Red Sea!

The Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, The Raw Story, The Atlantic, Addicting Info, and Think Progress are concerned with Republican vote rigging and suppression strategies. The Republican governors signed off gerrymandering laws that give the Republicans a stronger district favor. The Democrat may have a strong disadvantage in the 2014 and 2016 U.S. Elections. 

Republicans control 32 of the states/territorial governorships. The Democrats control 21 of the state/territorial governorships. There are 2 independents who serve as governors and one independent who serve as the elected Washington, D.C. mayor.

The Republicans have a strong advantage in governorships. Most of the governors have stuck to their "principles" of union busting, not enacting Obamacare, fighting federal funds for infrastructure repairs to roads and bridges, high speed rail and shipping channels.

The Republicans had a strong opportunity to take back the White House with their shady redistricting. We could have said hello to President Mitt Romney. Thank god that perennial loser didn't win the election.

With Republicans being swept back into power in 2010, the consequences were a result of their hands on approach to congressional seating. 

Remember back in 2010 when the Tea Party got the phobia about the U.S. Census. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota), Congressman Trent Franks (R-Arizona) and former Texas Republican congressman Ron Paul were making such a fuss about the government's civic duty to count the nation's growing population.

The Republicans have a serious issue with minorities and women. So instead of the broad coalition of individuals (minorities and women), the Republicans will play to the social culture warriors (WHITE, OLD, MEN) who doomed them in the last two elections.

The Atlantic's David Graham reports that Republicans are green lighting the winner-takes-all strategy. GOP chairman Reince Priebus favors the idea is to get state legislatures to change the way they allocate electoral votes. Instead of a winner-take-all scheme, which most states use, they want to institute a system where votes could be split between candidates. Now, on face, that might not seem so bad. It would mean that very Republican areas in very Democratic states -- think Orange County, California -- and very Democratic areas in Republican states -- think Austin, Texas -- wouldn't be essentially throwing their presidential votes away. 

Certainly, there are longstanding critiques of the Electoral College. Recently they've mostly come from the left. The 2000 election, in which Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote, was a galvanizing moment. And there are plans to try to rectify the oddness of the Electoral College. For example, the National Popular Vote plan is a push to get states to sign on to a scheme in which they'd award all their electors to the winner of the most votes nationwide. The plan would only take effect once states representing at least half of the electoral votes have joined, guaranteeing its effectiveness.

Romney supporters packing it up!

So this GOP plan is a smart move, driven by politics but with a result that would better reflect the will of the majority, right? Not quite. Here's the twist: The proposal would award electoral votes based on who wins Congressional districts. (That's already how Maine and Nebraska work, but the two states only account for nine of the 538 total electoral votes.)

From a Republican perspective, this is genius, but it's evil genius. It would allow the party to gain electoral votes in swing states and near swing states like Ohio, Colorado, and Michigan that went for Obama in the last two elections but have large Republican constituencies. But you may also recall that the GOP maintained its majority in the House in November but actually won fewer votes than Democrats did in congressional elections overall. This is because the GOP has been extremely effective at gerrymandering House districts. One reason the 2010 election mattered so much is that the Tea Party wave handed control of redistricting after the 2010 Census to Republican-led legislatures in many states. And they didn't waste the opportunity. Now the lines won't be redrawn again until after the next census, in 2020. 

With Virginia playing the game so well, it's possible that many other states will go there soon. 

[So] clearly this isn't a plan that would solve the problem of an undemocratic Electoral College. But it is a plan that would forestall Republican demographic doom. Now, whether instituting these laws would be politically viable is a different question. Even if a few states adopted it, it could change the political landscape. 

And moreover, the plan would disenfranchise voters. Which ones? Mostly the minority ones in cities who helped Obama win this year. Most urban districts are going to vote Democratic, and most rural ones will go Republican. But if votes are quarantined in a single Congressional district, it doesn't matter if the turnout in a city is 50 percent, 70 percent, or 100 percent; there's only one electoral vote on the table, plus the two at-large electoral votes. This takes almost all the venom out of the formidable Democratic get-out-the-vote operation.

