Jackson Jambalaya

This craziness is going to end badly. The president of the U.S. is an egotistical brat who never passes up a pissing contest. This means that other people whose jobs are to "support and defend" his presidency end up engaged in silly controversies that only waste time and further divide the country. Eventually one of these pissing contests is going to get really ugly and we will have a national crisis over nothing! Let people like this Cowgirl from Florida go about her business without engaging in her media shitstorm. Act like a President!

ummmm, 5:09,

Obama is no longer the President

Trump lied. Kelly lied. After the initial controversy they should have apologized to the widow and Congresswoman and it would have over with on that day.

5:09 You're right, Obama is NOT the president. Open your eyes.

It's not this BS, but the void of a discussion of national and world news that cause people to attempt hijacks.

Wacky Wilson lied to attack Trump and got called out. Of course, the media is on her side since they hate Trump and middle America. Watch the Republicans pick up seats next year. May even win the Virginia Governorship. America is rejecting people like Wacky Wilson. Roll Trump Roll.

It's hard to defend stupid. Kelly, Pence, and Sanders deserve medals.

Looks like Republicans are going to lose a seat in Alabama.

@ 6:41
You remind me of these talking heads I went to Georgetown with. Super libs that clearly don't understand this country. Sorry. Republicans won't lose the seat in Alabama and will gain a seat in west Virginia and in Pennsylvania where I am from. Your out of your everloving mind! Stop reading the free press and open your eyes to real world experiences. Also gain a seat in North Dakota and you also thought ossaff would win Georgia didn't you. It's unreal how you obviously don't learn from history.

6:36 PM you should look at the video of the federal building ceremony. Congresswoman Wilson did not lie. Trump and Kelly lied.

@6:36 Wilson has all the proof here, no one denies what Trump said or that he hasn't contacted every family of slain servicemen. Additionally when Kelly tried to discredit her, it backfired, when video from the event showed he lied about her remarks.

The real problem is all the idiots that sit around and watch news shows all day long and get hyped up about what the media tells them to.

Twitter is the beginning of the end.

Nice hat. Enough said.

I agree 7:56.
It truly is a nice cowboy hat. Kind has that 1978 Tanya Tucker feel.

However, the Congresswoman's hats do look better than the headgear worn by LaRita Cooper-Stokes.

10:07 proves that these simpletons can't expand their taught process 6:35.

U told you that it wasn't going to be long before you wouldn't be able to find folks who voted for Trump.Whete are his defenders today!

Hey 10:40, can you explain what a "taught process" is ?

I agree with 6:52
The Midwest is gone for the Democrats and Florida as well as long as trump and the Republicans continue to take the Haitian and Cuban vote in large numbers. Tim Ryan the Democrat from Ohio said it best. The Democrat party is a bicoastal party not a national party.

Well, I voted for Trump. As a middle class business owner I felt left out and so did millions of others who are sick and tired of this two party system that's not working. It's a fact that the world woke up when we voted. We are tired of feeding and caring for the ones here who do not work and the rest of the world who expect handouts and military protection at our cost. It's time for a new political party. One that serves it's voters and not lobbyists. The dems are so screwed up it pitiful and the Republican Party completely forgot about the middle class. The republicans can't even get along with one another. It's terrible. We are pissed off and are tired of the left calling us racists because of what we believe in and tired of the rino's standing back and doing nothing, except disagreeing with one another. One thing about the dems. No matter how stupid the issue is they believe in they stick together, such as the Affordable Care Act. Yeah....I got to keep my doctor...Bullsh!!

Hollywood got on the wrong train at the station when they hopped on the "Bash Trump Express". The liberals talk about women's rights while major campaign contributor (s) give money and are known sex predators. Oh, the new mix coming out is who are the pedophiles in Hollywood? The left needs to sit back and take breather because this one is going to be big. But the left think they do no wrong all the while the body count for HRC keeps piling up. The truth is out there. She just hasn't gotten caught...yet....but the uranium might be her kryptonite!

Also don't forget republicans will gain a seat in Missouri currently held by democrat claire Mc. Even some democrats have appeared on stage with trump in there home districts. It truly could be a landslide again for republicans in the midterms.easy to see this as many democrat districts went to trump by double digits. Pennsylvania will certainly unseat Bob Casey

I just love how the same guy, that one guy who believes that Trump and the Republicans will prevail in the 2018 elections, keeps commenting. It's tied right now in Alabama. As Mitch McConnell said, Bannon and his crew has had a lot success picking losers he probably meant Trump too.

