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mac



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 3:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

While the GOP passes laws restricting access to abortion after 20 weeks, and gay rights, that are sure to be overturned--costing the public, they ignore real issues. Like poverty and corruption. Mike Hubbard, who was largely responsible for the Republican takeover in Alabama, was convicted of 12 counts of corruption: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/us/michael-hubbard-alabama-house-speaker-is-convicted-of-12-felony-ethics-charges.html?_r=0

And lets keep poor kids hungry at school: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/fewer-kids-could-receive-free-school-meals-under-house-bill/

The GOP has had control of Congress for long enough. Boot them all out.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 3:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hard to boot them out--a review of "Ratfucked", an account of the GOP gerrymandering after the 2010 election:

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KIRKUS REVIEW

An alarming study of the GOP’s redrawing of the American political map across the country.

According to Salon editor-in-chief Daley, while Democrats were celebrating President Barack Obama’s victory in 2008, they took their eyes off the important state legislatures, especially in key swing states. Subsequently, the defeated Republicans were already hatching nefarious plans to turn the “disaster into legislative majorities so unbreakable, so impregnable, that none of the outcomes are in doubt until after the 2020 census.” According to law, every state redraws its district lines every 10 years, after the census. Both parties use gerrymandering—named after Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry, who redrew a state Senate map in 1812 so skewed it looked like a salamander—to their advantage, but with wildly more sophisticated mapping abilities, gerrymandering has become a “more lethal weapon.” Republican strategists initiated the Republican State Leadership Committee in order to raise millions of dollars for the Redistricting Majority Project, REDMAP, which would indicate where the money should be spent in order to bolster Republican candidates in Democratic-controlled state legislatures from Pennsylvania to North Carolina to Michigan to Wisconsin, flip control of the chamber, lock in redistricting, and thus control Congress for the next decade. This political “dirty deed done dirt cheap” is called “ratfucking,” as designated by Edmund Wilson in the 1920s and used by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during the Watergate scandal. Indeed, this is just what happened after the midterm election of 2010, as the GOP captured 63 seats in the House of Representatives and 680 new seats in the state legislatures. Daley takes on each significant state race in turn and notes that despite the country’s pulling more center-left on many issues, the far right is going to be calling the shots until 2020. The author looks at the masterminds behind the strategy and the mapmaking technology as well as the roles of restrictive voting rights laws, “dark money,” and voter turnout.

A chilling intimation of the growing entrenchment of partisan politics.


Repressing minority voters is only one of the many things Republicans do because of their contempt for democracy. See more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/us/politics/redistricting-helped-republicans-hold-onto-congress.html?pagewanted=all

There are multiple states that have large Republican majorities in Congress despite more Democratic votes. The root of all evil.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Talk about the kettle calling the pot black. That's a democratic sport here in Ma. You should have seen Barnry Franks district, it looked like a penis hanging down from Boston through all the run down welfare slums he and fat Teddy helped create. Thomas Finnerran Dem, house speaker indicted for redistricting scandal. Of course he still receives his state pension.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Congratulations, another false equivalency from the fool on the hill.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 8:03 pm    Post subject: s Reply with quote

I posted here some time ago that many of the ALEC proposals, including restrictions on abortion, would end up costing taxpayers money. The recent case involved Texas GOP'ers. That Texas, the one with astonishingly high teen pregnancy rates because they reach abstinence and restrict birth control. Here's how careless and stupid they were, and how it helped them lose the case: http://www.crossroadstoday.com/story/32338638/texas-researchers-findings-factor-into-abortion-ruling
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 7:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The GOP blocked funding for the Zika virus when it might have mattered. Ideology over thinking--the private sector will fix it? Before or after the epidemic? It's here, and now even Marco Rubio bemoans the stalling.

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WASHINGTON — Federal officials are urging residents in Florida to take additional precautions after state health officials Friday confirmed that four South Florida cases of the Zika virus are the first in the continental United States known to have been transmitted by local mosquito bites.

"All the evidence we have seen indicates that this is mosquito-borne transmission that occurred several weeks ago," said Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Four people in Dade and Broward counties were infected in early July, got sick a week later and were diagnosed a couple of days after that, Frieden said during a conference call with reporters Friday.

Two of the individuals were bitten while in their respective workplaces, which are located in a 1-square-mile area of Miami-Dade County, just north of downtown Miami.


I know, I have a great idea. Let's only elect amateur politicians who don't understand what government does orwhy it matters, and have signed the pledge to never increase taxes.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

All that pandering to the evangelicals did is cost the states legal fees. Big ones.

