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TEXAS! Rep. Randy Weber: Can't Trust Obama On Ebola Because Of Benghazi
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/conten....xLbAr27h.dpuf
George senate candidate David Perdue told a local radio station on Friday that his Democratic opponent Mic e Nunn may be associated with terrorist organizations though he later admitted that his campaign did not investigate the charge.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/10/04/3576086/georgia-senate-candidate-accuses-opponent-of-associating-with-terrorists/
TEXAS! Rep. Randy Weber: Can't Trust Obama On Ebola Because Of Benghazi
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/conten....xLbAr27h.dpuf
Ted Cruz Loses It Over SCOTUS Ruling: 'Judicial Activism At Its Worst'
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) ripped into the Supreme Court for refusing to review the seven same-sex marriage cases before it on Monday, calling the move "judicial activism at its worst."
"The Supreme Court’s decision to let rulings by lower court judges stand that redefine marriage is both tragic and indefensible,” Cruz said in a statement. “By refusing to rule if the States can define marriage, the Supreme Court is abdicating its duty to uphold the Cons ution. The fact that the Supreme Court Justices, without providing any explanation whatsoever, have permitted lower courts to strike down so many state marriage laws is astonishing."
"This is judicial activism at its worst," he added, accusing the justices of "imposing their policy preferences to subvert the considered judgments of democratically elected legislatures."
Cruz argued that no language in the Cons ution, nor the 14th Amendment, gives the court the authority to redefine marriage. He further vowed to introduce a cons utional amendment to bar both government and the courts from overturning state marriage laws.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ted-cruz-loses-it-scotus-gay-marriage?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm _campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29
and
Ted Cruz Will Fix Cons ution So Judges Can’t Gay Us Anymore
Cruz will try to amend the Cons ution so that the judiciary will no longer be allowed to interpret the Cons ution. We like to think even Antonin Scalia managed to force a smile to crack open that cast-iron frying pan he calls his face when he read about Cruz’s plan. Assuming that crabby barrel of spite is capable of even a fleeting moment of joy.
http://wonkette.com/562637/ted-cruz-...gay-us-anymore
Thanks, TX Repugs! All y'all got a real head for UNITED STATES SENATOR
s bag Repugs!
GOP’s Newest Fun Campaign Prop: Veterans’ Graves
Sometimes, when a candidate loves his country very much, the higher purpose of serving that country and the great men and women — the heroes! — requires him to overlook petty things like rules. Consider North Dakota congressweasel Kevin Cramer, who cares so much about honoring the veterans that he didn’t bother asking for permission to film this campaign ad in the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery in Mandan:
If he had bothered to ask permission, he’d have been denied, according to North Dakota National Guard spokesman August Honeyman. When political blog Watchdog.org asked whether filming political ads was allowed in in the cemetery, Honeyman said, “The answer is no, they cannot do it … We never got a call asking permission.”
http://wonkette.com/562659/gops-newest-fun-campaign-prop-veterans-graves
Mitch McConnell Is the Cancer of the U.S. Senate
ever before in our history has the U.S Senate been as unproductive as the U.S. Senate post-2008. Even the staunchly obstructionist Republicans during FDR’s tenure got more done than our current Senate. Most Americans, by and large, regardless of party affiliation, agree that we need more jobs; that veterans need better healthcare; that the current minimum wage is insufficient; that our infrastructure could use some upgrading; that politicians are too beholden to their benefactors; and that there’s too much bickering instead of legislating. One man has continuously denied the necessary progress to the American people out of sheer political bitterness, and that one man alone can take all the credit for the complete lack of action on all of those fronts – Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell is the tiest Senator in the history of Washington. And there are numbers to back that up.
Since he became the Republican leader in the Senate, McConnell has filed more than a quarter of all cloture motions ever filed as long as the Senate has existed.
To put that in perspective, this means McConnell, in just his most recent term, is responsible for over 25 percent of all the Senate filibusters since 1787.
McConnell is literally a cancerous tumor on the Senate, collecting a six-figure paycheck while depleting all hope of progress as long as he’s in office.
On the flip side, McConnell is quite productive if you’re willing to write him a fat check. One week after Amgen, a pharmaceutical multinational, hosted a fundraiser for McConnell in December of 2012, one of their lobbyists, who was in charge of monitoring the “fiscal cliff” negotiations, wrote a $3,000 check to McConnell’s campaign. By the time the negotiations were finished, McConnell had secured a $500 million Christmas present for Amgen that came directly out of Medicare. But even that wasn’t McConnell’s foulest moment of corruption.
