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Latest Articles: politics and politicians
Rand Paul's Austin Office Set to Open Monday (Cruz campaign staff found)
Post Date: 2015-03-13 18:44:22 by Hondo68
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Enlarge photo by: Laura Buckman U.S. Sen. Rand Paul speaks to the press about his decision bring on Steve Munisteri, chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, as a senior advisor to his anticipated presidential campaign during the Dallas GOP "Reagan Day" event on Friday, January 30, 2015. Editor's note: This story has been updated. U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is preparing to open the Austin outpost of his likely 2016 presidential campaign, a move set for Monday, according to his political action committee. The office, which will be housed in downtown startup incubator Capital Factory, marks Paul's deepest foray yet into a state that could share ties with several ...
Lindsey Graham: as president I would deploy the military against Congress
Post Date: 2015-03-12 13:05:00 by Willie Green
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Republican senator and presidential maybe-hopeful Lindsey Graham stopped by the "politics and pies" forum in Concord, New Hampshire, today, where he announced that if he is elected president in 2016, his first act will be to deploy the military in Washington to force Congress to reverse cuts to the defense and intelligence budgets. Yes, you heard that right. Here are Graham's exact words: And here's the first thing I would do if I were president of the United States. I wouldn't let Congress leave town until we fix this. I would literally use the military to keep them in if I had to. We're not leaving town until we restore these defense cuts. We are not ...
Video: Have you seen … Hillary Rodham Gump, y’all?
Post Date: 2015-03-12 07:11:27 by Tooconservative
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Earlier today, IJ Review announced that they had discovered a long-lost parody made by Bill and Hillary Clinton in 1995, a nearly five-minute video that spoofed the film Forrest Gump. The video, originally made for the Gridiron Dinner that year, has actually been on YouTube for more than three years now, but it’s unlikely that more than a few people recall that it existed at all. It’s mostly just silliness combined with a turgid attempt to revive the HillaryCare argument — an odd laugh line, considering how they’d lost a 40-year Democratic domination of Congress less than a year earlier — but self-deprecating enough to surely have earned a few chuckles at the ...
Ed Klein: W.H. Has Six Investigations Into Hillary
Post Date: 2015-03-11 21:36:30 by out damned spot
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Author Ed Klein claimed that Hillary Clinton is under six investigations prompted by the White House on Wednesday’s “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel. Klein said that the White House was leaking unfriendly stories to the press about the Clintons and “it’s not only me who thinks this, Bill Clinton thinks this as well. He has said, according to my sources, that the White House is leaking to their friendly — their friends in the mainstream media stories about the Clintons, not only about Hillary, but about him and about what she did while she was in the State Department. And it’s my understanding that — and this is from sources within the ...
Hillary's Appeal
Post Date: 2015-03-11 20:18:50 by cranko
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This might be okay for my mom, but it is not going to appeal to Millennial's.
Talk about bad luck… two fires destroyed Al Sharpton’s tax records
Post Date: 2015-03-11 19:53:26 by Tooconservative
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Some people just can’t seem to catch a break. It’s been well documented that MSNBC Host and National Action Network front man Al Sharpton has had more problems with the IRS than the average man on the street. In fact, virtually every business which Sharpton has launched has wound up having tax problems with the IRS. But thanks to a new investigative report from National Review, we may have found one reason for all of these nagging problems. Imagine how much easier it would have been for Sharpton to clear his good name if the buildings where his tax records were stored didn’t keep burning to the ground. As Al Sharpton ran for mayor of New York City in 1997 and for president ...
New low in relations between Obama, congressional GOP
Post Date: 2015-03-11 10:34:58 by cranky
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Relations between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans have hit a new low.President Barack Obama speaks at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Tuesday, March 10, 2015, about his plan to clamp down on the private companies that service federal student debt. More than 40 million Americans are in debt thanks to their education, and most of their loans come from Uncle Sam. So President Barack Obama is aiming to clamp down on the private companies that service federal student debt with a presidential memorandum he signed Tuesday. There has been little direct communication between Obama and the GOP leadership on Capitol Hill since Republicans took full control of Congress in January. Obama ...
