This just in…
Following tomorrow’s final Super Tuesday, Donald Trump should be the presumptive Republican nominee for president. Ah, but not so fast.
Because it’s likely his delegate count will be near 1000 of the needed 1237 to insure his nomination. So like him or no, Trump has earned his spot. He has millions more votes, has won twice the states as the rest of his competitors combined and is the people’s choice. Yet no cigar.
And now in a new move to STOP TRUMP, rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich have teamed up to try and derail him. They will bow out of upcoming state races up in order to minimize Trump’s delegate count and deny him the first ballot nomination.
Neither Cruz or Kasich can get the 1237 delegates needed – that’s over.
The game is that the old guard Republicans want Trump out even if it means risking handing the election to Hillary Clinton, which it surely would.
Why?
Because Trump’s a racist? A fascist? A women hater? A phony? All of the above?
Uh, no.
Donald Trump is someone the party cannot control, that’s all. He may not be everyone’s cup of tea for sure, but in real life he’s no more of a monster than the others. They’re all wealthy, elitists with huge egos.
So does this mean a Cruz/Kasich ticket?
Well, maybe not. Trump calls Ted Cruz Lying Ted but he’s not branded Kasich yet.
Why? Maybe Trump wants to keep the door open with Kasich if he’s a few delegates short in order to offer the V.P. spot. Although Kasich says he won’t take that spot, who really knows? He might if Donald is the clear nominee.
Plus Trump could beat Hillary and Cruz has no shot.
Those polls that have either Cruz or Kasich beating Hillary are clearly b.s.
Those two can’t even get Republicans to vote for them let alone democrats! Only Donald
Trump truly scares the Clintons.
Is all this a fair way to elect a nominee? Of course not.
I think it will change in future years but not today. So how will it end? Will they be able to stop Trump? Can Trump really be the prez?
Only in America could we have such an interesting drama for winning the job as leader of the Free World.
The answer’s just a guess, but I think Trump will be nominated in the end.
I also think he’ll give Hillary a tough run. I like what Trump hopes get done with the economy but in the final result beating, Hillary and Bill Clinton will be an uphill battle.
So stay tuned sports fans, the game is afoot and it’s sure been a fun ride thus far.
Pretty much accurate. Trump is the ONLY candidate that has a chance to beat Hildabeast. Cruz/Kasich are a friggin joke.
he has NO chance of winning or beating Hillary.
ANYONE but Hillary.
ANYONE.
I ascribe to Mark Twain’s theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.
+1
Thanks for throwing the topic back on the table, Craig. Brings out the crazies, me included.
Only Harley knows the real truth but I’ll still toss out my thoughts.
Couple of reasons the GOP doesn’t want Trump. First, he’s not a true Republican. Second, his slaughter at the hands of Hillary would cost them the Senate. If Republicans got their fantasy and Hillary was indicted, she would still crush Trump while sitting in a jail cell.
Hillary wins the presidency regardless of who runs and the GOP knows that. They’re just trying to salvage their majority in the Senate so they can obstruct future nominess to the SCOTUS.
Once the inevitability of Hillary’s victory in November sinks in, the confirmation of Merrick Garland happens in a New York minute as they know that Hillary with a Democratic Senate will put up a new name that is ultra-progressive.
Back a few months ago, in my naivete, I predicted a Clinton vs. Bush or Rubio match-up. Looks like that is still a possibility but if it goes to a brokered convention, I’d be betting on Paul Ryan.
BUT RYAN DOES NOT WANT THE PRESIDENCY. **wink wink**
I am not so sure Hillary would “crush” Trump while sitting in a jail cell.
