Barack Obama made a great speech a few days ago….
Presidential….
I can’t seem to stop posting about it….
Why?
Because the speech asks questions as to why American politicians has turned to the way it is ?…..
Not America as a unified country…
But America as a ‘them vs us’ place….
America where people from other countries are looked at as suspect…
Where ‘Nazi loving groups are all right to associate with people of influence in the America government…
Where basic ‘Rights’ are attacked….
It goes on….
Barack Obama made his speech pointing out what he thought was wrong 18 months after he handed the ‘leadership’ of the American government to an NYC Real Estate guy who campaigned AGAINST the America MOST on the 300 Million plus of us want it to be…..
The below linked piece points to something most media types DO NOT admit…..
Republicans knocked the former President lightly for making the speech, which format President’s rarely do….
But few if ANY admitted publicly that Obama hadn’t made some damn good points and observations….(Trump went to sleep, he says instead of getting a headache, one would suppose trying to follow it)
So?
Republicans have moved to look at Obama as someone they can run against come 2018 and 2020…..
They figure that won big in Congressional, State and local races while Obama was President, right?
Of course polling numbers and pundits seem to think the 2010.2012/2016/2019 anti-Obama and Democrats days are GONE…..
So?
The problem for us all has been crystallized in the last week?
What does the American government (Republican led) do about a Republican President that appears to be inept, uninformed, and possibly have taken criminal actions in the past?
Answer right now?
Nothing….
Hold on to see how the midterms turn out and prepare for the worst?
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who has struggled since the 2016 GOP primaries to distance himself from Trump while also knocking Democrats, woke up on Saturday after the speech with seven tweets trying to thread the needle of that argument. According to one of them:
“Pres. Obama is right. It is wrong for a President to use divisive language, such as:
1. Call all opponents of same-sex marriage bigots
2. Call the Pro-Life movement a ‘War on Women’
3. Call all immigration enforcement advocates racists
4. Call the GOP the enemy of Hispanics.”
Trump isn’t right, Rubio appeared to be suggesting, but neither was Obama. He quoted the former president’s making fun of Nancy Reagan and defending his heavy use of executive orders instead of legislation, and pointed to Obama’s dismissive attitude toward critics of his policies on immigration and the Iran deal.
A pox on both their houses and everyone else, according to Rubio.
“We should ALL, the Dems, the GOP, the media, admit our role in turning politics into theatre,” Rubio tweeted. “Being outrageous equals clicks, viewers & therefore ratings & $ for media & fame for politicians. Being normal gets you ignored & a primary challenger for being ‘too weak.’”….
image..breitbart
Open Thread for 9/10/28 is HEFE….
Good Morning All ….
New York has a primary vote on Thursday for state offices…
Rhode Island’s primary, also to accommodate the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) is from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday the 12th.
And New Hampshire holds her primary tomorrow, Tuesday 9/11.
So, it’s election day every day for the middle of the week, fellow political junkies (NH Tues, RI Weds & NY Thurs).
And then we have to go cold turkey for a nearly 7 weeks (54 days !!) [!!??!!] until the general elections on Tuesday 6 November.
See: http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G18/events.phtml?format=chronological#20180906
Thanks for the additions….
I will post of some of the results….
Recently-announced endorsements in R.I.’s Democratic primary this Wednesday:
Former Delaware Senator and former VP Joe Biden:
Gov. Gina Raimondo (establishment and Clinton)
Vermont junior Sen. Bernie Sanders:
former R.I. Sec. of State Matt Brown (Gov. Raimondo’s progressive challenger)
Rhode Island senior Sen. Jack Reed:
Lt. Gov. Dan McKee (establishment), who is being challenged on the progressive side by R.I. state Rep. Aaron Regunberg
On the National election in Sweden….
…One number has received more attention than all the rest: 17.6, the percentage of the vote that went to the rightwing, anti-immigrant, nationalist Sweden Democrats – their highest ever score, and enough to make forming a new government a very complicated job for the mainstream parties….
More…
Morning People….