Ted Cruz Woos Iowa Ag Summit With Principled Anti-Ethanol Subsidy Stance
Post Date: 2015-03-10 20:36:58 by out damned spot
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While Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and some other potential contenders for 2016 opted out of the Iowa Ag Summit this weekend, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was roundly applauded by both the crowd and the media for rejecting the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), an ethanol subsidy that contributes significantly to Iowa’s farming economy. “Look, I recognize that this is a gathering of a lot of folks who the answer you’d like me to give is ‘I’m for the RFS, darnit,’ that’d be the easy thing to do,” Cruz said. “But I’ll tell you, people are pretty fed up, I think, with politicians that run around and tell one group one thing, tell another group another thing, ...
Pope calls for election campaigns free of backers
Post Date: 2015-03-10 18:13:13 by Willie Green
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Francis says candidates should put promises into practice Rome, March 10 - Pope Francis has called for greater transparency in politics and said elections should be free from backers who fund campaigns in order to prevent policy being influenced by wealthy sponsors. "We must achieve a free sort of election campaign, not financed," Francis said in an interview published by a Buenos Aires magazine, La Carcova News. "Because many interests come into play in the financing of an election campaign and then they ask you to pay back. So the election campaign should be independent from anyone who may finance it". The Argentine pontiff added in the interview given on February 7 at ...
Poll: Rubio, Walker Have Most Goodwill [Trump dead last]
Post Date: 2015-03-10 11:24:28 by Tooconservative
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2016 Poll: Rubio, Walker Have Most Goodwill Among GOP Primary Voters A new poll from the Wall Street Journal and NBC News shows Florida senator Marco Rubio and Wisconsin governor Scott Walker have the most goodwill among Republican primary voters ahead of both men's possible bids for the presidency. The wide-ranging poll surveyed registered GOP presidential primary voters about the long list of potential candidates, asking if they could see themselves supporting each one. Of those polled, 56 percent said they could see themselves supporting Rubio, with 53 percent saying the same about Walker. Rubio, however, received a higher percentage of those saying they could not see themselves ...
'CONFIRMED: HILLARY EMAIL RECORD HAS GAPS OF 2 MONTHS, SEVERAL WEEKS DURING ‘PIVOTAL EVENTS’'
Post Date: 2015-03-10 01:24:57 by out damned spot
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Congressman Peter Roskam went on Fox News and confirmed the statement from Trey Gowdy that the email record handed over to the Benghazi Select Committee does have gaps during “pivotal” events when you’d expect more email activity, not less. Watch below: Click for Full Text!
Elizabeth Warren: I will be a voice for working people
Post Date: 2015-03-09 20:11:06 by Willie Green
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For someone who has repeatedly denied plans to run for president, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren sure sounded like a potential 2016 candidate on Monday, when she talked about what she can personally do for the working class and for Washington. Speaking at the International Association of Firefighters Conference, Warren said she “will be a strong voice for working people across country,” adding “I will do it because it’s right.” Warren began with a shout-out to her state and applauded the firefighters in Boston, noting a “special kind of courage” it takes to put their lives on the line. She recognized two Boston firefighters who died on the job this ...
Lindsey Graham has never sent an email in his entire life
Post Date: 2015-03-09 13:01:15 by Willie Green
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On Sunday morning's "Meet The Press," during a discussion of Hillary Clinton's use of a home email while she was Secretary of State, NBC moderator Chuck Todd asked Graham if he had a private email address.Here was Graham's response:"I don't email. No, you can have every email I've ever sent. I've never sent one. I don't know what that makes me."On one hand, Graham is 59 years old, and he's likely had plenty of help in the communications department over his last 12 years as US Senator. However, Graham sits on four different high-profile subcommittees within the US Senate, including the Subcommittee on the Constitution; the Subcommittee on ...
