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Old 10-14-2017, 11:30 PM
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Old 10-19-2017, 11:48 AM
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'The GOP is the party of Roy Moore'

It is hard to fathom that even the few Republican politicians who resisted endorsing Donald Trump for president find it beyond their ability to denounce Roy Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama. And make no mistake, Moore is worse than Trump. By a lot.
This is a man who said, “Homosexual conduct should be illegal, yes.” Comparing it to bestiality, he said, “It is a moral precept upon which this country was founded.” Presumably he meant that criminalizing homosexuality is a precept upon which the United States is founded, which would still be news to any sentient human being.
Moore has proclaimed, “Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting. What’s going to unite us? What’s going to bring us back together? A president? A Congress? No. It’s going to be God.”
It is hard to fathom that even the few Republican politicians who resisted endorsing Donald Trump for president find it beyond their ability to denounce Roy Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama. And make no mistake, Moore is worse than Trump. By a lot.
This is a man who said, “Homosexual conduct should be illegal, yes.” Comparing it to bestiality, he said, “It is a moral precept upon which this country was founded.” Presumably he meant that criminalizing homosexuality is a precept upon which the United States is founded, which would still be news to any sentient human being.
Moore has proclaimed, “Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting. What’s going to unite us? What’s going to bring us back together? A president? A Congress? No. It’s going to be God.”
He has suggested 9/11 was the result of America’s ungodliness. “If you think that’s coincidence, if you go to verse 25, ‘there should be up on every high mountain and upon every hill rivers and streams of water in the day of the great slaughter when the towers will fall,'” he said in February. “You know, we’ve suffered a lot in this country. Just maybe, because we’ve distanced ourselves from the one that has it within his hands to heal this land.”
He is an avowed birther — still.
His foundation to defend the First Amendment (no, really) has accepted $1,000 from a neo-Nazi, white supremacist. Speaking of that foundation, he got huge salaries, which he previously denied, from the Foundation for Moral Law. The Post reported:
Former Alabama judge Roy Moore, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, once said publicly that he did not take a “regular salary” from the small charity he founded to promote Christian values because he did not want to be a financial burden.
But privately, Moore had arranged to receive a salary of $180,000 a year for part-time work at the Foundation for Moral Law, internal charity documents show. He collected more than $1 million as president from 2007 to 2012, compensation that far surpassed what the group disclosed in its public tax filings most of those years.
When the charity couldn’t afford the full amount, Moore in 2012 was given a promissory note for back pay eventually worth $540,000 or an equal stake of the charity’s most valuable asset, a historic building in Montgomery, Ala., mortgage records show. He holds that note even now, a charity official said. . . . A Washington Post review of public and internal charity documents found that errors and gaps in the group’s federal tax filings obscured until now the compensation paid to Moore." WP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...=.26b62f6661f0

Another biting commentary on the state of the GOP from a die-hard conservative, J. Rubin.
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Old 10-23-2017, 08:28 AM
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After allowing companies to reneg on the pension leg of the three-legged stool of retirement, Repubes are now going after the personal savings leg. They’re talking about drastic limits to tax-deferred contributions to 401Ks. This on top of their long-stated desire to “privatize“ (read destroy) the third leg, Social Security.

Yet we still have fools among us who vote Republican. Sad!

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Elections center server and backups wiped clean just after lawsuit was filed by elections reform group. Naturally the man in charge of the data was a Repube, and the lawsuit's main defendant. Winning is All that matters, no matter how.

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The Kennesaw elections center answers to Georgia's secretary of state, Brian Kemp, a Republican running for governor in 2018 and the suit's main defendant.
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Old 10-30-2017, 05:43 PM
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Jennifer Rubin

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House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) lamely insisted, “Nothing’s going to derail what we’re doing in Congress.” Not exactly a statesmanlike message, but at least he was honest. Republicans don’t care what President Trump does so long as they get tax reform. We once more see how small Republicans can be, how intentionally oblivious to the scandal enveloping the White House. Of course the swirl of criminal actions against those closely linked to the president will be hugely disruptive and raise new questions about Trump’s judgment. It will be more than a little embarrassing that Trump’s former campaign chairman is accused of tax crimes — and thereby re-raises Trump’s failure to release his own tax returns.
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Perry: Fossil fuels help prevent sexual assault in Africa
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“Let me tell you, where people are dying in Africa is because of the lack of energy they have there and it’s going to take fossil fuels to push power out into those villages in Africa.”
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