“Solutions are not the answer.”
–Richard M. Nixon
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Ahhh, thanks for the quote. And remember, Nixon – despite his mental health issues and criminal proclivities – was and remains one of the heavy thinkers in the GOP. Today of course he would be denounced and drummed out as a RINO (detente, opening to China, arms control agreements, wage-and-price controls, establishment of EPA, and minority contractor set asides).
On a more contemporaneous note, thank you President Obama, for the addition of 142,000 new jobs added to the economy in September!
Unfortunately, Frank, business analysts were expecting a jobs figure in the area of 200,000 and Wall Street is down today as a result. As for Nixon, if he had come clean right away about Watergate, he'd probably be recognized today as one of our better presidents. His environmental legacy is unsurpassed for any Republican since TR. You can include the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA); the Endangered Species Act; Clean Water Act; revisions to Clean Air Act; banning of DDT; stopping the nefarious pork barrel project called the Cross Florida Barge Canal.
Nixon would have good company in the RINO category of today; noteworthys such as Goldwater and Reagan for starters. C.H.B.
Obama's not as good as you think he ought to be, CHB? What about Bush driving the economy into the ground? You support that?
Probably no use. Even though we now have many, many decades of hard stats showing almost every aspect of the economy doing better under Dem administrations, often spectacularly so, including Obama's, than under Republican administrations, conservatives either do the close your eyes, hands over ears, lalalala thing or blame the bad Republican numbers on the Dems they followed and the good Dem numbers on the delayed effect of the R administrations they followed. Or they cite other excuses. They will never admit the obvious.
The plaint that Obama has been the most terrible for the economy, worse than Bush because the recovery hasn't been fast enough, despite the tremendous progress by all objective measures made since Bush lost all the gains made under Clinton and sent the economy plummeting through the floor along with crashing everything his administration touched in the world geopolitical situation is absurd on its face.
Conservatives ignoring the disaster that is the pure laboratory experiment in unfettered conservative economics in pure conservative red Kansas is another example of the depth of conservative denial.
No amount of hard data proving that trickle down/austerity economics produce more poverty than prosperity, do not result in recovery, severely hurt and shrink the middle class, stop upward mobility in its tracks will ever convince conservatives that their economic theories are bankrupt. For them those disproved conservative economic theories are a matter of blind faith, a religion really, rather than anything data based.
It's as pointless as arguing evolution with religious zealots who believe either that dinosaur fossils were planted by God to test our faith or, alternately, that dinosaurs, along with every species, both extinct and still existing today, was present on a guy named Noah's arc. For true believers faith trumps any evidence. It's hopeless.
PS. Why am I still not getting misspelled or incomplete words underlined in red? I apologize if I've left errors.
exlurker: you should be aware that the President actually has little to do with how the economy performs.
Yeah, it's just a coincidence that the economy does better under Dem presidents, all the freaking time. The Pres can't control the economy, but he can give it a shove in the right or wrong direction. Repubs shove it the wrong way.
The President and decisions he makes in the national and international sphere, the effect those decisions have, his appointments and his influence on legislation have more effect than you are willing to admit in this instance. If the presidency had no influence then there would be no difference over decades beween economic success under the presidents of one party or the other. It would be completely random. It isn't. So you'd better keep shutting those eyes, covering those ears and singing lalalala, dear conservative CHB. Cheers.
CHB, Ever read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail? HST nails it before Watergate broke. That said, Nixon deserves credit for his foreign policy. His domestic policy was a quixotic quest of triangulation, much like Clinton's welfare reform.
As for monthly numbers…only people who get paid to get excited, get excited. Trends matter, one month doesn't.
Somehow I think having the US Attorney General run a slush fund of illegal campaign contributions to pay for a crew of saboteurs against one's political enemies would have tarnished his reputation just fine, even if he never directed the CIA to tell the FBI to back off the investigation as an alleged matter of national security.
The revisionist history around Watergate is pathetic because people are so ignorant of what actually happened.
Nixon was a Commie.
Remember the 55 mph speed limit !
Kevin McCarthy LOL http://reverbpress.com/politics/mccarthy-tells-truth-benghazi-slips-planned-parenthood-video/
It gets better http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cathy-mcmorris-rodgers-booed-benhgazi_560d6368e4b0dd85030b0b83?utm_hp_ref=politics
We can only hope: http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2015/10/01/jeffco-showdown-with-brauchler-out-another-jeffco-republican-rumored-to-consider-a-run/
And, why does everyone ignore Darryl Glenn?
