Comments on: From The Archives -- 2007 Candidate Speech Series: Mike Gravel http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/ Reality-based political commentary Sun, 10 May 2026 05:38:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139432 Chris Weigant Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:03:01 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139432 UCSC mascot is the banana slug, a huge yellow slug found locally. Just FYI... https://www.ucsc.edu/about/mascot.html :-) -CW UCSC mascot is the banana slug, a huge yellow slug found locally. Just FYI...

https://www.ucsc.edu/about/mascot.html

:-)

-CW

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139431 Chris Weigant Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:01:28 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139431 Hey Michale, here's a fact for you - Trump trails Obama's job creation record by 800,000 jobs. https://www.salon.com/2019/07/09/another-broken-promise-job-creation-under-trump-trails-obama-by-800000/ Facts straight from the BLS. Not Trump spin. So of course you'll admit that Obama was better at job creation than Trump, right? (holds breath waiting... heh...) -CW Hey Michale, here's a fact for you -

Trump trails Obama's job creation record by 800,000 jobs.

https://www.salon.com/2019/07/09/another-broken-promise-job-creation-under-trump-trails-obama-by-800000/

Facts straight from the BLS. Not Trump spin. So of course you'll admit that Obama was better at job creation than Trump, right?

(holds breath waiting... heh...)

-CW

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139430 Michale Thu, 11 Jul 2019 10:59:27 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139430 <I>And when watching, please take note of the University of California, Santa Cruz "Go Slugs!" sweatshirt that Travolta wears while his clothes are being cleaned. We still remember that scene, as do the folks up at the university...</I> I'll be sure and look for that.. :D And when watching, please take note of the University of California, Santa Cruz "Go Slugs!" sweatshirt that Travolta wears while his clothes are being cleaned. We still remember that scene, as do the folks up at the university...

I'll be sure and look for that.. :D

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139424 Chris Weigant Thu, 11 Jul 2019 10:22:45 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139424 Michale - And when watching, please take note of the University of California, Santa Cruz "Go Slugs!" sweatshirt that Travolta wears while his clothes are being cleaned. We still remember that scene, as do the folks up at the university... :-) -CW Michale -

And when watching, please take note of the University of California, Santa Cruz "Go Slugs!" sweatshirt that Travolta wears while his clothes are being cleaned. We still remember that scene, as do the folks up at the university...

:-)

-CW

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139407 Michale Thu, 11 Jul 2019 08:32:34 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139407 <I>Well, get on that already. It's just as important in the common vernacular as a few good men.</I> With THAT kind of recommendation, how can I NOT watch it!! :D Well, get on that already. It's just as important in the common vernacular as a few good men.

With THAT kind of recommendation, how can I NOT watch it!! :D

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139402 Kick Thu, 11 Jul 2019 02:58:42 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139402 Michale 9 <i>Perot was also a rabid Trump supporter and his last political act before he died was to donate massively to President Trump's re-election campaign.. :D </i> Not surprisingly, Michale has once again made a post that contains nothing but misinformation and 100% utterly asinine bullshit. Michale
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Perot was also a rabid Trump supporter and his last political act before he died was to donate massively to President Trump's re-election campaign.. :D

Not surprisingly, Michale has once again made a post that contains nothing but misinformation and 100% utterly asinine bullshit.

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139401 Kick Thu, 11 Jul 2019 02:38:59 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139401 CW 2 <i>RIP to H. Ross Perot, too. "Ya gotta pull the car over the side a the road and look under the hood..." He certainly was a character always handy with a one-liner, that's for sure... </i> I found him to be an funny little man when he tried to recruit me to work for him personally... before he ever ran for POTUS. I met with him several times, we discussed the issue and came to an agreement. Then he presented me with a stack of forms to complete. He wanted me to sign affidavits stating: * I would not take any illicit drugs. (signed it) * I would not take prescription drugs without his knowledge. (weird... but okay... signed it) * I would never refer to him as "Henry" or "Ross," only as "Mr. Perot" or "RP." (getting weirder... but signed it) * I would never drink alcohol, even during the times I was off duty. (hmmmm… started reading the others) * I would be available to him personally 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. * I would not grow a beard. There were more, but I had stopped reading at that point because I was laughing too hard to see. After I stopped laughing, I shook his hand, thanked him for the opportunity, asked him to run those papers through a shredder for me, left his office and never saw the little imp again. RIP RP. You were one funny yet demanding little guy. :) CW
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RIP to H. Ross Perot, too. "Ya gotta pull the car over the side a the road and look under the hood..." He certainly was a character always handy with a one-liner, that's for sure...

I found him to be an funny little man when he tried to recruit me to work for him personally... before he ever ran for POTUS. I met with him several times, we discussed the issue and came to an agreement. Then he presented me with a stack of forms to complete.

He wanted me to sign affidavits stating:

* I would not take any illicit drugs. (signed it)
* I would not take prescription drugs without his knowledge. (weird... but okay... signed it)
* I would never refer to him as "Henry" or "Ross," only as "Mr. Perot" or "RP." (getting weirder... but signed it)
* I would never drink alcohol, even during the times I was off duty. (hmmmm… started reading the others)
* I would be available to him personally 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
* I would not grow a beard.

There were more, but I had stopped reading at that point because I was laughing too hard to see. After I stopped laughing, I shook his hand, thanked him for the opportunity, asked him to run those papers through a shredder for me, left his office and never saw the little imp again.

RIP RP. You were one funny yet demanding little guy. :)

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139399 nypoet22 Thu, 11 Jul 2019 00:51:09 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139399 @m, Well, get on that already. It's just as important in the common vernacular as a few good men. JL @m,
Well, get on that already. It's just as important in the common vernacular as a few good men.
JL

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139397 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 23:56:46 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139397 <I>Pulp Fiction.</I> Ahhh.. I have to admit I have never watched it. <B>"You uncultured swine!!!!"</B> -Mr Potato Head, TOY STORY Pulp Fiction.

Ahhh..

I have to admit I have never watched it.

"You uncultured swine!!!!"
-Mr Potato Head, TOY STORY

]]> By: Balthasar http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139394 Balthasar Wed, 10 Jul 2019 22:11:30 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139394 Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction.

