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Our national melting pot on steroids
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After more than a year of campaigning, months of speeches, fundraisers, promises and accusations, the presidential election ended Tuesday night with President Obama retaining his seat, Democrats retaining a slightly larger Senate majority and Republicans retaining what looks to be the same majority it previously held in the House. What happens now?
What are your thoughts on a second term for President Obama? Will he be able to do more? Will he want to? Will Republicans let him?After more than a year of campaigning, months of speeches, fundraisers, promises and... more
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Veracity Check: Obscenely large financial donations are wrong no matter what side of the aisle. We understand the necessity to compete with the avalanche of right-wing cash, but a bigger question remains after the election...
Essentially both parties are getting their money from the same place. Yes, the Democrats have more support from individuals and less Koch, but major multinational corporations contribute to both parties to hedge their bets. Now that Romney has dropped a little in the polls, is it just a coincidence that the Democrats are raising more moolah? Does it really matter since the other side is going to spend a billion dollars on the campaign? Yes, Obama has come out against Citizens United but will he do something about it if re-elected or will he continue to bend to his corporate sponsors’ will?
http://veracitystew.com/?p=43255Veracity Check: Obscenely large financial donations are wrong no matter what side of... more
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Indeed.
http://mytinyspot.blogspot.com/2012/08/republican-national-convention.html
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The fact that the Democratic Party has promptly and vocally refused to associate with or support this man due to his hate group associations speaks volumes. It sends the very clear message that there is no room for hatred against any group of people in the Democratic Party. Republicans, can you say the same?
http://veracitystew.com/?p=40554The fact that the Democratic Party has promptly and vocally refused to associate with... more
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The Obama faithful are enthusiastically lining up behind their man even as many Democrats and moderates are either going elsewhere or sitting on the fence. It’s early yet, but polls already show Obama making few inroads against a gaff-prone, non-committal, out of touch boob of a pandermeister. That is not a good thing, early or not.The Obama faithful are enthusiastically lining up behind their man even as many... more
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By David Edwards
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:17 EDT
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Tuesday admitted that he got a monthly Social Security check, a program that he eventually wants to eliminate.
During an interview on MSNBC, Paul insisted that he would preserve Social Security longer than some of the others in his party.
“I want young people to opt out of Social Security,” the Texas congressman told MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle. “In my more pragmatic stands on how we get to the place I want to go, actually I’m probably offering a program where some of these programs that we have taught people to be so dependant on, I would probably preserve them longer than others because we are going to lose them because of the bankruptcy that is coming.”
“Are you on Social Security,” The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein wondered. “Do you get Social Security checks?”
“I do,” Paul replied.
“You just told younger generations that they should wean themselves off of this social contract but you haven’t done it yourself,” Stein noted. “You’re not the wealthiest man in Congress, I’m not saying that. But you have enough means to take care of yourself in retirement. Shouldn’t you provide an example?”
“No,” Paul said. “I think the programs are so designed, just as I use the post office too. I use government highways. I do that too. I use the banks. I use the Federal Reserve system. But that doesn’t mean you can’t work to remove this. The same way on Social Security, I am trying to make a transition.”
“I personally don’t see any inconsistency in that,” he added.
Watch this video from MSNBC’s Morning Joe, broadcast June 20, 2012.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/20/ron-paul-i-take-social-security-checks-but-will-eliminate-it-for-others/
"The Twit, that keeps on Giving!!!" =)By David Edwards
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:17 EDT
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By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 19:09 EDT
Although his son Rand has endorsed Mitt Romney, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) said Tuesday that he has no plans of doing so himself.
“Well, it looks like he has the delegates, yes,” he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “But he doesn’t have the control of the hearts and minds of the people.
“And right now, a lot of people — a lot of delegate who are pledged to vote for Romney are actually very strong supporters of ours and will be strongly supporting us when we want to put things into the platform to say, hey, we don’t need another war,” Paul continued. “Yes, we do need to audit the Federal Reserve. Yes, we ought to really cut spending.”
“I take it you’re not yet ready yourself to endorse Romney, are you?” Blitzer asked.
“No, not really,” Paul responded. “No way.”
Watch video, courtesy of CNN
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/19/ron-paul-on-endorsing-romney-no-way/
"Eeeesh, I can't Stop Laughing, Old man Paul actually thinks his Endorsement means something??? LMAO, sure Ron if it were an Endorsement of Depends I would understand, Oh Boy... Too Funny!!!!" =)By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 19:09 EDT
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By Stephen C. Webster
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:43 EDT
In amendments that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) agreed last night to add to the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) proposed reforms that Democrats say would end up cutting more than $4 billion from food stamps over the next decade.
