-
Comment -
Comment -
$30M dollars burned against $6M+Trump tweet.Liberals are asshut right nowComment -
No he didn't Nash this has been proven fifty times so u must have missed it when it was shown how terribly wrong this is. 4 month tops and Chico says he never had it. I think im more right with the four months. Im not sure why u guys keep going back to this talking point that is wrong, but that is what most of these guys do.Comment -
When he does something for working people let me know Jibby. He said he was gonna drain the swamped and trashed Republican Cruz and Democrat Hillary for being Goldman Sach puppets and than he went out and hired four of them for his economic team like a complete hypocrite. Holding rally's to work up u idiots means nothing but shows what idiots he has.
By the way u blame Obama for North Korea.
Did u know since 2014 Obama was using cyber attacks and that is why NK was having problems with their launches? U say he did nothing like Fox News does. You can't do anything and this is all Trump can do. He isn't gonna do shit because even he is smart enuf to know it would be a disaster to invade them. So he will do as much as Obama.Comment -
lol thor proving he doesn't pay attention to reality
Comment -
Why do u give this cubicle c unt the time of day. Does he still call people cowards? Could u imagine a guy who works in a cubicle, lol, calling others cowards? I would wipe the floor with this c unt and enjoy every minute of it. If u have to address him Knicks can we call him the "cubicle c unt" for now on?Comment -
No! Obama Did Not Control Congress His First Two Years!
7 Comments
209 Share
Can we, once and for all, put that lie to rest? People I actually like and respect heard this on Fox (to be precise, you probably heard it the last time on “Morning Joe” with Joe Scarborough in mid-April of this year) and keep repeating it. But I don’t care if you heard it in Sunday School (and in Kansas… you may have) – it’s a lie.
Before I accuse anybody of being unbelievably forgetful, I will admit that I can’t remember what I had for breakfast today. Being forgetful is not a crime. Lying is sometimes a crime, but when you lie on internet political blogs, that’s not a crime. However, it should tug at your conscience a bit.
Let’s take a trip back to 2008.
And let’s brush up on some basics. First, did you forget that the President needed 60 votes to pass legislation? The healthcare bill is a good example of that. There were NOT 60 Democrats in the Senate. Remember that? So there had to be reconciliation.
What about the Stimulus? Again, there was NOT 60 Democratic votes to pass it. Reconciliation did not work. It was blocked by the Republicans, and Obama traded job-creating for tax cuts. Remember those tax cuts he let go on? Yep, traded for job creation - which it did accomplish as much as the baby stimulus that he was able to get would allow.
Is it all coming back to you now? How about this: It was Obama’s inaugural dinner. Senator Kennedy suffered a seizure. It’s kind of hard to work when you’ve had a seizure. He went back to Massachusetts.
Old news is so much fun to go back and read about. Here’s one I had forgotten, too. Al Franken had not yet been seated because the previous senator had challenged the election. Mein Gott, that went on forever with no way for him to vote in the Senate.
With Kennedy in Massachusetts and Franken in purgatory, awaiting his chance in the hell that is Congress, that left just 58 votes in the Senate. Memory Refresher: It took 60 votes to pass a bill in the Senate. The Republicans were already playing dirty politics and would not work across the aisle with the Democrats.
By the way, that was 56 Democrats and 2 Democratically-minded Independents. Not 58 Democrats.
Then, in April 2009 – good news. Republican Arlen Spector switched to Democrat. That gave the Democrats 60 seats with which to discourage a Republican filibuster (their most prized procedure at the time). But… oh no… we forgot, Al Franken was still in Purgatory out there in election recount turmoil. So… back to 59 votes.
We can pause here to lovingly remember the filibuster I just mentioned. Republicans made history during that time by using it more than any time ever before. Reminder (because this can get confusing): It takes 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. The Democrats only had 59 at this point… technically. One of those votes was the very ill, Senator Kennedy. He did cast one vote during that time.
Then, Senator Byrd was admitted to the hospital.
Then Al Franken was sworn in but Byrd was still in the hospital and Kennedy was too sick to ever vote again.
