2016 Election

[American Patriot]

Forest Bradley-Wright of New Orleans, is a longtime Democrat who just became a Republican before announcing his candidacy this summer. Bradley-Wright is one of the most outspoken alternative energy advocates in the state, a constant thorn in the utilities' side who gets almost all of his campaign funds from the solar industry. Bradley-Wright is the voice of green-energy adherents, some of whom want to see more solar and wind power feed Louisiana's aging, heavily fossil-fuel based electric grid.

[American Patriot]

President Dickwad's last two years have started....

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014...st-lane-deals/

Obama calls for more regulation of Internet providers, industry fires back

Published November 10, 2014FoxNews.com


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This Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014 photo shows an AT&T store on New York's Madison Avenue and President Barack Obama on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP)


President Obama threw down the gauntlet Monday with cable companies and Internet providers by declaring they shouldn’t be allowed to cut deals with online services like YouTube to move their content faster.
It was his most definitive statement to date on so-called “net neutrality,” and escalates a battle that has been simmering for years between industry groups and Internet activists who warn against the creation of Internet “fast lanes.” The president’s statement swiftly drew an aggressive response from trade groups, which are fighting against additional regulation.
"We are stunned the president would abandon the longstanding, bipartisan policy of lightly regulating the Internet and calling for extreme" regulation, said Michael Powell, president and CEO of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, the primary lobbying arm of the cable industry.
Obama, in his statement, called for an “explicit ban” on “paid prioritization,” or better, faster service for companies that pay extra. The president said federal regulators should reclassify the Internet as a public utility under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act.
"For almost a century, our law has recognized that companies who connect you to the world have special obligations not to exploit the monopoly they enjoy over access in and out of your home or business," Obama said in his statement. "That is why a phone call from a customer of one phone company can reliably reach a customer of a different one, and why you will not be penalized solely for calling someone who is using another provider. It is common sense that the same philosophy should guide any service that is based on the transmission of information -- whether a phone call, or a packet of data."
Obama's statement puts him in the middle of a debate between industry groups and the Federal Communications Commission, which is under public pressure – now from Obama as well -- to prevent broadband providers from creating the “fast lanes.”
The FCC is nearing a decision on how far to go to protect Internet consumers from deals between broadband providers like Verizon and AT&T and content companies like Netflix or YouTube.
But industry groups pushed back, with Powell arguing that such regulation would slow Internet growth.
This "tectonic shift in national policy, should it be adopted, would create devastating results," Powell said, claiming only Congress should make a policy change of this magnitude.”
Likewise, CTIA-The Wireless Association called Obama's proposal a "gross overreaction" that would ignore other viewpoints.
Last January, a federal court overturned key portions of an open Internet regulation put in place by the FCC in 2010. The court said the FCC had "failed to cite any statutory authority" to keep broadband providers from blocking or discriminating against content.
That ruling sent the FCC back to the drawing board. Until the FCC can agree on new regulations that satisfy the court's requirements, Internet service providers could block or discriminate against content moving across their networks with impunity.
Internet activists say the FCC should reclassify the Internet as a public utility under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act to ensure it has enough power to regulate the Internet effectively. That's exactly what industry doesn't want to happen. Industry officials say they are committed to an open Internet in general but want flexibility to think up new ways to package and sell Internet services.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has said he is open to using a "hybrid" approach that would draw from both Title II and the 1996 Telecommunications Act. But Wheeler said Monday that so far, those options have presented "substantive legal questions."
"We found we would need more time to examine these to ensure that whatever approach is taken, it can withstand any legal challenges it may face," he said.

[Malsua]

Millions of new Democrat voters is precisely why we need to get ahead of this thing.

They can get work papers and in 25 years become full citizens. Until then, they can't vote. If they want to apply the old way, they can, and get citizenship in 10 years, but they have to go back to Mehico.

[American Patriot]

I honestly have no problem with immigration.

I have a problem with ILLEGAL ALIENS flooding the market (job, welfare rolls, etc). They need to go back to where they came from.

[Ryan Ruck]

Jack Welch To GOP: Run A Real Conservative In 2016

November 3, 2014

Republicans need to run a presidential candidate in 2016 like a Ted Cruz or a Rand Paul, not a Jeb Bush or a Chris Christie, management guru Jack Welch told CNBC on Monday.

Bush and Christie are "too middle of the road" to win the country, the conservative-leaning Welch said in a "Squawk Box" interview—a day before the 2014 midterm election in which Republicans hope to take control of the Senate.

"We have to give a hard look to [Sens.] Rand Paul and Ted Cruz," the former General Electric chief continued. "I saw Ted Cruz on your show the other morning. I thought he was fabulous."

Last week, Cruz, a tea party favorite from Texas, told CNBC the only way the GOP can win the White House in 2016 is to run a strong, conservative candidate. Otherwise, he said, presumptive Democrat Hillary Clinton will win. Cruz has been mentioned in political circles as a possible Republican contender in 2016, though he did not address the issue during his "Squawk Box" appearance on Thursday.

Welch agreed with Cruz, saying that playing to the middle has been losing strategy as evidenced by the losing campaigns of Sen. John McCain and former Gov. Mitt Romney.

"You got to give up on New York. You got to give up on California. Those are gone," he said. "Screw New York. You're going to lose New York. Forget it. Go to the country, this wonderful country, and present your ideas with an optimistic view."

