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turbinetree's JournalMT senate candidate raises $400K for bid against Tester
Source: The Hill
Montana state auditor Matt Rosendale (R) has raised about $410,000 in the third fundraising quarter as he looks to navigate through a crowded GOP primary for the chance to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Tester (Mont.).
“The outpouring of support we have seen for our campaign across this state is incredible. Montanans are clearly tired of Jon Tester's political games in Washington D.C.” Rosendale said in a statement shared first with The Hill.
“Montanans know that I mean business and am here to get the job done.”
Rosendale's campaign shared its fundraising figures with The Hill ahead of its filing with the Federal Election Commission. All Senate candidates must file reports from July through September by the weekend.
Since the auditor announced his bid at the end of July, he only had two of those three months to fill his federal coffers.
Read more: http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/354921-mt-senate-candidate-raises-400k-for-bid-against-tester
No Rosendale, people are tired of your ilk, according to the FEC, you have some out of state money coming from lets say "agents":
that reside in Florida and elsewhere.
You would think, that if you get in office, you would introduce legislation to have health insurance sold across state lines, from lets say Florida, that's just an opinion
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?two_year_transaction_period=2018&data_type=processed&committee_id=C00548289&min_date=01%2F01%2F2017&max_date=12%2F31%2F2018
Schumer Bashes McConnells Push To Roll Dems On Judicial Nominees
Source: Talking Points Memo
By TIERNEY SNEED Published OCTOBER 11, 2017 11:26 AM
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) pushed back on comments made by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) indicating that the top Senate Republican would like to eliminate the last tool Democrats have to block President Trump’s judicial nominees.
“The Senate has fewer and fewer mechanisms that create bipartisanship and bring people to an agreement. The blue slips are one of them,” Schumer said Wednesday in a statement, referring to the Senate tradition that a judicial nominee not move forward until both home state senators return the so-called “blue slip” approving their nomination.
“It’s just a shame that Senator McConnell is willing to abandon it for circuit court judges. We hope that [Judiciary] Chairman [Chuck] Grassley, who has always believed in the traditions of the Senate, will resist Senator McConnell’s request,” Schumer’s statement continued.
In an interview with the Weekly Standard published earlier Wednesday, McConnell said that Republicans going forward will treat blue slips “as simply notification of how you’re going to vote, not as an opportunity to blackball.”
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/schumer-bashes-mcconnell-blue-slips
Mitch McConnell should be fucking IMPEACHED and for all of you that voted for him in Kentucky, just imagine for one minute what the sexual predator is going to do to you in the court at the federal level, you think you live in shit now, your are and everyone else is going to get fucked, and if you don't think so.......................think of your health care, voting all it takes is one judge in your state sending it up the chain and giving it to John Roberts
Trumps Health Department declares that life begins at conception
The Trump administration has repeatedly delivered on a campaign promise to the religious right that he’d prioritize a faith-based, anti-choice agenda. The latest evidence comes in the form of the draft strategic plan released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which defines life as “beginning at conception.”
The draft was released two weeks ago, before HHS Secretary Tom Price resigned, and it outlines the priorities of the agency and its governing offices. As Dr. Jen Gunter, an obstetrician and gynecologist in the San Francisco Bay Area, pointed out, HHS went beyond the normative promise from conservatives to promote faith-based partnerships, and declared that the life of each human begins at conception.
“It’s concerning because HHS isn’t just a theoretical group that writes think pieces no one reads,” Dr. Gunter told ThinkProgress. “We are replacing science with beliefs.”
The plan is a road map provided to the public of where the agency intends to go, and it also serves as a guidance from the head to agencies and offices it governs. That includes the Office of Population Affairs, which oversees the Title X program, and the National Institute of Health, which funds contraception research. The new HHS goals outlined look drastically different from guidance issued under the Obama administration, as pointed out by health expert Timothy Jost. Even guidance issued under President George W. Bush’s secretary was tamer, as it prioritized faith-based partnerships but did not use such overt anti-abortion language.
https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-health-department-is-adopting-a-lot-of-anti-choice-rhetoric-790ea32651bb/
So I have question, these are the same assholes, that want to take my health care away from me and these are the same assholes that send people into war-----------------------
Trump pitches his tax cuts for the wealthy as a boon to truckers
Source: Think Progress
On Wednesday President Donald Trump will address a group of working class people in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania he thinks will benefit the most from his proposed tax plan: American truckers.
