Liberals appear to have no original ideas of their own. Every aspect of socialism in the Democratic Party platform has been tried in other
countries (e.g., Venezuela, Greece, Cuba) and the results have been miserable. Nothing the Democrats propose (higher taxes, bigger government,
restrictions, rules and regulations, and special rights and privileges for protected minorities) will make American life better. All they can
do is obstruct and oppose conservatives, when conservatives make proposals. Typically, when a liberal realizes he's losing a debate, he will
start shouting down his opponents. This adds nothing.
When leftist Democrats realize they are sure to be outvoted, one of their favorite tactics has been to flee
the state in order to bring their state's government to a halt, rather than face defeat. At the federal level
they have been known to boycott a scheduled vote to delay the inevitable.
During the Obama administration, the Republicans proved to be too much of an obstacle for the Democrats to overcome,
so the Senate voted (by a very narrow margin, as you might imagine) to eliminate the power of the filibuster, thus
blocking all opposition and paving the way for Emperor Obama to pack the courts with left-wing judges.
Now the tables are turned, and the Democrats are resorting to childish tantrums to block President Trump's nominees, appointments,
orders and executive actions. The Democrats have been losing elections for years because their platform is wildly
out of step with the American mainstream. Now they are just stalling. If President Trump succeeds with even
half of what he promised to do, the Democratic Party is finished.
Note: The discussion of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation battle now has its own
page, located here.
Pennsylvania
Closes Down Voter Registration on Night of Trump's Return to Butler. The swing state
of Pennsylvania's voter registration system will be closed on the night of former President Donald
Trump's return rally in Butler, the site of the July 13 assassination attempt against him.
The Republican nominee announced Sept. 25 that he is holding another rally in Butler on
Oct. 5, just three months after a gunman shot the former president at a rally there, wounding
him in the ear. "This website will undergo scheduled system maintenance and be unavailable
Saturday, October 5th 10 p.m. until October 6th 4 a.m," the Pennsylvania Voter
Registration website says. "We thank you for your understanding."
Department
Of Transportation Orders Citizens To Stop Using Drones To Help With Hurricane Helene Rescue
Efforts. The U.S. Department of Transportation warned against the use of drones
Wednesday amid ongoing post-Hurricane Helene rescue efforts, according to statements. "Drone
pilots: Do not fly your drone near or around rescue and recovery efforts for Hurricane
Helene," a statement from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) begins. Drones, also
known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), can interfere with emergency response operations and
negatively affect on-the-ground search-and-rescue operations, the statement added. "Our goal
is to make sure that funding is no obstacle to very quickly getting people the relief and the need
that they deserve," Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg explained in an accompanying video
statement. "There's [sic] also some safety issues that come up. For example, temporary flight
restrictions to make sure that the airspace is clear for any flights or drone activity that might
be involved in helping to allow those emergency responders to do their job."
Elon
Musk Blasts FCC for Pulling Starlink Award That He Says Would Have Probably 'Saved Lives in North
Carolina'. On Wednesday, Elon Musk blasted the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) for its decision not to move forward with an award for SpaceX's Starlink, which would have
provided rural broadband. Musk suggested that the decision may have cost lives in the wake of
Hurricane Helene. Musk wrote on X, "Had the FCC not illegally revoked the SpaceX Starlink
award, it would probably have saved lives in North Carolina. Lawfare costs lives."
Climate
Activist Blocks Farmer's Road, Gets An Expensive Lesson. Don't mess with farmers. [Video clip]
Neither
Harris Nor Walz Is Willing to Be Interviewed by Anyone but Each Other. It's less
noticed and discussed than Kamala Harris's refusal to do sit-down on-camera interviews or press
conferences, but her running mate, Tim Walz, hasn't done a single one either. (No, an on-camera
chat with Harris about "white guy tacos" does not count. The San Francisco Chronicle
labeled that an "interview," even though the two candidates were talking to each other.)
Think about it: Harris has been the de facto nominee for almost a month, and Walz has been
Harris's running mate for nearly two weeks now. Neither one has done a single interview or
press conference — no sit-down with 60 Minutes, no meeting with a newspaper
editorial board, no Sunday shows. No interviews with local network television affiliates in
swing states. Not even an on-the-record chat with Walz's hometown papers or radio stations.
Trump's
Interview With Musk Crashes After Coming Under 'Massive DDOS Attack'. Republican
presidential nominee Donald Trump's interview with X owner Elon Musk was knocked offline crashed on
Monday evening after it came under a "massive DDOS attack". The highly anticipated interview
had hundreds of thousands of people listening live when it crashed right after it launched around
8 p.m. EST. "There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏," Musk posted
on the site. "Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller
number of live listeners and post the conversation later."
All
U.S. intelligence chiefs, including Cheatle, refuse to testify in Trump assassination
inquiry. Nobody in charge of America's top three-letter law enforcement agencies is
willing to testify about what really happened at Donald Trump's campaign rally in Butler, Penn., on
July 13 when the former president took a bullet to the ear, it is being reported. Not
only is Kim Cheatle, the former head of Secret Service — Cheatle just resigned after her
agency failed to protect Trump and his supporters — refusing to cooperate with the
congressional investigation, but the same is also true of Christopher Wray, director of the FBI and
Alejandro Mayorkas, who heads the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Various witnesses who
were at the rally are said to be cooperating with the House Homeland Security Committee probe, but
not Cheatle, Wray or Mayorkas whose loyalties appear to be elsewhere other than the American people
they swore to serve[.] [Video clip]
No
More Stonewalling on the Assassination Attempt! Something is very fishy about the
lack of information on the Trump Assassination attempt. A man died, others wounded, and the
former and future President of the United States was struck by a bullet and escaped death by pure
luck. And we know little more about the event today than on July 14th, right after the
dust settled. I would assume that hundreds or even thousands of law enforcement agents are
working on the case, digging up tidbits of information, but that the big questions are mostly
already answered — just not to us. The FBI and the Secret Service are hiding the ball and
even feeding conspiracy theories intentionally, such as when FBI Director Wray suggested that Trump
wasn't actually shot. This is insane. The Secret Service Director — when she
was testifying before Congress — actually said that it would take 60 days to
produce a report and that the public wouldn't learn anything more until it was done.
Empire
of Lies. Consider for example Monday's congressional testimony of a certain Kimberly
Cheatle. Ms. Cheatle directed the United States Secret Service when an aspiring assassin
made a mockery of the lady's organization. How can a murderous fellow scale a low rooftop
with a rifle — some 140 yards from a former and potentially future United States
president — and let eight projectiles loose — before being scotched?
Here he was[,] placing his thumbs in his ears[,] wiggling his fingers[,] and putting out his tongue
at Ms. Cheatle and the organization she bosses. And in the private opinion of
Ms. Cheatle, that is the highest sin. It is not act itself. Is greater professional
incompetence scarcely conceivable? We do not believe it is. Yet the lady donned her armor,
barricaded herself within fortress walls and deflected all questions concerning her agency's
abominations. She could not answer this question or that question because it is an "ongoing
investigation." "Was July 13 a Saturday, madam?" "It's an ongoing investigation."
Nine
Just Stop Oil activists arrested at Heathrow as part of a Europe-wide campaign against
flights. The protesters were arrested at 9am at two locations outside the UK's
busiest airport as climate activists across Europe tried to disrupt air traffic. The
Metropolitan Police said it had "prevented significant disruption to the airport and travelling
public". Just Stop Oil activists have vowed to use all means "necessary" to disrupt flights as
part of this latest campaign. The protests were part of a coordinated campaign which also
targeted airports in Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Norway and Finland. Demonstrators at
Cologne Bonn Airport glued themselves to the runway causing chaos for travellers.
DOJ
reveals it has Biden transcripts at issue in classified docs case after initial denial.
The Justice Department revealed late Monday in a court filing that it does in fact have transcripts
of President Biden's interviews with a biographer after initially having denied possessing the
documents. While juggling Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests related to former special
counsel Robert Hur's investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents following his
departure as vice president in the Obama administration, DOJ attorneys said it would be time-consuming
to process audio files into transcripts related to the president's conversations with biographer Mark
Zwonitzer. "We don't have some transcript that's been created by the special counsel that we can
attest to its accuracy," DOJ lawyer Cameron Silverberg told U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich last month.
The
Timing of This Discovery by the Justice Department Reeks of Corruption. The Biden
Justice Department is beyond shameless. The timing of this discovery is beyond suspicious,
given how secrecy has become a hallmark characteristic of this presidency. The discussions
Biden had with his biographer and the related transcripts have been found despite the Justice
Department attesting they never had them. It's no wonder why the DOJ had a 'hey, looky,
here' moment: Biden is no longer running, so there's no need to stonewall every news
outlet activist that's filed a FOIA claim in this matter.
Justice
Department 'Discovers' Hur Transcripts it Previously Claimed It Did Not Have. A
heavily redacted transcript of Special Counsel Robert Hur's interview with Joe Biden's ghostwriter
Mark Zwonitzer was released last month. And now the Justice Department is admitting it
'discovered' Hur transcripts it previously claimed it did not have of Joe Biden's conversation with
his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer. Joe Biden asserted executive privilege over the audio
recordings. Republicans have argued that Joe Biden cannot assert executive privilege over the
audio since the transcript has already been released. US Attorney General Merrick Garland classified
the audio tapes of Biden's interview with Hur as "Top Secret" and locked it way [sic] in a SCIF.
Secret
Service Director Stonewalls Lawmakers at Hearing on Trump-Assassination Attempt.
Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle assured lawmakers that she takes full responsibility for
the failed assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump at the first congressional
hearing on the subject — but mostly refused to provide any details on what exactly went
wrong, passing the buck instead to the FBI to provide specific information. The House
Oversight Committee brought in Cheatle on Monday to testify about the major security lapses leading
up to the shooting at Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania less than two weeks ago. The
hearing comes as the FBI, Department of Justice Inspector General, and the Secret Service itself
conduct their own investigations into how Thomas Matthew Crooks, an untrained, 20-year-old local
man, managed to climb onto a roof less than 150 yards from where Trump was speaking and fire
multiple shots before he was stopped.
Mayorkas
Is Blocking Secret Service Director From Testifying. The Department of Homeland
Security has opened an investigation after the Secret Service catastrophically failed to protect
former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last weekend. Trump narrowly
escaped death after a bullet went through his ear while he was speaking at a lectern. The
shooter was positioned on an unsecured roof just 140 yards away from the stage. The DHS
Inspector General has also opened an investigation. Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill
have also launched separate investigations and have called on Secret Service Director Kimberly
Cheatle to testify on Monday, July 22. According to House Speaker Mike Johnson, DHS
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is attempting to block Cheatle from testifying. Johnson called
on Cheatle to resign during an interview with Fox News Wednesday morning.
Protester
Trying To Block A Highway With A Rope Gets Some Painful Karma. A protester gets
brutally taken out by a rope after trying to block a road in Mexico. The incident reportedly
happened in May in Naucalpan, Mexico. The protesters were seen trying to block the road with
rope when a red Jeep decided to drive through. The rope got stuck on the Jeep before it
launched back, taking the protester to the ground. [Video clip]
Pro-Palestinian
Protesters Swarm Campaign Busses Of Dems Who Called For Ceasefire In Gaza.
Pro-Palestinian protesters swarmed and vandalized the campaign buses of Democratic lawmakers who
have been critical of Israel's war effort against Hamas outside a rally on Saturday. New York
Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman, alongside Democratic Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, held a rally in the Bronx ahead of
Tuesday's New York primaries. A score of pro-Palestinian protesters graffitied the lawmakers'
buses as they attempted to leave the event, according to footage of the incident published on
social media. [Tweet with video clip]
Low-level domestic terrorism:
Illegals
Block Traffic In NYC And Call For The Abolition Of ICE. Biden let these losers in
illegally, NYC has spent 10 billion trying to house and feed them and they turn around and
cause chaos demanding America stop enforcing the laws they are breaking. [Video clip]
Left-Wing
Activists Prevent Migrants from Being Moved Out Of Hotel After Slashing Bus Tires. A
number of left-wing activists are sabotaging migrant removals in the United Kingdom. Earlier
this week, they prevented migrants from being moved from a hotel in London to the Bibby Stockholm
barge by slashing the tires on the bus meant to transport them. A number of migrants were set
to board the bus at the Best Western Hotel in Peckham, in the south of the capital city, to be
transferred to the barge in Portland, Dorset, where the government is currently housing hundreds
asylum seekers, some of whom have been earmarked for deportation to Rwanda. The transfer to
the barge is part of a plan by the UK government to reduce the amount of taxpayer money spent on
housing asylum seekers in hotels. However, when not at full capacity, the cost of the barge
is more than the average cost of a hotel room.
A
simple question that no one asks about the leftist college demonstrator.
[Scroll down] So, I'm left to wonder, who are these university student
demonstrators who have all this time that one might think would be better laser-focused on learning
their craft? Ask yourself who served humanity better — Mao Zedong, Greta Thunberg,
Barack Obama, or the folks that discovered and gave us aspirin and anesthetics? When you have
your next severe headache or are about to have a tooth extracted, ponder that question.
Moreover, it's not just their own time that an anarchist wastes. The societally frenzied seem
hell-bent on wasting your time as well. They keep that future researcher from getting
to class/lab. They wreak havoc with the intricate web of societal connections that enable him
or her to learn/perform.
Bridge
Protestors Might Catch 'False Imprisonment' Charges? This news has to be coming as
something of a shock to the spoiled children who shut down traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge as
part of a nationwide, orchestrated [...] tantrum. [Advertisement] What the San Francisco
cadre did was drive out, jump out in the middle, and chain themselves together to barrels, blocking
lanes in one direction. Doing so during the morning rush hours. [Tweet] Soon police had
to shut down the opposing lanes — rumor had it to protect the protesters from getting thumped by
irate drivers — so the bridge traffic came to a screeching halt in both direction for something
close to four hours. Thousands upon thousands of people had their commute interrupted by
these petulant twits. [Tweet] One fellow interviewed by Fox spoke for dang near everyone
in his anger over the shutdown. [Transcript]
Look
Who Bailed Out 'Death to America' Road- Blockers. This week millions of Americans
were held hostage by pro-terrorist protesters blocking critical infrastructure in major cities
across the country. Americans were prevented from getting to and from airports, crossing
bridges, and picking up kids — their very freedom of movement was stolen by anti-Semites
participating in the planned protest calling for destroying Israel and "Death to America."
And one political party helped fund the effort.
Just
Stop Oil activist admits it was wrong for protest to force driver to miss father's funeral.
A Just Stop Oil protester has admitted it "doesn't sit easy with me" that a motorway protest forced
a driver to miss his father's funeral. Cressie Gethin, 22, climbed a gantry above the M25
near Heathrow in 2022 in one of a series of protests by the climate group that resulted in
thousands of motorists being in gridlock for hours. Speaking about her experience of the
demonstration she attended, held in response to a deadly heatwave in the UK, Gethin told Radio
Times she has "very mixed feelings" about it now. She said: "Sitting up there, surrounded
by six lanes of empty motorway, I recall thinking that if the aim of the action was to get media
attention we'd succeeded. "But at the same time, the very real moral dilemma of knowing that
people would be stuck in their cars and missing important events — I heard one person
missed their parent's funeral, which I would never want — doesn't sit easy with me."
The Editor says...
Maybe you tree-hugging nitwits should think through the ramifications of your actions before leaving the house.
Left-Wing
Dark Money Behemoth Behind Bail Fund for 'Free Palestine' Bridge Blockers. Scores of
"Free Palestine" protesters across the United States took to the streets Monday to block major
airports, highways, and bridges. Those who are arrested will receive bail money and legal
support from a left-wing dark money behemoth funded by George Soros, an online fundraising page
shows. The protests, which took place in dozens of U.S. cities including San Francisco,
Chicago, New York City, and Philadelphia, were organized by A15 Action, a newly formed group that
worked to "coordinate a multi-city economic blockade on April 15 in solidarity with
Palestine." The group's website directs users to a "bail and legal defense fund" hosted through
ActBlue, the Democratic Party's online fundraising juggernaut.
Also posted
under Astroturf.
Anti-Israel
Protesters Shut Down Entire Golden Gate Bridge, Backing Up Traffic for Miles. The
Gateway Pundit previously reported that pro-Hamas agitators are blocked off a road entering Chicago
O'Hare Airport while police are doing nothing, forcing some travelers to ditch their cars and walk
to the airport. Now, they have completely shut down the Golden Gate Bridge as police arrive
to confront them in riot gear. According to KGO-TV, the protest started Monday morning on
Northbound I-880 in Oakland where agitators blocked every single lane. They brought barrels
onto the roadway and reportedly chained themselves to the barrels.
Anti-Israel
protesters shut down O'Hare airport by blocking highway. Anti-Israel protesters have
shut down Chicago's O'Hare airport as they blocked the highway and forced furious passengers to
walk 20 minutes to get to the terminals. Demonstrators sat in the middle of the Kennedy
Expressway, linked to each other with PVC pipes, as flyers fled their taxis and cars and trekked to
the gates. Dramatic footage of the blockade showed dozens chanting 'Palestine will be
free! Free, free Palestine!' with a loud drum roll in the background.
The
Left-Wing Authoritarians Shutting Down the Democratic Party. [Scroll down]
Drowning out speakers and disrupting exercises in politics, regardless of its cause or the target,
is wrong on principle. I'm not referring to tactics like holding protest marches, speeches,
social-media posts, organizing uncommitted votes in the Democratic primary, or other exercises of
First Amendment rights. I'm specifically referring to a campaign to shut down speakers who
oppose (or even, in many cases, simply decline to endorse) the movement's agenda. Usually, it
means interrupting speeches with screaming insults until the protesters are dragged out of the
room, which has become the norm at Biden campaign events. At events with sub-presidential
levels of security, protesters often succeed in overwhelming the event and its security and
shutting down the speech or event entirely, sometimes employing violence. I'd place in the
same category aggressive personal harassment campaigns, like gathering outside somebody's home at
three o'clock in the morning with bullhorns shouting "We will not let you sleep!," or surrounding
individuals on the street to scream insults [...]
Anti-Israel
Protesters Shut Down Senate Cafeteria, Capitol Police Make 50 Arrests. In yet another
raucous display, a group of anti-Israel protesters marched into the Senate cafeteria on Tuesday to
demonstrate against U.S. support of the Jewish state in its war against Hamas in Gaza. The
incident is the latest in a series of protests and rallies staged by anti-Israel and pro-Hamas
activists arguing against Israel's effort to eliminate the terrorist group. The demonstrations
resulted in the arrests of 50 people. The activists strode through the building, yelling
chants such as "Senate can't eat until Gaza eats" and "Children are starving in Gaza."
Insurrection: Code
Pink and Various Pro-Terrorism Jihadis Take Over Senate Dining Hall, Forbidding Senators from
Eating There. It's illegal for people on the right. Lefties are always welcome
to take over whatever building they fancy. [...] Sometimes it is the house of the
people — like when rabid pro-abortion activists trap Senators in elevators or block them
from entering. Other times, the government orders up a Woke Nazi dragnet to round up people
who profaned the "people's house" with their unsightly presence. ["]Some of the
demonstrators appeared to be same individuals that interrupted testimony from Secretary of Defense
Lloyd Austin during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing this morning. In March, more
than a dozen pro-Palestine demonstrators were arrested at the Russell Senate Office Building.["]
No jail time though, right? Sounds like "obstructing the functions" of government to me.
But I have a feeling that the DOJ will see it as just more Righteous Protesting.
More
about Code Pink.
Justice
Department Refuses to Hand over Audio of Joe Biden's Special-Counsel Interview. The
Justice Department is refusing to provide House Republicans the audio recording of President Joe
Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur. The DOJ wrote a letter Monday to House
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R., Ohio.) and Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer
(R., Ky.) explaining its decision not to turn over the audio recordings. "Indeed, by the
Committees' own measure, the Department has met your stated informational needs. The
Department has produced the two classified documents you requested, the transcripts of the Special
Counsel Office interviews of the President and of Mark Zwonitzer that you requested, and the
correspondence regarding the Special Counsel's report that you requested," wrote Assistant Attorney
General Carlos Uriarte, according to a copy of the letter obtained by National Review.
Democrats
Plan to Kneecap Trump's Candidacy. The deep state, swamp, blob, ruling class,
establishment, uni-party, or whatever is today's term de jour for the permanent
administrative state has been pulling out all the stops to vanquish Trump. Nonsensical
lawfare investigations, lawsuits, special counsels, and baseless accusations are thus far having no
effect on "Teflon Don." That could change, but the Democrats and Never-Trumpers are determined
and resourceful. What's their plan, given that Trump has so far been unstoppable? [...] Formerly
red, now deep blue, Colorado, with a feckless Republican Party as dysfunctional as a circular
firing squad, attempted via their far-left Secretary of State, to keep Trump off the Colorado ballot
claiming he is an "insurrectionist." Never mind that he has neither been accused nor convicted
(other than by Democrats and the media) of insurrection. That did not matter to the Colorado
Supreme Court which in their self-proclaimed wisdom deemed that Trump did indeed incite an insurrection.
