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  • America’s Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals.

    05/22/2019 5:38:01 PM PDT · by EdnaMode · 39 replies
    New York Times ^ | May 22, 2019 | arhad Manjoo
    [snip] At every level of government, our representatives, nearly all of them Democrats, prove inadequate and unresponsive to the challenges at hand. Witness last week’s embarrassment, when California lawmakers used a sketchy parliamentary maneuver to knife Senate Bill 50, an ambitious effort to undo restrictive local zoning rules and increase the supply of housing. It was another chapter in a dismal saga of Nimbyist urban mismanagement that is crushing American cities. Not-in-my-backyardism is a bipartisan sentiment, but because the largest American cities are populated and run by Democrats — many in states under complete Democratic control — this sort of...
  • Democrats Try Wooing Ones Who Got Away: White Men

    05/20/2019 12:16:12 PM PDT · by GuavaCheesePuff · 68 replies
    The New York Times ^ | March 2, 2014 | Jackie Calmes
    ROYAL OAK, Mich. — Frank Houston knows something about the longtime estrangement of white men from the Democratic Party. His family roots are in nearby Macomb County, the symbolic home of working-class Reagan Democrats who, distressed by economic and social tumult, decided a liberal Democratic Party had left them, not the other way around. Mr. Houston grew up in the 1980s liking Ronald Reagan but idolizing Alex P. Keaton, the fictional Republican teenage son of former hippies who, played by Michael J. Fox on the television series “Family Ties,” comically captured the nation’s conservative shift. But over time, Mr. Houston...
  • Ties to Ukrainian National a Unifying Theme in Early Attacks on Trump

    04/22/2019 9:42:34 AM PDT · by McGruff · 11 replies
    The Markets Work ^ | April 11, 2019 | Jeff Carlson, CFA
    While special counsel Robert Mueller has concluded there was no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, some of the key people in creating the Russia-collusion narrative themselves have ties to a foreign nation. Both the Democratic National Committee as well as Fusion GPS—the company hired by the DNC and the Clinton campaign to research the Trump campaign—were using Ukrainian sources in their efforts to discredit Trump. Serhiy Leshchenko, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, was a common thread involved in Democratic opposition research efforts into former Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. Leshchenko, along with Artem Sytnyk, the...
  • Should a White Man Be the Face of the Democratic Party in 2020?

    04/20/2019 7:06:43 PM PDT · by GuavaCheesePuff · 100 replies
    The New York Times ^ | April 20, 2019 | Astead W. Herndon and Matt Flegenheimer
    COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — As Peter Johnson and Emily Neal waited for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to arrive at Barley’s, a brick-lined sports bar in southwestern Iowa, they gamed out possible nominees in the Democratic presidential primary. Mr. Johnson, a 27-year-old law student, said the large field was a great equalizer, and “if at the end of it we get an old white guy, someone who represents the status quo, it’ll be because they’ve proven themselves.” Ms. Neal, a dental hygienist, made an agonized face at Mr. Johnson, her boyfriend. Wouldn’t something be lost, she asked, if the historically diverse slate...
  • Democrats constantly ‘reach out’ to the other side. Republicans don’t.

    04/04/2019 7:40:10 AM PDT · by EdnaMode · 80 replies
    Wasghinton Compost ^ | April 2, 2019 | Paul Waldman
    [snip] In this time of deep polarization and identity-driven politics, there is a profound difference in how the two parties approach the “other” America. Democratic presidential candidates are spending a great deal of time in Iowa, demonstrating to farmers that they understand their concerns. They hold forums where they talk about soybean prices and the marketing practices of seed suppliers; they propose plans on issues from agricultural monopolies to rural broadband. They’re “reaching out” so hard, their arms are about to pop out of their shoulder sockets. If you missed all the times Republican presidential candidates held forums in urban...
  • The Democratic Party Is Radicalizing

    04/03/2019 2:33:39 PM PDT · by Borges · 50 replies
    The Atlantic ^ | 4/3/2019 | Peter Wehner
    The transformation of the GOP into the party of Patrick J. Buchanan and Donald J. Trump—defined by cultural resentments, crude populism, and ethnic nationalism—is among the most important political stories of this century. But the GOP is hardly the only party that is undergoing some alarming tectonic shifts. Liberals wondering why conservatives who worry about Trump don’t join the Democrats should consider what is happening on their own side of the aisle. If you want to understand just how radicalized the Democratic Party has become in recent years, look at the ascent of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. A self-proclaimed...
  • ‘It Just Went Poof’: The Strange Aftermath of Virginia’s Cascade of Political Scandals

