Because of Trump, have you Lost Respect for the Office of the Presidency?

A great, great, GREAT read over at Mock, Paper, Scissors –

I read this morning’s headlines knowing that as the day wears on, my news alerts will descend into madness, from Trump’s tweets, new discoveries about Russia, the healthcare plan, and more destructive actions against Americans and the world. Trump is the reason America is unsafe. Trump is a terrorist threat to the world. His ignorance and need for vengeance is terrifying.I don’t know where to go from here… Do you?

Source: Because of Trump, have you Lost Respect for the Office of the Presidency?

Some Stupid For Your Coffee?

“But we don’t know that [carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming] yet. … We need to continue the debate and continue the review and the analysis.”

–Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, who served as Oklahoma attorney general, where he sued or took part in legal actions against the EPA fourteen times.

We are so screwed………

Source: Some Stupid For Your Coffee?

February 23, 2017

A New Republican/McCarthyism America – ‘Bill Seeks Political Balance Among University Professors’

Caroline Higgins is 66 years old, and at 5’2” she’s not a daunting figure. Walking on the Earlham College campus last week, she ran into one of her students, a football player who very much towers over her. She mentioned that she was about to be named to a list of the “101 most dangerous academics in America.”

Higgins said that her student just started laughing — and that for anyone who knows her, “dangerous” just isn’t the word that comes to mind. She teaches peace studies.

But today, with the release of David Horowitz’s new book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, Caroline Higgins finds herself in elite company.

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Because political balance is important in math, science, accounting…………

February 21, 2017 By Taegan Goddard

‘Des Moines Register’:

“A bill in the Iowa Senate seeks to achieve greater political diversity among professors at the state’s Board of Regents universities. Senate File 288 would institute a hiring freeze until the number of registered Republicans and Democrats on the university faculty fall within 10 percent of each other.”

From : https://politicalwire.com/2017/02/21/bill-seeks-political-balance-among-university-professors/

NOT MY PRESIDENT DAY – ‘Trump – 1993 – Testifying in front of Native American affairs Committee They Don’t look Indian

WARNING – When you listen to the tape from 1993, it will make you sick to know that this bigot is the President of the United States.

You WILL Live As Republicans – ‘Republicans Move to Rein In Liberal Cities’

 

January 5, 2017 By Taegan Goddard

“After consolidating power in Washington, D.C. and state capitals under President-elect Donald Trump, Republicans are moving to prevent large cities dominated by Democrats from enacting sweeping liberal agendas,” The Hill reports’.

“Republican state legislatures are planning so-called preemption laws, which prevent cities and counties from passing new measures governing everything from taxes to environmental regulations and social issues.”

From : https://politicalwire.com/2017/01/05/republicans-move-rein-liberal-cities/

Republicans War On The Poor – ‘Planned Parenthood would lose funding as part of Obamacare repeal, Ryan says’

So……..you take away poor people’s health care and then cut the federal budget that would help poor people get birth control, breast and cancer screenings and more.

But there is no Republican War On The Poor.

‘Planned Parenthood estimated that roughly 40 percent of its funding would be at risk should defunding legislation become law’.

‘The group reported receiving $553 million in government funding in 2014, about half of its total revenue’.

‘Republicans plan to strip Planned Parenthood of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding as part of their rapid push to repeal President Obama’s health-care reforms, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Thursday’.

‘Ryan said a defunding measure would appear in a special fast-track bill that is expected to pass Congress as soon as next month: “Planned Parenthood legislation would be in our reconciliation bill,” he said at a news conference, in response to a question about plans to defund the organization’.

From : https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/05/planned-parenthood-would-lose-funding-as-part-of-obamacare-repeal-ryan-says/?utm_term=.bcecb99be705

“It’s Obama’s Fault” – ‘Conservatives ready to support $1 trillion hole in the budget’

Get ready to hear that a LOT!

And to pay for the coming YUGE! deficit and debt, Republicans will take health care away from 20+million poor Americans, cut Medicare benefits, increase Medicare enrollment age, cut Medicaid funding, cut welfare funding, cut unemployment funding and cut food stamps funding because – well the poor are the reason we have such large deficits and debt……

‘Some of the most conservative members of Congress say they are ready to vote for a budget that would — at least on paper — balloon the deficit to more than $1 trillion by the end of the decade, all for the sake of eventually repealing the Affordable Care Act’.

‘In a dramatic reversal, many members of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus said Thursday they are prepared later this month to support a budget measure that would explode the deficit and increase the public debt to more than $29.1 trillion by 2026, figures contained in the budget resolution itself’.

From : https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/conservatives-ready-to-support-1-trillion-hole-in-the-budget/2017/01/05/76d4bf34-d391-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html?utm_term=.8b798390486c

Republicans Governing By Threats – ‘House GOP Revives Obscure Rule to Slash Pay’

Now if some government worker objects to anything – whistle blows, gives testimony in Congress critical of Republicans, gives an interview critical of Republicans…..Republicans can just cut their pay……to $1.00.

Yes…..That Makes America Great Again……

January 5, 2017 By Taegan Goddard

“House Republicans this week reinstated an arcane procedural rule that enables lawmakers to reach deep into the budget and slash the pay of an individual federal worker — down to a $1 — a move that threatens to upend the 130-year-old civil service,” the Washington Post reports’.

“The Holman Rule, named after an Indiana congressman who devised it in 1876, empowers any member of Congress to offer an amendment to an appropriations bill that targets a specific government employee or program.”

From : https://politicalwire.com/2017/01/05/house-gop-revives-obscure-rule-slash-pay/

Why Does Donald Trump Want Hillary Clinton Murdered? – ‘Trump Tries To Change The Subject From Birtherism By Suggesting Hillary Clinton Be Shot’

This is the second time he has suggested that someone (other then The Donald) should shot Hillary Clinton.

Now turn it around.

What if Hillary suggested that someone should shot Donald Trump.

Do you seriously think that the (cough) ‘news’ media would ever – EVER stop asking her about it?