Thread: GOP: now & in the future

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Everyone knows that Ron Paul is targeted ruthlessly by the Israel Lobby because he will not kiss their rings.

Ron Paul is an OB-GYN who rejects evolution in favour of intelligent design! He deserves all the shit he gets and then some more.

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GOP now and in the future;
nothing more to add:

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Ron Paul is an OB-GYN who rejects evolution in favour of intelligent design! He deserves all the shit he gets and then some more.

Actually he's an opthamologist. Scary just the same.

Originally Posted by Humbert

Actually he's an opthamologist. Scary just the same.

That's Rand Paul.

Meet the 40 Senate Republicans Who Betrayed Veterans By Killing $1 Billion in Jobs



Forty Republican members of the United States Senate betrayed veterans today when they decided that denying President Obama a victory was more important than spending $1 billion to create jobs for vets.
The Veterans Job Corps Act of 2012 would have spent $1 billion over five years to put veterans to work tending to federal lands, and in the nation’s police and fire departments. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) based her plan of FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), but Republicans opposed the bill because they said there is no proof that it would work.



Full article: Meet the 40 Senate Republicans Who Betrayed Veterans By Killing $1 Billion in Jobs

The 112th Congress will be remembered as the most unproductive session since the 1940s.

House Republicans have passed fewer bills than any other session of Congress since 1947.

Facts matter: The 112th Congress has done far less than the 80th Congress (1947-1948), which President Harry Truman infamously dubbed the “Do-Nothing Congress.” Those lawmakers passed 906 bills that became law.

The 112th Congress is therefore even worse than the ‘Do-Nothing Congress’ of 1947.

Republicans’ top priority during President Obama's first term wasn't governing but rather defeating Obama in 2012.

Now, with the elections in the rear view mirror and Obama re elected to another four years, Tea Party Republicans are simply interested in more GOP obstructionism.

For the far right, dreams die hard and delusions never end.

As a result of auto thief Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who represents a congressional GOP with unpopularity of 75 percent, summoning former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with popularity above 60 percent, to testify, the overreach of House Republicans now threatens Republican control of the House.

The triumph of the Tea Party within Republican politics is a gift to Democrats in 2014, as the disastrous vice presidential nomination of Sarah Palin in 2008 helped propelled Barack Obama to a two-term presidency.

Rove, Tea Party in GOP civil war

As they try to pick up the pieces from last fall’s defeat, the establishment and Tea Party wings of the GOP are at each other’s throats.


Rove, Tea Party in GOP civil war

More rough news for the tattered GOP- Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is the GOP's "Dr Death"

Ann Coulter calls Rubio ‘the Jack Kevorkian’ of the GOP

On Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel, commentator Ann Coulter doubled down on the headline of her latest column by calling Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio the Jack Kevorkian of the GOP.
Asked by host Sean Hannity whether she was for real in her article “If the GOP is this stupid, it deserves to die,” the conservative firebrand proudly owned the column.
“Yes, that’s the headline of my excellent column this week, which I highly recommend everyone read,” Coulter said. “It’s just — you talk about Chuck Schumer. Well, Chuck Schumer is playing Marco Rubio, the Jack Kevorkian of the Republican Party. If this amnesty bill goes through — and it is amnesty — step one, is legalization. Everything after that, all the triggers to citizenship are phony triggers. There doesn’t have to be a fence. There doesn’t have to be E-verify. There just has to be Department of Homeland Security assuring us they have a plan.”
Hannity contested Coulter’s assumption that border security would come before legalization, citing an interview he had with the Florida senator on his radio show earlier in the day. Coulter, the author of “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama,” dismissed Rubio’s claim and cited Schumer’s own preference for legalization over enforcement.

Read more: Ann Coulter calls Rubio 'the Jack Kevorkian' of the GOP | The Daily Caller

Change You Can Believe In!

Pro-gun Republican wins vacated Democrat seat in Connecticut.

House Republican Calls Nationwide Abortion Ban Vote ‘Staggering Stupidity’



Republican pushed a bill to criminalize abortions after 20 weeks through the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, sending the measure on to the full House. But not all members of the majority are cheering the move.
Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) told CQ Roll Call that the plan to rush the bill through next week is a stunning distraction from more important issues.
“I’ll be very frank: I discouraged our leadership from bringing this to a vote on the floor,” he observed. “Clearly the economy is on everyone’s minds, we’re seeing very stagnant job numbers, confidence in the institution of government is eroding and now we’re going to have a debate on rape and abortion… The stupidity is simply staggering.”
House Republican Calls Nationwide Abortion Ban Vote 'Staggering Stupidity' | ThinkProgress

The GOP is losing another demographic groups even more and more - women.

