Why on earth should the voter purge be done now, right before an election? That’s something that is done as part of clean up after an election. Well, Rachel explained why.
Attorney General Cuccinelli needs to recuse himself on this one. I see a clear conflict of interest since he is one who would stand to gain from any improper purging.
This race will be close. The most dangerous thing either side could do is rest on the complacency of poll results. Every vote will count.
From Kathleen Parker
… Republicans hope to hold the House and gain the Senate — and Democrats intend to hold the Senate and recover the House.
Each respective goal is equally possible depending on the same single significant determinant: whether Ted Cruz stops talking.
While that thought settles in, we pause to note that, right now, the idea that Republicans could convince anyone that they should be allowed to deliver milk, much less hold the nation’s purse strings, seems remote. But things do change quickly around here. With the debt crisis postponed and the government up and running again — faith in the efficiency of which underscores the direness of our political straits — most Americans will settle into the season’s serial holiday distractions and move right along.
What lies ahead is the GOP’s internal struggle to determine which wing of the party prevails. And which wing prevails likely will determine the balance of power come 2014. Suffice to say, if Cruz’s voice drowns out the so-called establishment voices, Republicans may as well start investing in camels. The desert awaits.
Ted Cruz is just one little big-mouth. How can a freshman senator from Texas with little experience anywhere be as influential as he has been? How could David Koresh have been influential? How could Jim Jones convince hundreds of people to drink poisoned Kool Aid? It makes no sense to me. Are there people who simply have a Pied Piper type of personality?
Congressman Bill Young, 82, the nation’s longest-serving Republican congressman, died at
6:50 p.m. at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda,
Md., surrounded by his wife, three sons, two siblings, 10 grandchildren,
and close staff and friends.
My heart is broken over the death of Congressman Bill Young, R-FL. He died Friday night at Walter Reed Hospital from complications of a injury from decades ago. He was 82.
Congressman Young lived in Woodbridge. His children, now adults, attended Prince William County Schools. Congressman and Mrs. Young supported the schools and provided fabulous field trips for the kids in their kids’ classes. They took many a special guest to various state affairs like the State of the Union Address.
Congressman and Mrs. Young were strong supporters of the troops. They made weekly pilgrimages to check in on our wounded warriors at Walter Reed Hospital and Bethesda Navy Hospital. They brought the wounded troops gifts and sat with them, even when communication wasn’t possible. They put their money and time where their mouth is.
Congressman Young will be sorely missed locally, in Congress, and in his home district in the Tampa area. RIP Congressman Young.
Read More:
CNN : tribute from those in Congress
Tampa Bay Times: What people are saying
The Youngs visit the wounded warriors
Yahoo: Family Picture
On October 17, 2013, President Obama nominated Johnson to be U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. Colonel Davis knows Jeh Johnson and feels he is a good man for the job. Johnson has a long list of accomplishments.
Sarah Palin, who supported losing Senate candidate Steve Lonegan in New Jersey and the efforts to defund Obamacare in a government funding bill that led to the shutdown, said the focus after losing both fights should be on 2014.
“Friends, do not be discouraged by the shenanigans of D.C.’s permanent political class today. Be energized. We’re going to shake things up in 2014,” Palin wrote on her Facebook page early Thursday morning. “Rest well tonight, for soon we must focus on important House and Senate races. Let’s start with Kentucky — which happens to be awfully close to South Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi — from sea to shining sea we will not give up. We’ve only just begun to fight.”
The interactive map can be found at the New York Times. There is an entire list of how each member of Congress voted, as well as a click on feature on the map. The map here is a screen capture so it doesn’t have that capability.
The biggest surprise I see is how many voted against the measure in Utah. Utah was footing the bill for all the national parks to be open. I believe there are at least 6 NPs as well as a number of national monuments. That’s financially shooting yourself in the foot when so many small towns and hamlets rely on those parks for their very existence. Go figure.
Thanks goodness. All 4 senators from Maryland and Virginia voted in favor. We could be right back where we just came from in three months.
Channel 4 NBC reported that it could take as long as 6 months for this area to recover from the closure since October 1.
It is unsure when the federal employees will get their paychecks. It depends on the agency when employees go back to work.
The zoo will open Friday. The Smithsonian museums will open tomorrow.
