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Obama’s Trade Bill Gets Boost as Mitch McConnell Vows Vote ‘Soon’
Post Date: 2015-05-06 08:30:14 by cranky
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The Senate majority leader says he has been working with the White House on passing the deal. The U.S. Senate will take up legislation to give President Barack Obama the trade negotiating authority he wants “very soon,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said. “It’s been almost an out of body experience but we’ve been working closely with the White House,” McConnell told reporters Tuesday as he said the trade bill would follow action on two other measures. “We’re working together to try to get it across the finish line.” Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, a foe of “fast-track” trade authority, called on Republicans to first ...
Four Reasons Rand Paul Won't Win
Post Date: 2015-05-06 02:40:45 by Gatlin
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If you went only by the media, you'd think that Rand Paul was a legitimate contender to win the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Time magazine put him on its cover, calling him "The Most Interesting Man in Politics." Politico magazine said --literally--the same thing. Top Obama aides agree. In fact, huge swaths of the media concur that Sen. Paul is "interesting." But it's not clear why, as an electoral proposition, there's anything interesting about him at all. Here are four reasons Paul is likely to underperform in 2016 and almost certainly won't win the GOP nomination. (1) Rand Paul is a conventional political dynasty candidate. People seem ...
Iowa Caucus Kingmaker Assesses 2016 GOP Field
Post Date: 2015-05-03 08:15:18 by out damned spot
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Arguably the most important Republican presidential endorsement to precede the 2016 Iowa Caucuses will come from Bob Vander Plaats, who failed on three occasions to become governor of Iowa. And over here in the ‘nobody cares’ pile is Terry Branstad, Iowa’s current Republican head of state and the soon-to-be longest-serving governor in the history of this nation. How a man with that kind of stature can have zero impact on presidential politics is a solid lesson in pyrrhic victories. The reason for such a counter-intuitive reality is simple. It’s a matter of having convictions versus pursuing positions. Vander Plaats is a man of principle, who has repeatedly demonstrated ...
Paul says comments about Baltimore were misinterpreted
Post Date: 2015-05-02 19:21:41 by cranky
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In this April 18, 2015 file photo, Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks in Nashua, N.H. Paul built his presidential campaign on being {201c}a different kind of Republican,{201d} which has meant an outreach to minority voters. But Paul{2019}s comments about the riots in Baltimore following the death of an African-American man while in police custody have been criticized as out of touch for someone who has spent so much time seeking inroads with the black community. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul built his presidential campaign on being "a different kind of Republican," which has meant an outreach to minority voters. But Paul's comments about the riots in ...
Former GOP lawmaker blisters Texas Governor for ‘pandering to idiots’ over military exercises
Post Date: 2015-05-02 15:55:08 by Willie Green
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A 16-year Republican veteran of the Legislature wrote Gov. Greg Abbott saying he is appalled that the governor has given credence to a fringe group that fears the U.S. military would stage a take-over of Texas. Abbott has ordered the Texas state Guard to monitor a large-scale, eight-week military exercise this summer of special operation forces. Social media has pushed the conspiracy notion that the exercise, called Jade Helm 15, is a ruse to confiscate guns and declare martial law in hostile states. After citizens raised concerns, Abbott said the state Guard will keep tabs on the operation to ensure Texans that “their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil ...
DR. BEN CARSON: ‘HIGH LIKELIHOOD DIRECT TRAUMA’ OCCURRED TO FREDDIE GRAY
Post Date: 2015-05-01 21:56:40 by out damned spot
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Dr. Ben Carson, likely GOP presidential candidate, said, “I was happy to see that the prosecutor came out sooner rather than later with a statement about a tragic incident surrounded by significant clouds of suspicion.” His statement came after the announcement that six police officers will be criminally charged in the death of Freddie Gray, who died earlier this month while in police custody. As a former neurosurgeon, Carson discussed Gray’s fatal wound. “The type of injury incurred by Mr. Freddie Gray at the base of the cervical spine with significant damage to the spinal cord requires a great deal of direct pressure to that area,” Dr. Carson explained. ...
Frankenhillary, Bad at almost everything—and winning.
