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April 4, 2013 · 7:27 AM

Thursday Blog Round-up – 4-4-2013

Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum was fatally shot Wednesday outside the County Courthouse.

Suspect Arrested
We’ve now got an arrest in the murder of that County Sheriff in West Virginia. More ..

Obama makes new gun control push
President Obama says the majority of Americans support new gun control laws, as the s..

AP Stylebook nixes “illegal immigrant”
The AP Stylebook announced on Tuesday that it would no longer use the term “illegal ..

The Death of the Political Sex Scandal
Joshua Green : “As best I can tell, only two things are guaranteed to remove a polit..

$700M in Katrina Relief Funds Missing
A new inspector general’s report found that about $700 million awarded to help Hurric..

White House pitches brain mapping project
President Obama pitched a human brain research initiative on Tuesday that he likened ..

Facebook Is Expected to Introduce Its Phone
Facebook is expected to introduce a Facebook-centric phone on Thursday that is intend..

Obama to take pay cut to draw attention to plight of federal workers f..
President Obama plans to give up 5 percent of his salary this year to draw attention..

Why expanding background checks would, in fact, reduce gun crime
With Congress set to debate the emerging plan to expand background checks, conservati..

Reince Priebus says the problem with President Obama is that he likes ..
“Obama seems to believe billionaires built it all by themselves.” — Priebus in 2014,..

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March 21, 2013 · 9:55 AM

Thursday Blog Roundup – 3-21-2013

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), 03/07/13

I’ll be busy with some appointments today and tomorrow, so I’ll be posting the Blog Roundup today and Friday…

This is Pretty Epic
Rand Paul seems to have engineered the unconditional surrender of the Tea Party anti..

Stimulus Derangement Syndrome
An economists’ affliction.

An Introduction to American Politics
Just published: American Politics: A Very Short Introduction by Richard M. Valelly. “..

Video: The amazing disappearing tea party
Rachel Maddow reports that the Tea Party Caucus in the House has been idle since las..

Obama in Ramallah for talks with Palestinians
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — President Barack Obama is in the West Bank for brief meet..

Colo. Corrections Dept. chief shot, killed at home
MONUMENT, Colo. (AP) — In the weeks before Colorado’s top prisons official was fatal..

What The Media Need To Know About CPAC 2013
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) bills itself as an event co..

RNC and friends: Let’s hide our crazy from American people
Can’t blame the liberal media for this motley crew. The RNC’s autopsy report noted t..

Right-Wing Media Downplay Spending Cuts, Then Blast Obama For Inflicti..
After downplaying the effects of the government spending cuts known as seq..

REPORT: Kids Ingest Potentially Poisonous Medication 500,000 Times Per..
According to a new report by the children’s medical safety advocacy group Safe Kids ..

 

 

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March 6, 2013 · 12:39 AM

Republicans still conflicted on who to blame for election failures

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In my opinion it was a combination of Tea Party hatriots, Mitt Romney’s cluelessness and the GOP’s stupidity, combined…

Daily Kos

The Republican Party is still hard at work figuring out why people seem to hate them, or at least why they’re not voting for them. Unfortunately, they can’t agree on what the problem is,which is hampering efforts to find a solution:

There’s a split between those who believe the party’s problem is cosmetic, those who believe it’s data-based and those who think it’s ideological and policy-based. Within those camps, there’s no common ground on what a better approach would look like.  […]The constant drama, a number of Republicans say, has denied the party writ large a chance to take stock amid calm. Still, the Republican National Committee is moving ahead with what Chairman Reince Priebus has at times called an “autopsy” into 2012.

The RNC efforts are just one of many, and it’s not clear the RNC opinion will hold any more weight than any of the others. The problem is that every individual group and consultancy has obvious reasons to declare that their version of what went wrong is the true one, and everyone else should therefore shut up and keep paying them money. Technophiles are convinced that the Romney campaign just needed to post more things to Twitter. Hard-right conservatives think the answer is to be more hard-right. Karl Rove knows that Karl Rove was right and should continue to be paid the big bucks, so he thinks the answer is to stop sending him candidates who so obviously suck. And every message strategist, everywhere, thinks the answer is in tweaking the messaging.

