They’re claiming that Rand Paul will give the Teaparty response to the President’s State of the Union address. His two cents will be added after Florida’s Marco Rubio gives the Republican’s answer to the President.
But who do they think they’re fooling? We all know that the Teaparty is just another tentacle of the octopus that is the Republican party. Let’s hope that this time around, Rand Paul keeps his eye on the right camera and not do what Michele Bachmann did last time around.
“We are giving a voice to the tea party movement when the mainstream media and the Republican establishment wants to write us off as dead,” said Amy Kremer, chairman of the Tea Party Express. This is the third year in a row that Kremer’s organization has sponsored the tea party response.
The dueling GOP speeches come at a time when a very public rift is developing between the Republican establishment and conservative activists over the direction of the party. Some grassroots activists are specifically angry at Karl Rove and other Republicans for stating that they will choose sides in upcoming Republican primaries and only financially help candidates who have a chance of winning in the general election.
(Reuters) – Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the most popular U.S. politician, surpassing fellow Democrats President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden as well as leading Republicans, a national poll found.
Sixty-one percent of American voters approve of Clinton, a possible U.S. presidential candidate for 2016, while 34 percent said they had an unfavorable opinion, according to the survey by Quinnipiac University released on Friday.
The poll comes one week after Clinton left her post as the nation’s top diplomat. Clinton, 65, has said she does not see herself going back to politics but left open the possibility of such a return.
In comparison, 51 percent said they held a “favorable” opinion of Obama while 46 percent had an unfavorable opinion. For Biden, 70, another potential 2016 contender, 46 percent gave him good marks compared to 41 percent who did not.
In 2012, Dick Morris went on the Fox News Network on numerous occasions and predicted a “landslide” win for Mitt Romney in the November presidential election. He even penned an op ed on The Hill attributing this landslide to his determination that President Obama had “no message, no agenda and not even much of an explanation for what he has done over the past four years.” He continued that Obama’s campaign was “based entirely on persuading people that Mitt Romney is a uniquely bad man, entirely dedicated to the rich, ignorant of the problems of the average person.”
This, Morris concluded will be Obama’s downfall and Romney was expected to stroll into the Oval Office. Of course, Morris was wrong about that and he ended up losing his job at Fox News.
Appearing on CNN’s Piers Morgan Show, Morris admitted he “was wrong.” He explained;
“I had a wonderful talk with Roger Ailes — who I really respect — a week ago,” he said. “And he said in this business, you’re up, you’re down. Nothing is final or fatal.”
“Why are you down now?” Morgan asked. “I was wrong, and I was wrong at the top of my lungs,” Morris said.
“Fox has given me the opportunity of a lifetime,” he added. “Fifteen years, 3,000 interviews. And at some point a great marriage has to come to an end.”
“Is there any rational explanation for why you got it so wrong?” Morgan asked him.
“I absolutely believed it, and so did a lot of people,” Morris said. “Rasmussen and Gallup both predicted a Romney victory.
It’s amazing. Like someone took Washington and flipped it on its head.
Over the last few weeks, Democrats and the Democratic media have ramped up their criticism of the Obama administration concerning drone attacks. On any given night, MSNBC has gone out of their way to show everyone that they are different to Fox News, They want us to know that they will talk bad about the president if he does something they disagree with.
We all know it now guys!
Rachel Maddow and Ed Shultz for example have devoted much of their recent television shows to attacking the president’s decision to use drones. But it’s not just the use of drones they’re upset with, the group at MSNBC is apparently against the successful fight this administration has pursued against terror. On her Wednesday show, Maddow couldn’t contain herself over the upcoming congressional hearing for a member of the Obama administration and she prayed that questions would be asked about these drone attacks.
The issue MSNBC has with Obama is the new revelation that someone in the administration has the ability to call a strike against a terrorist. Not just any terrorist, MSNBC and other Democrats are up in arms over the fact that Americans can also be considered a terrorist, and ordered killed.
Anwar Al-Awlaki
They talk about Anwar Al-Awlaki, the American born terrorists who turned his back on the land of his birth, went to Yemen and engaged in multiple terrorists training and attacks, some leading to the deaths of others right here in America. Anwar was also linked to the shooting at Fort Hood. He was also linked to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s attempted bombing of a U.S. passenger jet over Detroit on Christmas day, 2009.
