tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80683544794685584982024-03-13T06:33:22.436-07:00Jaime Herrera WatchAll the news that Jaime Herrera, Congress critter in the WA03 does NOT want you to know.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger349125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-923047914870097632016-02-16T07:19:00.002-08:002016-02-16T07:20:18.901-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I make no secret of how utterly worthless and shallow the RINO congresscritter from our own district happens to be.<br />
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An intellectual coward who refuses to hold open town hall meetings because of her cowardice, Ridgefield Barbie has caved over and over again, whenever her puppet-master, Cathy McMorris (Herrera used to be her gofer back in the mid 2000's; after all, someone on the legislative staff had to gt McMorris her coffee, and as one of her lowest paid staff, that sort of thing fell to Jaime) jerks her strings.<br />
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Jack up the debt ceiling?<br />
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You bet!<br />
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More horrific deficit spending?<br />
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Absolutely!<br />
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An ongoing failure to take positions on anything controversial?<br />
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Goes without saying!<br />
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Uses her own sick child as a campaign prop?<br />
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Time and again!<br />
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Abandoned the people of Clark County during the CRC/Loot Rail scam?<br />
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No question!<br />
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So, whenever I read yet another newsletter from someone who actually represents the people of his district as opposed to doing the absolute minimum required to get re-elected in this district, I turn envious at the people of Norther Idaho for electing a person of conviction and integrity.<br />
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I speak, of course, of Raul Labrador, a man I've met and who, upon examination, I would trade a thousand empty-head, vacuous, narcissistic empty suits like the one we're stupid enough to have representing me in Congress, every day and twice on Sunday.<br />
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Here's Congressman Labrador's latest newsletter that leaves no misunderstanding as to where he stands on the issues...<br />
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Dear Friends,<br />
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President Obama released his final budget proposal this week. His plan is a liberal fantasy that increases spending, taxes and deficits. Over 10 years, the President’s blueprint would raise taxes by $2.6 trillion and our national debt from $19 trillion to $27 trillion – even under the Administration’s unrealistic economic assumptions.<br />
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The Obama budget is so detached from reality that the House and Senate budget committees won’t waste their time holding customary hearings. While the Obama plan is irrelevant, I regret to report that if my party doesn’t find its backbone things won’t be much better.<br />
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Why? Because after five years of relative discipline, spending is headed in the wrong direction. Until now I’ve been able to report progress -- as annual deficits fell nearly 70 percent, from $1.4 trillion in 2009 to $439 billion in 2015.<br />
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But late last year, GOP leadership struck a deal with Democrats to increase spending and raise the debt limit. I vigorously opposed that devil’s bargain. The grim result appears in a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.<br />
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Under current law, CBO projects our annual deficit will rise to $1.4 trillion in 2026. Over 10 years, our debt will jump by almost $11 trillion. By 2026, our nation will be about $30 trillion in the red.<br />
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I often cite former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen’s statement that the national debt is the greatest threat to national security. Mullen’s warning is borne out in another CBO projection. By 2026, interest payments on the national debt will exceed defense spending.<br />
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We can trim defense spending by modernizing the world’s greatest fighting force and taking a closer look at excessive layers of Pentagon bureaucracy. But when we have to spend more on interest than defense, we will be a weakened nation.<br />
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Last week, I told a conservative forum we must end the back-scratching in which Republicans and Democrats agree to protect one another’s sacred cows by raising spending for both defense and social programs. My call to action received national coverage, including <a href="http://labrador.congressnewsletter.net/mail/util.cfm?mailaction=clickthru&gpiv=2100132562.5688.134&gen=1&mailing_linkid=10120" style="color: #7f0000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://labrador.congressnewsletter.net/mail/util.cfm?mailaction=clickthru&gpiv=2100132562.5688.134&gen=1&mailing_linkid=10120">this report from McClatchy.</a><br />
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But ending the unholy alliance won’t be enough. The Defense budget and other discretionary spending such as education and transportation represent just one-third of the budget. Entitlements, which grow on autopilot, are the larger driver of our spending problem. If we fail to reform Social Security and Medicare, insolvency is on the horizon.<br />
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Part of the reason anti-establishment candidates are faring so well in the presidential race is the failure of congressional Republicans to keep their campaign promises. Americans are smart. They don’t need to read CBO’s report to know that federal spending is “unsustainable.” They live in the real world, where checkbooks balance and debt must be repaid.<br />
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I will continue to sound the alarm. The ordinary citizens I speak to every day know restoring fiscal sanity means tough choices. It’s time Congress muster some courage. Otherwise, we risk losing the trust of the American people forever.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-25372496936689270342016-02-04T00:08:00.004-08:002016-02-04T00:10:10.607-08:00The confusion of motion with action: Jaime Herrera's letter to Tim "The Liar" LeavittMuch of the local "Facebookasphere" is buzzing over the letter our local Congresswoman had her staff write to smack Tim "The Liar" Leavitt around over his childish snit thrown yesterday at my Representative, Liz Pike, over her efforts to move us on from his CRC/Loot Rail scam and by trying a different approach to addressing our cross-river vehicle
transportation issues.
Leavitt, of course, has offered nothing as an alternative, save to trash any other effort not spelled "CRC."<br />
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As far as that goes... neither has Herrera. Where's her proposals?<br />
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No where.<br />
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Unfortunately, there's a harsh reality to this note as there is to all
of Herrera's half-hearted, bogus efforts towards the CRC rip off,
particularly in this election year: for most practical purposes, save
for highlighting Pike's efforts to actually solve this issue when no one
else is trying to do much of anything, it's worthless.<br />
<a href="http://clarkcountypolitics.blogspot.com/2016/02/sen-ann-gas-tax-rivers-bogus-baby-bill.html"><br /></a>
<a href="http://clarkcountypolitics.blogspot.com/2016/02/sen-ann-gas-tax-rivers-bogus-baby-bill.html">Not unlike Ann "Gas Tax" Rivers' Bogus Baby Bil</a>l
of a few days ago, it's a rather sordid, worthless effort by Herrera to
first, prove she's alive and second, continue to make her electorate
believe she's actively involved and working to protect us.<br />
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Many of the more ignorant continue to (wrongly) believe she played a
role in the demise of that gigantic rip off that cost us $200 million
for nothing. On the contrary: she did nothing or next to it, leaving
the heavy lifting to be done by local legislators.<br />
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Well, when I say she did "nothing," that's something of an oversimplification.<br />
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What DID she do?<br />
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The same thing she did for Pike: she wrote a few letters expressing her "concerns."<br />
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The problem is that like this letter, those letters were just as
worthless when it came to making an actual difference on the issue at
hand.<br />
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No legislation. No congressional action of any noticeable kind. <br />
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The "worth" of an action by anyone in the legislative branch at any level is judged entirely by it's impact.<br />
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For me, this letter has no real value because, frankly, as accurate as
it is... it changes absolutely nothing concerning transportation.<br />
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Are we any closer to solving the problem because of this letter? Will
those seething in hatred of the major players in the demise of that
ripoff suddenly undergo a change of heart?<br />
<br />
Do you remotely think for one second that The Liar Leavitt gives a damn
about this letter? He certainly didn't care about any of the others
Herrera's staff has written in the past. What on earth makes anyone
think he cares about this letter?<br />
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As stated, this is an election year. Herrera is, of course, naturally
concerned that the base is restive because she votes typically more like
Maxine Waters than a GOP Congresswoman.<br />
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Nothing in this letter changes any of that.<br />
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Which, come to think of it, is exactly what her hide and seek letters
over the years after she was elected accomplished: absolutely nothing...
her concerns notwithstanding.<br />
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This, ladies and gentlemen, is a classic case of the confusion of
motion... over action. It's designed to make it look like Herrera is
doing something... but when the dust settles from this... how much
closer will we be to the goal?<br />
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None. No closer. Zero.<br />
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But Herrera got earned media out there and, as I stated, even ardent
opponents within the conservative GOP are congratulating her staff's
letter writing skills.<br />
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From her perspective, it was a win all around... for her.<br />
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For the rest of us, it might make us FEEL better... but it accomplishes nothing.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-37402371557007127512016-02-01T05:14:00.001-08:002016-02-01T05:14:07.768-08:00Gee, if only the RINO House leadership (and, of course, Herrera) hadn't been such cowards.With a government of liars on both sides of the aisle along with cowards
and RINOs on the GOP side, I have to wonder: what would our level of
debt look like if the GOP had refused to support these efforts to bury
us in debt beginning years ago?<br />
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The GOP Establishment, of course, only cares about winning elections.
And ultimately, they have no more of a problem stealing our money than
the dems.<br />
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Locally, just look at Sen. Ann "Gas Tax" Rivers. Nationally, just look
at our cardboard cutout of a Congresswoman, Jaime Herrera.<br />
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Neither one gave a damn or give a damn about drowning us in debt.<br />
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Their votes speak for themselves.<br />
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Federal Reserve Bank of New York officials secretly conducted real-time
exercises during the 2011 and 2013 debt-limit crisis that demonstrated
the federal government could function during a temporary shutdown by
prioritizing spending, even as Treasury Secretary Jack Lew publicly
claimed many times that such efforts were “unworkable,” according to a <a href="http://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/debt_ceiling_report_final_01292015.pdf" target="_blank">new report by the House Financial Services Committee</a> obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.<br />
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The staff report, to be released Tuesday, charges that Lew and other
Obama administration officials deliberately misled Congress and the
public during the federal budget and debt limit showdowns in both years.
The committee will convene a public hearing on the report Feb. 2.<br />
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The report also states that the Obama administration crafted actual
contingency plans to pay for Social Security and veterans benefits, as
well as principal and interest on the national debt if the government
was temporarily unable to borrow more money. The Committee
concludes that over the last two years the Treasury Department has
“obstructed” congressional efforts to get to the bottom of the
administration’s real-time policy during the two showdowns.<br />
<br />
The Constitution stipulates that only Congress can determine how much
money the federal government can borrow. Presidents thus cannot
unilaterally spend beyond congressional debt ceiling limits set. The
committee — chaired by Republican Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas — charged
that during both confrontations, the Obama administration held the
country’s creditworthiness “hostage” by claiming default was the only
possibility if the debit ceiling was not raised.</div>
</div>
</div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-45216575934932259172016-01-22T13:08:00.001-08:002016-01-22T13:08:43.526-08:00Wow! Ridgefield Barbie Lives! When it comes to fundraising, anyway.Perhaps the most cowardly congresscritter in the United States is our very own Jamie Herrera.<br />
<br />
Unfortunately, like most in Sodom-on-Potomac, her only concern has nothing to do with representing us: au contraire.<br />
<br />
It does, however, have everything to do with using her sick child as a campaign prop and it certainly does have everything to do with getting re-elected.<br />
<br />
Unfortunately for us, that's not what she's supposed to be there for.<br />
<br />
Exclusive of any of her positions, she's too much off a coward to even hold open town hall meetings.<br />
<br />
Why?<br />
<br />
Because we don't care.<br />
<br />
What are her positions on the issues confronting us?<br />
<br />
Damned if I know: she won't tell us.<br />
<br />
When we needed her to kill the federal dollars for the CRC scam, where was she?<br />
<br />
No where.<br />
<br />
Oh, that doesn't mean she didn't go through a few of the motions: write a letter here and there (She's really good in having her staff write a letter or two for her) get slapped around by Tim "The Liar" Leavitt because of it... but what did SHE, PERSONALLY, ACCOMPLISH on killing the CRC rip off?<br />
<br />
Not a damned thing. That was left to the locals to clean up her mess.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
She had time to waste on a nowhere bill to undo the Pearson Air Museum fiasco... a bill that had no chance of accomplishing spit...</blockquote>
But no time to drop a bill to save us from the biggest boondoggle in the history of the Northwestern United States.<br />
<br />
Marc Boldt got her appointed to the open legislative seat back in '07 because Cathy McMorris, who Marc had had something of a crush on during his legislative days, asked him to get her gofer a gig... even though that simple idiot hadn't even lived here in something like 11 years, <a href="http://clarkcountypolitics.blogspot.com/2013/01/revisionist-history-and-betty-sue.html">had no clue what was going on, and sounded like a blithering idiot during the already greased county commissioner fake interview u</a>p in Longview.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>Several times during Thursday's interview, Herrera confessed
ignorance of various issues, saying for example that she hadn't known
that Cowlitz County is not subject to the state's Growth Management Act.</b></blockquote>
Eh. What the hell. She's got no idea what's going on... give her the job anyway.<br />
<br />
The rag described her then as a "family values conservative" because that's the scam she ran to get appointed.<br />
<br />
Now, of course, they call her a "Republican moderate."<br />
<br />
She is, all in all, a self-aggrandizing liar who has accomplished virtually nothing since it's been our misfortune to have her in DC.<br />
<br />
In everything from lying to us to get appointed:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 13.3333px;">“I
was honest about who I was before I was elected. I have not changed … I
stuck to the issues that the people elected me to work on and I beat
every Republican I ran against in the primary,” Herrera Beutler said.