Carlos Maza
@gaywonk
Truly terrifying how Tucker Carlson repeats white supremacist talking points. @MMFA’s piece on this is jarring….
twitter…
President Donald Trump cancelled his mid-November trip to Ireland, where he likely would have faced protests, according to a Tuesday Hill report….
Massive protests were predicted….
The guy is NOT a man of the people….
RCP brings their average down for Trump….
8 polls have had Trump move down to the mid 30’s….
RCP continues to use the Rasmussen poll to keep Trump above 40%….
The TREND IS DOWNWARD…..
There Are ONLY 56 days left….
The Independent votes are jumping the Trump ship…
Bad look for Republican midterm races????
A federal appeals court on Tuesday shot down a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over alleged abuse protesters say they received at a campaign rally in 2016 after he repeatedly urged the crowd to “get ’em out of here.”
Two of the three judges on the appellate panel said Trump’s call to oust the demonstrators was protected by the First Amendment because he did not explicitly call for anyone to do something illegal….
More….
Morning…..
Good Morning….
Sasse called the Trump’s White House a ‘reality show’….
And what’s Sasse going to do about it?
Not a DAMN thing
DeSantis quits Congress to concentrate on his Governor run…..
That stunt wotked great for President Dole!
Trump is doing a presser
Gonna be some follow up posts coming from it later….
Morning…..
FireWorks Day in the US Senate…..
New Jersey U.S. Senate
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/09/new-jersey-us-senate-race-of-day.html
Would james still vote for Cynthia Nixon, after seeing this?
http://gothamist.com/2018/09/10/nixon_bagel_order_barf.php
Yes…..
Cuomo IS. Gonna win the nomination to keep his job
But he does seem to be a bit worried
Maybe his internals show a tighter race then the 3-1 polling has things?
But I could go for a little less of his arrogance …..
Breaking
Trump’s numbers ARE TANKING…
Jim Sciutto
Breaking: New CNN/SSRS Poll:
Trump approval: 36%
Trump unfavorable: 61%
Trump “honest & trustworthy”: 32%
“Proud” of Trump as POTUS: 32%
“Cares about people like you”: 36%
Trump will unite country: 30%
Respects rule of law: 37%
twitter
(Post later on this which HAS to have Republicans worried)
Would like to see a party breakdown on those issues.
I believe at least in one of the polls Trum0’s GOP support is at 82%–slightly lower than the 86-88%. Trump took the biggest hit from independents.
I wrote my comment before I saw Scott’s comment which I agree with….
I have always said Trump’s support was never so solid as some polls painted it…
Q poll
Trump approval 38%
84% GOPer approval
I’ll have a post on the poll, which is the FOURTH to show Trump’s approval slipping back to the mid 30’s….
There are some polls still pegging him at about 40%….
But even those polls are down for Trump….
The question about Trump truthfulness is around the same numbers…
NOT A GOOD LOOK,…
Of course he is still up there among GOPer’s
But i’d Think the movement is from indies who voted FOR Obama , but switched to Trump …
If those are movement?
Come November?
Even the Senate could be in play…
New Mexico Governor
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/09/new-mexico-governor-race-of-day.html
New Mexico U.S. Senate
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/09/new-mexico-us-senate-race-of-day.html
Morning…..
Nice to see the site get busy again….
Morning Storm posting will be coming in a bit….
Bill Daley — the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama and the brother and son of previous mayors — will run for Chicago mayor in 2019, WLS-TV reports.
Daley is expected to announce his candidacy Monday….
Politicalwire…
I’ll be surprised if this is accurate.
He has gotten mentioned (typically by columnist Michael Sneed of the Sun-Times) as having decided to run for every office imaginable for decades now and never does (except one time when he ran for Governor for a couple months.)
His name aside, he will not get very far.
The biggest speculation is on Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, an African-American woman, and her one-time County Board ally “Chuy” Garcia, who ran against Rahm and made the runoff four years ago. Currently, he is the nominee for an open U.S. House seat and of course is going to win that, but is already looking at another move.