To 5:09 PM

Great Post !! Trump is a sick man everyone sees it and knows it. This will not end well !! Stand up Repubs and stop this clown show before it is to late..

Look 48% of the districts Trump won were in districts that are represented by Democrats. Also 46% of those districts voted for obama. Trump isn't a republican. There are a massive number of Democrats that voted for Trump... see Michigan Wisconsin Pennsylvania new Hampshire maine... etc... these are working class people. Also trump endorsed candidates are 5 wins to one loss one loss being Alabama strange loss. Look at the map it's all red except for the birthday coastal areas. Your obviously not up on current political trends. These aren't loyal party voters. They are non traditional voters. Generally democrats that voted republican. Say what you want but you simply can't argue with results. Elections have consequences to quote Obama. Dems are a shrinking party. Trump won voters across the board. The silent majority spoke on election day and we're heard.

I predict Donald Trump will set the record for number of cabinet members appointed and replaced. People like Gen. Kelly will find it impossible to remain sane and keep cleaning up the messes this man insists on making. He's like a spoiled rich kid with diarrhea who won't stop eating tacos but doesn't give a damn because there's always someone following him with the pooper-scooper.

People listen,
Politics have changed rapidly over the past 4 years. Demographics are also changing. States that are traditional Democrat states are now voting Republican. Social issues are the death of the Democrat party. Although trump was the only presidential nominee that never opposed same sex marriage unlike hillary did many times before and Hillary also endorsement the border wall before and Obama signed onto it as senator. Trump won by he ran same platform as bill clinton.

Some of you are indeed correct. Obama is not the president. I would give my right arm to have him back! Essentially the uneducated the gutter crawlers and the racist have elected someone with the class and mental composure and emotional composition of Eric Cartman!

6:41... I noticed you can't use your and you're correctly. What did you do at Georgetown? Sweep floors?

I played baseball at Georgetown and no I didn't sweep floors.

To the guys who think that the country has had some great political transformation, the 2018 elections are going to show just the opposite. The masses will vote against Republicans to check Trump. Even though he hasn't done anything. The next fail on Tax Reform awaits.

Presidents have lied before. Their administrations have lied to cover up their lies.
That isn't new.
What is new is a President that lies over unimportant personal criticisms and then requires those in his administration to support the lies.
What is also new is that even when there is audio and/or recorded proof of the lies, this President has supporters who will ignore the proof (as in this case) and go even further with bizarre attempts to deflect attention from the President's behavior.

The dumbest attempted deflection is that the Congresswoman eavesdropped on the call when the call was on a cell phone on speaker in a car. I suppose she was supposed to stick her fingers in her ear. Are those saying that , that clueless?

And, then we have 8:38 am who just doesn't understand that gerrymandering has affected " the demographics". Nor does she seem to understand that two other parties got more votes than they received in past elections simply because neither the Republican or Democratic candidate seemed acceptable to them. Nor is it understood that some States have less population that other states and the majority vote was not for President Trump. He won the electoral vote, not the vote and the numbers are worse when you look at how many citizens voted against him.

I am very distressed that such a fine military leader as John Kelly has sullied his reputation in this fiasco created by Trump's lie that he has been better at contacting every gold star family than any other President when it's now documented that he has been the worst. Both Trump and the Congresswoman those siding with either, have only added to an unimaginable grief. Lost in this is the ultimate service paid.

But, I'm more distressed that our word, as a Nation, is no longer valued because of this President. We are not only seen as having President that lies without reason, we are seen as a people in chaos with no unity and who have become irrational ourselves. We are the crazy couple neighbors who fight constantly and ignore that their house is falling down around them.

We are no longer seen as a Nation that thought individual freedom was primary and who fought against the intolerance by religions, tyrants and the wealthy in the 1400-1700s. Our Founders were influenced by the Age of Reason and the God they wrote about was the ONE GOD of all religious denominations that had been controlled and corrupted by men. Colonists were Puritans and Huguenots and Papists and Lutherans and Calvinists and Quakers and Deists fleeing from oppression.

And, by the way, they weren't all white Christians fighting for our Independence. Don't believe me? Check out the sites testing U.S. DNA and how many Americans are 1% of a non-Caucasian ancestry ( that'd be our ancestors from the 1600s and 1700s and the numbers get larger) .

