“Maybe if the Internet didn’t exist? Like, if I was running in 1955? I’d probably get elected mayor,” Weiner said in an interview published Thursday for the magazine’s November issue.
Moar here.
Friday, October 18, 2013
Are Ted Cruz, The Tea Party, And Their Republican Enablers In Congress Guilty Of Seditious Conspiracy? You Decide.
Why do I ask this question? Well, let's consider the following.
18 USC § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy: If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, ***or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States***, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.(1)
The Cruz/Tea Party government shutdown and threatened default were performed, according to the instigators, to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of a standing law of the United States, the ACA.
The actions of Ted Cruz, the Tea Party, and their Republican supporters in Congress have done incredible harm to this Nation: "The two-week shutdown has trimmed about 0.3 percentage point from fourth-quarter growth, or about $12 billion, the forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers, based in St. Louis, recently estimated. Standard & Poor’s is more pessimistic, estimating that the shutdown will cut about 0.6 percent off inflation-adjusted gross domestic product, equivalent to $24 billion. Most analysts are predicting that growth will remain subpar, at an annual pace of 2 percent or less."(2)
Furthermore, the actions of Ted Cruz, the Tea Party, and their Republican supporters in Congress have negatively affected economic growth: "The unusually rapid pace of deficit reduction, concentrated on goods and services the government delivers, has had a further damping effect on growth, swamping the cost of the relatively brief shutdown, economists said. Macroeconomic Advisers estimated the impact at about 0.7 percentage points of G.D.P. a year, equivalent to over $300 billion in lost output over the last three years. Additional cuts would slow the economy even more, economists say." (2)
It's about time Americans wake up to the damage a small group of radicals is doing to our country.
(1) http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384
(2) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/business/economy/high-cost-to-the-economy-from-the-fiscal-impasse.html?_r=0
18 USC § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy: If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, ***or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States***, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.(1)
The Cruz/Tea Party government shutdown and threatened default were performed, according to the instigators, to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of a standing law of the United States, the ACA.
The actions of Ted Cruz, the Tea Party, and their Republican supporters in Congress have done incredible harm to this Nation: "The two-week shutdown has trimmed about 0.3 percentage point from fourth-quarter growth, or about $12 billion, the forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers, based in St. Louis, recently estimated. Standard & Poor’s is more pessimistic, estimating that the shutdown will cut about 0.6 percent off inflation-adjusted gross domestic product, equivalent to $24 billion. Most analysts are predicting that growth will remain subpar, at an annual pace of 2 percent or less."(2)
Furthermore, the actions of Ted Cruz, the Tea Party, and their Republican supporters in Congress have negatively affected economic growth: "The unusually rapid pace of deficit reduction, concentrated on goods and services the government delivers, has had a further damping effect on growth, swamping the cost of the relatively brief shutdown, economists said. Macroeconomic Advisers estimated the impact at about 0.7 percentage points of G.D.P. a year, equivalent to over $300 billion in lost output over the last three years. Additional cuts would slow the economy even more, economists say." (2)
It's about time Americans wake up to the damage a small group of radicals is doing to our country.
(1) http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384
(2) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/business/economy/high-cost-to-the-economy-from-the-fiscal-impasse.html?_r=0
Thursday, October 17, 2013
SARAH PALIN: I'll be back! The gift that keeps on giving!
Sarah Palin, who supported losing Senate candidate Steve Lonegan in New Jersey and the efforts to defund Obamacare in a government funding bill that led to the shutdown, said the focus after losing both fights should be on 2014.
“Friends, do not be discouraged by the shenanigans of D.C.’s permanent political class today. Be energized. We’re going to shake things up in 2014,” Palin wrote on her Facebook page early Thursday morning. “Rest well tonight, for soon we must focus on important House and Senate races. Let’s start with Kentucky – which happens to be awfully close to South Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi – from sea to shining sea we will not give up. We’ve only just begun to fight.”
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Bill Moyers: Tea Partiers ‘have sucked the last bit of soul’ from GOP
Bill Moyers laid into Republicans in a blistering critique on Moyers & Company on Friday, particularly former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), whom he accused of using his platform as a CNN host to egg the party on in the ongoing government shutdown in spite of its harmful effects on the U.S.
“At least let’s name this for what it is — sabotage of the democratic process. Secession by another means.” Moyers said. “And let’s be clear about where such reckless ambition leads. As surely as night must follow day, the alternative to democracy is worse.”
Meanwhile, Tea Party Republicans and their rich supporters, Moyer argued, have “sucked the last bit of soul from the Grand Old Party of Abraham Lincoln,” turning them first delusional, then rabid, with the aid of conservative mouthpieces like Fox News and “multi-millionaire fabulist” Rush Limbaugh.
MOAR.
“At least let’s name this for what it is — sabotage of the democratic process. Secession by another means.” Moyers said. “And let’s be clear about where such reckless ambition leads. As surely as night must follow day, the alternative to democracy is worse.”
Meanwhile, Tea Party Republicans and their rich supporters, Moyer argued, have “sucked the last bit of soul from the Grand Old Party of Abraham Lincoln,” turning them first delusional, then rabid, with the aid of conservative mouthpieces like Fox News and “multi-millionaire fabulist” Rush Limbaugh.
MOAR.
We're Not A Democracy, We're An Idiocracy
"Somehow we’ve gone from America the Beautiful to America the WTF. We’ve gone from the land of the free and home of the brave to the land of Honey Boo Boo, monster trucks, jingoistic patriotism, and supersized servings of stupid with the politicians to prove it."
MOAR.
MOAR.
Tuesday Mornin' Compendium
TGI Fridays Employees "Prank" Muslim Woman With Bacon In Her Food
What passes for "humor" in Garland, Texas really ain't funny.
A Federal Budget Crisis Months In The Planning
After O'Bama's reelection, a group of traitors in the Republican Party met to determine a new way to disrespect the office of the Presidency and undermine America. The political cretins decided on the strategery of economic terrorism we see playing out today.
What passes for "humor" in Garland, Texas really ain't funny.
A Federal Budget Crisis Months In The Planning
After O'Bama's reelection, a group of traitors in the Republican Party met to determine a new way to disrespect the office of the Presidency and undermine America. The political cretins decided on the strategery of economic terrorism we see playing out today.
This is too stupid for me to comment on. You'll have to read it for yourself.
Friday, October 4, 2013
The "Republican Revolution", or actually the revolution in the Republican Party, continues....
More details are emerging about Wednesday's closed-door meeting where Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) evidently received an earful from his Republican colleagues, with one senator describing what transpired as a "lynch mob."
A report published Friday by The New York Times shed more light on the private lunch, indicating that Sens. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Dan Coats (R-IN) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) blasted Cruz for leading the charge to block funding for the Affordable Care Act, a quixotic effort that led to the government shutdown.
Here.
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