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The Cantor-Slayer: Meet David Brat
The only thing that is more shocking than yesterday's stunning defeat of Republican Eric Cantor at the hand of a completely unknown tea-party candidate, David Brat - an outcome many have called the "biggest blow to the GOP establishment in years" and one which may be reverberating in equities today as "same as it ever was" politics was dealt a major blow - is just how unknown (and underfunded) David Brat is (and was).
So for all those curious to learn some more about this Cantor-slaying "David", here first, with no edits, is the information straight from the horse's mouth: his CV from Randolph-Macon College in Virginia.
More on his background from Politico
Brat, a Michigan native, is 49 years old. He’s spent the last 18 years working as an economics professor at Randolph Macon College, a school of around 1,200 students located in Ashland, Va. According to news reports, he also spent time working as an economist in the Army and at the accounting firm Arthur Andersen.
He earned his bachelors degree from Hope College, a small liberal arts college in Holland, Mich. He would go on to get a doctorate in economics from American University. Brat, who is Catholic, got his masters from Princeton Theological Seminiary, an institution that, according to its mission statement, “prepares women and men to serve Jesus Christ in ministries marked by faith, integrity, scholarship, competence, compassion, and joy, equipping them for leadership worldwide in congregations and the larger church, in classrooms and the academy, and in the public arena.”
Brat launched his campaign in January. Like many tea party-aligned candidates, he said he wanted to address the nation’s ballooning deficit and that he wanted to be Cantor’s “term limit.”
But, even for a conservative hopeful, he took on the Republican establishment in unusually harsh terms. Shortly after launching his campaign, according to an account in the Culpeper Star Exponent, Brat held an event in which he suggested that Washington politicians charged money to pass laws. He also said that, to get a seat on the House Ethics Committee, a member would have to pay $150,000.
“These days everything is for sale in D.C,” Brat said at the time, according to the paper.
Appearing on Fox News after the race was called, Brat disputed the characterization of the race as being simply a battle between the tea party and establishment. He said he had won support from Republicans across the board who were attracted to his espousal of fiscal conservatism and “faith in God.”
“The press is always out to have these exciting stories to sell papers, and people actually do care about policy,” he said. “I give 30-minute stump speeches on policy and the press made fun of me. …Well the American people are ready for serious issues.”
Brat’s top strategist for much of the race was John Pudner, who operates an Atlanta, Ga.-based political consulting firm, Concentric Direct. Pudner spent the first two months of the contest working for Brat directly, then split off in March to start a Brat-backing super PAC.
Speaking by phone Tuesday night, Pudner said he was in shock. There were times during the race when he felt hopeful, he said, but even Brat’s strongest supporters didn’t see this coming.
“I think we’re all waiting to wake up to see if this really happened,” he said.
On Fox News, Brat called his win a “miracle.”
“I think the people are just ready for some major changes in this country,” he said, “and I was blessed. It’s a miracle.”
And by way of the ABC, here once again, is his pre-election profile:
Brat, who admits that he has supported several Cantor candidacies over the years, says he mounted his improbable primary campaign because the House GOP's No. 2 leader has lost touch with his constituents, "veering from the Republican creed."
"Years ago he had a good conservative track record, but now he's veered off," Brat told ABC News during an interview on Capitol Hill. "If you go to Heritage and look at their score, I think he's at about a 53 right now. I mean, that's an F-minus."
Heritage Action's scorecard tracks Republican votes, co-sponsorships and other legislative activity to gauge how conservative members of Congress are performing. Cantor actually receives a 52 percent, which ranks seventh among eight Virginia House Republicans.
While a recent profile of the race in the Washington Post characterized Brat as "a potential threat," the quirky challenger knows he has a tough road to victory in the June 10 primary.
"Most of these [primary] races don't kick in until about 30 days prior," he said. "Now everyone's looking, what's the race? It's an open primary and it's just Eric and I on the ticket."
Brat, 49, isn't the first primary challenger Cantor has faced. The Richmond Republican smoked primary challenger Floyd Bayne in 2012 by nearly 60 percentage points before cruising to a 17-point victory in the general election.
But with low primary turnout (just 47,000 voters turned out in the primary two years ago) and anti-incumbency fervor at an all-time high, Cantor's team says they aren't overlooking Brat, although they "don't see him getting a great deal of traction."
"We're on the ground, running the campaign," Cantor campaign spokesman and senior strategist Ray Allen said in a phone interview. "We take every figure seriously and do our own due diligence. It is what it is."
Brat claims "the money is flowing in right now," expanding an underwhelming campaign war chest that he last reported contained just $40,000.
"The race was once viewed as a long-shot, [but] it's tightening now," Brat said. "We're well over double, triple what we had on the books just a month ago and so now we're getting the national attention I always hoped."
Brat complained that Cantor, 50, has a "crony-capitalist mentality" to take care of the corporate sector ahead of the interests of small businesses.
