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It is like the TV show Glee didn’t shut down after all. Now starring Bernie, Hillary, Donald as rival chorus leaders sabotaging their way to Nationals. Slushies for all!
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glad hillary put 2008 and this primary in perspective- that she had the popular vote yet not the delegates- then went on and worked hard to elect obama. bernie needed to be reminded and the bernie bros needed a history lesson.
Given this context, Sanders and his campaign are being shamefully irresponsible. Rather than accept defeat, they claim loudly that the party’s nominating process was rigged against them. They display a degree of entitlement that they have not earned.
They rail against “unfair” and “undemocratic” party processes — unless they work in Sanders’ favor. So party conventions — such as the one last weekend in Nevada, at which Sanders tried and failed to win a couple of extra delegates through parliamentary maneuvering — are bad. But holding caucuses, which have limited participation, instead of primaries is good, because Sanders did very well in caucus states.
HBO is debuting “All The Way”, Bryan Cranston’s LBJ tour de force, this weekend as a TV movie. I’ve always been fascinated by President Johnson. Was he the last truly effective Senator/President? As repugnant as he was in many ways, he got things done; through browbeating, intimidation, threats & sugar. His balls were as big as Texas.
I admire Betty Ford for her stands; however the First Lady I would have liked to have met was Lady Bird. Holy cow, what stuff that woman must have known. Of course she wouldn’t spill the beans. But she was there, behind the scenes & on the stage, of so many pivotal moments in our modern history. And that accent. East Texas purr.
Modern day Politicians are for the most part lightweight winky-dinks. “Sheer force of personality” does not apply. Like Easter chocolate rabbits, they’re prettily packaged but further inspection reveals they are hollow. We have a NIMBY government of wussies.
“He called me Miss Piggy,” Machado tells Inside Edition. “I was very depressed in that moment.”
Machado said Trump not only made her feel “so fat,” but he also ridiculed her English-speaking ability, calling her “Miss Housekeeping.” The model and telenovela star said her weight issues led to years of eating disorders — anorexia and bulimia — that required therapy.
Machado will become an American citizen in time to vote for the November election. As for whether she would cast her ballot for Trump, she burst into laughter and said, “He can’t be a president.”
Sander’s intentional democratic train wreck has reached NM…tell us how Jane met with Arpaio, Bern. Reminds me of Al Gore and his stadium visit to Las Cruces…he had his daughter speak Spanish to an almost all angelo crowd. I doubt if anyone here wants to hear about Mom and Pop government a la Jane and Bern. Really where is the 2015 tax return and why the delay on your financial statement???? Bern is a poor man’s Trump.
The irony continues…Trumptweeter machine is no match for Clinton’s server. Really, a prez tweeting his policy, internationally? While the cracker jack FBI can’t get through some Clinton emails? How are they going to monitor the Trumptweeter? I know, this is all Trump change…or chump, as I live to call it!
Politicians who continue to switch parties for their own success are always suspect….the NM gov is one and I liked her better as a dem. Joe Lieberman, Zell Miller and Bern. And now Trump and the RNC appear to be smart to have their candidates sign that loyalty pledge…the snotty dems thinking they would never need that sort of thing with one of their candidates! Really how loyal are these humans to the party? Bern is loyal to Bern and it was pretty evident to me once I read in detail about his campaign staff. Really, I do not want those humans running my government, thank you. Their moral compass is as skewed as Trump’s!
Darrell Issa (California)
David Valado (California)
Jeff Denham (California)
Greg Walden (Oregon)
Mimi Walters (California)
David Young (Iowa)
Bruce Poliquin (Maine)
sjwny, drumpf calls hillary an enabler, so what would he call lady bird… or mamie…. or Jackie? and his 1st and 2nd wives?
could be he’s fishing for media affirmation on his machismo and wants the eventual comparison between his gross infidelities and dawg’s diddling dalliances to make himself look more the stud.
Bernie is only of interest to reporters and pundits needing to drive numbers. What has become obvious is that no amount of concessions will appease him, like a 2 yr old he will always demand more.
Give that then it is in Clintons general election interest to appear that she not the lefties are in control.
So the best response to Bernie is ignore him like the 2 yr old he is he will come in after he realises his tactics aren’t working.
wall st journal:
Reid Caught in Middle as Sanders-Clinton Tension Escalates
Minority leader is one of the few people in the Senate who has a substantive relationship with Vermont senator
[….]
During a meeting this week where Senate Democrats aired their grievances about Mr. Sanders, Mr. Reid stepped out to take a call from the Vermont senator—who typically doesn’t call most senators. Mr. Reid later said that he “laid out to him what happened in Las Vegas” and said he was “hopeful that Sen. Sanders will do the right thing.”
Mr. Sanders subsequently put out a statement condemning “any and all forms of violence,” but defended his supporters and railed against the process for picking a Democratic nominee.
Mr. Reid was furious, complaining that Mr. Sanders had resorted to “some silly statement” instead of saying something personally about the turmoil. “Bernie is better than that,” Mr. Reid said.