Bernie Sanders, the phlegmatic, saturnine, would be Socialist eminence grise, whose first election was achieved while on unemployment in his mom’s basement gave her a hell of a run for her money by reciting egalitarian fairly tales for unwashed, uneducated and unrealistic college students (Stanford, overwhelmingly defeated an effort to require at least one class on “Western Civilization. The defense rests.). Hillary is the Democratic Fisher King/Queen. Sickened by the Socialist Sepsis Kool-Aide that will not translate into the General Election and confronted with the spectre of an indictment, she is indeed wounded. A Paleo Democrat from the old school, her inability to excite the Obama/Holder Brown Shirts leaves her unsteady and unready for the coming Trump/Clinton Meggido.
Promising to continue the dysgenic and destructive policies of Obama in order to garner the black vote, she is crippled by the dismal economic realities that now burden the middle class, levied by her predecessor. This is combination with her lack of charisma and inability to excite new voters, is problematic in the General Election.
I honestly don’t know who will win in the General Election, but hoping that your candidate’s negatives stay 5% lower than your opponent’s negatives at around 65% means anything could happen. The Democrats and the Democrat PR Bureau known as the Main Stream Media are constantly preoccupied with moving the “Overton Window” with almost psychotic insistence on issues like letting old men dressed up as women into public restrooms with our daughters and wives might be jumping the shark.
My guess at this point, is that the Republican Sturm Und Drang will materialize into Republican recombinance and it will be a lot closer than you think. Either way, I won’t be needing to put my fingers in the many wounds of the winner to believe it.
oh chuckup…please stfu!
again you’re wrong.
move aside old man.
your time is up.
your getting senile.
So why don’t you become a bathroom policeman and make
sure the trangender people use the right bathroom.
It would sure beat digging ditches.
Nice article Glaze.
more speculation and more ridiculous predictions.
And hey stomp…I guaranteed a Hillary victory over a year ago.
Ryan’s stock has dropped in value, particularly after having to eat the Boehner budget. He has a great mind for the fiscal, just no cojones. If the dream of a Hillary victory pleases you, I will not dispel the dream, but I will point out that there is a lot of time between now and then, and I won’t add the potential reality of civil strife. I was in Montana during the Clinton formative years with the Unabomber (ultra liberal) and the Separatist (ultra right wing) standoffs. It wasn’t pretty. It is actually on the ballot in Texas. What sets me off, most of all, is hypocrisy, and from the Springsteen boycott of North Carolina to his concert in Germany where gay marriage is illegal, it does not go unnoticed. The families of the Benghazi victims alone would make Hillary a martyr in an instant for lying to them. Animosity runs deep, and it is real. The Big 12 will not take Missouri back. Based on a Democrat Governor and a Democrat Attorney General and their inaction in Ferguson and Columbia, MU has closed four student dorms, enrollment is off 25%, the University is short 32 million in enrollment dollars, and alumni athletic support is down 72%. Perhaps you missed that in the news. There are no Republicans to blame for the loss to higher learning.
Cowboy, did you actually call the Unabomber an ultra liberal? The dude was an anarchist. What he saw as the role of government and what liberals see as the role of government are at complete opposites of the spectrum.
Almost as inane as your last sentence. Lucky you don’t live in Kansas.
Missouri. I’ll admit Kansas is a mess, but now, so is Missouri, and the two that caused it are Democrats. Oh and by the way anarchy is just an excessive use of Prosecutorial Discretion.
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The hypocrisy on the left is most noteworthy when they cozy up to Islam and the treatment of women. Silence is Sanction. The Left calls us all racists for looking askance at the influx of refugees, when part and parcel of that 3rd world culture is misogyny on steroids.
No problem, the “Pen And Phone” administration in Rome on the Potomac will issue an edict.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/04/un_obama_admin_and_nonprofits_plot_to_increase_number_of_syrian_refugees_twenty_times_to_200k_per_year.html
It is anecdotal and I am sure Harley will strip the scales from my eyes forthwith with “research”, but my daughter went to MU and almost every friend I have, sent children to MU. The level of acrimony for MU from heretofore staunch supporters and contributors in the circles I know of, is, astonishing. Oaths sworn by all, numerous times to strip themselves of any relationship with MU forever are common.
