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real-human
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2016 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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mat-ty wrote: | mac wrote: | nw30 wrote: |
BTW, Hillary is also neck deep in the old school DC establishment culture, a queen of it you could say, she embodies it as much if not more than those old school dems and repubs.
It's all about her and Bill, not the people, always has been.
Remember "the era of big government is over" ? What a lying joke. |
The difference could not be more remarkable. The Federal government, and foreign policy-making, is a huge enterprise that takes massive organizational skill and competence. Hillary has it, Donald does not. We have seen what happens when marginally competent President's like George Bush, or amateurs like the Tea Party take the reins. Trump has run the most incompetent election campaign in decades--it is character revealing.
Complaints about the role of money in politics are worth little without some deeper understanding of causes. We have, by design, a republic, not a direct democracy. It is a system intended to afford interests, corporate as well as popular, representation. It is true that both parties are unduly influenced by big donors. It is false that they are equal in their pandering to it. |
You conveniently left out another MARGINALLY COMPETENT, AMATEUR.
BHO, ARGUABLY THE LEAST QUALIFIED PRESIDENT THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN. |
daaa George Bush the second and Ronald reagan... daaaa so incompetent.
Bush was only there because of his largest funder Kenny Boy Ley... again his largest political funder was a scam artist and funded Bush to be his benefactor... Leys Enron jets were flying the bush people all over for the election and after. Bush was even a failure at his oild drilling businesses, he never struck oild but became rich because sugar daddys contacts funded his corps, what did they get in return....
Ronald reagan was just as stupid as Bush, He was just good at memorizing and delivering lines, oh his claim to fame was he was a actor. _________________ when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17747 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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So ethics violations lead to lucrative new jobs for Republican Congressmen. And Trump is going to change this? Who is fooled by that claim?
Quote: | By Megan R. Wilson - 09/29/16 03:08 PM EDT
Former Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), who resigned from Congress earlier this month following an ethics investigation, has landed a job at a lobbying firm.
Farragut Partners announced on Thursday that the former lawmaker would be joining the shop as a principal.
“With Congressman Whitfield joining our team, we will be well positioned to better serve existing clients and expand our practice,” said Jeff MacKinnon, a chairman and founder of the firm, in a statement.
“As chairman of the [House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Energy and Power Subcommittee], for almost six years, Ed was at the forefront and held almost 40 hearings on government and private initiatives relating to energy.”
The firm’s energy clients include Valero, Energy Future Holdings, NextEra Energy and Southern Co.
Whitfield is subject to a one-year cooling-off period before he can lobby his former colleagues in the House, but the firm says it expects him to register after the ban is up. |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17747 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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This, coming from a man who is the scion of a family that made their money in--government contracting:
Quote: | Just last week the current Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, gave a speech at the largest annual gathering of leaders and activists within the conservative movement at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). In this speech, he said one of the most disturbing things ever uttered in the name of politics.
Paul Ryan has become an outspoken critic of the War on Poverty, albeit with facts and figures that have been misrepresented, at best. But in this speech he took aim at the children at the very center of American poverty, those who are innocent and in situations well beyond the realm of their own control. According to Time Magazine, “free lunches provided to children by government programs give kids ‘a full stomach — and an empty soul.’ “ |
Spoken by someone without a soul. |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17747 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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And the most evil of the evil is McConnell. And his corrupt wife, about to be back in the cabinet. Let's steal an election boys:
Quote: | BycpowellPosted on December 30, 2016
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, the CIA has released a report with information proving that Russia interfered with the US Presidential election to help Donald Trump win.
What is also coming to light now is that the senate majority leader and professional obstructionist Mitch McConnell (R. – KY) actively worked to keep the CIA from releasing the information, to the point of threatening to blame it on the White House playing partisan politics should it get released.
According to the Washington Posts’ report on the intelligence community’s role in this:
“Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, according to U.S. officials. Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and hurt Clinton’s chances.”
Our intelligence agencies know this is happening. It’s not conspiracy theory. It’s not the biased left-wing media. It’s actual US intelligence agencies saying they know it happened. That didn’t stop McConnell, though:
“The Democratic leaders in the room unanimously agreed on the need to take the threat seriously. Republicans, however, were divided, with at least two GOP lawmakers reluctant to accede to the White House requests.
According to several officials, McConnell raised doubts about the underlying intelligence and made clear to the administration that he would consider any effort by the White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics.”
Some of the Republicans in the briefing also seemed opposed to the idea of going public with such explosive allegations in the final stages of an election, a move that they argued would only rattle public confidence and play into Moscow’s hands.
McConnell’s office did not respond to a request for comment. After the election, Trump chose McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, as his nominee for transportation secretary.
An act of partisan politics? Really? That McConnell can’t see the irony in that statement is the truly staggering part of this whole report. |
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techno900
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 8:36 am Post subject: |
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I heard on national news this morning that the CIA, FBI, etc. have not had access to the hacked DNC computers (because the DNC wouldn't let them), but still are firm with their assessment that the Russians did the hacking. That, plus the source of the leaks - Wikileaks has said no state government, including Russia was their source of the DNC emails.
You just have to wonder......................................... |
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mat-ty
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 9:20 am Post subject: |
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techno900 wrote: | I heard on national news this morning that the CIA, FBI, etc. have not had access to the hacked DNC computers (because the DNC wouldn't let them), but still are firm with their assessment that the Russians did the hacking. That, plus the source of the leaks - Wikileaks has said no state government, including Russia was their source of the DNC emails.
You just have to wonder......................................... |
Nothing more than a political stunt designed to diminish TRUMPS VICTORY!
We spy on them and they spy on us, its been going on for centuries.
The only thing we learned yesterday is what an awful job our intelligence community has been doing. The Russians are laughing at us, airing our dirty laundry and incompetence like a pack of fools.. |
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real-human
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2017 11:10 am Post subject: |
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brian Schatz
Cruz called a Senator "a liar," and Cotton called a Senator "a cancer," no violation. But quote Coretta Scott King? GOP shut It down. _________________ when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
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KGB-NP
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2017 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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"Forced birthers" never heard that one before. Is that twisted Liberal talk, or what? |
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