Jeb's campaign has long since crashed and burned but there was a time when he seemed as inevitable as Hillary (was). All the pundits expected a Clinton-Bush redux. Back at the end of 2014, a poll from CNN showed Jeb with a gigantic lead-- 23%, with Christie, Carson, Huckabee, Paul, Rubio, Ryan and Cruz trailing-- with the kind of numbers Jeb has today.
In the video above, Ted Cruz is lying his ass off, not because he expects anyone sane will believe him, but because the South Carolina Republican presidential primary is coming up. McConnell, Jeb Bush, Rubio, Herr Trumph, Chuck Grassley and lots of other high profile Republicans have demanded President Obama not appoint a replacement for far right Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Rubio was on Meet the Press Sunday either demonstrating his ignorance or just lying to the viewers. "Both parties have followed this precedent.
President Obama’s failure to prosecute Bush-era torturers created an impunity that has encouraged some Republican presidential candidates to tout new plans for more torture if they reach the White House, a grotesque example of “American exceptionalism,” as Nat Parry explains. By Nat Parry Troubling comments within the Republican presidential field over whether to reinstate torture and implement…
“To my critics, I say, ‘Vaffanculo.’”
He drove the Left nuts and the Right adored him and neither knew exactly why. It doesn’t really matter. Let me explain. (This is where you listen.)
And by the by, if this infra doesn’t rile professional Left, nothing will.
Count everything, trust no one. One of the major and most critical issues involved in the Democratic Presidential Primary involves the suitability of HRC/HDR to become POTUS, given her history of reckless and irresponsible warmongering, being a Wall Street Shill and monomaniacal philodox.
Fact. Iowa entrance polls gave Bernie Sanders 91 percent support of people under 30. For New Hampshire it was 80%. Not bad for a 74 year-old white Jewish socialist from Brooklyn. This blows away and the lid off of those hoary theories that suggest millennial attraction applies only to the hip and inadvertent parvenu.
To vote implies a valid selection for an election. We have none. Vote #LionelNation in a write in. The horror that faces this country and world for that matter is incomprehensible. That is all. And vote. For me. What do you have to lose?
Sen. Ted Cruz – known for his brash, boastful and brutal proclamations – is remaking himself in the image of the Lord Savior as he appeals to the Republican Religious Right to pave his way to the GOP nomination and the White House, as Bill Moyers and Gail Ablow describe. By Bill Moyers and Gail…
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | February 5, 2016 After nearly 15 years of Mideast war – with those conflicts growing ever grimmer – you might expect that peace would be a major topic of the 2016 presidential race. Instead, there has been a mix of warmongering bluster from most candidates and some confused […]
Exclusive: What the next U.S. president can do to bring endless warfare to an end is one of the most important issues of Campaign 2016, but it is getting only a cursory treatment in debates as politicians seem to fear neocon wrath if they seek peace, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry After nearly 15…
