In spite of all the scare-tactics by the Republicans and the misleading stories in the news media, a majority of Americans approve of the president’s handling of the so-called “Ebola Outbreak.”
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows Americans approve of Obama’s handling of the situation, 49 percent to 41 percent. His approval rating is up eight points from just two weeks ago, mostly thanks to people moving from “undecided” column into the more favorable one.
Obama still doesn’t have majority support on the issue, but it’s his highest approval rating on any given issue since he hit 50 percent on combating the Islamic State last month. Prior to that, he hadn’t hit 50 percent — or even 49 percent — on an issue since January.
Welcome to ‘Republican Democracy,’ where the right to vote is only awarded to the chosen few and ‘winning’ an election means suppressing the most votes possible.
In Georgia, Republican Democracy is in full view for all to see. Over 40,000 votes have vanished from the voters rolls and surprisingly, the overwhelming majority of these names are people who historically vote for Democrats.
The mastermind behind this mysterious disappearance of 40,000 registered voters’ names is the Secretary of State, Brian Kemp. Kemp is singlehandedly selecting the people he wants to vote and ones from certain democratic areas, those voters disappear.
Trying to bring the spotlight to the issue, demonstrators from the Moral Mondays movement marched and held protests inside Kemp’s office, refusing to leave until Kemp met with them to discuss the missing 40,000. Kemp stayed away from his office and 8 protesters were arrested.
“Nobody here wants to go to jail,” said Tim Franzen, from the American Friends Service Committee. “We’d rather just go home. But we have to do something to answer this egregious act of voter suppression. When 40,000 Georgians show up to vote, they’re going to find their names missing from their polling places. It’s unacceptable.”
“What the Secretary of State is doing is nothing new for Georgia,” said Dr. Francys Johnson, the president of the Georgia NAACP. “It goes back through a long line of efforts to deny some people access to the ballot. Today, the people have had enough. We have caught the Secretary of State with his hands in the cookie jar. Georgia deserves better.”
Meanwhile, with just days to go before the midterm elections, tens of thousands of Americans trying to exercise their constitutional right to vote in Georgia, will not even be allowed to, because Republican Democracy says their votes have no meaning.
Did you miss him? The most ignorant Republican Congressman in recent memory, and he has a lot of competition for that dubious distinction from just about his entire party.
Gohmert was missing in action as media outlets appear to avoid him at all cost. Maybe it became apparent to them that putting Gohmert on television invites unnecessary ridicule from the rest of the civilized world. In any case, Gohmert popped up his head yesterday on a radio program called “Point Of View” and the embarrassment soon followed.
The Texas Republican had been railing against the Obama administration’s decision to send several thousand members of the U.S. military to Western Africa to assist in the effort to control the Ebola outbreak, saying that it was just the latest example of the administration demonstrating its fundamental disdain for the military.
Somehow that discussion eventually prompted him to launch into criticism of the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy in the most perfectly Gohmert-esque fashion imaginable.
“I’ve had people say, ‘Hey, you know, there’s nothing wrong with gays in the military. Look at the Greeks,'” he said.
“Well, you know, they did have people come along who they loved that was the same sex and would give them massages before they went into battle. But you know what, it’s a different kind of fighting, it’s a different kind of war and if you’re sitting around getting massages all day ready to go into a big, planned battle, then you’re not going to last very long. It’s guerrilla fighting. You are going to be ultimately vulnerable to terrorism and if that’s what you start doing in the military like the Greeks did … as people have said, ‘Louie, you have got to understand, you don’t even know your history.’ Oh yes I do. I know exactly. It’s not a good idea”
He was just the latest test for the Secret Service as he successfully completed the first part of his mission – to jump the White House fence.
But unlike his predecessor who successfully jumped the fence then casually went for a jog around the first floor of the White House, Dominic Adesanya was unable to complete his jog as he was attacked feet away from the fence by the Secret Service dogs.
Today, Dominic had his court appearance and the very same voices that told him to jump the fence told him to scream for help in court.
Dominic Adesanya, 23, of Bel Air, Maryland, began screaming after he was ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation and treatment for the next 45 days.