“If I change that now, I think that would be dishonest.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 13.3333px;">”</span></blockquote>
(No. You weren't. You were lying your ass off to get elected, just like you lie now on those infrequent occasions when you say anything at all)<br />
<br />
To being such a coward and so thin on the issues that she can't intelligibly articulate them while refusing to hold open town hall meetings, Jaime Herrera has been a complete and total waste of effort in DC who has done far more TOO us (Like vote "yes" on the recent RINO Ryan budget that funded everything most Republicans hate) then she has FOR us.<br />
<br />
She does the absolute minimum to keep the job. She's mailed it in for years and will mail it in until we wide up and get rid of her.<br />
<br />
Ridgefield Barbie, the Camas Manikin. <br />
<br />
That will be her legacy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-30662136323460843282016-01-01T17:34:00.002-08:002016-01-01T17:34:12.777-08:00The Headline Game: headlines I'd like to see in 2016More as I think of them, but these are a start. In no particular order:<br />
<br />
<b>Clinton Indicted over email scandal,</b> Faces 920 years confinement<br />
<br />
<b>Obama to resign in lieu of impeachment. </b><br />
<br />
<b>Jimmy Moeller clobbered in primary:</b> political career thankfully over. <br />
<br />
<b>Democratian closes, Campbell apologizes:</b> "We lost our way in this community and forgot our job was to report the news, not make it or try and shape it."<br />
<br />
<b>RTC
announces I-5 Bridge replacement "to be put aside until 2 other bridges
built in different locations, east of the 205 and west of the I-5 to
Hillsboro."</b><br />
<br />
<b>East Bridge Construction begins.</b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>West Bridge Bypass Construction begins</b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>CRC contractors indicted</b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>Tim "The Liar" Leavitt indicted for CRC conspiracy.</b><br />
<br />
<b>Rivers fails to file, will not run for reelection: </b>"I apologize for lying to get elected on the gas tax and tab fee issue."<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>State Ethics recommendations to be written into law: </b>first up,
conflicts of interest require recusal when voting on legislation and
judges/justices can no longer rule on cases involving campaign donors.<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>State Supreme Court reconsiders and throws our McCleary:</b> acknowledges no legal grounds to order Legislature to act.<br />
<br />
<b>Boldt resigns over missing 2012 campaign funds:</b> Gave himself $5000 in campaign funds while a county commissioner to repay a loan he never made to himself.<br />
<br />
<b>Crain destroyed in 49th District House primary:</b> admits she was a leftist plant all along. <br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>County Council to gut charter, go back to commissioner model and require county-wide votes for all: </b>"Hatred
is never a reason to legislate, and while legally, we can't get rid of
this garbage, we can neuter it back into democracy."<br />
<br />
<b>County GOP sanctions Kimsey</b>
over his dishonesty on the Charter vote and use of the Voter Pamphlet
as an anti-GOP position campaign piece. "That's what democrats do. He
needs to become one."<br />
<br />
<b>County GOP sanctions Scott Weber:</b> "Lying to get elected is never acceptable."<br />
<br />
<b>County GOP sanctions Jaime Herrera:</b>
If you're going to claim to be in the GOP, you should at least,
occasionally, vote like it. Also, the idea that Herrera doesn't
communicate with the people or hold open town hall meetings? Who wants a
coward representing them in Congress?"<br />
<br />
<b>GOP loses control over state senate: </b>"Gee. Maybe if we had voted like Republicans and engaged in a tad less corruption, we might have kept control over it."<br />
<br />
Local fringe-leftist gadfly Jimmy Mains announces waves of fake Republicans running as "independents:" <b>"RINOs can't win any other way, so they're with me on this."</b><br />
<br />
<b>Boldt changes his mind: won't rip "In God We Trust" sign out of county council chamber.</b><br />
<br />
<b>Mariners break .500.</b><br />
<br />
<b>Vick acknowledges 2014 campaign lie</b>: "Yeah, I claimed I was on 6 committees but that was merely eyewash to get you suckers to think I actually was working."<br />
<br />
<b>Boldt kicked out of PCO position: </b> Never showed up in 3 years he'd been a PCO. <br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-16796146077091469112015-12-18T13:22:00.000-08:002015-12-18T13:22:08.692-08:00As expected, Ridgefield Barbie throws us all under the bus with her budget vote.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
Was there any other possibility for this RINO putz, except to do what her poppet-master and fellow RINO McMorris told her to do?<br />
<center>
<br /><b>FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 705</b><br />(Republicans in roman; Democrats in <i>italic</i>; Independents <u>underlined</u>)</center>
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<b>H R 2029</b> YEA-AND-NAY 18-Dec-2015 9:49 AM<br />
<b>QUESTION:</b> On Concurring in Senate Amdt with Amdt Specified in Section 3(a) of H.Res. 566<b> </b><br />
<b>BILL TITLE:</b> Making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-62722790441229849272015-12-11T14:55:00.002-08:002015-12-11T14:55:23.198-08:00Herrera's silence continuuuuuuues.One of the biggest problems I've got, of the many problems I've got
with an utterly worthless representative in Congress, is that she says
and does the absolute minimum required to keep you suckers voting for
her each election, while she wrongly makes people THINK she does so much
more.<br />
<br />
Still suffering from the nausea that overtook me
when Ridgefield Barbie got up and shot off her mouth about how MUCH
she's done FOR veterans (as opposed, I supposed, TO veterans... a much
longer list) while she was darkening the festivities at the Battle
Ground Veteran's Memorial dedication, I again pondered the likelihood
that patrolling Falujah was one of the few areas on the face of the
planet more dangerous than the distance between this cardboard cutout of
a congresswoman and a camera/newspaper reporter.<br />
<br />
We
continue on our course of adding to the numbers of terrorists that a
grateful nation provides support and succor for and to, out military
continues to shrink, our Veteran population continues tio suffer, out
foreign policy is in a shambles, the middle east has become a nightmare
of flypaper, the homeless situation continues to fester, Obamacare is
still in full throat, nothing is being done about our cross-river
transportation issues and what is this clueless idiot doing about any of
these and the many other problems our region and our country face?<br />
<br />
Beats me.<br />
<br />
This simple idiot won't say.<br />
<br />
Unsurprisingly,
when your only concern is to keep your job and you've already proven
yourself to be a coward by refusing to hold open town hall meetings,
that you fail to provide a constituency you've trained to be mushrooms
over the years through deliberate, benign, neglect, that pattern
continues these days... as in most days... with the Camas Manikin's
silence on the issues confronting us.<br />
<br />
Of course, even a
manikin knows that if you keep your mouth shut, you won't be "Rivered"
by your words that subsequently turn out to be lies to get... and
keep... you elected, so, I suppose that given the circumstance, for her
purposes, at least; the less she says, the better.<br />
<br />
Still, that's not what I want in a member of congress. <br />
<br />
I want someone who understands and represents US, someone with a horizon which, in fact, goes beyond her next re-election.<br />
<br />
I want someone who actually DOES something.<br />
<br />
I guess I'm destined to continue to be disappointed.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-71785309527155548702015-12-04T11:46:00.000-08:002015-12-04T11:46:10.799-08:00FBI concludes the obvious: San Berardino slaughter was terror. Our congresswoman remains silent.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The past few days have been rather uproarious.<br />
<br />
Muslims slaughtered innocents, which is getting kind of old hat, and
yesterday, the morons running the military decided to get more people
killed by opening up combat arms to women.<br /><br />They've done nothing
about changing the physical requirements, you understand, and they're
choosing to completely ignore the definitive study by the Marine Corps
which shows what a complete disaster such a move will be, and moments
ago, the FBI indicated that yes, this was an "act of terror."<br />
<br />
So, leftist gun-control morons, the ball is in your court.<br />
<br />
But that's not the point of this exercise: the point is this:<br />
<br />
Where is Jaime Herrera?<br />
<br />
Where is the Camas Manikin? Where is Ridgefield Barbie?<br />
<br />
Why isn't she talking about ANY of this?<br />
<br />
Besides being dumber than a box of hammers and being so stupid she can't
articulate any positions or ideas on the issues, I mean?<br />
<br />
You see, this is why I despise this coward. She's afraid of her own
shadow, and lacks the guts to even hold open town hall meetings.<br />
<br />
She has no business in government and represents nothing and no one save
for her puppet master, Cathy McMorris, who built her out of spare parts
lying around the office so my psychopathic brother-in-law could get her
installed in the state house, where, exactly like her tenure in
Congress, she accomplished nothing.<br />
<br />
NOW is when we need leadership. Neither of the two state cows in the US Senate are going to provide it.<br />
<br />
Apparently, neither is that narcissistic putz in Congress.<br />
<br />
Why am I not surprised?<br />
<br />
But her silence on these issues just means MY silence on the ballot when
the time comes to send her back there. How the people of this area
could send such a worthless waste of skin back is simply beyond me.<br />
<br />
But back is where she no doubt will go until someone with money is ready to go toe-to-toe with this incompetent coward.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-21881501106274767292015-11-17T11:48:00.002-08:002015-11-19T08:33:04.036-08:00So. Where's our Congresswoman?As I sit here, this Nation is facing one of it's biggest threats ever: action by ISIS.<br />
<br />
And from our Congresswoman?<br />
<br />
Cricket chirps.<br />
<br />
Nothing on military responses.<br />
<br />
Nothing on security.<br />
<br />
Nothing on the question of Syrian refugees.<br />
<br />
Nothing on taking funds out of the VA to pay for these refugees.<br />
<br />
Nothing on much of anything that matters.<br />
<br />
Color me: Not surprised.<br />
<br />
But then, her lack of doing anything but getting that horse face into the Columbian has long since stopped surprising me.<br />
<br />
Whenever we want to know where she's at on anything... we pretty much have to guess.<br />
<br />
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is just sad.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-75122273988797019392015-11-13T10:28:00.000-08:002015-11-12T10:39:08.207-08:00Jaime Herrera Watch: back in business.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A couple of years ago, my former friend and colleague, State Senator Ann "Gas Tax" Rivers (Gas Tax -18) persuaded me to shut down JHW, given that Ridgefield Barbie was our Congresswoman and likely or BE our Congresswoman for quite some time, etc.<br />
<br />
My brother-in-law had made a serious effort through others, to have me shut this down because he threw us all under the bus, having made first, a deal with former crush Cathy McMorris to give the Camas Manikin, who had been out of the area for 11 years and who had never once held a private sector job but who had, in fact, done a DAMNED fine job of getting McMorris her coffee every morning in DC.<br />
<br />
Boldt persuaded the two male democrats in Cowlitz to vote with him for filling the vacancy in the 18th District back in 2007. Barbie went along with the scam deliberations, being falsely described as a "young, family values conservative" in the Lazy C who has since morphed into a "Republican moderate" (as if she was ever anything else) and that launched the career of this do-nothing, card board cut out of a Member of Congress who is such a coward that she won't even hold open town hall meetings.<br />
<br />
Anyway, at the end, watching her actually show up and speak about how much she "cares" about Veterans... got me to thinking: between "Gas Tax" Rivers personal and political betrayal of this district and Herrera's betrayal of Veterans... what could I do to get my point across?<br />
<br />
Pulling this out of mothballs came to mind, so it's back. I'll be updating it with the Herrera posts from CCP to provide more material. But it's back... and I appreciate our esteemed Congresswoman's efforts for helping me arrive at this decision.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-39044494763711120282015-11-12T10:38:00.001-08:002015-11-12T10:38:18.375-08:00Reflections on Veteran's Day.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is posted on the 12th, but I'm thinking about it today. (The 11th)<br />
