October 26, 2016 5:38 AM
Morning Reads for 10-26-16
In exactly two weeks our national nightmare will end and we will be relieved with–oh… either a Hillary or Trump presidency. Whoo.
“Everybody’s Talkin” by Moose…at least this time it is.
- The city of Boston has chosen to consign itself to the dustbin of history.
- Remember the massive APS cheating scandal? Well, let’s see what happened to the pupils.
- Are you one of the 500k people who have voted early?
- Not even a dozen seats are competitive in the legislature this year.
- OTP desperately trying to mimic ITP.
- What is wrong with teachers in Columbus?
- Coastal Georgia on Lonely Planet’s top 10 regions to visit in 2017.
- RIP in piece the Murder Kroger. (Murder Kroger and Harambe: the two biggest angels taken in 2016).
- My boy The Big Aristotle really loves him some doughnuts.
- Christopher Marlowe finally gets credit for writing Shakespeare.
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Interview with GSU (the one with football trophies) prof Dr. Amanda Glaze on the challenges of teaching evolution in the South.
Oh, right. The one we have to be reminded of that:
1) It exists as more than Georgia’s third-most important football team and
2) It’s a school.
Schwwwweeeeet!! And I thought shooting those mechanical ducks at the James Drew county fair was fun!
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/556302/ISIS-Mosul-Sniper-Crackshot-Executioner-Assassination-Killing-Mysterious-Death-Squad-Siege
Sadly, this does not surprise me at all.
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/cops-dekalb-official-admits-crack-use-lies-about-being-held-captive/l3e9PUgY8H5DZX8jC8PKHI/
Where have I heard of Breedlove before? Name is familiar somehow…
He has run a number of republican races here in Georgia. Oxendine in 2010 and Barr for Congress in 2014. He has also run quite a few smaller local races as well.
Ok, thanks! Damn, that’s quite a fall. Tough for him undoubtedly.
Anyone know if SOS (Sec of State) website has data on how many people have voted by county so far in the early-voting process? I keep hearing about overall totals but don’t see anything on there by county.
Also, for comparison purposes, listed below (compiled from SOS info) is how Georgia’s 2021 presidential race turned out, based on when people voted:
Romney Obama Johnson
Advance-in-person 884,185 votes (51.8%) 811,441 votes (47.6%) 10,610 (0.6%)
Absentee by mail 122,870 (57.8%) 87,487 (41.1%) 2,338 (1.1%)
Provisional Votes 2,419 (26.0%) 6,743 (72.5%) 142 (1.5%)
Election Day 1,069,214 (54.3%) 868,156 (44.1%) 32,234 (1.6%)
TOTALS: 2,078,688 (53.3%) 1,773,827 (45.5%) 45,324 (1.2%)
About half the state’s votes were cast before election day. Combining the early in-person voting and absentees, Romney had a 6-point lead statewide going into election day and won election day voters by 10 points. Average the two leads, and he won by 8 points statewide.
Mea culpa above—my mis-typing skills—I meant of course 2012 presidential election, not 2021……
Oh right! So it IS rigged already!
Quick question: I have already stated after the first debate that Trump will lose by Modalian levels. Assuming that loss happens, how soon will the House try to impeach her for various reasons?
They won’t becasue republicans will no longer control the House and Senate.
I think the House stays. You might be right about the Senate.
House will stay GOP. Senate is a toss up depending if the top of the ticket can stay on topic for more then 36 hours before lunching a self serving tweeter fest or anti-women kind of headlines. (The Kelly interview is trending higher the the ADA rates…just saying)
We have to lose 30 seats. We have already lost 2 with redistricting in FL (Webster) and Randy Forbes is VA. So we need to lose 28. There are maybe two or three seats that the dems hold that republicans have a shot at, but there are 52 seats that are currently held by republicans that dems are looking to take. That doesn’t mean at all 52 are competitive. If you take out the ones that we are guaranteed to win (Drew Ferguson in Westmoreland’s seat and Liz Cheney in WY) you are left with 40 seats that are truly competitive.
Out of those 40 seats that are competitive there are 23 from states that Trump is guaranteed to lose big in (VA, NY, MI, CO, CA among others).
As we sit today, I feel that we will lose those 23 seats plus the two I mentioned at the top. Total of 25. So if the republicans hold on to the majority they will only have a 5 seat majority.
But my math isn’t counting seats that Trump is putting in play in places like IN, AZ and TX. If the night gets really bad we could easily lose 30 seats.
I hate to be doom and gloom about this and pray I’m wrong. But I don’t think I’m wrong. We republicans have made a grave mistake and we are about to see just how bad of a mistake it was in less than two weeks.