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139393 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 21:48:47 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139393 <I>FABIENNE- Butch, whose motorcycle is this? BUTCH-It's a chopper. FABIENNE-Whose chopper is this? BUTCH-Zed's. FABIENNE-Who's Zed? BUTCH-Zed's dead, baby, Zed's dead.</I> I got nuttin'... FABIENNE- Butch, whose motorcycle is this?
BUTCH-It's a chopper.
FABIENNE-Whose chopper is this?
BUTCH-Zed's.
FABIENNE-Who's Zed?
BUTCH-Zed's dead, baby, Zed's dead.

I got nuttin'...

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139392 nypoet22 Wed, 10 Jul 2019 21:13:46 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139392 <i>I stand corrected! Zed's dead.</i> <b>FABIENNE- Butch, whose motorcycle is this? BUTCH-It's a chopper. FABIENNE-Whose chopper is this? BUTCH-Zed's. FABIENNE-Who's Zed? BUTCH-Zed's dead, baby, Zed's dead.</b> I stand corrected! Zed's dead.

FABIENNE- Butch, whose motorcycle is this?
BUTCH-It's a chopper.
FABIENNE-Whose chopper is this?
BUTCH-Zed's.
FABIENNE-Who's Zed?
BUTCH-Zed's dead, baby, Zed's dead.

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139391 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:11:48 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139391 <I>Which is why I thought that it wasn't him. My bad. I stand corrected! Zed's dead.</I> No worries... It happens.. We'll not have to bring it up ever again.. :D Which is why I thought that it wasn't him. My bad.

I stand corrected! Zed's dead.

No worries... It happens.. We'll not have to bring it up ever again.. :D

]]> By: Balthasar http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139390 Balthasar Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:11:01 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139390 <i>in MIB III they had a memorial for Zed..</i> Which is why I thought that it wasn't him. My bad. I stand corrected! Zed's dead. in MIB III they had a memorial for Zed..

Which is why I thought that it wasn't him. My bad.

I stand corrected! Zed's dead.

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139389 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:57:25 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139389 <B>Rip Torn ... Zed</B> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119654/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_49 Like dynamiting fish in a barrel... :D Rip Torn ... Zed
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119654/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_49

Like dynamiting fish in a barrel... :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139388 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:51:59 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139388 AND Men In Black II Funny thing is, in MIB III they had a memorial for Zed.. I had thought that Rip Torn had died back then... Apparently... not... AND Men In Black II

Funny thing is, in MIB III they had a memorial for Zed..

I had thought that Rip Torn had died back then...

Apparently... not...

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139387 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:50:55 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139387 <I>Trouble is, he wasn't Zed.</I> As usual, your facts are bullshit.. Rip Torn played Zed in MEN IN BLACK https://youtu.be/qN_7FZjmtl4 Trouble is, he wasn't Zed.

As usual, your facts are bullshit..

Rip Torn played Zed in MEN IN BLACK

https://youtu.be/qN_7FZjmtl4

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139386 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:48:47 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139386 And, in the BBBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Department.. <B>Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have deleted tweets that promoted an upcoming Wednesday afternoon hearing on “kids in cages” after being called out for using Obama-era images of migrants in detention to highlight current conditions at the border. “Last week, members of our committee visited a detention center at the southern border and discovered grotesque treatment of children,” the first tweet, posted Tuesday afternoon, said. “This week, we are examining the inhumane treatment of the children in these detention centers.” But the tweet included a photograph taken by The Associated Press in 2014, during the Obama administration, showing migrants in detention in Arizona. The Trump campaign flagged the soon-deleted tweet and noted the image comes from a time when current Democratic presidential primary front-runner Joe Biden was vice president. “House Democrats are promoting their 'civil rights' hearing on ‘kids in cages’ and ‘inhumane treatment’ with a photo from 2014, when Joe Biden was Vice President,” the tweet read. “So dishonest!”</B> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-dems-use-obama-era-photo-to-promote-hearing-on-kids-in-cages Get that??? Democrats wanted to bash President Trump over illegal immigrant kids in cages.. In a Keystone Cops-esque manner, they used a photograph of illegal immigrant kids in cages FROM THE OBAMA YEARS!!!! Truly, the BBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA is well earned by the Democrats and the hysterical Trump/America haters.. :D And, in the BBBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Department..

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have deleted tweets that promoted an upcoming Wednesday afternoon hearing on “kids in cages” after being called out for using Obama-era images of migrants in detention to highlight current conditions at the border.

“Last week, members of our committee visited a detention center at the southern border and discovered grotesque treatment of children,” the first tweet, posted Tuesday afternoon, said. “This week, we are examining the inhumane treatment of the children in these detention centers.”

But the tweet included a photograph taken by The Associated Press in 2014, during the Obama administration, showing migrants in detention in Arizona. The Trump campaign flagged the soon-deleted tweet and noted the image comes from a time when current Democratic presidential primary front-runner Joe Biden was vice president.

“House Democrats are promoting their 'civil rights' hearing on ‘kids in cages’ and ‘inhumane treatment’ with a photo from 2014, when Joe Biden was Vice President,” the tweet read. “So dishonest!”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-dems-use-obama-era-photo-to-promote-hearing-on-kids-in-cages

Get that???

Democrats wanted to bash President Trump over illegal immigrant kids in cages..

In a Keystone Cops-esque manner, they used a photograph of illegal immigrant kids in cages FROM THE OBAMA YEARS!!!!

Truly, the BBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA is well earned by the Democrats and the hysterical Trump/America haters.. :D

]]> By: Balthasar http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139385 Balthasar Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:43:43 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139385 <i>Rip Torn has died at 88</i> Nice tribute. Trouble is, he wasn't Zed. Rip Torn has died at 88

Nice tribute.

Trouble is, he wasn't Zed.

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139384 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:43:23 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139384 WINNING <B>Trump takes victory lap after Republican-appointed judges toss 'Emoluments Clause' lawsuit – and claims 'Deep State' pushed case about hotel income from foreign countries President was sued by Democratic attorneys general of Maryland and D.C. Claimed he was violating the Constitution by accepting hotel business from foreign countries Three-judge appeals court panel ruled that the AGs lacked jurisdiction to sue; all three were Republican appointees They didn't rule on the merits of the case, but the Trump Organization writes annual checks to the Treasury to disgorge its foreign government profits Trump took a victory lap and proclaimed the case was a product of the 'Deep State'; one more lawsuit continues, filed by hundreds of Democratic lawmakers </B> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7233287/Trump-trumpets-appeals-court-ruling-Republican-appointed-judges-toss-Emoluments-lawsuit.html The question isn't "Are the American People getting tired of so much winning??" The question is, "Are the Democrats, Never Trumpers and Trump/America haters getting tired of so much losing??" :D Apparently not.. Because they keep losing and losing and losing and losing... And losing.. WINNING

Trump takes victory lap after Republican-appointed judges toss 'Emoluments Clause' lawsuit – and claims 'Deep State' pushed case about hotel income from foreign countries

President was sued by Democratic attorneys general of Maryland and D.C.