Generally, if you can't live in our current century, try not to live in a romanticized century that didn't exist.

Boy oh Boy, Trump doesn't get it, now he's arguing with the widow over whether or not he knew the guy's name. Kelly didn't even dispute that.

The midterms will be a referendum on Trump. Normally, the minority party wins big in midterms. If Republicans hold serve, it will be Yuuuugh. Those of you who ingredients polls, lol. Election Day 2016, " Hillary has a 98% chance of winning". Don't believe these polls cooked up by the Socialists media.

@10:51
"U told u..." & "Whete" Huh?

If you're a Democrat Trump is your fault. You're the ones that tried to ram an openly corrupt candidate down everybody's throat, and still cannot comprehend why the voters refused to vote for her. Dumbasses. Oh it was Russia!!! Give me a break.

" Trump isn't a republican."

I have surprising news for you about the Republican Party's nomination for President in 2016.

The president of the U.S. called the widow of a member of our military who was killed to thank her husband for his sacrifice and try to console her.
How the woman took the phone call is up to her. She could take it as it was meant to be taken or take it as an insult.
The clown woman has no place in the conversation.

Trump may be an idiot, however I don't think he meant to disrespect the fallen Soldiers family. Trump is not used to talking to normal people. He lives in a Differnt world.

God help us all!!!

Black unemployment is at lowest rate in 17 years. Maybe black caucus should look at trump and stop fighting him on every issue. I deity politics is dead. Dead dead dead.

General Kelly's comments were heartbreaking as he explained the advise that he gave the President on making such a call to the widow of a fallen soldier. Kelly has gravitas, honor and a history of superlative accomplishment behind him when he speaks, as a former Four Star Marine General, as a Father of a fallen Marine, and as a man with many dedicated years of service to this nation. I know that his comments were from his heart. I think that the President fully intended to do a good thing, but does not have the gravitas or way with words that General Kelly does. I think that the President's words may have been clumsy and awkward and while not purposely meant to be demeaning, possibly could have been interpreted that way. I thank our President for making the call, to General Kelly for his best advise to the President, and send my deepest condolences to family of Sgt's LaDavid Johnson. To Sgt Johnson I send my deepest respect and thanks to you sir, for serving this country so nobly. Rest in Peace Sir.

I'm confused. Can one of you Trump haters explain to me how all of this controversy was "started" by Trump when all he did was attempt to offer condolences to the widow of a soldier killed at war? Why did this "start" with him instead of with the congresswoman who listened in (unannounced and without permission of BOTH parties) to that phone call then immediately went a public tirade about the POTUS choice of words? How can you NOT agree that SHE started it??? Assuming she truly felt the POTUS was being insensitive (which I doubt) she could have just done what most of us would have done when encountering a tactless person. We shake our heads and say "you know he didn't mean it THAT way". She could have appoached the POTUS, in private, and explained what she heard and how she interpreted it so that he could take steps to clarify his words. Unless, of course, you are a brain dead liberal who actually believes he is such a mean, spiteful man that he chose his words carefully and said them clearly with specific INTENT to be hurtful. Sorry, Charlie, it's not the "Trump defenders" who look stupid on this issue. It's those of you who continue to defend that bitch of woman who disrespected that soldier, his family, the POTUS AND a Gold-star father all for her 15-minutes of fame. Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. Hate Trump is you want to but please pick yourself up out of the gutter for a secong and wipe some of the crap off your hands before you make even your own-self sick.

It's a sad commentary, but even the president's supporters, if they care about this country have to admit he needs to have an apologist and or interpreter with him every time he speaks. Especially on serious issues and foreign policy. You see how he can't be trusted with routine conversations. Sooner or later, we will flirt with disaster.

So is this what passes for intelligence in this country. Kelly was offended because Wilson bragged about getting money to build this building. Turns out she didn't brag about getting the money, she bragged about getting the building named in time for the dedication! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsom_S9yF9g.) For 2 1/2 minutes she shamelessly bragged of how she was able to get the building named in time for the grand opening. As if this was a thing of major importance. So the left claims that Kelly was lying. Go and watch the video. Kelly was not lying. Her remarks were very self serving and highly offensive. The fact that in his memory she spoke about funds while in fact is spoke is about naming, is a minor detail that is irrelevant to the point he was making. His point was she made it all about her. And she did. If you cannot see that my guess is you have not watched the video. Watch this video. The proof is there.

