Friday, November 27, 2015

RNC Wages War on Trump as Abandoned Clinton Base Flee DNC to Vote for Trump


The Democratic Party, once the champion of women, children, working people, middle class and the elderly now has abandoned the very values that differentiated Democrats from Republicans. The two parties have morphed into a Fascist monolithic behemoth.  According to Vice President Henry Wallace’s “The Danger of AmericanFascism,”


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The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power….


Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends. They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead…


They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.



The Republican Party has declared war on Donald Trump to destroy his Presidential ambitions. Today C-Span dedicated its 3 hour Washington Journal program to "political correctness." What's interesting about that is C-Span has been taken over by Right Wing Think tanks, many funded by the Koch Brothers like the Cato Institute as well as American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, The Federalist Society, etc. who support establishment candidates with millions of dollars.  From Mint Press:


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Jewish Republicans Line Up Against Donald Trump


At a recent board meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, the big donors and high-powered operatives in the room went around the table to make sure they had someone supporting each potential Republican nominee.


Jeb Bush backers were easy to find. Supporters of Marco Rubio, too, were plentiful. Ted Cruz had friends there, as did Scott Walker, and even George Pataki and Lindsey Graham. The Republican Jewish elite have spread themselves wide across the GOP firmament.


Yet Donald Trump, who has topped 20% to lead all other Republicans in recent presidential primary polls, and who also leads the pack in both Iowa and New Hampshire, is a different story…


What is clear is that, despite his surge in the polls, the anti-immigration hard-liner has strikingly little support among prominent Republican Jewish donors, activists and consultants.


Many Republican Jewish leaders remain unwilling to speak about Trump. The RJC’s spokesman did not respond to a request to speak for this story; neither did former Republican National Committee chair Ken Mehlman, who is a member of the RJC’s board; former George W. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer, also an RJC board member, or former Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor, who has been close to the group.


After the overthrow of the American government December 12, 2000 in which those prominent RJC members played a huge role, the two parties rigged the Primary process to ensure the candidates preselected by the DNC and RNC are the candidates. 


In the 2008 Democratic primary election the will of the voters was nullified by the “super delegates.”  According to the ballots cast in the 2008 primary where voters actually went into a voting booth and cast a ballot, Hillary Clinton was leading the DNC’s preselected candidate Barack Obama.  From The Caucus:



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Democratic Leaders Lean on Superdelegates


WASHINGTON – Hoping to bring the Democratic presidential nomination fight to an end, party leaders are intensifying their efforts to encourage remaining uncommitted superdelegates to make their choice public by the middle of next week.


In an interview Thursday on a San Francisco talk radio station, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, said he had spoken with Speaker Nancy Pelosi earlier in the day, and they had agreed to take steps to avoid a contest that extends into the convention in August


Both Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Reid have remained publicly neutral…   the two top lawmakers are evidently ready to exercise their influence with the approximately 200 members of Congress and the party elite who have yet to make their preference known publicly. Party officials say both Mr. Reid and Ms. Pelosi are also calling uncommitted superdelegates to press them for a resolution.


And how did Pelosi and Reid ensure the votes cast by the American people in the primaries did not select the Democratic candidate?  From The Caucus:


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7:45 p.m. | Rules Wrap Up: After a nearly 10-hour marathon meeting of the Democratic party’s rules committee, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton came away with a total of 24 more pledged delegates, but today’s decisions on the seating of Florida and Michigan delegates fell far short of what her campaign had hoped.


In a blow to Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy, the committee voted to restore the delegations of both Florida and Michigan at the party’s nominating convention, but gave each delegate only half a vote…


Minutes after the meeting ended, Mr. Ickes and another Clinton backer on the committee, Tina Flournoy… continued to register their strong objection to what they called the committee’s decision “to undercut its own rules in seating Michigan’s delegates without reflecting the votes of the people of Michigan.” They wrote:


The Committee awarded to Senator Obama not only the delegates won by Uncommitted, but four of the delegates won by Senator Clinton. This decision violates the bedrock principles of our democracy and our party.


