Showing posts with label referendum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label referendum. Show all posts

Thursday, June 22, 2017

CNN looks like a puppy died before their eyes

According to Certainly Not News (CNN), the Georgia election between Jon Ossoff and Karen Handel was a referendum on President Trump. Of course, they said this before the election results were in.

The election results are in.

Well, it looks as if the country still stands with Trump and rejects the Democrats now that the GOP 'Handeled' them and beat their Ossoff.

The photo header sums up how CNN weathered the loss. You would think each one of them lost a beloved family member or saw a puppy die.

Just as CNN was about to cut to a break in the election coverage, the internet caught Mark Preston, their politics editor, as well as political analyst Gloria Borger, political director David Chalian and so-called reporter Dana Bash looking as if they wanted to commit suicide.

Blogs like this one are sharing the photo for your viewing pleasure.

The Republicans are now 5 - 0 in special elections.

Thank you Obama and Hillary .  .  .  you worked your magic.


Sunday, June 26, 2016

Kerry's advice on the UK-EU divorce

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Britain and the European Union to manage their own divorce like he did: responsibly. He said it would be for the sake of citizens and the global markets. 

Kerry kept harping on how important it was for the two entities (UK and EU) to cooperate, like he did during the divorce of his first wife, Julia Thorne, who he married in 1970 and divorced in 1988. She passed away in 2006 after having remarried in 1997 to Richard Charlesworth.

Kerry's second marriage to Teresa Heinz fetched him big bucks and free ketchup.

He said that, like a friend of both parties divorcing, he would let both capitals know that the U.S. loves them and will stay friends, just not in each other's company as that would be uncomfortable.

True to form, Kerry had no actual ideas how the divorced couple should make deal with the decision of the UK to go through with the divorce and leave the 28-nation bloc. But nobody on either side of the pond is surprised by Kerry's lack of ideas.

"The most important thing is that all of us, as leaders, work together to provide as much continuity, as much stability, as much certainty as possible," Kerry said, running out of "as much as" ideas in his repetitious babbling. 

Kerry had met in Rome with Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, offering to buy the Italian official a slice of pizza, as he pandered in the spirit of Hillary Clinton when she told an African-American audience that she always carries hot sauce in her purse. 

He said that responsible handling of the situation, one that President Obama tried to pressure the UK not to take, will help "the marketplace understand that there are ways to minimize disruption, there are ways to smartly move ahead in order to protect the values and interests that we share." 

But Mr. Kerry could offer no examples of any values or interests he referred to.

We have yet to hear from Donald Trump as to what he thinks of John Kerry's thoughts.

When President Obama visited Britain in April of this year, he warned the Britons that if they voted to "leave" the EU, they would be kicked to the back of the line for trade negotiations. He didn't use exactly those words, but after all, he's not as openly blunt as Trump, as not as transparent as he said he would be.

Since Britain refused to be intimidated by Mr. Obama and voted to leave the EU and return to their roots, strengthen their immigration and be England again, our so-called leader from behind president and other officials have changed their tune. Now they've emphasized how strong and durable our relationship is, and played down the idea that the Obama administration would actually do anything they said they might.

Remember the "red line" that Syria's Bashar al-Assad better not cross?

Maybe they should have made it yellow.


Saturday, June 25, 2016

Brexit liberals: sore losers wanting a do-over

Thursday's UK referendum on their membership in the European Union (EU) blew a lot of minds. They voted to leave the EU by a slim margin of 1.2 million votes of the 33 million that were cast. 

Voters in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Gibraltar voted to "Leave" and get back to their British roots, as it were.

But the losing side (not the side Donald Trump lauded) are sore losers, having signed an 'easier-than-going-to-the-polling-place-online-vote' for a "do-over" because things didn't go their way. One sore loser lawmaker actually said that Parliament should overturn the result because he wanted to stay. 

Had the vote gone the other way, this same lawmaker would scream that anyone who wanted to overturn the results (that he wanted) should be forced to resign as he or she refused to obey the democratic process "that is the very backbone of our great nation."

Not so ironically, those who wanted to "Remain" tended to be young liberals. Unfortunately for them, many preferred to remain in their parents' basement rather than partake in the voting process.

The results revealed another interesting fact as well. 

In heavily populated areas with large Muslim enclaves, the vote was largely to "Remain." London and Scotland (particularly Glasgow with its large Muslim population) voted overwhelmingly to "Remain."

Perhaps that's why London is often called "Londonistan."

The sore loser petition had 2,374,547 signatures proposing a new "rule" stating that if the "Remain" or "Leave" camps won less than 60 percent of the vote with less than 75 percent turnout "there should be another referendum."

This "rule" is particularly aimed at liberals who thought they were going to win and now realize that they actually have to get off their duffs and vote. Had the petition required them to go to a polling place, the same result would have likely resulted.

Whoever said liberals aren't lazy?

It just so happens that the referendum vote was the largest turnout since 1992 at 72 percent, proving once again that liberals can't handle responsibility and need to depend upon the government.

Since 2001, the highest voter turnout in a general election has been only 61 percent, but liberals pretend that 75 percent is a normal figure.

Where is democracy when you really need it?


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