    04/02/2019 5:11:04 PM PDT · by EdnaMode · 18 replies
    New York Times ^ | April 2, 2019 | Campbell Robertson
    More than a dozen state lawmakers filed onto the stage, summoned by the smiling leader of their state: Ralph S. Northam, the governor of Virginia. On the governor’s right were a handful of House Democrats, who as a group in February said they were “no longer confident in the governor’s representation of Virginians,” after learning of a shocking racist photo on Mr. Northam’s medical-school yearbook page. On his left were mostly Republicans, including the speaker of the House, Delegate Kirk Cox, who’d declared that Mr. Northam’s “ability to lead and govern is permanently impaired.” Some on stage were members of...
  • Where’s the real [anti-Semitic] threat coming from in 2019?

    03/28/2019 6:07:18 AM PDT · by JOHN ADAMS · 4 replies
    Jewish News Service ^ | March 28, 2019 | Jerome M. Marcus
    Where’s the real threat coming from in 2019? Iran is a far greater danger to Jews, the Jewish state and Western civilization than a gaggle of rednecks wearing bed sheets over their heads. (March 26, 2019 / JNS) In a recent column in Tablet magazine, Yale University professor Eliyahu Stern claims that Orthodox Jewish leaders consistently ally themselves with fascism out of the fear of Communist ideology, even when the fascists are murderously anti-Semitic. Stern claims that the rabbis choose this team out of their deep fear of Jewish apostasy. His ultimate target, of course, is any Jew who voted...
  • ...When Congressional Dems First Approved Illegal Aliens’ "Right” To Neutralize...Citizens' Votes-tr

    03/10/2019 12:34:21 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 45 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | March 10, 2019 | Kevin McCullough
    On this past Friday, the Democrats finally found a way to demonstrate their all out contempt for the sacred process of American elections. In doing so they closed a circle on a public strategy. In doing so they telegraphed their future intent. In doing so Americans face a crossroads. It was a simple amendment that Republicans wished to add to the Democrats first major attempt at legislation. H.R. 1 attempts to bring about voting reforms that Democrats feel are important. Claiming prejudice, mistreatment, and a need to “open up” elections to a broader swath of voters, Democrats passed a measure...
  • Have the Democrats finally gone too far?

    03/10/2019 8:40:07 AM PDT · by EdnaMode · 45 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 9, 2019 | Michael Goodwin
    Pick up a newspaper or watch the news about what Democrats are up to and you’re certain to ask yourself the same question dominating American politics: Are they going too far? Did Democrats overreach when they invited convicted liar and turncoat scammer Michael Cohen to tell Congress President Trump is a bad guy? Are they on a ridiculous fishing expedition when they summon 81 people, including three of the president’s children, to testify to a congressional panel whose chairman says he’s certain Trump committed crimes, no matter what special counsel Robert Mueller says? Have they lost their minds with plans...
  • We Must Stop Giving the Democrat Party a Pass

    02/26/2019 4:40:06 AM PST · by EyesOfTX · 28 replies
    DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon
    Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Soulless ghouls. – Last night, 44 of the 47 Senate Democrats voted against a bill designed to protect the lives of babies born into this world after failed attempts by abortionists to murder them while in the womb. The other three apparently didn’t have the courage to even show up and be counted. 44 soulless ghouls – including every one of the half-dozen or so Democrat senators running for the presidency. This is the state of your Democrat Party today. You can have it. Here is how the President responded to this...
  • Milano: GOP paints Dems as socialists to deter you from voting for party that fights #ForThePeople

    02/23/2019 7:09:25 AM PST · by EdnaMode · 66 replies
    Twitter ^ | February 20, 2019 | Alyssa Milano
    This is the part of the election cycle when the @GOP will paint the Dems as socialists to deter you from voting in 2020 for the party that actually fights #ForThePeople. They’ll drill the word “socialist” into our daily vernacular. Don’t be fooled. This is strategy not sincerity.
  • CNN: Sadness, disbelief and disgust: Virginia politics plunges deeper into chaos as Dems worry

    02/06/2019 11:58:21 PM PST · by Zakeet · 44 replies
    CNN ^ | February 6, 2019 | Dan Merica and Ryan Nobles
    Virginia politics descended further into chaos on Wednesday, and Democrats in the capital grew more dismayed by the possibility that a trio of scandals involving their top three statewide officials had laid waste to years of work building up the Democratic Party in the commonwealth. The controversies have created a pseudo-standoff between scandal-plagued Gov. Ralph Northam, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and Attorney General Mark Herring, all of whom are fighting to hang on to their jobs as public outrage grows around each of them. None of them wants to resign first, creating a scenario where all of them could hold...
  • Investigation Underway Into Alleged Failed Hack By Democratic Party of Georgia

