April 17, 2014

MOTHER JONES Chief Goes On A Tear Against 'LOW CLASS' Former Bush Press Secretary

Republican operatives beware: If you come at Mother Jones, you might face the wrath of David Corn. Ari Fleischer, the former White House press secretary under George W. Bush, learned that lesson on Wednesday after he spoke dismissively of a tough piece on New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez ®. The piece, authored by Andy Kroll of Mother Jones, contained audio recordings, text messages and emails in which Martinez and her staffers made derisive, profane remarks. Martinez has already tried to raise money off the piece and conservatives have done their best to discredit Mother Jones. Fleischer took the latter approach in an interview with US News & World Report. “Any time Mother Jones attacks, Republicans will rally around the ‘victim.’ It's hard to imagine a more reviled outlet than Mother Jones,” Fleischer said. “Tell me the worst thing she said – not her aides, but her.” Those comments left Corn incensed. The Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones lashed out at Fleischer in a series of tweets, highlighting the former Bush spokesman's insistence throughout 2002 and 2003 that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.


Here's a sample of Corn's tweets.





Corn wasn't done there. He told TPM in a Wednesday phone interview he finds it "interesting that [Fleischer] is not taking issue with the accuracy of our reporting." He also noted that Fleischer's embarrassing pronouncements aren't limited to the Iraq War. "This is the same guy who defended Mitt Romney's '47 percent' remarks and also believed that Mitt Romney was going to win by three or four points," Corn said. It was Corn who broke the '47 percent' story in the fall of 2012 and Mother Jones has continued to haunt conservatives with several notable scoops ever since.


Mother Jones reported last year that Chris McDaniel, the Mississippi tea partier running for Senate, once addressed a neo-Confederate conference host by a group of present-day secessionists. Earlier this month, the outlet revealed that Hobby Lobby, the company waging a legal challenge against Obamacare's contraception mandate, actually invests in contraception makers.



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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/david-corn-mother-jones-ari-fleischer

April 14, 2014

Christie ACCUSED Of MEDDLING With State Ethics Agency

BAM!.......................



Newark Star-Ledger:




One of the three officials is a former Republican state senator who served as the Ethics Commission vice chairman. Essentially, the claim is that Christie fired the Ethics Commission chairwoman after she refused to provide the name of a citizen who had filed an anonymous complaint against a Christie administration official who had allegedly interfered with a state agency decision dealing with feral cats. The official—surprise, surprise—worked for Bill Stepien and Bridget Anne Kelly, the two former Christie aides at the center of the Fort Lee lane closure scandal. Of course, the Christie administration denies doing anything wrong, because what could possibly be wrong about firing the head of a supposedly independent ethics commission when she refuses to expose the identity of someone accusing the administration of improprieties?


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/14/1291914/-Christie-accused-of-meddling-with-state-ethics-agency

April 14, 2014

BAM!- Another Republican Goes Down as Rick Perry Is The FOCUS Of A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry has lawyered up as the criminal investigation into whether he illegally withheld money from a district attorney’s office is gaining steam.


According to the American-Statesman:




If this case reminds you of another Republican governor who wants to run for president, but is trapped in his own web of self created scandals, it should. Perry got himself into hot water by threating to withhold $7.5 million in funding unless the Democratic Travis County DA resigned. Perry wanted her to resign after she was convicted of a DWI. The Democrat promised not to run for reelection, but refused to resign. Perry’s actions put a cloud of uncertainty over hundreds of criminal investigations and were illegal. The governor can’t withhold funding in order to pressure another elected official to resign. The matter of the DA and her DWI is an issue between her and the voters.



Gov. Perry’s actions are very similar to what Chris Christie is being accused of doing in New Jersey. Christie is accused of withholding Sandy aid, unless political favors were granted to his campaign donors. Both Christie and Perry have White House dreams in 2016, and both may be undone by their own criminal abuses of power.



http://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/14/republican-rick-perry-focus-criminal-investigation.html

April 13, 2014

COWARDLY Rand Paul CAVES, BOWS DOWN, & KISSES The Ring of Dick Cheney

The Rand Paul bullshit meter has exploded.....kiss Darth's ring mofu.....










