Author: Ezra Grant

I'm just tired of the lies and nonsense coming from the GOP, so this is my little contribution to combat the nonsense!

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Mike Pence is Fighting In Court to Keep His Emails a Secret

Apparently, Hillary Clinton’s emails were fair game and public records. But not the emails on Mike Pence’s government account and he has taken his fight to the Supreme court trying to keep his emails secret.

Vice President Mike Pence is asking the Indiana Supreme Court to let him keep secret some documents emailed to him while he was the state’s governor.

The request comes after an Indianapolis lawyer earlier this month sought the overturning of a state appeals court decision denying access to emails sent to Pence in 2014 in which a staffer for Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott outlined a legal strategy for challenging then-President Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration.

The appeals court ruled the documents are privileged attorney-client communications.

Pence lawyer Joseph Chapelle argues in a Friday court filing that requiring the release of such documents would interfere with the governor’s decision making.

The state supreme court hasn’t yet decided whether it will consider the appeal.

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Keith Ellison and Tom Perez Mocked Trump’s Election “Win” – Video

The newly elected leaders of the DNC – DNC Head Tom Perez and Deputy Chairman, Rep Keith Ellison – made their first trip to MSNBC’s Hardball and was asked by Chris Matthews to respond to Donald Trump calling their election “rigged.”

“First of all a little levity here,” Matthews said. “Congressman Ellison, was this election rigged? Donald Trump said it was. Your thoughts.”

Ellison rolls his eyes and we all knew what his response was going to be.

“You know,” Ellison replied. “With a guy getting help from the Russians, well for him to call anything rigged is ridiculous.”

Tom Perez laughed and so did the rest of America at the lunacy of Trump questioning the DNC’s election result. With the level of interference Russia had in rigging the election in favor of Trump, he has balls questioning any election result.

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President George Bush on Donald Trump – “I Don’t Like The Racism”

Former Republican president, George W. Bush and his wife were interviewed in their home by PEOPLE magazine. Asked for his thoughts on his republican counterpart, Donald Trump, Bush answered the only way he could, by referencing the obvious racist factor of the Trump’s presidency.

“I don’t like the racism and I don’t like the name-calling and I don’t like the people feeling alienated,” Bush, 70, tells PEOPLE in an interview for the new issue of the magazine on newsstands Friday.

“Nobody likes that.”

The former president, joined by his wife  Laura, spoke with PEOPLE in the third-floor painting studio of their Dallas home to launch his first art book, Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors. The collection of portraits of the wounded warriors of America’s war on terror aims to raise awareness and funds for the post-9/11 veterans’ health care and employment programs of the George W. Bush Presidential Center.

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White House Cannot Guarantee that Everyone Will Keep Their Healthcare

OXON HILL, MD - FEBRUARY 24: President Donald Trump addresses the crowd during CPAC at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center on February 24, 2017 in Oxon Hill, Md. (Photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

They say Obamacare is bad, but it appears this “bad” law is covering more people than the proposed bill coming from the Trump administration. The White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee, cannot or will not guarantee healthcare coverage to every American covered by Obamacare.

Sanders repeatedly dodged the question on ABC’s “This Week,” saying Trump had promised to repeal Obamacare and replace it “with something that’s better.”

Host George Stephanopoulos pressed Sanders on why, if Trump was so intent on replacing the law with something better, the White House couldn’t guarantee that everyone currently with insurance wouldn’t lose it. Sanders said it was “a goal” to make sure people didn’t lose coverage, but she stopped short of saying people would be able to keep their current insurance, or would even be offered similar plans.

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Slate on Alan Colmes – “Colmes Was a Buffoon and Patsey… Original Liberal Weakling”

Alan Colmes died a few days ago but moments after his death, Slate’s contributor, Isaac Chotiner, said that because Colmes was “a nice guy and a liberal” who worked on Fox News, he was a “Buffoon” used by the conservative network.

“Alan Colmes, Buffoon and Patsy, Was Fox News’ Original Liberal Weakling,” wrote Slate’s Isaac Chotiner [Editor’s note: Nope, not going to link to it]. Chotiner doesn’t take exception to Colmes’ politics, but complained that he was not good enough at advocating for liberal positions.

“Colmes was the most absurd, useless, and mocked television personality in America for many years, precisely because he was nice. In the context of Fox News, being a nice guy — and a “liberal” nice guy at that — meant being a buffoon, and a patsy. Colmes not only played the part to perfection — he defined it,” Chotiner wrote.

Chotiner’s biggest beef was with Colmes’ role on Hannity and Colmes. “Yes, the two men appeared to have equal time during each segment, and yes, there was often a liberal guest and a conservative one…” he admits. “But the show, by design, was conservative, and often in racist or homophobic or Islamophobic ways.”

“While Colmes may not have been a genius, he wasn’t a complete moron either; in short, he was smart enough to know he was being used, and to take the money that his services demanded. If this is something less than morally reprehensible, it is still pretty gross,” he writes.

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Father of Navy SEAL Killed in Trump Raid Refused to Meet with Trump

It was just about a month ago when Donald Trump ordered a fail raid in Yemen, a raid that ended up killing a little American girl and a Navy SEAL named, William Ryan Owens. When Owens remains came back to the U.S., Donald Trump himself wanted to see the damage his hands caused, and he wanted to have a meeting with Owens’ family. Owens’ dad however, wanted nothing to do with Trump.

