Parachute him in? So THAT's why Governor Tippy Toes is exercising his ankle muscles all the time - he's getting ready for his landing!
On the other hand, maybe he's just a pathetic "Mom always loved W more than me" annoying loser-dork.
Posted on 10/13/2015 7:11:45 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
The GOPe/Karl Rove strategy to take down Donald Trump has been given the name “Operation Hummingbird.” It places Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina on either side of the front runner and employs the media tactics of “Isolate-Ridicule-Marginalize” to do away with the formidable front-runner.
Pay attention to the results of weekly and daily polls by watching who is doing the polling.
Operation Hummingbird was the name of a neo-folk album released in 1999 by an artist who called himself “Death in June.” Remembering how Romney had been beaten up by the time the last Republican Convention rolled around, a decision was made by the Party in 2014 to move up the convention to a June window, effectively ending the Republican primary season.
It is during this primary battle that the GOPe, the money guys, especially FOX News owner/originator Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street and the Chamber of Commerce believe they must parachute their puppet, Jeb Bush, into the Oval Office.
“Australian billionaire Rupert Murdoch wants the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal approved, the Chamber is constructing (TPTA), and lobbied in 2015 to maintain Obamacare, promote Common Core, and (do) Comprehensive IMMIGRATION REFORM TO INCLUDE AMNESTY!” (Emp. added) Interestingly, in WWII, Operation Hummingbird was known as “the purge of political enemies and the SA in Nazi Germany; also called Night of the Long Knives (1934)” (Wiki)
Now do you begin to understand why Jeb Bush can’t seem to stay awake at his speeches? Maybe he’s confident of a lock at the RNC national convention in Cleveland. “I’m in it for the long haul,” he likes to say.
But remember, Mitt Romney took such a pounding in the political seas that by the time he got to the 2012 convention he was already dead in the water….
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I agree with what you said, and you said it great!!!!
D'oh!
Yes, Karl “Turd Blossom” Rove has such a long string of successes with his freakin’ strategies.
If Jeb is the nominee...the voter turnout for him will be among the greatest embarassments in the history of the GOP. I am talking a Mondale-grade 48 or 49 state shellacking. Jeb is the single candidate guaranteed to elect Hillary.
Just to refresh your memory of how dirty Karl Rove is:
Jon Ponder | Mar 18, 2015
Now that they’ve taken control of Congress, Republicans are wielding power much the same way they did in the Clinton era and for the six years afterward when they controlled the White House and Congress under George W. Bush: ineptly — ex. 1, 2, 3, etc.
RELATED:
Jeb Bush broke Florida’s “Sunshine Laws” by deleting at least 300,000 emails.
Then as now, it’s clear that the only thing Republicans do very well is inflame the media with bogus scandals — which is a handy way to distract attention from their ineptitude. They are doing this with their usual aplomb, and considerable success, in the matter of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server to send emails.
Clinton has said she deleted about 50,000 emails that dealt with personal matters, citing her daughter’s wedding and her mother’s funeral as examples. All the correspondence pertaining to official business was turned over to archived by State. The deletion of the emails, though perfectly legal, has excited House Republicans, including Speaker John Boehner, who has announced plans to deploy House committees to investigate what might aptly be called Servergate.
Never mind that former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Republican, has said he used a system similar to Clinton’s — and never mind that in 2007 Karl Rove deleted 22 million emails from a private server in the Bush White House — a matter about which the Beltway media said little and Republicans in Congress, like Rep. John Boehner, said nothing.
Here is a brief refresher on the White House email scandal:
Not long after George W. Bush assumed the presidency in 2001, Rove, his top political aide, set up a private email server for use in the White House. The stated purpose of the system — the primary domain name on which was gwb43.com — was that it would be used exclusively for the sort of political correspondence that Bush and Rove were not permitted to do on the taxpayer’s dime.
Seven years later, Bush and Rove were embroiled in two competing scandals — the Valerie Plame scandal, in which operatives for Vice Pres. Dick Cheney, including Rove and Scooter Libby, were accused of unmasking Valerie Plame, a CIA specialist in the black market for weapons of mass destruction, for purely partisan reasons, and the U.S. Attorney purge, in which Rove’s political operation in the White House was accused of ordering Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to purge eight U.S. attorneys who were qualified prosecutors and replace them with political hacks with little or no prosecutorial experience.
