By Jamie44,
a Trail Mix Contributor
We have all seen the “Daisy” commercial multiple times. Obviously the Republican candidate for President in 1964 was dooming us all to a nuclear conflagration unless we would have the good sense to vote for Lyndon Baines Johnson. We have all heard the quote “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” The man was capable of anything, and we were all afraid.
In the wake of the Kennedy assassination and the loss of “Camelot”, this was a risk we could not take. The end result was a political wipeout never seen before.
More than a half century later, I am longing for a Republican party that was that sane and remembering a man whose reputation was in many ways the opposite of what was presented to the public. To put it simply, Barry Goldwater was a good man. Compared to the current Republican candidate and the party as it exists, he would be a worthy opponent but more than likely he also now would be a Democrat. Why do I believe this? Because of his actions after that overwhelming defeat.
After Goldwater again became a senator, he urged Nixon to resign at the height of the Watergate scandal, warning that fewer than ten senators would vote against conviction if Nixon were impeached by the House of Representatives. The term “Goldwater moment” has since been used to describe situations when influential members of Congress disagree so strongly with a president from their own party that they openly oppose him.
The GOP now has a candidate thoroughly rejected by whatever bit of sanity left in the party … a massive meltdown and “Goldwater moment”.
All of the above was on the political front, but Barry Goldwater was a whole man. He was a ham radio operator who regularly “chatted” with other aficionados all over the globe. He was a photographer well known for his images of his beloved Arizona and the indigenous people and he was so “conservative” that he rejected the concept that intrusive religion had any part in politics and was a strong advocate of gay rights and freedom of religion: “You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.” … and: “I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.”
So right now, I’m missing Barry. I’m missing the Republican party of my childhood. I hate what the GOP has become and I think Senator Goldwater would be ashamed. This year he would have also been a truly great GOP candidate.
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Good post Jamie!
yes, good post jamie!
Jamie,
Anytime we can delve into history it’s a good thing. The arc of a life contains many lessons.
Goldwater skewed more Libertarian, didn’t he? Especially in later years. I also remember his interest in UFOs. This isn’t a knock; anyone with an interest “out there” has a broader vision as opposed to tunnel vision.
This Post is also relevant in that Secretary Clinton was a Goldwater Girl. Everything is six degrees of ….
funny how things change. in those days, in the south, the few liberals mostly were republicans… and not at all for goldwater but for nelson rockefeller.
Nice of Jamie to remember the old goat, the last true and consistent conservative, who wanted to keep government out of your wallet and your bedroom.
Yes Goldwater was a UFO enthusiast. He was a strong environmentalist as well. Definitely ahead of his time. He and Pres. Kennedy were close friend and had a shared sense of humor. During a WH visit, Barry photographed the President and then sent it to him. The picture was returned with the following autograph: “For Barry Goldwater – Whom I urge to follow the career for which he has shown such talent – photography! – from his friend – John Kennedy.”
The Wiki site actually has some nice stories as well as links to a whole lot of resources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater The books of his photography are still available and I really would love to visit the Kachina doll collection at the Heard museum.
I spent most of the 1960s in the Far East. I was not prepared to support a reservist USAF Major Gen cum politician to be president
Clinton’s Fibs vs. Trump’s Huge Lies
Nicholas Kristof
wonder if the drumpf can keep from crowing about being ahead in these polls
japan times:
Russians would overwhelmingly prefer Republican Donald Trump be elected U.S. president over Democrat Hillary Clinton, Russia’s Interfax news agency said Tuesday, citing a poll.
The survey found 28 percent of people believe a Trump presidency would be better for bilateral relations than a Clinton one. A mere 9 percent of Russians preferred the Democratic front-runner.
Nearly half of people surveyed expressed a negative opinion of Clinton, while just under a quarter said they are opposed to Trump, the news agency said.
and from wtsp: Most Russians appear to favor Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton as the next U.S. president because the Republican nominee is a man, more “fun” and has nice things to say about Russia.
An August poll by the All-Russian Center for Public Opinion found 34% of respondents expected relations between Russia and the United States to improve if Trump wins, while only 6% said they would improve if Clinton is elected president. By contrast, 53% said they believe relations would worsen if Clinton became president, compared to 12% who felt that way if Trump is elected.
[….]
“Hillary Clinton is an astoundingly thick concentration of all the evil in this world,” journalist Dmitry Olshansky wrote July 23 on Facebook. “Against that background, the simplicity, rude jokes and fun of (Trump) is like a fresh breeze.”
