tagged w/ GOP Hate
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I remember that Pat Robertson once ‘prophesied’ that God would smite Orlando with a hurricane, because Disney World ended hiring discrimination against LGBT people. The next hurricane to make landfall damaged Robertson’s HQ in Virginia beach. You have to hand it to God. She has a wonderful sense of humor. It taught Robertson nothing. This is how Robertson’s Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, who have absolutely nothing in common with authentic Christians, see our right to freedom of speech. We should shut up.I remember that Pat Robertson once ‘prophesied’ that God would smite... more
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We are witnessing the worst Congress in history, because Republicans are intentionally sabotaging America in hopes of seizing power. With so many pressing needs facing our nation, House Republicans adjourned and went on vacation, despite objections from House and Senate Democrats, leaving their work undone. This Congress is most notable for what they didn’t do, not what they did, although what they did was horrific in it’s own right.We are witnessing the worst Congress in history, because Republicans are intentionally... more
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I have long said that the religious beliefs and practices of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians have far more in common with the Pharisees and Sadducees of Jesus’ day than they do with the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. That is why I find it so frustrating that authentic Christians are often painted with the came brush as these hypocrites. Frank Brunt pointed out this contrast extremely well.I have long said that the religious beliefs and practices of Republican Supply-side... more
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Poor Willard. As always, he has a problem. The more he tries to hide the truth about his business record, the more that big, mean Barack Obama keeps calling him out on it, making it most difficult for widdle Willard to etch his sketch! Willard has been sniveling in overdrive, calling Obama’s tactics hateful and despicable. Willard needs to change his panties. That’s just hardball, and the pitch is right over the plate. To see despicable, look to Willard’s Republican minions, like Michele Bachmann.Poor Willard. As always, he has a problem. The more he tries to hide the truth about... more
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The Family Research Council (FRC) has a long and inglorious history of hatred directed at and attempts to violate the rights of Muslims, Gays, Women and anyone else who refuses to goose-step to their Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian dogma. Now they have chosen yet another notorious hatemonger to a high executive post.The Family Research Council (FRC) has a long and inglorious history of hatred directed... more
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If the title of this article caught your eye, it’s probably because the question is completely absurd. That is not an issue for last century, let alone this one. But Republicans are trying to impose 19th century policies onto 21st century issues, and it goes so far that the de facto head of the GOP, who fear to disagree with him in public, and whose holy ring they kiss on demand, has questioned even this.If the title of this article caught your eye, it’s probably because the question... more
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Police already had the power to check the immigration status of someone they arrest or detain. The key provision of the bill, that was struck down, would have given the state the ability to require papers from anyone, even if police had no reason to detain them. The only difference is that police no longer have the discretion to look the other way, if for example, they suspected that someone is undocumented, but needed information from that person about a violent crime. Therefore undocumented people will be even more reluctant to talk to police, making Arizona less safe for citizens.Police already had the power to check the immigration status of someone they arrest or... more
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I know very little about the decision, and expect to write more in the next few days. In short, even with Kagan recused, the error in Arizona’s law was so blatant that the Republican activists on the Court, with exceptions (Scalia, Thomas and Alito), could not find an excuse to uphold it.I know very little about the decision, and expect to write more in the next few days.... more
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Willard and the Republican Party have a problem. After they supported such egalitarian policies as Papers Please and self-deportation, after they unanimously voted against the Dream Act, and since they are pandering to racists and nativists for support, they need to cover that all up, they are trying find reason to oppose Obama’s immigration policy that do not highlight the truth their actions have revealed. For the results they deserve a PhD in Bullsh*tilogy. (PhD = Piled Higher and Deeper.)Willard and the Republican Party have a problem. After they supported such... more
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Willard Romney has a problem with the Latino community. He want’s them to vote for him, so he tried to etch his sketch into making them think that his family were Mexican immigrants too, but his family always was Anglo. His grandfather expatriated to live in a Mormon polygamy commune, when the practice was banned here. His father, having only one wife, returned. He is no Latino and pretending to be one could not be more insultingly patronizing. He also needs them to ignore all his policies. With Romney in such a vulnerable position, Obama simply shredded him.Willard Romney has a problem with the Latino community. He want’s them to vote... more
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By Arturo Garcia
Thursday, June 21, 2012 14:17 EDT
Mitt Romney’s plan to “replace” President Obama’s new immigration policy would only allow immigrants to avoid deportation if they served in the military, according to Talking Points Memo.
Romney outlined what he called a “civil but resolute” approach to undocumented immigration in a speech before the National Association of Latino Elected Officials in Orlando, where he also vowed to give spouses and young children priority in the green-card allocation process.
Last week, the Obama administration issued an order preventing the deportation of 800,000 immigrants who had been brought into the country before the age of 16. Under Obama’s plan, immigrants would be eligible if they were under 30 and had lived in the country for five years while earning a high school diploma or GED, or enlisting in the military. It would not be a path to citizenship, as proposed by the DREAM Act, but would grant them a two-year period in which to apply for a work permit.