Senator Byrd finally returned, but Kennedy did not.
It wasn’t until August- 2009 that Senator Kirk was appointed to Kennedy’s seat, and finally they had the 60 votes.
That filibuster-proof 60 votes lasted exactly 4 months – Not 2 years. Not 1 year. Not 6 months.
Just 4 months – from August 2009 to February 2010 - when Scott Brown was sworn in.
But here’s a fact that nobody can deny:
Republicans had the presidency, the House, and the Senate from 2001 – 2007.
For six years, Republicans had total and complete and undeniably absolute control over everything.
And how did that work out in the final analysis?
It doesn’t bear repeating. You know the answer to that as well as I do. Six years to screw up the whole country – nay, the entire damned world!
And you whine because Obama could not fix it all in four months?
Alright, I expect you to whine. But from this point on there is no excuse for lying. Not now that you know the truth.Comment -
lol more lies from thor.
1. "The Republicans were already playing dirty politics and would not work across the aisle with the Democrats. "
that is hilarious considering reality. Who created a bill half the country didn't want and which side would DO NOTHING to look at it?
Pelosi "we have to pass it to see what is in it"
lol facts vs thor's BS source.
"Dirty politics" and which side unconstitutionally used the nuclear option to pass obamacare? Funny how that source even mentions the fact democrats DID NOT have 60 yet mentions nothing how they broke the constitution to pass it anyways. Typical liberal source.
again, facts vs thor's horse shitLast edited by brooks85; 06-22-17, 12:00 PM.Comment -
-
^rkelly taking joy another idiot followed his lie... lol trends, can't deny them and just showed another oneComment -
So thor by your logic the Republicans do not currently control congress?Comment -
Comment -
Franken wasn't sworn in until july 9th because the guy contested the race. If he would of been seated at the beginning it would only gave them 59. Without him they had 58.
Also kennedy was fighting brain cancer so he only voted 9 times or he missed 261 out of 270 votes. Kirk took his place for 4 months.
robt byrd was dying at the age of 92 . He died in 2010 but missed 128 out of 180 votes.
Specter was a republican until april of 2009 then he switched to the democratic party
He had a total of 72 days but he had blue dog democrats ( people like myself) bayh ind.nelson nebraska and lincoln of ark So if byrd felt well enough which ended up being 52 votes than he would have enough. But but those 3 blue dogs fought every thing obama did
Let us not forget that evan bayh was a kkk person. He incorporated the klan in indiana. So if he had 60 for 72 days being black he never had 60Last edited by chico2663; 06-22-17, 05:17 PM.Comment -
Evan Bayh Approved Incorporation of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana
Former KKK leader: ‘Let’s just say I don’t view him negatively’
SHARE
TWEET
EMAIL
Indiana Gov. Evan Bayh in 1989 / AP
BY: Brent Scher
September 8, 2016 10:20 am
As Indiana’s secretary of state, Evan Bayh approved the not-for-profit corporation status of a Ku Klux Klan organization that was used by group leaders to legitimize the racist group.
Bayh was responsible for deciding whether to officially incorporate the Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan when the group’s leader, Kenneth J. Taylor, submitted its application to the state in 1987 in hopes that incorporation would put "horror stories" about the Klan to rest, according to local reports.
Bayh granted the Klan group its corporate charter in November 1987, according to official documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon from the Indiana University Archives in Bloomington, Indiana.
ADVERTISING
The Indiana Office of the Secretary of State documents, which are signed by Bayh, state that the group was "exclusively for charitable, educational, [and] religious purposes."
1987 Incorporation Certificate for Indiana KKK Group by Washington Free Beacon on Scribd
Bayh’s office worked to deflect criticism for cooperating with the Klan group.
The incorporation was approved in November but Bayh’s office did not answer questions about it until January 1988 when the Indianapolis Recorder, one of the nation’s oldest African-American newspapers, reported on its front page that the KKK had formed a new corporation.
Bayh’s office told the reporter that it "held it up as long as [it] could" but that it was unable to deny the request. It pointed out that that the incorporation process usually takes just 10 days but took six months for the Klan group.