Protesters
Disrupt Easter Services At St. Patrick's Cathedral: "Free, Free Palestine". The
"Long Live the Intifada" and "From the River to the Sea" and "Free, Free Palestine" protesters run
amok are our common enemy. This is not about "the Jews" — it's about a deep hatred
of Western civiliations (Christians and Jews), capitalism, and romanticism of the most vile
misogyny provided it wraps itself in an Islamic flag. We've seen them block major roadways,
taunt child patients at a cancer hospital, harass Jewish students, vandalize Jewish businesses, use
bullhorns inside libraries and study areas to intimidate students (Cornell), attack police, and
many other anti-social activities. Just the latest iteration was the disruption last night of
Easter Services at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral, the most visible and significant
Catholic church in the United States. It started as a climate protest but quickly devolved
into shouts of "Free, Free Palestine" by one of the protesters.
Bureaucrats
Control the Show. The so called "Swamp" consists of bureaucrat seepage into every
aspect of government administration with political snakes guarding their territory with hubris and
avarice. They are capable of delay, obfuscation, deceit, and denial. Redaction is a
well-used method of bureaucrats. Classifying documents that have little reason for
classification is a popular agency stall. Political pushback and insider bribery are
commonplace. And for those that think only congressman are influenced by lobbyists, think
again. Bureaucrats are common recipients of the largess offered by lobbyists. There is
no reporting requirement for non-elected bureaucrats. Influential bureaucrats have
significant power over congressional neophytes and seasoned dealmakers. They know how to get
"things" through the system. Just tell them what you want. They'll tell you what they
need and the dance begins. New laws create new regulations which create new administration
functions. Bureaucracy expands with more influence and power.
Kaylee
Gain's high school is refusing to hand over records to Attorney General. Kaylee
Gain's high school has refused to hand over records to the Missouri Attorney General after he said
that wanted to charge her alleged attacker as an adult following a vicious school fight that left
her fighting for her life. It is just the latest in a heated back-and-forth between
prosecutors and local school district officials, who say they are the victims of intimidation
tactics. In an interview on Fox News, right wing Attorney General Andrew Bailey spoke to host
Laura Ingraham and claimed that the brutality was a result of an obsession with woke DEI policies
and the soft-touch approach to justice under former St. Louis DA Kim Gardner and current Rep
Cori Bush, a hardline progressive Democrat.
CDC
Finally Releases 148 Page Study on Myocarditis Following COVID Vaccine — And Every
Single Word is Redacted!. Zachary Stieber, a reporter with the Epoch Times, released
the CDC report on the frequency of myocarditis following the COVID vaccines. [...] Last September,
nearly two hears after the introduction of the COVID vaccine, Dr. Anthony Fauci finally
admitted the vaccines cause myocarditis. So when did they learn this? And how severe
were the results? Vigilant Fox added: "They're is obviously something very wrong that they
are trying to hide. [Tweet]
Criminal
CDC Releases 148 Blank Pages on COVID Vax Myocarditis After FOIA. The
CDC — under the guidance of the "no malarkey, Jack," "most transparent administration in
world history" — has released a doozy of a 148-page report on myocarditis induced by the
COVID-19 vaccines. It's excellent, obviously, that such a lengthy report looks into one of
the most serious public health issues of our era. This is what COVID skeptics have been
demanding for years at this point — a demand which, until now, has gone nearly entirely
ignored by the Public Health authorities. [...] It's entirely, 100% blank — as in, 148
pages of pure whiteness, by far the whitest thing ever permitted to be associated with the Brandon
entity's diverse White House.
Mum
forced to give birth on freeway after climate protest blocks West Gate. A Melbourne
mother has thanked a teacher who helped deliver her baby on the side of the road after climate
protesters blocked the West Gate Bridge, stopping her from getting to a hospital. Roshni Lad
and her husband Bhairav drove down the wrong side of the road in a panic on their way to hospital
during the hours-long blockade yesterday. But after Roshni's water broke, the couple were
forced to pull over and deliver the new baby boy without the help of medical professionals.
Aussie
XR Wackos Protesting Force Woman To Give Birth On Side Of Road. These nutjobs never
consider that their actions are causing problems for other people, but, they think it's a small
price to pay to Save The World.
The Editor says...
One of the entertaining features of the internet is the news coverage from other ostensibly
English-speaking countries overseas. The British and Australian press coverage (of anything involving
government activities, especially) is replete with nicknames, slang, acronyms and politicians'
names that almost nobody in the U.S. has ever heard of. (Who is Starmer? What's a quango?
What happened at the Post Office?) In this case, who or what is XR? It looks like
English at first glance, but some of their journalism is barely comprehensible.
Pro-Hamas
Agitators Block Biden's Motorcade Route to Capitol; How Could This Be Allowed?
Pro-Hamas agitators caused chaos around Capitol Hill Thursday evening leading up to the State of
the Union address, and hundreds of them blocked President Biden's motorcade route to hold a
"People's State of the Union" address. [Tweets with video clips] [...] Rep. Marjorie Taylor
Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) posted photos and videos Thursday morning of
security fencing that had been installed around the Capitol grounds "in the dead of night" to
protect Biden from his own base, so obviously Capitol Police and federal law enforcement knew that
there was a potential for problems. So why were they allowed to take over the street until
right before POTUS drove down it? This is a massive security issue. Explosives could
have easily been planted and there's no way the Secret Service could have done a thorough sweep to
ensure security. We all know, unfortunately, that nothing will happen to these people who
were blocking a street and posing an immediate threat to the President of the United States.
Quite a stark contrast to how January 6 protesters have been treated.
Pro-Muslim
Mob Yelling "Allahu Akbar!" Shuts Down Bridge for Hours; Cops Yawn. The latest
example is how a pro-Palestinian, pro-Muslim mob — some of whose members reportedly
yelled "Allahu Akbar!" (Allah is the Greatest!) — shut down an Interstate 40 bridge
between Arkansas and Tennessee last Saturday, leaving thousands of motorists stranded for what some
sources say were hours. Moreover, this malicious act was enabled, say critics, by law
enforcement, which didn't act swiftly and surely to deter the mob. Of course, it's only
people driving around releasing CO2 and is no big deal, right? That is, unless you're a
parent running back home because your child has been injured, an on-call OB/GYN rushing to deliver
a baby, an emergency vehicle requiring passage, or anyone else with a serious reason to quickly get
where he's going. And all the way around, the mob was responsible for lost productivity and
the wasting of gasoline (how much extra pollution is released when motorists must sit in traffic?).
Washington
Update From the US Oil and Gas Association. Why Biden halting new LNG export
terminals? [...] It might motivate his core voters, but there are obvious substantial downsides for
the rest of America and the world. First, the economic downsides. As the Obama
administration wrote in 2012 when they were considering opening up LNG exports, that "the U.S. was
projected to gain net economic benefits from allowing LNG exports." And that was the Obama
administration which was as anti-fossil fuel as the Biden administration. Second, halting new
export terminals will almost certainly increase carbon dioxide emissions and not reduce them.
Globally, coal use hit an all-time high in 2023. If countries think they can get
affordable natural gas, they are more likely to rely on natural gas for future electricity
generation, but if it appears that future natural gas prices are going to be constrained, countries
will continue to keep their existing coal plants and they will continue to build new ones.
This includes countries like Germany. Last year, Venture Global signed a 20-year supply
contract with a German firm to receive LNG from Calcasieu Pass 2, but CP2 is one of the terminals
Biden is halting. Amazingly, the United States is now the second largest source of natural
gas in Europe, behind only Norway.
From
Hamas to drunk drivers, is there anybody Democrats won't vote against deporting?
Other than German homeschoolers, is there any group of illegally present foreign nationals
Democrats won't vote to protect from deportation? Four immigration bills were presented in
Congress and all were no-brainers to pass, but Democrats voted 'no,' on all of them. Among
the millions of illegals in the U.S. there are the Social Security number thieves, identity thieves
who steal others' Social Security benefits. What did Democrats do in Congress when a deportation
bill came up on Thursday? But of course. They voted against deporting them.
[Tweet] In the same bill, they voted to keep illegals convicted of drunk driving exempt from
deportation, too.
154
Democrats Oppose New Criminal Penalties for Illegal Aliens Leading Border Agents on High-Speed
Chases. A majority of House Democrats voted against legislation this week that would
impose new criminal penalties for illegal aliens leading Border Patrol agents on often deadly
high-speed chases. On Tuesday, just 56 House Democrats joined 215 House Republicans to pass
the "Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act," which would establish new criminal penalties for
illegal aliens and others driving vehicles who try to evade Border Patrol agents within
100 miles of the United States-Mexico border. "We appreciate House Republicans' efforts
to secure our lawless and chaotic border, protect the men and women on the frontlines, and make our
communities safer," Hector Garza, Vice President of the National Border Patrol Council, said in a statement.
No,
Blocking Traffic Is Not Protected by the First Amendment. It is certainly a driver's
free speech prerogative to fly their flag of choice. That has nothing to do, however, with
obstructing traffic, which is entirely irrelevant to the First Amendment. One legally
confused post from an airport in Virginia doesn't necessarily say much when viewed in a
vacuum. But the assertion is indicative of a larger trend, as highway blockades continue to
pick up steam across the country. In January, pro-Palestine activists cut off access to the
Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg Bridges, along with the Holland Tunnel, during rush
hour. We've seen similar demonstrations in Seattle, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and
Philadelphia. That list is not exhaustive. And DCA is not the first airport targeted by
protesters: In late December, for example, demonstrators obstructed traffic outside Kennedy
International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport during one of the busiest travel weeks
of the year.
Protester
throws anti-war pamphlets on tennis court, disrupting Australian Open match. A
protester threw papers onto an Australian Open court and briefly delayed the fourth-round match
between Olympic champion Alexander Zverev and Cameron Norrie of Britain on Monday. A person
wearing a blue shirt and cap and a face mask threw anti-war pamphlets from the stands onto the
court behind the baseline during the sixth game of the third set on Margaret Court Arena.
Printed in black on the white pages was the message "Free Palestine" and "While you're watching
tennis bombs are dropping on Gaza."
The
Hysterical Style in American Politics. In 2016, Donald Trump was declared Hitler-like
and an existential threat to democracy. Amid this derangement syndrome, any means necessary
to stop him were justified: the Russian collusion hoax, impeachment over a phone call, or the
Hunter laptop disinformation farce. Eventually, the left sought to normalize the once
unthinkable: removing the leading presidential candidate from state ballots and indicting him in
state and local courts. Nothing was off limits — not forging a federal court
document, calling for a military coup, rioting on Inauguration Day, or radically changing the way
Americans voted in presidential elections.
Pro-Hamas
Protestors Shut Down West LA and Desecrate the National Cemetery, Making More
Enemies. Once again, pro-Hamas protestors made their hatred and ignorance of Israel
and America's support for the Jewish state public when they shut down traffic in West Los Angeles
on Saturday along Wilshire Boulevard between Interstate 405 and Glendon Avenue outside the U.S.
Federal Building. But they did not stop there. No, they decided that to get their
hate-filled message across fully, they would proceed across the street to the Los Angeles National
Cemetery and defile it.
JFK
Airport Protesters Show That They've Learned the Lesson of the George Floyd Riots.
The George Floyd riots of 2020 showed leftists that they can do virtually anything in America today
and suffer at worst only token consequences. On Monday, pro-Palestinian protesters in New
York City showed that they have taken that lesson to heart. The New York Post reported that
"hateful anti-Israel protesters yelling inflammatory chants snarled traffic and caused chaos as
they descended upon John F. Kennedy International Airport Monday — creating a nightmare
on one of the busiest travel days of the year." Among the "inflammatory chants" was "NYPD, KKK, IDF
you're all the same," which was as absurd as it was portentous: it was a clear indication that New
York City hasn't seen the last of these pro-Hamas thugs.
Anti-Israel
rally at JFK Airport causes New Year's Day nightmare on one of the busiest travel days of the
year. Hateful anti-Israel protesters yelling inflammatory chants snarled traffic and
caused chaos as they descended upon John F. Kennedy International Airport Monday —
creating a nightmare on one of the busiest travel days of the year. The Belt
Parkway — a major thoroughfare used by vehicles to travel to the airport —
was temporarily blocked off by police near Exit 20 as they tried to stem the flow of the "Flood JFK
For Gaza" protest, which was planned by Within Our Lifetime, a Palestinian-led activist group.
Pro-Palestinian
Protesters Riot Near LA Airport, 36 Arrested. For those who aren't from the area, the
largest airport in southern California is LAX. One of the major routes to get to LAX is to take the
405 Freeway and get off on Century Blvd. Today a group of pro-Palestinian protesters blocked
off part of Century Blvd. creating a traffic nightmare for shuttle buses and people trying to enter
the airport. [...] LAPD emphasized that this was not a peaceful protest. One police officer
was thrown to the ground and one protester is being charged with battery of an officer. The
rest are being charged with rioting.
Anti-Israel
Activists Surround and Terrorize Line of Kids Going to See Santa at Mall. The
anti-Israel protesters seem to want to engage in the type of actions that tick off the American
people. Few things will anger Americans more than a protest blocking a highway or main
road. The anti-Israel crew blocked the 110 Freeway last week in Los Angeles. They kept
little kids on two school buses trapped for an hour, not to mention hundreds of other
drivers. Motorists were not happy and some of them physically confronted some of these
characters; one driver picked up one of them and then dumped the activist in the street. They
also blocked an expressway in Philadelphia and got zip-tied and arrested. Then on Friday,
they even tried to block Los Angeles International Airport, snarling traffic and making people late
for their planes on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. They didn't care about
who they hurt in the process.
Chicago
lawmakers are blocking efforts to put sanctuary city status on ballot. Chicago's
Democrat leaders have been accused of hiding from voters in a city buckling under a migrant crisis
after they blocked a vote on ditching its sanctuary city status. Mayor Brandon Johnson
ordered his lieutenants to quash a bid to put the controversial 'Welcoming City Ordinance' to a
referendum on Chicago's March primary ballot. It came after the mayor's floor leader was
forced to resign for physically blocking opponents trying to access a previous vote on the issue
last month.
Ceasefire
Activists Shut Down Freeway in LA, Trap Kids in Buses. We've seen a lot of crazy from
the anti-Israel crew, from protesting Christmas tree lightings to storming the DNC building in D.C.
But they keep showing they can always go lower and be more annoying. They decided to go
full-bore to annoy people in Los Angeles on Wednesday by shutting down the 110 Freeway around
9 a.m. Somehow they were able to stretch out across the whole freeway, link arms, and
prevent cars from getting past. Backups then began to stretch into surrounding roads and
streets. [Tweet with video clip] Not only did they block hundreds of motorists,
but they also trapped two buses of little kids for about an hour making them late for school too.
Radical
Pro-Palestinian Leftists Shut Down L.A.'s 110 Freeway; 75 Arrests. Police arrested 75 people
for blocking Interstate 110 in Los Angeles on Wednesday as part of a pro-Palestinian protest demanding a
"ceasefire" in Gaza — one that would leave the Hamas terror group in power, with over 100
civilian hostages taken from Israel.
Major
coal port remains blocked by climate protesters. Protesters have spent the night
blockading the world's largest coal port over what they say is the failure of government to act on
climate change. Several hundred protesters blocked Newcastle Port's shipping lane on
Saturday, remaining overnight and into Sunday with the action due to end at 4 pm. The group
behind the protest, Rising Tide, claims over half a million tonnes of coal will be prevented from
leaving the port for the duration of the action. Protesters are demanding the government stop
allowing new coal projects, tax fossil fuel export profits at 75 percent to fund community and
industrial transition, and pay for climate loss and damage.
The Editor says...
What "climate loss and damage" exists? What does that mean? Where is this damage?
Can you prove that man-made climate change inflicted damage on anything? No, you can't.
Anti-Israel
Protesters Who Shut Down the Bay Bridge Prevented Couriers From Delivering Organs for Transplant
Surgeries. This week, left wing protesters who are siding with Hamas over Israel took
over and shut down the Bay Bridge in California. This decision not only prevented people from
getting to work, it prevented couriers from delivering organs needed for transplant surgeries.
Imagine being in the hospital for life-saving surgery and learning that the organ you're depending
on can't reach you because some protesters have decided that their stunt is more important than your
life. It is for this and other obvious safety reasons that shutting down roadways should not
ever be allowed as an acceptable form of protest.
German
Police Use 'Pain Grip' on Climate Protesters Blocking Roads, Absolute Hysteria
Follows. A new controversy has broken out in Europe over the use of the so-called
"pain grip" by German police. More specifically, it's a restraint technique being used to
remove climate change protesters who are blocking roads and otherwise causing chaos in
public. A recent viral video showed police using the move on a man who was sitting in front
of a bus, ignoring orders to get up. As he's carried onto the sidewalk, you can see his right
hand being forced down to put pressure on his wrist. The man can be heard screaming as if
he's feeling the worst pain ever visited on any human in history. [Tweet with video clip]
Pro-Palestinian
Protesters Shut Down Bridges in Boston, San Francisco. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators
shut down bridges in Boston and San Francisco amid rush hour Thursday morning, demanding a
ceasefire in the Gaza Strip as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ramps up its military campaign
against Hamas following the terror organization's unprecedented attack on the Jewish state. [...]
The San Francisco protest, which was organized by the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC),
was filled with demonstrators chanting "Free Palestine" and "We want justice." Some protesters
chained themselves to the bridge, while others placed themselves in bodybags covered in fake blood,
KTVU reported.
Washington
State Vote Counting Stopped by Antifa Threats. Yesterday the news came out that a
number of vote-counting stations in Washington State were temporarily closed when envelopes
containing white powder instead of ballots were opened. At least some of them contained
fentanyl. [...] Obviously, nobody can be certain at this point who sent the flyers and fentanyl,
but the claim that there was no obvious political motive seems something of a stretch. But
this is Washington State, where the politicians bend over backward to appease Left-wing radicals
and dismiss the violence they inflict. Had these been Nazi symbols there would be press
conferences screaming about Donald Trump and MAGA, but Antifa disrupting elections is no big deal
at all. They like Trans people after all. They must be good. Transtifa has a
history of violence, and the most common reaction is to blame the victims for inciting it.
Here you can't do that because the victims are government workers, so they do the next best thing:
cover up who did it. It's appalling, but it works. Propaganda works. Memory
holing inconvenient facts works. Especially because the media is in on it.
Minnesota
Supreme Court blocks bid to remove Trump from primary ballot in 14th Amendment challenge.
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an attempt to block Donald Trump from the state's GOP
primary ballot next year based on the 14th Amendment's "insurrectionist ban" but said the challengers
can try again to block him from the general election ballot if the former president wins the Republican
nomination. The 14th Amendment, ratified after the Civil War, says US officials who take an oath
to uphold the Constitution are banned from future office if they "engaged in insurrection." But
the Constitution doesn't say how to enforce the ban, and it has only been applied twice since 1919,
which is why many experts view these challenges as a long shot.
Anti-Israel
Protesters Storm Port of Oakland and US Ready Reserve Ship to Stop Weapons to Israel.
We've seen a lot of anti-Israel protesters. We saw some who stormed a New York City store
because it had flyers of the kidnapped Israelis out front, and police had to protect the building
and the people. But the folks who stormed into the Port of Oakland managed to do something
that everyone should find more than a little troubling. Somehow they were able to get through
a fence and onto the grounds of the port area. At least three of them got onto the ladder for
the U.S. Ready Reserve Force roll-on/roll-off vessel MV Cape Orlando, thinking it was leaving to
pick up weapons to take to Israel. Some reports said they locked themselves to the ladder
while a couple of hundred others blocked Berth 20, where the ship was moored. Ready Reserve
ships are used to help deploy military forces or equipment and are managed by the U.S. Department
of Transportation's Maritime Administration. They are not manned by military personnel.
Oversight
Committee Says WH Is Attempting to 'Stonewall' Smoking Gun Evidence. James Comer's
committee is keeping the pressure on. Days after releasing a video showing a direct link
between a Chinese energy company and now-President Joe Biden's bank account, the House Committee on
Oversight and Accountability announced the White House not being cooperative when it comes to
clearing up questions about the Biden family's dodgy financial practices. And considering the
stakes involved, that should make the American people furious.
