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Nuke 'em and don't look back
by Joseph Farah
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Why Won’t The Democrats Put
Country Before Party?
by Phil Hodges and Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ What is it with the Democrats? Why won’t they think about the needs of the country before the needs of the party? They have every right to fight against the President on policy issues... But ever since Donald Trump was elected President, Democrats have been trying to delegitimize his election and/or his nascent administration, in other words the federal government. The latest example comes from Senator Christopher Scott Murphy (D-CT) who claims the Donald Trump is merely a puppet of Vladimir Putin. Not only was Donald Trump Putin’s puppet during the presidential campaign, but Russia hacked the election to ensure that liar-Hillary Clinton would lose and Trump would win. And now that Putin got his way, he’s now ‘literally pulling the strings’ of Trump’s administration. Or so says Sen. Murphy. She said in an interview on CNN that Trump’s attitude toward Russia and Ukraine – as evidenced in Trump’s Super Bowl interview with Bill O’Reilly – leads him to believe that the President literally is Putin’s puppet...Murphy is a left wing idiot and doesn't know the truth if it hits her in the face.
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Prosecute the Rioters
by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ From time to time over the years, the eminent historian Daniel Pipes has lamented that treason, not just as a crime but as a concept, appears defunct in the West... The question of bringing treason charges against jihadists has been raised from time to time. Often its very asking proves Dr. Pipes's point: Most radical Islamic terrorists are not American citizens; as to them, treason is not a cognizable offense because traitorous conduct is central to the crime. Even against American jihadists, a treason charge is of dubious usefulness. The 1996 overhaul of federal counterterrorism law codified crimes tailored to terrorism that are easier to prove than treason. The aim of an indictment in a national-security case should be the surest route to the severest sentence. The point is not to teach a civics lesson, regrettable as our education system's default has been in that regard. Yet what is true of treason is not true of sedition. There are charges to bring against those who would destroy our society. They should be brought. Case in point: the University of California at Berkeley...And make sure that we condemn them as well. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/prosecute-the-rioters?f=must_reads
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McConnell SHUTS UP, reprimands
Elizabeth dinky-Warren on Senate floor...
by Michael Dorstewitz
{bizpacreview.com} ~ Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren was reprimanded at Tuesday night’s debate on the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for the post of attorney general... During the Massachusetts Democrat’s diatribe against the Alabama Republican, she began quoting former Sen. Ted Kennedy and Coretta Scott King, wife of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. At that point, she was stopped by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...
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Ted Cruz Teaches Bernie Sanders
a Lesson in Economics and Freedom
by Tyler O'Neil
{pjmedia.com} ~ On Tuesday night, Texas Senator Ted Cruz went head-to-head with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders on the issue of healthcare. Cruz gave Sanders two very important lessons on the issue... one about why healthcare isn't really a "right," and one about the importance of cost in economics. When Sanders asked Cruz point-blank whether "every American is entitled to healthcare as a right," Cruz took him back to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. "Those are rights, you know what the Declaration of Independence said. With this definition of rights settled, Cruz attempted to extend this notion of rights to healthcare. "So what is a right is access to healthcare," the Texas senator said. "What is a right is choosing your own doctor, and if you believe healthcare is a right, why on earth did you help write liar-nObamacare, that cost six million people to have their insurance cancelled and had them lose their doctors, and had people like LaRonda who can't get health insurance, can't afford premiums, you're denying her what you say is her right."... https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/02/08/ted-cruz-teaches-bernie-sanders-a-lesson-in-economics-and-freedom/
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by Joseph Farah
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Nuke 'em and don't look back
by Joseph Farah
{wnd.com} ~ How naïve could Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell really be?
Apparently, according to a number of news reports, he is hesitant to invoke the so-called “nuclear option” to ensure confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.
The “nuclear option” is a simple rules change that allows the party in control of the Senate to limit filibusters and confirm Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices and federal judges more easily.
Why is McConnell reticent to pull the trigger? Because, always thinking like a loser, he fears the Democrats might do the same thing if and when they take control of the Senate again.
How bizarre is this?
Of course the Democrats will invoke the nuclear option! They invented it.
They did it under Harry dinky-Reid in 2013 to make it easier for President Barack liar-nObama to have his way with Republicans. They would do it again in a heartbeat.
The notion that Democrats won’t use all their power when they take control in the future is crazy. Abuse of power is their modus operandi. Collegiality and compromise are not in their vocabulary. They are out to win at all costs.
Donald Trump gets this.
But McConnell is afraid of his own shadow.
It’s this kind of thinking that caused the Republican leadership in Congress to roll over time and time again, never offering even the slightest opposition to liar-nObama’s agenda from 2008 through 2016.