<br />
Veteran's Day... or Veterans Day, depending on your persuasion... what does it mean?<br />
<br />
In the year 2015, it means that the promises made to us when we raised
our hands and took the Oath are no closer to fruition now than they were
when I enlisted. (One of the bigger whoppers was "free medical care for
life." Yeah, right.)<br />
<br />
It means hundreds of thousands of claims remain at least as unresolved
now as they were when the Liar-in-Chief took office promising to fix all
that; meaning that hundreds of thousands of veterans are in pain not
only because of the wounds and injury they suffered serving us, but
because a non-responsive government ordains it.<br />
<br />
We're still dying during the wait. Veteran's Choice, the supposed
cure-all for wait times, has proven itself to be a worthless joke; at
least in my case. And Obama has ripped off $2.5 billion from that and
shifted it to Syrian<br />
<br />
Veterans are still killing themselves at a rate of over 20 a day (The
number varies depending on where it comes from, but it's a lot and it's
far too many) and no progress has been made in that theater.<br />
<br />
The sacrifices made by so many of our best and brightest have been
thrown away by a clueless Administration... thousands dead, many more
thousands wounded... and for what?<br />
<br />
I served my country for many years. Millions of us did and hundreds of thousands of us are as I write this.<br />
<br />
But to our government, both left and right, that service is
meaningless. Locally, the value was show by naming a non-serving
fringe-left former politician as Grand Martial of the Veteran's Day
Parade. Must have been because no veteran of any stature was available
for the honor. Even Jaime Herrera made one of her all too few
appearances (In Battle Ground) where Mayor Bowman made the only mistake
of the day and mentioned "representatives" of Patty Murray and Maria
Cantwell, two more slimeballs who have done nothing for us but have done
a great deal TO us. as the prelude of setting up the delusion that
Herrera needed to speak... to lie about what she's doing for veterans
and how important we are to her.<br /><br />Herrera once told me that her
time away from this area... going to the UDub, being a staffer in DC and
doing a few weeks as an intern in Olympia was, and I quote, "a lot like
being in the military."<br /><br />Right.<br />
<br />
It's a great Memorial. And no politician should have been mentioned...
for it wasn't about them... or even their low-level staffers. It was
supposed to be about those from here who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
The pols couldn't even do that right.<br />
<br />
Her speech made me nauseous, and I left about 30 seconds in since it wasn't even a thinly veiled campaign effort.<br />
<br />
The Weather God was obliging: I reached my car in about 90 seconds...
texted my apologies to those I'd promised I'd be there... and the sky
broke. They were drenched. <br />
<br />
In my mind, the service of the newest clerk, or cook, or dental
assistant in the Armed Forces exceeds that of any elected official today
who did not put on the uniform.<br />
<br />
Build a fake bomb, get invited to the White House.<br />
<br />
Get killed for your country under that incompetent's policies, and nothing.<br />
<br />
Between the terrorist in training... and the widow and kids of that man
who died serving in the Armed Forces, who was more deserving of the
invite?<br />
<br />
Today, as I write this, is a day of remembrance.<br />
<br />
It's marked by few ceremonies... and locally, a parade taken over by
fringe-left nutjobs, disrespecting what we have done for their own
ends... without protest or concern from their fellow leftists in local
media.<br />
<br />
We get sales. We get free meal scams... well, most are scams, but not
all. We get a free oil change if you've got the right car, because God
Forbid that your vehicle require more than 5 quarts.<br />
<br />
I don't do any of them.<br />
<br />
Today, wedged between a business meeting and lunch with my lovely bride
and our son, I'll be going to the Battle Ground Veteran's Memorial
dedication.<br />
<br />
But that's going to be it for me.<br />
<br />
A government that doesn't care. A people that allows them to get away with it.<br />
<br />
More sick veterans. More crippled and wounded veterans. More homeless
veterans. A member of congress that doesn't listen and doesn't care or
do anything... well, not just about veterans, but about anything else
that doesn't serve her dreams of reelection.<br />
<br />
20 to 25 of us will die today at out own hand.<br />
<br />
20 to 25 of us will die tomorrow at our own hand.<br />
<br />
No where to go. No one to help. The numbers prove we're not doing enough.<br />
<br />
On this day, it's not a great day to be a Veteran.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-5352748816963386992015-11-01T10:40:00.000-08:002015-11-12T10:40:30.960-08:00How the GOP lost me at the national level.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I admit to a simplistic view of government. What it is, is not what it's supposed to be.<br />
<br />
I, for one, refuse to take the view that our laws are, instead, a series
of suggestions to be ignored by all of those who believe they don't
apply... either to them, or anyone else... including those who govern
us.<br />
<br />
We are, allegedly, a nation of laws. It is supposed to be a major ingredient in the glue that helps to hold us together.<br />
<br />
It's supposed to be... a matter of faith.<br />
<br />
And my faith is waning... no thanks to the Republican Party.<br />
<br />
Pull out a dollar bill (Or any denomination, really.) The paper of that bill is, effectively, worthless.<br />
<br />
What gives that piece of paper any value at all is the idea that we, as a
nation, BELIEVE it has value. What happens when that belief collapses?<br />
<br />
Our nation continues, I believe, because there's enough of it left that
people like me cling to this bright, shiny city on a hill with all of
our strength. But we cannot hold on forever. And increasingly, we have
no one to rally to... no group to believe in.<br />
<br />
I look at the candidates running for president, for example.<br />
<br />
Did any of them love this country enough to serve it in uniform in any capacity that ever put them at risk?<br />
<br />
(Yes, I know that Graham is/was a JAG officer. But somehow, I don't
confuse his exploits with that, of say, Harmon Rabb of the JAG TV
series.)<br />
<br />
Only Graham bothered to serve in any capacity. And that he was a lawyer is utterly meaningless when you need a warrior. <br />
<br />
That was why I likely would have supported and voted for Jim Webb had he
made it to the general election. With the second highest award for
combat heroism, the Distinguished Service Cross, we would have had a
warrior president when we needed one... and I could care less what the
letter after his name is... this isn't about a label... this is what we
need to be right and wrong.<br />
<br />
And we do need a warrior. We are, after all, at war, and the current
clown in the White House despises the military as the Army has to
prepare for another 10 brigade cut that we cannot afford... but, By God,
those Obamaphones are going to keep on in the cells. <br />
<br />
But none are running. (General Mattis, where are you when we need you?)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xmKxftXg_mg/VjULk7U4wVI/AAAAAAAACW8/ncp40hsuSAI/s1600/f%2Bobama.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xmKxftXg_mg/VjULk7U4wVI/AAAAAAAACW8/ncp40hsuSAI/s320/f%2Bobama.jpg" width="320" /></a>The politics of this country today are Neroesque.<br />
<br />
We know what's wrong. Anyone paying attention can see that militarily
we are weakened by budget cuts, manpower reductions, social engineering
and policies that should see the president slapped by the Marine Guard
at the White House, instead of saluted.<br />
<br />
<br />
We are growing trillions in debt. The debt is unpayable.<br />
<br />
The GOP is complicit in the border follies that have resulted in an
illegal alien invasion that will take far longer to undo than it did to
make it happen<br />
<br />
With GOP acquiescence, we are being strangled by a medical system that those who govern us wouldn't be caught dead using.<br />
<br />
Most recently, the GOP caved on the budget, fully funding everything the
fringe-left wanted while, for example, our social security was raped
again and those who bleed for us didn't get a cost of living increase.<br />
<br />
These things aren't happening in a vacuum. They are happening with the
assistance and abetting of the GOP leadership of both the House and the
Senate.<br />
<br />
Even that simple idiot who just became Speaker showed HIS opposition to
this budget bend-over that resulted in the most recent sell out by
voting for it.<br />
<br />
Man.<br />
<br />
THAT'LL teach them.<br />
<br />
Our police are being slaughtered and the GOP remains silent... just like the president.<br />
<br />
And that's the thing.<br />
<br />
"Just like the president" should not be the GOP watchwords.<br />
<br />
But they sure seem to be, since they refuse to do what must be done to rein him in.<br />
<br />
And I don't need to be a part of that RINO parade.<br />
<br />
I won't be.<br />
<br />
Those in office at almost every level, from the wannabes like my
brother-in-law up to Congress could care less what us little people have
to say.<br />
<br />
Liz Pike is the last remaining hold out. But from there on up, the rest of them aren't worth the powder to blow them to hell.<br />
<br />
A party where integrity and honor mean nothing, A party where the "Right" thing is far too often not what they do.<br />
<br />
A party where leftist policies are inevitably never derailed, but
instead, only temporarily delayed if not joined by those we put there to
do something completely different.<br />
<br />
Isn't it strange that those politicians I write about the most here have "R'" after their names?<br />
<br />
Imagine. If they just told the truth and kept their word, I'd have nothing to say about them.<br />
<br />
Weber, Rivers, Vick, Boldt, Herrera and that ilk are the ones who've
earned our scorn so unnecessarily... but earn it they have by lying to
get elected or forgetting who they are once we're stupid enough to vote
for them.<br />
<br />
But scorn at the national level has been an equal partner in shoving me out.<br />
<br />
Boehner/Ryan, McConnell, McMorris, Herrera... they routinely sell us
out and run away from a fight... the fights we need to have.<br />
<br />
We were told in the run up to the last cycle that we had to hold our
collective noses and vote for the RINO's because the "R's" would change
everything if they controlled Congress.<br />
<br />
Well, I'm hard pressed to figure out how things would be any different if Reid and Pelosi were still calling the shots.<br />
<br />
To that end, I will not be voting for Republicans at any level merely because they have an "R" after their names.<br />
<br />
Boldt supporters, for example, stupidly claim HE is a Republican... when his record of governance clearly shows he is not.<br />
<br />
Blind obedience and support is not the answer. And I will never vote that way again.<br />
<br />
It didn't have to be this way.<br />
<br />
These clowns could have told the truth. They could have kept their
word. They could have actually tried to get rid of their job from the
ballot (Weber) they could have at least voted to allow US to have the
final say on the gas tax/tab fee instead of ignoring the campaign
promise that helped her get elected (Rivers) They could have actually
shown up the first year and avoided the lie that they were on 6
committees (Vick) and they could have actually done something to kill
off the CRC Scam at the federal level instead of leaving us to fend for
ourselves (Herrera) and then voting more with Polosi then an actual
Republican.<br />
<br />
But nope. Didn't happen. <br />
<br />
At the federal level, they could have dismantled Obamacare and forced
the president to end his open border policies that have resulted in so
many murders, rapes, robberies and the like.<br />
<br />
They could have put the military back together and re-purposed them into
what they are supposed to be:a lean, mean, killing machine.<br />
<br />
They could have ended the insanity of these social programs that are
going to reduce our military capabilities, get us hurt and get us dead.<br />
<br />
They could have cut spending and reversed the budget deficit.<br />
<br />
In short, these RINO's have accomplished nothing that we sent them up there to do. <br />
<br />
But no... we've been standing there much like a dear caught in the headlights.<br />
<br />
And their abysmal, inexcusable failure?<br />
<br />
That means I'm out.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-10320020355478233392015-10-29T10:41:00.000-07:002015-11-12T10:41:51.050-08:00Missed last night's debate like I'm going to miss them all until a candidate is chosen for the general.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