Hundreds
of protesters calling for ceasefire between Israel and Gaza take over Philadelphia's Amtrak train
station. Philadelphia's Amtrak train station was overrun by hundreds protesters
calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza on Thursday evening, as war continues to rumble on
in the Middle East. Police initially set up barricades near 30th Street Station in
anticipation of the protesters, who ended up storming inside and initiating their own sit-in after
blocking the entrance on the sidewalk. Hundreds of demonstrators flooded inside the Amtrak
station, which is Philadelphia's largest, stopping commuters in their tracks, just before 7.30 pm.
In
'Despicable' Performance, Mayorkas Stonewalls Congress. Department of Homeland
Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refused to answer GOP Seantors' questions on Tuesday about
the multitude of crises plaguing the nation under his leadership. During a Senate Committee
on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs hearing on Tuesday, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson
asked Mayorkas how many people the Biden administration has "let into the country." Mayorkas
tried dodging the question by blaming the "broken immigration system." "I wanted a
number. How many people have you let in this country?" Johnson asked again. When
Mayorkas once again tried to sidestep the interrogation by couching it with excuses, Johnson cut
him off. "I'll give you the number," Johnson said. "It's about 6 million. About
1.7 million known gotaways. We don't know who these people are. We just know that
they've come to this country, and they're residing somewhere." [Tweet with video clip]
Video
Destroys Bowman's Argument That He Didn't Mean to Set Off the Fire Alarm. As if we
needed more proof of a double standard. People from January 6th have had their lives
ruined for practically nothing. Now we know for sure that socialist Rep. Jamaal Bowman
(D-NY) got away with a felony similar to the one those on January 6th were charged with.
Bowman should face charges of obstructing an official Congressional proceeding when he pulled a
fire alarm in the Capitol before a vote on a spending bill. Instead, Bowman accepted a plea
deal on misdemeanor charges. Bowman claimed that he was in a rush to get to the vote.
The new video does not show that at all. Not even a little bit. No reasonable doubt.
Rep.
Bowman Pleads Guilty to Falsely Pulling Fire Alarm; New Video Shows Him Tearing Down Warning
Signs. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) has pleaded guilty to one count of falsely
pulling a fire alarm after claiming that he had activated the alarm mistakenly in his "rush to get
to a vote to avoid a government shutdown." Bowman set off the alarm in the Cannon House Office
Building on Sept. 30 as lawmakers were about to vote on a spending measure to keep the government
open. He claimed at the time that the door was usually open for votes, but was closed, and he
accidentally activated the alarm, thinking it would open the door. "I am embarrassed to admit
that I activated the fire alarm, mistakenly thinking it would open the door. I regret this
and sincerely apologize for any confusion this caused," he said at the time.
Rep.
Jamaal Bowman [has been] charged for pulling fire alarm. [Scroll down] Obstructing
congressional proceedings under 18 U.S.C. § 1505 is punishable by up to 5 years in prison.
[Indeed], people who did far less than pull a fire alarm on J6 are going to prison for much longer (the ones that have
gotten a trial, that is).
Jamaal
Bowman Finally [has been] Charged With Pulling Fire Alarm. The saga of "squad" member
Jamaal Bowman and the false fire alarm at the Capitol complex on September 30 appears to be drawing
to a rather low-key close. Bowman was charged with a misdemeanor yesterday and will
reportedly be booked today. While the charge of raising a false fire alarm can carry a
sentence of up to six months in jail, Bowman will plead guilty, pay a $1,000 fine, and write a
formal letter of apology to the Capitol Hill Police. Assuming he stays out of further
trouble, he can have the charges withdrawn after three months. Calls from other members of
the House to have him censured or removed have not resulted in any action.
Senate
Dems Block Josh Hawley's Resolution Condemning Anti-Semitic, Pro-Hamas Rhetoric on College
Campuses. Senate Democrats on Thursday [10/19/2023] blocked a Republican resolution
condemning the hateful and anti-Semitic pro-Hamas rhetoric on college campuses throughout the
United States. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the resolution after a wave of
protests around the country exposed genocidal attitudes toward Jews among many left-wing,
pro-Palestinian students and faculty. "My resolution unequivocally condemns Hamas and the
hateful, antisemitic rhetoric that the recent terrorist attack has inspired on our college
campuses. This is particularly urgent given the rise in threats against Jewish Americans
across our country," Hawley wrote in a dear colleague. Pro-Hamas demonstrations have erupted
up on campuses throughout the U.S. in protest of Israel's retaliatory strikes against Gaza in the
wake of the October 7 terrorist attack against Israel. In several cities, students and other
individuals have been seen tearing off the pictures of Israeli hostages of of walls.
Just
Stop Stopping for Just Stop Oil. Enviromoonbats want civilization to come to a
stop. To impose their will, they employ a twist on terrorist tactics by using themselves as
hostages. This bus driver has the right idea regarding how to deal with them:
[Video clip] If the driver had given in to temptation and stepped on the gas, it would
have been regarded as murder — never mind that the climate kooks explicitly asked for
it. This hardly seems right. A few moonbats with tire tracks across their squashed
skulls pale in significance compared to the mass starvation they want to inflict on the rest of us.
Here's
Why The Media's Lies About Rep. Jamaal Bowman Should Concern You. During a
series of contentious spending votes on Saturday ahead of a looming government shutdown, while
House Democrats were trying to slow-walk a vote, Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman pulled a fire
alarm in a House office building on Capitol Hill, forcing an evacuation. Bowman's stunt,
which is under investigation by Capitol Police, was caught on a security camera. It's clear
he pulled the fire alarm as a delaying tactic, precisely to force the evacuation of the building
and disrupt official congressional business (the kind of thing the media would call an
"insurrection" if a Republican had done it.) [...] But here's the important thing: Bowman's
claim is that he thought pulling the fire alarm would open the door. That sounds like an
outlandish lie, doesn't it? The sort of patently false thing no one in his right mind
would ever believe or even try to explain. Just a bone-crushingly idiotic fiction that
requires us to believe Bowman is mentally ill or psychotic. Every single person in Washington
knows it's not true. And yet, every single Democrat and the entire corporate news media
immediately responded as if it were a reasonable and acceptable explanation for Bowman's actions,
like of course he didn't know what would happen when he pulled the alarm. He thought it would
open the door, OK? How many of us have encountered a locked door and immediately pulled the
nearest fire alarm?
Former
School Principal Jamaal Bowman: I Thought Pulling Fire Alarm Would 'Open the
Door'. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), a former school principal who pulled a fire
alarm in the U.S. Capitol complex moments before the House was scheduled to vote on a bill
preventing a government shutdown, did so because he thought it would "open the door." [...]
However, Bowman spent ten years as a school principal in a state that requires 12 fire alarm drills
per school year. Bowman's office similarly issued a statement claiming he did not know he
would trigger the fire alarm by pulling it.
Jamaal
Bowman's obstruction of Congress is a crime, perhaps three times over. Eager to avoid
a government shutdown, House Republicans have offered up a "clean" stopgap to fund the government
for another 45 days sans Ukraine aid. Desperate to delay the vote, Democrat Jamaal
Bowman had a totally rational, legal, and ethical response: to pull the fire alarm, setting
off chaos in Cannon. The New York socialist likely committed at least three crimes in pulling
the alarm. [...] Resorting to arguably criminal means to obstruct a congressional
proceeding — much less one to keep the lights on in Congress — is the sort of
offense that got former President Donald Trump impeached for a second time and within ten votes of
being convicted by the Senate. Assuming that Bowman acted of his own idiocy, it shouldn't
just be Republican leadership calling for his resignation; it should be House Minority leader
Hakeem Jeffries demanding it. Refusal to demand that Bowman bows out of Congress would be
interpreted as a tacit endorsement of his criminal incompetence, as it should be.
Should
Rep. Jamaal Bowman be expelled from Congress? As the House of Representatives
worked to avoid a government shutdown, one member decided to create a distraction so that a vote
was not taken. That is an allegation against Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) that appears to
be true. There is video evidence of Bowman, a member of The Squad, pulling a fire alarm in
the House. It happened in the Capitol's Cannon building. His chief of staff confirmed
he pulled the fire alarm. [...] It's kind of insurrectiony, isn't it? Obstructing the
business of Congress. He did so before what is described as a high-stakes House vote occurred
on a stopgap measure to temporarily keep the federal government funded, avoiding a shutdown.
Democrats wanted the shutdown in order to blame Republicans for it and complained they needed time
to read the 70-page resolution. Democratic Whip Katherine Clark wanted to make a motion for
the House to adjourn for the day to give members time to read it. Democrats were doing all
they could to stop the proceedings.
Critical
Detail Seen in Alcove Where Rep. Bowman Pulled the Fire Alarm - There's No Way He Didn't
Notice This. If you pay any attention to American politics, you've surely heard about
the Saturday incident at the Cannon Office Building in Washington, D.C. On Saturday,
Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman fell under intense scrutiny (and mockery) after he appeared to
be caught red-handed pulling a fire alarm in the Cannon Office Building. [Tweet] The
prevailing theory is that Bowman pulled the juvenile stunt as a means to delay a critical vote on
passing a bill meant to avert a government shutdown. [...] Given that Republicans have been rather
ineffectual these last couple of years and Democrats haven't cared in decades, this writer is not
going to hold his breath that anything happens to Bowman.
MTG
calls on DOJ to prosecute Jamaal Bowman using same law used to imprison J6ers. Not
long after Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) was caught pulling a fire alarm at the House office
building as part of an effort to delay a vote on a Republican-backed stopgap spending bill,
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) issued a call for the Department of Justice to prosecute
the far-left representative under the same laws it used to lock up defendants who were involved
with the Capitol Riot on Jan. 6, 2021. "Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman pulled the fire
alarm in the Cannon building this afternoon and interrupted the official proceedings of the House
as Republicans worked to keep the government open," Greene wrote on X. "I'm calling on the DOJ to
prosecute him using the same law they used to prosecute J6 defendants for interfering with an
official proceeding." "The Democrats literally will do anything to shut OUR government down
because billions aren't going to their favorite country: Ukraine," added Greene.
Republicans
Draft Resolution to Expel Jamaal Bowman from Congress. Republicans have drafted a
resolution to expel Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) after he allegedly pulled a fire alarm to delay
a vote on a bill to avert a government shutdown. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) authored
the resolution, which is expected to be formally filed Monday when the House is next in
session. Expulsion is the most serious form of disciplinary action available to the House for
its own members. Only five members have been expelled from the House in history.
AOC
leaps to the defense of Jamaal Bowman claiming he pulled fire alarm in a 'moment of panic' at
government shutdown vote. Progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has
leapt to the defense of fellow New York representative Jamaal Bowman as he faces criticism for
pulling a fire alarm in the Capitol on Saturday. AOC told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday that
Bowman's actions occurred in a 'moment of panic,' exacerbated by the pressure and chaos of
attempting to avert a government shutdown — which Congress successfully did late on Saturday.
'I think there's something to be said that the government's about to shut down, there's a vote
clock that's going down, the exits that are normally open in that building were suddenly closed,'
said Ocasio-Cortez.
The Editor says...
If this lame excuse is true, and Mr. Bowman is so susceptible to panic, he shouldn't be a Congressman.
Will
Dem Rep. Jamaal Bowman get the J6 treatment for pulling fire alarm to disrupt congressional
vote? In a completely bizarre decision, Dem. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (NY)
committed a misdemeanor and potential felony in order to stop the Constitutional function of
government. I kid you not. [Tweet] [...] Bowman's office is spinning like crazy over this
potentially felonious act. Claiming, alternately, that he thought the fire alarm was some
kind of fancy door opener or that he pulled it unintentionally. Not sure how that works, but
that's his story.
Rep.
Jamaal Bowman Broke the Law, and He Needs to Be Charged. As RedState reported,
Rep. Jamaal Bowman pulled a fire alarm on Saturday in an apparent attempt to obstruct the
House from voting on a continuing resolution bill. That came as both sides attempted to come
to an agreement to keep the government from shutting down. Now, video evidence is confirming
that Bowman was the culprit. Here's a still image in which the representative is easily
identifiable. [Tweet] Is this really what things have come to? Bowman has made a
mockery of his position since joining Congress, shouting at other members in the hallways and
generally being an insufferable clown. So what should happen to him after his latest transgression?
Bowman
Spox Essentially Admits He Did It, but the Excuse Is Nonsensical. As we reported
earlier, the Democrats were seeking to avoid the vote on a continuing resolution to avoid a
government shutdown on Saturday. They tried to make a move to adjourn the vote. But
they got a little help from a fire alarm that went off in the Cannon Building and forced an
evacuation. The incredible thing about that is that Politico and Fox are reporting the person
who pulled the fire alarm was Bowman. He was supposedly caught on camera and we now have a
reported picture. If he did that to obstruct an official proceeding — the crime
that some J6 people were charged with — then he is in deep trouble. [Tweet] That's
nuts, I don't think I've ever seen or heard of any lawmaker doing such a thing. But now he's
trying to clean up the mess. And his statement is beyond belief having done what he did. [Tweet]
Socialist
Rep. Jamaal Bowman pulls fire alarm as Dems try to delay vote on GOP stopgap spending
bill. Socialist Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) pulled the fire alarm in a House
office building Saturday as Democrats tried to delay a bipartisan vote on a Republican stopgap
spending bill. The wild incident in the Cannon Building was caught on camera and confirmed by
several witnesses. Bowman "pulled a fire alarm in Cannon this morning," a spokesperson for
the GOP-controlled Administration Committee told Politico. "An investigation into why it was pulled
is underway." "An investigation into why it was pulled is underway," a spokesperson for the
GOP-controlled Administration Committee told The [New York] Post, confirming the incident.
"Congressman Bowman did not realize he would trigger a building alarm as he was rushing to make an
urgent vote. The congressman regrets any confusion," she said.
Climate
Protester Who Glued His Feet to the Floor Complains About Being Put in Psych Ward. A
climate protester at the U.S. Open tennis tournament disrupted the women's semi-final match between
American Coco Gauff and Czech player Karolina Muchova for almost an hour. Now he is talking
to the press about what he thinks was an attempt to silence him. Shayok Mukhopadhyay and
three other climate activists stood up and began to chant "End fossil fuels now" shortly after the
second set began. As event security moved in, it became apparent that Mukhopadhyay had glued
his feet to the concrete floor of Arthur Ashe stadium. Mukhopadhyay's companions were led
away, but it took medical personnel almost 50 minutes to get his feet unglued so he could be
taken into custody. [Tweet with video clip]
Dutch
Police Clear Thousands of Climate Crazies from Highway with Water Cannons. Several
thousand climate activists blocked a Dutch highway on Saturday in anger at billions of euros in
government subsidies for industries that use oil, coal and gas — before police dispersed
them with water cannons. A report earlier this week detailed 37.5 billion euros
($40.5 billion) in such subsidies in the Netherlands, notably related to the shipping
industry, prompting calls for a quick halt to the practice. The protesters — from
Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace and other organizations — broke through a police
barrier Saturday morning and sat on a main road in The Hague heading to the temporary venue for the
lower house of parliament.
Climate
Terrorists Blocking Road In Nevada. Nevada rangers drove directly into a blockade set
up by annoying climate protestors blocking the road to Burning Man. An officer pulled a gun
out, tackling a protestor and threatening to shoot. Environmental activists were demanding
that Burning Man ban private jets and single-use plastics. [Video clip]
Trump
Caravan Blocked in Manhattan by Three Leftists with a Sheet. Trump supporters
organized a caravan in Manhattan today. The Trump supporters were planning on traveling
through the city and passing by Trump Tower. But then three leftists with a spray-painted
sheet stood in the street and blocked traffic. Police did nothing to remove the leftists from
the road. [Tweet] The police did not remove the protesters blocking traffic.
Biden
Tries to Sink Gov. Abbott's Border Buoys. The Biden Administration is taking
steps to undermine Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's (R-TX) actions to keep illegal aliens out of the
U.S. The state's top land official called out the Biden Administration's proposed federal
protection for two Rio Grande mussel species as a "political" game to stop Abbott from deploying
his buoys in the U.S.-Mexico water border. "Unfortunately, the Biden administration is
turning the Endangered Species Act into a political tool to push an agenda rather than ensuring
true conservation efforts are implemented," Texas General Land Office Commissioner Dawn Buckingham
said in a statement. "This administration is proposing to roll back reasonable improvements made to
this law and are simply ignoring the successful accomplishments of private preservationists, state,
and local land managers by adding more federal red tape regulations."
J6
Committee Accused of Destroying Key Intelligence Documents About Capitol Riot. It
looks like the background intelligence documents about the Capitol Hill riot have gone the way of
certain Secret Service call records, the Capitol Hill pipe bomber's identity, the ID of the White
House cocaine addict, and Hillary Clinton's BleachBit emails. Key evidence is missing.
It's gone. Vanished. If you're in any way confused, let's be clear: this is how a
corrupt, banana republic, tinpot dictatorship acts. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) and
former President Donald Trump alleged that at least two terabytes of information were not preserved
by the Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney show trial producers. "The more we go in," Loudermilk told
Fox News Digital, "the more we're realizing that there's things that we don't have [sic]. We don't
have anything about security failures at the Capitol, we don't have the videos of the depositions."
Loudermilk, who chairs the House Oversight subcommittee, says the documents they did get, 2.5 Terabytes
out of 4, were a mess. "Nothing was indexed," he said. "There was no table of contents
index," as there usually is in these types of documents.
January
6th committee didn't turn over its records to the House. This is blatantly
illegal. One might almost call it an attack on the Constitution and our legal system.
[Tweet] Ironic, isn't it? The self-righteous and arrogant January 6th Committee
collected documents, depositions, and videotapes over a 2-year period while conducting what
amounted to a Star Chamber kangaroo court. For those of you unfamiliar with the real-world
Star Chamber, it was an English court established ostensibly to hold members of the aristocracy
responsible for crimes on the assumption that the common law courts might fear convicting men of
high standing. It was advertised as ensuring that equal justice applied to all.
Instead, it was the embodiment of abusing power. Just like the January 6th Committee
proved to be.
President
Trump Reveals the Dirty Jan. 6 Committee Illegally Destroyed their Records and Documents Now
that He Has Full Subpoena Power. President Donald Trump dropped a bombshell report on
his Truth Social platform that the sham committee overseeing the investigation of the
January 6th Capitol riot has destroyed their documents and records illegally.
Biden
WH Threatens Reporters With Expulsion If They Continue to Interrupt Press Briefings.
The White House is taking heat for purging more than 400 reporters from presidential press
briefings following a new rule aimed at journalists. According to reports, 442 reporters have
lost their "hard pass" press pass credentials over the past three months, resulting in a 31 percent
reduction of journalists in the press briefing room. The White House told Politico that only
one reporter had their application for a new hard pass denied. However, hundreds of reporters
lost their passes due to needing to meet the latest qualifications.
The
White House is insulating itself from the non-MSM media. One of the things
characterizing the Biden administration is incoherence. Biden is frequently completely
unintelligible, mumbling sounds to himself and his audience. Kamala offers wordy, banal
phrases that fail to hide that her premise, conclusion, and argument are all identical. And
Karine Jean-Pierre, despite having her eyes glued to her notes most of the time, is the Sergeant
Schultz of press secretaries, for she knows nothing most of the time. It's hardly surprising,
therefore, to learn that the Biden White House has purged over 30% of the people allowed press
passes... none of whom belong to the major MSM outlets.
Biden
White House Strips Press Passes for 442 Reporters. The White House has managed to
eject hundreds of reporters from the Press Briefing Room by using new rules, which limit the number
of journalists who are able to qualify for a hard pass. The effect of the new rules —
introduced in May this year — has been to remove White House passes from a whopping 442
reporters: a 31 percent reduction. The White House now requires reporters to work
full time at a news organization, live in and around Washington D.C., regularly cover the White
House, submit to an investigation by the Secret Service, and obtain "accreditation by a press gallery
in either the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, or Supreme Court." Reporters can
potentially obtain a temporary day pass, however, but even they would be required to reapply every
single day.
The Editor says...
Quick calculation shows that there must have been 1,425 reporters with White House access before the new rules kicked in.
Maybe that's because there's a new scandal every day, and nobody has adequately explained the previous day's scandals.
Oregon
health clinic denies medical care to breast cancer patient after she objects to trans pride flag.
A woman who is a current breast cancer patient was banned from her hospital over alleged "hurtful
remarks" it claims she said about the "LGBTQ community." [Tweet] The patient, Marlene
Barbera, was set to receive a mastectomy later this month. Barbera explained that the drama
first began after she made a comment about being opposed to a trans pride flag that she spotted
hanging in the waiting room of Richmond Family Medicine Clinic in Portland, Oregon. Since
then, she has asked online if anyone is able to refer her to an attorney.