"On the conservative scorecard, on the free market votes, he's doing everything wrong," Brat said. "He's not following what folks in his district want him to do and it's hurting the country."
Allen described Brat as "a weird duck" and criticized him for serving on then-Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine's Joint Advisory Board of Economists.
"Eric Cantor is a conservative leader," Allen, who has advised Cantor's campaigns since 1991, said. "[Brat] doesn't like being called a liberal college professor, but that's what he is and what he's always been. Tea Party conservatives don't serve as an economic adviser to Tim Kaine."
Brat calls himself as a "free market guy," and says he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act. He also pledged never to increase taxes and to stick to a five-year promise not to vote to increase the debt limit.
"This isn't a personal race. I'm not running against Eric," he stressed. "I'm just running on the founding principles that Adam Smith and free markets - they made us the greatest nation on the Earth. All right? It's no mystery. Our rights, tradition, along with free markets and the Judeo-Christian tradition all together made us the greatest nation on the face of the Earth. I think we're veering off course a little bit there and I want to get us back on that course that brought us to greatness."
If Brat ultimately wins the primary and is seated in the 114 th Congress, he would not commit his vote for speaker to House Speaker John Boehner, but offered his support to any contender who's "more free market and more fiscally responsible."
"I'd have to take a good look at what they're doing but I support people who follow the Republican creed, and so it doesn't look like the leadership is doing a good job on that right now," Brat said.
"They're not free market at all, right? They do not take free market seriously and they're off on fiscal responsibility."
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Ron Paul is not different to the rest - in fact he's flawed because he mistakenly thinks that markets can provide the solution to everything - but thousands of years of history beg to differ.
...but this time it's different - right? A lot has changed since Adam Smith.....hasn't it?
Fools are so easily led.
I guess id rather be a fool than a depressed hopeless hack that can do nothing but spew hate against the only people trying to fight for us.
Funny how no one had this reaction when it was the Euro-Skeptics winning.
Ps- go read Ron Pauls books before you put words in his mouth. Hes admitted many times free markets are not a utopia but its obviously better than what we have today.
But... No... I guess we all need to go back to being contrarians who piss on everything positive...
well... I agree, you gotta believe in something/someone. But its best to keep that alternative shtf plan intact.
Well of course...
Last night was a huge win for everyone and some of you are so depressingly pathetic you refuse to even admit it.
THERE ARE NO POLITICAL SOLUTIONS.
That is just the sad Truth.
Dave Brats campaign style needs to be copied nationwide. Throw out all the RINOS !!
When the markets come crashing down I would love to see Peter Schiff run for congress and bring some economic sanity to DC.
Peter Schiff... are you reading this?? Take some time out from buying metals and shorting this frothy market and strap on your boots...!!
great! another guy who never worked a day in his life. I'll be dipped in shit.
Red team? Blue team? I cannot believe any of you are obtuse enough to promote the red vs blue "teams" as one might two
opposing sports teams - which is the way "both teams" want it. When are some of you going to figure out we're all on the
same team and the red vs blue bs is designed to screw the 99% over time and time again... which "team" you embrace matters
little when the end result is the same... same as it ever was.
Seems to me the blog is about a guy (David Brat) --not a team--- it was a RED team rum off --- Red against red. -DUH--fucking stupid remarks on ZH this morning--beyond belief.
and as far a "designed to screw" --most of the 99% if left to their own devices are screwed out of the gate without any help or design at all.
I was responding to another blogger, not the article g speed... talk about duh! Please pay attention before you start pounding keys... facepalm.
Only a couple of days before the election, the Drudge Report, under links to many of the recent immigrant bussing scandal stories, featured a picture of Cantor with a caption suggesting it was time to make a deal. The linked article was appended with numerous angry anti-Cantor comments. Congratulations to Drudge for highlighting Cantor's position on immigration 'reform'.
The GOP leadership needs to understand just how passionate (anti-immigration/amnesty) voters are on this issue.
Some Mexican guy must have stolen Drudge's girlfriend at some point. He can't get enough photos of "invading hoards."
uhhhh, I don't think Drudge has any girlfriends... if you know what I mean.
Yup.....wrong team.
Huh... I didn't know.
Stole a boyfriend, then.
another foot in mouth moment presented to you by the great CH1 -------
LOL, I should be embarassed that I didn't know a guy I never met is gay.
Trying a bit hard, ain't ya?
How can you dismiss the crowded detention centers set up at AF bases in Texas because there are so many thousands of unaccompanied children pouring across the border? How do you dismiss the transfer of hundreds of illegals to the overcrowded centers in AZ to make room for the estimated 50,000 children wandering S. Texas?
Enjoy your Burrito
I've lived in SoCal all my life and seen what rampant, unchecked ILLEGAL immigrants do to communities. Are they decent, hard-working people? Some of them. But what they've done in many communities here is no different than what has been happenning in Detroit: higher crime, higher numbers of people on the dole, lowering of education standards, and massive urban decay. And the official number of 10-12 million is utter bullshit - double that and you're close.
