A masterful goodbye by a master of latenight. Watch, as Jay Leno leaves this stage of his life to start his next phase. If you haven’t seen this farewell yet, get the kleenex. You’ll need it.
Year: 2014
And it’s fitting. Resuscitation attempts have failed. The Republican party is just about dead.
She was tapped to deliver one of four confusing Republican responses to the president’s State Of The Union address, and now it seems that Cathy McMurray Rodgers is the perfect candidate for violating House Ethics.
The Office Of Congressional Ethics is recommending that the House Ethics Committee perform a full investigation into the matter. The news was first reported by Politico on Thursday.
McMorris Rodgers, the House’s No. 4 Republican, denied that she is guilty of any wrongdoing.
“As has become an unfortunate rite of passage for many Members of Congress, the OCE regularly refers matters to the House Ethics Committee for further review. Such reviews are virtually automatic, and as the Committee always points out, does not indicate that any violation has occurred, or reflect any judgment on behalf of the Committee,” McMorris Rodgers’ attorney, Elliot Berke of the McGuireWoods law firm said according to Politico.
A former McMorris Rodgers aide said that she mixed campaign funds and official congressional funds together for specific activities on her campaign for conference chairwoman against Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), something that isn’t allowed under House rules
And today, in your daily dose of political hypocrisy, allow me to introduce the epitome of hypocrisy itself.
These political leaders all votes to literally take food out of the mouths of their own constituents, while at the same time extending their hands for more personal handouts from the federal government.
Strident anti-LGBT activist Peter LaBarbera said on Wednesday that the U.S. should adopt its own Russian-style “gay propaganda” law that would outlaw any positive representation of non-heterosexual relationships.
According to Right Wing Watch, LaBarbera was incensed at the inclusion of a family headed by a lesbian couple in the Disney Channel comedy series “Good Luck Charlie.”
“Look at the Disney show, they are promoting lesbianism to kids who don’t even know what sex is yet,” LaBarbera complained in a radio interview with the American Family Association’s Sandy Rios. “How are kids going to process that information of two moms?”
LaBarbera — dubbed “Porno Pete” by some LGBT activists because of his purportedly massive trove of gay pornography, which the Americans for the Truth About Homosexuality director says he keeps for “research” — said that the U.S. needs to copy Russia’s laws against positive portrayals of same-sex relationships.
These laws, he said, will keep Americans from “promoting homosexualism” and therefore are “acceptable and a good idea.”
You know this was going to happen. Yesterday, CVS announced that it will no longer sell tobacco products. Now, CVS is a business, a Corporation. You’d think that its freedom to make whatever decision it sees fit for their brand would go over pretty smoothly with the corporate freedom lovers over at Fox News? But you’d be wrong again for harboring that thought.
On on Fox’s The Five, co-host Dana Perino tried to use the decision to attack President Obama’s signature health care law, saying, “I just wonder, is this President Obama now saying that corporations are allowed to have values and express them? Because if that’s the case, maybe corporations then don’t have to provide contraceptive care to their employees or their health plans. And the Supreme Court justices might want to think about that.”
Ah, for the record, Healthcare is the law. Providing cigarettes is not.
Clay Aiken, who gained fame on the talent show American Idol, is running for Congress and we have the video to prove it. Aiken will run on the Democratic platform in his native North Carolina, and hopes to dethrone the Teaparty queen, Renee Ellmers.
Ellmers, a Teaparty Congresswoman, has been a vocal opponent of the president and all of his policies, especially healthcare.
In the video announcing his candidacy, Aiken credits his mother, his upbringing and his work on the Presidential Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, the National Inclusion Project, as some of his reasons for running for office.
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What If a known liar tells you that the sky is falling, would you look up to verify?
What if he tells you that on the President Obama’s watch we have lost jobs. Would you believe him or would you check the recorded facts showing that under this president we have gained almost 10 million jobs so far?
And what if that same liar told you that he believes Chris Christie is telling the truth about Bridgegate? Would you believe him?
Those are some of the questions to ask yourself as you watch Mitt Romney in this recent interview on CNN.
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A 59-year-old-woman was executed by lethal injection Wednesday in Texas amid controversy over whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
Suzanne Basso is the 14th woman put to death since capital punishment resumed in 1976; nearly 1,400 men have been put to death. There are approximately 60 women currently on death row in the U.S
Basso was sentenced to death in 1998 for killing a mentally disabled man after prosecutors argued she lured the man to Texas from New Jersey with the promise of marriage. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to stop her scheduled execution.
The state of Texas used a single drug rather than a three-drug cocktail that was used up until 2012, when export bans by drug manufacturers created massive shortages of the drugs. A report by The Guardian found that executions using the new method take on average twice as long as they did with the old method.
A California highway patrol officer handcuffed and detained a firefighter who was treating car crash victims last night after he refused to stop the rescue to move his truck.
The men had both responded to a car crash where a sedan had flipped over a concrete divider on the I-805. When Jacob Gregoir, a firefighter for more than 12 years, arrived at the scene, he parked his firetruck behind the ambulance to provide protection for the emergency responders — something the Chula Vista fire chief said fire crews are trained to do.
But the cop, apparently trying to clear the highway’s fast lane, asked firefighters to move their trucks.
The CHP officer, whose name has not been released, told firefighter/engineer Jacob Gregoire to move the engine out of the traffic lane or he would be arrested, Hanneman said. He said Gregoire, who was checking the overturned car for any additional victims, answered that he’d have to check with his captain.
Instead, directly in front of CBS news cameras, the cop decided to handcuff Gregoire and detained him in the back of a squad car for approximately half an hour.
“To detain one of our firefighters in the middle of an incident is ridiculous,” Chula Vista Fire Chief Dave Hanneman told CBS.
Supervisors from both agencies had to be called to intervene and Gregoire was eventually released without charges — probably a wise move on the highway patrol’s part.
In 2008, a police officer was fined $18,000 after he arrested a firefighter who also refused to move his firetruck during a highway rescue.
Speaker John A. Boehner should lose his gavel if he pursues immigration this year, a prominent tea party Republican said in an interview with CQ Roll Call on Tuesday.
“I think it should cost him his speakership,” Rep. Raúl R. Labrador of Idaho warned, if Boehner puts an immigration overhaul on the floor.
But even if Boehner shelves immigration, Labrador said, the party needs new leadership — and the two-term lawmaker is not ruling out a run for leadership himself.
“There is a hunger in the conference for bold, visionary leaders, and this is not just conservatives — you talk to more middle-of-the-road members of the conference, they’re kind of frustrated with the direction of this leadership, and they’re looking for ways to change that,” he said.
Labrador, who was part of a failed coup attempt in 2013, has made a name for himself inside and outside the Republican Conference by pushing Boehner and other Republican leaders to embrace a new brand of conservatism.
“I think you’re going to see some changes here in the House over the next year,” he said. “I think that this is an opportunity for whoever wants to run for leadership to show that they have a clear vision for America.”
Labrador said the new GOP leadership in the 114th Congress could include members currently in leadership, particularly Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, with whom Labrador has a strong working relationship.
Recently, there was a report detailing how the abortion rate under President Obama is at its lowest level in three decades. By itself, that is very impressive. But when you look at the rate of decline under both Democratic and Republican presidents, you have no choice but to come to the following conclusion – Republicans just talk the talk. It takes a Democrat to actually deliver.
This chart shows the rate of decline in abortions since the Reagan administration. Republicans would come with their dumb talking points about Mr. Obama, and if you listen or believe them, they would even tell you that the President’s wish is for the entire country to head to the clinic tomorrow and abort… something. But when you’re dealing with facts, there’s no argument.
Notice the rate of decline under both Reagan and Bush Sr. There was hardly any decline at -0.01%. Then there was a huge drop under Clinton at -16%. Bush W saw a moderate -8% in his eight years, and in the five years of the Obama administration, there is already a -14% decline. Combined, for the 18 years Republicans had the White House, there was a measly 8.01% reduction in Abortions. For the Democrats on the other hand, there is already a 30% decline, in only 13 years!