Turning The Ballot Box Against Republicans

We have Comey's book. Trump isn't going to like it.
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/we-ve-got-comey-s-book-trump-isn-t-going-to-like-it-1209881155947

MSNBC has obtained copies of fired FBI Director James Comey’s book, 'A Higher Loyalty.' In it, he likens Trump officials to mobsters and says the president is ‘untethered to truth.’

Comey's book is a joke. He disgraced himself even more, and that hurts the FBI. Trump will enjoy Comey losing the credibility he did have.

A big fail, again.

We (most of us with level heads, at least) knew Trump as the least qualified person to sit in the white house (and that includes all visitors). Trump's history of bigotry and lies should have kept him out of Washington DC, but morons elected him anyways. With the GOP congress, we're just gonna have to wait until 2020 to put somebody there that is much more qualified than that moron not in the people's house. There are plenty of sources that have kept track of Trump's lies, and the go back several years: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/11/24/Donald-Trump-s-8-Most-Recent-Blatant-Lies

Levels have bubbles, maybe that explains it.

The important thing is that Trump prevents liberals from violating the Second Amendment.



Trump will be reelected in 2020.

Wilson Reacts To Scooter Libby Pardon: ‘Trump Is A Vile And Despicable Individual’
The former ambassador and his wife, former CIA agent Valerie Plame, were at the center of the Libby case. She says Trump’s basis for the pardon is “simply false.”

WASHINGTON ― Former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson, a man whose family was turned upside down by Scooter Libby and other President George W. Bush administration officials, sharply criticized President Donald Trump for pardoning Libby, saying it showed his disregard for America’s national security.

“It has nothing to do with Libby, and it has nothing to do with me,” Wilson told HuffPost Friday. “Libby’s problem was with the Justice Department. He was indicted, tried and convicted on obstruction of justice and perjury charges for basically violating the national security of the United States of America.”

“Now he’s being pardoned for it, which suggests of course that Mr. Trump is willing to allow people to violate the essence of our defense structure, our national security, our intelligence apparatus and essentially get away with it,” he added.

Wilson was a key figure in questioning whether the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to invade Iraq. His 2003 New York Times op-ed undermined Bush’s claim that Iraq’s former President Saddam Hussein had purchased materials needed for a nuclear weapon from Africa. He came to his conclusion after traveling to Niger in 2002, on behalf of the CIA, to investigate whether Saddam had purchased uranium yellowcake.

The Bush administration leaked the name of Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, a covert CIA agent, to the press in its attempts to undercut Wilson. That move effectively ended her career with the agency.

Plame similarly told MSNBC on Friday that Trump’s actions show “you can commit crimes against national security and you will be pardoned.”

In 2007, a federal jury found Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, guilty of lying about his role in the leak of Plame’s identity and of obstructing the probe into the leak.

“I don’t know Mr. Libby, but for years I have heard that he has been treated unfairly,” Trump said in a statement Friday. “Hopefully, this full pardon will help rectify a very sad portion of his life.”

In a statement later, Plame said Trump’s comments were not based on the truth, noting that a jury heard the evidence and convicted him, and even Bush refused to pardon him.

Bush did commute Libby’s sentence, sparing him from serving in prison.

Wilson also said he finds Trump to be a “vile and despicable individual” who is “utterly unacceptable as president.”

Wilson’s full comments to HuffPost below:

It has nothing to do with Libby, and it has nothing to do with me. Libby’s problem was with the Justice Department. He was indicted, tried and convicted on obstruction of justice and perjury charges for basically violating the national security of the United States of America.

Now he’s being pardoned for it, which suggests of course that Mr. Trump is willing to allow people to violate the essence of our defense structure, our national security, our intelligence apparatus and essentially get away with it.

Tactically, I think it was a very interesting political move because he’s suddenly rallied all the neoconservatives to come out of their rocks and once again be at the forefront of American military adventurism. To wit, the reappearance of John Bolton as national security adviser. As to Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing, I think they just demonstrate once again what comedians they are on the stage that is now Washington D.C.

Finally, as to Trump, he is a vile and despicable individual. He represents the repudiation of everything that my generation has worked to secure for our nation and its people. I find him utterly unacceptable as president.

Plame’s statement:

President Donald Trump has granted a pardon to I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby on the basis that he was “treated unfairly.” That is simply false. Libby was convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury in a fair trial. President George W. Bush closely reviewed the facts in the case at the behest of Vice President Dick Cheney, who urged a pardon. Both the President and the Vice President willingly testified themselves. President Bush declined to issue a pardon, stating “I respect the jury’s verdict.” He added, “And if a person does not tell the truth, particularly if he serves in government and holds the public trust, he must be held accountable.” President’s Trump’s pardon is not based on the truth.

As they say in Russia, Tough Shitski.

Wilson and Plame abused their position to try to harm innocent conservatives and continue to do so to this day. It was wonderful Karmic justice when that backfired on them and Plame got booted out of the CIA.

There is no such thing as an innocent conservarive.

Like there is no progressive that can spell?

You can say that again! http://fortune.com/2016/11/15/trump-paul-ryan/



Don't trust anything coming out of Paul Ryan's mouth.

There is an unbiased view, and years old.

Quote Fortune:

Social Security depends on the contributions from younger workers subsidizing the current crop of retirees, just as the current crop of retirees, when they were working, paid for the previous generation of retirees. Diverting even a small portion of the working generation's payments would wreck the system beyond repair in a very short time.

Ryan might have seemed comparatively sane compared to Trump, but in his own way he was just as dangerous.

I don't know, he was getting on my nerves when he was acting like, "I talk to him, rather than about him.." as though talking does any good. According to the reports, some of advisors have begun to communicate via Fox news in the hopes of being heard and believed.

Here are the estimates from the Social Security Administration on when the funds will run out under current payroll taxes.
Money Running Out
Last year’s report said the combined reserves of both funds would be exhausted in the year 2033, at which time it could pay only 77¢ on the dollar of its benefit obligations. The DI fund, however, faces a more immediate crisis. It will run out of money in 2016—as in next year—and its 0.9% payroll tax levy will then collect only enough to pay 81% of its benefit obligations.

My opinion: The government needs to adjust the payroll taxes and/or increase the age of benefits.

I agree that minor changes should be made, just as minor changes have been made throughout the history of the entire system. I don't think age of benefits should be changed for the forseeable future. However, the system in more or less its present form has raised the standard of living for the retired people in this country and given them a security they never had before. The Republicans want to fundamentally get rid of the system as we know it, and they must be stopped.

Some Republicans want that, and sometimes they try to achieve it.

But other times the Democrats are just falsely accusing the Republicans.

Bush 43 tried to fix the system so it would remain solvent. The Democrats blocked Social Security from being fixed so that they would be able to continue making false accusations against Republicans.

That just proves that the Democrats are waging witchhunts against innocent people.

Mr pee pee tape has a short memory.

That was then, this is now. Next.