There's a certain nihilism here. One of the major storylines of the 2012 election was voter-ID laws and voting hours. While ostensibly formulated to stop voter fraud, there wasn't much voter fraud to stop, and the changed hours tended to affect mostly poorer and urban (and therefore Democratic) voters. In some cases, Republican officials put the changes in starkly honest ways. A Pennsylvania legislator said a voter-ID law would help Mitt Romney win the state (he was wrong), while an Ohio official said voting hours shouldn't be shaped to accommodate the "urban -- read African-American -- voter-turnout machine." For a variety of reasons, however, these pushes didn't work: courts struck down some laws, and voters were willing to wait in long lines to cast their ballots.

But hey, if disenfranchisement didn't work once, just try it again, right? It's not like the GOP's standing with minority and urban voters can get much worse.

So in David Graham's piece on Republicans trying to steal elections is basically simple: If we can't win by the votes of the American people, we'll win by the American governance!

Let's repeat the words of wisdom for the Republicans and their conservative allies:

Republicans continue nominating OLD, WHITE, TIRED LOOKING, IGNORANT, BIGOTS as their leaders. They continue to rally EXTREMISTS with coded language and inflammatory rhetoric!

Conservatives obsess with calling those who supported the president, low information voters and uninformed!

It seems like this last election informed millions of Americans to vote against the Republican nominee, the perennial loser Mitt Romney. It didn't help Republicans win the Senate. It only gave Republicans a small majority in the House of Representatives.

If you consider Americans low information voters and the like: 

Get use to losing because it's not us that's uninformed!

It's likely you! 

I will repeat this over and over again until people notice!

Boehner: Obama's A Bully!

Weeping speaker John Boehner smokes a square! The Ohio Republican Congressman thinks Obama going to advance his agenda and Republicans fear they can't stop it!

Now you tell me who's acting like a bully?

The Speaker Weeper of The House, Republican Congressman John Boehner of Ohio sobs up over the president aggressive campaign against them. The weeper believes that President Barack Obama wants to annihilate the Republican Party.

Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is the Minority Leader. McConnell stated that the president's inaugural speech brought back an era of liberalism. He vows to block any legislation in regards to gun control.

Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is the son of perennial loser Ron Paul, the former Texas congressman. Paul is a kookspiracy senator. He's already testing his presidential credentials. He's gone as far to call the president a "king", and saying that he would have fired Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over her handling of the Benghazi consulate attack.

Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) the former vice presidential nominee to perennial loser Mitt Romney was blaming the American people for them being easily swayed by the president. He also contributed the electoral loss due to poor communication from Mitt Romney and people weren't hip to their ideas.

Congressman Steve Stockman (R-Texas) threatens impeachment over the president's proposals to curbing gun violence. Using the same theme of Senator Paul, Stockman is calling the president a "king" and "dictator".

Congressman Paul Broun (R-Georgia) once had allowed a constituent say assassination in his presence now goes even further with the notion that the president swears to the Soviet Union. The congressman made a snark remark about the president's constitutional powers when it comes to

The conservative media was upset over the "rolling eyes" of First Lady Michelle Obama. She rolled her eyes at Weeper Boehner and it went viral. The Republicans think it was undignified for her to do something like this.

With comments from those in the Republican Party and its allies in the conservative movement, one could think they're doing a fine job of destroying themselves with such actions.

Progress is happening and Republicans fear it. They fear it with a passion.

The Republican leader argued that Obama’s ambitious second-term agenda could not be enacted unless Republicans suffer serious losses in the next mid-term elections.