People, people, people.<br />
<br />
What did we learn last night that we didn't already know?<br />
<br />
The RINOs are still RINOs. The leftist lamestream media is still the leftist lamestream media.<br />
<br />
Candidates acted like they act. The media, fully in the tank for Billary, acted like they act.<br />
<br />
What changes?<br />
<br />
Nothing.<br />
<br />
State democrats have arranged to keep Washington State out of the decision making by refusing to consider moving up our primary.<br />
<br />
Swell. Meanwhile, we have no say or power in determining who represents
the GOP in the general. We won't GET a say until May, and this thing
is likely long over by then.<br />
<br />
So why get involved in any of this now?<br />
<br />
Look, I'm not voting for anyone because of their label.<br />
<br />
Locally, the fake claim to being Republican has led to political
creatures like Marc Boldt, Greg Kimsey, Carolyn Crain, Scott Weber and
most recently, Ann "Gas Tax" Rivers.<br />
<br />
Nationally, we have Jaime Herrera; a RINO-led Senate and a RINO-led House. <br />
<br />
It becomes increasingly unimportant to vote when those you vote for,
from the local level on up, view their elections as a key to personal
anarchy, where those elected stop representing us the moment the vote is
finalized. Like Marc Boldt's hero, Steve Stuart:<br />
<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2kUaWtl8uJ0" width="420"></iframe><br />
<br />
Our choices, then, are clear: we continue to vote for a label without
bothering to look at a record, like the situation with the on-again,
off-again democrat Marc Boldt, or we look at the record and chose based
on what HAS happened as opposed to what MIGHT happen if Marc has a good
day. <br />
<br />
Meanwhile, I skip the waste of time known as the debates, where leftists
with spears are allowed to beat on GOP candidates like they're piñatas
and do so with impunity because the show is never about the issues, but
instead, will always be about efforts to destroy the candidacies in
front of us.<br />
<br />
No one, I believe, should make up their minds based on the sound-byte snippets of these dog and pony shows.<br />
<br />
For me, the equation is simple.<br />
<br />
There is now no democrat running that I'd vote for if you put a gun to my head.<br />
<br />
Those that I would consider voting for to this point are 1. Those who have a shot and 2. those who aren't RINO's.<br />
<br />
Of those running, then, that leaves me with a choice of Trump, Carson or Cruz.<br />
<br />
When the presidential election rolls around a year from now, if any of
those 3 are on the ballot, I'm going to vote for them in the
presidential election.<br />
<br />
If they're not, it's kinda like Paul Ryan becoming Speaker: it won't be
markedly different from what we've got now... so I ask you, again:
what's the point of wasting your time watching this nonsense?<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.56px;"><br /></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-80214512759387127882015-10-20T10:43:00.000-07:002015-11-12T10:43:08.898-08:00Is the RINO Establishment finally getting it about Trump? RINO betrayal generally, at both the national and local level.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I freely admit I was among the talking heads who couldn't take Trump
seriously when he started out: he'd taken the beginning of this path
before, only to act like a 3 year old with ADHD ("Oh, look! A kitty!")
but in a short time, it became clear to me that he was actually
serious.. and once he became serious, the fur began to fly.<br />
<br />
And it also became clear, shortly after his announcement, that he was
going to be the guy talking about the issues that NEEDED to be talked
about. And, as I have opined, the only chance for the Establishment was
to begin the process of hauling itself into Trump's general direction
and co-opting his positions. <br />
<br />
This is not a great time to be a RINO. This is not a great time to be an Establishment Republican.<br />
<br />
Instead, they run away like little girls in horror at the thought of taking the high road because you know what?<br />
<br />
They'd sell their own mothers to win... the "right thing to do" be
damned. because, God Help Us, they might lose... and it's all about
keeping their butts in government.<br />
<br />
The reasons for that are, on the whole, obvious: of the Senators
running, only Cruz speaks to the issues the way the base wants them
spoken to... but Cruz is hamstrung with the mark of the anti-Christ
Senate, a GOP group that makes Judas look like an all-star when the
obvious comparison between those elected to the US Senate and their
betrayal to their voters and the betrayer of Jesus takes place. Paul is
hamstrung by both that and some of his old man's idiocy.<br />
<br />
For years, the base sat and fumed at the lack of courage and vision of the GOP Speaker of the House.<br />
<br />
I knew we were in trouble when Cathy McMorris took a prominent role in
leadership: after all, she threw Jaime Herrera together out of spare
parts laying around the office and we know how worthless McMorris's
former coffee gofer has been since McMorris parachuted her back in here
after an 11 year absence.<br />
<br />
This is another reason Boldt is not someone to be trusted... or elected.<br />
<br />
Boldt's old crush asked him to support Herrera, and Boldt made the deal
with the two male Cowlitz County commissioners in office at the time...
and it was done weeks before the actual appointment was made to the
legislature back in that fateful day in 2007.<br />
<br />
Boldt also went on to hire <a href="http://clarkcountypolitics.blogspot.com/2011/04/connecting-dots-axel-swanson-now-works.html">one of those two clowns for the county, when that guy, Axel Swanson</a>,
a democrat, was tossed out of office in the next election... giving him
a big bucks job down here in Clark County as something of a
quid-pro-quo... as part of the mutual back-scratching that's just a
normal day of business for Boldt.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, Trump has begun his run for president. I'm sure that the
RINO/Establishment felt the same way I and many others did, that this
would be entertaining for awhile and then, he would fade and then quit.<br />
<br />
Hasn't quite worked out that way, has it?<br />
<br />
Trump discovered the thing that the RINO Establishment had long since blocked:<br />
<br />
The Pulse of the Base.<br />
<br />
That's right, ladies and gents... by accident or by design, Trump... and
now Carson... have their fingertips on the pulse of the base and they
can feel the hatred for those who've betrayed us, those who've ignored
us, those who lie to us at all levels (Right, "Gas Tax?") to get elected
and get power... only to forget all about that once they get the gig.<br />
<br />
I'm sure the GOP, like most in politics, count on the stupidity and
short memories of the voting public... except this time, that ain't
happening.<br />
<br />
Thanks to the debacle that has been the US Senate since the GOP took
control and made NONE of the changes they promised to get elected in the
first place, the base... the party bedrock is betrayed and
disillusioned.<br />
<br />
The result?<br />
<br />
Unfiltered voices owing nothing to the Establishment RINOs are the ones getting the support.<br />
<br />
I would be comfortable, at this point, with a Trump presidency or a
Carson presidency. I will remain comfortable with that for the most
part until such time as either of those two are shown to be something
they're not.<br />
<br />
I believed, for example, with the entirety of my heart and soul in Sen.
Ann "Gas Tax" Rivers. I believed she was different. I believed she was
the exception to the rule... her other issues notwithstanding.<br />
<br />
But when it mattered, she was the same as any other political
opportunist, selling out Clark County and saddling us with a $700
million debt, while supporting the millionaires behind the pot
initiative with her effort to cut the promised pot tax in half...
instead of holding the liars accountable.<br />
<br />
They promised us $582 million per year. You remember the lie, don't you?<br />
<br />
"Just legalize it, tax the hell out of it and all our budget problems will be solved!"<br />
<br />
Yeah.<br />
<br />
Right.<br />
<br />
Gee. Did that show them, or what?<br />
<br />
That was a betrayal to me personally and to the entirety of her district. <br />
<br />
In one of the last conversations I had with her husband and my formerly
close friend last March, Fred, he opined when I asked him that the 18th
District would likely have voted 65% "no" on the gas tax increase, had
his wife given us the opportunity TO vote... which she made damned sure
did not happen.<br />
<br />
And yet, she voted for the increase... and the emergency clause in the
bill... that went with it while refusing to even try to put a referendum
clause on the tax bill so we COULD have a say in the largest gas tax
increase in this state's history.<br />
<br />
As for her district?<br />
<br />
Well, she apparently knows better than the idiots who voted for her, at least in her mind, and that includes me.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, the base continues a pattern of rejection of the usual RINO
excuses. I'm not even remotely interested in what the Establishment
types whine about when it comes to what they CAN'T do.<br />
<br />
Local RINO's like Brent Boger kept telling us there wasn't a thing the
House could do until we got the Senate, so we had to hold our collective
noses and vote THOSE RINOs in before anything could happen. <br />
<br />
So, the people of several states followed that fraudulent advice.<br />
<br />
And what do they have to show for it?<br />
<br />
On EVERY MAJOR PIECE OF LEGISLATION... THE GOP SENATE HAS CAVED.<br />
<br />
EVERY, SINGLE, ONE.<br />
<br />
So, what's the takeaway from that?<br />
<br />
No matter which RINO is elected to the presidency, if a Bush, or Rubio,
or Christie or that ilk gets the gig... there would be no changes made
beyond the superficial.<br />
<br />
The base knows this. They intuit this.<br />
<br />
And that's why the RINOs are stuck in dead, low, gear.<br />
<br />
The entire planet knows what we won't do, which is anything we NEED to do.<br />
<br />
At this point, for the most part, Trump and Carson are the wildcards when we need one.<br />
<br />
The only problem I'm having with this crop of GOP'ers is that none of them ever bothered to wear the uniform.<br />
<br />
Only those who have served have a clue what it's like to be in the military responding to the orders from the White House.<br />
<br />
But we don't. And with Sen. Jim Webb dropping out on the d-side, we
have absolutely zero military experience in or wanting to be in the
White House.<br />
<br />
I will never vote for a RINO. I will never set myself up for betrayal again.<br />
<br />
I see my life in politics coming to an end because I freely admit that
what Battle Ground Deputy Mayor Phil Johnson belittled as merely a
"lofty ideal" is the basis for my political realm.<br />
<br />
I'm an anachronism. Those in politics today, from the aforementioned
Washougal City Councilman Boger, who strongly supports "Gas Tax" Rivers'
lies and who also was instrumental in the political career of one of
the biggest liars in politics here locally, County Clerk Scott "I'll get
rid of my job as an elected position" Weber and people like Battle
Ground Deputy Mayor Phil Johnson... thrive on the politics of lying.<br />
<br />
Because we've let them.<br />
<br />
That, ladies and gentlemen, is why the RINOs are having such a hard time
of it. That's why the ordination of Jebbie Bush was bit premature.<br />
<br />
And that's why I will never vote for a fake Republican, like my brother-in-law Marc Boldt, ever again.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-44312156864929967502015-10-15T10:44:00.000-07:002015-11-12T11:26:32.457-08:00Yuk fest: Herrera has "no interest" in the Speaker job? As if.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Perhaps the most vacuous, self-important and utterly worthless member of Congress in our country today is Jaime Herrera.<br />
<br />
Herrera has the singular RINO focus of remaining in office first, her
fatally ill daughter's public relations second (which she uses to help
continue the first) and carrying her master's water (McMorris) like
Gunga Din, third.<br />
<br />
Note, no where in that litany is "representing us."<br />
<br />
So, imagine my surprise when, as a joke, someone sent me the article
where the Camas Manikin, who goes out of her way to remain silent on
most of the issues confronting this country, suddenly comes up on the
net to tell us she's "not interested in the Speaker's job."<br />
<br />
Wait.... what?<br />
<br />
She might as well tell us she's not interested in levitating, or not
interested in walking through walls, or shape-shifting or any other
physically impossible feat.<br />
<br />
She has as much chance of growing a brain as she does of ever becoming Speaker.<br />
<br />
Herrera is the pent-ultimate back-bencher. On the issues confronting
this country and her district, she has accomplished absolutely nothing.