So, CH1, please pull your head out of your ass long enough to go fuck yourself.
very true - they also tend to congragate in areas of greatest concentration causing all others to depart--
And I lived in the north, where I saw a fully legal underclass destroy cities.
So, my proof's as good as yours!
And if you don't like the dole - attack the dole! (Actually, I wish you would.) And, guess what - there are far more whites on welfare than blacks or hispanics.
Your problem is that you keep running to your slavemaster to fix things. I'm telling you to walk away from the slavemaster, therefore I'm the asshole.
My wife and I were very happy to see the news of Cantor's demise because it indicates that the money-grubbing corporatist contingent of the Republican establishment got its butt handed to it. Power to the people. Kudos to Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin.
Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Your probably right, but incremental improvements in leadership will hopefully be able to fill the life rafts this time around, it is not an all or nothing world friend..
Everyone is anti-establishment until they're in the establishment. I give him a year or two of truly rattling cages before he turns to the dark side and rattles them just for show while lining his pockets the Washington way. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm just too fucking cynical anymore to believe otherwise.
It's not cynicism, Agent P, it's simple observation.
The Reds are just as blind with Hope as the Blues.
Sucker A, Sucker B.
they're applying for jobs within the system.
anyone with half a brain engaged knows
the system defines the participants.
+1
We are all participating, even if we do not vote, or work, or spend. We are part of the ecosystem and our choices or lack thereof all play a role. I support removing myself from the "markets" as much as I can, as well as refusing to lend my support to specific politicians, but regardless of what I do, they will exist and will act. My lack of participation only ensures my interests will be the very last served.What is required is a well informed strategy. I'm not sure what yours is other than to deride anyone who hopes or believes there is even a small chance that this ship can be turned.
I sense your derision of anyone who "participates" may well feed your need to remove all responsibility from yourself for this mess. If this is true, I hope it works for you. Delusion is an important component in many people's efforts to cope. I keep a cup of my personal blend at hand. Today's reality can be too much to take 24/7.
I am not in any way "responsible" for whatever mess you're pointing to. I don't acknowledge the "history" of the land mass I currently live on as accurate or anything other than an extended narrative taught to capture human minds, and get them to act on behalf of this fictive "State".
you can bear the "guilt" they extend towards you, along with the "hope" of "change" or the possibility of "winning" something that is being fought over,
or you can ask yourself how much exactly do you feel guilty, or responsible, or even hopeful about your place in the overall mess that was created by others, even before you were born.
only YOU can tell yourself your own Truth, Oldwood. but you CAN do that, and let yourself off their Hook(s).
it is a certain type of freedom, an awareness if you will.
take care.
The political system is corrupt, bought and paid for by corporate Amerika, the discrepancy between rich/poor increasing... yet some of you see Brat's win
as a symbol of hope - it's astonishing to me people cannot see the whole thing needs to be completely overhauled... all of them thrown out, wipe the slate
clean, prohibit contributions/bribes, etc.
It's not just corporate america bribing politicians. Plenty of special other special interests.
But, agree, time to end "lobbying" once and for all. No more buying power and influence.
The bridge back to mature democracy is principled voting, not anarchy. Bomb throwing might become necessary to clean DC of the socialists and power-grabbing leftists of all persuasions, but I doubt it will ever happen and hopefully it won't.
We can do without the military background and the uber-religion, but at least he's a FREE MARKETEER.
Really, you are anti-veteran and anti-religion? I'm wondering with your demographic creds whether you represent much of a voting block.
A voting bloc of one, maybe...
But really, haven't Americans had enough of "tough on defence", big government-spending moralizing neocons? From BOTH parties?
What Americans want is irrelevant. The grifter class of fascists running the country will continue to win elections.
Stereotype much..?? I have a feeling there are a LOT of atheist/agnostics out there who are conservative/libertarian leaning (non-intervention).
At least can count one here....
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He stereotyped himself, I didn't. I'm an atheist, but I don't diss candidates for believing in God. I'm not a veteran, but I don't criticize people with a background in the Army. If you're lonly ooking for non-veteran atheist candidates, good luck.
Personally I am not anti-religion, I am just tired of politicians wearing religion on their sleeve and wanting to let the whole world know about it. It probably has to do with the fact that I grew up in a secular family far away from the Bible Belt, but that's where I come from. Just my two cents.
I will vote for this guy, and he's definitely a step up from the corrupt and arrogant Cantor, but I'm not so sure he is a true free marketeer. He may quack like one and act like one, but being a life long academic means he has always been part of an industry that's operated only in a government supported limited market. I'm pretty sure he doesn't know or appreciates what a true free and thus fully random market looks like,
Hopefully this is realization that this president is not only allowing scores of illegal aliens into America but, a good part unseen is Sunni Muslim Immigrants stealth-fully allowed into America. There are many reasons we have to shut the border but, to also close the legal visas that are being issued in massive amounts to Sunnis to come here and promote Sharia. The proof of this is many States. Florida tried to pass a law banning Sharia law (SB58) Florida. It was beat down by one vote. 100% of democrats voted for it. It was fought for by CAIR, ACLU and the President own people. This is happening!
