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The Guardian:
How's this for a theory?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/06/29/lets-all-just-accept-the-fact-that-donald-trump-is-trying-to-undermine-the-gop/
He's a closet Democrat? Let's hope not. With friends like him…
wow…what a notion. It certainly hadn't occurred to me, but…it could be…or…
Starting soon on your local Fox station.."The Candidate"….starring Donald Trump…
Well, apparently until fairly recently (the last decade or so) he was donor to Democrats, IIRC.
nahhh, lots of people, mostly clueless, undermine their own chosen party.
By the logic in the WaPo piece, Bristol Palin is the secret D. And the former Jeffco pr .. Pinto. And the local R's who just resigned from the GOTP. Hell, this would explain our own shoe maker's love of Senator Buck.
Idiot Republicans………"the beginning of the end of Obamacare."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=77&v=EjpJqcM3X94
About that quote. Shouldn't it be … "Be careful with that jiggery-pokery. You could put an eye out."?
Wow. Before this went through had to prove I wasn't a spammer or a robot!
Guess you just have to do that once? This one went through no problem.
I have to pledge my eternal support for Mike Bennet…..
Speaking of, looks like HRC isn't the only one trying to get liberals to warm up a little. Look what landed on my FB page today:
http://go.bennetforcolorado.com/page/s/tell-congress-restore-the-voting-rights-act?source=ads_nat_voting-rights
Rumor has it the sponsors of the GOP debates have modified their rules again: it's still the goal to seat those polling amongst the top ten on stage, but in the event chris christie should be amongst the top ten, they will only be able to fit eight on stage physically.
Why do Governors unpopular in their own states (Walker, Christie, Jindal) run for the Presidency? Maybe to avoid getting tarred and feathered if they stay?
The GOP seems to attract highly visible losers with big egos (see Trump, Donald and Fiorina, Carly, for example) that want to spread misery in their wake.
To be fair, Christie isn't popular anywhere.
So true. With his announcement today, I haven't been this excited about a GOP candidate since Rudy announced his "Noun + Verb + 9/11" run eight years ago.
Christie is running in mid-pack (3%, hee, hee!) of the current clowns.
He has the rival GOP candidates licking their chops to sink their teeth into him:
Definitely a target-rich environment for Christie's rivals
I love that 3% puts you in the middle of the clown car pack.
Hey, the Donald has a solid lock on second place in NH w/ 11%. Of course, you don't want to include Univision or Macy's in that 11%.
ouch…
I guess governors look good to people in other states.They don't have to live with that guy's policies. They've got their own idiot governor to hate
More conservative sadness handed down by courts: Oklahoma's Supreme Court, 7-2, orders the state's Ten Commandments monument taken down.
Send them to Roy Moore in Alabama……postage COD.
As noted yesterday, a lot of these church/state separation cases are being decided on constitutional clauses inserted out of anti-Catholic bias more than a century ago. Prejudice is a shame, but I can't say I mind the result.
Mike Littwin agrees:
Sometimes laws come to the right conclusions for the wrong reasons.
Absolutely. The wisdom of the Founding Fathers instituting the principle of separation of church and state is just as sound today. That the Religious Right, despite all evidence to the contrary, justify their efforts to impose a racist, southern protestant (not worthy of the term “Christian”) theocracy on the nation based on an Orwellian redefinition of the Founding Father's words, is an abomination.
And, even if the intent was anti-Catholic because it was almost exclusively Catholics who preferred private religious to public schools at the time, that has changed. Since they couldn't very well name Catholics specifically they accidentally created something that comports completely with the prohibition on government endorsing religion period, including theirs. It's good law regardless of the original bigoted intent.
There is no reason why the tax payers of Douglas County should be subsidizing big fat discount coupons for affluent parents who want to send their kids to private religious schools. That's what these vouchers are.
They aren't about choice in any general sense, something that public schools currently do provide with magnets and charters, but about religion. Almost every school in the voucher network is a religious school. Last time I checked there was only one that wasn't. And the vouchers don't come close to paying full tuition at these schools so they don't facilitate "choice" for middling income people who can't afford to make up the difference.
Moreover, Douglas County schools are highly rated so this isn't a case of helping people escape a failing school system either. It's all about private religious preference which is fine but which should be the financial responsibility of the parents and/or religious institutions that may wish to help by offering scholarships and discounts. Middle and lower income tax payers should not be asked to foot a generous part of the bill for their more affluent neighbors who choose not to take advantage of good public schools for religious reasons, be they Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Jews, Hindus or Pastafarians. In this case, "choice" is just a fig leaf for public financing of religious education.