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Time for the GOP to Use the Power They Were Given
by Laura Hollis
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Democrats' Convenient Memory Loss
Democrats seem to be currently afflicted with what may be best described as a case of politically convenient amnesia. This sad condition has been most clearly evident through the confirmation process of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, and symptoms include acute displays of remarkable levels of hypocrisy. Observe these past statements by leading Democrat leaders contrasted by these same Democrats' most recent statements. Beware, witnessing the total reversal of opinion on attempting to block a nominee's confirmation by these Democrats might temp one to scream out a slew of frustration-induced profanities.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer in 2013: "We much prefer the risk of up or down votes and majority rule [on judicial nominees], than the risk of continued total obstruction. That's the bottom line no matter who's in power."
clown-Schumer now: "The irresistible, immutable logic is, if the nominee doesn't get 60 [votes], you change the nominee, not the rules."
Senator Tim de-Kaine in October 2016: "If [Republicans] think they're going to stonewall the filling of [the SCOTUS] vacancy or other vacancies, then a Democratic Senate majority will say, 'We're not going to let you thwart the law.' And so we will change the Senate rules to uphold the law."
de-Kaine now: "The way I look at it is the Supreme Court is the only position that requires you to get to a 60-vote threshold, which means it mandates that there be some bipartisanship and that is appropriate. Life tenure. Highest court in the land. Should have to get to 60 votes." And, "I will oppose his nomination."
Senator Elizabeth dinky-Warren in November 2013: "If Republicans continue to filibuster these highly qualified nominees for no reason than to nullify the president's constitutional authority, then senators not only have the right to change the filibuster, senators have a duty to change the filibuster rules." And she also said, "We need to call out these filibusters for what they are — naked attempts to nullify the results of the last presidential election."
dinky-Warren now: "I believe Judge Gorsuch's nomination should be blocked."
To be sure, the filibuster is a Senate rule subject to the desires of any Senate majority. Both parties use those rules to political advantage. What's striking is Democrat sanctimony. ~The Patriot Post
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Judge Jeanine Predicts Liberals
Wusses Will Pee Their Pants...
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro begins the segment with a video of the disgusting filth and DNC chairman Tom Perez ranting from behind a lectern in what appears to be some official capacity as a rabid dog of the Democrat Party attacking our President... Judge Jeanine responds to his blathering, saying, “Don’t stand for our values? Pray tell, Perez, what are our values and what is it that you want us to resist? Law and order, the letter of the law, the Constitution, the plenary powers of the President to protect Americans?” “I have a prediction to make,” Judge Jeanine announces, “While the left acts like children who just can’t get over the fact that liar-Hillary lost the election, and simply won’t stop their abusive invective’s against the man who was constitutionally elected, yes, that’s what I said, constitutionally elected, calling him not legitimate and his cabinet scumbags, that man is doing the job we hired him to do.”... http://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-predicts-liberals-wusses-pee-pants-running-desks/
White House Uncovers Mole
by Onan Coca
{constitution.com} ~ It was only hearsay being questioned on conservative websites yesterday, but today Breitbart News says it has confirmed with several sources inside the White House... that the move to reassign deputy Chief of Staff Katie Walsh was directly related to White House concerns that she was leaking information to the press! On Thursday, pro-Trump website Conservative Treehouse wrote that the leak of Devin Nunes’ “whistleblowers” was actually an elaborate ploy to smoke out who in the White House was leaking information to the press. Just a short while after the New York Times broke the story, Katie Walsh announced that she would be moving on to help lead a pro-Trump organization outside of the administration. However, conservative rumor mongers argued that this was actually the White House ridding itself of a dangerous leak. White House Deputy Chief-of-Staff Katie Walsh was fired today immediately following a New York Times report which outed two National Security Council members as the source for Devin Nunes “tip” to review a specific batch of President liar-nObama’s executive intelligence... http://constitution.com/team-trump-uncovers-mole-leaks-nunes-whistleblowers-leads-shakeup-white-house-staff/
.Still Reveals Subversive liar-nObama
Kingpin Who Unmasked Flynn...
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Bill Still reveals the subversive kingpin as he reports on what he calls “The United States intel civil war, better known as the invasion, US style.”... He builds his case for revealing who he has been told was the person responsible for unmasking Trump campaign officials and possibly the President himself, beginning with the verification by Rep Devin Nunes that he “has known of the ongoing surveillance of the Trump campaign since January,” 2016. Still says, “Nunes has even known the identity of the high-level intelligence agency person who unmasked multiple Trump campaign officials, including General Michael Flynn. This intel official then disseminated this highly classified material around the government in an attempt to torpedo Trump’s election initially, then later his presidency.” He plays a clip of Fox reporter Adam Housley stating, “The person who did the unmasking, I’m told, is very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world and is not in the FBI. Based upon who Bill Still was told that person is, Jihadi Jeh Johnson... http://rickwells.us/still-reveals-subversive-obama-kingpin-unmasked-flynn-targeted-trump-team/
.Intelligence official who 'unmasked' Trump
associates is 'very high up,' source says
by Malia Zimmerman, Adam Housley
{foxnews.com} ~ The U.S. intelligence official who “unmasked,” or exposed, the names of multiple private citizens affiliated with the Trump team is someone “very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world,” a source told Fox News on Friday... Intelligence and House sources with direct knowledge of the disclosure of classified names told Fox News that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., now knows who is responsible -- and that person is not in the FBI. For a private citizen to be “unmasked,” or named, in an intelligence report is extremely rare. Typically, the American is a suspect in a crime, is in danger or has to be named to explain the context of the report...
