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Harry Reid is a badass…

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Well…with the flap about James Comey of the FBI trying to influence the outcome of the election, Harry Reid just sent this letter to Comey about Trump and his cronies:

“I am writing to inform you that my office has determined that these actions may violate the Hatch Act, which bars FBI officials from using their official authority to influence an election. Through your partisan actions, you may have broken the law.”

“In my communications with you and other top officials in the national security community, it has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government — a foreign interest openly hostile to the United States, which Trump praises at every opportunity. The public has a right to know this information. I wrote to you months ago calling for this information to be released to the public. There is no danger to American interests from releasing it. And yet, you continue to resist calls to inform the public of this critical information.”

“I led the fight to get you confirmed because I believed you to be a principled public servant,” Reid concluded. “With the deepest regret, I now see that I was wrong.”

THIS should be the story…..geez….

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No more Ferguson…

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Well…with the fear of beating the whole situation in Ferguson to death, I think I’ll move on to other topics this afternoon and see where it goes…first, just read the Obama has grown a spine and has told Harry Reid that he will veto the bill that ole Harry has negotiated with house repubs that would have screwed the middle class by taking away tax breaks and giving them to business…yep, I’m not sure what the hell ole Harry it thinking but that is not what any dem that I would vote for would do….I can now see why people don’t think there is any difference between the parties. Why can’t our side start acting like dems? I applaud Obama for telling Harry it was a non-starter. I also applaud Nancy Pelosi for making sure that there would not be any dems voting to override any veto….hmmm…what’s second? Not much…I am done going out until Friday aft for pool and that feels good…got a bunch of stuff done today and ran a couple of errands but now, it’s veg time with soccer…champions league is not my favorite unless Man U is playing but it’s good for taking a nap…..more later…

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Go Harry…

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Well…today is not much better than yesterday but I thought I’d better do something here or none of you will keep coming back here…so, I thought I’d touch on the new constitutional amendment being proposed by Harry Reid that will reverse the wrongheaded supreme court decisions in Citizens United and McCutcheon that allows unlimited dark money into political campaigns. He specifically said what we all believe…at least the sane of us…that corporations are not people and money is not speech….both of these decisions reversed a hundred years of precedent and negated laws that are really necessary if we are to protect our democracy from the corrosive effect of money as evidenced by the Kochs trying to buy themselves the senate; to ensure their dirty energy profits forever. I know that this amendment is tilting at windmills…the chance of its passage is remote at best…but the political use of championing it is necessary to put the repubs on the spot for supporting this unlimited money…and their constantly kissing the Kochs asses…geez…

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Shining some light…

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Well..this is just going to be a short one since I did 15 miles on the bike today and I am worn out…but, I did want to  touch on what is happening on the left to expose the Kochs and their nefarious plans for the country that includes polluting everywhere and having the American people pick up the cleanup tab, busting unions, and even interfering in local mass transit decisions since only the less fortunate use mass transit…or so they think. We have to continue the work that Harry Reid has been doing on the senate floor where he has shone a light on these plans by enumerating the bad effects their money has had on the country…and I think it’s starting to work since Charles Koch wrote a whining, “poor me” op-ed in the WSJ this past week that has been roundly ridiculed even from some of those on the right…now, we need to make these idiots the focus of the next election and use that to get our side to turn out…because, as Kos says: “if we vote, we win”….

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The Kochs truly are evil…

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Well…feel like crap again today but I do need to do another one of these to try to stay close to the goal for the month…I find it heartening that Harry Reid has started to shine a light on the nefarious actions of the Kochs…even going so far as to use them as the poster boys for most of the evil that is being done to the middle class here in the US…and you can see this evil in all of the repubs that want SS gone, who want to cut off unemployment benefits, that want to do away with environmental regulations, who want to cut taxes on the rich and corporations, and who want to kill unions…all things that the Kochs have been pushing with the 400 million dollars they spent in the last election cycle…just like cockroaches, I hope these evil people will scurry away once they find that the country is on to them and their ilk like the Waltons, and Adelsons….we need to just keep hammering on them for the evil they do and make people understand that these billionaires never feel like they taken enough from you and me…they always want more….geez…

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Losing the political game…

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Well…just wanted to comment a bit on the nonsense that has been going on in the senate since Obama was elected…where the repubs, as always, put political concerns of their party above the good of the American people; blocking nominees for executive positions and filibustering popular legislation just to suit their crazy assed right wing base. But, now it appears that even some of those in the crazy party are tiring of never getting anything done and have teamed up with Harry Reid to end the obstruction and start getting the people’s business done. It’s about time…Harry Reid has been bringing a knife to a gun fight for far too long…not believing he also had one…an even bigger one called the nuclear option where he can change the rules of the senate with just the dem caucus…and then, with those rule changes, he can tell the repubs to just go to hell if they don’t want to really govern…which describes most of the tea party folks. I am glad that ole Mitch McConnell played the petulant little child that he is right to the end…even going so far to show up at Reid’s office and try to get himself included in the reform, only to be told by Harry to basically “not let the door hit you in the ass on the way out..” something he deserved considering that he reneged on the January agreement about an hour after he made it with Reid. What a lying sack of crap….and now the rest of the repubs have lost the selfish political game they have been playing with the lives of all Americans and I hope that leads to more and more losses as the people understand that the repubs don’t give a crap about them…geez…