Rick Perry is the bright-red tea-vangelical candidate with governing credibility, with a record, and political skills to stand a realistic chance of claiming the party’s nomination. Neither Michele Bachmann nor Sarah Palin are remotely qualified for that slot. Rick Perry manifestly does

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New York Magazine -
Perry’s GOP Shock Treatment -
Five ways the Texas governor’s entrance is jolting the Republican race. -
By John Heilemann -
August 21, 2011 -


Perry’s GOP Shock Treatment


Some excerpts :

It’s no secret that the White House would prefer to run next fall against the likes of Perry (or, perish the thought, Bachmann) than Romney, the easier to paint Obama’s opponent as unacceptably outré and even scary. Less appreciated is how significant a player Obama’s reelection team—along with its allied outside groups—may be in the Republican primaries. By spending millions of dollars on anti-Romney ads and pointing out the similarities of his Massachusetts health-care plan to Obamacare at every opportunity, they may be able to function effectively as a pro-Perry “super pac”—and one with greater resources and media reach than anything Perry and his allies can muster. The irony here would be rich, for sure, and the effect bordering on perverse. But don’t kid yourself: The possibility of things playing out just this way is one of many nightmares that keep Romney’s advisers awake at night.

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For the past two and a half years, among the central questions in our politics have been these: What exactly constitutes the contemporary GOP? Is it now fully in the thrall of its populist, insurgent forces? Or does some semblance of your father’s Republican Party remain? And if so, how much?

A presidential campaign should be, among other things, a place where such essential questions are hashed out and the answers revealed for all to see. What was needed, then, was a clear contest between the Establishment and tea-vangelical wings of the party. What was lacking, though, was a credible standard-bearer for the latter: a bright-red tea-vangelical candidate with governing credibility, with a record, with the political skills to stand a realistic chance of claiming the party’s nomination. Neither Michele Bachmann nor Sarah Palin, whatever their strengths and the extent of their appeal, remotely qualified for that slot. Rick Perry manifestly does. What he brings to the race is a welcome clarity, and the prospect of a kind of challenge to Romney that has been lacking until now. How Romney handles that challenge will tell us all we need to know about him. And how the Republican electorate ultimately judges them will tell us everything we need to know about the party.

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The New Yorker : Abolishing Obamacare : By Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s reading, Social Security and the National Labor Relations Act, to say nothing of Medicare and Medicaid, might all be unconstitutional

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The Personal War of two "Black" Men ! : Obama and Thomas ! 

The Justice's wife Virginia Thomas is a prominent Tea Partier earning lots of money for her Super Conservative Views that she shares with her husband. He does not hide being a super enemy of everything that Obama proposes.


The New Yorker -
Will Clarence and Virginia Thomas succeed in killing Obama’s health-care plan? -
by Jeffrey Toobin -
August 29, 2011 -


Will Clarence and Virginia Thomas succeed in killing Obama’s health-care plan?


Some excerpts of a very long article ( 10 pages ) :

In “Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America,” the Times reporter Kate Zernike wrote, “In the originalist view, and the Tea Party view, the perversion of the Constitution took off during the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.” On this issue, as ever, Thomas led where the conservative movement soon followed.

Early in the New Deal, the Supreme Court struck down several of President Roosevelt’s signature initiatives as violating the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. If the law did not directly affect commerce “among the several states,” in the words of Article I, the Nine Old Men on the Court said that Congress had no right to pass it. F.D.R. responded to these setbacks with his infamous court-packing plan, but a change of heart by Justice Owen J. Roberts in 1937, followed by Roosevelt’s own appointments to the Court, transformed the understanding of that provision. In a series of cases, the Justices gave Congress essentially unlimited power to regulate the national economy. In Wickard v. Filburn, from 1942, the Court said that the federal government could regulate the amount of wheat grown on a farm, even if none of the wheat was sold across state lines, or even if no wheat was sold at all. Because the production of wheat, taken in aggregate, did affect interstate commerce, the regulation was permissible. With that, the issue of the Commerce Clause more or less vanished from the Supreme Court’s docket for decades—until Thomas and the Tea Party brought it back to life.

In 1995, the Supreme Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, did finally strike down another law as violating the Commerce Clause. In United States v. Lopez, the Court rejected a federal law that made it a crime to possess a gun near a school. Rehnquist’s opinion said, in essence, that possession of a gun in or near a school was so completely remote from the national economy that Congress had no right to prohibit it.

