There is a wide array of Republicans Cenk could have choose from, but the video below he details the in your face hypocrisy of governors Chris Christie (NJ), Rick Perry (TX), Jan Brewer (AZ) and Rick Scott(FL). Four Republican governors who claim Obamacare is the worst thing for this country, then went along and implement Obamacare in their states.
President Obama used this weeks weekly address to discuss his recent meetings with Republicans at the White House. The President urged Congress to pass a budget, and allow Americans to get back to work.
Over the past few days, I’ve met with Republicans and Democrats from both houses of Congress in an effort to reopen your government and remove the dangers of default from our economy.
It’s a positive development that House Republicans have agreed on the need to avoid the economic consequences of not meeting our country’s commitments. Because once the debt ceiling is raised, and the shutdown is over, there’s a lot we can accomplish together.
We’ve created seven and a half million new jobs in the past three and a half years. Now let’s create more. We’ve cut our deficits in half over the past four years. Now let’s do it in a smarter, balanced way that lets us afford to invest in the things we need to grow.
The truth is, there’s a lot we can agree on. But one thing we have to agree on is that there is no good reason anyone should keep suffering through this shutdown. I met with some really innovative small business owners on Friday who’ve already lost contracts, lost customers, and put hiring on hold – because the pain of this Republican shutdown has trickled down to their bottom lines. It’s hurting the very citizens that our government exists to serve. That’s why a growing number of reasonable Republicans say it should end now.
In the middle of yesterday’s Press Conference, the si-called White House correspondent for Fox News couldn’t show the necessary respect to his fellow members of the press or president Obama’s Press Secretary.
Why is he even allowed in the room anyway. Is Fox News a news outlet?
The Republican Party has been badly damaged in the ongoing government shutdown and debt limit standoff, with a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finding that a majority of Americans blame the GOP for the shutdown, and with the party’s popularity declining to its lowest level.
By a 22-point margin (53 percent to 31 percent), the public blames the Republican Party more for the shutdown than President Barack Obama – a wider margin of blame for the GOP than the party received during the poll during the last shutdown in 1995-96.
Just 24 percent of respondents have a favorable opinion about the GOP, and only 21 percent have a favorable view of the Tea Party, which are both at all-time lows in the history of poll.
And one year until next fall’s midterm elections, American voters prefer a Democratic-controlled Congress to a Republican-controlled one by eight percentage points (47 percent to 39 percent), up from the Democrats’ three-point advantage last month (46 percent to 43 percent).
America, we have a problem. And I am not talking about the usual problems, like the fact that Republicans are trying to take away your health care, take away your social security, take away your jobs and as soon as they have made your life as miserable as possible, they give you machine guns and send you on your merry way.
No America, these are just small insignificant problems. According to Joe the Plumber and his website however, our major problem is the President of the United States, who happens to be a Democrat… and who hapoens to be black!
Joe the Plumber. You remember him right? He is the same one who skyrocketed to Republican fame back in the 2008 election when he was seen on video asking then candidate Obama a question about his tax policy. Mr. Obama answered, then included this phrase in his answer, “when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
This statement was obviously taken out of context, but Joe was seen as a Republican hero for it. According to the Republicans, Joe got the President to admit his secret wish for “wealth redistribution and socialism.”
Joe the Republican hero plumber, also ran loosing campaign for the House of Representatives.
And now, Joe is back and he is armed with a website. And in one of the articles on Joe’s website the author details his reason for a white Republican in the White House.
That article, written by Kevin Jackson, challenges you to admit that you just miss the good old days when your President’s face was as white as snow. Now–you might start feeling like a little bit of a racist after coming to terms with your desire to have a white man leading your country, but don’t worry: the article was written by a black guy, allowing you to use it to justify your bigotry!
Isn’t this exciting?
Jackson, the monumental idiot, feels that:
election of a recognized black president was not supposed to change anything. In fact, it was supposed to (1) ease any perceived racial tensions, and (2) allow the government to focus on legislating without race. So America would be more free than ever to discuss the issues.
Not the case. And that is why having a white Republican president is best for the country.
So because Obama didn’t magically wipe out all racism, and North Carolina still exists, we need a white Republican in charge?
What in the hell are you smoking, Jackson?
The nutjob continues to prattle on about how blacks have never been called racist for being critical of a white President, accuses Democratic Presidents of racism (of course), and–the coup d’état, claims Ronald Reagan “ushered in a veritable Renaissance for blacks,” citing an article written by Michael Reagan, son of Ronnie…who certainly would never misrepresent his father’s legacy!
