Thursday, January 31, 2013

HuffPost : Professor of law and political science at Yale and Author of Famous Books writes "The Supreme Court's War on the Twentieth Century" - The sweeping regulatory authority of Congress under the commerce clause is under attack - ObamaCare

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Under attack of Conservative Justices : ObamaCare, the Voting Rights Act, the president's power to make interim appointments to the executive branch and the New Deal in General. The Supreme Court may intensify the institutional stand-offs and unnecessary crises that are undermining the confidence of ordinary Americans in their government.


Huffington Post

The Supreme Court's War on the Twentieth Century

By Bruce Ackerman
Professor of law and political science, Yale; Author 'The Decline and Fall of the American Republic', he is also the author of the multivolume series, We the People.
January 31, 2013


The Supreme Court's War on the Twentieth Century


Some excerpts :

This is the larger question raised by an escalating series of decisions, starting with the recent Obamacare case. In designing its sweeping reform, Congress relied on 70 years of case-law, emerging from the New Deal, that upheld its sweeping regulatory authority under the commerce clause. Yet Chief Justice Roberts, as well as four other conservatives, dramatically challenged this basic element of the New Deal settlement. While Roberts made a last minute doctrinal swerve on another issue to uphold the statute, this should not blind us to the dangers that lie ahead. While his act of statesmanship prevented a head-on confrontation between the presidency and the Court, the conservative majority has issued a fundamental challenge to a basic premise of twentieth century constitutionalism.

A similar challenge will arise this year as the Court weighs the fate of the Voting Rights Act. "We Shall Overcome," Lyndon Johnson famously declared in introducing the legislation to Congress in 1965. But it took more than this rhetorical gesture to transform the dreams of Martin Luther King into the law of the land. Johnson had to win the support of a broad bipartisan coalition, including Republican leaders like Everett Dirksen, for a Voting Rights Act that would actually generate real-world results when so many previous statutes had failed. Their success of 1965 has been repeatedly reaffirmed by the political branches -- most recently, when President Bush renewed the law for 25 years after it was passed 390 to 33 in the House and unanimously in the Senate. Nevertheless, the Court's conservative five-judge majority may well strike down key statutory provisions as unconstitutional.

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The Court's war on the twentieth century is not inevitable. Perhaps the Chief Justice, or one of his fellow conservatives, will execute statesmanlike swerves in upcoming cases. But if not, a runaway Roberts Court will intensify the institutional stand-offs and unnecessary crises that are undermining the confidence of ordinary Americans in their government.

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Kris Kobach was the main adviser to Mitt Romney on Immigration Matters. His Legal Theories are not very successful in the voting booth or the Federal Courts. His Arizona SB 1070 creation was in most part left without claws and fangs by the U. S. Supreme Court

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Kris Kobach is not being very successful challenging the Federal Government on the DACA (  Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ) or presidential executive order for Dreamers. Most of his arguments have been dispelled by a Federal Judge.

Legal expert Ben Winograd at Immigration Impact says :

"Friday’s ruling dismissed the majority of Kris Kobach's claims because the plaintiffs lacked “standing” to bring suit in the first place."

"Even by “winning” the lawsuit, the only thing Kobach would accomplish would be allowing ICE agents to issue pieces of paper of little practical significance." .... 


Immigration Impact
Federal Judge Leaves Anti-DACA Lawsuit Hanging By a Thread
by Ben Winograd   
January 30, 2013


Federal Judge Leaves Anti-DACA Lawsuit Hanging By a Thread


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HuffPost : Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick Names his Former Chief Of Staff "Mo" Cowan To Replace John Kerry - January 30, 2013 - There will be two black U. S. senators serving together for the first time in American history

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Neither were elected -- Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) was appointed in December after former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) left the chamber in the middle of his term.

Excerpts :


WASHINGTON -- Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) on Wednesday appointed William "Mo" Cowan to the Senate seat vacated by newly confirmed Secretary of State John Kerry. Cowan will hold the seat in an interim capacity until an election in June.

Cowan, 43, is a former chief of staff and former legal counsel to Patrick. Like Patrick, who grew up on the South Side of Chicago before attending Milton Academy, Harvard and Harvard Law, Cowan came from a poor background to Boston for education and made a career there. After growing up in poverty in rural North Carolina, Cowan went to Duke University and then Northeastern University School of Law. He never left, and became a prominent Boston lawyer.

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Patrick, the state's first African-American governor, said recently on local cable television that it was a priority for him to pick a woman or a person of color for the seat.


Huffington Post
Mo Cowan Senate: Deval Patrick Names Former Chief Of Staff To Replace John Kerry
By Luke Johnson
January 30, 2013


Mo Cowan Senate: Deval Patrick Names Former Chief Of Staff To Replace John Kerry


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The Party of "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", One day they are Charles Manson and next day they wake up as Mother Teresa of Calcutta - One day they are the party of "Self-Deportation" and "Arizona is a model for the nation" and next day they are filled with love for "The Other" and "The Otherness"

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Ha Ha Ha Ha ! -

The Beauty of Hypocrisy :



Now we have to believe in the four riders of the Apocalypse : Senators  Marco Rubio (Fla.), John McCain (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.) - The World is soon going to end and  we are going to receive the final judgement, because these four guys are now the best lovers filled with generous charity for Hispanics.

They are finally going to neuter Obama the Antichrist that leads the World to Perdition - And are going to save us from endless defeats in Presidential Contests for the Republican Party.

John McCain said it very clearly : "We have to do Immigration Reform, so that we don't lose more elections".

Ha Ha Ha Ha !


Vicente Duque

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

VIDEO : Obama in Las Vegas, Nevada in a High School, Tuesday, January 29, 2013, President Obama Speaks on Comprehensive Immigration Reform - A Great Leader, students sing "Si se Puede", "Yes we can", the time to be together

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Obama says : "The Dignity of knowing you belong"

Obama : We are all Immigrants - The President is Unifying and not divisive. - Bring Light to those that live in the shadows - They are important and useful for the American Economy.


 Published on Jan 29, 2013

President Obama speaks on the need for comprehensive immigration reform and outlines a proposal for a fair, effective and commonsense immigration system.



President Obama Speaks on Comprehensive Immigration Reform




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Monday, January 28, 2013

VIDEO : "Minority Rule" by Old Fart Rants - Republicans can run Charles Manson against Mother Teresa for President of the USA and win because of Gerrymandering, Redistricting for Advantage, Dirty tricks of blocking Minority voters, etc ...

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 Published on Jan 25, 2013

Public Policy Polling, which scored the most accurate predictions for the elections of all the polling companies, did a survey and found that about 1/2 of Republican voters think ACORN, which has been defunct for 2 years now, somehow stole the 2012 election for Obama. That's right - they think an organization that doesn't even exist anymore rigged the election! What a bunch of morons!

The Republican Party, and its base, have degenerated into a pack of lying, thieving, anti-science, head-in-the-sand, backwards, vile, vulgar, evangelical, willfully ignorant delusional know-nothings with nothing to offer society but hate and divisiveness, especially since the Tea Party cockroaches infested Congress. They're a disgrace to America. Every one of these knuckle dragging idiots should be put on an inner tube and pushed out to sea.

