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@#10 HotCoffee,
Tulsi Gabbard would be a very interesting candidate. A young attractive woman with military experience and balls. She has way too positives and would piss off all the leftie/socialists.
Put me down for a front row seat in a debate with Nikki Haley and Tulsi Gabbard.
For that matter, put them both on the same ticket and drive both the leftie/socialists and tea party into a flippin' frenzy.
Apparently Melania has the correct shoes on today so life is unbearable for the so often quoted Washington Post and NYT bird cage liners.
Oh well, there is always tomorrow for them to create more engineered drama.
It is amazing how selective memory loss affects leftie socialists when it comes to topics like existing gun laws, capital gains taxes, FDR, Ronald Reagan, William Jefferson Clinton, the minor costs vs. the huge rewards of investing with a mutual fund, the entire media is right wing?, Obama's mid-east policies, IRS tax laws, corporations, profits, gerrymandered districts like Luis Gutierrez , free markets, the many billionaires that feed and support the democrat party, the Marco Rubio and obamacare bullshit, Roth IRA's, PATCO, and other innumerable constantly repeated prevarications.
As for the crash in 2009, yep a lot of people and conditions were responsible, not least of them was Barney Frank, Fannie, and Freddie. If well meaning people weren't so busy making sure EVERYONE got a trophy in the form of a home loan, the crisis could have been averted as clearly stated in my provided links. Greed and stupidity from both sides allowed ths to happen, just ask favorite Goldman matron, Hillary Clinton.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/371069-koch-network-to-spend-400-mi...
Kochs to spend $400 million on mid terms. Best Democracy that money can buy.
https://www.google.com/search?ei=xf1tWvPwO8HajwTkx5aYDg&q=republican+par...
In post #10 I clariefied that it was from my memory. I did not post a reference because it was from my memory. I clarified that. I did not post it as fact with a reference. I said that "i remember" that means that it is from my memory. I did not post the Clinton Foundations tax returns as fact and claim that it had a source as OU812 did and could not produce a reference.
Once again you ignor the fact that Bush and the Republican Party were in control for 7+ years at the crash. You also zero in on FannieMae when there were many things that lead up to the crash. Most of all Derivatives and unregulated banking.
https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=5vFtWsitHtLIsQXZ7avIDg&q=2007...
Election Fraud
What's the point in the UN monitoring Elections if the UN is not pursuing Prosecution of Violaters.
The Republicans are undermining Democracy as much if not more than the Russians.
Rick Steve or should I all you by your native American name "stubbornleftie/socialist",
one more try at reading factual links. Go slowly and pay special attention to the numbers that refer to the years Bush warned congress.
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/10/200810...
How are you doing on answering your mindless baseless claims in post #10?
"Maybe if to took the time to watch the links you wouldn't have made an fool of yourself again. Bush was warning congress in 2001."
This is after the collapse. Maybe you should watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXqxN1XBMH8
2950-10k
Totally agree. In 2010 Ryans district size almost doubled. He was redistricted into heavily Republican Walworth, Waukesha, and Racine counties. It was done totally contrary to how the population was/is distributed. It was a partisan power grab that insures he will keep his seat as long as he wants... His home county ( Rock) Is a heavy Blue county with a large population. But it has been effectively neutralize by the redistricting.
Your guess is as good as mine as to why these constituents in other counties still vote so heavily for Republicans? Baffling?!?
The Republican controlled state senate and assembly under the leadership of the Koch- Whore Scott Walker have succeeded to slice and dice... And then recombine the states districts totally in their favor. You should see the before and after maps... It now looks more bizarre than a jigsaw puzzle!! It should be criminal..
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/us/politics/gerrymandering-supreme...
https://theconversation.com/is-partisan-gerrymandering-illegal-the-supre...
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/29/wisconsin-redist...
Sorry Diane Bush had 7+ years before the bust to fix things. The House was Republican the whole 8 years, The Senate almost the whole 8 years. You cannot blame it on others when you had total control.
