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Latest Articles: politics and politicians
The improbable rise of Rand Paul
Post Date: 2015-04-04 22:42:09 by Hondo68
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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is expected to end the speculation and announce his candidacy for president at an event Tuesday in Louisville. The first-term senator caught the political bug from his father, former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, who made three runs for the White House. JOHN LOCHER — AP The first time he heard Rand Paul speak, U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie said he knew.In the fall of 2009, well before Massie considered running for Congress, he attended a Tea Party rally where a conservative blogger named David Adams was speaking on behalf of somebody Massie had never heard of. He went home excited and pulled up every speech Paul had ever given that could be found on YouTube, "which ...
Insiders pump the brakes on Cruz [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-04-04 13:40:19 by Hondo68
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Republicans in Iowa and New Hampshire don’t think the polarizing Texan can win. Illustration by POLITICO / Getty Image Ted Cruz is the first Republican presidential candidate out of the starting gate, but GOP insiders in Iowa and New Hampshire are overwhelmingly skeptical of the first-term Texas senator’s chances of being the eventual nominee or succeeding in the general election. This week’s survey of The POLITICO Caucus — a bipartisan group of key activists, operatives and thought leaders in New Hampshire and Iowa — reveals grave concerns about Cruz’s electability. And after eight years in the wilderness, most Republicans want a nominee who can win. Not one ...
Ted Cruz is attacking the Fortune 500, and that’s smart politics
Post Date: 2015-04-02 19:46:53 by out damned spot
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Corporate support for same-sex rights presents Cruz a chance to blast two movement conservative enemies at once. Credit Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, with this: He’s doing what he can to lock down first-mover advantage in the Republican presidential sweepstakes. Last week, he was first in what promises to be a crowded GOP field to officially announce his White House bid. Yesterday, he launched what Politico has already termed the backlash to the corporate backlash to Indiana’s controversial “religious freedom” law. Addressing a crowd of 300 in Sioux City, Iowa, Cruz laced into the big business leaders who have jumped into the national firestorm over the law to help rally ...
'Schumerisms': How Harry Reid's likely successor will spar with Republicans (video)
Post Date: 2015-04-02 18:59:20 by out damned spot
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Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is likely to take over as the Senate's top Democrat when Sen. Harry Reid retires in 2016, has his own particular brand of rhetoric. White House reacts to Reid's endorsement of Schumer as his replacement Schumerisms. Expressions of a frequent partisan bent used by New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is poised to become the chamber’s – and possibly the entire party’s – most powerful Democrat in 2017. Lovers of vivid political language will miss Senate minority leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who announced his retirement last week. Senator Reid is infamous for his searing, pointed comments about conservatives – and his regular ...
Two new polls show Ted Cruz in top tier of 2016 GOP field
Post Date: 2015-04-02 13:37:54 by Tooconservative
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Some high-five material for Cruz fans from WaPo and PPP. A little post-announcement bounce here or something more? In the contest for the Republican nomination, Bush tops the field with 20 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents saying they would support him if their primary or caucus were held today. He is followed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at 13 percent and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at 12 percent. Five other Republicans receive at least 6 percent support, with an additional six candidates at either 2 or 1 percent. Bush, Cruz and Walker are the only three to register noticeable gains since the last Post-ABC survey on the GOP race in December. He was tied for third place at ...
5 Things You Should Definitely Know About Voting
Post Date: 2015-04-01 10:17:56 by Deckard
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5 Things You Should Definitely Know About Voting-By Paul A Philips Since childhood I can remember some people voting describing it as a way of exercising their democratic right. As part of my upbringing this political sentiment had been deeply instilled in me. Those intending not voting were sometimes reminded that our forefathers had fought for this ‘democratic right’ and to abstain would be nothing short of apathy. Other comments that still continue today include “voting for a small minority candidate is a wasted vote... it would not have any outcome” Over the years I had more than a gut feeling that something about ...
