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About That Crazy Cabinet Meeting...by Nate Jackson
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Senate approves 77 Trump nominations
in end-of-Congress deal
by Alex Swoyer
{washingtontimes.com} ~ The Senate approved 77 Trump nominations in an end-of-Congress deal Wednesday night, filling out the ranks of federal prosecutors, ambassadors, the White House science adviser and the post of anti-drug czar — but no new judges... The deal came on the final day of the 115th Congress, with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, standing alone on the chamber floor, reading out the nomination numbers then confirming them by voice vote. The move caps what’s been an extraordinary two years of both unprecedented action and obstruction, and presages battles still to come over the next two years. First up will be a decision for Mr. Trump on some 300 or so nominations that still languish, including more than 85 judicial picks that never saw final action. Under normal rules, all of those will expire at the end of the old Congress, marking a victory for liberal activists who’d warned Democratic leaders against any en masse approvals. Mr. Trump can renominate them in the new Congress, where many will again face Democratic delays. But the president’s backers are getting restless and one of them says he should be more aggressive and flex his recess appointment powers, installing a bunch of picks in the time between the end of the old Congress on Thursday and the convening of the new one... https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/2/senate-approves-77-trump-nominations-in-end-of-con/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=7vwEbDaER1WGGmy7Vc%2Fk%2BiegwwyeUY0WTKQgg%2BwiVqdT9tN8PLByHJwt0f%2FNHan1&bt_ts=1546481069451Dems ready new/old plan for border security
by Byron York.
Republican Chair Goes After Her Uncle rino-Mitt Romney
for ‘Disappointing’ Attack on Trump
by Randy DeSoto
{westernjournal.com} ~ Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel chastised her uncle, GOP Senator-elect rino-Mitt Romney of Utah... for a Washington Post Op-Ed he wrote which is highly critical of President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, McDaniel tweeted, “POTUS is attacked and obstructed by the MSM media and Democrats 24/7. For an incoming Republican freshman senator to attack @realdonaldtrump as their first act feeds into what the Democrats and media want and is disappointing and unproductive.”The GOP chair included Trump’s tweet addressing rino-Romney’s Tuesday Op-Ed, in which the president said: “Here we go with rino-Mitt Romney, but so fast! Question will be, is he a rino-Flake? I hope not. Would much prefer that rino-Mitt focus on Border Security and so many other things where he can be helpful. I won big, and he didn’t. He should be happy for all Republicans. Be a TEAM player & WIN!” In rino-Romney’s scathing piece, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee wrote that Trump’s “conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions this month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office.” “A president should demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity, and elevate the national discourse with comity and mutual respect,” rino-Romney added... https://www.westernjournal.com/republican-chair-goes-uncle-mitt-romney-disappointing-attack-trump/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=libertyalliance&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance.
Liberals Are Off To A Bad Start In 2019
by Derek Hunter
{dailycaller.com} ~ On today’s packed Daily Daily Caller Podcast we can’t help but notice how liberals are not off to the best start for 2019... Utah Senator-Elect rino-Mitt Romney sounded like a liberal when he attacked President Donald Trump’s character in The Washington Post. The 2016 campaign of commie-Bernie Sanders is facing allegations of sexual harassment and sexual violence. More tear gas is deployed on the border. The Women’s March is falling apart as marches are being canceled across the country. Minority lawmakers in New York live large off a charity that doesn’t do any charity work and much, much more. rino-Mitt Romney won’t be sworn in as Utah’s junior senator until tomorrow, but he’s already attacking the president. In an op-ed for The Washington Post, rino-Romney attacks the president as a man of low character, pledging essentially to become the new rino-John McCain — the Republican who spends a lot of time attacking other Republicans to the delight of the media. We dissect rino-Mitt’s complaints. Apparently the 2016 presidential campaign of commie-Bernie Sanders was a rolling party of sexual harassment and violence, according to former campaign staff. What took so long? And what the hell was going on in the commie-Sanders campaign if a group of staffers are coming out with this now? They don’t give any specifics, but they do what liberals always do when bringing these sorts of allegations to light — blame everyone. We tell you how and rip it all apart....
About That Crazy Cabinet Meeting...by Nate Jackson: We’ve written many times about President Donald Trump’s extraordinary record of implementing remarkably conservative policies. Not everything he’s touched is gold, but his record is quite good. We’ve also noted that one of the biggest hurdles to his agenda is that he gets in his own way. That was seemingly the case with his Cabinet meeting Wednesday. The rabidly anti-Trump Washington Post ran what was framed as a news story but was really another editorial in disguise. That said, the paper wasn’t wrong in its lede: “President Trump, 12 days into a government shutdown and facing new scrutiny from emboldened Democrats, inaugurated the new year Wednesday with a Cabinet meeting. It quickly became a 95-minute stream-of-consciousness defense of his presidency and worldview, filled with falsehoods, revisionist history and self-aggrandizement.”
Two comments in particular highlighted the problem with Trump’s freewheeling rhetorical style. Of former Defense Secretary James Mattis, Trump declared, “What’s he done for me? How had he done in Afghanistan? Not too good. … I’m not happy with what he’s done in Afghanistan. I want results.” Then Trump posited, “I think I would have been a good general, but who knows?”
Maybe if Trump hadn’t received five draft deferments from serving in Vietnam we’d see how he compared to Gen. Mattis’s lifetime of dedicated service to our nation. In any case, the commander-in-chief should not be so condescending and arrogant toward career uniformed Patriots.
Trump’s comments about the Soviets in Afghanistan also merit a facepalm. “Russia used to be the Soviet Union. Afghanistan made it Russia, because they went bankrupt fighting in Afghanistan,” Trump said, arguing that’s why American should pull out of long and expensive wars. But the Soviet Union became Russia again because of Ronald Reagan’s successful efforts to win the Cold War.
Moreover, Trump continued, “The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia. They were right to be there.” Wrong. The Washington Examiner’s Quin Hillyer explains why: “The invasion was an application of the Brezhnev Doctrine, which promised the use of Soviet armed force to crush any attempt to roll back communism or attain human rights, anywhere the Kremlin considered within the Soviet sphere of influence. The doctrine was, in a word, evil. Tens of millions of people had human rights, or hopes for them, destroyed, and of course many thousands lost their lives.”
Trump either doesn’t understand this or, as he is wont to do, he gets himself tied in rhetorical BS knots because he rambles — especially when on the defensive.
But never mind all that. Trump asserted, “They say I am the most popular president in the history of the Republican Party.” There are indeed metrics by which that might be true.
A final note: We’re often accused of being “too anti-Trump,” and this piece probably serves as evidence to those folks that we’re no different than rino-Mitt Romney. But we’re also accused of being “too pro-Trump,” which is a good way to remind readers that we endeavor simply to call it like it is. Our mission is to advocate Liberty and constitutional government. When Trump aligns with that, great. When he doesn’t — or when he gets in his own way — we’ll call him out for it. That isn’t “anti” or “pro” — it’s just the truth. ~The Patriot Post
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