The President doesn't just want unlimited central American non-citizens through our borders but Sunni Muslims unlimited visas to come into the United States! It is time to object strongly!
A "eCONomics" professor?
As much as I enjoy seeing that silver-spooned crony cunt Canter kicked to the curb, why can't we get someone from the real world, like a farmer or engineer?
Just elected a farmer in Iowa....which is so weird....they've got a ton of them over there.
Most farmers and engineers I know are too smart to become politicians. There is something to be said for a quiet, productive and anonymous life. Why go and become a politician when you are doing something that's moving civilization forward and makes you happy?
Be careful what you wish for, many farmers are subsidy whores and it most definitely would be the case of a farmer turned politician.
So the alternative to the norm is a man who spent half his life learning about a flawed concept (macro-economics) and the other half to a deity which he has zero proof of existence.
Yeah - can't decide if this irrational human is better or worse than the alternative.
However it seems some people on ZH are now so desperate that they will join ANY passing bandwaggoin that 'looks' different.
The result will be the same - it's the POWER you relinquish to these frauds that's the problem - not so much their education or loyalty to the free market.
If he is really willing to do something about the budget and immigration issues, who cares what his personal beliefs or background is. I mean really! Focus on what he does, not who he is.
What immigration issues?
Funny how nobody mentioned them when the economy was booming - now you're all out of work - you want to blame the immigrants?
The ONLY people you have a problem with are the bankers, billionaires and politicians......unless you're one of these dolts who has convinced themselves that "the rich have worked hard for thier wealth" - which, I'm afraid to say - it untrue.
the rich got rich from annexing things that weren't theirs and 'renting' or selling them back to those who did own them original - but you're too scared to fight the rich - they have power - much better to fight the tax paying economy contributing immigrants - right?
The most important immigration issue is that millions of welfare-dependent people are coming into the country and they will all vote for liberals in the years to come. Unless you want to magnify the problem welfare created in the black family, and unless you just want to save the world by bringing all the needy here (and paying for them to live), you should be in favor of immigration control.
Now now.....mustn't go providing facts.
The immigrants are desires by the affluent business owning, serf fucking class. So which is it? You can't have both. The immigrants flood cheap labor and provide .gov with more debt serfs. You argument is stupid.
illegal immigrants are paid cash and do not pay taxes.
They may be paid cash, but how do they avoid sales tax, tax at the gas pump, bridge tolls, etc.?
What more important role of paying for gov't is there than protecting and controlling it's borders? Without it there is no sovereignty. Everything else is pork--or worse.
What more important role of paying for gov't is there than protecting and controlling it's borders? Without it there is no sovereignty. Everything else is pork--or worse.
What if I told you the rich got rich by cultivating the erroneous ideas we see right here in this post.
The only positive I see in it is that it'll hopefully inspire other grassroots efforts.
Given his scary theological leanings (in my opinion) and acedemic background, he's not much better than Cantor.
Hope he stays true to his rhetoric and declines the pending bribes....
So, you only vote for atheists?
Yes.
I wouldn't trust anyone who places belief over rational thinking.
A lot of rational people believe in God.
my god is uttuwallakkuumbukku
How silly and irrational of them.
Communists believe their leader is god, just like at the White House.
It is easier to believe than to know
Faith is not wanting to know what is true .... Nietzschke
A stroll through the mental asylum shows that faith proves nothing ... Nietschke
I believe faith means not having to worry ..... John Dewey
No idea why you're being downvoted for stating something pretty obvious to any logical, rational person.
If religion brings happiness, peace and a sense of meaning in their life, what harm is it to you? Would you deny a person with a broken leg a crutch? Maybe if they beat you with it I could understand, but honestly, the disgust we feel by many of our fellow atheists seems to have deeper issues. Granted, I don't want someone sitting on their hands convinced that God will save us, but on the other hand, I'm not particularly excited by those who seem to think themselves god like (Obama), ruling from on high, using his pen of "decree" to rule over us. We are all human and flawed. We can only hope that those who have power over us are not complete morons or evil in their intent. There will always be someone over us, so lets hope for the best. Its all we have.
I mean where do you think 'belief in failed policy' comes from?
You still actually VOTE?! lol
A warning to all Wall Street servants!
I upvoted you because you're right about his background & CV. I downvoted you because ANY incumbent thrown out at this point is a good thing
The existence of government is the problem.
Thats like complaining about the weather. We will always have government. Lets work to have the best we can get.
spent half his life learning about...a deity which he has zero proof of existence...
