Ohioans Ready To Send Governor Kucinich And His Union Busting Packing

Remember the more than 1.3 million signatures by citizens from the state of Ohio to place a referendum on the upcoming November ballot to recall/overturn Governor John Kasich's (R) and the Republican Party's new Senate Bill 5 which they rammed through and approved to bust up unions in the Buckeye state? Well, over 900,000 of those signatures have been verfied as good to go, and the signatories only needed about 250,000 to get referendum on the ballot. So Ohio voters will now have a chance to repeal Senate Bill 5 this coming November.

All of this is bad news, really bad news, for John Kasich and the Republican Party of Ohio.

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Rachel Maddow looks at just how unpopular Senate Bill 5 is with Ohio voters, and she looks over how this unpopularity is playing out in the polls against Kasich - who is now the 2nd most unpopular Governor in the USA.

Maddow interviews Ohio State Rep Armond Budish (D) who told Maddow Thursday Night, "As people learn more and more about what this union stripping bill does, they get more and more angry. Senate Bill 5 is about not letting people come together and bargain for fair wages, or for safe places to work. When people find out what this bill really does, they hate it.”

Under Ronald Reagan, Debt Ceiling Was Raised 18 Times And In His Own Words, Here Is Why

Maddow reads excerpts from Ronald Reagan's diary and plays an excerpt from one of his speeches giving multiple reasons why the debt ceiling had to be raised as it should be raised now. She then shows us clips and words from current Republican leaders who don't understand what a default will do to the world economy.

If you watch the first 30 seconds, you'll want to watch the whole thing:

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Dark Side Of The Moon With Rick Perry The Loon

Rick Perry is one of the most dangerous men in American politics today. Judge him by the friends he promotes.

The other night, Rachel Maddow's Show presented a series of video clips of Fundamental Preachers who are appearing at this Rick Perry endorsed stadium prayer event in Texas. You know this event. It's the one which Atheists and Agnostics are suing to have Perry stop promoting.

It's the prayer event trumpeted by Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) as a way for God to give new direction to him and other leaders on how to handle terrorists, the weather and the world's financial problems. "Given the trials that beset our nation and world, from the global economic downturn to natural disasters, the lingering danger of terrorism and continued debasement of our culture, I believe it is time to convene the leaders from each of our United States in a day of prayer and fasting, like that described in the book of Joel," Perry said in his open invitation to attend the event on June 3. (Just pay close attention to the short Perry clip and shake your head that God is gonna don his Great Economist hat and set this nation's Economy right.)

Whereas John McCain backpedaled away from Fundamentalist preachers whom he discovered were crazier than a cave of blood sucking bats on crack cocaine, Rick Perry has invited all the other 49 governors in the USA, and the Obama Administration, to attend this prayer hoedown led by a bunch of unhinged, unsound, unzipped minds which reside inside the heads of a bunch of moonstruck preachers.

As the assembled video clips on the Maddow Show clearly demonstrate, many of this show's starring Fundamentalist Taliban are engineering a Crazy Train of Thought which is not only embarrassing, but downright sad and scary. (Jim Jones would have felt comfortable preaching at this upcoming event.)

What is worrisome is Rick Perry does not sense anything wrong with any of these preachers:

• One preacher man at the beginning of this clip identifies Oprah as the anti-Christ.
• Another said God sent Hitler to lead the Jews to the Holy Land. He also claims Hitler's most savage soldiers were homosexuals, as homosexuals are amoral and were willing to murder the Jews with no forethought. (This nutbag obviously never heard of the pink armbands forced on homosexual prisoners in the Concentration Camps.)
• Then there's an American reverend who claims the Statue of Libery is an idolatry installed by French Free Masons.
• One of my favorites of these cross sucking loons is this Christian Wizard, C. Peter Wagner, Founder of something called the International Council of Apostles. This man, who needs to be Baker Acted, blames the fall of the Japanese stock market on (and I'm not making this up) the Japanese Emperor having sexual intercourse with a demon called "The Sun Goddess".