Friends took me and hubby out to dinner in April and they immediately started pressuring us about Bern. The female friend claims she is a great dem…claims to work for the party, but never shows-up for the work..phones, canvassing, making coffee at headquarters, etc. However, her voting actions can be against the party…she voted for a repug doctor who was part of ‘the abortion will happen naturally for those bad situation pregnancies like rape and incest’ crowd. ‘He is such a nice man’ per my friend. Well, there is a huge difference between public, personal and political personas. My friend was a Nader dem, probably a Reagan dem, too. I go more for those who want to support the party agenda and keep it simple. I told them Bern was a tool and made a career of anti-campaigning on many causes. The NRA built Bernie as a foil to their own and now we have this Pet Semetary version of a dem.
As for those dems that say Bern has made HRC a better candidate? More crap…HRC is an okay campaigner, but an excellent leader and perceptive, too. If she changes for Bern’s crowd? More dishonesty & authenticity claims. The shame of this season? Saving HRC for the general election by denying her to the public? I don’t know…we sure would like to see her in NM. I do not know if it is money or fear of burnout. HRC will never be a great campaigner…Bern has gotten her out more, but she will never be a great campaigner or entertainer…so what? She is a great leader.
“Bernie is better than that,” Mr. Reid said. More crap…Bern is all about Bernie. Reid is just shocked that the old coot is beginning to believe his campaign crap as written by Weaver and Rocha.
And the NYT published a poll this morning that puts the lack of unity between the parties in contrast. Spoiler alert – the pugns are much worse off from the perspective of their own view of their party’s current and likely unity in November. Seems Trump ain’t a uniting figure.
Lest we forget as bernie continues to froth at the mouth about the rigged system that has precluded him from winning a majority of delegates without winning, you know, more states or more votes than Hillary, Glenn Kessler did a review of slime Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver’s claims regarding super delegates and the fluidity of them. Looking at the 2008 and 2016 elections, and comparing the two, Kessler awarded Weaver four Pinocchios for his claim that 120 super delegates switched from Clinton to Obama.
Weaver cast the 120 figure as happening “in the course of 2008” and said it demonstrated “a lot of movement” in allegiance to the two candidates. But the record shows the opposite. Just 10 people switched from Clinton to Obama before the last primary votes were cast. The number grows to 28 if you include people who switched just before Clinton dropped out on June 7.
But it’s highly misleading to count delegates who switched after Clinton dropped out of the race — and she began to urge party unity behind Obama. Weaver earns Four Pinocchios.
And Bernie criticized Clinton’s judgment – well what about the judgment of a candidate who would have this lying sack of crap as one of his two chief advisers, and would continue to echo his lies?
Oklahoma’s legislature passed a first-in-the-nation law Thursday that would make it a felony for abortion providers to perform or induce the procedure.
Senate Bill 1552 now heads to the desk of Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R). It contains no exceptions for cases of rape and incest or to protect the health of a pregnant person. (Abortions necessary to save the mother’s life are acceptable under the law.) Doctors would be barred from obtaining a license to practice medicine in the state if they violated the law, which refers to performing an abortion as “unprofessional conduct.” The minimum punishment for the law would be one year in jail.
pogo, think a few days for the docs in oklahoma to go on vacation might be in order? a doc sick-day epidemic? this is a case where the mule needs a mighty big and noisy stick in lieu of a carrot to get its attention.
If the Clinton campaign had not corrected the lie, Joe Scarborough would have happily allowed Trump to ignore the truth at every turn.
Democrats used to rely on the media to fact-check Republicans, but supporters and the party need to change that mindset, and fact check the media every time they interview Donald Trump. Most members of the corporate press give Trump a free pass on most or all of his lies because nearly everything that Trump says is a lie. There are media members who are overwhelmed by Trumps avalanche of lies, but there are also partisans like Joe Scarborough, who intentionally turn a blind eye to the lies.
If it wasn’t for the Hillary Clinton campaign pushing Joe Scarborough and MSNBC to broadcast the truth. Donald Trump would have gotten away with a big lie that could impact national security. The media won’t hold Trump accountable, so Democrats are going to have to put aside their long-held perception that the media values facts, and hold the media responsible for enabling Trump’s lies.
Former governor William F. Weld said Thursday that he hoped his irreverent nature would persuade millennial voters to support his long-shot bid to become vice president on the Libertarian Party ticket, as he angles to deny an outright victory to either major-party nominee in November.
Out of public office for nearly two decades, Weld, 70, said he had assumed his days in politics were over. But, he said, “this is an unusual year and an unusual opportunity.”
Weld said he agreed to be former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson’s running mate at a meeting in Las Vegas last Sunday. Aiming to win the number two spot on the Libertarian ticket at the party’s convention later this month, he said he would focus on courting major donors and road-testing a message that neither Democrats nor Republicans are voicing this year.
[….]
If Johnson and Weld succeed at the Libertarian convention in Orlando, they would land on the November ballot in all 50 states and furnish an alternative to the mainstream candidates.
[….]
The campaign plans to use the “Howard Dean method” of raising money online from many small donors, Weld said, referring to the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate.
Don’t whether these guys just have a screw loose or are actually part of the Rove machine working to trash Hillary with all the usual right wing memes.
Although I have not been around in a while, I am still here. Busy. This will be short, my new class is starting. American Red Cross Disaster University Frontline Supervisor.
Hillary will have to answer for every poor decision she has made at some point in the general. She is not the leader we need. She’ll lead us straight over a cliff.
You had me scared with that Nest Watcher articles. Had to run over and check on Freedom and Liberty The page carries a warning notice.