Among those currently in the field, based on name recognition alone, the polling leaders are fired Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, who while he insists he is a “proud Democrat” and avowed opponent of Trump, is pretty much considered a pro- law and order Republican type, circa 1993 Giuliani.
The other leading contender, currently in the polls, is self-made African-American millionaire Willie Wilson, who has run before, and likes to hand out bundles of cash to people. He says is a Democrat, but he actually voted for Trump.
Gonna be a LOT of people lining up for a sweepstakes ticket for the office of Mayor of Chicago….
As someone who would want Chicago to have the best Mayor possible, I don’t think if I would prefer anyone over Bill Daley.
(another leading contender Paul Vallas now has a story about a sexual abuse cover-up from when he was a government educational administrator to deal with)
The city will probably wind up doing a lot worse.
“Federal prosecutors in New York are weighing criminal charges against former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig as part of an investigation into whether he failed to register as a foreign agent in a probe that is linked to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort….
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The investigation involving Craig and Skadden was referred to federal prosecutors in New York earlier this year by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, CNN reported in August….
…
Prosecutors at the US attorney’s office have notified the Department of Justice of the options under consideration, the sources familiar with the matter said. Prosecutors, however, haven’t concluded that they have adequate evidence to bring the possible charges, these sources said, and as a result haven’t made a determination about whether to proceed….
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More….
53 days out from the November Midterm elections…..
Bite on THIS…..
Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
If you’re a voter in North Dakota, your vote is 26x more important in determining the fate of the Senate than the average American voter’s. https://53eig.ht/2NCF17b
Mailed more money off to the DNC yesterday…..
The fundraising asks on line are numerous and daily….
Ballot Access News: “In the November 2018 election, there will be Democrats on the ballot in all but two U.S. House districts. No party in the history of government-printed ballots has ever before had candidates on the ballot in that many districts. Even in the 1930’s, the Democrats did not have that many nominees. The Republican Party has never had that many candidates.”
Politicalwire….
Morning all….
New York U.S. Senate
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/09/new-york-us-senate-race-of-day.html
Good Sunday Morning….
Kavanaugh’s accuser is now speaking publicly. I was writing this thing off previously but it could get messier now.
That it happened while he was in high school may be the only thing that saves him.
North Dakota U.S. Senate
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/09/north-dakota-us-senate-race-of-day.html
The President’s most recent early morning tweets:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Our Steel Industry is the talk of the World. It has been given new life, and is thriving. Billions of Dollars is being spent on new plants all around the country!
Tariffs have put the U.S. in a very strong bargaining position, with Billions of Dollars, and Jobs, flowing into our Country – and yet cost increases have thus far been almost unnoticeable. If countries will not make fair deals with us, they will be “Tariffed!”
“A lot of small & medium size enterprises are registering very good profit, sometimes record profits-there stocks are doing very well, low income workers are getting big raises. There are an awful lot of good things going on that weren’t during Pres. Obama’s Watch.” Peter Morici
Donald J. Trump Retweeted
FEMA
@fema
Sep 15
More FEMA Retweeted NWS
Rain from #Florence these next few days will cause flooding in many parts of the Carolinas. Expect flash flooding at any time and stay off the roads. Do NOT walk, swim or drive through floodwaters!FEMA added,
NWS
@NWS
It may be hard to believe…but there’s MUCH more rain to come.
Parts of the Carolinas will see more than 15 inches of additional rain in the next couple of days. #Florence
243 replies 973 retweets 2,869 likes
Reply 243 Retweet 973 Like 2.9K
Donald J. Trump Retweeted
Homeland Security
@DHSgov
Sep 15
If you see something, tell local authorities who or what you saw; when you saw it; where it occurred; and why it’s suspicious. #SeeSay #ProtectYourEveryDay
Morning people….
Looks like Trump has dropped a diversion from the Kavanaugh trouble….
Jim Sciutto
In the middle of a probe in which he has a personal interest, the president has just ordered the public release of “all text messages relating to the Russia investigation, without redaction, of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr.”