If there are any serious, credible attempts at self-reflection, however, I haven’t seen them. Yes, various party contrarians have muttered about the necessity of policy reforms and of the demographic hurdles facing the aging, perpetually cranky party; those individuals, however, are in no position to enact such reforms. Nobody is. (Even immigration reform, the supposed easiest fix for claiming a new, more inclusive base, has been stymied by the hostility of hard-right party ideologues; regardless of the much-ballyhooed breakthrough on the Senate side, Republican efforts on the issue look to be a rigged game.) Republican social policies remain captured by the hard-right base; economic policies are tied inextricably to the needs of the big donors that the party apparatus relies so very heavily on. All of this ties into our previous suspicion that the party has devolved into nothing but an elaborate grift, or at least that the party has no particular concept of the difference between true ideology and intentionally astroturfing, well, themselves. And yes, I mean that seriously.

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January 25, 2013 · 10:53 AM

G.O.P. Seeks To Crib Obama’s Campaign Playbook

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The extent of the party’s 2012 failure has finally sunk in:

The Republican National Committee is reviewing the party’s deficiencies, particularly in technology and grass-roots organizing, that contributed to Mitt Romney’s sound defeat last year. The excuses and grievances that several top Republicans offered up after the election have been supplanted by pledges to strengthen the party.

“We need to get people organized and learn from what Obama did,” said Mike Duncan, a former national party chairman who now represents Kentucky on the committee. “ We’ve got to reverse engineer what they did and leapfrog to the next cycle.”building-obamacare.jpeg3-460x307

… Republican leaders acknowledged the urgent need to make the party more welcoming to a broader cross-section of Americans, particularly women, Hispanics and blacks.

The consensus is that this was a failure at the top of the Republican Party:

Republican officials from across the country said a new tone is needed, and they called on the party to take cues from its 30 governors rather than become consumed by Republicans’ differences in Washington.

But, as Joan Walsh points out in a new analysis at Salon, using LA Gov. Bobby Jindal as an example, this strategy reveals a new Achilles’ heel or two for the Party of Reagan:

The man hailed by the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza for his readiness to “speak truth to GOP power” in a tedious speech to the Republican National Committee Thursday night is anything but a rebel or renegade. One night before his big 2016 star turn, Jindal was forced by national outrage to reverse himself on what is one of the ugliest GOP policy decisions in an ugly decade: cutting Medicaid funding for hospice care. His health secretary actually announced the decision Wednesday night as hospice backers gathered for a mournful candlelight vigil.

Good timing; continued attention to Jindal’s hospice cruelty might have made it tough for him to be the new public face of what he hopes will be the diversity-friendly GOP.

Yet Jindal’s other cruel cuts are set to stand – cuts to battered women’s shelter programs, to higher education, preschool programs, anti-truancy efforts and a range of other efforts to make life better for low-income people. Meanwhile Jindal wants to replace the state’s income tax with more regressive sales taxes.

Meet the new GOP, just the same as the old GOP…

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December 16, 2012 · 6:55 PM

Michigan GOP official: Detroit voters bussed to ‘vote multiple times’

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Here is an example of how stereo-types are re-enforced.  There is the person who spreads the lie and the receptive audience who seem to believe the lies based on past demonstrations by some tea party members.

This particular “politician” should not be allowed to continue in public service…

The Raw Story

A Michigan Republican and finance chair of the Republican National Committee said at a tea party meeting — caught on video — before the presidential election that Detroit voters are bussed around and vote multiple times after being picked up from barbershops and pool halls, reported the Detroit Free Press. The comments have been called racist and classist.

On Aug. 9 in Milford, Mich., Ron Weiser said, “If Obama loses Michigan, his paths to the White House reduce substantially. It’s very hard to see a path to the White House for him again. If we lose Virginia or Ohio, it saves us the election and we will still win. That’s how important Michigan is.”