Thomas agreed—and then some. In a concurring opinion, he said, “I write separately to observe that our case law has drifted far from the original understanding of the Commerce Clause. In a future case, we ought to temper our Commerce Clause jurisprudence.” Even Rehnquist had acknowledged the long line of cases that said the Commerce Clause was satisfied if the activity in question “substantially affects” interstate commerce. In a characteristically lengthy and detailed opinion, Thomas said that the early New Deal Court—the Nine Old Men—was right, and all the Justices over the following six decades were wrong. Thomas wrote, “From the time of the ratification of the Constitution to the mid 1930’s, it was widely understood that the Constitution granted Congress only limited powers, notwithstanding the Commerce Clause.” By Thomas’s reading, Social Security and the National Labor Relations Act, to say nothing of Medicare and Medicaid, might all be unconstitutional. “Justices can be influential by indicating to lawyers the boundaries of what’s possible,” Eugene Volokh, a professor at U.C.L.A. School of Law and a widely read blogger, said. “There is conventional wisdom about what’s possible, like ‘Whatever you think about the Commerce Clause, no one is going to go back to the pre-1937 approach,’ or ‘The Second Amendment is a closed issue.’ Thomas has shown that sometimes the conventional wisdom is wrong.”

Supreme Court Justices, especially those who are appointed young, like Thomas, can afford to take the long view. On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. That same day, Kenneth Cuccinelli, the Attorney General of Virginia, filed one of the first of several legal challenges to the law. Earlier this year, sixteen years after Lopez, Judge Roger Vinson, of the Federal District Court in Pensacola, struck down the law in its entirety—and he relied several times on Thomas to do so. (The Eleventh Circuit affirmed Vinson, in part.) Quoting Thomas’s concurring opinion in Lopez, Vinson said that the Obama Administration’s position would allow the federal government to “penetrate the recesses of domestic life, and control, in all respects, the private conduct of individuals.” These words, of course, would fit just as well in a speech by Ginni Thomas as in an opinion by her husband.

Four more circuit courts of appeals are slated to weigh in on the constitutionality of the health-care law. In due course, the Justices will have their turn. I asked Cuccinelli what role Thomas might play in the resolution of the health-care case. “I don’t like to make predictions,” he told me. “But I know I’ve got his vote.” ?

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The Sun will shine again for the American Economy. I think that President Obama is going to be very decisive during his second term. The alternative : a Republican President, is very horrible and catastrophic for the World at large.

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Because a World Depression is a Big Scourge ! :

Can you imagine any of these three guys as President : Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney or Rick Perry.


That would be an America with a vocation for suicide : Endless wars and Jingoism, Religious Bigotry with Anti-Evolution.


The end of Women's rights, control of Women's Reproduction and Bodies.


Wholesale Racism and Ethnocentrism.


President Obama is very intelligent, he may be the "Compromiser in Chief" and he may have caved in to Republican Irrationality and Bigotry. But Intelligence always finds a way and learns from experience.


Do not forget that President Obama is a Constitutional Scholar.


Another great feature of Obama, besides Intelligence is Resilience. That is extremely important in Politics.


To be a Black Person in a White Milieu is an experience that teaches a lot of self-control to a Human Being.



Not to mention that Obama has Good Humor and is a superb Campaigner and Orator.


We have not seen all the bag of tricks of "Felix the Cat", Obama is compared to Felix because he is always lucky.


"Give me lucky generals", said Napoleon Bonaparte.
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POLITICO.COM : Texas pol emerges as Perry critic : "That Rick Perry has presided over a jobs boom in Texas is a claim the Democrat ripped as a "Texas tall tale". Democrat Lloyd Doggett (born 1946) is the U.S. Representative for Texas's 25th congressional district, serving since 2005

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Lloyd Doggett previously represented Texas's 10th congressional district from 1995 to 2005. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district covers the state capital, Austin.

POLITICO.COM
Texas pol emerges as Perry critic
By ALEX ISENSTADT
August 20, 2011

Texas pol emerges as Perry critic

Some excerpts :

He’s taken to MSNBC to hammer the governor over his handling of public schools in Texas. He’s spoken at an anti-Perry rally on the steps of the state capitol, tweaking the governor for carrying a concealed firearm and vowing to “sound the alarm” about Perry across the country. On his Facebook page, he’s poked Perry for his “boot-in-mouth syndrome.”

Doggett’s latest attack came Friday afternoon, when he hosted a conference call with reporters in which he railed against Perry’s assertion that he’s presided over a jobs boom in the state – a claim the Democrat ripped as a “Texas tall tale.”

