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It's no secret that politicians tend to use exaggerated political rhetoric to get people to vote for them. In recent decades, Republicans have repeatedly made very ominous predictions about the horrors that will result from Democratic policies while painting a rosy picture of what will result from Republican policies.

Now, we have the luxury of looking back over the years to examine those predictions and policies.

1. In the 1960s, Republicans claimed that the passage of Medicare would be the end of capitalism.

California Governor Ronald Reagan even proclaimed Medicare would lead to the death of freedom in America. Of course, they were laughably wrong. Since the passage of Medicare, capitalism has thrived in America and millions of elderly Americans have had longer, healthier lives and greater personal freedom. Medicare remains the most popular form of health insurance in the United States.

2. In 1993, when Bill Clinton raised taxes on the wealthiest 1.5%, Republicans predicted a recession, increased unemployment, and a growing budget deficit.

They weren't just wrong; the exact opposite of everything they predicted happened. The country experienced the seven best years of economic growth in history:

Twenty-two million new jobs were added.

Unemployment dropped below 4%.

The poverty rate dropped for seven straight years.

The budget deficit was eliminated.

There was a growing budget surplus that economists projected would pay off our national debt in 20 years

3. In 2001, when George W. Bush cut taxes for the wealthy, Republicans predicted record job growth, increased budget surplus, and nationwide prosperity.

Once again, the exact opposite occurred. After the Bush tax cuts were enacted:

The budget surplus immediately disappeared.

The budget deficit eventually grew to $1.4 trillion by the time Bush left office.

Less than 3 million net jobs were added during Bush’s eight years.

The poverty rate began climbing again.

We experienced two recessions along with the greatest collapse of our financial system since the Great Depression.

4. In 1993, when the Brady Law and the Assault Weapons Ban were passed, Republicans predicted increasing rates of crime and murder.

In 1993, President Clinton signed the Brady Law mandating nationwide background checks and a waiting period to buy a gun.

Thankfully just the opposite happened. While the rate of violent crime had increased steadily from the 1970s into the 1990s, it suddenly began to drop after 1993 and continued to decline for more than ten years. What could have happened in 1993 to precipitate such a sudden and prolonged drop in crime? That’s the year Congress passed the Assault Weapons Ban and the Brady Law, which mandated background checks and a waiting period to buy a gun.

Despite Republican predictions to the contrary, the Brady Law and the Assault Weapons Ban were followed by the most dramatic reduction in violent crime since the FBI started keeping statistics. The graphs below, based on the actual numbers from the FBI Uniform Crime Reports website, show how the rates of murder and violent crime in the US dropped suddenly after the 1993 Brady Law and Assault Weapons Ban were passed.

These charts show the rate of murder and violent crime over 35 years based on numbers from the FBI Uniform Crime reports.

5. Republicans predicted that we would find Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction even though UN weapons inspectors said that those weapons didn't exist.

The Bush administration continued to insist that WMDs would be found even when the CIA said some of the evidence was questionable. As we all know, the WMDs predicted by the Bush administration did not exist, and Saddam had not resumed his nuclear weapons program as they claimed. Both President Bush and Vice President Cheney ultimately had to admit that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Here is President Bush discussing the missing Weapons of Mass Destruction.

6. Prior to going to war in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld optimistically predicted the Iraq war might last “six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

What's more, Vice-President Dick Cheney said we would be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people after we overthrow Saddam.

They were both horribly wrong. Instead of six weeks or six months, the Iraq war lasted eight long and bloody years costing thousands of American lives. It led to an Iraqi civil war between the Sunnis and the Shiites that took hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives. Many Iraqi militia groups were formed to fight against the U.S. forces that occupied Iraq. What’s more, Al Qaeda, which did not exist in Iraq before the war, used the turmoil in Iraq to establish a new foothold in that country.

The Iraq war was arguably the most tragic foreign policy blunder in US history.

7. Republicans said waterboarding and other forms of “enhanced interrogation” are not torture and are necessary in fighting Islamic extremism.

In reality, waterboarding and other forms of enhanced interrogation that inflict pain, suffering, or fear of death are outlawed by US law, the US Constitution, and international treaties. Japanese soldiers after World War II were prosecuted by the United States for war crimes because of their use of waterboarding on American POWs.

Professional interrogators have known for decades that torture is the most ineffective and unreliable method of getting accurate information. People being tortured say anything to get the torture to end but will not likely tell the truth.

An FBI interrogator named Ali Soufan was able to get al Qaeda terrorist Abu Zubaydah to reveal crucial information without the use of torture. When CIA interrogators started using waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation methods, Zubaydah stopped cooperating and gave his interrogators false information.

Far from being necessary in the fight against terrorism, torture is completely unreliable and counter-productive in obtaining useful information.

8. In 2008, Republicans said that if we elect a Democratic president, we would be hit by Al Qaeda again, perhaps worse than the attack on 9/11.

Former Vice-President Dick Cheney stated that electing a Democrat as president would all but guarantee that there would be another major attack on America by Al Qaeda. Cheney and other Republicans were, thankfully, completely wrong. During Obama's presidency, we had zero deaths on U.S. soil from Al Qaeda attacks and we succeeded in killing Bin Laden along with dozens of other high ranking Al Qaeda leaders.

9. In 2009, Republicans predicted that the economic stimulus package would only make the recession worse and cause more unemployment.

The results show they couldn't have been more wrong. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ended the recession after only a few months. Although 750,000 people were losing their jobs each month when Obama took office, after the Recovery Act was passed the rate of job loss immediately decreased each month and within a year the economy showed positive job growth.

Considering the severity of the 2008 economic collapse and the total opposition by Republicans to do anything at all to stimulate the economy, it is remarkable that the US economy recovered as quickly as it did.

Looking at the rate of job loss and job creation, its easy to see that the stimulus of 2009 was highly successful in stopping the job losses and turning the economy around.

10. Most Republicans said that President Obama should be impeached because of the 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi.

Their own investigations, however, proved them wrong. Every Congressional inquiry, including those by the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee, concluded that the Obama administration did nothing wrong regarding Benghazi, that there was no “stand down” order given, and that neither the President nor anyone in his administration lied about it. Each and every Republican investigation has reached this same conclusion, but Republicans continue to exploit this tragedy for political gain.

11. Republicans said we must deregulate businesses so they can be more profitable, and we will all enjoy the wealth created by deregulation.

This theory failed back in the 1980s when the Reagan administration deregulated the Savings and Loan industry. All the S&Ls collapsed, and it cost taxpayers billions of dollars to bail them out.

They were proven wrong again in 2008 when years of deregulation of the financial industry resulted in the worst financial collapse and recession since the Great Depression. Taxpayers had to spend nearly a trillion dollars to bail out these large corporations. Instead of spreading the wealth around, deregulation cost millions of jobs and created economic turmoil that took the country years to recover from.

Senator Mitch McConnell claimed Obamacare would cost the economy two million jobs.

12. Republicans predicted that Obamacare would hurt the economy and kill jobs.

As you may have guessed, they were wrong. 2014 was the first full year that Obamacare was in effect. During that year the United States saw the fastest rate of job creation in 14 years and the best rate of economic growth in over ten years. More jobs were created in 2014 than in any year of the Bush presidency. Not only did Obamacare not harm the economy, it coincided with the best economic expansion in a dozen years.

13. Republicans said that if President Obama was reelected, the price of gasoline would rise to $5.45 a gallon by January 2015.

In fact, Senator Mike Lee of Utah said if Obama was reelected, the price of gas would reach $6.60 a gallon. Newt Gingrich, who was running for president in 2012, said Obama’s energy policies, EPA regulations, and failure to approve the XL pipeline would result in $10.00 a gallon gasoline.