“For Russia it’s better to have something new than the well-worn old,” said Konstantin Osokin, a music teacher. “We already know that (Clinton as secretary of State) led a policy of weakening Russia and creating a negative image. Trump is a businessman, so he is more pragmatic. Also he is a man.”
[….]
Putin also might favor Trump because “it would be difficult … to deal with a woman,” Konovalov added. Plus, “he understands that Clinton is a real politician, and it would be more difficult to get her to believe what he wants.”
craig, given your history with the sentinel, be sure to watch the above starting at 8:01 in the john oliver vid. especially when he announces their new motto at 9:26
Jamie…. what a great post! Yeah… I too miss the Republicans of my childhood. Methinks that even their beloved St Ronnie would be appalled at today’s GOP.
everyone ready for my latest worry wart? this could get so lopsided Clinton team will need to worry about some of their voters taking it for granted, staying home.
Craig… now that is a worry that is worthy of a worry wart… 2 thumbs up!
rene & craig, and a wart on top of that wart is from technology section at bbc buried in their “Hackers for Hillary” story:
Political parties aside, there are others who are concerned that the integrity of the vote itself may be at risk.
In many states in the US, electronic voting booths are used to cast ballots. Typically, voters will be given a smart card loaded with their details that they can use, just once, to place their vote.
But security experts have long suspected that the system has several vulnerabilities.
“Some of the biggest concerns are manipulation of the cards used to vote, allowing people to vote multiple times,” warned Kevin Haley, from security firm Symantec.
“There’s also the collection of the ballots itself. The ballots sit on the electronic voting machines, unencrypted.”
[….]
The US Department of Homeland Security is having high-level discussions over whether or not to designate voting machines as critical national infrastructure.
If that happens, it will mean a lot more investment in keeping them secure.
Mr Haley did offer another idea – why not vote using only a piece of paper and a pencil?
PatD, as serious as voting booth security is, sounds like inappropriate mission creep for Homeland Dept to me — they should stay in their lane (think Goldwater would agree with that)
I don’t miss any Republicans and if our three parties turn out to be libertarians,greens and dems that would be fine with me.
I think I would have to go backto Lincoln to find a Republican worth pinning for.
The only people trying to steal elections are republicans by voter suppression
I totally agree that a paper ballot is probably the safest way to vote. One more thing the British get right. This is how the ballots are handled after the election. https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-1051,00.html
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This link works now
Given modern scanning technology there is no reason not to have a paper ballot and it should be mandatory because almost all serious voter fraud happens after the polls close. There needs to be an accountable paper trail that can be audited.
Jack
what voter fraud
Troll’s odds drop some more 538 now has him at 16.3
So after the last month ridiculing Clinton for being in the pocket of Wall Street, who does he name as his economic advisers? Hint – a buncha guys who come from a place that rhymes with Wall Street. (Plus a dipshit 5 or 6 years out of college with no experience of any note.) Hmm, wonder why the Trump tax plan favors the rich?
Mrs. P picked up a book for me in NYC this weekend – Quotations From Chairman Trump. It is funny as hell. I’ll try to remember to bring it to work and share quotes from it – they are mostly paired quotes that would give anyone else whiplash.
So trumps’ numbers continue to fall – so today he plans a RESET. I guess he’s banking on the short term memory failure of the voting public.
KC, once again, you nailed it.
All the nonsense by drumpf and Gordon Crovitz at WSJ about Clinton “short circuiting” her explanations about the emails are starting to sound clownish. Crovitz fails to mention that trump’s honest and trustworthy numbers are within ONE POINT of Hillary’s. At least she doesn’t follow drumpf’s example and JUST MAKE IT UP.
Jamie, a great slice of political history.
I didn’t start coming to AZ until the late 1980’s. I moved here full-time in 2004. My wife is a life-long Arizonan having been born here more years ago than what she will admit. When she was growing up she attended segregated schools and endured segregated facilities like movie theatres and restaurants. Official segregation ended in 1963. AZ refused to acknowledge Martin Luther King’s birthday until the National Football League in 1993 moved the Super Bowl out of AZ. Goldwater voted against the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act on states’ rights principles; thus, assuring lingering segregation for several more decades. Only AZ and the states of the Deep South voted against these human rights in America.
Goldwater was also no fan of Cesar Chavez and the plight of farm workers in their struggles against the “harvest of shame.” The roots of today’s anti-immigrant politics can be traced to Barry Goldwater and the Republican Party in AZ.