Vivek
Ramaswamy believes TN Gov. Lee, FBI 'hiding' Nashville shooter manifesto: 'Stonewalled
silence'. Republican presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy headed to Nashville on
Wednesday and demanded that Gov. Bill Lee release the writings of Covenant School shooter
Audrey Hale. Ramaswamy slammed politicians and law enforcement for their "stonewalled
silence" on the deadly shooting by the 28-year-old transgender artists who opened fire in the
private elementary school on the morning of March 27. "We have to learn from tragedy to
prevent it in the future," Ramaswamy told a crowd as he stood in front of Davidson County
Courthouse in Nashville Wednesday afternoon. He railed against Lee, the Metro Nashville
Police Department and the FBI as he repeated "Tell us the truth," before adding: "The whole truth,
nothing but the truth." "I do believe they're hiding this manifesto," he added.
How
the Democrats and Media Enablers Censor News. Democrats in Congress and their legacy
media enablers dropped their veils this week, revealing how dear they hold their desire and
capacity to censor truth. The drop came during Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s testimony about
vaccines and shows how frightened they are that he may out-primary their demented puppet Joe Biden
and his cackling numbskull veep. The New York Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg tweeted:
"Despite the theater, the hearing raised thorny questions about free speech in a democratic
society: Is misinformation protected by the First Amendment. When is it appropriate for the
federal government to seek to tamp down the spread of falsehoods?" Her comment was apparently
inspired by Rep. Deborah Wasserman Schultz, who sought to hide his testimony from the public
by moving it to executive session. When that failed, she and other Democrats on the committee
peppered him with questions and denied him an opportunity to respond.
Uncovering
COVID-19's Origins: How Team Biden Is Stonewalling. The Biden administration is
stonewalling efforts to get to the bottom of the origins of the pandemic that has been blamed for
the loss of over 1.1 million American lives. Pursuant to the unanimously enacted COVID-19
Origin Act of 2023, the administration is required to provide Congress with detailed, declassified
information on specific research activities of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, especially the
institute's coronavirus experiments on behalf of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and incidents
of early illness among the institute's researchers. But the administration hasn't complied
with the law as written and has only released a portion of the information that it has.
Anticipating such obstruction, on June 14, Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Mike Braun, R-Ind.,
the act's authors, strongly reminded President Joe Biden that the law requires the administration
to "declassify any and all information" relating to these issues.
Just
Stop Oil is hoping to 'paralyze' London this week. This group has been disrupting
events for days. David highlighted some of the incidents which happened over the
weekend. But there is apparently a concerted effort focused on shutting down traffic all
around the city of London this week. Monday they held 30 separate disruptions. [Tweets]
As one group was arrested another group would step into the street and the process would start all
over again. This protesters complained she was arrested without being properly warned in
advance. [Tweet with video clip] A year in jail would probably put an end to this
very quickly but I wonder if it will actually happen or if, as usual, everyone will be let off with
a warning. Street disruptions were the main tactic but they also engaged in some
vandalism. [Tweet with video clip] This is obviously an organized effort which
really is trying to disrupt the city. Hopefully police will take that seriously. The
only way to prevent this from happening routinely is to make this effort a failure. The only
way to make this effort a failure is to punish the people involved enough that fewer people are
interested in repeating this stunt. It's really going to be up to the courts.
Top
Biden official ripped for no-showing hearing on $200 billion COVID-19 fraud. A House
hearing on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of fraud perpetrated by pandemic aid scammers was
hobbled Thursday when a key Biden administration official opted to skip her appearance. Isabella
Casillas Guzman, head of the Small Business Administration, turned down an invite to appear before the
House Small Business Committee, citing scheduling conflicts. As a result, lawmakers were left
scrambling to rectify the vast gap between the SBA's $36 billion estimate of COVID-19 fraud and
the $200 billion projection from its Office of Inspector General, led by Hannibal Ware —
who did find the time to show up for the hearing. "I want to reiterate how disappointed I am the
administrator did not show up today," committee Chairman Roger Williams (R-Texas) said during the
Q-and-A period.
FBI
boss Christopher Wray's Capitol Hill performance is a masterclass in stonewalling congressional
oversight. His smirk might have dialed down a fraction, but Chris Wray's performance
on Capitol Hill Wednesday shows that he is the champion of all stonewallers. When finally he
is kicked out of the FBI Gulfstream, he could have a lucrative new career training other agency
heads on how not to comply with congressional oversight. There were plenty of reasons for him
to offer a mea culpa for FBI abuses of power on his watch, but all we got was the usual trademark
Wraysims for avoiding answering questions: "Ongoing investigation," "I'm not sure that is a correct
characterization," "I can't comment on personnel matters," "We are working on an internal review,"
"As I sit here right now I don't have an answer," "We will work collaboratively ... consistent with
our rules," "I can't speak to pending [fill in the blank]." When confronted about the FBI's
collusion with social-media companies to censor Americans, as laid out in the landmark free-speech
case Missouri v Biden, Wray feigned ignorance.
Commiefornia
Dems Block Bill That Would Have Made Child Trafficking A Felony. Yesterday,
California Democrats blocked a bill that would have increased the penalty for trafficking a child
to a "serious felony." Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer was caught on a hot mic laughing at
the victims of human trafficking who heckled him after blocking the bill. SB 14 passed the
California state senate unanimously but has now failed because the six Democrats on the Public
Safety Committee chaired by Assemblyman Jones-Sawyer refused to vote for it. [Video clip]
DHS
Chief Mayorkas Ignores Request to Disclose How Many Illegals Have Been Freed into
U.S.. President Joe Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary,
Alejandro Mayorkas, is ignoring a request from Republicans on the House Oversight Committee to
disclose the number of illegal aliens the agency has released directly into American communities
through its massive parole pipeline. As Breitbart News reported, late last month, Republicans
on the House Oversight Committee, led by Reps. James Comer (R-KY) and Glenn Grothman (R-WI),
asked Mayorkas to provide a total numerical accounting of illegal aliens DHS has released into the
United States interior through the administration's expansive parole pipeline.
The
Left Must Always Be Resisting. After the failures of the Paris Riots of '68, the
collapse of the USSR's socialist economy, the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the spectacle of the
Tiananmen Square massacre, and the reign of both Thatcher and Reagan, the left was at a loss, to
say the least. To quote Mao and Roger Kimball, the long march through the institutions had to
begin. Recognizing the judgment of these historical events, the Marxist left knew that it
would have to change strategies. Instead of attacking the republic's economic structure head
on, leftists would flank it by obliterating any notion of truth, coherence, goodness, and other
Western ideals, even beauty. The left retreated deep inside academia and deep inside cultish,
paralyzing theories of radical relativity: deconstruction and postmodernism. It is a strategy
of mutually assured destruction: if we can't have it our way, no one gets it his way,
either. It worked: cancel culture has hounded many into silence.
Any delay in this case is the result of stonewalling.
Donald
Trump: Security Tapes Would 'Quickly' Find White House Cocaine Smuggler. Former
President Donald Trump said the security tapes would "quickly" reveal who smuggled cocaine into
President Joe Biden's White House after the drug was reportedly found in the West Wing. Over
the weekend, a substance was found inside the White House that reportedly tested positive for
cocaine. On Monday, U.S. Secret Service spokesman Steven Kopek confirmed an "ongoing
investigation" into the matter, but did not confirm whether the substance contained cocaine.
In response, Trump predicted the "Fake News Media" will downplay the substance's finding.
Karine
Jean-Pierre Has Answered Exactly One Question About Hunter Biden All Year. White
House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has been widely criticized for her inability to field even
basic inquiries about the scandals plaguing President Biden. Despite the President's January
2021 pledge to "bring transparency and truth back to the government," Jean-Pierre has failed to
answer practically every such question she's faced. MRC analysts examined official White
House transcripts of every briefing Jean-Pierre conducted between January 1 and June 30, 2023,
recording every time she was asked about one of the scandals facing President Biden —
specifically, the corruption allegations being investigated by House committees, and his
mishandling of classified documents from his time as Vice President. Analysts found that
while reporters asked Jean-Pierre 252 questions about either of these topics, only six received a
definitive answer.
Clear
Political Intent — FBI Refuses to Turn Over Unclassified Investigative Report Detailing
Joe Biden Bribery Scheme. Congress has specific knowledge of an investigative
document inside the FBI known as an FD-1023. The FD-1023 details the evidence delivered by
confidential human sources to investigators. The specific FD-1023 is a multi-page document
outlining the entire bribery scheme used by Joe Biden and his family. The person who helped
detail the FD-1023 documents has informed congress of its existence. Because this
unclassified FD-1023 outlines the details of how Joe Biden used his office to accept bribes from
foreign officials, the FBI is refusing to release it. Instead, the FBI is telling Congress
they have no right to see it. The FBI is claiming that reports from Confidential Human
Sources (CHSs) cannot be released, regardless of classification status. Further, what you
will note in the claims of the FBI and DOJ is essentially what we have been talking about on these
pages for several years. Information is intentionally put into institutional silos that keep
the information hidden and protected. The silo use is everywhere in Washington DC.
IRS,
Inmates, Obamacare Eyed in Biden's Get-Out-the-Vote Plan, Liberals Boast in Report.
President Joe Biden's Executive Order 14019, which requires federal agencies to get involved in
boosting voter participation, is a little over 2 years old. However, members of Congress, the
press, and watchdog groups unsuccessfully have sought information on how Biden's order is being
implemented. The Justice Department has claimed presidential privilege to shield related
documents from release. Yet, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights spearheaded
a "progress report" on implementation of Biden's get-out-the-vote order. It was joined by
more than 50 other liberal organizations, including the SPLC Action Fund (affiliated with the
controversial Southern Poverty Law Center), the American Civil Liberties Union, Demos, Public
Citizen, and the Sierra Club. "The executive order is unconstitutional. States are
supposed to be in charge of election laws," Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., told The Daily Signal
in a phone interview Monday. "The administration has not been telling the American people what they
are doing."
Why
are they hiding the manifesto? Remember the Covenant school shooting in
Nashville? You are not supposed to. It is supposed to fade quietly into the background
because, well, the facts are inconvenient to the Narrative. Immediately after the horrific
events we learned that there was a "manifesto" left behind by the shooter making it abundantly
clear why she committed the act. In her last message to a friend, she also indicated that she
left behind writings about why she committed evil acts. So far that manifesto has been
withheld from public scrutiny. The powers that be don't want you to see it. For a brief
period, the authorities tried to reverse course and claim that there were only the ramblings of a
disturbed person that made no sense. That was their first excuse for hiding what the shooter
left behind. Nobody bought that for a number of reasons, so a fallback position soon emerged
for why the tender eyes of the public must be protected from exposure to the rantings of a lunatic:
the words are magically dangerous and hearing or reading them might make people spontaneously
explode or something.
National
Police Association and Other Groups Sue to Obtain Audrey Hale Manifesto. In March,
Audrey Hale shocked the nation by opening fire at The Covenant School in Nashville,
Tennessee. The police soon acknowledged that they had a manifesto from Hale on why she took
this inexplicable and horrific action. We all then waited for the release of the
manifesto. We are still waiting. It is not uncommon for there to be a delay in the
release of information in a major crime pending investigation. What was weird is that the
police quickly confirmed that Hale acted alone and Hale was dead. There is no prosecution
that will occur in the case. Yet, it is May and the authorities are still refusing to release
the manifesto ... and they will not fully explain why. Now, the National Police Association
and other groups are suing to make the writings and other materials of mass shooter Audrey Hale
public. There were twenty journals, five laptops, a suicide note, yearbooks, cellphones and
various notes written by Hale, 28, that were seized from the house she shared with her
parents. There have been press reports that the authorities consider the manifesto to be
"astronomically dangerous."
"There
is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world."
Position
Reversed Again — Nashville Police Refuse to Release Transgender Audrey Hale Christian
Murder Manifesto. Long-time readers of CTH research will remember a very specific
agency inside government, the Dept of Justice Community Relations Service (DOJ-CRS). This
little-known, quasi legislatively authorized, Eric Holder weaponized, silo inside the justice
system operates to control information that would be deemed 'adverse to the peace and tranquility
interests of the nation.' In non-pretending terms, the DOJ-CRS controls any information in
the criminal justice system that doesn't fit the agenda of the radical communists and left-wing
activists within it. The CRS controlled the George Zimmerman case. The CRS controlled
the Darren Wilson case (Ferguson). The CRS controlled the Baltimore-Six case. The CRS
controlled the Stephen Paddock case (Las Vegas). There are many more. The CRS, also
known colloquially as the "peacekeepers" can reach into any system of justice, local, state,
federal, including courts, judges, trials and law enforcement agencies, and control the information
that is at the center of their topic, charge or investigation. The CRS is an omnipotent
smaller agency, with incredible power within the Dept of Justice, that has full control over
anything they identify as needed to retain the "domestic tranquility," including instructions to
federal and state judges. Almost no one knows about the CRS, and no one is
permitted to talk about their true mission.
Nashville
Police Reverse Course on Releasing Shooter's Manifesto, Citing Pending Litigation.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) has reversed course from a previous statement
to The Epoch Times, when the agency said the so-called manifesto and writings of Nashville school
shooter Audrey Hale would be released to the public soon. The department cited the advice of
legal counsel amid litigation filed this week for those same documents to be released. The
Epoch Times contacted MNPD on May 3, but officials would not comment, citing the pending
litigation. The story regarding MNPD readying the documents for public release was published
April 27. On May 1, the Tennessee Firearms Association (TFA) filed a lawsuit
against MNPD over a previously denied public records request for the Hale documents to be released.
Trans
Massacre Manifesto [is] Still a Mystery. "The investigation has advanced to the point
that writings from the Covenant shooter are now being reviewed for public release and that process
is underway and will take a little time." That was a spokesman for the Metro Nashville Police
Department speaking to the New York Post last Thursday. That day marked one month since
Audrey Hale, a woman who thought she was a man, murdered Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9, Mike Hill, 61,
William Kinney, 9, Katherine Koonce, 60, Cynthia Peak, 61, and Hallie Scruggs, 9, at the Covenant
School in Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville police "could not give a firm date when the
writings would be released." Shortly after the murders, Nashville city councilman Robert
Swope told reporters "the manifesto is going to be released. It's just a matter of
when." In the meantime, the FBI is reportedly "processing" the material. "It's really
not even a manifesto," according to Nashville city council member Courtney Johnson. "It's diaries
of a mentally ill person." The councilwoman, a real-estate agent, did not explain how she was
qualified to diagnose Audrey Hale, who carefully planned the attack for months. "What I was
told is, her manifesto was a blueprint on total destruction, and it was so, so detailed at the
level of what she had planned."
Secretive Su:
Biden Admin Won't Release Records of 'Transparent' Labor Secretary Nominee Julie Su.
The Biden administration is stonewalling public records requests regarding acting labor secretary
Julie Su, whose confirmation to lead the agency on a permanent basis faces an uphill battle in the
closely divided Senate. Conservative watchdog group American Accountability Foundation last
month petitioned the Labor Department for all official correspondence between Su and the nation's
most powerful unions, whose business dominates her public calendars. Last week, the agency
blew by its deadline to provide the documents as Su moved toward a confirmation vote in the U.S.
Senate. The watchdog said the administration's failure to provide documents from Su's time at
the Labor Department ahead of a potential vote "thickens the cloud already hanging over this
confirmation process." "The American people and members of the Senate who are considering her
confirmation right now deserve to know the full truth about Julie Su and it is disgraceful that
they are being kept in the dark," the group said in a statement. "The fact that the acting head of
the Department of Labor right now is Julie Su herself only thickens the cloud already hanging
over this confirmation process."
Judge
throws the book at Just Stop Oil protesters. Two Just Stop Oil protestors who scaled
a bridge over the Dartford Crossing and caused 40 hours of gridlock have been jailed for five years
in a record sentence for the climate group. Morgan Trowland, 40, and Marcus Decker, 36, blocked
one of the busiest stretches of road in the country during their climate protest on October 17
last year. The pair hoisted a banner between two pillars of the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge,
which links the M25 in Essex and Kent, and slept in hammocks in freezing temperatures overnight.
[The]
Biden Admin [is] Obstructing [the] Afghan Investigation On All Fronts. Trump was
impeached the first time for a whole lot less than this. We've had a lot of talk about
impeaching Biden. But these are actually serious grounds for impeachment. The entire
Afghanistan mess isn't behind us, it's still ongoing and so is the cover-up. Terrorism
financing is serious business and should be taken seriously.
'Insulate
Britain' Enviro-tards Nearly Get Squashed by a Furious Mom Trying to get Her Kids to School.
An incident involving 'Insulate Britain' environmentalists and a frustrated driver has caused concern about
the impact of climate protests on daily life. Footage shows a group of activists blocking a busy road,
preventing cars from passing through. A mother driving her SUV with her children was among the drivers
affected and became visibly upset, honking her horn and asking the protestors to move. The protestors
refused to budge, and the situation became heated. [Video clip]
GOP
Rep Shreds Biden's SEC Chair For 'Unacceptable' Stonewalling Oversight Of Climate Rules.
Republican Rep. Bill Huizenga of Michigan questioned Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Chairman Gary Gensler over "unacceptable" responses to requests for information on the SEC's climate
disclosure rule at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Tuesday [4/18/2023]. The rule
requires companies to release climate-related financial data in addition to traditional data, which is
overstepping the SEC's jurisdiction, according to a letter by Huizenga, Rep. Patrick McHenry of
North Carolina and Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina. The congressmen requested documents
and information relating to the costs of the rule but did not receive them.
Oh,
by the way - longshoremen shut down 2 CA ports today. This has been simmering since
last May, when talks began between union reps, ports, and the shipping industry. They stalled
for months at a time, and the longshoremen have now been working without a contract for 10 months.
[...] There are already warnings of disruptions to orders and missed truck appointments going out,
but this may not be quite the blow it would have been in years past. Thanks to both
consolidation in the shipping industry and the adroitness shown by East Coast ports adapting to the
reality of the COVID pandemic, CA ports just ain't what they used to be as far as primacy.
Gun
Control Activist Takes Over Nashville Police School Shooting Briefing. A gun control
activist took over the Nashville Police's briefing and began ranting about the problem with guns
after the officers had concluded giving initial details about a school shooting at Covenant School,
a private Christian elementary school that has left three students and three adults dead. The
woman walked up to the microphones and asked the journalists if they were tired of reporting on
school shootings. She revealed she is currently on family vacation with her child but she
came down to the scene when the news broke. "I have been lobbying in D.C. since we survived a
mass shooting in July. I have met with over 130 lawmakers. How is this still
happening? How are our children still dying and why are we failing them? Gun violence
is the number one killer of children and teens. It has overtaken cars," the woman said.
What is
the State Dept. Hiding from the Senate? Secretary of State Antony Blinken just testified before the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, during which he was confronted by minority committee member Rand Paul. As
Senator Paul states, leaked State Department cables sent years prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic expressed alarm about
lax security in Chinese Biosecurity Labs. As it turns out, the State Department was (yet another federal
agency!) involved in coronavirus research projects, components of which were conducted in China. As
Senator Paul emphasizes, the grant proposals and papers he has repeatedly requested are NOT classified. The
trouble is not the legality of divulging them to the Senate, but the State Department's refusal to divulge
them. Senator Paul's questioning of Blinken caught my eye because it reminded me of something that Senator
Ron Johnson told us when we visited him at his office last summer — namely, that various federal agencies
simply refuse to fulfill his requests for information.
Communist
Front Group Organized Shout-Down of Conservative Judge at Stanford. The main
organizers of the Stanford shout-down of the conservative judge Stuart Kyle Duncan last week were
associated with the National Lawyers Guild, a Communist front group with its roots in the 1930s
radical left. Alan Dershowitz gives a brief history of the NLG and how they have been trying
to stifle conservative viewpoints at university law schools. They have chapters at more than
100 schools, and their plans to disrupt the speech of conservatives have only just started.
According to Dershowitz, the NLG tries to create the impression that the shout-downs are
spontaneous expressions of anger. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Kirk
Cameron book event interrupted by activists, drag queens: publisher. A group of drag
queens and activists dressed in black and white showed up on Friday at the Fayetteville Public
Library in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to protest actor-writer Kirk Cameron's story time event for
families and children, according to book publisher Brave Books, whose staff were present at the
reading. The drag queens blocked the views of some families and children and distracted
others from the book reading and remarks from the stage, said Brave Books. The publisher
shared photos taken by staff on the scene. Los Angeles-based Cameron, an outspoken Christian
who has been traveling across the country to public libraries to share messages of faith, family
and country at children's book readings and the singing of patriotic songs, told Fox News Digital
in exclusive comments on Saturday morning that he found the disruptions disturbing.