Of course, these predictions were laughably wrong. Instead of $5.45 per gallon or $10.00 per gallon, the price of gas in January 2015, was $1.89, less than half of the all-time high of $4.15 a gallon under President Bush.

14. Republicans said President Obama would be terrible for the economy.

Although he inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression, President Obama presided over the longest continuous period of uninterrupted job growth in American history. More jobs were created under President Obama than under both Bush Presidents combined. The stock market repeatedly set new records during Obama's presidency.

Obama inherited a much worse recession than the one Ronald Reagan dealt with, yet Obama ended that recession in less than half the time it took Reagan. During his eight years in office, our economy had a net increase of 11 million new jobs despite the loss of more than 4 million jobs during Obama's first year when he was trying to pull us out of the Bush Recession. Despite Republican attempts to stop all progress, President Obama oversaw the greatest economic turnaround in over 75 years without any help from Republicans.

This chart shows the unemployment rate through 2013 and 2014 based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

15. Republicans predicted that President Obama’s tax increase for the top 1% in 2013 would kill jobs, increase the deficit, and cause another recession.

You guessed it; just the opposite happened. In the four years following January 1, 2013, when that tax increase went into effect, through January 2017, unemployment dropped from 7.9% to 4.8%, an average of more than 200,000 new jobs were created per month, Wall Street set new record highs, and the budget deficit was cut in half.

Over 5.7 million new jobs were created in the first two years after that tax increase. That's more jobs created in two years than were created during the combined 12 years of both Bush presidencies.

16. Republicans said President Obama would raise taxes sky high.

It never happened. Income taxes for over 95% of Americans remained the same or lower than they were before Obama was elected. The only people whose income taxes increased were those who make more than $400,000 per year, and their taxes rose only 3%. For most Americans, taxes are still lower now than they were under Reagan.

17. Republicans have long promised that “trickle-down economics” is the best way to stimulate the economy.

Trickle-down economics is the practice of giving more money to the very wealthy so they can reinvest it, causing a "trickle-down" effect that creates jobs and stimulates growth. According to this theory, any tax increase on the wealthy will hurt the economy and cause another recession.

Again, this theory has been thoroughly disproven. The huge tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% of Americans enacted by George W. Bush did not result in job creation or a robust economy. In fact, our economy took the worst nosedive since the Great Depression.

Conversely, the tax increases on the wealthiest 1% passed by Presidents Clinton and Obama were followed by strong job growth, shrinking budget deficits, and lower unemployment rates. During the eight years after President Clinton raised taxes on the top 1%, the poverty rate went down. After Bush enacted trickle-down economic policies, the poverty rate began rising again.

18. In 2012, Republicans predicted that failure to approve the Keystone Pipeline would send the price of gasoline sky high and kill large numbers of jobs.

Despite the fact that the Keystone Pipeline was not approved, the price of gasoline continued to drop below $1.80 per gallon, millions of new jobs were created and unemployment dropped from 8% to 4.9% by early 2016. The most optimistic predictions say that the Keystone Pipeline would only create a few dozen long-term jobs and would do nothing to lower the price of gasoline.

19. Republicans insist that their policies create more jobs than Democrats and claim Democratic policies are “job killers."

History, however, has proven them wrong. According to numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, under the last three Republican presidents, there were a total of 21 million new jobs created during their combined 20 years in office (Reagan - 16 million, George H. W. Bush - 2 million, George W. Bush – 3 million).

However, under the last three Democratic presidents, there were a total of 40 million new jobs created during their combined 19 years in office (Carter – 10 million, Clinton – 22 million, Obama – 8 million).

So the last three Democratic presidents have seen the creation of nearly twice as many jobs in 19 years as the last three Republican presidents did in 20.

20. Republicans claim that raising the minimum wage would kill jobs and hurt the economy.

There is far more evidence to the contrary. Cities and states that have higher minimum wages tend to have better rates of job creation and economic growth.

Detailed analyses show that job losses due to increases in the minimum wage are almost negligible compared to the economic benefits of higher wages. Previous increases in the minimum wage have never resulted in the dire consequences that Republicans have predicted.

Republicans have accused President Obama of "cutting defense spending to the bone". This chart of 2014 discretionary spending firmly disproves that argument.

21. Republicans routinely accuse Democrats of wanting to cut defense spending to the bone and leave us defenseless against our enemies.

History has repeatedly proven them wrong. Under Democratic presidents and Congresses, the United States still spends more on defense than the next ten countries combined. Republicans frequently insist on spending hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons systems that the Pentagon doesn't even want in order to benefit the multi-billion dollar defense contractors. Democrats who criticize this unnecessary spending are accused of trying to cut defense spending to the bone.

Here are a few more things Republicans have been wrong about.

Republicans said that Obamacare would have “death panels” to decide who would live and who would die. Wrong. No such death panels were ever proposed and nothing of the kind ever happened.

They said the 2009 laws to improve automobile fuel efficiency standards would kill the US auto industry. Wrong. The new standards were followed by a resurgence of the US auto industry enabling them to hire back tens of thousands of workers.

They said environmental protection laws requiring companies to clean up their pollution would create an undue burden and kill businesses. Nope, it never happened.

They said Ebola would spread across the country because President Obama allowed American Ebola patients to be treated in the US. The outbreak never happened. Only three people contracted Ebola in the US and all three survived.

They said President Obama would open our borders to illegal immigrants. Wow, were they wrong about that. Under Obama, we set new records for most illegal immigrants stopped at the border and sent home.

They said Obama would drive up the Federal budget deficit. That didn't happen. Obama cut the $1.4 trillion deficit he inherited by two-thirds.

While someone could no doubt find instances where Democrats engage in over-the-top rhetoric, nothing compares to the consistently false and erroneous claims made by the GOP in recent years. When a political party has been so dismally wrong about nearly everything over the past 30 years, that party should lose all credibility.

My hope is that in the future when Americans hear Republicans make predictions about Democratic policies that are doomed to failure, we will remember the fact that they have been utterly wrong about virtually everything they've predicted in recent years.

Questions & Answers

Question: Why Should we have accepted Obama’s new normal? Failed policy!

Answer: This article proves beyond any doubt that Obama's policies were an undisputed success which set new economic records for recovering from the failed policies of the Bush Administration.

Scott Belford from Keystone Heights, FL on June 17, 2020:

Interesting point of view - blaming independent-minded Americans for Clinton's win. What a novel idea, letting non-partisans pick our president, lol.

Rjor on June 17, 2020:

In 1991 ussr collapsed, and in 2002 usa had financial crisis, not even mentioning 9/11

Let's explain what you are doing, I trow stone, and it start racing, wow, I'm wizard

Thats the way you think

In 1991 ussr collapsed, it was the best period of USA when it could stop spending so much for army, and invest in East Europe, in China and capture new markets

3% tax could not change anything

In other hand Bush had 9/11,hurricane Katrina, financial crisis in 2002

Not even mentioning that Bill Clinton won only because independent candidate stole republican voices twice

Scott Belford from Keystone Heights, FL on March 08, 2020:

Great hub, I just tweeted it out.

STEVE on March 08, 2020:

I HAVE TOLD MY WIFE THIS FOR A LONG TIME. I AM 65 YEARS OLD. I HAVE LIVED AND WORKED UNDER THESE PRESIDENTS. I DONT NEED A GRAPH. I KNOW I DID BETTER UNDER THE DEMOCRATES. LIFE TELLS ME WHO WERE THE BETTER PARTY

Kathleen Cochran from Atlanta, Georgia on November 10, 2019:

And you didn't even have to go back to the damage Reagan did with deregulation or the crimes of Nixon. Why? Why? Why does anyone still vote Republicans into the White House? You'd think by now we would have learned better. Thank you for this hub. (Not that it will change minds, which is why the GOP has put so much effort into gerrymandering. It's how they hang on to power.)