Anway Al Awlaki was a terrorist. He facilitated and trained killers. Not just any killers, but those who will kill themselves to get their target with the crazy understanding that the more people they kill, the bigger their mansion will be in Heaven. Al Awlaki was one of their leader and he was born in America.
Does that mean he was any different than Osama Bin Laden? No, Osama did the very same thing Awlaki did. He facilitated and trained killers and some of those killers killed themselves to make sure that Americans died. When Osama was finally captured Americans were overjoyed. They gathered outside the White House and celebrated. We were happy, we were relieved. We felt a sense of justice that the man who organized such horrible events on American soil was finally found and taken care of.
But Anwar? Oh no… He is apparently different. All he did was organized a killer to kill Americans at Fort Hood, but that’s okay because Anwar was born in the USA.
Well excuse me if I disagree with MSNBC and Rachel Maddow and Ed Shultz and all the Democrats in Congress who are trying to read these sworn American terrorists their Miranda rights. These American terrorists who have left the American shores and engage in activities to kill Americans.
Excuse me if I agree with the Administration that anyone who gives up their birth-rite to join terrorist groups overseas, should be considered a terrorist before anything else and should be treated accordingly.
Amazingly, I’m not the only one who feels this way. On this matter, Republicans are the ones standing by the administration. They are the ones defending the administration against the onslaught of the Democrats and the left. And amazingly, I agree with these Republicans.
Mike Rogers, a Republican representing Michigan, went on a MSNBC’s show today and tried to calm the nerves of the left and the Democrats, telling them that what the administration is doing is legal. Rogers, a member of the House Intelligence Committee Chair had this to say;
Our policy is we will go after al Qaeda wherever they are before they can strike the United States. I think this is a part of that. And I think the legal basis conclusion of which they came to is a solid one.
And Lindsey Graham had this to say;
I think the President’s on solid legal ground. I think he’s doing the right thing.I applaud his administration. When Jay Carney said it was legal, ethical and wise, he was right in my opinion.
Why can’t Democrats understand this simple fact? These people are called terrorists for a reason. They are not trying to negotiate with us. They don’t care about rights and whatever rights they may have had, were stripped away when they called us the enemy and engage in a war against us. There is a war on terror going on here. Wake up Democrats!
Although the postal service has cut costs to the tune of $15 billion a year, they are now forced to end Saturday delivery of mails – a move expected to save another $2 billion a year.
Why? Because at the end of 2006 under the Bush Administration, a Republican controlled Congress wanted to privatize the agency and did what they thought would cripple the USPS. They forced the Postal Service to pre-pay $55 billion into a retirement fund, a mandate that takes $5.5 billion a year for a away from the agency for a period of 10 years.
So to stay above water, your Saturday mail delivery will be cut in August.
The announcement is expected on Wednesday, but the decision was explained in an official statement from post master general Patrick Donohoe;
“The American public understands the financial challenges of the Postal Service and supports these steps as a responsible and reasonable approach to improving our financial situation. The Postal Service has a responsibility to take the steps necessary to return to long-term financial stability and ensure the continued affordability of the U.S. Mail.”
Although the postal service receives no funding from the Federal government, they are bound by congressional rules.
If you followed politics especially after President Obama won election in 2008, you will recall that the path Republicans decided to take for the first four years of his presidency was to deny Mr. Obama a second term by saying no to everything he tried to do.
Needless to say the Republicans Block Party didn’t work out too well and after four years of pure obstruction, President Obama overwhelmingly won re-election in 2012 and now, after calling the President a Marxist, a socialist, a communist and all the other ist they could think of, Republicans are now trying to paddle back to the center and stealing portions of Obama’s speeches is apparently the only way they know of getting votes in the 2014 elections.
Watch below, as Lawrence O’ Donnell from MSNBC ‘s The Last Word introduced a video showing Obama making the original speech, then Cantor doing a masterful job of stealing Obama’s stuff.
Hey Boy Scouts! Guess what? You’ve had gay scouts and gay scoutmasters for years. You’ve given them badges and congratulated them on excellent fundraising and (get this) rewarded them for exemplary moral behavior, helping others, being patriotic and making their parents proud. These gay scouts have also met legislators, built structures for community organizations, worked at soup kitchens, told jokes, endured camp-outs and Klondike Derbies, and generally represented the organization with pride.