Adesanya has been charged with two federal offenses: unlawfully entering the restricted grounds of the White House and harming two law enforcement dogs that were released to apprehend him.
Don’t “do this to me,” Adesanya yelled at the end of a five-minute court proceeding as deputy marshals grabbed him in an effort to remove him from the courtroom.
He screamed that he was the victim of “a trap” and “a scheme.”
Deputies succeeded in pushing him through the doorway at the front of the court, but he started screaming for help from the other side and a loud crash could be heard from behind the closed door.
“Somebody help me please,” he said. Deputies could be heard telling him to “calm down” and to “relax, relax, relax.”
The brief court session was to have been a detention hearing. Magistrate Judge John Facciola announced that Adesanya was “presently incompetent” and would be placed in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons for psychiatric treatment. Facciola set the next court date for Dec. 22.
Americans first learned back on June 24, more than four months ago, about the House Republican plan to file a lawsuit against President Obama. Two weeks later, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced the basis for the case: the GOP would sue to implement an obscure provision of the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans don’t actually want to see implemented.
When the case was announced, congressional Republicans made it seem as if they were headed to court as part of a bold move to preserve our constitutional system of government against the tyrannical moves of a lawless presidency. But four months later, it looks as if Boehner & Co. got lost on the way to the courthouse.
Josh Gerstein reports that the case hasn’t even been filed yet.
It takes about 10 minutes to walk from the Capitol to the federal courthouse just down the hill, but House Republicans haven’t managed to make that trip in the four months since they announced they’d be suing the president.
House Speaker John Boehner came out swinging hard last June when he announced that his chamber would take President Barack Obama to court. The suit, charging that the president grossly exceeded his constitutional authority by failing to implement portions of the Obamacare law, was billed as an election-season rallying point for aggrieved Republicans. But days before the midterms, the House’s legal guns seem to have fallen silent.
Lawyers close to the process said they originally expected the legal challenge to be filed in September, but now they don’t expect any action before the elections.
Republicans not only won’t file the case, they also refuse to say why they won’t file the case – party officials refused to explain the delay when asked by Politico for comment.
Republicans have blocked the confirmation of the Surgeon General for over a year now, but don’t tell that to Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz. While trying to question the wisdom of Obama’s new “ebola czar,” Chaffetz wondered why the job didn’t got the the Surgeon General.
“Why not have the surgeon general head this up?” Chaffetz asked.”I think that’s a very legitimate question. At least you have somebody who has a medical background whose been confirmed by the United States Senate.”
“It begs the question, what does the surgeon general do?” he added. “Why aren’t we empowering that person?”
Later on, after it was pointed out that Republicans are the stumbling block to a new Surgeon General, Chaffetz spoke with the Huffington Post and tried to explain his confusion. Clearly, according to his explanation, it was our fault for not understanding what he didn’t say.
“Well I do know there’s an acting surgeon general, I understand that,” Chaffetz said. “The surgeon general is also an office. It’s the Office of the Surgeon General. I know there’s some confusion there, but I don’t think I was confused.”
“I question why we would have a person that was put forward as a czar, when you do have an acting surgeon general,” he continued. “The point is the person the president has appointed doesn’t feel prepared to come before Congress.”
Of course Chaffetz makes no sense. He has no reasoning except to try and blame his confusion on the listener. Apparently it was our fault for assuming “Surgeon General” means an actual person doing an actual job. Regina M. Benjamin who served from 2009 to 2013 was clearly not a person, but, according to Chaffetz, an office. And all the other individuals who served since 1871 when the first position was occupied, were apparently “offices,” not people.
Just like the President is an Office, not the person the people voted for.
A former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack, is now joining a growing chorus against Ted Cruz, saying the Canadian born Cruz cannot run for President of the United States.
Responding to a caller on Blog Talk Radio, where the caller said that Cruz was not constitutionally allowed to run for president because he is not a ‘natural born citizen,’ Richard Mack agreed, saying, “that is correct, I try to say that to a lot of people. Ted Cruz cannot run for president of the United States,” he said. “I like Ted, I’ve met him several times and he’s kind of a friend of mine, but he can’t run for president.”