The depths to which the Republican Party has sunk in order to win elections is painful to watch and is a national embarrassment. Instead of coming up with policies that people might actually vote for, they tried to rig the election to keep people from having their voices heard. Well that didn't turn out so well, so now they have a new plan - redistricting states where Republicans control everything in such a way that even if the Democratic presidential candidate gets more of the popular vote, he will lose the electoral vote automatically.

GOP Chairman Reince Preibus has already announced publicly that this is their plan for the entire country. This is one of the reasons they talk about states rights so much -- how elections are handled is decided by each state. If this plan had been in place in the 2012 election, Mitt Romney would have won the election even though Obama beat him in the popular vote by a solid margin.

Rather than actually address the changing demographic in America with policy, they know they have to cheat to win. And just like voter ID, they have no problem with announcing it publicly. That's not democracy - that's about as un-American as it gets! So to all of you who say "there isn't any difference between the 2 parties, blah blah blah." Yeah, there is. Any party that has to cheat to win you doesn't deserve to!

 
"Minority Rule" by Old Fart Rants




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Four Republican Senators supported Mitt Romney and his Racism and Hatred during 2012, now they are the champions of Immigration. Don't make me laugh ! : Marco Rubio (Fla.), John McCain (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.)

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These four guys were supporting Mitt Romney last Year and his bunch of Super Racists : Kris Kobach and Pete Wilson, giving him advice on Immigration, or should I say self-deportation ??

These guys were giving big support to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and her Racist Projects and condemning President Obama as Reverse-Racist.

Mitt Romney did not stop hating Latinos, he was continually dog whistling against Blacks, Native American Indians, etc ....  Romney was rejected 4 to 1 by Asian-Americans, that understood very well the threat to their life and well being.

And now these repentant sinners are the champions of angelical good causes ?? - Are they the "Better Angels of our Nature" as Abraham Lincoln said ??

Is it possible to be more Hypocrite ??


Huffington Post
Bipartisan Group Of Senators To Introduce Immigration Plan, Preempt Obama
By Jon Ward

January 28, 2012


Bipartisan Group Of Senators To Introduce Immigration Plan, Preempt Obama



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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Doctor Jose Rafael Marquina is twitting again on Hugo Chavez Health after the death of his father and a pause of several days. According to Venezuelan Government Chavez survived a dangerous respiratory infection. Marquina considers very grave the condition of the patient

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Hugo Chavez is very close to death :


The Venezuelan Government is treating the media and population as fools that believe fairy tales of Chavez telling jokes and returning soon to Venezuela.

Doctor Marquina in Naples Florida is a specialist in Oncology ( Cancer ).

Here are the twits ( in Spanish ) :

https://twitter.com/marquina04

Dr Marquina believes that Chavez needs continuous injection of pressured oxygen in his lungs ..... he also believes that he has cancer metastasis in the lungs and that is the origin of the difficulty for breathing. Infections ( viruses, bacteria ) are opportunists for these grave cancer conditions.

Chavez underwent Tracheostomy

A tracheostomy is a surgical procedure to create an opening through the neck into the trachea (windpipe). A tube is usually placed through this opening to provide an airway and to remove secretions from the lungs. This tube is called a tracheostomy tube or trach tube.

So Chavez can not speak and the jokes and conversations that the Venezuelan Government reports are probably false.

Chavez has been invaded by cancer in leg bones and spinal chord. So it is almost sure that he will never walk or sit down again by his own means.

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ABC VIDEO : President Obama's 2nd Term Agenda to Tackle Immigration Reform - Can Obama work with former super racists that have used racial hatred and demagoguery : John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio ??

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Can wicked sinners gain Heaven by sudden repentance ??

I don't agree with Martha Raddatz of ABC ( born 1953, network's Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent ). Things are not so easy with the recalcitrant hate charged U. S. House of Representatives. House Republicans have a base of ugly racists and they are going to be judged by them in the November 2014 midterm elections.

The Realist in me trumps the idealist ! -- Because the GOP has been the Party of Racism and Hatred and things do not change so easily and so fast ! - Republicans have to lose two or three more Presidential Elections before they start to change.

The Realist in me trumps the idealist !


Published on Jan 27, 2013

Martha Raddatz discusses the latest news from Washington.

President Obama's 2nd Term Agenda to Tackle Immigration Reform



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Saturday, January 26, 2013

The Terminal Cancer of Hugo Chavez makes me think of this book : "The General in His Labyrinth" Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - This is a metaphor of how much can be won and lost in life - Aflame with memories of power, glory and impossible dreams

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A philosopher said "The body is the main enemy of the old man" - Is our destiny to become bitter and frustrated with memories of Impossible Dreams ??

Chavez has always impressed me as vulgar, uneducated, uncultured, rude, harsh and rough, the saddest image of Latin America.

Bolivar was more worldly with a youth spent in Spain, France and Britain. He also journeyed in the United States and Jamaica. He was more charming, polite, courteous, gracious, cultured, with distinguished manners of an aristocrat, and more amazing and surprising than Chavez in every respect.

Chavez has always been predictable in his vulgarity and grossness !

Chavez is a caricature of Bolivar. It has been said that Bolivar was a great warrior, one that defies belief, but perhaps and unfortunately a poor statesman.


The book of Garcia Marquez is infinitely sad and makes us think of our own lives, sometimes spent in impossible dreams :


"The General in His Labyrinth" book of Garcia Marquez :

General Simon Bolivar, “the Liberator” of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and politics, he still dances with such enthusiasm and skill that his witnesses cannot believe he is ill.

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HuffPost VIDEO : House Speaker John Boehner said he will make it a national priority to "help make abortion a relic of the past." - "Ending Abortion Is 'One Of Our Most Fundamental Goals This Year'." - On Friday he joined the anti-abortion protest March for Life"

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The Misogynist Theocrats ruling on the bodies of Women - Repealing Roe vs Wade - With Huffpost VIDEO Comments


Republican Representative from Ohio John Boehner reiterates his commitment to banning abortion in America for good. - And Senator  Rand Paul (Republican -Kentucky) delivered a sermon that called for a "spiritual cleansing."

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Huffington Post
John Boehner: Ending Abortion Is 'One Of Our Most Fundamental Goals This Year'
By Laura Bassett
January 25, 2012


John Boehner: Ending Abortion Is 'One Of Our Most Fundamental Goals This Year'


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Friday, January 25, 2013

VIDEO of Bulldog Lennox eating his last meal before being killed ( Euthanasia ) for having a horrible cancer in bones. - He is a terminal patient. - I feel sorry for Hugo Chavez that can not receive Euthanasia because he is a political pawn in a chess game

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Games played with Dead Pharaos and Roman Emperors :


I feel sorry for the Great Suffering of Mr Chavez. We don't know anything about him since he underwent surgery in Cuba on December 11, 2012 ....

It is very clear that the Officials in Venezuela are playing games with false hopes.