If Republicans in Congress would demonstrate a little backbone, they wouldn’t have to be looking over their shoulder at the specter of losing control of the House and Senate. They’d be the semi-permanent majority. But McConnell and Paul Ryan don’t think like this. Neither did John backstabber-Boehner.
This is what permitted the “fundamental transformation” of America over the last eight years – six of those year while Republicans controlled one or more houses of Congress.
I almost feel like I’m wasting my breath on McConnell. Maybe Trump can get through to him. Democrats will do whatever they can to stall every single key appointment by Trump. To them, the election results of 2016 was the equivalent of a declaration of war. They are digging in, securing their fortifications. They will fight Trump by any means necessary – and I mean any.
Knowing that, why aren’t Republicans using their legitimate power to move the ball forward, to show the American people what they can do, how their agenda is better for the country? Do they lack confidence in their own ideas? That’s OK; Trump has enough backbone and determination for all of them.
This week Trump chided McConnell on the idea of invoking the “nuclear option.”
You would think McConnell is struggling with this simple exercise of political strength as if it meant he was actually going to vaporize all Democrats with a nuclear weapon.
By the way, if Democrats had the chance to do that to the Republicans, don’t think they wouldn’t consider it.
Does McConnell just want to be loved?
It’s never going to happen.
The Democrats don’t even respect him, let alone love him.
Respect is what he should be after. Instead, he has played the patsy.
Look around the Democratic Party today and see if you detect any semblance of collegiality or compromise.
My goodness, the Democrats are at war. They are fighting as if their lives depended on it. If they had 52 votes in the Senate, they might lock up the Republican minority. And here is Mitch McConnell wringing his hands in fear about using his legitimate authority and power to advance the Republican agenda.
It’s sickening.
I admire the Democrats for their tenacity, their commitment, their relentless fortitude – even when they are dead wrong, which is all the time.
Republicans should stop fearing what’s going to happen when they lose power and start delivering results that will keep them in power.
Apparently, according to a number of news reports, he is hesitant to invoke the so-called “nuclear option” to ensure confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.
The “nuclear option” is a simple rules change that allows the party in control of the Senate to limit filibusters and confirm Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices and federal judges more easily.
Why is McConnell reticent to pull the trigger? Because, always thinking like a loser, he fears the Democrats might do the same thing if and when they take control of the Senate again.
How bizarre is this?
Of course the Democrats will invoke the nuclear option! They invented it.
They did it under Harry dinky-Reid in 2013 to make it easier for President Barack liar-nObama to have his way with Republicans. They would do it again in a heartbeat.
The notion that Democrats won’t use all their power when they take control in the future is crazy. Abuse of power is their modus operandi. Collegiality and compromise are not in their vocabulary. They are out to win at all costs.
Donald Trump gets this.
But McConnell is afraid of his own shadow.
It’s this kind of thinking that caused the Republican leadership in Congress to roll over time and time again, never offering even the slightest opposition to liar-nObama’s agenda from 2008 through 2016.
If Republicans in Congress would demonstrate a little backbone, they wouldn’t have to be looking over their shoulder at the specter of losing control of the House and Senate. They’d be the semi-permanent majority. But McConnell and Paul Ryan don’t think like this. Neither did John backstabber-Boehner.
This is what permitted the “fundamental transformation” of America over the last eight years – six of those year while Republicans controlled one or more houses of Congress.
I almost feel like I’m wasting my breath on McConnell. Maybe Trump can get through to him. Democrats will do whatever they can to stall every single key appointment by Trump. To them, the election results of 2016 was the equivalent of a declaration of war. They are digging in, securing their fortifications. They will fight Trump by any means necessary – and I mean any.
Knowing that, why aren’t Republicans using their legitimate power to move the ball forward, to show the American people what they can do, how their agenda is better for the country? Do they lack confidence in their own ideas? That’s OK; Trump has enough backbone and determination for all of them.
This week Trump chided McConnell on the idea of invoking the “nuclear option.”
You would think McConnell is struggling with this simple exercise of political strength as if it meant he was actually going to vaporize all Democrats with a nuclear weapon.
By the way, if Democrats had the chance to do that to the Republicans, don’t think they wouldn’t consider it.
Does McConnell just want to be loved?
It’s never going to happen.
The Democrats don’t even respect him, let alone love him.
Respect is what he should be after. Instead, he has played the patsy.
Look around the Democratic Party today and see if you detect any semblance of collegiality or compromise.
My goodness, the Democrats are at war. They are fighting as if their lives depended on it. If they had 52 votes in the Senate, they might lock up the Republican minority. And here is Mitch McConnell wringing his hands in fear about using his legitimate authority and power to advance the Republican agenda.
It’s sickening.
I admire the Democrats for their tenacity, their commitment, their relentless fortitude – even when they are dead wrong, which is all the time.
Republicans should stop fearing what’s going to happen when they lose power and start delivering results that will keep them in power.
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