We are more and more “Balkinized” by way of Progressive Politics, Immigration and the Irredentist dreams of “Dreamers”.
I am in “Moderation”.
?
again…your daughters and you are what I’d call out of
touch.
Yes MU had some problems…but come fall the
problems are forgotten.
I have talked with the powers at the university and
the alumni association and despite some small
protests and headlines …ignorant people will make
a big deal of this situation.
MU will survivie…they will still rake in millions…
and nothing will stop them from being one of the
best schools in America.
Again…a ditch digger is lecturing us about a college
and it’s future.
That’s not only a loser but a a$$hole.
Did you read where MU is getting more research
dollars than some of the biggest “brainy” schools
in the nation.
Hey chucklet head…when you get some real facts
get back with me.
Til then you’ve been nothing but a negative Nazi
lover and racist. That alone disqualifies you and the
little people you associate with.
I will keep you postedon future developments.
Being negative only puts you back in those holes
digging ditches…and yelling at workers when they
make more money than you do and probably are
more educated than you and your entire family.
good luck….but please use some deodorant.
“Those polls that have either Cruz or Kasich beating Hillary are clearly b.s.
Those two can’t even get republicans to vote for them let alone democrats! ”
As far as Kasich is concerned, the reason for that is because Kasich’s wheelhouse is with moderate republicans, independents, and moderate democrats and most of those were locked out of voting in the primaries. Moderate republicans who would actually show their face and run for public office pretty much went extinct with Nelson Rockefeller. A Kasich vs. Clinton face-off might be a whole lot closer than many would believe.
what are you talking about?
moderate republicans weren’t shut out of voting.
where did you get this?
You’ve been hanging out with glaza?
The two questions I would love to have answered.
1. Where are southy and whinery? Hearnes favorite right wingers have had
nothing to say. Of course they know that Harley is right again and they’re
ashamed to write anything. Harley reigns.
2. Did whiney ever get rid of his pic with mitt Romney. Or did he just
throw it in the trash?
P.S. Trump wins nomination! Look out Hillary!
your record of predictions is horrendous.
I would gladly bet the glaze 10,000 dollars on this race.
You’re always wrong…not one right prediction in the 5 years hearnes
allowed your mangled writings to be published.
YOu were always wrong on football picks…you were wrongwith your
teasers…you were wrong on 2012 election…you were wrong on royals
three straight years…wrong on chiefs forever.
Glaze…sorry dude…you’re wrong…and you’re not someone to be
believed.
You got kickedout of a business for calling a woman a horrible name.
Please stop. You have made a fool of yourself long enough.
All you have to dois make sure the ss checks arrive on time.
You’re losing it boy. You have gone plum loco .
And besides…this is probably the 10th time you’ve changed your mind
on this race. You’re the fools fool…and although iwould love to
take your money…you’re an old man and I wholly respect senior citizens
and would never take money from an old man…hahahahahahaha!
How many times will you change your mind.
Did you see that thirty three per cent of the repubs will not vote for
trimp…..even laura bush won’t vote for him!!!!!
Harley continues to school flaze in the ways of the world.
good luck. tie your shoes or you’ll trip over them!
your friend
Harley,
As President Trump moves a day closer to his new digs at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, America moves another step closer being great once more, only question that remains: at what price?
Though the outcome was never in doubt – Trump in a landslide today and November (over either Commie Sanders or Hildabeast), the downside is Republican politicos are crafting their own handmade noose, placing it around the party’s neck, nod attempts deny the people’s choice Trump his spoils.
Wasn’t it they who wanted Trump (he agreed) commit to support whomever the last Republican man standing was? Hypocrites. If Republican politicos prefer throwing a tantrum to pursuing unity, they will only succeed in maiming themselves & their own party, ongoing… they underestimate the fallout, my opine.
The spite game a nose for a brokered convention and losing face in the eyes a nation, we will not forget nor forgive. Were Kerouac of a like mind as they, would see to it at any cost – including watching an Dumbocrat elected – that anyone but Cruz or Kasich/ their ilk reach the White House.
