Among the bills blockaded by Harry Reid’s Senate are any and every attempt made by the Republican House to pass a budget (as required by law) and/or curb the runaway spending that is fast bringing on Debtmageddon. Have you see the Debt Clock lately?
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Filed under Barack Obama, Budget, Democrats, National Debt, Republicans
July 16, 2014: Senator Blunt Debunks Democrats’ False Claims [13:28]
On Wednesday, July 16, 2014, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) spoke on the U.S. Senate floor to debunk false claims made by Senate Democrats regarding the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Supreme Court ruling, which found that the Obama Administration infringed on Americans’ First Amendment right to freedom of religion.
This speech is longish (13+ minutes) but very much worth listening to, because he explains just how much the Democrat Party has CHANGED in just the past ten years.
“Everybody is entitled to his own opinion. But everybody is not entitled to his own facts.”
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Filed under Abortion, Democrats, Harry Reid, Hobby Lobby, Obamacare, Republicans, Supreme Court, U.S. Senate
Fourteen plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit in federal court over the June 24 primary election runoff between Senator Thad Cochran and Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel. One of the plaintiffs, True the Vote, says it has been inundated with reports of voter fraud from across Mississippi.
The lawsuit asks the court to grant immediate access to designated county representatives to inspect the poll books and ballots, give them the review time they are permitted by law, and allow them to uphold their responsibility to Mississippi voters.
Cochran won allegedly by convincing thousands of Black Democrats to cross over and vote for him in the runoff.
Mississippi has open primaries. In closed primary states, voters may vote only in the primaries of their registered party. In open primary states, each voter has the right to vote in any party’s primary, but may not vote in more than one per race.
McDaniel says his people have already found over 1,500 votes in Hinds County and another 600-800 in Pine Belt in which individuals voted in the Democrat primary, then voted again in the GOP primary. That’s more than 2,000 illegal votes in just two of Mississippi’s 82 counties.
Cochran, who won the primary by only 7,000 votes, called the allegations “baseless and false.”
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Major lawsuit over Senate race ‘shenanigans’ – July 1, 2014
Filed under Republicans, Tea Party, Vote Fraud
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H/t Pistol Pete
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/381573/whiteface-vandalism-republican-candidates-sign-tim-cavanaugh
Filed under Democrats, Race Relations, Republicans
Democrats say they are the party of the people who CARE. Bull. They’ve been in charge in Washington since January of 2007. They OWN the pain of all the Americans who are unemployed and underemployed because of their ineptness and job-killing policies, but they spend most of their time spewing lies about Republicans.
Legislation must be passed by BOTH the House of Representatives AND the Senate, and THEN it must be signed by the President before becoming law. The political party that holds majority control of two (or three) of these three entities has dominance over policy.
For 2007-2008, when the recession began, Democrats had the majority in both the House and the Senate. Republican President Bush gets blamed for the recession, but it was Democrats (including Obama in the Senate) who were calling the shots in Washington.
For 2009-2010, Democrats not only gained the White House, but also enjoyed large majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. With a super majority, Obamacrats were free to do anything they wanted to fix the economy. But while other nations affected by the global recession were showing strong job recovery, the United States experiened more and worse job losses. The Obamacrat Super Majority continued to blame Bush and the eeeeeeevil Republicans, all of whom were mysteriously powerful despite being (a) retired and (b) in the minority.
For 2011-2012, Democrats had the White House and the Senate, while Republicans had the House of Representatives. Obamacrats continued to blame Bush and the eeeeevil Republicans in the House for blocking economic recovery.
For 2013-2014, Democrats again have the White House and the Senate, while Republicans have just the House of Representatives.
- Since the current session of Congress began in January 2013, the Republican-majority House of Representatives has passed FORTY JOBS BILLS.
- The Democrat-majority Senate under Harry Reid has refused to discuss or vote on any of them!
- Yet Obamacrats continue to blame the Republican-majority House for blocking economic recovery.
- (Obama has also blamed the weather, ATM machines, an earthquake in Japan and numerous other absurdities, none of which touches the real issue, which is his inept leadership.)
Below is a graph comparing the depth of job losses and the number of months to recovery for all post-WWII recessions. I have highlighted four of these and given the month count to recovery for each. I chose:
Below is a graph comparing long-term joblessness from 1969 to present. Until Obamacrats took over, long-term joblessness never topped short-term, even when overall joblessness rose. Thanks to people like Obama, Reid and Pelosi, long-term joblessness not only topped short-term, but actually sky-rocketed to unprecedented levels.
So yeah … you hard-core Democrats … you just keep right on believing that yours is the party of the people who CARE, cuz that’ll be way easier for you than facing up to the fact that you’re so filled with hate and prejudice for your fellow Americans who vote (R) that you can’t even see straight.
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Filed under Democrats, Republicans, U.S. Senate, Unemployment
Below: An older edition of Obamacrats Know Nothing. He’s just the FBI Director. Sheesh. Those kooky Republicans, thinking he should know anything or come before Congress prepared to answer questions.
Filed under Democrats, IRS, Republicans, Trey Gowdy, U.S. Congress
I have been thinking a lot lately about the deep-seated prejudice many voters have towards the Republican brand.
I had it, although I wasn’t aware of it until the Right to Life Party folded and sent me a letter recommending I register Republican. The suggestion to register Republican actually made me feel sick to my stomach. It shocked me no end. I had NO IDEA I had any prejudice buried in my subconscious, much less one so unthinking or so powerful as to make my stomach literally churn.
I’m betting a lot of disillusioned Democrats are in that same place right now.
I registered Republican so I could vote for Pro-Life candidates in the primaries. But it took me making a real effort to learn about the GOP’s history to move me from acceptance to comfort to pride in self-identifying with the GOP. I’m not proud of the RINOs, goodness knows, but it’s not about scum like John McCain. It’s about the principles and the mission. And it’s about reality, because no third party candidate is going to win.