The GOP lost women by massive amounts in the last election for President.

The GOP is only a foil. I'm losing faith with democracy, and I would like to see them machine gunned on some lawn and for the USA to get a real opposition, a real alternative. I'd do the job for free, it's quite fun machine gunning dummies. Not that I need to tell that to Americans, but you pick on the wrong helpless people.

Other than rednecks and bible thumpers, is there demographic the GOP hasn't alienated?! They know they're driving themselves off a cliff, but seem incapable of changing course.

How's this for desperation?



Michele Bachmann, Steve King, Louie Gohmert Turn To Glenn Beck For Help: 'We're Losing Badly'

Concerned that their side was "losing badly" on immigration reform, a trio of congressional hardliners appeared on Glenn Beck's Blaze TV program on Thursday to ask him to help their cause.

Michele Bachmann, Steve King, Louie Gohmert Turn To Glenn Beck For Help: 'We're Losing Badly'

Who wants to place a bet on this one?

Blocking immigration bill would doom 2016 hopes, says leading Republican

Senator Lindsey Graham says GOP faces a 'demographic death spiral' if conservatives throw out overhaul of system

Republicans are "in a demographic death spiral" and will fail in their efforts to win the presidency if the party blocks an immigration overhaul, a leading Republican senator said on Sunday.

Full article: Blocking immigration reform would doom GOP 's 2016 hopes, says leading Republican | World news | guardian.co.uk

The Republican Party is still ‘stuck on stupid’


Following two presidential election defeats in 2008 and 2012, the Republican party is still making the same mistakes
Stupid is as stupid does and, apparently, the Republican party didn’t get Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s “stupid memo” because it looks dumber by the day. After losing the 2012 presidential election the “GOP establishment” from former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour to former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich and every white man in between acknowledged that the party must make “the tent” more welcoming to minorities and women – where the votes increasingly are. So what does the GOP do? It keeps headlining white men behaving badly.


Read more: The Republican Party is still ‘stuck on stupid’ | The Raw Story

Originally Posted by TonyBKK

Who wants to place a bet on this one?

Blocking immigration bill would doom 2016 hopes, says leading Republican

Senator Lindsey Graham says GOP faces a 'demographic death spiral' if conservatives throw out overhaul of system

Republicans are "in a demographic death spiral" and will fail in their efforts to win the presidency if the party blocks an immigration overhaul, a leading Republican senator said on Sunday.

Sadly, the US has allowed ILLegals and the illegal agenda so much power in numbers that they have influence in US elections. The tail is wagging the dog.

Originally Posted by barbaro

Sadly, the US has allowed ILLegals and the illegal agenda so much power in numbers that they have influence in US elections. The tail is wagging the dog.

Your posts often look like they are written in the English language but they come across as the same sort of word-salad that Ms Palin uses. Do you do this deliberately or do you suffer from some sort of mental deficiency?

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by barbaro

Sadly, the US has allowed ILLegals and the illegal agenda so much power in numbers that they have influence in US elections. The tail is wagging the dog.

Your posts often look like they are written in the English language but they come across as the same sort of word-salad that Ms Palin uses. Do you do this deliberately or do you suffer from some sort of mental deficiency?

I am not a GOPer and I loathe Palin. Stick to the ideas and argue your point instead of attacking me.

You did not even comment on my post.

For Gumbian C.---

June 15, 2013
Peter Kirsanow

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Senate has begun debate on the proposed immigration reform bill. If this bill becomes law, there is one likely outcome for low-skilled West Virginia workers: Disaster.

The assurances of the bill's proponents that the bill will somehow help the economy obscure copious evidence that the bill will wreak enormous damage to the employment prospects of American workers who have already seen their wages and employment rates plummet over the last several years.

Indeed, it is no secret that the employment picture for low-skilled workers is abysmal. The national unemployment rate has been above 7.5 percent for more than four years and millions have dropped out of the workforce entirely. Among those without a high school diploma, the unemployment rate in May reached 11.1 percent, and for blacks without a high school diploma, it is more than 24 percent. The labor-force participation rate is at historic lows and long-term unemployment is the worst since the Great Depression. The workweek is shrinking, as well as wage rates. Barely one in two adult black males has a full-time job. A record 47 million people are on food stamps

The immigration reform bill has the potential to make things even worse. Not only will the bill grant amnesty to 11 million illegal immigrants, it will act as a magnet for future illegal immigration and substantially increase the number of legal immigrants. It is conservatively estimated that the bill will result in 30 million to 33 million additional immigrants over the next 10 years.