“[G]iven what we heard yesterday about the president’s vision for his second term, it’s pretty clear to me and should be clear to all of you that he knows he can’t do any of that as long as the House is controlled by Republicans,” Boehner said. “So we’re expecting over the next 22 months to be the focus of this administration as they attempt to annihilate the Republican Party. And let me tell you, I do believe that is their goal. To just shove us in the dustbin of history.”

Republicans will need to defend themselves in a “very hostile environment,” Boehner said, by thinking strategically about when and how to confront the president.

“Where’s the ground that we fight on? Where’s the ground that we retreat on? Where are the smart fights?

Where are the dumb fights that we have to stay away from?” he asked. “We've got a lot of big decisions to make.”

His caucus just ducked a fight with President Obama and Democrats by suspending the debt limit for three months. But hours before that vote, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told reporters that the House GOP was still prepared to shut down the government if Democrats do not agree to new spending cuts.

Obama will have to confront the polarization on Capitol Hill in attempting to move forward with deficit reduction, immigration reform, climate change legislation and gun control. Boehner's comments suggest that Obama should not expect much support from his caucus in achieving those goals.

The speech was closed to press, but video and a transcript were put online. The comments come at about 9:55 in the above video.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in 2010 that “the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” (Democrats often inaccurately say that McConnell voiced that goal as soon as the president took office).

Give 'Em Hill....

Outgoing U.S. Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton gives a passionate response to the controversy ginned up by the Republicans over the terrorist attack in Libya. Sparked by the controversial online video that mocked Islam and the Prophet Mohammad, a group affiliated with al-Qaeda took an opportunity to attack the Libyan consulate embassy.

Those dolts Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) are pissed that Clinton handed their asses to them.

Facing expected scrutiny from Republicans during her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Clinton appeared to take exception to Johnson's pointed inquiry into the State Department's initial report that the attack had been mounted spontaneously as a reaction to an anti-Islam YouTube video.

"With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans," Clinton responded, raising her voice at Johnson, who continued to interrupt her. "Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk last night who decided to kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator."

Clinton continued, defending the State Department's efforts in the wake of the assault. "Honestly, I will do my best to answer your questions about this, but the fact is people were trying their best in real time to get to the best information," she said.

Earlier in the hearing, Clinton spoke about the aftermath of the attack, her voice cracking as she recalled meeting the families of the four Americans killed, including that of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) gets into a testy dispute with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Her testimony focused not only on the attack but the growing threat from extremists in northern Africa, pointing out that Libya was not an isolated incident.

"The Arab revolutions have scrambled power dynamics and shattered security forces across the region," she said. "And instability in Mali has created an expanding safe haven for terrorists who look to extend their influence and plot further attacks of the kind we saw just last week in Algeria."

She said the Obama administration is pressing for a greater understanding of the hostage-taking and rescue effort there that left three Americans dead.

In a packed hearing room, Clinton parried tough questions from Republicans, offering a detailed timeline of events on Sept. 11 and the Obama administration efforts to aid the Americans in Libya while simultaneously dealing with protests in Cairo and other countries.

She also took House Republicans to task for recently stripping $1 billion in security aid from the hurricane relief bill.

Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is the son of former presidential candidate and congressman Ron Paul. The kookspiracy senator wants to rally his presidential credentials. The Benghazi scandal has Republicans wanting heads to roll. Paul stated to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that he would of have "fired" her if he was the president.   

In something of a valedictory, Clinton noted her robust itinerary in four years and her work, nearly 1 million miles and 112 countries.

"My faith in our country and our future is stronger than ever. Every time that blue and white airplane carrying the words 'United States of America' touches down in some far-off capital, I feel again the honor it is to represent the world's indispensable nation. And I am confident that, with your help, we will continue to keep the United States safe, strong, and exceptional."

Clinton is the sole witness at back-to-back hearings before the Senate and House foreign policy panels on the September raid.

Clinton had been scheduled to testify before Congress last month, but an illness, a concussion and a blood clot near her brain forced her to postpone her appearance.

