t we seen enough of that?
Clinton began her remarks by making it clear that yesterday’s testimony in front of the Benghazi Select Committee was a big win for her. She said, “As some of you may know, I had a pretty long day yesterday, but I finally got to answer questions. Something I’ve been pushing for, literally, for a year, and I am grateful that I recovered my voice, which I lost a little bit. As I said at the start, I wanted to rise above partisanship and reach for statesmanship, and that is what I tried to do.”
She did reach the level the level of statesmanship, and in the process dominated the over-matched House Republicans at their own hearing.
More importantly, the Democratic front-runner isn’t done with taking on Congressional Republicans. Clinton jumped right into the middle of the Republican plan to use Planned Parenthood as a partisan political tool to get out the wingnut vote in 2016.
Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi testimony was an act of national service because she shined a spotlight on the House Republican abuse of their investigative powers.`
Clinton was correct. These special investigations are witch-hunts that waste taxpayer resources for partisan political purposes.
Hillary Clinton is hunting the witch-hunters and after the display she put on Thursday, Republicans should be very afraid.
Hillary Stronger Than Ever As Republicans Panic Over Botched Benghazi Hearing
Thursday’s disastrous Benghazi hearing may one day be looked back at as the day Republicans lost the 2016 election.BENGHAZI Head Witch-Hunter Gowdy Nabbed Using A Private Email Server
Gowdy isn’t the only hypocrite on the BENGHAZI Committee, either.
Trump bars Univision from covering campaign event
Republican Bad Week Gets Worse As DOJ Finds No Targeting Of Wingnuts By IRS
First the Benghazi scandal bit the dust after Hillary Clinton
testified, and then the Department of Justice released their report that
found no targeting of conservatives and no criminal wrongdoing at the
IRS.In his letter to Congress, Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik wrote, “We found no evidence that any IRS official acted based on political, discriminatory, corrupt, or other inappropriate motives that would support a criminal prosecution. Based on the evidence developed in this investigation and the recommendation of experienced career prosecutors and supervising attorneys at the Department, we are closing our investigation and will not seek any criminal charges.”
Democratic Ways And Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin delivered the blunt truth that Republicans wasted 20 million taxpayer dollars on an empty conspiracy theory, “I was one of the first Members of Congress to call for Ms. Lerner’s resignation in 2013 in response to her mismanagement and poor judgement. Since May of 2013, the IRS has spent $20 million and provided to Congress more than one million pages of documents related to this investigation.”
The bogus Republican investigations are dropping like flies. Of course, Republicans still refuse to see reality. They are still clinging on to the belief that the IRS was out to get them.
The IRS scandal was one of the fishing expeditions of Issa (R-CA). Issa was never able to produce any evidence to back his claims that President Obama was behind the IRS scandal, but he did manage to humiliate himself by releasing a report that proved that he had nothing.
Carson on whether Republican voting restrictions are racist ...
Ben Carson doesn’t even pretend to understand how electoral institutions affect electoral outcomes.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
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Typical Republican ... !
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Americans More Optimistic About Sanders’ Presidency Than About Any Other Candidate
Voters are less pessimistic about Bernie Sanders' ability to run the
country, than they are about any of the other announced candidates.…
An unprecedented number of major party candidates are running for president. Yet, Americans remain pessimistic about the entire presidential field going into 2016.
With every candidate, more voters were uncertain or pessimistic than optimistic or satisfied, but of the announced candidates, voters were less pessimistic about Bernie Sanders than any of the other candidates. 43 percent of American voters expressed optimism about a Sanders’ presidency, compared to 50 percent who did not. His net (-7) optimism to pessimism score was better than Hillary Clinton’s (-13) or any of the Republican candidates.
Voters were much more optimistic about both Sanders and Clinton than they were about Republican cabal front-runner Trump (-35), Cruz (-32), Jeb (-26) or Fiorina (-24). The only Republicans that voters were not deeply pessimistic about were Rubio (-13) and Carson (-8).
Joe Biden, who announced on Wednesday that he was not seeking the presidency, was the one potential candidate who generated slightly more optimism than Sanders. 46 percent of American voters would have viewed a Biden presidency optimistically compared to 52 percent who would have been uncertain or pessimistic.
Americans have become so pessimistic that even the best candidates only inspire tepid optimism. Nevertheless, it is clear that Sanders, and to a slightly lesser extent, Clinton, give Americans more cause for optimism than most of the Republican cabal candidates.