Tomorrow we can discuss who was naughty and who was nice.
We should never get this close to the brink.
For the past week or so concerned Americans have been signing petitions in Starbucks to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling. The petitions also call for a bipartisan budget. The petition drive was so popular that people were copying blank sheets and bringing them back in to add to the pile.
Where are the candles hiding? Are the stems carved wax?
Where is the best place to buy pumpkins this year? You might see a low price but then discover your pumpkin weighs 15-20 pounds.
It would seem a shame to carve up these pumpkins. We will just let them be.
If we could have done away with the chortling in the background, Krystal Ball would have been right on.
I no longer feel badly for John Boehner. He is going to have to step up to the plate and force the votes that need to happen to raise the debt ceiling and it must happen tomorrow. He must not allow the thugs in Congress to bring the country down on its economic knees. I feel as though those tea party republicans are enemy combatants attempting to destroy our nation. They must be treated as such.
If Boehner loves his country more than his speakership , then he must do what is right, ignore the Hastert rule (which is suspiciously undemocratic in the first place) and bring two important votes to the floor. We have run out of time.
If Boehner does not, the President must draw from the various amendments to place an emergency measure in place and by-pass the normal channels. The bills must be paid.
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Lots of folks are moaning and groaning about the national parks and monuments being closed, in particular, the ones on the Mall. I am friends with some of those people and I am related to some of them. I think everyone is thinking locally and not looking at the big national picture. All over the nation, little towns exist because of the national parks. Springdale, Utah springs to mind, right outside of Zion National Park. The entire town is there for tourists. Moab, Utah is another town that exists for Arches National Park. Packwood, Washington caters to those visiting Mt. Rainier from the south of the mountain. No one would go to Packwood unless they had to get to Mt. Rainier.
Towns like Kitty Hawk, NC will survive with or without the First Flight National Monument being open. It isn’t a one-horse town and has many other attractions. What about Acadia National Park in Maine? Mt. Desert depends on the NP. How about those little towns and hamlets that exist for Death Valley? What on earth will attract anyone to the area? The Grand Canyon is not near anything. The people in the area are there because of the Grand Canyon. The community has one thing in common.
A must read is the newly defined center in Esquire Magazine. There were some pretty amazing results, starting with what people thought they are vs where they fall in reality.
Chuck Todd excoriated Ted Cruz on Monday’s “Morning Joe” after the senator questioned the accuracy of a recent NBC News poll about the government shutdown.
The survey, which NBC pollsters said they were “shocked” by, showed Republicans with their worst ratings in the poll’s history, and blamed the GOP for the shutdown.
“Morning Joe” played footage of Cruz saying that the poll was “heavily weighted” with an “awful lot” of Democrats.
Good grief. This man, whose name is Larry Klagman, couldn’t get more offensive if he tried. (Has he paid his back child support payments yet?) Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz also put in an appearance with this gang who were waving American flags, Gadsden flags, and Confederate flags while some of them carried barricades from the WWII memorial to the White House.
Park police had to come out in riot gear to quell the uprising of thugs hell-bent on making their voices heard. Apparently the protestors simply don’t understand the meaning of the word “CLOSED.” There is no funding for the parks and monuments.
Obviously Klagman who is unelectable doesn’t stand for family values, but how can people like Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz, spokespersons for the values crowd, be seen with people who are tearing up government property? I doubt seriously if any WWII veterans were in that crowd. It will be interesting to see what this clean up will cost.
The thugs need to understand that if they don’t like the parks and monuments closed, they need to contact their cult heroes and tell those folks to fund the government without ridiculous strings attached. This is a simple concept. Thugs, there is no free lunch.
I am not longer going to even listen to the Constitution freaks. You know, those dudes who walk around with pocket copies of the Constitution–those people who replaced those geeks who walked around with slide rules first, and the pocket protectors.
The Constitution is simply a frame-work. It doesn’t begin to address all of our body of laws and rights. It is the bare bones. If we depended on just the Constitution, one of our most cherished rights as Americans would not have even happened until the 14th amendment was ratified in 1868. Of course I am referring to the right to vote. No where is voting mentioned in the Constitution until the 14th amendment. My right to vote would come along later, in 1920, when the 19th amendment was ratified:
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
