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August 21, 2012
1. Win elections.
2. Fund Elections (even if this means turning Corporations into people).
3. Dissolve Unions to help the other party lose elections.
4. Reverse any change that will actually benefit the country, then blame the outcome on the other party.
5. Stifle rights and claim the other party is big government to throw our voters off.
6. Pretend to care about Family Values to get votes and win elections.
7. Insinuate that the President is not American, and then claim we never said that.
8. Say Socialism as many times as possible to get the American public to believe it, when in reality its just a drinking game we created on behalf of Speaker Boehner.
9. Make sure people can only have health care if they can afford it.
10. Make sure people can only get married if they are heterosexual.
11. Make sure freedom of religion only applies to Christianity.
12. Make sure people can only have reproductive rights if they are male.
13. Tell people we are creating jobs when we are actually performing a seek and destroy mission so we can blame the current administration to win the next Presidential election.
14. Destroy the public sector so we can privatize and profit off of American citizens. All tax dollars will go directly into our pockets and the pockets of our corporate cronies instead of back into the American public system created by our founding fathers. (Including public schools.. Private Schools should receive tax payer funded dollars in the form of vouchers instead)
15. Tell people that for-profit health insurance companies have their best interest at heart even when they deny a cancer patient the proper care they need to survive. (Theres no profit in helping people) (Theres no profit in cures)
16. Tell average Americans that Wall Street is just like Main St. and they deserved to be bailed out.
17. Tell average Americans that billion dollar corporations deserve tax breaks because they will create jobs (overseas).
18. Tell people that tax breaks for the wealthy will stimulate the economy (even though they helped create the devastated economy because tax breaks arent free and it kept billions from being put back into the system that provided the wealthy the freedom to earn their wealth to begin with).
19. Burn all history books that show what got us into and out of the Great Depression in the late 1920?s and into the 1930?s and 40?s when the American dream started to thrive again . we dont want people to know the truth theyll never vote Republican again.
20. Grab Jesus as a candidate if and when he returns even though its pretty certain hes a Socialist, we dont need to remind the American public of that. He was after all in favor of helping the poor, sick, and needy and hung out with the least of these.
21. WIN ELECTIONS no matter what it takes!
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/07/18/republican-priorities/
Republican Priorities
1. Win elections.
2. Fund Elections (even if this means turning Corporations into people).
3. Dissolve Unions to help the other party lose elections.
4. Reverse any change that will actually benefit the country, then blame the outcome on the other party.
5. Stifle rights and claim the other party is big government to throw our voters off.
6. Pretend to care about Family Values to get votes and win elections.
7. Insinuate that the President is not American, and then claim we never said that.
8. Say Socialism as many times as possible to get the American public to believe it, when in reality its just a drinking game we created on behalf of Speaker Boehner.
9. Make sure people can only have health care if they can afford it.
10. Make sure people can only get married if they are heterosexual.
11. Make sure freedom of religion only applies to Christianity.
12. Make sure people can only have reproductive rights if they are male.
13. Tell people we are creating jobs when we are actually performing a seek and destroy mission so we can blame the current administration to win the next Presidential election.
14. Destroy the public sector so we can privatize and profit off of American citizens. All tax dollars will go directly into our pockets and the pockets of our corporate cronies instead of back into the American public system created by our founding fathers. (Including public schools.. Private Schools should receive tax payer funded dollars in the form of vouchers instead)
15. Tell people that for-profit health insurance companies have their best interest at heart even when they deny a cancer patient the proper care they need to survive. (Theres no profit in helping people) (Theres no profit in cures)
16. Tell average Americans that Wall Street is just like Main St. and they deserved to be bailed out.
17. Tell average Americans that billion dollar corporations deserve tax breaks because they will create jobs (overseas).
18. Tell people that tax breaks for the wealthy will stimulate the economy (even though they helped create the devastated economy because tax breaks arent free and it kept billions from being put back into the system that provided the wealthy the freedom to earn their wealth to begin with).
19. Burn all history books that show what got us into and out of the Great Depression in the late 1920?s and into the 1930?s and 40?s when the American dream started to thrive again . we dont want people to know the truth theyll never vote Republican again.