My concern this election season is that disillusioned Democrats may very well be disgusted with their leadership. But will they vote Republican?
As long as they harbor the “Republicans are horrible people, so even a corrupt moronic Democrat is preferable”, I’d have to say, “Probably not.”
And that means we’re going to continue to have trouble winning. So let’s put some effort and advertising dollars into educating the public about GOP history, especially where it counters the “rich, selfish, old, white guys” meme the Left pushes.
Filed under Democrats, Republicans
Pistol Pete’s summary of the primary election is @ https://polination.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/petes-pagewhat-just-happened/.
The following is excerpted from my Fox News Update email:
Eric Cantor lost his primary to Dave Brat, a small college economics professor. Cantor is House Majority Leader and 13-year incumbent Representative for Virginia’s 7th congressional district. This is the first time ever that a sitting House majority leader lost a primary.
So what did happen?
Brat ran as Cantor’s “term limit.” Folks are deeply fed up with the corrupt status quo in Washington. Also, Cantor has made himself part of the anti-Tea Party effort to shift the Republican party back toward more conservative principles. Cantor also flip-flopped on immigration, which just deepened voter outrage about the business as usual cess pool that is Washington, D.C. politics.
And next fall?
Brat’s Democrat opponent, is a professor at the same college. He had little support from the Democrat machine while they assumed he’d be running against the incumbent. Since Brat’s win, they’re helping him; but the national Tea Party groups are coming in for Brat as well. This should be fun. Plus awkward at college staff meetings.
Filed under David Brat, Democrats, Elections, Eric Cantor, Immigration, Mythbusting, Republicans, Tea Party
Posted by Pistol Pete
The original plan was to make today an open thread because yours truly was getting pretty tired of all the crap. It is so rare that there is anything for us to truly feel good about I couldn’t pass the opportunity up. The full effect of what happened last night has not been fully manifested yet. I feel a pretty good rant coming on,so grab a refreshment and get comfortable.
For the last six long,agonizing years we have been forced to stand by helplessly while a deranged Kenyan dickweed has run roughshod over the legislative and judicial branches of the government. We keep waiting,in vain,for the republican party to show some political courage and stand up to him. They stand there with their thumbs hooked in their vest pockets and huff that they’ll have to pass a resolution if he keeps breaking the law. Then they turn around and tell the base “we will destroy you!”
They had a suspicion that the base wasn’t happy but they figured we were as ignorant and unprincipled as those on the liberal plantation. We’d still vote for whoever the party put up. Guess again. They don’t understand if it takes years to establish a party loyal to our founding principles then so be it.
Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity were,as expected,all over this last night. Among other guests,Megyn had Carl Cameron and Brit Hume. I like both of them,but they seem to have spent too long in DC. Cameron posits that Brat won because it was raining yesterday. Fox News Channel’s Washington-based chief political correspondent Carl Cameron blamed the rain for Eric Cantor’s loss to Dave Brat.
“It’s worth noting that the weather was foul here yesterday and today as well. So some of it may have been nature helping out David Brat.”
What he didn’t appreciate was that this was what I call a “broken glass” election. That’s one where you would crawl on your hands and knees over broken glass to get to the voting booth.
Brit Hume insisted that without ‘immigration reform’ to tout that the republicans have no chance of winning the White House in 2016. He is loathe to call it amnesty but that is precisely what it is. The so-called “pathway to citizenship” is as phony as Obama’s birth certificate. These illegals have no desire to become citizens. They want the jobs,the free housing,medical,food stamps and welfare. If Brit ever sojourned near a Latin neighborhood he’d see the sign in every storefront window announcing wire service to Mexico.
The FOX News hosts are fuming over Dave Bratt’s upset tonight over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Brit Hume led the charge tonight:
“The margin is amazing… The conventional wisdom on this Megyn is already begun to form. It goes this way. That this is bad news long term for the Republicans and great news for Democrats. It is argued by some that immigration reform now will never pass with Republicans who were very much chastened by what happened to Eric Cantor.”
Even Blabbermouth put down her mayonnaise to chime in:
The left had to chirp about Linda Grahamnesty winning his primary last night and bragged about he won because he supports amnesty. Truth is,he ran against 6 candidates. The Tea Party in South Carolina is very territorial and the four could not agree on one candidate to endorse so they split the vote. Grahamnesty also actively solicited democrats to cross over and vote for him. About 20% of his total was from democrat switchovers who will now switch back. Truth is, Linda is just damn lucky. In 2010 the dems ran a convicted drug dealer against him and now he managed to avoid a runoff thanks to democrat shenanigans.
However,there was another primary in the Palmetto State yesterday. Tim Scott… you know,the one the NAALCP accused of being a puppet with the racist white slavemasters pulling his strings? Yeah,that one. He got 90% of the vote in his primary. He garnered more than 60,000 more votes than McCain’s butt boy.
http://weaselzippers.us/189350-tim-scott-running-in-his-own-primary-in-south-carolina-outperformed-lindsey-graham-by-nearly-60000-votes/
BEEN WAITING TO USE THIS ONE:
The thing that terrifies me now is what will happen between November and January. If the democrats do,indeed,lose their majority in the Senate expect them to try to shove some parting gifts through before they go to work as lobbyists. This is what happened here in Illinois. On the very last day of the lame duck the dems passed a 67% income tax increase. They got no republican votes. The single vote it passed by was bought from an outgoing dem who got a cushy advisory job making mid-six figures to do basically nothing. That’s how they do it here in the land of the undead voter.
Filed under David Brat, Democrats, Elections, Eric Cantor, Lindsey Graham, Media Bias, Republicans, Tea Party
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