Rozier, that was a good one, just about spit up my breakfast seeing that pic.
5 years in office, nothing accomplished. Dandy Don can only point to how hard he was worked to get his pet project the JeffCo Parkway exactly no where since he has taken office.
Stuffed shirt with nothing to say.
Mic drop!
Do you think John Boehner gets questions about if an acorn is really an oak tree?
Trump's reaction the the Oregon shooting "Well, these things happen." That is some inspiring leadership.
One victim said Oregon shooter was targeting Christians. Obama said Australia is better than us when it comes to gun violence. Planned Parenthood is being successfully defended by people who think. OR if you're a right-wing nutbag "HIDE YOUR CROSSES! HIDE YOUR GUNS! MULSIM OBAMA IS SENDING SHOCKTROOPS TO TAKE YOUR GUNS AND KILL YOUR BABIES BECAUSE RUSSIA IS BOMBING ISIS!"
This week's Tea Party meetings are so going to be full of high-fives.
C.H.B – given your comments on the folks at Liberty Council recently, it looks now as though they may have also stretched the truth a tad bit on the details of the meeting between Kim and Papa Frank. According to another article I perused, it would have taken an Archbishop to get her this far. I have my hunches on which one, but we'll probably never know.
Stretched the truth? You're being generous, Mike. Lied through his (her right-wing, crack-pot lawyer) teeth is more accurate. Here's a more detailed and scathing take on what happened: http://www.advocate.com/religion/2015/10/02/vatican-disputes-kim-daviss-version-papal-meeting
This is all just too rich: No 100,000-strong crowd praying for Kim in Peru; no private meeting with the bigot. But – he did have a private meeting with a gay couple.
I'm a Catholic – and one who, like many of us, struggle with our faith and the dogma/doctrine and all the other crazy bullshit that comes along with the conservative wing of the church – but this guy is making every one of those dark days a little brighter.
Viva la Francis!
Was the Pope ratfucked into meeting Kim Davis?
Likely…and no surprise on the mention of 'Chaput' in the article.
I wonder just how many taste testers Papa Frank has?
Sound more like Ratziger-fucked.
… right up the 'ol Chaput Chaput.
Wow, who'd have guessed? Kim Davis, the Moderatus of some backwater in Kentucky …
"・ The Vatican weighs in.
Pope Francis did not hold a private meeting with Kim Davis last week in Washington, the Vatican said today. Instead, she was among dozens of guests invited by the Vatican papal nuncio for a brief meeting with the pope.
The Vatican said that Francis was unaware of the specifics of the case of Ms. Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refuses to grant marriage licenses to gay couples. The report of the meeting had heartened conservatives."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/nytnow/your-friday-briefing-oregon-shooting-syria-airstrikes-and-more.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
… no doubt two withered branches on the same fact-challenged inbred yokel family tree??
Carly Fiorina has video of the visit to prove that Davis is telling the truth.
Isn't that the one where the Pope is seen kissing Davis' ring??
Is it a video with a quick shot of Davis with the Pope with no audio combined with a lengthy stretch of Davis telling an interviewer what happened and what the Pope said? I expect Modster will be posting it shortly.
Saddam Hussein had Baghdad Bob, we have Modster 😉
Both thought they were doing a public service, with the main difference being, Moddy is a sucker that actually believes the stupid lies he is fed by his Teahadist sources.
Saddam had it better …
What? First, there's no '100,000'-strong stadium packed with Christians praying for the hypocrite – and now this?
This is as close to 'Prom Queen' as she's ever going to get. The only thing missing from this family values freak show is Josh Duggar standing tall next to them. The whole Duggar ordeal wouldn't be complete with someone from Duck Dynasty weighing in on theological issues around Josh’s 'sin'. (let's not forget, Duck Dynasty's creator starred in gay porn films). You really couldn't make this up.
Are there any boundaries around this freak show?
Favorite Duggar pastor John Piper: Sex is only for Christians and everyone else is a prostitute
…and then this:
Porn star details ‘terrifying’ rough sex with Josh Duggar: ‘It was very traumatic’
I'm pretty sure the only thing Papa Frank would have considered appropriate for the occasion, had there been a private meeting with Ms. Davis, was an 'exorcism'.
