Today’s miscellaneous political news - part 8

It’s a question of whether the Republicans in Congress support Putin or they can’t or won’t see the future if Putin wins in Ukraine.

While this is nice, I bet the dead and their families would rather have change when it comes to guns in this country so things like this don’t happen to other people.

Seriously these people are nuts…








Check who’s going to die by the end of the year…

For crying out loud.  The Supreme Court had better keep out of this.

The difference between dumpster don and Joe Biden and the majority of former presidents is that once president dumpster don only goal was to enrich himself, his family, and his buddies at the expense of the American People.

While Joe Biden and the majority of former Presidents do & did have a goal to help the majority of Americans, even if We the People didn’t necessarily agree with their vision.

Joe Biden does has done nothing to deserve this shit this bimbo and other Republicans are blathering about.

But dumpster don, based his actions before & during his time as president deserves everything that is happening to him at this time.

And as far as the Taliban go, I see the bimbo is ignoring the fact that dumpster don negotiated with the terrorist group while undermining the legally elected government of Afghanistan.  And one has to wonder just how much that had to do with sudden collapse of the Afghan government and military.

As to Joe Biden “losing” the war, I was not aware the United States was currently actively fighting a war.  And it does seem Ukraine is holding its own against Russia.

Here, IMO, is a Democrat shooting himself in the foot.  Not to long ago the Republicans called the the Democrats socialist with a socialist agenda,  Now the Republicans are calling Democrats elitist.  You can’t be both.  I looked it up.

The way to handle this, IMO, is to use this to ridicule the Republicans at the same time point out they are only name calling because they have nothing to offer the American People other then tax cuts that only benefit corporations and the rich.  Then talk about what the Democrats have to offer that benefits all Americans, especially the working class.

He’s absolutely right….

Apparently to many in this country the newest color of nail polish is more important then what happened on January 6.  

Maybe this country deserves to lose its democracy.

From the article…

“The committee did an effective job, especially at last week’s session, proving the centrality of Trump’s role in sending a violent mob of his followers to the Capitol intent on overturning a legitimate presidential election. It was striking how premeditated his plan was to create the conditions for an insurrection, not just in the marching order the president delivered that day to “fight like hell,” but also in the plot concocted before the first 2020 election ballot had been counted to preemptively — and, it turns out, falsely — declare victory. That lie was the original sin, not just of Jan. 6, but of the undermining of democracy in which most of the Republican candidates for key offices this fall have been complicit.

And yet the early evidence shows that the committee’s probe, while important and even vital for establishing the truth, does not seem to have mattered — at least not in the sense of crystallizing public understanding or changing people’s minds.

In a survey released Wednesday by Monmouth University’s reputable polling outfit, only 36 percent of respondents said they believed Trump was “directly responsible” for what happened on Jan. 6, which is six points down from the response they got to that question shortly after the committee began its public hearings in June. It’s only slightly more than the 33 percent in the same survey who said they believe Trump did nothing wrong.”

What we have here is a conservative working hard to claim the candidates the Democrats have are in the dumpster with the current crop of Republican candidates.

To me this is an example of someone on the right who knows the current crop of Republicans were found scrapping the bottom of the dumpster where dumpster don lives and are trying to make it ok by claiming “whataboutism”.

Seriously the Republicans are in a class all by themselves these days and there is no honest comparison between them and anyone else.



From the Washington Post….

“Opinion Democrats discover they’re not immune to the ‘candidate quality’ problem

By Jim Geraghty
October 20, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EDT

Jim Geraghty is the senior political correspondent at National Review.

Let’s not mince words. Herschel Walker, Mehmet Oz, J.D. Vance and Blake Masters are light-years away from the ideal GOP Senate candidate.


These four horsemen of the midterm apocalypse, with their defects thoroughly raked over in the media, prompted some conventional wisdom to take hold a few months ago. The political and economic environment pointed to a big Republican year in 2022, we were told, but lousy candidates such as these, endorsed by Donald Trump, were blowing the GOP’s chances to win the Senate.