Making America Great Again, one primary at a time: TRUMP 2016
🙂
And how could we forget senile/lying/old worn out goose kerowacky.
You and glaze should team up with hearne and we’ll call you the
three stooges!
good luck on your prediction. Hope you make it to November because
Hillary and the rest of her supporters are drooling to knock the crap out of
this con man from new York.
What a loser you are kerowacky. 0-10 in predictions….that pretty much
sums it up what a real loser you are.
The irony… People rushing to defense of a political system that has yielded the two least popular people running for the highest power in the land. One thing is certain the complete derailment of political practice will result in future generations bearing the collateral damage. I only hope that those future generations will be raised as neither Democrats or Republicans but as people that scrutinize and hold politicians to increasingly higher standards.
good luck sharky. another great comment by another dreamer.
And your the poster child for the problem. Good news is since you don’t believe in the guns and self defense you should be easy enough to over throw.
bring it on sharky. no one is overthrowing any one.
get a shrink first…because you’re new to this blog
and you’ll soon learn Harley is always right!
So move on sharkey or take the advice of Harley
as gospel.
There are some pretty ignorant people here…but
Harley knows all.
And if you want to get the real story contact me at
law4life1000@yahoo.com.
and isn’t it appropriate that this article comes out the very same night trumpster the dumpster declares
victory.
Maybe go find an old horse andsteal his horseshoe
glaza and kerowachjob. Your luck and predictions have got to change eventually.
Ha. Shows your ignorance chump. I am not new here. Keep talking your making my case.
Hey kerowackjob and glaze. YOU BOTH ARE NUTS! HAHAHAHAHAH!
aND WHERES HEARNE WITH HIS BREATHTAKING STORIES ON JEWELRY
HEISTS AND THE KC STAR!
HAHAHAHAHA!
5 more states to the Donald – Making America Great Again one state at a time!
heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh WIPE OUT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjiOtouyBOg
EVERYBODY dance to the winning TRUMP 2016 beat!
🙂
Last night was a biggie for Trump. It pretty much ended the race for the Republican Nomination. It’s Trumps now. Cruz is just not popular enough to nominate for a general election. Look Trump has already won. Even if he loses in November, his brand is massive, he is the most talked about media personality in the world today. By far. I think he is having a fun time, working hard, his family is all over it and behind him, he is a winner like him or not. A nice way to go out at the end of your life. The guy is pushing 70.
My only question to him would be this: Donald you are a billionaire. Right. I can see your hair is of the thin nature therefore you couldn’t do a good transplant like so many stars, Eastwood, Iiam Neesen, Bruce Willis etc…but you could have done a weave or the best of hair club which even more stars use today..John Travolta, a younger Sean Connery, on and on…looks pretty good. With your money you could have it styled daily, hourly if need be, no more comb over. Why the hell not? I don’t get that. I mean for 70 you look pretty darn good, lose a few pounds when you get a break, hit the gym, etc…you would look ten years younger..I know you’d like that…hey you are a hard worker so you could do it…oh well, guess you don’t read kcc.
Please mr. trump:
don’t listen to glaza talk about hair. This is not one of his best subjects.
Look at his pics before you change your hairdo!
hahahahahahahahahaah
Trump flat out destroyed his competition last night. Sheezus.