My guess is that Chavez is paralyzed on both legs and can not stand or sit down - He probably is breathing with injected oxygen at pressure ( respiratory machine ). He has few days to live. I am a follower of Doctor Jose Rafael Marquina ( Venezuelan Oncologist ) in Naples Florida and he has many informants that tell of the horrible condition of Hugo Chavez.

I can die one day of a similar painful disease and I want to be euthanized like Dog Lennox, and I don't want to be artificially kept alive.

Another horrible possibility is that Mr Hugo Chavez is already dead and kept in a Freezer in Cuba, or is already mummified while the pawns are moved in the chess game of Power.

I think that these games of a dead pharao where played in Egypt, while some rivals were killed.

It certainly happened when the Great Famous Emperor Trajan ( Trajanus ) died in Roma, and there was a conspiration to deceive the Roman people, kill the rivals and enthronize Emperor Hadrian.

Finally : This dog is luckier than Hugo Chavez ! -- How sad !!  ---- I once killed a dog with a bullet because he was in great pain and hopeless condition. It is very probable that I also die by a bullet, which I have been promised.

Lennox eating his last meal




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HuffPost : Hypocrite Shill and Liar Republican Senator Marco Rubio ( Florida ) attacks Labor Unions and blames them for the failure of Immigration Reform - AFL-CIO says "For Senator Rubio to be attacking unions for standing with immigrant communities,"

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" ..... which is what he's essentially doing, is neither just nor the politics that will address the GOP's demographic cliff, said Ana Avendaño, the AFL-CIO's assistant to the president and director of immigration and community action."

The American Labor Unions like the SEIU ( Service Employees International Union ) and the ( American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, AFL-CIO ) have been on the side of the Democratic Party and Minorities.

Note : Senator Rubio has also been attacking General Colin Powell ( former State Secretary ) for Powell's declarations about the Republican Party being unfriendly to Minorities.



Excerpt :



"The AFL-CIO is working with the Chamber of Commerce on immigration issues, and there is a general consensus that a pathway to citizenship is needed. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue said last week that he is open to a number of options, but wants an eventual road to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already living in the country."


Huffington Post
Labor Groups: GOP Wrong To Blame Immigration Reform Failures On Unions
By Elise Foley
January 24, 2012

Labor Groups: GOP Wrong To Blame Immigration Reform Failures On Unions

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Barack Obama, "The "Black Mamba," Has Shed His Skin But Remains a Snake" - The Black Mamba is the deadliest snake in Africa - This was a mistake that my brain made for 1 tenth of a second before I realized that it was about a basketball star

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But it is fitting that Obama is a snake because the snake is a symbol of Healing and Wisdom as in the Caduceus or Staff of Asclepius, God of Good Health ( ObamaCare ) and Medicine.

You could also argue that Obama has shed his skin of a centrist and compromiser and is now a liberal after his second inaugural speech.

After being Felix, the cat and the Road Runner ( that always escapes and defeats the GOP Coyote ) Obama is now a happy African ( Kenyan ?? ) deadly snake biting Republicans in the U. S. House.

Some people argue that Obama should not be very arrogant but humble to achieve the rank of Great President, which I think that Obama already reached.

I strongly love and admire Obama, even if he becomes arrogant and aloof, but I would like to see him kissing and forgiving his enemies : The Weird Freaks and Monsters, also called Republicans.

Finally this mamba phrase should be an African saying, but the equivalent proverb in Spanish is "Monkeys in silk are monkeys" .....


The basketball star is Kobe Bryant ( 16 years and five championships under his belt with the Los Angeles Lakers ).

Shame on "The New Republic" that misguided me . ...

And this is the article that confused me about President Obama :





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POLITICO.COM : Democratic Houston Mayor Annise Parker said that Texas is going to become a battleground state in a few years. - U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, the former Dallas mayor : "When Texas turns blue, this country’s going to turn blue and it’s going to stay blue."

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Inside the Democratic Party : Brave and Courageous Texas Mayors and Elected Officials want to turn Texas into a Swing State :


Some excerpts :

Democratic Houston Mayor Annise Parker said her party couldn’t afford to wait passively for population change to turn Texas blue. Instead, they should dig in for a longer, harder campaign to make it a swing state.

“We have been waiting in Texas for a very long time for the Latino vote to come into its own and turn the tide. But many of us have decided that we can’t wait for that. We have to do the old-fashioned work of going out and talking to Texans,” said Parker, who didn’t rule out a statewide campaign “when I am done [being] mayor.”

“Do I think we’re going to turn Texas in two years? Probably not. Do I think we can turn Texas in four years? Absolutely, because I think the Republican Party in Texas is going to drive itself off a cliff,” Parker said. “You hear Republicans with rhetoric, literally talking about the jack-booted thugs coming and taking guns out of people’s homes, going door to door. You have legislators who will file, once again, virulently anti-immigrant legislation in the state House.”

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“I’m excited to see that at national levels, people are now looking at Texas and saying, ‘That’s where we need to make our next investment. That’s where the next opportunity lies.’ The enthusiasm that I’m hearing in that regard is growing every day,” said Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis.

The Fort Worth legislator, who won a difficult reelection campaign last year in a conservative district, is viewed in and outside of Texas as perhaps her party’s strongest statewide prospect for 2014. Both Davis and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro visited Washington during the Inauguration this week and addressed a fundraiser for the Lone Star Project, an influential outside group that drives Democratic messaging in Texas.

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POLITICO.COM
Democrats launch plan to turn Texas blue
By ALEXANDER BURNS
January 24, 2013


Democrats launch plan to turn Texas blue


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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Jonathan Chait : Republicans are giving up their hope and effort to define the entire Obama presidency as a massive failure. -- "Face the reality of Obama’s success." -- "Obama is not going away". - "Obama’s reelection has shaken up the GOP’s self-confidence."



My Comment :

Mitt Romney repeated every day that Obama was a failure. At the end the big failure was Mitt, defeated by a Great Margin.

Republicans act like fanatical and crazy robots, dominated by stubbornness, bigotry, zealotry, dogmatism and doctrinalism.

Republicans don’t know what kinds of spending cuts they want. They are now in the Fantasy that forcing Senate Democrats to pass a budget resolution will change everything. They have a total lack of practical ideas



Some excerpts :


The Republican Party refuses as a basic principle to trade higher revenue in any form for spending cuts, and Mitch McConnell recently reaffirmed that no members of his party would accept higher revenue at all. What makes the situation not completely hopeless is the sheer incoherence of the party on fiscal issues. 

As Byron York recently reported, Republicans don’t know what kinds of spending cuts they want. They lurch from plan to plan, with the latest being the fanciful notion that forcing Senate Democrats to pass a budget resolution will change everything. It’s possible that they will eventually figure out that having a Democratic president willing to cut Social Security and Medicare is an opportunity they should take advantage of, but don’t bet on it.

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To the extent that Republicans blame their problems on Obama’s unique political skill, they are probably understating their own predicament — Democratic Senate candidates consistently ran ahead of Obama, suggesting public disdain for the GOP has mattered more than Obama’s unique appeal. 

