Senator Debbie Sabenow of Michigan was on the US Senate floor presenting a bill she has sponsored that would bring empowerment to towns like Flint to prevent any such tragedy again in the USA. She is asking the US Senate to vote on the bill when the Senate returns. Is that too much to ask of 
Mr. McConnell? To actually do some WORTHY work rather than chronically complaining as if it really matters.

EPA provides guidance documents to help states and public water systems (PWSs) implement the Lead and Copper Rule. The materials below can assist in complying with requirements of the Rule.

Where is Snyder's Emergency Manager that stood in the breech to COMPLIANCE with the law and EPA's regulator authority?

That man in the background says it all.

Flint — It has become a haunting moment: (click here) Emergency Manager Darnell Earley and Mayor Dayne Walling both tasting Flint River water, a drinking source that eventually led to one of the biggest health crises in Michigan history.
That day on April 25, 2014, when Flint was switched to the corrosive water that would eventually expose its residents to high levels of lead has catapulted both men to testify before Congress Tuesday in a week when others, including Gov. Rick Snyder, are also expected to appear.
But much of the spotlight has been on Earley, the longtime urban administrator and expert who had previously worked in Flint, because he was in charge during the transition from Detroit’s water system to the Flint River while a new Karegnondi Water Authority was built....

The City of Flint has had five separate emergency and financial emergency managers in six separate terms. They all should be called to testify.

There are two different emergency management laws involved with Flint, Michigan's water contamination. The Public Law Pre-Snyder is a far different law than the one instituted by Governor Snyder.
Exactly, THE PRESENCE OF MIND. The EPA was operating on the BELIEF the laws were all that was necessary. The EPA had no indication Michigan's Emergency Manager law threw out the book and completely rewrote the rules.

Section 1417 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) (click here) establishes the definition for “lead free” as a weighted average of 0.25% lead calculated across the wetted surfaces of a pipe, pipe fitting, plumbing fitting, and fixture and 0.2% lead for solder and flux. The Act also provides a methodology for calculating the weighted average of wetted surfaces.

The Act prohibits the “use of any pipe, any pipe or plumbing fitting or fixture, any solder, or any flux, after June 1986, in the installation or repair of (i) any public water system; or (ii) any plumbing in a residential or non-residential facility providing water for human consumption, that is not lead free.”...

The Emergency Manager Law post-Snyder is state law. The federal government can't act like a Bat Out of Hell and begin throwing it's weight around. When the federal EPA warned Michigan about the corrosion there was a certain moral understanding in that warning. The federal EPA was acting from the perspective the federal laws were being enforced, but, with a change of water source there needed to be a modification made to eliminate the corrosion.

As time went on and there was a persistent problem with repeated warnings about the corrosion issue the federal EPA was becoming worried. The NEXT step for the federal EPA was to access the federal courts to gain operating authority over Michigan's EMERGENCY MANGER LAW not the environmental laws. The federal EPA has to receive clear JURISDICTION from a court of law to override the STATE LAW standing in the way of enforcement of the federal laws.

This problem DOES NOT belong to the federal EPA. This problem begins and ends at Governor Snyder's Office. The US/federal EPA did not have the authority to walk into Flint, Michigan and turn the water off unless they had the federal judgement to do that. 

The people in Flint are the ones that asserted their citizen rights under the First Amendment to speak out and find traction to bring about a faster resolve, hence the awareness by the public in 2015.

What is completely astounding is the scope, the poisons and the COMPLETE indifference of the state government. Never in the wildest imaginations did the personnel in the US EPA had idea there was a complete tragedy occurring while they were demanding compliance with corrosion control. They never had the presence of mind to realize how completely out of control Michigan was at the time there were ten deaths and brain damage of children and health problems of the people of Flint. They had no clue and quite frankly if the US EPA received such a letter from the citizens it would be considered a lack of education and/or lack of respect for a Republican Governor. That is just a guess, but, I am sure the US EPA was worried, but, not so concerned they would have expected such tragedy. It wasn't until THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE came to bear that everyone, including the country, had a change in the presence of mind to realize the tragedy that had occurred in the USA by a Governor out of control.