Joe, of course, uses the fact that a black man wrote an article that happens to, in a twisted way, justify his bigoted and horrible world views, to claim that it’s not just right to want a white Republican man in office–it’s the American way!
Well, Joe and his ilk’s sick version of America anyway
The 30 second ad — which with a $100,000 initial ad buy will run on national cable outlets — features Redge Ranyard, a 91-year-old World War II Navy Veteran who chastises Republicans, and specifically Boehner, over their partisan rhetoric in the shutdown fight and accuses them of not working on behalf of average Americans and veterans.
Veterans have become a key chess piece in the political fight over the shutdown that both parties are hoping to exploit in their favor.
Republicans ranging from Rep. Steve King to Sen. Ted Cruz struck first, seizing on a confrontation between World War II veterans and park police last week at the World War II memorial as a photo opportunity back drop and to cast President Obama as uncaring about national heroes in an effort to push the blame for the shutdown off of themselves and onto Democrats.
VoteVets.org’s ad is a significant escalation in the shutdown battle over veterans. While last week’s dust up involved Honor Flights, a nonprofit organization that flies veterans into D.C., the ad features a war hero who served in the North African and European theaters directly taking aim at Republicans and blaming them for the shutdown.
Tim Dickinson of the Rolling Stone broke it down.
The day before Congress broke for its August recess, on an afternoon when most of official Washington was tying up loose ends and racing to get out of town, Sen. Ted Cruz was setting the stage for the chaos that has consumed the nation’s capital in recent weeks.
The tall Tea Party-backed Texan – the state’s junior senator, with less than a year in office – worked his mischief in a windowless Capitol basement, where dozens of the most radical members of the House had gathered for a meeting of the Republican Study Committee. Once a marginal group known for elevating anti-government dogma above party loyalty, the RSC now counts among its members 174 of the 232 House Republicans.
“Father, we thank you,” says Rep. Michele Bachmann, opening the meeting. “You are the most important presence in this room.” In a pinstriped suit and yellow tie, Cruz sits at the center of a long conference table, flanked by RSC chair Steve Scalise and by the group’s most powerful member, former chair Jim Jordan of Ohio – who has routinely marshaled House rebels into battle against leadership. Jordan flashes the visiting senator a conspiratorial smile.
Soft-spoken but passionate, Cruz derides the work of House leadership, who this same week have scheduled a 40th, futile bill to roll back Obamacare. Instead of “symbolic statements” that “won’t become law,” Cruz says, the time has come to force a real fight – one that Republicans can “actually win.” It’s imperative to act now, Cruz warns, before the full benefits of Obamacare kick in and Americans get “hooked on the sugar, hooked on the subsidies.” His plan: Yoke the defunding of Obamacare to the must-pass budget bill the House will take up in September. The endgame? To force a government shutdown so painful and protracted that Barack Obama would have no choice but to surrender the crown jewel of his presidency. “As scary as a shutdown fight is,” Cruz insists, “if we don’t stand and defund Obamacare now, we never will.”
With those words, Cruz fired the first shot in a civil war that has cleaved Republicans in both chambers of Congress – a struggle that threatens the legitimacy of the Grand Old Party and the stability of the global economy. The fight has little to do with policy, or even ideology. It pits the party’s conservative establishment against an extremist insurgency in a battle over strategy, tactics and, ultimately, control of the party. Each side surveys the other with distrust, even contempt. The establishment believes the insurgents’ tactics are suicidal; the insurgents believe the establishment lacks the courage of its alleged convictions – while its own members are so convinced of their righteousness that they compare themselves to civil rights heroes like Rosa Parks. The establishment is backed by powerful business concerns with a vested interest in a functioning government. The insurgents are championed by wealthy ideologues who simply seek to tear down government. Both sides are steeled by millions in unregulated, untraceable “dark money.”
Having backed the GOP into a shutdown fight that congressional leaders never wanted, the insurgents are winning, and establishment leaders are running scared. America is now careening toward a catastrophic voluntary default on our debt because no one in the Republican Party with the authority to put on the brakes has the guts to apply them, for fear of being toppled from power.
“I’ve never seen anything like it, and neither has anybody else around here,” says the House’s eldest statesman, 87-year-old John Dingell, who has represented Michigan since 1955. “It’s a grave misfortune for the country.”
Now we don’t know what Louie Gohmert is talking about, half the time no one knows what you doing call martin talking about. But he apparently knows something we don’t know. So in a situation like this the best move for us would be to sit back and watch Louie go Mart and John McCain fight this one out.