“Nothing gets done in America without the hard working men and women of the trucking industry,” Trump will say in his speech, according to an administration official. “When your trucks are moving America is growing…That is why my administration is taking historic steps to remove the barriers that slow you down.”
The president will argue his tax plan will help middle class workers like American truckers, even though the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center found in a recent study of the Trump-GOP tax plan that in 2018, taxpayers in the top 1 percent, would receive roughly 53 percent of the total tax benefit and their after-tax income would increase an average of 8.5 percent. Meanwhile, taxpayers in the bottom 95 percent would see average after-tax incomes increase between 0.5 and 1.2 percent. And by 2027, the top 1 percent would get nearly 80 percent of tax cuts.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/trump-pitches-his-tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-as-a-boon-to-truckers-e6f88a5725fe/
SO I just gotta ask, is he going to ride along in a truck from Washington to Harrisburg, PA, its only about two hours away.
And does he know that this is what the industry is trying to accomplish:
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/may/29/drones-and-driverless-trucks-can-australian-truckies-stave-off-job-threat
http://www.zdnet.com/article/driverless-trucks-are-coming-but-for-now-adoption-is-in-the-slow-lane/
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/drone-slinging-ups-van-delivers-future/
So how is your "tax" plan going to help a driver, that owes money on truck getting a .05 to 1.2% income increase on lets say $50,000 a salary per year @ 1.2% is only $600.00 dollars divided by 12 months = a whooping $50.00 dollars a month-----------whew, big bucks to pay off that truck, and companies looking for "driverless" long haul routes.....................see if he explains it this way, after he bilks the taxpayers for this "joy ride"
Your a MORON.....................
It looks like its about to become much easier to confirm Trumps most ideological judges
The Senate’s Republican leader said on Tuesday that he will eliminate a practice that Senate Republicans used aggressively to block President Barack Obama’s judicial nominees. The practice, known as the “blue slip,” could have been eliminated while Democrats controlled the Senate and the White House. Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT), who controlled the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time refused to do so.
The blue slip process ostensibly encourages presidents to consult with home-state senators before nominating a federal judge to serve within their state. During the Obama administration, however, Senate Republicans wielded it to veto several of President Obama’s nominees.
Blue slips are forms that the Senate Judiciary Chair uses to poll home-state senators on whether they approve of a particular nominee. Historically, different chairs have used these forms differently. Under Obama, Leahy was unusually deferential to home-state senators, refusing to schedule a confirmation hearing on any nominee that did not receive a favorable blue slip. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) effectively held one federal appellate judgeship open for six years — the entire period that Johnson served in the Senate during the Obama presidency.
Other Senate Judiciary Chairs typically did not give a single senator this kind of veto power, though they often afforded some level of deference to home-state senators.
https://thinkprogress.org/it-looks-like-its-about-to-become-much-easier-to-confirm-trumps-most-ideological-judges-e26fce0d8583/
Right-Wing Crusader Launches Dangerous Project That Could Slash The Number Of Elected Minorities In
Reprinted with permission from AlterNet.
The right-wing war on voting opened a new front by filing a lawsuit that, if successful, could make it more difficult to elect non-white candidates in California and possibly across the nation.
The complaint was filed by Virginia-based Project on Fair Representation, which filed the lawsuit in Shelby County, Alabama, that led to the Supreme Court’s 2013 gutting of the main enforcement formula in the Voting Rights Act. Project on Fair Representation is led by Ed Blum, a well-known figure in the right-wing universe who was involved in drafting the suit challenging affirmative action in state university admissions that made it to the Supreme Court, though it lost.
On Wednesday, Blum filed a suit targeting the California Voting Rights Act. The suit argues the law is unconstitutional because it gives the state power to force cities to create political districts for local seats, taking racial representation into account, and thus replacing the previous at-large districts, where the top vote getters fill several seats.