"Ronald Reagan was attacked for the same things Ted Cruz is being attacked for," Welch said. "I would love to see the Republicans run somebody that they stand for."

[Ryan Ruck]

It's official, no Mitt Romney in 2016. Wonder what Jeb had on him...

[American Patriot]

YAY!

Now, all we have to do is knock Hillary, Jeb Bush, Warren and a few others out of the running.

[vector7]

February 5, 2015
Jeb Bush: We will lose our liberties if we control the border

By Pedro Gonzales

Jeb Bush made a series of astonishing remarks about immigration Wednesday. Actually, his comments were not so much about immigration as they were about illegal aliens.

First he said he wanted to repopulate Detroit with illegal aliens.

It just seems to me that maybe if you open up our doors in a fair way and unleashed the spirit of peoples' hard work, Detroit could become in really short order, one of the great American cities again," Bush said then. "Now it would look different, it wouldn't be Polish...But it would be just as powerful, just as exciting, just as dynamic. And that's what immigration does and to be fearful of this, it just seems bizarre to me.

Now, if we were talking about legal immigration, I would probably agree. But I think you and I both know whom Jeb was talking about "opening the doors" for. Illegal aliens are already roosting in our inner cities in the millions. Jeb simply wants to accelerate the process. But wait, there's more.

He said, during a discussion with Univision, that it was "ridiculous" to think that DREAMers, children brought to the U.S. by their parents illegally, shouldn't have an "accelerated path" to citizenship.

"I've never felt like the sins of the parents should be ascribed to the children, you know," Bush said in 2013. "If your children always have to pay the price for adults decisions they make — how fair is that? For people who have no country to go back to — which are many of the DREAMers — it's ridiculous to think that there shouldn't be some accelerated path to citizenship."

So if the parents commit a crime, like robbing a bank, and give the money to the kids, we can't take the money away, because it's not fair to the kids. If illegals bring their kids here so they can benefit from the American taxpayer, there is no reason why we should let those kids benefit. Period. I don't call them DREAMers, the liberal word for them that Jeb is so comfortable with. I call them NIGHTMARERS.

But here's the most incredible statement:

Other comments included that Bush declared that "it's not possible in a free country to completely control the border without us losing our freedoms and liberties."

Bush thinks we lose our liberties when we secure our borders? Really? What about all the freedom and security we've lost by having an open border, as we've had for years?

Don't all the violent gangs and drug dealers coming across the border cause us to lose liberty?

Don't all the people coming across the border and then going on welfare cause us to lose our economic liberty?

Don't all the terrorists overstaying their visas and crashing planes into the World Trade Center cause 3,000 people to lose their liberty, as well as their lives?

Don't all the people coming across the border to take jobs that would otherwise go to Americans also cost us liberty?

Don't all the people who come across the border, refuse to assimilate, and create pockets of foreign culture in a foreign language in our cities cost us our liberty?

Don't all the people who come across our border and then illegally vote in our elections, and/or demand citizenship so they can do that, also cost us our liberty?

When Jeb Bush talks about freedom and liberty, he's only talking about the freedom and liberty of illegal aliens. He doesn't show the slightest concern for the freedom and liberty of American citizens. It's only by controlling the border that we can ensure our liberty. But Jeb is obviously not the man to do that.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...#ixzz3Qsdk7PFR

[American Patriot]

Just say No to Hillary, Bush.... Romney... just say NO.

Let's just start over.

Can we get Carter back yet? God.

What a bunch of fucking losers.

[Toad]

How is Jeb even a Republican? Seems he's even further left of the RINOs.

[Toad]

Can we get Carter back yet? God.

Never thought I'd say this, but Carter is no longer the worst president in my lifetime.

[MinutemanCO]

Yup. Bush, Clinton, Obama, Romney, etc...

It doesn't matter how you slice the current political scene in the US, we will end up with the same agenda. And, it has nothing to do with the American people, except to subjugate us as financiers of the socialist system.

It's difficult to remain hopeful when real political choices are not even presented to the American populace. Something has to change. Radically. I no longer feel comfortable being played as a fool.

[American Patriot]

I think that's the whole issue there MMCo.

Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE has come to the conclusion something is wrong. Most haven't put their finger on what it is. Many are very left of even Obama and are the ones being quiet right now. They don't want to bring too much more attention to it.

But the fact that it matters NOT (almost) which politician you talk to they all have that same agenda.

Those that don't appear to be "nuts" according to most.
Grrrr

[samizdat]

Methink we're lookin at a Biden v. Bush campaign. Unless I run. Any veeps?

[Toad]

Jeezez. If we end up with a ... (*cough**choke**cough*) ...President Biden, I'm investing in tequilla and going on a 4 year bender.

[Malsua]

Biden is a buffoon. No one could take him seriously as a candidate. He's about as deep as a sheet of paper.

[Toad]

Said that about Obama. Twice.

[American Patriot]

Biden won't get in office.

He likely won't get a nomination.

Hillary will before he does.

And I don't see Hillary getting in, but then, I didn't see Obama getting in either.

And if you put a shitface against a liar, it's anyone's game

[MinutemanCO]

And if you put a shitface against a liar, it's anyone's game

That's profound. I need to use your quote.

[American Patriot]

lol

profound... it ain't. True, it is.