This is a wild eagle nest and anything can happen. While we hope that two healthy juvenile eagles will end up fledging from the nest this summer, things like sibling rivalry, predators, and natural disaster can affect this eagle family and may be difficult to watch.
They have been getting along quite well sleeping up against each other and mutual grooming. When mom & dad show up with food, there is some definite sibling rivalry, but so far so good. When they fledge, Liberty might get in trouble if attempts to keep up with Freedom.
Blue, Dem voters beg to differ. If bernie could get more votes or pledged delegates than Hillary from primary voters, he could quit having his surrogates sling mud and quit making decidedly absurd and undemocratic statements about the system they are trying to rig. Alas, he hasn’t and won’t.
Hillary Clinton has been waiting (relatively) patiently for Bernie Sanders to recognize the mathematical and political realities of his current situation and either end his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination or heavily scale back the rhetoric he has been using against her.
He has done neither. And in an interview Thursday with CNN, Clinton made clear that she’s had enough.
Here’s the key piece of what she said to CNN’s Chris Cuomo:
I went all the way to the end against then-Senator Obama. I won nine out of the last 12 contests back in ’08. I won Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia. So I know the intense feelings that arise, particularly among your supporters as you go toward the end. But we both were following the same rules, just as both Senator Sanders and I are following the same rules, and I’m 3 million votes ahead of him and I have an insurmountable lead in pledged delegates, and I’m confident that just as I did with Senator Obama, where I said, you know what? It was really close. Much closer. Much closer than it is between me and Senator Sanders right now.
The not-so-subtle message? Look, man, I’ve walked in your shoes. It sucks. But I did the right thing for the party. Time for you to do the same.
On the merits, Clinton is absolutely right. Her delegate lead over Sanders is both considerable and considerably larger than Obama’s was over Clinton eight years ago.
And Bernie sez:
The Democratic Party has a choice. It can open its doors and welcome into the party people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change — people who are willing to take on Wall Street, corporate greed and a fossil fuel industry which is destroying this planet. Or the party can choose to maintain its status quo structure, remain dependent on big-money campaign contributions and be a party with limited participation and limited energy.
Ummm, Bernie, they are welcome – they are welcome to join the party and fight for the change you suggest they will work for. They are NOT welcome to use the party structure without becoming members of the party. You do not seem to grasp the concept of “party” in the political sense of the word.
Language is complex, rules of usage are not ironclad laws, and people make minor and unimportant grammatical mistakes all the time. Usually they deserve charity. The unlettered quality of a statement is nothing next to its toxic substance.
But Texas GOP leaders adhere to a pinched form of literalism in law and life, so they deserve to be taken strictly at their word: “Homosexuality is a chosen behavior that . . . has been . . . shared by the majority of Texans.”
To be fair, the new platform language does not actually assert that most Texans are gay. It claims only that they “share” homosexuality. But what can this possibly mean? Perhaps it means that there is a certain amount of homosexuality that most Texans pass around to each other. If someone doesn’t seem to have enough, one Texan may loan or even give another Texan some of his. Or it could refer to a trait that most Texans have in common, like good taste in barbecue. Of course, it should be emphasized that a majoritybut not allTexans share homosexuality. There may be some who hoard it.
The poorly written and edited passage
Homosexuality is a chosen behavior that is contrary to the fundamental unchanging truths that has [sic] been ordained by God in the Bible, recognized by our nations [sic] founders, and shared by the majority of Texans.
( as a speaker of a foreign language, Ozark hillbilly, I can sympathize . Mrs. Jack insists on editing much of what I write for our neighborhood work)
Yes, Clinton is winning the popular vote — by a wide margin
Philip Bump explains why Shaun King is wrong when he says the above is a lie from the Clinton camp. My explanation is simpler. Bernie and his bros can’t accept the truth.
Pogo… I’m running over to Southern Maine next week. But if memory serves me correctly… Nash was against Clinton back in 08 for all the same crap that’s leveled at her now. He’s probably doing his thing on a Bernie blog.
jack, your “Chumps For Trump” campaign sounds like fun. only problem is many of the drumpfsters embrace, identify and wallow in the knuckle-dragging culture. don’t forget how popular that ducking bunch was until grandpa stepped in something and lost contracts.
there’s that fine line not to cross between pure truthful but joyous slapstick bumbling and cruel arrogant disdain (you know, the usual charge of liberal elitism). however, I so relish the idea of “drumpf and drumpfer” ads of people smashng beer cans to foreheads etc.
wapo: The last time information from Donald Trump’s income-tax returns was made public, the bottom line was striking: He had paid the federal government $0 in income taxes.
The disclosure, in a 1981 report by New Jersey gambling regulators, revealed that the wealthy Manhattan investor had for at least two years in the late 1970s taken advantage of a tax-code provision popular with developers that allowed him to report negative income.
Today, as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Trump regularly denounces corporate executives for using loopholes and “false deductions to “get away with murder” when it comes to avoiding taxes.
“They make a fortune. They pay no tax,” Trump said last year on CBS. “It’s ridiculous, okay?”
The contrast highlights a potentially awkward challenge for Trump.
wonder if christie had this info in his back pocket when his pact was made with the drumpf-il?
also wonder with his recent report of huuuge income/rev increase (see today’s forbes piece by wang) and worth “in excess of 10 billion” if he still paid at a rate less than mitt as he boasted about in 2012?