The House hearing today is SELF-SERVING to every Republican on the committee and a complete STRATEGY to shift blame to the federal government (Obama). To some it seems as though the EPA is making excuses, but, the reality OF THE LAW imposed on regulatory personal is acting in STANDARD PRACTICE. In other words, the US EPA knew there was a problem, but, the scope of the problem is not within STANDARD PRACTICE found in other states. That defense by Secretary McCarthy is valid. She can't be held responsible for her actions because she gave Governor Snyder more credit than he deserved. She never thought an American Governor was capable of such malpractice.

When the tragedy was finally LEARNED by the US EPA and the people of the USA at large it was something that set off enormous reaction to save the people of Flint. The entire country was appalled and didn't know exactly where to start except to act in the supply of water to the people. That is when the people of the USA took control and bottled water has been pouring in while the State government remains in violation of US EPA laws. 

At some point the people of the USA have thrown the state government to the dogs and worked with the Mayor and Council to rebuild the infrastructure of Flint. That is not the way USA government is suppose to work. But, people in the USA are great people and they take on problems that should not be theirs. The US House and Senate have yet to adequately address the problem yet alone the tragedy and demanding Snyder to resign. The Republicans in the House and Senate are worthless to the people of Flint. They are leveraging power to shift blame REGARDLESS of the laws.

The governing law is the Lead and Copper Rule which demands, quit correctly, the STATE to be sure the laws are applied and enforced. That is why the US EPA could not take over Flint's water. They DID NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY, by law. They had to move before a court with EVIDENCE to gain authority.

...EPA provides guidance documents (click here) to help states and public water systems (PWSs) implement the Lead and Copper Rule. The materials below can assist in complying with requirements of the Rule.

The current Lead and Cooper Rule is under US EPA review. Just because it is under review due to be written and published in 2017, it does not remove it's brevity. It is STILL the law of the land. 

Perhaps one of the changes has to be a change to federal authority, BUT, that would mean more money appropriated to the US EPA for testing, enforcement AND INTERVENTION. If the US EPA had control over Flint's water it would never have lost the Detroit water. It may be that this experience in Flint is one too many times for the USA. Perhaps the federal authority should be written into the law and monies reapportioned from any state subsidies to the US EPA.

The USA House and Senate should be ashamed of their political strategies regarding the people of Flint. That is another reason why the people have to exert control without the Congress involved. REGULATIONS are correct and have to be applied without challenge. THESE ARE THE LIVES OF THE USA PEOPLE, not an amusement park for Wall Street.

Consider this racial reality.

It is my observation of the Trump white man and the Democratic minorities there is economic IDENTITIES that differ between them that enforces racism.

Where does the Trump white man achieve his economic status? Small family business and supplemented with other incomes such as newspaper delivery or a spouse that works outside the home as well as within the family business. Yes?

The American minorities find success in Wall Street employment such as McDonalds and/or Walmart. Those are simply examples of where they are employed. Why is Wall Street hiring ethnic minorities in the USA? Because of federal law that penalizes them for discrimination. 

Yes? I stand firm on my beliefs and morals, too.

The margins of the USA population is speaking. They should not be dismissed.

Someone stated, "No matter what is thrown at Trump's success it doesn't matter." 

Correct. Why is that?

Why would Americans elect a person that is self-directed to the office of the President of the USA?

The people supporting Donald Trump are somewhat new to the voting process. They were disenfranchised from the benefits of the USA, no different than minorities.

There is a very big difference between the white man of the Donald Trump loyalists and the USA minority populations. The difference of the two is best defined in economics. The white man of the Trump movement works hard, sometimes three jobs, their wives work, they sacrifice time with their family and have resigned to be filled with family on legal holidays, birthdays and religious ceremonies; and if they can fit in a few hours of work on those days they will work.

The USA minorities are different in that their disenfranchisement is caused by race. The USA minorities are excluded from holding down three jobs. Additionally, if an employer decides it would be better to relieve their payroll of minorities it can be achieved by making an excuse in more states than a few and gets away with it. Because USA minorities have exclusive racist problems it places them on the MARGINS with their white counterparts, but, in slightly different reasons. Also, the issue of violence against minorities by the GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE is real. That is a different discussion.

