Billionaire media hog Donald Trump has been wading into politics for years now. So far, his focus has been on the national level - until now.
Trump has been meeting with Republican leaders at his Manhattan office to discuss a possible gubernatorial run in his home state of New York. He said he'll make his decision in the next few weeks and that there is an even chance that he will run. Trump’s hesitation is due to the chaotic state of the local New York GOP.
In a radio interview New York State Republican Chairman Ed Cox blew off Trump’s calls for the GOP to unify its message and complained that Trump needed to go to the state meeting and talk with them: "That's what that’s what Donald Trump has to do," Cox said. "You leave your own office and you go out."
Trump has a point about the GOP – schizophrenic messaging seems to be the rule with state and national party groups. If Trump is serious about a run for any office, the position of Governor is a good place for him. He can prove himself to be a capable administrator before wading back into presidential politics.
Establishment Republicans are gearing up for the 2016 presidential race. Democrats are congealing around Hillary and the GOP is toying with dreams of the blowhard fat man, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
While Christie’s duodenum constricts as he sports his new weight loss hardware, Establishment Republicans are busying themselves behind the scenes, orchestrating a strategy to shut down Tea Party conservatives once and for all.
Establishment Republicans are enjoying their honeymoon with the younger, boisterous Christie, but they know that Christie will most likely melt down at some point during the campaign. Christie has problems - they are not sure of Christie’s amnesty bonafides because there have been times when it comes to fiscal responsibility, Christie has actually made sense. This scares the hell out of them. Christie’s ego makes him difficult to control. His Soprano style schtick gets tiresome. After all the GOP is the party of white bread power mongers like Mitch McConnell, John McCain and John Cornyn – interchangeable silver-haired bobble heads.
The most important objection to Chris Christie has very little to do with Christie’s weaknesses as a candidate. Establishment Republicans cannot divorce themselves from the “his turn” method of picking candidates – remember Ford, Dole, McCain. And whose turn is it? Jeb Bush, of course.
Make no mistake about it – the Establishment Republicans’ agenda revolves around one single issue – amnesty. They believe that if they control the implementation of amnesty – they will endear themselves to Hispanics forever thus securing a Republican Latino vote for all time. The poster child for amnesty is Jeb Bush. Bush loves Mexicans. He’s married to one. His brown-eyed, black- haired children look more like cousins to liberal political dynamos the Castro twins from San Antonio than any of the other Bush descendants.
The youngest Bush brother was former Governor of Florida and has been traveling around of late making speeches about how he is not RINO. He coyly claims he will not make a decision about running for President until the middle of 2014, but he has already published a book on the importance of immigrants’ path to citizenship and laid out his 4 points of light plan or whatever. Bush’s simple 4-point plan claims to hold the key to increase growth in the U.S. GDP 3.5% - 4% per year over the next decade.
1. Encourage North American energy production. Focusing on natural gas and approving the Keystone XL pipeline, rational fracking regulations, opening lands up for drilling, helping Mexico modernize its oil sector.
2. Approve comprehensive-immigration reform or amnesty. Because immigrants are entrepreneurial (and “are more fertile,” and those more children can help fix the imbalance in entitlement support). This would include a legal pathway that include fines and penalties, H1 visas, and a guest-worker program.
3. Reform education. Raise standards, grading schools based on student achievement, like in Florida, eliminate social promotion in third grade, focus on early literacy, expand school choice/vouchers.
4. Focus on the Family. “No amount of growth nor transformed education system will be sustainable if strong family faith isn’t the backbone of any American renewal. We have to be supportive of the single mom and the grandmother, as well as other non-traditional families,” Bush said, calling attention to the Democrats’ misguided attempts to fix these issues through government policy.
The Establishment Republicans are not interested in the fact that conservatives believe exactly what Jeb Bush’s mother (former FLOTUS Barbara Bush) said on the Today show about Jeb running for President: “There are other people out there that are very qualified and we’ve had enough Bushes.”
WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) released the following statement regarding Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to block consideration of the House-passed Continuing Resolution to avoid a government shutdown.
“Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had the opportunity this afternoon to avert a government shutdown. Instead, he chose to kill the House’s bill to keep government open, a deliberate act to move towards a government shutdown. This is no surprise. After the House acted Saturday night, Sen. Reid refused to call the Senate back to service, instead leaving senators at home on vacation while a shutdown loomed. And he has apparently advised the President not to meet with House and Senate leaders of both parties. Harry Reid wants a shutdown, because, sadly, Democrats are putting politics above the needs of the American people. The New York Times explained why: because, as the Democrats believe “now is the time to break the power of Tea Party Republicans.”
"This is exactly the kind of DC-based thinking that makes Americans disdain Washington, DC. Democrats need to listen to the people and start working for the millions of Americans who are losing their jobs, wages, and healthcare benefits because of Obamacare. This is not a debate over a government shutdown; it’s a debate about how Obamacare is plaguing our economy. I will continue working to make sure the government stays open and Americans receive the same benefits as giant corporations and Congress under Obamacare. Until then, I hope the American people will continue to speak out against this disastrous, train wreck of a law and make DC listen."
Steve Schmidt can’t keep his mouth shut. Schmidt bills
himself as one of Senator John McCain’s “senior advisors” and also one of the architects
to the most significant presidential loss in GOP history – the 2008 debacle
that brought us President Obama. Schmidt
must have tried hard to engineer the McCain loss to a no-name junior Senator Barack
Hussein Obama who had never held a job with a past wiped clean and impossible
to scrutinize.
Schmidt is now getting airtime on “Hardball” with Chris Matthews,
claiming to express “deep regret” about
his role in contributing to a Republican “freak show.”
“For the last couple of years, we’ve had this wing of the
party running roughshod over the rest of the party. Tossing out terms like
RINO, saying we’re going to purge, you know, the moderates out of the party,”
Schmidt said. “We’ve lost five U.S. Senate seats over the last two election
cycles. And fundamentally we need Republicans, whether they’re running for
president, whether they’re in the leadership of the Congress, to stand up
against a lot of this asininity.”
Schmidt was critiquing Sarah Palin’s op-ed over the weekend
that lauded Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) for his efforts to defund Obamacare. “Hardball”
host Chris Matthews asked Schmidt what he thought of the “Frankenstein monster”
he created in Palin and Cruz.
“You finally you saw it with Ted Cruz. Maybe he was the one
that who’s got a bridge too far,” Schmidt said. “Maybe we’ll start seeing our
elected leaders stop being intimidated by this nonsense, have the nerve, have
the guts to stand up and … to fight to take conservatism’s good name back from
the freak show that’s been running wild for four years and that I have deep
regret in my part, certainly, in initiating.”
From Pew Research
Center: GOP congressional leaders face strong
disapproval among Tea Party Republicans. Only 27% of Conservative /Tea Party
Republicans approve of the job Republican leaders in Congress are doing; 71% disapprove.
This is the result of a 15 point fall in approval since February of this year. There has been no similar decline among
Republicans who do not agree with the Tea Party.
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center,
conducted Sept. 4-8 among 1,506 adults, finds that just 24% of the public
approves of Republican leaders’ job performance, while somewhat more (33%)
approve of the job of Democratic congressional leaders.
There is no internal ideological divide within the
Democratic Party.
Long Island Congressman Peter King is being a butthurt blowhard.
He said won’t attend a Republican state dinner because Texas Senator Ted Cruz refused funding after Hurricane Sandy, telling Buzzfeed: “I don’t think we should be acknowledging people who are voting against us in our hour of need. Once I found it was him…I decided not to go. I don’t know if I would have gone or not because of scheduling things, but that made it easy once I found out it was Ted Cruz.”
King's actions fail to recognize that the $51 billion aid bill actually passed depsite fiscal conservatives like Cruz opposing the added measures.
At the time, Cruz explained that he couldn’t vote for the package because the bill was loaded with "billions in new spending utterly unrelated to Sandy.”