Rove escaped prosecution in the Libby case, but Libby was convicted (Bush quickly commuted the sentence) on March 6, 2007, at the same time Bush and Rove were under fire for purging the U.S. attorneys. During the investigation, it came to light that Rove’s server had been used to send official, non-political emails — correspondence that was required by law to be preserved under the Presidential Records Act.
On April 12, 2007, Rove’s operation admitted that it had deleted at least 5 million emails from the server. In December 2009, technicians who had examined the server reported that the number of emails that had been deleted was far greater — 22 million.
What was in the emails? No one will ever know. It’s likely as not that there was incriminating evidence in the correspondence that tied Rove and others to the treasonous exposure of Agent Plame (which, at a minimum, was a violation of government security), the U.S. attorneys’ purge and perhaps other scandals, including the inquiry into charges that Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff had used his entre with others in the GOP to bribe government officials. Abramoff was in prison serving the first year of his sentence when the email scandal broke.
But what sort of evidence might have been lost in the 50,000 emails Hillary Clinton deleted? The insinuation from Republicans is that something dispositive about the Benghazi scandal might have been erased. It’s hard to guess what that might have been. What the GOP seems to be looking for in its eight investigations into Benghazi, so far, is a stand-down order issued by the State Department or the White House to the military that left the Benghazi consulate vulnerable to the attack that ensued. These Republicans know, of course, that the Secretary of State doesn’t have the authority to issue orders to the military.
Given that, there’s no question that the coverage of the Clinton email “scandal” is out of scale, but how does the incessant media coverage today stack up against the scandal seven years ago when Rove’s political operation in the White House erased 22 million emails many of which likely included evidence of serious crimes?
Last week, the fact-checking organization Politifact, which tends to skew to the right, compared coverage of the two scandals. Here’s it’s verdict:
We did a search through Lexis-Nexis, a research service that tracks news articles and transcripts, between March and May 2007. We found more than 125 transcripts from the major cable networks and National Public Radio that include “Republican National Committee” and “email” within 10 words of each other.
The Lexis-Nexis search also yielded more than 200 related newspaper articles across the country within the same time frame.
Let’s compare that to coverage of the Clinton controversy.
Since the story broke March 3, 2015 — two weeks ago — we found 204 cable and public radio transcripts that include “Clinton” and “email.” We also found 1,700 newspaper articles across the country.
That’s several times as many articles and transcripts about Clinton than there were about the Bush email controversy in a quarter of the time. It’s a rough measurement, but clearly there has been more media attention on Clinton’s use of private email than that of the White House staffers.
Even so, Politifact rated the claim that coverage of Clinton’s email deletions is out of scale compared with coverage of Rove’s in 2007 is “mostly false.”
Wait. What?
In the Rove scandal, there were 125 broadcast reports and 200 newspaper articles over three months about the millions of deleted emails. Today, in just two weeks there have been 200 broadcast reports and 1,700 newspaper articles about the 50,000 deleted emails.
And yet Politifact finds the assertion that there’s been more coverage of Clinton than there was of Rove to be “mostly false.” How did they do that?
Simple. Politifact keyed its verdict to a Fox pundit’s hyperbolic statement there was “zero coverage” of Rove’s scandal when it broke. So, yeah, it’s “mostly false” that there was “zero coverage.”
Republicans’ objective in using its lapdogs in the “liberal media” to exaggerate the Clinton emails controversy is to damage her image in advance of her run for the presidency. Polls show that their strategy is working — while Hillary Clinton remains the odds-on favorite among Democratic voters, her approval rating has slipped among all voters in polls released since the email deletions came to light.
At least Republicans are good at something.
The GOPe is screwed on this one. All Trump would have to do is bring up amnesty and it will not matter what their yapping carnival barkers on either side of him say. His polls will only go up.
The chances of anyone named Bush being elected POTUS again are non existent.
Why Rupert Murdoch is so dirty, did England kick him out also?
Twenty years ago, Rupert Murdoch was riding high in Britain.
“It’s The Sun Wot Won It” blared the front page of his top-selling tabloid in April 1992 after Prime Minister John Major confounded opinion pollsters to claim a clear election victory.
Just how many voters were swayed by The Sun’s fierce election day attack on Major’s challenger from the Labour Party is unclear.
But the aura of influence surrounding Britain’s most powerful media proprietor served his business interests well for decades — until the phone hacking scandal exploded.
“Within two years [of the 1992 defeat] Labour had a new leader, Tony Blair, and a totally new approach to the right-wing press: appeasement, not confrontation,” wrote Des Freedman, University of London professor of media and communications, last month.
