Mother Nature Hates Republicans Too!

Tropical Storm Issac could ruin the Republican National Convention.

Hurricane Issac is coming for the panhandle of Florida. Where it lands, could have festivities and revenue ruined for the city of Tampa, Florida. The Tampa Bay area is going to host the 2012 Republican National Convention.

Former Massachusetts governor and perennial candidate for president Mitt Romney has overcame the odds of the bitter Tea Party movement to become their nominee. He and his running mate Congressman Paul Ryan  (R-Wisconsin) will take helm as the Republican nominees.

What could ruin such a great occasion? The Republican Party's sworn enemy Mother Nature!

Hurricane spotters fear that Issac could become a Category 3 hurricane during the week of the Republican Convention. The notion is thought among some of the party faithful.

The pimps, the prostitutes, pizza joints, bars, restaurants, rental cars, strip clubs and law enforcement are looking forward to the Republican Party arrival.

Republicans are the adult industry's best customers. If a Republican is looking for a good time with a prostitute or male escort, they can find it in the Tampa area.

I'm not dissing Tampa, Florida,. But I'll bet ya, the professionals in the adult industry and your average street hooker are willing to do anything to make a Republican happy.

To be strictly honest, any political event will attract this. Just wait til the Democratic National Convention when President Barack Obama comes to town. Charlotte, North Carolina will host the event. I'll bet you that the Interstate 77/85 corridor is going to be congested with U.S. Secret Service and state law enforcement.

It's party convention time, hopefully for the Republican Party.

A rumor going around. Vice President Joe Biden may show up in Tampa to disrupt the convention. I bet you that the areas around Interstate 4 and 275 will be congested and the arrival of Vice President Biden will bring forth numerous delays.

The Obama Campaign despises Mitt Romney and his campaign. They believe that he'll pander to the extremist elements of the Republican Party to win this election. So far, Mitt Romney hasn't disappointed.

Barack Obama would win if one thing didn't hold him back. The economy and the fact that he's a Black man.

I'm Staying On The Ballot (For Now)!

Pressuring Congressman Todd Akin (R-Missouri) to drop his bid for U.S. Senate.

Congressman Todd Akin (R-Missouri) is under fire. With good reason. He just opened up a huge distraction. Over the past weekend, the congressman went on a local television program and stated that women can deny legitimate rape.

“It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something: I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child.

Those comments let up a firestorm. Akin went on the serial conservative agitator Sean Hannity radio program to apologize. He bailed out on Piers Morgan and got a huge tongue lashing from the host. And even went forth to put a web video telling the public that he's sorry for what he's said.



The Missouri Republicans are not buying it. The Republicans want his sorry ass out of the race!

In a mere two weeks you see the implosion of a U.S. Senate candidate. Congressman Akin's bid for the U.S. Senate go up in flames. It's so bad, the Republican Senatorial Committee and state leaders are demanding that Akin step aside. They ceased fundraising. CBS anchor Norah O'Donnell stated that $10 million dollars was stopped after this controversy.

Again, they want him to get out the race! Akin so far is defiant.

According to the Associated Press, if the congressman doesn't concede his nomination by the end of the day, he'll be on the ballot and it's going to be a likely federal court dispute.

While it's likely he'll resign either from Congress or give up his nomination bid, the damage is done.

The Republicans let the grips of victory slip from their grasp. They launched the culture war and this has finally taken a toll.

Breathe easy! Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) is now the frontrunner.  Embattled senator could win reelection.

Another native Missourian had let his loose lips sink his radio endorsements and ratings. Yet, he's managed to strive in this controversy and managed to pull in a few new listeners. That commentator went off on a Georgetown law student and called her a "slut" and wanted to see "her make a sex tape". He caught the attention of President Barack Obama who offered comfortable words to this private citizen. This private citizen became the public voice of women's rights. That Missourian is Rush Limbaugh and the woman is Sandra Fluke. This controversy was this year.

