January 5, 2017

So @SpeakerRyan is doing a phone poll on the ACA. He wants to hear from you. 608-752-4050

It is a Madison, WI number. I will be calling in a bit.


Joan Walsh ?@joanwalsh 8m8 minutes ago

So @SpeakerRyan is doing a phone poll on the ACA. He wants to hear from you. 608-752-4050

January 5, 2017

GOP rep's ObamaCare Twitter poll backfires

Source: theHill





By Brooke Seipel - 01/04/17 01:15 PM

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Tuesday posted a poll on Twitter to get feedback on Republicans' proposed ObamaCare repeal. As it turns out, though, a majority of Twitter users who voted recommended keeping the healthcare law in place.

While Blackburn might have expected to hear only from her Tennessee district — which handily reelected her in November — she soon found the poll swamped with votes opposed to an ObamaCare repeal.

The poll from Blackburn, a member of President-elect Trump's transition team, received 7,968 votes, with 84 percent opposing a repeal of ObamaCare. The repeal opponents' side was likely helped by a retweet from White House spokesman Eric Schultz. ...................................




@MarshaBlackburn




Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/312674-gop-reps-twitter-poll-doesnt-go-as-planned

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Also see:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028431975#post3


?itok=OplMfGXL

January 4, 2017

GOP lawmaker's BLACKBURN!! Twitter poll on ObamaCare repeal doesn't go as planned-LOVE IT!!..

The Hill ?@thehill 4h4 hours ago

GOP lawmaker's Twitter poll on ObamaCare repeal doesn't go as planned
http://hill.cm/IXFvBJO pic.twitter.com/cqvoBPz5Ww
56 replies 579 retweets 660 likes


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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/816731194494767105

SOME REPLIES:



Zanetta ?@therealzanetta 3h3 hours ago

@Egg_radio @thehill @SheWhoVotes Well, I guess she figures Trump uses Twitter for ALL his Intelligence and mode of communicating so......
1 reply 2 retweets 7 likes
Jess Sumpter ?@jessayin2U 2h2 hours ago

@therealzanetta @Egg_radio @thehill @SheWhoVotes I like that!
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SJWsNightmare ?@KvnCormier 4h4 hours ago

@thehill @MSignorile Leftist retards Always bomb these twitter polls. The complete desecration of dems in this years election says it all.
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Michael Joyce ?@MJoyce2244 4h4 hours ago

@KvnCormier Dems won the vote handily. Only Putin got Drumpf the freak EC win. @thehill @MSignorile
2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
SJWsNightmare ?@KvnCormier 4h4 hours ago

@MJoyce2244 @thehill @MSignorile Also, you are ignoring all the local and state victories. Democrats have less power now than ever B4. #SJWN

January 4, 2017

I am watching cspan. Pelosi and other Dems press conference on Healthcare ACA

January 4, 2017

Twitter Erupts At Mitch McConnell After He Complains About Democratic Obstruction

Why is Reeies Pieces always with the Senate Republicans when they are in front of the TV??

#TheResistance
?@SocialPowerOne1


Twitter Erupts At Mitch McConnell After He Complains About Democratic Obstruction
By Colin Taylor
Posted on January 4, 2017

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) proved for the umpteenth time today that he is an ideologically vacant hypocrite with absolutely no sense of shame or irony when he decided to chastise Senate Democrats for vowing to fight against Donald Trump’s Supreme Court picks.

The hypocrisy is just staggering. McConnell and his cronies have refused to even meet with President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, on the basis of who nominated him. The Republicans have left the highest court in the land deadlocked with an even number of judges for the greater part of a year and they now have the sheer nerve to complain about Democrats moving to block Trump’s nomination, which he shouldn’t get to make in the first place because the Republican Party spat in the face of their constitutional duty to vote on nominees.

McConnel’s entire argument for the unprecedented refusal to even meet with nominee Merrick Garland is based on the false notion that President Obama is a “lame duck” (which he isn’t) and that the “American people” should have a say in the appointment by allowing the next president to fill the vacancy – even though according to multiple polls, a significant majority of the American people wanted him to do his damn job and fill the seat last year. McConnell even admitted that if Clinton had won the election, he still wouldn’t have voted to confirm ANY Democratic nominee.