Despite agreeing on Monday night to add Sessions’ amendments to what’s otherwise become known as the “farm bill,” Reid also added an amendment by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) that looks to restore some of that lost funding. She’s led the charge against Sessions, citing a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report that claims the proposals would result in average benefits being slashed by up to $90 a month. The average monthly benefit was $133.84 in 2011, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics, which means Sessions proposals could leave America’s poor only $43.84 on average to spend on food in a month.
The CBO estimated earlier this year that one in seven Americans receive federal food assistance. The agency said that taxpayers spent $78 billion on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in 2011, making it the second largest social safety net program after Medicare. The government claims that every month, federal food aid keeps more than 5 million Americans from slipping into poverty.
“According to estimates by the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, this deep cut in monthly benefits would affect 190,000 low-income New York City families and children who rely on these benefits for their nutrition, and would affect nearly 300,00 households statewide,” she said in an advisory. Gillibrand’s amendment would restore most of the funding by slashing subsidies that big agriculture companies use to buy crop insurance.
Sessions’ plan would close “loopholes” in the program by tightening income requirements for families applying for aid and requiring more information about their monthly income and bills. It would also implement a verification system to ensure that undocumented immigrants are not receiving aid and eliminate bonuses for USDA employees.
“If food stamps spending were returned next year to 2007 funding levels, and increased from there at the rate of inflation, it would produce an astonishing $340 billion in savings over the next 10 years,” he said in prepared text. The number of Americans relying on food stamps grew from 27.3 million in 2007 to 44 million in 2010, largely due to the economic downturn, according to the USDA.
Sessions’ proposal, however, is not even close to the level of cuts being proposed by House Republicans, as led by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). Ryan would have the government slash $134 billion from food stamps over the next decade, which is just a small part of $3.3 trillion in proposed cuts to safety net services.
The Senate’s agreed-upon farm bill would still provide nearly $80 billion to food stamps every year for the next five years. The bill’s co-sponsor, Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), claimed in prepared text that it will reduce the deficit by $23 billion by “eliminating unnecessary direct payment subsidies, consolidating programs to end duplication, and cracking down on food assistance abuse.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/19/senate-republicans-proposal-cuts-over-4-billion-from-food-stamps/
"Cracking down on 'Food Assistance Abuse' hmmm, very interesting, maybe you Shit Heads should Stop giving Food Stamps to Millionaires, and Start looking after the people who elected you???"By Stephen C. Webster
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:43 EDT
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By Stephen C. Webster
Monday, June 18, 2012 9:16 EDT
Harvard Law School professor Roberto Mangabeira Unger hopes that his former student, President Barack Obama, is defeated at the polls this November — and he’s calling for that defeat to come at the hands of the very people who elected him.
In a little-noticed video published online last month that became the subject of reporting by The Associated Press over the weekend, Unger explains that while Republicans threaten to remake America, Democrats offer no alternative and must significantly or risk further stagnation.
“The Democratic Party has no new direction,” he warns. “[Obama] has failed to advance the progressive cause.”
Unger admits that Obama’s defeat would cost the nation in “judicial and administrative appointments,” but those costs, he said, aren’t so great as those of an Obama victory. “He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices.”
He concedes, however, that if Obama rival Mitt Romney wins, it’s likely to make income inequality “even greater than it is now.”
Still: “Unless he is defeated, there cannot be a contest for the reorientation of the Democratic Party as the vehicle of a progressive alternative in the country,” Unger concludes.
“Only a political reversal can allow the voice of democratic prophecy to speak once again in American life,” he says. “Its speech is always dangerous. Its silence is always fatal.”
Unger, an author, philosopher and two-time Brazilian presidential candidate, supported President Obama in 2008.
This video was published to YouTube on May 22, 2012.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/18/former-obama-professor-the-president-must-be-defeated-in-2012/
"Interesting video, but with all elections. the people are always left with:" "You are Damned if you do, and Damned if you don't!!!" =(By Stephen C. Webster
Monday, June 18, 2012 9:16 EDT
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By David Edwards
Friday, June 15, 2012 12:33 EDT
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Friday accused President Barack Obama’s administration of using “thuggish” tactics to promote campaign finance reform.
During a speech to the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference, McConnell said that liberals were using “bullying” and “intimidation” to thwart the free speech rights of conservatives.
“The administration’s most prominent effort to limit speech is the so-called DISCLOSE Act, a bill the grew out of the president’s very public and unseemly rebuke of the U.S. Supreme Court in early 2010,” the Kentucky Republican explained. “An attempt to get around the court’s decision in Citizens United, this proposed law would compel grassroots groups to disclose the names of their supporters.”