W’jack – Bernie is the only one who can beat Trump. With the exception of some social issues, she would also be horrible for this country…at least 99% of us.
Bernie is the only way this country can free itself of the entities Hillary actually supports.
There is an article on Huffpo titled, “Why Bernie Sanders is Our Best Chance To Beat Donald Trump.” All the composing about party affiliation and its unimportance to Bernie supporters is explained pretty well.
I tried to link it; I lost the connection, as usual. No point anyway, considering only about three people here would care to read anything pro-Bernie.
Alright, sun is out and rain is gone. Enjoy the weekend.
About NASH, i emailed him a couple of times in past weeks but no response. Last email I had was his school addy, and he has retired. Still, it didn’t bounce back. He signed up right after i launched this new iteration, last comment was in July
Your opinion on something? Every time Trump says anything, I am appalled at the total emptiness of the content. It sort of sounds vaguely factual, but there’s nothing behind it other than imagination. I’m fairly used to the right wing trope of “some people say”, but Trump takes it one step farther to “I say” without any other reference than his own empty brain and says it at the vocabulary level of an eight year old.
I’ve known less than acute politicians, but this is a level of ignorance that I’ve never seen. There is simply nothing there and the fact that a large segment of our population cannot discern this fact is down right frightening.
I will concede the truth of your statement(even though I can poke holes in it from here to Sunday) to again make the point. If you really care bout the issues you keep talking about HRC is your only chance. period. Bernie may be the second coming of JFK but he ain’t gonna be the Democratic nominee come November..
I did read it and admit for a Bernie supporter it makes sense. Unfortunately my problems with Bernie have nothing to do with his supporters other than that some of them are mean, foul mouthed and behave more like GOP shills than Democrats so I find them massively irritating.
My problems with Bernie have to do with the man. As far as I can tell, he talks a good game but that’s all. He has lived off of others for the whole of his life and made little or no contribution to the actual public at large and truly has no qualities that equip him to be President. As with most zealots, he holds the opinion that the only thing that counts is his opinion. When you top it off with a willingness to bend the rules by both him and his wife until they get caught as with the FEC or snagging as much cash for relatives and cohorts as they can manage. When it is pointed out that he’s not playing by the rules, he whines that the rules aren’t fair.
So no, I do not like Bernie Sanders. I don’t like him even one bit. If by some stroke of lightening he ended up the Democratic nominee, I would be forced to vote for him, but I genuinely believe that that would be a horrible mistake only made because the alternative would be Trump.
I could give a hoot what Mr Trump thinks about Claudia Johnson or Mamie Eisenhower or [fill in First Lady name here] 😉 I was talking about President Johnson & will ask this question again: was Lyndon Baines Johnson the last truly effective Senator/President? Any Politician since then who had the sheer force of personality to get things done? Any Public Servant whose presence was present?
There are very few who come close to Johnson’s effectiveness simply because so few had a similar history of being a major mover & shaker in the Senate or House and then transferring that insider’s knowledge to the Presidency. About the only modern ones I can think of within the House/Senate but not the Presidency would be Tip O’Neill and Teddy Kennedy. As a president Nixon was effective and probably could have been great if not for his own crippling psychological flaws.
Gerrymandering and voter suppression plus politicians no longer staying in DC for any length of time have pretty well destroyed the ability to wield the levers of power by any one man.
Oh and Claudia did give the world or at least the Texas corner of it the beauty of wildflowers.
Jamie, to your question/observation, my theory is that the more complex our techno-world becomes the less we expect to understand how anything works. We just use our toys and don’t even wonder how they work. Same for public policy. Just too complicated to bother with the details. Thought about this the other day when Pogo shared his story about assembling his new generator. Fewer and fewer people would even attempt such a thing. Just pay the installer and make a phone call if it doesn’t work. Of course, this means more and more consumers get ripped off for tasks they could do for themselves at a fraction of the cost. Same thing in politics — voters tuning out the details, letting politicians spew empty but appealing rhetoric, results in giving up their power and prospects. Trump and Sanders seem to understand this trend to perfection. Hillary’s tendency to lapse into policy wonkery, trying to explain how things work, the eyes-glaze-over pragmatic stuff, might be out of step with our blissfully clueless society.
Yes Johnson was probably the most effective politician to ever go to Washington. The Senate was a broken institution even worse than it is now if you can believe that. He made the majority leaders position one of power and by doing so made the senate function. As president? just look at the legislation he got passed. And got it through a senate that was hostile to most everything he wanted.
As a politician he was brilliant but as a human being he was a worthless piece of shit.
If you were in a position of power he would kiss what ever you pulled out and did it with embarrassing enthusiasm.
If he was in a position of power over you he could be extremely cruel. especially some one like Bernie Sanders. A Sanders type he would go out of his way to embarrass in the most crude way he could think of. That is why the left hated him.
Did I mention he held a grudge forever.
lol
What a man. I think it will take a generation or two to get the real measure of the man, he is still a little toxic in some circles.
Thanks for the response which I find uncomfortably perceptive. For whatever reason a huge percentage of the population has decided that being mentally lazy is pro survival and that way down deep they’re shallow.