Claimed he was violating the Constitution by accepting hotel business from foreign countries

Three-judge appeals court panel ruled that the AGs lacked jurisdiction to sue; all three were Republican appointees

They didn't rule on the merits of the case, but the Trump Organization writes annual checks to the Treasury to disgorge its foreign government profits

Trump took a victory lap and proclaimed the case was a product of the 'Deep State'; one more lawsuit continues, filed by hundreds of Democratic lawmakers
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7233287/Trump-trumpets-appeals-court-ruling-Republican-appointed-judges-toss-Emoluments-lawsuit.html

The question isn't "Are the American People getting tired of so much winning??"

The question is, "Are the Democrats, Never Trumpers and Trump/America haters getting tired of so much losing??" :D

Apparently not.. Because they keep losing and losing and losing and losing... And losing..

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139383 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:38:28 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139383 And our resident whiner in Congress speaks out.. <B>AOC: PELOSI SADDLING ME WITH WORK TO KEEP ME OUT OF SPOTLIGHT ‘Sometimes I wonder if they’re trying to keep me busy’</B> https://news.grabien.com/story-aoc-accuses-pelosi-placing-committees-keep-her-sidelined-wor Occasional Cortex is whining that her Congress work is interfering with her remaining in the spotlight... :eyeroll: And our resident whiner in Congress speaks out..

AOC: PELOSI SADDLING ME WITH WORK TO KEEP ME OUT OF SPOTLIGHT

‘Sometimes I wonder if they’re trying to keep me busy’
https://news.grabien.com/story-aoc-accuses-pelosi-placing-committees-keep-her-sidelined-wor

Occasional Cortex is whining that her Congress work is interfering with her remaining in the spotlight...

:eyeroll:

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139382 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 13:35:33 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139382 Awww... <B>Emmy-winning actor Rip Torn has died at 88</B> Zed has died... :( Awww...

Emmy-winning actor Rip Torn has died at 88

Zed has died... :(

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139381 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:45:26 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139381 <B>BET founder Robert Johnson praises Trump, says Democratic Party 'moved too far to the left' Black Entertainment Television founder and longtime Democrat Robert Johnson said in an interview that aired Tuesday that the Democratic Party has become too liberal to defeat President Trump in 2020, unless major changes are made. “The party in my opinion, for me personally, has moved too far to the left,” Johnson told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble. Johnson – the country’s first African-American billionaire, according to Forbes – went on to say that because the party has become so liberal, he isn’t supporting a particular 2020 candidate at this time. “I think at the end of the day, if a Democrat is going to beat Trump, then that person, he or she, will have to move to the center and you can’t wait too long to do that,” Johnson said. “The message of some of the programs that Democrats are pushing are not resonating with the majority of the American people.” Johnson said the current far-left state of the Democratic Party will work well in the primaries but won’t help in a general election, especially since he feels Trump has his base locked up. The BET founder, who supported Hillary Clinton in 2016, even praised some of Trump’s recent accomplishments.</B> https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bet-founder-robert-johnson-says-democratic-party-moved-too-far-to-the-left Once again... The FACTS and REALITY.... BET founder Robert Johnson praises Trump, says Democratic Party 'moved too far to the left'

Black Entertainment Television founder and longtime Democrat Robert Johnson said in an interview that aired Tuesday that the Democratic Party has become too liberal to defeat President Trump in 2020, unless major changes are made.

“The party in my opinion, for me personally, has moved too far to the left,” Johnson told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble.

Johnson – the country’s first African-American billionaire, according to Forbes – went on to say that because the party has become so liberal, he isn’t supporting a particular 2020 candidate at this time.

“I think at the end of the day, if a Democrat is going to beat Trump, then that person, he or she, will have to move to the center and you can’t wait too long to do that,” Johnson said. “The message of some of the programs that Democrats are pushing are not resonating with the majority of the American people.”

Johnson said the current far-left state of the Democratic Party will work well in the primaries but won’t help in a general election, especially since he feels Trump has his base locked up. The BET founder, who supported Hillary Clinton in 2016, even praised some of Trump’s recent accomplishments.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bet-founder-robert-johnson-says-democratic-party-moved-too-far-to-the-left

Once again...

The FACTS and REALITY....

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139380 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:31:18 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139380 <B>Sen. Collins rejected Republican senator's offer to ditch Kavanaugh after Ford testimony, new book claims</B> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/book-sen-collins-rejected-judiciary-cmte-republicans-offer-to-ditch-kavanaugh-after-ford-testimony Senator Collins saved Justice Kavanaugh's nomination.. In the future, every time ya'all pin your hopes on Senator Collins bucking the GOP and being the Dem savior, I will remind you of this.. :D Sen. Collins rejected Republican senator's offer to ditch Kavanaugh after Ford testimony, new book claims
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/book-sen-collins-rejected-judiciary-cmte-republicans-offer-to-ditch-kavanaugh-after-ford-testimony

Senator Collins saved Justice Kavanaugh's nomination..

In the future, every time ya'all pin your hopes on Senator Collins bucking the GOP and being the Dem savior, I will remind you of this.. :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139379 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:28:28 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139379 <B>Justin Amash: Some Republicans thanked me privately for impeachment stance</B> https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/amash-republican-gop Yea.. He has a lot of support in email.. :eyeroll: Justin Amash: Some Republicans thanked me privately for impeachment stance
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/amash-republican-gop

Yea.. He has a lot of support in email.. :eyeroll:

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139378 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:25:54 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139378 <B>July National Poll: Biden Extends Lead in Democratic Primary, Trump Closes the Gap in the General Election</B> https://emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/july-national-poll-biden-extends-lead-in-democratic-primary-trump-closes-the-gap-in-the-general-election That's great that Biden is increasing his lead in the primary... As I have said, it's a WIN WIN for me.. If Purity takes front and center and Democrats nominate some clown who can't possibly attract the middle, I will be able to laugh my ass off during President Trump's landslide victory... If by some quirk of fate, Biden is the Democrat nominee, I will be able to tease the Democrat Party incessantly.. That the Party of minorities and identity nominates an old white guy as their champion.. And the progressive wing of the Democrat Party will be so disgusted that they stay home and President Trump wins in a landslide... Like I said... Win Win for me and Win Win for this country... July National Poll: Biden Extends Lead in Democratic Primary, Trump Closes the Gap in the General Election
https://emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/july-national-poll-biden-extends-lead-in-democratic-primary-trump-closes-the-gap-in-the-general-election

That's great that Biden is increasing his lead in the primary...

