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Wonkblog - White America’s racial resentment is the real impetus for welfare cuts, study says. The study, conducted by researchers at two California universities and published Wednesday in the journal Social Forces, finds that opposition to welfare programs has grown among white Americans since 2008, even when controlling for political views and socioeconomic status. White Americans are more likely to favor welfare cuts when they believe that their status is threatened and that minorities are the main beneficiaries of safety net programs, the study says. The findings suggest that political efforts to cut welfare programs are driven less by conservative principles than by racial anxiety, the authors conclude. T hat also hurts white Americans who make up the largest share of Medicaid and food-stamp recipients. President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have proposed deep cuts to both programs (emphasis mine) .  Skip The demographics of welfare recipients in thr

Ain't that the truth America?!!? Those who don't vote get what they deserve. And now? America suffers the indignity. Any and All comments welcome.  As long as they recognize the following: Any Comments Containing the Following Will Be Summarily Deleted Upon Detection: Off Topic Content Insults and Personal Attacks Aimed at Any Blogger Comments Containing Profanity or Vulgarity 

Current home of the worlds greatest jester. h/t Progressive Eruptions Any and All comments welcome.  As long as they recognize the following: Any Comments Containing the Following Will Be Summarily Deleted Upon Detection: Off Topic Content Insults and Personal Attacks Aimed at Any Blogger Comments Containing Profanity or Vulgarity

I ran across an intresting article discussing the shifting power currents within the democratic party. The author highlights the power shift away from the Democratic  party establisment to its grassroots to that which occurred in the Republican party following the election of President Obama. The article is insightful as well as well written. It certainly will give more progressive minded democrats (and even liberal independents) a reason to smile, AND, hopefully work that much harder to effect the needed changes in the democratic party that will ultimately result in flipping Congress in 2018 and defeating Trump in 2020. Article intro below. In 2010, enraged grassroots conservatives launched an insurgency against the Republican establishment. The Tea Party movement ran a series of primary challengers accusing Republicans of being insufficiently oppositional to President Obama.  Their insurgency was wildly successful. Within four years, they had picked off a sitting senator an

Then And Now Can the Republican party regain the respect it once had? If so, how? If not, why not? A ny Comments Containing the Following Will Be Summarily Deleted Upon Detection: Off Topic Content Insults and Personal Attacks Aimed at Any Blogger  Comments Containing Profanity or Vulgarity 

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Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had the following words for the graduating class of cadets at the Virginia Military Institute. While not naming Trump or his administration specifically by name there can be little doubt but what his thinly veiled words where aimed in Trump's direction. Free from being responsible to and having to support the boss he likely held little real respect for, he can now do the most good for America and her people by speaking openly and honestly about issues that go to the heart of who we are as a nation. We hope Mr. Tillerson and others intimately familiar with Trump and his administration will began to speak more openly and honestly to the American people about the very real internal threat America is facing from its current POTUS. "When we as people, a free people, go wobbly on the truth even on what may seem the most trivial of matters, we go wobbly on America." If our leaders seek to conceal the truth and we as people become acc

As the white supremacists cheer. Their only problem is their kind is a dying breed. Hopefully soon to be as extinct as the dinasaurs they represent in human form.

Trump is a Republican and we're happy to let Republicans own him. Cartoon by Actor and Comedian, Jim Carrey h/t: Progressive Eruptions , be sure to click on Progressive Eruptions to read the article.

Yes, black votes do matter. And, contrary to GOP beliefs black folks have their own minds. It's the people running conservative think tanks these days and the GOP SHEEPLE that apparently do not.

President Trump, claiming he would love to talk to Mueller has sais the questioning must b "fair" far him to do so. Stating his attorneys have advised him to not speak with Mueller he also said he would override their advise if he could find a way to insure the questioning was "fair". REUTERS - .S. President Donald Trump said on Friday shifted his position over possible talks with U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, saying his lawyers have advised him against any talks but that he would submit to questioning if it was "fair." Trump has repeatedly said he wanted to talk to Mueller, a fellow Republican investigating alleged Russian meddling in the U.S. 2016 election and possible collusion by the Trump campaign. "I would love to speak. I would love to. Nobody wants to speak more than me ... because we've done nothing wrong," Trump told reporters outside the White House on his way to the NRA Convention in Dallas. "But I have to find