More and more Republicans are looking at how the 2018 elections are shaping up — and deciding they want no part of them.
Last week, Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), and Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) all announced they would retire from Congress rather than run for reelection. This makes 12 House Republicans and two senators who are calling it quits, not counting several more who are stepping down to run for another political office.
So far, that number of GOP retirements isn’t outside the historical norm. But reports have suggested that this is just the start, and that several more Republican House members — perhaps many more — will also soon announce they’ll head for the exits. And revealingly, only two House Democrats and zero Democratic senators have so far made the same choice. That’s a dramatic discrepancy.
Though the explanations offered for these decisions differ, and some of these GOP-held seats are in no real danger of flipping to Democrats, these retirements are revealing how members of Congress currently view the national political environment. They think there’s a real possibility of a Democratic wave.
Okay, deep breath, don't get too excited. It is still a long time before the midterms.
Still, we have to admit that this IS good news.
Oklahoma elects gay married woman in a district Trump won by 39 points
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Wow! it's a good start ... but we must not get complacent!
DeleteAnd, I won't be satisfied until every GOoper quits congress.
Fox And Friends Upset Somebody 'Blabbed' About Trump Jr's Wikileaks DMs
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If you’ve said this recently to your daughter, you may be perpetuating a cycle of violence against women
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“because they like you.”
DeleteBecause they don't
Ps mine was "What did you do?
Well, the Rancho Tehana shooter from yesterday, Kevin Janson Neal, sure doesn't look Muslimy to me. He looks like a crazed middle aged white guy like Paddock or the Sutherland Springs gunman. What do you ammosexuals have to say about that?
ReplyDeleteso how many mass shootings (over 4 victims) does that make this year -- 325 ? and how many do we read about?
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Delete"Rancho Tehama gunman killed his wife and hid her body under their home"
Whatever the ReThugs are doing, WE need to make sure that the Dems GET OUT AND VOTE in 2018. We cannot be complacent like we usually are!
ReplyDeleteSean Hannity has become the media’s top conspiracy theorist
ReplyDeleteHow far he’s gone down the rabbit hole.
https://www.vox.com/2017/11/15/16649292/hannity-conspiracy-theorist-transcript-data
Sean Hannity Has Lost 11 Sponsors Since Remarks Defending Roy Moore (Update)
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You think Hannity will lose his show on FOX? Hope so because he deserves to!
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DeleteAlabama reporter crushes his state’s ‘my-sin-is-better-than-your-sin, conservative voting approach’
ReplyDeleteongtime Alabama political reporter Josh Moon wrote a scathing op-ed apologizing to America for the likes of Roy Moore. It prompted CNN to have him walk through the reasons Alabama citizens still support Moore and that he could still win.
In one piece, Moon argues that there has been “too much Bible thumping. Too much holier-than-thou. Too much greed. Too much law breaking. Too much self-involvement.”
Moon explained that Moore is a person who was banned from a mall and people still elected him to be a state judge twice.
Now “he’s on the doorstep of being our U.S. Senator,” Moon told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota. “At some point we owe people apologies for some of the stuff we do here, and until people take stock in what we are as a state and who here electing to lead us I don’t think we will ever get past a lot of the troubles we have in the state. I think Roy Moore is a prime example of some of the troubles we have here.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/alabama-reporter-crushes-his-states-my-sin-is-better-than-your-sin-conservative-voting-approach/
Dear America: An apology for Roy Moore, and all the rest
Dear America,
We’re sorry.
I’m speaking for all of us here in Alabama, even if some of these people will never apologize and never believe that they’ve done anything wrong.
The rest of us know better, though.
We know what we’ve done to all of America over the past year, when the Alabamization of this country began. You weren’t ready for it, and I told you last November that no amount of lowering expectations could possibly prepare you for the river of lunacy that was rushing towards you.
And, well, let’s just say I nailed that one.
Over the last year, America has been treated to the Alabama “superfecta” of governance: Scandals, criminal indictments, bigotry and stupidity.
These things are shocking to most of you, but in a state that rarely has a governor complete a term without a criminal conviction and that has seen its Governor and House Speaker convicted and tossed from office in the current election cycle, it is like a warm cloak of familiarity.
It’s how we live; how we choose to live.
We thrive on corruption and chaos and unbelievable ignorance.
Like Roy Moore.
Where else could a man be booted from the Supreme Court for failing to follow the law, get elected Chief Justice again, get booted again, and now be on the verge of the same state electing him to the U.S. Senate?