“This administration claims that the goal of this bill is transparency, but the enthusiasm with which it has embraced the thuggish tactics of the left suggests that its true goal is to silence critics,” he added. “A growing number of people on the political left and now within the government itself have appeared to have concluded that they can’t win on the merits. So, they’ve resorted to bullying and intimidation instead.”
“When you’ve got an administration that’s willing to throw core constitutional protections out the window for the sake of an election — whether its religious freedom or the freedom to speak without fear of intimidation — we’re in very dangerous territory.”
The Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections Act or DISCLOSE Act was first introduced by Democrats in 2010 after the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC ruling that allowed unlimited contributions and corporate funds to flow into political campaigns.
The legislation aims to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 by prohibiting government contractors from making expenditures in elections, banning foreign influence in U.S. elections and forcing corporations to disclose campaign expenditures.
Democrats in the House passed the measure in 2010, but it was blocked by Republicans in the Senate. Democratic senators introduced an updated version of the bill in March of this year.
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast June 15, 2012.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/15/mcconnell-calls-obama-thuggish-over-opposition-to-citizens-united/
"I really must ask if this gentleman is an IDIOT??? Does he not know the difference of Freedom of Speech and Citizens United??? Apparently the Morons Clapping do not either!!! Who would elect and Idiot like this???" =(By David Edwards
Friday, June 15, 2012 12:33 EDT
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By Stephen C. Webster
Thursday, June 14, 2012 15:22 EDT
A female Democratic state representative in Michigan said Thursday that she has been silenced by her Republican colleagues after she uttered the word “vagina” while criticizing a slate of bills that would restrict female reproductive rights.
Michigan State Rep. Lisa Brown (D) made her comments during a Wednesday debate on proposed legislation that critics say could effectively ban abortions in the state. ”I have not asked you to adopt and adhere to my religious beliefs,” she said. “Why are you asking me to adopt yours? And finally, Mr. Speaker, I’m flattered that you’re all so interested in my vagina, but no means no.”
The legislation, contained in three separate bills, would limit abortions by restricting procedures past 20 weeks of pregnancy, imposing new insurance and licensing requirements on clinics, limiting access to abortion drugs and placing new requirements on the tissue disposal process.
An earlier hearing on the same bills saw representatives from Michigan Planned Parenthood shut out and ignored — an act that attracted hundreds of protesters to the capitol on Tuesday.
Speaking against the bills after being recognized by the House speaker, Rep. Brown relayed a little known fact: Jewish law that places the life of the mother over that of an unborn child, no matter how far along the pregnancy is.
That’s when she dropped the v-word.
House Republican leadership later confirmed to Michigan Radio that they felt her comment violated decorum, and that she would not be called upon in future debates.
A second female Democrat, State Rep. Barb Byrum (D), said that she too has been banned from speaking in recognized debate following an “outburst” over the same slate of legislation.
Video from the Michigan House floor shows Byrum attempting to speak about an amendment to the anti-abortion bills, but the speaker does not recognize her despite her status as the amendment’s author.
Her repeated requests to speak were ignored as Republicans swiftly knocked down the proposal, and she later claimed it was because she had used the word “vasectomy.” Byrum’s amendment would have subjected men’s reproductive rights to the same regulations proposed for women.
Republicans, who hold a powerful majority in the Michigan House and Senate, passed the bills with the help of just six Democrats in a vote Wednesday of 70-39.
Both representatives are now banned from recognized debate for an unspecified amount of time.
Update: Michigan Dem calls on women to withhold sex until legislature backs down
In comments ahead of Wednesday’s vote on restricting female reproductive rights, Michigan State Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D), of Detroit, called on the women of her state to withhold sex from their partners until the legislature backs down.
“We’re launching a war on women,” she said. “Stop having sex with us, gentlemen, and I ask women to boycott men until they stop moving this through the House.”
This video was published to YouTube on June 13, 2012.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/14/michigan-dem-banned-by-republicans-for-using-the-word-vagina/
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"As I am only able to post this One video here, I will be sure to post the other links that apply to this story in links, if you want to check them all out, please go to msjnews.net as I will be posting all three videos on one page... BTW, this should really Piss Off every woman who sees this video and may make you think Twice when November rolls around!!!"By Stephen C. Webster
Thursday, June 14, 2012 15:22 EDT
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By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, June 11, 2012 22:57 EDT
Monday night on CNN, former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura called for political parties in the United States to be abolished.
“We need to abolish the political parties,” he told Piers Morgan. “Make them political action committees.”