Would Barry Goldwater fit into today’s Republican Party? To quote the successor to the Goldwater seat in the US Senate when asked if he will support Trump after Trump impugned his military service and being a POW, “yep, yep, yep.” The Goldwater Institute, established by the Goldwater family, is very active in Liberterian politics, going to court numerous times against people passed initiatives, including children’s funding. My take, and that of my wife, is Goldwater would still be a Republican, and, if not, a Libertarian.
Barry Goldwater, nice guy, but with extreme reactionary politics.
jack & Jamie, paper for me too.
otherwise as nat says: it’s a barnum and bailey world just as phony as it can be
Trump is about to speak. It’s a little early for drinking but I suppose we could keep score of
Repeated words & Phrases
Believe Me
Making America Great Again
There is no basis to claim there will be voter fraud. If people are so worried on both sides — call in the UN and Jimmy Carter.
The only people committing voter fraud are the goopers and their ilk “committing fraud to show that it could be done.”
There was a movie about this –a program to change the vote — and Robin Williams became president. But it was based on bogus assumptions
the voter fraud argument is a totally a Republican conceit and they are the most likely based on history; to be committing fraud.
wonkette: Your Senate Sunday: Florida’s U.S. Senate Race About As Screwy As Everything Else In Florida
Ah, Florida. Land of Florida Man, real estate scams, hurricanes, disappearing coastlines, and people who walk right off the sidewalk into novels by Tim Dorsey and Carl Hiaasen. And in typically chaotic Floridian fashion, it’s also home to what until late June looked like a wide-open donnybrook for an open U.S. Senate seat, until Marco Rubio decided he wasn’t quite as tired of being a senator as it seemed when he was running for president (and also the whole time he’s actually been a senator). Now Rubio is suddenly the cash-flush incumbent whose decision to seek reelection knocked several thousand (fine, five) hopefuls out of the Republican primary, while the Democratic race pretty much comes down to a fight between two sitting congressmen, centrist Patrick Murphy, who has virtually all the institutional backing, and very progressive Alan Grayson, the target of not funny at all charges by his former wife that he was an abusive bastard for two decades. Spoiler Alert: Yr Wonkette is rooting for bland but tolerable Murphy in the August 30 primary.
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I only lived in Arizona for a year at age 7 and then spent a summer there at 16, so my awareness of the politics were pretty sketchy. Goldwater isn’t someone I would vote for today, but agree that he would probably be a Libertarian given his religious and social views not to mention his absolute disgust with the Falwell types.
On the plus side, I love the Hopi & Navaho cultures. So Barry picks up some plus points there. One of the problems of looking back is that you simply cannot apply the mores of the current culture to the past except to acknowledge that the past is a different place and we don’t live there any more.
speaking of little marco, also from wonkette, “Marco Rubio Dreams Of Forcing Zika-Infected Women To Give Birth To Microcephalic Children”
Dr. Amiri was another American nuclear intelligence asset destroyed by the republicans, this time by issuing subpoenas for secret Clinton emails and then publishing them for Iranian intelligence to read.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/07/iran-executes-nuclear-scientist-shahram-amiri-returned-country-from-us?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+morning+briefing+2016&utm_term=185184&subid=14581082&CMP=ema_a-morning-briefing_b-morning-briefing_c-US_d-1
I’m sure you are glad to be an X X-R!
what’s up with the Washington Post Katherine Graham would be horrified.
Lots of protestors at the Trump speech. The reporter said there wasn’t a Tele-Prompter which if true, means he has spent a lot of memorization time. In addition it means the usual speeches are either some sort of bait and switch performance or he is taking a lot of meds today.
The Republcans of my childhood were people like Congressman Frank T Bow – the captured interest of the Timken Company.
He looked like the banker in the monopoly game. He said things like red dust in the sky means no dust on factory floor.
The factories closed anyway and he participated in contracts that built factories for companies that never came and jobs that never appeared.
White Motors what a pile of poop.
americannewsX: Mitch McConnell Proves Again That Sedition Courses Through His Veins
Never before in American history was the use of the filibuster employed more than since President Obama took office. Mitch has been in congress for 35 years and has no fear of Kentuckians growing tired of him doing nothing but spewing platitudes about socialism and the imaginary “War on Coal” he is so famous for iterating. It is a method he has employed to dupe gullible rubes into ignoring that he is trying with all his might to strip them of health coverage under the ACA and he has been most successful. But this Fancy Farm’s breakfast was a bit different in that McConnell had the audacity to reveal with no qualms at all that his quiet filibuster of Merrick Garland is entirely violating his oath of office.
