No 787
“En
mi opinión”
Noviembre 6, 2014
“IN GOD WE TRUST” Lázaro R González Miño EDITOR
Amenper: La desnudez del Emperador
Siempre
me ha fascinado el cuento de Hans Christian Andersen sobre “Las Nuevas Ropas
del Emperador” ("Emperor’s New Clothes") y las perspicacias que
revela sobre la naturaleza humana. Algunos estafadores de habla rápida
convencieron al emperador de que le harían un Nuevo traje que sería más
fabuloso que todos los que el había poseído. Los materiales usados serían tan
raros y costosos que el sería la envidia del reino ¡La esencia de la historia
es que ellos fueron tan convincentes en su descripción del traje totalmente
inexistente que el creyó en su realidad a pesar de que él no podía verlo! Para
exhibir sus nuevos adornos, el emperador realizó una procesión desde su
castillo y atravesando las aldeas de su reino. Sus súbditos reales le hacían
reverencia cuando el pasaba y le felicitaban por su nueva ropa, ¡pero el asunto
entero fue expuesto cuando un niño exclamó que el emperador estaba desnudo!
El
emperador Obama estaba desnudo aunque la prensa complaciente hiciera alabanzas
de su bonito traje.
Pero
el emperador siguió desnudo hasta ayer cuando los votantes como el niño del
cuento expusieron su desnudez.
En la
conferencia de prensa Obama dijo con su acostumbrada falta de respeto a la
verdad, que había prestado oído a los que votaron en las elecciones.
Después
tratando de parecer calmado y articulado dijo que lo que el pueblo
quería era que trabajaran más duros para cumplir las ambiciones de todos los americanos.
Y con
una cara de sinceridad a pesar de su desnudez, felicitó a los nuevos oficiales
electos.
Entonces
después de hablar inconsecuentemente de Ebola, Isis y otros problemas, sin
decir nada substancial o coordinado, dijo que trabajaría para los próximos dos
años "tan productivamente como sea posible," diciendo que está
"ansioso" encontrar formas de trabajar junto con los republicanos en
diferentes temas estadounidenses sobre todos los problemas.
Entonces en su desnudez que ya todos pueden
ver, lanzó la bomba.
"El Congreso pasará algunas leyes que no puedo firmar. "Estoy
seguro de que voy a tomar algunas acciones que no gustará a algunos en el Congreso,
dijo Obama”.
“Sin embargo, añadió, "como" Presidente, tengo la responsabilidad
única para tratar de arreglar los pueblo como mejor considere posible”.
El emperador sigue desnudo, lo que ya nadie
puede decir que tiene un traje muy bonito, porque ya los votantes denunciaron
su desnudez.
Amenper: Scott Walker Para Presidente
Durante meses, los nombres de potenciales aspirantes
republicanos a la Presidencia han venido por caminos desde Iowa a Nueva
Hampshire a Carolina del sur, hasta la Florida, sentando las bases para una
prematura campaña de la aspiración presidencial para el 2016 .
Entre ellos, el gobernador de Nueva Jersey Chris Christie, el gobernador de
Texas Rick Perry, Jeb Bush y Paul Rand y Marco Rubio.
Pero no Scott Walker, el gobernador
republicano de Wisconsin, ha estado muy ocupado prestando atención a su propia
reelección de gobernador.
El miércoles, Walker ganó la carrera por un margen cómodo. —
Scott Walker, el republicano que se hizo un nombre nacional por chocar con los
sindicatos, ganó un segundo mandato como gobernador de este estado el martes,
manteniendo viva la posibilidad de que podría estar entre los candidatos a la
Presidencia en 2016.
Los
republicanos comenzaron mencionarlo entre una lista de posibles candidatos a la
Presidencia en el año 2013.
El éxito de Mr. Walker en empujar a través de una agenda conservadora, sobreviviendo
al desafío de estar en un estado que favoreció dos veces presidente
Obama, esto le daba un currículum superior entre los republicanos consideraba
que estaban aspirando a la Casa Blanca.
Sin embargo, Walker necesitaba ganar un segundo mandato como
gobernador el martes para seguir siendo viable en ese sentido, y algunos
analistas políticos dijeron que un margen decisivo de la victoria era necesaria
para reforzar el caso para un futuro presidencial.
. La victoria de
Walker después de una intensa campaña de maltrato en lo que fue su tercera
victoria electoral en tan sólo cuatro años. En el 2012, fue decisiva, y se
convirtió en el primer gobernador de la nación que haya podido sobrevivir a una
elección de destitución.
En un encendido discurso de victoria de 10
minutos Walker describió los desafíos de los últimos meses, así como
las de los últimos años, aparentemente refiriéndose a su batalla con los
sindicatos y la posterior retirada.
"Había un grupo de Washington — los intereses especiales en Washington
— que creía que podían gastarse un montón de dinero y un montón de
tiempo en el estado y de alguna forma convencer a la gente de este estado a
estar en contra de algo," Mr. Walker dijo a cientos de
partidarios en un centro de exposición en el State Fair Park.