Post Date: 2015-05-01 12:46:39 by Tooconservative
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As Clinton scandals continue to mount and her credibility plummets, gleeful Republicans are quietly discussing what once seemed impossible: Hillary Clinton might not survive primary season, let alone make it all the way to Pennsylvania Avenue. That may well turn out to be the case. But it’s not because of the allegations about “Clinton cash” or deleted emails. Those are major political scandals, to be sure, but of a kind that a shameless Bill Clinton skated through easily during his own administration. The deeper problem is personal. As the veteran Democratic strategist Bob Shrum put it to me, rather forlornly, in an interview for my book, Clinton, Inc., Hillary Clinton ...
Elizabeth Warren on Hillary Clinton's embrace of her populist message: 'Eh'
Post Date: 2015-05-01 09:06:50 by A Pole
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Is Hillary Clinton co-opting Elizabeth Warren’s progressive message? Warren has a one-word answer: “Eh.” The Massachusetts senator and liberal hero added to her inscrutable initial response in an interview with the New Yorker: “She’s laying out her vision for the country and she deserves an opportunity to do that.” But the opaqueness of her answer will raise eyebrows about Warren’s role as a Democratic party powerbroker as she continues to put pressure on Clinton from the left. As Clinton turns towards populism to shore up the Democratic base in her run for the White House, her rhetoric increasingly sounds like Warren’s. [...] progressive ...
Carly Fiorina 'picking up speed' in Iowa, GOP activists say (surge)
Post Date: 2015-04-30 00:58:59 by Hondo68
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Republican Carly Fiorina speaks Saturday, April 25, 2015 at the Faith & Freedom Coalition Spring Kick Off at Point of Grace Church in Waukee.(Photo: Michael Zamora/The Register) So far, all the GOP presidential contenders who have tested the waters in Iowa have found the temperature toasty.Republican Carly Fiorina is the latest long shot to get a hero's welcome from conservative activists here.Last Wednesday, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO attracted the second-biggest crowd that Urbandale's Westside Conservative Club has seen in two presidential election cycles — this one and the previous one.Nearly 300 came to the Clinton County GOP's spring dinner Thursday night for ...
Jeb Bush Has The Cash, But Not The GOP Support
Post Date: 2015-04-29 19:48:46 by Hondo68
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush greets people after speaking at the First in the Nation Republican Leadership Summit on April 17 in Nashua, New Hampshire. Darren McCollester / Getty Images Jeb Bush is expected to declare a fundraising total in the “high tens of millions of dollars,” The New York Times reported on Monday. Any talk of record fundraising totals ought to account for inflation — as well as the fact that it’s easier to raise big dollars since the Citizens United decision (most of the contributions to Bush will go to his Super PAC). Nonetheless, Bush’s haul should be an impressive figure. But money is unlikely to be Bush’s problem in this campaign, and ...
Bernie Sanders to announce 2016 presidential bid
Post Date: 2015-04-28 23:55:09 by Hondo68
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Getty Bernie Sanders will announce a presidential bid on Thursday, a source close to the second-term senator confirmed. The Vermont independent, a self-described democratic socialist, will run as a Democrat in a field that includes frontrunner Hillary Clinton. The launch will likely be a low-key announcement — no big rally or high-budget video. The senator is expected to have a larger campaign kickoff in a few weeks, most likely in Vermont, before heading to early presidential nominating states such as Iowa and New Hampshire. Sanders, 73, has been openly considering a presidential bid for months, and in recent days has begun to focus his attention on staffing. Tad Devine, an ...
Smoking gun: Report alleges the Clintons personally profited from Hillary’s tenure at State
Post Date: 2015-04-28 19:45:16 by Tooconservative
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As investigations into the Clinton Foundation’s fundraising practices intensify, the indications that improprieties occurred while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state have become impossible to ignore. The Clintons’ self-defense is the same as it ever was; deflection, deception, and misdirection. But Hillary Clinton’s campaign team did make the substantive claim that no one has produced firm evidence of malpractice on the part of either Hillary or Bill Clinton. This was a contention that was confirmed by Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer during an appearance on ABC’s This Week on Sunday when he admitted that he had not been able to uncover “direct ...