Congressman Todd Akin really effed up! He made it easier for his opponent Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri). President Barack Obama and Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) will rile up women votes by tying Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and running mate Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) to the extreme views of Akin and likely Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa).

This is an ongoing issue. This controversy was discussed by me and LeReyna. I believe this will be the turning point for the Democratic Party. This controversy will eventually die off! But as of right now, if the Democrats and President Barack Obama outline the gridlock in Congress and issues such as this controversy, they'll have a better chance at winning.

We here at Journal de la Reyna will cover this controversy.

Soledad O'Brien Smacks Down Romney Supporter!

CNN is trailing behind in the ratings due to the hyperpartisan rabble rousers of Fox News and MSNBC.

CNN has been in the game since the 1980s. But competition is rising. And CNN tried to fend it off!

CNN is considered the most fairest network in political coverage. It's hated by both the left and the right.

Soledad O'Brien is one of the toughest in the news.

A few days ago, former New Hampshire governor, Republican John Sununu gets into it with the host of Early Start. Sununu is one of those pain inducing conservative agitators who doesn't care about facts.

All he wants to do is get his own television show on these freaking cable news channels.

Soledad O'Brien goes at it with John Sununu.

Sununu made the news recently by claiming the president was smoking something while attending Columbia University. Sununu is a birther and borderline racist.

ESPN Anchor: White Fans Will Not Support Black Players!

Skip Bayless insert his foot in his mouth.

If you're a White conservative male, even in sports, you're likely to have this opinion of major athletes.

Skip Bayless is another example of the brainless idiots in the media saying things that are so inappropriate, they'll either be forced to apologize or be sent their walking papers.

Congressman Todd Akin, a Republican running as the Missouri U.S. Senate Candidate knows how to insert his foot in his mouth or head right up his ass.

Bayless is no exception.

The Huffington Post presents another controversy from the ESPN sports deck.


Perhaps best known for lauding Tim Tebow and tearing down LeBron James, Bayless contended that it is human nature for white fans to support a white athlete over a black athlete if given a choice.

"I'm going to throw it out there. You also have the black-white dynamic and the majority of Redskins fans are white. And it’s just human nature, if you’re white to root for the white guy," Bayless contended. "It just happens in sports. Just like the black community will root for the black quarterback. I'm for the black guy. I'm just saying, I don't like the dynamic for RG3. It could stunt his growth in the NFL."

Bayless made this claim about human nature to bolster his argument that Robert Griffin III, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner and the No. 2 overall selection in the 2012 NFL Draft, is in a precarious position in Washington due to the presence of fellow rookie QB Kirk Cousins, a fourth-round pick out of Michigan State. While attempting to make the case (which he has been doing for months) that the Redskins erred in drafting Cousins, who is white, because it puts unnecessary pressure on Griffin III, who is black, to flourish quickly, Bayless cited race as factor in determining fan opinion. This discussion came two days after Griffin delivered a lackluster effort in a preseason game against the Chicago Bears.

Since Bayless does proclaim his support for Griffin by saying "I'm for the black guy," he does allow for the possibility that not all people make rooting decisions based on the race of a player. Does he only think that Redskins fans let their allegiances be swayed this way? Does he really think that Cousins is better, even if only right now, and that Redskins fans will be swayed by the preseason productivity of each player? Or did Bayless only "throw it out there" in order to generate controversy?

At the Bar: The Heterosexist Narrative

Thank you Ankensen Mie.  I was thinking the same thing.  Hollyweird have a fantasy about Hetereosexual Upper Middle Class Whiteness at the expense of POCs, GLBTs, working/lower middle class/poor people.  I, a woman of Color, am so sick of it!  La Reyna says I'm sick and tired of it.  That's why I don't watch TV and movies often.

Signed,

La Reyna and supporters of my blog, Journal de la Reyna

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Did GOP Congressman Sink His Senate Bid?

Congressman Todd Akin (R-Missouri) is under fire for comments about rape victims. The comments gave Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) an opening.  

Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) is the most vulnerable member of the U.S. Senate. Her state highly disapproves of her and President Barack Obama. A major swing state, it's trending more redder. Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) carried the state by just a point. The Republican candidates who are running for the U.S. Senate are hoping the bad economy and President Barack Obama's job approval could be the ticket to reclaiming the Senate.

Congressman Todd Akin (R-Missouri) won the Missouri GOP primary and will be the one running against McCaskill.

Akin is a Republican member of Congress since 2001. His district covers the suburban St. Louis County.

Akin won a bitterly fought primary against two other candidates, one rival being endorsed by Tea Party maven former governor Sarah Palin. Akin wasn't endorsed by Palin, but managed to win over Missouri Republicans.

Akin who is a pro-lifer said something over the weekend that may have gave a struggling McCaskill the break she needed.

Republicans emboldened by the culture wars have finally taken its toll. Akin being a representative of the culture war, said something inappropriate about rape victims and the media has zeroed in on it!



According to Talking Points Memo, a progressive blog, his opposition to abortion rights even in case of rape with a claim that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological defenses that prevent pregnancy.

Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) has distanced herself from President Barack Obama. She is facing a tougher reelection this year.

“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

Akin said that even in the worst-case scenario — when the supposed natural protections against unwanted pregnancy fail — abortion should still not be a legal option for the rape victim.

“Let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work, or something,” Akin said. “I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.”


A 1996 study by the American Journal of Obstetricians and Gynecologists found “rape-related pregnancy occurs with significant frequency” and is “a cause of many unwanted pregnancies” — an estimated “32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year.”

In a tweet, McCaskill said she was “stunned” by Akin’s comments.

After the interview caused a firestorm, Akin said in a statement that he “misspoke.”

Akin is perhaps the boldest among a crop of conservative 2012 nominees who could hamper GOP efforts to take back the Senate in the fall. Akin has called for an end to the school-lunch program and a total ban on the morning-after pill.

His claim about “legitimate” types of rape is not completely foreign to the current Republican Congress, however. In 2011, the House GOP was forced to drop language from a bill that would have limited federal help to pay for an abortion to only victims of “forcible rape.” Akin was a co-sponsor on the bill.

Nor is this Akin’s first time suggesting some types of rape are more worthy of protections than others. As a state legislator, Akin voted in 1991 for an anti-marital-rape law, but only after questioning whether it might be misused “in a real messy divorce as a tool and a legal weapon to beat up on the husband,” according to a May 1 article that year in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

GOP Congressmen Skinny Dip Overseas Causing A Sex Scandal!

Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor are walking from the White House. The Republican leaders are angry at members of the Republican caucus for a sex scandal overseas. They fear the media will cover this instead of the message of bringing stability to the economy.

This is going to be the buzz of the week. Just like the U.S. Secret Service, our members of the U.S. Congress are to handle themselves accordingly when overseas. The Republican Party once again has to defend its actions by its freshmen members of Congress.

The Politico released a bombshell. And this bombshell will have more ammunition for President Barack Obama to go after Congress for ineptness. The Republican controlled House of Representatives has passed legislation that could roll back the progress that the president sought. With a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, the Democrats can't achieve the 60 votes needed to block filibusters. The Republicans are hoping the mood of the economy will be their winning strategy.

The FBI probed a late-night swim in the Sea of Galilee that involved drinking, numerous GOP freshmen lawmakers, top leadership staff – and one nude member of Congress, according to more than a dozen sources, including eyewitnesses.

During a fact-finding congressional trip to the Holy Land last summer, Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kansas) took off his clothes and jumped into the sea, joining a number of members, their families and GOP staff during a night out in Israel, the sources told POLITICO. Other participants, including the daughter of another congressman, swam fully clothed while some lawmakers partially disrobed. More than 20 people took part in the late-night dip in the sea, according to sources who took part in the trip.

