Year: 2014
Schumer: If GOP’s Anti-Immigration Stance Will Lose Elections
The Republican Party knows if it continues to be seen as anti-immigrant, they’re going to lose election after election.
— Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), quoted by the New York Daily News.
Young Voters Not Interested in Midterm Elections
24%
Of Americans under the age of 30 say that they will “definitely be voting,”in the upcoming midterm elections, a sharp decrease of 10 percentage points since last fall, a new Harvard Institute of Politics poll finds.
Boehner Mocks Fellow Republicans Over Immigration Reform
Here’s the attitude. Ohhhh. Don’t make me do this. Ohhhh. This is too hard.
— House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) “theatrically mocked his fellow Republican Congressmen for being afraid to reform immigration policy when he spoke Thursday before the Middletown Rotary Club in his home district,” the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
More Want to Fix Obamacare than Repeal It
52%
Of respondents to a new Democracy Corps survey in battleground congressional districts want to “implement and fix” the 2010 health care reform law versus 42% who want to “repeal and replace” it.
Here’s How the Gun Lobby Wants Us to Live
Quality of life? Out the window.
If you were wondering what life is like under the recently passed, “All Guns, All the Time” Georgia law crafted by ALEC and the gun lobby, here’s an answer. It means that some guy, trying to make a point that only he understands, can pace back and forth at your kid’s little league game with a gun (and knife) clipped to his belt. And when you and the other parents herd your kids into the dugout and form a human shield around them as you call 911, you can be told by law enforcement that there is nothing they can do.
Quality of life? Out the window, when there are important second amendment rights to be exercised. Where are your priorities, parents?
The park is responding by considering hiring an armed guard, because the answer to too many guns is just what Gun Owners of America and the NRA want: more guns! Feel secure, knowing your second grader is playing under loaded weaponry.
It’s time to pause and remember the wise words of Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) in the movie, Jurassic Park. “Just because we can, it doesn’t mean we should.”
Supreme Court to Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Drug Testing: ‘Talk to the Hand’
Florida’s public servants couldn’t be blamed for feeling that someone painted targets on their foreheads after Rick Scott (GOP/Tea) took over as governor three years ago. He eliminated many of their jobs, leaving the survivors with crippling work loads. He reduced their salaries by an amount equal to the state’s contribution to their pensions, so they have less money to spend each week and only the same amount they had before for retirement.
But treating public employees as guilty of taking illegal drugs until proven innocent is one of the most overt ways Scott’s contempt for the state’s workers has been evidenced. The new governor demanded that state employees line up and pee in a cup to prove that they’re drug-free, as if being willing to work for the government places them among the criminal class.