On the CRC Scam, for example, an agony she could have ended within days
of taking office in Congress, she absolutely disappeared, save for
getting her political face kicked in by Tim "The Liar" Leavitt.<br />
<br />
Except for selling out on closing down government and voting to raise
the debt ceiling while teetering on the brink of getting thrown out of
the local Republican party (a failure to accomplish that I will rue
until I die) you rarely hear a thing about this waste of skin.<br />
<br />
A true conservative, such as, for example, Raul Labrador of Idaho;
frequently communicates with his constituency on a wide variety of
issues... while holding open town hall meetings. Further, when you
contact his office, you get answers that actually show where he's taken a
position.<br />
<br />
Not so our Ridgefield Barbie, who thinks so little of this district that she doesn't even own a house in it.<br />
<br />
Herrera, who's intellectual cowardice is the stuff of legends, is,
perhaps, best known for her cowardly failure to hold open town hall
meetings; an exercise in democracy her democrat predecessor whom she so
admires, was known for.<br />
<br />
While claiming the Speaker issue is an embarrassment, she naturally
refuses to explain the fact that SHE is, and has been, an embarrassment
since she got back here after McMorris parachuted her in after a 12 year
absence to take on Brian Baird for Congress, starting with Marc Boldt
selling out to McMorris and getting her a legislative appointment. Nor
does she happen to mention HER role and responsibility in this
"embarrassment."<br />
<br />
No, she has no problem ignoring the actual Republicans of her district
while she whines "I'm giving the best years of my life to travel back
and forth to that place... (DC)" well, here's a clue:<br />
<br />
Feel free to quit. All you've done to date is to achieve footnote status any way.<br />
<br />
You no more "fight for us" than you work out in a gym.<br />
<br />
As the penultimate back-bencher, you follow the "less-is-more" edict of
politics, mainly, keeping your mouth shut so that you don't have to
discuss the issues you SHOULD be working on (So, Herrera: what are you
doing to end this "women-in-combat" idiocy? What are you doing about
the VA? Why hasn't your office addressed the disparity of drugs, for
example, costing some 170% more at the VA than many of them do at, say,
Fred Meyers?<br />
<br />
What are you, personally, doing about the debt ceiling, or cutting spending, or our idiotic foreign policy?<br />
<br />
What are you doing to restore funding to the military, having voted to cut retirement and disability?<br />
<br />
I get that you don't "want" to be Speaker. I also get that you'd have a
better chance of appearing in a Mike's Hard Lemonade commercial after
you grew a second head. so it's easy for you to say that you don't
"want" a job you have a less than zero chance of ever getting.<br />
<br />
The mystery to me is why the democratian believed that a lightweight
like Herrera's obvious decision to not seek a job she could no more get
than she could gain 100 yards rushing against the Steelers somehow
equates to news.<br />
<br />
Of COURSE she "has no interest" in a job she can't get.<br />
<br />
I have no
interest in the job of chief of staff for the Mayo Clinic, or to be an
astronaut, or the blind side tackle for Russell Wilson (And God knows
they apparently really need one) because as much as my ascension to any
of those things is far more likely than Herrera ever getting any kind of
leadership position in the House, even I know those outcomes are
impossible.<br />
<br />
Oddly, however, none of that is "news."<br />
<br />
Just like our light weight congresswoman has a far smaller than zero chance of ever being confused with a congressional leader.<br />
<br />
Don't think so?<br />
<br />
When
was the last time any of us saw her being interviewed over her
thoughts... on anything? Leaders get asked questions, usually in front
of a camera. And that means you're out.<br />
<br />
And Barbie... there's nothing going on in the House that's a bigger "embarrassment" than your membership in it.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-60011514430071020472015-09-29T10:45:00.000-07:002015-11-12T10:45:55.485-08:00With the news that McMorris will continue as chair of House GOP Conference, Boehner leaving means nothing.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
While Boehner should have been deposed from his job 6 years ago, the
change in the Speakership is meaningless... utterly meaningless.<br />
<br />
The only way Boehner's resignation would have meant anything is if the
rats he surrounded himself with, including Cathy McMorris, left with
him.<br />
<br />
McMorris, primarily responsible for foisting our worthless
congresswoman, Jaime Herrera off on us in her bid to become the next
Jennifer Dunn, claims that she'll remain in her position as House GOP
Conference chair instead of taking a run at Speaker.<br />
<br />
Of course, given her record of acquiescence to Boehner, she has zero
chance of winning the Majority Leader gig, but that's beside the point:
unless all of the current leadership goes with Boehner, his departure
merely means we'll have a different face on the same RINO leadership who
has put us where we are today: no where.<br />
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<figure class="article-figure align-none " id="image-18728" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; position: relative; width: 630px;"><picture id="image-embed" style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; display: block; position: relative;"><img alt="Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican from Washington, speaks during an interview in New York, U.S., on Friday, March 28, 2014. (Scott Eells/Bloomberg)" height="266" src="http://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/863969ec-63db-11e5-aa4b-ec60ccf9d50e-1020x680.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 475px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="400" /></picture><figcaption class="article-figure-caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #7e838b; font-family: ff-dagny-web-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; margin: 10px 10px 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; transition: opacity 0.15s ease-in-out;"><span class="caption full" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Representative
Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican from Washington, speaks during an
interview in New York, U.S., on Friday, March 28, 2014. (Scott
Eells/Bloomberg)</span></figcaption><figcaption class="article-figure-caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #7e838b; font-family: ff-dagny-web-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; margin: 10px 10px 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; transition: opacity 0.15s ease-in-out;"><span class="caption full" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></span></figcaption><figcaption class="article-figure-caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #7e838b; font-family: ff-dagny-web-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; margin: 10px 10px 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; transition: opacity 0.15s ease-in-out;"><span class="caption full" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><figcaption class="article-figure-caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 10px 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; transition: opacity 0.15s ease-in-out;"><b>She says she’ll remain chair of the House Republican Conference.</b></figcaption><figcaption class="article-figure-caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 10px 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; transition: opacity 0.15s ease-in-out;"></figcaption><figcaption class="article-figure-caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 10px 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; transition: opacity 0.15s ease-in-out;">By Seattle Times staff</figcaption><figcaption class="article-figure-caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 10px 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; transition: opacity 0.15s ease-in-out;">Seattle Times staff reporter</figcaption><figcaption class="article-figure-caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 10px 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; transition: opacity 0.15s ease-in-out;"></figcaption><figcaption class="article-figure-caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 10px 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; transition: opacity 0.15s ease-in-out;">U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Spokane will not run for House majority leader.</figcaption><figcaption class="article-figure-caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 10px 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; transition: opacity 0.15s ease-in-out;">In
a statement Monday, McMorris Rodgers said she’ll seek to remain chair
of the House Republican Conference, the No. 4 position in the House GOP.</figcaption><figcaption class="article-figure-caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 10px 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; transition: opacity 0.15s ease-in-out;">As
the highest-ranking woman in the House Republican leadership, McMorris
Rodgers had been seen as a possible top contender for the
majority-leader role — the second-ranking House GOP position — in the
leadership shuffle following House Speaker John Boehner’s announcement
last week that he’ll resign at the end of October.</figcaption><figcaption class="article-figure-caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 10px 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; transition: opacity 0.15s ease-in-out;">The current majority leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is the leading candidate to take the speaker’s gavel.</figcaption><figcaption class="article-figure-caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 10px 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; transition: opacity 0.15s ease-in-out;">“At
this time, I believe the best way for me to work for Eastern Washington
is to remain Conference Chair,” McMorris Rodgers said in an emailed
statement. “My top priority is to make a difference for the people of
Eastern Washington. It’s my home, and every person I represent inspires
me. I believe DC can learn a lot from our values, our experience, and
our pioneer spirit — finding solutions and making things happen.”</figcaption><figcaption class="article-figure-caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 10px 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; transition: opacity 0.15s ease-in-out;">She
did not say whether she’ll back one of the other candidates for
majority leader. Politico, the national political website, reported
McMorris Rodgers’ decision leaves the majority-leader race to two
candidates: House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and House Budget
Chair Tom Price, R-Ga.</figcaption><figcaption class="article-figure-caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 10px 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; transition: opacity 0.15s ease-in-out;">McMorris Rodgers has represented Eastern Washington’s 5th Congressional District since 2005.unner: 206-515-5628 or jbrunner@seattletimes.com. On Twitter @Jim_Brunnerim jbrunnerr@seattletimes.com </figcaption></span></figcaption></figure></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-61961070658733596582015-09-25T10:46:00.000-07:002015-11-12T10:47:34.519-08:00Local RINO's grieve over departure of Boehner. What will Herrera do?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's been a long-held truth that continuing to do the same thing over
and over again while expecting a different outcome is a true sign of
insanity.<br />
<br />
How many times did you read that we had to get behind the RINO's so the GOP could take charge of Congress and fix everything?"<br />
<br />
A complete lack of control over all of Congress was the years-long
excuse RINO's gave as to why Obama was engaging in reverse slavery over
the GOP like the 13th Amendment was never passed and HE was the "Massa."<br />
<br />
So, the base, or enough of them, bought into that lie.<br />
<br />
Mitch McConnell and his crew ran on the same successful messaging the
House had used: Get rid of Obamacare, and cut the budget. Strong
security for the country. Reduce the deficit. Bring order to the clown
car of American foreign policy.<br />
<br />
Well, that was the promise. Has any of that happened?<br />
<br />
Most recently, McConnell caved to Obama on the Iran rip off that will result in Iran gaining nukes... and using them.<br />
<br />
Obamacare is worse than ever, the deficit is worse than ever, foreign
policy is worse than ever... even though we're finishing our 9th month
of complete GOP congressional control... because the RINO's are gutless
when it comes to shutting government down.<br />
<br />
The RINO excuse?<br />
<br />
Well, Congress is powerless because they don't have an "R" in the White
House... though they damned sure weren't saying that in the run up to
the last election.<br />
<br />
Well, if we DID have an "R" in the White House, these same RINO's would
excuse the lack of action on some other grounds they make up to justify
their cowardice.<br />
<br />
Here's the thing: I'm all about shutting down government over
principle. The lack of guts to do that is what the left counts on.