It’s a surprisingly vigorous effort for the nine-term Democratic congressman, but it reflects the urgency with which he is trying to rescue his imperiled political career. Doggett, who’s facing an uphill post-redistricting primary battle, is racing to appeal to Democratic voters — and the longtime governor makes a convenient foe: He’s a confrontational conservative who Texas liberals love to hate.

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“He’s got someone good to flog – Perry is wide open among liberal Democrats. You can’t lose talking about Rick Perry.”

Doggett’s path to a tenth term is precarious. He’s running against state Rep. Joaquin Castro, whose name is political gold in South Texas Democratic politics. Castro’s brother, Julio Castro, is San Antonio’s mayor and his mother, Rosie Castro, is a prominent grassroots activist in the state. Making matters more difficult for the congressman: He’ll have to run outside his Austin political base, where the former state senator and state Supreme Court justice has been in elected office for nearly four decades.

Matt Angle, a Democratic consultant who has been involved in Texas politics for years, pointed out that in saturating the national and local airwaves with an anti-Perry message, Doggett can reach Democratic voters well beyond Austin and into the new district he is running in — an area where the Castro name is better known.

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To some extent, Doggett’s anti-Perry campaign goes far beyond his efforts to reclaim his seat — it reflects lingering tensions following a brawl over public school funding.

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“Doggett and Perry have a long-standing feud over how federal funds are spent in Texas,” said ex-Texas Democratic Rep. Martin Frost, Doggett’s former colleague. “There’s no love lost.”

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BLOOMBERG.COM : Obama Must Get Bold - Obama's ‘Jobs First’ Agenda will specify savings beyond the $1.5 trillion and use those extra billions for job creation. He won’t label it stimulus, of course. Stimulus has been stigmatized

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Obama will call it a "Jobs First" agenda, or something else that shows he’s in touch with the average household. - Obama's next Truman-Style Campaign.

BLOOMBERG.COM
Obama Must Get Bold, Tell Republicans ‘It’s On’
Aug 18, 2011

By Jonathan Alter

Jonathan Alter was a senior editor, media critic and columnist for Newsweek, where he worked for 28 years and covered five administrations and seven presidential campaigns. Jonathan Alter is also a Bloomberg View columnist, is the author of “The Promise: President Obama, Year One.”

Obama Must Get Bold, Tell Republicans ‘It’s On’: Jonathan Alter


Some excerpts :

At least the president is on task. After headlines about a pivot to jobs in December 2009, September 2010, January 2011, May 2011 and July 2011, he’s finally shifting the conversation to what Americans truly care about.

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This week’s bus tour across three Midwestern states seemed to refresh the president and improve his presentation. He began talking about “rebuilding America” instead of his old professorial references to an “infrastructure bank,” which is a good idea but tone deaf politically considering that many voters don’t really know what infrastructure means and despise banks.

Truman-Style Campaign

More important, Obama began sticking it to Congress, laying the groundwork for a 1948 Harry Truman-style campaign. Rebooting his presidency will require a bold plan that says to an obstructionist opposition: “It’s on, guys!”

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The specifics of Obama’s speech are secret, and many haven’t been worked out. But I hear that it will contain more than simple pleas to Congress to pass the economic agenda the president began offering this summer, which includes extending the payroll-tax holiday, approving public-works spending, enacting a patent bill, ratifying trade deals and extending unemployment insurance.

Don’t be surprised to see him also propose a major tax credit for hiring new workers, construction money for schools, an ambitious youth employment program (if he doesn’t hold a high percentage of the youth vote, he loses the election) and a few of the other job-creation ideas he’s been demanding his Cabinet and staff cook up. Some of these ideas can be implemented without Congress, like providing debt relief for strapped homeowners.

I’m hoping he’ll also explore creative ideas like one offered by Cliff Sloan, a veteran of the Clinton White House. Under Sloan’s plan, the president would sign an executive order requiring that all new (or renewed) contracts with the federal government contain a job-creation clause requiring that in exchange for the privilege of doing business with Uncle Sam, corporations (which have plenty of cash on hand) must agree to a net increase in payroll of at least one percent for the duration of the contract. With thousands of new contracts signed every week, this would have an immediate effect even if compliance was spotty.

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Democatic Representative Peter DeFazio ( Oregon ) : Obama could lose, says there’s no “fight” in President Barack Obama, he isn’t sure the president can win a second term or even carry his very blue state.

