Martin O'Malley 2016? Democrat Preparing For Possible Presidential Run

Martin O'Malley 2016? Democrat Preparing For Possible Presidential Run

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Martin O'Malley 2016? Democrat Preparing For Possible Presidential Run

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley says he's preparing for a possible run for president. The Democrat tells The Washington Post (http://wapo.st/1j05R3B) that he can't waste time waiting for former Secretary of State Hillary

Alison Lundergan Grimes Accuses Mitch McConnell Of Laughing 'In The Faces' Of The Unemployed

Maybe the Kentucks should be busy trying to get Jesus back down from heaven to take over Mitch's senate seat. But, I frankly don't think Jesus would pee on Mitch if he needed a wet down for some reason, And, I also doubt Jesus would allow Mitch to sit on his right side since He is really a staunch Jewish Liberal.--ABratt, Jan. 15, 2014.

Alison Lundergan Grimes Accuses Mitch McConnell Of Laughing 'In The Faces' Of The Unemployed

outlandish: If it wasn’t for gerrymandering and strategic disenfranchising the Democrats

*America is rejecting party politics based on strict religious dogma, politics of exclusion, politics of fabrication of facts and politics driven by who doesn’t deserve to be given a share of the pie which is all modern Republicanism is selling.”

outlandish: If it wasn’t for gerrymandering and strategic disenfranchising the Democrats

ttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/20/democrats-take-back-house_n_4133836.html

ni·hil·ism

 noun \ˈnī-(h)ə-ˌli-zəm, ˈnē-\

: the belief that a society's political and social institutions are so bad that they should be destroyed

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“If it wasn’t for gerrymandering and strategic disenfranchising the Democrats would have the house now and the destructive economic vandalism that came from the tea caucus wouldn’t have happened.Democrats in the house vote in 2012 received around 1.5 million more votes yet Republicans lost a few seats but kept the house.Republicans had no honest mandate and the irony is that all the seats they lost in 2012 were held by Tea Party dormice, while in what should have been close races the Tea people spiraled out of contention by being so far over the top and so ignorant of facts that they flamed out and crashed to earth. 


Yet the Tea nihilists(1) who had even less of a mandate caused more economic and political destruction than imaginable. They are nothing but scorched earth destructionists that nearly threw America of a steep, undermined and crumbling cliff over the past month and their only regret is that they didn’t succeed and in the midst of pure unfettered nihilism the old guard Republicans only managed to prove how spineless and ineffectual they are. Republicanism unless it finally tries to enter the post civil rights era is an essay in diminishing returns. 


They’ve lost all of the ethnic voters and it was only 70 years ago that blacks voted in the majority for Republicans but  beat down after beat down, they fled the party of Lincoln as it morphed into first the party of the rebel south and more recently the party of the John Birch conspiracy central, non science believing fundamentalist, literalist bible party. Hispanic are gone after being vilified and the faux post outreach program devised and rolled out soon after the 2012 election proved to be nothing but smoke and mirrors, the mirrors were shattering as Reince Priebus was laying out their new direction. 


Forget about young voters, who are far less complacent about politics than previous generations and are pushing for change that is the antithesis of all things Republican, they [young voters and old voters] want a more diverse, more cultured, more inclusive, far fairer and more egalitarian America, none of which Republicans have to offer. The Generation X and Millennial voters are much further left than their parents and further left than the Democratic Party and I wouldn’t surprise me if the 2 party system morphs into the Democratic Party middle and a workers, social democratic Party on the left but right wing extremism will fade with the end of the me first, last and only generation that is the core of the Republican base.  *America is rejecting party politics based on strict religious dogma, politics of exclusion, politics of fabrication of facts and politics driven by who doesn’t deserve to be given a share of the pie which is all modern Republicanism is selling.”

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House Republicans and the Betrayal of Democracy | Geoffrey R. Stone

... the House Republicans have every right to try to get their preferred policies enacted into law through the democratic process. They have tried to do this politically, electorally and judicially. They have failed at every turn. The have lost every time they have tried to repeal Obamacare through the legislative process. They have lost in the Supreme Court when they challenged the constitutionality of the law. They have failed politically with the electorate when they were soundly defeated in the 2012 election. Indeed, the only reason House Republicans can play this cruel and criminal game at all is because they gerrymandered congressional districts to enable them to control the House even though they were defeated by the Democrats in the national popular vote for Congress.--Geoffrey R. Stone 

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House Republicans and the Betrayal of Democracy | Geoffrey R. Stone

Why Obama Can’t Pay a Debt-Ceiling Ransom -- Daily Intelligencer

Will O stand by his word is yet to be determined.

Making a point melodramatically on Sunday, President Obama said, "We will not negotiate over whether or not America should keep its word and meet its obligations."
In reality, Congress and administrations have for decades—under both Republican and Democratic presidents—negotiated over or included spending and budget reforms as a part of debt-ceiling increases.

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Why Obama Can’t Pay a Debt-Ceiling Ransom -- Daily Intelligencer

ABratt’s Perspectives: Frank Rich: GOP In Fantasy Land


by Frank Rich, NY Mag.,11-10-12, Re-posted by ABratt

“Mitt Romney is already slithering into the mists of history, or at least La Jolla, gone and soon to be forgotten. A weightless figure unloved and distrusted by even his own supporters, he was always destined, win or lose, to be a transitory front man for a radical-right GOP intent on barreling full-speed down the Randian path laid out by its true 2012 standard-bearer, Paul Ryan. But as was said of another unsuccessful salesman who worked the New England territory, attention must be paid to Mitt as the door slams behind him in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s brilliant victory.”

http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/gop-denial-2012-11/