It is at least dawning on the Republican Party that the things that are obvious to them — that Obama is an extremist, that he is in over his head, that he is transforming America into Greece — are not obvious to most of America, and that provoking high-stakes confrontations with him will inevitably end in Obama winning. The confident message Obama has taken since his reelection underscores a psychological inflection point. Obama is not going away.


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New York Magazine
How Obama Can Have a Great Second Term
By Jonathan Chait
January 23, 2012


How Obama Can Have a Great Second Term

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Joe Scarborough: "Obama Gave Progressive Inaugural Speech Because GOP 'Is A Party in Retreat'." - The approval of the Tea Party, speaker John Boehner and Republicans in general can NOT be lower. - The speech was very ambitious

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Republican Trojan Horses for Hispanics :


My Comment : I think that Obama will be an excellent President for Economic Recovery and ObamaCare, that will make him a Great President, even if Immigration, Gun Control, Gay Marriage, Climate Change improvement and other projects and ideas may fail.

The improvement on the standard of living of the Poor and Middle Class will make Obama a Great President. But I strongly doubt that everything expressed in the speech is possible.

Republicans probably will sink the Immigration Reform and they will have to pay the bill in the 2016 Presidential Election. .... Call me pessimist, but I see the Republican Party so obsessed with Racism and Hatred, that they won't be cured in four years.

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are only shills, decoys, steerers, beguilers and deceivers of Hispanics.

They are Trojan Horses, clowns, stooges, and they will be rejected by Latinos.

They are like the Fishing and Hunting decoys. Like putting a Duck decoy in a pond to attrack wild Ducks that are flying over the pond.




 Published on Jan 22, 2013

On Tuesday, the Morning Joe crew naturally took to dissecting President Obama's second inaugural address — which, most have agreed thus far, was directly progressive in its message. The roundtable agreed with that sentiment, with Joe Scarborough tying in how the Republican Party's current situation factored in.

Al Hunt agreed that the speech laid out his liberal vision of where he wants the country to be going, but that we shouldn't be surprised by it. To that point, Scarborough noted that Obama had no "reaching out to the other side" message in the speech.


Obama Gave Progressive Inaugural Speech Because GOP 'Is A Party in Retreat'



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Successful and Beautiful Inauguration of President Obama - Everything can be summarized with a word : DIVERSITY - America the diverse - It is also breathing a sigh of relief because America has been saved of a horrible destiny : Racist Plutocracy

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What the GOP wanted in year 2012 was a Racist Plutocracy and Misogynist Theocracy, but the USA was saved by President Obama and the Democratic Party in November of that year. ..... - I hope that the Republican Party becomes more tolerant and abandons its Racism and constant Dog Whistles.

But somehow the realist inside me trumps over the idealist. I know the Reality is that the GOP is very racist and filled with hatred and antagonism against all Minorities. And the theocrats are very powerful inside that Party.

The Republican Party has to lose two or three more Presidential Elections before it changes this behavior.

The fear that President Obama is going to transform America into a "Welfare State", expressed by intelligent and kind Republican Mr George F. Will is a wrong vision of the Future.

I don't know what sufferings or events in his formative years Mr Will had to undergo to be filled now with such a pessimistic idea. It just doesn't coincide or concatenate with reality.


Vicente Duque

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Sunday, January 20, 2013

VIDEO : Rachel Maddow : "GOP Must Face Reality "Obama Is The liberal Ronald Reagan"." - On the same day that Obama was inaugurated as President in 2009, the top U. S. congress Republicans were plotting his failure and total opposition ( inside a restaurant ! )

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How the Party of NO and OBSTRUCTION has totally failed against Obama and will continue failing. The Wall Street Stock Market Indexes can not be better, showing that investors are very positive, happy and bullish on Obama's Inauguration.


By MrObamanos

Published on Jan 20, 2013

Obama claims Reagan legacy as his own. When President Obama unveiled his proposals on preventing gun violence on Wednesday, he seemed eager to tout one of his predecessors. Ronald Reagan, Obama reminded his audience, was a "staunch defender" of the 2nd Amendment, but he nevertheless wrote to Congress in 1994, urging lawmakers to "listen to the American public and to the law enforcement community and support a ban on the further manufacture of [military-style assault] weapons."

It led the Denver Post's Ryan Teague Beckwith to take note of some pretty high-profile fights in which the Democratic president has relied on the rhetoric and positions of a Republican president the RNC once seriously labeled "Ronaldus Magnus."

The list isn't comprehensive, but Beckwith's piece featured Obama aligning himself with Reagan on gun policy, taxes, the debt ceiling, and infrastructure investments, among other things. Obama also routinely used Reagan's name in his campaign stump speech.

The piece didn't mention it, but I'm also reminded of the time in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, when Obama reflected on recent history: "I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it." The point, of course, was that Obama intended to do the same thing, though he preferred a different direction.

Similarly, during the height of the Republicans' debt-ceiling crisis in 2011, Obama, in a private meeting with congressional leaders, expressed frustration about the talks themselves. "Would Ronald Reagan be sitting here?" he asked rhetorically.

The point, of course, is not to suggest that Obama is a secret Republican, though I suspect the president respects his conservative predecessor. Rather, I think Obama uses Reagan's name to reinforce a larger point about just how far today's Republican Party has strayed from its mainstream past. President Obama, in other words, is laying claim to a Reagan legacy the GOP no longer wants.

As we talked about over the summer, Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times, and he supported the precursor to the Buffett Rule. In his first term, Reagan raised taxes when unemployment was nearing 11% -- imagine trying this today -- and proceeded to raise taxes seven out of the eight years he was in office. It's a fact the right finds terribly inconvenient, but "no peacetime president has raised taxes so much on so many people" as Reagan.

Reagan gave amnesty to undocumented immigrants, expanded the size of the federal government, tripled the debt, backed bailouts of domestic industries, and called for a world without nuclear weapons. Reagan also routinely compromised with Democrats, met with our most hated enemy without preconditions, and was willing to criticize Israel.

And then there's his gubernatorial record: in California, Reagan increased spending, raised taxes, helped create the nation's first state-based emissions standards, signed an abortion-rights bill, and expanded the nation's largest state-based Medicaid program (socialized health insurance).

For Obama, it's likely the irony of GOP Reagan-worship is amusing -- the party has a religious-like reverence for the former president, but the GOP has no use for his approach to governance.

And if Obama can remind the public of Republican extremism by noting how much he and Reagan -- unlike the congressional GOP and Reagan -- have in common, it's hardly a surprise to hear the former president's name pop up so often in Obama's speeches.



GOP Must Face Reality "Obama Is The liberal Ronald Reagan"



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Dr. Jose Rafael Marquina MD, a Venezuelan specialist of Naples, Florida and an insider who broke the information and secrecy ban on Chavez health, informed that Chavez’ cancer— a leiomyosarcoma— had spread to the lumbar spine causing paralysis of both legs

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Unfortunately a human being is in great suffering and we hope the best for the sick man. But this is a horrible "Reality Show" -- Dr Marquina is now a journalistic superstar, and many millions around the globe are waiting for his reports about the Health of Hugo Chavez...  Many people that don't give a damn about politics follow this Venezuelan soap opera with very intense interest, just for the medical curiosity and knowledge.