“Mr President, you will not fill this Supreme Court Vacancy!”
[….]
McConnell is head of a fraternity of do-nothing pathological liars that graciously accept the generous salary of the people while becoming millionaires themselves. If the people of Kentucky could scrounge up enough IQ points to decorate a set of dice, they’d save the money we spend on Mitch and Rand and put two rubber dummies in their senate seats with a sign that says no to everything democrats say and filibuster anything they propose while saving the millions we expend on their offices.
With both Mitch and Rand doing absolutely nothing to show the people they should govern, their obstructionism and Herr Drumpf’s putrid hyperbole is not going to help Republicans win elections anytime soon.
link includes video of mitch’s speech at fancy farm saturday
Amen, Jamie. No pun intended!
Trump econ speech in Detroit today very strong, he behaved like a real adult even in the face of numerous protesters. Perhaps too late but this new version could be competitive.
CNBC summary of drumpf’s econ speech.
Even Newt said his plan sux.
Trump is his usual pile and because he didn’t insult everyone (except by insulting our intelligence) everyone is fawning all over him the bar for Trump s very low.
There already is a child care tax credit and the problem isn’t deducting childcare – the problem is for people who don’t make enough to itemize deductions. They need free or low-cost child care. He did not address that.
The media coverage of this campaign makes me sick
Memories:
Quotations from the would be Chairman Richard Milhous sic Nixon.
KGC
I made that point on twitter. There are times when the bubble of the financially secure really pisses me off. They really have no concept of what it is to live paycheck to paycheck. Tax deductions for those who work full time or more but pay very little if any taxes.
Pogo, Moody’s also thinks killing American jobs with NAFTA a good thing.
What drugs do you think the Troll is taking to keep “on message”
George P Bush is the chairman of the gooper victory campaign in Texas and has endorsed the Troll
Jaime
The rich propose things that benefit the rich. All those poor racists are going to be very unhappy if the Troll were to be elected
Poobah,
I only know what I see. I’ve read that drumpf’s plan would cost the economy $10.5 Trillion over 10 years. Don’t think that came from Moody’s, but it may have. If so it was cited by whoever I read because I haven’t read Moody’s in years.
And I don’t assume that the trade deals like NAFTA were as disastrous as drumpf and Bernie (and now you) claim. Neither does FactCheck.org. And for drumpf’s part, it’s hard to take seriously his criticisms when he even manufactures the “Make America Great Again” caps in China when there are US cap manufacturers he could have contracted with (and let alone his and Ivanka’s clothing Chinese and Indonesian clothing lines).
And Politifact, citing the Congressional Research Service, noted the Bernie overshot on job loss estimates:
So I’m not so quick to dismiss Moody’s conclusions based on its NAFTA conclusions. Besides, neither candidate supports the TPP so what difference does it make?
huffpo: 50 Republican National Security Officials Eviscerate Trump In Open Letter
….they wrote in an open letter released Monday.
“We are convinced that [Trump] would be a dangerous President and would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being,” said the former officials, many of whom held top positions in the George W. Bush administration.
“Most fundamentally, Mr. Trump lacks the character, values, and experience to be President,” they added. “He weakens U.S. moral authority as the leader of the free world. He appears to lack basic knowledge about and belief in the U.S. Constitution, U.S. laws, and U.S. institutions, including religious tolerance, freedom of the press, and an independent judiciary.”
Signers include some of the best known intelligence, defense and security experts of the past two decades: Michael V. Hayden, the former director of both the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency; Michael Chertoff and Tom Ridge, both of whom served as secretaries of Homeland Security during the Bush administration; Dov Zakheim, a former under secretary of defense; John D. Negroponte, a deputy secretary of state and a former director of national intelligence; Eric Edelman, a top national security adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney; and Robert Zoellick, a former deputy secretary of state, United States trade rep and president of the World Bank.
[….]
In closing, the 50 officials wrote, “We are convinced that in the Oval Office, he would be the most reckless President in American history.”
Detroit free press:
A poker-faced Donald Trump stood uncharacteristically stoic a succession of protesters – 14 in all, mostly women – were hauled from the room during his speech at Monday’s Detroit Economic Club meeting.