20. Grab Jesus as a candidate if and when he returns even though its pretty certain hes a Socialist, we dont need to remind the American public of that. He was after all in favor of helping the poor, sick, and needy and hung out with the least of these.
21. WIN ELECTIONS no matter what it takes!
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/07/18/republican-priorities/
August 20, 2012
HERE COMES THE GOP BUS FOR YOU TODD....
- Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), chairman of the NRSC, said this in a statement: I recognize this is a difficult time for him, but over the next 24 hours, Congressman Akin should carefully consider what is best for him, his family, the Republican party, and the values that he cares about and has fought for throughout his career in public service.
And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the top Senate Republican whose chances of being majority leader would be greatly imperiled if the GOP loses in Missouri, called Akins comments totally inexcusable and, like Cornyn, urged him to reassess......
What he said is just flat wrong in addition to being wildly offensive to any victim of sexual abuse, McConnell said. Although Representative Akin has apologized, I believe he should take time with his family to consider whether this statement will prevent him from effectively representing our party in this critical election.The conservative group Crossroads GPS also confirmed to POLITICO that it is pulling ads from Missouri.
Under Missouri law, the latest Akin could quit voluntarily and allow the party to nominate someone else is Tuesday at 5 p.m.
cont'
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79889.html?hp=t1_3
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LATEST Akin Could QUIT Voluntarily To Allow The Party To NOMINATE Someone Else - TUESDAY AT 5PM.
HERE COMES THE GOP BUS FOR YOU TODD....
- Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), chairman of the NRSC, said this in a statement: I recognize this is a difficult time for him, but over the next 24 hours, Congressman Akin should carefully consider what is best for him, his family, the Republican party, and the values that he cares about and has fought for throughout his career in public service.
And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the top Senate Republican whose chances of being majority leader would be greatly imperiled if the GOP loses in Missouri, called Akins comments totally inexcusable and, like Cornyn, urged him to reassess......
What he said is just flat wrong in addition to being wildly offensive to any victim of sexual abuse, McConnell said. Although Representative Akin has apologized, I believe he should take time with his family to consider whether this statement will prevent him from effectively representing our party in this critical election.The conservative group Crossroads GPS also confirmed to POLITICO that it is pulling ads from Missouri.
Under Missouri law, the latest Akin could quit voluntarily and allow the party to nominate someone else is Tuesday at 5 p.m.
cont'
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79889.html?hp=t1_3
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August 20, 2012
Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele: AKIN NOT QUALIFIED TO BE A SENATOR
Michael Steele, the former RNC chairman, said on MSNBC Monday that he does not believe Rep. Todd Akin is qualified to be a senator. "In my estimation, no," Steele said of Akin's qualifications to serve.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/former-rnc-chairman-akin-not-qualified-to-be
August 20, 2012
Rep. Todd Akins (R-MO) spiritual mentor Reverend D. James Kennedy harbored extreme and sometimes flatly misogynistic views about rape and abortion, according to a ThinkProgress review of Kennedys sermons on the topic. The Senate candidate, who set off a massive controversy by claiming this weekend that victims of legitimate rape dont get pregnant, has deep ties to Reverend Kennedy, having cited some of his sermons as key intellectual influences and having been named in Kennedys book How Would Jesus Vote? as one of the Reverends favorite statesman.
Kennedy, who the Anti-Defamation League has termed a Christian supremacist, repeatedly railed against legalized abortion, calling it the American Holocaust and suggesting that it would lead inevitably to genocide in the United States. But Kennedys discussions of rape and abortion in particular betray extraordinarily disturbing views about rape victims:
Given that Akins rhetoric and policy views bear clear marks of Kennedys influence, its perhaps no surprise that Akin co-sponsored (with Paul Ryan) a bill that could, by limiting federal funding of abortion to cases of forcible rape, make rape survivors give birth to their rapists child.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/20/713571/akins-spiritual-mentor-women-occasionally-invite-rape-victims-are-hysterical/
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WHAAAT! Akin’s Spiritual Mentor: Women Occasionally INVITE RAPE, Victims Are ‘HYSTERICAL’
Rep. Todd Akins (R-MO) spiritual mentor Reverend D. James Kennedy harbored extreme and sometimes flatly misogynistic views about rape and abortion, according to a ThinkProgress review of Kennedys sermons on the topic. The Senate candidate, who set off a massive controversy by claiming this weekend that victims of legitimate rape dont get pregnant, has deep ties to Reverend Kennedy, having cited some of his sermons as key intellectual influences and having been named in Kennedys book How Would Jesus Vote? as one of the Reverends favorite statesman.