In other words, the California Legislature decided in passing CVRA that it was better to have more local election districts, where strong local leaders could win—as opposed to bigger at-large districts, where local support could become diluted (because more populous suburbs may not choose inner city or minority candidates).
http://www.nationalmemo.com/right-wing-crusader-launches-dangerous-project-slash-number-elected-minorities-california/
So in essence this jerk thinks that Rat Fucking elections is just fine and that race should play the ultimate card.
Hey, I Got a message for you then jerk, then as a person of Indigenous blood running through my veins and your here illegally in my eyes, and since your "white", go away, leave, kinda tired of the Manifest Destiny shit
Russian propaganda promoting Texas secession moves to Instagram
Source: Think Progress
On Monday morning, ThinkProgress reported on the existence of an Instagram account that went live around the time Facebook began removing hundreds of Russia-linked accounts in August. This “Raised in Texas” Instagram account posted the same material as the now-defunct “Heart of Texas” Facebook page, which was itself run out of Russia.
By Monday afternoon, the Instagram account had disappeared.
It remains unclear whether the “Raised in Texas” Instagram account, which began posting on Aug. 21 and described itself as the “Page Only for REAL Texans!”, was linked to the “Heart of Texas” page. Facebook did not return requests for comment, and the “Raised in Texas” account failed to answer ThinkProgress’s questions before it disappeared.
However, there are any number of indicators that should give Facebook and Instagram pause – and which highlight the issues remaining for the tech giants surrounding fraudulent foreign accounts aimed at inflaming America’s socio-political divides.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/instagram-russia-texas-secession-b766b2df9e65/
And has Rachel Maddow reported last night, the only way the public is finding about this sh*t is because of journalists, the silicon valley corporations are only thinking about greed, and the wall street bottom line, they are just about like every other corporation in this country, give us your infrastructure but to hell with a republic, its about the money.
They know and they just don't care, these platforms have done nothing to tell the public what they know------------------because of the damage that was created, and they knew
The radical ideology of this Trump nominee makes even the most conservative SCOTUS justices uneasy
It's a nice government you have there. Would be a shame if someone breaks it.
IAN MILLHISER
OCT 10, 2017, 8:00 AM
Justice Don Willett is charming.
Best known outside legal circles for his Twitter feed, @JusticeWillett, the Texas Supreme Court justice — and now a Trump nominee to a federal appeals court — tweets largely apolitical commentary about Calvin and Hobbes, his children, and Oxford commas. Many of his tweets are genuinely hilarious, and Willett is equally disarming in person. When I met him a couple years ago at a gathering of the conservative Federalist Society, he was genial, thoughtful, and surprisingly familiar with my work. The man knows how to endear himself to people.
This would all be well and good, if not for one other factor. This charming, intelligent, knowledgeable man also wants to dismantle much of the last 80 years of American law.
In a 2015 opinion laden with libertarian tropes and selective history, Willett called upon his court to revive a defunct doctrine once used to strike down minimum wage laws and gut workers’ right to organize. It’s a doctrine that that three of the Supreme Court of the United States’ most conservative members recently called out as “discredited” and “unprincipled.”
The “Lochner Era”
There are a handful of past Supreme Court decisions that belong to the constitutional “anti-canon” — the pro-slavery decision in Dred Scott, the Court’s pro-segregation decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, a 1918 decision striking down child labor laws. These are the sort of cases that law students are taught never to cite favorably in a brief. When they do come up in litigation, it is typically because one party accuses the other of make an argument reminiscent of an anti-canonical case.
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“Don’t Thread on Me”
Patel is a tribute to the increasing sophistication of lawyers fighting to restore cases like Lochner. It involves both an exceptionally dumb law and a bevy of sympathetic plaintiffs. It’s the sort of case where you very much want the plaintiffs, who were represented by a law firm that specializes in Trojan Horse lawsuits seeking to launder radical legal doctrines through cases involving real injustice, to prevail even if they don’t have any good legal arguments. It’s the sort of case that tugs at the heart, and that shuts down the part of the brain that makes judges think through the implications of what they are signing onto.