The Donald Trump loyalists and first time voters have invested their lives for decades and even two generations into the Republican message. They believed in it because of it's harmony with their religion. They believed Christians could have a country based in their sole religious identity. They believed that and were told by a Supreme Court that is mostly conservative, that is not the case. They were told by a Supreme Court majority they have longed for with Justices Alito and Roberts; their core beliefs about the USA is wrong. They were told the USA is about freedom and not biased to a religious majority. The court they longed for told them in the private sector there can be leanings or devotions to Christianity or a particular faith. 

The Donald Trump loyalists know where their reality lies and he doesn't dismiss it as part of their lives and disappointment in their country. Donald Trump has been carrying their message as part of his reality for a long time and through several elections. Donald Trump put their values first regardless of any impact on his personal and professional life. Donald Trump carries their reality of the USA with him and respects the US Constitution. 

When people defame Donald Trump through criticism or laughter it is like water off a ducks back and they keep going. I am pleased they have a spokesperson. Now, they want him taken seriously and mean it. When all kinds of strategies are rolled out to impede Donald Trump's victories to the party's choice this year, they won't be a part of that. They will continue on their steadfast path and encourage their hero on to the national race.

I am sincerely happy for them. Donald Trump is right. They a good people and they love their country. They love their country today even with their new reality and that is saying something.

This video for the petition caught my attention.

To begin with, there are no specific facts cited. There are huge generalizations. These are real people with real lives and real children. Things need to be precise. That is not an excuse, it is simply more important than an inflammatory election driven advertisement.

I believe all of the religious in the world are important. Christians are one of them. Additionally, President Obama has been vigilant and involved in decisions to protect small populations of ethnic and religiously ethnic. Do I have to give examples?

President Obama has a tyrant regarding genocide as the US Ambassador to the United Nations in Samantha Powers. Has everyone read her book? It is on my bookshelf. 

Now, if the producers of these genocide videos expect to irritate Americans to launch a war in the middle east, it will only kill more people, especially Christians if that is the focus. The ad tries to indicate the Obama Administration is not doing enough. In fact, there are assets of all kinds dedicated to end the killings, wars and instability in the middle east which is at the core of the problem.

This ad needs to be playing for Prime Minister Netanyahu because he has become a man willing to go to war without restraint for no real reason at all. So, if the people signing the petition are sincerely concerned about Christians in the middle east they need to send their petition to those in the middle east that sincerely have control over the instability and exacerbation of violence.

I believe this political ad is putting Christians in the middle east directly in the path of danger. It should end it's irresponsible content and airings.

There are members of the US Congress that have been making concerted efforts to shift the responsibility for deaths and deteriorated health of Flint citizens to the US EPA and off Snyder.

Congress members seeking to skew the truth and leverage political pressure are as guilty for Flint's peril. The malpractice of Congress should be noted in legal documents.

Washington — The two top-most government officials (click here) linked to the Flint water crisis — Gov. Rick Snyder and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy — will go before a congressional committee Thursday and tell two vastly different stories about how high levels of lead were allowed to leach into homes.
Snyder will say that the contamination of Flint's water supply was a failure of government at every level: local, state and federal.
McCarthy's message will place the blame squarely on the state,  criticizing decisions not only by state regulators but by Snyder's hand-picked officials in Flint, saying if the EPA made any mistake it was having been "so trusting of the state for so long."...

Is the US Constitution respected?

The USA political right wing are disparaging the US Constitution. Wall Street pays well in corrupt donations for elections.

March 16, 2016
By Sherul Gay Stolberg and Adam Liptak
Washington — Merrick B. Garland, (click here) a Harvard-educated lawyer and classic overachiever, was working in lucrative private practice at Arnold & Porter in the nation’s capital when, in 1989, he was offered a position as a federal prosecutor handling criminal cases here. It meant a 50 percent cut in pay and trading a sumptuous office for one that smelled of stale cigarettes.
He jumped at it.
“I don’t know whether he thought it would be good if he were ever going to become attorney general or a judge,” said Earl Steinberg, a lifelong friend who has known Judge Garland since kindergarten and roomed with him at Harvard. “But he viewed it as an experience he ought to get.”...