That probably should be explained, because, to be quite honest, Moore is too bat-guano insane for even most of Alabama.
The reality is it took the most Alabama-level of political corruption in history to get us here. We needed the House Speaker convicted, the Governor to go down in a blazing flame of vomit-inducing text messages to his 40-year-younger mistress, a bumbling goof of a state AG, and for nearly 90 percent of the registered voters in the state to ignore an election for U.S. Senate.
And because this is Alabama, we got all of that.
So, here’s Roy Moore, set to star on the big stage.
And make no mistake, if given the opportunity to do so, Alabama voters are going to elect this man. That’s probably the most infuriating piece of this whole thing — that so many voters would do so little to prevent a man who they know is bad for Alabama from becoming one of two people who represent them in the U.S. Senate.
Honestly, I have no decent explanation for it. I mean, I know why it’s happening, but the reasoning is neither logical nor acceptable.
Basically, it’s two things:
https://www.alreporter.com/2017/11/13/dear-america-apology-roy-moore-rest/#more-39650
The rest WITH quotations.
Delete"Basically, it’s two things: Alabama voters have been conditioned to think of each election as a game that must be won by their “side” — no matter who is representing their side — and they have been conditioned to do this through the use of fear.
The fear of Hell. The fear of black people. The fear of Mexicans. The fear of Muslims. The fear that something in their life won’t be tomorrow what it is today.
We are the most easily frightened bunch of snowflakes in American history. It’s why so many people here carry guns and vote for dopes who promise to save them from things like Sharia law. Our people are convinced that if a decent, good man like Doug Jones is elected to the U.S. Senate, what will follow are mass abortions and a Christianity ban.
That’s absurd, of course. And if any of them would bother checking the history books, they would understand that the majority of Alabamians do much better when the government is controlled by progressives than when it’s controlled by austerity-pushing conservatives.
But I suppose checking history is too much to ask from a group that’s currently tripping over themselves to defend Moore from mounting allegations of sexual assault on minors. They, like me, have no idea if the allegations are true, but they are convinced that the women are money-chasing Democratic plants who want to destroy the “good” name of Roy Moore.
They have bought — hook, line and sinker — the absurd excuses from conservative mouthpieces, such as Sean Hannity and Breitbart. They have chosen to listen to the people who tell them what they want to hear instead of those who tell them the truth.
And really, that’s always been Alabama’s problem — so many opportunist politicians playing upon the fears of common people for their own benefit, truth and consequences be damned. It has been a problem that has held this state down for decades.
And now, it seems, we’re infecting the rest of the country with this stupid disease.
For that, we owe you an apology."
Sorry, but from this I just take Alabamians are just plain stupid.
What all 52 Republican senators say about embattled Alabama candidate Roy Moore
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upcoming WAR TRUE STORY>
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My concern is that it is the moderate, relatively sane republicans that are jumping ship,leaving trump and bannon to scrap the bottom of the sewer for unqualified wack jobs like themselves to run.
ReplyDeleteThis will just polarize the parties more.
ReplyDeleteYou’ll have rabid teabaggers running against screaming progressives.
Sorry: Trump is giving his speech snorting frequently. Love how he snorts and the microphone amplifies it. Maybe he needs to carry a handkerchief? I am laughing. China blah snort...key ally...snort
ReplyDeleteI forgot Trump snorted like a bull during debates with Hillary when he appeared angry.
DeleteStates Where Alzheimer’s Is Soaring
ReplyDeleteThe number of people with Alzheimer’s disease, a degenerative brain disease and the most common form of dementia, will rise by at least 14% in all 50 states over the next eight years. However, the rate of increase will be higher in some states than others, according to a recent report from the Alzheimer’s Association, placing greater financial stress on health care programs and boosting the need for caregivers.
**Alaska is projected to have the biggest increase in Alzheimer’s cases, from 7,100 in 2015 to 11,000 in 2017, or a 54.9% jump. Arizona, Nevada, Vermont, and Utah round out the top five with projected increases of at least 40% each. Iowa is expected to have the lowest increase, from 64,000 to 73,000, or 14.1%.
24/7 reviewed the Alzheimer’s Association “2017 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures” report to find for each state the projected percentage increase in the number of people with Alzheimer’s over the next eight years. States in the West and Southeast are expected to have the largest percentage increases in the number of people with Alzheimer’s between 2017 and 2025.
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2017/08/09/states-where-alzheimers-is-soaring/