Jamie, I blame Steve Jobs for all of this. Make it pretty and easy, and they’ll give you all of their money, cookies, personal data, cell phone numbers, everything, just so they can play with your toys until they’re very identity is stolen and sold to the Russians.
Katheleen good comment!
oldseahagsays:
May 20, 2016 at 5:40 am
glad hillary put 2008 and this primary in perspective- that she had the popular vote yet not the delegates- then went on and worked hard to elect obama. bernie needed to be reminded and the bernie bros needed a history lesson.
if not immediately doused with ice cold water, how long will political slushie stains last?
anyone know the best way to effectively remove character stains — including the self-inflicted kind — in time to be presentable at the convention?
Sanders Is Playing With Fire
Eugene Robinson
imagining the backstage maneuvering to go on between hillary (Oscar/matthau) and bern (felix/lemmon) prior to convention
HBO is debuting “All The Way”, Bryan Cranston’s LBJ tour de force, this weekend as a TV movie. I’ve always been fascinated by President Johnson. Was he the last truly effective Senator/President? As repugnant as he was in many ways, he got things done; through browbeating, intimidation, threats & sugar. His balls were as big as Texas.
I admire Betty Ford for her stands; however the First Lady I would have liked to have met was Lady Bird. Holy cow, what stuff that woman must have known. Of course she wouldn’t spill the beans. But she was there, behind the scenes & on the stage, of so many pivotal moments in our modern history. And that accent. East Texas purr.
Modern day Politicians are for the most part lightweight winky-dinks. “Sheer force of personality” does not apply. Like Easter chocolate rabbits, they’re prettily packaged but further inspection reveals they are hollow. We have a NIMBY government of wussies.
Thank you sj for the reminder of Lady Bird Johnson…on tough lady, one tough bird. Her historic train tour through bigot country. Bravery is not for males only
Former Miss Universe: Trump called me ‘Miss Piggy’
By Nolan D. McCaskill
Sander’s intentional democratic train wreck has reached NM…tell us how Jane met with Arpaio, Bern. Reminds me of Al Gore and his stadium visit to Las Cruces…he had his daughter speak Spanish to an almost all angelo crowd. I doubt if anyone here wants to hear about Mom and Pop government a la Jane and Bern. Really where is the 2015 tax return and why the delay on your financial statement???? Bern is a poor man’s Trump.
Hi Blonde Wino,
Claudia Taylor Johnson was a smart, sharp Lady who was the velvet to LBJ’s burlap. She knew exactly what she was doing & did it brilliantly. ?
sj…hitting my funny bone today —
Like Easter chocolate rabbits, they’re prettily packaged but further inspection reveals they are hollow.
I say bite their heads off!!!
No Oreos for you! ? (I can hear Donald singing to Chris Christie.)
The irony continues…Trumptweeter machine is no match for Clinton’s server. Really, a prez tweeting his policy, internationally? While the cracker jack FBI can’t get through some Clinton emails? How are they going to monitor the Trumptweeter? I know, this is all Trump change…or chump, as I live to call it!
Blonde Wino,
Munch away 😉 Reality. Bites.
Politicians who continue to switch parties for their own success are always suspect….the NM gov is one and I liked her better as a dem. Joe Lieberman, Zell Miller and Bern. And now Trump and the RNC appear to be smart to have their candidates sign that loyalty pledge…the snotty dems thinking they would never need that sort of thing with one of their candidates! Really how loyal are these humans to the party? Bern is loyal to Bern and it was pretty evident to me once I read in detail about his campaign staff. Really, I do not want those humans running my government, thank you. Their moral compass is as skewed as Trump’s!
Democrats Literally Scream “SHAME” at Republicans for blocking LGBT Amendment (included CSPAN Video)
Democrats then set out a witch hunt to figure out who changed their votes. They were:
Darrell Issa (California)
David Valado (California)
Jeff Denham (California)
Greg Walden (Oregon)
Mimi Walters (California)
David Young (Iowa)
Bruce Poliquin (Maine)
sjwny, drumpf calls hillary an enabler, so what would he call lady bird… or mamie…. or Jackie? and his 1st and 2nd wives?
could be he’s fishing for media affirmation on his machismo and wants the eventual comparison between his gross infidelities and dawg’s diddling dalliances to make himself look more the stud.
jamie, any response from the log cabin republicans of California group on their house critters vote change?
BW
Bernie is only of interest to reporters and pundits needing to drive numbers. What has become obvious is that no amount of concessions will appease him, like a 2 yr old he will always demand more.
Give that then it is in Clintons general election interest to appear that she not the lefties are in control.
So the best response to Bernie is ignore him like the 2 yr old he is he will come in after he realises his tactics aren’t working.
Jack
wall st journal:
Reid Caught in Middle as Sanders-Clinton Tension Escalates
Minority leader is one of the few people in the Senate who has a substantive relationship with Vermont senator
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During a meeting this week where Senate Democrats aired their grievances about Mr. Sanders, Mr. Reid stepped out to take a call from the Vermont senator—who typically doesn’t call most senators. Mr. Reid later said that he “laid out to him what happened in Las Vegas” and said he was “hopeful that Sen. Sanders will do the right thing.”
Mr. Sanders subsequently put out a statement condemning “any and all forms of violence,” but defended his supporters and railed against the process for picking a Democratic nominee.
Mr. Reid was furious, complaining that Mr. Sanders had resorted to “some silly statement” instead of saying something personally about the turmoil. “Bernie is better than that,” Mr. Reid said.