This past July, McConnell took time out of his busy day to have a breakfast date with Richard Anderson, the CEO of Delta Airlines, in the exclusive Senate dining room. Just a day after the breakfast, Anderson and his wife wrote over $10,000 worth of checks to McConnell’s campaign. McConnell’s spokespeople of course denied the allegations that McConnell solicited the donations in the Senate dining room, which would be a felony.
Nevertheless, the donations to McConnell’s campaign could be easily interpreted as a quid pro quo in a relationship where McConnell will likely return the favor by continuing to block closing unfair corporate tax loopholes that cost U.S. taxpayers billions each year. Delta Airlines has used an accounting loophole called “deferral,” which allows them to carry their losses forward for several years. This means that despite making billions in profit, Delta Airlines pays $0 in taxes on those profits, and is likely to continue dodging all U.S. income taxes for several more years, at least. If McConnell keeps his job after November, the tax dodging will continue, as will the checks Delta’s CEO writes to McConnell’s campaign.
Mitch McConnell’s position as a politician who puts out depending on how much you’re willing to put in is a far cry from what he used to stand for. Ironically, McConnell used to be a proponent of full disclosure when it came to campaign donations several decades ago.
“What we ought to do is eliminate the political action committee contributions, because those are the ones that raise the specter of undue influence. And those can be gone tomorrow. We can pass a bill tomorrow to take care of that problem,” McConnell was quoted saying in 1987.
"We Republicans have put together a responsible and Cons utional campaign reform agenda. It would restrict the power of special interest PACS, stop the flow of all soft money, keep wealthy individuals from buying public office," McConnell said in 1988.
Now, McConnell is the personification of the insidious culture that exists among Washington politicians and their big donors. Thanks to Lauren Windsor’s surrep iously-recorded audio of McConnell’s address at a Koch Brothers-funded gathering of GOP politicians and corporate oligarchs this past summer, the Senate minority leader’s deference to big money is well-do ented. McConnell, who has received over $41,000 from Koch Industries in this campaign cycle, shamelessly genuflected to the oil barons in front of the entire audience, acknowledging their role in keeping the Republican Party well-funded.
“I want to start by thanking you, Charles and David [Koch], for the important work you’re doing,” McConnell said. “I don’t know where we’d be without you.”
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http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/26275-focus-mitch-mcconnell-is-the-cancer-of-the-us-senate
http://readersupportednews.org/opini...-the-us-senate
As always, thanks, Repugs!
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GOP’s Georgia mess worsens: David Perdue “proud” of career spent outsourcing
The Republican Business Robot, David Perdue,apparently went on the record some years back describing how he’s spent “most of [his] career” outsourcing. This was in response to a direct question asking him, “Can you describe your experience with outsourcing?” It’s unambiguous and it reinforces the central attacks on both Perdue and Republican economic priorities. It is the sort of thing on which a late-stage move can be made.
We wondered how Perdue would try to wriggle out of this one, and the answer is… he’s not, really. Asked how he’d “defend” his comments in the deposition yesterday, Perdue responded, “Defend it? I’m proud of it.” Did you see that part about how David Perdue is “proud” of his record outsourcing? Make another 10000000 ads of that.
Perdue is going all-in on defending the sacred spirit of outsourcing, and how all the complaints and literature about it over the years misunderstand the process.
“This is a part of American business, part of any business. Outsourcing is the procurement of products and services to help your business run. People do that all day.”
Perdue attempted to draw a distinction between the federal government’s policies and his own decisions as head of the company.
“I think the issue that people get confused about is the loss of jobs,” he said. “This is because of bad government policies: tax policy, regulation, even compliance requirements. It puts us at a compe ive disadvantage with the rest of the world. Even today, right now this administration has policies going on that are decimating industries today.”
Outsourcing: it’s the American way — everybody does it! But not everyone, like David Perdue did as a management consultant, helped apparel companies relocate their manufacturing operations to countries with cheap labor and poor regulatory standards. The most creatively David Perdue can think, given his background, is to reduce wages, standards and regulations to better bring the United States workplace in line with that of Malaysia.
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/07/gops...t_outsourcing/
yes, it's the govt's fault that forced Perdue to help destroy 100s or 1000s of American jobs, esp low-wage redneck jobs.
Does anyone read these articles posted by boutons_copy_paste_bot?
You'd be hard pressed to find another thread on the Internet displaying the madness of the OP.
I appreciate all y'all right wingers' reticence to be slapped by reading about all the PURE your Repug/tea baggers visit on the country, including on their own voters.
Lol, dingbat
Tom Cotton: ISIL Working With Mexican Drug Cartels To Attack Arkansas
Tom Cotton has a new theory that melds Islamic State terrorists, Mexican drug cartels and illegal immigration into a fiery ball of paranoia.