"You're the ones that tried to ram an openly corrupt candidate down everybody's throat"

Of all the reasons not to vote for Hillary Clinton, "she's corrupt, and I hate corruption, and therefore I am going to vote for DONALD TRUMP" must be the stupidest one, hands down.

It's like voting for Joseph Stalin to express your hatred of socialism.

12:46 Yeah you're right, let's continue this back and forth for the next couple of weeks until we finally get to the truth. It's soooo important. Why isn't the FBI working on this? We've got to redeem the president, whenever he speaks. What could be more important than that?

Exactly Anonymous at 12:22 PM! Nothing else to say - moving on.... and on...

11:41 talks as if Trump is a big employer of black people. Did you know that the courts had to make him rent apartments to black people? Trump doesn't care about black people, nor does he care about poor white people. And let's be honest, Trump has a mental problem. He should never be allowed to speak publically, and for the life of me, I don't understand why one of his children hasn't taken his phone and thrown it into the nearest stream, lake, river, or just the gutter. Why can't he just shut up and stop tweeting?

12:29, Why is it that every time Trump opens his mouth, something comes out the wrong way? How long are we going to keep saying "Oh, he's not a politician"? He ran for a political office and won. He's had 10 months to learn to be a politician and to do his job. In any other job his butt would have been fired after three months probation. He needs some professional development in a big way. And it wouldn't hurt if he worked on his reading skills.

Can anyone point me towards this mythical "real" Republican that keeps getting talked about? I constantly see how all Democratic politicians are bad, and everyone calling themselves Republican are really RINOs. Can someone show me a "real" Republican? I'd love to know how to identify one.

General Kelly needs to distant himself from Trump before all his credibility is gone and all his good works are forgotten. If I had known that you could be dumb as dirt and still be president, I would have run for the office years ago. Thanks, Donnie, for proving that dreams can come true and any dummy can be president.

>>>Thanks, Donnie, for proving that dreams can come true and any dummy can be president.<<<

I was before my time had arrived!

Sadly theres no close in politics, only losing and quitting.

I'm proud to say I DID BOTH!

I thought he was going to make me Abmassador of Nambia or Secretary of the VA but all that got ruined when my son got arrested for that domestic thingie. Covefe happens!

3:19. Watch the video. There is no back and forth. She was shamelessly promoting herself. It is very, very easy to see that a person with Kelly's life experiences would have been offended by this. If you think there is a 'back and forth' involved, I would bet $100 you have not watched the video. You may not have been offended, Trump, who is a self promoter, Oboma - another one, they might not have been offended. General Kelly is not a self promoter. General Kelly has had to order men to do things that got them killed. And his own son was killed in service. General Kelly was offended by her shameless self promotion. There was no lie there.

Starrider,
Almost 4 million more voters cast votes for Hillary than the orange malignancy, Drumpf.Wait until Mueller finishes! Let's see who's the most corrupt!

@4:40
Clearly you are unaware Trump was awarded the Ellis Island award alongside Rosa parks and Muhammed ali due to work done for inner city black youth... also was praised by Jessie Jackson in 2002 for his employment and high wages for black workers. He was praised for years as a champion of someone that hired black upper management. Also do some research rather than watch Rachel madcow.

@6:53
I'm assuming your kidding when referring to Mueller investigation as its now being exposed that John podesta and Obama Clinton family were the one in with the Russians and made mad money selling uranium.

This is why I don't watch the news anymore. It's all racist!!! that is all I hear.

Why is Gen. Kelly involved in this mess in the first place? (Pooper Scooper for the pres.) Now he's upset. The family of the deceased soldier is upset. The Florida Cowgirl has national attention. And this pres is stuck on stupid. Yes I voted for him, but I ain't stuck.

Folks don't understand, the majority of the folks who voted for Trump are like 9:40, they wanted to try something different...now they they realize the error of their vote.

I can care less about he said she said because the biggest issue is why were there not enough protection for these service members? While it does appear that Trump did disrespect this fallen soldier family but that’s not the main issue because we need to know what happened in Niger. Trump was briefed about this attack and choose to sit on it. Whenever reporter question Trump about Niger, he ignores them. Trump diversion tactic is working to a T.

"It's not this BS, but the void of a discussion of national and world news that cause people to attempt hijacks."

Pay attention, Goob. The title of the Blog is NOT 'National and World Jambalaya News'.