2950
Only if you keep running people like Hillary. Clearly you didn't read my post about Tulsi Gabbard or you would have better comprehension of where I stand.
Jeff: Given his budget proposals, I've always been astonished that anyone would vote for Paul Ryan. Is it just a case of voters in your district not being aware of what's in his budget plans, and or are they just foxmerized and oblivious to the reality that they're voting against their own best interests.....how can they vote for such extreme self injury time and time again? I personally have the opinion that Ryan has to be suffering from some sort of mental illness... he's one of the most selfish and self serving politicians in history....along with McConnell.
BTW: I've repeatedly told my Indivisible counterparts that without putting effort into exposing foxaganda for what it is to local citizens, voters in our district will continue to vote like Bachmann, Diane, and Coffee....in other words, continue to vote thoughtlessly for the Kochbagger Party and thus for only the beneifit of billionaires, who do not need our help.
DrRichard
Well stated quotes...
But those "ideals" were for a "republic" for which we once stood.
Unfortunately...
We now live in a Corporately controlled Oligarchy.
For which we're increasingly being "forced" ( against our will ) to kneel!
Joseph Pulitzer put it well, "Our republic and its press will rise and fall together." Substittue "information flow, education," etc. for just the 19th century newspaper and you have it. Incidentally, in light of media consolidation the rest of the quote is worth adding:
"An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mold the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.”
Go to You Tube...
Unemployed Constituents stand up to Paul Ryan, get arrested. 3.59
Or.
Paul Ryan Labor day parade. 8.17
Yep.. Paul Ryan. The Ayn Rand poster boy.
I live in his home town of Janesville, WI.
He's never carried his home town in an election...
He's never carried his home county in an election...
But he'll never loose, because of the blatant illegal redistricting, that took place in Wisconsin after the last census!
He still has a home here. His family still lives here.
But, as far as the people of this (once thriving) blue collar town goes.. There's absolutely no love lost!!
#44 - Well... there is always hope though!
Regarding subject... I think there is a lot of it about
I'm not kidding either
Thanks!
#40 - An astute helicopter view... thanks for that!
What is the antidote?
Sorry! Regarding McConnell and Ryan
Should have added that dignity and integrity do not appear to be a character trait
Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell appear to have no "common sense" or love of fellow man
What does it take for an elected politician to neglect and ignore legal obligation to his consituents... "we the people"?
Look at who lobbies Paul Ryan
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/industries?cid=N00004357...
Look at who lobbies McConnell
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/industries?cid=N00003389...
That's what it takes I guess (!?!?)
Incidentally, according to Dom Augustin Calmetv (Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants), it was believed that the demons who tormented certain persons were nothing else than the souls of some wretches who took possession of the body of some mortal whom they tormented and endeavored.
Apparantly, true demonic or satanic possession has been characterized by certain charicatistcs: Manifestation of super strength, speaking in languages that the victim cannot know such as tounges, revelation of knowledge that the victim cannot know, and blasphemous rage, obscene hand gestures, using profanity and an aversion to holy symbols or relics.
@#20 Rick Steve,
Maybe if to took the time to watch the links you wouldn't have made an fool of yourself again. Bush was warning congress in 2001. Here is an additional link to help you out.
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/10/200810...
Now, go back to finding a link supporting your assertion about Rove in post #10. Mindless baseless speculation is what everyone else does but not you.
https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=Pt9rWu_zMIqisAWM_ZfADg&q=2007...
What do you mean refutes the "lefty/socialist mime"? The collapse had happened. He is just trying to cover bases. Gave a big bonus to the banksters. Your history is totally warped.
None of this will be reported on the mainstream media. You only hear wat they want you to hear.
I think we can all use some laughter in our lives so... Tune in next Tuesday. Maxine Waters will be appearing live on BET after the presidents state of the union address. LIVE... This is going to be hilarious.... LIVE I tell ya!