Month: September 2015

“It’s three agencies of government when I get there that are gone – Commerce, Education and the um, what’s the third one there? Let’s see. Oh five – Commerce, Education and the um, um,” - Rick Perry

Inside is the documentary Donald Trump does not want you to see.

If you live in the 18th Representative District and are registered to vote, get out and vote for David Bentz. If you think you live in the 18th RD and are not sure, go here and find out. If you want to know more about today's special election, go here. Polls are open now and until 8 pm. You can find your polling place here. You can read up on David Bentz in the News Journal voter guide and in our own El Som's piece on him last week.

...that the attacks on 9/11 were a successful Al-Qaeda operation, that George Bush turned into a HUGE Al-Qaeda victory through his bungled, nonsensical, and ultimately tragic response.

Republican consultant Steve Schmidt, who presumably sympathizes with National Review and Club for Growth, described their frustrations as the result of a fatal disjunction between mass conservatism and the ideology that’s supposed to underlie it. “We’re at this moment in time,” Schmidt told NPR recently, “when there’s a severability between conservatism and issues. Conservatism is now expressed as an emotional sentiment. That sentiment is contempt and anger.” This explains Trump’s rise and persistence, but fails to account for how “contempt and anger” became such valuable currency in Republican politics today. That omission is predictable, because such an accounting would implicate nearly everyone who now claims to be astonished and dismayed by the Trump phenomenon. It’s difficult to pinpoint when resentment became a controlling force in Republican politics, but Club for Growth, National Review, and Schmidt all contributed to it.

Republicans in 2008 were contemptuous and angry that their ideology of preemptive war and supply side economics were revealed to be bankrupt and responsible for the horrible mess the country found itself in. Not that the horrible events of two failed wars and an economic depression that they were directly responsible for made them angry. No, they were angry that they were found out. They were angry that the were shoved out of power because of it. Power belongs to conservatives. Always. And they were very very very angry that the person doing the shoving was black. Republicans, all of them, everywhere, began an opposition of total obstruction. And they maintained it through anger and contempt. Every action taken by the black usurper was an action of a genocidal tyrant bent on conservative white people's immediate, imminent destruction. Everything was an outrage.

A lot of horror can be released in 102 minutes. We should remember it. We should remember those we lost in those minutes. And we should remember the sacrifice of those who tried to help. But we shouldn't dwell in anger and hate. We have gotten our vengeance. Our revenge. It is time to move on. We shouldn't be seeing posters like this on Facebook......

Come inside to watch the videos of the Vice President's appearance last night on Colbert. It is a paradox. This is the kind of man that needs to be our leader. Honest and Authentic. A true family man. And yet, because of that, I don't think he will run. Because he knows he doesn't have it in him.