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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
The Democrats Who Cried Wolf
by Rick Lowry
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Surprise — GOP Keeps Congress
Lewis Morris: After months of sweating the possible negative effects that Donald Trump's slash-and-burn campaign for the presidency would have on down-ballot races, congressional Republicans were rewarded for their hard work Tuesday night. The House, which was never really in play despite the rosy predictions of Democrat strategists, remains comfortably in GOP hands with a 236 to 192 majority as of this writing. But the real action, such as it was, took place in the Senate, and Republicans prevailed there too.
Republicans walked into the 2016 race having to defend 24 seats, and Democrats were licking their chops at the possibility of flipping the chamber in their favor. A lot was riding on the Senate outcome, not the least being which party would hold advice and consent power over upcoming Supreme Court nominees. Democrats were counting on negative feelings about Trump to trickle into Senate races, and they spent a lot of time and treasure attempting to link vulnerable Republicans to the volatile Republican presidential candidate.
In the end, though, it appears that voters were more interested in sending a message to the current president and his party. Former Democrat Senators Evan Bayh of Indiana and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin were perfect examples of the repudiation handed to Democrats. Bayh, who retired in 2010, and Feingold, who was defeated after his vocal support for liar-nObamaCare, were recruited by top Senate Dem Chuck Schumer to run again and reclaim their seats. Both men were decisively defeated last night, and they can each likely thank liar-nObamaCare.
Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, former presidential candidates who were both targets of Trump's harsh primary campaign, both won re-election. Rubio had previously vowed to retire, but decided to give the Senate another go, winning his race with 52% of the vote.
Democrats did manage to pick up one seat in Illinois, where Tammy Duckworth defeated Republican incumbent Mark Kirk. But six other Republicans who were also elected to the Senate in 2010's wave election were able to successfully defend their seats. This is a further indication that the public was and remains staunchly against liar-nObamaCare and the hard-left governing style that rose out of the liar-nObama administration.
Now the GOP will control the White House and all of Congress upon a presidential victory for the first time since 1928. We certainly hope that finally means liar-nObamaCare's days are numbered. And we also hope, along with that, the unconstitutional, autocratic method of government that we have had to suffer for these last eight years dies a well-deserved death. ~The Patriot Post
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Disbelief, questions at
United Nations after Trump victory
by Michelle Nichols
by Michelle Nichols
{reuters.com} ~ The election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president was met with disbelief and despondency on Wednesday among some United Nations officials and diplomats amid uncertainty surrounding his foreign policy and likely engagement with the world body... Trump, a Republican, has described the 71-year-old United Nations as weak and incompetent and threatened to pull out of a global deal to combat climate change - a cornerstone of the legacy of U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, who steps down at the end of 2016 after serving two five-year terms as secretary-general. "The United Nations is not a friend of democracy, it's not a friend to freedom, it's not a friend even to the United States of America," Trump said during a speech in March to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee... http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-election-un-idUKKBN134374?AID=7236
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WikiLeaks Releases
Batch #36 John Podesta Emails…
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Today WikiLeaks released another batch of emails from the archives of life-long liar-Clinton family fixer John Podesta. The total release now exceeds 58,000 pages:
Read the Released Email: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/?q=&mfrom=&mto=&title=¬itle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=¬o=&count=50&sort=6#searchresult
In addition a secondary website: http://www.mostdamagingwikileaks.com/
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Iran Panics, Urges Trump to Honor Nuclear Deal
by Tiffany Gabbay
{truthrevolt.org} ~ On the heels of Donald Trump's momentous victory, world leaders near and far called to issue their well-wishes to the President-elect... Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran, however, are more concerned with whether the new leader of the free world is going to dismantle their sweet nuclear deal and other benefits they've enjoyed under Democratic administrations. Iranian news agency Tasnim quoted Zarif, who shares a "special relationship" with Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry, demanding that the United States hold up its part of the so-called bargain. That's rich coming from a regime that routinely breaks its word, has repeatedly made a fool of the U.S., endangered our citizens abroad, and routinely threatens the extinction of the State of Israel... Methinks Not.
