Tornado Alley (PROG)

[Maria56]

Mom, why can't we keep President Obama for another four years?

Here's the thing. For years, Republican politicians and the far-right media outlets have pumped up all kinds of crazy stuff about me. About Hillary. About Harry. They said I wasn't born here. They said climate change is a hoax. They said that I was going to take everybody's guns away! They said that while we were doing military exercises that we've been doing forever, suddenly this was a plot to impose martial law. This is what they've been saying for years now! So people have been hearing it they start thinking well maybe it's true! And if the world they've been seeing is I'm powerful enough to cause hurricanes on my own and to steal everybody's guns in the middle of the night and impose martial law—even though I can't talk without a 'prompter—then is it any wonder that they end up nominating somebody like Donald Trump?

And the fact is that there are a lot of politicians who knew better. There are a lot of senators who knew better but they went along with these stories because they figured you know what this'll help rile up the base, it'll give us an excuse to obstruct what we're trying to do, we won't be able to appoint judges, we'll gum up the works, we'll create gridlock, it'll give us a political advantage. So they just stood by and said nothing and their base began to actually believe this stuff. So Donald Trump did not start this. Donald Trump didn't start it, he just did what he always did which is slap his name on it, take credit for it, and promote it. That's what he always does. And so now, when suddenly it's not working and people are saying wow this guy's kind of out of line, all of a sudden these Republican politicians who were okay with all this crazy stuff up to a point suddenly they're all walking away. Oh this is too much. So when you finally get him on tape bragging about actions that qualify as sexual assault and his poll numbers go down, suddenly that's a deal-breaker. Well what took you so long! What the heck! What took you so long! All these years!

From President Obama's "revenge" tour:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/barack-obama-revenge-tour-darrell-issa?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

And this is why I'm happy to vote FOR Hillary, not just against Trump. Republicans piled the BS so high for so long, it is no surprise that the slew of Bullsh*t Mountain is headed their way and that, whatever her real faults, Hillary looks mighty shiny by comparison. Not to Trump. No, by comparison to Republicans. I only hope that after this election Democrats will apply ferocious pressure against any Republican who impedes the process of selecting judges.

Cuz, despite what they SAY, Republicans do NOT really want to preserve the Constitution. And they prove it, over and over and over again.