Trusting Your Sources This Election Season
Post Date: 2015-04-28 11:30:47 by Deckard
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With election season just starting to ramp up, political debates on social networks began to rise. It’s a time when friendships and yes, even romantic relationships, can be put to the test. So, if you’re willing to risk it all and decide to jump into the ring with a political foe, make sure you use sources to back your arguments…and make sure those sources are accurate. Your social timelines will be overwhelmed with uninformed and misinformed voters who will argue for one side of the two-party paradigm they’ve been conditioned to support. They will mistakenly cite newspaper editorials, Super PAC funded think tanks, and cable news anchors who never attempted ...
Jeb Bush vs Hillary Clinton in 2016 – Illuminati Presidential Election Puppets Picked?
Post Date: 2015-04-27 19:53:44 by Deckard
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So that’s the Controllers plan? Retreads? “Giving” us a “choice” between another member of the Bush Crime Family or a top member of the the Arkansas Mafia which is controlled by the Bush Crime Family…SOURCE. The Mena Connection documentary and the well documented book Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed and John Cummings. . . EDITOR Image: Five members of the Bush Crime family. June 2001. SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons. (Public Domain). youtube by Mark Dice Jeb Bush vs Hillary Clinton in 2016 – Illuminati Presidential Election Puppets Picked?Published on Dec 18, 2014Jeb Bush vs Hillary Clinton in 2016 – ...
Hillary Clinton 2016: Coldhearted, Serial Liar to Become 1st Female US President?
Post Date: 2015-04-27 19:39:03 by Deckard
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The Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign, now confirmed, means a coldhearted serial liar, CFR and Illuminati member could become the 1st female US President. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)Hillary Clinton 2016 are three words a lot of people would rather not see in the same phrase – not because it wouldn’t be fine to have a female US president, but rather because Hillary Clinton is a coldhearted, serial liar, a mind controller and exploiter of abused women, and a high-up member of the Illuminati working to implement the NWO (New World Order). With her long list of crimes and skeletons in the closet, she has a lot of audacity daring to run for President, but apparently her run has been ...
Fleeing Hillary: Top Dem money man departs because Clinton hasn’t answered ethics questions
Post Date: 2015-04-27 10:47:46 by Tooconservative
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A top Democratic moneyman recruited by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign has put fundraising activities on hold, saying he can’t do it with a clear conscience because the former secretary of state has too many unanswered questions swirling around her. New York businessman Jon Cooper, who Team Clinton enlisted for its elite corps of early fundraisers known as “HillStarters,” said that he decided not to tap his donor network for Mrs. Clinton because she hasn’t provided enough answers about foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation while she ran the State Department, her exclusive use of private email for official business as America’s top ...
New Hampshire poll: Ayotte opens up 6-point lead; Bush-Clinton tied at 42%
Post Date: 2015-04-27 10:11:50 by Hondo68
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The incumbent Republican senator from New Hampshire opened up a six-point over Gov. Margaret “Maggie” Hassan, her presumptive Democratic challenger in the April 21-22 Townhall/Gravis poll of 1,117 voters.Sen. Kelly A. Ayotte (R.-N.H.), who was endorsed in 2010 by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, is building a solid lead over Hassan, said Doug Kaplan, the managing partner of Gravis Insights, the Florida-based firm that conducted the poll. Hassan has not announced.New Hampshire Gov. Margaret “Maggie” Hassen (Courtesy)Ayotte leads with voters under 50, 52 percent to Hassan’s 40 percent and support of 88 percent of Republicans, he said. Hassan holds the support of 82 ...
Non-Voting as an Act of Secession
Post Date: 2015-04-26 13:48:29 by Deckard
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(This essay appeared in Dissenting Electorate: Those Who Refuse to Vote and the Legitimacy of Their Opposition (edited by Carl Watner with Wendy McElroy), Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2001, pp.126-129. It was reprinted in The Voluntaryst, Number 114 – 3rd Quarter 2002)In 1776, the Declaration of Independence made it plain that in America, “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, – That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive…, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it,…” The consent theory stated by the Declaration is standard fare in American politics. The ...