There are many other whacky clips here of Armageddonists and the like, but why give you any more descriptions when you can watch these batty prophets do their own thing on video? Remember, Perry not only consorts with these Fundamentalist screwballs, he is imploring the other 49 Governors and the Obama Administration to come on down to Texas and get right with Jayzus and his appointed disciples.

If the GOP runs a Perry/Bachmann ticket in 2012, you can rest assure those Independents who once kicked the tires of maybe voting Republican again will run - not walk - back into the arms of a President who doesn't want to establish a Theocracy in the White House.

Watch this whole clip. It's the most damning evidence that Rick Perry is not the man we want walking around with the codes to launch nuclear missiles and bring about the Judgement Day which so many of his flaky Fundamentalist friends are predicting is right around the corner.

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Sarah Palin Twists Logic . . . And Her Panties . . . In Her Recent Tweet About "Drill, Baby, Drill"

Check this out: Sarah Palin says the oil spill is the fault of Progressive environmentalists.

See, Sarah Palin leaves this tweet on Twitter yesterday:

"Extreme Greenies: see now why we push "drill, baby, drill" of known reserves & promising finds in safe onshore places like ANWR? Now do you get it?"

While Sarah was tripping over her tongue with her panties down to her ankles, leave it to Rachel Maddow to wade in to explain what Palin is trying to do: Palin wants to blame the Deepwater Horizon Disaster on Environmentalists. (By the way, this is the new meme of the Republican Shout Radio and Shout TV Machine.)And her tweet implies the disaster would not have happened had we listened to her and simply "drilled, baby, drilled" onshore in say ANWR.

But that's where Palin, once again, becomes separated from the truth.

Let's briefly set you up for the clip you are about to see and which will make you shake your head, yet again, at the hypocrites in the GOP . . . especially Sarah Palin . . .



Rachel Maddow starts out this video clip with a great edited speech from President Obama who tells it like it is when he talks about the agenda pushed by his opponents, ". . . more tax breaks for the wealthy, and fewer rules for corporations."

President Obama says, "If you are a Wall Street Bank, or Insurance Company, or an Oil Company, you pretty much get to play by your own rules, regardless of the consequences for everybody else."

The President continues, ". . . And now we have a choice as a Nation: we can return to the failed Economic policies of the past, or we can keep building a stronger future. We can go backward, or we can keep moving forward." After which the President says he wants to keep moving forward, and he believes Americans wish to keep moving forward. When his speech concludes, you hear moronic booing in the background.

As Rachel Maddow points out, when you are no longer the party in power, you don't really have one figure head to counter a President who speaks so well. But as Ms. Maddow points out, the Republicans do have Sarah Palin and her twitter account.

At which point Maddow shows a shot of the actual Palin tweet on her monitor. Right afterwards, Maddow deciphers how Palin is telegraphing how she, Palin, was all for drill, baby, drill on land. And then Maddow simply plays one video clip after another which totally destroys Palin, and John McCain, and Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani . . . all of whom, Ladies and Gentlemen, left a trail of videotaped speeches where they all, time an again, said America should be "drill, baby, drill" not only on land but offshore and even "deep waters" offshore.

Just watch the video. Let's see Palin back away from her own videotaped speeches on the campaign trail. And let's see Romney, McCain and Giuliani all shed more crocodile tears for the Gulf of Mexico residents suffering because the GOP, the Party Which Wrecked America, would not regulate the Big Oil companies which pimped their Party.

Big Oil's Groundhog Day of "Deja Vu Land" As Produced by Rachel Maddow

Rachel Maddow completely destroys Big Oil's claim that they've gotten better at drilling for oil offshore. Maddow and her production team put together video clips from a big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico during 1979. The similarities between it and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Catastrophe of today will make you shake your head in disbelief.

Maddow asserts at the close of her show that oil companies have gotten better in only one respect of drilling: going deeper. The 1979 rig blowout in the Gulf was only in 200 feet of water. On the other hand, Maddow says Big Oil has gotten no better at containing the risks of an oil rig failure, as they are still using tried and failed methods from 31 years ago to try and stop today's leak which is 5,000 feet below the surface.

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