Romney called the move “a temporary measure that he seems to think will be just enough to get him through the election.”
Video of Romney’s speech, which aired on Now with Alex Wagner on MSNBC on June 21...
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/21/romney-asks-young-immigrants-to-serve-in-the-military-to-avoid-deportation/
"I have often said that the GOP has created a Backdoor Draft with their policies, I think Mitt kinda proves my point, what do you folks think???"By Arturo Garcia
Thursday, June 21, 2012 14:17 EDT
Mitt Romney’s plan to... more
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Yesterday I wrote about Romney’s attendance at the Hate and Bondage Conference, put on by Republican supply-side pseudo-Christians. Of course, several Republican leaders appeared there, including one who may be just as honest and reliable as Switch Hit Mitt is himself.Yesterday I wrote about Romney’s attendance at the Hate and Bondage Conference,... more
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I remember discussing immigration reform with members of La Raza in the early 1970s. I would have never dreamed that, forty years later, the issue remains unresolved. After bending over backwards to reach a compromise with Republicans far too much for far too long, Barack Obama has taken a limited but positive step, albeit a temporary one, to move in the right direction towards reform.I remember discussing immigration reform with members of La Raza in the early 1970s.... more
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The official name of the event Switch Hit Mitt will be attending is the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference, but faith cannot be expressed as hatred and there is no freedom in the lock-step forced dogma of pseudo-Christian legalism. Please do not think that I am disrespecting Christians. I am not. Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians do not follow the teaching or example of Christ and have nothing in common with authentic Christianity.The official name of the event Switch Hit Mitt will be attending is the Faith and... more
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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
Senate Minority Leader Mitch... more
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By Eric W. Dolan
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 17:00 EDT
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Wednesday called for an overhaul of the SNAP program — which provides food stamps — by requiring states to determine how they ration benefits instead of the federal government.
“Our system of helping ensure that no one goes hungry in our country is a noble one, but we’re now asking to spend $750 billion on food stamps,” he said on the Senate floor. “When we ask this, we need to remember that recently a woman in Chicago faked the birth of triplets in order to receive $21,000 in food stamps.”
“We need to remember that millionaires, including Larry Ficke, who won $2 million, are still receiving food stamps because he says he has got no income. He has got $2 million but no income.”
Last year, Ficke won $2 million from the Michigan lottery, but was still allowed to collect food stamps because of a loophole.
“So we’re paying millionaires food stamps,” Paul added. “It’s out of control. It’s not about helping those in need. It’s about being wise with the taxpayer dollars and not giving people $20,000 a year in food stamps.”
Paul offered an amendment to the farm bill that would convert the SNAP program into block grants, requiring states to administer the program. The amendment would have cut $280 billion over the next decade by freezing annual funding at $45 billion, according to Paul. The amendment failed by a 65-33 vote.
The farm bill already proposes a $4.5 billion cut to the SNAP program over the next 10 years. The cuts would result in an average benefit cut of $90 per month for nearly a half a million households, according to Congressional Budget Office.
Watch video, uploaded to YouTube on June 13...
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/13/sen-rand-paul-were-giving-food-stamps-to-millionaires/
"Hahaa, I hope the Fella that was giving me a hard time a few days ago will see this and know that I was correct!!! I am a bit Amused how his time was Expired, basically they shut him up, but this is the first thing I have heard from Rand Paul that I will Applaud!!!!" =)By Eric W. Dolan
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 17:00 EDT
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on... more
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told a rally on Capitol Hill that Congress must protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid during a new round of budget negotiations this year.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101734120
"I enjoy Bernie Sanders, I think He as an Independent stands by the working people, actually I am surprised he has not Fallen Ill or died in some Mysterious Plane Crash!!! Thank You Bernie for standing by the working people of America!!!" =)Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told a rally on Capitol Hill that Congress must protect... more
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Source: Talking Points Memo
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is planning to sue the state of Florida for purging voters from its rolls in violation of federal law, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez said in a letter to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner Monday.
DOJ warned Florida last month that its efforts to purge individuals believed to be noncitizens from the voter rolls would violate federal law because the process had not been cleared by either the Justice Department or a federal court, and because the purge was taking place too close to Florida’s August primary. Perez wrote Monday that he “authorized the initiation of an enforcement action against Florida in federal court” because the state had “indicated its unwillingness to comply” with federal laws.
Read more: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/doj_to_sue_over_floridas_voter_purge.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
"And in the mean time Florida is sueing Homeland Security!!!"
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/gov-rick-scott-florida-sue-homeland-sSource: Talking Points Memo
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is... more
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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
The daughter of former Vice... more
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One might think that after greedy Banksters demonstrated the effects of allowing them to prey on Americans without restraint, that no sane person would want to allow that to continue, and that statement is probably true. Sadly, the list of sane people does not include many, if any, Republican politicians and pundits.One might think that after greedy Banksters demonstrated the effects of allowing them... more
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