As I have said, it's a WIN WIN for me..

If Purity takes front and center and Democrats nominate some clown who can't possibly attract the middle, I will be able to laugh my ass off during President Trump's landslide victory...

If by some quirk of fate, Biden is the Democrat nominee, I will be able to tease the Democrat Party incessantly.. That the Party of minorities and identity nominates an old white guy as their champion.. And the progressive wing of the Democrat Party will be so disgusted that they stay home and President Trump wins in a landslide...

Like I said...

Win Win for me and Win Win for this country...

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139377 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:12:43 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139377 <B>HE'S DON FOR British Ambassador to America Sir Kim Darroch QUITS £184k role after Donald Trump branded him ‘very stupid’ over leak storm</B> https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9476506/sir-kim-darroch-quits-donald-trump-leak/ Considering the utter incompetence of the May government, this clown calling the Trump Administration 'inept' is ironic.. <B>"na na Hay Hay... na na Hay Hay... Haaaayyyyyy Goodbye.... "</B> -The Clan HE'S DON FOR British Ambassador to America Sir Kim Darroch QUITS £184k role after Donald Trump branded him ‘very stupid’ over leak storm
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9476506/sir-kim-darroch-quits-donald-trump-leak/

Considering the utter incompetence of the May government, this clown calling the Trump Administration 'inept' is ironic..

"na na Hay Hay... na na Hay Hay...
Haaaayyyyyy Goodbye.... "
-The Clan

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139376 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:53:38 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139376 <I>A service is being provided here, we get to read all the righty spin on current events</I> Also Known As FACTS and REALITY.. :D A service is being provided here, we get to read all the righty spin on current events

Also Known As FACTS and REALITY..

:D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139375 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:40:33 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139375 OK Gonna take a breather.. Balthy, I await your rebuttal facts with great anticipation.. :D OK Gonna take a breather..

Balthy, I await your rebuttal facts with great anticipation.. :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139374 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:34:05 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139374 <B>Are Democrats Ceding the Center to Trump? Since the Democratic debates in June, the tide seems to have receded for the party and its presidential hopefuls. In new polls, only Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump comfortably. The other top-tier candidates -- Sens. Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, and Mayor Pete Buttigieg -- are running even with Trump, a measurable drop. A Washington Post-ABC poll just found Trump at 47% approval, a new high for his presidency. Apparently, the more the nation sees of the alternatives to Trump the Democrats have on offer, the better The Donald looks. For Democrats, this is not good, not good at all. For while Trump has run a daily gauntlet of dreadful media for two years, these Democrats have had only one debate and a few weeks of close coverage. Between now and the New Hampshire primary, they will be going after one another and receiving a far more thorough vetting by a media in constant search of failings and flaws, especially of front-runners. Traditionally, all candidates suffer attrition as the primaries come closer. For it is then that their lagging rivals become more desperate in their attacks and the media coverage becomes more intense. Other problems have now arisen for the Democrats because of the issues that have come to the fore: race, radicalism and the border. None looks like a winning Democratic issue in November 2020.</B> https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/07/09/are_democrats_ceding_the_center_to_trump_140732.html The Center.. NPAs... Independents... All base are belong to President Trump... :D Are Democrats Ceding the Center to Trump?

Since the Democratic debates in June, the tide seems to have receded for the party and its presidential hopefuls.

In new polls, only Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump comfortably.

The other top-tier candidates -- Sens. Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, and Mayor Pete Buttigieg -- are running even with Trump, a measurable drop. A Washington Post-ABC poll just found Trump at 47% approval, a new high for his presidency.

Apparently, the more the nation sees of the alternatives to Trump the Democrats have on offer, the better The Donald looks. For Democrats, this is not good, not good at all.

For while Trump has run a daily gauntlet of dreadful media for two years, these Democrats have had only one debate and a few weeks of close coverage.

Between now and the New Hampshire primary, they will be going after one another and receiving a far more thorough vetting by a media in constant search of failings and flaws, especially of front-runners.

Traditionally, all candidates suffer attrition as the primaries come closer. For it is then that their lagging rivals become more desperate in their attacks and the media coverage becomes more intense.

Other problems have now arisen for the Democrats because of the issues that have come to the fore: race, radicalism and the border.

None looks like a winning Democratic issue in November 2020.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/07/09/are_democrats_ceding_the_center_to_trump_140732.html

The Center.. NPAs... Independents...

All base are belong to President Trump... :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139373 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:30:53 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139373 <I>i've been reading the comments here for over a decade and I have no clue about when michale signs on or off. </I> MICHALE'S WEIGANTIA HOURS OF OPERATION Mon-Fri 0400-1800 Sat-Sun 0200-1800 After 1800 hours, my time belongs to my lovely wife.. :D i've been reading the comments here for over a decade and I have no clue about when michale signs on or off.

MICHALE'S WEIGANTIA HOURS OF OPERATION

Mon-Fri 0400-1800
Sat-Sun 0200-1800

After 1800 hours, my time belongs to my lovely wife.. :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139372 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:28:19 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139372 <B>House Democrats have control over one body of Congress, while Republicans control both the Senate and the White House. This means they’re going to lose fights, including fights over issues that have captured and animated their base. That the main progressive and moderate blocs are at each other’s throats, while the most famous individual progressives and the speaker fight in public after the first big loss, does not instill great confidence about their ability to digest those losses yet to come.</B> And there WILL be losses to come.. That much is certain.. And the Democrat Party will disintegrate into chaos a little bit more every time.. :D House Democrats have control over one body of Congress, while Republicans control both the Senate and the White House. This means they’re going to lose fights, including fights over issues that have captured and animated their base. That the main progressive and moderate blocs are at each other’s throats, while the most famous individual progressives and the speaker fight in public after the first big loss, does not instill great confidence about their ability to digest those losses yet to come.