As you would have guess by now, Mack is a huge Birther fan and has been against the President from day one, saying that Obama’s birth certificate is fake and all the other birther nonsense being spewed at the president. But in the case of Ted Cruz, I must agree with him.
Ted Cruz was actually born in Calgary Canada and the last time I checked, that was outside of the United States. Yes, just like president Obama (who was born in Hawaii, one of the 50 states), Cruz’s mother is an American. But the constitution is clear. “Natural Born Citizen” is a phrase denoting the requirements for being the President or Vice President of the United States. There have been some debates on what this phrase means. I’m not sure why some are confused by these three words, it seems quite simple to me.
So simple even a two year old can understand.
A natural born citizen is someone born on American soil. Plain and simple. Adding your own interpretation of what the Founding Fathers said does not change the meaning. Natural born does not mean born in Canada to an American mother, for being born in another Country makes you a citizen of that country and thus, not a “Natural Born Citizen” of the United States.
Here is audio of Richard Mack speaking the truth for a change.
The man was shot dead, but not before swinging his weapon and striking one officer in the arm and another in the head. The incident happened in Jamaica Queens around 2 pm today.
The officers, all recent graduates of the Police Academy assigned to the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica, were asked to pose for a picture by a freelance photographer at the intersection of 162nd Street and Jamaica Avenue shortly before 2 p.m. when the man attacked them from behind, Police Commissioner William Bratton said.
The suspect “charged at the officers with a hatchet in his hand,” Bratton said. “Unprovoked and not speaking a word, the male then swung at one of the officers with a hatchet, striking his right arm. After striking that officer, the suspect continuing swinging the hatchet, striking a second officer in the head.”
It wasn’t clear what provoked the attack, Bratton. Authorities were working to confirm the identity of the assailant, Bratton said.
The 25-year-old officer, who was struck in the head, is in surgery and his family, which also has members of the NYPD, was keeping vigil at Jamaica Hospital, Bratton said. The 24-year-old officer, who was struck in the arm, was expected to be released from the hospital this evening.
Ron Kaufman writes: “I am a Republican, and I will not be voting for Gov. Scott Walker this November. He does not deserve my vote or another four years in office.
“I voted for Walker four years ago with high hopes, but he has turned out to be one of the worst governors Wisconsin has ever had.
“Walker has no respect for the hard-working people of Wisconsin. He believes people can live off of minimum wage, which has not been increased for years.
“Walker has no respect for women. He thinks they are incapable of making their own health decisions. If the Republican Party tried to tell men what to do with their own bodies, there would be a revolution in this country.
“Walker has waisted millions of dollars on voucher schools, some of which closed, while failing to properly support our public schools.”
A former aide to Alaska’s quitter Sarah Palin, is finally admitting what the rest of the country already knows, that the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee were way in over her head.
During an interview on The Wendy Williams show, Nicolle Wallace, Palin’s former aide who now co-hosts ABC’s “The View,” said that even Sarah Palin “realized that she was in over her head,”
“Just watching her sort of shrink under the enormity and the scrutiny and the hot bright light of our national political process.”
“We should be happy when anyone wants to go into politics,” the former GOP strategist continued. “We are really hard on our politicians and we should be happy when people want to jump in and do that.”
Williams asked whether Palin was a “crier.”
“No, I’ve seen George Bush more, cry more often than I’ve ever seen – no, no, she wasn’t a crier,” Wallace said.
Williams then delved into Wallace’s strained relationship with Palin.
“I think she was really disappointed with the way she was being handled by the entire staff and I think I was a fair scapegoat,” Wallace said. “I was one of a very small circle of people helping her. And the decisions in hindsight weren’t good ones for her. I mean she didn’t look good. So it was fair to be mad at a staff person, that’s your job.”
“But there’s nothing you can do as a staffer when you sort of lose the confidence of the principal and that’s what happened through the course of the Couric interviews,” Wallace continued.
This story is still unfolding, but according to NBC, another person was captured jumping the fence at the White House just moments ago. At this point, the White House is on lockdown according to NBC reporter Kristen Walker.
Walker said that in an NBC video, the person can be seen jumping the fence with Secret Service officials “screaming at him, telling him to get back.” The person was apparently apprehended by The Secret Service.
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