Sen. Paul isn’t a leader. He is a coward, who is saying whatever he has to say in order to win the Republican nomination in 2016. It is not surprising that Paul would completely take back his criticism of Cheney. Sen. Paul has to shake the perception within the Republican Party that the apple didn’t fall too far from the fringe extremist tree. Rand Paul is behaving just like Mitt Romney did in 2012. Both men were/are consumed with their desire to be president. The Paul folks seem to believe that they can say whatever they have to in order to win the nomination, then do whatever they want.


The problem is that Paul’s explanations are so convoluted that he is making it nearly impossible for anyone outside of his current base of support to take him seriously as a presidential candidate. It makes perfect sense for Rand Paul to bow down and kiss Dick Cheney’s ring. It may be hard to believe for anyone outside of the Republican Party, but the Bush/Cheney foreign policy remains popular within the GOP.




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http://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/13/cowardly-rand-paul-caves-bows-down-kisses-ring-dick-cheney.html

April 12, 2014

Bill Maher RIPS Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, and the CRAZED REPUBLICAN MOON HOWLERS

You Go Bill!!.................



Bill Maher ripped Republicans like Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz who are more interesting in howling at the moon, and making money than they are in governing.


Maher said:





It used to be that the golden parachute for Republicans who left government was going directly into lobbying for some big bank or defense contractor, but now elected Republicans are leaving office in midterm to try to cash their golden ticket on Fox News and/or talk radio. Congress has become the new Saturday Night Live for stardom seeking Republicans. Some of them are trying to use it as a platform to the White House (Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio). Others are using it to build national fame and fortune (Ted Cruz, Michele Bachmann), but they all have one thing in common. They aren’t in Congress to pass legislation, and do the country’s business.





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http://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/12/bill-maher-rips-sarah-palin-ted-cruz-crazed-republican-moon-howlers.html

April 11, 2014

STUPID PARTY Bobby Jindal "Congressman McAllister’s BEHAVIOR Is An EMBARRASSMENT & HE SHOULD RESIGN"

Hey Bobby, how about Senator Vitter?......Just another Republican Hypocritter................

Dems should pounce on this hypocrisy!..





Hoo boy. Rep. Vance McAllister has probably had better weeks, hasn't he? It got worse on Thursday, as the top luminaries within the GOP in his home state of Louisiana have broken out the pointiest of sharp sticks with which to assail their colleague. The latest to call for McAllister's ouster was none other than two-term state Governor (and presidential wannabe) Bobby Jindal:





Jindal's statement came less than a day after the chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party also called for McAllister's resignation.
All of this becomes a bit smirk worthy, of course, to anyone with a sense of recent history as it relates to Louisiana Republicans and sexual scandal. Like ... oh, I dunno ... this guy:





You will recall, of course, that no such sharp knives were laid out for Senator Vitter when his aberrant behavior came to light seven years ago. This is especially notable when one considers that in the spectrum of scandalous behavior, Vitter's event seems quite a bit worse than McAllister's. There are two key differences here, both of which point to the absolutely rank hypocrisy of the Louisiana Republican leadership in this case.


First of all, part of this is a simple matter of the cliquishness that often accompanies professional politics. David Vitter was protected by the Republicans in general, and Louisiana's GOP leadership in particular, because they liked him and respected him. McAllister, on the other hand, lacked the long and symbiotic history Vitter enjoyed with the Louisiana GOP. Quite the opposite: his ascendancy to the House came at the expense of the state establishment, who watched their preferred candidate (state Sen. Neil Riser) fall to defeat. Furthermore, while far from a moderate, McAllister had fought the GOP (and, by extension, Jindal) on the issue of Medicaid expansion. McAllister's "outsider" street cred might have paid dividends last fall, but it may well be his undoing now.




