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Maher to liberals who didn’t vote Clinton: ‘What do you say now?’ – The Hill

HBO's Bill Maher scolded "liberal purists" on Friday night who didn't vote for Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonGOP braces for healthcare blowback at home Warren Buffett: Trump-style tax cut would benefit shareholders How to fix fractured politics? For starters, watch hockey MORE, asking, to those liberals who couldnt bring themselves to vote for Hillary because she was the lesser of two evils quite a bit lesser what do you say now?

"If Hillary was president now, would we be turning the clock back on the one issue for which there is no more time, climate change? Maher asked on "Real Time."

Do you really think if just-as-evil-Hillary had been elected conservatives would now be in control of the Supreme Court as they will for decades? Just wait until the 5-to-4 decisions start rolling in gutting unions, making it harder for minorities to vote, siding with polluters, overturning abortion rights," Maher argued.

"Then maybe youll join me in saying to the liberal purists: 'Go f-k yourselves with the locally grown organic cucumber.'"

Maher also used Trump's election as a cautionary tale to liberal voters to support the party nominee even if that candidate is "an imperfect friend."

"This isnt about reliving the last election or my great love for Clinton, which never was, but this is about winning the next election, said Maher. And that begins with learning the difference between an imperfect friend and a deadly enemy.

Trump and Clinton had the highest unfavorable ratings in Gallup polling history for any two presidential candidates, with the Republican heading into Election Day with only 35 percent approval rating and 62 percent disapproval.

Clinton didn't fare much better, with 40 percent approval and 57 percent disapproving.

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Liberals mock Obamacare repeal with ‘#ThingsJesusNeverSaid … – TheBlaze.com

Following the House successfully voting to repeal Obamacare and replace it with the American Health Care Act, angry Democrats and liberals took to Twitter to mock Republicans with things Jesus never said.

In fact, on Friday and Saturday the hashtag #ThingsJesusNeverSaid was one of the highest trending topics on Twitter worldwide. At first, the hashtag was used to mock Republicans for allegedly removing the pre-existing conditions provision in Obamacare.

But the hashtag quickly devolved into broader criticisms of President Donald Trump and the Republican Party as a whole.

Users criticized the GOP for being against refugees and immigration, for wanting to replace Obamacare with a market-based solution, for advocating tax reform, for wanting to build a wall on the southern U.S.-Mexico border, among other current American political issues.

One user wrote: #ThingsJesusNeverSaid You have a pre-existing condition, I cant cure you.'

Another added: Build that wall #ThingsJesusNeverSaid.

Even a Catholic priest added to the rhetoric: Blessed are those whose mercy extends only to those who are like them. #ThingsJesusNeverSaid.

But the hashtag works both ways, liberals quickly learned.

Conservatives, Republicans and libertarians on Twitter were quick to hit back with some statements of their own, mostly focusing on the fact that Democrats and liberals alike generally advocate for abortion, which many contend is murder.

While others added other issues to the mix:

https://twitter.com/WayneDupreeShow/status/860840482485809153

It must be noted that despite the liberal outrage, the AHCA is not yet law. In fact, the Senate has not even voted on the bill yet, and its expected they will pass a different version of the law, complicating the law making process.

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Jon Gerrard eyes Manitoba Liberals’ leadership – CBC.ca

Manitoba Liberal MLA Jon Gerrard is considering running for the party's leadership.

Gerrard, the MLA for River Heights, confirmed to CBC Saturday night he has eyes on the party's leadership race, but wouldn't say if it's a done deal.

"It's under consideration and I'm looking at it very seriously," Gerrard said on the phone from the Liberals' annual general meeting in Brandon, Man.

Gerrard said he wants to make sure he considers all the pros and cons.

"I'm in the process and I'm talking with a lot of people here just to get their feedback, should I run should I not? Feedback has been generally positive, but I haven't made a final decision," he said.

Gerrardserved as the party's leader from 1998 to 2013.

Burrows MLA Cindy Lamoureux is the only candidate to announce a bid for the party's leadership publicly so far.

Rana Bokhari took over the party reins for Gerrard but stepped down after losing the 2011 Manitoba election. Judy Klassen is the party's current interim leader.

Klassen, the MLA for Kewatinook, is the Manitoba Liberals' first female First Nation leader.

The Liberals hold justthree of the 57 seats available in the legislature.

Party memberswill vote for their next leader on Oct. 21.

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Why the BC Liberals are sometimes liberal and sometimes not – CBC.ca

If you've lived in British Columbia for your entire life, this article probably isn't for you.

But if you're new to the province, or live elsewhere in Canada, it's a political question you'll inevitably ask: why do people argue over whether the B.C. Liberals are liberals or conservatives?

According toGooglesearch data, the third most common question people ask about the B.C. Liberals is: "Why are conservatives called B.C. Liberals?"and anumber ofcolumns andarticleshave been published on the topic in the last month.

But the reason the B.C. Liberals are an amalgam of people who support the Liberals and Conservatives federally without a fixed ideology in B.C. beyond "free enterprise" has less to do with themand more to do with the NDP.