You're the guy at the Christmas party who walks up to various groups, interrupts and says, "Let's talk about what I want to talk about".

12:29 It's not the condolence call though some might expect a President who has advisors and writers to at least know the deceased name and think in advance how such a difficult call should be made.
The Congresswoman reacted to the content and at that point , the smart thing for our President or his spokespersons to do would be to express horror that President Trump's heartfelt condolences upset the widow.
My concern is that this President instead , made an unfortunate situation worse by bragging with a lie . He attacked former Presidents. And, if that weren't bad enough, he drags his Chief of Staff, a highly respected Marine and Gold Star father, into the fray. And, to our horror, we then watch a national hero ( who I hope was given misinformation about the Congresswoman rather than invented a lie on the spot), have to publicly share his anguish and then attack the Congresswoman with a lie.
This is the behavior of junior high students, not national leaders.
Worse, the world watches and listens. Our allies and enemies assess the strength of our leadership based on their public behavior.
A normal person whose words aren't heard as intended simply says " I'm so sorry. I wish I had found the words that better expressed my intended hope of comfort ." Then , it's over. But, our current President turns tempests in teapots into category 4 hurricanes. That should worry all of us when we consider he speaks for us on all world conflicts that we don't want to turn into major world conflicts but rather want resolved peacefully.
Do you get it now?

When are Republicans going to own up to the fact that Donald Trump ran as a Republican and won the Presidency as a Republican? You bought that lemon right off Smitty's Used Car lot in Chunky, Mississippi; and you can't take it back.

You have people blaming Democrats, you have people talking about the congressional black caucus, but you have no one taking accountability for the massive brain drain this presidency is causing.

Donald Trump doesn't understand the constitution, he doesn't understand policy, he doesn't understand how legislation passes, he's a Level-1 Bullsh*t artist.

This is what makes it even worse, now that we know these things about him, you can't be upset at him anymore or his admininstration, but it's the people that defend his ignorance, his stupidity, his poor behavior. What rational person can defend him? That is whats so scary - it's not him - it's his supporters.

Trumpacrats elected this president in the Midwest and he will continue to win. Even democrats are admitting Trump will win again. Go read your Karl rove and bill Krystal magazine elsewhere. Those days are long gone. Go have lunch with some establishment guys. These people voted republican for the first time ever and they punch the clock for a living rather than dine at the country club. Blue collar voters. Michigan Ohio Wisconsin Pennsylvania etc. Trump country. Your not in tune.

8:42 You mean not in lockstep.

I am telling you that you are out of touch with voters as well as recent voting trends. No other republican candidate would have won the Midwest rust belt. I lived there for 16 years and they are not like the good ole boys in the south. Hard working tough guys family men catholic blue collar men!

Hey ole 5:12, over 60 comments...I think people have enjoyed the discussion.

Echo chamber of 1, 2, 3 at most hijack commenters on this one including the Catfish who uses the psuedo for only half their comments left.

Donner sure could use your energy over at her online funeral parlor.

But thanks for paying the bills!

Still no dice on finding out who is “a real“ republican.

8:42 you talk about the blue-collar people voting for Trump because they punch a clock and don’t believe in the country club establishment types. What, exactly, has Trump done to show that he is a blue-collar type Republican as opposed to a country club type Republican? Because, from the looks of it, this is the most entitled group of government appointees in the history of the republic. Mnunchin’s wife pointing out how much her outfit cost on the tax payer funded private jet to Fort Knox to see the solar eclipse doesn’t really strike me as “blue-collar”.
Price fired for use of tax payer funded private jets doesn’t seem to be very “blue-collar”. Zinke use of tax payer funded private jets to the Virgin Islands and second home in Montana doesn’t seem very “blue-collar“. Can you give me an example of the “blue-collar” actions of this administration that appeal so much to the economically insecure Midwest votor?

@ October 24, 2017 at 8:42 AM

You said, "Trumpacrats elected this president in the Midwest and he will continue to win"

Mississippi is not being left off the hook on propping that som'itch to the White House, Mississippi was a willing and early participant in getting him there!

Mississippi's elected officials that endorsed and stumped for Trump

1. Phil Bryant
2. Lynn Fitch
3. Gregg Harper
4. Cindy Hyde-Smith
5. Haley Barbour
6. Becky Currie
7. Alex Monsour
8. Margaret Rogers
9. Gary Chism
10. Mary Hawkins Butler
11. Steven Palazoo

Donald Trump won the Republican Primary and all the electoral votes from Mississippi.

