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kpete's JournalStar-Ledger Editorial:"Forget About WH...The ? now is whether Gov Christie can survive as governor"
Chris Christie should resign if bombshell proves true: EditorialForget about the White House in 2016. The question now is whether Gov. Chris Christie can survive as governor.
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When you layer on top of this the criminal investigation in Hoboken, and a separate investigation of Sandy spending by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, it becomes difficult to see how Christie can function. It should be clear even to him now that he should step down as head of the Republican Governors Association.
This is a shocking development. Christie is now damaged goods. If Wildstein's disclosures are as powerful as he claims, the governor must go.
http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2014/01/chris_christie_should_resign_i.html#incart_maj-story-2
Republicans keep coming up with flimsy Obamacare horror stories, because they created the "victims"
FRIDAY, JAN 31, 2014 01:25 PM PST
GOPs Obamacare fiction series: Latest horror story a creation from start to finish
Republicans keep coming up with flimsy Obamacare horror stories, because they created the "victims"
BRIAN BEUTLER
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What Republicans are doing instead is exclusively canvassing people who either dont like the law or havent figured out how to make it work for them or, in some cases, are genuinely worse off because of it. Or some combination of the three. People who dont know about the exchanges, or havent shopped around, or, like Bette, refuse to participate. By definition a huge number of these stories are going to turn out to be baseless.
And thats where Id take things further than Greg does. Its not just that Republicans prefer to exploit these horror stories rather than remedy them, as Greg describes, but that Republicans have spent the last four years intentionally maximizing the number of misapprehended victims.
Take Bette: The reason she didnt visit the Washington state health exchange was basically #OBUMMER. I wouldnt go on that Obama website at all, she said. This didnt start with her cancelation. This started years ago. Republicans told Bette, and others inclined to distrust Obamacare, that theyd face death panels and rationing boards. That their options would be unaffordable, and irredeemable. That the exchange sites would make their personal information vulnerable to hackers and that creepy Uncle Sam would sexually violate them. They said all this in the hope that people like Bette wouldnt give the law a fair shake, then turned around and feigned outrage on their behalf when the plan worked.
Republicans arent sincerely distressed about the things they hear from people like Bette. People like Bette are the goal.
http://www.salon.com/2014/01/31/gops_obamacare_fiction_series_latest_horror_story_a_creation_from_start_to_finish/
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PROUD TO BE (The Best Ad You’ll See This Super Bowl Weekend)
more about this ad:
http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2014/01/31/3234391/ncai-super-bowl/
the Christie letter:
snippet:
the rest HERE: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/letter.pdf
if this NYT story accurate, that means Christie LIED FOR TWO HOURS DURING PRESS CONFERENCE
if this NYT story accurate, that means Christie LIED FOR TWO HOURS DURING PRESS CONFERENCE
https://twitter.com/EricBoehlert/statuses/429356493578588160
Christie Knew About Bridge Lane Closings, Port Authority Official Says
A Port Authority official says he has evidence to prove the New Jersey governor knew about the lane closings on the George Washington Bridge.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/nyregion/christie-bridge.html
A refresher, January 10th, Alec MacGinnis in TNR:
But during his two hours at the podium yesterday, Christie pushed back against this perception by telling the world that Wildstein was no chum of his:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116177/chris-christie-did-know-david-wildstein-high-school-coach
In other words: David Wildstein, are you kidding me? Different lunch table, dudes .
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/01/31/looks-like-christie-shouldnt-have-dissed-the-nerd/
Koch-Tied Groups Funded GOP Effort to Mess With Electoral College Rules
Koch-Tied Groups Funded GOP Effort to Mess With Electoral College Rules
Last election season, a shadowy nonprofit pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into a campaign to change how electoral votes are counted. The group didnt disclose who was funding its effortsa fact that Mother Jones highlighted in a story titled Whos Paying for the GOPs Plan to Hijack the 2012 Election? But now, thanks to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a nonpartisan government watchdog, its clear that organizations with ties to billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch footed at least some of the bill.
Each state and the District of Columbia has a certain number of electoral votes, based on their population, and they get to decide for themselves how those votes should be allotted. Currently, every state except Maine and Nebraska gives all of their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the statewide popular vote. But in 2011, GOP lawmakers in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin introduced bills that would divide electoral votes among candidates based on how many congressional districts they won. Because Republicans drew the boundaries of the districts in those states, this scheme would be almost certain to hand Republican presidential candidates the majority of their electoral voteseven if more voters cast ballots for Democrats. (Read more about how the plan would work here.) Presuming the race is close enough, this could decide the nationwide outcome.
In the case of Pennsylvania, a mysterious nonprofit called All Votes Matter spent large sums lobbying for these changes. Local officials wondered about its funding sources. They raised an awful lot of money very quickly$300,000 in just a few days, Democratic Pennsylvania state Sen. Daylin Leach told Mother Jones at the time. Were all curious where that level of funding comes from. But All Votes Matter didnt disclose its donors, nor did it have to. The group is organized as a 501(c)4 social welfare nonprofit, which means that it can spend money on politics while keeping its donors secret. (Such groups are not supposed to spend more than half of their budget on political causes, but IRS enforcement is slack.) Thus the public knew little about the agendas behind this effort to upend the mechanics of presidential elections.
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http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/01/koch-brothers-change-electoral-college-rules
Thanks to the Republican Party, Corporate America got it all (by none other than Pat Buchanan)
The Fortune 500 wanted to close factories in the USA and ship production abroad where unions did not exist, regulations were light, taxes were low, and wages were a fraction of what they were here in America.
Corporate America was going global and wanted to be rid of its American workforce, the best paid on earth, and replace it with cheap foreign labor.
While manufacturing sought to move production abroad, hotels, motels, bars, restaurants, farms and construction companies that could not move abroad also wanted to replace their expensive American workers.
Thanks to the Republican Party, Corporate America got it all
the rest:
http://www.creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/how-the-gop-lost-middle-america.html
Pope Francis Gladly Blesses Parrot Belonging to Male Stripper
http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/dj26csYuIN_MBB1uatDljg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Y2g9NTU4O2NyPTE7Y3c9OTkyO2R4PTA7ZHk9MDtmaT11bGNyb3A7aD0zNTU7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/Pope Francishas dined with homeless people, made the cover of Time and Rolling Stone and now has blessed a parrot belonging to a male stripper.
The parrot, named Amore, was initially passed up by Pope Francis as he rode around in the popemobile during his general audience in St. Peter's Square Wednesday. Eventually, Francis went back to bless the bird and hold it on his finger.
The bird's owner was identified as Francesco Lombardi, and according to ANSA, he's a former male stripper turned erotic film actor.
"It was fun," Lombardi told ANSA after meeting the pope. "A sort of mixing of the holy and the profane."
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http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/pope-francis-gladly-blesses-parrot-belonging-male-stripper-030154181--abc-news-topstories.html
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