Friends took me and hubby out to dinner in April and they immediately started pressuring us about Bern. The female friend claims she is a great dem…claims to work for the party, but never shows-up for the work..phones, canvassing, making coffee at headquarters, etc. However, her voting actions can be against the party…she voted for a repug doctor who was part of ‘the abortion will happen naturally for those bad situation pregnancies like rape and incest’ crowd. ‘He is such a nice man’ per my friend. Well, there is a huge difference between public, personal and political personas. My friend was a Nader dem, probably a Reagan dem, too. I go more for those who want to support the party agenda and keep it simple. I told them Bern was a tool and made a career of anti-campaigning on many causes. The NRA built Bernie as a foil to their own and now we have this Pet Semetary version of a dem.
As for those dems that say Bern has made HRC a better candidate? More crap…HRC is an okay campaigner, but an excellent leader and perceptive, too. If she changes for Bern’s crowd? More dishonesty & authenticity claims. The shame of this season? Saving HRC for the general election by denying her to the public? I don’t know…we sure would like to see her in NM. I do not know if it is money or fear of burnout. HRC will never be a great campaigner…Bern has gotten her out more, but she will never be a great campaigner or entertainer…so what? She is a great leader.
“Bernie is better than that,” Mr. Reid said. More crap…Bern is all about Bernie. Reid is just shocked that the old coot is beginning to believe his campaign crap as written by Weaver and Rocha.
Speaking of reality, WaPo has an article about nest cam watchers’ inability to accept the harsh realities of nature. For those who haven’t really thought about it, the realities nest cams put on display over the internet can be a wake up call for those who think avian breeding and nesting is all a great time.
And the NYT published a poll this morning that puts the lack of unity between the parties in contrast. Spoiler alert – the pugns are much worse off from the perspective of their own view of their party’s current and likely unity in November. Seems Trump ain’t a uniting figure.
Lest we forget as bernie continues to froth at the mouth about the rigged system that has precluded him from winning a majority of delegates without winning, you know, more states or more votes than Hillary, Glenn Kessler did a review of slime Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver’s claims regarding super delegates and the fluidity of them. Looking at the 2008 and 2016 elections, and comparing the two, Kessler awarded Weaver four Pinocchios for his claim that 120 super delegates switched from Clinton to Obama.
And Bernie criticized Clinton’s judgment – well what about the judgment of a candidate who would have this lying sack of crap as one of his two chief advisers, and would continue to echo his lies?
I can only say WTF?
pogo, think a few days for the docs in oklahoma to go on vacation might be in order? a doc sick-day epidemic? this is a case where the mule needs a mighty big and noisy stick in lieu of a carrot to get its attention.
politicususa:
If the Clinton campaign had not corrected the lie, Joe Scarborough would have happily allowed Trump to ignore the truth at every turn.
Democrats used to rely on the media to fact-check Republicans, but supporters and the party need to change that mindset, and fact check the media every time they interview Donald Trump. Most members of the corporate press give Trump a free pass on most or all of his lies because nearly everything that Trump says is a lie. There are media members who are overwhelmed by Trumps avalanche of lies, but there are also partisans like Joe Scarborough, who intentionally turn a blind eye to the lies.
If it wasn’t for the Hillary Clinton campaign pushing Joe Scarborough and MSNBC to broadcast the truth. Donald Trump would have gotten away with a big lie that could impact national security. The media won’t hold Trump accountable, so Democrats are going to have to put aside their long-held perception that the media values facts, and hold the media responsible for enabling Trump’s lies.
boston globe:
Former governor William F. Weld said Thursday that he hoped his irreverent nature would persuade millennial voters to support his long-shot bid to become vice president on the Libertarian Party ticket, as he angles to deny an outright victory to either major-party nominee in November.
Out of public office for nearly two decades, Weld, 70, said he had assumed his days in politics were over. But, he said, “this is an unusual year and an unusual opportunity.”
Weld said he agreed to be former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson’s running mate at a meeting in Las Vegas last Sunday. Aiming to win the number two spot on the Libertarian ticket at the party’s convention later this month, he said he would focus on courting major donors and road-testing a message that neither Democrats nor Republicans are voicing this year.
[….]
If Johnson and Weld succeed at the Libertarian convention in Orlando, they would land on the November ballot in all 50 states and furnish an alternative to the mainstream candidates.
[….]
The campaign plans to use the “Howard Dean method” of raising money online from many small donors, Weld said, referring to the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate.
salon: Elizabeth Warren goes on another anti-Trump late-night tweetstorm
Trump “trolls for votes,” Warren tweeted Thursday night. “News flash, Donald: working people are smarter than you”
Now the Bernie Bros are even trashing the President
Don’t whether these guys just have a screw loose or are actually part of the Rove machine working to trash Hillary with all the usual right wing memes.
Although I have not been around in a while, I am still here. Busy. This will be short, my new class is starting. American Red Cross Disaster University Frontline Supervisor.
Patd
Log Cabin response on Amendment vote changes
http://www.logcabin.org/pressrelease/log-cabin-republicans-to-house-leadership-shame/
Hillary will have to answer for every poor decision she has made at some point in the general. She is not the leader we need. She’ll lead us straight over a cliff.
Have a good weekend.