I just want to see Issa lose. If that happens, I will be happy. Its rated as toss up right now
It’s probably true that the Deplorable Leadership will choose to spend millions of dollars scanning Pinterest, Facebook, and who knows what else looking for some ambiguous comment or picture around which they can create a narrative to entertain themselves instead of having to look at budget numbers and stuff.
Seriously though, I would like to think that Paul Ryan would quit before going down that road.
If Ryan quits, it’s next man up. No difference.
If Ryan tries to steer the House away from this and loses that fight, I will get on board the “GOP is dead” train.
First, she has to do something that can be proven as impeachable beyond all doubt. Anything short of full treason (like they have pictures of her handing over the location of troops to the leaders of ISIS and the DNA and fingerprints to go with it, your going to annoy 3/4 of the country who does not think like you (remember Congress has a lower approval rating then the IRS). They start wasting time on that instead of handling the job market and the Mideast, it’s not going to look pretty for the boys and girls under the capital dome. Even if the House impeaches (GOP will hold the majority), they have to vote her out in the Senate. If the GOP wants the Senate back (if they do lose it), they will want to have the dems on record as voting no so when they get it back in 2018 (which they will if you look at the 33 up for election) they can try for a super majority of 60 GOP members.
Plus if they succeed, Kaine is then president. He has a better chance of holding the White house in 2020 then Hillary does. Image if he adds Warren, Feingold (who will win WI back in two weeks) or a some other up and coming Dem.
In short, a waste of time and money, makes the GOP outlook for a win in 2020 harder and for what, just so Jason Chaffetz can say “gotcha”? The people who hate her will still hate her and keep whining about the next dem in line until the GOP takes back the White House.
Ellynn, a minor correction:
>super majority of 60 GOP members.
This is merely the Senate rule for filibuster numbers. The supermajority required for removal subject to impeachment is two-thirds of the membership, i.e. 67.
I was going for the filibuster 3/5th there. The 2/3rd vote for implementing an impeachment would be very difficult to get and then hold. Just like the 2/3rd vote by congress and 3/4th of the states ratifying an amendment is difficult. Since it takes an amendments to “abolish” another amendment (see 18th & 21st).
If the Dems take the Senate and the House even starts hinting at the ”I’ word, poor old Garland’s nomination is withdrawn and somebody like Loretta Lynch gets the nod, then RBG retires and they go all liberal for that seat too. If yet another seat comes up then maybe Garland gets that call. You wanna play hardball?
Who would be Senate Majority leader? Dick Durbin?
Schumer is in line to follow Reed as the Dem leader.
Can you imagine the heads that would explode if Obama was on the SCOTUS…it would be fun to watch
“First, she has to do something that can be proven as impeachable beyond all doubt.”
Such as lying under oath, or if you prefer, falling into a perjury trap? I don’t believe it. If they want to, they will.
That will only go so far as getting her to a Senate trial that does not have 67 votes to get her out of office. If the goal is ONLY to impeach her and give her some more footnotes in history… sure that could happen. Beside wasting time, money and making the majority of the GOP feel better, what does it get anyone? More grid lock and bi-partisan hating? A congressional approval rating lower the 17%? It won’t turn over any of the keynotes conservative want destroyed. It won’t change what the the dems want or make the SCOTUS more conservative, and it won’t lower taxes, kill the Department of Ed. or lower the debt.
SO what is the end game? Besides making her look even worse then she most likely is while in all likelihood making congress seem more petty then it already is?
I agree that it would be short-sighted and inept to do so, but Clinton-hatred runs deep. Jason Chaffetz is already talking about hearings (on what I’m not sure but does it really matter?), and he’ll have plenty of help. I don’t trust the gop House to act rationally as long as the freedom caucus calls the shots.
The question comes down to what’s more important the GOP house, their hatred of one person or the back lash by the general public. They tick off enough people at even the state levels, and the districts could start going for the Dem just in time for the 2020 redistricting.
I find the requirement of baksheesh to be paid to a third party in order to gain an audience with a
19th century Ottoman CaliphUS Secretary of State to be more than a bit foreboding. If policies like this along with the above-the-law attitude exhibited with the private email continue into her presidency then some impeachable moments could be on the horizon. Face it, the SoS job with a built in grooming for this run was agreed to 8 years ago and she blew it. This is a weak candidate beating a non-candidate, Short of an potential invasion of both the Saudis and Iranians the Republicans should not jump on impeachment but just concentrate making her a one-term President and running an actual viable candidate in 4 years.