Twitter
These are ALL the people Trump has been afraid of ……
POST TIME!
Morning People…..
Should be more fireworks today on Ford v. Kavanaugh
Daily Kos Elections
@DKElections
We’ve changed our race ratings on several contests
#MISen: Likely D→Safe D
#OHSen: Lean D→Likely D
#KSGov: Likely R→Lean R
#IA01: Tossup→Lean D
#IL06: Lean R→Tossup
#MN03: Lean R→Tossup
#NY27: Safe R→Likely R
twitter….
(It gets worst for the GOPer’s day by day…)
“A titan of Kansas Republican politics is shunning Kris Kobach (R), her party’s nominee, in his run for governor,” the Kansas City Star reports.
“Nancy Kassebaum, who represented Kansas for three terms in the U.S. Senate, said she will support Laura Kelly’s (D) campaign.”
Politicalwire
‘Top of the Morning’ to all….
Cook Report Chages
NEW Ratings Changes:
#FL18 Lean R to Likely R ⇨
#FL27 Lean D to Toss Up ⇨
#GA07 Likely R to Lean R ⇦
#MN02 Toss Up to Lean D ⇦
#MN03 Toss Up to Lean D ⇦
#NM02 Lean R to Toss Up ⇦
Full chart: cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-
Twitter
Morning People….
There has been ANOTHER mass shooting…..
This time in Maryland….
Post will be forthcoming….
The President is clearly a friend of Fox & Friends (so much better than the Fake News in the Failing New York Times).. Recent tweets from the White House, wherever it happens to be this morning::
Donald J. Trump
Verified account
@realDonaldTrump
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump
“North Korea recommits to denuclearization – we’ve come a long way.” @FoxNews
“The recovery got started on Election Day 2016. It took Trump’s Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts to get the economy booming. Before that it was the worst and slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression. It took just 6 months for Trump to get to 3%, even though they said…..
….it was impossible – and then already it’s over 4%, and I expect it’s going to grow faster and faster. We’re just getting started here.” Peter Ferrara, former advisor to President Reagan. @foxandfriends
Kim Jong Un has agreed to allow Nuclear inspections, subject to final negotiations, and to permanently dismantle a test site and launch pad in the presence of international experts. In the meantime there will be no Rocket or Nuclear testing. Hero remains to continue being……..
….returned home to the United States. Also, North and South Korea will file a joint bid to host the 2032 Olympics. Very exciting!
The Supreme Court is one of the main reasons I got elected President. I hope Republican Voters, and others, are watching, and studying, the Democrats Playbook.
Thursday morning Tweets from the CinC, who seems a mite impatient that the GOP Caucus won’t threaten a shutdown for something so important as THE WALL, and that ungrateful Middle Eastern petrostates are capitalistic enough to raise oil prices in a rising sellers’ market.
Donald J. Trump
Verified account
@realDonaldTrump
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump
S&P 500 HITS ALL-TIME HIGH Congratulations USA!
I want to know, where is the money for Border Security and the WALL in this ridiculous Spending Bill, and where will it come from after the Midterms? Dems are obstructing Law Enforcement and Border Security. REPUBLICANS MUST FINALLY GET TOUGH!
“We can’t secure the Border because of the Democrats historic level of Obstruction. The Presidents fed up with this. His agenda is working. The economy is growing at twice the rate it did under Obama. We’ve nominated and confirmed 68 Federal Judges, 26 Court of Appeals Judges….
….The thing that’s lacking is we can’t properly secure the Border because of the Democrats historic level of Obstruction.” Senator David Perdue of Georgia.
We protect the countries of the Middle East, they would not be safe for very long without us, and yet they continue to push for higher and higher oil prices! We will remember. The OPEC monopoly must get prices down now!
Financial and jobs numbers are fantastic. There are plenty of new, high paying jobs available in our great and very vibrant economy. If you are not happy where you are, start looking – but also remember, our economy is only getting better. Vote in Midterms!
