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February 07, 2017 06:50 AM UTC

Tuesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”

–George Orwell

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  1. Maxine Waters – Dumber than a fence post

    “How can a president who is acting the manner he is acting — whether he’s talking about the travel ban, the way he’s targeted Muslims, or whether he’s talking about his relationship to (Vladimir) Putin and the Kremlin and knowing that they have hacked our (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) and the (Democratic National Committee),” she said.

    But then the already wobbly wheels began falling off Waters’ rhetoric wagon.

    “And knowing that he’s responsible for supplying the bombs that killed innocent children and families in, um, in, um,” she said, forgetting the name before someone behind her murmured, “Aleppo.”

    “Yeah, in Aleppo,” she said.

    Waters continued, “And the fact that he is wrapping his arms around Putin while Putin is continuing to advance into Korea.”

    http://www.theamericanmirror.com/confusion-maxine-waters-claims-putin-continuing-advance-korea/

    Maybe she should run for DNC Chair?

    1. After being gone for a spell one one is quickly reminded how trite our Auguste Librarian can be this early in the morning.  Maxine pulled herself up by the bootstraps and made something of herself after a tough childhood; she represents a district with many challenges. You're quoting The American Mirror this morning? Step up your game.  

      Waters was born 1938 in Kinloch, Missouri, the daughter of Velma Lee (née Moore) and Remus Carr. Fifth out of thirteen children, Waters was raised by her single mother once her father left the family when Maxine was two. She graduated from Vashon High School in St. Louis, and moved with her family to Los Angeles, California, in 1961. She worked in a garment factory and as a telephone operator before being hired as an assistant teacher with the Head Start program at Watts in 1966. She later enrolled at Los Angeles State College (now California State University, Los Angeles) and graduated with a sociology degree in 1970.

  2. Rep. Tipton knows about objective truth vs. lies. He's expert at avoiding both of them, while chatting up his constituents via press releases. Tipton is promoting the "Better Way Agenda".

    Our Better Way Agenda is made up of six different planks focused on: poverty, national security, the economy, the Constitution, health care, and tax reform. I’d like to share our plans on poverty, the economy, and the Constitution first.

    Right now, there are 46.7 million people living in poverty, and the number of people living in highly-concentrated areas of poverty has doubled since the year 2000. For the past seven years, the government’s top-down approach has only made it harder to break the cycle. Under a Better Way, we’ll give people purpose by strengthening work requirements for government assistance programs. We’ll make sure people don’t lose needed benefits because they get married or take a higher-paying job. We’ll reward results by utilizing government programs that work and shutting down programs that don't.

    Notice that there are absolutely no specifics here, except strengthening work requirements for government assistance programs. Without also funding child care, community college education, and early childhood education, "strengthening work requirements" will not get parents off of TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families).  If the ACA is gutted, people with disabilities are also not going to be able to work, even if requirements are "strengthened".

    On the ACA, Tipton's tweets are just as smarmy and non-specific:

     

    To me, this “Better Way” plan for the ACA says that they will probably throw women under the bus by stripping out contraceptive coverage and reinstate discriminatory insurance practices; then rename the ACA as “Trumpcare” and declare victory.
    Any other takes on this?

    1. Tipton continues to act as so many Republicans do, assuming that "Our Better Way" is an actual plan. And that it has a chance in the world of being passed by the current Republican caucus. And that it would be supported by a sufficient number of Democrats in the Senate to overcome a filibuster.

      Until there is actual legislation that can be measured, all claims from Republicans ought to be considered the equivalent of a software firms "vaporware." It is a sales promise. And after 6 years of Republican majority in the House, the sales pitch is getting stale.

  3. Senile Nancy Pelosi

    At the same geriatric press conference as Maxine Waters lamented the Russian incursion into Korea, Nancy Pelosi says she can't work with George W. Bush.

    “We’ve seen nothing where we can where — where I can work with President Bush on…” Pelosi said as Maxine Waters’ face dropped and she muttered to her colleagues.

    “I’m disappointed because I thought there might be some interest because of what he said in the campaign.

    Can you get a do over on who the minority leader is?

        2. You might want to watch the video again and then update your comment? (it's usually a sign something didn't happen if the NYT isn't running the non-story).