Obama: ‘We’re the Slaves Who Built the White House’
Post Date: 2015-03-08 10:28:56 by cranky
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President Obama, speaking today in Selma on the 50th anniversary of the historical Bloody Sunday march: "Look at our history. We are Lewis and Clark and Sacajawea, pioneers who braved the unfamiliar, followed by a stampede of farmers and miners, and entrepreneurs and hucksters. That’s our spirit. That’s who we are. "We are Sojourner Truth and Fannie Lou Hamer, women who could do as much as any man and then some. And we’re Susan B. Anthony, who shook the system until the law reflected that truth. That is our character. "We’re the immigrants who stowed away on ships to reach these shores, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free –- Holocaust ...
At Rand Paul's request, Republican committee gives green light to caucus (appear on ballot twice in Kentucky)
Post Date: 2015-03-07 23:17:55 by Hondo68
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BOWLING GREEN — It looks increasingly like Kentucky Republicans will have a presidential caucus next year, when it seems just as likely that a Kentucky Republican will be running for president.While most of the state was focused on the Kentucky Wildcats' quest for a perfect season Saturday, about 50 members of the Republican Party of Kentucky's executive committee met behind closed doors for about two hours, listening to Paul and his staff make their case for a presidential caucus.In the days and weeks since Paul formally asked the committee to approve a caucus, which would help Paul clear at least some hurdles to running for both his U.S. Senate seat and the presidency next ...
Hillary's email server traced to Internet service registered to NY home
Post Date: 2015-03-04 10:25:24 by out damned spot
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WASHINGTON – The computer server that transmitted and received Hillary Clinton's emails -- on a private account she used exclusively for official business when she was secretary of state -- traced back to an Internet service registered to her family's home in Chappaqua, New York, according to Internet records reviewed by The Associated Press. The highly unusual practice of a Cabinet-level official physically running her own email would have given Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, impressive control over limiting access to her message archives. It also would distinguish Clinton's secretive email practices as far more sophisticated than some ...
Hillary Clinton's Private E-Mail Draws Scrutiny Hacker "Guccifer" first discovered backchannel receipt of intel info
Post Date: 2015-03-04 04:28:33 by out damned spot
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MARCH 3--The disclosure that Hillary Clinton used a non-governmental e-mail address while she was Secretary of State originally came courtesy of “Guccifer,” the Romanian hacker now serving time in a Bucharest prison for his online attacks against scores of public figures. As TSG first reported in March 2013, “Guccifer” illegally accessed the AOL e- mail account of Sidney Blumenthal, who worked as a senior White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, and later became a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. When “Guccifer” (who was later identified as Marcel Lazar Lehel) breached Blumenthal’s account, he discovered an ...
167 REPUBLICANS REBEL AGAINST BOEHNER, SPEAKER RAMS THROUGH BILL TO FUND OBAMA AMNESTY WITH DEMOCRAT VOTES
Post Date: 2015-03-03 21:36:39 by out damned spot
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The House of Representatives passed the Senate-passed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that gives tax dollars to President Obama’s executive amnesty on Tuesday. But the only way Speaker John Boehner was able to get the bill passed was by teaming up with Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and her Democrats. A whopping 167 House Republicans—an astounding number—voted against the DHS bill that funds Obama’s amnesty. The vote, a clear signal of no-confidence in Boehner, came after a vigorous debate on the House floor. The debate, which saw a highly-unusual three sides, featured Democrats in favor of the bill, Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID)—Boehner’s buddy, ...
Nitrogen gas executions approved by Oklahoma House
Post Date: 2015-03-03 19:26:53 by cranky
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Oklahoma would become the first state to allow the execution of death row inmates using nitrogen gas under a bill overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday by the House of Representatives. The House voted 85-10 for the bill by Oklahoma City Republican Rep. Mike Christian, who began studying alternative methods after a botched lethal injection in the spring that led the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the constitutionality of Oklahoma's current three-drug method. Christian said numerous studies have been conducted on nitrogen hypoxia, which is similar to what pilots at high altitudes can encounter when oxygen supplies diminish. He described the method as humane, painless and easy to ...