Because while the names of the parties have changed, B.C. politics have been defined the same way for over 75 years.

"The primary dynamic in B.C. politics goes back to the second World War era," saidDavid Mitchell, a historian who has written multiple books about the province's political history.

The first era of political parties in British Columbia saw the Liberal and Conservative parties trade places in government, much like at the federal level. But when theCo-operative Commonwealth Federation which changed its name to the NDP in 1961 began to rise, the two establishment parties decided to combine forces in a coalition government.

"It was ostensively to have a united war effort, but the reality was the Liberals and Conservatives, the old line parties of that day, bandied together to prevent the CCF ... from forming the government," said Mitchell.

The coalition ruled B.C. from 1941 to 1952, but when itbroke up because of infighting, the Social Credit party under W.A.C. Bennett upended the old order and quickly usurpedthem as the dominant choice for non-NDPsupporters.

Former British Columbia premier Bill Bennett was one of four Social Credit premiers who led B.C. for 36 of 39 years between 1952 and 1991. (The Canadian Press)

"Social Credit then became the small-c coalition of the centre-right,"said Mitchell. "The old Liberals and Conservatives stayed on, but they became minor fringe parties for a couple generations."

First led by W.A.C. Bennett and then by his son Bill, the Social Credit Party ruled B.C. for 36 of the next 39 years.

But by 1991 and with an election looming, the party was mired in scandal, andvoters and businesses who didn't have a home in the NDP began looking for a new option.

"The NDP had come to government in 1991 for the second time, and if not Social Credit, what was going to be the united non-socialist, non-social democratic alternative?" said Mitchell.

Mitchell himself was one 17 MLAs elected under the B.C. Liberal banner in that 1991 election. The formerly fringe party had formally split from the federal organization prior to the election, andbecame the official opposition primarily through the strength of leader Gordon Wilson's campaigning.

WATCH: Gordon Wilson's famous 1991 debate performance

B.C. Elections: 1991: Gordon Wilson's debate triumph3:42

"The Liberals re-emerged as a force in the opposition, but was not yet that vehicle. It took a few years for them to emerge as the single, centre-right alternative," said Mitchell.

It happened over the course of many years for a variety of reasons:the election of Gordon Campbell as leader, the complete collapse of the Social Credit party, and the failure of other options like the Reform Party and Progressive Democratic Alliance to make inroads.

But by 2001 they were the preferred option for all non-NDP voters, and won a historic 77 and 79 seats in B.C.'s legislature.

"The Liberals were anything but Liberal in the large L, centre-left sense ... but it became uniquely in the British Columbia context: necessary to become the single vessel to serve as an alternative to the NDP," said Mitchell.

The party's nameis theLiberals,but they're really the third iteration of what has been the dominant group in B.C. for decades: the sometimes right-wing, sometimes-centrist, always against the NDP, free enterprise party.

It may be why longtime B.C. residents accept the differencewith ease. But it doesn't make it any easier for outsiders to intuitively grasp.

"When people think of Liberals in British Columbia, they need to check their biases about what is a liberal," said Mitchell.

"To be a liberal in B.C. is a very different thing indeed."

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Liberals Are Super Upset About the FCC Going After Stephen Colbert – The Hayride

Earlier this week, Stephen Colberts opening monologue on his late night show was an angry rant against Trump and his treatment of one of Colberts CBS colleagues.

Among other things, he referred to Trump as Vladmir Putins cock holster.Heres a bit of what I wrote at RedState about the rant.

Colbert is incredibly lucky that he picked up hosting duties of a late night show with a majority liberal audience right before Trump became the president. The late night comedians who have decided to make Trump 95% of their jokes are setting themselves up to be one-trick ponies who will be worthless to their networks when the Trump Era is over.

If you are reduced to crappy puns and gay slurs in order to make your viewership happy, youve failed late night comedy and should be ashamed. But, these people know no shame. They know only ratings, and the bottom is going to fall out on them sooner or later.

Well, the news broke recently that the FCC is now investigating the slur, and liberals are all upset about it. The problem, as CNNMoney points out today, is that doing so is the FCCs job.

Despite all of Fridays social media chatter and conflicting news headlines, the FCC is doing exactly what it always does.

Following Mondays barrage of jokes, including one that implied Trump was taking part in a sexual act with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Colbert and The Late Show found itself in the middle of a backlash. Trump supporters felt he had crossed the line, and others said the joke was homophobic.

An FCC spokeman expanded on the issue to CNNMoney:

We review all consumer complaints as a matter of standard practice and rely on the law to determine whether action is warranted. The fact that a complaint is reviewed doesnt speak one way or another as to whether it has any merit.

But, naturally, social media was alight with comments from liberals who said this was a part of Trumps tyrannical plan to suppress any and all speech against him. Because that makes way more sense than the FCC, which hasalways maintained strict rules as to what can and cant be said on air, doing its job.

If there are complaints, the FCC investigates. Thats what it does. But, in their quest to make everything they dont like Trumps fault, liberals are going to say that Trumps administration is doing everything it can to squash public opposition and censor their opinions.

That is nuts, and it should not be tolerated at all.

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