In a recent tele-town hall, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate attacked Sen. Mark Pryor (D) as weak on national security, telling cons uents that Muslim extremists from ISIL are working with Mexican drug cartels to infiltrate the U.S. border and attack Arkansans, as first reported by the Washington Post's Greg Sargent.
"Groups like the Islamic State collaborate with drug cartels in Mexico who have clearly shown they're willing to expand outside the drug trade into human trafficking, and potentially even terrorism," Cotton said. "They could infiltrate our defenseless southern border and attack us right here in places like Arkansas. This is an urgent problem. And it's time we got serious about it.
And I'll be serious about it in the United States Senate."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/tom-...al-immigration
Cotton could be right. St Ronnie and his gang of criminals certainly had great success working with Central American drug cartels
Louie Gohmert: Obama thought ISIS beheading victim would die from climate change first
The Texas Republican said that it wasn’t surprising that the president was putting America at risk from Ebola because he believed that climate change was a bigger threat to the country.
“More deadly to this country than Ebola is climate change, more deadly than the Islamic state to [beheading victim] Thomas Foley is climate change,” Gohmert said. “So what you’re talking about being common sense in Washington, in the Washington area, is only sense.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/l...e+Raw+Story%29
AGW is a much bigger threat to USA than ISIS, my dear Louie, the turdbrains from Tyler TX.
Louie Gohmert: Obama thought ISIS beheading victim would die from climate change first
The Texas Republican said that it wasn’t surprising that the president was putting America at risk from Ebola because he believed that climate change was a bigger threat to the country.
“More deadly to this country than Ebola is climate change, more deadly than the Islamic state to [beheading victim] Thomas Foley is climate change,” Gohmert said. “So what you’re talking about being common sense in Washington, in the Washington area, is only sense.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/l...e+Raw+Story%29
My dear xenophobe, Muslim-hating Louie (the turdbrain from Tyler TX), AGW is a much bigger threat to USA than ISIS.
Rep urges White House to ‘come clean’ over Colombia pros ution scandal
A Republican congressman on Thursday urged the White House to "come clean" after claiming to have received "very credible and very specific allegations" that a member of the White House team was "intimately involved with a pros ute" while on assignment in Colombia for a presidential visit.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, also questioned whether a double standard was at play, considering many Secret Service and military personnel were disciplined on that trip for seeing pros utes and other inappropriate behavior.
"The White House needs to come clean," Chaffetz told Fox News. He separately has written a letter to White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough seeking "all do ents" from a White House counsel internal review of the incident.
The Washington Post reported late Wednesday that the White House team member in question is Jonathan Dach, then a 25-year-old Yale student and volunteer on the advance team. His father, Leslie Dach, is a prolific Democratic donor and currently works in the Obama administration, in the Department of Health and Human Services.
According to the Post, Jonathan Dach himself ironically now works, on contract, as an adviser in the State Department's Office on Global Women's Issues.
Chaffetz questioned how Dach has been treated, compared with other personnel who were disciplined -- calling it "offensive to the morale" of the Secret Service, which is facing a raft of controversies over everything from the Colombia scandal to recent security failures.
"The concern is that when it came to the White House and the White House taking care of its own personnel, a totally different standard," Chaffetz said. "And perhaps some misdirection and some cover-up to make sure that that story never saw the light of day before the 2012 elections."
Allegations that a member of the White House advance team may have been involved have surfaced before. And the White House has adamantly denied them.
After The Washington Post reported overnight that White House senior aides had information about these allegations and never thoroughly investigated them, White House spokesman Eric Schultz downplayed the claim.
"As was reported more than two years ago, the White House conducted an internal review that did not identify any inappropriate behavior on the part of the White House advance team," he said.
Schultz said the White House counsel asked the Secret Service for information at the time, which turned up a hotel log -- according to the Post, the log showed Dach had a woman registered to his room shortly after midnight on April 4, 2012.
But the White House previously has claimed the volunteer was wrongly implicated based on inaccurate hotel records.
Schultz also said "there was no White House interference with an IG investigation."
This was in response to an allegation from David Nieland, the lead investigator into the scandal who, according to the Post, told Senate aides that he was directed to delay the release of the report until after the 2012 election.
He reportedly said that he was instructed by his superiors in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) inspector general's office to "withhold and alter certain information in the report of investigation because it was potentially embarrassing to the administration."
Nearly two dozen Secret Service agents were disciplined or fired as part of the scandal, which began when Secret Service agents brought pros utes into their hotel in Cartagena, Colombia ahead of President Obama's trip to the Summit of the Americas in April 2012. The Post reports that the Secret Service twice shared the findings of its own internal investigation with top White House officials, who concluded that the advance team member had done nothing wrong.