Related: Murdoch plans to step down as 21st Century Fox CEO
Taking on the unions
Murdoch’s powerful political connections date back much further. In a 1981 meeting kept secret for 30 years, he lobbied Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for her support in buying The Times and The Sunday Times. The deal went through, escaping scrutiny by competition regulators despite the fact that he already owned The Sun, and the News of the World — the biggest daily and Sunday papers.
Murdoch and Thatcher were natural political allies, and with her government’s support, Murdoch fought and won a fierce dispute with the powerful print unions in 1986 — moving production of his papers to new presses in Wapping, east London.
The Blair years
In 1995, Blair flew to Australia to give a speech to a conference of Murdoch’s top executives. It marked the start of a relationship that grew into a close personal friendship — Blair became godfather to Murdoch’s daughter in 2010.
The Sun backed Blair when he won his first landslide election victory in 1997, and gave strong support when the British leader decided to go along with President Bush in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
In office, Labour dropped plans to investigate concentration of media ownership in the U.K., allowing Murdoch to continue to build his empire around his four newspapers, and satellite TV operation Sky (SKYAY). Blair denies he did deals with Murdoch on media policy.
Blair’s successor, Gordon Brown, was also close to Murdoch but their relationship soured rapidly when he switched his allegiance to the Conservative Party in 2009. A year later, Brown had to concede defeat to David Cameron, who became prime minister at the head of a coalition government.
Phone hacking scandal
By then a storm was brewing that would shake Murdoch’s U.K. business to the core, and leave him isolated politically.
News of the World editor Andy Coulson resigned in 2007 after one of the newspaper’s editors was jailed for hacking phones. He claimed to be unaware of the hacking, and was hired by Cameron as an adviser.
But the allegations snowballed, and Coulson quit as Cameron’s spokesman in 2011. A few months later, Murdoch shuttered the 168-year-old paper after an outcry over the scandal.
Others forced to quit included former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks, and Les Hinton, head of Dow Jones and publisher of The Wall Street Journal. Hinton was a former head of Murdoch’s U.K. newspaper business.
TV ambitions curbed
As public and political anger over the phone hacking scandal grew, Murdoch was forced to abandon his attempt to acquire the 60% of Sky (SKYAY) he doesn’t control.
And his fall from grace was complete the following year when British lawmakers investigating phone hacking at News of the World declare him not fit “to exercise the stewardship of a major international company.”
Murdoch’s son James, who was executive chairman of the U.K. newspaper business until 2012, stepped down as Sky chairman later that year.
Coulson was eventually found guilty of conspiring to hack phones, and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Brooks was cleared of all charges against her.
CNNMoney (London) June 11, 2015: 2:39 PM ET
Parachute him in? So THAT's why Governor Tippy Toes is exercising his ankle muscles all the time - he's getting ready for his landing!
On the other hand, maybe he's just a pathetic "Mom always loved W more than me" annoying loser-dork.
The Uniparty Establishment still doesn’t get it.
The only person who can take down Donald Trump is Donald Trump.
That will happen only if he “grows” as a candidate—In other words, if he starts backing away from what he’s been saying up until now.
At this point, I don’t see that happening.
Sleazy buzzards. Time to take GOPe establishment & CNN out.
I have no doubt if Trump wins the nomination that Rove and others will work to get Hillary elected.Lets remember though this idiot Rove is a washed up has been..a loser! he lost the last few elections and threw money down the drain.
Only Trump says he will enforce existing immigration laws. No other candidate says that. All have had the opportunity to say "I will enforce existing laws and deport illegal aliens". None but Trump have.
I'll give Paul a little credit on trade at least he voted against TPA and did not co-write an editorial with the amnesty pimp Paul Ryan singing praises to TPA and TPP.
If anyone other then Trump is elected 30 to 75 million new Marxist voters are in the pipe line via amnesty and chain immigration. The Republic will die in 2020 when the new Marxist voters start to vote. California is already allowing illegals to vote. Once amnesty passes and it will if Trump is not elected, many more states will follow California and allow non citizens to vote.
Maybe it’s your computer because the link works fine.
“Before its execution, its planners sometimes referred to it as Hummingbird (German: Kolibri), the codeword used to send the execution squads into action on the day of the purge.”
If Trump fails it will be because of Trump.....I just heard on the news he likes John Kasich as his VP.......no rational conservative would ever say that.
Ill vote for Trump but he makes it difficult to stay the course.
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