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Latest Articles: politics and politicians
2016 Selection: 1/3 of All Campaign Donations Funded by Just 60 Elite Individuals
Post Date: 2015-08-06 11:18:13 by Deckard
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Campaign finance reform ain’t gonna cut it. New SuperPAC rules have erased the limits on cash that donors can give to candidates, allowing the massive amounts of money to pile up even quicker. Moreover, the political donations are very revealing. There is no doubt that the will of the people has been sidelined in favor of the biggest pockets. Fewer and fewer individuals are underwriting the costs of campaigns, and making it a prerequisite to get cozy with big corporate donors, and edging out the influence of the every man. The Associated Press just reviewed the donations so far for the 2016 presidential cycle, and found stunning results – that just 60 individuals have given more ...
WaPo: Bill Clinton encouraged Trump to play a bigger role in the GOP in phone call shortly before campaign launch
Post Date: 2015-08-05 20:08:05 by Tooconservative
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Who else would a conservative folk hero turn to for wise counsel while contemplating a run for president but Bill Clinton? It’s cute that WaPo thinks this is a big “get,” as if it’ll discourage a single Trump supporter from backing him. The first rule of political hero worship is that the hero can do no wrong. Four Trump allies and one Clinton associate familiar with the exchange said that Clinton encouraged Trump’s efforts to play a larger role in the Republican Party and offered his own views of the political landscape… Trump took the call from his office in Trump Tower in New York, according to the four allies, who requested anonymity because they are not ...
Justin Raimondo--Rand Paul: Fraud, Failure, Liar
Post Date: 2015-08-05 19:38:21 by Operation 40
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As the smoke wafted up into the already smoggy Los Angeles air, a group of young libertarians watched as Jayel Aheram burned his “Stand With Rand” t-shirts. He had two of them, a token of his former esteem for the “libertarian-ish” presidential candidate and Senator from Kentucky, whose father had inspired young Jayel to identify as a libertarian and become active in the movement. A former Marine and Iraq war veteran, the now 31-year-old Aheram had phone-banked for Rand, and enthusiastically retweeted the Senator’s pronouncements on Twitter. He had even forked out $35 for those T-shirts – and now they were going up in flames as he and a group of young ...
Mr. Universe, Donald Trump, takes on The Nine Dwarves
Post Date: 2015-08-05 05:26:49 by Tooconservative
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Why is it that the only time Republicans ever do anything interesting, they get dragged into it kicking and screaming? Ross Perot and his fever charts were the bane of the country club set. Sarah Palin and her hockey mom lipstick gave them the vapors in their Brooks Brothers wingtips.Now comes Donald Trump, in what is sure to be an epic debate faceoff in Cleveland Thursday night. The Donald versus everybody! Mr. Universe takes on The Nine Dwarves! The Boss schools nine quaking little Apprentices!In your mind, you can see the lighted-up marquee outside the arena with searchlights scanning the skies and hear the pro wrestling announcer intoning the combatants with grand hoopla. Truly, a ...
Poll: Trump Crushes Bush and Walker Combined; Favorability Rockets to 52%.
Post Date: 2015-08-03 22:46:06 by out damned spot
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Because of the small sample size, there were a lot of questions surrounding Monday’s Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll that showed Donald Trump leading the Republican primary field and, interestingly enough, appearing to siphon votes away from establishment candidates like Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)80% . A Monmouth University poll, also released Monday and with a somewhat larger sample size and smaller margin of error, shows Trump in first place, beating both Scott Walker and Jeb Bush combined. The poll puts Trump in first place with 26% support. Second place Jeb Bush and third place Scott Walker sit at 12% and 11%, respectively. That is what you call a blow out. The ...
Exclusive–John Boehner Embarrassed: His Whip Team Couldn’t Find Votes to Reelect Him Speaker Last Week
Post Date: 2015-08-02 22:52:27 by cranky
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House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) had been planning to call up on the House floor last week a measure from Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) that would have removed him as Speaker of the House if it succeeded—intending to embarrass Meadows—but abandoned the plan after his entire leadership structure learned that they did not have the votes to re-elect him as Speaker before the August recess. “[House Majority Leader Kevin] McCarthy was making phone calls—he was whipping it—and so was [House Majority Whip] Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA),” a senior conservative movement leader who’s had many personal and direct discussions with various House GOP members about this ...
