Wow, that was something wasn't it? We haven't had a day like that since, well, since in the space of a week Obama took out both Osama Bin Laden and Donald Trump Simultaneously
Talking about watching the GOP Reap the Whirlwind.
I mean, first it starts out with this Crazy Cain Press Conference where he says he's "Never Been Inappropriate to Anyone in his Life", just one day after Sharon Bialek essentially accuses him of an attempted Sexual Assault.
And he says "I've never seen that woman in my life!". Yeah, ok - she claims to have worked for the National Restaurant Association, lost her job and was asking you for help - but you've never seen her? Like there couldn't possibly be records, or meeting notes that show both of you attending the same event or function - EVER!?
I gotta say that dude has some chutzpah. Yeah, like Sociopath Chutzpah.
And then, less than an hour after Cain's Amazing Performance of Strategic Memory Failure - where he both agrees and disagrees to a Polygraph, and he agrees and disagrees that the "Democratic Machine" has to be behind all of this - less than an hour later the attorney for the first accuser, Karen Kraushaar come on Al Sharpton's show and Blew Away Everything that Cain Said.
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Wasn't it weird when Cain started to interview himself - Rumsfeld style -and refer to himself in the third person? This dude is cracking up.
Kraushaar's Attorney: My client filed a written complain of multiple instances of Sexual Harrasment [by Herman Cain] which took place over the course of multiple days. We plan to have a joint press conference with the other women, where they can all air their experiences with Mr. Cain
Sharpton: Mr Cain said that your client did not get a "Settlement" and that her claim was found to be "Baseless" is that true? Is Mr. Cain misleading the public?
Attorney: First of all There was a written Settlement Agreement which my client and I signed, it was signed by a Officer of the National Restaurant Association and their outside counsel. Secondly, I've never seen any findings on the complaint that she filed. No body of evidence has ever been presented to me that her complaint was "Baseless"
Ruh Roh!
If one of your favorite games is to watch lying self-aggrandizing lunatic GOPers hoist high upon their own pitard - yesterday was definitely a good day. And you didn't even need an "A-K".
More over the flip...
Cain is the perfect example of the type of Fact-Mangling Bloviating Cretin that has taken over the GOP. He's an anti-Worker, anti-Minimum Wage Lobbyist whose pretending he want's to be President, so that he can really get rich(er) doing Sarah Palin's Job of do-nothing know-nothing Celebrity and sometime Fox News Spokes-Puppet.
And all credible evidence and witnesses (so far) seem to indicate he's a Serial Sexual Predator.
This entire Scandal has driven so many in the GOP literally over the edge of civility and rationality as shown here by Keith's Worst Persons from Monday.
Meanwhile, former Fox News Spokes Puppet, John Kasisch also had a really horrible day yesterday as his signature legislative achievements as Governor of Ohio was just crushed like the corsage of a teenage girl at a drunken prom after-party.
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Unions in Ohio have reaffirmed their right to exist and to bargain collectively with the State for their benefits and pay, pulling back the ALEC inspired Shiv that Kasisch tried to stick into the belly of Democratic Politics in the state.
Ohio Democrats, who got absolutely creamed in the 2010 elections, have now won a major victory over Republican Gov. John Kasich — massively winning a referendum to repeal Kasich’s anti-public employee union law.
With 19% of precincts reporting — which includes a significant chunk of the total ballots, due to early-votes being counted quickly — the bill known as SB 5 is losing by a margin of 63%-37%, and the “No” position has been projected as the winner by the Associated Press
It was an almost 30 Point Blow Out. Feel that? That's what's called having the Wind at Your Back.
And it was apparently blowing all across the nation as the Mississippi rejected the onerous "Personhood" Amendment that would have banned birth-control, envitro fertilization and medical services for ectopic pregnancies.
The state of Mississippi has now provided the answer to an interesting political test: How severe must a proposed piece of pro-life legislation be, for it to fail in the Deep South?
Voters on Tuesday rejected ballot Initiative 26, which would have defined personhood as beginning at fertilization. With 63% of the vote reporting, the ‘No’ position is leading by a margin of 57%-43%, and has been projected as the winner by the Associated Press.