En su discurso de Victoria, Walker no dejó atrás sus
ideas conservadoras, destacando una medida del éxito guiada "por
cuántas personas ya no son dependientes de gobierno".
Una candidatura presidencial podría incorporar esos mismos temas, que han
sido pan de cada día para Walker.
No tendría que reinventar su persona, Walker es un genuino conservador con
referencias y una historia que lo prueba.
Pero si decide lanzarse a la aspiración, su pivote estratégico tendrá que
ser rápido y decisivo
Creo que vamos a verlo a él y su equipo recargar sus baterías hasta fin de
año y luego salir a pelear después del primero de año,
Políticamente, tendrá uno de las historias más fuertes que contar. en sus
luchas contra los liberales de Washington, los sindicatos y la mayoría liberal
en su estado.
Aunque Walker enfrentaría a una desventaja organizacional temprana en las primarias,
en los primeros estados, tales como New Hampshire y Iowa, donde otros
republicanos han comenzado ya a la red, Walker estaría en una posición sólida
en términos de reconocimiento del nombre y marca de identificación como
conservador
Y el reconocimiento no es por tibieza, es por el fuego que ha demostrado en
sus batallas.
Una reciente encuesta de Bloomberg/Des Moines Register de potenciales
candidatos presidenciales republicanos mostraron 4 por ciento de los residentes
de Iowa apoyando Walker primero entre todos los demás, en un empate con Jeb
Bush.
Walker es respetado entre muchos donantes republicanos, que
recuerdan a la batalla antisindical que desarrolló durante su elección de
destitución.
Sigue siendo un héroe para enfrentarse y derrotar a los sindicatos,.
Esto es como un efecto
secundario positivo, esta es una historia política que habría sido relegada al olvido si Walker
hubiera perdido el martes. Quizás hubiéramos perdido al candidato
que se puede convertir en el próximo presidente de los Estados Unidos.
Amenper: El Discurso de
Obama
El discurso de Obama dentro de
2 horas se puede saber desde ahora.
No hay que ser un adivino o
robarse el teleprompter.
Ya los comentaristas
complacientes de Obama no los han dicho. Ellos conocen a los que le escriben lo
que tiene que decir en el teleprompter.
Aunque a veces a los
escritores se le olvida algo, como en el caso del chiste del orinal, que se
olvidaron decirle que orinara adentro y Obama se orina afuera.
Pero lo que Obama tiene que
leer hoy en el teleprompter es:
"Es el deber de los
republicanos el trabajar ahora con el ejecutivo (Obama) para el avance del
país"
Muy patriótico, muy bonito,
pero ¿Que es lo que nos están diciendo?
O sea que antes Obama no
trabajaba con el congreso, no trataba de llegar a ningún acuerdo, y cuando el
congreso aprobaba algo el Senado se lo tumbaba.
Y siempre echándole la culpa
al congreso de que no hacía nada y era un impedimento para el progreso de la
nación.
Nos decían que el congreso
tenía una reputación bajísima en las encuestas, y que nadie quería al congreso.
Ahora los votantes no sólo han
ratificado al congreso, pero han añadido 12 congresistas, evitando la posibilidad
de filibusterismo.
Al que han rechazado ha sido a
Obama, eligiendo una mayoría en el senado.
Ahora Obama quiere también que
trabajen con él, antes a la fuerza y ahora pidiéndolo como un gesto de
patriotismo, todo es lo mismo, que hay que trabajar con él, lo que quiere decir
es que hay que aprobar lo que él quiere que se apruebe.
¿Entonces Barry, elecciones
para qué?
Si al final lo que se hará es
lo que Obama quiere, entonces ¿para qué se eligieron a los nuevos
oficiales?
Creo que esto es lo que se le
olvida a los escritores del discurso de Obama, por esto lo que está
haciendo Obama cuando lea el discurso es meandose afuera, los republicanos
tienen que pararse firmes, porque esto es lo que le demandaron los votantes
cuando le dieron la victoria.
Espero que los legisladores no
caigan en la trampa, no lo creo, no mientras existan hombres como Ted Cruz en
el Senado.
No creo que Ted Cruz deba de
aspirar a presidente, creo que la controversia de su nacimiento en Canadá,
traería una distracción que no necesitamos. Pero me gustaría mucho
ver a Ted como el líder del nuevo senado, esto mantendría a los demócratas
honestos, si es que algunos de ellos pueden ser honestos.
Amenper: Actos ilegales de George W.
Bush, causan victoria Republicana
El presidente Obama hablará a la nación esta tarde a las 2 PM, sobre las
elecciones de anoche.
Según fuentes no identificadas se ha filtrado que el tema del discurso será
el demostrar que la derrota de los candidatos demócratas se debe a una
conspiración corrupta de su predecesor George W. Bush.
Parece que se ha descubierto de un grupo de camisas pardas nazistas en
conjunción con miembros del KKK, organizados por Bush, crearon milicias para
impedir que los negros ejecutaran su derecho al voto, como lo han hecho a
través de los años.
Chris Matthews en su programa de la cadena MSNBC presentó pruebas en que se
ve a George W Bush con el atuendo del KKK.