This is sad and unfortunate but we are learning a lot of medicine and oncology with Dr Marquina, a specialist and scientist of cancer. We are sad and sorry for the patient, even if we don't share Hugo's political ideas.


From Curacao Chronicle - Some Extracts :

Also, metastasis were detected in urine bladder, intestines and lungs. The President is breathing through an opening in his air pipe from a tracheotomy, and hooked up to an artificial respirator. So Chavez has been unable to talk or walk since 10 December 2012 and most likely, will never do so again. Marquina advised the Chavez family to move Chavez to the USA, since Cuba has no experience in treatment of these kinds of cancers and the treatment for the so-called lung infection had turned out as a disastrous failure.

Hugo Chavez’ health remains shrouded in strict secrecy since the onset two years ago, and that secrecy has become the source of endless speculations. Whatever the actual truth about the health of Hugo Chavez may be, it has become very clear that the Venezuelan government is unable to function without their legendary leader.


Curacao Chronicle
A weekend at Bernie’s
By Jacob Gelt Dekker
Monday January 14th, 2013


A weekend at Bernie’s

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Saturday, January 19, 2013

VIDEO, Ed Schultz : "Hands Up!: Republicans Surrender on Debt Ceiling, Wave Dirty-White Flag" - Four Years after Republicans decided to destroy Obama they surrender and the "Game of Chicken is over" .... January 19, 2013

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Are Republicans Hopeless Losers ????

What a reversal of threats !!

Republicans surrender in the "Taking the American Economy as Hostage" ..... They increase the Debt Ceiling for another three months. The approval rate of Congress Republicans is a dismal 14% and 81% disapproval. --- Republicans are backing off and contradicting their previous tough and hard declarations.

In past months and years Republicans were gloating over their Debt Ceiling Strategy. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz from Florida ( She is the DNC Chair ) explains.
 

Published on Jan 19, 2013

Hands Up!: Republicans Surrender on Debt Ceiling, Wave Dirty-White Flag




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Friday, January 18, 2013

Super Conservative Fortune Magazine : "Missing a boom is at least as dangerous as missing a bust." - "When everyone believes it can't possibly happen, that's when it happens." - Obama could have a second term as a Great Statesman

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This conservative and republican magazine says that the possibility exists of Obama being a Great President for the American Economy. If Obama is moderate and not leftist or hyper progressive then America can go for growth and business creativity.

For example Obama can be cautious and prudent in the Implementation of ObamaCare, stopping where it hurts the economy, being flexible or changing if and when it hurts jobs and corporations. Obama can also be prudent and flexible with regulations of Business like the Dodd-Frank rules.

Obama can reform the tax code closing loopholes, he can make Medicare sustainable, and fix immigration laws for the good of the American Economy.

Then a Great Second Term should not be discarded, the president should be helped to achieve this goal.


Fortune Magazine
Lucky 2013: A case for economic good times
By Geoff Colvin, senior editor-at-large
January 18, 2013


Lucky 2013: A case for economic good times

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Thursday, January 17, 2013

New Yorker : The Southernization of American life after 1964 and Civil Rights until now - Now the South is becoming isolated again. - The Solid South speaks less and less for America and more and more for itself alone

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Excerpts :

The Southern bloc in the House majority can still prevent the President from enjoying any major legislative achievements, but it has no chance of enacting an agenda, and it’s unlikely to produce a nationally popular figure.

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It would be better for America as well as for the South if Southerners rediscovered their hidden past and took up the painful task of refashioning an identity that no longer inspires their countrymen.

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New Yorker Magazine
Southern Discomfort
by George Packer
January 21, 2013

Southern Discomfort


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VIDEO Joe Scarborough : "Joe Blames Rush Fox News for Losing Election" - Joe Blames "A lot of Stupidity of Mitt Romney and his campaign" and the circus of the Right Wing Extremists making enemies in many demographies and constituencies

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This is an Old VIDEO ( recorded two months ago ), but extremely important. What the panel says is true, but the GOP is NOT easy to reform, because the base is enraged and filled with hatred, and a great part of it is Racial Hatred and Racial Resentment that is not easy to erase and forget.

The GOP is NOT racist ..... but it is the Party that racists adore and vote for .....!


Published on Nov 18, 2012

Republicans Blame Rush Limbaugh and Fox News for Losing the Election. Republicans continue to turn on their own media, and refuse to accept the fact that it was their ideas, not Rush Limbaugh and Fox News that lost the election for them.

A prime example of the Republicans turning on their own media came on Morning Joe today where Joe Scarborough and Politico's Jim VandeHei.


"Joe Blames Rush Fox News for Losing Election"





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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

VIDEO, Chris Matthews : Obama Fighting & Winning - Debt Ceiling, Hagel to Defense - Nia-Malika Henderson ( Washington Post ) - Glenn Trush ( POLITICO.COM ) - After the Biased and Racist opposition of Republicans to Susan Rice

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Obama seems energized for the Second Term : He is now Strong, Firm, Serious, Brave, Decisive, Bold and taking the issues before the American Public, using the power of Television and the "Bully Pulpit", the power of the Oval Office and the White House.

Polls show that the public is on the side of the President.


Obama Fighting & Winning





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VIDEO, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh says that "President Obama uses kids as Human Shields" and political experts at Fox News applaud that Intelligent Observation. - Limbaugh is the same great philosopher that said that Liberals want to liquidate the South

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Fox News can not be more degraded and can not be lower in dignity, honor and worthiness. - And they take the Greatest and most Ridiculous Clown and Idiot in the World as an example of a profound intellectual "pundit".

Rush Limbaugh has been repeating that Liberals love the "Lincoln" movie and are infatuated with it because they love Gays and hate Guns and Assault Weapons. Therefore they want to finish the South Off. Not happy with hating Blacks, Minorities and the Poor, the Greatest Racist is now hating Abraham Lincoln.

The great Genius of Fox News called Sean Hannity is lately praising the South and demeaning the North and applauding the cretins that propose Secession. After Sean Hannity made a plea for Immigration Amnesty and a more liberal policy on November 7 of 2012, he is now backing off and denouncing Obama and the Liberals for proposing Amnesty.

Sean Hannity is the same brutal Racist that said that the USA lost the Vietnam War for "lack of will" and said that Iraq should be brutally forced to pay trillions of dollars to the USA for the benefit of giving "Liberty and Freedom" to that martyred nation.


Rush Limbaugh Slams President Obama For Using Kids As "Human Shields"



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Monday, January 14, 2013

VIDEO and Full Transcript of what President Obama said in Press Conference about the Debt Ceiling - The President of the USA speaks with great strength, force, decision, firmness, valor and courage against the GOP hostage taking

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Obama tells us that the U. S. Congress created these debts in the past and now it has to pay them. "We are not a deadbeat nation." ( Not fulfilling its obligations or paying its debts ).