Until the end of summer, that assessment looked accurate. But bit by bit, the outlook for this quartet has improved in recent weeks. Vance looks like the slight favorite in Ohio’s Senate race; Walker is still polling pretty close to Sen. Raphael G. Warnock in Georgia; Oz has mounted a furious comeback against John Fetterman in Pennsylvania; and even Masters is inching closer to the margin of error against Sen. Mark Kelly in Arizona.

Wary Republican voters and GOP-leaning independents are talking themselves into supporting these unorthodox candidates, and they’re all probably not much worse than 50-50 shots in their usually competitive states.

Meanwhile, as this cycle’s primaries progressed, you probably heard a lot less about the flawed candidates Democrats ended up fielding.

Perhaps the biggest surprise is in Arizona’s gubernatorial race, where Democrat Katie Hobbs, the current secretary of state, was supposed to enjoy a solid advantage against the very Trumpy former television news anchor Kari Lake. But the race is tight, and Democrats are worried — especially because Hobbs refuses to take on Lake in a debate.

“I have no desire to be a part of the spectacle that she’s looking to create,” Hobbs said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” this month.

“If Katie Hobbs loses,” fumed Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts, it will be because she “ran away from confronting Kari Lake.” Roberts complained that Hobbs, having “kept more eloquent Democrats out of the race,” has an obligation to inform voters about her policies — and to “show us exactly why” her “hard-right opponent would be a disaster for Arizona.”

A lot of Democrats will put up with flawed candidates, but seeming cowardice in the face of confronting Trumpism might well be a bridge too far. If you’re not willing to get up on stage and lay out why your opponent has all the wrong ideas, why are you running for office?

Then there’s Fetterman, who is forcing Pennsylvania Democrats to deal with the fallout from health issues that he didn’t fully disclose before the primary. Fetterman suffered a stroke on May 13, the Friday before the Tuesday primary in Pennsylvania. His first brief statement about the stroke came out on May 15, declaring, “The good news is I’m feeling much better, and the doctors tell me I didn’t suffer any cognitive damage. I’m well on my way to a full recovery.”

Five hours before the polls closed on primary day, Fetterman’s campaign issued a statement that he was undergoing surgery “that will help protect his heart and address the underlying cause of his stroke, atrial fibrillation (A-fib), by regulating his heart rate and rhythm.” Fetterman won the primary with 57 percent of the vote.

We don’t know that Fetterman’s rivals in the primary — Rep. Conor Lamb or state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta — would be performing better in the polls right now. But we do know that neither one would have “has he recovered from his stroke?” as a lingering potential problem.

For most of the cycle, Wisconsin Democrats licked their chops as they looked at Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and his subpar job approval numbers. Maybe overconfidence led them to choose the hard-left Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, whose progressive bona fides include having advocated cutting police budgets and abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (He has since backed off those positions.) Barnes hasn’t led a poll since mid-September, although a more recent poll had the two candidates tied. Democrats might be getting flashbacks to 2016, when Johnson looked like toast but won by three percentage points.

Elsewhere, it is fair to wonder whether two retreads from 2018 were really the best choices for Democrats, or just the most familiar ones. Once Stacey Abrams in Georgia and Beto O’Rourke in Texas announced they were interested in running for governor, they essentially froze out other options. But the pair seem better suited to wowing correspondents for New York-based glossy magazines than appealing to culturally conservative electorates in Southern states.
Sure, Abrams’s and O’Rourke’s out-of-state fundraising is off the charts, but that’s probably just vacuuming up money from grass-roots Democrats that would be more wisely spent elsewhere.

When all is said and done in the midterms, Democrats might wonder whether all the buzz and laughter about the Republicans’ freak-show candidates distracted them from the consequential flaws in their own crop.”