Aunque como tiene la capucha realmente no se puede ver quien es la persona
en la foto, Chris asegura que la persona es Bush, porque él lo sabe de buena
tinta.
Según las fuentes no identificadas, la foto fue presentada a Matthews por
el Reverendo Al Sharpton.
El reverendo Al Sharpton dice que dado los acontecimientos revelados, se
deben cancelar todos los resultados de las elecciones, para poder elegir a
personas de color en las mayorías del Senado y Congreso.
Es hora de que un negro pueda ocupar puestos de importancia en el gobierno
de Estados Unidos. Preguntado
si ya no había personas de color en puestos de importancia como la presidencia
de la república, Sharpton, después de una pausa, respondió, creo también que se
le deben de aumentar los sueldos a los jugadores negros de los equipos
deportivos que reciben sueldos de miseria por su color..
El vicepresidente Joe Biden que había pronosticado una arrolladora victoria
Demócrata declaró en una entrevista que su predicción había sido considerado
bajo la condición que votaran los negros, y los blancos se quedaran en su
casa para nivelar los años de discriminación y racismo. De esa manera sus
cálculos eran correctos. La
supresión del voto ha sido la causa de esta aberración electoral. Tenemos que seguir luchando para la
restauración de la economía y de las libertades que están siendo violadas por
George W. Bush y sus cómplices conservadores.
Amenper: El Problema con los Negros
Tengo que
reconocer como aceptable- aunque no lo comparto, el hecho de
que muchas de las personas del pueblo americano no
quieran ni siquiera considerar un candidato negro para presidente..
Esto
es algo que es el resultado de lo que llamo el síndrome de Jackie Robinson
a la inversa.
Branch
Rickey tuvo la visión de escoger a Jackie Robinson para ser el negro que
rompiera la barrera de la raza en las grandes ligas. Pudo haber
escogido a Schatzel Paige que era el mejor jugador negro de su época. Paige era
lo que llamamos un negro mono, alguien de un carácter volátil y arrogante, pudo
haber escogido a Don Newcombe que era un gran pitcher, pero era un negro
arrogante, que vimos en Cuba.
Newcombe
tuvo problemas con el manager Fermín Guerra cuando era manager del Almendares
en Cuba y en los Estados Unidos, donde tuvieron encuentros acalorados que
llegaron hasta peleas físicas.
Newcombe
y Paige eran los Obamas del baseball, si Rickey los hubiera escogido, para
romper la barrera del color, el rechazo racial del público no hubiera
permitido que se consolidaran en los equipos, como pasó en Cuba con Newcombe, y
después hubiera sido prácticamente imposible haber considerado a un negro de
nuevo para jugar en las Grandes Ligas, hubieran pasado muchos años para tratar
de volver a ensayar la integración racial en el deporte.
Lo mismo
pasa con estos negros arrogantes como Obama, Holder, Sharpton, Jessee Jackson,
y todos los militantes negros que están destruyendo su propia raza con su
conducta.
Mia Love
la primera mujer negra republicana en el senado lo dijo hoy, lo ha dicho Ben
Carson, Clarence Thomas el primer negro en el tribunal supremo, y Condoleza
Rice la primera mujer negra en el cargo de Secretaria de Estado, todos
republicanos, todos conservadores, son nuestros negros, son personas decentes,
educados y capacitados no son racistas no son arrogantes.
Son los
Jackie Robinson de la vida política de los Estados Unidos.
Ellos
como dijo Mia Love son víctimas de la conducta de estos militantes negros que
han creado una aversión a la raza negra con sus diatribas contra los blancos.
Lo que le
pasa a los blancos hoy en día es una reacción humana de defensa, es
comprensible, y debido a Obama pasarán muchos años antes que un negro pueda
considerar el aspirar de nuevo a la presidencia de Estados Unidos. Este es
el daño que Barack Hussein Obama ha hecho a la raza de su padre. Cuando
veo a estos negros decente, lo siento por ellos, no tienen la culpa, pero es
una dolorosa realidad.
I can't imagine what's changed....
Suddenly, inexplicably, a very cordial Harry Reid wants to ‘work
together’
Harry Reid spent the last few years attacking the
GOP in every conceivable way. He’s compared them to Nazis, accused them of
wanting to kill people, indicated that deep down they hate their own country,
and claimed that they desperately want to flood America’s water supply with
mercury and arsenic.
At the same time, he refused to acknowledge
Republican alternatives to Democrat bills, wouldn’t let anything come to the
floor for a vote, and killed every shred of debate whenever he possibly
could.
To be blunt, if he reached across the aisle, you
could be sure there was a knife in his hand.
“I’d like to congratulate Senator McConnell, who
will be the new Senate Majority Leader. The message from voters is clear:
They want us to work together. I look forward to working with Senator
McConnell to get things done for the middle class.”
Once you’re done laughing, you might take a
moment to wonder why this crooked little man was previously so disinterested
in cooperation.
Where does this newfound spirit of togetherness
come from?
What is different today?
What could possibly have changed?
I don’t know what it is, but it must be
something….
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Obama’s One-Word Response To Republican Domination Sums
Up The Feelings Of Dems Everywhere
Barack Obama's view of the elections that
swept Republicans to decisive control...