The bill is structured so that most of the immigrants will be low-skilled. These immigrants will compete with Americans in the low-skilled labor markets. The competition is most fierce in some of the industries in which blacks historically have been highly concentrated, such as construction, agriculture and service. Since the supply of low-skilled workers already exceeds the demand, the massive influx in low-skilled immigrants bodes ill for all such workers, but particularly black males. Evidence adduced before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights shows that immigration accounts for 40 percent of the 18-point percentage decline in black employment rates over the last several decades -- the bulk of the decline occurring among black males. That's hundreds of thousands of blacks thrown out of work; hundreds of thousands who can't support their families without taxpayer assistance.

The evidence adduced by the commission shows that not only does illegal immigration depress the employment levels of low-skilled Americans, it drives down the wages for available jobs. For example, an economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta estimated that as a result of the growth of undocumented workers, the annual earnings of actual documented workers in Georgia in 2007 were $960 lower than they were in 2000. In the leisure hospitality sectors of the economy, the wages were $1,520 lower.

A $960 annual decrease in wages may not seem like much to some members of Congress, but as President Obama observed when he signed the extension of the payroll tax cut in 2012, an extra $80 a month makes a big difference to many families. It means $80 more toward rent, groceries and the cost of gasoline. Besides, why should American workers suffer any decline in their wages because of illegal immigration?

Recent history shows that a grant of legal status to illegal immigrants results in a further influx of illegal immigrants who will crowd out low-skilled workers from the workforce. Contrary to the mythology promoted by some supporters of the bill, this isn't because low-skill Americans -- regardless of race -- are unwilling to work. It's because they're unwilling to work at the cut-rate wages (and often substandard conditions) offered to illegal immigrants -- a cohort highly unlikely to complain to the EEOC, OSHA or the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor. This inexorably increases the number of low-skill Americans depending upon the government for subsistence, swells the ranks of the unemployed and reduces the wages of those that do have a joackstage pass to what's going on in the local entertainment scene. leads U.S. in rate of overdose deaths
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Peter Kirsanow* - Op-Ed Commentaries - The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports -
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Originally Posted by barbaro

How stupid can this be? Spending $1 billion dollars of tax payer money (in addition to QE and numerous stimuli programs) to create jobs? And create jobs for vets?

Yeah.... Best let the Vets fend for themselves.

Originally Posted by MrG

Originally Posted by barbaro

How stupid can this be? Spending $1 billion dollars of tax payer money (in addition to QE and numerous stimuli programs) to create jobs? And create jobs for vets?

Yeah.... Best let the Vets fend for themselves.

Nice dodge, G.

I know several vets. They are not fending for themselves. VA medical care, and VN vets get money if they did a 1 year tour and get heart disease and diabetes. Education pay and other benefits.

But that is not my main point. My point is, why does the US govt. need to spend $1 billion dollars to "create jobs?" And create jobs (laugh) for ex-govt. employees?

The land of never ending stimuli. 40% of US GDP is federal, state and local govt. spending.

Isn't that enough

Originally Posted by barbaro

Originally Posted by TonyBKK

Meet the 40 Senate Republicans Who Betrayed Veterans By Killing $1 Billion in Jobs

Forty Republican members of the United States Senate betrayed veterans today when they decided that denying President Obama a victory was more important than spending $1 billion to create jobs for vets.

The Veterans Job Corps Act of 2012 would have spent $1 billion over five years to put veterans to work tending to federal lands, and in the nation’s police and fire departments. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) based her plan of FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), but Republicans opposed the bill because they said there is no proof that it would work.

How stupid can this be? Spending $1 billion dollars of tax payer money (in addition to QE and numerous stimuli programs) to create jobs? And create jobs for vets?

Thankfully, it was killed. Patty Murray is an embarrassment to me state and always has been.

I think the US govt has been rehashing FDR's CCC for the past 4 1/2 years. The results?

^ Did I read that right? You think that a jobs program for veterans is stupid? Better to just leave our veterans hanging, collecting food stamps and welfare, is that it?

US infrastructure is in dismal shape, a CCC-type program would be a win-win for our veterans and the nation.

Elbert Guillory: "Why I Am a Republican" - YouTube

The one remaining actual Democrat is now a Republican. His party has been hijacked by the commies, and he’s getting out.

Good for him.

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