Biden
admin drags its feet, refuses to cooperate with requests from Congress on nearly every
issue. President Joe Biden may have pledged to restore transparency to the
administration before he took office, but since Republicans regained control of the House, his
officials have stonewalled Congress, refusing to respond to requests on nearly every issue the GOP
has vowed to investigate. "GOP lawmakers face the increasingly likely prospect of a protracted
fight to get basic answers," investigative journalist Sarah Westwood writes for the Washington
Examiner. "More than a half-dozen House committees have sent dozens of requests to agencies
across the federal government since January, probing everything from Hunter Biden's business
dealings to the expedited push for COVID-19 booster approval," Westwood explains. "Even several
Democratic-controlled Senate committees have pushed the Biden administration for
information — and, in some cases, expressed frustration with the result."
Speaker
McCarthy: Administration 'Fighting Every Step of the Way' Against Biden Family Business
Investigations. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told Breitbart News last week
that Democrat President Joe Biden's administration has been "fighting" against transparency "every
step of the way" with GOP investigators probing the president's family business dealings.
McCarthy's interview, taped on Wednesday [3/15/2023] in the ceremonial U.S. House Speaker's office,
came before the Treasury Department finally, after weeks, relented and agreed to provide the many
Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) on Biden family members' bank transactions.
NOLA
mayor files lawsuit to block recall going to a vote. New Orleans Mayor LaToya
Cantrell, a Democrat, filed two lawsuits Tuesday aimed at scuttling a legal settlement that reduced
the number of signatures needed for her recall. The alleged "backroom deal" makes it easier
for recall supporters to force an election on her recall. Cantrell claims that Secretary of
State Kyle Ardoin, a Republican, made a deal with recall organizers. One lawsuit was filed in
Orleans Parish Civil District Court. The lawsuit calls the deal illegal. The 10%
reduction in the number of signatures needed to force a vote on the mayor's recall was called
arbitrary. The second lawsuit was filed against Ardoin in Baton Rouge's 19th Judicial
District Court. Mayor Cantrell was joined by Lower 9th Ward activist Willie Calhoun in the
second lawsuit. Recall organizers Belden Batiste and Eileen Carter, both Democrats, are also
named in the second lawsuit.
Eric
Swalwell Suggests Banning Fox News From Troops Overseas. Rep. Eric Swalwell
(D-CA) appeared to suggest United States military serving overseas should be barred from watching
Fox News. Swalwell made the comments speaking on MSNBC with host Katie Phang on
Saturday. Phang asked Rep. Swalwell if there should be any sort of "congressional
oversight, regulations, some type of gatekeeping" regarding Fox News, after Tucker Carlson aired
previously never-before-seen footage from the events of January 6, 2021. "I'm wondering a
lot about Americans and the disinformation and the misinformation that was pumped out of Fox
News. Have there been any discussions in Congress about, maybe, congressional oversight,
regulations, maybe the FCC getting involved," Fang asked. Swalwell responded by claiming he
did not "want to get into the business of telling troops what they can and cannot watch" before
suggesting exactly that.
Biden
admin further delays offshore drilling leases. Any hopes you may have had that Joe
Biden has seen the light on the energy crisis were doused earlier this week when the White House
appeared poised to basically kill off the Willow project in Alaska. Fresh on the heels of
that announcement, more bad news arrived. The federal government's congressionally mandated
offshore oil and gas leasing program expired last year. Despite federal laws requiring the
White House to institute the next phase of the program, the best the Biden administration has
managed thus far is a dubious draft plan that was published last July. But now we're being
told that they are still not ready to issue a new schedule and they will need at least the rest of
the year to complete the work.
Treasury
official ordered to appear for Hunter Biden interview under penalty of perjury. A top
House Republican investigator is demanding that a Treasury Department official appear for a
transcribed interview related to the department's refusal to hand over suspicious activity reports
on Hunter Biden. Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight and
Accountability Committee, had set a hearing for this Friday for Treasury Department Assistant
Secretary for Legislative Affairs Jonathan Davidson to testify, but the GOP investigator revealed
that Davidson refused to appear, so Comer is now demanding that Davidson testify before his
committee next Tuesday under penalty of perjury. "Treasury Department officials have
repeatedly said that they are cooperating with the committee's request but all we've seen is
obstruction," Comer said Tuesday evening. "We've offered multiple good faith accommodations, but
Treasury continues to provide excuses and employ delay tactics. We are done with the excuses
and calling on Assistant Secretary Jonathan Davidson to answer questions under the penalty of
perjury next week."
Run
and hide: Baltimore City Schools CEO dodges questions on recent state test scores.
The short version is that Baltimore City Public Schools are some of the best funded in the country
but the results of all that spending are dismal. Local Fox affiliate WBFF Fox 45 revealed
earlier this month that state test scores found 23 Baltimore City Schools had not one student
capable of doing math at grade level. Another 20 schools only had one or two students in the
entire school who were doing math at grade level. Efforts to speak to Baltimore City
officials and state representatives about the test scores have mostly been in vain. But
reporter Chris Papst hasn't given up. He went to an event where Baltimore City Schools CEO
Sonja Santelises was speaking. But as soon as her speech ended Santelises darted out the back.
Hawley
Goes Off On Biden Nominee Who Refuses To Own Up To Her Social Media Posts. Republican
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley grilled the Biden administration's national Archivist nominee on
Tuesday over her overtly partisan tweets. In a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security
Committee Tuesday, Hawley took to task the nominee, Dr. Colleen Shogan, over tweets she wrote
blasting Republican politicians and COVID policies. Shogan locked her Twitter account when
she was nominated to lead the National Archives and Records Administration, but Hawley obtained
several of her posts anyway. Exasperated after she repeatedly refused to answer for her
statements, Hawley blasted Shogan for stonewalling.
Pelosi Congress
Claims Sovereign Immunity in Federal Court to Keep Secret January 6 Videos and Emails. Judicial Watch
announced that it filed an opposition to the U.S. Capitol Police's (USCP) effort to shut down Judicial Watch's
federal lawsuit for January 6 videos and emails. Through its police department, Congress argues that the
videos and emails are not public records, there is no public interest in their release, and that "sovereign immunity"
prevents citizens from suing for their release.
AOC
loses battle to slow GOP push to expand new oil, natural gas leases on federal land. Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday failed to slow down the House Republican push for new oil and gas leases on federal land after
GOP lawmakers shot down her attempt to require further study of the public health impacts of energy extraction.
The House Natural Resources Committee met Tuesday to adopt its work plan for the new Congress. Included in that
plan is language that says the Biden administration has leased fewer federal acres for oil and gas development than "any
presidential administration" since the end of World War II. "The Committee will examine the lack of oil and
natural gas leasing on federal lands in the western United States, including focusing on administrative actions that
have created permitting delays and disincentivized production on federal lands," the committee's plan said.
Treasury
Withholds Biden Family Suspicious Bank Records, James Comer Threatens Subpoena. The Treasury Department on
Wednesday denied the House Oversight Committee's request to disclose 150 suspicious reports flagged by U.S. banks
concerning Biden family business transactions, causing the committee's chairman to threaten a subpoena. U.S. banks
have flagged over 150 suspicious financial transactions from Hunter and James Biden, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), House
Oversight Committee chair, told Breitbart News. The wire transfers included "large" amounts of money tripped for
further review by American banks.
Here's
How Cotton Plans to See Seized Classified Docs. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said he and other Republicans
will block presidential nominees until members of the Intelligence Committee are shown the classified material found at
former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence as well as President Biden's home and office. The threat from
Cotton, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, comes after lawmakers left a closed-door briefing Wednesday
frustrated that the National Intelligence Director, Avril Haines, refused to show them copies of the documents or
discuss the contents due to special counsel investigations by Jack Smith and Robert Hur. "Whether it's blocking
nominees or withholding budgetary funds, Congress will impose pain on the administration until they provide these
documents. And that is coming from both parties," Cotton told reporters.
Keywords: Slow walking, stonewalling, obstruction of Congress.
Biden
Treasury Department Uses Comical Excuse to Block House Request for Hunter's Bank Records. Almost as
bad as the Biden administration's manipulation of federal agencies to do the bidding of the Biden Family Business is the
blatant way they do it. Comical? Yes, in a way. Unacceptable, for which there should be
consequences? You betcha. Will it ever happen? I seriously doubt it. In Team Biden's latest
example of a "conflict of interest," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has "delayed" (blocked, at least temporarily) a
House Republican request for information on Biden family financial transactions that may have been marked as suspicious,
reports The Hill, saying it must first determine whether the disclosure of the records is consistent with "longstanding
Executive Branch interests."
Democrats
cover for IRS destruction of 30 million taxpayer filings. For those who missed the original story, some
background is in order, especially to understand how astonishingly brazen the Democrats are in refusing to hold the IRS
accountable. On May 22, the treasury inspector general for tax administration reported that the IRS deliberately
destroyed 30 million returns in 2021 so as to relieve a backlog of paper documents in anticipation of a flood of new
filings. The agency cited software limitations as an excuse. The decision was met with widespread
incredulity. "How can the agency ask taxpayers to meet their filing obligations for information returns when it
cavalierly destroys duly filed documents?" asked Nina Olson, former national taxpayer advocate. Brian Streig, a
certified public accountant for Calhoun, Thomson + Matza, LLP, added that "small businesses stress out every year in
January trying to accurately prepare these informational returns and get them filed on time. To see the IRS just
destroy these is almost like the IRS admitting they don't really care."
Democrats
Obstruct Inquiry Into IRS's Sudden Destruction of 30 Million Tax Returns. Democrats are blocking Congress
from critical information regarding the IRS's sudden and mysterious destruction of 30 million tax returns. Despite
repeated demands, the IRS has refused to provide the decision memorandum it used to justify the move, instead replying
with a blanket denial that broadly prevents Congress from performing its appropriate oversight role. Ways and
Means Republicans, led by Oversight Subcommittee Leader Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC), proposed a Request for Information
that would allow the Committee to obtain the memorandum to understand the agency's decision-making process around the
destruction of tax return information. Democrats voted against this important request to hold Washington accountable.
Protests
have stymied gas production in the Netherlands that could replace most of Russia's supply to Germany. This
winter may see Europeans freezing to death, unable to heat their homes as natural gas supplies dwindle.
Unemployment and bankruptcies will soar, as companies find themselves unable to cover their costs due to high energy
prices. Germany's vaunted chemical industry, heavily dependent on natural gas feedstock, is likely to wither on
the vine. An economic and social disaster reminiscent of the 1930s is possible. The word
"deindustrialization" is becoming real.
Cover-Up:
Biden Treasury Makes Move to Stop GOP From Getting Hunter Biden Records. The ranking member of the House
Oversight Committee Rep. James Comer (R-KY) has been trying for months to get the Suspicious Activity
Reports — anti-money laundering reports that flag suspicious transactions — that have been filed
by banks against Hunter Biden. Now, the word is in from Biden's Treasury Department that they have formally
rejected his request for the information because the Democrats aren't part of the request. Comer blasted the
decision as "unacceptable."
Smells
Like Cover-up: Garland Tries to Shut Down DOJ Employees Talking to Congress. We've
been seeing a lot of FBI folks coming forward to blow the whistle on the politicization of the
bureau, including accusations that they've been biased in shutting down lines of investigation
against Hunter Biden and biased in opening them up regarding President Donald Trump. We saw
that one person accused of bias by the whistleblowers has now been shown the door —
Timothy Thibault, who was allegedly involved at different points both in investigations against
Trump and Hunter Biden.
Rep.
Gohmert Cites US Code that May Force Capitol Police to Release Remaining Jan. 6 Surveillance Footage. As the
Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol continues its effort to prove allegations
of insurrection against former President Donald Trump and his supporters, Capitol Police and House Democrats continue to
block all efforts to force the release of all surveillance video footage and emails, which could possibly exonerate those
being accused of wrongdoing. Now, Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Texas) is citing a United States Code that could legally
force the release of that evidence. In a July 29, 2022 letter to Capitol Police Board Chair William J. Walker,
obtained by The Epoch Times, Gohmert — backed by the signatures of 23 additional GOP lawmakers —
demanded the release of footage captured on Capitol Hill security cameras on Jan. 6, 2021, currently being withheld under
"sovereign immunity."
Secret
Service provided just one text message after request for month's worth. The Secret Service provided only a
single text exchange to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in response to a request seeking a
month's worth of records. The single text in response to the inspector general's subpoena from last year has been
handed over to the Jan. 6 committee. The lack of messages raised concerns among officials in the Department of Homeland
Security, who accused the Secret Service of failing to maintain records crucial for the committee's investigation.
Rhode
Island mother billed $74K for trying to review school curriculum: They're 'stonewalling parents'. A Rhode
Island mother who was billed $74,000 for trying to review a school curriculum told "America's Newsroom" on Tuesday that
schools are "stonewalling parents with exorbitant prices" for public information that taxpayers already paid for. "I
received an estimate for, say, $80 for information that I requested," Nicole Solas said. "And then when I requested
similar information, a month later, the price skyrocketed to $2,600. So schools will charge you whatever price they want to
charge you. So that way you're not going to know what your kids are learning in school." Solas argued that public
information is not public if it cost money to obtain it and that schools are trying to create "barriers" to make it accessible.
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arrested after protesters block Inner Loop traffic in Silver Spring. Climate activists blocked traffic on the
Capital Beltway's Inner Loop for over an hour Monday afternoon [7/4/2022]. It happened on the Inner Loop at the Route
29/Colesville Road exit. Over a dozen climate activists blocked all lanes of the Inner Loop. According to
Maryland State Police, troopers responded around 12:30 p.m., and all lanes were reopened around 1:45 p.m. "The 'adults
in the room' have shown us they don't [care] about us. The people must now take action, like we've done again and again
throughout history," read a flier that was handed out by the group Declare Emergency.
Joe
Says No: Biden White House Blocks New Atlantic, Pacific Oceans Drilling as Global Energy Demand Soars.
U.S. President Joe Biden has proposed blocking all new drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as the world cries out for
more energy from more sources far from Russia, the Middle East, and the OPEC oil cartel. Biden is also moving to shut
down exploration and production of oil and gas on onshore federal lands while acknowledging the importance of fossil fuels in
the U.S. energy landscape, as Breitbart News reported.
Climate
Change Activist Blocks Main Tunnel In Sydney During Rush Hour, This Guy Was Having None Of It. The New South
Wales deputy premier has told climate change, protesters, to "go and get a real job" after police made 10 arrests across
Sydney. Blockade Australia protesters were among a group of 50 to 60 activists who converged on Hyde Park about 8am on
Monday, before marching towards the harbor, chanting, playing drums, with some pulling down signs, dragging wheelie bins onto
the road and blocking intersections. One of those arrested was a 22-year-old woman who allegedly locked herself to the
steering wheel of her car and blocked the harbor tunnel. [Video clip]
Is
the U.S. Forest Service our most inept federal agency? One would assume that after more than 100 years of
practice, a federal agency would be able to do its job correctly. However, that is not the case with the U.S. Forest
Service. At least in New Mexico, it has been unable to consistently prevent its prescribed burns from escaping and
becoming raging wildfires. New Mexico is a nearly ideal location for wildfires. It is high and dry to begin with
and is in the midst of a mega-drought making it even drier than usual. Additionally, the Forest Service's fire
suppression model for nearly a century has been to try to extinguish almost all fires instead of permitting frequent low
intensity burns — which were the historic norm. Even when the Forest Service has attempted to thin forests by
mechanical means, it has often faced intense opposition from various environmental groups impairing its ability to do so.
Pro-Abortion
Protesters Blocked Another Road — They Get a Rude Wake-Up Call From A Pickup Truck Driver. Nowadays
blocking the roads and illegally detaining others in order to prove something seems to become some kind of trend.
Unfortunately for the protestors, they slowly realize that their actions have consequences, and the consequences are
sometimes painful. So a law-abiding American citizen did what any of us would do when surrounded by a gang of thugs
wanting to cause him and his vehicle harm. A driver did not stop when pro-abortion activists stood in front of, and
surrounded, his vehicle in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Friday evening.
GOP
Effort to Get Answers on Hunter Biden Probe Blocked by DOJ. The Justice Department appears to have stymied
efforts by two GOP senators to get answers about the Hunter Biden tax probe from the U.S. attorney's office in Delaware,
according to the Washington Examiner. Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, had sent a letter
in May to U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who is handling the investigation involving the president's son. In their letter,
the two senators pressed Weiss to divulge if a senior Department of Justice [DOJ] official with links to Hunter Biden recused
himself from the tax investigation.
City
of Uvalde Hires Private Law Firm to Stop Release of Shooting Information. The city of Uvalde, Texas, to trying
to block the release of information about the response to the May school shooting that left 19 children dead. In
response to 148 records requests received, the city has written Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to rule on what must be
shared, according to NPR. "The City has not voluntarily released any information to a member of the public," Cynthia
Trevino, a lawyer for the firm Denton Navarro Rocha Bernal & Zech, wrote in the letter. The city has hired the private
law firm to represent it in the case, NPR reported. The letter, which NPR posted in full, includes a host of reasons
why records should not be released. It said that state law allows the withholding of information in cases where there
is no criminal conviction.
DOJ
Blocks GOP Effort To Get Answers In Hunter Biden Probe. What is the DOJ hiding? GOP Senators Chuck
Grassley and Ron Johnson sent a letter to U.S. Attorney David Weiss regarding the probe into Hunter Biden. They wanted
to know if Nicholas McQuaid, the acting assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Criminal Division had recused
himself from the investigation into Hunter Biden. McQuaid formerly worked with Hunter Biden's lawyer Chris Clark.
Top
US Energy Officials Appear To Be Stonewalling FOIA Requests For Secret White House Meetings. The Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) has appeared to put off an information request related to the agency's communications with White
House officials. The Institute for Energy Research (IER), a Washington, D.C.-based energy policy group, requested
copies of all email correspondence between FERC Chairman Richard Glick and the White House beginning in September 2021, in a
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request dated March 29, according to documents shared with The Daily Caller News
Foundation. The IER filed the request after Glick said under oath, during a March 3 Senate hearing, that he hadn't
consulted with any Biden administration higher-ups about implementing policies blocking domestic natural gas pipeline
development. "Absolutely not," Glick — who President Joe Biden nominated to lead the commission in early
2021 — said in response to a question from Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy about potential
communications with "anyone higher up in the administration" regarding FERC's recent pipeline policy proposal.
Democrat
Senators Unveil a Dangerously Asinine Plan to Subvert the Coming Abortion Ruling. Though we can't know for
sure, Monday [6/13/2022] could finally mark the day that the Dobbs decision, which is reportedly going to overturn
Roe v. Wade, is released by the Supreme Court. As RedState reported on Saturday, far-left groups are
already planning to commit what I've been assured is an insurrection, surrounding the Supreme Court in an effort to stop it
from functioning. Were they tipped off? I don't know, and even if the Dobbs decision takes another week or
two, it's just a matter of time before the Democrat Party descends into absolute insanity. A preview of that happened
last night after Democrat senators, including Maggie Hassan and Elizabeth Warren, unveiled a dangerously asinine plan to
undermine the coming abortion ruling.
Leftist
Groups Join Together to Blockade Supreme Court on Monday. Monday, June 13th, is listed as one of the Supreme
Court decision days. The much anticipated Roe v Wade decision is expected sometime this month. It could be
tomorrow. In anticipation of this historic decision far left groups are joining together in a planned insurrection and
blockade of the US Supreme Court. The far left group Shut Down DC announced last week that they will shut down and
blockade the streets around the Supreme Court on Monday.
Democrats
Block Bill Providing Additional Security for Supreme Court Justices. House Democrats on Wednesday stalled a
bill that would have provided additional security for Supreme Court Justices on the same day a man was arrested for
attempting to murder Justice Brett Kavanaugh. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) made a unanimous consent
request on the House floor to bring up S. 4160 for a vote. S. 4160, which passed the Senate by a unanimous
vote, would have allocated additional security for the justices' family members.
House
Delays Judicial Protection Bill in order to Expand Coverage of Personal Security Details to Staffers, Aides, Receptionists,
Chauffers' and DC Employees. Democrats in the House are using the opportunity provided by bipartisan agreement
to enhance the personal security services for the Judicial Branch, in order to assign the same privileges to staff, aides and
people who work within the administration of government. DC is nothing if not predictable in their elitist view of
their self-importance. At the same time as Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats, along with some insufferable republicans
who pretend not to know how these issues are always manipulated to the benefit of the administrative state, are urgently
constructing limits and restrictions to disarm lawful Americans; they are simultaneously building their own system of
personal protective services to insure they never have to face the same physical risks they initiate upon everyone else.