Today at the Values Voter Summit, Louis go Mart had this to say.
Ted Cruz owes Republicans an apology. He lied to them, gave them the dumb idea that he was going to get rid of Obamacare while at the same time, collecting donations from those poor, uninformed Republicans who bought into his money-making scheme.
Cruz also owes the American people an apology. The Canadian-born freshman Senator managed to convince seasoned members of the Republican controlled House to shut on the government.
One would think that this new leader of the Republican party would use this speech at the Republican watering hole – also called the Values Voter Summit – to issue his apology. But you’d be wrong.
Maybe that explains why he was heckled continuously by about a dozen people. “It seems President Obama’s paid political operatives are out in force today,” Cruz said. “And you know why? The men and women in this room scare the living daylights out of them.”
We can only assume that the men and women in the room Cruz referenced, were the same ones donating to his failed defund Obamacare scheme.
The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll is just an endless horror show for Republicans. Obama’s approval is up; Republican Party approval is down; confidence in the economic recovery has plummeted thanks to the budget standoff; and voters blame Republicans for the government shutdown by a margin of 53-31.
Virtually everyone who’s not a hardcore dittohead blames the GOP. What’s more, 73 percent of the public thinks the shutdown is a serious problem and 31 percent have been personally affected.
But none of that is a big surprise. Here’s something that is: After a week of 24/7 media coverage about the problems with the rollout of Obamacare, its popularity has gone up. It’s still not doing gangbusters or anything, but it’s pretty interesting that an awful lot of people who previously had no opinion are now feeling pretty positive about it. Is this because they or someone they know has actually gone on line and discovered that there are pretty good deals available? I don’t know. But something has changed their minds
On his show The Daily Show, Jon Stewart continued his nightly hammering of the Republican shutdown and on the video below, he includes commentary about President Obama and his role or lack thereof in the shutdown. And in his ever clever way, Stewart stumbled upon some truths about the Republicans in Congress – that they are functioning “at kindergarten level!”
Truth!
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Sarah Connor wrote this letter. It was sent to every member of The House and Senate. A copy of this letter was also sent to the President.
Dear Members of Congress, Senators, President Obama, and whoever else reads this;
My name is Sarah Connor. I’m fourteen and I’m extremely disappointed in all of you, Democrats and Republicans alike. Not about your political views, but about how you run this country of 314 million people who all rely on you, a mere five hundred people, to make sure we keep living in a safe and functioning country.
I don’t think you are paying attention to what your petty squabbles for power and party grudges have done. You are so blinded by your politics that you can’t see past your noses to the real United States, the one that doesn’t run on politics, but on the decisions that you have been postponing and pushing aside.
The really sad thing is that you do this so much that it isn’t even that big a deal anymore. You wait until the last minute, fighting tooth and nail (figuratively, of course) to stop or pass a bill. Then you simply pass legislature that will delay it and any nasty consequences it was set up to have if it wasn’t passed.
You have no sense of time management, and that’s a huge problem.
If I managed my schoolwork like you all manage our country, I would fail miserably. I would wait until last minute for every project and every homework assignment. Then when it wasn’t finished on the due date, I would simply ask the teacher for more time; and then just keep repeating the cycle all over again. I would end up never doing my homework; and if I even did, I would only do it halfway so that I could get it in before the end of the school year. And somehow I’d still expect to pass my classes.
That, reader, is how you are currently running our country. With expectations of extra time and getting a grade of 100 on partial work.
I’m pretty sure my friends and I could manage this country better than you. We know when one person should triumph over another; and we respect each other’s opinions, even when they may not agree with our own. From the first day of kindergarten children are taught to work together, whether or not they like each other, and to get projects done.
You don’t do that.
You squabble like little children fighting over who gets the remote or who gets to choose a game. You refuse to cooperate with someone just because they want something different than you. And you throw tantrums if you don’t get your way.
It’s like you forgot everything you learned in elementary school about how to be a good partner.
I’m only 14 and I’m ashamed to see you behaving this way. You are supposed to be the great leaders of our country. You are children’s role models and teachers. They look up to you as the ones who keep our country running. If you behave in the ways you do now, you’re not teaching the leaders of tomorrow how to lead. You’re teaching them how to fight, how to squabble, and how to wage political wars that separate the two parties that were created to keep this country together.
So stop fighting, sit down at your desks, and do your work. Or I’ll send my mom down there to give you all a good whipping into shape. If she teaches you the way she taught me and my brothers, she’ll get you guys running this country properly in a week.
Sincerely, Sarah Connor