And there WILL be losses to come.. That much is certain..

And the Democrat Party will disintegrate into chaos a little bit more every time.. :D

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139371 nypoet22 Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:26:52 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139371 @balthasar, i've been reading the comments here for over a decade and I have no clue about when michale signs on or off. i seriously think people here need to develop a thicker skin. A service is being provided here, we get to read all the righty spin on current events without ever having to click on any of their web pages. Lighten up! JL @balthasar,

i've been reading the comments here for over a decade and I have no clue about when michale signs on or off. i seriously think people here need to develop a thicker skin. A service is being provided here, we get to read all the righty spin on current events without ever having to click on any of their web pages. Lighten up!

JL

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139370 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:26:10 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139370 <B>What Happened to Unity? The Pelosi-AOC feud signals trouble ahead for House Democrats. More than a week after the vote and with new, horrific details from the border facilities coming out every day, the recriminations are still going strong. And now, the speaker and the most prominent left-wing members in the caucus are at the center of the feud. Freshmen Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib were particularly outspoken in their criticism of the vote on the Senate bill. They—and they alone, among Democrats—hadn’t voted for the more robust House bill a couple of days earlier, but that didn’t stop them from arguing that House Democrats should have fought harder to include elements of it in a final negotiated deal with the Senate. That’s the sort of thing that drives vote-counters in leadership mad. And in an interview with the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, Pelosi let them know it with sharp criticism belittling their influence within the majority. “All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” Pelosi told Dowd. “But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.” This isn’t the first time Pelosi has diminished these particular representatives publicly, but her targets aren’t taking the quip so lightly this time. Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff commented that the speaker “is just mad that she got outmaneuvered (again) by Republicans.”</B> https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/pelosi-aoc-house-democrats-border-funding.html President Trump plays Pelosi again and gets the added bonus of a Demcorat House civil war!! :D NOT tired of winning!!! :D What Happened to Unity?

The Pelosi-AOC feud signals trouble ahead for House Democrats.

More than a week after the vote and with new, horrific details from the border facilities coming out every day, the recriminations are still going strong. And now, the speaker and the most prominent left-wing members in the caucus are at the center of the feud.

Freshmen Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib were particularly outspoken in their criticism of the vote on the Senate bill. They—and they alone, among Democrats—hadn’t voted for the more robust House bill a couple of days earlier, but that didn’t stop them from arguing that House Democrats should have fought harder to include elements of it in a final negotiated deal with the Senate.

That’s the sort of thing that drives vote-counters in leadership mad. And in an interview with the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, Pelosi let them know it with sharp criticism belittling their influence within the majority.

“All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” Pelosi told Dowd. “But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.” This isn’t the first time Pelosi has diminished these particular representatives publicly, but her targets aren’t taking the quip so lightly this time. Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff commented that the speaker “is just mad that she got outmaneuvered (again) by Republicans.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/pelosi-aoc-house-democrats-border-funding.html

President Trump plays Pelosi again and gets the added bonus of a Demcorat House civil war!! :D

NOT tired of winning!!! :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139369 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:19:27 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139369 <B>Iran has already proven the nuclear agreement's uselessness Here's a question: If the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement is so good at stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, how on Earth has Iran been able to move past the deal toward nukes so easily and quickly? I say that in light of two Iranian actions taken on two days over the past two weeks. First, there's Iran's increased stockpiling of enriched uranium beyond proscribed limits. Second, there's Iran's increased enrichment of uranium beyond proscribed levels. Those actions, which pretty much took place instantaneously, threaten the world with Iran's steady progression toward a nuclear weapon. Even more importantly, the European Union has joined China and Russia in refusing to do what they promised they would do in this scenario: reintroduce sanctions. That speaks to the central weakness of the nuclear accord in the first place. It was always heavy on rhetoric (and cash for Iran) and always very weak on enforceable restrictions. While the Iranians have had limited success employing advanced centrifuges, their recent activity is clearly dangerous. David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security told me that Iran is "quite capable of creating a smaller, inefficient enrichment program to make enough weapon-grade uranium for a small nuclear arsenal." The nuclear accord's weaknesses don't end simply with its inadequate safeguards against Iran's rapid nuclear breakout. Neither did the agreement restrain Iran's ballistic missile research. Iran pretends this research is about building weather satellites, but it is actually about building delivery systems for the nukes it just barely still doesn't have. Iran's ballistic missile competency is significantly improved from 2015, in spite of the agreement.</B> https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/iran-has-already-proven-the-nuclear-agreements-uselessness The Iran deal was a joke from start to finish.. It was nothing but appeasement, a way for the Obama administration to funnel over a hundred BILLION dollars to the #1 state sponsor of terrorism.. Why?? Because Obama hated Israel... The JCPOA was nothing but a poke in the eye of Netanyahu, courtesy of Barack Hussein Obama.... Iran has already proven the nuclear agreement's uselessness

Here's a question: If the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement is so good at stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, how on Earth has Iran been able to move past the deal toward nukes so easily and quickly?

I say that in light of two Iranian actions taken on two days over the past two weeks.

First, there's Iran's increased stockpiling of enriched uranium beyond proscribed limits. Second, there's Iran's increased enrichment of uranium beyond proscribed levels. Those actions, which pretty much took place instantaneously, threaten the world with Iran's steady progression toward a nuclear weapon. Even more importantly, the European Union has joined China and Russia in refusing to do what they promised they would do in this scenario: reintroduce sanctions. That speaks to the central weakness of the nuclear accord in the first place. It was always heavy on rhetoric (and cash for Iran) and always very weak on enforceable restrictions.

While the Iranians have had limited success employing advanced centrifuges, their recent activity is clearly dangerous. David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security told me that Iran is "quite capable of creating a smaller, inefficient enrichment program to make enough weapon-grade uranium for a small nuclear arsenal."

The nuclear accord's weaknesses don't end simply with its inadequate safeguards against Iran's rapid nuclear breakout.

Neither did the agreement restrain Iran's ballistic missile research. Iran pretends this research is about building weather satellites, but it is actually about building delivery systems for the nukes it just barely still doesn't have. Iran's ballistic missile competency is significantly improved from 2015, in spite of the agreement.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/iran-has-already-proven-the-nuclear-agreements-uselessness

The Iran deal was a joke from start to finish..