Scott Belford from Keystone Heights, FL on June 21, 2018:

It you switched out the word "Conservative" for "Republican", I could agree with you entirely. But to say Republicans got the 13th, 14th, and 15th or the creation of the EPA wrong, would be incorrect.

Brad on May 26, 2018:

Nothing in this article pertains to Trump, and yet we have people commenting on Trump.

Here is a valid context to make that connection.

#22 The Republicans were wrong about Trump.

Eleanore Ferranti Whitaker from Old Bridge, New Jersey on May 24, 2018:

Trump is his own worst enemy. Yet, he acts as if he is his best champion. His massive business failures, fines and money laundering charge proves otherwise.

Already, there are 8 million Americans without healthcare thanks to Trump. And, oh gee...big surprise, all of our healthcare insurance coverages have increased in cost.

But, here's the real skinny. When those 8 million who were able to get healthcare insurance lost theirs, that meant that there was a LOSS of 8 million people PAYING for their healthcare insurance and 8 million people getting healthcare from an ER.

As to Trump's policies on immigrants, already in MD, they are complaining about loss of migrant workers who pick through crabs. CA lost migrant workers on some of the biggest farms.

Once we get rid of Trump, it is going to take a genius to get this country back on its feet economically.

But, Ryan will keep Trump in if he has to glue Trump to his backside so that Trump will shut down SS, Medicare and Medicaid. At which point, seniors will shut Ryan down literally.

Sam Montana from Colorado on May 23, 2018:

#2 is my favorite, and is still today conveniently forgotten by all Republicans.

james D'Amico on April 22, 2018:

Pres. Reagan created the highest deficits in history in peace time. He inherited 6.6% unemployment after Pres. Carter then drove unemployment to 11.3% in 1983. In 8 years no real accomplishments.What is so great about that?

Jeff B on March 01, 2018:

Biased -

Both parties have their faults and people of each party are susceptible to greed and corruption but the conservatives in the Republican Party are notoriously wrong almost all the time as this article points out.

Leslie McCowen from Cape Cod, USA on March 01, 2018:

And if you think they are both the same...ditto.

There are miles of difference between them, and its why we cant ever get along.

Biased on February 28, 2018:

If you leave out the words Democrat and Republican and instead say politicians, you'd be more correct. You're trying to push the notion that GOP is wrong and bad and Democrats are right and good. That's plain stupid. Both parties have made mistakes throughout history. If you really think one is better than the other, you're stupid as hell.

Jean Bakula from New Jersey on August 21, 2017:

I doubt the R's will ever admit to anything good Obama accomplished. They still don't admit he kept us out of a Depression of the R's making.

Angel Guzman from Joliet, Illinois on July 19, 2017:

The truth hurts. Great article!

jeff61b (author) on November 24, 2016:

So Sad -

Perhaps the title of this article didn't give it away, but this is an opinion piece. It expresses opinions and supports them with facts.

I encourage you to write your own article if you think Democrats are just as bad.

So sad on November 23, 2016:

The real problem with this article is that it mixes up the facts with the opinions. Many of these complaints are simply partisan criticisms. There are certainly a few gems in here. But too much is unproven complaints or cherry-picking the most extreme quotes when most people had more realistic expectations.

And of course, Democrats say lots of stupid things too. Come on! Share the love!

Leslie McCowen from Cape Cod, USA on November 23, 2016:

yeah, well its a heavy price we will pay. and me personally, have just about had it. there are other countries not infested with imbeciles.

their grip is too strong here.

Eleanore Ferranti Whitaker from Old Bridge, New Jersey on November 23, 2016:

This never was about Hillary. Although, it never hurt that being a female Democrat, she is perceived as sloppy seconds to bully Republican men.

What the US right wing and these loud mouth rabble rouser NeoNazis forget is that there no WAY they will force foreign countries to bow down and kiss their feet.

Every time a certain misguided element of society begins to believe in its own autonomous power, they inevitably end up with people calling their bluff.

Stacking the cards against the Dems is what the GOP does best. They've done it for the past 8 years when McConnell said, "We will make Obama a one term president." Failed didn't they?

The problem with crooks and greedy people who begin to think their power is limitless is that they are heading off a cliff.

Once you factor in that the ONLY way the Republicans could win the election was to rig it in the Electoral College, you see that their options were so few that they were forced to stoop lower than they ever have. Getting back up on their pedestals now is going to be like climing Mount Everest in the dead of winter.

Sometimes in life, bullies never learn until we force them to fail.

Leslie McCowen from Cape Cod, USA on November 23, 2016:

yes. all the swing states were hacked, to give trump the electoral win.

pennsylvania is the one they really blew it with. everyone knows thats a true blue state...they had to make us believe loyal dems flipped to trump cause hillary was such a bad candidate.

sanders helped with that one.

and now look--hes the one serving up oppsition to trump with his infrastructure bill.

we should be using hillarys!

buy boy vs boy is so much more in step with macho usa.

we have been HAD. in a huge way.

"we will destroy them without firing a shot"

putin is now slaughtering people in east aleppo, and netanyahu is demolishing palestinian homes for more settlements.

green light for authoritarian take over world-wide.

they are not going quitely

ewent on November 23, 2016:

Women are not impressed with the childish men these days who strut around acting like they "won" an Olympic medal. Blowback comes when the MAN elected flops like he always does. Blowback comes when the MAN elected is caught in his own web of lies. Don't wonder why women can't trust men who lie.

The election is over and FBI dir. Comey has yet to disclose those DNC emails hacked by the Russians. He knows why.

The truth is the Republicans knew they could NEVER win the election by popular vote. So they figured by distracting the American public with Benghazi and EmailGate, they'd put the MAN elected to good use with his Russian business contacts and take the Electoral College back door to the presidency.

Here's where it all goes wrong. First, Comey said publicly, two weeks before the election, that he couldn't release those hacked emails because "It might influence the outcome of the election." Funny how 11 days before an election, he had no problem releasing "new" Clinton emails he "found." No election influencing? In a Republican pig's eye.

Then, the right wingers and Republicans started their media BS that 45% of women didn't vote for Hillary. Math problem? You bet. 52% of the American population are women according to the U.S. Census Bureau for the last decade. Subtract that 45% from the 52% and these clowns would have us believe only 7% of US women voted for Hillary. Pretty cute little game once you see that the votes 3 weeks after the election show Clinton has 1,650,00 more popular votes than the MAN they "elected."

Then, CrowdStrike who discovered the Russian hacking of those emails also disclosed in their findings that the emails were NOT hacked to find out what the "DNC was up to." They were hacked to gather "information on Hillary supporters and voters." When asked why, their official stated in a TV interview, "to alter or delete votes."

If I wanted to elect a thug, I'd have voted for Charles Manson. But do enjoy the enormous cost of Trump Tower maximum security by NYPD cops armed with AK47s in front of his Ivory Tower Penthouse and on rooftops. The fed is being billed for that. For some of us, there is no joy more wonderful than watching those who think they are so superior and intelligent get just what they asked for.

Manny Laureano on November 22, 2016:

This is ever so much more fun to read after Nov. 8th, 2016

Eleanore Ferranti Whitaker from Old Bridge, New Jersey on September 22, 2016:

I don't think right now there isn't a Boomer Woman alive who isn't enjoying watching the least educated men in this country scrambling to hang onto the barest thread remaining of their blanket of masculine authority.

Most Boomer Women see through the male machinations of men in politics all desperate to blacken ANY woman who dares take that authority and power from them.

Yet, you boys screw up the government every time you open your mouths. And who is it who has always had to clean up after the messes men make? WOMEN!

Now, after 16 years of Boomer Women watching you boys battle it out with each other, squaring off and generally acting like 3 year old brats, we have finally had enough.

And don't think for one second that we don't know why that Hillary Hater undertone comes from men who fear that the day a woman becomes President your MANHOOD will go through gender shock. The same gender bias you men have enjoyed since you all left the Neanderthal caves.