The FBI looked into whether any inappropriate behavior occurred, but the interviews do not appear to have resulted in any formal allegations of wrongdoing.

But Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), who was the senior most GOP lawmaker in Israel on the trip, was so upset about the antics that he rebuked the 30 lawmakers the morning after the Aug. 18. 2011, incident, saying they were distracting from the mission of the trip.

Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was also on the privately funded excursion, which means two of the three top Republicans were a part of this trip. Neither Cantor nor McCarthy went swimming that night, the sources said. Some of their staff did.

The account of that Aug. 2011 night in Israel was pieced together for the first time by POLITICO based on interviews with more than a dozen sources, including eyewitnesses, as well as public records of the trip.

A Cantor spokesman confirmed that the majority leader dressed down his Republican colleagues and that a staffer was later interviewed by FBI agents.

“Twelve months ago, [Cantor] dealt with this immediately and effectively to ensure such activities would not take place in the future,” said Doug Heye, Cantor’s deputy chief of staff.

Heye added: “Last year, a staffer was contacted by the Bureau [FBI], which had several questions, the staffer answered those questions and that appears to have been the end of it.”

The FBI’s questions focused on who went into the water that night, and whether there was any impropriety, according to multiple sources.

The American Israel Educational Foundation, a group related to AIPAC, the prominent pro-Israel advocacy group, sponsored the trip, which ran from Aug. 13 to Aug. 21, 2011. The trip cost AIEF upwards of $10,000 per person, according to records filed with the House Ethics Committee. More than 60 people took part in this AIEF trip.

These trips to the Holy Land are a rite of passage for members of Congress, as they visit the most sacred sites in the Jewish and Christian faiths – while their Israeli government hosts drive home the huge importance of U.S. support of Israel. That’s partially why, when the trip devolved into drinking and merrymaking, Cantor was livid.

In a Congress that has already sunk to new lows in public-opinion polls, and seen a bipartisan wave of scandals, this latest controversy could only further damage that image. Since the start of the 112th Congress, former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) resigned following the revelation that he was sending naked pictures of himself to women he met on the Internet. Former Rep. Christopher Lee (R-N.Y.) quickly left office after he was caught sending a topless photo of himself to an online acquaintance. Former Rep. Christopher Wu (D-Ore.) stepped down after an “unwanted” sexual encounter with the daughter of a long-time friend. 

Former Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) resigned after having an extramarital affair with the wife of an aide and then trying to cover it up.

On the Israel trip that included the late night swim, the group of lawmakers on Aug. 18 departed the posh David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem for Tiberias, a historic seaside town located on the banks of the Sea of Galilee. On the night in question, the GOP group checked into Scots Hotel, where rooms could run up to $1,000 each night. At 8:45 p.m., they headed to Decks, a popular restaurant located on the sea, according to an itinerary filed with the House Ethics Committee.

As dinner was winding down, Cantor and McCarthy left the restaurant, but the most of the other lawmakers and staff stayed behind, and the drinking continued, according to several sources who attended the dinner.

After what they describe as a “long, hot day,” more than 20 lawmakers and senior aides decided to jump into the sea, sources said. Some went in wearing all their clothes, although others partially undressed.

Yoder removed all his clothes, the only person to do so, according to multiple sources.

Senior aides also jumped into the Sea of Galilee. They include: Steve Stombres, Cantor’s chief of staff; Tim Berry, McCarthy’s chief of staff; Laena Fallon, Cantor’s former communications director and Emily Murray, McCarthy’s top health care aide. Kristi Way, a top Cantor staffer, was also on the trip.

Few offices responded to requests for on-the-record comment about the incident. However, numerous Republicans discussed what occurred on the condition of anonymity.

Some of those present took photographs of the group right after the late-night swim, sources said.

After the lawmakers and staff returned to the United States, FBI agents questioned congressional staff about the trip, specifically about what happened in Tiberias.

The FBI declined to comment on its probe, saying its standard policy was not to comment on such matters.