We reserve the right to challenge this decision before the Credentials Committee and appeal for a fair allocation of Michigan’s delegates that actually reflect the votes as they were cast.


Given that history, I found this August 2015 article in Bloomberg very disturbing.  Remember this was written by Mark Halperin who along with John Heilemann wrote “Game Change” a propaganda piece that was made into an HBO movie about the 2008 election.  


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Clinton's Superdelegate Tipping Point


Mark Halperin and Jennifer Epstein, at Bloomberg Politics, report that Hillary Clinton’s campaign is claiming commitments from as many as 440 superdelegates, perhaps giving her an insurmountable lead in the race for the approximately 2,250 delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination.


There is both more and less to this story.


For starters, superdelegates are formally unpledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention who are chosen by position, not through votes in primaries and caucuses. The two big groups are elected officials (members of Congress, governors) and party officials.


Superdelegates were added in the 1980s …  Democrats were concerned that their new system didn’t place enough weight on electability, and believed a larger voice for politicians and formal party leaders would tilt the nomination in that direction.


In the event, the “supers” have never tilted the nomination; they always line up with the candidate who won the most delegates in the caucuses and primaries. That’s essentially what happened in 2008: Clinton had an early lead in superdelegates, but as Barack Obama started winning caucuses and primaries, he wound up picking up almost all the undecided supers and even some defectors from Clinton…



So basically it is the super delegates that choose the President of the United States.  Since Barack Obama was elected President, he has advanced the Republican agenda that no Republican could ever get passed.  And now, Hillary Clinton is defending the horrific Obama record and her base is fleeing to the only candidate that espouses their values, Donald Trump.  No one explains this better than Big Pink at Hillary is 44:


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Deathblows: #Trump2016 Versus #Hillary2016 On #ObamaCare, #ISIS, Immigration, Muslim Terrorists And The White Working Class


The second debate was a catastrophe for Hillary2016. In the wake of the Muslim Terrorist attack against the West in the city of light it was to be expected that Hillary Clinton would turn the events to her advantage but instead she immolated herself on issue after issue in order to protect Barack Obama…


In the second debate Hillary Clinton went out of her way to praise ObamaCare….


We now have this great accomplishment known as the Affordable Care Act. And– I don’t think we should have to be defending it amount [sic] Democrats. We ought to be working to improve it and prevent Republicans from both undermining it and even repealing it. [snip]


I– I think– I think as Democrats, we ought to proudly support the Affordable Care Act, improve it, and make it the model that we know it can be–….


Why in Heaven, Earth, or Hell, Hillary Clinton defends ObamaCare even the Almighty cannot explain.


Today, Bombshell: United Healthcare may exit individual insurance exchanges after 2016. Yes, that is the latest news from the ObamaCare that Hillary Clinton so defends:


Insurance giant UnitedHealth Group dealt a blow to the Affordable Care Act on Thursday when it warned that it may stop offering insurance plans to individuals through public exchanges established by the reform law….


More than half of the 23 non-profit insurance co-ops established under the ACA are shuttering by the end of this year, but UnitedHealth is the largest single insurance carrier in the U.S. United’s comments about the health of exchange-plan holders also runs counter to what was expected….


We wrote about this death spiral to ObamaCare back in 2009. It was easy to see. But Hillary Clinton continues to defend ObamaCare. We also warned repeatedly that deductibles were too damn high and made ObamaCare a killer. On the same day as the second debate, the New York Times published the truth about ObamaCare deductibles which Hillary either did not see or chose to ignore:




Many Say High Deductibles Make Their Health Law Insurance All but Useless [snip]


“The deductible, $3,000 a year, makes it impossible to actually go to the doctor,” said David R. Reines, 60, of Jefferson Township, N.J., a former hardware salesman with chronic knee pain. “We have insurance, but can’t afford to use it.” [snip]


In many states, more than half the plans offered for sale through HealthCare.gov, the federal online marketplace, have a deductible of $3,000 or more, a New York Times review has found. Those deductibles are causing concern among Democrats — and some Republican detractors of the health law, who once pushed high-deductible health plans in the belief that consumers would be more cost-conscious if they had more of a financial stake or skin in the game.