When the Pro-Life movement is starting to lose this badly in Mississippi I think they're starting to get mired in some Deep Doo Doo.
Russell Pearce, the author of Arizona's divisive SB1070 "Paper's Please" Law was recalled.
A powerful Republican state Senate leader who championed Arizona's controversial crackdown on illegal immigrants lost his office on Tuesday in a historic recall election, returns showed. Russell Pearce's defeat is a message to the GOP, say some analysts, that jobs and the economy should be a higher priority than illegal immigrants.
Meanwhile in Maine, voters there restored their right for Same Day Voter Registration which the GOP has striped.
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A law requiring voters to enroll at least two days before an election was repealed Tuesday, restoring a four-decade policy of allowing registrations up to and including Election Day.
Unofficial results showed the proposal to repeal the newly enacted requirement passed with 60 percent of the vote.
"This is a big day for the voters of Maine," said David Farmer, spokesman for the Yes on One campaign. "They stood up for their rights to be heard. This tells us that Maine people won't stand for people messing with their elections.
And one wonders through all of this - Wither The Tea Party?
Where were they? Talk about an Enthusiam Gap, they were literally non-existent all week. And what's even more interesting is that yesterday yet another appellate court, this time in the DC Circuit, rendered a decision on the Affordable Care Act and this one was a stunning rebuke of all the Tea Party Claims that the ACA and Individual Mandate are "Unconstitutional".
Appellants’ central objection to the mandate is that Congress, for the first time, has actually commanded that all Americans purchase a product, health insurance, that many of them have never purchased before, never wish to purchase, and may never need. Appellants do not question that Congress can regulate the interstate health care and health insurance markets,or that Congress reasonably could conclude that decisions about whether to purchase health insurance substantially affect interstate commerce. The contested issue here is whether the Government can require an immensely broad group of people–all Americans, including uninsured persons with no involvement in the health insurance and health care markets–to buy health insurance now, based on the mere likelihood that most will, at some point, need health care, thus virtually inevitably enter that market, and consequently substantially affect the health insurance market.
This may be the plaintiff's and Tea Party argument against the mandate in a nutshell, but the problem which the court outlined is that the requirement by the opposition for being "active in the market" prior to being regulated Has Never Existed Before.
Not in Case Law, Not in any previous Supreme Court Decisions and Not in the Text of the Constitution. They found on Page 29 of their decision that:
No Supreme Court case has ever held or implied that Congress’s Commerce Clause authority is limited to individuals who are presently engaging in an activity involving, or substantially affecting, interstate commerce.
To illustrate this they point out that drug possession laws do not necessarily require "activity" in the market before they can be enforced. Simply having a large quantity of drugs can be used to Infer an intent to distribute and traffic even if that person has no actual intent to do so. No court has even considered reversing this authority, which is granted to the Federal Government under the Commerce Clause.
The Court then looked to actual text of the Commerce Clause itself and the framers intent, and still found the plaintiff's argument lacking.
We look first to the text of the Constitution. Article I, § 8,cl. 3, states: “The Congress shall have Power . . . To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.” (emphasis added). At the time the Constitution was fashioned, to “regulate” meant, as it does now,“[t]o adjust by rule or method,” as well as “[t]o direct." To“direct,” in turn, included “[t]o prescribe certain measure[s]; to mark out a certain course,” and “[t]o order; to command.” In other words, to “regulate” can mean to require action, and nothing in the definition appears to limit that power only to those already active in relation to an interstate market. Nor was the term “commerce” limited to only
existing commerce. There is therefore no textual support for appellants’ argument.
Ouch!.. Just OUCH! That's an even bigger GOP smack down than what just happened in Maine and Ohio. Plus Two out of the Three Judges on the Panel Were Appointed by Republican Presidents, one by Reagan and the other by George W. Bush.
And yet it couldn't have happened to a better pack of Tea-Bagging Sociopaths.
Yep, definitely a good day. Let's have another, about 364 Days from now, Keep the White House, take back Control of the House and get 60+ Democratic Votes in the Senate.
Maybe then America can start getting some things done again.
We just need one more good day like yesterday.
Vyan