Chaffetz’s iPhone gaffe
Just so it’s clear, that was NOT a gaffe. It was his unadulterated belief stated loud and clear. We should therefore help him run on that belief in 2018…
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M not sure why stories like this get the hyperventilating air. She crowdsourced funding and has a snowball’ chance in hell of unseating Chafee. There have been too many articles that make us liberals feel good, but are chasing windmills. We should focus our energy and reporting on true competitors.
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Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, and Chaffetz once again just has to be the smarmy lyin’ jackass he has always been.
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Someone should ask Chaffetz whether, like Ryan:
“We’ve been dreaming of this since I’ve been around,” Ryan says, before interrupting himself to clarify exactly how big of an opportunity this is, “since you and I were drinking out of kegs.”
Or whether he agrees with Ryan when he says:
“The left,” he said, “thinks this is a good thing. They say, ‘hey, this is a new freedom — the freedom not to work.’” But they’re “making a big mistake here. What they’re offering people is a full stomach and an empty soul.”
How dare we try to feed the hungry and cure the sick.
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Not handily. Only because dems worked the NW corner of the state hard at the end.
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Ya it’s more like a new iPhone every month, and every text costs $10.
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Is there a bigger schmuck in Congress? Chaffed Ass is just a wimp with a super-white district and he’ll be re-elected because whiteness. By the way, Mormon doctrine is clear about its disdain and condemnation of dark-skinned humans (Lamanites). In fact, it states that our dark brothers and sisters might, through the Book of Mormon, become “white and delightsome” (2 Nephi 30:6). Sure, the smarmy Mormons realized that such a passage was just a tiny bit sickening and racist (bad for PR), so the word “white” was changed to “pure”; changed, mind you, in the “most correct book on earth”. The religiosity of Utah is bad enough, but when the “white and delightsome” voters elect a prick like Chaffed Ass, we can add “stupid misanthropes” to the state motto.
It isn’t that people are impoverished. It’s that medical costs are outrageous and out of control.
When a doctor charges $500 for a lab test, and accepts a $50 payment from the insurance company for it, there’s something very wrong in the industry.
Free market? Choice? That’s an obscene joke, and Republican voters know it. Shame on them!
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He’s in a 50/50 district,
Don’t know where you’re getting that from, but Utah’s 3rd district has always been a heavily Republican district. It was created in time for the 1982 elections, and except for the three victories by Blue Dog Bill Orton, it’s been represented by a Republican, who have all won easy elections.
“In 1990, Orton ran for the open 3rd District seat, his first bid for public office. He defeated Republican Karl Snow by 22 points, a major upset considering that the 3rd, then as now, was reckoned as strongly Republican. He was re-elected in 1992 and 1994. In 1996, Orton was narrowly defeated by Republican businessman Chris Cannon during his bid for a fourth term…The Democrats have not seriously contested the 3rd District since then; indeed, no Democrat has crossed the 40 percent mark since Orton’s defeat, proving just how Republican this district was.” Bill Orton - Wikipedia
All of which means that it would be a huge upset if Allen were to beat Chaffetz, but she deserves support from the DHCC regardless. I just hope she doesn’t think that getting endorsements from out-of-state celebrities is going to do her any good in a House election. If she’s not Mormon, I’d say she has no chance.
Or Mar-a-Lago weekend getaways. Or a second residence for Marie Antoinette. Or ski vacays for the rest of the T**** family in Aspen.
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TPM is just pathetic that way, considering it claims to be a professional website.
Here are few Josh Marshallisms I’ve collected, just in the last 72 hours.
There are legitimate questions about the roll of government and cost tied to Obamacare.
Similarly, advocacy and activism against Trump’s xenophobic immigration policies is similarly unlikely to do so.
But it’s not to me how the compromises that might be possible with the House ‘Freedom Caucus’ members get anywhere near the ones demanded by Senators who have to face real electorates.
He seems more focused standing back and being ready to jump on whichever side ends up being most popular or least likely to put him in a bad position.
But haystack itself is a very, very big story.
Those are from the editor of the website.
I hope I never read him asking “is our children learning?”.