Robert Downey Jr. ambushed over politics: Reporters want Iron Man to be a liberal activist
Post Date: 2015-04-24 10:14:23 by Deckard
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I said in 2013 that one of the reasons conservatives defended Robert Downey Jr. was because liberals attacked the man. Perhaps the best example was the 2011 hit piece from Jeffrey Wells’ Hollywood Elsewhere (now flushed down the Memory Hole), in which an anonymous source said the actor’s values “are pure Republican values.” That came after an interview in The New York Times that drove liberals batty, but before the actor attended a fundraiser for President Obama. Apparently Robert Downey Jr’s ideological blasphemy is still stuck in the media’s craw because he was just ambushed during an interview with British reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy. The Huffington Post ...
NYT reporter: Misdirecting on Clinton stories is what Media Matters "exists to do"
Post Date: 2015-04-24 05:40:35 by Tooconservative
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A rare and enjoyable moment of open dissent on Alex Wagner’s MSNBC show today as both New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters and Bloomberg reporter Josh Green refuse to recognize the House of David Brock’s Hair as the legitimate news source is very definitely is. JEREMY PETERS, NEW YORK TIMES: The Clinton campaign is certainly already taken some steps to try to get ahead of public relations problems like that, for example, Hillary resigned from the board. I think they’re going to have to be more transparent about the speaking fees because those questions are just going to keep on piling up. What I wonder is if the Clinton message machine ever decides to kind of recalibrate ...
The Bombardment of the Clinton Crime Family Foundation Continues
Post Date: 2015-04-23 22:06:15 by out damned spot
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RUSH: I'll tell you, folks, the bomb bay doors remain open, and there are more bombs dropping on the Clintons even as we speak. ... "Judicial Watch announced that it has received 126 pages of documents from the State Department related to Hillary Clinton's possible conflicts of interest regarding her position as secretary of state. The initial Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was placed on May 2, 2011." Four years ago, and the documents are being released today. (interruption) That's right: "OMG!" "These documents are being released as a result of a federal court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against the State ...
Clinton Cash author is targeting Jeb Bush next
Post Date: 2015-04-23 11:18:51 by Tooconservative
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The past week can’t have been very pleasant for Peter Schweizer. On Sunday, the New York Times revealed that his forthcoming book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, was roiling the political world—“the most anticipated and feared book of a presidential cycle still in its infancy,” as the Times put it. That landed Schweizer squarely in the crosshairs of the Clinton team and allied liberal groups, which have launched a campaign to discredit Schweizer as “disreputable” and blinded by partisan animosity. Anyone familiar with Schweizer’s work knows better: he wrote a ...
John McCain: I Prefer Cruz Over Paul
Post Date: 2015-04-22 22:27:21 by GeorgiaConservative
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Shortly after responding to Rand Paul calling him an Obama “lapdog,” Senator John McCain talked further about the swipe with Fox’s Neil Cavuto. And McCain really came out swinging, declaring that “Senator Paul is the worst possible candidate, of the 20 or so that are running, on the most important issue, which is national security.” Click for Full Text!
Jeb Bush Says NSA Surveillance is “the best part of the Obama administration”
Post Date: 2015-04-22 21:01:25 by Deckard
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It’s reasonably rare for potential Republican presidential candidates to compliment the Obama administration, so any time they do, it ends up being fairly revealing. For example, when former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush—who is currently in the process of “actively exploring” a presidential run—was asked yesterday for his thoughts on “the best part of the Obama administration,” he singled out the president’s continuation and enhancement of the National Security Agency’s bulk phone records surveillance program: Jeb Bush: I would say the best part of the Obama administration would be his continuance of the protections of the homeland using the big ...
What Rand Paul is doing is more important than trying to be a pure libertarian
Post Date: 2015-04-22 20:11:52 by Hondo68
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Gage Skidmore Brian Doherty’s New York Times op-ed bemoaning what he sees as Rand Paul’s lack of libertarian principle reflects genuine frustration from libertarians with Sen. Paul. Doherty is by no means alone in his frustration among libertarians. But he is missing a much larger and more important point. Right now, libertarian ideas are arguably under more serious consideration than ever before in our culture and politics. Americans fed up with big government but also not finding either of the major parties attractive, or their conventional leaders attractive, are looking for new answers and better leaders. People are looking for something different. The fact that a ...
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