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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/11/1291107/-Louisiana-s-kissing-congressman-exposes-rank-hypocrisy-by-the-party-that-protected-David-Vitter

April 11, 2014

Exceptional Alaska New Ad Shows HOW DEMOCRATS Everywhere SHOULD BE RUNNING On Obamacare

The excellent ads supporting Democratic Sen. Mark Begich's re-election bid keep coming, though the latest is not from Begich himself but rather Put Alaska First, a super PAC supporting him. (PAF, by the way, is chiefly funded by the Senate Majority PAC.) Simply put, this is how Democrats in red states—or really, Democrats anywhere—should be running on Obamacare:


In the ad, born-and-raised Alaskan Lisa Keller—"a mother, a runner, a breast cancer survivor"—jogs through a snowbound Anchorage, explaining she was "lucky" because she "beat cancer." "But," she continues, "the insurance companies still denied me health insurance, just because of a pre-existing condition." However, she adds, "I now have health insurance again, because of Mark Begich. Because he fought the insurance companies so that we no longer have to."


You can't offer a message simpler and more heartening than that. This is precisely the kind of sympathetic story that Americans for Prosperity wished it could tell, except this one happens to be completely true and gets to the very core of what's best about the Affordable Care Act. You want to run on repealing Obamacare? You're literally running on repealing Lisa Keller's health insurance. The stakes couldn't be clearer.




http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/11/1291254/-This-exceptional-new-ad-from-Alaska-shows-how-Democrats-everywhere-should-be-running-on-Obamacare

April 3, 2014

McDonald’s Managers Ordered To CHEAT Employees Out Of Pay

Send these 'McPricks' a message....Stop buying their product!......




McDonald’s is certainly no stranger when it comes to being colossal McPricks. In fact, they’re pretty gangsta about it. We’re already aware of their notorious website and the not so hallmark-y advice McDonald’s has to offer its low-wage employees. But one former McDonald’s managers’ candid video, which features her explaining how corporate would force her to cheat employees out of pay to reduce labor costs, should compel anyone to unquestionably stop “Lovin’ it.”





It seems that Brooks joined forces with Lakia Williams, another ex-McDonald’s manager, in shedding light on the utterly abysmal labor practices of McDonald’s former employer in the above video. The video was put together by Low Pay Is Not OK. Both Brooks and Williams speak calmly and matter-of-factly about the anti-labor practices of McDonald’s, echoing the same concerns in the class action lawsuits brought against McDonald’s in California, Michigan, and New York earlier this month.




The candor from Brooks and Williams is yet another reminder how the one percent have hijacked the middle and lower classes. The sheer gall of McDonald’s and their hatred of their own employees makes Ronald McDonald look less like a friendly clown and more like the Wolf of Wall Street.



http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/04/02/mcdonalds-stealing-workers/

April 1, 2014

Crazy GOP Candidate Wants To JAIL LGBT People Who DON'T SUBMIT To Gay Conversion Therapy

Conversion therapy or jail?

Scott Lively made his asinine remarks to the Editor-at-large of Huffington Post Gay Voices, Michelangelo Signorile. The interview was regarding Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act. Lively said he’s “very disappointed” that Uganda “fell back into punitive sanctions,” explaining that he “was urging them to focus on therapy and prevention.” When asked what would happen to people who did not want to submit to the therapy, he had this to say:



Yes, because jailing people who refuse to submit to conversion therapy is the way to go. Scary that this is a belief held by a man running for governor in the first state to embrace marriage equality.





So what’s with Scott Lively?

Lively is a bigot, plain and simple. He is the founder of Abiding Truth Ministries a nonprofit organization that is largely responsible for the anti-gay laws in Uganda. The Southern Poverty Law Center labeled it a hate group. In 2012, a gay rights group, Sexual Minorities Uganda, sued Lively in U.S. Federal Court for inciting the persecution of the LGBT community. The case has not been resolved yet.


Lively is also prone to violence. In 1991 he threw Catherine Stauffer against a wall and dragged her across the floor by hair when she tried to film an event in Portland. She sued Lively and won. Lively also says he plans on bringing back anti-sodomy laws and trying to get marriage equality repealed if he is elected governor. He sounds like a lovely man. Advocating conversion therapy; stating that people who do not comply should be put in jail in Uganda. He apparently has no problems beating women and he wants to set Massachusetts back thirty years.


I suspect he will get tons of Tea Party support.



http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/03/31/jail-people-conversion-therapy/