    11/04/2018 10:53:48 AM PST · by bitt · 13 replies
    breaking911.com ^ | 11/4/2018
    ATLANTA – After an alleged failed attempt to hack the state’s voter registration system, the Secretary of State’s office opened an investigation into the Democratic Party of Georgia on the evening of Saturday, November 3, 2018. Federal partners, including the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation, were immediately alerted. Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R), who is running for governor, made the announcement two days before the midterm elections in which he is running against Democrat Stacey Abrams. “While we cannot comment on the specifics of an ongoing investigation, I can confirm that the Democratic Party...
  • Democrats have intentionally divided the country and stoked fear among the public (tr)

    10/31/2018 3:29:52 PM PDT · by EdnaMode · 12 replies
    American Thinker ^ | October 31, 2018 | Jack Hellner
    The media and other Democrats are saying that Trump and Republicans have divided the country and encourage hate. They also say Trump and Republicans are using fear to encourage their base to vote. It is clear the media is mixed up because the country has been divided long before Trump and the Democrats have always injected fear into elections. They must have amnesia. [snip] Democrats ran ads showing Paul Ryan pushing Grandma off a cliff for daring to oppose Obamacare. Democrats ran an ad showing a truck dragging black men by chains because Bush dared be for the death penalty...
  • Michael Avenatti to Time: 2020 Democratic nominee 'better be a white male'

    10/25/2018 1:19:13 PM PDT · by Trump20162020 · 29 replies
    CNN ^ | October 25, 2018 | Eli Watkins
    Michael Avenatti said the Democratic Party's choice to take on President Donald Trump in 2020 should be a white man, according to an interview with Time magazine published Thursday. "I think it better be a white male," Avenatti, a 2020 potential candidate himself, said. Avenatti said in the piece that he wished it was not the case that white men, as he and Trump are, are listened to more than people of other races and genders, but that he believed his identity was part of why he had been able to defend adult film star Stormy Daniels and immigrant mothers....
  • The President Behind the U.S. Supreme Court’s Worst Decision

    10/20/2018 7:40:49 PM PDT · by iowamark · 138 replies
    Ozy.com ^ | 10/16/2018 | Sean Braswell
    As a work of presidential prose, James Buchanan’s inaugural address on March 4, 1857, is widely considered one of the most forgettable ever given by an American leader. As The New York Times put it dryly at the time: “Little if any impression has been made by the inaugural.” Still, it would not take long for Buchanan’s unimpressive inauguration to become one of the most significant in history. For one thing, it was the first to be photographed. It was also the first inaugural given after the creation of the Republican Party, the last before secession and ultimately the last...
  • Can a Democrat Be a Christian?

    10/11/2018 4:42:50 PM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 57 replies
    RR ^ | 10/11/18 | Jim Towers
    The way I see it, the Democrat political party is made up of Socialists, sexual perverts, druggies, criminals, Muslims and clueless people who would circumvent our laws and try to destroy our Christian nation – some just to have their fifteen minutes of supposed fame by burning and defecating on the American flag – in public. Democrats are so determined to destroy the current administration that they will say or do anything to do so. Things have gotten so out of hand that Democrats will even disrupt Senator Cruz’s meal at a restaurant or issue death threats against political opponents...
  • 144 House Democrats approve of illegal aliens voting in U.S. elections

    10/01/2018 1:46:21 PM PDT · by Eowyn2 · 39 replies
    Fellowship of the Minds ^ | 10-1-2018 | Dr. Eowyn
    1 Republican and 144 Democrats refused to agree with House Resolution 1071 expressing disapproval of non-citizen illegal aliens voting in U.S. elections.
  • Democrats use Kavanaugh as stand-in for all perpetrators of sexual violence

    09/26/2018 4:52:09 PM PDT · by EdnaMode · 19 replies
    Washington Times ^ | September 26, 2018 | Tammy Bruce
    As the fight to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court continues, it is imperative to remember exactly who is trying to destroy him and our system. The so-called establishment elite, left-wing groups who hate this country and our system, Hollywood hypocrites, Republican Never Trumpers and, of course, the Democratic Party having been taken over not just by ignorant socialists, but run by adults who know what they’re doing is wrong and just don’t care. For generations, liberals have been pointing fingers at conservatives accusing them of whatever awful social crime suits their purpose. Remember — Hollywood...