Kennedy, who the Anti-Defamation League has termed a Christian supremacist, repeatedly railed against legalized abortion, calling it the American Holocaust and suggesting that it would lead inevitably to genocide in the United States. But Kennedys discussions of rape and abortion in particular betray extraordinarily disturbing views about rape victims:
1. Kennedy believed that rape victims who chose abortion are hysterical. In Abortion: Myths and Realities, Kennedy labels victims of rape who chose unsafe abortions when safer procedures are illegal hysterical, saying We are told by some of the radical feminists that the women will become hysterical, that they will abort themselves with coat hanger. Abortion rates are, in fact, higher in nations where the procedure is criminalized, and men describing women whose choices they disapprove of as hysterical has a storied sexist history.
2. Kennedy suggests rape victims can be responsible for being raped. In Life: An Inalienable Right, Kennedy expresses concern that rape victims who chose to get an abortion are occasionally responsible for their own rape, saying that Even if they want to say the woman had some part in itwhich in most cases they probably dontsurely the baby did nothing wrong, so the only innocent party is killed and the rapist often goes free. He doesnt elaborate on how this might be true, but another Kennedy sermon says the immodest woman is contributing to the lust of other people by wearing revealing clothing.
3. Kennedy held that the Bible should set our laws about rape and abortion. Kennedy is very explicit on this point, saying In the Bible, the child of rape was allowed to live and the rapist was put to death. Today, we find that the penalties against rape have become more and more lenient, whereas the child is now the subject of capital punishment. Justice has been totally destroyed and perverted in that the guilty are practically allowed to go free and the innocent are killed. This fits with Kennedys general view that we should rebuild America based on the Bible.
4. Kennedy thought husbands should determine if their wives can have abortions. Though not specifically addressing rape, Kennedy approvingly cited a Roman prohibition on abortion motivated by the husbands should have control over womens reproductive choice, saying That newly created life is as much the husbands as it is the wifes. Historically, it is interesting to note that when the Roman Empire did away with laws that allowed abortion, it was done not because of the woman or the harm that abortions were doing to women (and indeed they do vastly more harm than most people are aware of), but because the husband was being defrauded of his progeny. Interestingly, Akin has worried that criminalizing marital rape provides women a legal weapon to beat up on the husband.
2. Kennedy suggests rape victims can be responsible for being raped. In Life: An Inalienable Right, Kennedy expresses concern that rape victims who chose to get an abortion are occasionally responsible for their own rape, saying that Even if they want to say the woman had some part in itwhich in most cases they probably dontsurely the baby did nothing wrong, so the only innocent party is killed and the rapist often goes free. He doesnt elaborate on how this might be true, but another Kennedy sermon says the immodest woman is contributing to the lust of other people by wearing revealing clothing.
3. Kennedy held that the Bible should set our laws about rape and abortion. Kennedy is very explicit on this point, saying In the Bible, the child of rape was allowed to live and the rapist was put to death. Today, we find that the penalties against rape have become more and more lenient, whereas the child is now the subject of capital punishment. Justice has been totally destroyed and perverted in that the guilty are practically allowed to go free and the innocent are killed. This fits with Kennedys general view that we should rebuild America based on the Bible.
4. Kennedy thought husbands should determine if their wives can have abortions. Though not specifically addressing rape, Kennedy approvingly cited a Roman prohibition on abortion motivated by the husbands should have control over womens reproductive choice, saying That newly created life is as much the husbands as it is the wifes. Historically, it is interesting to note that when the Roman Empire did away with laws that allowed abortion, it was done not because of the woman or the harm that abortions were doing to women (and indeed they do vastly more harm than most people are aware of), but because the husband was being defrauded of his progeny. Interestingly, Akin has worried that criminalizing marital rape provides women a legal weapon to beat up on the husband.