Goes to show you the kind of characters our neighbors love to see in power making decisions, absent minded bullsh*t artist!? SMH

@ October 24, 2017 at 9:37 AM

"including the Catfish who uses the pseudo(sic) for only half their comments left."

how do you know??? You're listed as "Anonymous" so how do you know what anyone is posting as whenever???

@ 11:00
You only understand Mississippi politics. Those people you listed really don't care for trump and yes the rust belt won it for him as did the Cubans and Haitian population in south Florida as much as the pan handle.

"Mississippi's elected officials that endorsed and stumped for Trump"

Only AFTER he won the nomination. You are clueless.

People need to accept Trump as our president. You do not have to like him.
Think about the people who did not agree when the people elected an affirmative action president.
Trump is the president. That is a fact. He will remain president for this term and probably the next term.
Learn to accept it or it is going to be a long 8 years for you.

10:08
Are you kidding me?
Wow... you haven't a clue about coal miners in WV or Pennsylvania or factory workers in Ohio and michigan. His message of bringing back skilled labor to the Midwest and America first as well as trades over college is all blue collar. Bill Clinton resonated with blue collar voters and trump was the same way. You should have bend there speaking to these people that vote tradionally Democrat or not at all. Union members.steel workers auto workers coal miners etc... do some research about the articles written on it.

@ 11:00
In Pennsylvania alone over 192,000 voters switched from Democrat to republican Trumpacrats
In Ohio over 1 million switched from Democrat to vote republican
In Michigan over 466,000 switched. Yes when I tell you that you have NO clue about politics outside of the state of Mississippi I absolutely mean that. In Youngstown Ohio and Allentown Pennsylvania as well as rust belt counties everywhere they were voting Pennsylvania and several others. Watch and see or do you want to go with the NYT and CNN on the polls again. You should remain quiet or go write for the JFP bc your clearly not informed.

@ October 24, 2017 at 11:49 AM

"Only AFTER he won the nomination."

Bullsh*t! The only elected official that SWITCHED their endorsement to Trump was Andy Gipson and that was because he was stumping for Ted Cruz, along with McDaniels.

Gunn and Reeves were the lone two in major positions that didn't stump for anyone in the Republican primary or General election.

@ October 24, 2017 at 11:24 AM

"Those people you listed really don't care for trump and yes the rust belt won it for him as did the Cubans and Haitian population in south Florida as much as the pan handle."

I understand more than just Mississippi politics. You are missing the point. No one is saying that the rust belt didn't get him elected. But Mississippi is compliant in helping get this dumb ass elected TOO.

I would be happier if Mississippi would have went to Cruz, Kasich, or Bush in the primary, opposed to picking a thrice married, sexual molesting buffon - based on the fact this is a Christian state that belives in family values. It would have shown we have a clear cut position on those values. But all of that went out the window when Trump won the primary and elected officials in our state stumped for him on the campaign.

This place gets the elected officials it deserves.

12:53
Look trump would have won by a landslide even if Mississippi didn't go for him. Our state isn't a key state of much importance in terms of national elections. Juan get over it and be glad we don't have hillary clinton. Stop with this stuff about a molester in WH. Hell... bill clinton isn't in there be glad for that

You're wrong Catfish and too dense to comprehend what you don't know.

@ 12:53
I agree that Mississippi has awful leadership and I voted for trump. However I'm not for the current leadership we have in Mississippi. I was for Dave Dennis... as many other people here in Hattiesburg were.

1:06 There is nothing to be "glad" about. The two party monopoly system has totally failed to provide responsible leadership for this country. We should all be ashamed and upset that this great nation is now led by an egotistical brat who can't even be trusted with a cell phone. We should all now be determined that this crap will never happen again and the next time we have an election we will have candidates who reflect the best we can offer, not the worst! Damn the democrats. Damn the republicans. If they can't do better!

1:54 PM Dave Dennis would have been a good Governor but people like are unelectable in Mississippi.

12:07 thanks for the non answer. So, I’ll ask again. What can you point to that this administration has done, not vapid campaign promises or other such nonsense. Something actually done. Thanks.

