Wednesday at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) said the Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump “doesn’t have a proven conservative record” and described him as being “very un-American.” Jeb asked, “We’re a conservative party, aren’t we, the Republican Party?” He continued, “Mr. Trump doesn’t have a proven conservative record. He was a Democrat longer in the last decade than he was a Republican. He’s given more money to Democrats than he’s given to Republicans. It wasn’t that long ago he was for and continues–hasn’t denied I don’t think — the fact he is for a tax on assets. Now this is a really exotic form of taxation. Not tax on income, a tax on assets for people that have more than 10 million dollars in assets, 14 percent. There is no country in the world that has proposed this. It would be
Author: Pam Key
Cruz: I ‘Absolutely’ Back Ending Birthright Citizenship
Wednesday on “The Michael Medved Show,” while discussing Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump’s immigration proposal of ending birthright citizenship, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said he “absolutely” supports ending birthright citizenship adding that has been his position for years. Cruz said, “Absolutely. We should end granting automatic birthright citizenship to the children of those who are here illegally.” He added, “That has been my position from the very first day of my running for the Senate.” Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
Morris: Hillary Believes Obama ‘Orchestrating’ Email Scandal Leaks
Monday on Newmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” political commentator and former Clinton adviser Dick Morris said it was a held belief within the Clinton camp that President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and the president’s chief adviser Valarie Jarrett were behind the email scandal leaks. Morris said, “From the Clinton point of view this is all a set up by Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett, the three of them. Barack hates Bill and Valerie and Michelle hate Hillary. And they are determined not to let Hillary be the next president. This is the gospel according to Clinton. Because they are worried they will compromise the accomplishments, they will triangulate like Bill and I did. I think they believe, and they are basically right, that in the world of Washington you can not have leak after leak after leak from the executive branch in a Democratic administration without
Carville: Hillary Email Controversy ‘Just Stupid Media People,’ Won’t ‘Amount to a Hill of Beans’
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Democratic strategist James Carville discussed Hillary Clinton deleting the emails from her tenure of Secretary of State and wiping her server clean. The long-time Clinton ally and said, “It’s just stupid media people talking to other stupid media people and spinning themselves up on something that’s not going to amount to a hill of beans.” Carville said, “I had to come out because of all the foolishness going on. Mr. Cillizza talks about a total Democratic freak out and then he quotes a guy who talked to a guy. You know, the guy running that sweat shop in Seattle needs to go to The Washington Post and get this place in order. There’s nobody editing this newspaper as far as I can see.” He continued, “Why is she beating every Republican and has better favorability ratios than any Republican running for president? It’s supposed to
Michael Reagan to Trump: Stop Using My Father While ‘Trashing What He Believed In’
Tuesday evening on NewsMax TV’s “Newsmax Prime,” Michael Reagan, son of former President Ronald Reagan, criticized Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for invoking his father’s name while on the campaign trail. The younger Reagan said, “If my dad were alive, what he’d be saying is this: ‘Well, there they go.’ It’s amazing how many of these people, including Donald Trump now, dropping my father’s name to try and wrap them in the mantle of Ronald Reagan. Let’s be honest, never going to happen with Donald Trump.” “These people looking to wrap themselves in the mantle of Ronald Reagan are doing a disservice to themselves and a disservice to my father,” he said. “Wrap yourself in your own mantle, tell us who you are.” “I don’t like and I don’t appreciate the things he says about Jeb Bush, or what he says about Gov. Perry or anybody else,” he continued. “I want
Fournier: Hillary’s Press Conference Was One of the Worst of All Time
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” National Journal senior political columnist Ron Fournier discussed Hillary Clinton’s attempt to address why she deleted the emails from her tenure of Secretary of State and wiping her server clean. He called it one of the worst press conferences he has ever seen. Fournier said, “Where I grew up in Michigan, people have been left behind about it economy for three decades. People have been disgusted by politics for three or four decades. People have been lied to like they are being lied to here over and over again. People have been seeing their government officials play by rules that the rest of them don’t have. They’ve seen the media let them down. That’s why whether Donald Trump last two more weeks or two terms if he doesn’t turn this country around, if he doesn’t give this anger a positive outlet, it’s going to keep growing. And
Salon’s Walsh: Trump Is Everyone’s Crazy Uncle
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Hardball With Chris Matthews,” Salon’s Joan Walsh reacted to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s ISIS plan to bomb oil fields and deemed him to be the “crazy uncle.” Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said, “I tell you, across America in living rooms who have been watching Donald Trump talking about this, someone just turned to a cousin, an aunt, a brother or a husband and said ‘you know what we should do is just bomb the hell out of them’… and then Trump comes on the air and he says exactly what the cousin, the brother, the uncle said 20 minutes ago. That’s the connection. It’s real, it’s authentic. It is what people are thinking.” Walsh said, “He’s saying exactly what your crazy uncle says. You’re right, he says exactly what your crazy uncle says … that is crazy … I’m going too bomb the
Black Lives Matter Activist: ‘We Are in a Terrible War with Our Own Country’
Tuesday on CNN’s “Wolf,” Black Lives Matter organizer Julius Jones said reiterated his view that black lives are very much endangered in the United States. “From the palette of things that we will do, there’s a diversity,” Jones said. “We’ll shut them down, we’ll have meetings, it will — whatever it takes to get Black Lives Matter on the national agenda is what we’re seeking to do. And it’s important to note that folks want to characterize and judge the Black Lives Matter movement in myriad ways but what no one can argue with is that this is a pressing issue. This is a pressing issue. And some people live in a world where it’s just a pressing issue in politics and some people live in a world where it’s actually our kids dying. And so if folks want to inform their own perspective on Black Lives Matter, it’s the urgency
O’Malley: DNC Trying to Cut Off Debate, Turn Primary Into Coronation
Tuesday on Concord News Radio’s “New Hampshire Now,” Democratic presidential candidate former Gov. Martin O’Malley (D-MD) said the Democratic National Committee, by limiting sanction primary debates to six, is “trying to cut off debates and turn our primary into a coronation rather than an exchange of ideas.” O’Malley said, “Until we start having debates, we are instead going to see this year’s inevitable front runner answering character questions from the nineteen people running for the Republican nomination and their Fox News Network. It’s really really short-sighted of the DNC, and I think all of us as candidates have a responsibility not to abide by this silly restriction that New Hampshire only gets to have one debate before the primary. What the hell have we come to as the Democratic Party that we are trying to cut off debates and turn our primary into a coronation rather than an exchange of ideas?”
Hillary to Black Lives Matter Organizer: ‘I Will Talk Only to White People’ About ‘Real Problems’
In New Hampshire last week, members of the Black Lives Matter movement challenged Democratic presidential front-runner former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Black Lives Matter organizer Julius Jones pressed Clinton on the issue of violence aimed at blacks. “There’s not much that we can do to stop the violence against us … Respectfully,” Jones said. Clinton replied, “Respectfully, if that is your position I will talk only to white people about how we are going to deal with the very real problems.” Jones answered, “That’s not what I mean. That’s not what I mean.” Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN