I never understood why anyone with a brain would even call themselves a Republican. Luckily though, this chairman of the Mississippi Federation of College Republicans, came to his senses and resigned his post and “will be changing my party affiliation to Democrat in the next few days.”
Evan Alvarez resigned his post this morning, which was made public by a release sent out by MFCR with a copy of his resignation. In the letter, he says that tea party activists have too much of a voice in the party, “and because of that, the platform of the Republican Party has shifted too far to the right in my opinion.”
In a separate email to me, he says he has already begun talking with Democrats about joining their party.
People are upset, MAD I tells ya! This Hobby Lobby decision by the Supreme Court has people up in arms and they’re looking for a way to vent. So what better place to vent your displeasure than to attack @SCOTUSblog?
Well, I would attack too, except, @SCOTUSblog is not the blog for the Supreme Court. It is in no way affiliated with the United States Supreme Court Justices. @SCOTUSblog is just a blogsite dedicated to reporting on The Supreme Court’s decisions. The site is in no way responsible for the court, its failed justices or the court’s decision.
But don’t tell that to these angry Twitter users. They found the @SCOTUSblog twitter handle and they’re letting them know how disappointed and angry they are with the Hobby Lobby decision. And @SCOTUSblog is having some fun with it!
Now let’s watch you try MT @noahtron watching @SCOTUSblog spin trying to cover their asses after today’s ruling is unrepentant visible smarm
Thurs. No, wait—Fri MT @Closetrighty: @SCOTUSblog can you at least tell me when your agents will confiscating my gf’s birth control. — SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) July 1, 2014
Or when bloggers decide the law? MT @alyssaanton: @SCOTUSblog proves democracy cannot work when leaders are appointed instead of elected.
We prefer them as our editor & manager. RT @Allout1 I guess @SCOTUSblog wants women barefoot, pregnant and cooking dinner. — SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 30, 2014
A two-fer wrapped up with a bow in one single package. MT @CharlaneBrady: @SCOTUSblog You are an embarrassment and threat to human rights.
She was on the run for almost a week after beating down a New Jersey woman in front of her two-year old son. But today, the fugitive turned herself in to police.
Latia Harris, 25, was planning to turn herself in nearly a week after she viciously attacked Catherine Ferreira behind a McDonald’s in Salem on June 24, WCAU-TV reported.
She showed up at the Salem Police Department around 7 p.m. Monday, police said. Authorities were “close to capturing” the fugitive over the weekend in Philadelphia, about 40 miles north of Salem.
I guess Boehner and his Republican followers will add this to their lawsuit against the President. They’re not doing anything, so they’re upset that the President is. Today, our fearless leader ventured out on the White House lawn and told the world the hell with Republicans and their proposed lawsuit. If Congress fails to do what the constitution demands, then he will!
Kidd got the Nets to the playoffs, but the Nets allowed the coach to walk anyway.
According to the Journal Sentinel, “Kidd will replace Larry Drew, who coached just one season with the Bucks. Drew went 15-67 in his only season in Milwaukee. He had two years remaining on the deal he signed last summer, a three-year contract worth approximately $7.5 million. The Bucks new ownership team of Marc Lasry and Wesley Edens met with Kidd in New York on Friday, the day after the NBA draft… Bucks general manager John Hammond initially was not consulted on the move to hire Kidd. But a source indicated Hammond will remain as general manager and David Morway as assistant general manager, with Kidd being hired only in a coaching role.”
His last known offense happened just 3 years ago in 2011, but this career masturbator and Republican wants you to believe that he is a changed man and he wants your vote.
According to multiple police reports from two different states, Jordan D. Haskins, Republican running for the State House in Michigan’s 95th District, began his strange fetish at the age of 15. He is now 24.
Haskins’ fetish involves breaking into parked cars, removing the spark plug cables and masturbating in the vehicles while the engine is running. The sparks from the plugs and the noise of the engine brought the Republican to his climax.
The fetish is known as “cranking,” and Haskins told The Saginaw News he learned of it online and did it because, “I was bored. It was the rush,” he said.
According to North Carolina police reports, Haskins was caught with his package in his hand satisfying his fetish in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. He has multiple arrests and probation for his troubles.
But it didn’t stop in 2009. Haskins continued his extracurricular activities when he moved to Michigan. Police reports show the Republican choking his monkey in other people’s vehicles in 2010 and 2011.
He even did it in a parked police vehicle!
But Haskins want you to believe that he is a changed man. He credits his many stints in jail as his turning point.
“It finally woke me up to some things,” Haskins said.
“That isn’t even me anymore. I’m not sure what really changed or what happened. I don’t know what it is about when you get into your 20s. Your chemistry changes. You get wiser and smarter a little bit. That’s what happened to me.”
Haskins is the only Republican running on the ticket. His democratic challenger will be decided in a primary election in August.
Haskins is presently on probation, but probation does not stop the Republican from running. Family values and all.
“I want to be the Republican, the conservative candidate that says, you know, conservatism is for you. Because conservatism, real conservatism, true red-blooded American conservatism is about grit, hard work, loyalty and traditional values. Your family values. The three values that make up my stool of conservatism are faith, family and freedom. And I believe that many of the citizens of Saginaw share those same values.”
Rick Santorum, who was a Republican presidential candidate in 2012 and a presidential hopeful in 2016, was interview today on C-span and had some rather interesting things to say about voting and who should be allowed to vote.
The discussion focused on voting in Egypt and other places where the people revolted against their tyrannical government. Santorum compared these countries to America, and said that the Founding fathers designed the system in a way that only allowed certain people to vote. He then said that restricting voting was important back then because it “made sure that there was some continuity and stability within the government.”
