Thread: GOP: now & in the future

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Obama wishes to pack the Judicial Benches with ideologically-driven Judges rather than fill those vacancies with qualified people.

I assume this has been posted in one of the other threads already, but I'll just leave this here:

Rush's Bullet Points on Judicial Filibusters - The Rush Limbaugh Show

Rush's Bullet Points on Judicial Filibusters - December 24, 2004

And that was after Democrats filibustered only 10 Bush nominees. I'm pretty sure Republicans have filibustered over 80 of Obama's nominees. This rule change should have happened years ago.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Well, let me spell it out to you in simple terms:

Obama wishes to pack the Judicial Benches with ideologically-driven Judges rather than fill those vacancies with qualified people.

Something akin to that commie you voted for there in Seattle who wants to turn Boeing factories into non-productive use. You need qualified people in positions of responsibility and the one's Obama has put forth are, in the most part, *substandard*.

I think you're a retard, Boon Mee. Why would they block one of their own for a year and then, once a vote was actually permitted, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM approved his nomination?

They're just being awkward.

Or rather they were, because now they've had the rug pulled from under them, the cretins.

Looks like another Rethug is in trouble

But Corbett’s (R – Governor of Pennsylvania) poll numbers suggest he could be the exception to that trend. A survey from the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling found Corbett’s approval rating at 24 percent, and he trails all potential Democratic opponents by 12 points to 20 points. Another survey this fall, from Franklin & Marshall College, found that 44 percent of Republicans think Corbett should step down and let someone else run on the GOP ticket.

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Originally Posted by S Landreth

Seems Florida is getting ready to toss this asshole Rethug Rick Scott and it couldn't be soon enough.

Little more on why the voters in Florida would like to see Scott gone,…..

TALLAHASSEE -- Pinellas County’s chief elections official firmly put Gov. Rick Scott on notice Monday: She will refuse his administration’s order and will continue to urge voters to drop off their absentee ballots at satellite locations.

Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark said her 6-year-old system of drop-off sites is “in full compliance with the law” and the state has known about them because they are included in plans she sends to the state to get federal voter education money.
“I plan to continue using them, including in the impending special primary election,” Clark told Secretary of State Ken Detzner, Scott’s chief elections adviser.

Detzner last week issued a surprise directive in which he ordered elections officials not to “solicit return” of absentee ballots at locations other than an elections office or branch, because it’s not allowed by law. He said he acted after questions from supervisors Brian Corley in Pasco County and Chris Chambless in Clay County.

In Clark’s response, she voiced disappointment that Detzner never sought the opinions of the 67 county supervisors of election before he issued his Nov. 25 directive.

Clark said her drop-off sites are staffed by her deputies, who by law have the same power as a supervisor and who keep watch over locked ballot boxes with numbered seals. The boxes are transported nightly to her headquarters to be canvassed, she said.

“I am confident that the drop-off locations maintained throughout Pinellas County are secure,” Clark wrote.

The state had no immediate response to Clark’s letter.

suppressing the vote

Oh Michele

The Federal Bureau of Investigations confiscated materials belonging to a former aide to Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) presidential campaign who left under acrimonious circumstances to help one of her GOP primary opponents.

The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday that agents spent hours at the home of former Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorensen (R) in November 2012.

“We were not notified that he was the target of any investigation,” Sorenson’s attorney, Ted Sporer, was quoted as saying. “They took computers and things that would be used to verify or validate communications with presidential entities.”

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Bachmann, a four-term incumbent in Congress, has insisted her decision not to seek another re-election is not related to her own ethics investigation, which landed her on the annual list of “most corrupt” lawmakers by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) in September 2013.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by sabang

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Why do some folks seem to think whoever Obama puts forward for these jobs they should be rubber-stamped?

A simple comparison of republican fillibusters under President Obama to every previous Presidential administration shows you that they have turned into thugs, and do not give two hoots for protocol, precedent, or compromise. Ditto public image. So the adults in the room finally took their ball.

That's just your subjective opinion.

Have you researched the background(s) of those ideologically-driven candidates to see whether or not it's simply *substandard* people put forth?

yes, this has been researched many times. President Obama has selected extremely qualified people and his selections tend to be uncontroversial ...

This is simple to see in the fact that once votes are finally held for his nominations, there is essentially no opposition....

didn't you already know that?

Jumping Ship

A longtime Texas judge became the first statewide Democratic officeholder since 1998 after he switched parties this week.

According to the Star-Telegram, state criminal appeals court judge Larry Meyers filed on Monday to seek Place 6 on the state’s Supreme Court as a Democrat, making him the first Republican in 15 years to switch parties and run for statewide office.

“I am thrilled to welcome Judge Meyers to the Texas Democratic Party,” Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa remarked. “I am even more excited to know that Judge Meyers doesn’t stand alone. Every day, I hear from real voters that our party represents the strongest path forward for our state.”

“Texas is changing and voters will continue to reject a Republican Party more focused on ideology than ideas.”

Even if Meyers loses his bid for the Texas Supreme Court, he will continue to serve on the Court of Criminal Appeals until at least 2016.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Tell us again how Congress is going to be in the hands of the Democrats after the next elections?

Next elections? Why wait till 2014?

Let's take a look at how things went last night.