It was nothing but appeasement, a way for the Obama administration to funnel over a hundred BILLION dollars to the #1 state sponsor of terrorism..

Why??

Because Obama hated Israel...

The JCPOA was nothing but a poke in the eye of Netanyahu, courtesy of Barack Hussein Obama....

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139368 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:13:06 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139368 <B>Democrats are too far left to win Middle America</b> President Trump in his “Salute to America” last week extolled the values of American valor and reminded us all that “for Americans, nothing is impossible.” It is this sense of American pride and adoration for the land of opportunity that rallied voters across the nation in 2016 to defend the ideas of individual liberty and national sovereignty that make our country great. Nowhere was this more true than in America’s heartland, where generations of Americans have served in the military with pride and succeeded at the highest levels in the nation they love, for the people they love. However, if you’ve paid attention to the policy proposals from leading candidates vying to take on President Trump in 2020, you wouldn’t get the sense that this Middle America demographic is one they’re chasing. In fact, you’d probably think each one is consciously choosing to abandon the ideas that motivated voters from Mississippi to the Midwest, and to instead focus on winning the race to the left in order to capture the soul of the new Democratic Party.</B> https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/452058-democrats-are-too-far-left-to-win-middle-america Democrats think they can attack and demonize Trump supporters and middle America and still win the General Election... Democrats are wrong... Democrats are too far left to win Middle America

President Trump in his “Salute to America” last week extolled the values of American valor and reminded us all that “for Americans, nothing is impossible.” It is this sense of American pride and adoration for the land of opportunity that rallied voters across the nation in 2016 to defend the ideas of individual liberty and national sovereignty that make our country great.

Nowhere was this more true than in America’s heartland, where generations of Americans have served in the military with pride and succeeded at the highest levels in the nation they love, for the people they love.

However, if you’ve paid attention to the policy proposals from leading candidates vying to take on President Trump in 2020, you wouldn’t get the sense that this Middle America demographic is one they’re chasing. In fact, you’d probably think each one is consciously choosing to abandon the ideas that motivated voters from Mississippi to the Midwest, and to instead focus on winning the race to the left in order to capture the soul of the new Democratic Party.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/452058-democrats-are-too-far-left-to-win-middle-america

Democrats think they can attack and demonize Trump supporters and middle America and still win the General Election...

Democrats are wrong...

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139367 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:09:09 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139367 <B>Harry Kazianis: If Dems make 2020 election about national security – Trump wins As if all 9 zillion 2020 Democratic presidential candidates don’t have enough problems – promising to take away your health care, free college for all, open borders – they now have a new line of attack against President Trump: criticizing his national security credentials. You must be joking. Not only have the Democrats not learned the lessons of the past – lurching left and promising everything free under the sun doesn’t work out well for them – but now they think they offer a better vision for America’s place in the world, what our role should be internationally, while trying to label President Trump’s approach of America First in a negative light.</B> https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/harry-kazianis-if-dems-make-the-2020-election-about-national-security-trump-wins The Democrat Party.. Finding new ways to lose the 2020 election... :D Harry Kazianis: If Dems make 2020 election about national security – Trump wins

As if all 9 zillion 2020 Democratic presidential candidates don’t have enough problems – promising to take away your health care, free college for all, open borders – they now have a new line of attack against President Trump: criticizing his national security credentials.

You must be joking.

Not only have the Democrats not learned the lessons of the past – lurching left and promising everything free under the sun doesn’t work out well for them – but now they think they offer a better vision for America’s place in the world, what our role should be internationally, while trying to label President Trump’s approach of America First in a negative light.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/harry-kazianis-if-dems-make-the-2020-election-about-national-security-trump-wins

The Democrat Party.. Finding new ways to lose the 2020 election... :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139366 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:07:49 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139366 <B>The White Supremacist Bogeyman Meanwhile, Trump’s economy roars along, yielding unprecedented job opportunities for minorities. The black unemployment rate dropped from 7.7 percent in January 2017 to 6.2 percent in May 2019; wages are rising for lower-paid workers. Trump’s job approval rating among blacks is still low—only 18 percent in the latest poll—but the president has a 39 president approval rating among Hispanics. His campaign team plans to actively court minority voters in 2020. Worst white supremacist ever.</B> https://amgreatness.com/2019/07/08/the-white-supremacist-bogeyman/ To think that there are actually intelligent people who buy into this crap??? Mind blowing... The White Supremacist Bogeyman

Meanwhile, Trump’s economy roars along, yielding unprecedented job opportunities for minorities. The black unemployment rate dropped from 7.7 percent in January 2017 to 6.2 percent in May 2019; wages are rising for lower-paid workers. Trump’s job approval rating among blacks is still low—only 18 percent in the latest poll—but the president has a 39 president approval rating among Hispanics. His campaign team plans to actively court minority voters in 2020.

Worst white supremacist ever.
https://amgreatness.com/2019/07/08/the-white-supremacist-bogeyman/

To think that there are actually intelligent people who buy into this crap???

Mind blowing...

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139365 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:02:18 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139365 <B>Lawrence Keane: The Democrats really are coming for your guns What a difference three years makes. The first primary debates showed us just how far the Democratic party has drifted on Second Amendment rights. Anti-gun politicians once were coy about their goals. President Barack Obama told PBS’s Gwen Ifill during a town hall in 2016, “And at no point have I ever, ever proposed confiscating guns from responsible gun owners. So it's just not true.” CALIFORNIA DESERT TOWN AIMS TO BE 'SANCTUARY CITY' FOR GUN OWNERS Now the presumed front-runner, former Vice President Joe Biden has put the entire firearms manufacturing industry in his crosshairs. “Our enemy is the gun manufacturers, not the NRA, the gun manufacturers,” Biden said. Not a single candidate on the stage denounced the comment. Their silence is tacit agreement. Every Democratic candidate is now gunning for an industry that supports 312,000 jobs earning $15.7 billion in wages and has a total economic impact over $52 billion. The firearms industry is an integral contributor to our economy, having paid more than $6.8 billion in total taxes in 2019 alone.</B> https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/lawrence-keane-the-democrats-really-are-coming-for-your-guns Apparently, the entire Democrat Party wants to be like Occasional Cortex and wants to kill over 300 THOUSAND American jobs.. :eyeroll: Lawrence Keane: The Democrats really are coming for your guns

What a difference three years makes.

The first primary debates showed us just how far the Democratic party has drifted on Second Amendment rights.