Shouts of protest erupted at seemingly planned intervals, a mob of security descended, and each protester was escorted out, as pro-Trump audience members booed or shouted “Sorry,” and “We love you, Donald.”
While Trump was giving his speech, Rick and I were having fun in a movie theatre watching the latest Star Trek flick. Methinks we made the correct choice of what to watch… 🙂
Elizabeth Warren on Troll’s failure to release his taxes
https://www.facebook.com/GavinNewsom/videos/10154361671908117/
The ghost of James Buchanan is rooting for this Trump fellow.
I may have to watch the video of PART of trump’s economic speech – just to satisfy myself that he can give a calmish, measured address. Ive known he is a clown but I did not know he is also an actor.
Just heard, cannot find other sources Yet. The woman who accused HRC of killing her son in Benghazi has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against HRC in federal court. If true the woman is about as good as one of the bloaters hair pieces. She is the definition of tool.
She is a very sad tool She did not have a good relationship with her son when he died and she is off the rails and the goopers have chosen to fill her gaping hole of need by using her. She likes the attention and it assuages her guilt about the fact that she and her son were essentially estranged. He had a wife and kids but the now professional grieving mother never mentions them
I don’t think she has standing to sue
Mark Haperin has on Donny Duetch and they are both happy hillary haters
Haperin is Trumplike he can’t seem to control himself he has to take every little chep shot
and with Duetch as his wing man they had nice little showing of why little short guys are afraid of women
On June 30, 2011, Halperin was suspended from his duties at MSNBC for “slurring” President Barack Obama on the program Morning Joe, saying the President came off as “kind of a dick” during the previous day’s press conference.[20][21] His suspension was lifted a little over a month later.[22]
Halperin is kind of a dick every day and he reminds me of tucker carlson
Today is a day of memories. At the time I was in the military, and we,the military, the U.S., the world, watched as President Nixon, my commander in chief, told us he was resigning at noon on August 9. Yup. Remember, at the time most of us had watched few years earlier, Johnson, on television, refuse to run for president in 1968. Then we watch Nixon give up. It was tumultuous and often strange.
And, to fill in between strange and horrible, we could watch shows such as Laugh-In, Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Skip Wilson, I Dream of Jeanne and many more. Use the link to see what was happening (that’s a real phrase from the time), used in as sentence as “what’s happening man?”.
If you have Netflix you can rent a few of the shows. It is worth watching Laugh-In and Smothers Brothers to get a feel for the era. Always keep in mind the three networks ran a tight leash on what they would broadcast.
Jamie44, Goldwater was an honorable man, and a statesman. He was also, however, scary as hell. He wasn’t a hawk, he was more like some of those flying beasts you see in a Godzilla movie. I have absolutely no doubt that had he been elected President, we would have had a nuclear war.
Trump is just that much worse.
D-300, at the time there was a lot of “research” into using nuclear power for all sorts of military use. One of the dumbest was to use nuclear artillery shells.
I heard Mike Murphy say the speech was the wrong message in the wrong place
even Donny Duetsch says new trump isn’t enough to make up for old Trump new Trump boring
Trump now at 12.6 chance of winning –according to 538
and right now Troll isn’t carrying AZ
blue bronc,
jeffey toobin in an interview about his new book “American heiress” reminded us about the violence back then. hard to remember it was worse than today’s in so many ways.
JEFFREY BROWN: I want to begin where you do. It’s the strangeness of this period, the early 1970s, the violence that was almost routine in a country at that time that is difficult to even remember or imagine.
JEFFREY TOOBIN: Think about one fact, one fact alone, 1,000 political bombings a year in ’72, ’73, ’74. Almost inconceivable. That was what the world was like.
Skyjackings were epidemic.
JEFFREY BROWN: Yes.
JEFFREY TOOBIN: You had an actual revolutionary movement in this country that, while never likely to succeed, was disrupting the country, especially Northern California, in a way that’s it’s just hard to believe.
JEFFREY BROWN: I was just even thinking about the opening of the Olympics, of course, in 1972 was the Munich Olympics, right, what happened there.
JEFFREY TOOBIN: Of course.
JEFFREY BROWN: That the world…
JEFFREY TOOBIN: And Watergate and the energy crisis, nervous breakdown collectively for the country.
KGC -there isn’t a new Trump. It’s the same old Trump reading a new script because everyone around him said they would stab him to death and leave his body out back for the rats and vultures.
dvitale
works for me
wsj Washington wire:
Hillary Clinton Accepts Presidential Debate Schedule
Donald Trump has suggested he might not participate in the scheduled debates
In his statement Monday, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said the debates provide voters with an important opportunity to hear from the candidates.