Arizona
Supreme Court Rejects Junk Lawsuits To Remove Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Mark Finchem From 2022 Ballot. The
Arizona Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by the radical left to remove three conservative legislators from the 2022
ballot for attending the protest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. This is a losing issue for the Democrats, so they're
weaponizing the courts to suppress conservative speech all across the country. [...] The American people know that the 2020
election was stolen, and a majority of Republican voters say the January 6 protest was a patriotic event. On Monday,
the court ruled that Representative Andy Biggs, Representative Paul Gosar, and State Rep. Mark Finchem are qualified to
remain on the 2022 Primary ballot, affirming the superior court's judgment. Reps Biggs and Gosar are seeking reelection
to the U.S. House, and Mark Finchem is running for Arizona Secretary of State to secure elections in Arizona.
Arizona
state judge shuts down leftist junk lawsuit to disqualify Reps. Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar from the ballot. With
Democrats in a bind as midterms approach, the worst of them have turned to sleazy tinpot-dictator measures to try to disqualify popular
Republicans from the ballot itself, knowing they can't win otherwise. They've already put Georgia's popular Rep. Marjorie
Taylor Greene in the dock. Now it turns out they were also active in Arizona, seeking to prevent Reps. Andy Biggs and
Paul Gosar[,] as well as Republican state Rep. Mark Finchem, who is running for secretary of state in charge of counting elections
from putting their names on the ballot.
There's
a reason Democrats are desperate to stop Marjorie Taylor Greene. On Saturday [4/23/2022], Monica Showalter
wrote about the lawsuit that a Democrat special interest group has filed against Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and
that an Obama-nominated judge (and sister to leftist "journalist" Nina Totenberg) has allowed to proceed. Considering
that the left constantly characterizes Greene as a nutcase, a reasonable person might ask why Democrats need a lawsuit.
The answer lies in a Twitter thread Greene posted last week. The lawsuit against Greene riffs off the ridiculous claim
that what happened on January 6 was an "insurrection" that triggers the "Disqualification Clause" in the 14th Amendment,
a clause that Congress nullified via the 1878 Amnesty Act. You can read more here about why that Act is manifestly
inapplicable to events on January 6. Similar suits, all of which are the brainchild of Clinton fixer and attorney
Marc Elias of Perkins Coie, have already failed against Madison Cawthorn, and against Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs, and Mark Finchem.
Madison
Cawthorn and Marjorie Taylor Greene Are Not "Insurrectionists" and Progressive Lunatics Can't Keep Them off the
Ballot. Something of a garden industry has developed on the fringe and mouthbreathing left that is seeking to
harass any GOP incumbent who didn't literally besh** themselves over the demonstrations in and around the US Capitol on
January 6. They attempt to use Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to disqualify candidates from office by claiming against all
empirical evidence that an "insurrection" took place. [...] Thus far, two Republicans have been targeted: Madison Cawthorn
(NC-11) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14). The outcomes have been radically different. On March 4, a federal
judge ruled that the effort against Cawthorn must fail because a general amnesty passed by Congress in 1872 removed the
prohibition. On Monday, an Obama judge in Georgia allowed a challenge against Taylor Greene to proceed[.]
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House Republicans Demand ICE Data on Arrests, Deportations Withheld by Biden. House Republicans are demanding
that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas produce key immigration enforcement data that they argue is being hidden
from the public by the Biden administration, according to a letter exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News
Foundation. The letter, sent Thursday, is led by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and co-signed by 19 other Republican
lawmakers who argue that delayed data for fiscal year 2021 from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement showing significant
decreases in arrests provided only a "limited" and "inadequate" look into the agency's enforcement and removal actions.
Democrats
Are Blocking Republican Efforts To Digitally Upload Hunter Biden's Laptop. Democrats are blocking Republican
efforts to upload the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop in a searchable digital format into the congressional record, the
Daily Caller has confirmed. House Judiciary Committee Democratic staff, which is responsible for entering documents
into the record, is refusing to upload the laptop by citing technological limitations. Instead, they're forcing
Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz's office to print hard copies and PDF-form documents of pages. Democrats
maintained the stonewall even after Gaetz's office offered to provide the proper equipment to enable the digital file
transfer, the Daily Caller has learned. Gaetz initially moved to enter the laptop during a March 29 hearing, but
committee chairman Jerry Nadler of New York prepared to object to Gaetz's request. Nadler ultimately relented after
conferring with a committee lawyer. However, staffers he appointed are refusing to facilitate a file transfer.
NIH
Working to Keep Taxpayers in the Dark by Stalling on Fauci Documents: Transparency Advocate. The National
Institutes of Health (NIH) is attempting to keep money spent on things like Dr. Anthony Fauci's salary, the highest-paid
U.S. government employee, hidden from members of the public, according to a transparency advocate. "There is a
multi-layered strategy, funded by taxpayers, to keep taxpayers in the dark about how NIH is spending taxpayer money," Adam
Andrzejewski, CEO and founder of OpenTheBooks.com, told Epoch TV's "American Thought Leaders." Andrzejewski's watchdog
group discovered how much Fauci was getting paid and that he received a permanent pay bump in the early 2000s in part to
prevent him from leaving the government. In an effort to learn more about the top doctor, the group filed a Freedom of
Information Act request on Jan. 28, 2021, asking for Fauci's job description, disclosure documents, and other papers.
House
Democrats Block American Energy Again. Democrats in the House of Representatives blocked Republican efforts to
move ahead with consideration of the American Energy Independence from Russia Act on Thursday that would have reopened U.S.
energy projects to combat the rising cost of fuel caused by the Biden administration's anti-fossil fuel agenda. 218
Democrats voted against considering the proposal offered on the House floor by Rep. Michelle Fischbach (R-MN), defeating
the House GOP's plan for the fourth time and stopping the Republicans' plan to to bring relief to Americans who saw gas
prices hit their all-time average high in March. The legislation offered by Republicans would have green-lit the
Keystone XL pipeline project, stripped restrictions on liquified natural gas exports, jumpstarted oil and gas leases on
federal lands and waters, protected energy development from further attacks by President Biden, and required plans to
replenish oil drawn from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Who
will vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson and why? Based on the torrent of information that has been made
public about Ketanji Brown Jackson, it is shocking that any member of Congress would vote to confirm her to the SCOTUS.
Add to this that thousands of documents from her four years on the Sentencing Commission have been withheld, presumably by
Dick Durbin. Those four years of her record must be [really bad], for never before has a nominee's record not been made
available to the Judiciary Committee.
Biden
signals third year of offshore oil-leasing delay in gulf. The Biden administration doesn't anticipate selling
offshore drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico through at least October 2023, effectively stretching a delay in that activity
to a third year, according to economic projections included in its newly released budget proposal. The numbers show
expected revenues from offshore oil auction bids and annual rental payments on existing leases are set to plummet in fiscal
2023 by about $370.4 million to just $25 million. That reflects the government's typical haul from two auctions of oil
and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico. The anticipated offshore leasing pause comes despite the war in Ukraine and high
costs for oil, gas and gasoline that have prompted administration officials to implore energy companies to pump more
crude. The Gulf of Mexico generates about 15% of the nation's crude production.
Senators
[are being] kept from seeing Sentencing Commission records on Supreme Court nominee. The Biden administration
is keeping more than 48,000 pages of records about Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson from senators reviewing her
nomination, including documents about her time at the U.S. Sentencing Commission that she has made a central part of her
professional story. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is "hiding" records from Jackson's time as
vice chair of the Sentencing Commission, where she championed leniency for child predators, says Michael Davis, former chief
counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Monday that 16,000 pages of
substantive content has been released on Jackson, compared to the 48,000 pages withheld by the White House under the
Presidential Records Act and FOIA exemptions.
Secrecy
Shrouds Key Jackson Documents Despite Durbin's Sunshine Week Praise. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick
Durbin (D-Ill.) was among the bipartisan group of signers of a March 16 Sunshine Week letter to Comptroller General Gene
Dodaro declaring that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) "is crucial for ensuring transparency and accountability in
government, but persistent challenges continue to limit citizens' ability to access information under the statute."
Sunshine Week is the annual celebration of the FOIA by journalists, transparency advocates, and some elected officials.
Durbin and the other signers asked Dodaro, who heads the Government Accountability Office (GAO), to investigate why there is
a huge, and growing, backlog of unanswered FOIA requests at federal agencies. But, as Sen. Charles Grassley
(R-Iowa), the top Republican on the judiciary panel, made clear during the first day of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme
Court confirmation hearing, private citizens aren't alone in having trouble getting government agencies to produce copies of
official documents the FOIA requires to be made public.
Dick
Durbin blocks documents showing Ketanji Brown Jackson's judicial record. The Senate hearings for Judge Ketanji
Brown Jackson's Supreme Court nomination are not going well. Senate Judiciary Committee chair Dick Durbin is blocking
the release of documents showing Brown Jackson's actual record as a judge, taking a page from the tactics of
impeachment-obsessed Rep. Adam Schiff. That's how Democrats do hearings these days. [...] Which signals that there
is something they are trying to hide. According to the Article3Project, Brown Jackson sentenced perverts, predators,
and child molesters to less-than-recommended jail and prison time on a consistent basis. [...] She's also been strikingly
soft on kiddie porn purveyors and viewers, despite the hard fact that 80% of viewers of child porn are likely to have
molested a child in real life, according to a study from the Mayo Clinic. She views hard punishments of these dirtbags
as "stigmatization" and "revenge." Any concerns for the permanently harmed children in these monstrous crimes?
Apparently not from her — and of course, a show of the records could correct us if we are wrong. But Durbin
wants no such records out there, which can only by default lead to the conclusion that they are worse than what people suspect.
Video
of Dems Calling to Defund Police 'Suddenly' Cuts out at Committee Hearing. The official Twitter account of the
House Judiciary GOP released a video that suspiciously was cut off during a judiciary committee hearing. [Video clip]
Post
leads White House reporters' revolt after Psaki briefing ends early. White House correspondents erupted in
protest Monday [3/7/2022] after an Associated Press reporter signaled press secretary Jen Psaki to pull the plug on the daily
briefing before others had a chance to ask a question. "Thanks, Jen," the AP's Josh Boak told Psaki 39 minutes into the
q-and-a period, indicating that time was up even as another reporter shouted a question about whether the US intended to get
oil from Venezuela. Although the briefing lasted for nearly 40 minutes, that time was taken up by three reporters in
the first two rows asking multiple questions and follow-ups. The Post's White House reporter Steven Nelson, along with
Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times, led the outcry and confronted Boak.
Energy
Sec. Granholm dodges questions on gas crisis as aides whisk her away, block camera. Energy Secretary
Jennifer Granholm refused to answer questions from a Fox News reporter on Wednesday [3/9/2022] while her aides scrambled to
push reporters away in an altercation that was caught on video. "Hi, Secretary Granholm," Fox News Senior Political
Editor Andrew Murray asked the secretary as she walked down a hallway flanked by her aides following her speech at CERAWeek
by S&P Global in Houston. Granholm recoiled in surprise as Murray attempted to ask her a question about Iran and gas prices.
Federal
Judge Blocks North Carolina Democrats From Banning Popular Conservative Rep. Madison Cawthorn from Reelection. A
Federal Judge blocked Democrats from preventing Madison Cawthorn from running for reelection in North Carolina on Friday [3/4/2022].
On December 20th Marc Elias tweeted out a shocking Un-American plan to use the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution to prevent
conservative Republican stalwarts from running in the 2022 elections. China does the same thing to "unapproved" politicians in
Hong Kong. Marxists love the idea. [Tweet] In February Marc Elias and the Democrat Party used this Marxist
tactic to prevent the very popular young Rep. Madison Cawthorn from running for reelection in North Carolina.
House
Democrats Block Bill to Approve Keystone XL Pipeline, Promote 'American Energy Independence From Russia'.
Legislation promoting U.S. energy independence from Russia has been blocked by House Democrats. House Republicans
introduced the "American Independence from Russian Energy Act" on Feb. 28, a measure meant to authorize the Keystone XL
pipeline, boost domestic oil and gas production, and prevent President Joe Biden's executive branch agencies from halting
energy leasing on federal land and water, among other provisions. Yet on March 1, the legislation was shot down in a
221-202 vote, almost entirely along partisan lines. "Getting our pipelines expanded is huge," Rep. Bruce Westerman
(R-Ark.), ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee and a co-sponsor of the measure, told The Epoch
Times. "We're having to import Russian energy to the New England states because we don't have pipelines that can carry
Pennsylvania natural gas up there."
Massachusetts
Judge Could Face Prosecution for Allegedly Blocking ICE Arrest. A Massachusetts judge might face prosecution
after a federal appeals court on Feb. 28 declined to dismiss a case in which she's accused of blocking the arrest of an
illegal immigrant. In a criminal case filed during the Trump administration, Newton District Court Judge Shelley Joseph
is accused of impeding a federal immigration arrest of a defendant in her courtroom in 2018. Court papers say the judge
blocked a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent from detaining a man who fled the court through a rear
door. Her lawyers sought to argue that she should have immunity as a judge to allow the illegal immigrant to leave the
courtroom, and that the prosecution was unconstitutional. However, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston
rejected an appeal to dismiss the case, saying it was "premature." The three-judge panel said that absent an explicit
statutory or constitutional right to avoid trial, she and her courtroom deputy, Wesley MacGregor, would need to face a
jury first.
Liberals
Always React Like Third-Graders. Liberals have the emotional make-up of 8-year-old children. Almost to a
person — whether they're elected politicians, pundits, journalists, or simply rabidly partisan voters —
liberals are absolutely incapable of rationally accepting an undesired outcome and dealing with its consequences in a mature
and measured manner. There are countless examples. Here are two: liberals' refusal to accept the 2016
election results and their dismissal of John Durham's recent findings that implicate Hillary. Stunned and horrified
over Hillary's unexpected, shockingly humiliating loss in 2016 — perhaps the biggest upset in American
presidential political history — liberals at every level, in every position, went on a four-year temper tantrum of
irrational, hysterical rejection of reality. Democrat politicians refused to work with President Trump, rebuffing his
numerous efforts to forge compromise and move his Pro-American agenda forward.
'Those
Who Make Peaceful Revolution Impossible Will Make Violent Revolution Inevitable'. [Scroll down] But a
funny thing happened on the way to that revolution: Democrats and their comrades in high tech, the media, and
intelligence derailed it at every point. Build a wall? A judge issues an injunction. Curtail travel from
countries from which terrorism emerges? The Media hypes "Muslim Ban." Build a pipeline for energy independence?
Indigenous groups pledge mass mobilizations. When trying to get anything done Trump found himself faced with
investigations, document requests, lawsuits, Democrat stonewalling, and sabotage by civil service apparatchiks and
establishment Republicans within the administration. It never stopped.
Watchdog
Sues DOJ For Withholding Documents On Hiring Of Russia Truther Susan Hennessey. A government watchdog is suing
the Department of Justice (DOJ) over the agency's refusal to comply with a pair of records requests mandated under the
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). On Wednesday [2/23/2022], the nonprofit group Empower Oversight filed its lawsuit to
compel the release of documents shedding light on the DOJ's commitment to the independence of the Durham investigation, a
special counsel probe into the origins of the Russia hoax. "Empower Oversight has been incredibly patient in attempting
to work with the Justice Department since last summer," Empower Oversight's founder and president Jason Foster said in a
press release. "But, the issues raised in our filings are key to ensuring public faith in the integrity, independence,
and objectivity of the DOJ's handling of the Durham probe. If the DOJ simply complied voluntarily and timely with its
FOIA obligations, litigation like this would not be necessary to enforce the transparency required by law." The group's
first FOIA submitted in July last year aimed at the agency's hiring practices with the decision to recruit attorney, former
CNN analyst, and Russia truther Susan Hennessey to join the department's National Security Division (NSD).
Activists
disrupt Florida House during abortion bill vote. Republicans in the Florida House of Representatives early
Thursday approved a ban on abortions after 15 weeks, moving to tighten access to the procedure ahead of a U.S. Supreme Court
decision that could limit abortion rights in America. The GOP-controlled House passed the 15-week abortion ban after
several hours of debate between Democrats who said the measure would impose an unnecessary burden on women and Republicans
who said they were protecting the unborn.
Arizona
Scandal: House Speaker Bowers Uses Technical Maneuver to Ensure Defeat of Sweeping Election Integrity
Bill. State Rep. John Fillmore (R-Apache Junction) introduced one of the most sweeping election integrity
bills this session, but it appears all but doomed due to a rare procedural maneuver deliberately made to stop it by House
Speaker Rusty Bowers (R-Mesa). Bowers scheduled all 12 House committees to hear HB 2596, basically guaranteeing it will
never reach the floor since some of the committees won't bother to hear it. "Canvass Queen" Liz Harris, so named after
conducting an 11-month long independent grassroots audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, told The Arizona Sun Times
she was extremely disappointed Bowers did this considering she is certain there was massive fraud. "From the canvassing
I've done, this is what I realized needs to happen," she said. She explained that other election integrity legislation
is composed of single-issue bills which will only fix one area in the elections process, allowing fraud to move to other areas.
Biden
Administration Urges Court Not to Allow Release of 'Secret Report' on Dominion Voting Machines. Top officials
at a U.S. federal cybersecurity agency are urging a judge not to authorize at this time the release of a report that analyzes
Dominion Voting Systems equipment in Georgia, arguing doing so could assist hackers trying to "undermine election security."
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was recently provided an unredacted copy of the report, which was
prepared by J. Alex Halderman, director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society. The
report discusses "potential vulnerabilities in Dominion ImageCast X ballot marking devices," or electronic voting devices,
according to the government. While CISA supports public disclosure of any vulnerabilities and associated mitigation
measures with election equipment, allowing the release of the report at this point "increases the risk that malicious actors
may be able to exploit any vulnerabilities and threaten election security," government lawyers said in a Feb. 10 filing
in the case.
Feds
oppose immediate release of voting-machines security report. A federal cybersecurity agency is reviewing a
report that alleges security vulnerabilities in voting machines used by Georgia and other states and says the document
shouldn't be made public until the agency has had time to assess and mitigate potential risks. The report has been
under seal since July in federal court in Atlanta, part of a long-running lawsuit challenging Georgia's voting
machines. Its author, J. Alex Halderman, said in sworn declarations filed publicly with the court that he examined
the Dominion Voting Systems machines for 12 weeks and identified "multiple severe security flaws" that would allow bad
actors to install malicious software.
Virginia
Dems Fight Repeal Of Bill That Said Sex Crimes In Schools Needn't Be Referred To Police. When Democrats
regained control of the Virginia House of Delegates in November 2019, one of the first things they did was pass a law that
says school officials do not have to report misdemeanor crimes — specifically singling out "sexual
assaults" — to law enforcement. Two years later, with Republicans back in control of that chamber, Democrats
do not support its repeal. Former Democratic Governor Ralph Northam signed off on the law in February 2020. Schools
are currently not required to report to police misdemeanors related to instances of sexual battery, assault, violent threats,
stalking, drug and alcohol violations, and more.
House
Democrats vote to block the Unmask Our Kids Act. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) introduced a motion in the
House, H.R. 6619, that would require schools to remain open for in-class learning. It also allows parents to opt-out of
school mask mandates in order for local education agencies to receive funding from the Department of Education. Two
hundred and twenty-one House Democrats voted against Hinson's motion. Known as the Unmask our Kids Act, H.R. 6619 is
quite simple, only two pages long — "To prohibit the Secretary of Education from providing Federal funds to a
local educational agency unless in-person instruction is available to all students and parents may opt out of student mask
mandates, and for other purposes."
SEC
fights against releasing FOIA documents. Over the past ten months, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
has failed to comply with a number of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests relating to the agency's role in a
seventy-four-billion-dollar municipal bond Ponzi scheme. Government agencies like the Securities and Exchange
Commission are required by law to comply with FOIA requests. The SEC has repeatedly failed to comply with numerous FOIA
requests relating to their role in the Puerto Rico municipal bond default — the largest such default in American
history. The SEC's failure to comply with the law has resulted in a federal lawsuit in the Federal District Court in
Central California.
A
Colorado school district was forced to cancel classes after teachers called out sick to protest the new conservative school board. A
Colorado school district was forced to cancel classes on Thursday after teachers called out sick to protest decisions made by the district's
conservative-majority school board. The Douglas County School District said on its website that a "large number" of staff submitted absences
for Thursday and all classes across the district's schools were canceled. "We have reached the point where the number of absences has
impacted our ability to provide a safe and supervised learning environment for students," the alert said.
The
Big Lie 2024: A Peek Inside the Ruling Elite's Playbook to Kneecap Trump, Purge Military, and Neutralize MAGA.
The American regime is terrified. They moved heaven and earth to derail Trump's term in office and turn him out after
four years. Now the ruling class faces the very real prospect that, if the 2024 election is remotely fair, he will be
swept back into the White House, more powerful than ever before. That is, if the 2024 election is fair.
