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Of course, the Gorsuch nomination will be approved. After all, if a degenerate like Trump can be elected President and he can "drain the swamp" then fill up the sewer with the most despicable examples of immoral decadent fascist garbage, then how hard will it be for them to push through this brownshirt, goodie-two-shoes, choirboy, eagle scout.
Still, I found it a bit shocking that Gorsuch described the failure of the Republican Congress to fulfill their oath to the Constitution by denying Barak Obama's Constitutional duty to fill the open Supreme court seat as, "POLITICAL". Apparently not worthy of comment by a Supreme Court nominee.
But what do you expect from a person that stonewalled over and over again by taking the Judicial Fifth Amendment (that is: can't comment on anything that might appear before him in the Supreme Court) which of course, could be just about anything.
Gorsuch keeps repeating in various ways that he is his own man...a confident independent thinker. What a bunch of bull..... he's just your typical pompous ass Teabagger.... owned and controlled by a few fascist criminal billionaires.
Speaking of which, Putin is worth around 200 billion, which makes him the wealthiest criminal on the planet. His days are numbered, many many Russian patriots are out to stop him.
In today's hearing Sen Franken my senator, brought out the fact that Gorsuch misleads us when he says he is a purist when it comes to legal oppinion. His history tells us he is formost a political animal and has said as much in cover letters for political jobs. In short, Gorsuch is a judicial activist and exactly wrong for the court. Call your Senators now.
The Senate can at least suspend the hearings on Gorsuch until we know if our president is a criminal. Why should he be allowed to impact our future with a Supreme Court pick if he has committed treason? The Republicans are just trying to get as much of their agenda taken care of before they are forced to consider impeachment. Sad!
Trump is a liar; Republicans are hypocrites; Democrats are over-thinkers; voters are stupefied; media are blind; billionaires are laughing; U.S. democracy is a joke.
FKnauss - riches have bought the government already mate
They have knowingly induced and produced a population in 'sleep mode' by educational dumb down and pc messages complete with media manipulation
This is all intentional manipulation of human minds and already known by power for many, many years and not just decades
To start off... political lobbying needs to be abolished
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We need to be very concerned about the continued handing of our government to the billionaire class. I think domination and dictatorships are their ultimate goal.
Robber baron era all over again
When will we ever learn?
No, that particular quote is the bone you are slobbering over, which was taken from a WaPo fact-checker link that you also posted in an earlier thread. Try to take an old bone away from an old dog, and they'll growl!
However, when one actually takes the time to read into it and crosscheck it with other sources, your chewed-up, splintered bone does not disprove the well-documented fact that Rubio was absolutely the initial Republican liar who first tumbled onto the complicated risk-corridor angle of the dangle way back when, who falsely termed it as a "bailout, and who then inspired all the other Republican liars to run with it, flesh it out, and codify it into their sleazy legislation.
Sure, he may not have been the stooge who physically "slipped" it into the final omnibus bill that passed, but he certainly deserves the most infamy, despite how many other Nazis are falling all over themselves to take credit for sabotaging the ACA that resulted in the insurance companies' mass exodus.
BTW, your quick response indicates that you spent more time struggling to type words into some semblance of cognizance than bothering to study the other sources provided, before firing from the hip ...unless you are an amazing speed reader who can retain full comprehension.
Nah, no thanks; "alternative facts" are best left to sad little Trump trolls, who love to chew on the green, slimy bones they dig out of the swamp.
So let's all help poor Thom get the facts straight. Since the election he and most of the Democrat party seem a bit shell shocked. Other leftie/socialists even further out on the ledge, just resort to making jackasses of themselves.
From your links,
"A little-noticed health care provision that Senator Marco Rubio of Florida slipped into a giant spending law last year has tangled up the Obama administration, sent tremors through health insurance markets and rattled confidence in the durability of President Obama’s signature health law
As written, this is not correct. Rubio did not slip the provision into last year’s giant spending law. Like this year’s giant spending law, last year’s omnibus bill was the result of a leadership-driven process that drew on substantive expertise from the relevant committee staffs but did not much involve most members of either house. Rubio does not appear to have had any role in its drafting. The risk-corridor provision, like most similar policy riders in the bill, was produced by key committee staffers, in this case (because of the unique expertise of two or three specific individuals) Republican staffers on the Senate Budget Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee."
Diane #6: "Thom: Why do you keep repeating this Rubio lie? Have you never read the facts surrounding the NY times article you so fervently want to believe, or is it you know better but who cares because it fits the meme?"
...a classic case of projection ...a dog with a bone. Too bad it's plastic.
