Did you know it is OK to shoot escorts who won’t have sex with you in Texas? A Texas jury acquitted a man who shot an escort he contacted via Craig’s List. She’s dead, but:
During closing arguments Tuesday, Gilbert’s defense team conceded the shooting did occur but said the intent wasn’t to kill. Gilbert’s actions were justified, they argued, because he was trying to retrieve stolen property: the $150 he paid Frago. It became theft when she refused to have sex with him or give the money back, they said.
Time to give Texas back to Mexico, I’m thinking.
Yesterday, the Senate defeated BOTH the Dem and the GOP bills to fix the student loan interest rate problem. The first thing I want to know is what happened to Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to tie student loan interest rates to the rates paid by banks to borrow from the Treasury? I guess that Democrats think that this gives them a card in the campaign against the Republicans, but seriously people — these kids are facing REAL bills here.
Why Young People Don’t Vote Republican
In January, the CNRC asked identified “winnable” young people who had voted for Obama, the words that came to mind when hearing the words “Republican Party.” Four of the most common responses: “closed-minded, racist, rigid, old-fashioned.” Democrats, by contrast, were “tolerant,” “diverse,” and “open-minded.”
Young voters don’t consider elected officials to be the Republican Party’s leaders. A focus group in Ohio selected Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Bill O’Reilly as the most iconic figures they identify with the GOP. By contrast, they identified Barack Obama, the Clintons, and Nancy Pelosi, along with other prominent current and former elected officials.
The report accused Republicans of not having any “substance behind” a vague message of economic growth. “Economic growth and opportunity policies cannot just be about tax cuts and spending cuts,” the report says. It needs to be backed up with specific policy prescriptions on health care, immigration, and education.
This was a brutal report — largely pointing out how incredibly narrow the GOP appeal is. And if they continue on, the appeal will be smaller — the CW of voting is that you tend to vote over your lifetime the way you voted when you started out. It seems pretty clear — especially as Marco Rubio now seems intent on killing the immigration bill he once championed — that they aren’t going to learn a thing from this.
What interests you this rainy Friday?