Given that Akins rhetoric and policy views bear clear marks of Kennedys influence, its perhaps no surprise that Akin co-sponsored (with Paul Ryan) a bill that could, by limiting federal funding of abortion to cases of forcible rape, make rape survivors give birth to their rapists child.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/20/713571/akins-spiritual-mentor-women-occasionally-invite-rape-victims-are-hysterical/
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August 20, 2012
Romney says he would not oppose abortion in instances of rape; but Paul Ryan's record looks a lot like Todd Akin's
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan were quick to flee Rep. Todd Akins drowning ship after he said that victims of legitimate rape magically dont get pregnant, but a closer inspection reveals that Ryans views on abortion are not that different from Akins. Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan disagree with Mr. Akins statement, and a Romney-Ryan administration would not oppose abortion in instances of rape, a Romney spokesperson said in a statement late last night. Romney, of course, has a bipolar relationship with the issue of a womans right to chose, but the spokespersons statement represents a flip-flop for Ryan, who has proposed and supported legislation that would outlaw abortion with no exception for rape. Ryan has earned a 100 percent pro-life voting record from the National Right to Life Committee during his 14 years in Congress. http://nrlc.capwiz.com/nrlc/bio/id/630
NARAL, the pro-choice group, looked at 59 key votes on abortion, and found that Ryan voted the anti-choice position on every single one. http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/elections/2012/gop-presidential-candidates/paul-ryan.html
He cosponsored personhood legislation that would give fetuses all legal and constitutional attributes and privileges. If it enacted it would ban abortion care in almost all cases, including rape or incest http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/03/11/personhood-women-its-not-joke
The head of the main group pushing Personhood legislation said, In supporting Personhood, Congressman Ryan has taken a consistent pro-life position, one that is called for by the Republican Partys own platform. Im as pro-life as a person gets Im never going to not vote pro-life, Ryan told The Weekly Standard in 2010.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/paul-ryan-gop-must-continue-fighting-right-life
In a 2010 speech called The Cause of Life Cant be Severed from the Cause of Freedom,
http://paulryan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=207539
Ryan compared the Supreme Courts Roe v. Wade abortion to its Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, which sanctioned slavery. Twice in the past the U.S. Supreme Court charged with being the guardian of rights has failed so drastically in making this crucial determination that it disqualified a whole category of human beings, with profoundly tragic results, Ryan said. The first, he said was Scott, and the second was Roe, when the Supreme Court made virtually the identical mistake it had made in the slavery case.
He also cosponsored a measure that would force a woman to undergo an ultrasound before she can receive an abortion, even if her doctor doesnt recommend it or she doesnt want to.
http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/assets/download-files/rep-paul-ryan-r-wi-profile.pdf
Last year, Ryan joined Akin and other Republicans in co-sponsoring a bill that would have redefined rape so as to narrow access to federal funding for abortions (under the bill, only women who were victims of forcible rape would be eligible). That language was eventually shelved after a national outcry from Democrats and womens rights advocates.
