October 4, 2023

Republican hypocrisy that knows no bounds.

McCarthy is voted out as speaker by a motion from Matt Gaetz, who was upset because he depended on the votes of Democrats
to get a continuing resolution passed. Gaetz's motion was dependent on the votes of Democrats.

All McCarthy had to do was be a real statesman, instead of stubbornly sticking to partisan loyalty. He got exactly what he deserved and exactly what his incompetence and lack of leadership achieved.

Gaetz better be careful. There are enough Republicans angry with him to also join up with Democrats who would joyfully expel his rear end from Congress.

Keep an eye on this. This is a low moment for the GOP and mark my words, it will be costly for them on Election Day 2024. There is a slow but certain realization that is beginning to wake Republicans up to the fact that if Donald Trump is their nomnee, they are going to lose big.

This is like opening a big, gift wrapped present on Christmas morning.

October 3, 2023

Kudos to Democrats in the House.

You've won two votes in a house with a GOP majority in a week's time.

Oh my, how humiliating it must be to Republicans, that DEMOCRATS have won right out from under them, getting what they want. Can we make this a three-peat with a decent funding bill that includes Ukraine?

October 3, 2023

Democrats need to get a grip.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/10/democrats-need-to-get-grip-on-reality.html

Content from BTRTN, one of their best articles I've seen recently.

It is beyond my understanding to even try to figure out why Democrats, when we gain political victories that give us control of Congress, seem unable to do what it takes to hold on to that victory. We know why we lose mid-term elections. It's because many of our voters don't bother to go cast ballots. Some of the pollsters and commenters refer to this as "lack of enthusiasm." It took the reversal of Roe v. Wade, and the aftermath of the single most corrupt and disastrous Presidency in American history--and that's not hyperbole--to retain, by the narrowest of margins, control of the senate. And while some people think that the "red wave" which never materialized was some kind of victory, we lost control of the House. Yes, by a narrow margin, but nevertheless, we lost it.

The party leadership at the DNC needs to pull this together. We need to see as much of Joe Biden on television as we do Donald Trump. We need to put out the talking points over and over and over again. And bottom line, we need an organization that will go after every Democratic and independent anti-Trump vote, even in deep red counties in deep red states.

BTRTN: Democrats need to get a grip on their own reality and back the one candidate we have who can ensure we will never see another Trump presidency, and that is Joe Biden.

October 3, 2023

Hunter Biden has to show up in court to plead because the judge

doesn't want to show any favoritism or special treatment.

Too bad that doesn't apply to the orange headed buffoon, who, if there was no favoritism or special treatment, would be waiting for his speedy trial in jail.

Two Americas. No matter what they say, they are bending over backward to treat Trump with deference and favoritism.

October 2, 2023

Have we had enough of this yet?

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/10/have-we-had-enough-of-this-yet.html

Trump, on a daily basis, is doing the equivalent of standing in the middle of Fifth avenue and shooting someone. And no one is doing anything about it.

September 30, 2023

It's tough for some conservatives to discover, Jesus was woke.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/09/a-man-was-almost-executed-in-his.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/christians-are-disturbed-when-they-discover-jesus-was-woke/ar-AA1ht5O1?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=b44e15fc72154b48882af70454fe2f7e&ei=36#image=1

It has become a real dilemma for conservative Evangelicals who claim the Bible is inerrant and infallible but who find out, when they read and study it more deeply, that Jesus was, by their own definition, "woke." He was a big time advocate for social justice and the gospel that he preached, contrary to the beliefs of those at the time who were waiting for a military and political deliverance from Rome, saw that meeting needs of the common people was a demonstration of true faith.

September 29, 2023

Time to come out swinging

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/09/time-to-come-out-swinging.html

Representative Jasmine Crockett, of Texas, provided an example of exactly what the Democratic party needs when she got the floor yesterday in the first impeachment hearing instigated by the extremist right and permitted by Speaker McCarthy. Wow. That's flashing around social media now, exactly as it should be. She exposed duplicity and dishonesty, laid out information that contrasted what a real impeachment, or two, actually looked like as opposed to this political sham, and made a salient point.

It was, in fact, a whole day's worth of such examples from Democrats on that committee. They buried the opposing party, many of whose members on that committee want nothing to do with a pointless, baseless political attack that will only raise Democrats' chances of winning in 2024, and particularly of defeating those on the committee who know it's too close for comfort in their own district. Rather than appear on camera, some of the members left the chamber during the hearing, running off rather than confronting the truth with lies.