Proof of existence, i.e. "evidence" of a self-existent being is nothing more than evident to a truly thoughtful and honest human. The idea of anything that now exists has at some time in the past "self-generated" itself or otherwise "exploded" into "being” defies all definitions of logic. Whereas the concept of a self-existent being is the only concept, (in theological terms it's described as the aseity of God), that does no harm or violence to reason and / or logic in producing the only reasonable explanation for our “being”.
I do agree with you though, it shouldn’t take half a lifetime to noodle that obvious fact out, and perhaps he should be faulted for that.
As for “writingsonthewall”, the original moniker, mene, mene, tekel, upharsin is very apropos.
Jmo.
Looks like a true higher education wonk from his resume. A non-ivy league free market non-socialist Christian version of the Bernank. Has he ever done any substantial real business work in his life? Other than tennis, academic economics, academic consulting and theology this guy appears to have done nothing but attend or give seminars, write papers, attend meetings and be a Greek Life judge. Not even sweated out a full book? I guess when compared to a Democratic professor from the same college he looks good.
According to Bloomberg news, Blankfein is upset. "It was stunning. Eric Cantor, in my view, was a sensible politician who devoted himself to public service... I hope it doesn't mean thaqt it will be impossible from this point forward to compromise on issues like the budget... This is not necessarily a good signal but we'll have to see how this plays out".
Translation: "Sh*t! My donation is wasted. now we have to buy another guy and he may have scruples."
Anyone the prophet of "doing the lord's work" doesn't like has to have something going for them.
now we have to buy another guy and he may have scruples
No chance - why?
...because you HAVE to be a liar to go into politics in the first place - I mean WHO is going to vote for someone who brings the cold hard truth about America (or any other western country in which you reside)
The truth is the west are privileged, ungrateful and have already taken more than they deserved - now there will be a rebalancing and the west will suffer - tell me who's going to vote for that?
"Deserves got nothin' to do with it."
Will Munney
"The trouble with first mover advantage is something new always comes along."
shovelhead
I doubt it's snappy enough to catch on.
Blankfein is upset.
Awesome!
This is immoral. Blankfein is a Jewish gentleman doing G_d's work who now has one less representative to protect his interests. At least Mr. Blankfein still has the benefit of Jewish teevee with which to air his opinions.
Well, hopefully the DC cesspool is upset about this guy, I hope it gives the rat club there sleepless nights about their own phony baloney jobs.
I'm sure the ECB will be glad to hear he was a "Greek Life Judge".
Here is an email that I sent to David Brat on 29 April 2014:
Very nice.
Except you forgot the part about how you will encourage and actively support any rival candidate who understands these issues and is willing to address them and to remove you from office.
One vote doesn't bother them. Talk of support for rivals gets their attention.
My reps used to ignore me but the emails kept coming,
and coming, and coming.
Now I get answers back thanking me for being an active voice in my community. And these guys vote pretty much the right way on everything.
I know because I watch them.
Who the hell knows if they actually read my emails and a staffer sticks a letter in front of him to sign, but at least the staffer answers specifics, so I know somebody is reading them.
I listened to all the talking heads tell us this was about Amnesty when in fact nothing could be further from the truth. I believe Amnesty was the icing on the cake the real issue is that people have had enough of this terrorist in the white house and the Republican establishment’s inability to rein him in or impeach him. His behavior is so wrong for America and these Washington insiders try to get along with him while mocking people like Cruz and Paul? Fuck all of you, the people have spoke in VA for all of us, your all going to get the same ticket out of dodge we have had enough of the liar in chief now deal with him and impeach him for the dead Americans in Benghazi and this border issue which he is solely responsible for.
Ron "Isreal Uber Alles" Paul, yes that is the ticket
Oh come on, Tyler. The Bull Elephant was the primary source for the original reporting on the VA-7 election, and us telling the truth where others declined had a major - perhaps decisive - impact on this race. We can't even get a link?
Here's one anyway: http://thebullelephant.com
Anti immigration does not mean anti people it is the simple realization that resource constraints are real and if you understand the dynamics of those constraints thru authors like Tainter, and the reality of Peak Oil you have to understand we as a population in the U.S. we are at least +2X on the sustainablility of our population numbers. To contine admitting more humanity to what will be an ugly scenario most likely to occur within the next generation or two is freaking stupid. We already can appoximate that it would take around 66 earths to sustain the U.S. lifestyle so adding more to that shipwreck just depletes the world even faster. Its going to be hard times and adding to the struggle to survive will increase the desperation and heartache
Calling anyone a racist who understands the dynamics of out of control population growth and its implications is complete rubbish. That said I never saw this coming (Cantor) and all I can say is well done Virginia
Look at the bright side.
The White European descendent populations are declining fast.
The bad news is that all others aren't.
Do you think the 3rd world immigrants will preserve the America that Euro-descendents built or will it become more like the homes they fled. Are they more likely to support the idea of individual liberty or a collective Big Govt. nanny state.
Granted one can't speak about individuals with a sweeping certainty but one can certainly make predictions based on majorities.
Everything changes. How fast do you want it to change is the question.