America's governing class and its media apparatchiks have repeatedly labeled Trump's complaints about the 2020 election "the
Big Lie." But there is a Bigger Lie afoot, one with a much greater bearing on the future. The Bigger Lie is this:
That the January 6 Capitol incident was an "attempted coup," and that this coup was launched by a wider pro-Trump
"anti-democracy" movement (as opposed to the anti-Trump, anti-democracy movement known as the FBI). This movement, the
Bigger Lies goes, is a "danger to our democracy" and must be hunted down to destruction. In the name of this Bigger
Lie, America's governing class of academics, security staters, elected lawmakers, and media propagandists are preparing to
sweep away what remains of America's democratic process. Their goal: To render the 2024 election null, with a
preordained outcome that poses no danger to the ruling elite's wishes. And the planning for this revolution is
happening right out in public.
White
House Port Manipulation Hiding Economic and Supply Chain Issues. We finally have full data to review, and what
we see is very disturbing. Not only was the White House supply chain effort a fraud, but they also manipulated the port
system to give a false impression of the U.S. economy. [...] The value of imported goods is a deduction to the U.S. GDP.
If the biggest port in the U.S. holds back their import cargo data, the resulting information cannot be deducted from the
GDP. Missing data gives an artificial outlook for the GDP. Put another way, the 4th quarter GDP is inflated by the missing
deduction. From the position of the Biden administration, there is a perverse economic motive to keep all those import
cargo ships from arriving. Would the Port of Los Angeles intentionally hold back data in order to help the White House
give a false and more optimistic impression of the U.S. economy? At first blush it might seem a stretch, but
then — as if on cue — a few hours after the BEA made the public release, suddenly the Port of Los
Angeles released their December data. In politics timing is never coincidental.
The
Democrats Are Attempting A Coup By Lawfare. As a rule, the Constitution prevents Congress from prohibiting a
person who meets the basic requirements of Article I §2 (age, citizenship, residency) from competing in a federal
election or being seated in government should they win. [...] The only exception to this power written into our constitutional
law came with the passage of the 14th Amendment on the heels of the Civil War after 1,500,000 Americans were killed or wounded
and one of John Wilkes's distant relatives assassinated a president. That limited exception is that people who have
committed rebellion or insurrection against the U.S. may be excluded from running for office or excluded from office if they
win an election. The progressive left is going all out to paint conservatives as "domestic terrorists" and to claim that
the January 6 riot — a riot of a few hours by people with no weapons and carried out virtually without violence
(and that may have been part of an FBI entrapment scheme) — is tantamount to our Civil War of 1861-1865. This
is so far beyond ludicrous it is stunning. Yet progressives fully embrace this tactic as their only hope to stop a popular
vote that promises to be a wave election in 2022 and an Electoral College vote that might return Trump to power in 2024.
Democrats
Block Plan to Remove Foreign Nationals from Voter Rolls. House Democrats this week blocked a plan that would
have required states to remove foreign nationals from voter rolls. On Wednesday [1/12/2022], Democrats voted down an
amendment by Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) that would have kicked likely hundreds, and potentially thousands, of foreign
nationals off state voter rolls. The amendment would have been tacked onto the Democrats' "Freedom to Vote: John
R. Lewis Act" which seeks to federalize all local and state elections with prohibitions on requiring photo identification
when voting by mail and weakens current requirements that mandate states routinely clean their voter rolls.
When
a State's Secretary of State is in on Voter Fraud. Let's take you through our excellent adventure working with
voter integrity groups across the country. You need to understand their dedication, resilience, and the odds they face
when the reddest states' Secretary of State is in on "it." "It" means they know their voter rolls are replete with
phantoms, but they deny it, evade it, some hide it. Let's go there. Most people have downloaded a file.
It's easy. Except if you live in a swing state on the southeast U.S. coast — and the file came from the
Secretary of State's office. When you process the file, it contains about every way of screwing up your search
capability. For instance: it is supposed to be comma delimited but it isn't. It has non-ASCII characters
embedded. That means search engines will flail with no result. It has half quote marks which means there is no
end of quote so it will not process. There are nonsensical control characters throughout the data set. This is
deliberate data sabotage, intended to make it almost impossible for citizens using traditional tools to parse the data paid
for with their taxes.
Democrats 'want
a one-party state': Hawley. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., claimed Democrats "want a one-party state" on
Thursday during an interview on "Fox News Primetime." Fox host Lawrence Jones began the interview highlighting a tweet
from former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias, wherein he predicted a "serious discussion" about using an arcane
Civil War-era law to disqualify Republicans from running in this year's midterm elections. "My prediction for 2022:
Before the midterm election, we will have a serious discussion about whether individual Republican House Members are
disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment from serving in Congress," Elias tweeted in December.
Biden
Withholds Annual Report on Deportations. The Biden administration has yet to release a report that details the
number of illegal immigrants removed from the United States in 2021, keeping the public in the dark about its handling of the
immigration crisis. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not release its annual report in 2021, a departure from
standard agency practice since at least 2011. In each of the last nine years, ICE released the report in the final weeks of
the calendar year, most recently on Dec. 23, 2020 during the Trump administration. It is unclear whether ICE has
completed the report, which provides a lengthy summary of the agency's enforcement and removal operations, as well as
immigration-related security threats. A spokeswoman for the immigration agency told the Washington Free Beacon a
release date for the report has not been determined.
Rep.
Biggs Demands Answers on Why It Could Take Up to 75 Years for COVID Vaccine Information. Arizona Rep. Andy
Biggs sent a letter Thursday [12/30/2021] to the Department of Health and Human Service and the FDA demanding answers on why
they needed 75 years to answer FOIA requests for Pfizer vaccine data. "The lack of transparency from the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) surrounding the information that was relied on to
license the COVID-19 vaccines is astonishing," the letter reads. "I urge you to commit significant departmental
resources to ensure that the American public has full access to all information that FDA regulators relied upon in approving
the COVID-19 vaccines." In the letter, Biggs argued that the American public deserves full access to the information FDA
regulators relied on to approve the vaccines, the Daily Caller reports. Biggs mentioned the nonprofit Public Health and
Medical Professionals for Transparency, which submitted a FOIA request to the FDA requesting all data contained within
Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine file.
Press
Records Show Joe Biden Is The Least Accessible President In Modern History. One of the most infuriating parts
of Joe Biden's presidency — aside from his stupefyingly disastrous policies of open borders, unscientific
tyrannical COVID vaccine mandates, energy job-killing executive orders, socialist inflationary spending, and a disgraceful
exit from Afghanistan — is the mere fact that he is the least accessible president in modern history.
According to the American Presidency Project, a database compiled at the University of Santa Barbara that tracks presidential
interactions with the media, Biden has had the fewest number of solo or joint press conferences of any president since Bill
Clinton's lame-duck year in 2000, a year in which Clinton traveled to 22 different countries, including to India, Pakistan,
Egypt, Japan, Germany, Russia, Nigeria, and Vietnam. The only places Biden seems to travel to are his homes in
Wilmington or Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he's been at least 25 times (as of October 27) and where
he can remain as invisible as possible.
All the Pfizer officials will be dead by then, but that is is exactly the point.
FDA
Says It Now Needs 75 Years to Fully Release Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Data. The Food and Drug Administration is
asking a judge to give it 75 years to produce data concerning the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine, up 20 years from a previous
request. The FDA told the court it can work faster than its previously proposed 500-pages-per-month rate, but it also
said there are more than 59,000 more pages than mentioned in an earlier filing. That discovery, and a desire to make
sure it can work on other Freedom of Information Act requests at the same time, prompted the fresh request to the judge to
allow production of roughly 12,000 pages by Jan. 31, 2022, and 500 pages per month thereafter. That timeline would
take it until at least 2096, Aaron Siri, a lawyer working on the case, wrote in a blog post.
The Editor says...
A rate of 500 pages per month is 86 minutes per page. This is what's known as stonewalling.
Left-wing
Shutdown DC protest blocks traffic around nation's capital. A left-wing protest in Washington, D.C., is
blocking traffic in the nation's capital to demonstrate against an administration and lawmakers they believe have failed them
by not delivering on various promises. The initiative, dubbed "Shutdown DC," is a joint effort from several activist
organizations that are each conducting blockades at different spots near the Capitol building.
FDA
Asks Court for 55 Years to Fully Release Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Data. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
asked a federal judge on Nov. 15 to give it until the year 2076 to fully release the documents in its possession tied to the
approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The FDA's request was made in a filing as part of a Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit by a medical transparency group. The government told the court it has 329,000 pages of
documents responsive to the FOIA request and proposed releasing 500 pages per month to allow for redactions of exempt
material. At that rate, the FDA would fully release the records in question in just under 55 years. The
plaintiff, Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT), is a group of doctors and scientists, including
Harvey Risch, a professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health.
Obnoxious
Climate Activists Get Dragged Off The Road By Motorists To Allow Ambulance Through. Angry drivers have been
seen dragging Insulate Britain protesters out of the road near Wandsworth Bridge. Footage showed crowds of people
attempting to clear the demonstration before police arrived. One of the vehicles stuck in the traffic was an ambulance,
with people seen screaming at protesters to move to let emergency services through. [Video clip]
Rep.
Nancy Mace: All House Democrats Voted Against Survey Of Weapons Left In Afghanistan. Rep. Nancy Mace
(R-SC) noted on Wednesday [9/8/2021] [...] that every Democrat on the House Oversight Committee voted against her proposal to
survey the equipment and weapons abandoned in Afghanistan by the Biden administration. Mace said she proposed an
investigation of the national security implications of military equipment abandoned by the U.S. government in Afghanistan in
her capacity as a member of the House Oversight Committee. She introduced a legislative amendment to utilize "a very
nebulous line dealing with $25 million" to "invest and look at what [military equipment]" was given up in Afghanistan.
Dem
Congresswoman Blocks Names of 13 Dead Service Members from Being Read on House Floor. On the heels of what
sounded like a disastrous meeting between President Joe Biden and family members of those killed in a suicide bombing in
Kabul last week, GOP members of Congress said that one of their Democratic colleagues blocked the names of the 13 deceased
service members from being read on the floor Tuesday [8/31/2021]. While members of one Gold Star family walked out of a
meeting with President Joe Biden before he even got a chance to speak with them, one Democrat shut down Republican veterans
who wanted to read off the names of those lost.
The Editor says...
The Democrats want this story to be stuffed down the News Media Memory Hole as soon as possible. Any commemoration
of the 13 service members would not help that effort.
Top
Democrat Promises To Wait Out Texas GOP Until End Of Congressional Session. Democratic Texas state
Rep. Jarvis Johnson is vowing to remain in Washington, D.C., to avoid a vote on an election bill passed by the state
Senate, he told The Daily Caller in a recent interview. Returning to Texas "would lose sight of what we're trying to
do," he said of his and 51 other Democrats' efforts to prevent the state from passing an election integrity package.
The 52 Texas Democrats left July 12 to prevent a quorum from forming. The latest version of the Texas election bill
expands voter ID requirements for Texans who vote by absentee ballots, increases the ability of political parties to employ
poll watchers, and provides instructions to counties about maintaining and removing individuals from voter rolls.
Texas
Democrats return, end 38-day holdout over voting bill. A standoff in Texas over new voting restrictions that
gridlocked the state Capitol for 38 consecutive days ended Thursday [8/19/2021] when some Democrats who fled to Washington,
D.C., dropped their holdout, paving the way for Republicans to resume pushing an elections overhaul. It abruptly and
messily drew to a close one of the few — and lengthiest — quorum breaks in modern Texas history.
Instead of a unified and celebratory return by Democrats, some members lashed out at their colleagues over what they
criticized as breaking ranks.
Texas
Supreme Court rules fleeing Democrats can be arrested. The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Democrats
who left the Capitol to deny the legislature the quorum needed for an elections bill can be arrested. The court also
ruled that lower courts rescind temporary restraining orders that blocked the arrests of Texas House Democrats. The
order is significant because it indicates that it is constitutional in Texas to require members of the legislature to return
to the state Capitol, which can include compelling members by arrest, The Texas Tribune reported.
Texas
Supreme Court Rules That Democrats In Legislature Can Be Arrested To Compel Attendance. The Texas Supreme Court
ruled Tuesday that the Texas Constitution authorizes the state's House of Representatives to arrest members who flee in order
to break the quorum required to vote. The opinion states that "just as" Texas' Constitution enables "'quorum-breaking'
by a minority faction of the legislature, it likewise authorizes 'quorum-forcing' by the remaining members," including by
"arrest." "The legal question before this Court concerns only whether the Texas Constitution gives the House of
Representatives the authority to physically compel the attendance of absent members. We conclude that it does, and we
therefore direct the district court to withdraw the TRO," wrote Justice Jimmy Blacklock on behalf of the state's Supreme Court.
Texas
House Sergeant-at-Arms and cops are searching for the runaway Democrats' at their homes to serve arrest warrants.
Texas House Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Black is going door to door to round up Democrats in the Lone Star State in an effort to
reach quorum so the legislature can vote on election security, according to KXAN. The House needs two-thirds of its members
present to hold a vote, but Democrats have refused to show up, with nearly 60 fleeing to Washington, DC last month in a flashy
display of defiance. Local law enforcement is also assisting in the search, and if they find any lawmakers they can take them
into custody and bring them to the Texas House chamber.
Texas
Supreme Court Wipes the Smile Off Runaway Dems' Faces With Latest Order. In the last installment of the saga of
the runaway Texas Democrats, Gene Wu was crowing about securing an order in Harris County preventing him from being arrested
and dragged back to the House so that they could have a quorum, despite the arrest warrants being signed and the House
Sergeant at Arms serving them at the offices of the legislators.
Texas
House Speaker Signs 52 Arrest Warrants For Absent Democrat Lawmakers. Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan (R)
officially signed civil arrest warrants for 52 House Democrats who refused to show up for another special legislative
session, thereby keeping the session from proceeding. [...] The move by Phelan comes after the Texas Supreme Court overturned
a ruling Tuesday "by a Travis County district judge that blocked them from ordering the arrest of quorum-busting Democrats,
who were in Washington, D.C., for about a month," KXAN reported. "Democrats who are arrested would not face criminal
charges and could not be jailed or fined. Law enforcement officers carrying out arrest orders by state officials could
only try to bring them to the House chambers."
Texas
Senate Passes Republican Voting Bill, Overcoming Dem Obstruction. The Texas Senate voted to advance a major
Republican voting bill on Thursday in an 18-11 vote, along party lines. Senate Bill 1 passed after state Senator Carol
Alvarado finished a 15-hour talking filibuster in an attempt to delay the vote. Filibuster rules prohibited Albarado
from eating, sitting down, leaning on her desk, taking a bathroom break or speaking about subjects unrelated to the
bill. The all-night filibuster came one day after Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, a Republican, signed arrest warrants
for 52 Democrats who did not return during the fourth day of the House's second special session. The Democrats' absence
left the chamber eight members short of a quorum.
Texas
Supreme Court opens door to arresting AWOL Democrat lawmakers in election law standoff. The Texas Supreme Court
handed Gov. Greg Abbott a win Tuesday in his battle with AWOL Democrats, temporarily suspending a court order that had
prevented the arrest of state legislators who fled the state to avoid voting on election integrity legislation. The
ruling created a 48-hour window for the Democrats to respond, meaning lawmakers who returned to Texas but continue to break
quorum in a new special legislative session could be arrested if the state House voted to compel their attendance.
"Relators' emergency motion for temporary relief granted, stay order issued, response requested due by 4:00 p.m.,
August 12, 2021," the court wrote in a brief order that issued a stay of Travis County District Judge Brad Urrutia's
order. Urrutia's ruling Sunday barred Abbott and Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan from "issuing any warrant or other
instrument" and "detaining, confining, or otherwise restricting a Texas House Democrat's movement without his or her consent."
Activist
Judge Throws the Fugitive Texas Democrats a Lifeline. Gov. Greg Abbott has officially called another
special session, forcing the Texas Democrats who fled to block a voter integrity bill to continue their foolhardy
charade. But now, an activist judge has stepped in to throw them a lifeline. The Democrat has signed an order to
block enforcement of the arrest warrants put out for the Texas Democrats. Those arrests are allowed under the Texas
Constitution as a way to force the appearance of lawmakers who refuse to show up to do their jobs.
Runaway
Texas Dems Blast Each Other When Some Return to State. Today [8/9/2021], they came close to making a quorum in
the Texas House and beating back the runaway Democrats' effort to stymie election security bills. At least four of the
runaway Democrats returned and appeared during the House session, although 26 Democrats are reportedly staying in D.C. to
break the quorum. By the late afternoon, there were 95 members present. But they still needed 100 out of 150 in
order to have a quorum. So they ended up just short. One of the Democrats who returned and who was on the floor
was James Talarico. He was the guy that Fox's Pete Hegseth nailed when he asked him to name one voter who was being
denied the right to vote and Talarico was unable to do so, imploding the Democrats' whole argument about "voting rights"
being denied.
Texas
Supreme Court May Have Just Melted the Runaway Dems' Last Hope With Latest Move. [Scroll down] As I
reported, some of the Democrats starting to break ranks now and return to Texas, while some are pledging to stay in D.C.
That's caused a lot of infighting. But, as I also reported, the Texas Supreme Court ruled against the Democrats as to
Gov. Greg Abbott's veto of their legislative funding. That means that they run out of funding at the end of
September. So their tantrum is necessarily time-limited, if they want to be paid and if they want their staffs to be
paid. So it gives Abbott a big win and the ability to pressure them. [...] The one thing that they had left was that a
judge had ruled in their favor, granting a temporary restraining order and blocking the ability to arrest them for 14
days. That would enable them to return to the state and not get hauled into the House so that there could be a
quorum. But now, the Texas Supreme Court has issued a stay on that restraining order, in response to an emergency motion
from Gov. Greg Abbott. This would appear then to re-open the possibility of the arrest option against the Democrats.
Abbott
asks Texas Supreme Court to overturn judge's decision on arrests of Democrats. Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott (R)
has asked the state's Supreme Court to overturn a judge's decision barring the state from arresting House Democrats who
continue to block a vote on an elections bill. Abbott and Texas House Speaker Dan Phelan (R) filed an emergency motion
asking the court to overturn an order from District Judge Brad Urrutia, stopping the state from exercising the authority to
arrest the lawmakers, The Austin American Statesman reported. Abbott and Phelan are asking the court to overturn the
order by 5 p.m. Tuesday, noting that a second special session is ongoing and the "House Democrats' return" is
"imminent." "Compelling the attendance of its members is a prerogative given to the House by the Texas Constitution,"
the motion reads, according to the newspaper.
Texas
Supreme Court allows for arrest of Democrats who don't show up to legislature. The Texas Supreme Court Tuesday
voided a district judge's temporary restraining order that blocked the threat of arrest for Democratic lawmakers who fled the
state last month. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to arrest the nearly 60 Democratic representatives who
fled the Texas legislature in order to block Republicans from establishing a quorum and passing a contested voting reforms
bill. The state's Supreme Court ruling came after Abbott and House Speaker Dade Phelan petitioned the court Monday to
overturn the protection order, meaning the lawmakers could all face arrest if they return from their month-long hiatus.
Texas Dems
who fled state sue Gov. Abbott for trying to bring them back: 'Discomfort and embarrassment'. Nearly two
dozen Texas House Democrats who fled the state last month have sued Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republican officials,
alleging that GOP efforts to bring them back to the state Capitol for a special legislative session infringed on their
constitutional rights. The 22 plaintiffs have been "deprived of liberty for substantial periods of time, suffered much
anxiety and distress over separation from their families, and much discomfort and embarrassment," the complaint filed late
Friday alleges. Abbott, House Speaker Dade Phelan and State Rep. James White are all named as defendants in the case.
Biden:
Even if the Court eventually rules against our eviction moratorium, we can keep it in place for months by appealing.
This is the aspect of his moratorium chicanery that I find most breathtaking, the frank admission that he's trying to exploit the
legal process to extend a dubious executive order. Most everyone else has focused on the substance of what the White House
did, replacing a certainly illegal moratorium order with a new one which they have every reason to know is almost certainly
illegal. And that's appalling. But the problem could be solved if the courts reacted quickly by scheduling an
expedited hearing on the numerous challenges to the new order. When the president is as candid as Biden is here in
admitting that he's gaming the judicial system to keep an illegal measure in place for as long as he can, they have a duty
to stop him by putting all other business on hold to consider the merits of that measure. If they don't, they're
letting him get away with it.
