The Polls Were Skewed But It Wasn't the Dems'

Another good place to pick up my writing is at the exact same place I left off: Republicans Creating an Alternative Reality So They Can Sleep at Night.

It's the same tired story, no matter the topic.  Reality tells us one thing and Republicans completely invent a fantasy to tone it out.  There may be no greater or better example of such Republican anti-reality dwelling than the 2012 election. For years Republicans told us there was no way Obama could get re-elected. When every poll ever conducted showed Obama winning easily, Republicans invented the "skewed poll theory" to escape reality.  Fox News led the way in reporting the skewed stories.  Republicans cheered it on as they completely believed that the polls were tilted in favor of Obama and that they had exposed it to the world and had the election in the bag.

As the world knows, Obama coasted to victory.  The polls weren't skewed.  They were nearly exact.  Those who were wrong, so wrong that they looked like complete idiots, were the Republicans and their media organization for trumping such biased, unrealistic stories in the first place.  But remember, when you live in an alternate reality totally consumed with the belief you are superior to everyone else, and that everyone else hates America, you can pretty much be wrong constantly and it never really matters.  Thus we have the all new and improved GOP 2014 Polling Guidelines.  Good luck with that.

It's Called Lying

One contemplation I've noticed about stoppages in writing is where do you pick back up again?  Currently there's no shortage of political topics with all the GOP craziness trying to create a scandal for one of the most non-scandalous administrations of all time.  But where do you delve into it?  GOP staffers portraying edited email conversations as direct quotes trying to frame the administration is a perfectly good spot:

CBS NEWS: "...Republicans have claimed that the State Department under Hillary Clinton was trying to protect itself from criticism. The White House released the real e-mails late yesterday and here’s what we found when we compared them to the quotes that had been provided by Republicans.

One e-mail was written by Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes. On Friday, Republicans leaked what they said was a quote from Rhodes. “We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don’t want to undermine the FBI investigation.” But it turns out, in the actual e-mail Rhodes did not mention the State Department. It read “We need to resolve this in a way that respects all the relevant equities, particularly the investigation.” Republicans also provided what they said was a quote from an e-mail written by State Department Spokesman Victoria Nuland. The Republican version notes Nuland discussing: “The penultimate point is a paragraph talking about all the previous warnings provided by the Agency (CIA) about al-Qaeda’s presence and activities of al-Qaeda.” The actual e-mail from Nuland says: the “…penultimate point could be abused by Members to beat the State Department for not paying attention to Agency warnings…” The C.I.A. agreed with the concerns raised by the State Department and revised the talking points to make them less specific than the C.I.A.’s original version, eliminating references to al-Qaeda and affiliates and earlier security warnings. There is no evidence, Scott, the White House orchestrated these changes.

Holy cow! Could it be any more blunt?

Of course, Republicans that actually this report will only chalk it up to the Liberal Media.  Most won't even see it because Fox News will never ever let such reality enter into the Fantasy World they have created.

Great Taste, Less Filling

As you can see, we have a new look.  We're not finished with it just yet.  Still have some things to add and we're not too sure if the comments are working properly.  Also, the label/category thing doesn't appear to be working either.  For the most part, though, it's taking shape just fine.

There's still a lot of work to finish so I won't bore you too much with the details.  Just expect some more changes to take shape really soon.  Thanks for reading.

Democracy Is Messy!

Election-eve in Iraq:

Baghdad (CNN) -- A bomb exploded on Thursday night in a popular coffee shop in western Baghdad, killing at least 27 people and wounding 51 others, city police officials said.

Let Freedom Reign!

It's the Filibuster Rule Stupid

Picture credit: TPMDC

I'm honestly not sure what the big deal is about four Democratic Senators not voting for the Manchin-Toomey amendment to extend some background checks. Or rather I have no clue why Democrats are so upset about at their own when the real culprit here is the filibuster rule.

Dems had plenty of votes to pass the bill.  Plenty.  Per the Constitution it only requires a simple majority to pass and send bills out of the Senate.  There is no mention of a 60-vote threshold in the entire document.  The 60-vote rule is a relic left over to protect the minority.  It's useless and it's the real reason Dems didn't pass the bill.

Besides, even if the four Democrats pictured above had voted with their Party and not sided with the GOP, the bill would have went no where.  There isn't a chance in the world the House would have picked it up.  In other words, it was never ever going to become law.  So why the frustration with four senators who were clearly voting exactly how the majority of their state wanted them to vote?

They Will Say Anything Just to be First

It's so easy being a journalist in modern America.  All you have to do is get paid millions, smile on teevee, and totally make shit up.