Said Santorum;
“Were we ready for an election when the United States was formed to have everybody in the United States vote? Well, our Founders didn’t think so. They limited the people who could vote in an election. Now you could say that’s horrible, that’s terrible. Well, maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. But it was a decision that was made to make sure that there was some continuity and stability within the government.”
(AP) — Police continued searching Monday for two men who exchanged gunfire on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, leaving nine people shot in the crossfire, including two who were in critical condition.
Images captured from a surveillance camera above a bar showed people running down the street in the chaos of the shooting at 2:45 a.m. Sunday.
Police placed several views for the shootout online asking for the public’s help in identifying the two shooters.
New Orleans Police Chief Ronal Serpas said six victims were hospitalized in stable condition. The other victim’s condition was not available. Some of them were tourists. Their names were not immediately released.
Serpas said at a news conference in the French Quarter that the victims were shot “by two cowardly young men trying to hurt each other.”
“What happened was two young men got angry at each other and shot at each other,” he said.
Bourbon Street is a nightly swirl of bright neon and tourists, usually with beverages in hand. A blend of jazz joints, strip clubs, bars and restaurants, Bourbon Street has everything from four-star dining to sex shows.
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu pledged a swift response from law enforcement.
“Our No. 1 priority is to keep New Orleans safe,” Landrieu said in a statement. “These kinds of incidents will not go unanswered … I am confident that between video evidence and eyewitness accounts, we will bring the perpetrators to justice.”
The Mississippi Republican was about to lose his seat to a Teapot favorite, so he did the unthinkable and pandered to the black community, normally a strong Democratic voting block, and got them to write his name down on the ballot. Now that he’s won, these Democrats are wondering what exactly will Thad Cochran do for the black community in Mississippi.
Various members of the Congressional Black Caucus that represents a large section of this voting block are already speaking up.
“Absolutely we have expectations,’’ Rep Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), said in an interview.
“My hat is off to Sen. Cochran for being as desperate as he was, to actually go out and up front got out and ask for those votes,” said Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.). ” Those votes were delivered and I’m hopeful he will be responsible and responsive to the voters that pushed him over the top.”
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) agreed that Cochran has an opportunity to support the black community.
“What I hope happens is that he comes to the realization that African Americans are the reason I have this final six years and therefore I’m going to try and be more responsible than I have been,” Cleaver said.
Their sentiment was echoed around the capitol and in Mississippi following Cochran’s win over tea party favorite Chris McDaniel, fueled by surge in black voters in the Mississippi Delta. Turnout increased overall in Mississippi for the runoff, but counties that are majority black like Jefferson County saw voters came to the polls in record numbers.
But how realistic is it, to expect a Republican to do the right thing? Should these Democrats think that in today’s partisan atmosphere, a Republican would even consider policies that benefit the voters who put him in office? Especially when those voters are Democrats… and black?
These Democrats may be in for a rude awakening. They should have found out what Cochran and his party stood for and the polices he’ll more likely support, before casting their vote.
If you’re still wondering about David Gregory’s politics, then you’re probably the only one left who hasn’t figured it out yet. David Gregory is a Republican and he actively tooting the horn of the Republican party.
Watch what happened last week when Gregory was given the opportunity to interview former President of the United States, Bill Clinton. Instead of being a reporter and sticking to the facts, Gregory decided that this interview would be a perfect time and place to push his Republican talking points.
Hillary Clinton is running for president. Well, she hasn’t made her plans known yet, but she is running. So this interview was a perfect opportunity to hear what Bill had to say about the eventual Hillary candidacy. But instead of asking legitimate questions, Gregory decided to defend the do-nothing Republicans and accused President Obama of not doing enough to get the economy back on track. You know, regular Republican talking point.
GREGORY: How can a Democratic candidate for president, what challenges would a Democratic candidate for president, face running on the Obama economy?
CLINTON: First of all, that’s not what anybody should do. We should run on making it better. But he didn’t cause the meltdown, they actually say his administration took… stopped it from being worse, and there has been a concerted effort to stop implementing his economic plan in the second term, so none of you have any idea whether it would have worked or not.
GREGORY: But you don’t lay this at Speaker Boehner and the Republicans uniquely, do you? I mean, do you really think it’s their opposition to the president that has forced him to have such impediments to get the economy growing again?
CLINTON: No. We do have… keep in min the average crash takes ten years to get over. Has always. We got the jobs back in about six years. We now have to get the incomes up. I believe, let me just put it this way. I believe that if the two branches had been working smoothly together and taken advantage of this time when interest rates were lower than inflation to cut long term spending liabilities, but invest now in infrastructure, we would be in a lot better shape.
I think median wages would be going up. I think poverty would be going down. That is not what the Republicans believe. The Republicans believe government would always mess up a two car parade unless it’s something they want to spend money on and… in Washington I’m talking about and they’ve just wanted to cut everything and not invest any money in the things that, at least I believe are important. We need to try to get back to working together again.
No, I’m not blaming them entirely… (crosstalk). How can you… you tell me. Mr. McCarthy of California, I like him. The fellow who was just elected to Mr. Cantor’s…
GREGORY: Kevin McCarthy.
CLINTON: Yeah. I like him. Had a great visit with him at the inauguration. So what’s the first thing he does after he becomes the number two guy in the House leadership? What is the very first thing he does?
He changes his position on whether we’re going to fund the export import bank because the conservative populace say of that’s just a Wall Street, crony capitalism deal. That’s not a Wall Street crony capitalism deal. That’s a financing device that allows us to compete with the sixty other countries in the world who are trying to save jobs in their countries and they help finance exports.
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