This stuff just keeps coming this election season. During an interview at Stanford University about his tenure in the House, former Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) was asked about the 2016 election, specifically Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Needless to say, the Orange Man didn’t hold back: “Lucifer in the flesh,” the former speaker said of Cruz, …
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Oct 17 2013
Go Ahead, Celebrate – You’re Celebrating Failure
Not you at the Stars Hollow Gazette. You know who.
Well it seems this continuing debacle every 3 months has ceased, for now. However, I really can’t get over this pathetic celebration over the really low bar involved with regard to avoiding what I call a political default on the public debt. This is the same embarrassing type of celebration that ensued in 2011. We need to get real. Despite the government being opened up again, there’s nothing to celebrate. We’ve already lost. After all, the debt ceiling was a precious gift Obama bestowed onto John Boehner in the 2010 tax deal as he put his full faith in Speaker John Boehner hands, as he took the full faith and credit of the United States hostage.
Of course, it was a deal struck between both of them to put who they called the “extremists” of both their parties in check, for a grand bargain like in 1983 when Tip O’Neil and Ronald Reagan cut social security. President Obama and Speaker Boehner weren’t fooling everyone, though. Just those involved in their hyper deluded, hyper partisan, claptrap. To some of us, this was entirely predictable and preventable. Now people are suffering because some people, blinded by their hyper-loyal partisan illusions, couldn’t or didn’t want to see what was there. Maybe their lack of sight reveals they don’t really care? It doesn’t matter though. This will continue to be what we go through when some of this crap continues again in 4 months in February, regardless.
This austerity government will reopen at sequester levels of funding; a sequester I predicted would be born out by the stupid Super Committee from the super austerity Budget Control Act of 2011, which I saw was inevitable since the 2010 tax deal led to the first, now ongoing, debt ceiling debacle; a miniature crisis to crisis government with no plans to invest in its citizens’ future. Anything else is possible though, from government shutdowns over the false prospect of defunding Obamacare, to any austerian Senator or Congressman using the threat of default for whatever demands they want.
We, the so called professional left as the White House derisively called us, warned about this. Anyone who denied this can either apologize now or forever restrain from speaking about matters regarding politics, civics, political deals, and the debt ceiling. We told all of you back in 2011 around this same time when that debacle was coming to its end – until this one and the next one 4 months down the line – that this was no victory.
May 05 2013
Sunday May 5, 2013: Up with Steve Kornacki Tweets
Hello. Today’s #Uppers was also pretty disappointing. You get the feeling Steve Kornacki still thinks this is 2008 and elections have hope. But we don’t have a functioning legislature and it’s either going to be about filibuster reform or nothing. Not the baseball card stats of 2014 and specifically not 2016 which always pisses me off talking about it because it’s so sensational. It was also about the Syrian civil war and that Israeli bombing in Syria, and for some reason Anthony Weiner.
Oh well I had an interesting debate on the War Powers Act which was more interesting than the show. Now #Uppers.
@therealpriceman We have not had a “properly” declared war since WWII. #uppers
— GFJacobs (@GFJacobs) May 5, 2013
And has been regularly violated.It is a joke! RT @therealpriceman: @gfjacobs Which is why the War Powers Act was passed. #Uppers
— GFJacobs (@GFJacobs) May 5, 2013
A damned sad joke.RT @therealpriceman: @gfjacobs Which is why the War Powers Act was passed. #Uppers
— GFJacobs (@GFJacobs) May 5, 2013
Aid/Abetted by Congress MT @therealpriceman …but enforced w Lebanon retreat in 80s. Not always a joke, Presidents just violate it. #Uppers
— GFJacobs (@GFJacobs) May 5, 2013
Red line? When does the game of Team America World police stop? #Uppers Our involvement makes things worse in ME spec with military. #Uppers
— priceman (@therealpriceman) May 5, 2013
@gfjacobs Yes but enforced nevertheless. (D)s had some principals back then and cared about Constitution/wars. Obama has no excuse. #Uppers
— priceman (@therealpriceman) May 5, 2013
Always great to hear what dumb shit neocon Lindsey Graham has to say. #Uppers
— priceman (@therealpriceman) May 5, 2013
The bipartisan BS war on terror fake domino effect. F that BS. It’s a lie. We can’t do anything about this. #Uppers
— priceman (@therealpriceman) May 5, 2013
@therealpriceman Still not a declared war.WPA an abdication of Congressional power.but I will give you that as a law followed #uppers
— GFJacobs (@GFJacobs) May 5, 2013
The bipartisan BS war on terror fake domino effect. F that BS. It’s a lie. We can’t do anything about this. #Uppers
— priceman (@therealpriceman) May 5, 2013
.@therealpricemanvalid complaint.All wars undeclared.One example (so far) of WPA actually followed. #LousyRecordAnyway #uppers
— GFJacobs (@GFJacobs) May 5, 2013
.@therealpriceman #confusion No precedent for War or actually declaring it per the constitution? #uppers
— GFJacobs (@GFJacobs) May 5, 2013
@therealpriceman it was designed to rein in presidential power out of hand w “police actions”, however only rarely enforced.
