National Elections

The capitulation and surrender of the GOP to a con man is complete

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EddieMunsterThe GOP’s alleged boy genius, Ayn Rand fanboy Paul Ryan, the nominal Speaker of the House and GOP convention chairman (for now), was a holdout in endorsing the short-fingered vulgarian con man, Donald Trump.

This led Trump supporters to call for his ouster as GOP convention chairman. Ryan demonstrated his usual lack of intestinal fortitude when confronted by the wingnut “wacko birds” in his party. Paul Ryan will skip chairing convention if Trump asks.

No worries! Today the GOP’s Flimflam Man capitulated to a master con man, and surrendered the GOP to Donald Trump. R.I.P. GOP. Paul Ryan: I’m voting for Trump:

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Thursday said he will vote for Donald Trump for president after weeks of withholding a formal endorsement of his party’s presumptive nominee.

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The article noted that when asked whether Ryan was endorsing Trump, a Ryan aide gave an unclear response: “He said he’ll vote for Trump in the piece. That speaks for itself, in our view.”

Ryan aide Brendan Buck followed up moments after the article was published, tweeting, “We’re not playing word games, feel free to call it an endorsement.”

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Democratic Presidental Caucus meetings this Saturday

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April 16, 2016 Presidential Caucus Information

DNC

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Registration Open only 8 a.m. – 10 a.m.

Precinct Committee persons will caucus by Congressional District

and presidential preference to elect delegates to the

Democratic National Convention.

Speeches and Voting begin at 10 a.m.

Maricopa County Caucus Instructions and Information – click here

Congressional Districts 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 will caucus at the Phoenix Convention Center South Building, 100 N. 3rd Street in Phoenix.

Pima County Caucus Instructions and Information – click here

Congressional Districts 2 and 3 will caucus at the University of Arizona Center for English as a Second Language, 1100 E James E Rogers Way in Tucson. The old address for this building was 1100 East North Campus Drive.

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Paul Ryan: ‘Count me out’

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“If nominated, I will not accept; if drafted, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

The GOP’s alleged boy genius and Ayn Rand fan boy, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, gave a Sherman-esque response to all the media speculation that he is a “stealth” candidate for the GOP nomination for president at a contested RNC Convention in Cleveland. Ryan: ‘I do not want, nor will I accept,’ GOP nomination:

EddieMunsterHouse Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Tuesday definitively ruled out running for president, saying the Republican nominee should be one of the candidates already running.

“Let me be clear: I do not want, nor will I accept, the Republican nomination,” Ryan said at Republican National Committee headquarters, adding: “Count me out.”

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Arizona is ‘Clinton Country’ and ‘Trumpistan’

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hc-220You would never know it based on some of the comments you have seen posted at this blog and our Facebook page, but now that the voters of Arizona have actually voted, it turns out that Arizona is “Clinton Country.”

Hillary Clinton won the Democratic Presidential Preference Election over Senator Bernie Sanders by a decisive 5 8% to 40%, carrying 14 out of 15 counties, losing only Coconino County. Delegates will be apportioned: 44 to Clinton, and 30 to Sanders. Ten Superdelegates may choose whom they support, and most of them have already declared for Clinton.

Bernie Sanders countered with yuuuge wins in the the Utah Caucus, 79.3% to 20.3%, and the Idaho Caucus, 78% to 21.2%. I can’t wait to hear political scientists explain how an avowed socialist secular Jew won so big in the Mormon Corridor. That’s a real mind bender. Sanders won 26 delegates to 6 delegates for Clinton in Utah, and 17 delegates to 5 delegates for Clinton in Idaho.

Sanders won more delegates on Tuesday, but he barely put a dent in Clinton’s substantial delegate lead. He would need to continue big wins like Utah and Idaho in the remaining state contests to overtake Clinton. This is highly improbable.

Here is the AP delegate count for the Democrats.

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A truly brilliant plan (if true)

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The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent offers a truly brilliant plan to the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court. It would be fitting justice for the insurrectionist Tea-Publlicans ‘blockading”(an act of war) the U.S. Constitution, the President, and the U.S. Supreme Court in a fit of Obama Derangement Syndrome and  a belief that they possess a divine right to control the U.S. Supreme Court. How Obama (Democrats) could get last laugh in Supreme Court fight:

GarlandNow that President Obama has rolled out a Supreme Court nominee who is being widely described as a “centrist” who has “drawn praise from both parties,” some analysts are predicting that it may be harder for GOP Senators to continue to refuse to consider him. But if anything, most signs this morning are that Republicans are only digging in harder behind their stance that only the next president should pick Antonin Scalia’s replacement.

But there is a scenario worth entertaining here in which Obama has the last laugh — and the GOP posture ends up leaving Republicans with only downsides, and zero upsides.

That scenario goes like this: If Republicans don’t give Garland any hearing, and a Democrat (most likely Hillary Clinton) wins the presidential election, Republicans could then move to consider him in the lame duck session, to prevent Clinton from picking a more liberal nominee. But at that point, Obama could withdraw his nominee, to allow his successor to pick the next justice, instead.

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