Ohio Governor
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/09/ohio-governor-race-of-day.html
Donald Trump is on the ground in North Carolina actually mixing with people and talking to them about the storm …..having the media sending out images of him without being in the ‘bubble’….The North Carolina Democratic Governor is with him….
POLITICO
@politico
President Trump is in North Carolina speaking to locals affected by Hurricane Florence….
Twitter.…Video
I would like to announce that I am a White male and I do not feel that I am being discriminated against.
Thank You…..
But there ARE others out there that don’t feel the same way….
Yes,and they are almost exclusively Republicans.
That mass shooting in Maryland has ended with 4 dead including the female shooter and 7 injured ….
Female mass shooting suspect are rare…
More…
Morning….
The Red Sox clinched their third straight American League East title on Thursday night, defeating the Yankees, 11-6, in New York.
Roll Call elections analyst Nathan L. Gonzales has a dozen updates to his House ratings, all in favor of Democrats. Watch the video for more on Republicans’ efforts this September to discredit Democrats in key races as the midterm election is now just seven weeks away.Here’s a full list of the ratings changes:• Florida’s 6th District from Solid Republican —> Likely Republican• Florida’s 7th from Leans Democratic —> Likely Democratic• Florida’s 15th from Solid Republican —> Likely Republican• Iowa’s 1st from Toss-up —> Tilts Democratic• Iowa’s 3rd from Tilts Republican —> Toss-up• Kansas’ 3rd from Tilts Republican —> Toss-up• Maine’s 2nd from Leans Republican —> Tilts Republican• Minnesota’s 7th from Likely Democratic —> Solid Democratic• New Jersey’s 3rd from Tilts Republican —> Toss-up• New Mexico’s 2nd from Leans Republican —> Tilts Republican• New York’s 27th from Likely Republican —> Leans Republican• North Carolina’s 2nd from Likely Republican —> Leans Republican…
Source….
Cleveland Browns beat the Jets….
Sorry for the Jets but Mayfield deserves the win and props….
Morning All
Theresa May’s statement yesterday about Brexit negotiations with the EU. Text from the Prime Minister’s official web site:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-brexit-negotiations-statement-21-september-2018
Yesterday, I was in Salzburg for talks with European leaders.
I have always said that these negotiations would be tough – and they were always bound to be toughest in the final straight.
While both sides want a deal, we have to face up to the fact that – despite the progress we have made – there are two big issues where we remain a long way apart.
The first is our economic relationship after we have left.
Here, the EU is still only offering us two options.
The first option would involve the UK staying in the European Economic Area and a customs union with the EU.
In plain English, this would mean we’d still have to abide by all the EU rules, uncontrolled immigration from the EU would continue and we couldn’t do the trade deals we want with other countries.
That would make a mockery of the referendum we had two years ago.
The second option would be a basic free trade agreement for Great Britain that would introduce checks at the Great Britain/EU border. But even worse, Northern Ireland would effectively remain in the Customs Union and parts of the Single Market, permanently separated economically from the rest of the UK by a border down the Irish Sea.
Parliament has already – unanimously – rejected this idea.
Creating any form of customs border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK would not respect that Northern Ireland is an integral part of the United Kingdom, in line with the principle of consent, as set out clearly in the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.
It is something I will never agree to – indeed, in my judgement it is something no British Prime Minister would ever agree to. …
The second issue is connected to the first. We both agree that the Withdrawal Agreement needs to include a backstop to ensure that if there’s a delay in implementing our new relationship, there still won’t be a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
But the EU is proposing to achieve this by effectively keeping Northern Ireland in the Customs Union.
As I have already said, that is unacceptable. We will never agree to it. It would mean breaking up our country.
We will set out our alternative that preserves the integrity of the UK. And it will be in line with the commitments we made back in December – including the commitment that no new regulatory barriers should be created between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK unless the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly agree….
More at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-brexit-negotiations-statement-21-september-2018
The Brit’s have troubles ,,..
Things are NOT as simple as they appear to be…..
Good Morning Folks….
Tiger Woods has won his first tournamentsince 2013….
NY Giants win their first game this season!