— GFJacobs (@GFJacobs) May 5, 2013
Agreed @jtlarsen future topic? RT @therealpriceman: Anyway good debate. I agree that we have a big problem declaring wars. #Uppers
— GFJacobs (@GFJacobs) May 5, 2013
Basically party leadership apparatus of both parties tries 2 use+coopt any perceived independent movement in the end. It is their MO #Uppers
— priceman (@therealpriceman) May 5, 2013
@joanwalsh is right. The young have a right to be jaded. #Uppers
— priceman (@therealpriceman) May 5, 2013
Let’s be real about this. The Obama administration has not prosecuted any financial crimes since crash caused by fraud. #Executive #Uppers
— priceman (@therealpriceman) May 5, 2013
That was pretty despicable of Anthony Wiener. I have 2 wonder if we really know who all else did something similar to get elected. #Uppers
— priceman (@therealpriceman) May 5, 2013
@azannaphx @joanwalsh I think they realize that they are being used for election purposes and then dumped. #Uppers
— priceman (@therealpriceman) May 5, 2013
There’s one way to know if @tedcruz has a chance=If @barackobama gets (D)s to cut Social Security. Then any (R) will have a chance. #Uppers
— priceman (@therealpriceman) May 5, 2013
Voters want jobs over deficit which is coming down faster than WWII which is a problem because we need deficit for full employment. #Uppers
— priceman (@therealpriceman) May 5, 2013
did they say something on Chained CPI? #uppers @therealpriceman I kinda spaced out on the Politics chatter
— Greg Griffin (@GDGriffin) May 5, 2013
@therealpriceman thanx all I’m hearing is white noise #uppers
— Greg Griffin (@GDGriffin) May 5, 2013
@therealpriceman true that #uppers my mental defense is to go numb
— Greg Griffin (@GDGriffin) May 5, 2013
We also have true believers in the Democratic party. If Obama wants to cut Social Security+wage Bush war on terror it’s just fine. #Uppers
— priceman (@therealpriceman) May 5, 2013
@gdgriffin This Congress baseball card shit is getting old. #Uppers
— priceman (@therealpriceman) May 5, 2013
@yeswecanjane It really is. Just read the comment section at @dailykos.
— priceman (@therealpriceman) May 5, 2013
Hopefully Steve will bore me less in the future. Still I am sort o addicted to this tradition but I may quit #Uppers if it gets too bland. The same roster needs to come on. Thank you for reading.
Mar 17 2013
Rant of the Week: Rachel Maddow
Warning: Contents of this video may be disturbing for many.
Rachel Maddow reports on how much easier high capacity magazines made it for the Newtown shooter to maximize the slaughter he could commit, and shores the video from the Senate Judiciary Committee meeting today in which Sen Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) dealt with the naivete of freshman Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) before the committee passed an assault weapons ban.
152 bullets, 4 magazines, less than 5 minutes
Adam Lanza Researched Mass Murderers, Sources Say
by Dave Altimari, Edmund H. Mahony and Jon Lender
Before carrying out the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Adam Lanza conducted research on several mass murders, sources close to the investigation into the shooting have told The Courant.
The Courant had previously reported that investigators found news articles about Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik at Lanza’s Newtown home. Sources now say that investigators found articles and other documents related to other mass murders in one of two bedrooms he used in the house that he shared with his mother, Nancy.
Lanza killed 26 people, including 20 first-graders, on the morning of Dec. 14 before taking his own life as police closed in. Lanza had first shot and killed his mother at their house.
State police gave the victims’ families, Sandy Hook teachers and first-responders an update on the investigation last week in which, sources said, they discussed the theory that Lanza was trying to outdo other killers.
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