So it is rightfully so that the Twittersphere erupted in fury at McConnell’s outrageous hypocrisy.


https://twitter.com/SocialPowerOne1/status/816787155846627328



CNN Politics Verified account
?@CNNPolitics

McConnell: "The American people simply will not tolerate" Democrats blocking Trump's SCOTUS nominee

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/816727208538542080


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RiotWomenn ?@riotwomennn 2h2 hours ago

@Green_Footballs @FemmesUnafraid @CNNPolitics Not only did he obstruct Judge Garland, McConnell planned to ignore Constitution




https://twitter.com/riotwomennn/status/816761913862406155

January 4, 2017

Congress says they are not hearing from constituents about #ACA repeal. Call them!

Call, call call--your Reps and Senators of ALL strips. Keep up the pressure

https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials/



TWEET
Making Change @ WMT and 5 others follow
NCEC ?@ncec1948 51m51 minutes ago




We saw the power of public pressure when the @GOP tried to gut the #OCE. Call #Congress now, save #ACA! Say no to #MakeAmericaSickAgain!
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NCCHCA ?@NCCHCAOnline 1h1 hour ago






Congress says they are not hearing from constituents about #ACA repeal. Call them! #ProtectOurCare #KeepNCCovered http://www.ncchca.org/?page=Advocate
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RogelioGarcia Lawyer and 5 others follow
Media/West ?@MediaWest 4h4 hours ago

CALL CONGRESS NOW!

#HealthCare IS RIGHT!

CALL (608) 752-4050

LEAVE RYAN A MESSAGE!
SLAM THE PHONES!

#ACA #TheResistance #notmypresident





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January 4, 2017

Trump sides with Assange on Russia hacking

Source: Politico






"Russians did not give him the info!” President-elect Donald Trump tweets. | AP Photo
Trump sides with Assange on Russia hacking


01/04/17 08:05 AM EST


President-elect Donald Trump is seemingly taking the word of Julian Assange over that of the U.S. intelligence community, writing on Twitter that the WikiLeaks founder “said it was not the Russians who gave” him the leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee and other prominent political officials.

“Julian Assange said ‘a 14 year old could have hacked Podesta’ - why was DNC so careless? Also said Russians did not give him the info!” Trump wrote on Twitter Wednesday morning. That post replaced an earlier one with similar language in which Assange’s name was misspelled.

Minutes later, Trump cited a Twitter post from Fox News in which Assange is quoted as labeling American media coverage as "very dishonest." The president-elect added his own commentary, writing that media coverage in the U.S. is "more dishonest than anyone knows."

He followed that tweet with another series that renewed criticism of both the DNC and the media.

“Somebody hacked the DNC but why did they not have 'hacking defense' like the RNC has and why have they not responded to the terrible things they did and said (like giving the questions to the debate to H),” he tweeted. “A total double standard! Media, as usual, gave them a pass.”................................




Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-julian-assange-russia-hacking-233169

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In 2013--Trump tweeted that Assange was a traitor!!



Link to traitor trumps tweet:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/816620855958601730


A few comments in reply to Trump.....

Kaivan Shroff ?@KaivanShroff 1h1 hour ago

.@realDonaldTrump you may be the president-elect, but the way you have attacked the US intelligence community fundamentally un-American
26 replies 80 retweets 409 likes




Kaivan Shroff ?@KaivanShroff 1h1 hour ago

@realDonaldTrump the agents at the CIA, FBI, and more risk their lives every day to keep us safe. Show a modicum of respect.
4 replies 31 retweets 227 likes



Kaivan Shroff ?@KaivanShroff 1h1 hour ago

@realDonaldTrump even when FBI director Comey behaved extremely inappropriately and handed you the election, Obama & Hillary showed respect
10 replies 23 retweets 173 likes


Kaivan Shroff ?@KaivanShroff 1h1 hour ago

@realDonaldTrump I understand that you relate to Assange as someone also accused of multiple sexual assaults, but he isn't a credible source













Tweet
POLITICO Verified account
?@politico

Trump sides with Assange on Russia hacking



7:08 AM - 4 Jan 2017
46 replies 66 retweets 72 likes

January 4, 2017

Jesse Jackson: Civil rights at risk under Sessions

http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/jesse-jackson-civil-rights-at-risk-under-sessions/



Opinion 01/01/2017, 04:00pm
Jesse Jackson: Civil rights at risk under Sessions


?w=670
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, cheers on the crowd during a Trump rally in Mobile, Alabama, in December. | Brynn Anderson/AP



Confirmation hearings for Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, named by Donald Trump to be attorney general of the United States, will begin on Jan. 10, before Trump is even inaugurated. The rush and insistence on only two days of hearings reflect Republican efforts to cram the nomination through before Americans understand what is at stake.