If the New York Times is to be believed, Barack Obama’s
view of the elections that swept Republicans to decisive control of a once
Democrat-dominated Capitol Hill is “irritation.”
Mr. Obama’s irritation became clear when he
said publicly that even if he was not on the ballot, his policies were, a
comment that Republicans gleefully wrapped around the necks of their
Democratic opponents.
The Times article offered the Obama viewpoint
that the electoral map was stacked against him, making Democrats underdogs
from the start. So, despite, the unmistakable fact that his own party kept
him off the campaign trail, the president’s political fortunes — at
least in the eyes of the golfer-in-chief — were somewhat pre-destined and out
of his control.
In
the wake of the GOP victories as they became crystal clear on Wednesday morning,
social media erupted with snarky reaction to Obama’s outlook as revealed in
the New York Times article — especially the section
that said Obama did not feel “repudiated” by the results of an election that
he, himself, had nationalized and cast in his own image.
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DAILY EVENTS FEATURED STORY
GOP TSUNAMI:
REPUBLICANS TAKE THE SENATE, WIN HISTORIC HOUSE GAINS
I’ll keep this post updated with some
of the big results as they come in, and we’ll kick it off with one of the
biggest: the current Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, has defeated
Allison Grimes in Kentucky. The funny thing is that everyone is calling McConnell’s
win “unsurprising” and “expected” now, but he was supposed to be one of the
more nervous Republican incumbents going into the night. McConnell’s win
looks huge; there’s
a lot of counting left to be done, but he was up 14 points when the race was
called.
South
Carolina: Incumbent
Senator Tim Scott, appointed to his seat after Senator Jim DeMint retired, has
won re-election, becoming the first African American elected to the Senate from
the South since Reconstruction.
Virginia: After rumblings of a possible upset
brewing for Republican Ed Gillespie, the race looks to be going to Democrat
incumbent Mark Warner. West Virginia, on the other hand, became the first
Republican pickup of the night for Senator-Elect Shelley Moore Capito.
This wasn’t a surprise, as she was up by double digits going into
Election Day.
(Actually, as
of 7:30 PM, I’m not sure if Virginia is really over yet. Interest fact
coming across the wires: Republican Ed Gillespie has a tremendous 58% favorable
rating in exit polls. That’s the kind of rating that could still produce
a shocker.)
New
Jersey: There
was a bit of light speculation that Democrat Cory Booker might be in trouble,
but the polls were never really all that close. Booker is projected to
win re-election.
Mississippi: Given all the drama that accompanied
his very tight primary win, it is worth noting that Republican Senator Thad
Cochran has won re-election for his 412th term.
Arkansas: The polls showed this a likely
Republican pickup, and Tom Cotton did indeed defeat incumbent Democrat Mark
Pryor. That’s the second GOP pickup of the night.
New
Hampshire: Scott
Brown gave Jeanne Shaheen a good run for her money, but it looks like the
incumbent Democrat will retain her seat.
South
Dakota: After
a brief spasm of Democrat interest in Mike Rounds as a potentially vulnerable
Republican, he went on to win his race. That’s GOP pickup number 3.
I’ll always remember the “Mike Rounds is in trouble” boomlet. It
was a hell of an afternoon.
As of 9PM, the Virginia race was down
to a few hundred votes,
Thom Tillis had closed to within one point of Kay Hagan in North Carolina, and
there were rumblings of Pat Roberts in Kansas looking good against fake
“independent” Greg Orman. It seems like only yesterday liberal pundits
were declaring this a boring election.
Louisiana: It looks like the election will head
into a runoff between Democrat Mary Landrieu and Republican Bill Cassidy, where
Cassidy is favored to win.
Colorado: Republican Cory Gardner wins, aborting
the political career of Mark Udall. GOP pickup number 4.
Montana: Steve Daines, a heavy favorite going
into Election Day, becomes Republican pickup number 5.
Kansas: The night kicked into high gear when
Republican incumbent Pat Roberts unexpectedly defeated fake “independent” Greg
Orman, with some credit quite possibly due to a last-minute air campaign
capitalizing on Vice President Joe Biden claiming that Orman would caucus with
the Democrats. Well done, Joe.
Iowa: Joni Ernst picked up the seat vacated
by sexist dinosaur Tom Harkin, defeating Bruce Whossisname.
Georgia: A somewhat surprising win outside
the margin of runoff for Republican David Perdue. He was favored to win
the runoff against Democrat Michelle Nunn, but he won outright on Tuesday
night. With that hope of a Democrat pickup dashed, control of the Senate
passed to the Republicans.
North
Carolina: Holy
cow… after an intense nail-biter of a night, Thom Tillis defeated incumbent Kay
Hagan to make it a Republican pickup. You could hear Democrat jaws
hitting the floor from coast to coast. They really thought they had this
one.
Coming up on
midnight, and still no official call in Virginia. Could this really
happen for Gillespie?
A brief
digression from the Senate contest: Republican governors won huge victories
tonight as well, albeit with a couple of hair-raising close calls, such as Rick
Scott hanging on in Florida. Scott Walker won in Wisconsin, which means
he’ll have been elected about fourteen times to serve two terms.