When an American has obviously dedicated their lives to serving the country it should not be a punishment to his or her career.

In "The Hill" is an opinion that in 2014 the American people have already spoken in 2014 and any Obama nominee is insignificant to the Republican ideologies.

The Republicans have put their agenda first since President Obama took office. This nomination will prove to be a learning experience for those aspiring to the Supreme Court. Why take the tough jobs as Chief Judge Garland did in order to work toward a place coveted by the professionals as a pinnacle achievement. When high standards are disparaged by politics it is a clear indication the wrong people are in office. There is no priority by the Republican Party except their own ideologies. They are in office for the "W"rong reasons.

Conscience finds it's way to Sea World. Congratulations to all.

March 17, 2016
By Joel Manby

...We are proud of contributing (click here) to the evolving understanding of one of the world's largest marine mammals. Now we need to respond to the attitudinal change that we helped to create — which is why SeaWorld is announcing several historic changes. This year we will end all orca breeding programs — and because SeaWorld hasn't collected an orca from the wild in almost four decades, this will be the last generation of orcas in SeaWorld's care. We are also phasing out our theatrical orca whale shows.

Some critics want us to go even further; they want us to “set free” the orcas currently in our care. But that's not a wise option.

Most of our orcas were born at SeaWorld, and those that were born in the wild have been in our parks for the majority of their lives. If we release them into the ocean, they will likely die. In fact, no orca or dolphin born under human care has ever survived release into the wild. Even the attempt to return the whale from “Free Willy,” Keiko, who was born in the wild, was a failure....

The change has come. 

Neglecting animal welfare issues is increasingly risky for businesses -- and their investors.

Anyone who has followed SeaWorld Entertainment's (NYSE:SEAS) (click here) spectacularly sinking share price and related business turbulence knows that the company has faced a tsunami of negativity, and its stock price has gotten torpedoed as it's been slammed in the top and bottom lines. The idea that many consumers are shunning SeaWorld's shows because of animal welfare concerns signals a change in how businesses will have to view their many stakeholders -- even the silent ones....

Judge Garland deserve a vote. He isn't necessarily going to be confirmed. There is opposition to him on both sides.

It would be a crime if Chief Judge Merritt B. Garland is not confirmed into the Supreme Court. He spoke of the fidelity to the US Constitution. He would be qualified to write opinion on the first day.

I appreciate President Obama's successful confirmation of women to the Supreme Court, but, if Judge Garland was his number 3, then it is right Judge Garland take his place.

President Obama has handed the ball to Judge Garland. He needs to make the rounds to speak to the US Senators. He needs to appeal to allies and ask for their vote. He can count and should seek a 60 vote confirmation or as close to it as he can make it.

I am confidence in Judge Garland. I am sure he'll make the connects he has to to move his nomination forward. The country is counting on him. The court needs him. He can do this, I know he can.

Like his potential colleagues Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Samuel Alito, Garland has prosecutorial experience.

In reading through some of his decisions, he is a conservative. He leans into Wall Street over labor unions.

He is already writing Supreme Court decisions:

For a long-tenured judge on a prominent court of appeals, Judge Garland has participated in few cases that resulted in Supreme Court review.  The Supreme Court has not granted cert. in any case in which he wrote the court of appeals' opinion.  Of the seven cases reviewed by the Supreme Court in which he has stated (or strongly implied) a position, the Justices agreed with him in four.

He agreed with George W. Bush about Gitmo. That is very much right of center.

Herman Schwartz, an American University law professor and the author of several books on the Supreme Court and conservative judicial activism, said he found Garland's early acceptance of Bush's Guantanamo Bay policy "very troubling."
"It meant that nothing that happened to those prisoners -- whether it was abusing them or holding them indefinitely -- would ever be subject to the rule of law," Schwartz said. "For the executive branch to have that kind of power over a person is unconscionable. And for a judge to accept the total irrelevance of the rule of law is a betrayal of that judge's obligation to uphold the Constitution and this nation's ideals."