1207 here,
This administration has brought back jobs to the rust belt in great numbers. Apple has announced a massive iPhone plant in the rust belt with another to follow. Softball from Japan has announced over 100 million in investment in rust belt for jobs... he has reduced regulations handcuff in coal... goodness country boy do you not ever look into recent events. It's huge what is happening for the lower and middle class in this country. Even black umemployment has reached its lowest level in 23 years. Stop with the non sense. He will win by landslide even greater than 2016 next time.

Also don't forget the 3.2% GDP economic growth under trump first time in 16 years that's happened. The state of WV no longer votes Democrat and will vote Manchin out. This is due to democrats killing coal. Trump has definitely delivered to those in that state and Pennsylvania. Coal is the economic backbone for them. Being from Charleston WV I can speak to that. They will vote trump in 2020 for sure. Also don't forget that new Hampshire went Democrat by about 700 votes and trump will win there in 2020 as well.

More than 6,500 people registered to vote in New Hampshire on Nov. 8 using out-of-state driver’s licenses, and since then the vast majority have neither obtained an in-state license nor registered a motor vehicle.
.....
⦁ 6,540 people registered and voted on Nov. 8, based on presenting out-of-state licenses.

⦁ As of Aug. 30, about 15 percent (1,014 of the voters) had been issued New Hampshire driver’s licenses.

⦁ Οf the remaining 5,526, barely more than 200 (3.3 percent) had registered a motor vehicle in New Hampshire.

New Hampshire law gives drivers 60 days upon establishing residence to obtain a state license.

But more than 80 percent of voters who registered on Nov. 8 using out-of-state driver’s licenses, or 5,313 of them, neither had a state license nor registered a motor vehicle almost 10 months later.

The bigger problem is that Steve Bannon's brilliant plan will continue to work and those of you supporting it have fallen for a sham. You think you will get a "Christian Nation" and small government and capitalism on steroids.
Your freedom has been stolen from you in sentences in bills and changes in Congressional rules while you were arguing over politicians you liked or didn't like and reading propaganda from your party of choice.
What you will get is what the Russians have. A one party system and that means the loss of your vote mattering. Oh, there will be sham opponents with no chance of winning so you can pretend.
There will be no balance of power as all branches of power will be controlled by one party. That means an oligarchy not capitalism because capitalism is all about competition and supply and demand. If a monopoly owns the service or the widget, you will pay what they dictate or do without. You don't get that capitalism is an economic system not a system of government. Government either makes capitalism possible by being in favor of merit or it places wealth in the hands of the individuals supporting the party in power.
Your wages and income will eventually decline more. Those of you who think you are upper class now will find that your businesses and services will be taken over , not by government, but by laws that allow the oligarchs to steal the successful businesses and partnerships you built. You wont be an owner or partner, you will be an employee once you are of no use.
You won't be arrested for owning guns, but for being subversive. Because more laws that protected you from corrupt practices are disappearing while you are reading tweets and believing that executive orders are the same as law. Pence broke the tie on one more protection disappearing yesterday so now Wells Fargo et.al can play even faster and looser with your accounts and you will have to accept what they are willing to give you.
And, it's no accident that the bill on Russian sanctions hasn't been signed. It will be ignored...neither vetoed, nor signed and not acted upon.
If you want to change government, you damn well should have tried to find out what good government and a successful capitalistic economic system looks like and why ours was not working well. You are not fixing what was broken, you are allowing what was broken to get worse. You looked for a political savior or assumed that if everyone went to your church and said they loved the Lord, they would really mean it. What you got was foxes guarding the hen house. It's not what people say, but what they do that is real.
You are no different that the fools on the left who believe that government can solve all their problems and meet all their needs. You both have unrealistic notions of what government is and isn't and what economics is and isn't.
You should have read the details of how Russians didn't get the freedom they wanted.
Of course, there's the chance you'll get what the Egyptians got or the Syrians got.
That McCain, Corker and now Flake can't fight for true conservatism from within the party ought to scare you. You don't think they are conservatives. Look at their actual voting record, not what Bannon tells you it is.
Once politicians stop catering to their party, they speak the truth. Read Goldwater and Eisenhower before and after. But, you won't listen because you never bothered to understand that the political parties stopped putting our country first but rather their power first decades ago.

That McCain, Corker and now Flake can't fight for true conservatism from within the party ought to scare you. You don't think they are conservatives. Look at their actual voting record, not what Bannon tells you it is.