Aurora theater shooting juror breaks silence, says 3 voted for life
Guess Brauchler's going to have to revise his little "one juror doesn't prove me wrong" song and dance…
And if three out of 12 "death-qualified" jurors can't be convinced to give the worst mass-murderer in state history the death penalty, its repeal will happen sooner than previously thought.
What a cowardly prick Brauchler is to try to deflect blame for a lousy, stupid decision to one juror and stand by while that juror, who could very well have been outed, was accused of being a plant who had lied about being willing to impose the death penalty by one victiim's family member. Surely he must have known that, when push came to shove, it was really three, a very significant portion where unanimity is required, not even close to success.
And of course, contrary to Brauchler's and other's protestations, there is nothing irrational about deciding that the accused doesn't meet the narrow legal definition of insanity, which is not any sort of medical diagnosis or definition, but was still too severely ill for the death penalty to be the right choice. After all, every expert for both the the prosecution and the defense testified that the accused was severely mentally ill.
Evidently, from what this juror, one of the other two definite "nos" says, this harrowing, heatbreaking experience in which they all did their very best do their duty as jurors to the best of their ability has been made that much worse by the phony narrative encouraged by Brauchler. What a slime ball.
Looks like Brauchler's 1-trick pony pulled up lame. Well, at least we know now why he so suddenly dropped his senate campaign.
Modster claims it's because of a serious illness in his family. Assuming that's true, schmucks can have illnesses in their families as well as the next person. Sorry if one of his loved ones is seriously ill. He's still a cowardly prick.
Congress is up to their "defund Obamacare at all costs" game, this time going after Colorado HealthOP, our non-profit health insurance exchange. They voted to renege on the loan they'd promised to the Co-Op, and now Colorado HealthOP faces a shutdown, and 80,000 Coloradans could wake up next week without insurance.
If you're so inclined, please call your Congressperson.
https://cohealthop.org/health-cooperative-federal-shortfall/
Cory Gardner hinted at this on his Facebook page a few days ago. He "Sent a letter…"
More info, from Colorado HealthOP's Dr. Christine Gilroy:
I am writing to explain what you will see in the news in the next few days. The feds have quietly been shutting down co-ops in other states over the last 3 months. New York and Nevada were most recent. I am speaking now, as they have since issued gag orders to these co-ops.
The reason these co-ops were closed was that they were successful in the Individual Market. New York had 200,000 members. As a start up in insurance it requires 3 years to build Risk Based Capital. Starting Co-ops required an initial start-up LOAN, the feds promised second year funds to Risk Based Capital, which they reneged on in the CROMNIBUS budget of 12/9/14. They told us at the same time we could not accept Venture Capital loans or Angel Investor dollars that help other start-ups through their initial capitalization period.
The Feds also promised to support the new individual market for 2 years through Reinsurance of the Risk Corridors. This meant that insurance companies would be incentivized to take all comers through the exchanges, and more insurance companies would participate to dilute the risk.
Today they broke their promise to Colorado, and denied us the Risk Corridor funds we were promised. They offered 12%.
This affects every company that participated in the individual exchanges, not just Colorado HealthOP.
Colorado HealthOP only needed 35% risk payment, and would have required no further infusions of federal money to be profitable in 2016, and pay back our LOANS WITH INTEREST BEFORE THEY WERE DUE.
Short-sighted partisan politics are harming the people of Colorado.
The ACA was successful in lowering individual health premiums throughout Colorado. The Colorado HealthOP is part of that.
Please call your Congressperson.
I find a fascinating parallel between the subsidies for these health plans and the subsidies for the federal crop insurance program (both very similar: a private marketplace subsidized by the feds). For crops, the federal government picks up about 60% of the subsidy premium for Colorado farmers (as well as farmers everywhere). The parallel is that I'm pretty sure you wouldn't find a single farmer in rural Colorado that would advocate for eliminating that subsidy, while simultaneously joining the nutter-chorus on Repeal and Replace! and dragging health care back to the to the real death panels: the insurance industry.
It's not you, we just rebooted the server. All is well, as you were.
I got a 504 Gateway again. I breaked the interweb.
The Smart One speaks:
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/10/02/jeb-bush-is-criticized-for-saying-stuff-happens-in-reaction-to-oregon-shooting/?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
Not only did he put his paw in his mouth, but when a reporter asked him for "clarification", he discovered that there was room in there for the other one. I wonder how he manages to walk.