Pogo
You had me scared with that Nest Watcher articles. Had to run over and check on Freedom and Liberty The page carries a warning notice.
They have been getting along quite well sleeping up against each other and mutual grooming. When mom & dad show up with food, there is some definite sibling rivalry, but so far so good. When they fledge, Liberty might get in trouble if attempts to keep up with Freedom.
Pat a libertarian ad trolling for Republican votes.
https://youtu.be/vmxMb9t4IW4
Another trolling for Bernie bros.
https://youtu.be/-DZiw3dDT_g
Blue, Dem voters beg to differ. If bernie could get more votes or pledged delegates than Hillary from primary voters, he could quit having his surrogates sling mud and quit making decidedly absurd and undemocratic statements about the system they are trying to rig. Alas, he hasn’t and won’t.
BID
Let’s say everything you say is true. (and it is not)
She is still your only chance to get anything you want passed.
That is just the facts
Trump will demolish all you hold sacred and worse than that, his blundering around will damage this country worse than GWB
But it’s your vote, have at it.
Jack
OOOOhhh
An idea!!!!
A “Chumps For Trump” campaign.
Take some characters like the ones from the Bob Newhart show “Darrrel and his other brother darrel”
And have them explain why Trump is the greatest. Put a beer in their hands
Humm the mind is strarting to boggle, this could be fun.
Jack
does anybody know what happened to Nash, this is an election that sorely needs him.
Jack
Chris Cillizza on the Energizer Bernie.
And Bernie sez:
Ummm, Bernie, they are welcome – they are welcome to join the party and fight for the change you suggest they will work for. They are NOT welcome to use the party structure without becoming members of the party. You do not seem to grasp the concept of “party” in the political sense of the word.
Good question about Nash, jack. His voice here is definitely missed. Maybe Renee could run over to northern Maine and see what’s up wit’ him.
The poorly written and edited passage
( as a speaker of a foreign language, Ozark hillbilly, I can sympathize . Mrs. Jack insists on editing much of what I write for our neighborhood work)
Yes, Clinton is winning the popular vote — by a wide margin
Philip Bump explains why Shaun King is wrong when he says the above is a lie from the Clinton camp. My explanation is simpler. Bernie and his bros can’t accept the truth.
Pogo… I’m running over to Southern Maine next week. But if memory serves me correctly… Nash was against Clinton back in 08 for all the same crap that’s leveled at her now. He’s probably doing his thing on a Bernie blog.
I really miss his humor.
jack, your “Chumps For Trump” campaign sounds like fun. only problem is many of the drumpfsters embrace, identify and wallow in the knuckle-dragging culture. don’t forget how popular that ducking bunch was until grandpa stepped in something and lost contracts.
there’s that fine line not to cross between pure truthful but joyous slapstick bumbling and cruel arrogant disdain (you know, the usual charge of liberal elitism). however, I so relish the idea of “drumpf and drumpfer” ads of people smashng beer cans to foreheads etc.
wapo: Secret Service officer shot and wounded person outside White House
Sally Kohn: I Felt the Bern, But the Bros are extinguishing the Flames
wapo:
The last time information from Donald Trump’s income-tax returns was made public, the bottom line was striking: He had paid the federal government $0 in income taxes.
The disclosure, in a 1981 report by New Jersey gambling regulators, revealed that the wealthy Manhattan investor had for at least two years in the late 1970s taken advantage of a tax-code provision popular with developers that allowed him to report negative income.
Today, as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Trump regularly denounces corporate executives for using loopholes and “false deductions to “get away with murder” when it comes to avoiding taxes.
“They make a fortune. They pay no tax,” Trump said last year on CBS. “It’s ridiculous, okay?”
The contrast highlights a potentially awkward challenge for Trump.
wonder if christie had this info in his back pocket when his pact was made with the drumpf-il?
also wonder with his recent report of huuuge income/rev increase (see today’s forbes piece by wang) and worth “in excess of 10 billion” if he still paid at a rate less than mitt as he boasted about in 2012?
Oklahoma guv’ner has vetoed the abortion bill–thank goodness.
W’jack – Bernie is the only one who can beat Trump. With the exception of some social issues, she would also be horrible for this country…at least 99% of us.
Bernie is the only way this country can free itself of the entities Hillary actually supports.
Yes, I miss Nash’s morning coffee menu.
There is an article on Huffpo titled, “Why Bernie Sanders is Our Best Chance To Beat Donald Trump.” All the composing about party affiliation and its unimportance to Bernie supporters is explained pretty well.
I tried to link it; I lost the connection, as usual. No point anyway, considering only about three people here would care to read anything pro-Bernie.
Alright, sun is out and rain is gone. Enjoy the weekend.
About NASH, i emailed him a couple of times in past weeks but no response. Last email I had was his school addy, and he has retired. Still, it didn’t bounce back. He signed up right after i launched this new iteration, last comment was in July
jack- haha, funny yet so scary!
Craig
Your opinion on something? Every time Trump says anything, I am appalled at the total emptiness of the content. It sort of sounds vaguely factual, but there’s nothing behind it other than imagination. I’m fairly used to the right wing trope of “some people say”, but Trump takes it one step farther to “I say” without any other reference than his own empty brain and says it at the vocabulary level of an eight year old.