Ryan also voted against letting U.S. troops get abortions at military health centers.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll216.xml
cont'
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/20/paul_ryans_rape_reversal/
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Paul Ryan’s RAPE REVERSAL
Romney says he would not oppose abortion in instances of rape; but Paul Ryan's record looks a lot like Todd Akin's
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan were quick to flee Rep. Todd Akins drowning ship after he said that victims of legitimate rape magically dont get pregnant, but a closer inspection reveals that Ryans views on abortion are not that different from Akins. Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan disagree with Mr. Akins statement, and a Romney-Ryan administration would not oppose abortion in instances of rape, a Romney spokesperson said in a statement late last night. Romney, of course, has a bipolar relationship with the issue of a womans right to chose, but the spokespersons statement represents a flip-flop for Ryan, who has proposed and supported legislation that would outlaw abortion with no exception for rape. Ryan has earned a 100 percent pro-life voting record from the National Right to Life Committee during his 14 years in Congress. http://nrlc.capwiz.com/nrlc/bio/id/630
NARAL, the pro-choice group, looked at 59 key votes on abortion, and found that Ryan voted the anti-choice position on every single one. http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/elections/2012/gop-presidential-candidates/paul-ryan.html
He cosponsored personhood legislation that would give fetuses all legal and constitutional attributes and privileges. If it enacted it would ban abortion care in almost all cases, including rape or incest http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/03/11/personhood-women-its-not-joke
The head of the main group pushing Personhood legislation said, In supporting Personhood, Congressman Ryan has taken a consistent pro-life position, one that is called for by the Republican Partys own platform. Im as pro-life as a person gets Im never going to not vote pro-life, Ryan told The Weekly Standard in 2010.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/paul-ryan-gop-must-continue-fighting-right-life
In a 2010 speech called The Cause of Life Cant be Severed from the Cause of Freedom,
http://paulryan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=207539
Ryan compared the Supreme Courts Roe v. Wade abortion to its Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, which sanctioned slavery. Twice in the past the U.S. Supreme Court charged with being the guardian of rights has failed so drastically in making this crucial determination that it disqualified a whole category of human beings, with profoundly tragic results, Ryan said. The first, he said was Scott, and the second was Roe, when the Supreme Court made virtually the identical mistake it had made in the slavery case.
He also cosponsored a measure that would force a woman to undergo an ultrasound before she can receive an abortion, even if her doctor doesnt recommend it or she doesnt want to.
http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/assets/download-files/rep-paul-ryan-r-wi-profile.pdf
Last year, Ryan joined Akin and other Republicans in co-sponsoring a bill that would have redefined rape so as to narrow access to federal funding for abortions (under the bill, only women who were victims of forcible rape would be eligible). That language was eventually shelved after a national outcry from Democrats and womens rights advocates.
Ryan also voted against letting U.S. troops get abortions at military health centers.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll216.xml
cont'
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/20/paul_ryans_rape_reversal/
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August 20, 2012
excerpt from Wonkette:
Scenario 1: A white virgin female wearing modest clothing is returning to her home after her Wednesday Bible study class. She is accosted at knifepoint by a large, unkempt black man wearing an Obama 2012 hat, who drags her into an alley and rapes her.
Determination: Legitimate rape. Her uterus shuts down immediately, expelling the rapists semen as she prays to God for forgiveness.
Scenario 2: At a party where alcoholic beverages are being consumed, a young woman passes out in a private bedroom. A man of the same age and race finds her and proceeds to have sexual relations as she sleeps peacefully.
Determination: Illegitimate rape. Because the womans own moral turpitude is entirely to blame for the situation she was placed in, her uterus is unable to resist her beaus sperm. It is quite likely that God will bless her with a pregnancy.
cont
http://wonkette.com/481506/missouri-senate-candidate-todd-akins-guide-to-legitimate-vs-illegitimate-rape#more-481506
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Missouri Senate Candidate Todd Akin's Guide To LEGITIMATE vs. ILLEGITIMATE RAPE
excerpt from Wonkette:
Scenario 1: A white virgin female wearing modest clothing is returning to her home after her Wednesday Bible study class. She is accosted at knifepoint by a large, unkempt black man wearing an Obama 2012 hat, who drags her into an alley and rapes her.
Determination: Legitimate rape. Her uterus shuts down immediately, expelling the rapists semen as she prays to God for forgiveness.
Scenario 2: At a party where alcoholic beverages are being consumed, a young woman passes out in a private bedroom. A man of the same age and race finds her and proceeds to have sexual relations as she sleeps peacefully.
Determination: Illegitimate rape. Because the womans own moral turpitude is entirely to blame for the situation she was placed in, her uterus is unable to resist her beaus sperm. It is quite likely that God will bless her with a pregnancy.
cont
http://wonkette.com/481506/missouri-senate-candidate-todd-akins-guide-to-legitimate-vs-illegitimate-rape#more-481506
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August 20, 2012
BOY WANKER: Holy Politics, Mittman! The Media is on our tail.
MITTMAN: Cant you do your Wankery on them, Boy Wanker?