Top Democrat Wipes The Floor With Republicans In Less Than Two Minutes
This is perhaps the SINGLE BEST MOMENT of the entire 11-hour Benghazi
hearing, aka “witch hunt.” This top Democrat took less than 2 minutes
to completely shut down Republicans.
Stop Hillary PAC Exposes Actual Vast Wingnut Conspiracy
Gowdy’s Select Benghazi Committee is a disaster.
Five Of The Republican Cabal's Craziest 'Benghazi Cover-Up' Conspiracy Theories
The 2012 attack on a U.S.
diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, was viewed by some on the Right
as the subject of “the biggest cover-up in history” and a sign of the
coming apocalypse, so it came as no surprise that House Republicans
eventually organized a special committee to investiga... MORE
8 Disgusting Things To Remind You Just Who Wingnut Soon-To-Be Speaker Ryan Really Is
From Ayn Rand to Medicare vouchers and fetal personhood laws, this
dude is bad news for America. Here’s why you should be worried…House Wingnuts Will Let Ryan Be Speaker, But Only If He Wears 'Kick Me' Sign ...
Previously, on "As The House Republican Cabal Burns": Wonky Wisconsin Wunderkind Ryan (R-Stairway To Heaven) had reluctantly agreed to swoop in and
save the damsels in distress. The damsels in distress being, of
course,...
Cruz Says He Won't Attack Any Republican Rival, Proceeds To Attack All Other Republicans In The Race
David Brody posted clips from a recent interview
with Cruz, in which the typically sycophantic Brody thanked the
Republican pretender candidate for refusing to criticize his Republican cabal
rivals, a frequent Cruz talking point.
Of course, in the very n... MORE
Carson Vows to Punish Liberal Colleges if He Can Steal the Job of Pretender
Carson wants to punish liberal colleges for teaching things he
doesn't approve of - "extreme political bias" - otherwise known as
facts.…
Carson has been pushing the meme that what he calls “political correctness” persecutes 'christians'. Now he has promised, if elected, to persecute liberals instead, the purveyors, he says, of that political correctness.Carson: “I actually have something I would use the Department of Education to do.”
Beck: “Would it be pack boxes for the State Department? The IRS?” (laughter).
Beck: Well I like that.
You mean defund jokes like Liberty University, which positively rakes in our tax dollars while it functions as a propaganda institute? No, of course not! He’s talking about “political correctness” here.
Political correctness is a Carson euphemism for rejecting persecution by the religio-wingnuts and its Republican lapdogs. If you decline Carson’s anti-constitutional insistence that some values are more equal than others, for example, you are guilty of political correctness.
Free speech? No, if all religions are not equal before the law, as Carson claims (though the Constitution insists they are), then why should the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech extend to all?
After all, the religio-wingnuts have long been pushing the idea that it does not extend to some groups, like muslims, and even jews. This is a 'christian' country, they say, founded by and for 'christians'. Carson has already claimed that the Founding Fathers would reject a muslim president, even though they explicitly did accept the idea of a president of ANY religion.
Never mind any of that stuff the Founding Fathers actually said. We’ll just put new words in their mouths and David Barton can write all our “history” books.
It would seem Carson lost a “turn the other cheek” or two somewhere along the way. You would think if dog is telling him to run, he’d tell his candidate to read his bible first. You know, just because.
Even Thomas Jefferson, who had no time for miracles, admired jesus’ morality. Carson’s? Not so much, I think. The only way Carson gets Jefferson to agree with him is by putting words in his mouth, and he has shown he is perfectly willing to do that.
Carson, at every opportunity, shows himself to be a hater of all the ideals that make America unique in the world, of all the things the Founding Fathers held dear. In fact, by embracing the idea of muzzling free speech, Carson has shown himself to be less a lover of liberty than a lover of totalitarianism.
And here he is speaking out of both sides of his mouth at once.
He says he opposes Common Core right after revealing his plans for liberal colleges, because, you can be sure, of the Republican meme that the federal government, through Common Core, mandates what is taught. At the same time, Carson embraces the idea that the government should mandate what is taught by punishing them financially if they don’t teach Republican orthodoxy.
The problem is not, and has never been for conservatives like Carson, that Common Core mandates what is taught, but that it doesn’t mandate the right things, in other words, things like the idea that science is optional.
O’Reilly wants San Francisco official arrested after she rips Fox and ‘hateful’ wingnuts
Rubio Caught Openly Violating Ethics Rules By Begging For Money On Fox News From Inside The Senate
Marco Rubio could be in a world of trouble for violating ethics
rules, and there is incriminating video to prove it via Fox News.
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