Maybe it’s time to elect a senator rather than a governor
Post Date: 2015-03-02 17:33:20 by Hondo68
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It is often said, usually by moderate Republicans, that the GOP should never nominate a senator as its presidential candidate. Governors, after all, have experience managing bureaucracies, and their abilities more neatly translate into the Oval Office. Last year at CPAC, Governor Chris Christie contrasted his own leadership to “people in Washington who only want to talk.” It wasn’t lost on anyone who he meant. There’s something to that critique, especially following the amateurish and demagogic presidency of former senator Barack Obama. As Madeleine Lee contemplates in Henry Adams’ novel Democracy: “To her mind the Senate was a place where people went to ...
Ted Cruz spills secret of GOP amnesty sabotage
Post Date: 2015-03-01 20:55:50 by out damned spot
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'The cake was baked from the start' NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, strongly suggested the fix was in from the beginning by GOP leaders to sabotage the fight against Obama’s amnesty, saying, “The cake was baked from the start.” The senator said that was evident to him immediately when GOP leaders chose a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, as the vehicle to try to stop the amnesty President Obama granted to five-million illegal immigrants by executive order in November. Cruz made the observations while speaking to a small group of reporters across the street from the annual Conservative Political Action ...
‘No You’re Not!’ Former NSA Chief Heckled for Calling Himself a ‘Libertarian’ at CPAC
Post Date: 2015-03-01 13:46:35 by Deckard
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During remarks at today’s (Friday) 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference, former NSA chief Gen. Michael Hayden had the audacity to claim he is a “libertarian,” prompting boos and jeers from the audience. Hayden was at the conference for a debate with Fox News senior judicial analyst and staunch libertarian Judge Andrew Napolitano, moderated by FBN’s Lou Dobbs. After Napolitano implored the audience to be “outraged” by the National Security Agency’s widespread surveillance programs, first unearthed in 2012 by whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, Hayden stood up and said, “If NSA were even capable of doing what the judge has just outlined for ...
Scott Walker's legislative years: A staunch conservative, then as now
Post Date: 2015-03-01 11:04:05 by Gatlin
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It has been 13 years since Gov. Scott Walker left the Wisconsin Assembly, but his time there represents the longest chapter of his career. What does it tell us about the politics of a man who has soared to the front tier of the Republican presidential field? Walker was among the most conservative members of the Legislature while he served, according to the research of two political scientists who have measured the ideology of more than 20,000 past and current state lawmakers across the country. According to their data, Walker was more conservative than close to 90% of his Assembly colleagues in Wisconsin and about four-fifths of his fellow Republicans. He wasn&rrsquo;t the state’s ...
Attempt tp smear Scott Walker blows up in media's face
Post Date: 2015-03-01 10:56:40 by Gatlin
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Much of the left wing media beclowned itself this week when several prominent news outlets, including HuffPo, Daily Beast, and Raw Story, all reported that Scott Walker wanted to remove the requirement that Wisconsin schools report sexual assaults to the state. The story was first reported by the feminist blog Jezebel, who thought they had Walker dead to rights on a "war on women" issue. Unfortunately for them, the attempted smear blew up in their faces when it was reported that the University of Wisconsin had requested the changes in reporting requirements because they were already sending the data to the Department of Education. Washington Examiner: "UW System ...
Scott Walker: God's Gift to the Democratic Party
Post Date: 2015-03-01 06:28:49 by Willie Green
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Walker's ISIS comments might help him in the short term, but in the end his Party will suffer Beltway Democrats may not deserve good luck, but it looks like they could have plenty in the next presidential race. Heading into the weekend, Scott Walker, a man born to be slaughtered in a general election, is suddenly leading the Republican pack in the Iowa polls. Walker is surging thanks to his performance at this week's Conservative Political Action Conference, where the union-busting governor inspired raucous applause with his "I was a dick in Wisconsin, and I can be one in Washington, too!" stump speech. Walker's address was a broadside against a litany of conservative ...
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