Absent from the hearing was Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts), the man tapped to succeed Clinton.

His swift Senate confirmation is widely expected. Kerry's confirmation hearing is scheduled for Thursday.

Clinton's testimony was focusing on the Libya attack after more than three months of Republican charges that the Obama administration ignored signs of a deteriorating security situation there and cast an act of terrorism as mere protests over an anti-Muslim video in the heat of a presidential election. Washington officials suspect that militants linked to al-Qaeda carried out the attack.

"It's been a cover-up from the beginning," Sen. John McCain, (R-Arizona), the newest member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Tuesday.

Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire), Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina). These three senators were pestering the UN Secretary Susan Rice over Benghazi. They've given Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a hostile testimony as well.

Politics play an outsized role in any appearance by Clinton, who sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 and is the subject of constant speculation about a possible bid in 2016. The former first lady and New York senator -- a polarizing figure dogged by controversy -- is about to end her four-year tenure at the State Department with high favorable ratings.

A poll early last month by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found 65 percent of Americans held a favorable impression of Clinton, compared with 29 percent unfavorable.

On the panel at the hearing were two possible 2016 Republican presidential candidates -- Florida's Marco Rubio and Kentucky's Rand Paul, also a new member of the committee.

Clinton did little to quiet the presidential chatter earlier this month when she returned to work at the State Department after her illness. On the subject of retirement, she said, "I don't know if that is a word I would use, but certainly stepping off the very fast track for a little while."

With respect to Benghazi, the State Department review singled out the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and the Bureau of Near East Affairs, saying there appeared to be a lack of cooperation and confusion over protection at the mission in Benghazi. The report described a security vacuum in Libya after rebel forces toppled the decades-long regime of strongman Moammar Gadhafi.

The report made 29 recommendations to improve diplomatic security, particularly at high-threat posts.

Asked for the number of State Department employees fired for their handling of Benghazi, State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said four people were put on administrative leave. They included Eric Boswell, who resigned from the position of assistant secretary of diplomatic security.

But Nuland declined to say if Boswell and the others still are working for the department in some capacity.

Don't Like A Gov't Policy: SCREAM HITLER!

Sean Hannity, the guy responsible for President Barack Obama winning reelection.

The agitators of the media are fighting the 20th Century yet again! Still stuck on memories of 80 years ago and not the present day! Wishing they could return to the days when all the presidents were of one color!

Once again the media is showing the world that it only takes a few rants to rake in the profits!

It's not news or informative talk! It's pure name calling and vindictive actions among a bunch of bitter losers.

The gun control debate is very contentious!

Those in the media are taking an advancement of payment for who could outcrazy one another.

Talking Points Memo, a liberal investigative blog put together a collection of Fox News personalities and the controversial agitator Sean Hannity running on the HITLER meme.

President Barack Obama issue executive orders to curbing gun violence post Sandy Hook. These orders have the National Rifle Association and Republicans in a frenzy. They're calling the president's actions treasonous, impeachable and downright tyrannical. Some of these people on these networks compare the president to Hitler, Mao, Stalin, and Hussein.

Say if I could say something three thousand times and generate a talk point, would have my own talk show on a cable news channel?

I've mention Sean Hannity and Matt Drudge frequently on this blog. These two are the most annoying members of the conservative media. They've played every card from the bottom of the deck.

I want them to continue to hurt the Republican Party. Because of these two men, the president won reelection and set the course for an aggressive agenda. President Barack Obama had enough of the Republican obstruction and he's willing to box them in with issues they've agreed on in the past.

Sean Hannity's ratings are falling. He's still a reigning in at 1.2 million viewers a night but the competitor from the rival network MSNBC is catching up. Rachel Maddow, the liberal agitator of the network is bring more informative talk and the partisan rancor.

I've stated this last year, that Rachel Maddow will surpass Sean Hannity in ratings by the late of 2013.