So, to prove that Republicans are going nuts because President Obama not only carried out most of his campaign promises, but he did it with massive spiteful little boy obstruction from Republicans.

So they got Benghazi wrong but were too stupid to know they NEVER had it right in the first place. So now they are trying to impeach the head of the FBI because he won't hand over personal emails of Hillary's from her husband and daughter.

You do have to wonder why they are so nosy that they must know every detail of Hillary's personal life.

Sorry boys. You've put off looking at your own reflection in the mirror for far too long. Boomer Women and our younger generation of women do not accept that we are "allowed" to get an education, "allowed" to vote and all because you boys think you make ALL the rules. NO you don't...Not anymore. Get over it.

Leslie McCowen from Cape Cod, USA on September 22, 2016:

yes, they love to throw out the socialism mantra to distract from whats really going on.

i think the main sign of an iron fist is the shackling and degradation of women.

i saw a video of a muslim woman being stoned to death because she refused to get married...probly to some disgusting old creep. beautiful little girls sold off or given to perverts and peadophiles. rabid male superior ideology.

christians dont stone women, they just accuse them of murdering babies and throw them in jail for miscarriages.

not all muslims, not all christians. just the rabid dog sects.

they rule some countries, and trying to make a place here. prez obama is dead on right. this election is about preserving our ideals and the values we are supposed to stand for.

when the puritans destroyed the kingdom of hawaii native way of life, i imagine it to be a lot like what the tea party and trumpsters are doing here now.

its an iron fist they want. around my neck. i say no. no and hell no. go start a fundamentalist world on the planet mars.

leave our mother earth alone from your raging ideologies.

.

jeff61b (author) on September 21, 2016:

Sgt Prepper-

Creeping fascism poses a much greater threat to our country. It's already taken over the Republican Party.

Gunny Cracker from Elkhorn, WI on September 21, 2016:

Creeping socialism is not only destroying the U.S. of A. but our entire planet. If you have not read documents like the Protocols of the Elders of Sion, the Freemason-Illuminati Covenant, the Bankers Manifesto of 1892, the Jesuit Oath of Ordination and books like "1984", "Superclass" & "Agenda-21" you have no idea what's going on anyway.

Leslie McCowen from Cape Cod, USA on September 21, 2016:

its not god given. its man made. and whoever thought of it has my eternal disdain. how stupid is this all? wars, killing, weapons....all over stupid beliefs. they give you those beliefs TO kill each other, imo.

its a ridiculous paradigm, and thats why its shifting. there will be no martial law, and this killing and bloodshed will be stopped.

and guns are all a part of it. thats why nimrod lapierre want you to arm up. i think that freako gets off on violence and blood.

you do know the bagavhad ghita says you turn into lower life forms by your thoughts and actions.

we are striving to be higher, not lower.

all this talk of negative and bs con stories is dragging us the f down.

cant you people find another planet to scourge?

Gunny Cracker from Elkhorn, WI on September 21, 2016:

Welby - That is why we have our precious God-given right to "Keep & Bear(own and carry) Arms". It is more important now with Moslems, inner-city thugs, rogue cops, militant gays and radical socialists in such abundance and a treasonous usurper in our White House.

It is most important us "deplorables" have firearms of similar caliber to those of military and law enforcement as those are who we will be protecting ourselves from under martial-law.

I hate Big Brother.

Welby,M.D. on September 20, 2016:

Both the Democrats & Republicans are reading from the exact same Zionistic-script for the New World Order under the UN. They will use global-wstming and a supposed worldwide shortage of drinking water to subjegate the population of the earth.

It is like TV-wrestling and the two major parties have been playing good-cop/bad-cop with the American electorate for over a century. Republicans are like Nazis and Democrats are like commies. Together they are slowly ushering in a socialistic world economy.

Jamscene on September 20, 2016:

Hypocrisy! Nothing new. As old as the hills. These Republicans will keep on obfuscating until they pay a price ........... A loss of political power should work but isn't going to happen any time soon. I predict it will get even worse if Hillary is elected.

Eleanore Ferranti Whitaker from Old Bridge, New Jersey on June 26, 2016:

People who are mentally ill always insist they are right. They try desperately to fashion their world to their precepts and ideas of control.

The joke is they don't see themselves as mentally deranged.

I long ago realized the worst danger to our children is to be deliberately fed the most unbalanced examples of right and wrong.

When they insist they are right, children are born with the type of innocence that sees hypocrisy far more clearly in adult behavior than these deranged adults see.

So these contrary, belligerent militants are only dangerous to the most impressionable...our children. This, under no circumstances, can we allow. We may as well let all of the unbalanced out of mental institutions so they can preach the same illusions of truth and fact.

Larry Allen Brown from Brattleboro Vermont on June 25, 2016:

Ewent: You're right of course, but they continue to insist that they are right about everything. And they use fear to scare people into accepting their irrational positions on just about every subject. You can show them where they went wrong as this Hub did, and they will still insist that they're right about the next subject that comes up. They don't recognize their own fallibility. If they did....I suppose they wouldn't be Republicans.

Eleanore Ferranti Whitaker from Old Bridge, New Jersey on June 25, 2016:

I don't buy into ideology. Not when Ideology is tyrannical. Narrow minds breed the most militant minds who seek control through militant behaviors.

Republicans are tyrants. They have always only wanted the government to be based on their ideology. Fact: Go back to the early Republican presidency of Warren Harding. A basically affable, reasonable man. But, thanks to his naviete, his VP Fall tried to sell off public lands to the Oil Barons for pennies on the dollar. If Republicans know they are right, they didn't when Fall's actions set off the TeaPot Dome Scandal.

If they knew they were right, how did Hoover schmooze with Wall Street speculators not realizing they were sliming the savings of millions of Americans who ended up on soup kitchen lines?

If Republicans always know they are right, how did they miss that Viet Nam was a no win situation?

Republicans have been so wrong on so many occasions and always they refuse to take responsibility. Their CEO-like attitudes that they can make decisions and never be wrong is why they are today's most hated people in this country.

Larry Allen Brown from Brattleboro Vermont on June 25, 2016:

Well...you do make some interesting points. Ummm....like 21 + interesting points that are all True. And Truth does matter to some people.

You know...there is one common thread that even the most ignorant person should be able to see. In each case that you point to, the Republican/Conservative argument is based on FEAR. They always predict outcomes and are ALWAYS wrong about their predictions, and when they are in control, we always end up getting screwed. You would think that by now most conscious people would recognize a pattern that is always wrong and always based on FEAR. Republicans are driven by ideology far more so than Democrats. Their conservative ideology cannot be wrong. Of course that would make it infallibly correct. But as a man made ideology we know that each one of us is a fallible human being prone to error, and that means that any man made idea is also prone to error. You can't produce an infallible product from a fallible source. This is why there have been so many versions of Windows coming out of Microsoft.

The difference between the Conservative/Republican and the Liberal/Democrat is that the Republican KNOWS that he's right. The Democrat knows that he could be wrong.

Which one of those is likely to be closer to the Truth? And isn't Truth what should matter most?

We can see this same mindset coming to bear on the Trump candidacy. He's making wild and outrageous statements that are factually false. But they all appeal to fear, and as a con-artist and salesman, Trump knows that Fear is the greatest motivator. That's the "hot button" in America, and if you can scare enough people by fear mongering, you just might get elected President of the United States.

Eleanore Ferranti Whitaker from Old Bridge, New Jersey on June 24, 2016:

nicomp...I've read enough of your contrary posts to know you are totally incapable of critical thought that amounts to anything productive.

The minute The Donald entered the presidential race, he no longer was a "private citizen." He has no right to spew forth the most bigoted, racist and sexist comments. Our 1st Amendment NEVER was intended for scumballs like Trump to just let them yell "fire" in a movie theater. This is what his irresponsible speech does.