That decision is considered a landmark regarding the detainees.

There is reason for Democrats to think twice about him and the decisions he has made. I think Mitch McConnell is about the most sad Republican today. He makes decisions about people like Chief Judge Garland before he knows who he is to assess for advice and confirmation. McConnell has a chance to put a right of center judge on the Supreme Court that made President Obama swallow a bitter pill in order to nominate him. It only goes to prove McConnell is not competent. He doesn't respect the US Constitution, he swears allegiance to "The Party" before the people. I can't believe McConnell is turning down Judge Garland. That is a Republican for you. I think McConnell can be impeached for the politics he plays on the taxpayer's dime. I mean let's face it, McConnell has sabotaged a perfectly qualified judge BEFORE he was even nominated. That is placing politics before the law and it is an impeachable offense. It is corruption.

HE DESERVES A VOTE!  

March 14, 2016
By Shreeya Nanda

Addition (click here) of lapatinib (Tyverb) to trastuzumab (Herciptin) improves responses in women with newly diagnosed, HER2-positive breast cancer who receive the combination prior to undergoing surgery, suggests research.
The findings of the EPHOS-B trial were presented at the 10th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-10) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, by Judith Bliss, from The Institute of Cancer Research in London, UK....

These two drugs administered together have destroyed the cancer cells. The initial study was successful in 11 percent of the cases. Those are 11 percent of women able to live to be a wife, mother and contribute to our world in a career. 

From the MAYO Clinic 

By Timothy J. Moynihan
HER2-positive breast cancer (click here) is a breast cancer that tests positive for a protein called human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2), which promotes the growth of cancer cells.
In about 1 of every 5 breast cancers, the cancer cells have a gene mutation that makes an excess of the HER2 protein. HER2-positive breast cancers tend to be more aggressive than other types of breast cancer. They're less likely to be sensitive to hormone therapy, though many people with HER2-positive breast cancer can still benefit from hormone therapy.
Treatments that specifically target HER2 are very effective. These treatments are so effective that the prognosis for HER2-positive breast cancer is actually quite good.
Treatments include:

• Trastuzumab (Herceptin)
• Lapatinib (Tykerb)
• Pertuzumab (Perjeta)
• Ado-trastuzumab emtansine (Kadcyla)

In addition, there are several new medications being developed that also target HER2 and are being tested in clinical trials....

Chumlee needs to perform public service and bring drug abuse to an end.

Chumlee has many fans. He should be tapped to create a movement to end drug abuse. He is a popular guy and connects with people when others don't.

March 15, 2016
By Tim Kenneally

“Pawn Stars” (click here) regular Austin “Chumlee” Russell had sizable amounts of marijuana and guns in his Nevada home when Las Vegas Metropolitan Police executed a search warrant on his residence last week, Russell’s arrest report says.

He also, according to the report, has a room in his home referred to a the “Chum Chum” Room, which is equipped with a dance pole.

The report obtained by ABC affiliate KTNV states that a search warrant was executed based on a sexual assault allegation made by a woman. Police arrived at Russell’s home looking for evidence including bedding, trace evidence and swabs from Austin....

Rommel Broom after the failed execution. The execution attempt lasted 2 and a half hours with 18 sticks to establish intravenous injection.

March 16, 2016
By Robert Higgs

Columbus, Ohio – The state can try again (click here) to execute convicted murderer Romell Broom, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The second attempt by the state would not constitute cruel and unusual punishment or violate his constitutional protection against double jeopardy. 

In a 4-3 ruling, the court held that although technicians sought for two hours to access one of Broom's veins to administer a lethal dose of drugs, the constant sticks, while painful, were a preparatory step to carrying out Broom's sentence. 

"The state's intention in carrying out the execution is not to cause unnecessary physical pain or psychological harm, and the pain and emotional trauma Broom already experienced do not equate with the type of torture prohibited by the Eighth Amendment," Justice Judith Ann Lanzinger wrote in the majority opinion....

Mitch McConnell states the political season has begun. It never ended since 2008. Who is he trying to fool?

I am sure Chief Judge Garland feels as though the US Senate has already refused him. He is eminently qualified and there should be no challenge to his nomination and confirmation.