Ventura compared the Democrats and Republicans to the Bloods and Crips, two notorious Los Angeles street gangs and fierce rivals.
“They call the blue states Democrats, well that is also the colors of the Crips,” he explained. “Naturally, the Bloods’ color is red and the Republican states are called red states.”
“They’re worse,” Venture continued. “Let me explain why they’re worse: The Crips and the Bloods, the street gangs, while they can be devastating to a certain small part of the population, the Democrips and the Rep-bloodicans, they affect everybody in this country.”
Watch video, courtesy of CNN...
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/11/jesse-ventura-gop-and-dems-worse-than-the-bloods-and-crips/
"It's about time someone had the Balls to tell it like it is, so what are the American People going to do about it, I have always said and stand by the fact that I Abhor both parties and find them equally Corrupt, anybody got any suggestions???"By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, June 11, 2012 22:57 EDT
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By David Edwards
Sunday, June 10, 2012 11:35 EDT
The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday suggested that President Barack Obama had personally authorized recent intelligence leaks.
On Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder appointed two U.S. attorneys to investigate leaks about details of drone attacks and special forces strikes. Critics have claimed that the White House disclosed the information to bolster the president’s re-election chances.
“The notion that my White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive,” Obama told reporters during Friday press conference. “And people I think need to have a better sense of how I approach this office and how the people around me here approach this office.”
But Liz Cheney on Sunday insisted that the president himself could be the one behind the leaks.
“I’d like to see an independent investigation,” she told Fox News host Chris Wallace. “If you’ve got members of the national security team — which is what we know from reading [New York Times reporter] David Sanger’s piece, that’s what he says — giving him chapter and verse of what went on in these National Security Council meetings then somebody’s got to be held accountable for, you know, what is a betrayal to the nation.”
“I do think that it’s important — as Mike Rogers, chairman of the House intel committee, has said — that whoever is looking at this needs to be outside the chain of command so that you can be absolutely sure that it is followed to it’s conclusion,” she added. “And that may well be the president of the United States.”
“If the president of the United States has been authorizing people on his national security team to brief The New York Times about one of our most highly classified programs, the American people have a right to know.”
Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s then-chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was convicted of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators in the probe of who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. The vice president pushed for a full pardon and then-President George W. Bush eventually commuted Libby’s 30-month prison sentence before he ever served a day in jail.
Many have assumed that Dick Cheney masterminded outing Plame to discredit her husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, because he had cast doubt on the Bush administration’s rationale for war with Iraq. But the the vice president told prosecutors that “I don’t recall” telling Libby about Plame’s identity.
Watch this video from Fox News’ Fox New Sunday, broadcast June 10, 2012.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/10/liz-cheney-suggests-obama-personally-behind-intelligence-leaks/
http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/10/sen-mccain-on-intel-leaks-the-president-is-certainly-responsible/?iref=allsearch
"Interesting, how Liz Cheney and John McCain are pointing a finger at BO, please be sure to check the CNN link to hear John's take..."By David Edwards
Sunday, June 10, 2012 11:35 EDT
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By David Edwards
Sunday, June 3, 2012 13:41 EDT
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) on Sunday ripped his opponent, Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, for campaigning to be “the rockstar of the far right.”
In an interview on CNN, Barrett told host Candy Crowley that he expected to defeat Walker in Tuesday’s recall election.
“People [are] saying to me that they’ve never seen the level of excitement they’ve seen right now,” the mayor explained. “It’s people from Wisconsin. It’s people who live here. And that’s what this should be all about. It should be all about the people in the state of Wisconsin because you’ve got a sitting governor, the only governor in this country who has a legal defense fund — all this outside money. This is Wisconsin values versus outside influence.”
“Scott Walker wants to make this a national race because he wants to be on the national stage as the rockstar of the far right, as the poster boy of the tea party,” he added. “That’s not what I’m interested in. And I’m — frankly, I’m not going to be the rockstar of the far left. I’m focusing on this state because that’s what’s important to me.”
According to the non-partisan Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, about two-thirds of the $30 million that Walker has raised since January has come from out-of-state donors. Barrett has raised a more modest $3.9 million since entering the race in March, but 74 percent of his individual donations have come from inside the state.
The latest polls show Barrett gaining ground, but still trailing Walker. A Marquette Law School poll recently found that Walker had a 52 percent to 45 percent lead, while Public Policy Polling’s latest survey put Walker ahead 50 percent to 45 percent
Watch this video from CNN’s State of the Union, broadcast June 3, 2012.
"June 5th is right around the corner, my Best Wishes to the people of Wisconsin in removing Scott Walker!!!" =)By David Edwards
Sunday, June 3, 2012 13:41 EDT
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