The Family Research Council
(FRC) has drawn a line in the sand with the GOP.FRC reported that the
Republican National Committee is facing a mass revolt as a response to
Republicans reconsidering positions on gay marriage and abortion.
Together with 12 other
conservative organizations, FRC dropped a bomb on the RNC, issuing a statement
warning against an exodus to the left on life and marriage issues (that some
label as “social conservatism”). "We
respectfully warn GOP leadership that an abandonment of its principles will
necessarily result in the abandonment of our constituents to their
support."
FRC reminded the RNC
that they helped to draft the Republican platform to begin with and that perhaps
their time would be better spent promoting values and why they are important,
rather than “appeasing millennials.”
From Tony Perkins’ Washington Update:
Until the RNC and the
other national Republican organizations grow a backbone and start defending
core principles, don't give them a dime of your hard-earned money.
Mother Jones has taken time away from promoting gun control, babbling
about Wal-Mart, blaming Bush and making fun of the Tea Party to dip a toe into “INVESTIGATIVE
JOURNALISM.” For Mother Jones, this means hearkening back to a balmy evening in
June of 1972 when five men were caught in the offices of the Democrat National Committee.
Mother Jones somehow stumbled upon a recording of a “strategy session” of Senate Republican Leader
Mitch McConnell's campaign for re-election. The McConnell campaign was not debating
how to improve the conservative message, how to find alternative sources of
funding, how to win back the Christian right, how to govern conservative, how
to save the country from big government, lower taxes or strengthen the economy,
what to do with the Obama administration’s horrible foreign policy failures…nope.
The meeting was about how to defeat Ashley Judd, who at the time was exploring
the possibility of running against McConnell. You can’t make this stuff up.
ASHLEYGATE.
McConnell's campaign has
since contacted the FBI after Mother Jones published a recording of the private
strategy meeting. McConnell’s group said they were the victim of
"Watergate-style tactics" to bug the office. Mother Jones
obtained the recording from an unnamed source.
McConnell campaign
manager Jesse Benton said, "We've always said the Left would stop at
nothing to attack Sen. McConnell, but Watergate-style tactics to bug campaign
headquarters are above and beyond. Obviously a recording device of some kind was
placed in Senator McConnell's campaign office without consent. By whom and how
that was accomplished presumably will be the subject of a criminal
investigation."
The Mother Jones piece that included the audio, feigned
outrage at the McConnell aides who suggested targeting Judd’s mental health problems
and views on religion.
Mother Jones also
documented that the McConnell campaign:
Equated the campaign with Whac-A-Mole game
Said they were eager to battle the media
Contended that Judd was vulnerable
on the religion front (Judd was recorded stating that “Christianity legitimizes male power over women.")
Referenced Judd’s autobiography
Pointed out that she has not lived in the State of Kentucky since
the early 1990s
The McConnell aides burst out
laughing at an actual Judd quote: “I call it the American anesthesia. You know,
I come back to this country. I freak out in airports. The colors, the sounds,
all those different ways of packaging the same snack but trying to, you know,
make it look like it's distinct and different and convince consumers that they
have to have it. I mean all of that. The last time I came home from a trip, I
absolutely flipped out when I saw pink fuzzy socks on a rack. I mean, I can
never anticipate what is going to push me over the edge. But in a few weeks,
you know, I'm driving along smooth roads and I think nothing of it. I'm, you
know, choosing between four different brands of cereal from plastic dispensers
so that I don't have to have, you know, ugly, mismatched boxes on my shelf, and
I don’t think anything of it.”
Amid the chuckles of disbelief, one of the McConnell strategists said, "So pink fuzzy
socks are of concern."
Wow. That certainly is a smoking gun against the McConnell
campaign. Who at Mother Jones would not listen to the inane nonsensical
ramblings of Ashley Judd and not laugh their ass off at one time or another?
The real smoking gun is that
the McConnell campaign wasted time at a meeting to
strategize how to counter a challenger/ naked starlet with a psychobabble
platform who claims rape is everywhere. All the McConnell campaign would need
to do to beat Judd is publish two days of her Twitter feed – game over.
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