If Trump comes to Cleveland with the most delegates he will get the nomination, not that it is the best thing for either the people or the Party. What it comes down to is the simple question, whether or not the author of the Art of the Deal just might have poisoned the environment enough where he cannot unite the supporters of Cruz, Rubio, Kasich, Bush, and others, in which case voters stay home or vote for one of the other seven Presidential candidates on the ballot that the news media has somehow forgotten to cover. Not that the Democrats have it any better. Bernie was not a Democrat to start with, and many of his supporters, protest supporters, have expressed a desire to vote for Trump, not Hillary. Whoops. The likelihood of a non-Trump Republican or Independent voting for Hillary is, however, mathematically zero. Charles Koch can talk about voting for Hillary, but when it comes to voting for a member of a Political Party that has trashed you for eight years, perhaps he was voicing the same frustration many of us feel, and contrary to Donald Trump’s imagination, Soros does not vote Republican if he votes at all with the past felony conviction in Belgium. As to the concept of Democrats somehow taking the House and Senate, along with Hillary in the White House, perhaps not. We may hate Congress. We may even think our Congress person is an idiot, but his or her Democrat opponent is the reason we are in this mess. If people have any intelligence, they vote their wallets, and I, for one, am well aware that there were no Republican votes that raised my healthcare premiums from $245 per month to $670 per month, while raising my deductible from $2500 to $6000. If a Democrat wants my vote for national office, they need to write that check first. The Republicans may be ineffectual, but Democrats do damage. Unlike some of my esteemed comrades, I am not handicapping this race. Nor am I predicting how government will go, short of reminding everyone that Trump, Cruz and Bernie are all protest candidates, and if the protest candidates unify, establishment, including Hillary, would have been gone last week. The voters are angry, but in usual fashion, not so much at their Congress people but the institution. Some 7 states, so far have signed on to a single call for a Constitutional Convention, and something that has taken decades in the past is being accomplished in years. Who knows, Bill and Hillary could become the first Impeached husband and wife in politics. That one headline alone might be enough to keep the New York Times and the McClatchy Rag going for at least another month.
Well done. Very interesting. Thank you Cowboy.
Cowboy, you know I love you and for the most part, your comments above were pretty insightful and have merit. But buried in the middle there was a serious hiccup in your rational thought process. You even combined two complete misses in the same sentence.
“If people have any intelligence, they vote their wallets, and I, for one, am well aware that were no Republican votes that raised my healthcare….”
First off, the GOP has been banking for years on older citizens on fixed incomes that rely on Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid voting against their wallets and pulling the lever for Republicans.
Secondly, it was the Republican state legislature in Missouri that voted against accepting the federal funds to expand Medicaid where the pricing structure is substantially lower than the private marketplace. To say there is no blood on GOP hands with regards to healthcare costs is either naive or you’re not considering the big picture.
Other than that, Cowboy, good comments.
Biggest lie here. EVERY POLITICIAN has blood on their hands when it comes to healthcare costs.
Stomper: You know my age. I am in the 6 month window, and gathering information on my 65 year old choices, I can assure you that Republicans raising the cost of Medicare were not nearly as effective as Democrats in raising the costs of my Pre-Medicare, and as the guy on the finish line at Indianapolis said, “It ain’t even close.” Last year, as a self employed soul, providing healthcare to my workers, my deduction was in excess of $14000, which did not include pharmaceuticals. You know how many employees I have.
Now, having worked on both sides of the Medicaid debate, yes, it was horrendous that Missouri did not adopt the 150% of poverty level, paid at the time by the Federal Government, but federal grants have a way of disappearing. Yes, there are those that need it, but hospitals are still not turning souls away without insurance, as evidenced by the four people treated in one of the Truman clinics that all had the same social security number. As for the pricing structure lower than the private marketplace, it is that lower structure that has caused services to be restricted. There is also some question concerning the insurance write offs with private insurance, as to how much cheaper the Medicaid numbers actually are.
As I said, I am into the weeds, so I am finding out exactly what is out there, what is supposed to be and what is reality.
FYI: Did you know that the cheapest probate you can do in Cass County, Missouri still costs $53?