Amazingly, Republican Bruce Rauner ousted Pat Quinn in Illinois, and
Charlie Baker pulled off a razor-thin win over Martha Coakley in Massachusetts.
Nathan Deal won in Georgia outside the recount margin, defeating Jimmy
Carter’s grandson Jason. A close race in Maryland turned into a surprisingly
solid win for Republican Larry Hogan. Sam Brownback, supposedly followed
everywhere he went by a cloud of vultures waiting to feast upon his bones, came
back in Kansas for the win. Just about the only Republican to lose a
high-profile race on Tuesday night was Governor Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania,
defeated by Tom Wolf.
As for the
House of Representatives… the Republicans are making history there, too.
A six to twelve seat pickup was projected, but it looks like they’ll net
15 or more, bringing them the largest House majority since the 1920s. A
sweet little House grace note on the Senate victories: defeated Democrat Senate
candidate Bruce Braley lost his House seat to Republican Rod Blum as well.
Texas Republicans are also celebrating taking the state Senate seat
formerly held by Wendy Davis with Tea Party candidate Konni Burton.
Virginia: After a long night of counting, the
race is still “too close to call,” and will probably end up with a recount.
NBC News thinks Democrat Mark Warner ended the
night slightly ahead.
Alaska: Chugging in late from a far-distant
time zone, another closely-watched race yielded a Republican victory for Dan
Sullivan over Democrat Mark Begich. Sullivan looks to have won by a
little over 3 points. The race had not been officially called on Wednesday
morning, as Begich refuses to concede.
Another
shocker in a night full of them: the Vermont gubernatorial race ended in a
deadlock between incumbent Democrat Peter Shumlin and Republican challenger
Scott Milne. Under the peculiar rules set by the state Constitution, the
winner will now be chosen by a dance-off. No, wait, I’m thinking of
somewhere else… in Vermont, it’s done by a vote of the state legislature.
That’s happened before in Vermont – Shumlin actually entered the
governor’s mansion on a legislature vote in 2010 – but it wasn’t supposed to
happen Tuesday night. Shumlin finished Tuesday night with more votes, so
he is expected to win the tie-breaker vote and retain his seat.
Totals: On Wednesday morning, the official
totals stood at 53 Republicans to 47 Democrats in the Senate, a net gain of 8
seats for the GOP. That’s the high end of predictions for what the GOP
could accomplish in the Senate midterms, and they’re not done yet – Cassidy
will probably win the Louisiana runoff, and Virginia will probably still hang
in the balance for a while.
The House
stands at 247-183, a net Republican pickup of 14 seats, well beyond what
analysts expected. A few races in Arizona and California were not called
on Tuesday night.
There are now
31 Republican governors versus 17 Democrats, with Vermont headed into
Legislature deathmatch and Alaska still being counted (if Republican Sean
Parnell loses, it will be to independent Bill Walker.) That’s a net gain
of four governorships for the GOP.
In addition to
the races that are still in doubt, it’s time to talk about a few party flips.
Independent Senator Angus King of Maine immediately offered to caucus
with the victorious Republicans. Hopefully McConnell is shrewd enough to
pick up his vote at a discount.
So… how are you liking that Democrat
Party these days, Joe Manchin of West Virginia? “The people are speaking
loud and clear. They don’t like what they’re seeing. I don’t like
what I’ve been involved with in the last four years, and I’ve been very vocal
about that,” he said ominously last night, as he watched himself fade into
irrelevance next to the atomic fireworks of the new Republican superstar,
Senator-elect Shelley Moore Capito. If you looked hard at Manchin, you
could see bits of the MSNBC stage through him
as he ghosted out.
There’s only one way to be important
again, Joe, and I think we all know what it is. Governor-elect Larry Hogan and his supporters were dancing with
“martini glasses in one hand, and iPhones in the other” last night. We
have martinis, Joe.
An especially bright spot for
conservatives watching the House races was the victory of Mia Love in Utah.
As the Washington Post notes, she is “the first black
Republican woman -and first Haitian-American – elected to congress.”
The Post also declared that “in a wave election less
about fresh Republican ideas than fervid disapproval of all things
presidential, Love’s compelling personal story is an oasis. She’s not
just a black face in what’s often described as a party full of angry old white
men. She’s a path forward.” Try saying that to Mia Love’s face and
see what happens to you, Posties. For added fun, run that wheezy Democrat
tripe about a party of angry old white men past Love while Senators-elect Tim
Scott, Joni Ernst, and Shelley Moore Capito are within earshot.
Ted
Cruz: Voters Gave GOP a Chance, Now It Must Earn Trust
Voters may have rejected “Obama stagnation and
malaise” in Tuesday’s midterm elections, but that doesn’t mean they are any
happier with Republicans, Sen. Ted Cruz warned late Tuesday night.
“The fact that the people rose up and voted the
Democrats out of power doesn’t necessarily mean they trust the Republicans,”
Cruz told Fox News Channel. “They’ve given us another chance. But we’ve got to
earn that trust.”