Like every other enemy of this country since the end of World War 2,
they know that if they can just hang on long enough, we'll get tired of
it all and leave.<br />
<br />
Because the RINO's refuse to shut down government or use the nuclear option, THEY MAKE THEMSELVES POWERLESS.<br />
<br />
Anyone who replaces Boehner who WON'T shut down government will be as worthless as McConnell.<br />
<br />
And anyone in House leadership today who is still in House leadership
after the next Speaker is elected will be a sign that whoever replaces
Boehner will be no different than he was: a blight on the system of
government who has been part and parcel of why this country is as
screwed up as it is.<br />
<br />
Look at who leads the GOP presidential polls. Look at who's buried in
the back of the pack... and who was expected to win going away.<br />
<br />
None of the top 3 have ever held office. <br />
<br />
In government when your party has control over a single of the
legislative branches, you can hold out on matters of principle. Because
when you DON'T.... when you refuse to shut down government on the
issues... then what you're effectively saying is there's no point.<br />
<br />
When the outcomes are the same as if the democrats ran Congress, what
the hell difference does it make whether the leftist democrats run it
over the leftist RINOs?<br />
<br />
When you put fear of losing your election ahead of fear of losing our country... what else can we expect as outcomes?<br />
<br />
Unlike a RINO... such as Herrera or Boger, I simply do not care what the
label is on a given candidate. As a former state party executive
director, I have seen the damage blind allegiance to a label does to a
given situation.<br />
<br />
Imagine where we'd be as a nation if the attitude of our leaders was
more one of "Oh, well: I'd rather be right... than be _______________;
so if doing the right thing costs me my job.... so be it."<br />
<br />
Until now, control over a Congressional branch has been a meaningless
gesture for the GOP. Now, they can begin the process of healing by
actually keeping their promises to get elected... or they can just
continue to do what they've been doing: acting like Nancy Pelosi is the
defacto Speaker and the lies they used to get elected were as
meaningless as Ann "Gas Tax" Rivers' promise not to vote for a gas tax
or tab fee increase.<br />
<br />
Expect Herrera to vote for a RINO. Expect the RINO's to rally around the leftists while they cower in fear.<br />
<br />
Because that's what they do.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-1625827314966010002015-06-12T10:51:00.000-07:002015-11-12T10:52:05.985-08:00Latest on GOP betrayal.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Jaime Herrera (aka, Ridgefield Barbie) has already thrown us under a
bus on the TPA Scam, so I have no reason not to believe she won't call
all the way and bend us over on final passage.<br />
<br />
But
then, I didn't vote for that empty-suited, vacuous ego-maniac who has
accomplished absolutely nothing during her unfortunate elective tenure.<br />
<br />
I am, I'm told, supporting the fringe-left and unionists on this bill.<br />
<br />
That's a total crock.<br />
<br />
What I oppose is these clowns generally and on ANY major legislation particularly, voting on a bill WITHOUT READING IT.<br />
<br />
AND I DON'T GIVE A DAMN WHAT THE BILL MAY BE.<br />
<br />
It continues to be locked up in a Capitol Building basement room.<br />
<br />
I want the bill out here BEFORE the GOP shafts us with it.<br />
<br />
Didn't we learn ANYTHING from passing and implementing Obamacare?<br />
<br />
Apparently not.<br />
<br />
So, thanks to the GOP for being everything I knew you would be... out-democrating the democrats.<br />
<br />
Literally.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, Remember this the next time our own "local" doesn't-even-live-here congresswoman demands that we vote for her.<br />
<br />
The very definition of worthless.<br />
<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-25452379524210043762015-06-12T10:49:00.000-07:002015-11-12T10:49:44.525-08:00House Kills TPA, Herrera, McMorris and Ryan vote for, BOEHNER votes "No."<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/11/jeff-sessions-issues-final-critical-alert-obamatrade-just-like-amnesty-obamacare/">SESSIONS WARNED: 'Elites Who Dream Of Writing Rules In Foreign Capitals'...</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-36452496501872580672015-06-11T10:53:00.000-07:002015-11-12T10:53:28.688-08:00Today's reason to loathe our congress-critter: TPA What's her position? Or: Didn't Obamacare teach the GOP ANYTHING?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Readers know that I believe Jaime Herrera has been a joke since Cathy
McMorris slammed her together from spare parts laying around the office
and parachuted her back in here to take on Brian Baird via Marc Boldt
getting that waste of skin appointed to the vacant 18th District seat
back in '07.<br />
<br />
THAT skullduggery remains yet another reason to vote AGAINST Boldt, instead of FOR him... but that's a subject for another post.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, of the many problems I have with that vacuous, empty-suited
idiot is that on the issues confronting us, the Camas Manikin typically
remains silent... so we have to guess what she's going to do in any
given situation.<br />
<br />
I get why that coward does that. If you keep your mouth shut until you
vote, it's too late for anyone to complain. The vote is cast, and
that's it.<br />
<br />
Of course, like her cowardice in failing to hold open town-hall
meetings, that does not come close to actually "representing" the people
in Congress.<br />
<br />
It's a mirror of the Steve Stuart scam. I'm sure that in a more sober moment, she'd say the exact, same thing as Stuart:<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="472" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2kUaWtl8uJ0" width="630"></iframe><br />
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(Credit Lew Waters)<br />
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On the issues confronting us, the majority of the time that
self-aggrandizing putz sits there like Buddha, equally responsive as she
continues to fool vast numbers of people into thinking that she's a.
Republican and b. that she gives a damn about us.<br />
<br />
Her number one reason for existence begins and ends with her
re-election. She is the very example of a politician that most, were
they even remotely interested in what she does or doesn't do, would
despise.<br />
<br />
The GOP in Congress is once again, lining up to throw us all under the
bus, by once again, bailing that simple idiot in the White House out,
this time over TPA, or Trade Promotion Authority.<br />
<br />
The GOP in Congress is once again, lining up to throw us all under the
bus, by once again, bailing that simple idiot in the White House out,
this time over TPA, or Trade Promotion Authority.<br /><br />So.... let me get this straight. You guys in the GOP are getting behind giving Obama the TPA. <br /><br />OK, Fine. <br /><br />Where's a copy of it that *I* can read? <br /><br />How can you support ANY legislation that NONE of you have even read? That none of us CAN read? <br /><br />Didn't Obamacare teach you people anything? <br /><br />TPA
may be the greatest piece of legislation ever devised by man. But until
I can READ the damned thing, I will oppose it in every way I can. And
that ANYONE would support this or any other legislation, no matter WHO
supports it or opposes it without being able to read it first? <br /><br />You people are nuts.</div>
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Meanwhile, where's that empty-suited idiot of a Congresswoman at on this legislation?<br />
<br />
Don't know?<br />
<br />
Well, that's the point of this.<br />
<br />
WHY don't you know?<br />
<br />
Because she doesn't want to tell you.<br />
<br />
And it's not just about this... it's about almost EVERYTHING of substance.<br />
<br />
There's a reason she's not a House GOP talking head like, say, <a href="http://chaffetz.house.gov/">Jason Chaffetz</a>, or brand-newly elected <a href="https://zinke.house.gov/">Ryan Zinke</a>. Primarily, that when it comes to communicating and people skills, she's as dumb as a box of hammers.<br />
<br />
The list of things she's remaining silent on and has been silent on ever
since we were unfortunate enough to ever see her is stunning in it's
breadth and dimension.<br />
<br />
We'll all find out when she, likely, votes FOR this crap... again, without having a clue as to what's in it.<br />
<br />
And that she acts this way, that she keeps us at arm's length, that
fails to communicate with us in any meaningful way... that she CONTINUES
to fail to work for US?<br />
<br />
Give me Brian Baird any day. At least you knew where he stood on the
issues and you could go beat the hell out of him or pat him on the back
(I did both) as the case merited.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-7332758043470247272015-06-08T10:54:00.000-07:002015-11-12T10:55:34.492-08:00Lowest approval rating ever: So, tell me again - how does the GOP take a hit for the Supreme Court dumping Obamacare?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Even democrats are dropping their support of our national nightmare.<br />
<br />
So how is it that the GOP takes the hit for the Supreme Court if they properly interpret the democrat written... and passed... <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/06/poll_shows_support_for_obamacare_at_all_time_low_but_subsidies_still_popular.html">Obamacare rip off? </a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Overall,
just 39 percent support the law, down 10 percentage points in a little
more than a year to match the record low from three years ago as the
Supreme Court debated the constitutionality of the individual mandate. A
majority, 54 percent, opposes Obamacare, a scant 3 points shy of the
high in late 2013 after the botched rollout of healthcare.gov.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></blockquote>
Where I see those GOP idiots getting smacked politically is their failure to have a Plan B.<br />
<br />
Like so many other issues confronting this country, even if the right
decision is reached, only then will the GOP react, scrambling to get to
some plan that, particularly in a case like this, should have long since
been finalized and stuffed into a can... to be pulled out as needed.<br />
<br />
What, after all, is it that prior planning prevents?<br />
<br />
Instead, the same mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers running the show in
the House and the Senate give the people nothing as they await this
outcome. <br />
<br />
Man, getting GOP control of Congress has made ALL the difference.<br />
<br />
Not.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, because of remaining silent, the GOP nationally holds itself up as a<span class="st"><i> </i>piñata</span>, allowing itself to be beaten to death like someone tenderizing a steak.<br />
<br />
I had no real hope for any difference in the outcomes this last cycle.<br />
<br />
I expected (And wrote) that there would be no real change between leftist control and the incompetent control the GOP has now.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Jeff_Dunham_and_Achmed.JPG/900px-Jeff_Dunham_and_Achmed.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Jeff_Dunham_and_Achmed.JPG/900px-Jeff_Dunham_and_Achmed.JPG" width="240" /></a>We
were assured by the more moderate establishments in the GOP that we
needed to put our concerns aside, hold our collective noses, and vote
for whatever non-functioning, non-caring (except for keeping their own
job) types running that had an "R" after their names.<br />
<br />
In return, we get empty-suited cowards like our own Jamie (Mail It In)
Herrera who is no where to be found on the issues important to Americans
because she's as dumb as a box of rocks and incapable of stringing a
coherent thought together without Cathy McMorris's hand up her back and
into her head, not unlike one of Jeff Dunham's sock puppets.<br />
<br />
<br />
We NEED leadership. We GET silence.<br />
<br />
Where's the plan? Why is it such a big secret?<br />
<br />
This is the exact same kind of idiocy concerning Obama's Trade
Dictatorship Plan that the GOP is so actively pushing... but which none
of us are allowed to read.<br />
<br />
With less than 40% of the American people supporting Obama's scam...