Suicide at Missouri auditor’s office is second in a month
Post Date: 2015-03-30 17:13:08 by Willie Green
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A top Missouri political aide has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound — one month after his boss also took his life with a gun, police said Monday. State auditor’s spokesman Robert “Spence” Jackson was found dead Sunday night inside his Jefferson City apartment by police responding to concerns of a relative that he wasn’t answering the phone. Authorities said they are investigating the case as a suicide. Jackson’s demise follows the death of his former boss, Auditor Tom Schweich, who shot himself in the head on Feb. 26 inside his home in Clayton. Schweich had been running for the Republican nomination for governor and was about to go public with ...
Meet the Men Behind Hillary Clinton's Private 'Spy Network'
Post Date: 2015-03-30 11:21:09 by Tooconservative
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Two big Clinton stories landed last week. The first is that Hillary Clinton destroyed the electronic copies of her State Department emails on her private server after the State Department subpoenaed her emails. The second is that Hillary Clinton had an aide running a "secret spy network" that was, among other things, feeding her information on Benghazi, according to a report by Pro Publica and Gawker. Earlier this month, I noted the myriad ways that Clinton running her own private email server breathes new life into the Benghazi investigation, but this last revelation takes things to a whole new level. Specifically, this new report suggests that three men -- ...
Reporter Who Exposed Hillary’s Secret Intel Operation: Who Authorized & Financed It? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-03-29 23:27:47 by out damned spot
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One of the reporters who exposed what appears to have been former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s clandestine and rogue intelligence service said that there are more questions than answers regarding the operation, which was exposed in the hacked emails of Clinton’s longtime confidante Sidney Blumenthal. Appearing on Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125, Jeff Gerth, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, told host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that he still wanted to know “who authorized or tasked this network to do what they did” and “who was paying for this?” Gerth, the former New York Times reporter who now works ...
Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign Is Now Effectively Over
Post Date: 2015-03-29 11:57:48 by Hondo68
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Wall Street Warns Dems Not to Choose Senator Elizabeth Warren Hillary Clinton’s unannounced campaign for the U.S. Presidency has already failed. Her arrogance (or else stupidity) in having wiped clean the hard drive of the private server she had used for her emails while she was the U.S. Secretary of State adds insult to the injury already done to her incipient campaign by the earlier revelation that she had evaded the State Department’s record-keeping system and had used her private server for all of her State Department emails and not only for her personal emails. (The NYT had headlined March 2nd: “Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email at State Dept., Possibly Breaking ...
CRUZ LAYS OUT HIS OBAMACARE REPLACEMENT PLAN
Post Date: 2015-03-28 21:58:45 by out damned spot
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Friday in Nashua, NH at the Young America’s Foundation Conference, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a 2016 candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, laid out his vision to repeal and replace ObamaCare. Listing “three specific reforms,” Cruz said, “Number one, allow people to buy insurance across state lines.” He continued, “Number two, we need to expand health saving accounts,” and he concluded with, “Number three, we need to de-link health insurance from employment.”
Blue State Blues: What if McCain Had Gone ‘Full Bibi’ on Obama in 2008?
Post Date: 2015-03-28 19:59:51 by cranky
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to face harsh criticism, at home and abroad, for remarks he made on Election Day warning that Arabs were being bused to the polls and voting in large numbers, threatening the future of the right-wing government. Netanyahu has since apologized to the Arab community. From a purely political perspective, however, the only thing that matters is that he won. That raises the question: what if Republicans had done something similar in 2008 and 2012? What if, for example, Sen. John McCain had faced the American people squarely and said: My fellow Americans, there are efforts underway by ACORN and other far-left groups to bus minority voters to the ...
That Time Chris Christie Called Taxes From Legal Pot Sales "Blood Money"
Post Date: 2015-03-28 11:48:45 by Deckard
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has channeled his inner former prosecutor and denounced tax dollars raised by the sale of legal pot as "blood money." Via the Asbury Park Press via Noah Rothman at Hot Air: “I’ve had many taxpayers at town hall meetings who will ask me about, why not legalize marijuana to make the taxes go a little higher?” Christie said. “To me, that’s blood money. I’m not going to put the lives of children and citizens at risk to put a little more money into the state coffers, at least not on my watch.” Not on my watch! Such delightful, tough-guy talk from the jefe of my home state, which legalized casino gambling so long ...