This probably shook up the White House more than Republican leadership. The White House strategy has been 'no negotiations' with Republicans, then wait for the RINOs to cave. It has worked every time because the Republicans let the Democrats pick the battlefield. If anything, Brat's victory shows how angry the American voters are about caving every time.
i think it was 69 maybe 72 when the cia started using a gun using air under pressure.
it dosed folks with rare tropicals from africa and the rain forests of south america fast or slow kill cancer inducing slow kill.
today they can point a device at a window of an office that will destroy your dna so many ways to kill a cat.
hugo chav was dosed then killed off in cuba.
gonna need a lot more brats to take on these satanic structures.
even if brat was stong they allways have the fall back position get at family.
good look this guy in washington will be on his own pressure to conform and take the bribes or hookers thrown at him
god speed brat lets burn this satanic house of cards down not by violent actions but non compliance.
a month ago a man said soon the pope will become ill and so it comes to pass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCX_oujvuMg
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2654024/Fears-Pope-Francis-healt...
tonywilson
Holy shit I didn't know about that. Yikes.
Tony is an escapee from a goat staring project gone horribly wrong.
I was wondering about Cancer deaths like Bill Hicks the comedian, and Aaron Russo after his movie Freedom to Fascism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKeaw7HPG04
Always thought that they... well what you said.
CIA killed aaron russo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axz6xkWowZk
i saw the bill hicks dose gun or a similar generation in the 1990s.
at a place 60 clicks or so outside las vegas.
horrid lookin thingbased on a sig sauer i think.
here is some old tech gun.
foto from the 1970s church commitee hearings
http://www.thecontroversialfiles.net/2013/04/cia-targeted-assassinations...
So true Tony
Now get ready for the glory of the Olive, Peter the Roman and final pope.
Good thing you didn't mention the Alien Reptoids...
They like to keep it on the low down.
Wow I'm glad a "good" candidate won.
Unfortunately I still pay income tax, property tax and am forced to do so with debt-backed money. So...
Politics...
lol
This is terrible. Who is going to represent the Jewish minority now?
Wait a minute, Economics and Ethics?
And a week retreat with Economics Nobel laureates is the pinnacle of his education career?
Be afraid..
1 down, 534 to go - its a huge hole to climb out of - not saying it can't be done, it just doesn't seem likely, especially given that the Free Shit Army is so large and growing and are not going to vote to cut off their free shit supply - who votes to cut off their swag?
Well we've gotten some others in there as well in the past few elections so we are gaining ground however slowly. This was a defeat that will be heard loud and clear though. No one expected this.
533 to go -Walter Jones of North carolina is tops -he should be President. Better than Ron Paul.
Brat won't be cutting off any swag... at least not enough to make a difference. He seems fully behind the idea of bankrupting us with military/intelligence/DHS funding. Obama phones and food stamps don't even rise to the level of being a drop in the bucket.
Accounting at Arthur Anderson? Cooking books 101. What did Brat learn to do?
Double plus good, no doubt.
Just another over educated douche bag. He has never had a real job and never will.
We'll wait and see if the first thing he does is copy Ted Cruz, and fly to israel twice the first month after he gets elected.
Good post -most texas Republicans and tea partiers are completely snookered by Cruz. Harvard-wife is Goldman Sachs VP- one of Netanyahu's biggest asskissers. What else do you need to know? He's the boy chosen to preempt and snooker the Tea Party. Amazing how few people have figured this out.
Great post. All you have to do is look at his stance on the Ukraine and the US led coup. He is lockstep with the oligarchs and calling for more violence, more US presence. He is a great speaker however and has pulled the wool over the majority of right wingers.
Wife is not enough, links, proofs give us something if I can verify... bets are off...
In reference to his wife, at least, here's more carried by Daily Paul in 2012 from: www.wetexans.com:
“Probably few are aware that Ted Cruz’s wife Heidi is a vice president for Goldman Sachs. Would they be more disturbed to know about her work on the independent task force that wrote “Building a North American Community” which was sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. Her bio in that report says, ‘HEIDI S. CRUZ is an energy investment banker with Merrill Lynch in Houston, Texas. She served in the Bush White House under Dr. Condoleezza Rice as the Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, as the Director of the Latin America Office at the U.S. Treasury Department, and as Special Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, U.S. Trade Representative. Prior to government service, Ms. Cruz was an investment banker with J.P. Morgan in New York City.’”
But then again, maybe I shouldn't be too judgmental. Maybe she's only at Goldman sachs to help Lloyd to do God's work. Evangelical "christians" want Armeggeddon. Lloyd will first bring us ecnomic Armeggeddon.
It's all part of God's plan.
proofs give us something if I can verify.
What if I told you nobody is here to do your research for you? We assume you have a browser containing a search engine. You can be shown the door but you are the one who has to walk through it.
Yeah thanks pal, but it is called a hypothesis, if you bring one to my table do not expect me to fill it in for you... What if I told you you that?