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Justice Willett is many things. He is radical and deeply conservative. But he is also intelligent, charismatic, and skilled in the arts of persuasion. And he will probably soon be a federal appellate judge. His views can no longer be safely ignored.
https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-most-radical-nominee-since-neil-gorsuch-02d1bcabc8e0/
This individual is dangerous Trojan judge, the above article is a good read, the sexual predator trump through his lackeys are packing the courts with individuals that do not believe in certain rights of the General Welfare of the country or individual, based in the Constitution
Free Thinking Army Officer Is Driving The Right Crazy
Reprinted with permission from AlterNet.
Second Lieutenant Spenser Rapone is, by all accounts, a contrarian. He was a free thinker at West Point, a communist in the U.S. Army, a soldier who reads Gramsci, and most tragically, a threat to the peace of mind of Senator Marco Rubio.
What second Lt. Rapone is not, is a threat to “overthrow the U.S. government,” a “threat to our safety,” guilty of “treason,” or “100%” certain to commit “mass murder in the near future.” This is despite what some may have read about him on right-wing Twitter and in the reactionary Daily Caller.
Fake journalist Mike Cernovich, a master of the non-sequitur, concludes Rapone’s heresies should convince you that the National Security Council is run by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Spenser Rapone is proof that cultural Marxism has taken over at West Point, still think that the NSC isn’t run by Muslim Brotherhood?
— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) September 27, 2017
Now the Army is investigating Lt. Rapone, the veterans in the Democratic Socialists of America are defending him, and the social media hive is starting to buzz.
Truly Scary
http://www.nationalmemo.com/free-thinking-army-officer-driving-right-crazy/
Will Trump Betray Workers Again By Naming Kevin Warsh As Fed Chair?
Reprinted with permission from CEPR.
A consistent drumbeat in Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency was a promise that he would stand up for the American working class against financial elites who had rigged policy to enrich themselves, a message that clearly resonated with some voters. He has reneged on this commitment in virtually every area of public policy, including providing better health care coverage than Obamacare, crafting better trade agreements, making sure tax cuts go to the middle-class ,and standing up for workers’ rights at work.
This month workers who supported Trump may see another betrayal. It has been reported that Trump may pick Kevin Warsh, who married into a billionaire family, to replace Janet Yellen as the next Chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (BOG). Decisions made by the Fed’s BOG are extraordinarily important for American workers. In recent years, pressure has built for the Fed to begin applying the brake to America’s economic recovery by raising interest rates. The rationale for this is that the Fed must slow growth to tamp down inflationary pressures. Warsh has consistently been on the side advocating for slowing growth to fight inflation. But these inflationary pressures appear nowhere in either wage or price data. And if the Fed hits the brake prematurely, millions of Americans could lose opportunities to work, and tens of millions could see smaller wage increases.
One underappreciated aspect of raising interest rates is that they will put upward pressure on the value of the U.S. dollar, and this stronger dollar will make U.S. exports less competitive on world markets while making foreign imports cheaper to American consumers. This will in turn lead to rising trade deficits which stunt growth in manufacturing employment. Warsh knows about this
argument, but he just doesn’t really care:
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A Warsh nomination for Fed chair would be a perfect example of how the financial sector capture of the Federal Reserve has hamstrung the economic leverage and bargaining power of low and middle-wage workers. Finance hates inflation and doesn’t especially care if the unemployment rate is unnecessarily high. As a result, the Fed has for decades greatly overweighted its mandate to avoid above-target inflation while underweighting its mandate to pursue maximum employment. Part of the fallout of this frequently too-tight stance of monetary policy has been chronic trade deficits which have cost the country millions of manufacturing jobs. And while growing evidence shows that America’s stance towards globalization in recent decades has privileged the interests of corporations over typical workers, Warsh wants the Fed to be an advocate for doubling-down on this failed approach.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/will-trump-betray-workers-naming-kevin-warsh-fed-chair/
Trump does not care, about anything that is remotely associated with Obama, he will discard Yellen just for his reckless self interests and ego
And how this person (Warsh) got on the board of governors is beyond comprehension
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