Thanks Cowboy, we have discussed this before and I’m sure we will again. We are both in the business of healthcare insurance so we deal with these issues on a daily basis. You know my point is that the cost of healthcare delivery prior to the ACA was over the top. America spends almost 20% of our GDP on healthcare while no other nation is above about 10%. There’s a reason for that. Our pricing system is ridiculous. The variation of what a doctor or hospital charges Medicare, versus what they charge BC/BS, versus what they charge a smaller health insurance company, versus what they charge an uninsured patient is criminal imho. As Medicare and Medicaid has proven, just because of shear size, they can control reimbursement rates. Doctors, hospitals, drug companies, and the private insurance industry are bankrupting us. The government must play a role in healthcare if we expect to control costs as well as insure quality healthcare to all citizens. I think if you ask senior citizens, they will overwhelmingly say they are happy with Medicare. Currently the WHO ranks the US around 35th in terms of quality of healthcare delivered to our citizens so we are not getting what we are paying for. What we pay for healthcare goes way beyond just what we pay in premiums, deductibles, coinsurance, etc. These excessive costs are built into everything we buy from cars down to bubble gum.
Even though they despise the ACA, Republicans pretty much admit we have a problem and the honest ones realize that expanding medicaid through the states is the answer. If the GOP were to abolish Obamacare and start over, the basic structure of their plan would look very similar. Expanded medicaid through the states with federal funding.
I too, am getting too far into the weeds here. It’s a debate this country must have, however.
the only republican with balls was Kasich who
took the money…and his state now has a huge
surplus. The rest of the south issobackwards
it’s not funny.
But thanks to all the states that did not take
the feds money. Leaves more for others.
And why is it all the red states who take
more from the feds than they give back to the
feds……
“If you like your current health insurance plan, you’ll be able to keep it.” One of the biggest lies ever told by Obummer during his administration. I can personally attest that because of ObummerCare, our children’s health plan was dropped by my insurer because of it and we had to choose a new one, with higher monthly rates, higher deductibles, and less coverage.
It was absolutely, categorically, pre-meditated fraud. The level of criminality in this administration is only matched by the level of destruction they have wreaked on the average working class stiff.
Justice Department guidelines, set forth in the U.S. Attorneys Manual, recommend prosecution for fraud in situations involving “any scheme which in its nature is directed to defrauding a class of persons, or the general public, with a substantial pattern of conduct.” So, for example, if a schemer were intentionally to deceive all Americans, or a class of Americans (e.g., people who had health insurance purchased on the individual market), by repeating numerous times — over the airwaves, in mailings, and in electronic announcements — an assertion the schemer knew to be false and misleading, that would constitute an actionable fraud — particularly if the statements induced the victims to take action to their detriment, or lulled the victims into a false sense of security. For a fraud prosecution to be valid, the fraudulent scheme need not have been successful. Nor is there any requirement that the schemer enrich himself personally. The prosecution must simply prove that some harm to the victim was contemplated by the schemer. If the victim actually was harmed, that is usually the best evidence that harm was what the schemer intended. To be more illustrative, let’s say our schemer is the president of a health-insurance company, and that it was clearly foreseeable to him that his company’s clients would lose their current insurance plans if the company adopted his proposal of a complex new health-insurance framework. In fact, let’s assume that the schemer not only had analyses showing that clients would lose their plans but that he also had a history of openly favoring a “single-payer” insurance system — i.e., an unconcealed desire to move everyone from private to government-managed insurance arrangements in order to arrogate power over the Health Care Industry.
Now, suppose the schemer nevertheless vowed to the company’s clients, to whom he bore fiduciary obligations, that they needn’t fear his proposed new insurance framework; under it, he promised time after time after time, if they liked their current plans, they would be able to keep those plans. And let’s say that, on the basis of that repeated vow, the clients supported the schemer’s reappointment as president and his proposed new framework. On these facts, the clients’ subsequent loss of their current insurance plans helps prove the schemer’s fraudulent intent. The schemer has committed not just a fraud but a carefully thought-out, fully successful fraud, replete with suffering victims.
Obama should be in jail.
Hey Chuck, I realize soon I will be forgotten, taken off of the 10 dollar bill and replaced by some unibrow deep thinker on the Left, say, maybe Joy Behar, but, here is what I thought might be helpful when dealing with dissembling, dishonest and criminal Presidents.
