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46020. winstonsmith - 9/17/2015 6:49:08 PM I watched the debate last night Here are a few thoughts:
1. OMG, Jeb comes across as such a weakling. He seemed like toast before but man, I almost feel sorry for him.
2. I sometimes forget what a annoying ass Huckabee is. Fortunately he didn't get to talk much.
3. I'm not a Rand Paul fan but he had some pretty sane things to say about the Iraq war.
4. Carly may have done well but she seems pretty unlikable to me. Her angry emotional discussion of Planned Parenthood seemed like fake outrage targeting a specific group of voters. 46021. judithathome - 9/17/2015 10:14:47 PM The outrage she expressed about Planned Parenthood was based on doctored, fake tapes...
And much as I hate to admit it, her disclosure about losing a child to drug addiction was meant to hit home with people like me...and frankly, it left me cold....maybe that says more about me than her but it is what it is. Seemed to me to be "opportunistic".
And I say this while feeling the utmost sympathy for Joe Biden...go figure. 46022. winstonsmith - 9/17/2015 11:44:25 PM Judith, I agree. I am a big fan of smart and powerful women but she strikes me as manipulative and unlikable. 46023. iiibbb - 9/18/2015 3:10:16 AM Like many libertarians, Rand Paul has sane things to say until you really listen to everything they have to say.
The fundamental flaw with libertarianism is that it assumes people are well informed, make rational choices, nobody cheats, and people act in the public interest.
I am a libertarian until it comes to issues like education, the environment, and checks on corporate economic freebooting.
Other than that.... sure I'm a libertarian to the core. 46024. arkymalarky - 9/18/2015 2:15:52 PM Libertarians focus on how things should be. But since they won't ever be they are better suited to work as activists than as a political party. Reminds me a bit of the Populist Party. A lot of what they promoted as a party got enacted, but they hit a political wall for similar reasons. There are things wrt criminal justice, the drug war, war policy, etc, they could promote as activists and an outside political influence better than within the system. 46025. judithathome - 9/18/2015 9:26:31 PM Fiorina sticks to her lies about Planned Parenthood, and all republicans believe her
At Wednesday’s second Republican debate, Carly Fiorina described a secretly recorded video from an anti-abortion group, part of a series that includes Planned Parenthood executives, as showing “a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’” She challenged Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama to watch the tapes for themselves.
One problem: No such video exists.
What does exist is a video interview of a former employee of StemExpress, a tissue procurement agency like the fictitious group represented by the anti-abortion activists behind the video. In it, she claims she saw a fetus with a heartbeat, and says her supervisor planned to procure the fetus’s brain for medical research. The video also includes unrelated stock footage of a fetus outside the womb that purports to be from an abortion, although the Center for Medical Progress, the group behind the videos, was also caught using, without attribution or permission, a photo from a woman’s stillbirth as if it showed an aborted fetus. No one in the videos has even alleged that a fetus was kept alive to harvest a brain, nor is there footage of it.
Why are people believing these lies from someone who doesn't even have an "on the ground" committee in ANY of the early primary states?
At least Rick Perry had some...and when he ran out of money/support, he QUIT.
Carly is the "female attack dog" who is doing all the "Hillary" denigration work...so the GUYS in the Republican Party don't have to...give me an effing break.
46026. Ms. No - 9/24/2015 3:45:00 PM My government classes have been watching the last debate all this week. 16 year old kids can smell the bullshit.
Some of the choicer comments:
"Ms. No, did she just say that Iraq is linked to Planned Parenthood?"
"Trump just said he has respect for women. Is he high?"
"How 'come they're all so racist against Mexicans?"
"The only candidate making any sense up there is whichever one isn't talking!"
How the hell am I supposed to give my students a fair view of conservative politics when all I've got is this clown-show to present them with? 46027. iiibbb - 9/24/2015 3:54:38 PM Show them a debate from 40 years ago as a comparison. 46028. Ms. No - 9/24/2015 3:57:05 PM That's an excellent idea! Thanks! 46029. judithathome - 9/25/2015 7:40:36 PM House Speaker John Boehner is resigning as the top House Republican and from Congress at the end of October, two House Republicans said today.
Boehner announced his decision to colleagues this morning.
The abrupt decision comes after he faced heavy pressure from conservatives in his party to take a harder line on their causes.
God only knows who the Republicans will select to replace him...we may be weeping for his return before this is over....
46030. judithathome - 10/1/2015 9:50:49 PM And here we ARE...Boehner seems like Einstein compared to THIS yahoo: Kevin, We Hardly Knew Ya! 46031. arkymalarky - 10/2/2015 12:33:10 AM Obama is great. We will look back on that fact with regret at the opportunity we took in voting for him and then threw away by not electing legislators worthy of his leadership and intelligence. That blown opportunity won't come again. 46032. judithathome - 10/2/2015 6:43:59 PM No kidding...not with the crop(s) of yahoos we seem content to elect these days.
On another note, re: Kevin McCarthy: much as I loathed Newt Gingrich at the time, when he made pronouncements as Speaker of the House, he was at least literate and well-versed in history, grammar, etc...he didn't sound like Balki from Perfect Strangers. 46033. judithathome - 10/2/2015 6:46:44 PM oops! 46034. judithathome - 10/3/2015 5:25:08 PM Boy, those Republicans! I told y'all the other day that one day, we'd be longing for the return of John Boehner!
Now Jason Chaffetz is going to run against "hopeful MisSpeaker of the House" Kevin McCarthy. Chaffetz is the guy who led the charge against Cecile Richards in the hearings recently and made a fool of himself therein by pointing to a chart he claimed was from HER organization. She corrected him by pointing out that the name of the organization which actually produced the (faulty) chart was in clear view at the bottom of said chart.
Meanwhile, future MisSpeaker McCarthy has bragged about visiting "Hungaria" and other foreign "-ias" recently...one can only pray he kept his malapropisms to himself while there but at least he could claim unfamiliarity with the language.
Here's Rachel Maddow's Take On Mr. Malaprop 46035. judithathome - 10/20/2015 9:10:26 PM This is a great video about Canadian (and now, American) politics...please note the guy introducing it.
Mouseland 46036. robertjayb - 10/21/2015 7:35:41 PM Good move, Joe. Thanks...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden will not run for president in 2016, he said Wednesday, ending a months-long flirtation with a third White House campaign and setting him on a glide path toward the end of his decades-long political career. 46037. judithathome - 10/21/2015 7:54:35 PM I agree...this move just shows he DOES have common sense. 46038. judithathome - 10/21/2015 8:36:41 PM Saw a clip from Wolf Bitzer playing "mean girl" to Lincoln Chaffee in an interview...Wolf was absolutely brutal to the man.
I already cringe when I see the poor guy...why beat him down even further? It just broke my heart.
I blame Chaffee's family for not committing him to a "home" when he walked in and told them he was going to run for President... 46039. judithathome - 10/21/2015 8:38:14 PM I'll see if I can find it...it played last night on
The Daily Show...
Here It Is
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