Speaking with the Miami Herald, Bill Owens explained that they had requested a private transfer of the remains, with no press and just a few military dignitaries. However, when informed that Trump was on his way, Owens said he didn’t want to meet him.

“I’m sorry, I don’t want to see him,’’ Owens recalled telling the chaplain who informed him that Trump was on his way from Washington. “I told them I don’t want to meet the President.”

He told the Herald he “cringed at the thought” of having to shake the president’s hand and that his “conscience wouldn’t let me talk to him.” Owens, a veteran himself, also questioned why the mission was even approved.

“Why at this time did there have to be this stupid mission when it wasn’t even barely a week into his administration? Why? For two years prior, there were no boots on the ground in Yemen — everything was missiles and drones — because there was not a target worth one American life. Now, all of a sudden we had to make this grand display?’’

Following the mission, which besides the loss of Ryan Owens’s life also saw numerous civilians killed and an aircraft destroyed, the White House has pushed back against any disagreement that the raid was a complete success.

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Sen. Barbara Boxer Sends Trump a Copy of The 1st Amendment

Sen. Barbara Boxer,. D-Calif., speaks to reporters on Planned Parenthood on Monday, Aug. 3, 2015 on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate blocked a Republican drive Monday to terminate federal funds for Planned Parenthood, setting the stage for the GOP to try again this fall amid higher stakes (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Barbara Boxer, a Democratic Senator from California, is hoping that you help her send a message to the President – that according to the United States Constitution, the 1st amendment guarantees “freedom of the press.” Boxer took to Twitter to send the 1st amendment to Donald Trump, and she asking everyone on Twitter to do the same.

“Trump shot out press,” Boxer tweeted, referring to the recent unprecedented move by Donald Trump to restrict press coverage of a White House press gaggle. “Tweet him a copy of the 1st amendment, guaranteeing freedom of the press,” she wrote.

I just did. But I don’t think Trump is capable of understanding the 1st amendment, let alone the U.S Constitution.

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Donald Trump Will Not Attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

The sitting president of the United States is often the featured speaker at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. But this year, in what has so far turned out to be a tumultuous year in office for the donald, Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to announce his decision to stay away from this year’s April 29th event.

“I will not be attending the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner this year. Please wish everyone well and have a great evening!,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

On the campaign trail and in the White House, Trump has had a strained relationship with the press, calling journalists “the enemy of the people” and frequently criticizing outlets and individual reporters whose coverage he does not like.

The reporters’ group said it would go ahead with its April 29 dinner despite Trump’s absence. The Washington event typically draws movie stars, politicians and business leaders to hear a humorous speech by the sitting president.

The dinner “has been and will continue to be a celebration of the First Amendment and the important role played by an independent news media in a healthy republic,” said Jeff Mason, a Reuters White House correspondent who heads the association this year.

Ronald Reagan was the last president to sit out the event after he was shot in 1981.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – “We Are Not Experiencing The Best of Times” – Video

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke with BBCs Newsnight, and mentioned the Japanese American internment camps that happened in this country during her lifetime. She called that action “a dreadful mistake.” When asked if she saw similarities or “echoes” today when compared to the time of the internment camps, Ruth Ginsburg replied, “we are not experiencing the best of times.”

But, the 83-year-old jurist said the public’s resistance to the new administration — on full display at last month’s Women’s March protests — has given her “reason to hope that we will see a better day.”

“A great man once said that the true symbol of the United States is not the bald eagle; it is the pendulum, and when the pendulum swings too far in one direction, it will go back,” she told BBC.

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Trump to Conservatives – “Now You Finally Have a President, Finally”

One time Democrat, now self-proclaimed Republican Donald Trump, spoke at the yearly conservative gathering called CPAC and declared to the group that he is their president, “finally.”

President Trump declared himself among friends as he delivered a campaign-style speech Friday at an annual gathering of conservative activists and told the crowd that his movement represented the future of the Republican party.

“Now you finally have a president, finally,” Trump said, shortly after taking stage to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.”

He later promised that “the forgotten men and women of America will be forgotten no more.”

With his appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor in Maryland, Trump became the first sitting president since Ronald Reagan to address the group during his first year in office.

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Democrats’ Only Choice – Fight Trump All The Way

Spurred by the American people and their constant protests against Donald Trump and his draconian ideas and policies, Congressional Democrats are slowly coming to terms with the only logical way to deal with Trump – become the party of NO!

Reduced to their weakest state in a generation, Democratic Party leaders will gather in two cities this weekend to plot strategy and select a new national chairman with the daunting task of rebuilding the party’s depleted organization. But senior Democratic officials concede that the blueprint has already been chosen for them — by an incensed army of liberals demanding no less than total war against President Trump.

Immediately after the November election, Democrats were divided over how to handle Mr. Trump, with one camp favoring all-out confrontation and another backing a seemingly less risky approach of coaxing him to the center with offers of compromise.

Now, spurred by explosive protests and a torrent of angry phone calls and emails from constituents — and outraged themselves by Mr. Trump’s swift moves to enact a hard-line agenda — Democrats have all but cast aside any notion of conciliation with the White House. Instead, they are mimicking the Republican approach of the last eight years — the “party of no” — and wagering that brash obstruction will pay similar dividends.

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