The reasons for Impeachment as I see it-
“They relate chiefly,” Hamilton (Me) explained in Federalist No. 65, “to injuries done immediately to the society itself.” They involve scandalous breaches of the public trust by officials in whom solemn fiduciary duties are reposed — like a president who looks Americans in the eye and declares, repeatedly, that they can keep their health insurance plans . . . even as he studiously orchestrates the regulatory termination of those plans; even as he shifts blame to the insurance companies for his malfeasance — just as he shifted blame to a hapless video producer for his shocking dereliction of duty during the Benghazi massacre.
But hey, things change and now, if you have the Media in your pocket, you can get away with anything.
Chuck, Pretty amazing that you would pick Hamilton to channel here. Alexander Hamilton was among the most vocal supporters of a strong, centralized federal government, both at the Constitutional Convention itself and later in his role as the first Secretary of the Treasury. He was not opposed to the use of taxes and felt strongly that the Constitution granted implied powers not necessarily specifically written in the document. You are being historically inaccurate to use him to support your right wing, anti-government views, He was a leftist before the term was coined.
Good points, but in my opinion, he was a “leftist” in context. He lived through the extemporaneous Articles Of Confederation which, of course was an organization similar to NATO. In the face of foreign threats and with the expectation that European and the Judeo/Christian ethos would be forever respected and remain the stanchion for his Federalist ideas (He would save Burr the trouble and blow his own brains out now, should he see and experience the Fascism visited on we hoi polloi at the hands of your hero in Rome on the Potomac.).
The pretense that Hamilton would be Progressive is as absurd as the pretense that Obama’s mendacity and manipulations are a salubrious solution for American Health Care.
NATO, oops
And yes, Obama should be in jail and the media is in his pocket.
It was recently reported in the WSJ that Obama used the NSA to spy on Congress during the deliberations related to the Iran nuclear deal. It was reported on at one time, but this story has now disappeared completely from media coverage. Consider the implications.
In the former case, Nixon apparently directed or sat by and knowingly let his immediate subordinates direct a third-rate burglary of the campaign headquarters of an election opponent. In the latter case, Obama authorized one of the most sophisticated intelligence-gathering organizations in the world to spy on American legislators, en masse, in pursuit of the most important – and egregiously flawed – international agreement impacting American national security and world stability – namely, with the chief sponsor of international terrorism: the Islamic Republic of Iran.
This is a thousand times worse than Watergate! Where is the media? Where are today’s equivalents of Woodward and Bernstein? The media doesn’t focus on this outrage at all, so to the overwhelming majority of the public, it is as though this never even happened. And this is only one of several comparable scandals we could name.
Another case of the selective focus of our mass media took place in 2009. Obama said publicly that the U.S. is “not a Christian nation” and that America is “one of the world’s foremost Muslim countries.”
These statements amount to utter lunacy in a country in which at least 70% self-identify as Christians, where Christian holidays are official national holidays, and where Muslims number, at most, three to four million out of a population of over 330 million. This provoked not even a whimper of incredulity by the mass media.
IN JAIL!
By the way Stomper, nice feint, but typical of the Left, to dissemble and try to switch the topic from the actual fraud perpetrated by the criminal in the White House to the politics and history of Alexander Hamilton.
When the facts can’t be denied, attack the messenger, or the messenger’s proxy.
Did he or did he not (Obama) lie again and again in a fraudulent effort to ruin the Health Care System in place in order to effect a single payer system?
He did.
“By the way Stomper, nice feint, but typical of the Left, to dissemble and try to switch the topic from the actual fraud perpetrated by the criminal in the White House to the politics and history of Alexander Hamilton”
Cmon, Chuck, all I was trying to do was point out the flaw of using Hamilton to support your anti government view. Heck, the last thing I want to do here is switch topics. I’ve got you right where I want you. Let’s get past all the petty animosities, pointless insults, and shallow rhetoric and have a serious discussion of the situation.