And it was Cruz who demanded on the Senate floor in April that Secretary of State John Kerry resign from his post after Kerry told world leaders in a closed door meeting that Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state” if it fails to reach peace with the Palestinians.
Said Cruz, “John Kerry should offer President Obama his resignation and the president should accept it."
Continuing on in “great sadness,” Cruz said:
“There is no place for this word in the context of the state of Israel. The term ‘apartheid,’ means ‘apart, different, isolated.’ The state of the victims of apartheid with which the Jews are tragically all too familiar.”
Perhaps Cruz does not know, or care, that the Jewish population of Palestine in 1933 was 175,006 (American Jewish Committee published in the World Alamac 1933) and is now 8,134,000, i.e., 75% Jewish/20.7% Arab, for he went on to say: “The United States should be aggressively asserting that Israel can never be made an apartheid nation while America exists and stands beside her. Because America will be with Israel regardless of the status of the diplomatic process.”
And Cruz wants to be president -- of the United States of America. Where does that rank Americans?
http://therebel.org/en/opinion/most-read-editorials/715863-before-and-after
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel
I must be missing something.. Cruz stands with Israel over the savages that would kill every jew there and this is what you bring, ha.. Calmyourself certainly does not care do not know if Cruz does..
If they're savages they've been driven to it (and in some cases savagery has been created by Israel simply for purposes of dividing the opponent--Hamas is a creation of the Mossad--you could look it up).
The Torah says not to oppress those with whom Israelis share the land. You can look that up too. It isn't just the word of God, it's practical wisdom. They've ignored it at their peril.
It also says that those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed. Telling a friend a hard truth is no curse. But allowing him to continue on a self destructive path is no blessing.
Modern-day Israel/Mossad/Hammas doesn't align with "bless Israel will be blessed"/"curse Israel will be cursed" because the tribe of Benjamin and Judah were but two of the twelve tribes knowns as the ISRAELITES, the TWELVE TRIBES BEING ISRAEL.
ZIONISTAS (jew or not) purchasing land in the Nation State of Israel does not make one an ISRAELITE any more than putting a yamaka on an ass.
Those living in the modern Nation of Israel ARE NOT the "Chosen Ones" as 90% of ashkenazi who are a majority of the population aren't even descended from the tribes of Benjamin and Judah.
No, Calmyourself, you’ve missed nothing; dehumanize the Palestinians as “savages” as you and the Israelis do and exterminate them.
“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab populations.” -- Israel’s first prime minister, David ben Gurion, head of the terror group Haganah and a founder of the State of Israel, speaking to his General Staff in May 1948, the year Israel was created on Palestinian land.
The trues savages here, of course, are the Israelis. Or as Ted Cruz might say in defense of Israel's savagery: "The Israelis may be savages, but they're our savages."
Those who fight monsters should take care not to become monsters.
Ben Gurion's thinking was the product of a recent existential menace.
What's Netanyahu's excuse (Iran doesn't count)?
But my question is, flacorps, why is the United States there, why has the United States compromised its sovereignty to Israel’s direction and aggression?
You are exactly correct. He is the Republican Obama and the "right" will eat up his garbage, especially those heretical evangelicals who pile into the New Apostolic Reformation mega-churhces. This should not be construed as an anti-Christian position, as I am a Christian, but spend some time around the charismatic wing of the evangelical movement and one realizes that these people will believe anyone who says, "God told me" or "Jesus visted me and said"... Cruz is right up their ally... with Goldman, Morgan, and the neo-cons calling the shots the whole way. The guys is clearly a neo-con...
It's worth noting that Charlie Wilson, the Texas congressman who got us into Afghanistan in the late '70s was a guy who took most of his campaign money out of NYC and who had a hookers-and-blow scandal brewing against him that needed to go away. The movie acknowledges these facts as innocuous (with respect to the former) and inconsequential frat boy stuff (with respect to the latter). It then spins a tale that he sees a TV report that outrages him and improbably finds a CIA guy and Israeli arms dealer willing to help. The truth probably looks a lot more like a honey trap with blackmail to be paid by a massive favor to someone who wanted a job done. I have nothing to share about who that might have been.
Wow! The only Jewish Republican in Congress get's taken down by a nobody, with no money, -a Catholic for chrissakes. No wonder Blankfein is so upset. But you know the rest of the phony crooked crony capitalist Republicans will double down in their sucking up to AIPAC and the Lobby. They'll have to make amends for letting their guard down -maybe we'll get that Syrian invasion sooner than later. maybe even an attack on Iran - After all, didn't they prove that the Iranians did 911? And likely killed Kennedy?
One factor involved in Brat’s victory was that the Establishment of the Republican Party - the Chamber of Commerce, et cetera - was so confident that Cantor would win that it didn’t bother to field another candidate who could espouse Tea Party rhetoric and split the vote. That’s obviously been a technique of Karl Rove and others to keep Establishment incumbents safely in their seats.