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Problem Solved? House Republicans
Introduce Bill to Fund Border Wall
by Tiffany Gabbay
{truthrevolt.org} ~ While the spend-happy Left bemoans the cost of President Trump's proposed border wall, House Republicans are busy finding simple, practical ways to fund its construction... On Thursday a group of GOP congressmen introduced a major bill intended to fund the border wall. The bill proposes imposing a 2 percent fee on all monies immigrants send back to Mexico and other countries. The Washington Times reports that while estimates vary, remittances from immigrants in the U.S. to relatives in their countries of origin "could top $130 billion a year" and that a simple 2 percent tax "could net more than $2 billion a year if it applied to all money regardless of who’s sending it."... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/problem-solved-house-republicans-introduce-bill-fund-border-wall
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by Laura Hollis
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ There are at least three things you need for a successful political movement: convictions, courage and effective communication. The Republicans in Congress behave as if they have none of the above.
Conservative voters have frequently bemoaned the lack of a Republican spine. But the GOP's hapless flailing was on display once again last week when the American Health Care Act got pulled before what would have been a disastrous vote.
Per usual, the Republicans had plenty of excuses and laid plenty of blame. But they're always moving the goal posts: First, they needed control of the House. Then they needed the Senate. Then they needed a Republican in the White House. Even with all three, they couldn't manage to draft a bill that could get a majority of the votes from their own party.
What the heck are they waiting for?
Oh, that's right — approval from the left. The Republicans in Congress are more afraid of what the left will say about them than they are of disappointing their own constituencies.
The GOP still doesn't seem to have figured out why Trump won — and why he isn't footing the blame for the failure of the AHCA. First, voters don't expect Trump to know the ins and outs of liar-nObamacare repeal; Republicans in Congress have had eight years for that.
Second, millions of Americans voted for Trump because he gives the figurative middle finger to the press and the rest of the American left. The GOP should have figured out by now that they're never going to have the press fawn all over them, until (a) they declare themselves to be pro-choice, (b) they criticize other conservatives, or (c) they're dead. And sometimes, not even then.
It's true that the press helps Democrats at every opportunity. The press tries mightily to reconcile their inconsistencies, downplay their faults and cover up their shortcomings. liar-Hillary Clinton, call your doctor. Alternatively, it mischaracterizes and vilifies conservative and Republican positions.
Yes, well, suck it up, buttercups — this is the way it's been for as long as most of us can remember, and this is the way it's probably always going to be.
It shouldn't matter. Trump's election proved that you can take your message straight to the American public, and win.
The AHCA deserved to fail, because it did not do what American voters sent Republicans to Congress in record numbers to do: repeal liar-nObamacare. They were not sent to Washington, D.C., to curry favor with the major networks or Hollywood. Nor were they sent to Congress to replace liar-nObamacare with a Republican version of a federal health care leviathan.
So, kudos to the Freedom Caucus and others who saw that bill for what it was — a cobbled-together mishmash that kept the Democrat's federal health care system in place, this time with GOP fingerprints all over it.
House Speaker Paul Ryan & Co. need to go back to the drawing board and give the American people meaningful legislative reform. Start with these points:
—Get rid of the individual mandate, as well as fines and penalties for failing to purchase insurance.
—Get rid of mandatory coverage, and allow insurance companies to offer the policies and coverage consumers want.
—Allow consumers to take their insurance with them when they leave employers.
—Allow insurance companies to sell insurance across state lines.
In other words, open up a truly free market in health insurance.
As if the AHCA debacle were not enough of a spanking, a Democratic filibuster on the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court looks more likely with each passing day.
Judge Gorsuch is one of the most qualified, temperamentally suitable candidates for the Supreme Court in decades. Most congressional Democrats know this — indeed, many liberals across the country know it — which is there has been visible support for Gorsuch among more mainstream liberals.
But former senate Majority Leader Harry dinky-Reid raised the stakes in 2013, when he persuaded the then-Democratic majority to change senate rules, requiring only 51 votes for lower federal court judicial nominations and other presidential appointees.