Chuck, you’re a smart guy, put aside your bias against the government and personal disdain for Obama or anything democratic and do some serious research on the economics of healthcare financing and delivery in this country. You say that Obama has “an unconcealed desire to move everyone from private to government managed insurance arrangements to arrogate power over the Health Care Industry”. Obama is certainly not the first president to see the need for the federal government to be involved in health care delivery and financing. Republican Teddy Roosevelt first saw the need over a century ago. Nixon saw the need and was moving to involve the government before other issues filled his plate. Democrats are not the only party to see the need. Even Trump, the “presumptive nominee” for the GOP has said often that the government most important jobs include oversight of healthcare. Clearly we have a problem with our health care system and clearly the private sector has not solved the problems, with decades of working at it. I’m a private sector capitalist myself, Chuck and I have been a part of the private sector health care delivery/financing machine for over 40 years. A significant portion of my income is the result of commissions for the sale of health insurance coverage through private carriers. The involvement of the government in health care, and certainly a single-payer plan, would cost me money, but the reality is that the private sector mechanism we have now is working to the detriment of our economy and our citizens. I hesitate to call myself a parasite but …. It is not the private sectors job to solve social problems. It is the job of the private sector to deliver profits to their shareholders. What we have now with health care is a serious problem and it is bankrupting us as a nation while punishing our citizens. If there was ever a problem that screamed for government involvement, this is it. You wouldn’t expect the private sector to assume the responsibility of defending our nation. You wouldn’t expect the private sector to assume the responsibility to maintain our infrastructure. Hopefully you wouldn’t expect the private sector to assume responsibility for educating our children. Why would you expect the private sector to control the health of our citizens?
Let me ask you this Chuck, and anyone else reading this that opposes government involvement in health care. Is it a good thing that insurance carriers can no longer discriminate and deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions? If you answer yes to that question yet still oppose government involvement, then with all due respect, you are a hypocrite. The government mandating that private carriers offer coverage for pre-existing conditions is a flagrant piercing of the boundary of a private sector business model. If you think a cancer patient deserves the ability to find coverage for their health care costs, then you see health care as a right and not a privilege. If it IS a right then it is the responsibility of the federal government to insure that it happens.
To get back to Hamilton, the founding fathers, and the Constitution, very little has changed. The entire debate was over the role of the federal government. One side felt there was a need for a strong centralized federal government and Hamilton was an advocate for that side. The other side wanted to preserve States Rights and wanted to limit the central government as much as possible with Jefferson pushing their agenda. Certainly new issues have arisen over the centuries but the basic debate between those two sides is pretty much unchanged. For you to say that “the pretense that Hamilton would be progressive is absurd” is naive. It is back to the role of the federal government and Hamilton was always consistent in his support for a strong centralized federal government. Two hundred plus years would not change his stripes.
Seriously Chuck, do some unbiased research on the economics of health care delivery and financing in the United States. Look at our GDP and where our healthcare ranks in the world.
Thanks, Chuck, for a good discussion !!
Okay…when do we see rice/bush/cheney in Leavenworth?
when do we see bush as part of the 9/11 coverup (we’ll soon
see as the 26 pages are released).
You fools don’t understand….without the pharma and
insruacne industries approval nothing gets passed in congress.
Part of the citizens united all you repubs begged for and got
from those fools in supreme court.
But that’s over….the court swings to the left for all our
lifetimes and the first to go is citizen united!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GUARANTEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LATER HEARNE WILL PUT UP MY STORY ON LAST NIGHTS 5 STATE ROMP BY DONALD AND MORE….I think its over read on later today or this evening…
No clue that was days ago.
YOU HAVE NOCLUE ABOUT ANYTHING.
LETS GET OUR BET GOING.
I’LL EVEN MAKE IT A TEASER FOR YOU SINCE YOU NEVER
HIT ANY GAMES WITH THAT PROP BEAT ONLY LOSERS TAKE!
PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“no clue that was days ago”….please…I can’t stop laughing!