BOY WANKER: Dang it all, Mittman, that was all smoke and mirrors, I dont really know anything.
MITTMAN: Gosh, Boy Wanker, lets just head for the State Fair. We can stall them there.
BOY WANKER: Right you are, Mittman. We can say were just there for fun, nobody can fault us for just wanting to have fun.
http://dissentingdemocrat.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/dynamic-duo-mittman-the-boy-wonker/
note: Edited by popular demand
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Dynamic Duo: Mittman & the Boy Wanker
BOY WANKER: Holy Politics, Mittman! The Media is on our tail.
MITTMAN: Cant you do your Wankery on them, Boy Wanker?
BOY WANKER: Dang it all, Mittman, that was all smoke and mirrors, I dont really know anything.
MITTMAN: Gosh, Boy Wanker, lets just head for the State Fair. We can stall them there.
BOY WANKER: Right you are, Mittman. We can say were just there for fun, nobody can fault us for just wanting to have fun.
http://dissentingdemocrat.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/dynamic-duo-mittman-the-boy-wonker/
note: Edited by popular demand
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August 20, 2012
Throw PAPA under the bus....
The Bush Boys are going to be pretty pissed at Tax god Grover Norquist.
Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist dismissed recent criticism of his tax pledge from former President George H.W. Bush, saying the 41st president had lied to the American people by raising taxes while in office.
Bush famously said Read my lips: no new taxes during his 1988 campaign, before going on to raise taxes during his only term as president.
Norquist, the man famous for convincing a huge swath of congressional Republicans to pledge to not raise taxes, was responding to a jab from the former President Bush last month in an interview with PARADE magazine. The rigidity of those pledges is something I dont like, Bush said in the interview. The circumstances change and you cant be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. Its who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway? Norquist also responded to comments made by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush opposing the Norquist pledge, saying in June at a congressional hearing, I dont believe you outsource your principles and convictions to people.
watch video episode at approximately - 9:52
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/grover-norquist-george-h-w-bush-lied-to-the-american-people/
GROVER NORQUIST: George H.W. Bush ‘LIED' to the American People
Throw PAPA under the bus....
The Bush Boys are going to be pretty pissed at Tax god Grover Norquist.
Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist dismissed recent criticism of his tax pledge from former President George H.W. Bush, saying the 41st president had lied to the American people by raising taxes while in office.
When George Herbert Walker Bush ran for president, he promised the American people he wouldnt raise their taxes, Norquist said this morning on This Week. He lied to them. He broke his commitment to them and they threw him out of office four years later.
Bush famously said Read my lips: no new taxes during his 1988 campaign, before going on to raise taxes during his only term as president.
Norquist, the man famous for convincing a huge swath of congressional Republicans to pledge to not raise taxes, was responding to a jab from the former President Bush last month in an interview with PARADE magazine. The rigidity of those pledges is something I dont like, Bush said in the interview. The circumstances change and you cant be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. Its who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway? Norquist also responded to comments made by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush opposing the Norquist pledge, saying in June at a congressional hearing, I dont believe you outsource your principles and convictions to people.
watch video episode at approximately - 9:52
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/grover-norquist-george-h-w-bush-lied-to-the-american-people/
August 19, 2012
Yeah. No Mitt will be on the ballot. He will lose Washington as we are a very blue State with a very, very vocal if usually very, very ineffective teabagger/Libertarian group. But its fun to do things like this. The Republican Party is under attack lately by its own ineptitude. Not only is the California GOP virtually non-existent as a political force, and the national party is having fundraising issues, but now it turns out that the Republicans might be ineligible to run a candidate for President in the state of Washington this year.
According to Washington State Law, WAC-434-215-165?:
Pretty straight forward. That is, until you check on the laws regarding what a major political party in fact is, as found in RCW 29A.04.086?:
The last state general election in an even-numbered year was 2010, which had only a single statewide office up for grabs, the US Senate seat. In 2010, the Republicans put no candidates forward for the Senate seat, and did not run a state primary for 2010. While Republican Dino Rossi was on the ballot, he was put there as a result of a non-party run-off, called a winnowing primary, and not through a state party primary or convention. By not holding a primary for the sole statewide office up in 2010, the Republican Party appears to not meet the qualifications for being a major political party. And if not, the rules for minor parties, including the deadlines, would apply, and the last deadline for the Republicans to file and have Romney on the ballot passed three weeks ago.