"We had no discretion in this area, based on the documentation sent by the incorporators," said an office spokesperson. "We held it up as long as we could."
In a phone interview with the Washington Free Beacon, Taylor said that he "never had any problem getting" incorporation. He said that Bayh's office asked him to submit more information but once he did, the group’s paperwork "went right through."
"We never had any problem getting it," said Taylor, who is no longer associated with the KKK but was second in command nationally at the time of incorporation.
"The paperwork went right through," Taylor said. "They didn’t harass us or anything."
Bayh’s team defended its boss by saying that his duty to incorporate the group was non-discretionary, but privately it viewed the decision as a potential political vulnerability.
The Free Beacon obtained a lengthy Bayh administration memo created during his 1992 reelection campaign that was described by its author as an "inventory of issues on which the administration might be vulnerable to criticism."
One of those vulnerabilities, included in a section called "Women and Minorities," was the fact that Bayh incorporated the Ku Klux Klan.
In a 1988 interview, Taylor credited Bayh’s decision with giving the Klan the ability to dispel "media myths." He told local outlets that Bayh’s decision was proof that the KKK was not what people thought it was.
"By incorporating and getting the paperwork to where Mr. Bayh has signed it, this designates that we are a legal organization," Taylor told the Indianapolis News.
"We are not what the media puts out about us," Taylor said. "If all the horror stories that they tell about us were true, they would not have incorporated us."
Before incorporation, Taylor had trouble buying ad space in newspapers to spread the Klan’s message. After incorporation, he said his group would file lawsuits against papers that turned it down.
The Indianapolis-based Jewish Post reported at the time that the KKK had "been more successful recently in recruiting in Indiana." The paper credited Taylor, referred to as an Indiana Klan Grand Dragon, for giving his group a "semblance of legitimacy by incorporating."
Although Bayh’s office said it had no choice but to incorporate Taylor’s KKK group, records show it was the first time a KKK-associated group had been approved in Indiana since the 1920s, when the state's KKK was the most powerful in the country.
Four other KKK groups have incorporated since 1987, according to a search on the Indiana Secretary of State’s website, including the still-active Church of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc.
Records show that Taylor’s KKK group was deemed inactive in 1995 due to its failure to submit mandatory paperwork. Taylor said he stopped filing paperwork due to an internal conflict that arose with another national leader that caused him to leave the KKK. He said that he currently has no involvement with the group.
Taylor, who said that he was a Democrat all his life "until they put Obama in there and they made a Republican out of me," has yet to decide whether he will vote for Bayh in his November election against Republican Todd Young.
"When Evan Bayh was here at home he seemed to do good, but then he left for a while and I don’t know what went on from there," said Taylor, who praised Bayh’s work as governor of Indiana.
Asked whether he had voted for Bayh in previous elections, Taylor said that he "always voted a straight Democratic ticket."
"Let’s just say I don’t view him negatively," said Taylor when asked whether he had a positive opinion about Bayh.
Taylor said he never discussed the Klan incorporation with Bayh, but that he did participate in a rally alongside Bayh in 1988 when he was running for governor and Taylor was running for Montgomery County Coroner as a Democrat.
"Me nor any other Klansmen that I know of has has ever discussed the Klan with Evan Bayh," Taylor said. "I’ve seen him personally at a rally he had in Crawfordsville when he was running for governor, but he was at the rally and so was I because at the time I was running for coroner."
The Bayh campaign could not be reached for comment. Bayh did not respond to a message sent to his email address at McGuireWoods, the Washington, D.C.-based law firm where Bayh is a partner.Comment -
Being catholic; I really don't like abortions. I have always believed it is not my right to tell people how to live. I know 2 women that found out they had breast cancer from plan parenthood. If they don't use tax payer dollars to pay for abortions than they do a hell of a lot of good work.Comment -
Comment -
It's a Super PAC, it has no connection to Planned Parenthood other than name. Any federal money Planned Parenthood receives must by law be used for day to day operations only.Jon Ossoff lost the House race in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District despite receiving nearly three-quarters of $1 million from the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.Comment