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In yet another of this year’s victories for reproductive rights advocates, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle on Thursday made permanent a temporary injunction he issued in June against a Florida abortion law fought by Planned Parenthood on constitutional grounds. The law, passed earlier this year by the Republican-dominated legislature, was to have gone into effect on July 1. But Hinkle had blocked it at the last minute while he studied it more closely. State officials have not yet said whether they will take the case to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

The judge’s ruling was no surprise. Hinkle had noted in his temporary injunction in June:

“The Supreme Court has repeatedly said that a government cannot prohibit indirectly—by withholding otherwise-available public funds—conduct that the government could not constitutionally prohibit directly.”
Lillian Tamayo, CEO of Planned Parenthood of South, East and North Florida, said: "We are grateful the court stepped in to stop Rick Scott in his tracks and protect access to health care. If this law had gone into effect, it would have made a bad situation even worse."
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 04, 2016 1:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

He resigned after he was found to have committed ethics violations and faced sanctions. Here's a rather unflattering take on him:

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BY BERRY CRAIG

Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Kentucky)
The ancient Greeks considered “hubris” — excessive pride — a big-time sin. The Good Book warns us that “pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”

Jim Pence, who runs the Hillbilly Report blog in Kentucky, says U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., doesn’t really live where he says he does and might be guilty of voter fraud.

Whitfield’s district sprawls over conservative western Kentucky, where almost all of the media is Republican-friendly. Whitfield and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell especially enjoy good press in this neck of the Bluegrass State woods.

Pence hopes the national media will take a gander at his story and investigate Whitfield, who first got elected in 1994. “Congressman Ed Whitfield (R-KY): A Scandal Waiting for the Media To Pick It Up?” he headlined his latest post on the topic.

Berry Craig“Ed Whitfield is one of the most anti-union and pro-big business Republicans in Washington,” said Jeff Wiggins, a Steelworker and president of the Paducah-based Western Kentucky AFL-CIO Area Council. “He is a Mitch McConnell clone.”

Paducah is in Whitfield’s district. “Whitfield is an arrogant country club Republican, but he panders to the tea party,” said Wiggins, who is president of Steelworkers Local 9447 and sits on the Kentucky State AFL-CIO Executive Board.


You guys must love him. Maybe we should investigate his e-mails?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 12:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mac wrote:
He resigned after he was found to have committed ethics violations and faced sanctions. Here's a rather unflattering take on him:

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BY BERRY CRAIG

Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Kentucky)
The ancient Greeks considered “hubris” — excessive pride — a big-time sin. The Good Book warns us that “pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”

Jim Pence, who runs the Hillbilly Report blog in Kentucky, says U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., doesn’t really live where he says he does and might be guilty of voter fraud.

Whitfield’s district sprawls over conservative western Kentucky, where almost all of the media is Republican-friendly. Whitfield and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell especially enjoy good press in this neck of the Bluegrass State woods.

Pence hopes the national media will take a gander at his story and investigate Whitfield, who first got elected in 1994. “Congressman Ed Whitfield (R-KY): A Scandal Waiting for the Media To Pick It Up?” he headlined his latest post on the topic.

Berry Craig“Ed Whitfield is one of the most anti-union and pro-big business Republicans in Washington,” said Jeff Wiggins, a Steelworker and president of the Paducah-based Western Kentucky AFL-CIO Area Council. “He is a Mitch McConnell clone.”

Paducah is in Whitfield’s district. “Whitfield is an arrogant country club Republican, but he panders to the tea party,” said Wiggins, who is president of Steelworkers Local 9447 and sits on the Kentucky State AFL-CIO Executive Board.


You guys must love him. Maybe we should investigate his e-mails?


Trump is fighting against guys like this. Vote for change. Vote for Trump.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 12:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MalibuGuru wrote:
mac wrote:
He resigned after he was found to have committed ethics violations and faced sanctions. Here's a rather unflattering take on him:

Quote:
BY BERRY CRAIG

Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Kentucky)
The ancient Greeks considered “hubris” — excessive pride — a big-time sin. The Good Book warns us that “pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”

Jim Pence, who runs the Hillbilly Report blog in Kentucky, says U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., doesn’t really live where he says he does and might be guilty of voter fraud.

Whitfield’s district sprawls over conservative western Kentucky, where almost all of the media is Republican-friendly. Whitfield and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell especially enjoy good press in this neck of the Bluegrass State woods.

Pence hopes the national media will take a gander at his story and investigate Whitfield, who first got elected in 1994. “Congressman Ed Whitfield (R-KY): A Scandal Waiting for the Media To Pick It Up?” he headlined his latest post on the topic.

Berry Craig“Ed Whitfield is one of the most anti-union and pro-big business Republicans in Washington,” said Jeff Wiggins, a Steelworker and president of the Paducah-based Western Kentucky AFL-CIO Area Council. “He is a Mitch McConnell clone.”

Paducah is in Whitfield’s district. “Whitfield is an arrogant country club Republican, but he panders to the tea party,” said Wiggins, who is president of Steelworkers Local 9447 and sits on the Kentucky State AFL-CIO Executive Board.


You guys must love him. Maybe we should investigate his e-mails?


Trump is fighting against guys like this. Vote for change. Vote for Trump.

mac doesn't understand that whole anti-establishment movement, it goes right over his head like a low flying sea gull with gastric distress.
I can think of a long list of old time GOP'ers, still in office (Mitch McC. being another one), that he can have.
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