           

            1. I listened…to the video you linked to in your initial comment. Only for you would I venture into the abyss of The American Mirror.  But thanks for the link, it isn't really that hard to embed so you have some credibility attached to your statement.  Aunt Nancy spoke of GWB and Aunt Maxine says Korea and not Crimea.  I'll put those two old dogs up against any of your old white guys any day on the floor of the House.  

              Now stop bothering me so I can get back to my II Corinthians Bible Challenge…

  4. While #Cheetolini pimps coal communities with the thought he can Make America Great Again by bringing coal back, 21st-century forms of energy that create real jobs in rural America do the heavy lifting..

    (Not an American Mirror article) 

    U.S. Wind, Solar Power Tout Rural Jobs as Trump Pushes Coal

    U.S. wind-farm developers and suppliers had more than 100,000 workers at the end of the year and the solar industry had more than double that, and they’re a significant source of employment in many of the rural red states that supported Donald Trump’s campaign. That compares to 65,971 coal mining jobs at the start of last year, according to the U.S. Energy Department.

      1. I've become addicted to those Soros checks.  Why don't you take a little time, search the federal records and report back to the folks here the massive amount of money I get for my work, K? 

  5. I think ACHole might have a better chance failing upwards in Washington DC than trying to pretend he has any credibility on this site.  Spicer continues make a fool of himself representing the Buffoon-in-Chief:

    CNN quickly rebuked White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday for suggesting that the network did not have concerns about adviser Kellyanne Conway’s credibility.

    “CNN was clear, on the record, about our concerns about Kellyanne Conway’s credibility to the New York Times and others. We have not ‘retracted’ or ‘walked back’ those comments,” the statement said. “Those are the facts.”

  9. GOP sharks already starting to circle Trump as he flounders in the deep sea:

    Republicans stick with Trump for a while, as he delivers goodies like deregulation of gas, oil and Wall Street, tax cuts, school privatization, gutting of labor protection, and at least one rightwing Supreme Court justice. But at some point, the GOP leadership concludes that he is just too bizarre, too much of a hazard for setting off wars, both trade wars and hot ones, and too much of a risk for 2018.

    So they decide to ditch him in favor of Vice President Pence, who is a more conventional far-right conservative and not a certifiable whack-job. I’m told by one source that this is already being discussed in senior Republican circles.

    Republicans could do this either via impeachment, a protracted process that plays out while a wounded Trump can do even more impulsive and vengeful damage. Or they could move more quickly via the 25th Amendment to have Trump certified as impaired, and take him out in a net.

    The wager is that Republicans would then get credit for ridding America of an unstable would-be dictator, and they could regroup under Pence in time to limit damage in the 2018 election. Trump was never their guy anyway.

    1. We'll see if the Buffoon-in-Chief makes it another few weeks before the mentally unstable narcissist goes completely crackers:

      the portrait from these and many other tidbits emerging from his administration may seem a shock: an impulsive, sometimes petty chief executive more concerned with the adulation of the nation than the details of his own policies ― and quick to assign blame when things do not go his way.

      Unsurprisingly, Trump’s volatile behavior has created an environment ripe for leaks from his executive agencies and even within his White House. And while leaks typically involve staffers sabotaging each other to improve their own standing or trying to scuttle policy ideas they find genuinely problematic, Trump’s 2-week-old administration has a third category: leaks from White House and agency officials alarmed by the president’s conduct.

      “I’ve been in this town for 26 years. I have never seen anything like this,” said Eliot Cohen, a senior State Department official under President George W. Bush and a member of his National Security Council. “I genuinely do not think this is a mentally healthy president.”

    2. I think you're spot on, Davie. I've been saying for a while that the Screaming Yam will never finish one term, much less run for a second. I'm convinced that it was Pence the right-wingers wanted to begin with. He was just too damaged by what he did to the economy by signing SB101 (the Turn Away the Gays bill) to run on his own.
      The only thing I haven't figured out is whose side Pence is on. Is he actually as puppy-dog loyal to The Yam as he seems, or will he keep his mouth shut while his Senate brethren conspire with the House to pass the mantle down to him.

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