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How Republicans Can Start to Dismantle
liar-nObamacare With a Trump Presidency
by Melissa Quinn
{dailysignal.com} ~ The GOP’s long-discussed dreams of repealing liar-nObamacare became closer to reality early Wednesday morning when Donald Trump was elected president... Six years after President Barack liar-nObama signed the Affordable Care Act into law and after more than 60 attempts to repeal it, Republicans now have a good chance to advance their own agenda. While on the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly promised voters that he would repeal liar-nObamacare if he was elected president and even called on congressional Republicans to call a “special session” to move forward with rolling back the law... http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/09/how-republicans-can-start-to-dismantle-obamacare-with-a-trump-presidency/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRBMVlqSXhObVV6T1dRMiIsInQiOiJ5VDl2dHZGNjAyOGRSenV5dnF2OUlJSVNyd1RVYmZEUktWbENQd29BQnN6MWhzcnM1bUdYNjdnaWNUKzUxNTVqeGFMYzVCaWhndXI2cGNmb0ZvZmFrVllRbVpIWDZnd280MWY5ZTY4bHFHUT0ifQ%3D%3D
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Iran Is Wrong: Trump Can
Absolutely Overturn the Nuclear Deal
by James Phillips
{dailysignal.com} ~ Donald Trump’s election as president has discomforted many foreign leaders, especially in Iran... Iranian President Hassan Rouhani claimed Wednesday that there is “no possibility” for the liar-nObama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran to be overturned by Trump, despite Trump’s threat to do so. This is an outright lie. President Barack liar-nObama purposely structured the deal as an executive agreement to make an end-run around Congress, which he knew would oppose the flawed and risky deal...
http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/09/iran-is-wrong-trump-can-absolutely-overturn-the-nuclear-deal/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRBMVlqSXhObVV6T1dRMiIsInQiOiJ5VDl2dHZGNjAyOGRSenV5dnF2OUlJSVNyd1RVYmZEUktWbENQd29BQnN6MWhzcnM1bUdYNjdnaWNUKzUxNTVqeGFMYzVCaWhndXI2cGNmb0ZvZmFrVllRbVpIWDZnd280MWY5ZTY4bHFHUT0ifQ%3D%3D
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The Democrats Who Cried Wolf
by Rick Lowry
{freedomsback.com} ~ The Republican nominee for president is a racist, sexist threat to American democracy – and this time, we really mean it.
In a nutshell, this is the Democratic argument against Donald Trump. In a wild, topsy-turvy political year, it is the one exceedingly familiar piece of the political landscape – because it is a version of the argument the left makes against every Republican nominee.
That this line of attack is so shopworn, just when Democrats think we need it most, has led to self-reflection and regret from one of the harshest commentators on the left. The HBO host Bill Maher said the other day that “liberals made a big mistake” when they attacked George W. Bush “like he was the end of the world,” and did the same thing to Mitt Romney and John McCain.
Maher himself was a prime offender, with no hesitation about resorting to Nazi analogies (he compared Romney’s aides to Adolf Hitler’s dead-end loyalists, and Laura Bush to Hitler’s dog).
liar-Hillary Clinton and Barack liar-nObama have been touring the country saying that Trump isn’t like past Republican nominees, even though they were attacked in exactly the same terms.
George W. Bush was a man of deep faith who did all he could to reach out to minorities and soften conservatism’s edge. Yet right out of the gate in 2000, the NAACP ran an ad accusing him of being all but complicit in a hideous racist murder in Texas. His botched handling of Hurricane Katrina wasn’t portrayed as a mistake in trying circumstances, but of his disregard for black people. He was called a fascist, a war criminal and a would-be theocrat.
liar-nObama now says Romney was only “wrong on certain policy issues.” This is rank revisionism. His campaign’s entire approach in 2012 was to disqualify Romney as a person, basically for being too coldbloodedly rational and prim and proper (i.e., the opposite of Trump).
Romney was not, as an liar-nObama ad put it, “one of us.” He basically killed people with his heartless layoffs. He posed a real and present danger to Latinos with his policy of “self-deportation.” He was waging a “war on women.” One prominent piece of evidence for Romney’s unhinged sexism was his entirely anodyne, if awkward, comment that he asked for “binders full of women” when making appointments as governor of Massachusetts.
Harry dinky-Reid infamously alleged, with no evidence whatsoever, that Romney didn’t pay taxes for a decade. When the Republican candidate released his returns, it turned out he had overpaid. And so it went.