Sessions will, no doubt, present himself as a humble, genial and reasonable public servant. In reality, Sessions is an outlier, an unimaginable nominee as attorney general, an implacable opponent of the very rights and liberties that the attorney general is supposed to defend. As more than 200 civil rights, human rights and women’s groups noted in a unified statement: “Sen. Sessions has a 30-year record of racial insensitivity, bias against immigrants, disregard for the rule of law and hostility to the protection of civil rights that makes him unfit to serve as the attorney general of the United States.”



Three decades ago, a Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee rejected Ronald Reagan’s nomination of Sessions to a federal judgeship. It deemed him unfit for the bench due to his repeated racially biased remarks, his intemperate dismissal of the ACLU and the NAACP as “un-American,” and his open opposition to the Voting Rights Act, which he scorned as “intrusive.” Republicans agreed that no person with such extreme views should adjudicate the laws that he clearly disdained. That was then. Now Donald Trump and Sen. Charles “Chuck” Grassley, R-Iowa, are intent on putting Sessions in charge of enforcing those very laws.

The attorney general of the United States is a powerful position. The person who holds this office has immense discretion in how the law is enforced — which cases the office chooses to prosecute and which it does not. The attorney general heads several agencies, including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the immigration courts. Given his views and that power, there is no question that Sessions would put fundamental rights at risk as attorney general...........................

January 4, 2017

Donald tweets that the intell meet up was delayed till Friday but not so??

I have been gone for the evening and just saw this.





Tea Pain ?@TeaPainUSA 2h2 hours ago


It's frustratin' ain't it, Donald? Like when someone keeps promisin' a press conference but cancels.



Donald J. Trump Verified account
?@realDonaldTrump

The "Intelligence" briefing on so-called "Russian hacking" was delayed until Friday, perhaps more time needed to build a case. Very strange!



7:14 PM - 3 Jan 2017

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/816452807024840704


11,553 replies 10,574 retweets 32,597 likes





Reply to @realDonaldTrump


John Aravosis ?@aravosis 58m58 minutes ago

John Aravosis Retweeted Donald J. Trump

Hey @realDonaldTrump, the Intell community just told NBC you’re a liar. They say the meeting was always scheduled for Friday, & you lied!

January 4, 2017

Disturbing pattern of stock manipulation continues. @SEC_News must investigate Trump now.

anyone tracking this??


The Daily Edge ?@TheDailyEdge 35m35 minutes ago

The Daily Edge Retweeted RogelioGarcia Lawyer

Disturbing pattern of stock manipulation continues. @SEC_News must investigate Trump now.

RogelioGarcia Lawyer
?@LawyerRogelio





Another companies stock goes down little inside trading by TRUMP AND FRIENDS sell high buy low? Millions manipulated?



2:44 PM - 3 Jan 2017
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elayanor ?@elayted 3h3 hours ago

@LawyerRogelio This man is just plain dangerous for America in every http://ln.is/way.How/ucJEd the hell did this happen?


Ricker ?@RickerLA423 3h3 hours ago

@elayted @LawyerRogelio Donald hired geeks to review every aspect of the Electoral College. Every way he could win with the least votes.
3 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
Ricker ?@RickerLA423 3h3 hours ago

@elayted @LawyerRogelio They dissected the Electoral College and focused on that plan, least votes, most punch.
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James Bradwell ?@BradwellJames 3h3 hours ago

@LawyerRogelio every few days he throws his Rich buddies a bone and they all make some money
1 reply 1 retweet 15 likes

Dave Belyea 151 ?@ve5rb 1h1 hour ago

@BradwellJames @LawyerRogelio Why doesn't someone look 👀 into this? It seems like an obvious fraud link.
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Sandy O ?@fauxdea 3h3 hours ago

@LawyerRogelio And Trump and Ivanka still have their products made overseas...what a hypocrite!
0 replies 2 retweets 14 likes

Chrome ?@4TWH 2h2 hours ago

@LawyerRogelio Dah! Why hasn't anyone picked up on this? I give up. Let me roll over and stab myself.
0 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
jmartin ?@jallnet12 2h2 hours ago

@LawyerRogelio @centsible Got pretty evil scam going here, don't they? Only takes a Comrade Donnie lying tweet to manipulate stocks...fuck.
0 replies 2 retweets 6 likes



Anne Bolynn ?@RedAnneBolynn 46m46 minutes ago

@LawyerRogelio @tahino1 My hubs works there and 401k matched 100% with stock. This idiot affects retirement accounts of thousands!!
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Debra Barcon
⛄ ?@dbarcon 3h3 hours ago

@LawyerRogelio @osbeachwalker Trump is going to manipulate stock prices as much as he can before he's impeached. He needs the money.