Arizona, Arizona

Tennessee, Tennessee

8:35 You are so right but wasting your time because most people don't have the time or the inclination to think for themselves that far in advance. They want the simplest answer to their simple questions. Their desire for " a Christian nation and capitalism on steroids" is an impossible dream since one cannot exist within the other. Instead they listen to so-called leaders whose plans for the future only encompass their next term in office. After that, who gives a f..k. Both parties only exist for the perpetuation of power among their vested members. When things get bad enough, even the simple minded "people" loose faith in the traditional party. Then a rebellious maverick comes along who sees the opportunity to take power for himself. At first some will see the change as refreshing. But he is even more dangerous than the political parties. At least they kept each other in check. The warning signs are there if you care to look. Germany was too overwhelmed to look.
What's our excuse?

@ October 24, 2017 at 1:50 PM

"You're wrong Catfish and too dense to comprehend what you don't know."

I am so sorry your momma didn't love you. But that is not my problem, go get counseling, I heard St. Dominic does wonders for people like yourself.

@ October 24, 2017 at 1:06 PM

"Look trump would have won by a landslide even if Mississippi didn't go for him. Our state isn't a key state of much importance in terms of national elections."

That's passive aggressive and it removes accountability for what we do as a state. Additionally, it removes accountability on how this state identifies good leadership.

Mississippi still had the opportunity to make a moral and ethical choice - it didn't. To add fuel to the fire, he was some of our elected officials first choise as well. That's a problem.

@ October 23, 2017 at 7:58 AM

"Look 48% of the districts Trump won were in districts that are represented by Democrats. Also, 46% of those districts voted for Obama. Trump isn't a Republican.......................................... There are a massive number of Democrats that voted for Trump... ..... Your obviously not up on current political trends. These aren't loyal party voters. They are non-traditional voters. Generally, democrats that voted republican. Say what you want but you simply can't argue with results. ...................Trump won voters across the board. The silent majority spoke on election day and we're heard."

Trump isn't a Republican and Democrats will no longer exist, and you are excited for an Authoritarian government for what reason?

8:35 1970 is long gone. For the past eight years the left was completely unhinged. Promoting policies that were unrecognizable to middle Americans. Compromise was not to be found in their insane ideas. But Bonner, Mitch, McCain etc behaved as if the other side was being run by Truman and JFK. The people had enough. 17 folks ran for the nomination. Trump and Cruz got 80% of the votes. Out of 17 people the two who were most likely to fight were Trump and Cruz. I voted for Cruz, but in the end I don't think he could have won. Trump got down in the mud with the Clintons. No one wanted to see it. But it's easy to know what we would have if he hadn't - supreme court lost for decades, total federal control of health care, massive federal regulations that pretend to stop global warming but actually just waste billions. I could go on. I think you get the point. Until the left regains sanity, and so far this year they are more insane than ever, the only choice we have is to defeat them. And that takes people who care more about getting the job done than they care about getting reelected.

@ October 25, 2017 at 12:33 PM

"the left was completely unhinged. Promoting policies that were unrecognizable to middle Americans."

Whoa - can we please pump the brakes on the Hyperbole Train!?

Here are some examples of policies the Obama Administration tried to get Congress to work on:

1. Stimulate and improve job safety for workers, through assistance to the States, employees, and employers;

2. enhance programs of assistance to workers with special employment problems, such as older workers, handicapped workers, members of minority groups, and migratory workers;

3. improve the effectiveness of the unemployment insurance system;

4. Protect assets of employee welfare and benefit plans so that workers who are the beneficiaries can be assured of their rightful benefits;

5. Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of Sex;

6. Clarify and strengthen the eight-hour laws for the benefit of workers who are subject to federal wage standards on Federal and Federally-assisted construction, and maintain and continue the vigorous administration of the Federal prevailing minimum wage law for public supply contracts; changing the overtime threshold

7. Extend the protection of the Federal minimum wage laws to as many more workers as is possible and practicable;

8. Continue to fight for the elimination of discrimination in employment because of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry or sex;

9. Provide assistance to improve the economic conditions of areas faced with persistent and substantial unemployment.

How in the hell is any of that unrecognizable to Middle America - especially in a labor state like Mississippi? Especially in a state like Mississippi that leans heavily on the Federal assistance to keep it afloat financially.

You are talking about the left needs to gain sanity!? Hell, the right needs to get a clue and get back to focusing on brick and mortar issues and understanding what Middle America wants and need. Voodoo economics does not work and never will, especially for middle America.