AFDI Wins Important Free Speech Victory, But Opponents End Run Around the First Amendment
Post Date: 2015-03-28 09:29:34 by cranky
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Last week, my human rights organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), scored another major victory for truth and freedom in Philadelphia. The court ruled that our ads highlighting Islamic Jew-hatred and the Nazi-Islamic alliance, which had been previously denied, could not be prohibited. The judge ruled they had to run. Victory! But don’t applaud too loudly. The Philly transit authority has declared they will no long accept political ads. The Geller Ban is back. This is not the first time city authorities have changed the rules in response to an AFDI free speech victory.Longtime supporters of my work are familiar with my numerous court cases in the defense of free ...
Ted Cruz Raises $2 Million in First 3 Days of 2016 Campaign
Post Date: 2015-03-27 23:49:23 by out damned spot
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From USA Today: WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz, the first major Republican candidate to declare his White House candidacy, raised $2 million during the first three days of his presidential campaign — as his team deployed a mix of complex social-media strategy and behavioral analytics to reach and sway potential donors. Hours before his announcement speech Monday in Lynchburg, Va., Cruz tweeted the news that he was running for president. That day, he had 5.7 million interactions on Facebook. So far, nearly two-thirds of his fundraising haul has flowed in through the Internet, aided behind the scenes by a team of data scientists who closely monitor social media and digital traffic to ...
Benghazi Panel: Hillary Clinton Wiped Email Server ‘Clean’
Post Date: 2015-03-27 22:17:04 by out damned spot
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Hillary Rodham Clinton wiped her email server “clean,” permanently deleting all emails from it, the Republican chairman of a House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks said Friday. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said the former secretary of state has failed to produce a single new document in recent weeks and has refused to relinquish her server to a third party for an independent review, as Gowdy has requested. Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall, said Gowdy was looking in the wrong place. Instead of asking Clinton for the emails, Gowdy should look to the State Department, which is “uniquely positioned to make available any documents responsive to your ...
Conservative Warmongers
Post Date: 2015-03-27 10:22:37 by Deckard
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Or do I repeat myself. Thank you Ryan, for your very detailed blog post on defense spending and the wonderful graphs you created. What this means is that every dollar sent to the Heritage Foundation is a dollar sent to promote war. It also means that any Republican presidential candidate (official or unofficial), and the more “conservative” the worst, who calls for more defense spending is a bloodthirsty warmonger himself or is willing to pretend that he is to get the votes of bloodthirsty warmongers, no matter what his name. I stand by every word of what I wrote back in 2009: The very heart and soul of conservatism is war. Patriotism, Americanism, and being a real conservative ...
GOV. WALKER SPEAKS TO PHOENIX CHAMBER, NO CAMERAS ALLOWED--no media access
Post Date: 2015-03-27 06:32:26 by out damned spot
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Politicians frequently claim they’ve been misquoted or misunderstood by reporters. See Scott Walker’s spokeswoman’s response to a Wall Street Journal report about his position on amnesty. But there’s a sure way to avoid that: Keep reporters out of the room. The Phoenix Business Journal reports that’s what Gov. Walker did when he spoke this week to the Arizona Chamber of Commerce. It was part of a series featuring presidential contenders. “I’d love to tell you what he had to say that was important enough for him to travel thousands of miles from home, but I can’t,” Travis Arbon writes. “The event was closed to the media.” However, ...
Scott Walker Endorses Path to Citizenship for Illegal Immigrants at Private GOP Dinner
Post Date: 2015-03-26 19:36:21 by out damned spot
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker may be on the verge of burning himself down before he actually gets started, given what is now becoming something of a circus regarding his actual stance on immigration. According to this new Wall Street Journal report, it’s quite possible a supporter of Jeb Bush, or another candidate went to the media regarding Walker’s recent comments at a private GOP dinner, it doesn’t matter. With three sources now (anonymously) on record, he appears to have Walkered himself right into this one. If his name becomes synonymous with waffling on a critical issue like immigration, his next nickname may be toast! Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told a private ...
Ted Cruz for President 2016!!!