He is even a white man, McConnell. Who knows when you'll get this chance again!

Mitch McConnell celebrates a bigot in refusing to hold a Supreme Court confirmation hearing and vote!

The Late Strom Thurmond was a racist during all his years in the Senate representing South Carolina. He has no legitimacy in 2016. The Senate majority leader bringing up this rule during the time when America celebrates it's first African American president is especially egregious.

Strom Thurmond was a horrible man who denied his African American daughter to his death. A man like this should not be revered by Republicans in a rule that insults our democracy and makes the Supreme Court ineffective.



February 6, 2013
By Mary C. Curtis

Essie Mae Washington-Williams (click here)  lived for 87 years. But, in her own words, she was never “completely free” until she could stand before the world and say out loud that Strom Thurmond, the one-time segregationist South Carolina senator, was her father. That was in 2003, after she had spent more than 70 years being denied what we all deserve – her true name and birthright. “In a way, my life began at 78, at least my life as who I really was,” Washington-Williams wrote in her life story. She has died.

Thurmond’s oldest child — born when he was a 22-year-old man and her mother, Carrie Butler, a 16-year-old black maid in his father’s house – had kept the senator’s secret, an open one rumored about but never revealed when he was alive because, she had said, “He trusted me, and I respected him.” As in the case of Thomas Jefferson, another successful southern politician who was father to black children, stories shared among African Americans were long disbelieved until they turned out to be true....

Merrick B. Garland

President Obama has already nominated two minority women. Judge Garland is in the Court of Appeals, DC Circuit. He could step into the job and immediately render opinion. He is more then qualified.

Chief Judge Garland (click here) has published in the Harvard Law Review and Yale Law Journal, taught at Harvard Law School, and served as President of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States.

He is amply qualified.

Judge Merrick (click here) took on the Chief Justice of the DC Circuit in 2013. 

The "Thurmond Rule" is an illegitimate reason to oppose the nominate of Chief Judge Garland.

Confirmations (click here) in the four most recent presidential election years, especially for district nominees, have been more robust than most formulations of the Thurmond rule would have predicted. Those experiences, though, may have little predictive value for 2012. The shifting landscape of judicial nominations and confirmations, as described in January, makes it risky to look to the past to predict how the increasingly contentious confirmation battles will play out in 2012. Being a “consensus nominee” may have been a ticket to confirmation in earlier years, but it’s difficult even to define the term in 2012, when nominees with little if any opposition still have a hard time getting floor votes. And Republican senators’ objections to the president’s January recess appointments to some executive branch positions may also affect the judicial confirmation process....

Heroine deaths are increasing.

There is less and less pure heroine on the street. It is being laced with other drugs, the latest fentanyl. Addicts should be encouraged to go to methadone clinics to save their own lives. The street drugs, for some reason, are becoming far too dangerous. Why does 'the buzz' always have to be better than the time before?

March 14, 2016
By Paul Walsh

An outbreak of drug overdoses (click here) in the Fargo-Moorhead area, with at least three confirmed deaths, has prompted law enforcement to sound the alarm Sunday about the spreading danger.

At a hastily called news conference, police in Fargo joined their colleagues in Moorhead and other nearby communities to say that they fear the overdoses are being fueled by heroin laced with even more potent narcotics.

The lacing with painkillers such as fentanyl and morphine is making the ingesting of heroin "even more dangerous than it already is," said Fargo Police Chief David Todd.

Moorhead Police Chief David Ebinger said there is a "strong chance there's something more deadly than what we've been contending with up to this point."...

Fentanyl is an opioid just like heroine. (click here) Poor economic conditions escalate the drug use. What follows is theft and then court, jail and prison. Enough of this.

There is a word for it.

Just in case the Republican establishment doesn't get it; stealing the government away from the people for their own purposes is called corruption.

How stupid is the Republican elite who call themselves "The Establishment?"

