You obviously didn't watch it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChumpDumper
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You obviously didn't watch it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChumpDumper
That's where I got that question, genius. It was actually asked -- minus the puppies.Quote:
Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy
Some questions were "tough" but only Wallace really tried to keep on the candidates to actually answer those. Mixed results.
I sure didn't hear it. Who asked it and who was it directed to?Quote:
Originally Posted by ChumpDumper
Republican clowns admit Bernie Sanders is right - They are being BRIBED
Their brutally honest appraisal of political corruption should be made into an ad for Bernie Sanders...
Vox has a good article on the point, but more detail is needed. See below.
Several candidates admit they (and others) are being bribed by wealthy people like Trump, who seems proud of that. The following refers to a video of the debate on Youtube
Rand Paul (at 15:01 min) says: "He (Trump) buys and sells politicians of all stripes" Trump says he gave to Paul, who nods.
At the 53 min mark Trump says single payer "works incredibly well" (in other countries) and then goes on to admit that in the US the insurance companies "have total control of the politicians".
54:26 the Fox interviewer gets after Trump for donating to Democrats. He reads a Trump quote about how politicians dance for their dollars: "when you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do" to which Trump responds "you better believe it"
The response of all the others about how they would like Trump's money is telling, given his statement that donating money is a bribe. Kasich and Huckabee both directly asked for checks.
At 55:16 Trump says "the system is broken... I give to everyone... when I need something from them, two years, three years later, I call them and they are there for me. And that's a broken system."
at 56 min mark Huckabee (when asked about how he would shrink government) states "The problem is we have a Wall street to Washington axis of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class, that does the dance that the donor class wants."
Of course none of the clowns want to do anything about the bribery problem, but the American people DO.
I hope the Bernie Sanders people make an ad featuring these clowns admitting that the system of bribery is the actual problem.
The people agree, and they need it fixed NOW.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...e-being-BRIBED
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Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy
Fox sucked. They would ask a tough question but let their dipshit candidates get away with non-answers instead of really grilling them.
Trump, how would you stop illegal immigration? - "Build a wall"
Cruz, how would you stop ISIS? = "I would call them radical...Islamic...terrorists"
Carson, what do you think of the Black Lives Matter movement? - "We're all the same on the inside"
First graders could come up with these answers :lol
Now I'm beginning to think you didn't watch the debate.Quote:
Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy
Fully half the candidates were asked the God question. Rubio got vets thrown in on his turn and Carson got race thrown in on his.
Republican debate sets record with 24 million viewers on Fox News Channel
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/repu...e+Raw+Story%29
Is Marco Rubio right about 40% of banks wiped out by Dodd-Frank?
"Consolidation in the U.S. banking industry is a multidecade trend that reduced the number of federally insured banks from 17,901 in 1984 to 7,357 in 2011," the FDIC said in its 2012 report.
Asked about Rubio's comments, the Independent Community Bankers of America shared a list showing the number of banks with less than $10 billion in assets. It shows their ranks having fallen by 16 percent since 2010.
Rubio's 40 percent number is in the ballpark when it comes to Florida.
The state had 175 banks as of March 2015.
It had 265 as of June 2010. That's a 34 percent drop.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...807-story.html
... but bank disappearance, consolidation caused by D-F?
The Cuban is simply fishing for BigFinance donations
Why did Megyn Kelly interview that dumbass woman from Florida? Wasserman Schultz didn't even know what the NDAA was. I laughed at how she was bitching about how the candidates didn't support gay marriage and equal pay for vaginas. Did that bitch not know it was a Republican debate? Of course they're not going to support those things.
Greasebag's 9/11 lie
whether he really would blame "Senator Paul just for opposing the bulk collection of people’s phone records in the event of a terrorist attack?"
CHRISTIE: Yes, I do. And I’ll tell you why: because I’m the only person on this stage who’s actually filed applications under the Patriot Act, who has gone before the federal—the Foreign Intelligence Service [sic] court, who has prosecuted and investigated and jailed terrorists in this country after September 11th.\\
I was appointed U.S. attorney by President Bush on September 10th, 2001, and the world changed enormously the next day, and that happened in my state.
Setting aside that is the "Surveillance" Court, and that U.S. attorneys don't go before the FISC, there's a big problem here. Maybe Christie was so affected by the events of that day and the aftermath that his memory has got all foggy. Because, as Marcy points out, Christie wasn't nominated for the U.S. attorney post until December of that year and started in January 2002. Which his official biography as governor confirms. Given Christie's, or at least his administration's, penchant for political payback, here's the part of this that is more interesting than just his lying about when he started the job.
Christie implies he was involved in the dragnet in question. He was US Attorney from January 2002 to December 2008—so he in fact would have been in office during the two years when the phone dragnet worked through the Servic–um, Surveillance court, and four years of the Internet dragnet.
But if, as he implies, he was involved in the dragnet for the entire span of his tenure—and remember, there were huge cases run out of Trenton right out of 9/11—then he was also using the fruits of illegal wiretapping to do his job.
Not Servic — um, Surveillance court authorized dragnets and wiretaps, but also illegal wiretaps.Which may explain why he’s so invested in rebutting any questions about the legitimacy of the program.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...8Daily+Kos%29#
Fear That Debate Could Hurt G.O.P. in Women’s Eyes
After Senator Marco Rubio of Florida insisted at the Republican presidential debate that rape and incest victims should carry pregnancies to term, aides to Hillary Rodham Clinton could barely contain their delight at his unyielding stance, rushing to tell reporters at her headquarters that those remarks would hurt Mr. Rubio with female voters.
When Donald J. Trump chose on Friday to stand by his slights against women during the debate, saying the Fox News journalist Megyn Kelly “behaved very badly” as a moderator — and then promoting a Twitter message calling her a “bimbo” — feminists were not the only ones outraged: the chairwoman of the New Hampshire Republican Party accused Mr. Trump of chauvinism.
And in response to multiple male candidates saying they would shut down the federal government over financing for Planned Parenthood, the Democratic National Committee emailed talking points to allies within an hour saying that among the losers at the debate were “American women, who were attacked at every turn.”
Republican Party leaders, whose presidential nominees have not won a majority of female voters since 1988, are setting their sights on making electoral gains among women
“So much of the debate was all about appealing to male voters and other parts of the Republican base, rather than doing anything to help the party’s general election goal of trying to be more inclusive,”
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/us/politics/fear-that-debate-could-hurt-gop-in-womens-eyes.html?_r=0
Repugs, tea baggers are the party, demographically, of white (Christian) racist, jingoist males, and nobody else. Emotionally, they appeal to the white males of emotional growth retarded at the level of late teens, frat boys.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a woman win the GOP nomination. She is one bad mofo.
Chaos In The GOP As 10,000+ Call For Fox’s Megyn Kelly To Be Banned From Debates
http://i0.wp.com/www.politicususa.co...size=454%2C383
The Republican Party is falling apart at the seams as more than 10,000 people have signed a petition calling for Fox News’ Megyn Kelly to be banned from future Republican presidential debates.The Change.org petition states:
Megyn Kelly finds the state of our union amusing and “fun”, whereas the viewers (our fellow citizens) deserve a much more serious moderator.
In addition, she had a clear agenda to attack Donald Trump, by tenaciously clinging to his past rather than his vision for the future. She focused on Trump personally, rather than politically. Ultimately, she did not live up to the “fair and balanced” slogan at Fox News and News Corporation.
While her disdain for Mr. Trump was evident, this petition is a call for truly fair and balanced coverage of ALL candidates. Thus, Megyn Kelly should be barred from hosting or moderating all future Republican Presidential Debates.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/08/...d-debates.html
expecting Fox to be "fair and balanced"? :lol Fox is tipping the balance AWAY from the Repug nightmare Trump.
Debate Backfires On Fox News As Crazies Trump, Cruz, and Carson Rise to Top 3 In New Poll
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/08/...iticus+USA+%29
Repugs are so fucked!
Megyn Kelly did tell one huge, deliberate lie during the last Republican debate
http://images.dailykos.com/images/15...jpg?1439057227
Enter Fox's Megyn Kelly at the last Republican debate, with as an intentionally dishonest a question that you could imagine:
KELLY: Governor Kasich, You chose to expand Medicaid in your state, unlike several other governors on this stage tonight, and it is already over budget by some estimates costing taxpayers an additional $1.4 billion in just the first 18 months.You defended your Medicaid expansion by invoking God, saying to skeptics that when they arrive in heaven, Saint Peter isn’t going to ask them how small they’ve kept government, but what they have done for the poor.
Why should Republican voters, who generally want to shrink government, believe that you won’t use your Saint Peter rationale to expand every government program?
Wow! I thought: Ohio's Medicaid expansion - passed over objections of the Republican legislature - is already $1.4 billion over budget?!? Holy cow! These Republicans are innocent of heart - or at least forgivably broke. Right?No. This dishonest Megyn Kelly "question" (previously the rage on right wing web sites) is so galling, and so dangerous, that it requires close attention:
1. This is not about waste or profligacy. The sole reason for the extra costs is because Ohio's Medicaid expansion proved so necessary and appealing that more people signed up than predicted. Do you catch that trick? Ohio's Medicaid expansion is not so vital and successful beyond expectations; No, it is "over budget." In other words, when Gov. Kasich [illustrative numbers only] originally hoped to reduce Ohio's uninsured rate by 5% in the first year, but wound up reducing it by 8%, that wasn't a striking success; it was an Orwellian failure to meet a budget. (Kudos for the dry accounting language of evil.)
2. Still, what about the $1.4 billion in extra costs? All of it, 100%, is covered by the federal ACA program, without any additional costs to Ohioans.
3. But Ms. Kelly mentions the "taxpayers"? Ohio taxpayers? No. She is slyly referring to federal taxpayers. But the ACA federal taxes are already being collected, and they don't go up or down whether Ohio expands Medicaid, rejects Medicaid or enrolls more (or less) than they expected in Medicaid. If Ohio Republicans succeeded in taking away their citizens' insurance, federal taxpayers would not save a penny.
4. Sure, but after a couple of years Ohio taxpayers will have to pay 5% to 10% of this higher number? Two answers:
(i) yes, but that was never the Republican objection. Republicans objected to paying 5% to 10% from dollar one, and falsely pretend that the problem was "billions" of unfunded costs.
(ii) Much of the unexpected ACA Medicaid expansion consisted of former (traditional) Medicaid members learning that they are eligible for the new, expanded ACA Medicaid.
Guess what? The Medicaid expansion is paid 90%-100% by the federal government, while the traditional Medicaid is paid around 50%. So, with respect to the "overage," Ohio is getting double the Medicare reimbursement by accepting Obamacare, and eliminating the (substantial but inadequate) amounts that it used to spend on the uninsured.
OK, that may sound wonky, but it is clear . . . and Megyn Kelly certainly knew what she was obfuscating. Sorry, Megyn. The politics of your Republican bosses remain immoral . . . historically immoral. A true journalist would report the crime, not aid in covering it up.
(BTW: just look at the language of her question - "You defended your Medicaid expansion by invoking God," you talk about "arriv[ing] in heaven," and "Saint Peter" and what we should do "for the poor." Megyn Kelly is most worried about defending the morality, not the economics, of the Republican position. Indeed, with typical chutzpah, she turns the question on its head and asks why Republican voters shouldn't "believe that you won’t use your Saint Peter rationale to expand every government program?" That is some nice old time religion they have.)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...e?detail=email
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