how, exactly, is the GOP supposed to pay some sort of price for it's
demise?<br />
<br />
THINK, people. Do not believe it.<br />
<br />
The numbers are simply not there.<br />
<br />
And here's a clue: if the GOP is cowed into finding a way to keep this
stupidity going,that will cost them far more damage than actually
implementing the will of the American people ever would.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-46515541782516260432015-06-06T10:56:00.000-07:002015-11-12T10:57:17.598-08:00Congressional GOP prepares to screw us.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yes, I remember those days, not so long back, when we were assured by
so-called "GOP moderates" (Who are politically right up there with the
mythical "muslim moderate" that we hear about... but never see...) that
we HAD to hold our noses and vote for any leftist with an "R" after
their names.<br />
<br />
Right, Brent? <br />
<br />
Much like voting for that vacuous waste of congressional skin, Jaime Herrera. <br />
<br />
Well, once again, that course of action will screw the people generally
and the people moronic enough to support these clowns particularly.<br />
<br />
Right now, a trade bill is in front of Congress. No one outside of
Congress has read this heaping pile, you understand... and damned few,
INCLUDING the GOP clowns pushing this stupidity, have read it, either.<br />
<br />
So, these GOP scum want to support this... but WE can't read it.<br />
<br />
Why?<br />
<br />
This is NOT a military issue.<br />
<br />
This is NOT a security issue.<br />
<br />
This is a TRADE deal.<br />
<br />
TRADE.<br />
<br />
So.... why can't us untermenschen low lifes read it?<br />
<br />
And WHY is the GOP so busy going along with this garbage to support the political anti-Christ?<br />
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<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/trade-agreements-like-tisa-tpp-and-ttip-will-sideline-national-laws-wikileaks-says-10299907.html">WIKILEAKS: Sidelines national laws...</a>
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<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/05/exclusive-sessions-to-obama-why-are-you-keeping-obamatrades-new-global-governance-secret/">SESSIONS: 'NEW GLOBAL GOVERNANCE'...</a>
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<br />
GOP control of government at the federal and state level hasn't accomplished much of anything.<br />
<br />
Here in Washington State, our attention is deflected to a few hundred
million dollar budget battle even while the Senate GOP is doing their
best to rams BILLIONS in tax increases via the gas tax down our throats
without asking us... and, in fact, by doing all they can to KEEP us from
having any say.<br />
<br />
At the federal level, we hear nothing about getting rid of Obamacare,
the cornerstone of GOP campaigns at the congressional level. Nothing
about restoring the military. Nothing about fixing the VA. Nothing
about cutting the gargantuan and growing federal deficit the GOP so
rabidly helped to build.<br />
<br />
Locally, Senators who pledge to oppose a gas tax as part of THEIR campaigns are long over telling us that lie.<br />
<br />
At the local level, recently re-elected GOP Clark County Clerk, Scott
Weber, lied his ass off to get into office.... and the idiots
re-electing liars didn't even care.<br />
<br />
In large part, it's like we've ceased being adults... we're BEGGING to
be lied to. And our own version of the GOP electeds... from the
"localist" of local levels, all the way to the very top and every level
in between, is happy to oblige. <br />
<br />
Think about this betrayal of government... at all levels... the next
time you slavishly vote for someone merely because of the letter sitting
there after their name.<br />
<br />
I used to do that. Certainly, as a former state GOP executive director, I used to vote straight GOP.<br />
<br />
Those days are long... and permanently... gone. <br />
<br />
THINK before you vote. Look beyond party, since this year, party has proven useless.<br />
<br />
Use your heads. Hold these people accountable for betraying us and for God's Sake, stop rewarding their perfidy with your vote.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-76446259729990173992015-05-21T10:58:00.000-07:002015-11-12T10:58:29.913-08:00Herrera goes full moron to the worshipful democratian.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
While I have been ashamed of the worthless cardboard cutout of a
congresswoman since her keeper, Cathy McMorris, and my brother-in-law,
Marc Boldt raped the appointment system to get her into the state house
back in 07, her racist-based position on providing yet another avenue
and reason for illegal aliens to break the law by crossing our borders
and scamming an enlistment into the military, something this worthless
turd never bothered to do.<br />
<br />
There is no excuse or justification for using illegals from anywhere in
the military while we kick out combat-tested soldiers and Marines for
having too many tattoos.<br />
<br />
None.<br />
<br />
Herrera has repeatedly proven she doesn't give a rip about veterans, her
grand-standing, "Hurray for ME!" Job Fair notwithstanding; Herrera has
done absolutely nothing to address the multiple shortcomings of the VA,
and absolutely nothing to locate a 24 hour, walk-in clinic here which
means last night, my wife and I had to drive out to Portland from
Hockinson to sit there for 4.5 hours to be told to call the surgeon
tomorrow after one of the pins in my hand fell out.<br />
<br />
Herrera knows as much about the military and our issues as she does
performing a crainiectomy. Her "race-based" vote and position would be
another in the series of disasters for the military, but like so many
non-serving pogues trying to screw up the military, she could care less
since no one she knows and no one in her family will ever find their ass
on the line as a result of her idiocy.<br /><br />I am all about allowing those here legally to enlist, if they otherwise qualify.<br />
<br />
But to provide yet ANOTHER reason for illegals to flood our borders, north and south?<br />
<br />
If she really WANTS to do something that will matter to area veterans,
she COULD drop a bill to build and open a 24 hour VA clinic somewhere in
this county for a population that will soon exceed a half million
people.<br />
<br />
But no... THAT'S a heavy lift. And Herrera's been mailing it in ever since she got here.<br />
<br />
It was a stupid, politically motivated, "hey, am I gonna run for the US Senate?" move, from a stupid, narcissistic woman.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-88726336346756582602015-05-19T10:58:00.000-07:002015-11-12T11:15:40.944-08:00Family flak on my Marc Boldt position.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; line-height: 22.176px;"><span style="font-size: 15.8400001525879px; line-height: 22.1760005950928px;"><b>(FULL DISCLOSURE: </b> I
freely admit that I am totally opposed to Marc Boldt's election this
time, just as I was last time, since he's completely sold out to the
left; forgotten/ignored GOP principles, supports the CRC scam in it's
entirety and wants to hang tolls around our neck for the next several
decades that will destroy a great deal of small business in Clark County
as a result.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; line-height: 22.176px;"><span style="font-size: 15.8400001525879px; line-height: 22.1760005950928px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; line-height: 22.176px;"><span style="font-size: 15.8400001525879px; line-height: 22.1760005950928px;">NO
candidate or campaign or anyone involved or in any way concerned with
any candidate or campaign was aware of or approved or had input into
this post.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; line-height: 22.176px;"><span style="font-size: 15.8400001525879px; line-height: 22.1760005950928px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; line-height: 22.176px;"><span style="font-size: 15.8400001525879px; line-height: 22.1760005950928px;">Further,
Marc Boldt is my brother-in-law, and I worked for him as his
legislative assistant for 6 years while he was in the state house.<b>)</b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.8400011062622px; line-height: 12.6719999313355px;"> </span><br />
<br />
I knew going in that my position on Marc's election... combined with my
desire to express that opinion... wouldn't be all that popular among the
family... or what I call, "The Regiment." (It seems to be that big.)<br />
<br />
As I have retired from any and all campaigns, I find myself with a
certain freedom of expression heretofore held in abeyance from me.<br />
<br />
Recently, my motives have been questioned, my right to oppose Marc has
been questioned and my right to express my opinion has been questioned.<br />
<br />
First and foremost, I do my very best to treat everyone either with... or wanting... a title... the same.<br />
<br />
If you want to govern me, then expect me to examine you, your past
record, your "vision," your respect of the will of the people, your
positions on the issues confronting us ad if you represent the people?<br />
<br />
Or are you arrogant or ignorant enough to ignore us in favor of your own personal agenda?<br />
<br />
Do you listen when we talk? Or do you lie... do you ignore... do you prevaricate?<br />
<br />
Do you walk the walk? Do you claim to be one thing while you act like another?<br />
<br />
For far too long, Marc Boldt was like this guy:<br />
<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2kUaWtl8uJ0" width="420"></iframe><br />
<br />
I have been told that I shouldn't write what I write. Just last night,
one of the family challenged my assertion that i did not want to see
Marc "humiliated."<br />
<br />
I don't.<br />
<br />
It would serve no purpose.<br />
<br />
But knowing what I know... I simply do not want Marc... or anyone with
his attitude concerning the people he would govern... in my government.<br />
<br />
I also don't want Jon Russell there. Or Jimmy Moeller. Or Brandon
Vick. Or Chuck Green. Or Mike Pond. Or Mike Dalesandro. Or Jaime
Herrera. Or many others.<br />
<br />
To me, they're all the same, and their politics of self-flagellation and
arrogance and hooray-for-me-ism is not what I spent 14 years in uniform
for.<br />
<br />
I write what I write about Marc for the same reason I write what I write about anyone in politics.<br />
<br />
It's what I think. It's what I conclude. It's my vision.<br />
<br />
You see, the Will of the People reigns supreme in my political realm. <br />
<br />
If you deliberately ignore that will, then I don't want you representing me... not that you are anyway.<br />
<br />
I only write about 25% of what I know about most in politics, particularly here locally.<br />
<br />
"Knowing" something isn't the same thing as "proving" it. And I do my best to avoid going out without proof.<br />
<br />
"Proof," for me, includes first hand knowledge, documentation, and trusted sources.<br />
<br />
Among the many reasons I write this effort is the fact that the leftist
media around here won't tell the truth. Just yesterday, for example,
democratian reporter "Kaitlin Gillespie" wrote this concerning Don
Benton's emailer/fundraiser/letter of support for Mary Benton's run for
district 2 councilor, when Benton wrote:<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; line-height: 20.48px;">(It also helps that she (Mary Benton) is 100% opposed to the CRC resurrection being promoted by many of her opponent’s backers).</span></blockquote>
Gilespie:<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.6px;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">Why does her stance on a dead transportation policy make her a viable candidate for county council?</span></span></blockquote>
I replied:<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> <span data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; line-height: 12.864px;"><span data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0">"Why does her stance on a dead transportation policy make her a viable candidate for county council?"</span></span></span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; line-height: 12.864px;"><span data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$4:0" style="font-size: medium;">And what might that be?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$3:0" /></span>
<span data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; line-height: 12.864px;"><span data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$4:0" style="font-size: medium;">Because if you're referring to the CRC, you're either ignorant or being deliberately obtuse.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$7:0" /></span>
<span data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; line-height: 12.864px;"><span data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$8:0" style="font-size: medium;">The
CRC is as dead as the paper you work for. Please don't confuse this
undercover effort to keep it alive with being "dead." It's so "dead"
that Annette Cleveland has thrown multiple hissy-fits over that project
THIS legislative session, including multiple efforts to amend the
transportation budget to resurrect it.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$11:0" /></span>
<span data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; line-height: 12.864px;"><span data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$12:0" style="font-size: medium;">Your claim that the CRC is a "dead transportation policy" is the kind of thing your newspaper is known for.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$15:0" /></span>
<span data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; line-height: 12.864px;"><span data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".t.1:4:1:$comment10155638530265171_10155638565175171:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$16:0" style="font-size: medium;">In short: a lie.</span></span></span></blockquote>
<br />
And that's the thing, you see.<br />
<br />
I bring up what I believe to be true because somebody has to do it, and that somebody does not include the local daily paper.<br />
<br />
So, that's another part of why I write about Marc.<br />
<br />
Since Marc has dropped even the facade of being a RINO by his "No Party
Preference" epiphany (Having announced, in his words, as a "conservative
Republican" to segue to a "moderate Republican" to now, "no Party
Preference," even though he remains a Precinct Committee Officer in
Precinct 605 of the local Republican Party.) it hasn't made my efforts
any easier.<br />
<br />
But people have the right to know what I know. And the name-calling by
those both inside and outside the family, the failure to understand and
the questioning of my motives, which amounts to a personal attack on my
integrity, doesn't change the facts of the matter.<br />
<br />
I am not going to blindly follow anyone. Marc's record, his quotes, his
promises to me to hold an unheld advisory vote on the CRC only to laugh
at the idea when asked in the newspaper, his tax increases and his vote
to confiscate our weapons in the name of a commissioner-declared
emergency remain in play... as does his rabid support of the CRC Scam
and CTran rip offs.<br />
<br />
How can I even begin to question what he's been and what he would be without doing it publicly here?<br />
<br />
I am not going to treat him or anyone else any differently.<br />
<br />
There are only two questions, then, to ponder as these words are read.<br />
<br />
"Is Hinton telling the truth?"<br />
<br />
And this:<br />
<br />
"Is Hinton making this up?"<br />
<br />
As I responded in the discussion last night: I reserve the right to
speak my mind. Being related in now way provides any kind of cache'
that changes that in any way.<br />
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It would be easier to just end all this (blogging) if the local media
was truthful and not an extension of the political left, all under the
guise of a false lack of bias when it's inculcated in every story, every
editorial, every endorsement.<br />
<br />
Those who feel compelled to question my motives certainly have that
right. But I would hope that those doing such a thing after all these
years would direct their concerns back to Marc as well.<br />
<br />
Perhaps his motives should be questioned as much as mine. <br />
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This stuff didn't happen in a vacuum. While it's likely unfortunate for
him that he is my brother-in-law, that's not my problem.<br />
<br />
Because speaking truth to power... no matter the name... is what I do.