This is what we need. We need this kind of thing making the news cycle every day. It will counter the deference that the media gives to Trump, who doesn't have to do anything now to be the subject of daily coverage. And having sensible, coherent, intelligent Democrats passionately stating reasonable positions that are supported by facts will be quite a contrast to the often unintelligible, demented ramblings of Trump and of other Republicans who invent the facts to support talking points. What commentator or reporter wouldn't welcome an intelligent discussion rather than having to do something with blabber? This is what our party needs now, folks! We need a John Fetterman--Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez--Jamie Raskin--Jasmine Crockett approach to the way we appear in the media.

September 29, 2023

The Republican Party's terrible, no good, very bad day.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-republican-partys-terrible-no-good.html

Alexander, who is the main character in the children's book from which I borrowed part of the title, knew it was going to be a terrible, no good, very bad day because he went to sleep with gum in his mouth and woke up with gum in his hair. When he got out of bed, he tripped over his skateboard and by mistake dropped his sweater in the sink with the water running. There were lima beans for supper, and there was kissing on TV.

It was that kind of day for Republicans in the House of Representatives, and for Speaker Kevin McCarthy. First of all, the Senate, including most of the Republican members, have shown the way toward working out a deal to avoid a government shutdown. So he is faced with the choice of selfishly trying to protect his own rear end, and in so doing, creating misery for millions of Americans who will distinctly remember this as his and the small extremist minority in his party doing, which means his speakership is going to end after the 2024 election anyway, or doing the right thing, something which has been an increasingly difficult dilemma for Republicans over the past forty years or so.

Then, right down the line, the witnesses in the impeachment hearings that started today unanimously testified to absolutely nothing that would lead to any conclusion of wrongdoing on the part of the President. In fact, one of them actually said, there's no evidence here. If that wasn't bad enough, the Democrats on the oversight committee actually did their homework, looked through everything that was there, made a fine, virtually ironclad case that there is no grounds for impeachment, and then, if that wasn't terrible and no good enough, the number two Democrat on the committee found, and called out, an attempt to fabricate evidence by pointing out the obvious and deliberate deception, embarassing the congressman from Florida who had created the phony text message slide.

It can't get much more terrible, no good, very bad than it did today. Remember back at the the beginning of President Biden's term, when a few disagreements had the media declaring that the Democrats were "in disarray"? This is disarray to the tenth power.

September 28, 2023

The impeachment hearings are going to seal the deal for Biden in 2024

The fact that this is wasting time in front of a government default is bad enough, but when you come out on your first day of hearings with no evidence at all, and the question about evidence keeps coming up, it's looking really bad if you are a Republican.

Making false allegations and depending on conspiracy theories may work with the extreme right, but 65% of the voters are moving the other way.

I'm starting to really look forward to 2024, and an election that will go decisively in favor of Biden and the Democratic party.

And when we get it, and mark my words, we will, the legislation to prevent another attempt to take over better start coming out of Congress right away, or they'll keep trying.

September 27, 2023

A man was almost executed in his hometown for being "woke".

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/09/a-man-was-almost-executed-in-his.html

The reason so many American Christians are committed to idolizing self-interested power, power that only serves 'us' is that we've been taught and discipled to see that route as a faithful expression of the Christian faith. We were told over and over that the only way to be a morally upright American citizen was to vote for a particular political party to ensure our specific and 'chosen' moral issues--like abortion and homosexuality--were front and center in the culture wars and to ignore other issues--like racial injustice--as merely politics." Sociology Professor at IUPU Indianapolis Andrew Whitehead, in his book, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

--snip--

Clearly, failure to discern truth is not a new problem. In the zeal that white, conservative, Evangelical Americans display for extremism on the right in politics, they must abandon biblical principles and teachings. What we are seeing now would indicate that they are not just abandoning these things because the political pull is stronger, they no longer associate issues related to justice, especially for the poor and disadvantaged, with the Christian gospel. It's a strong temptation to think that these blessings are only for those who are the self-proclaimed righteous.

Every time I see an author or an article or something along these lines, I promote it. It's possible to remain completely committed to Christian faith and practice and be a proud, loud, enthusiastic supporter of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. Those things are not mutually exclusive.