As for you, no one expects you to be capable of reason. All you want is your way. Most tyrants and andocrats do. Since this is no longer your world exclusively, and thank God for that, you do have to learn to live in a society that judges YOU by your words and actions. It's called "responsibility."

You right wingers loathe the idea you are held to the same standards of responsibility as the rest of us. However, make NO mistake. At no time will any responsible American EVER allow a man like Trump to pollute our children's brains. Time for nicomp to pack it in.

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on June 23, 2016:

"... But, if he gets away with abuses of the 1st Amendment, then nothing in U.S. Constitution cannot be violated."

Typical Liberal obfuscation. Donald Trump is a private citizen and therefore has no responsibility to enforce or honor the 1st Amendment. The Bill of Rights restricts powers of the Federal government, not private citizens.

Eleanore Ferranti Whitaker from Old Bridge, New Jersey on June 23, 2016:

What it always comes down to in the USA is our children. What we teach them by our behavioral examples, our speech and our desire for them to understand the concepts of honor, respect, unity and right and wrong.

This is where the right wingers lose the ground under their feet. They are the worst examples of honor, respect, unity and have no desire to understand concepts of right or wrong. Their societal breach is their inability to function as part of an advanced society. Hence their objective to take "back" and go "back."

You can be sure that the young children who hear The Donald speak are innately certain he is wrong. But, if he gets away with abuses of the 1st Amendment, then nothing in U.S. Constitution cannot be violated.

Leslie McCowen from Cape Cod, USA on June 22, 2016:

Yeah, unlike Dumpy Trumpy. "Lying, crooked, liar...." If he wasn't smearing people, he'd have nothing to say.

This is what is running for prez. Unflipping believably sad.

Only republicans can glorify hate and venom like they do. YUK and YUKKITY YUK

Oh, and I heard that by loaning himself money, then having it paid back, he could be the 1st in history to profit from running for leader of free world.

Makes you proud, doesn't it?

BARF

hragus on June 22, 2016:

nicomp-The funny thing about people is that if they believe something to be true they do not need any proof. If they do not believe something to be true then no amount of proof would ever change their mind.

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on June 22, 2016:

"Sadly, when a political party is on the take from militants like the NRA, they only prove who and what they are: political prostitutes."

-- Name-calling. The hallmark of Liberals.

Eleanore Ferranti Whitaker from Old Bridge, New Jersey on June 22, 2016:

Truth and facts are not part of the Republican party these days. Sadly, when a political party is on the take from militants like the NRA, they only prove who and what they are: political prostitutes.

In truth, the Republicans have been switch hitters from the start. First, they were southern Democrats who then got their backs up because they lost the Civil War. So they became Republicans. Then, when the Great Depression hit, they knew the Republicans were at fault and again the switch hit to the Dem Party. By the time Eisenhower became president, the Democratic Republicans were not militant, full fledged Republicans again.

With Donald Trump as their front man, looks like a lot of the Republicans will become Democrats yet again. Shows their instability doesn't it?

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on June 20, 2016:

The Dems are a jail cell.

Duane Townsend from Detroit on June 19, 2016:

An excellent Hub.

The proof of this Hub's assertion is the GOP nominee for President, Donald Trump.

The GOP has become a clown car.

Leslie McCowen from Cape Cod, USA on May 08, 2016:

It went wrong for some, was great for others. You cant make blanket statement as if its the truth. Lots of wing-dings born here, too. I personally do not want a flotus w a foreign accent. And def dont want a son-in-law who writes his speeches. Thats just me.

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on May 08, 2016:

"I prefer good ole American born n raised."

Like Hillary and Bill. Nothing can go wrong there.

Leslie McCowen from Cape Cod, USA on May 08, 2016:

Gold plated anything says vapid to me. And i don't consider them pretty. They're European more than anything else. Mom from Scotland, wife a ferner, daughter dual loyalty. EHHHH

I prefer good ole American born n raised. Caring about this country, not stock portfolio or familial obligations to a genocidal gvt

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on May 08, 2016:

" Just look at the vapidity of that family. "

Absolutely: since they are pretty they must be vapid.

Leslie McCowen from Cape Cod, USA on May 08, 2016:

Trump is the false messiah. All the alternet ghouls are showing their false identities. They don't mention Trump's AIPAC speech, as if it never happened. He's a shill, like all of them. They know who butters their bread. Trump is no different. He won't save anything but his patrons who got him out of bankruptcy. Just look at the vapidity of that family. Put your hair in a ponytail once in a while, glampuss. You going to vote for someone called darling? What world you in?

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on May 07, 2016:

Truman belonged to a secret society of typewriter repairmen. Lyndon Johnson used to sneak out of the White House on weekends and attend Beach Boys concerts wearing board shorts and flip flops given to him by the grandfather of Ryan Reynolds, who owned an original photo of what is really in the basement of the Baltimore Public Library. Gerald Ford drove a Chevy.

Gunny Cracker from Elkhorn, WI on May 07, 2016:

Newt Gingrich claims birther-Trump will never become President "because he doesn't belong to ANY secret society".

Neither did Reagan until AFTER his inaugeration when he was made an honorary 33° Freemason. This occurred in the same White House where Warren Harding was sworn into the KKK.

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on May 06, 2016:

I thought he was signaling his home planet.

Leslie McCowen from Cape Cod, USA on May 06, 2016:

Hmmm, so that would include Trump. He does the 666 hand-sign all the time. With BOTH hands. At same time!

Looks like the free masons have their man.

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on May 06, 2016:

Pepper, did you know that Richard Nixon's dog walker bought his daily newspaper from an Italian-American who once lived next door to the third cousin of the guy who invented Toaster Strudel? It's true.

Gunny Cracker from Elkhorn, WI on May 06, 2016:

FYI - all male CEOs of Fortune-500 companies are Freemasons. Secret Societies control EVERYTHING from party politics to the mass-media. They have long controlled what is being taught in public schools and universities. They have set out and succeeded in destroying the family.

And now they are continuing to ruin our nation starting with the Constitution and ending with the economy. It is just too bad those Moslems didn't start that great fire in NYC or DC instead of in Alberta.

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on May 05, 2016:

"And, there is not one CEO who lives in a ghetto or slum and drives a jalopy. oooh how the truth hurts."

Pointless, but true.

No duck lives in the back of a TV set. No french fry ever landed on the moon. Very few telephones win the lottery.

Eleanore Ferranti Whitaker from Old Bridge, New Jersey on May 05, 2016:

Oh how naive people east of the Mississippi River tend to be. Don't you people EVER leave those cowboy, mutton chops or corn pone states? First of all, anyone who lives in the Metro Area of NY/NJ, knows how tied into the rich these auto manufacturers are. There is not one union member earning what a CEO does. And, there is not one CEO who lives in a ghetto or slum and drives a jalopy. oooh how the truth hurts.

Kelly Wallace from Boise, Idaho on May 05, 2016:

The auto union attracted new residents and left many destitute after pulling out. It's a big factor. And none of that is related to tax on the "rich."

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on May 05, 2016:

" Flint's revenue problems began with the collapse of the auto industry."

@Kelly wallace -- watch "Roger and Me" : Flint was in distress long before NAFTA.

Kelly Wallace from Boise, Idaho on May 04, 2016:

Nice try but Flint's revenue problems began with the collapse of the auto industry. And for that you can thank NAFTA and the Pan Asian free trade agreements. That has nothing to do with "tax cuts to the wealthy."

Leslie McCowen from Cape Cod, USA on May 04, 2016:

Workers and people who have money to buy things.

Flint Michigan, tax cuts to wealthy, no money to run gvt, must cut services, let people drink poison water.

THIS the result of profits. Casualties of war.