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POLITICO.COM -
Dem Rep. Peter DeFazio: Obama could lose -
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN -
August 19, 2011 -


Dem Rep. Peter DeFazio: Obama could lose


Some excerpts :

Rep. Peter DeFazio says he’s unhappy with the president’s “flip flops” in negotiations with Republicans and thinks a moderate GOP candidate could beat Obama next year.

“At this point, it pretty much depends on how far out there the Republican nominee is. You know, with a respectable someone who is a little bit toward the middle of the road Republican nominee, he’s going to have a very tough time getting reelected,” DeFazio told Portland TV station KGW.

And, DeFazio said, he’s not sure Obama will do well in Oregon in 2012, even though he won nearly 57 percent of the vote there three years ago.

“I believe Oregon is very much in play,” he said. “I mean, we are one of the harder hit states in the union, particularly my part of the state … [P]eople are shaking their head and saying ‘I don’t know if I’d vote for him again.”

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“Fight? I don’t think it’s a word in his vocabulary,” he said. “I mean, come on — he pledged as a candidate to make the Bush tax cuts for people making over $250,000. He repeatedly said that as president.”

“Then the Republicans telegraphed to him they were going to use a fake crisis over the debt limit in order to muscle some major spending reductions or other things on to him,” he said. “And what happens? Suddenly he flip flops and concedes everything to the Republicans.”

DeFazio, who endorsed Obama over Hillary Clinton late in the 2008 Democratic primary process, has been critical of Obama’s negotiation skills and the administration more broadly. On the House floor last month, DeFazio said the president was “preparing yet another great cave” on a debt ceiling deal.

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Thom Hartman's Forum : 100 True little phrases that tell Great Truths and that drive Republicans mad to the point of a Heart Attack or an Aneurism in the Brain - Caution : Dangerous for your Health if you are Republican

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Thom Hartman Site -
America's #1 Progressive Host and NY Times Bestselling Author -

Thom Hartmann (born 1951) is an American radio host, author, former psychotherapist and entrepreneur, and progressive political commentator. His nationally-syndicated radio show, The Thom Hartmann Program, airs in the United States and has 2.75 million listeners a week. In 2008, 2009, and 2010, Talkers Magazine named Hartmann the tenth most important talk show host in America, and number 8 in 2011 defining him as the most important liberal host for four years in a row (the ones above Hartmann are conservatives).

100 Things You Can Say To Irritate A Republican

Conservatives are so easy to anger these days. Even the most insignificant statement can set off their tempers. If you want to enrage a conservative, I suggest saying the following:

1. A Socialist wrote the Pledge of Allegiance.

2. Jesus healed the sick and helped the poor, for free.

3. Joseph McCarthy was an un-American, witch hunting sissy.

4. Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were traitors.

5. The South lost the Civil War, get over it.

6. The Founding Fathers were liberals.

7. Fascism is a right-wing trait.

8. Sarah Palin is an ugly cow (said to conservative males).

9. The Earth is round.

10. Reagan raised taxes eleven times as President.

11. Reagan legalized abortion as Governor of California.

12. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency.

13. Ronald Reagan supported gun control.

14. Global warming is real.

15. Republicans hate illegal immigrants, unless they need their lawns mowed or their houses cleaned.

16. The military is a government-run institution, so why do Republicans approve the defense budget?

17. The Cold War is over and the Soviet Union no longer exists.

18. Paying taxes is patriotic.

19. Republicans: Peddling the same failed economic policies since 1880.

20. The Republican Party began as a liberal party.

21. The Presidents’ full name is Barack Hussein Obama and he was born in the United States of America.

22. George W. Bush held hands with the King of Saudi Arabia.

23. President Obama saved the American auto industry, while Republicans wanted to destroy it.

24. Hate is not a Christian virtue.

25. Jesus was a liberal.

26. Republicans spend MORE money than Democrats.

27. Tea parties are for little girls.

28. Public schools educate all children; private schools are for indoctrinating children.

29. The Constitution is the law, NOT the Bible.

30. Sharia law doesn’t exist in America.

31. The President is NOT a Muslim.

32. Corporations are NOT people. People are people.

33. Fox News isn’t real news, it’s just a racist, sexist, hateful, right-wing propaganda machine.

34. The Federal Reserve was a Republican idea.

35. Women are equal citizens who deserve equal rights.

36. Women control their own bodies.

37. Abortion is a relevant medical procedure, just ask Rick Santorum.

38. Please use spell check.

39. It’s “pundit”, not “pundint”.

40. Social Security is solvent through 2038.

41. Health care is a right, not a product.

42. Roe v. Wade was a bipartisan ruling made by a conservative leaning Supreme Court.

43. G.O.P also stands for Gross Old Perverts.

44. The donkey shouldn’t be the Democratic mascot because Republicans are the real jackasses.

45. Barack Obama ordered the killing of Osama Bin Laden. It took him two and half years to do what Bush couldn’t do in eight.