Anti-gun politicians once were coy about their goals. President Barack Obama told PBS’s Gwen Ifill during a town hall in 2016, “And at no point have I ever, ever proposed confiscating guns from responsible gun owners. So it's just not true.”

CALIFORNIA DESERT TOWN AIMS TO BE 'SANCTUARY CITY' FOR GUN OWNERS

Now the presumed front-runner, former Vice President Joe Biden has put the entire firearms manufacturing industry in his crosshairs. “Our enemy is the gun manufacturers, not the NRA, the gun manufacturers,” Biden said.

Not a single candidate on the stage denounced the comment. Their silence is tacit agreement. Every Democratic candidate is now gunning for an industry that supports 312,000 jobs earning $15.7 billion in wages and has a total economic impact over $52 billion. The firearms industry is an integral contributor to our economy, having paid more than $6.8 billion in total taxes in 2019 alone.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/lawrence-keane-the-democrats-really-are-coming-for-your-guns

Apparently, the entire Democrat Party wants to be like Occasional Cortex and wants to kill over 300 THOUSAND American jobs..

:eyeroll:

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139364 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:58:04 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139364 Liz... <B>"This one's for you.. Where ever you are"</B> -Barry Manilow :D <B>The lynching of the only Democratic hope Joe Biden got it right, it’s just that he said it in the wrong country. In Joe’s country, getting it right is wrong, and the unwary pay for it. In Joe’s country, a sucker never gets an even break, and everybody’s a sucker. Joe’s country is the modern Democratic Party, where the grown-ups looked at the field of dwarfs, concluded that not even Snow White could find a credible candidate for president among that motley crew of 25, and figured that Joe, who might not scare the horses, was the man they needed. He would be the wise, avuncular graybeard needed to steady the mayhem in the nursery. Joe looks credible. He has been around the track a few times. He knows how Washington works (when it works). He would know how things get done. He told a group of early donors that one of “my greatest strengths is bringing people together,” and observed that when he got to Washington in 1972, to serve his first term in the Senate, he would work with men whose political views he opposed if he had to do that to accomplish good things, as he and his constituents defined “good” things. Affecting an unconvincing Southern drawl, he told his donors how he was in a Senate caucus with James Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia, and worked with them to accomplish some of those good things. Sen. Eastland “never called me ‘boy,’ he always called me ‘son.’ “ The dwarfs leaped. Democrats too young to remember the bad old days and too busy with their own prejudices to learn much now, let fly with accusations that Joe had been in a conspiracy with the Southern Democrats of that day to plot with them to perpetuate racism, bigotry, white supremacy and maybe even genocide, in the words of Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, to “strip black Americans of our very humanity.”</B> https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/8/democrats-go-after-joe-biden-for-segregationist-co/ Liz...

"This one's for you..
Where ever you are"
-Barry Manilow

:D

The lynching of the only Democratic hope

Joe Biden got it right, it’s just that he said it in the wrong country. In Joe’s country, getting it right is wrong, and the unwary pay for it. In Joe’s country, a sucker never gets an even break, and everybody’s a sucker.

Joe’s country is the modern Democratic Party, where the grown-ups looked at the field of dwarfs, concluded that not even Snow White could find a credible candidate for president among that motley crew of 25, and figured that Joe, who might not scare the horses, was the man they needed. He would be the wise, avuncular graybeard needed to steady the mayhem in the nursery.

Joe looks credible. He has been around the track a few times. He knows how Washington works (when it works). He would know how things get done. He told a group of early donors that one of “my greatest strengths is bringing people together,” and observed that when he got to Washington in 1972, to serve his first term in the Senate, he would work with men whose political views he opposed if he had to do that to accomplish good things, as he and his constituents defined “good” things.

Affecting an unconvincing Southern drawl, he told his donors how he was in a Senate caucus with James Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia, and worked with them to accomplish some of those good things. Sen. Eastland “never called me ‘boy,’ he always called me ‘son.’ “

The dwarfs leaped. Democrats too young to remember the bad old days and too busy with their own prejudices to learn much now, let fly with accusations that Joe had been in a conspiracy with the Southern Democrats of that day to plot with them to perpetuate racism, bigotry, white supremacy and maybe even genocide, in the words of Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, to “strip black Americans of our very humanity.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/8/democrats-go-after-joe-biden-for-segregationist-co/

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139363 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:53:12 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139363 https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval_economy-6182.html And President Trump's approval rating on the economy continues to rise.. :D https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval_economy-6182.html

And President Trump's approval rating on the economy continues to rise.. :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139362 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:51:59 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139362 <B>Biden makes another eyebrow-raising campaign promise, vows to cut prison incarceration by 'more than' 50 percent Former Vice President Joe Biden made another stunning campaign promise, this time to cut prison incarceration by "more than" 50 percent. Speaking with an ACLU member at a campaign event on in South Carolina over the weekend, Biden was asked about the initiative being headed by the organization to develop a "roadmap for cutting incarceration by 50 percent." "Do you commit to cutting incarceration by 50 percent?" the man, who identified himself as an ACLU member, asked. "More than that," Biden responded. "We can do it more than that." When pressed by the man for a "yes or no" answer, Biden exclaimed: "The answer's yes, and I've got a better plan than you guys have."</B> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-vow-prison-incarceration-cut-50-percent Apparently Joe Biden is channeling his inner Trump.. :D Biden makes another eyebrow-raising campaign promise, vows to cut prison incarceration by 'more than' 50 percent

Former Vice President Joe Biden made another stunning campaign promise, this time to cut prison incarceration by "more than" 50 percent.

Speaking with an ACLU member at a campaign event on in South Carolina over the weekend, Biden was asked about the initiative being headed by the organization to develop a "roadmap for cutting incarceration by 50 percent."

"Do you commit to cutting incarceration by 50 percent?" the man, who identified himself as an ACLU member, asked.

"More than that," Biden responded. "We can do it more than that."

When pressed by the man for a "yes or no" answer, Biden exclaimed: "The answer's yes, and I've got a better plan than you guys have."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-vow-prison-incarceration-cut-50-percent

Apparently Joe Biden is channeling his inner Trump.. :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139361 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:50:06 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139361 <I>RIP to H. Ross Perot, too. "Ya gotta pull the car over the side a the road and look under the hood..." He certainly was a character always handy with a one-liner, that's for sure...</I> Perot was also a rabid Trump supporter and his last political act before he died was to donate massively to President Trump's re-election campaign.. :D RIP to H. Ross Perot, too. "Ya gotta pull the car over the side a the road and look under the hood..." He certainly was a character always handy with a one-liner, that's for sure...