The first link below demonstrates that, yes, Rubio is a worthless liar (like most Republicons). The rest of the links (a small sample) definitively support Thom's contention in his Alter Net article that, yes, Rubio was indeed the main worthless Republican liar who inspired the anti- "risk corridor" legislation inserted into the larger budget bill, even though he may not have been an actual sponsor-liar or a member of the gang of final sausage-maker liars.
But, by all means, slobber away on your fake bone:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/feb/25/marco-rubio/rubio-we-wiped-out-obamacare-bailout-fund-insuranc/
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-11-25/marco-rubio-didn-t-kill-obamacare-but-here-s-how-he-undermined-it
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/428706/did-rubio-kill-obamacares-risk-corridors-yuval-levin
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2015/12/15/yes-marco-rubio-led-the-effort-to-end-obamacares-health-insurance-slush-fund/#121e80524688
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/261244-rubio-budget-win-is-dealing-heavy-blow-to-obamacare
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/263396-spending-bill-includes-rubio-ban-on-obamacare-bailout
http://ijr.com/2016/10/708842-obamacare-premium-hikes-are-all-marco-rubios-fault-says-the-man-who-made-the-law/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-marco-rubio-is-quietly-killing-obamacare/2015/12/14/c706849a-a275-11e5-b53d-972e2751f433_story.html?utm_term=.dbeea52a66fa
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-obamacare-risk-corridor-20160518-snap-story.html
Unrelated questions. WHY is Ivana Trump getting security clearance and moving into the White House AND Why is Secretary Tillerman NOT going to the NATO meeting?
Thom: Why do you keep repeating this Rubio lie? Have you never read the facts surrounding the NY times article you so fervently want to believe, or is it you know better but who cares because it fits the meme?
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WallStreet-dominance is YUUGE. More-so even than back when Progressives grumbled against the Bill-Clinton era’s “Democratic Leadership Council” - which is described on this Wikipedia-page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council .
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STACKING the COURT {a rhyme}
We mustn’t pick judges so dad-gum’ “politically”, …
… since “justice” means judges should “judge analytically”
as scholarly artisans
and not as mere partisans.
Politics must be no more than latent; -
- certainly not so dad-gum’ blatant.
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Yes, the Republicans should quit blocking absolutely everything Obama and the Democratic Senate are trying to pass. Oh wait, are you talking about 2009 or 2017? Or when McTurtle blocked Obama's Supreme Court nominee for a whole year?
If you want to know how a minority party can really disrupt our system of checks and balances, read Robert Draper's book, "When the Tea Party Came to Town." Republicans make Democrats look like choir boys.
BTW, do you really want to let fascists implement their pogroms ...ah, programs... against the poor, the sick, the elderly, the workers, the minorities, and just about everybody else not in the top percentiles?
By the time another election rolls around, it might be too late to re-rail the train. 100 years of progressive legislation that created the largest middle class in history will be in the ditch. With Mensa Man in the seat, the pile of twisted wreckage will be a helluva lot worse than the last time Republicans derailed the economy with a village idiot driving, when the Democrats had to pick up the pieces.
Make Amerikkka great again!
We now have a schizoid govenment where the checks and balances
allow the minority party to destroy the programs of the majority party.
Time to let the party in power execute their policy uncompromised.
If the electorate finds the results ineffective, then the electorate will
vote the bums out.
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Rubio is a religious fascist of the type who helped Musollini, Hitler, Franco and the Ustasha come to power before they embarked on their genocides. His behavior fits perfectly with these villians.
How is it that this country continues to be so blinkered to all the corruption and keep putting people like Rubio in office and back in office? It's like a huge sewer has backed up, flooded everywhere, everyone is neck deep, yet no one notices. When do we collectively wake up, after everyone has died of typhoid?
Thousands will eventually go broke and die because of Republicans actions. Yet their priority is to ban Muslims from 7 countries that have not carried out 1 attack on us.
United States Corporate "effective" tax rates are already among the lowest rates paid in the world and consumer debt has never been higher. Right-wing spin points to the rally being tied to Trump's promise to cut corp tax rates. (Rust Law)There's a little problem with this, how do you cut a zero percent effective tax rate for Exxon and many others like them.???? It's a big lie.
I am definitely NOT for the Canadian healthcare system...have you talked to Canadian residents? Yikes...
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Hi Thom,
I have always felt that the stock market can be driven by large purchases (up) and selling off (Down) of stock by a very small group of people.
They can coordinate with others to loot the market.
What are your thoughts on this?
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