The Republican Party now has a 45% favorabilty rating.Its the highest it’s had in seven years and has leaped nine points since last year at this time.
This heightened rating has been driven almost exclusively by Republicans view of their party and by more favorable views by so called Republican leaning “independents “(in other words Republicans who don’t like to call themselves Republicans or what I call ,moral cowards).
You might be surprised about this if you are one of the thousands who come here for your information (haha).Here, you are told how Republicans don’t “really” support Party Leader Donald Trump,that he is constantly losing support , that Republicans don’t support him “strongly,” and other rubbish.
The truth is Republicans are prouder of their party than they’ve been in years and why not?They have a Leader that is saying what they always really believed and if others find his language boorish and abusive?Screw em.”We believe in our party,” we believe in our leadership” and “we believe in our President,”they’re saying.
The Republicans are proud!
The hardcore GOPer’s would probably jump off a cliff for Trump who never would…..
I have posted here SEVERAL times pieces that CLEARLY SHOW that a good amount of indies that voted for Obama and then switched to Trump have started to switch back
I also have posted several pieces that point to people IDed as GOPer’s NOT LOOKING TO VOTE FOR Republicans because of Trump…
The often quoted figure of 85% support for Trump is just a media reliance on simple narratives
In fact Republicans in the House are acknowledging that they will become the minority party come next year and they ARE worried about the Senate also
That is NOT what guys who think a Red wave is possible
The “pieces” you have posted are opinion pieces.
Trump remains overwhelmingly popular among Republicans as Every poll bears out.
And now we have one that shows that with Trump as their leader The Republican Party is more popular than its been in years.
You dont Like these polls so you ignore them.
Typical.
We continue to disagree on this how many people actually approve and would vote for him…..
We do agree that Trump IS THE GOP theses days
And THAT is the question for the Nov election
DSD made a good point before though
While Trump acts out?
The cabinet members he has in place quietly go about the business of cutting things out with political hacksaws
Yeah Ben Carson@ HUD , Ryan Zinke @ Interior, Betsy Devon @ Education…
They’re all doing great “jobs.”
Good God what utter foolishness,
For Trump and the ‘Right’?
You bet they are doing a great job
For the rest of America?
Mostly not i’d Think
Not with +50% of Americans NOT approving Trump’s actions…
Rhode Island Governor
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/09/rhode-island-governor-race-of-day.html
First Rhode Island Governor’s debate of 2018 on Thursday night at 7 p.m. EDT on WPRI-TV (CBS):
https://www.wpri.com/politics/eyewitness-news-debate-ri-s-race-for-governor/1471729408
Despite the vocally-expressed wishes of almost everyone else, both Gov. Gina Raimondo (D) and her Republican challenger Allan Fung, mayor of Cranston, steadfastly refused to hold any debates at all, in public or on television, during the primary campaigns that ended two weeks ago on Thursday, Sept. 12th.
The only pre-primary debate of any kind was among the Republican candidates (Mayor Fung, House Minority Leader Rep. Patricia Morgan, and a businessman, Giovanni Feroce) on a weekday morning on an obscure, low-power radio station in Woonsocket that doesn’t reach the whole state.
In addition to Gov. Raimondo (D) and Mayor Fung (R), this week’s debate will include a former House Republican leader, Joe Trillo (running as an independent), who was chairman of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign in Rhode Island. Rep. Trillo has so far failed to win more than 10% in any public opinion poll of the general electorate.
Morning….
I’ll have a post a bit later on Trump being laughed at (Not in the positive) by leaders of the world in the UN General Assembly hall….
November 6 Midterm election is 42 days away…..
Bill Cosby sentenced to 3-10 years after sexual misconduct conviction…..
Rhode Island U.S. Senate
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/09/rhode-island-us-senate-race-of-day.html
Good Morning All….
Expect the fireworks to continue about Kavanaugh and his growing history back in the day…
RealClearPolitics’ average presidential disapproval spread shrinks again to – 8.6 % (43.8 % – 52.4 %).