Charles Edwards, the Department of Homeland Security's acting inspector general at the time of the investigation, told the Senate staffers that any changes to the report were part of the editing process, a statement that was backed by Schultz.
"As the bipartisan Senate investigation found ... changes made to the IG Report were 'part of the ordinary process of editing the report' and found that allegations that changes were made because they were embarrassing could not be substantiated," Schultz said in a statement late Wednesday.
The Post reported that Dach repeatedly has denied bringing pros utes to his hotel room. Pros ution is legal in parts of Colombia, including in Cartagena.
Richard Sauber, an attorney representing Dach, denied the allegations in a statement to Fox News and said his client was not even standing with the woman in question when she presumably put down her information in the hotel log. He said his client did not sign the paper with the woman's information on it.
"The allegations about any inappropriate conduct by Jonathan Dach in Cartagena are utterly and completely false. Anyone who knows Jonathan knows how ludicrous these allegations are," Sauber said.
"The Post bases its allegations almost exclusively on a hotel log with the name of a pros ute and a room number. Yet neither Jonathan Dach's name nor his signature appears on the hotel log or any piece of paper with a foreign national," he said.
The DHS inspector general's office conducted its own investigation into the scandal at the request of a subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Nieland told staffers that Edwards had asked him to remove references to Dach in their report after Edwards had briefed then-Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano on the advance team member's possible involvement. A spokesman for Napolitano denied that she had asked for the report to be altered or delayed.
Nieland and two other members of the office later claimed that they were put on administrative leave for questioning the changes to the report, claims that The Post reports their superiors denied.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014...-report-until/
Senate math seems impossible to some Democrats
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/09/politi...html?hpt=hp_t2Washington (CNN) -- Four weeks away from the 2014 midterm elections and even some Democratic operatives struggle to imagine a scenario where they retain control of the U.S. Senate. The terrain and current momentum seem all but overwhelming and against them.
A new CNN/ORC poll out Thursday morning suggests a Republican lead over a Democratic in bent, this time in Alaska, and does nothing to calm Democrats' nerves.
"If you put a gun to my head, I guess I'd say that we're going to lose the Senate," one Democratic consultant told me in a moment of anonymous candor.
It's not even so much that President Obama is an Ancient Mariner-esque Albatross around their necks, though he is.
Conservative conference: Vote Christian or face ISIS beheadings and sodomy-based marriage
“Christians are being beheaded in the Middle East, Israel is being attacked from all sides,” the video says. “And back home, many of our religious freedoms are under severe legal restriction.”
The video asks for voters to take a stand against the “wicked”and against the “evildoers.”
Some of those legal restrictions include the Bible being “banished from our public schools
And the iPledge Sunday website also points to abortion, court decisions on same-sex marriage, Common Core curriculum in the schools, and rules against pastors politicking from the pulpit.
“The bottom line: If the Church will rise up and vote, we can elect government leaders who will defend the unborn and the persecuted, support freedom of conscience
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/c...e+Raw+Story%29
ing Christians, what a bunch assholes, iow, IDEAL Repug voters.
"freedom of conscience" code: We want to impose our morals and ethics ON YOUR CONSCIENCE.
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly: Obama allowing Ebola into US so we can become more like Africa
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly thinks that President Obama wants Ebola on American soil so the U.S. can become more like Africa.
Schlafly made the assertion in an interview, flagged by Right Wing Watch, with far-right website WorldNetDaily. The interview centered on baseless right-wing claims that migrant children from Central America are responsible for the outbreak of a respiratory virus in the U.S. Schlafly — who rose to prominence with her campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s — pinned the blame for Ebola and the respiratory virus squarely on Obama.
“Obama doesn’t want America to believe that we’re exceptional,” Schlafly asserted. “He wants us to be just like everybody else, and if Africa is suffering from Ebola, we ought to join the group and be suffering from it, too. That’s his at ude.”
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/09/cons...e_like_africa/
Scott Walker says $7.25 an hour is a living wage
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has treated the idea of raising his state's minimum wage with about the tact and seriousness you'd expect from a man who made his name attacking workers. Walker's administration has rejected the request of a group of low-wage workers to use an unusual Wisconsin law saying that the state's minimum wage has to be a living wage. The reasoning for refusing to raise the minimum wage? They'reclaiming $7.25 is a living wage:
"The department has determined that there is no reasonable cause to believe that the wages paid to the complainants are not a living wage," Robert Rodriguez, administrator of DWD's Equal Rights Division, wrote in the denial letter.