Trump: I Will Consider Third-Party Run if GOP Doesn’t Treat Me ‘Fairly’
Post Date: 2015-08-02 15:02:35 by cranky
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Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would “certainly not give up” the possibility of running as a third-party candidate if he is not treated “fairly” by the GOP. When asked if he would pledge not to run as third-party candidate, Trump said, “I’m leading in every poll, in some cases by a tremendous margin. People who know me aren’t surprised. If I’m treated fairly by the Republican Party I would no interest in doing that. If I’m not treated fairly by the Republican Party, I very well might consider that, I would certainly not give that up.” Click for Full Text!
'Don't Let My Daughter Die, Governor!' Drug Warrior Chris Christie Promises to Escalate the War on Weed
Post Date: 2015-08-01 12:45:34 by Deckard
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If elected president, Christie says he'd stomp out legal weed. As governor, he's already done just that. Earlier this week, Reason's Jacob Sullum wrote about New Jersey Governor and GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie's pledge to enforce the federal ban on recreational marijuana, ignoring the will of the states that've legalized cannabis sales. This isn't the first time Christie has disregarded state law in his crusade against legal pot. As governor, he has made it all but impossible for sick Garden State residents to obtain marijuana, even though it was legalized for medical use before he took office. I covered that story for Reason TV back in ...
The astonishing weakness of Hillary Clinton [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-07-31 10:43:17 by Tooconservative
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Hillary Clinton is as unpopular as she ever has been. Her favorability ratings have fallen to just 40 percent. Her campaign is already heading south, even though she has serious advantages over everyone else in the campaign, both Democratic and Republican. Her opponents in the Democratic field do not pose a plausible mathematical threat. Bernie Sanders can attract huge crowds in college towns, but he is going nowhere with the African-American voters who would be key to building an anti-Clinton Democratic primary coalition. Martin O'Malley's record, shaped by his transition from the Baltimore mayoralty to the Maryland statehouse, has made him radioactive to an activist Democratic ...
Insiders warn Jeb: Don't engage with Trump ["don't wrestle with a pig"]
Post Date: 2015-07-31 08:33:44 by Tooconservative
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When Jeb Bush and Donald Trump share a debate stage next week, Bush needs to ignore the real estate mogul at all costs —and if that fails, laugh him off. That’s the advice given by more than half of the POLITICO Caucus, our weekly, bipartisan survey of the top activists, operatives and strategists in Iowa and New Hampshire. “The old maxim applies: Never wrestle with a pig,” counseled a New Hampshire Republican. “You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.” At the first GOP primary debate, slated for Aug. 6 in Cleveland, Bush and eight other Republicans will share the stage with Trump, the bombastic businessman who is leading the Republican field in recent ...
Trump Goes Mushy, Incoherent on Immigration
Post Date: 2015-07-30 17:21:09 by cranky
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Has Donald Trump made his first serious boo-boo of the campaign? For weeks, the media have trumpeted the supposed death of the Trump campaign. First, they claimed, Trump’s campaign imploded on launch thanks to his comments about illegal immigration. Then they claimed that Trump was finished because of his slap at Senator Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)’s (R-AZ) war service. But neither of those comments alienated Trump’s base – he’s maintained his seven point lead over Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in the 2016 presidential polls, with no other candidate breaking double-digits in the polls. In fact, his original comments about illegal immigration launched his candidacy to ...
Ralph Nader Blasts Huffington Post’s “Censorship” of Trump Political News
Post Date: 2015-07-28 23:15:40 by Hondo68
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In an op-ed published Monday by New York Daily News, five-time independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader criticized The Huffington Post's decision to file all Donald Trump related campaign news under its entertainment content category rather than its politics section. Ralph Nader. Photo credit: Sage Ross. In an op-ed for New York Daily News which sought to identify a “bright line beyond which [mass media] censorship takes hold,” Ralph Nader criticized The Huffington Post’s decision to file all news about Donald Trump’s political campaign under its entertainment category rather than covering Trump in its politics section like it does for the rest of the 2016 ...
Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn Push Through Voice Vote to Fund Planned Parenthood, Protect Obama’s Iran Deal
Post Date: 2015-07-28 14:15:23 by cranky
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On the floor of the U.S. Senate on Sunday evening, something remarkable—a little bit insider-y in Washington, but remarkable nonetheless—happened: The Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), his entire leadership team, and most of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate voice voted through measures to fund Planned Parenthood in its entirety and to help protect President Barack Obama’s nuclear arms deal with Iran. The reason the voice vote is significant is because McConnell, especially, and his Whip Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), purposefully launched what appears to be an unprecedented effort to duck accountability for their votes—and the votes of every other GOP ...
Bush, Walker, Paul in, Trump out of Voters First forum (The Donald bows out of NH debate)
Post Date: 2015-07-27 18:11:02 by Hondo68
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Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Rand Paul are in. Donald Trump is out.A total of 14 candidates will participate in the Voters First Republican Presidential Forum on Monday, Aug. 3, at St. Anselm College. The two-hour forum, intended to highlight the importance of the first-in-the-nation primary, along with the Iowa caucuses and South Carolina’s early primary.“I am in the North Country today,” Bush said Thursday, “meeting with voters about my message of reforming the culture in Washington. I’m looking forward to participating in the August 3rd forum. It’s clear it is a great opportunity to engage with Granite Staters about the important issues confronting the ...
Rick Perry unloads in speech: Trump is a cancer on conservatism [also Trump supporting Perry in 2012 race]
Post Date: 2015-07-22 20:03:30 by Tooconservative
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Rick Perry unloads in speech: Trump is a cancer on conservatism and I will not stay silent on his mean-spirited politics I’ll quote a little but you’re better off reading the whole thing. There’ll be lots of media noise around it for the next few days, especially after Trump responds. And it’s a fine indictment of Hopenchange even apart from the Trump stuff. He’s trying to do two things here, picking a fight with the media’s favorite candidate to gain some reflected exposure and re-introducing himself to righties who disdain Trump but aren’t sure which way to go yet as an alternative. This is Perry telling Trump-haters, of which there are many, that their ...
Reflecting populism born of frustration [Trump]
Post Date: 2015-07-22 08:42:39 by Tooconservative
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There is a disturbance in American politics. But no one in the political class seems to be pinpointing the correct source. Donald Trump gets all of the credit for it from journalists, pundits and academics. They could not be more wrong. They are looking only at the surface, seeing the response to his harangues as an affirmation of the man. If they looked beyond the cartoonish image of Trump, they would understand that the true disturbance is the frustration of Americans, not the bluster of one man. The same goes for the surge by Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont against Hillary Clinton on the Democrats' side. Clinton's other competitors — Virginia's Jim Webb, a former U.S. ...
How Trump Is Affecting The GOP Field
Post Date: 2015-07-22 08:26:29 by Tooconservative
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A rich businessman with a history of not supporting Republicans while holding liberal positions on things like immigration and big government health care schemes combined with a propensity to say head shaking things. But enough about Mitt Romney, this is about Donald Trump. A new poll is out showing Trump up to almost 25% "support." I put support in scare quotes because, he's not going to get 25% in any actual contest. 6+ months or so out from Iowa and New Hampshire and he's not leading in either state. So let's not even pretend this is about winning. That's not to say that he's not having an impact. So here's a look at how I see him affecting each of the ...
Trump gives out Lindsey Graham’s cell phone number on live TV
Post Date: 2015-07-21 16:24:22 by Tooconservative
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Like I say, this was a cell phone number, not Graham’s Senate office number, which of course is public. Must be a new tactic he’s trying out. If he was intent on doxxing every famous person who’s called him a jackass, as Graham did last night on CNN, he would have started selling maps to Jon Stewart’s house years ago. “He doesn’t seem like a very bright guy. He actually probably seems to me not as bright as Rick Perry. I think Rick Perry probably is smarter than Lindsey Graham,” Trump added, riffing on prior insults he had lobbed at the former Texas governor.Then Trump transitioned to an embarrassing anecdote, which the billionaire real estate developer ...