“We could not afford the deductible,” said Kevin Fanning, 59, who lives in North Texas, near Wichita Falls. “Basically I was paying for insurance I could not afford to use.”


He dropped his policy. [snip]


“Our deductible is so high, we practically pay for all of our medical expenses out of pocket,” said Wendy Kaplan, 50, of Evanston, Ill. “So our policy is really there for emergencies only, and basic wellness appointments.”


Her family of four pays premiums of $1,200 a month for coverage with an annual deductible of $12,700.


In Miami, the median deductible, according to HealthCare.gov, is $5,000. (Half of the plans are above the median, and half below it.) In Jackson, Miss., the comparable figure is $5,500. In Chicago, the median deductible is $3,400. In Phoenix, it is $4,000; in Houston and Des Moines, $3,000. [snip]


Mr. Fanning, the North Texan, said he and his wife had a policy with a monthly premium of about $500 and an annual deductible of about $10,000 after taking account of financial assistance. Their income is about $32,000 a year.


The Fannings dropped the policy in July after he had a one-night hospital stay and she had tests for kidney problems, and the bills started to roll in.


Josie Gibb of Albuquerque pays about $400 a month in premiums, after subsidies, for a silver-level insurance plan with a deductible of $6,000. “The deductible,” she said, “is so high that I have to pay for everything all year — visits with a gynecologist, a dermatologist, all blood work, all tests. It’s really just a catastrophic policy.”



Hillary Clinton defends this scam? You pay your premiums then you pay the deductibles and by then the insurance companies have done well but you haven’t. Only if you are very sick and squeeze the system dry is ObamaCare of any use to anyone. And Hillary Clinton defends what by any definition is a scam…?


“This will be an issue at least one more time in the 2016 election. It could absolutely still hurt Democrats,” said Robert Blendon, a professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health. “Polls about the Affordable Care Act have a considerable amount of middle-income people who say either the program has done nothing for them or actually hurt them.”


Repeatedly the concerns cited by Americans quoted at the New York Times and the Boston Globe is that their insurance is not only worthless, but a drain on them. ObamaCare is a scam that takes money by force of law and delivers nothing but bills. Hillary Clinton defends and supports this???


Donald J. Trump promises to burn ObamaCare to the ground.


Big Pink is right, the people most hurt by the Affordable Care Act and all of Obama’s policies have been the middle class, working people, military families, elderly and the list goes on. More from Big Pink:


Please notice that the predominately white, working class and the middle classes are the ones hurt by ObamaCare. It is also the white working class that is disgusted by Barack Obama’s pro Muslim Terrorist policies. Policies which Hillary2016 adopts like a dog picks up fleas.


In October we noted that Donald Trump was walking away with the Clinton Coalition. Hillary2016, like Barack Obama has orphaned the winning Clinton Coalition. The Wall Street Journal confirms the flight of the white working class to Donald J. Trump:


Trump Rides a Blue-Collar Wave


Fifty-five percent of his supporters are white working-class.


The biggest surprise of the presidential election so far is the emergence and persistent strength of Donald Trump. [snip]


Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 39% of the white working class backs Mr. Trump, twice his share of white college-educated voters. Fifty-five percent of his supporters are white working class


So the Fascist monolith that is the amalgam of the two-party system has pulled out all the stops to stop Trump.  Every attack against Trump has not only failed but has made his coalition stronger.  But the media thinks they have found a winner, the magic elixir to once and for all convince the American people they must abandon Trump, only the establishment can save them from themselves. 


CNN is leading the charge against Donald Trump and other news outlets are jumping on the bandwagon reporting that Trump mocked a handicapped reporter.