The Texas Republican has drawn the ire of both
Democrats and establishment members of his own party with his tea party
philosophy and his leading of the partial government shutdown in October 2013.
DAILY EVENTS UNDER FEATURE
THE EBOLACARE FACTOR IN THE ELECTION
For First Time Ever, People Infected With Ebola Will Be In The U.S.
President Barack Obama lied to
sell Obamacare, and lately he’s using double talk to sell Ebolacare, his risky response
to the virus sweeping West Africa. Sadly, he’s turning the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, once a trusted agency, into a public relations arm of
the White House lie machine.
On October 23, the CDC website
posted an explanation of the ways it might be possible to catch Ebola in
addition to direct contact with an infected person. The website listed being
sneezed or coughed on by an infected person or touching an object contaminated
with the virus. The information is straight out of scientific journals. But it
didn’t jibe with Obama’s repeated claim that “you cannot get it from just
riding on a plane or bus.” So the CDC took it down a few days later and refused
to say why.
Expect such shenanigans to
backfire with voters. Likely voters rate health care second only to the economy
in importance to them, according to an Associated Press poll on October 21.
They also rate the government’s handling of Ebola as more important than
immigration and twice as important as same-sex marriage. AP polling also shows
that only a meager 35 percent of likely voters feel confident they’re getting a
straight story on Ebola.
No wonder. The public knows
that in Obama’s administration, lying has gone viral. That’s the real epidemic
threatening the nation.
As for Ebola, the risk of
getting it in the U.S. at this time is extremely low unless you work in a
hospital treating an Ebola patient. Extremely low but not impossible. Here is
what we know:
If an infected person coughs or
sneezes, sending droplets several feet, and they land in your eye, nose or
mouth, or possibly on an opening in your skin, you could get Ebola. That’s the
information the CDC posted.
You might also get it sharing
finger food from a common plate with someone infected, according to research in
The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
What about touching a subway
pole or bowling ball? Unlike staph and other bacteria, which can last for weeks
on dry surfaces, viruses generally last only a few hours, at most a day or two.
There is no definite research showing that people have caught Ebola that way. A
2007 study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases shows Ebola survives much
longer if it is in blood — for example, on a bloody bandage, tissue or tampon.
The CDC included this information in its posting, too, only seven years after
it was originally published.
Then there’s the risk of using
a toilet right after an Ebola-infected person has used it and flushed. Flushing
sends droplets of water from the toilet bowl up into the air. Some common
hospital infections are spread that way. Investigators from the University of
Illinois School of Public Health see the possibility of Ebola spreading that
way, too: “Regarding diarrhea … flushing emits a pathogen-laden aerosol that
disperses into the air.” Think airport bathroom.
The fact is, scientists don’t
know all of the ways Ebola can spread. The roughly 20 previous known outbreaks
occurred in rural African villages, so research is scant. When the president
says it can only be spread through direct contact, and CDC Director Dr. Tom
Frieden parrots that, you may not be getting the whole story.
During an October 29 speech to
the nation, Obama adopted a schoolmarm attitude, chastising those who disagree
with him about quarantining health care workers for “losing their heads” and
being driven by fear, not science. That’s untrue.
What we don’t know about Ebola
would humble any scientist, but not the Obama administration. The exception is
the Defense Department, which solicited research proposals on October 24 to get
more information on how Ebola spreads.
Last week, the Associated Press
hired several scientists to come up with estimates on how many cases of Ebola
we’re likely to see in the U.S. The answers varied so widely, it’s clear no one
knows. The AP also surveyed hospitals across the U.S. and found almost none
ready to handle Ebola. This is falling on deaf ears at the White House.
But Tuesday’s election results may deliver a
dose of the humility that is needed.
Betsy McCaughey Ph.D. is
chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and a senior fellow at the
London Center for Policy Research.
A new day in America
Mike Needham (info@heritageaction.com)
12:55 PM
To: lazarorgonzalez@hotmail.com
Lazaro
R Gonzalez,
You
and I woke up this morning to a changed America.
Republicans
now control 52 and counting seats in the Senate, and expanded their majority in
the House. Importantly, these majorities were won by committing to repealing
Obamacare and standing for conservative priorities. Republicans also gained at
the state level, picking off governorships in liberal-leaning states and
strengthening conservative legislatures.
Last
night bodes well for conservative ideas and the conservative movement.
I
wanted to share with you three quick lessons from last night:
1. Candidates win when they campaign on
conservative principles. In
race after race, Republicans who won campaigned on repealing Obamacare,
stopping amnesty, and restoring limited, constitutional government. Remember:
just a year ago, the Establishment told us that fighting Obamacare would cost
Republicans in the election.
2. The American people are frustrated with the
status quo in Washington. But
the Establishment is already trying to claim victory. That makes it all the
more important that we fight to rein in big government and end
business-as-usual cronyism in Washington, where the well-connected get favors
from those in power.
3. The hard work starts now. Winning elections is important. But what you
do when you win is more important still, since it enables legislative victories
and future political success. We have to ensure this new crop of lawmakers
sticks to their conservative campaign promises. In less than a week, Heritage
Foundation and Heritage Action staff will meet with every newly-elected
Representative and Senator to start building relationships. Over the coming
weeks and months, we will start educating them on the issues, reinforcing them
in their home districts, and pushing them to vote on principle.