So what do you do? First of all, you deny that gay scouts and scoutmasters have a place in your organization, even though they’ve done exemplary work. Then you say that gay scouts do not reflect the vision that you have of what a healthy American boy and a committed adult male are all about and you begin to exclude them from your group. Is exclusion such a hallowed American value that you feel the need to protect it with your reputation? In a country where communal groups such as the Scouts are seeing shrinking enrollment, does it make sense to exclude people who actually want to help, and have helped throughout your history?
Now you say that you’re considering scrapping your discriminatory and hateful policies. Good for you. I will give you all the credit when you really make this decision final. In the end, you really have no choice.
See! I told you. It’s time to get your ass off your seat and run, not walk, run to the gym.
Here’s some news that may cause men to drop the remote controls and hit the gym: Excessive TV watching and a sedentary lifestyle has been linked to lower sperm counts, according to a study published Monday in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Researchers in the Harvard School of Public Health analyzed 189 healthy men between the ages of 18 and 22, and noted the number of hours per week they exercised, as well number of hours per week they watched TV, videos, or DVDs, over the past three months.
The results? The men who were the most physically active, and spent 15 hours or more exercising each week, had the highest sperm counts. In fact, this group’s sperm count was 73 percent higher than that of the group who exercised the least, BBC Health reports. Additionally, men who spent 20 hours per week or more in front the boob tube had a sperm count 44 percent lower than those who spent little time in front of the TV. The study was a relatively small one, but it echoes a tip that works for our overall health and, apparently, for sperm counts, too. “My advice would be everything in moderation,” Allan Pacey, head of andrology for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in the United Kingdom, told BBC. “And that includes time in the gym as well as watching TV.”
Okay, so over the last few days, Republicans have craved for more of the Romney juice. They just can’t get enough and have pushed another Romney to run for Senate. Yesterday, we told you that Tagg was it. But according to this email to ABC by the son of the infamous Mitt, Tagg said he’s not playing.
“I have been humbled by the outreach I received this weekend encouraging me to become a candidate for the US Senate,” but the timing just doesn’t work, Romney said.
“I love my home state and admit it would be an honor to represent the citizens of our great Commonwealth,” Romney said. “However, I am currently committed to my business and to spending as much time as I can with my wife and children. The timing is not right for me.”
The Boston Herald reported Monday morning that the eldest son of Mitt and Ann Romney is considering a run in the special Senate election in Massachusetts now that former senator Scott Brown decided against a run last week.
But, two sources close to both Tagg and his father Mitt told ABC News earlier Monday it’s not going to happen. One consideration for Tagg Romney may be that his father lost the Bay State in last year’s presidential election by 23 points.
Tagg Romney is considering a run in the special Senate election now that Scott Brown has opted out, the Truth Squad has learned.
Calls for Romney, 42, to join in the short campaign to replace Secretary of State John F. Kerry have increased since the Herald first reported heavyweight Republicans are urging both Romney and his mother, Ann, to get in.
The eldest son of former governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney already has statewide name recognition and could quickly ramp up the campaign infrastructure for a short, five-month race.
The father of six was a regular on the campaign trail in both of his father’s failed races for president in 2008 and 2012, which would give him some political know-how while working to win over Bay State voters. But the younger Romney is weighing joining the fray against remaining with his successful venture capital firm, Solamere. Many Democrats also have noted Mitt Romney’s dismal Bay State returns in the most recent presidential election, losing the state by 23 points.
We’re absolutely sure Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is planning a run for the 2016 Republican Presidential nominee. Over the last few weeks, he has taken it upon himself to criticize his party for everything from a lack of ideas to being the “stupid party.” So when Jindal made this statement that 2016 Republican candidates should “get their head examined,” it clearly won our quote of the day category.
ps. We need a quote of the day category…
And in reference to Jindal calling the Republican party the “stupid party,” Donald Trump had to comment. He told the Hill that Jindal was the stupid one. Said Trump;
“He was stupid for using that term. Because that term is so obnoxious, and so good for the other side, he should not have used that term. That term is going to be living now for a long time, and they’re going to have his face on television using it.”
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