46. Waterboarding IS torture.

47. 9/11 happened on George W. Bush’s watch, therefore he did NOT keep America safe.

48. Republicans invaded Iraq for oil, so Iraq should be allowed to invade Texas to get it back.

49. Separation of church and state is in the Constitution, it’s called the First Amendment.

50. Muslims are protected by the Constitution, just as much as Christians.

51. Barack Obama is the first African-American President, get over it.

52. The Oval Office is NOT a “whites only” office.

53. America is a nation of immigrants, therefore we are all anchor babies.

54. The white race isn’t disappearing, it’s evolving.

55. God is a particle.

56. Evolution is real.

57. The Earth is 4.54 billion years old, not 6,000.

58. The Founding Fathers did not free the slaves.

59. The Revolution was NOT fought over slavery.

60. Paul Revere warned the Americans, NOT the British.

61. Federal law trumps state law.

62. The Civil War was about slavery, NOT state’s rights.

63. Corporations care more about profits than they do about people.

64. Getting out of a recession requires government spending.

65. Glenn Beck is a nut-job.

66. Republicans: Paranoid since 1932.

67. Republicans don’t want to pay for your birth control, but they want you to pay for their Viagra.

68. Republicans actually NEED Viagra.

69. Fox News is owned by an Australian and has a Saudi prince as an investor.

70. Republicans complain about immigrants taking American jobs, then freely give American jobs to foreigners overseas.

71. Republicans hate communism, so why do they refer to themselves as red states?

72. Labor unions built this country.

73. Republicans hold America hostage as a political strategy; the temper tantrum throwing kind of political strategy.

75. When Republicans see black, they attack.

76. Inside every Republican is a Klansman or a Nazi waiting to bloom.

77. Republicans only care about children BEFORE they are born.

78. Republicans are hypocrites, they’re just too stupid to know it.

79. The Christian-Right boycotts movies that have violence, and then promotes guns and insurrection.

80. I think therefore I am NOT a Republican.

81. Republicans that oppose gay marriage are most likely in the closet themselves.

82. Churches should stay out of politics, or be taxed.

83. People are too poor to vote Republican.

84. Democrats think for themselves, Republicans form think tanks to do it for them.

85. Republicans hate education because they couldn’t hack it in school.

86. Greed is one of the seven deadly sins and Republicans wallow in it.

87. A little socialism on the Left is better than a little fascism on the Right.

88. The current corporate tax rate is the lowest in 60 years, so stop whining about it being too high.

89. Republicans: Anti-Gay Marriage, Pro-Lesbian sex.

90. Republicans: Terrorizing the America people since 1981.

91. Republicans have their own terrorists, just look up Timothy McVeigh.

92. Republicans love outsourcing, just ask the Chinese Communists.

93. The Republican answer to the oil spill was to apologize to BP, a foreign oil company.

94. Democrats will be working hard to bring jobs to Americans, while the Republicans tea bag each other in the middle of the aisles.

95. Voter disenfranchisement is immoral and un-American, that’s why Republicans do it.

96. Republicans would let your house burn down unless you pay them to put it out.

97. Democrats want to take care of the sick. Republicans take their credit cards and then deny them medical attention.

98. Republicans say teachers are union thugs, then proceed to rape and mug the entire middle class on behalf of corporations.

99. Republicans think rape isn’t a crime, but miscarriages are.

100. Republicans are idiots and arguing with them is a waste of time!

Bottom line? If you want to anger a conservative, tell them the truth.

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Serious studies confirm that Tea Partiers are long time Racists and Republican Partisan Bigots : They are older, white conservative Christians - "Compared to other white Republicans, Tea Partiers had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do

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From SALON.COM :

"Past Republican affiliation is the single strongest predictor of Tea Party support today."