Despite the exemption for the Supreme Court, dinky-Reid was warned that this was a dangerous precedent New York senator Chuck clown-Schumer said as recently as January that he regretted it; a Republican-controlled senate could create the same rule change to SCOTUS nominees.
dinky-Reid did it anyway, and here we are. clown-Schumer's regret dissolved quickly; he is now leading the charge for what would be an unprecedented filibuster of Gorsuch, without cause or justification. No nominee to the Court has ever been filibustered; Justice Abe Fortas' elevation to Chief Justice was scuttled 49 years ago for alleged ethics violations.
That congressional Democrats can threaten a filibuster is proof that they do not care about competence, qualifications or even their own philosophical consistency. They will play political games with Gorsuch's nomination, as long as they think they can win.
It's time to play hardball. The left will cry foul. Let them. The GOP has been given the power. They'd better use it.
Time for the GOP to Use the Power They Were Given
by Laura Hollis
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ There are at least three things you need for a successful political movement: convictions, courage and effective communication. The Republicans in Congress behave as if they have none of the above.
Conservative voters have frequently bemoaned the lack of a Republican spine. But the GOP's hapless flailing was on display once again last week when the American Health Care Act got pulled before what would have been a disastrous vote.
Per usual, the Republicans had plenty of excuses and laid plenty of blame. But they're always moving the goal posts: First, they needed control of the House. Then they needed the Senate. Then they needed a Republican in the White House. Even with all three, they couldn't manage to draft a bill that could get a majority of the votes from their own party.
What the heck are they waiting for?
Oh, that's right — approval from the left. The Republicans in Congress are more afraid of what the left will say about them than they are of disappointing their own constituencies.
The GOP still doesn't seem to have figured out why Trump won — and why he isn't footing the blame for the failure of the AHCA. First, voters don't expect Trump to know the ins and outs of liar-nObamacare repeal; Republicans in Congress have had eight years for that.
Second, millions of Americans voted for Trump because he gives the figurative middle finger to the press and the rest of the American left. The GOP should have figured out by now that they're never going to have the press fawn all over them, until (a) they declare themselves to be pro-choice, (b) they criticize other conservatives, or (c) they're dead. And sometimes, not even then.
It's true that the press helps Democrats at every opportunity. The press tries mightily to reconcile their inconsistencies, downplay their faults and cover up their shortcomings. liar-Hillary Clinton, call your doctor. Alternatively, it mischaracterizes and vilifies conservative and Republican positions.
Yes, well, suck it up, buttercups — this is the way it's been for as long as most of us can remember, and this is the way it's probably always going to be.
It shouldn't matter. Trump's election proved that you can take your message straight to the American public, and win.
The AHCA deserved to fail, because it did not do what American voters sent Republicans to Congress in record numbers to do: repeal liar-nObamacare. They were not sent to Washington, D.C., to curry favor with the major networks or Hollywood. Nor were they sent to Congress to replace liar-nObamacare with a Republican version of a federal health care leviathan.
So, kudos to the Freedom Caucus and others who saw that bill for what it was — a cobbled-together mishmash that kept the Democrat's federal health care system in place, this time with GOP fingerprints all over it.
House Speaker Paul Ryan & Co. need to go back to the drawing board and give the American people meaningful legislative reform. Start with these points:
—Get rid of the individual mandate, as well as fines and penalties for failing to purchase insurance.
—Get rid of mandatory coverage, and allow insurance companies to offer the policies and coverage consumers want.
—Allow consumers to take their insurance with them when they leave employers.
—Allow insurance companies to sell insurance across state lines.
In other words, open up a truly free market in health insurance.
As if the AHCA debacle were not enough of a spanking, a Democratic filibuster on the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court looks more likely with each passing day.
Judge Gorsuch is one of the most qualified, temperamentally suitable candidates for the Supreme Court in decades. Most congressional Democrats know this — indeed, many liberals across the country know it — which is there has been visible support for Gorsuch among more mainstream liberals.
But former senate Majority Leader Harry dinky-Reid raised the stakes in 2013, when he persuaded the then-Democratic majority to change senate rules, requiring only 51 votes for lower federal court judicial nominations and other presidential appointees.
Despite the exemption for the Supreme Court, dinky-Reid was warned that this was a dangerous precedent New York senator Chuck clown-Schumer said as recently as January that he regretted it; a Republican-controlled senate could create the same rule change to SCOTUS nominees.
dinky-Reid did it anyway, and here we are. clown-Schumer's regret dissolved quickly; he is now leading the charge for what would be an unprecedented filibuster of Gorsuch, without cause or justification. No nominee to the Court has ever been filibustered; Justice Abe Fortas' elevation to Chief Justice was scuttled 49 years ago for alleged ethics violations.
That congressional Democrats can threaten a filibuster is proof that they do not care about competence, qualifications or even their own philosophical consistency. They will play political games with Gorsuch's nomination, as long as they think they can win.
It's time to play hardball. The left will cry foul. Let them. The GOP has been given the power. They'd better use it.
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