"Problem: Trump Not on the Minnesota Ballot, and It Looks Like He Can't Get On It"

Via Ace: He has until the 29th to put his name on the ballot, but Minnesota rules require the names of ten electors, and ten alternate electors, be submitted as well.

Minnesota didn't officially elect alternate electors.

And some guy says there's not enough time to call a snap convention to elect them.

Renewing suspicions of Trump's seriousness about running... is he really running or not?

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GOP to Colorado: Thanks but no thanks?

Ted Cruz: The Republican Party’s Surrender Politics

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President Obama demands of Congress: fund all of Obamacare, with no changes to help the millions being hurt by that failed law, or he will veto funding for the entire federal government. And Republican leadership backs down. President Obama demands: fund his unconstitutional executive amnesty—or he will veto funding for the entire federal government. And Republican leadership backs down. President Obama demands: give $500 million in taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood, a private organization under criminal investigation—or he will veto funding for the entire federal government. And Republican leadership backs down.

The core of this capitulation comes from Republican leadership’s promise that “There will be no government shutdown.” On its face, the promise sounds reasonable. Except in practice it means that Republicans never stand for anything....

In 2010, we were told that Republicans would stand and fight if only we had a Republican House. In 2014, we were told that Republicans would stand and fight just as soon as we won a majority in the Senate and retired Harry Reid. In both instances, the American people obliged. Now we’re told that we must wait until 2017 when we have a Republican president.

Like Charlie Brown and the football, this disconnect explains the massive frustration with Washington. The American people do not believe Republicans will actually do what we say we will do.

The latest example: When video evidence surfaced depicting the barbaric selling of unborn baby parts by Planned Parenthood, Americans of conscience—pro-life and pro-choice alike—were understandably shocked. People on both sides of a contentious issue agreed that at a minimum, until the results of the investigations are known, the federal government should suspend taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.

Separately, the American people are also understandably horrified by an Iranian nuclear deal that profoundly threatens our national security.

These priorities matter. But leadership’s only question for those who are fighting for the American people is this: How do you get 67 Senate votes to override the president’s veto? If that is the standard, then the Republican position quickly deteriorates to “We will only support whatever Harry Reid agrees to.”....

If Obama forces a shutdown, it’s worth remembering that during the previous government slowdown, operations associated with roughly 80 percent of government spending continued, including pay for military personnel, national security, Social Security and Medicare beneficiaries and everything else federal law deems “essential.”....

If Republican leadership actually tried to win, we would vote on one bill after another funding specific parts of the federal government. Fund it all, and let Democrats explain why they are filibustering funding for vital services to give $500 million to a private organization under criminal investigation.

Unemployment benefits extension, raising minimum wage

I must be serious for a minute. It happens. I'd rather concentrate on things more important to me like perfecting hazelnut toffee and dying 501s bright colors but occasionally I'm compelled to think something unhappy through. 

If GOP were not such elephants stuck in their anachronistic ways they would get out ahead provoking instead of hiding. I just now saw under headlines at Hot Air, House GOP scales back agenda hoping to avert election-year trouble.

Instead of causing it.

That is their elephant stuck in mud problem.

How conservative.

The FED does not belong to Obama Administration, the POUS selects his FED chairman two years into his own term, at this point I am not splitting hairs between what the FED does and what Obama administration policies call for, they could be antagonistic but in this term they are not, so what government does then, as a whole, printed money, by TARP, by so-called quantitative easing I, II, III, they talk like that, that is printing money, holding interest rates incredibly low for incredibly long has the effect down on Earth to dilute each individual dollar. The less dollars one has to work with, the greater the impact of that dilution. 

I see this defense a lot of this economy: The stock market is at an all-time high.

Well yes, Facebook commenter, it had better be. Odd defense coming from a successful businessman like yourself. It is a good thing you own stock, and a lot of it, and diversified too for that to be an advantage for you. Where else is that new quantitative easing money to go? Where do you imagine it eventually ends up? And cost of commodities and services rises according. Most everything is more expensive automatically because of puffy new money. 

It is a Monopoly®™ board script. It even looks so, pretty colors, changing colors all the time, changing portraits. Plays the banker, "Here ya go!" Big pile of money suddenly distorting industries, picking winners, picking losers, folding up the board, taking your play pieces, dice, penalty cards, risk cards, go to jail cards, board, cash and shutting down. Because you flat don't want to talk to your -- what? -- your uncooperative half. The half you'd rather not even recognize. 

GOPs opponents are already preparing to provoke. The GOP recoils and hopes things work out well for them by contrast, instead of provoking. 

Why aren't GOP leaders out there saying, "Hell yes, extend unemployment benefits. We must. This administration fucked up the economy so badly, created so much unemployment it would be cruel to do otherwise. We must make them wards of the State until the American people are freed up to correct this economy."

As to minimum wage, why not? Why the hell not? It's all funny money anyway. Funny fucking money. It's trash, and you are reminded of that every time you touch it. Nobody wants to even touch that crap. It's all numbers at this point. All that extra puffy quantitative easing funny-money MUST go SOMEWHERE  so why not to ...

... me? Give it to me. I'll put some -- where? -- in the stock market. Driving up the cost of companies by driving up demand. The whole thing is fiat currency anyway. That is the ridiculous cartoon state this economy and its currency is in and the farce is now so broadly understood save for Facebook commenters. Hand it over. 

That is what we would be hearing from GOP, that by policies pursued by this Party in power and this specific administration are 

1) the cause of so much unemployment, so much of it unreported, so that even government's own unemployment figures are not trusted. 

2) the cause of that unemployment being extended for so long is ideologic and can evaporate immediately. 

3) the cause of devaluation of money that is available to them. Their wages if they have wages 

4) at this point in the development of the banana republic the money is the same thing as such you would print off yourself at home. Script for a monopoly game, where the board and the pieces and the bank and the jail and the opportunity cards and chance cards, the railroads, public works, hotels and houses, roads, land, air, the whole board, and room the game is played in, the amusing colorful money, are all manipulated by the same entity, so yes, of course, hand it over. 

Try winning an election once in a while.