I also
wanted to say thank you, Lazaro R
Gonzalez.
A year
ago, we chose to make 2014 a "year of Action" . . . Heritage Action.
We pushed for a conservative policy agenda to define the conservative effort as
not only about stopping President Obama but standing for Americans who feel
unheard -- and are right to feel unheard. If you compare where our movement is
today to where it was the day before our Conservative Policy Summit in
February, or before all your hard work this year, you should be proud.
With
you at our side, Heritage Action will continue to fight for the principles that
have made America great: free enterprise, limited government, individual
freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.
Thank
you again.
Michael
A. Needham
Chief Executive Officer
Heritage Action for America
Chief Executive Officer
Heritage Action for America
DAILY EVENTS UNDER FEATURE
IS GOP READY FOR OBAMA’S ATTORNEY GENERAL FIGHT?
Michelle
Malkin
Obama’s Deputies Release 169 Foreign Killers Into US Neighborhoods
Gird your loins, Beltway
Republicans. Election Day is barely over, but the progressive left is locked
and loaded for battle over President Obama’s next U.S. attorney general.
Liberals unhappy with the
administration’s failure to deliver a mass illegal alien amnesty fast enough
want a consolation prize. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus sent Obama a demand
letter last week promoting Labor Secretary Tom Perez as Eric Holder’s
replacement. Mother Jones ran with “Why Picking Tom Perez for Attorney General
Would Be a Smart Move for Obama.”
California Democratic Rep.
Linda Sanchez gushed to Politico: “Being around him makes me a little bit
giddy. … He cares about the stuff that I care about, and he’s so articulate
about it.” The “stuff” Perez cares about is the bread and butter of radical
leftwing identity politics. It’s “social justice”-crusading on steroids.
Just this week, a federal judge
rebuked Perez’s ambitious campaign to pervert housing discrimination laws and
exploit racially disparate outcomes in order to prove manufactured bias.
“Disparate-impact” studies
serve as high-octane fuel for a greedy fleet of civil-rights lawsuits. Once the
numbers are cooked and disparate impact is shown, the heavy legal burden of
disproving racial discrimination falls on the defendant. Lenders and insurers
have forked over tens of millions of dollars in these social engineering
shakedowns.
Neither Congress nor the
federal Fair Housing Act embraces disparate impact theory or practice. But
Perez plowed ahead anyway. Judge Richard Leon on Monday blasted
Perez’s legal overreach as “hutzpah (bordering on desperation)” and described
Perez’s backroom maneuvering to prevent the Supreme Court from weighing in on
the scheme as “troubling.”
A congressional investigation
last year found that Perez — then serving as an assistant attorney general in
the Obama Justice Department — cut a deal with the city of St. Paul, Minn., to
withdraw a SCOTUS appeal that could have limited Perez’s use of disparate
impact tools. In exchange, the DOJ declined to intervene in two unrelated legal
complaints against the city.
The quid pro quo wasn’t just
full of hutzpah. It reeked of the very kind of justice-sabotaging corruption
that Holder trademarked at DOJ.
Leon isn’t the only one who
smells a rat. Last year, the DOJ Inspector General’s office spotlighted
racialist foul play at Perez’s bureau, where “polarization and mistrust”
reigned. Perez was explicitly hostile to race-neutral law enforcement and as
Virginia GOP Rep. Frank Wolf summed up: The “report makes clear that the
division has become a rat’s nest of unacceptable and unprofessional actions,
and even outright threats against career attorneys and systemic mismanagement.”
Perez has used his power to
conduct vengeful witch-hunts against police departments and advocates of strict
immigration enforcement. The son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic and
former special counsel for the late illegal alien amnesty champion Sen. Ted
Kennedy made a career putting illegal aliens above law-abiding citizens. He is
a selective enforcer of the nation’s laws. A leader of the George Soros-funded
Casa de Maryland illegal alien advocacy group, Perez lobbied for in-state
tuition discounts for illegal alien students, driver’s licenses and
tax-subsidized day labor centers.
As I’ve reported previously,
Casa de Maryland pushed for Obama’s 800,000 illegal alien deportation waivers
through administrative fiat. The group opposes enforcement of deportation
orders, protested post-9/11 coordination of local, state and national criminal
databases, and produced a “know your rights” propaganda pamphlet for illegal
aliens that depicted federal immigration agents as armed bullies making babies
cry.
A post-election fight over
Perez “would rally Democrats — and put Republicans on the defensive,” Mother
Jones writer David Corn advised his fellow leftists, as well as “yield the
extra benefit of reinforcing the negative attitudes Latinos have toward the
Republican Party.”
This looks to be the new Senate
Republicans’ first test of spinal fortitude. Will they fight for equal justice
under the law or crumble under pressure from ethnic special interests? Will
they reject the open-borders lobby or cave to race-card politics as usual?
After an entire election cycle of GOP promises to buck Obama, will Senate
Republican newbies deliver the goods or capitulate to craven political
correctness?