Post Date: 2015-03-26 08:55:14 by Deckard
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“If you want more of the same… I’m Ted Cruz.” Senator Ted Cruz has officially announced his campaign for president… gosh darnit hoo diddly, are you excited at all the cheesy electioneering to come? We decided to make our own Ted Cruz presidential bid video because the one he produced is literally vomit and/or cringe-inducing to the point that we thought it was a parody. Who is buying that ridiculous tripe? Did he actually go get the “In a World” movie trailer guy to do the voice at the end? LEFT, RIGHT, TEA PARTY: ALL A SHAM FOR THE SAME CONTROLLERS As many know, we have covered many of the sham candidates looking to run in 2016, and called out their cheap ...
Video: Everything wrong with Washington somehow evident in congresswoman’s horrible parking job
Post Date: 2015-03-26 07:51:15 by Tooconservative
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To cleanse the palate, via Roll Call, your “American decline” metaphor of the day courtesy of Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton. It’s all here — gross incompetence, refusal to follow basic rules, and special treatment from authorities because she’s a member of the ruling class. All that’s missing is a lobbyist handing her the keys to a new car and offering to take her current one as she steps out. One more reason to love Washington: She’s nearly 80, which would put her a decade past retirement age in any other job except governing America. At around the 40-second mark, an oblivious U.S. Capitol Police officer appears to zoom by on a motorcycle, right past ...
Fix the GOP, Don’t Abandon It [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-03-26 07:16:24 by Tooconservative
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Fix the GOP, Don’t Abandon ItA message to Glenn Beck.Last week, to much fanfare, Glenn Beck declared that he was leaving the Republican party and becoming an independent. During a Tuesday night appearance on the O’Reilly Factor, Beck explained his decision thusly:They surrendered on the abortion bill, surrendered on executive orders on illegal immigration, common core. They helped push through $3.5 trillion in deficits this last year. They won't fight Obamacare. They voted to confirm Katz Unstein (ph). They thwarted the bill on the NSA data collection. They're still not doing anything on Benghazi. They haven't done anything on the targeting of conservatives with the ...
‘NEW YORKER’ DESCRIBES HISPANIC TED CRUZ AS ‘UPPITY’
Post Date: 2015-03-25 18:43:00 by out damned spot
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Apparently it is again okay to use the pejorative “uppity” against Americans who are members of a racial minority group. Ted Cruz is a historic Senator and presidential candidate, the first Cuban-American to join either club, and for that reason (and his unapologetic conservatism) the media is out for blood. The New Yorker went so far as to describe Cruz with the racial pejorative “uppity.” The conventional wisdom is that Cruz hasn’t got a chance, and, as far as the Presidency goes, it’s probably accurate. To many Americans, he is the uppity loudmouth who, in the fall of 2013, less than a year into his first term as a senator, helped bring the federal ...
CRUZ GOES ON POST-PRESIDENTIAL ANNOUNCEMENT MAINSTREAM MEDIA BLITZ
Post Date: 2015-03-25 17:49:08 by out damned spot
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Tuesday morning after his Monday presidential announcement at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) did a mainstream media blitz, appearing on all three major networks’ morning shows: NBC’s “Today Show,” CBS’s This Morning,” and ABC’s “Good Morning America.” On “CBS This Morning,” Cruz said “My plan is to speak the truth and defend common-sense conservative values.” He appeared on NBC’s “Today” with his wife, Heidi Cruz, who said Ted is “someone who tells the truth.” Cruz told NBC’s Matt Lauer his reception at the Christian college was “breathtaking and it’s ...
Hillary: I am all about new beginnings
Post Date: 2015-03-24 03:54:13 by rlk
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The Hill ^ | March 23, 2015 | Cameron Joseph Posted on Monday, March 23, 2015 19:55:49 Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took time to hang out with the press Monday night, joking with a room packed with national political reporters about their sometimes-testy relationship. "I'm well aware that some of you may be a little surprised to see me here tonight. My relationship with the press has been at times, shall we say, complicated,'" Clinton said to laughs at a dinner for the Robin Toner Program in Political Reporting in downtown Washington, D.C. "But I am all about new beginnings: A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account, a new ...
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