The New York Times interactive (click here)

First they embrace the Tea Party after the collapse of the Republican Party in 2008 and now they are rejecting them because they are pouting about JEB! They are still in denial they have failed the American people in huge amounts. They have rejected the first African American President in USA history and turned Washington, DC into an extremist's paradise. But, now that their establishment choice has been rejected in huge amounts and an unlikely candidate has taken the lead and held on to it, the Republicans are panicked that their 'go to' guys are on their way off the stage permanently.

Last night the genius Judith Miller on FOX was stating House Speaker Ryan can change the rules of the party a week before the convention. Really? I would expect an Anti-Trump campaign in the Democratic or Independent ranks, but, their own ranks is a laugh better than Saturday Night Live. Gee whiz, their money doesn't buy love anymore.

Donald Trump is running a campaign for President of the United States of America without a single dime from wealthy donors. That is not only admirable, it is a real statement about those that are behind him. They have the high moral road and the Republican establishment are the fools that use the USA for power and not service to the people.

Donald Trump and the Tea Party never rejected the Republicans until NOW. What makes the Republicans think if they turn into militants at their own convention they will succeed? The Tea Party will reject the Republicans and look to their funding sources to back them and bring about the end of the Old Republican Party. If the Tea Party abandons the Republican Convention there won't be enough delegates in the convention hall to elect a nominee. The Tea Party has been progressing through the years since 2008 to take more and more seats from the Republican Establishment that handed the country an economic collapse unlike any before.

It will be really interesting to watch the Tea Party exit the convention hall and finally have the single most strongest Republican constituency to date. They have their nominee and they hold the power. The establishment continues to think they have CONTROL. There are a lot of political PACS in the name of the Tea Party; the Republicans should wake up to their reality rather than living their fantasy.

By David Graham

Tuesday night was a very good night for Donald Trump (click here) —but was it good enough?

The entertainer consolidated his lead in the Republican Party and drove Marco Rubio to drop out of the race. Trump scored a huge win in Florida, taking the state’s 99 delegates and humiliating Rubio, a son of the Sunshine State who couldn’t win at home. But Trump’s failure to beat John Kasich in Ohio will prolong the race—and increases the odds that Trump will not win the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the GOP nomination outright over Kasich and Senator Ted Cruz. Falling short would lead the party to a contested convention with unpredictable and volatile results.

Republicans are left to choose what sort of catastrophic conclusion they’d like for the primary campaign: a Donald Trump nomination? Or a fractious, chaotic contested convention? On Tuesday, GOP voters lurched uneasily toward the latter....            

How stupid is the Republican elite who call themselves "The Establishment?"

First they embrace the Tea Party after the collapse of the Republican Party in 2008 and now they are rejecting them because they are pouting about JEB! They are still in denial they have failed the American people in huge amounts. They have rejected the first African American President in USA history and turned Washington, DC into an extremist's paradise. But, now that their establishment choice has been rejected in huge amounts and an unlikely candidate has taken the lead and held on to it, the Republicans are panicked that their 'go to' guys are on their way off the stage permanently.

Last night the genius Judith Miller on FOX was stating House Speaker Ryan can change the rules of the party a week before the convention. Really? I would expect an Anti-Trump campaign in the Democratic or Independent ranks, but, their own ranks is a laugh better than Saturday Night Live. Gee whiz, their money doesn't buy love anymore.

Donald Trump is running a campaign for President of the United States of America without a single dime from wealthy donors. That is not only admirable, it is a real statement about those that are behind him. They have the high moral road and the Republican establishment are the fools that use the USA for power and not service to the people.
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Tuesday night was a very good night for Donald Trump (click here) —but was it good enough?

The entertainer consolidated his lead in the Republican Party and drove Marco Rubio to drop out of the race. Trump scored a huge win in Florida, taking the state’s 99 delegates and humiliating Rubio, a son of the Sunshine State who couldn’t win at home. But Trump’s failure to beat John Kasich in Ohio will prolong the race—and increases the odds that Trump will not win the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the GOP nomination outright over Kasich and Senator Ted Cruz. Falling short would lead the party to a contested convention with unpredictable and volatile results.

Republicans are left to choose what sort of catastrophic conclusion they’d like for the primary campaign: a Donald Trump nomination? Or a fractious, chaotic contested convention? On Tuesday, GOP voters lurched uneasily toward the latter....