Well truly being 'over the hill' I read all the way down to here and found no reference to a striking similarity.
'Mr. Brat (aka Smith) goes to Washington.
First order of business. . . END THE FED . . .
For those too young to remember see: http://www.filmsite.org/mrsm.html
Two epic calls.
Overthehill you may well be but your head and heart seem to be working fine.
And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
It's all about lobby money. If he takes lobby money he'll be just crooked as the rest of the traitors.
A strategy of the Left is to strongly support Tea Party candidates in the Republican Primaries so they can defeat the Tea Party in the General. The Left has figured out that even the strongest establishment Republican can be defeated in the Primary if the right wing base is sufficiently reved up with a Tea Party candidate. They then set the Tea Party candidate up in the media as a nut, racisist, gun nut, anti-woman, anti-local school funding, going to cut the elderly's Social Security and prescription medicine, going to stop funds to complete the local bridge repair, you get the idea. They then portray the Lefist/Marxist as just a reasonable person who just wants to be helpful. And it works.
If Americans on the whole end up supporting Marxism over Constitutional government, collectivism over liberty, and redistribution over individual opportunity, the corporate-slave establishment RINO party was never going to stop them. Let Americans choose principled government instead of expedient governing.
A Jesuit tea party lawyer is going to fix things right up for you. Change is on the way
they sure HOPE so.
The new Pope, a Jesuit, has been kicking butt and taking names.
At least we can hope, that hope doesn't get us what hope got us the last time...
hope delays the inevitable realisation of deeper
Truths.
hope acts as a preservative for present, outdated
belief systems.
Word spreading in DC news talk radio that although Cantor was pretty arrogant and deserved what he got, the DEMOCRATIC VOTERS crossing party lines in the primary and voting Republican per DNC requests were the ones who gave Brat the primary win in a desperate move to weaken the opposition and increase the chances of a win of their candidate.
Wrong...that is the desperate "speculation" and spin by the establishment GOP, but not what is actually being reported:
See an actual article here, if you can read:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/11/did-democratic...
If you're too lazy to read then here's the part that explains it:
While Republican primary turnout spiked by 28 percent over 2012, according to theState Board of Elections, Cantor received nearly 8,500 fewer votes this year than he did in the 2012 Republican primary, a drop that was larger than Brat's 7,200-vote margin of victory. Regardless of how many Democrats turned out to oppose Cantor, he still would have prevailed had he maintained the same level of support as in his 2012 landslide.
If Democrats showed up in large numbers to vote against Cantor, turnout should have spiked highest from 2012 in Democratic-leaning areas, with Cantor seeing an especially large drop-off in support. In fact, turnout rose slightly more in counties that voted more heavily for Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election.
Open primaries were designed by the establishment for the benefit of the establishment. And the threat of Virgiinia's and other states' open-primary systems, allowing crossover voting, is concrete evidence that the difference between the two major parties has become barely visible.
Thank goodness, Darth, for the heavier grassroots Republican vote margin, that with 100% of precincts reporting, Brat had 55.5% of the vote compared to Cantor's 44.5 %.
On the major issues -- expansion of government, Obamacare, Israel, welfare programs, war support for the financial establishment, the Fed – the two parties are identical, only the rhetoric implies there’s a difference. But when it comes to votes in the Congress, the difference is negligible.
Republicans in the House have voted consistently, over and over, to repeal Obamacare, BUT when the government shutdown occurred to stop OC (and other shutdowns through the years), the Republican Establishment caved instantly, indicating its true feelings on OC.
The only time the establishment speaks to Republican principles is when one of its members is running for re-election – and the media provides the cover.
I hate raining on parties Cathartes but let us understand one thing the western bar association is located in London, the first thing a lawyer in any western nation does is take an oath to the queen. Then they are told if they expect to be successful, the first thing they need to do is join the masons.
a good rain storm brings refreshing negative ions, clears the mind. . . rain on Dublinmick, truth is increMental.
those masons sure turn up in the most predictable places, eh.
Only Hercolubus can save us !! :)
Is this guy related to the actor Benjamin Brat?
Tea Party to be transformed to a Third Party from the grass roots...
Seems like a smart guy.
Does he have any idea how to be a Congressman?
He'd have my vote.
Cantor - is a (very) minor tragedy. He seemed like good people back a couple of years ago, but he couldn't fight the fight, or anyway didn't, and that, in short, is why he lost. That or Democratic crossover! In which case all of this is bs.
SSDD ... wake me when they close the Dept. of Education or the FDA.
Thta is the same level of "HOPE" I have, do something damaging to the establishment that can be verified and is not sleight of hand and I MAY remove the quotation marks.... +1
And he is going to ride in on a white horse and end the criminality of the DC US?! LOL
Or put another way, thinking about how hard they worked to prevent Ron Paul's candidacy, does anyone really think that this guy is really out of left-field?!
"Now I hope everything changes and ends well, but just in case, I'm going out to clean and oil the guillotine."