When will Hillary Clinton give up her candidacy ?

REPUBLICANS WRONG ABOUT OBAMA ECONOMY: Paul Krugman puts Obama’s actual job creation record in the context of repeated, widespread GOP predictions that his policies would all but destroy the American economy:

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What did Mr. Obama do that was supposed to kill jobs? Quite a lot, actually. He signed the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform, which critics claimed would crush employment by starving businesses of capital. He raised taxes on high incomes, especially at the very top, where average tax rates rose by about six and a half percentage points after 2012, a step that critics claimed would destroy incentives. And he enacted a health reform that went into full effect in 2014, amid claims that it would have catastrophic effects on employment. Yet none of the dire predicted consequences of these policies have materialized.

But in the minds of many GOP base voters, of course, these dire predicted consequences have materialized. That’s the whole point!

Blatham you have illustrated your definition of propaganda very well in your highly selective and self-serving reporting of our economic performance. The facts you left out include the continuing decline in the median wage and the slowest GDP growth following a recession in the past several decades.

When I mentioned the daughter of Planned Parenthood, I meant the daughter of the CEO, Cecile Richards.

I was always more socially liberal than most people I know, so that part of me is the same.

All you have to do to be that consistently off is to start every discussion with the premise "Obama is wrong, and I will find a way to prove it."

"Unqualified political defeat of the Clinton health care proposal,would be a monumental setback for the president, and an incontestable piece of evidence that Democratic welfare-state liberalism remains firmly in retreat."

[Hillarycare's] success would signal a rebirth of centralized welfare-state policy at the very moment we have begun rolling back that idea in other areas...the Clinton proposal is also a serious political threat to the Republican Party. Republicans must therefore clearly understand the political strategy implicit in the Clinton plan--and then adopt an aggressive and uncompromising counterstrategy designed to delegitimize the proposal and defeat its partisan purpose...."It will relegitimize middle-class dependence for 'security' on government spending and regulation. It will revive the reputation of the party that spends and regulates, the Democrats, as the generous protector of middle-class interests. And it will at the same time strike a punishing blow against Republican claims to defend the middle class by restraining government."

The father of the billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch helped construct a major oil refinery in Nazi Germany that was personally approved by Adolf Hitler, according to a new history of the Kochs and other wealthy families.

The book, “Dark Money,” by Jane Mayer, traces the rise of the modern conservative movement through the activism and money of a handful of rich donors: among them Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the Mellon banking fortune, and Harry and Lynde Bradley, brothers who became wealthy in part from military contracts but poured millions into anti-government philanthropy.

But the book is largely focused on the Koch family, stretching back to its involvement in the far-right John Birch Society and the political and business activities of the father, Fred C. Koch, who found some of his earliest business success overseas in the years leading up to World War II. One venture was a partnership with the American Nazi sympathizer William Rhodes Davis, who, according to Ms. Mayer, hired Mr. Koch to help build the third-largest oil refinery in the Third Reich, a critical industrial cog in Hitler’s war machine.

The Kochs’ vast political network, a major force in Republican politics today, was “originally designed as a means of off-loading the costs of the Koch Industries environmental and regulatory fights onto others” by persuading other rich business owners to contribute to Koch-controlled political groups, Ms. Mayer writes, citing an associate of the two brothers.

Asked if his own supporters or donors would react badly to the debate snub, Sen. Paul reiterated that the "arbitrary, capricious polling standard" had been a source of disgust for the grassroots, dubbing it a story of media political bias.

"It won't take much for our supporters to understand why we're doing this," Paul said. "You want war? We’ll give it to you."

On Monday evening, something exceptional happened in the Senate: Lawmakers confirmed a Circuit Court judge nominated by President Barack Obama. Luis Felipe Restrepo of Pennsylvania became only the second Circuit Court judge approved in the past year, and the 12th federal judge overall, an approval rate slower than any time since 1969.
Now, conservatives are demanding that Restrepo — who had a critical booster in GOP Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania — be the last Obama nominee confirmed before the president leaves office.

They've blocked every appointment Obama makes - sometimes even those they favored before they knew Obama wanted them. I guess they had to let one through so they can convince themselves they're somehow fair or sensible or just.