Obama even says : "It turns out the American people agree with me. They listened to an entire year’s debate over this issue. And they made a clear decision about the approach they prefer."


Excerpts of Obama's Press Conference :

Right now, our economy is growing and our businesses are creating new jobs. So, we are poised for a good year if we make smart decisions and sound investments, and as long as Washington politics don’t get in the way of America’s progress.

As I said on the campaign, one component to growing our economy and broadening opportunity for the middle class is shrinking our deficits in a balanced and responsible way. And for nearly two years now, I’ve been fighting for such a plan, one that would reduce our deficits by $4 trillion over the next decade, which would stabilize our debt and our deficit in a sustainable way for the next decade.

OBAMA: That would be enough not only to stop the growth of our debt relative to the size of our economy, but it would make it manageable so it doesn’t crowd out the investments we need to make in people and education and job training and scientist and medical research, all the things that help us grow.

Now, step by step, we’ve made progress towards that goal. Over the past two years, I’ve signed into law about $1.4 trillion in spending cuts. Two weeks ago, I signed into law more than $600 billion in new revenue, by making sure the wealthiest Americans begin to pay their fair share.

When you add the money that we’ll save in interest payments on the debt, altogether that adds up to a total of about $2.5 trillion in deficit reduction over the past two years, not counting the $400 billion already saved from winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

So we’ve made progress. We are moving towards our ultimate goal of getting to a $4 trillion reduction. And there will be more deficit reduction when Congress decides what to do about the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts that have been pushed off until next month.

The fact is, though, we can’t finish the job of deficit reduction through spending cuts alone. The cuts we’ve already made to priorities other than Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and defense mean that we spend on everything from education to public safety less as a share of our economy than it has -- than has been true for a generation. And that’s not a recipe for growth. So we’ve got to do more both to stabilize our finances over the medium and long term, but also spur more growth in the short term.

Now, I’ve said I’m open to making modest adjustments to programs like Medicare to protect them from future generations. And I’ve also that we need more revenue through tax reform, by closing loopholes in our tax code for the wealthiest Americans. If we combine a balanced package of savings from spending on health care and revenues from closing loopholes, we can solve the deficit issue without sacrificing our investments in things like education that are going to help us grow.

It turns out the American people agree with me. They listened to an entire year’s debate over this issue. And they made a clear decision about the approach they prefer. They don’t think it’s fair, for example, to ask a senior to pay more for his or her health care or a scientist to shut down life-saving research so that a multimillionaire investor can pay less in tax rates than a secretary. They don’t think it’s smart to protect endless corporate loopholes and tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans rather than rebuild our roads and our schools, invest in our workers’ skills, or help manufacturers bring jobs back to America.

So they want us to get our books in order in a balanced way, where everybody pulls their weight, everyone does their part. That’s what I want, as well. That’s what I’ve proposed. And we can get it done, but we’re going to have to make sure that people are looking at this in a responsible way, rather than just through the lens of politics.

Now, the other congressionally imposed deadline coming up is the so-called debt ceiling, something most Americans hadn’t even heard of before two years ago. So I want to be clear about this: The debt ceiling is not a question of authorizing more spending. Raising the debt ceiling does not authorize more spending. It simply allows the country to pay for spending that Congress has already committed to.

OBAMA: These are bills that have already been racked up, and we need to pay them. So, while I’m willing to compromise and find common ground over how to reduce our deficits, America cannot afford another debate with this Congress about whether or not they should pay the bills they’ve already racked up. If congressional Republicans refuse to pay America’s bills on time, Social Security checks, and veterans benefits will be delayed.

We might not be able to pay our troops, or honor our contracts with small business owners. Food inspectors, air traffic controllers, specialist who track down loose nuclear materials wouldn’t get their paychecks. Investors around the world will ask if the United States of America is in fact a safe bet. Markets could go haywire, interest rates would spike for anybody who borrows money. Every homeowner with a mortgage, every student with a college loan, every small business owner who wants to grow and hire.

It would be a self-inflicted wound on the economy. It would slow down our growth, might tip us into recession. And ironically it would probably increase our deficit. So to even entertain the idea of this happening, of the United States of America not paying its bills, is irresponsible. It’s absurd. As the speaker said two years ago, it would be, and I’m quoting Speaker Boehner now, “a financial disaster, not only for us, but for the worldwide economy.”

OBAMA: So we’ve got to pay our bills. And Republicans in Congress have two choices here. They can act responsibly, and pay America’s bills, or they can act irresponsibly and put America through another economic crisis. But they will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy. The financial wellbeing of the American people is not leverage to be used. The full faith and credit of the United States of America is not a bargaining chip. And they better choose quickly, because time is running short.


The last time republicans in Congress even flirted with this idea, our AAA credit rating was downgraded for the first time in our history. Our businesses created the fewest jobs of any month in nearly the past three years, and ironically, the whole fiasco actually added to the deficit.

So it shouldn’t be surprising, given all this talk, that the American people think that Washington is hurting rather than helping the country at the moment. They see their representatives consumed with partisan brinkmanship over paying our bills while they overwhelmingly want us to focus on growing the economy and creating more jobs.

So let’s finish this debate. Let’s give our businesses and the world the certainty that our economy and our reputation are still second to none. We pay our bills, we handle our business, and then we can move on because America has a lot to do.

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PBS : Watch President Obama's Final News Conference of First Term





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Saturday, January 12, 2013

A Platinum Shield and Sword for Obama : FDR printed money in his first days in office and abandoned the Gold Standard. This was done to avert a crisis that was one million times worse than the Debt Ceiling on next Valentine's day

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Jonathan Alter in BLOOMBERG.COM says that the printing of platinum coins is an excellent idea if the Republicans take the American Economy as hostage.  Jonathan Alter, a Bloomberg View columnist, is the author of “The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope.

President Obama should NOT cave to Extortion, Blackmail, Kidnapping of Lady American Economy, to the Intransigence of Republicans and their Extremism, Bigotry, Hatred, Dogmatism, Doctrinalism, Stubbornness, Fanaticism, Zealotry, and the lack of Compromise, Flexibility and Common Sense of the GOP.

BLOOMBERG.COM
The Platinum Coin Wouldn't Have Been Goofy to FDR
By Jonathan Alter

January 11, 2012


The Platinum Coin Wouldn't Have Been Goofy to FDR


Some excerpts :

Roosevelt took the oath of office on March 4, 1933, at the bottom of the Great Depression. The nation was in the fetal position. Almost three-quarters of the states had already closed their banks. As president-elect, Roosevelt wanted his predecessor, Herbert Hoover, to close the rest. Hoover refused, and Roosevelt signed an executive order to do so on his first day in office.

The weeklong "bank holiday" -- as it was festively dubbed -- left Treasury Department officials (of both the new and the old administrations) racing for solutions. The most immediate problem was the currency:  There wasn’t enough money in circulation. The government had a "financing" -- bills to pay -- by March 15 and a default on those obligations was unthinkable. Not even the looniest congressman suggested it, in those days.

