Debbie Riddle vs. Rafael Anchia
Louie Gohmert raging
Kick the crazies out. Vote Democrat. Please.
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Expert: "Terror Baby" Theory is "Fearmongering, to be blunt"
It's an interview with Fred Burton, a former counterterrorism expert, who called out Gohmert's statement for what it is--fear mongering.
Terrorist babies? Reality, or at least the Radical Right version of it, has totally outrun the ability of comedians to satirize.
"light-skinned" and had "no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." -- Harry Ried
I thas been said that the Speaker of the House is a dumb as a box of rocks however the person who said that was rebuked for offending boxes of rocks everywhere.
FWIW, the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, also is not "dumb as a box of rocks".
Rep. Gohmert: Please give at least an interview a day until the elections.
I think this crop of Republicans has managed to lose Hispanics and their vote for at least a generation or two.
Beware of anyone screaming "Us v. Them" because in a nation built by immigrants and of immigrants, we are all "them."
Party affiliation, and party pandering, at this point is a matter of demographics. Rural votes matter in Texas. You can draw your own conclusion as to why the Texas Taliban seems to be drawing in more and more rural voters.
So far our Constitution has protected us from the lunatics and their "majority" but the reality of the Civil Rights Act is that if the people had voted on it, it wouldn't have passed. And might not pass even today.
That is something all minorities should think about - a Republican majority in Congress at this point would be a dangerous thing. The pandering to the Tea Party is why. Congress isn't selling itself to them but to the lobbyists but they have to pander to the Tea Party for the votes.
In the end, at least in terms of the "immigration reform" lunatics, the corporate interest will win out. They cannot afford the American worker. So they need a contiunal flow of "guest workers" in addition to the "outsourced" workers.
I wouldn't count on Congress amending the 14th Amendment or on Congress calling for mass deportation. But Congress of course isn't going to tell the Tea Party that. But may toss some crumbs their way to keep them happy. Mainly by slashing programs aimed at "poor minorities" who of course have brought this country down according to the lunatics. Never mind Wall Street having been turned into a casino.
Just the same they are a dangerous group. I believe the statistics indicate they make up 20-25% of the Republican Party base at this point. And they are running candidates that are slowly beginning to appeal to the moderate base.
The political pendulum has seemed to swing wildly back and forth between the two parties. At this point, it is swinging wildly round and round. Mainly around the Tea Party. I guess we will find out in November how effective the hateful rhetoric is.
It should be pointed out that the "Islamaphobia" of the moment that seems to have felled even the moderate Republicans and may fell the party itself. John Cornyn in particular seems to forget that Muslims do vote. Most are American citizens. Something else he seems to forget.
But then that is something the Tea Party seems to forget as well but then the Tea Party of course would like to change the Constitution to once exclude everyone but White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. Not sure how they believe they will get that past a Supreme Court that is majority Catholic. Who of course at one time were discriminated against in this country as well.
America is a melting pot. The problem is the pot at this point really is melting. Mainly because of the lunatics.
* Democratic Party: 152-96 (61%-39%) * Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%)
Cloture in the Senate:[11]
* Democratic Party: 44-23 (66%-34%) * Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)
The Senate version:[10]
* Democratic Party: 46-21 (69%-31%) * Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)
The Senate version, voted on by the House:[10]
* Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%-37%) * Republican Party: 136-35 (80%-20%)
"ACTING!" (add grandiose hand flourish)
This display of Argumentum "Add Extra-Volume" was sad.
Gohmert was elected as 7th district judge in Smith County (Tyler) in 1992 and was reelected two times before being appointed as an appeals court judge by Governor Rick Perry for the 12th Circuit, where he served from 2002 to 2003. After Texas' 2003 mid-decade redistricting process, he successfully defeated Democratic incumbent 1st District Congressman Max Sandlin for his seat in Congress, becoming the first Republican since Reconstruction to represent the 1st District of northeast Texas.
It all adds up to a political disaster.
Disenfranchise voters. Purge certain "types" from the voter rolls for ginned up reasons. Paul Bettencourt, the former Tax-Assessor of Harris County (Houston,) excelled at this practice until he was busted for it in 2008. Democrats would have swept all of Harris County if the Master Purger had not rejected about 7,000 voter registrations for bogus reasons. Most had Hispanic last names, of course.
Fan the flame of fear and hate to divert attention from real issues and pit the American people against one another. Repeat talking points handed down from Republican ventriloquists and puppet masters like Frank Luntz and Karl Rove. Use wedge issues that touch the emotional hot buttons of voters to distract them, make them afraid and angry. Paint worse case fringe scenarios that are not based in reality, i.e. Louie Gohmert and Debbie Riddles's charges about terrorist babies. The Bush Administration used gay marriage and abortion. This current crop of Republican is using Muslims (all are apparently terrorists according to the R's) and Hispanics (repeal the 14th Amendment rhetoric) as their targets to pick on and demonize.
Attack the messenger when you don't like the message. I've been posting comments in the Houston Chronicle on line edition and have been reading many the postings from many right wingers. Their typical response to a fact that they don't like or agree with is usually a personal attack. "It seems that you have an 8th grade reading level." Or "someone left the asylum door open." "You don't get out much do you." And that is the light stuff. The attacks are so childish that I sometimes wonder if middle school kids are posting them.
I guess one has to be 100% white and a far right wing fundamentalist Christian to hold membership in today's Republican Party. The Party's base of tolerant folks seems to be shrinking by the minute.
Let's have open borders.
Let everybody in, no questions asked.
Throw caution to the wind - after all, all the little hispanic babies born here will vote for Dems when they're old enough!
Forget infrastructure, forget budgets, forget sustainability, forget quality of life...
Yeah. Border security is soooooo overrated. Why in the world are people actually concerned about it?
They're clearly ALL racist.
They are ALLLLLLLL racist.
Dems are the most tolerant people in the world!!!!!1!!!11
As a good Republican, I can say with certainty that the brown people give me the heebie jeebies.
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