Easy Solution to House Crisis

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Thursday October 08, 2015 · 9:36 PM PDT

2015/10/08 · 21:36

There's a very easy solution to the House Speaker crisis. The House just has to act like legislatures in every other multi-party democracy and form a governing coalition! If they have a lick of sense (a major question, of course) the semi-sane Republicans who are willing to compromise on occasion need to enter into a coalition with the Democrats. Then they can freeze out the TeaBaggers, who can just rot without a speck of power until they're thrown out in the next election. Not only does this get the House back to being functional, it's the only possible salvation for the Republicans as a viable national party. If they can't purge themselves this way of the TeaBagger parasites they're going to be extinct after the elections next year, because they're going to lose the presidential race and now they've just about guaranteed losing both houses of Congress unless they do something dramatic and adult!

Was Al-Awlaki A Citizen When He Was Killed?

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Saturday March 09, 2013 · 8:05 PM PST

2013/03/09 · 20:05

Considering the latest public debate I did a little research. The following is from the State Department website. It raises the question of whether Al-Awlaki WAS a U.S. citizen at the time of his death. The law probably needs to be updated to explicitly cover service in non-state organizations engaged in hostilities against the U.S. However, it's possible that his joining a belligerent Al-Qaeda and taking up arms against the U.S. was evidence of an intention to relinquish his citizenship.

"Although a person's enlistment in the armed forces of a foreign country may not constitute a violation of U.S. law, it could subject him or her to Section 349(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act [8 U.S.C. 1481(a)(3)] which provides for loss of U.S. nationality if an American voluntarily and with the intention of relinquishing U.S. citizenship enters or serves in foreign armed forces engaged in hostilities against the United States or serves in the armed forces of any foreign country as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer."

"Military service in foreign countries, however, usually does not cause loss of citizenship since an intention to relinquish citizenship normally is lacking. In adjudicating loss of nationality cases, the Department has established an administrative presumption that a person serving in the armed forces of a foreign state not engaged in hostilities against the United States does not have the intention to relinquish citizenship. On the other hand, voluntary service in the armed forces of a state engaged in hostilities against the United States could be viewed as indicative of an intention to relinquish U.S. citizenship."

A Modest Proposal:

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Monday December 17, 2012 · 9:51 PM PST

2012/12/17 · 21:51

Let's get the government to immediately step up research and marketing of Penile Growth Hormone. If these gun worshippers can actually grow themselves a big enough "credential" maybe they won't need to keep buying AK-47s to prove their "manhood" and they can stop feeling so inadequate. Just sayin'. . .

Abort Mourdock, Akins, Ryan, Mandel, Romney and the Entire GOP!

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Wednesday October 24, 2012 · 11:40 PM PDT

2012/10/24 · 23:40

Yes, Kossacks and others, you can do this WITH A FLICK OF YOUR FINGER in the privacy of your very own voting booth! Early voting is now open in the states that allow it (including Indiana and Ohio). So GO VOTE TOMORROW! If there's no early voting in your state, be the first in line when the polls open on November 6th! Vote Straight Blue! You won't believe how good you'll feel after you've done it! And let's see how the Goopers feel the day after Election Day when the count is in and they find out what God intended for them!

A Brief Report From The Redlands:

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Tuesday October 09, 2012 · 12:11 AM PDT

2012/10/09 · 00:11

I live in Johnson County, Kansas (the affluent suburbs of Kansas City) which is reliably Republican and conservative. Lots of megachurches, for example. But here it is just a month from the election and so far I have seen exactly ONE Romney bumper sticker and NO yard signs! (I've actually seen a couple of Obama stickers, and gotten a few honks and thumbs up for my I ♥ Obamacare sticker.) That's definitely different from 4 years ago. Does this mean that there's more of a Republican enthusiasm gap than is being reported? Kansas voted in a bunch of extreme right-wingers in 2010, but a lot of people have gotten very uneasy about them and their extreme tax and budget-cutting. It may be a Republican, conservative state, but there has always been extremely strong support for excellent schools and infrastructure here and people have been willing to tax themselves for those. Now they're scared that the schools are going to be hit hard next year. So there's definitely some voter remorse going on, and at least a chance for some of the worst offenders in the state legislature to get punished at the polls. We'll have to see. The extremists did well in the Republican primaries, but turnout was abysmally low so they were able to win with very small total votes. They may not do so well when there's a larger turnout for the general election. Some of the moderate Republican legislators who lost to extremists in the primary have endorsed the Democratic candidates in the general election! So things could still be interesting in otherwise Red Kansas!

Mittens Throws Base Under The Bus -- Did Anyone Notice?

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Thursday October 04, 2012 · 6:47 AM PDT

2012/10/04 · 06:47

In all of the bloviating here, I haven't seen any comments yet about the way Mittens stabbed his base in the back during the debate! At first I was concerned that Obama wasn't being assertive enough, but now I realize he was giving Rmoney all the rope in the world to hang himself with. And sure enough, Mittens did! He completely impaled himself on one of the two prongs of the trap he's been building for himself this entire campaign: he can either appeal to the base or to the moderates/independents, but he can't win them both at the same time, even though he HAS to win them both to win the election!

Rmoney chose to go after the moderates/independents last night, treating the base like road kill. You can be sure Rush and Beck and Faux In The Morning will help the base understand how totally they've been betrayed. If they don't, you can be positive that the Obama campaign is going to do it with negative advertising. As it is, the base has been profoundly suspicious of Mr. "Severely Conservative's" bona fides and now their suspicions have been confirmed, in spades! Mittens has gotten away with a lot of his endless flip-flopping, but we're a month away from the election and with the debates his positions are finally going to get etched into stone. The base is stuck with this. There's no where else for them to turn, so a lot of them are going to throw up their hands in outrage and disgust (their favorite emotions, anyway) and just stay home in November! WE NEED TO ENCOURAGE THAT AS MUCH AS WE CAN! Mittens was slick last night, all right. But like so many snake-oil peddlers before him, his slickness has cost him. Now the GOP's most enthusiastic voters are going to just despise him for abandoning all their pet causes! And Mittens did it to himself, as Obama just stood there and watched, with that ironic smile playing across his face!

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