Trump to Iowa evangelicals: I’m not sure I’ve ever asked God for forgiveness [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-07-21 01:53:29 by Tooconservative
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Take it from an atheist: Even an atheist could have faked a better answer than this. How is it that this guy, with all his billions, didn’t think to hire anyone to teach him to lie convincingly about faith when addressing an audience of Christian conservatives, the key to winning the Iowa caucuses? He should have called the White House. They could have hooked him up with whoever coached Obama on his fake opposition to gay marriage in 2008. Byron York and the NYT are right that this answer will end up damaging Trump more than his shot at McCain’s war service will. A senior Iowa Republican who was in the room, sitting with a group of grassroots activists as Trump spoke, was ...
McCain and the POW Cover-Up The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam.
Post Date: 2015-07-21 00:06:25 by out damned spot
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Eighteen months ago, TAC publisher Ron Unz discovered an astonishing account of the role the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, had played in suppressing information about what happened to American soldiers missing in action in Vietnam. Below, we present in full Sydney Schanberg’s explosive story. John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the ...
Veterans' Group: Trump Strong Supporter of US Military
Post Date: 2015-07-19 15:27:15 by lana
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Veterans' Group: Trump Strong Supporter of US Military Saturday, 18 Jul 2015 10:49 PM Veterans for a Strong America, an Iraq and Afghanistan veterans organization dedicated to mobilizing Americans to communicate the importance of a robust national defense, issued the following statement Saturday in support of presidential candidate Donald Trump: “Donald Trump was recently extremely well received in Arizona while discussing national security and border security. Senator John McCain’s reaction to Mr. Trump’s success in Arizona is instructive in that it belies a concern the Senator clearly has about how his stance on issues like immigration are perceived by his ...
Trump: McCain Should Apologize For Calling People Worried About Illegal Immigration Crazies
Post Date: 2015-07-19 15:22:36 by lana
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Trump: McCain Should Apologize For Calling People Worried About Illegal Immigration Crazies Sunday, on ABC’s “This Week,” Republican presidential candidate and billionaire business mogul Donald Trump refused to apologize for his comments about Senator Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) 43% ’s (R-AZ), adding that it’s McCain who owes an apology. Saturday, at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa Trump said McCain is “a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured” Trump said via phone Sunday morning that he doesn’t owe McCain an apology, and “I’m very disappointed in Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) 43% , because the vets are ...
The Voting Booth – A Suggestion Box for Slaves
Post Date: 2015-07-19 14:52:00 by Deckard
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“If you don’t vote, you can’t complain” is one of the most ridiculous, illogical statements I’ve ever heard. The only people who rightfully can complain are those who choose not to be a part of the political process. Many people who have decided not to vote have awakened to the realization that the people they “elect” will be expected to initiate force against their friends, family and neighbors–a criminal activity–and those non-voters have chosen not to be an accessory to crime. To those who claim to be a part of the “freedom movement,” please understand that you shouldn’t have to band with others to petition ‘Master’ ...
John Mccain Exposed By Vietnam Vets And Pows
Post Date: 2015-07-18 23:33:56 by out damned spot
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Poster Comment:John McCain betrayed his fellow POWs.
Trump creates outrage in Iowa claiming that John McCain wasn't a war hero because he was a captured POW – and dodges questions about his own Vietnam War draft deferments [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-07-18 13:59:06 by cranky
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Trump couldn't remember which foot had the bone spur that brought his medical deferment from the Vietnam draftHe blasted John McCain on stage in Iowa for calling his Phoenix audience 'crazies,' and denied he was a war hero because the North Cietnamese captured himTrump had initially wowed the cattle-call crowd by talking about his religion for the first time in-depthRick Perry quickly called for Trump to quit his campaign and said he's unfit to be commander-in-chief Trump clarified: 'I have great respect for all those who serve in our military including those that weren’t captured and are also heroes' Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina, George Pataki, ...
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