From The Guardian:


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New York Times slams 'outrageous' Donald Trump for mocking reporter's disability


The New York Times has criticised Donald Trump as “outrageous” after the Republican presidential front-runner mocked one of its reporters and appeared to imitate his disability.


In a speech to supporters on Tuesday night, Trump derided Serge Kovaleski – a reporter for the newspaper who has disputed Trump’s claim that “thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the 9/11 attacks – while flailing and twisting his arms.


Kovaleski has arthrogryposis, a congenital condition that affects joint movement.


In 2001, he was a journalist at the Washington Post and one of the authors of a report cited by Trump in defence of his 9/11 claim. (The Washington Post has since added a disclaimer to the report, distancing it from the claims.)


And yet in 2006 Rush Limbaugh, whose show has right wing sponsors like the Heritage Foundation, mocked Michael J. Fox’s disability on the air and he was defended by a lot of the same “news” outlets piling on Trump, like Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News.


One thing that all the news outlet have failed to report on is the fact that there was footage of people in New Jersey cheering as the twin towers came down, but they were not Muslims as Trump has cited.  From Black Agenda Report:


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A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford


Israelis – Not Muslims – Cheered in Jersey City on 9/11


In debunking Donald Trump’s big lie about Jersey City Muslims celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center, the corporate media have told an even bigger lie of omission. There was, indeed, shameless cheering on the banks of the Hudson River on 9/11. But it was by young Israelis, as was widely reported at the time. Fourteen years later, corporate media are covering up for Israel – which makes them even bigger liars than Trump.


 “By making only a partial correction of Donald Trump’s prevarication, the corporate media were telling their own lie about what happened on 9/11.”


The corporate media don’t like Donald Trump. They used to like him a lot; in fact, Big Business Media are responsible for making this minor multi-millionaire into a household name. But Trump is on their hit list, nowadays, because the Republican presidential candidate insists on telling his own lies, rather than sticking to the list of official lies parroted by corporate media every minute of every day.


Donald Trump told a really “HUGE” – as he would put it – lie when he claimed to have watched thousands of Muslims cheering in Jersey City, New Jersey, as the World Trade Center came down on 9/11. Every corporate news outlet in the country rushed to debunk Trump’s fictitious account. The Washington Post offered psychological theories for why Trump gets away with telling fantastic lies. The New York Times said there was no evidence that Jersey City Muslims cheered the destruction on 9/11. CNN said it never happened. And, they were right.


However, by making only a partial correction of Donald Trump’s prevarication, the corporate media were telling their own lie about what happened on 9/11. There was, in fact, celebration in Jersey City on that fateful morning, and the incident did, briefly, make a major news splash. But the people doing the cheering weren’t Muslims: they were five young Israelis in a white moving van, who were observed in Liberty Park ecstatically taking pictures of themselves framed against the smoking ruins of the Twin Towers.


As ABC News reported, the five were later arrested at gunpoint near the New Jersey Giants football stadium. Most U.S. intelligence sources believed the men were Israeli spies, and that their “moving company” was an Israeli intelligence cover. They were detained for a while, and then deported.


…Israelis celebrating 9/11 would have come up in any search to correct Donald Trump’s tall tale – but the corporate media kept that part of the story from the public. They censored their own correction of Donald Trump. So, who is the biggest liar? Trump, who lies to advance his own personal interests, or the U.S. corporate media, who lie to the people on behalf of the State of Israel, and Zionism.


Hmm, interesting isn’t it.  The media is lying to cover up the fact that Israeli’s were the ones cheering as the Twin Towers came down not Muslims as Trump has claimed and now the media is piling on Trump to destroy him.  And this comes just after the Mint Press reported that Jewish Republicans have conspired to destroy Trump.


Is it any wonder that the White Middle Class are abandoning Hillary Clinton for Donald Trump?  Trump should dump the RNC and run as an independent, I have just the perfect campaign song for him.


By Patricia Baeten


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