It's going to happen soon.

Sean Hannity's right wing carnival of agitation celebrates four years on the air now. Long past the days of him and liberal agitator Alan Colmes, the Hannity show allows Dick Morris, Michelle Malkin, Jesse Lee Peterson, Brent Bozell, Ann Coulter, Karl Rove, and numerous other right wing agitators go H.A.M. on the president and his allies in the progressive movement.

It's working in the network's favor. With a second term of President Barack Obama, Fox News is working harder to stay relevant. They're waiting for a controversy that could lead to impeachment. Fox News is considered conservative. Fox News will continue to create controversies when there's no need for them. They will give Republicans and conservative agitators a voice on their network. After all, some of these conservative agitators are banned from the mainstream news outlets for controversial statements.

The cable news racket is looking for success in the second term.

MSNBC is considered liberal by most viewers watching. The network will continue to find agitators who favor the president and hate the Republicans.

CNN is caught in the middle but most look upon it a liberal. Anderson Cooper, Piers Morgan, Don Lemon, Soledad O'Brien and other commentators make the case for rancor from both the left and the right.

Talking Points Memo reports that if you have been watching Fox News in recent weeks, you will have heard a lot of discussion about Hitler. Guests have been lining up to equate the gun legislation proposed by President Obama with Hitler, Nazis and 1930s Germany in general.

Since the Sandy Hook shooting, Fox guests have been among the loudest voices saying that any new restrictions will decimate the Second Amendment and lead to government oppression not seen since Hitler, Mao or Stalin.

If you seriously believe that President Barack Obama is Adolf Hitler, you're out of the mainstream.

Barack Obama was elected twice in two landslide elections. He is the first Black president and one of the world's favored leaders. Hitler's governance was compared by most Western nations as a dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology. He was a dictator who wanted a supremacy of Europe. Hitler's supremacist and racially motivated policies resulted in the deaths of an estimated 50 million people during World War II, including 6 million Jews and 5 million "non-Aryans" whose systematic extermination was ordered by him and his close subordinates. Hitler never took guns. He ordered his military to use them in a global wipeout.

Lip-Sync?

The B'sync Controversy!

President Barack Obama's second term controversies begins with the nation concerned about....

A pop singer!

Beyonce the wife of rapper/media mogul Jay-Z was performing the National Anthem. But the talk of the nation is, did she lip-sync our nation's pledge?

A person in the U.S. Marine band confirms that they've lowered the playing of their instruments for a voice over of the singer. Captain Eric Flanagan stated that the Presidential Inaugural Committee was asked to performed with the singer. They couldn't make the connection due to constraints with the singer and the plan was "ill-advised" for the major event.

Some members say that she didn't lip-sync.

Beyonce's representatives won't comment on the performance.

The singer and Jay-Z had an opportunity to be at the inaugural events. James Taylor and Kelly Clarkson were also in attendance and performed for President Barack Obama.

If the singer would have the nerve to lip-sync her own voice it's a embarrassment to the nation, says the conservative media.

Conservatives already pounced on the singer for the controversy. Of course, turd flipping agitators in the media went forth to a frenzy.

They've blasted the president for the "fawning praise" from the media!

Conservatives are losers!

They've can't even stomach his second term!

Fox News, the nation's most watched cable network ran the bottom of the barrel on inaugural coverage. CNN won the night for the coverage. It beat out both partisan Fox News and MSNBC.

Media Research Center (via Newsbusters), Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, Breitbart, and the hip-hop media were all on the lip-sync controversy.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden took the oath of office on Sunday, but had the formal event on Monday. The president used the bibles of Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for the swear in.

Man Shot At MLK Parade! This Cant Be Life!

I'm very saddened at the tragedy on the holiday that honor MLK.

Michelle Obama Rolls Her Eyes At Inaugural Lunch To House Speaker!

Michelle Obama stood up to that Republican bigot!