I’ve known less than acute politicians, but this is a level of ignorance that I’ve never seen. There is simply nothing there and the fact that a large segment of our population cannot discern this fact is down right frightening.
BID
I will concede the truth of your statement(even though I can poke holes in it from here to Sunday) to again make the point. If you really care bout the issues you keep talking about HRC is your only chance. period. Bernie may be the second coming of JFK but he ain’t gonna be the Democratic nominee come November..
Jack
Pat
I know what ya mean, one always has to remember that in the Majority of households Archie Bunker was a hero and his kids were the villains.
Jack
I think this is the article BID referenced. It was on Huffington Post not WA Post by Krystal Ball
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/krystal-ball/why-bernie-sanders-is-our_b_10064830.html
BID
I did read it and admit for a Bernie supporter it makes sense. Unfortunately my problems with Bernie have nothing to do with his supporters other than that some of them are mean, foul mouthed and behave more like GOP shills than Democrats so I find them massively irritating.
My problems with Bernie have to do with the man. As far as I can tell, he talks a good game but that’s all. He has lived off of others for the whole of his life and made little or no contribution to the actual public at large and truly has no qualities that equip him to be President. As with most zealots, he holds the opinion that the only thing that counts is his opinion. When you top it off with a willingness to bend the rules by both him and his wife until they get caught as with the FEC or snagging as much cash for relatives and cohorts as they can manage. When it is pointed out that he’s not playing by the rules, he whines that the rules aren’t fair.
So no, I do not like Bernie Sanders. I don’t like him even one bit. If by some stroke of lightening he ended up the Democratic nominee, I would be forced to vote for him, but I genuinely believe that that would be a horrible mistake only made because the alternative would be Trump.
patd,
I could give a hoot what Mr Trump thinks about Claudia Johnson or Mamie Eisenhower or [fill in First Lady name here] 😉 I was talking about President Johnson & will ask this question again: was Lyndon Baines Johnson the last truly effective Senator/President? Any Politician since then who had the sheer force of personality to get things done? Any Public Servant whose presence was present?
SJWNY
There are very few who come close to Johnson’s effectiveness simply because so few had a similar history of being a major mover & shaker in the Senate or House and then transferring that insider’s knowledge to the Presidency. About the only modern ones I can think of within the House/Senate but not the Presidency would be Tip O’Neill and Teddy Kennedy. As a president Nixon was effective and probably could have been great if not for his own crippling psychological flaws.
Gerrymandering and voter suppression plus politicians no longer staying in DC for any length of time have pretty well destroyed the ability to wield the levers of power by any one man.
Oh and Claudia did give the world or at least the Texas corner of it the beauty of wildflowers.
Busy thread today, Good reads.
I am becoming increasingly weary of Bernie and more so of his surrogates, especially Weaver.
It begs the question: how can a candidate and campaign that wants to be in charge of the economy be so mathematically challenged?
If you can’t do simple arithmetic how do you expect to understand quantitative easing.?
Jamie44,
Funny how crucial times in history yield the right person to deal with it, or at least clean up the mess, despite ourselves.
And Now For Something Completely Different ….. James Buchanan.
Nah. I like everyone here too much 😉
Jamie, to your question/observation, my theory is that the more complex our techno-world becomes the less we expect to understand how anything works. We just use our toys and don’t even wonder how they work. Same for public policy. Just too complicated to bother with the details. Thought about this the other day when Pogo shared his story about assembling his new generator. Fewer and fewer people would even attempt such a thing. Just pay the installer and make a phone call if it doesn’t work. Of course, this means more and more consumers get ripped off for tasks they could do for themselves at a fraction of the cost. Same thing in politics — voters tuning out the details, letting politicians spew empty but appealing rhetoric, results in giving up their power and prospects. Trump and Sanders seem to understand this trend to perfection. Hillary’s tendency to lapse into policy wonkery, trying to explain how things work, the eyes-glaze-over pragmatic stuff, might be out of step with our blissfully clueless society.
lol
Yes Johnson was probably the most effective politician to ever go to Washington. The Senate was a broken institution even worse than it is now if you can believe that. He made the majority leaders position one of power and by doing so made the senate function. As president? just look at the legislation he got passed. And got it through a senate that was hostile to most everything he wanted.
As a politician he was brilliant but as a human being he was a worthless piece of shit.
If you were in a position of power he would kiss what ever you pulled out and did it with embarrassing enthusiasm.
If he was in a position of power over you he could be extremely cruel. especially some one like Bernie Sanders. A Sanders type he would go out of his way to embarrass in the most crude way he could think of. That is why the left hated him.
Did I mention he held a grudge forever.
lol
What a man. I think it will take a generation or two to get the real measure of the man, he is still a little toxic in some circles.
Jack
As for lady bird, I think everybody agree’s she was a a martyr who went straight to heaven for her time with him.
Craig
Thanks for the response which I find uncomfortably perceptive. For whatever reason a huge percentage of the population has decided that being mentally lazy is pro survival and that way down deep they’re shallow.
Well if you must bring up Buchanan, then in the interest of “Remember The Ladies”, include the very interesting Harriet Lane
Jamie, I blame Steve Jobs for all of this. Make it pretty and easy, and they’ll give you all of their money, cookies, personal data, cell phone numbers, everything, just so they can play with your toys until they’re very identity is stolen and sold to the Russians.
thanks tony.
new thread