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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Two VIDEOs : Rush Limbaugh says that CNN's Carol Costello is "An Info-Babe' (AUDIO)", he has been attacking constantly this lady with insults like "Carol, you need to go sit on a fire hydrant and improve your day". -- This is the nth time that Rush disrespects Ladies and Ladyhood

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The Best Friend of the National Rifle Association NRA is also the Greatest Disrespecter of Women : topmost in Misogyny, like saying that Sandra Fluke is a "slut". - Rush Limbaugh is Topmost in Racism, Brutality, Hatred, Bigotry, Plutocracy, Fanaticism, Zealotry, Dogmatism, Doctrinalism, anti-Evolution, anti-Darwin and Misogyny.


Uploaded on Oct 19, 2009

Rush Limbaugh on his "stalker," CNN's Carol Costello- "Carol, you need to go sit on a fire hydrant and improve your day".





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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

VIDEO, Joe Scarborough : Newt Gingrich says : "Debt Ceiling Is A 'Dead Loser'." - Newt criticizes the House Republicans and their strategy of Government Shutdown and Scorched Earth policy of Intransigence, Stubbornness, Fanaticism, Bigotry, Dogmatism, Doctrinalism, Zealotry

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The Puppets of the Rich and Wealthy are also Kamikazes and they want to commit Hara-Kiri and Sepuku :


Published on Jan 4, 2013

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) warned House Republicans not to hold the debt ceiling for political leverage Friday, contradicting Republicans who have strongly hinted at their plans to do just that.

"They've got to find, in the House, a totally new strategy," he said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "Everybody's now talking about, 'Oh, here comes the debt ceiling.' I think that's, frankly, a dead loser. Because in the end, you know it's gonna happen. The whole national financial system is going to come in to Washington and on television, and say: 'Oh my God, this will be a gigantic heart attack, the entire economy of the world will collapse. You guys will be held responsible.' And they'll cave."

"He can't keep thinking the way he's thought the last few months without having a disaster on his hands," said Gingrich of House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Gingrich's comments underscore the division among Republicans over whether to use the necessary debt ceiling increase to extract spending cuts not included in the deal resolving the so-called "fiscal cliff." Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) said Wednesday that Republicans should be willing to risk a government shutdown in exchange for a routine increase needed to pay the country's existing bills.

Republicans are meeting this month in Williamsburg, Va., to discuss their debt ceiling strategy, reported The New York Times, and Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck told the paper that the president will have to "engage and accept reality" in exchange for an increase.

President Barack Obama has refused to negotiate over the debt ceiling. ""While I will negotiate over many things, I will not have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that they've already racked up through the laws that they passed," he said late Tuesday after the passage of the "fiscal cliff" deal.



Newt Gingrich: Debt Ceiling Is A 'Dead Loser'



 
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VIDEO : T J Walker : "Tea Party Hits Record Level Of Unpopularity In Public Opinion Poll" - T J Walker says that Tea Party is the modern version of the Ku Klux Klan - Super Conservative biased Rasmussen Reports says only 8% of Americans identify with Tea Party

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T J Walker : Tea Party is dedicated to hate if a dollar flows to People that do not look like them ( same skin color ). But love when the taxpayer money goes to them and their Super Rich masters and puppeteers.


Tea Party Hits Record Level Of Unpopularity In Public Opinion Poll





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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

VIDEO : Rush Limbaugh : "Obama's victory in 'Fiscal Cliff' has been Massive, Profound, Sweeping, Unbelievably Large" - "I am stunned of Republicans in the Beltway" - "I feel that I am a member of the smallest minority in this country"

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Published on Jan 6, 2013 by MrObamanos

( Date Of Broadcast Jan 3, 2013 ) Obama's victory here has been massive, profound, sweeping, unbelievably large." Limbaugh: 'GOP still doesn't understand who they're dealing with'. Rush, discussing both how Obama got the GOP confession in this fiscal cliff deal that tax cuts (not spending) hurt the economy, as well as how the deal left the asset wealthy untouched.

"Folks, I have to tell you. I am sitting here and I had so many observations, but I am stunned. I just have to tell you, I'm stunned at how, after four years, none of the conservative or Republican inside-the-Beltway establishment even now understands who they're dealing with in Barack Obama.

How many of our core beliefs are we going to throw away in this misguided belief that we can finally get to what matters? There is a prevailing opinion out there that, "Well, this deal, you know, is actually a pretty good deal. It keeps taxes the same, lowers taxes." And nobody's taxes got cut. There was not a tax cut. I'm blue in the face already and we're only two minutes into this."

Obama's Victory Massive, Profound, Sweeping, Unbelievably Large " Rush Limbaugh




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Glenn Greenwald : "All of the Democratic alternatives to Hagel who have been seriously mentioned are nothing more than standard foreign policy technocrats, fully on-board with the DC consensus regarding war, militarism, Israel, Iran, and the Middle East."

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"That's why Kristol, the Washington Post and other neocons were urging Obama to select them rather than Hagel: because those neocons know that, unlike Hagel, these Democratic technocrats pose no challenge whatsoever to their agenda of sustaining destructive US policy in the Middle East and commitment to endless war."


Note : Reports indicate President Obama next week will nominate Chuck Hagel to be the next secretary of defense.


British "The Guardian" Newspaper
Chuck Hagel and liberals: what are the priorities ?
As Obama prepares to nominate the controversial former senator, the key question is whether Democrats will help neocons oppose him
Saturday 5 January 2013

By Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is a columnist on civil liberties and US national security issues for the Guardian. A former constitutional lawyer, he was until 2012 a contributing writer at Salon. He is the author of How Would a Patriot Act? (May 2006), a critique of the Bush administration's use of executive power; A Tragic Legacy (June, 2007), which examines the Bush legacy; and With Liberty and Justice For Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful.


Chuck Hagel and liberals: what are the priorities ?


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Monday, January 7, 2013

VIDEO Ed Schultz : Obama and Biden are winners in the "Fiscal Cliff" deal - Obama refused to budge on one of his main campaign promises to increase taxes on wealthy taxpayers. - There was an election and a compromise of the two parties, that is Democracy !

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Ed Schultz and U. S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( Democrat, Florida ), she is the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair. They explain the History of past years that led to this decision to start the year 2013 with different tax rates.

Ed Schultz explains that the Middle Class has been sinking during the last 30 years, and that the Election and "Fiscal Cliff" was about rescuing the Middle Class from the disastrous politics ( mainly conservative and republican ) that have caused this harm to the 98% while the top 2% have become richer and richer, sometimes by speculation and idleness.

They explain the difficult decision to raise taxes in year 1993 with the decisive one vote of Marjorie Margolis Mezvinsky in the House ( she lost her seat in the next election ) and decisive one vote of Al Gore in the Senate, all this happened during the Clinton  Administration.