“Now,” he went on, “I’m going to tell you my own theories in Michigan because it’s one of the reasons the RNC is sending as much money as they are here and why you will see some of our friends spending money here.”

He then discussed the number of votes the GOP needs to surmount Democrats in the state and referred to the shrunk population of Detroit. He also said that there were no Republican “machines” in the state.

“There’s no machine to go to the pool halls and the barbershops and put those people on buses and then bus them from precinct to precinct where they vote multiple times. And there’s no machine to get ’em to stop playing pool and drinking beer in the pool hall. And it does make a difference,” he said.

He later said in the video, “Obama has hired a lot of people to go help him get that vote out. But if you’re not from Detroit, the places where those pool halls and barbershops are, you’re not going to be going at 6:30 in November. Not without a side arm.”

He told the Detroit Free Press that the comments were not meant to be racist and apologized if anyone was offended. He also said in a statement that he was referring to “past Democrat Party political machines.”

Michigan Democratic Chairman Mark Brewer told the paper that the video speaks to “the worst possible stereotypes about African-American voters that you can imagine.”

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December 11, 2012 · 1:15 AM

Poll Truthers Now In Charge Of Figuring Out What Went Wrong For Republicans

Good luck with that, GOP…

BuzzFeed Politics

According to a report in Politico the RNC has launched an official review committee to figure out what went wrong and what worked in 2012. But during the election, two of its members — former Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer and Republican committeeman Henry Barbour — pushed the narrative that the polls were skewed, and Mitt Romney would ultimately prevail.

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November 16, 2012 · 7:02 AM

Allen West Rejects Offer To Restart Political Career In Georgia: ‘I’m Not An NFL Free Agent’

Allen West Georgia

What an arrogant piece of work.  I, for one am glad he didn’t take the offer.  We have enough arrogant politicians in Georgia and we surely don’t need this one.

The Huffington Post

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) on Wednesday turned down an offer from Georgia’s Republican Party chairwoman, Sue Everhart, who earlier this week urged the congressman to run for office in her state at some point in the future, in the face of his apparent electoral loss.

“No,” West told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution when asked if he’d consider Everhart’s offer. “Look, let me tell you something. I have moved my wife around for 20-some-odd years, being in the military, and she was also the daughter of a career military guy. When I retired, she chose Florida. That’s where my daughter’s in school, in college, my youngest daughter’s in high school. That’s our home. It’s a very nice thing, but I’m not an NFL free agent.”

West is currently still clinging to the hope that his loss to Democrat Patrick Murphy earlier this month is not concrete, despite the fact that Florida officials have certified the result.

While he and other top Republicans continue to explore possibilities for recounting votes, in hopes of somehow producing a victory, Everhart suggested on Monday thatWest should move back to his home state of Georgia if the final outcome doesn’t go his way.

“I would be glad to have him come back to Georgia and at some point run here,” Everhart told the Journal-Constitution. “I would certainly try to help him because he has done his job. The way he ran his race didn’t in any way interfere with the job he did. He ran as a Republican, a conservative Republican.”

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and Florida GOP Chairman Lenny Curry have both called for a full recount of the West-Murphy contest. Murphy is meanwhile attending freshman orientation events on Capitol Hill, a move that West’s campaign has criticized as “premature.”

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October 19, 2012 · 1:11 AM

Rove’s American Crossroads Shares Address, Legal Firm with GOP Operative Sproul’s Firm

Karl Rove.

I suspect that with by the sheer amount of money Karl Rove’s American Crossroads rakes in, this story will be buried quite quickly.  However huge this story is, big money will find a way to stifle it…

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Old Republican scam artists never die. They just create new shell corporations and rely on the fact that mainstream corporate media is unlikely to bother connecting any dots. So let’s connect a few, shall we?

Yesterday at Salon, Craig Unger, author ofBoss Rove: Inside Karl Rove’s Secret Kingdom of Power (a new book which tracks quite a bit of Rove’s 2004 election chicanery, including the mysterious death of Ohio’s GOP election tech guru Mike Connell, etc) wrote about Rove’s ties “to shady GOP operative Nathan Sproul”.