“It is concerning that the Trump campaign is already engaged in shenanigans around these debates,” he said. “It is not clear if he is trying to avoid debates, or merely toying with the press to create more drama. Either way, our campaign is not interested in playing along with a debate about debates or bargaining around them.”
[….]
“The only issue now is whether Donald Trump is going to show up to debate at the date, times, places and formats set by the commission last year through a bipartisan process,” Mr. Podesta said. “We will accept the commission’s invitation and expect Donald Trump to do the same.”
cnn:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren slammed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s newly detailed tax reform plan as a blueprint for “helping rich guys like Donald Trump get richer — & leaving everyone else behind.”…. “The American people aren’t dumb, @realDonaldTrump. We don’t trust you with our nuclear codes AND we don’t trust you with our economy,” she tweeted in response to his Monday speech.[….]
If elected president, the Republican nominee would also lower the business tax rate for corporations and small businesses to 15%, down from the current top rate of 39%.
Warren denounced that specific move, saying it would mean there would be less money for education, infrastructure and research.
“And taxes? @realDonaldTrump wants billionaires & giant corps to pay EVEN LESS — so there’s less money for ed, infrastructure & research,” she said [….]
In addition to tax cuts, Trump also proposed a moratorium on financial regulations, which conservatives say hinder economic growth.
“Cut regulations massively,” @realDonaldTrump? No rules & no accountability means people get ripped off & markets blow up. Remember 2008?” Warren said. “A ‘moratorium’ on agency regulations means stopping new rules on shady payday lenders & too-big-to-fail banks, @realDonaldTrump.” …
“W/o rules, @realDonaldTrump, too many huge banks juiced profits by cheating ppl on mortgages, credit cards, etc, then crashed our economy,” Warren said.
from livescience: It’s Shooting-Star Time! How to Watch the Perseid Meteor Shower
This year, however, the show will be even more stunning, with as many as 200 visible meteors per hour during its peak, from Thursday night to Friday morning, Cooke said.
“This year we expect there to be more of them because Jupiter’s gravity has tugged this trail of debris closer to Earth,” Cooke said.
rawstory quote from daily show about trump saying election is rigged:
“Donald Trump is right,” Noah said. “We’ve uncovered evidence of election rigging throughout the system.”
Noah pointed to gerrymandering and voter suppression laws implemented by Republican state legislatures to make it harder to elect Democratic lawmakers.
“I know some people might say we need these laws to protect from voter fraud, but voter fraud isn’t actually a problem,” Noah said.
For example, Texas convicted only two people for violating its voter ID law out of 20 million votes cast.
“More people have been Trump’s wife,” Noah said.
Love me the Perseids.Hope it’s clear. Nothing like sitting under the stars with a glass of wine and watching them fall.
hey, marco, heads up… she’s talking to you and all the other do-nothing critters in critterville d.c.
cnn:
Clinton, according to aides, will call on Republican leaders to bring Congress back into session to either craft a bipartisan compromise bill to provide funding for fighting the disease or to pass legislation that stalled before lawmakers left Washington for a seven-week recess last month.
She will make the push while touring a health center in Miami at the heart of the Zika outbreak in the United States.
Clinton will push Congress to provide funding for “rapid diagnostic testing, treatment and research for a vaccine, free of politics,” an aide said.
For this morning’s entertainment: Dystopian nightmares courtesy of Global Warming & Climate Change.
Global Warming Could Unfreeze Nuclear Waste Buried In Greenland
Zombie Microbes Killing Reindeer & People With Anthrax
Flaming Poop In Throop
Susan Collins (R, Maine) will not be voting for trump.
Wonder what the donald will have to say about Collins? I’m sure it will be less than flattering.
“Wonder what the donald will have to say about Collins? I’m sure it will be less than flattering.”
Pogo,
1) Who would vote for that face
2) She’s an old un-hot woman so must be sick=must be mentally ill=put her out to pasture=I hear Elsie the Cow is retiring=Collins has a new career path.
Troll is losing and still losing and losing some more
and yet the media is still trying to say Trump can win…it’s a horse race only if it’s between Secretariat and Reggae the 15 year old donkey who lives down the road from us.
Stuart Rothenberg sees it falling Clinton’s way in November.
He goes on, but really, against all that does he need to?
Sorry, attribution to Rothenberg quotes is at WaPo.
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