 Published on Jan 4, 2013

'Fiscal cliff' deal leaves everyone bruised, but some more so than others 'Winners'. President Barack Obama: The president took a beating from his own party two years ago when he cut a deal with Republicans that temporarily extended income tax rates for all income earners set by former President George W. Bush. This time, Obama refused to budge on one of his main campaign promises to increase taxes on wealthy taxpayers. As part of this deal, the income tax rate for individual earners above $400,000 and families earning above $450,000 will increase.

The president, however, failed to hold together a "grand bargain" with Republicans in what could have been a major opportunity to address ballooning entitlement spending and tax reform. But in the grand scheme of things, Democrats seemed to have come out on top.


Obama Biden PiMp SlAp dA HoE's Republicans



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Sunday, January 6, 2013

VIDEO, Lawrence O'Donnell : "OBAMA BIDEN WIN AGAIN", Standing Ovation of Wall Street for the "Fiscal Cliff" deal ( and President and Vicepresident of course ) - Dow Jones up 308 points in a day- - Stock Markets were drunk with happiness worlwide, stocks going up. Thay is approval for the President of the USA.

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Lawrence is the best teacher in the World : He explains everything very clearly, as clear as a sunny day at noon. He is supported by Ezra Klein ( Washington Post ), another excellent teacher.

Lawrence O'Donnell is like the best teachers I had in my life ( two of them ), he explains everything in a very practical straightforward way that is easy to understand.

Obama is doing very well in negotiations with the "hard and tough" Republicans. Lawrence has very intelligent arguments and ideas to persuade us of the Shrewdness, Intelligence and Cleverness of Obama and Biden.


Published on Jan 5, 2013

Both Obama, GOP have laid out hard lines for tough talks ahead. If all the recent wrangling over the fiscal cliff has revealed anything, it's how tense and strained President Obama's relationship is with Republicans in Congress.

Borger: Fiscal cliff was bound to collapse

And Obama's relationship with Congress reached yet another low Thursday when House Speaker John Boehner confirmed to CNN that he has told House Republicans he will no longer negotiate legislative deals with the president.

Low bar for new Congress

In the White House's relationship with Capitol Hill, "the real negative is clearly that the relationship with House Republicans is as bad as ever," CNN contributor and Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer said, adding that the House GOP refuses to acknowledge any mandate from Obama after November's election.

"OBAMA BIDEN WIN AGAIN" Say's Lawrence O'Donnell



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HuffPost : Republican strategist Alice Stewart. "It's frustrating to see the GOP drop the ball and turn a position of true compromise into total surrender. The Democrats succeeded in their strategy of divide and conquer."

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Excerpt :

Endangered Northeastern U. S. House Republicans against their GOP colleagues from other parts of the country. Enraged tea party leaders are threatening to knock off dozens of Republicans who supported a measure that raised taxes on the nation's highest earners.

My Comment :

Congress Republicans are not reconciled to the fact that they lost the November 2012 Elections - They think this way : "If we are hard and tough enough then we will impose our ideas on others, by Brutal Force, Obstructionism and taking the Middle Class and the Poor as hostages".



Huffington Post
Republican Party Seems As Divided, Angry As Ever
By STEVE PEOPLES
January 05, 2013

Republican Party Seems As Divided, Angry As Ever


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VIDEO : Charles Krauthammer On Fox : John Boehner had prevented a "rape of the Treasury" by blocking a larger relief bill for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. - Topmost in Insensitivity and Lack of Empathy for Victims of Disasters

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Unkindness and Lack of Heart for the suffering of others.

Republican Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey strongly protested the unjustified delays and procrastination in the U. S. House of Representatives. The victims suffering and the Republican Representatives in vacations and politicking.

So this Governor is "Pork Barrel" for caring for the victims inside his own state ??? -- Krauthammer says exactly this  :

"I think what Boehner did in postponing the vote until today was absolutely right," he said on "Special Report." "That was a rape of the Treasury. $60 billion, including a ton of pork. The part that was essential that passed today was to replenish the flood insurance. That's right, and the rest ought to be debated in regular order."



Charles Krauthammer On Fox: Sandy Relief Bill Would Have Been A 'Rape Of The Treaury'



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Friday, January 4, 2013

VIDEO : O'Reilly and Krauthammer on the fiscal cliff deal. - January 2 2013 : Obama is a dangerous 'Scandinavian' Socialist ( Sweden, Norway ), hates the achievers and successful entrepreneurs, hates the Rich. Obama is lucky because Mitt Romney blew it

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Obama is the luckiest man in the World and he is the master Demonizer and conjurer of Demons against Mitt Romney and the Rich. Obama set off big hate against the "Poor" Rich !!

The Source of Evil of Mr Obama is that he was a "Community Organizer" and so he mixed with the worst people in the USA and became contaminated and polluted by populism and socialism !.....

If Obama is such an Evil Wicked "Felix, the Cat" that thrives on sheer luck, then what is the source of his magic ??. Does he have a pact with the devil Satan ?? -- Does he practice voodoo ?? --- Is he the antichrist ??? -- the Beast 666 ??

Does Obama eat White Babies for breakfast to atune himself with the Devil ??

Listening to these two guys I almost believed that Obama has the Devil Satan as advisor and so he was successful in dividing the House Republicans.


O'Reilly and Krauthammer January 2 2013



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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Obama scored a major political triumph by getting Republicans to agree to raise back tax rates on the wealthy. Since 1978, Republicans have focused their popular appeal on the premise that cutting taxes on the wealthy – and secondarily everyone else -- will encourage growth

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John B. Judis in "The New Republic" : "Obama Wasn't Rolled. He Won!", January 3, 2012


Excerpts :

The Fiscal Cliff Deal positions Obama and the Democrats very well in future fights with a Republican Party that is becoming an embattled outpost for addled billionaires and white Southern revanchists. It may not happen during Obama’s second term, but the GOP may be on the way to marginalizing itself as a political party.

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With a new House and Senate, Obama stands a good chance of winning these battles in the months to come --  if  he continues to conduct these negotiations as political campaigns and not as backroom Washington affairs. The fiscal cliff deal took tax rates out of the discussion. What’s left are spending cuts. If Obama allows the Republicans and obnoxious groups like Fix the Debt to frame the issues, he’ll be in trouble. And he did seem to fall into this trap briefly when he proposed changing the cost of living index for Social Security. But if he reminds the public that what the Republicans and their allies want to do is cut their Medicare and Social Security, he and the Democrats should be in good shape.

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These divisions don’t necessarily augur the kind of formal split that wrecked the Whig Party in the 1850s. Nor do they suggest widespread defection of Republicans into the Democratic Party as happened during the 1930s. There is still far too much distance between, say, McConnell and Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid. But they do suggest that a process of erosion is under way that will weaken the Republicans’ ability to maintain a united front against Democratic initiatives. That could happen in the debates over the sequester and debt ceiling if Obama and the Democrats make the kind of public fuss that they did over fiscal cliff. 

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The New Republic
Obama Wasn't Rolled. He Won!
By John B. Judis
January 3, 2012


Obama Wasn't Rolled. He Won!


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