Kelly Wallace from Boise, Idaho on May 04, 2016:

In the same way lower oil prices result in lower prices at the gas pump and more money in consumers pockets, tax cuts do the same thing. That money is spent on the economy and businesses have more profits. Profits are the mother's milk of stocks as well so investment increases. This all generates jobs. What in your estimate does create jobs if not this?

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on May 04, 2016:

"EGTRRA resulted in at least 6 million new jobs and by other estimates, almost 10 million."

So, by letting people keep more of their own money, jobs resulted. Hmmmm...

Kelly Wallace from Boise, Idaho on May 04, 2016:

I didn’t expect a full blown “circle Jerk” post on Hub Pages circulated from other posts. You’re setting up straw man arguments that you then bash with previously thought out talking points from the democratic platform. Let me rebut:

1. You’re taking things out of context. A normal ploy by the left. The actual quote can be find here:

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a19...

Regan said in 1962 that “Medicare Will Lead to Socialism, Destruction of American Democracy.” “The government will begin constructing an entire raft of socialist programs under compulsory government programs that will lead to the destruction of American democracy. “The doctor begins to lose freedom.”

How true. It’s exactly what we see with doctors choosing to accept or not accept Medicare patients, and now Obamacare, because the reimbursement levels are abysmal. The point here is not that covering the elderly is bad, it’s how you deliver that promise. Letting the free market economy provide ANY service is always more effective, efficient and more financially sound.

2. Here, you’ve copied ideas from others that are all over the web. Here is one that’s almost verbatim:

https://plus.google.com/+OleOlson/posts/cudqzcxmoy...

How did the economy grow under Clinton? It came about in spite of the ’93 increase. Lower government spending as a share of GDP, approval of NAFTA and the WTO, welfare reform and farm-subsidy reform were all policies that boosted the economy.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements...

3. EGTRRA resulted in at least 6 million new jobs and by other estimates, almost 10 million. By 2007, the deficit was down to $160 billion, less than 15% of Obama’s deficits today. Total federal revenues soared from $793.7 billion in 2003, when the last of the Bush tax cuts were enacted, to $1.16 trillion in 2007, a 47% increase.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/12/0...

4. What a pant load. Congress doesn’t even know the difference between automatic and semi-automatic weapons nor the difference between assault weapons and hunting rifles. The Brady bill had ZERO effect besides background checks. Millions of guns are produced every year. Think about it. They will make their way into criminal hands regardless.

http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/news/2003_spr/coo...

5. Actually they found plenty of chemical weapons and yellowcake, the material needed to make fissile material.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/07/iraq.uranium/

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/worl...

6. The war took less than a month. You’re confusing post war occupation with persecution of the war.

7. Waterboarding is something that certain U.S. servicemen must endure in training. It lead directly to capturing Bin-Laden and man al-Qaeda operatives.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135981/Wh...

8. There is no question that the world is a much dangerous place since Obama took office. We’ve had a multitude of attacks on our soil. ISIS has grown exponentially. We’ve created a nuclear arms race in the middle east with the Iran nuke deal, and destabilized two more secular regimes in Libya and Syria. We’ve created a vacuum that has been filled by Russia.

9. The two economic stimulus bills spent billions with NO permanent jobs created. Government doesn’t own the means of production. The only thing it can do is create public jobs on the backs of the free market taking from the private sector. Zero sum game. Now Clinton proposes new economic stimulus spending on infrastructure, a favorite buzzword of the left, ignoring the abysmal effect of the first stimulus bills claiming it didn’t go far enough? Doubling down on failure.

10. Both Obama and Clinton, upon realizing their failure to protect Ambassador Stevens and his staff, came out with a false narrative that a You Tube video incited the attack. Simply a lie. The person that created the You Tube video, by the way, is still in jail.

11. Deregulation is just banking? Many democrats believe Bill Clinton’s payoff to repeal Glass-Stegall caused the meltdown. What actually is the case is that Frank-Dodd forced private lenders to make risky loans to minorities under the rubric of income inequality and guaranteed backing by Fannie and Freddie. To avoid what they knew were risky loans, they wrapped them up with other securities, derivatives, and sold them off.

12. Once again, bovine scatology. ACA co-ops are failing nationwide, and perhaps by design to force everyone into a single payer healthcare system. It’s killing jobs directly in the insurance industry, the health care industry and on large employer groups that must pay double and triple premiums. Increased costs are always passed on to employees in salaries and jobs. Americans have not had a pay raise in 16 years. Our labor participation rate is at Carter levels. Any growth we’ve had has been rebound since the recession but at a much slower rate than normal.

13. The price of gas has gone down IN SPITE of Obama. Fracking has turned America from a net importer to exporter. Saudi Arabia, in an effort to bankrupt frackers, flooded the market with oil. Obama, has prevented offshore drilling, destroyed the coal industry, prevented fracking on public land and has blocked the XL pipeline as a favor to Buffet who benefits by charging .50 cents a barrel for transportation. The pipeline would cost .05 a barrel.

14. Here we have a two term president still blaming Bush for his economic woes. Again, following a recession, you expect a snap-back. That has happened but much slower that in historical standards. The unemployment rate is 5% that ignores everyone that’s dropped out of the market. The more accurate labor participation rate is at 62%. The economy is growing at a job killing 1.5 to 2%. We have a record number of people on food stamps.

15. See above. By the way, is a family making $250K in the 1%?

16. Obamacare is the biggest tax increase in American history. You are now FORCED to buy insurance or pay a penalty. And our national debit now sits at 20 trillion dollars. Guess what happens when our interest rate goes back to normal levels? The debt servicing goes from 7% to 20% of GDP. Result, must raise taxes.

17. It’s called supply side economics. 80% of jobs are in the supply chain and manufacturing. When you gown business and supply, the result is competition, supply and consumption. Reduced costs to job creators benefit employees directly.

18. This again shows your lack of understanding of what is causing the price drop in oil. Saudi Arabia spending million buying our congressmen and lobbyists. See 13. Any this is not the Republican talking point. They said it would provide jobs (true), and help us be energy independent (true).

19. This is another false left talking point. Congress is instrumental in passing fiscal bills and most the time, we have two different parties controlling the presidency and the senate. However, under past administrations (Coolidge, Kennedy & Reagan) that have provided economic stimulus in the form of tax cuts, the result has been economic growth and job creation.

20. When you don’t allow market forces to determine wages, the result is cost cutting. There is a price you’re not willing to pay for a hamburger. If you are honest about this then you can be honest about the need for businesses to cut costs, including hiring, automation and reduced benefits.

21. Ack! You’re apparently not even aware that our President will shrink the U.S. Army to pre-World War Two levels. Our Navy is smaller than it's been since 1917. Our Air Force is smaller and older than any time since 1947.

Gunny Cracker from Elkhorn, WI on February 19, 2016:

Just the simple obvious fact Bathhouse Barry's named & legal(biological?) father was NEVER an American precludes this usurper from being a natural born citizen. Cruz, Rubio, Santorum, McCain(born off-base) & Jindahl are illegal too.

Bloomberg and Bernie Sanders both are or were dual-citizens with Israel making them illegal presidential candidates as well.

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on February 19, 2016:

@Austinstar - so you differ with your fellow Progressive?

PS: For those following along at home, AustinStar is a rare Progressive/Liberal/Democrat who can disagree without becoming disagreeable. A breath of fresh air on the far left.

Lela from Somewhere near the heart of Texas on February 19, 2016:

nicomp - I think we have had enough of capitalism. Let's try some Democratic Socialism!

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on February 19, 2016:

@Austinstar , unless you dispute his birth-date, BHO was born after Hawaii became a state.

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on February 19, 2016:

"Since the passage of Medicare, capitalism has thrived in America and millions of elderly Americans have had longer, healthier lives and greater personal freedom."

If capitalism is thriving then we should have more of it. Hmmm... dichotomy.