Perot was also a rabid Trump supporter and his last political act before he died was to donate massively to President Trump's re-election campaign.. :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139360 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:40:07 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139360 <I>Solving the Israeli-Palestinian problem and the energy problem will set the stage to crush terrorism, its advocates and its financiers. </I> But the problem CAN'T be solved as long as one side condones and resorts to terrorism.. Duh.... Solving the Israeli-Palestinian problem and the energy problem will set the stage to crush terrorism, its advocates and its financiers.

But the problem CAN'T be solved as long as one side condones and resorts to terrorism..

Duh....

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139359 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:39:07 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139359 <B>AOC wants to abolish the Department of Homeland Security, says it should have never been created after 9/11</B> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-hints-at-getting-rid-of-dhs-says-department-should-have-never-been-created Yea... Democrats can win elections in 2020 :eyeroll: AOC wants to abolish the Department of Homeland Security, says it should have never been created after 9/11
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-hints-at-getting-rid-of-dhs-says-department-should-have-never-been-created

Yea... Democrats can win elections in 2020 :eyeroll:

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139358 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:37:27 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139358 <I>Sure, as long as 'playing nice' means letting Michale fill the comments section with bits of right wing literature. Your 'noon, Pacific' time fits in right after he signs off for the day, so we have about 9 hours to ourselves...</I> You sure do whine alot, yunno that?? As I have pointed out, time and time again.. If you don't want me posting so much, come at me with FACTS to counter MY facts... But you can't because you have absolutely NO FACTS to support ANY of your claims... :D You can also do something as a group that is so morally bankrupt and perverse... That has been known to make me quit this forum in disgust.. So, yer choice bub... <B>"But choose wisely"</B> -Knight, INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE Sure, as long as 'playing nice' means letting Michale fill the comments section with bits of right wing literature. Your 'noon, Pacific' time fits in right after he signs off for the day, so we have about 9 hours to ourselves...

You sure do whine alot, yunno that??

As I have pointed out, time and time again..

If you don't want me posting so much, come at me with FACTS to counter MY facts...

But you can't because you have absolutely NO FACTS to support ANY of your claims... :D

You can also do something as a group that is so morally bankrupt and perverse... That has been known to make me quit this forum in disgust..

So, yer choice bub...

"But choose wisely"
-Knight, INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139357 Michale Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:34:59 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139357 <I>I really have to do an accurate count. Are we up to 27 total candidates (counting all, even those who have dropped out) or is it only 26? Well, in all the excitement, I kinda lost track myself. Do ya feel lucky, punk? Well, DO ya? Heh. That was for Michale, who loves movie quote references.</I> heh Always nice to be recognized.. :D I really have to do an accurate count. Are we up to 27 total candidates (counting all, even those who have dropped out) or is it only 26? Well, in all the excitement, I kinda lost track myself. Do ya feel lucky, punk? Well, DO ya?

Heh. That was for Michale, who loves movie quote references.

heh Always nice to be recognized.. :D

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139350 Elizabeth Miller Tue, 09 Jul 2019 23:47:14 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139350 Hey Chris, try to do an informal poll on Biden when you're there. Hey Chris, try to do an informal poll on Biden when you're there.

]]> By: Balthasar http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139348 Balthasar Tue, 09 Jul 2019 22:55:17 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139348 <i>Everyone play nice in the meantime...</i> Sure, as long as 'playing nice' means letting Michale fill the comments section with bits of right wing literature. Your 'noon, Pacific' time fits in right after he signs off for the day, so we have about 9 hours to ourselves... Everyone play nice in the meantime...

Sure, as long as 'playing nice' means letting Michale fill the comments section with bits of right wing literature. Your 'noon, Pacific' time fits in right after he signs off for the day, so we have about 9 hours to ourselves...

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139319 Chris Weigant Tue, 09 Jul 2019 19:26:16 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139319 LizM - Yeah, there's a lot of those this year... heh... Just checking in and glad to see the "autopost" thing is working. It doesn't always behave itself, so glad to see it's posting smoothly each day at noon Pacific. Seems we've got a tag team thing happening, as one Dem exits the race and another enters. Sigh. For one brief moment, I thought we were finally going to shrink the field... I really have to do an accurate count. Are we up to 27 total candidates (counting all, even those who have dropped out) or is it only 26? Well, in all the excitement, I kinda lost track myself. Do ya feel lucky, punk? Well, DO ya? Heh. That was for Michale, who loves movie quote references. Anyway, Steyer running as a Dem is far better than the Starbucks guy running as an Indy, I suppose. RIP to H. Ross Perot, too. "Ya gotta pull the car over the side a the road and look under the hood..." He certainly was a character always handy with a one-liner, that's for sure... Anyway, we'll be in Philly tomorrow, so dunno if I'll have any time to check in or not. Everyone play nice in the meantime... -CW LizM -

Yeah, there's a lot of those this year... heh...

Just checking in and glad to see the "autopost" thing is working. It doesn't always behave itself, so glad to see it's posting smoothly each day at noon Pacific.

Seems we've got a tag team thing happening, as one Dem exits the race and another enters. Sigh. For one brief moment, I thought we were finally going to shrink the field...

I really have to do an accurate count. Are we up to 27 total candidates (counting all, even those who have dropped out) or is it only 26? Well, in all the excitement, I kinda lost track myself. Do ya feel lucky, punk? Well, DO ya?

Heh. That was for Michale, who loves movie quote references.

Anyway, Steyer running as a Dem is far better than the Starbucks guy running as an Indy, I suppose.

RIP to H. Ross Perot, too. "Ya gotta pull the car over the side a the road and look under the hood..." He certainly was a character always handy with a one-liner, that's for sure...

Anyway, we'll be in Philly tomorrow, so dunno if I'll have any time to check in or not. Everyone play nice in the meantime...

-CW

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/09/from-the-archives-2007-candidate-speech-series-mike-gravel/#comment-139318 Elizabeth Miller Tue, 09 Jul 2019 19:13:38 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=17087#comment-139318 Mike Gravel? Who is he and why did he get into the race? I know, I know but, you get the point. Mike Gravel? Who is he and why did he get into the race?

I know, I know but, you get the point.

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