It has always been the case that Republican leaders are retrospectively deemed statesmen by the left when they are dead or retired. It has happened to Ronald Reagan, who went from a warmongering right-wing radical to a statesmanlike moderate; to George H.W. Bush, who was an out-of-touch elitist and now is the epitome of class; and to George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney, who now are getting their revivals.
This isn’t about the softening passage of time so much as opportunistically using past Republican politicians as a bludgeon against contemporary Republican politicians.
Genuinely alarmed by Trump, Bill Maher apparently realizes how tinny it sounds to lodge against him all the accusations routinely made against any other Republican. It was just a couple of years ago that Paul Ryan – an earnest policy wonk who operates in the inclusive style of the late Jack Kemp – was attacked as a racist for commenting on men not working in troubled inner-city neighborhoods.
If this isn’t crying wolf, what is? Confronted with Trump, Democrats don’t have any radioactive denunciations in reserve. They have all been deployed against a couple of generations of Republicans whose politics and characters were starkly different than Trump’s. And will surely be deployed once again – the charges never change, just the target.
In a nutshell, this is the Democratic argument against Donald Trump. In a wild, topsy-turvy political year, it is the one exceedingly familiar piece of the political landscape – because it is a version of the argument the left makes against every Republican nominee.
That this line of attack is so shopworn, just when Democrats think we need it most, has led to self-reflection and regret from one of the harshest commentators on the left. The HBO host Bill Maher said the other day that “liberals made a big mistake” when they attacked George W. Bush “like he was the end of the world,” and did the same thing to Mitt Romney and John McCain.
Maher himself was a prime offender, with no hesitation about resorting to Nazi analogies (he compared Romney’s aides to Adolf Hitler’s dead-end loyalists, and Laura Bush to Hitler’s dog).
liar-Hillary Clinton and Barack liar-nObama have been touring the country saying that Trump isn’t like past Republican nominees, even though they were attacked in exactly the same terms.
George W. Bush was a man of deep faith who did all he could to reach out to minorities and soften conservatism’s edge. Yet right out of the gate in 2000, the NAACP ran an ad accusing him of being all but complicit in a hideous racist murder in Texas. His botched handling of Hurricane Katrina wasn’t portrayed as a mistake in trying circumstances, but of his disregard for black people. He was called a fascist, a war criminal and a would-be theocrat.
liar-nObama now says Romney was only “wrong on certain policy issues.” This is rank revisionism. His campaign’s entire approach in 2012 was to disqualify Romney as a person, basically for being too coldbloodedly rational and prim and proper (i.e., the opposite of Trump).
Romney was not, as an liar-nObama ad put it, “one of us.” He basically killed people with his heartless layoffs. He posed a real and present danger to Latinos with his policy of “self-deportation.” He was waging a “war on women.” One prominent piece of evidence for Romney’s unhinged sexism was his entirely anodyne, if awkward, comment that he asked for “binders full of women” when making appointments as governor of Massachusetts.
Harry dinky-Reid infamously alleged, with no evidence whatsoever, that Romney didn’t pay taxes for a decade. When the Republican candidate released his returns, it turned out he had overpaid. And so it went.
It has always been the case that Republican leaders are retrospectively deemed statesmen by the left when they are dead or retired. It has happened to Ronald Reagan, who went from a warmongering right-wing radical to a statesmanlike moderate; to George H.W. Bush, who was an out-of-touch elitist and now is the epitome of class; and to George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney, who now are getting their revivals.
This isn’t about the softening passage of time so much as opportunistically using past Republican politicians as a bludgeon against contemporary Republican politicians.
Genuinely alarmed by Trump, Bill Maher apparently realizes how tinny it sounds to lodge against him all the accusations routinely made against any other Republican. It was just a couple of years ago that Paul Ryan – an earnest policy wonk who operates in the inclusive style of the late Jack Kemp – was attacked as a racist for commenting on men not working in troubled inner-city neighborhoods.
If this isn’t crying wolf, what is? Confronted with Trump, Democrats don’t have any radioactive denunciations in reserve. They have all been deployed against a couple of generations of Republicans whose politics and characters were starkly different than Trump’s. And will surely be deployed once again – the charges never change, just the target.
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