"The role of race is nothing new. A New York Times survey as well as a University of Washington study found Tea Party members more likely even than other Republicans to say that too much has been made of the problems facing black people, that the Obama administration favors blacks over whites, and to blame black disadvantage on the shortcomings of black people, rather than on the legacy of slavery and discrimination".

Serious Studies confirm that Tea partiers are mainly Old White Racists and Old Republican Bigots.

SALON.COM
Getting to know the Tea Party
It's the GOP's white conservative base in silly costumes. Why couldn't the media figure that out sooner?
By Joan Walsh
Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011


Getting to know the Tea Party


Some excerpts :

Scholar Robert Putnam, best known for his study of American atomization in "Bowling Alone," has produced new data on the Tea Party and it's being billed as a shocker. Sit down before you read this: They are older, white conservative Christians "who were highly partisan Republicans long before the Tea Party was born."

Not surprised? Neither was I, but the research is actually fascinating. Putnam and Notre Dame's David Campbell tracked the role of faith and politics for their last book, "American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us." They went back to look at attitudes toward the Tea Party among 3,000 survey respondents for the paperback edition, and wrote an Op-Ed in Wednesday's New York Times.

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Is it only about having a black president? Um, that probably doesn't help. But it's worth noting that these are the same people who've been fighting the Democratic Party since the days of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and the beginning of the War on Poverty, almost 50 years ago. They associate those long overdue social reforms with giving folks, mainly black people, something they don't deserve. I sometimes think just calling them racist against our black president obscures the depths of their hatred for Democrats, period.

Their far-right religious zealotry is an old story too. We act as though the separation of church and state was a question settled by the Founders, but from the country's earliest days many Americans believed that only white Protestants are qualified for democracy. There's a through-line from the evangelical Protestants who burned down Catholic churches and convents in the 19th century, who believed in a religious test for American citizenship, to Texas Gov. Rick Perry and his evangelical-Christians-only Christapalooza in Houston last weekend. Perry's preacher friends include Catholic bashers who'd make Lyman Beecher proud. We've been fighting this impulse for a long time.

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Gamblers, Bettors and Bookies : Rick Perry to be Republican Presidential Nominee in 2012 : $35.9 ( to win $100 ), Mitt Romney $30.5, Michele Bachmann $5.8 - Obama reelected $51.8 at Intrade. Perry and Obama are increasing their share values

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Data from INTRADE.COM :

It is surprising that Gamblers do not have faith in Michele Bachmann as Republican Presidential Nominee. And Obama is bouncing like a ball after having reached a low, he is again gaining value. Probably because he is becoming more aggressive and combative in the Midwest Bus Trip : Minnesota and Iowa.

Obama is advised by aides to become tougher with the Republican Congress, in the way of other Democrat Presidents like Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman that also suffered great opposition in Congress, and that were great fighters against the "Do Nothing" Congresses.

As Obama becomes tougher and harsher against republican enemies his betting value may increase.

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Arizona : Russell Pearce Recall Election : Pearce and Henchmen playing the ugliest and dirtiest tricks on Jerry Lewis, the other candidate who is also Republican and Mormon - They are using fake Twitter Accounts - Twitter punished the scoundrels

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Twitter's impersonation policy prohibits accounts where users deceive others with a fake identity. People being impersonated or those with legal authority to act on their behalf can request a permanent suspension.

East Valley Tribune
Will the real Jerry Lewis please tweet up?
By Garin Groff
Monday, August 15, 2011


Will the real Jerry Lewis please tweet up?


Some excerpts :

The recall election targeting state Senate President Russell Pearce requires voters to realize that Jerry Lewis isn't just a screwball comedian.

But after voters learned a different Jerry Lewis is a longtime Mesa Republican running against Pearce, voters then had to figure out which of two Twitter accounts was from the real candidate.

The first account began July 25 and proclaimed Lewis supports gay marriage, abortion, unions and open borders. It also falsely announced late last week that a judge cancelled the Nov. 8 election.

It took until Aug. 10 for another Jerry Lewis account to emerge and claim it was the official Twitter account.

The first "Jerry Lewis" was bogus, and has been deactivated as of Monday after Lewis's campaign notified Twitter. The team took action against a related Facebook site that's also come down, said John Giles, a co-chairman of the campaign.

The fake account featured a real photo of Mesa's Lewis. The tweets portrayed a candidate with polar opposite views of Pearce, a Republican nationally known for his legislation targeting illegal immigration.

The phony account trashed the tea party, praised liberal causes and provided links to free gay porn videos, among other unlikely things a candidate would do while running in the conservative District 18.

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