DAILY EVENTS UNDER FEATURE
HILLARY CLINTON’S
ECONOMIC KNOWLEDGE IS ABYSMALLY LOW
WASHINGTON — The two-year battle for
the presidency, which officially begins today, got an early start last week
when Hillary Clinton gave us a dumbfounding lesson in Democratic economics,
saying that businesses do not create jobs.
It was a fiery political statement
that betrayed a depth of economic ignorance that will haunt her likely
presidential candidacy throughout the entire 2015-16 election cycle.
“Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s
corporations and businesses that create jobs,” Clinton flatly declared at a
recent political rally in Boston. “You know that old theory, trickle-down
economics. That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather
spectacularly,” said the former secretary of state, who has experienced
economic failure firsthand.
Remember Bill and Hillary Clinton’s
Whitewater real estate investment disaster, which turned into an immense
scandal of financial corruption and backroom cover-up?
Clinton later said she misspoke,
adding that what she told Democrats in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts
was a “short-handed” version of her real economic views.
Still, her abysmally stupid remarks
were widely seen as a gaffe that her apologists said will soon be forgotten as
her campaign for the White House gets fully underway.
But there is reason to believe that
what she said was a revealing, unguarded look into the muddled mind of a
liberal ideologue who thinks, like Barack Obama, that real job creation
actually begins and ends with big government telling us how to run our economy
and our businesses.
And her economic observation about
where jobs come from sounded vaguely similar to one of Obama’s famous gaffes in
his 2012 re-election campaign when he said, “If you’ve got a business — you
didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
Somebody like President Obama who, to
this day, still thinks his impotent policies have created many jobs and pulled
the economy out of the 2008 recession.
Clinton apparently believes Obama’s
delusions, too. That $1 trillion in infrastructure spending to repair roads and
bridges, and enlarge local, state and federal budgets, rescued the economy and
put people back to work.
But his program failed “rather
spectacularly,” to use Hillary’s words. Governments were given a lot money to
spend in the hope that the money would “trickle down” to middle- and low-income
Americans, the people Democrats say they most want to help.
Instead, it is widely acknowledged by
economists and others that this has been the longest economic recovery since
the Great Depression.
In previous decades, the average
recovery period took about two years. Six years into Obama’s presidency, we’re
still struggling in a so-so recovery.
Obama lives in his own little world of
denial, saying the economy is better than ever, and apparently Clinton thinks
so, too.
But the dark underbelly of the Obama
economy tells a different story. Middle- to lower-income Americans are still
tightening their belts. Good-paying full-time jobs are hard to find, especially
among young adults just out of college. Income growth has slowed, and consumers
are spending less, the Commerce Department says.
Equally disturbing, the labor force
continues to shrink, as discouraged, long-term unemployed workers drop out of
the work force. The payroll-to-population ratio is at 44 percent, says the
Gallup Poll.
Gallup’s daily survey that asks people
how they’re doing reveals a still-distressed economy: 41 percent say they’re
“struggling,” while another 9 percent say they’re “suffering” or under
“stress.”
Gallup’s surveys put the real
unemployment rate at 6.3 percent, and the underemployed — people who need a
full-time job but can’t find one — at nearly 15 percent.
The National Association of Realtors
said this week that the share of first-time homebuyers has fallen to its lowest
rate (33 percent) in 27 years.
In his Washington Post “Wonkblog,”
economic analyst Matt O’Brien writes that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget
Office has become much more pessimistic about the economy — “revising its
estimate of potential economic activity down in each of the past seven years.”
But if anyone thinks Hillary Clinton
knows how to lift the underperforming U.S. economy out of its lethargy, they’d
better think again. Her knowledge of economics is close to zero.
Her latest blunder “highlighted a
problem that has plagued Clinton in the past: overshooting in her language when
she is outside her immediate comfort zone,” says Politico reporter Maggie
Haberman.
Moreover, Clinton is a huge fan of
ultra-leftist, anti-free market Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, whose
idea of economic policy is going after big business and the banks with more
government regulation, higher tax rates, bigger stimulus spending bills, and
raising the minimum wage on small businesses.
Will Hillary also champion higher
taxes on business at a time when the economy remains anemic? She hinted just
that at a rally last week in New York where she said, “To make America great,
we need to do our part and pay our fair share.” And you know what that means.
If there’s one thing this economy
doesn’t need, it’s higher job-killing taxes on business. “What we need is a
critique of Keynesian economics,” says The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Riley.
“That’s what we’ve been experiencing.
Government spending as a stimulus. How is that going for us? The slowest
recovery in a generation or two. That’s what I would like (to) hear her defense
of,” Riley told Fox News.
One job-creating idea you won’t hear
Hillary defend is how her husband signed a bill the GOP sent him in his second
term to cut the capital gains tax on investors. New investment in businesses
soared, the economy grew, and the jobless rate plunged to less than 4 percent.
But you won’t hear a discouraging word
from her about Obamanomics, either, which suggests she still thinks it’s
working just fine.
“FREEDOM IS NOT FREE”
“En mi opinión”
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