This has not gone unnoticed by the Libertarian Party, which filed a lawsuit to enforce the states existing statues. Do note, the Washington Secretary of State did put forth a bill proposal which would have changed the statute to a simpler metric, having at least 5% of the vote in the earlier election, but that measure failed to pass through the state legislature. The Stranger, a local Seattle newspaper, has been covering this story since the deadline passed at the beginning of the month. They are aiming to keep tabs on the Libertarian Parties lawsuit as well.
cont'
http://thelastofthemillenniums.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/romney-might-be-ineligible-for-washington-state-ballot/
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‘Romney Might Be INELIGIBLE For Washington STATE BALLOT’
Yeah. No Mitt will be on the ballot. He will lose Washington as we are a very blue State with a very, very vocal if usually very, very ineffective teabagger/Libertarian group. But its fun to do things like this. The Republican Party is under attack lately by its own ineptitude. Not only is the California GOP virtually non-existent as a political force, and the national party is having fundraising issues, but now it turns out that the Republicans might be ineligible to run a candidate for President in the state of Washington this year.
According to Washington State Law, WAC-434-215-165?:
Nominations for president and vice-president by major political parties are conducted at each partys national convention. Immediately following the convention, each party must submit a certificate of nomination and list of electors to the secretary of state in order to place the nominees on the presidential general election ballot.
Pretty straight forward. That is, until you check on the laws regarding what a major political party in fact is, as found in RCW 29A.04.086?:
Major political party means a political party of which at least one nominee for president, vice president, United States senator, or a statewide office received at least five percent of the total vote cast at the last preceding state general election in an even-numbered year. A political party qualifying as a major political party under this section retains such status until the next even-year election at which a candidate of that party does not achieve at least five percent of the vote for one of the previously specified offices. If none of these offices appear on the ballot in an even-year general election, the major party retains its status as a major party through that election. However, a political party of which no nominee received at least ten percent of the total vote cast may forgo its status as a major political party by filing with the secretary of state an appropriate party rule within sixty days of attaining major party status under this section, or within fifteen days of June 10, 2004, whichever is later.
The last state general election in an even-numbered year was 2010, which had only a single statewide office up for grabs, the US Senate seat. In 2010, the Republicans put no candidates forward for the Senate seat, and did not run a state primary for 2010. While Republican Dino Rossi was on the ballot, he was put there as a result of a non-party run-off, called a winnowing primary, and not through a state party primary or convention. By not holding a primary for the sole statewide office up in 2010, the Republican Party appears to not meet the qualifications for being a major political party. And if not, the rules for minor parties, including the deadlines, would apply, and the last deadline for the Republicans to file and have Romney on the ballot passed three weeks ago.
This has not gone unnoticed by the Libertarian Party, which filed a lawsuit to enforce the states existing statues. Do note, the Washington Secretary of State did put forth a bill proposal which would have changed the statute to a simpler metric, having at least 5% of the vote in the earlier election, but that measure failed to pass through the state legislature. The Stranger, a local Seattle newspaper, has been covering this story since the deadline passed at the beginning of the month. They are aiming to keep tabs on the Libertarian Parties lawsuit as well.
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http://thelastofthemillenniums.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/romney-might-be-ineligible-for-washington-state-ballot/
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August 19, 2012
"..Johnson states that every man should have the right to vote and that the civil rights problems challenge the entire country, not one region or group. The President asks Congress to help him pass legislation that dictates clear, uniform guidelines for voting regardless of race or ethnicity and that allows all citizens to register to vote free from harassment...."
March 15th, 1965
LBJ - Speech on VOTING RIGHTS
&feature=player_embedded"..Johnson states that every man should have the right to vote and that the civil rights problems challenge the entire country, not one region or group. The President asks Congress to help him pass legislation that dictates clear, uniform guidelines for voting regardless of race or ethnicity and that allows all citizens to register to vote free from harassment...."
March 15th, 1965
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