Re: Here Comes TrumpCare

If anyone needs any more proof that the GOP is unfit to govern, this Wealth Care fiasco is the final nail in the coffin. They have the House, Senate and Presidency, and they still can't come up with a decent plan. The problem is that so many Republicans can't wait to screw over the poor and middle c...

Re: The investigation of Donald Trump

I don't know if I'm quite ready to go this far, but Tim Kaine is raising a terrible prospect here. http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/11/politics/tim-kaine-donald-trump-jr/index.html And I don't buy it that 45 didn't know his son had a meeting. The guy keeps tabs on everything. I think he knew, and if he di...

Re: Ivanka Trump, Acting President

Ivanka Trump, as BobPatterson pointed out, is an advisor to the President. He had something else to do, so she took his place. It is quite normal. If she wasn't his daughter, then it wouldn't be news. And if Michelle Obama had sat in for Barack at a G-20? She's an adviser. Like Ivanka, she wasn't c...

Re: Donald Trump is 'blocking' a G20 agreement because it has a line about climate change

'MURCA FIRST! :rotfl: https://scontent.ftpa1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19748594_10155649358267859_451128690433421568_n.jpg?oh=0f5776ec5508df70b1c9bbaa84770144&oe=5A0F8CE3 One picture says as much as a thousand words....... It barely says anything. It has been tightly cropped and all it shows is ...

Re: Donald Trump is 'blocking' a G20 agreement because it has a line about climate change

Why would the USA agree to a statement on climate change having already announced an intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement? Would you have preferred for the negotiating team to have agreed to the statement with no intention of following up? Not the first time Mr. Trump would make a u-turn,...

Ivanka Trump, Acting President

I didn't realize Ivanka was elected to represent the U.S. at a meeting of world leaders. Or did Congress confirm her for a post in the government? http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/08/politics/ivanka-sits-in-president-g20/index.html I don't care if was for a few minutes, she has no business representing us...

Re: Rest Of World Leaving The U.S. Behind

seahawk wrote:

I think most Trump supporters would be willing to pay any price and bear any burden for the country.

Rest Of World Leaving The U.S. Behind

After being in office only five months, the Current POTUS, through his policy of disengagement across the globe, has created a leadership vacuum in the world. Europe is looking to strike out on their own; Mexico is looking to South America and China to replace the U.S. as their main trading partners...

Chris Chrisie's "Let Them Eat Cake" Moment

It sounds and looks like something our of Europe centuries ago. The budget impasse in New Jersey has closed all state beaches for the July Fourth weekend, which I guarantee you is where many in Jersey and elsewhere were planning to go. But that doesn't apply to Governor Chris Christie and his family...

NRA: A Call To Civil War?

At a time when many partisans in Washington are calling for some introspection on the out-of-control rhetoric from both sides, the National Rifle Association steps in with, in my view, an ad so overtly threatening to Liberals, Democrats and anyone else who is anti-Trump, that even members of the org...

Re: Here Comes TrumpCare

Trump has said now that since the GOP is too incompetent to come up with a workable replacement for healthcare, that they should just repeal it. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/30/trump-obamacare-repeal-replace-tweet-240132 This guy has to be one of the worst politicians of all time. I bet he...

Re: Here Comes TrumpCare

Realizing once again that they have nothing. The GOP has canceled the vote for healthcare this week. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/us/politics/republicans-struggle-to-marshal-votes-for-health-care-bill.html Think about this people: the GOP has control of the House, the Senate and the Presidenc...

Re: Here Comes TrumpCare

Re: NYT prints all of Trump's lies

Did they have enough paper and ink to print all of that?

New Jersey Bill On Schools Teaching Kids To Interact With Cops

Read this article this morning, and I found it quite interesting. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nj-assembly-passes-bill-requiring-kids-be-taught-interact-police-n775516?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma I'm split on this a bit. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with teaching school children ab...

Re: STUDY: GOP attitudes toward blacks hardened

When you have black power-based movements trying to kick whites off campus, have blacks-only graduation ceremonies, blacks only college dormitories, firing white professors from "black colleges simply for being white, and basically pushing a racist agenda of their own, while labeling all those...

Re: STUDY: GOP attitudes toward blacks hardened

Of course many white feel that way. They feel that THEY are the ones being discriminated against. They are the snowflakes now. And it all comes back to the changing demographics of this nation. Whites, which I am, no longer have unchallenged dominance of the political, social and economic future of ...