Democratic state Sen. Katherine Clark won Tuesday’s special election for a Massachusetts congressional seat, easily defeating Republican attorney Frank Addivinola, the Tea Party candidate.

She will succeed Democrat Ed Markey, who vacated the suburban Boston-area 5th District seat earlier this year after he was elected to the U.S. Senate. Markey had held the seat since 1976.

Paul Ryan telling Republicans "elections have consequences."

This is a great idea!

GOP Rep. Steve Stockman's Campaign Sells Obama Barf Bags



Should come in handy, eh?

2014 Senate candidate Steve Stockman has an offer you can’t refuse: Donate $10 to his campaign and receive “the official Obama Barf Bag.”
“Dear liberty patriot, Obama’s socialism makes me sick!” Stockman’s campaign website declares. “And I have the barf bag to prove it!”

Rep. Stockman (R., Texas) promises to send donors one barf bag for every $10 they donate. The paper vomit receptacles prominently feature President Barack Obama’s face, with “NO 2” next to it."

Steve Stockman Sells Obama Barf Bags | Washington Free Beacon

Yes, the teabaggers and their asinine politicians are doing a great job of making the USA into a global laughing stock, and the US government look like a bunch of misbehaved, petulant little brats. Must admit though, that Steve Stockman loon is a special kinda nutcase.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

GOP Rep. Steve Stockman's Campaign Sells Obama Barf Bags

He needs the money to fix up his campaign office:

Exclusive: Inside Steve Stockman's Disgusting, Condemned Campaign Office (PHOTOS)

Or explain his $350,000 funding cheque..

Steve Stockman Says People Are Lying About His Mystery $350,000

Breitbart later pulled the paperwork and verified that the Chronicle had accurately reported the details of Stockman's House disclosure forms. But Stockman insisted that the Chronicle had made up the $350,000 figure.


"About that $350,000, too, you can pull the report," Stockman said. "It's like, 'where do they get this number?' It's just like out of whole cloth."

Breitbart also asked Stockman to talk about just what Presidential Trust Marketing is -- no media outlet has been able to determine exactly what the entity is or does.

When even the Breitbrats are calling a wing-nut out something is seriously wrong.

Anyway, nice to see the Tea party has seen right through the assumed dignity, gravitas and moral authority of the US government- and destroyed it.

Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah) has announced that he will not run for reelection. This clears the way for favorite Mia Love to win the seat. She came within a few hundred votes of winning it in 2012.

Get ready for quite a few liberal heads exploding on a web page near you!

Well, check this out - a new Poll finds Americans trust those Evil Republicans to manage the economy better than Obama. Imagine that...

"More Americans trust the congressional GOP to manage the economy than trust President Barack Obama, according to a year-end poll released Dec. 17 by the The Washington Post and ABC.

The poll also showed that 60 percent of 1,005 adult respondents support a one-year delay in Obamacare’s requirement that all people buy health-care insurance, only 13 months after Obama swept to victory in November 2012.
Obama and House Republicans receive equal support, 41 percent, on dealing with the main problems facing the nation.

On the economy, the GOP gets the approval of 45 percent of the population, vice 41 percent for Obama, despite other other questions showing that only 24 percent of people approve of the congressional GOP, says the poll.

^ Americans are stupid just like you are.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

This clears the way for favorite Mia Love to win the seat.

I wonder what the "anchor baby" folks will have to say about this?

Mia Love is running for Utah's Fourth Congressional District on a platform of "fiscal discipline, limited government, and personal responsibility."

She is also one of the smartest congressional candidates, and can quote Frederick Bastiat with the ease of an economics professor. Is the Tea Party focusing too hard on the presidential race, and what should the President be doing to lower gas prices? Find out what Mia Love has to say and see why she just might be the next star of the Tea Party movement.

booner, your desperation is palpable. We already know the next Potus will be a democrat, and we know when- we just don't know who yet. Have you thanked your beloved Tea party for that yet?

Originally Posted by sabang

booner, your desperation is palpable. We already know the next Potus will be a democrat, and we know when- we just don't know who yet. Have you thanked your beloved Tea party for that yet?

No desperation on my part.

Fat Lady hasn't started to warm up yet. With the way Obama's poll numbers are sinking, revelations re HRC continuing to be brought to light, it's not a 'done-deal' Democrats are going to cake walk into Big White again.

Here we go again- I should keep a damn diary of all your wrong predictions. Heck, I could become rich just by betting against you.

Originally Posted by sabang

Here we go again- I should keep a damn diary of all your wrong predictions. Heck, I could become rich just by betting against you.

Hope springs eternal.

Saw an article the other day in a well-reasoned publication that figures America will get back on track when the Cruz Administration has settled in.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

a well-reasoned publication

Tea Party Patriots for America?

Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post—a pillar of the MSM if there ever was one draws attention to the TV spot below, directed (for now) against New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, noting that every Democrat should be scared to death of it:

A narrator points out that 20,000 New Hampshire residents have had their insurance canceled and that the Affordable Care Act offers only a single provider on the state’s individual market. The ad ends with this dagger of a line: “Next November, if you like your Senator, you can keep her. If not, you know what to do.” Oomph.

This is the ad every Democrat should be scared of in 2014