No. Reasonable. Cause. Remember that $7.25 an hour is below the poverty threshold for a family of two. A minimum wage worker would have to work 81 hours a week to afford a two-bedroom apartment in Wisconsin.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/08/1335139/-Scott-Walker-says-7-25-an-hour-is-a-living-wage?detail=email
Walker just got slapped, his voter suppression I.D. law.
GOP Candidate: Single Moms Are 'Automatically Democratic Because Of The Benefits'
New Jersey Republican Senate candidate Jeff Bell said Monday that he is unpopular among women voters because of a rise in single mothers who "need benefits to survive," the Asbury Park Press reported.
Bell, who is lagging 20 points behind in bent Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) among women voters, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll, told APP that his socially conservative views are not to blame for the gender gap.
"I've done a lot of thinking about this and looked at a lot of different polls, I think it has more to do with the rise in single women," Bell said. "Single mothers particularly are automatically Democratic because of the benefits. They need benefits to survive, and so that kind of weds them to the Democratic Party."
Single women without children, Bell continued, are "also that way," while married women "aren't that different from married men. So it's really a problem with the decline in marriage rates. The Democrats do benefit from that."
It's true that unmarried women tend to favor Democrats, while married women favor Republicans. And Democrats are fighting for a range of policies that they believe would particularly benefit women, such as equal pay laws, pregnancy discrimination laws, paid family leave, affordable childcare and universal birth control coverage.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...n_5960964.html
yeah, right, a huge majority of women voting has NOTHING to do with the Repug War On Women, is the brilliance you get from a Repug who "does a lot of thinking"
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Colorado AG Candidate Promises Legal Fight To Seize America’s National Forests And Public Lands
Colorado Republican attorney general candidate Cynthia Coffman can be seen telling supporters that she intends to lead a legal fight against the U.S. government to seize America’s national forests and public lands for state ownership and control.
The video appears to have been posted publicly by the Independent attorney general candidate David Williams in July. It shows Coffman describing her plan to attend the annualConference of Western Attorneys General this summer with a “mission” to build support for taking over America’s public lands. Coffman says public land “has been taken from us” and that “it is time that the Western attorneys general join together and fought back against the federal government, and we took back that land.”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...-public-lands/
Nothing but the VRWC/Repug strategy to use the states, (state by state politicians easier, cheaper to buy than Congress), to loot and destroy America, for profit.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 10-10-2014 at 10:12 AM.
Obama Hits a New Low for Leadership, With Criticism on ISIS & Immigration Alike
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...gration-alike/Barack Obama’s rating for strong leadership has dropped to a new low in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, hammered by criticism of his work on international crises and a stalled domestic agenda alike. With the midterm elections looming, Americans by a 10-point margin, 52-42 percent, see his presidency more as a failure than a success.
Just 38 percent now approve of Obama’s handling of international affairs, down 8 percentage points since July to a career low; 56 percent disapprove, a majority for the first time. Fifty-two percent say he’s been too cautious in dealing with Islamic insurgents in Iraq and Syria. And the public is ahead of Obama in support for a military response to that crisis, with 65 percent in favor of extending U.S. air strikes to Syria.
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The Repugs Break the Middle East, it's Obama's fault?
The Repugs OBSTRUCT EVERYTHING the Dems propose (House Repugs obstructed the passed bi-partisan Senate immigration bill), it's Obama's fault?
Americans are so ing stupid, so disengaged from civil life and politics, just where the VRWC wants them so they are suckers, dupes for Repug/VRWC/right-wing hate media/corporate-media propaganda, lies, slander.
Parent upset teacher not fired for attacking evolution, comparing public schools to Nazi death camps
A parent in North Carolina
Krista Bennett, a parent of a senior at Fuquay-Varina High School, told the News & Observer that she’s disappointed with the Wake County Public School System’s decision not to fire Ray Fournier over an article he published in a home-schooling magazine.
In the article, Fournier wrote that the public school system was like “a concentration camp dedicated to the spiritual death of those imprisoned behind these walls.”
The biology teacher also complained about the teaching of evolution, claiming it discredited “the reliability of the Bible”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/p...e+Raw+Story%29
Confederacy!
Repugs!
Bible-thumpers!
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday called for President Obama to nominate an Ebola "czar" to coordinate the administration’s response to the deadly virus.“I’d like to know who’s in charge,” McCain said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” [...]
In the past, McCain had been critical of Obama's use of so-called "czars" to name lead officials on particular matters. In 2009, McCain tweeted that Obama had "more czars than the Romanovs — who ruled Russia for 3 centuries."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/1...28Daily+Kos%29
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