Sproul is the paid Mitt Romney political consultant and the man at the center of theGOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal, who, though the RNC claimed they had fired him after fraudulent registration forms were recently discovered in some 12 Florida counties, is still at work on behalf of Republicans in 30 different states, according to the LA Times. The long history of voter registration fraud allegations against his companies since 2004 are so toxic, that Sproul says the RNC asked him to create the shell company, Strategic Allied Consulting, this past June without his name on the corporate filings in order to hide his involvement. (RNC spokesman Sean Spicer claims he’s unaware of such a request, though Sproul tells us he stands by the assertion.)

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September 28, 2012 · 7:18 PM

*UPDATED* BREAKING: Florida GOP Election Fraud scandal spreads to ten counties

No surprise there.  The Republican party does a lot of projecting…

Daily Kos

The Los Angeles Times reports that numerous fraudulent GOP voter registrations have now been discovered in ten Florida counties.

WASHINGTON — Florida elections officials said Friday that at least 10 counties have identified suspicious and possibly fraudulent voter registration forms turned in by a firm working for the Republican Party of Florida, which has filed an election fraud complaint with the state Division of Elections against its one-time consultant.

The firm of course is none other than Strategic Allied, which is basically a regurgitation of Nathan Sproul’s infamous firm which destroyed Democratic registration forms in swing states during the 2004 election.

The controversy in Florida — which began with possibly fraudulent forms that first cropped up in Palm Beach County —  has engulfed the Republican National Committee, which admitted Thursday that it urged state parties in seven swing states to hire the firm, Strategic Allied Consulting.  The RNC paid the company at least $3.1 million — routed through the state parties of Florida, Nevada, Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia — to register voters and run get-out-the-vote operations. Wisconsin and Ohio had not yet paid the firm for get-out-the-vote operations it was contracted to do.

This is sort of like our ACORN story – except that ACORN actually reported fraudulent or suspicious registrations whereas Strategic Allied Consulting has been systematically trying to engage in voter registration fraud in order to add fictitious and/or redundant GOP voters to the rolls.  Disgusting.

*As someone pointed out downthread, they may be engaging in this activity so as to register Democratic voters with wrong information so that when they show up to vote, they can’t, because their information is inaccurate.  Also, I would bet that Sproul is still engaging in the destruction of Democratic voter registrations.

I sincerely hope that the media picks up on this story and runs with it.  The Republicans got into bed with this firm because of its checkered past not in spite of it!  The Republican Party has become synonymous with corruption.

Here is a link to the article:  http://www.latimes.com/…

UPDATE:  Someone downthread posted part of an article originiating from Pensacola.  Here is a link to that whole article, which points out that over 100 suspicious registration forms were found in Santa Rosa County as well:  http://www.pnj.com/…

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August 5, 2012 · 1:45 PM

Republicans Hand Obama An Astonishing Bit Of Disrespect

 

Let the (political) games begin continue…

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The “you didn’t build that controversy” that Republicans have fabricated using out-of-context quotes in a solidarity speech given by our President has taken a new, and shameful, turn.  The Republican National Committee sent a birthday cake to the Democratic National Committee on Friday, which the DNC promptly sent back.

As seen above, the cake has “You Didn’t Bake This” written on it, a play on the misquoted “You Didn’t Build This” speech. I must note that no, Obama didn’t bake the cake. The bakery that DID bake it, though, no doubt had help from the farmers that produced the wheat and other ingredients, the dairy farmers who milked the cows, and the chicken farmers that collected the eggs. They also must have had help from the RNC in moving their product, because a business is nothing without customers.

The Republican continuance of this so-called “controversy” shows an enormous depth of what can only be called stupidity.

Apparently the DNC has teeth too, though, striking back in a hilarious way: “This is typical of Mitt Romney’s approach to the middle class,” DNC spokeswoman Melanie Roussell told The Hill. “He wants to ‘Let them eat cake!’ while robbing them blind. We sent the cake back to the RNC, along with a copy of the Tax Center’s report on Mitt Romney’s tax plan.”

An article referring that study can be found here.

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