Re: Putting To Rest The Idea That Trickle-Down Can Work

Well, I'm sure that a great many economists will be devastated now that you and the HuffPost have ended all debate on the subject and put them out of a job. Bravo. That article is far too superficial to be an authoritative source on the subject. There isn't nearly enough detail about how Kansas imp...

Putting To Rest The Idea That Trickle-Down Can Work

Whatever you want to call it: Trickle-Down, or Supply-Side, or Reaganomics, perhaps we can finally tell the truth about this economic fantasy: it doesn't work, it never has, and it never will. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/5945b828e4b0d188d027ff29 Unadulterated, unfettered Free-Market ideology...

Re: Trump's Accomplishments

His accomplishments.



































That about does it.

Re: Montana Candidate Body Slams Reporter Day Before Election

I posted all those recent stories, about boorish GOP behavior, and said none involved The Orange Menace. Add this The Menace to the recent behavior, as he shoves another head-of-state aside with an incredible look of contempt on his face. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/...

Re: Montana Candidate Body Slams Reporter Day Before Election

This is a helluva way to screw the pooch the day before you're up for election. And let's see the conservative apologists on her wiggle out of this, what with the source of the story. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/24/greg-gianforte-fox-news-team-witnesses-gop-house-candidate-body-slam-rep...

Montana Candidate Body Slams Reporter Day Before Election

This is a helluva way to screw the pooch the day before you're up for election. And let's see the conservative apologists on her wiggle out of this, what with the source of the story. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/24/greg-gianforte-fox-news-team-witnesses-gop-house-candidate-body-slam-repo...

Re: The Trump Budget: Give To The Rich, Take From Everyone Else

Perfect. I don't want a federal government that is involved in any of those things. Not one. Leave it to the states and local governments. The 21st century needs a lean, focused federal government. We do not need a federal government engaged in every single pet project you can conceive. Time to sta...

Re: The Trump Budget: Give To The Rich, Take From Everyone Else

You are overlooking, or intentionally ignoring, the "General Welfare" clauses in the Constitution. Social programs are not enumerated in the General Welfare clause. You are inferring that power based on a populist Supreme Court ruling from the mid-1930s that overturned 150 years of preced...

Sessions Lied To DOJ

So the top law enforcement officer in the United States lied to the Department of Justice when he applied for his Security Clearance. He should be tossed out on his ass for this. http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/24/politics/jeff-sessions-russian-officials-meetings/index.html?adkey=bn And the swamp gets mo...

Re: The Trump Budget: Give To The Rich, Take From Everyone Else

Same tired and old mantra of the Democratic Party, "the rich are favored over the poor". Why can't Democrats bring forth solutions that are fresh and new? There is a fresh, new idea brewing for the U.S, but bury-their-head-in-the-sand righties don't want to hear about it: Social Democracy...

Re: Washington Post: Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador

Re: The Trump Budget: Give To The Rich, Take From Everyone Else

Perfect. I don't want a federal government that is involved in any of those things. Not one. Leave it to the states and local governments. The 21st century needs a lean, focused federal government. We do not need a federal government engaged in every single pet project you can conceive. Time to sta...

The Trump Budget: Give To The Rich, Take From Everyone Else

In keeping with the mantra of the Republican Party that only the wealthy and powerful should be bestowed upon, the Orange Menace 2018 Budget is another massive shift in wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich and powerful. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/15/us/politics/trump-bu...

SCOTUS Invalidates Drawing Of Two Districts

A victory for common sense and against the blatant racial rigging of elections. http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/22/politics/north-carolina-gerrymander/index.html Hopefully, this will start the dominos falling against this practice that so many conservative-led states have been following in the last decad...

Re: RE: Evidence Shows Gun Control Works

What other civil liberties should be suspended because someone is on a government watch list or FBI investigation. Voting? Freedom of the press? Running for president as the presumptive Democratic Party candidate? We already restrict air travel. It's important to realize that owning a semiautomatic...

Re: Washington Post: Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador

I'm still waiting for proof that Trump is disloyal or improper. This simply isn't it. As president, this declassification was up to his judgment. I actually heard a former intelligence official on NPR suggest the president must ask the [deep state] for "permission" to have a conversation ...

Re: Roger Ailes has died

I have a feeling he has a host of demons constantly schooling him on how to say "Who's your daddy?"

Re: Special Prosecutor Name In Russia Probe

The bottom line is that Mueller will now be free to get to the bottom of the issue and draw a conclusion one way or the other. He might find some damaging information, or he might not. Either way, the investigation will not be such a long, drawn out affair as it would be if it had continued to proc...

Special Prosecutor Name In Russia Probe