And everyone gets the same treatment as much as humanly possible for me
to provide it.<br />
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Besides... no one reads my little effort here, so what difference does it make?</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068354479468558498.post-839208310748678432015-05-15T11:25:00.000-07:002015-11-12T11:25:40.083-08:00Jaime Herrera makes Breitbart's GOP traitor list.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Gee. Imagine that.<br />
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Not like I haven't been warning folks since Cathy McMorris parachuted her back in here after an 11 year absence back in 07.<br />
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But I guess you should expect this sort of thing when your cardboard
cutout of a congresswoman votes to allow illegal aliens to take the
place of multi-tour, battle hardened combat veterans, among other
things.<br />
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Despite 20 Republicans defecting to join Democrats, Republicans and
conservatives won big on Thursday evening: An amendment from </div>
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passed onto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) stripping amnesty for illegal aliens from the defense bill.</div>
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Brooks’ amendment, which stripped from the NDAA language that was inserted during the Armed Services Committee markup by </div>
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—a freshman liberal Democrat who wants to amnesty all the illegal aliens
in America—passed the House of Representatives 221-202 on Thursday
evening.</div>
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“Today is a great victory for Americans and lawful immigrants who wish
to serve America in our Armed Forces,” Brooks said in a statement after
the vote. “I asked my colleagues to consider how much American families
are struggling in an anemic job and wage market and how much the Gallego
amendment makes job and income prospects for Americans even worse. It
makes no sense to me that, at the same time the Army is downsizing and
issuing pink slips to American soldiers serving in Afghanistan, there
are Congressmen who seek to help illegal aliens deprive American
citizens and lawful immigrants of military service opportunities. I’m
pleased the House chose to stand up for American citizens and protect
the Constitutional duty of Congress to set immigration law. Today’s vote
was the fourth rejection of the President’s unconstitutional DACA
program, with Republicans overwhelming standing up for the will of the
American people and the citizens and lawful immigrants who want to serve
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Gallego’s amendment would have allowed illegal aliens who have received
President Obama’s first executive amnesty—the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which some 800,000 or so illegal aliens have
received—to enlist in the United States military. It would have come
with an NDAA that reduces America’s force size—meaning the NDAA would
have, if it weren’t for the Brooks amendment bolstered by conservatives
like Reps. </div>
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and Dave Brat (R-VA) among others, put illegal aliens ahead of
Americans. What’s more, it would have used a defense bill—rather than an
immigration bill—to do it.</div>
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Despite the massive Republican success and passage of the amendment, a
whopping 20 Republicans still joined all the Democrats in voting against
the Brooks amendment. They are: <span style="line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">Reps. Jeff Denham (R-CA), </span></div>
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40<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;">%</span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">, </span><br />
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<span class="scoreregex" data-average="41" data-first="Jaime" data-grade="F" data-image="412486.jpeg" data-last="Herrera Beutler" data-link="J/412486?utm_campaign=breitbartapi&utm_medium=api&utm_source=breitbart" data-party="R" data-state="WA" data-title="Rep" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA)</span><br />
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<div style="border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 3px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
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<div style="background: rgb(191, 30, 47); border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 0px; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 29px;">
41<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;">%</span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
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</div>
</div>
<span style="line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">, </span><br />
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<span class="scoreregex" data-average="40" data-first="Carlos" data-grade="F" data-image="412621.jpeg" data-last="Curbelo" data-link="C/412621?utm_campaign=breitbartapi&utm_medium=api&utm_source=breitbart" data-party="R" data-state="FL" data-title="Rep" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL)</span><br />
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<div style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
<div style="border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 3px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
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<div style="background: rgb(191, 30, 47); border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 0px; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 29px;">
40<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;">%</span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
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</div>
</div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">, Charles Dent (R-PA), </span><br />
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<span class="scoreregex" data-average="34" data-first="Mario" data-grade="F" data-image="400108.jpeg" data-last="Diaz-Balart" data-link="M/400108?utm_campaign=breitbartapi&utm_medium=api&utm_source=breitbart" data-party="R" data-state="FL" data-title="Rep" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)</span><br />
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<div style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
<div style="border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 3px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
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<div style="background: rgb(191, 30, 47); border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 0px; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 29px;">
34<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;">%</span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
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</div>
</div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">, </span><br />
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<span class="scoreregex" data-average="35" data-first="Bob" data-grade="F" data-image="412420.jpeg" data-last="Dold" data-link="B/412420?utm_campaign=breitbartapi&utm_medium=api&utm_source=breitbart" data-party="R" data-state="IL" data-title="Rep" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. Bob Dold (R-IL)</span><br />
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<div style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
<div style="border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 3px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
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<div style="background: rgb(191, 30, 47); border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 0px; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 29px;">
35<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;">%</span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">, </span><br />
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<span class="scoreregex" data-average="42" data-first="Chris" data-grade="F" data-image="412453.jpeg" data-last="Gibson" data-link="C/412453?utm_campaign=breitbartapi&utm_medium=api&utm_source=breitbart" data-party="R" data-state="NY" data-title="Rep" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY)</span><br />
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<div style="border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 3px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
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<div style="background: rgb(191, 30, 47); border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 0px; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 29px;">
42<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;">%</span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">,</span><br />
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<span class="scoreregex" data-average="32" data-first="Richard" data-grade="F" data-image="412454.jpeg" data-last="Hanna" data-link="R/412454?utm_campaign=breitbartapi&utm_medium=api&utm_source=breitbart" data-party="R" data-state="NY" data-title="Rep" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY)</span><br />
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<div style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
<div style="border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 3px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
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<div style="background: rgb(191, 30, 47); border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 0px; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 29px;">
32<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;">%</span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
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</div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">, </span><br />
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<span class="scoreregex" data-average="20" data-first="John" data-grade="F" data-image="412649.jpeg" data-last="Katko" data-link="J/412649?utm_campaign=breitbartapi&utm_medium=api&utm_source=breitbart" data-party="R" data-state="NY" data-title="Rep" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. John Katko (R-NY)</span><br />
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<div style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
<div style="border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 3px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
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</div>
<div style="background: rgb(191, 30, 47); border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 0px; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 29px;">
20<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;">%</span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
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</div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">, </span><br />
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<span class="scoreregex" data-average="32" data-first="Frank" data-grade="F" data-image="400244.jpeg" data-last="LoBiondo" data-link="F/400244?utm_campaign=breitbartapi&utm_medium=api&utm_source=breitbart" data-party="R" data-state="NJ" data-title="Rep" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ)</span><br />
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<div style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
<div style="border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 3px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
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</div>
<div style="background: rgb(191, 30, 47); border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 0px; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 29px;">
32<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;">%</span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
</div>
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</div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">, </span><br />
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<span class="scoreregex" data-average="40" data-first="Tom" data-grade="F" data-image="412643.jpeg" data-last="MacArthur" data-link="T/412643?utm_campaign=breitbartapi&utm_medium=api&utm_source=breitbart" data-party="R" data-state="NJ" data-title="Rep" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ)</span><br />
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<div style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
<div style="border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 3px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
<div>
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<div style="background: rgb(191, 30, 47); border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 0px; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 29px;">
40<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;">%</span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
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<div class="crtvwrapper" style="border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 17.9200000762939px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span class="scoreregex" data-average="40" data-first="Martha" data-grade="F" data-image="412611.jpeg" data-last="McSally" data-link="M/412611?utm_campaign=breitbartapi&utm_medium=api&utm_source=breitbart" data-party="R" data-state="AZ" data-title="Rep" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ)</span><br />
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<div style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
<div style="border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 17px; margin: 3px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 58px;">
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</div>
<div style="background: rgb(191, 30, 47); border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 0px; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 29px;">
40<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;">%</span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">, </span><br />
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<span class="scoreregex" data-average="40" data-first="Dan" data-grade="F" data-image="412660.jpeg" data-last="Newhouse" data-link="D/412660?utm_campaign=breitbartapi&utm_medium=api&utm_source=breitbart" data-party="R" data-state="WA" data-title="Rep" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA)</span><br />
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40<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;">%</span></div>
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<span class="scoreregex" data-average="35" data-first="Dave" data-grade="F" data-image="400660.jpeg" data-last="Reichert" data-link="D/400660?utm_campaign=breitbartapi&utm_medium=api&utm_source=breitbart" data-party="R" data-state="WA" data-title="Rep" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA)</span><br />
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35<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;">%</span></div>
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<span class="scoreregex" data-average="32" data-first="Ileana" data-grade="F" data-image="400344.jpeg" data-last="Ros-Lehtinen" data-link="I/400344?utm_campaign=breitbartapi&utm_medium=api&utm_source=breitbart" data-party="R" data-state="FL" data-title="Rep" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)</span><br />
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32<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;">%</span></div>
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<span class="scoreregex" data-average="40" data-first="Elise" data-grade="F" data-image="412648.jpeg" data-last="Stefanik" data-link="E/412648?utm_campaign=breitbartapi&utm_medium=api&utm_source=breitbart" data-party="R" data-state="NY" data-title="Rep" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)</span><br />
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40<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;">%</span></div>
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<span class="scoreregex" data-average="42" data-first="Fred" data-grade="F" data-image="400414.jpeg" data-last="Upton" data-link="F/400414?utm_campaign=breitbartapi&utm_medium=api&utm_source=breitbart" data-party="R" data-state="MI" data-title="Rep" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI)</span><br />
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42<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;">%</span></div>
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<span class="scoreregex" data-average="27" data-first="David" data-grade="F" data-image="412515.jpeg" data-last="Valadao" data-link="D/412515?utm_campaign=breitbartapi&utm_medium=api&utm_source=breitbart" data-party="R" data-state="CA" data-title="Rep" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. David Valadao (R-CA)</span><br />
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27<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 8px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;">%</span></div>
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