Lela from Somewhere near the heart of Texas on February 19, 2016:

Mcain was born on U.S. soil (military base) to two American natural born citizens.

I cannot believe that some people are still so stupid as to believe Obama was born in Kenya, or that Hawaii isn't a state. STUPID!

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on February 19, 2016:

"I think men like you are the AntiChrists."

"The only devil is in your own conscience..."

Ahhhh , the personal attack. It's the hallmark of Progressive thought.

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on February 19, 2016:

@LoveMyChris -- because he was born in Hawaii, that's why.

Leslie McCowen from Cape Cod, USA on February 19, 2016:

Yah nicomp...I know. But how come McCain didn't matter? And how come Cruz doesn't matter? But Obama did. They all claimed he was ineligible cause he was born in Kenya. How come? (don't think too hard--your brain might explode!)

Eleanore Ferranti Whitaker from Old Bridge, New Jersey on February 19, 2016:

It is obvious to anyone reading Sgt Prepper's post that he cannot accept truth and facts. I think men like you are the AntiChrists.

Your posts prove that the most guilty consciences among us go off the beam hatefully to absolve themselves of guilt. So, your kind can't stand anyone who is high minded and honest. The only devil is in your own conscience...You need professional help.

Gunny Cracker from Elkhorn, WI on February 18, 2016:

Kenyan-born Obama IS The Antichrist and Jesuit Pope Francis is his False Prophet. Allah is just another name for the Devil.

Eleanore Ferranti Whitaker from Old Bridge, New Jersey on February 18, 2016:

Jeff...You might as well post to a huge boulder. Facts are lost entirely on those who live in a world of denial. One only wonders how they defend themselves in courts of law..rofl.

jeff61b (author) on February 18, 2016:

Sgt Prepper

The video of "Doctor" Alan Schecter is hilarious. He actually said Obama's parents told him they were going to take their newborn son to Hawaii so he could become the first Communist President of the United States.

How can you not see this is satire?

jeff61b (author) on February 18, 2016:

Sgt Prepper

I saw the video of the interview with Obama’s grandmother.

In the video the conservative radio interviewer was talking to Obama’s grandfather’s third wife (who is not Obama’s grandmother) by phone through an interpreter. At one point he misunderstood what the interpreter said and thought he said Obama was born in Kenya. The interpreter corrected him and very distinctly said Obama was not born in Kenya.

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on February 18, 2016:

" Medicare remains the most popular form of health insurance in the United States."

Cocaine is popular too.

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on February 18, 2016:

"We KNOW Cruz born in Canada...he's still running for prez! "

Completely irrelevant. but OK. John McCain was born in Panama. We let him run.

Leslie McCowen from Cape Cod, USA on February 18, 2016:

Yes, but even if true, why would it matter? We KNOW Cruz born in Canada...he's still running for prez! Either it matters, or it doesn't. Cant be a partisan/race thing, can it? lolol

Yeah, THAT never happens. Obama's mom American: end of story. Right? Or else Cruz is playing a fast one on all America.

Gunny Cracker from Elkhorn, WI on February 17, 2016:

Dr. Alan Schecter said "I Delivered Baby Obama In Kenya" and Grandma Sarah Obama was present. See it all on YouTube and www.BirtherReport.com

Eleanore Ferranti Whitaker from Old Bridge, New Jersey on February 17, 2016:

Sgt. Prepper...Perhaps, you need to realize that you are in denial and you are a certifiable hateful bigot. You forget one thing. When any baby is born, there are doctors, nurses, anethesiologists and intake clerks who are in attendance. Are you calling them liars too?

A man like you who lives in such hateful denial is a pathetic figure who cannot hope to call himself a patriot or an American.

Your posts grow ever more bizarre. Booze is not a good way to end your life.

Gunny Cracker from Elkhorn, WI on February 17, 2016:

That forged Hawaiian Birth Certificate on the White House website means NOTHING. You have been duped. In 2008 Lucas D. Smith smuggled a certified copy of Obama's actual original Birth Certificate out of Kenya. You can say this usurper was born in Hawaii all you want but saying it is so does not make it so. Even his Social Security number is stolen. The man is a complete fraud.

PS - the only Hawaii BHO might have been born in is Hawaii, Kenya.

Eleanore Ferranti Whitaker from Old Bridge, New Jersey on February 17, 2016:

Sgt. Pepper...There is one thing wrong with your theory that President Obama isn't here legally...He was born in Hawaii, his birth certificate has been thoroughly vetted by not just the hospital he was born in but also the state of HI.

Any intelligent man knows that unless you prove in a US court of law what you post, it is a lie and subject to libel and slander. You live in WI as your post indicates. You have THE worst governor in the entire United States. Scott Walker is the epitome of a dictator. So tell us...are all WI men as bossy, overbearing and autocratic or is it just that a cheese doodle state with so many cheese rings is causing brain damage?

In the words of President Truman, "The Republicans have always been the party of special interests and always will be." Enough said.

Gunny Cracker from Elkhorn, WI on February 17, 2016:

Cruz, Rubio, McCain, Jindahl, Obama and Santorum all are, or were, ILLEGAL Presidential Candidates due to the fact none of them are "natural born" citizens of the United States. In fact BHO isn't even here legally. A natural-born citizen was born on U.S. soil to BOTH parents being American at the time.

Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg, Joe Lieberman, Al Franken, Diane Feinstein, Barney Frank and Barbara Boxer are, or were, dual-citizens with ISRAEL, hello?

McCain was born in a local non-U.S. gov't clinic in Panama.

Eleanore Ferranti Whitaker from Old Bridge, New Jersey on February 17, 2016:

Sgt Pepper...Uh...I think you would be much better served by asking the Canadian Texan when he received US citizenship...you do realize that Cruz was born in Calgary Alberta and that in Canada, your mother's birth country matters little if you run for office?

The US Constitution is clear..you must be a natural born citizen..Cruz is neither..Hawaii is President Obama birthplace and it is a US State. Calgary Alberta is a foreign country.

As for right to bear arms, how conveniently you omit to include WHO the US Constitution considers "militia"...try Article I, Sec. 8...Congress shall have the power to "call up, arm, discipline and fund" the militia." Nice how men like you can futz up the interpretation to suit your childish need to play Rambo.

Gunny Cracker from Elkhorn, WI on February 17, 2016:

Republicans are nazis & Democrats are commies. They are BOTH reading from the exact same script for a New World Order under the UN with Kenyan-born BHO at the head. They have been playing good-cop/bad-cop with the American electorate for over a hundred years. Socialism will be the worldwide economy and Jesuit Pope Francis, the False Prophet, will lead the universal religion. They will make Sunday the Sabbath. Allah is just another name for the devil.

"Keep & Bear" means own and CARRY for such a time as this.

FYI -In the 2000 election Gore's people stole Florida and the Bush people retroactively cheated to get it back. Only the Bible is true. John 3:16-18

Eleanore Ferranti Whitaker from Old Bridge, New Jersey on February 17, 2016:

Actually, the real trail of the mess with Bush winning in 2000 goes as far back as the coalition between GHWB, Cheney and Rumsfeld when all 3 were part of the Nixon administration. Cheney and Rumsfeld have always been best buds.

When all is said and done, the GOP realized after WaterGate that never again would they allow ANY president to make his own decisions. So, then CIA head, GHWB worked his magic for his party and presto chango...Reagan, Gov. of CA already in the 1st stages of Alzheimers was the perfect foil for the newly created "back room" presidencies.

With GHWB on a secret mission to delay the release of the hostages in Iran, if that turned out badly, the GOP would have blamed it all on Reagan's medical "condition."

By the time Kinder Gentler to Corporations GHWB took office, his VP emissaryship granted him enough leverage with the GOP to run for president. Reagan had a 2nd term recession...Bush '41 had one and only one term and a recession.

