Examples of GOP Leadership

TacoMac said:

I have it bad but I've learned to live with it. I can't take medication for it because of the other medications I'm on for severe nerve damage in my spine.

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captainmorgan said:

Someone should ask him about his dead college roommate while they are at it.

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smokinrav said:

I play the game of guessing my pulse by listening to the beat of my ever present whine. I'm getting quite good.

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DIY-HP-LED said:

Just remember most of the smart people in America are on your side and they include some pretty bright folks with innovative ideas. Most patriotic Americans now apprehend the danger and can see it much more clearly over the past 4 years, the last election told the tale on America. Trump's stunning level of support of 74 million votes, considering his character, history, failure, incompetence and 400,000 dead by election day illustrates the problem. The dumb bastard even caught covid and nearly died in the middle of the election FFS, if it wasn't for antibodies he'd be in Hell now!

A lot of Americans have earned their degree from Trump University these past four years, I hope they learned their lessons well.

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CCGNZ said:

All well said DIY, thanks for trying to cheer me up,but the fact that these Reps look in the mirror and see nothing wrong w/their actions is breathtaking(DON'T THEY EVEN REMEMBER THE OATH THEY TOOK TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION), coupled w/CHEETOMAN'S % of support over 40%,that's a lot of MF'S who are fellow Americans and I can't even contemplate where their mind is at for Christ sake, if about 20% of voters backed the DONALD it would still be too many but I could at least comprehend it and rationalize that it is close to fringe support. But OVER 40% WTF is our world coming to.ccguns

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DIY-HP-LED said:

33% of any country are assholes, that's just the way it is and it's cross cultural too, historic racism and white supremacy has made this number a bit higher in America. It used to be a lot worse than it is now and it's getting better over time with newer generations exposed to better media content and parents and local communities having less influence. Dad's racist rants don't have as big an impact if the kid is watching Sesame Street and biracial couples in TV commercials. Just because that 33% are assholes doesn't mean they are suicidal which explains the bipartisan support for many things the democrats are doing. I figure about 80%+ of American adults will be vaccinated by fall, so a lot of Trump voters have some grasp on reality, most aren't as stupid as they look, just bigoted.

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CCGNZ said:

Ever the OPTOMIST, hope your right on this my man, if US implodes I,m a headin NORTH to you folks LOLccguns

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CunningCanuk said:

Remember, all Boston Bruins fan gear is strictly prohibited in Canada.

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DIY-HP-LED said:

This might explain why Navarro was freaking out on fox and blathering recently.
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House panel releases new details of Trump administration Covid contracts - POLITICO

House panel releases new details of Trump administration Covid contracts
The documents also detail how senior White House officials tried to warn then-President Donald Trump of the danger of Covid-19 last March.

A House panel investigating the coronavirus crisis released documents Tuesday detailing how senior White House officials tried to warn then-President Donald Trump of the danger of Covid-19 last March and leaned on federal agencies to offer non-competitive contracts for protective equipment to favored companies.

The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis asked HHS, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Archives to turn over more records on the prior administration’s procurement of protective gear as part of an ongoing investigation.

“We are concerned that the previous administration may not have conducted sufficient diligence prior to awarding multi-million-dollar contracts, and that White House officials may have placed inappropriate pressure on federal agencies to award contracts to particular companies,” Subcommittee chair Jim Clyburn and other panel Democrats wrote in letters obtained by POLITICO.

What the documents say: A memo the committee obtained that was sent by White House trade adviser Peter Navarro in March 2020 warned that the then-isolated cases of Covid-19 would balloon into “a very serious public health emergency” and lamented that “movement has been slow” to prepare. The memo advised the president to shore up domestic supply chains for PPE and accelerate development of diagnostics and therapeutics.

In the months that followed, according to other documents the committee released Wednesday, Navarro and other senior officials and outside advisers pushed federal agencies to give no-bid contracts for pharmaceutical ingredients and other supplies to companies that were recently formed and had political ties with the Trump administration.

One deal under investigation is a $354 million contract awarded to the Phlow Corporation — a first-time government contractor that had incorporated just a few months before receiving the funds. It was the largest contract ever awarded by BARDA, and it followed a series of emails from Navarro to agency leaders in March of 2020.
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schuylaar said:

and only to exceptionally well qualified voters

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DIY-HP-LED said:

One more for Matt, cause he's such an asshole!
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Investigation Of Gaetz Pre-Dates His Extortion Claim By Months: NYT

Katie Benner, Justice Department reporter for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about the DOJ's investigation into avid Donald Trump supporter Rep. Matt Gaetz, clarifying the context of his pushback on the story, and outlining the seriousness of the crimes involved.

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DIY-HP-LED said:

Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century | The New Yorker

Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century
On a leaked conference call, leaders of dark-money groups and an aide to Mitch McConnell expressed frustration with the popularity of the legislation—even among Republican voters.

In public, Republicans have denounced Democrats’ ambitious electoral-reform bill, the For the People Act, as an unpopular partisan ploy. In a contentious Senate committee hearing last week, Senator Ted Cruz, of Texas, slammed the proposal, which aims to expand voting rights and curb the influence of money in politics, as “a brazen and shameless power grab by Democrats.” But behind closed doors Republicans speak differently about the legislation, which is also known as House Resolution 1 and Senate Bill 1. They admit the lesser-known provisions in the bill that limit secret campaign spending are overwhelmingly popular across the political spectrum. In private, they concede their own polling shows that no message they can devise effectively counters the argument that billionaires should be prevented from buying elections.

A recording obtained by The New Yorker of a private conference call on January 8th, between a policy adviser to Senator Mitch McConnell and the leaders of several prominent conservative groups—including one run by the Koch brothers’ network—reveals the participants’ worry that the proposed election reforms garner wide support not just from liberals but from conservative voters, too. The speakers on the call expressed alarm at the broad popularity of the bill’s provision calling for more public disclosure about secret political donors. The participants conceded that the bill, which would stem the flow of dark money from such political donors as the billionaire oil magnate Charles Koch, was so popular that it wasn’t worth trying to mount a public-advocacy campaign to shift opinion. Instead, a senior Koch operative said that opponents would be better off ignoring the will of American voters and trying to kill the bill in Congress.

Kyle McKenzie, the research director for the Koch-run advocacy group Stand Together, told fellow-conservatives and Republican congressional staffers on the call that he had a “spoiler.” “When presented with a very neutral description” of the bill, “people were generally supportive,” McKenzie said, adding that “the most worrisome part . . . is that conservatives were actually as supportive as the general public was when they read the neutral description.” In fact, he warned, “there’s a large, very large, chunk of conservatives who are supportive of these types of efforts.”
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captainmorgan said:

CAN'T MAKE THIS UP: With 45 minutes left in the legislative session, Ga. Republicans are considering adding a bill to tax Delta in retaliation for company speaking out today against the voter suppression bill.

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DIY-HP-LED said:

Delta should announce it is cutting off donations to all republicans and encourage other Georgia corporations to do so. They and especially Coke can turn this into profit by claiming the republicans are unfit to hold office and go all out politically, they can always move to another state and I'm sure there would be incentives and tax breaks to do so.

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