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html
Slight blips don’t worry me, but the margin has been steadily closing in Trumps’s favor. It had only last week been something like – 11.5 %.
Complacency is hardly warranted — and this is true now even if there will never be a point where all those frantic fundraising appeals would not carry that frantic, hysterical END-OF-CIVILIZATON tone.
South Carolina Governor:
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/2018/09/south-carolina-governor-race-of-day.html
Good Morning…..
More fireworks today I suspect…..
Here’s a Shocker!
Jeff Flake is going to vote to confirm Kavanaugh.Wow!Didnt see that coming!
Yep. Another “Never Trumper”…supporting the Trump Republican agenda and Trump’s hand picked personal get out of jail free card.
The “NeverTrumper” movement was never anything more than a few Republicans who don’t like Trump.
Big deal.
So they don’t “like” him.
The media and James,of course, has constantly misrepresented this group as something it wasn’t.
These are all still conservative Republicans.Donald Trump,despite the foolishness you read here, is a conservative Republicn (his past has absolutely no relevance to what he is today) .So why the feigned surprise when they support their fellow”conservative?”
And who gives a damn that they don’t “vote” for him?Whoopee!Talk about gross irrelevancies.
And yes these “ NeverTrumpers” are members of apolitical party led and dominated by Donald Trump.
That’s the simple reality.
The simplism and sore-loserism is in full display here.
If Flake believes something is the right thing to do, what would be the point of doing the opposite just to spite Trump? That’s not leadership and that’s not correct.
The bottom line is that any fair-minded person has no choice but to reach a conclusion that there was simply no evidence presented to show that Brett Kavanaugh did anything improper. Those who are going to vote against him, were already going to vote against him. It’s sad that there needs to be a façade as a diversion amid that.
Trump has consumed the minds of everyone on the left. Instead of offering a rationale, principle based alternative to him, you have let him do it to you, fallen into all of his traps, and as long as you do, you will deserve what happens.
True opposition to Trumpism will have to be led by others, but that will not include maligning opponents unfairly. Leave that to Trump and the Left.
Somehow, I don’t remember the charges from the left that the GOP Senators (or citizens such as myself) who supported the confirmation of Obama judicial nominees to the Supreme Court had turned into “Obama Republicans.”
Did you support Merrick Garland for the 2016 vacancy CG?
Actually, yes, I said he should be confirmed after Trump got nominated.
In retrospect, I was wrong. This was decided in the Presidential election. I did not vote for Trump, but enough people did because they wanted him and not his opponent to name the next Supreme Court Justice.
The Biden Rule speaks for itself. The Democrats would have done exactly the same thing, especially if a Justice from the opposite spectrum of the President died suddenly.
But yes, clearly what is happening to Kavanaugh is not about people believing he assaulted anyone. I know deep down none of you actually believe that, but about revenge for Garland and revenge for the last election.
Everybody on the Republican side was upfront from Day 1 as to that vacancy. Nobody denied what they were doing and why. Nobody felt they had to invent some sort of “scandal” to use falsely against Garland.
I am willing to be perfectly consistent on this. If a vacancy occurs on the Supreme Court during the year 2020, I believe that we should wait until the next President is elected, that same year, to determine who gets to make that nomination.
“Kiah Morris, the only African-American woman in the Vermont House of Representatives, announced her resignation, a month after she ended her re-election bid because of what she described as a yearslong campaign of racially motivated harassment and threats,” the New York Times reports.
As Morris told the Washington Post: “The sacrifices were becoming too great.”
More…
(America 2018)
Facebook Inc said on Friday that hackers had discovered a security flaw that allowed them to take over up to 50 million user accounts, a major breach that adds to a bruising year for the company’s reputation.
Facebook, which has more than 2 billion monthly active users, said it has been unable to determine yet whether the attackers misused any of the affected accounts or stole private information…..
More…
Post coming later on this….
AP Politics
Judge rules Democrats in Congress can sue Trump over emolumentsPost coming later on this….
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California raises the age to buy shoot guns and rifles to 21 from 18….
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