But trouble was already brewing by 1994 when Cheney lusted for the White House and the presidency. When the GOP viewed Cheney as all too much the free flyer Nixon was, they refused to put Cheney out front. That didn't stop Cheney, by hook or by crook he would be in the White House as a back room president his party had already created.

So, Cheney took a job at Halliburton, a top 5 US business with billions in government contracts. He became a Halliburton CEO in 1996 and the back room deals flew off the conference table like there was a cyclone. The deals centered around Halliburton supplying a war...which was to become the Iraq war.

By 1999, Cheney turned up as Bush's VP choice and the rest is Cheney masterminded history. Halliburton got the Iraq war and a no bid contract in 2003. Cheney sent Bush around the country marketing the war for 18 months and 9/11 was the ideal event to insure war in the Middle East. See? And you all thought the boys didn't know how to game the system. You also see why with the Halliburton deal Bush HAD to win in 2000 and 2004. In the end, Halliburton earned over $350 billion from taxpayers for supplying mostly garbage to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Leslie McCowen from Cape Cod, USA on February 16, 2016:

Yes, which is why they had to throw the 2000 election. Bush HAD to win, so PNAC agenda could go forward. They already asked Clinton to regime change Iraq. He refused, as would have Gore. Bush was their man. And now gets kudos for "keeping us safe", when he and the rest of those bums murdered 3,000 on that day.

Its quite a hard pill to swallow day after day.

Gunny Cracker from Elkhorn, WI on February 16, 2016:

Jeb's mother, Barbara's, real-father was allegedly the beast Aleister Crowley of England. www.rense.com/gene ral77/acrow.htm Jeb's father, George Herbert Walker Bush, used a fake-name to enlist in the Navy. Jeb's grandfather Prescott was really George Scherff Sr and was very likely responsible for Nickolai Tesla's death. George Scherff Jr(GHWB) was always getting into trouble in Tesla's lab and was the model for the cartoon "Curious George". http://www.prolibe rty.com/observer/2 0070405.htm However the most disturbing aspect of the Bush-family is that several of them(GHWB, GWB, Marvin, Jeb & cousin Wirt Walker) were involved in the orchestration and cover-up of the 9/11 "attacks ". www.911truth.org

j on February 02, 2016:

just because they can not predict the future does not make them wrong about everything

democrats have made some horrible choices for this country that you are choosing to be blind to

nicomp really from Ohio, USA on January 29, 2016:

I love that BHO has been in office over 7 years and people still stew over where he was born. Let it go, folks.

I guess it's one issue that we can't blame on Bush.

Gunny Cracker from Elkhorn, WI on December 01, 2015:

Obama's parents did not have to be born in the U.S. for him to be a legal presidential candidate. They just needed to be American citizens at the time. The birthplace in Kenya is also a deal-breaker.

Eleanore Ferranti Whitaker from Old Bridge, New Jersey on December 01, 2015:

I see. Another Sgt Pepper edict or gospel of righteousness and indignation that anyone not born in the US is not considered an American. I don't consider you an American. You hate the government, hate the president, love crooks like Bush and Cheney who cost you $6.7 trillion for Iraq and counting and then you have the gall to pretend that swaggering and drawling "ignernts" are the ONLY Americans?

Funny how I worked with a Brit who served in the US Army on dual citizenship. Let me guess your Big Daddy Mutton Chops owned a plantation where free labor made him rich, rich, rich, and now you hate to be reminded of your crooked ancestry?

Gunny Cracker from Elkhorn, WI on November 30, 2015:

Cruz, Rubo, Sanders, McCain, Jindahl, BHO & even Santorum are NOT eligible to even run for President.

A “natural born Citizen” of the United States is a child born in the USA of two (2) U.S. Citizens. The parents can be Citizens by Birth or they can be Citizens by Naturalization after immigrating to the USA. But to create a “natural born Citizen” of the United States both parents must be Citizens at the time the child is born in the USA. See this legal reference book used by the founders and framers of our Constitution: Law of Nations or Principles of Natural Law, Vol.1 Chapter 19 Section 212, Emer de Vattel, 1758-1797.

The overwhelming majority (probably 85%+) of citizens in the United States are natural born Citizens. This clause was added for future presidents as a national security clause. It is from the group of natural born Citizens that our founders prescribed in the presidential eligibility clause in Clause 5, Section 1 of Article II of the U.S. Constitution that we shall choose a President and Commander in Chief of our military as a strong check against foreign influence via birth allegiances on the person in that singular and most powerful office. One needs all three citizenship legs to be a natural born Citizen and have sole allegiance and claim on you at birth to one and only one country — the United States: 1. Born in the USA. 2. Father must be a U.S. Citizen (born or naturalized). 3. Mother must be U.S. Citizen (born or naturalized). Like a three legged stool if you take away any of these three citizenship legs of the Article II constitutional intent and requirement to being a natural born Citizen, i.e., being born with unity of citizenship in and sole allegiance to the USA, the child is born with more than one country’s citizenship and claim of allegiance/citizenship on them at their birth and thus they are NOT a natural born Citizen of the United States. And as in the analogy of a stool designed to stand on three legs and it is missing a leg, it falls down, likewise the person’s claim to natural born Citizenship fails if the person does not have all three citizenship legs required to be a natural born Citizen at the time of their birth.

Leslie McCowen from Cape Cod, USA on November 15, 2015:

Please show me the proof of selling parts.....this is one i see repeated all the time. But from what I can see--it's Glenn Beck, Klannity-Hannity gobbledegook

Please tell me anything Republicans were right about.

Louisiana Patriot Banner from Lafayette, LA on November 14, 2015:

There is not enough time to recount the misrepresentations in this article. Clearly, to any thinking person, Republicans have not been "wrong on everything." (I know you meant to include the butchery and selling of baby parts at Planned Parenthood that only Republicans have fought.) And for every Republican who was "wrong on everything" there were five Democrats who wouldn't get out of his way. Republicans were also wrong about unvetted mass migration of refugees into countries, right?

Shelley-Laysi on October 03, 2015:

The best damn Fact piece I've seen this year!! Freakin Awesome!! Thank you.. I think I'm in love LOL

Tessa Schlesinger on September 30, 2015:

Your hub has been shared. Great information! :)

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Eleanore Ferranti Whitaker from Old Bridge, New Jersey on August 19, 2015:

Look, only the states who have all too heavily invested in fossil fuel energy production and industries are not facing reality. There is NO reason today for the use of any fossil fuel other than perhaps, the airline industry. And, even that is already looking into solar powered planes.

The problem is that the US has buried over 1.6 million miles of underground pipelines that are aging and will cost hundreds of billions in just a few decades from now. Will oil, gas or coal still even be used then?

The fact that these states are too heavily invested in antiquated forms of energy and refuse to even consider obsolescence, is ridiculous. They'd rather spend our tax dollars on multi-billion dollar oil spill cleanups, force non energy producing states to pay out heavily to keep air, water and soil from being deadly polluted and then they spend another cool tens of billions to lobby on K-Street to keep their businesses in existence.

Right now, North Dakota is hot to make a deal with TransCanada Oil to pipe dirty Bakken oil to Canada. This should be expected from an industry on its last leg.

As for coal, I would love the coal kissers out there to take a good look at that toxic waste spilling from a mine into the Colorado River. CO tried to blame the EPA until the government discovered how many fines that mine received and ignored for over a decade.

This is no different than the substandard equipment Halliburton installed on the Horizon Deepwater oil rig that killed 11 men and caused massive damage to the Gulf. It's no different than the Taylor Energy oil spill of the past 22 years that no one knew about and was kept secret by the Bush Administration.

When you get tired of CONservatives refusing to allow any progress in clean energy and you see countries like Germany with 62% of their energy use in solar, you can tuck your tails between your legs and wonder why the US is so far behind...and thank the Fossil Fuel addicts.