Top
Arizona Senator Asks State AG to Investigate Maricopa County Over Subpoena Resistance. A top Republican senator
in Arizona is asking the state's attorney general to probe Maricopa County officials over their refusal to fully comply with
subpoenas deemed lawful by a judge. Arizona Senate Majority Whip Sonny Borrelli submitted a formal request on Tuesday
to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, a fellow Republican, to probe the county's Board of Supervisors for the failure to
comply. "The supervisors are acting as if they are above the law, and it is an insult to the citizens of our state,"
Borrelli said in a statement. The documents making the request, made public by Arizona Sen. Wendy Rogers, shows
that Borrelli is accusing the county of breaking state law governing compliance with subpoenas issued by the state legislature.
Two House
Democrats who broke quorum [are] missing from Washington, D.C., [and are] reportedly vacationing in Portugal.
The Texas House Democratic Caucus could not account Tuesday [8/3/2021] for two of the members who broke quorum and fled for
Washington, D.C., over Republicans' priority elections bill, while a Texas Monthly reporter said the members were on vacation
in Portugal. State Reps. Julie Johnson of Farmers Branch and Jessica González of Dallas were not with other
House Democrats on Tuesday in the nation's capital, according to a person familiar with the situation. On Tuesday
evening, Texas Monthly reporter Jonathan Tilove tweeted that he "can confirm [Johnson] and her wife & [González] and her
fiancé are in Portugal for a vacation they had been planning, with non-refundable tickets, for a year-and-a-half."
Texas
Democrats Finally Begin to Realize They [Have a Problem]. You'd be forgiven for forgetting they existed, but
the fugitive Texas Democrats, who fled their state to stop the passage of a mundane voting integrity bill, are still hanging
out in Washington, DC. Where exactly, I'm not sure, but I like to imagine them sleeping on cots and eating ramen noodles
every night while they mutter obscenities about Gov. Greg Abbott to each other. That's when they aren't spreading
COVID to everyone, of course. There was a sighting a few days ago in which some of them appeared with Al Sharpton at
the MLK memorial. You know, because nothing stirs support in Texas like latching onto a notorious, big-city race
grifter to push the false notion that voting rights are being eliminated because there are only two weeks of early voting.
Irony,
Absurdity, and Dishonesty — The Democrat Party's Playbook. Much has been reported about the Texas
state legislators who fled the state and abrogated their responsibilities, all in the name of "voter rights" and "Democracy."
State legislatures across the country have witnessed the consequences of the 2020 election and the Democrat party's activist success
in subverting or outright violating election laws during the pandemic to engineer election victories. [...] The Texas Democrats took
to social media and publicized their walk-out, revealing a photo on their bus in which is also a pictured a case of beer. They
protest an election integrity bill that requires a valid ID to vote either in person or by absentee ballot, but (wait for it...)
somebody had to have a valid ID to buy the beer.
Texas
House Speaker Issues Arrest Warrant for Texas Democrat. Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan on Monday signed a
civil arrest warrant for a Democrat state lawmaker who left the state earlier this month and then returned to Texas last week
before going back with his colleagues again to Washington, D.C. The civil arrest warrant for Rep. Philip Cortez,
the Democrat, won't have an immediate impact because Texas law enforcement lacks jurisdiction outside the state.
Earlier this month, Democratic state lawmakers fled the state, arguing that it was necessary for blocking the passage of a
voting overhaul bill that they described as an attempt to suppress minority groups' voting rights. Last week, Cortez
returned to Austin, Texas, from Washington and said he wanted to engage in "good faith dialogue" about the voting measure,
which drew criticism from other Democrats. But Cortez went back to the nation's capital over the weekend, stating that
talks with Republicans on the bill "have not produced progress."
How
Those 'Fugitive' Texas Democrats Will Pay for [their] Stay in DC. Special interest donors are covering much of
the cost for Texas Democratic lawmakers to stay in pricey Washington, D.C., hotel rooms, but Texas taxpayers are still losing
close to $500,000 on expenses for a legislative session that isn't happening. Texas lawmakers who fled the legislative
session in Austin for the nation's capital ultimately will have to report all of the private money pouring in for the
self-professed "fugitive" Democrats. That amount includes at least $600,000 from the political action committee of
former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, who ran for president in 2020. These Democrats have raised money from other sources
as well to cover lodging, meals, and other expenses. Racking up costs and private donations, more than 50 Democrats,
along with 12 paid staffers, on Friday marked the halfway point of the special legislative session they abandoned back
home. Democrats fled to deny the state Legislature's Republican majority a quorum to vote on an election reform
bill. The session ends Aug. 6, after which the Democrats are expected to return home.
Voter ID laws are not racist.
[Michelle] Beckley was one of several representatives who chartered a private jet and fled Texas on Monday for Washington DC
to break the quorum needed in her state's House of Representatives and stymie a Republican bill relating to future
elections. These Democrats complain that the bill will restrict voting rights by, among other things, introducing
identification requirements and banning drive-through voting. For the time being, the two parties are in a
stand-off. It is, however, a scenario which is being played up and down the country; Texas is merely one of a number of
states where local Republicans are attempting to introduce voter identification laws.
The
tragedy of the Texas COVID-crats. Last week, Texas Democrats fled the state on a chartered plane to Washington
DC, maskless with a case of Miller Lite in tow, to a chorus of whoops and cheers of our national media. As Texas
attempts to pass new election integrity legislation, or to Democrats and our media writ large, 'voting restrictions', Texas
Democrats decided to object to the Senate filibuster, by participating in a filibuster. They were doing the rounds on
CNN and MSNBC, appearing on morning shows or being celebrated on them (The View). The irony of celebrating a minority
party as 'brave' few for mucking up the legislative process was apparently completely lost on our journalistic elite.
Perhaps a more likely explanation is the media thinks the Texas Democrats are on their side, and Kyrsten Sinema and Joe
Manchin are, putting it lightly, not. The jamboree came to a sudden and grinding stop when on Friday it was announced
that several members of the Texas delegation had tested positive for COVID-19.
Texas
House Democrats' walkout [is] costing taxpayers $43,000 a day. The more than 60 Texas House Democrats who
walked out of a special legislative session could be costing taxpayers up to $43,000 a day, one lawmaker estimates.
Texas Speaker of the House Dade Phelan has demanded that the truant Democrats return the $221 a day they earn during a
legislative session. These per diem payments, combined with the regular salary they would normally receive, if it were
to be restored, costs taxpayers $7,230 per legislator during the 30 days of the special session while they remain in
Washington, D.C. Rep. Jared Patterson (R-Frisco) estimates that the Democratic standstill is costing taxpayers
$43,000 a day. On top of this, their staff members are not being paid.
Texas
Democrats' escape to block voting bill will cost around $1.5 million, legislator says. Denying Republicans a
quorum to enact voting restrictions will cost Texas Democrats north of $1 million, according to the state legislator
leading the fundraising effort. More than 50 Democratic members of the state House fled Austin for Washington, D.C.,
last Monday, paralyzing the House just as the GOP was advancing sweeping changes in elections during a special session.
Under the Texas Constitution, the Legislature requires a quorum of two-thirds of lawmakers to be present to conduct state
business in either chamber. The price of keeping the Democrats out of Texas through Aug. 7, when the session
expires, is expected to be around $1.5 million, state Rep. Armando Walle said in an interview.
About
That Chartered Plane Full of Texas Democrats Running Scared to D.C.. [Scroll down] Can we all just agree
that if you have the dough to charter a plane and get nice accommodations to reside while visiting one of the most overpriced
cities in the world, that you could drink a higher quality beer than Miller Lite? [...] Please don't get me wrong, I do enjoy
a watery light beer as much as the next rube but these people are not like us, they are enlightened, fighting for the rights
of people to not vote with an I.D. that they need for a hundred other things to do. They should be drinking Coors Light
or maybe some Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Joe Biden's Misery
Index Rises. In this past week, we've seen the absurd spectacle of a group of Texas state legislators
commandeering a private plane as they fled from Texas to escape the ability of the governor of Texas to require them to
return to Austin and discharge the duty they were elected to carry out, in this case, vote on a voting reform bill. The
selfies they took on the planes as they swilled beer — maskless despite masking regulations the Democrats are
particularly fervent about upholding, given that they are the party of COVID terror — and the subsequent positive
COVID tests of several of the fleeing legislators are almost too ludicrous to believe. Vice President Kamala Harris'
comparison of their ridiculous flight to Washington with the gathering of the founding fathers of America to declare its
independence in 1776 confirmed that the race between the escalating foolishness of elected Democrats and the apparent
sincerity with which the Democratic harlot-media endorses anything the Democrats do or say continues at neck-and-neck pace.
Major
Texas Democrat Stripped of Leadership Post for Fleeing the State. State Rep. Joe Moody (D-El Paso) has
been stripped of his position as speaker pro tem in the Texas House following his decision to flee the state in order to
stymie the ongoing special session that Gov. Greg Abbott called. [...] Moody is (or was) one of Speaker Phelan's closest
Democrat allies. Two of the terms he used to describe himself — Dad and husband — are
gender-specific terms forbidden by the rules adopted by the Democratic leadership in the United States House of
Representatives. Calls to strip Democrats who fled Texas from their House leadership posts have been growing throughout
the week. Texas Republican Party Chairman Matt Rinaldi clarified that yes, leaders appointed to their posts by Speaker
Dade Phelan can be stripped of their leadership assignments. Moody is the first Democrat known to be subjected to
it. Speaker Phelan did not start small with this move.
NAACP
pledges to bail Texas Dems out of jail if they're arrested for fleeing the state to tank bill. The NAACP on
Tuesday [7/13/2021] vowed to bail out any Texas Democrat arrested by state authorities for running away from a special
legislative session earlier in the week called by GOP Gov. Greg Abbott to consider, among other things, new voter
integrity legislation. "War has been declared on democracy, and we will support anyone who stands up to defend
it. We are fully invested in good trouble," NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement. The pledge comes
after nearly 60 state Democrats boarded chartered busses and planes on Monday to intentionally deny a quorum to majority
Republicans who are pushing to shore up voter integrity ahead of the 2022 elections following a chaotic and mistrusted 2020
election cycle.
No
masks on plane for Texas Dems as they flee the state to block new voting bill. If you're going to make a move
that's destined to be unpopular in your home state, probably costing your party seats in the midterms, at least take proper
COVID precautions, [...] Karen wrote earlier about this desperate ploy, in which the state legislature's minority party finds
itself so desperate to block the looming passage of Texas's new voting reform bill that they've decided to deny the House a
quorum by absconding. That means leaving the state entirely, as law enforcement would otherwise be empowered to return
them to the Capitol forcibly. Departing Texas's jurisdiction is the only way to foil legislative business. But
only temporarily. The legislature was in a special session called by Gov. Greg Abbott to pass the voting bill and
take up several other matters. He can call another special session whenever he likes. Either the Texas Dems will
take a permanent vacation or the voting bill will be passed once they return and the legislature reconvenes on Abbott's orders.
Texas
House authorizes sergeant at arms to bring fugitive Dem legislators back — by arresting them if necessary.
The vote went 76-4, as there were a few Democrats left who didn't board the party bus to D.C. yesterday and instead hung around in
Austin to do their jobs. I'm imagining the Texas Rangers rolling up outside the Marriott in Washington in one of those big
prisoner buses, arm and leg shackles in hand, to make the collar. Nah, actually, this is symbolic more so than it is an
actual arrest warrant. I think.
Texas
Republicans Say Enough and Officially Vote to Arrest Fleeing Democrats. Earlier this morning [7/13/2021], I
wrote on Gov. Greg Abbott's threat to arrest the fleeing Texas Democrats who are refusing to show up for work.
Those Democrats left the state in an ill-fated attempt to deny a quorum to Republicans, who make up a large majority of the
state legislature, in order to stop a vote on an election integrity bill. When I saw Abbott's comments, I wasn't sure
Republicans would actually have the guts to vote to force the Democrats to return and do their jobs. Yet, that's
exactly what happened.
Texas
Senate Passes Republican-Backed Voting Bill after Dems Flee to Block Final Vote. The Texas Senate passed a
Republican-backed voting bill after Democratic House members fled the state in order to block a final House vote.
Senators voted 18-4 along party lines to approve the legislation. Eight Senate Democrats announced that they too had
fled to Washington, D.C., on Monday, with a ninth expected to arrive Monday evening. However, with 22 out of 31 members
present, the Senate kept a quorum and was able to pass the measure.
Texas
congressman asks Capitol sergeant-at-arms to help extradite fugitive state Democrats. Texas Republican
Rep. Brian Babin called on the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms Tuesday [7/13/2021] to assist Texas state officials in
the possible extradition of legislators who fled to Washington, D.C., to prevent a quorum at the State Capitol in
Austin. Texas state Republican lawmakers voted on Tuesday to send law enforcement to find nearly 60 Democratic
legislators who fled the state to obstruct GOP-backed voting bills. At least 58 Democratic lawmakers left Austin on
Monday to prevent a quorum, meaning the necessary number of members to conduct business in the chamber.
Texas
Democrats Leave State to Block Legislation, Fly Private Jets to Washington DC for Support. We saw this exact
same strategy play out in Wisconsin circa 2011 when the Democrats in state legislature fled the state to avoid showing up to
a legislative session. They left the state specifically to avoid state police arresting them and forcibly returning
them to work. This is how Democrats operate. In Texas the milk-carton Democrats do not have the numbers to block
legislation; however, they can deny a legislative quorum by not showing up to work. The Democrats took buses to a
private airport where they took private charter flights to Washington DC; all of their manipulative schemes paid for by
Democrat activist groups. The cases of beer on the seats is a nice touch. Meanwhile, Texas citizens are paying
taxes to fund the salaries of officials who refuse to come to work.
Kamala
meets the Texas Democrat 'fugitives': Harris gushes over the 'sacrifice' of runaways facing arrest when they return to
Austin. Vice President Kamala Harris made a pointed gesture of support Tuesday for Texas Democratic legislators
who are on the lam after bolting quorum to prevent enactment of new voting restrictions. The White House didn't
publicize the meeting until minutes before it occurred — after the runaway lawmakers flew to Washington by private
jet after blocking the legislation, infuriating Republicans. Harris dropped in on a meeting the lawmakers were holding
in D.C., where she gave full-throated support to their actions, even with the Texas House voting to arrest them when they
return home.
Gov.
Abbott says 58 'hypocrite' Texas Democrat runaways WILL be arrested when they return to Austin. Governor of
Texas Greg Abbott on Monday night has described state Democrats who fled to Washington DC to prevent a vote as 'quitters' who
were 'un-Texan' in running from a fight, and said they will be arrested on their return. At least 58 Democrats left Austin
to avoid the vote on election bills, touching down in Washington D.C. on Monday evening [7/12/2021] in two private jets —
chartered at a cost of $100,000. They fled to break the quorum of two-thirds lawmakers being present in the House to prevent
a vote on two bills which would add new identification requirements for mail voting; ban some early voting options; and create new
criminal penalties for breaking election code, while empowering partisan poll watchers.
Texas
Democrats flee the State to prevent Republicans from passing their 'voting rights' bills. Texas Democrats fled
their state on private jets Monday in order to stop Republicans in the state from passing their voting rights bills through
the state legislature. 'Today, Texas House Democrats stand united in our decision to break quorum and refuse to let the
Republican-led legislature force through dangerous legislation that would trample on Texans' freedom to vote,' the Texas
state house Democratic caucus said in a statement. At least 58 Democratic lawmakers left Austin to fly to Washington
D.C. on two private jets chartered for the occasion and will use the time in the nation's Capitol to rally support for
federal voting legislation.
Texas
Democrats leaving state to stop GOP voting bill. Democrats in the Texas Legislature on Monday began bolting for
Washington, D.C., and said they were ready to remain there for weeks in a second revolt against a GOP overhaul of election
laws, forcing a dramatic new showdown over voting rights in America. One large group was set to leave Austin on private
planes before the GOP could pass a voting bill in a special legislative session ordered by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott
that began days ago. It was not immediately clear how many of the 67 Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives
planned to go, but it was expected to be enough to bring the Legislature to a halt.
Texas
Democrats Decide to Play a Ridiculous Game of Chicken They Can't Win. I have good news: Minority rights
in a legislative body are good again. After months of Democrats from across the country insisting that pure
majoritarian rule is the only way to preserve "democracy," they've suddenly decided cheap games to obstruct the passage of
various bills are totally acceptable. Unlike the legitimate tool that is the filibuster in the Senate, though, Texas
Democrats are literally getting on a plane and leaving the state, presumably forever if their gambit is to work.
Texas
Democrats to Walk Out of Legislative Session to Block GOP Voting Bills. In a last ditch effort, Democrats in
the Texas state legislature walked out of a special session to prevent a number of key Republican-sponsored bills from
advancing. At least 58 Democratic state lawmakers left Texas and flew to Washington, D.C. to rally support for federal
legislation, NBC News reported. Most of the fleeing state lawmakers will travel on a pair of prearranged private jets,
the New York Times confirmed.
Definite
sign of panic: Pennsylvania acting Secretary of State issues illegal orders to obstruct audit of 2020
election. Yesterday [7/10/2021], I wrote that it looks like Pennsylvania Dems are panicking over the audit of
the 2020 election announced by State Senator Doug Mastriano, chair of the state senate's Intergovernmental Operations
Committee. Two days after the announcement of the audit, President Biden suddenly was scheduled for a trip to the
Keystone State "to deliver remarks on actions to protect the sacred constitutional right to vote." Bringing the "The Big Guy"
to pressure officials to obstruct access to the data which the state senate has an absolute right to examine. But that
was just half the story. An unelected statewide official, the acting Secretary of State, acted quickly, even before
Biden's trip was announced, to illegally obstruct the audit by commanding local officials to deny access to evidence.
Looks
like Dems are panicking over the planned forensic audit of the Pennsylvania 2020 presidential election. This is
quite a coincidence: Two days after Pennsylvania state senator Doug Mastriano announced that the committee he heads was
preparing a forensic audit of the 2020 presidential election, the White House announced a trip to Pennsylvania by President
Biden "to deliver remarks on actions to protect the sacred constitutional right to vote." Senator Mastriano's committee,
the Intergovernmental Operations Committee of the Pennsylvania state Senate, will predictably have trouble getting the
information it is requesting (and has the right to demand) from the local authorities, especially after a visiting president
meets with them or their significant influencers and lobbies them to resist and delay.
Pennsylvania
orders counties not to comply with GOP senator's request for 2020 election data. The administration of
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania has ordered counties not to comply with a Republican state senator's request
for voting data to be used in an audit of the 2020 election. The Pennsylvania Department of State said in a two-page
directive that the request by state Sen. Doug Mastriano of Franklin County, an ally of former President Donald Trump,
"jeopardizes the security and integrity" of the counties' voting systems. "Such access by third parties undermines
chain of custody requirements and strict access limitations necessary to prevent both intentional and inadvertent tampering
with electronic voting systems," the department said.
Noem:
Biden Refused to Issue Mount Rushmore Fireworks Permits, Provided no Explanation Why. During a Thursday
[7/1/2021] interview on FNC's "Fox & Friends," South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) revealed that President Joe Biden
refused to issue the permits this year for the Mount Rushmore Fourth of July celebration. Noem said the celebration was
brought back by President Donald Trump after President Barack Obama took it away for environmental concerns, and now Biden is
canceling it again without providing an explanation.
South
Dakota Governor: Biden Admin Won't Issue Mount Rushmore Fireworks Permits, Hasn't Provided Explanation.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said the Biden administration hasn't provided an explanation for canceling the massive
fireworks display at Mount Rushmore. President Donald Trump, she said, brought back the Mount Rushmore fireworks
display after it was rescinded under the Obama administration, which cited environmental concerns at the time. "We had
the fireworks at Mount Rushmore for years," Noem, a Republican, told Fox News last week. "It wasn't until President
Obama came into office that they took it away." Noem, who filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration, suggested
that "political reasons" were behind the move to not permit the display.
There are January 6 protesters sitting in jail for less than this:
Democrats
In Ohio Statehouse Erupt In Screaming, Desk Pounding And Stomping Feet During Introduce Of Anti-Transgender Bill. This
appears to be an organized obstruction of the Ohio government. January 6 protestors are behind bars for less than this.
[Video clip]
Pennsylvania
Gov. Vetoes GOP-Backed Election Integrity Bill. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed a Republican-backed
election overhaul bill that would expand voter identification requirements, move up the voter registration deadline, limit
the use of drop-boxes, and allow county officials to conduct early pre-canvassing for mail-in ballots, among other
measures. In explaining why he vetoed the bill, the Democrat governor wrote that he "made it clear I wouldn't sign a
bill that creates barriers to voting," adding "that's exactly what this bill does by: Limiting mail ballots, Capping
early voting, Cutting voter registration time." On Wednesday [6/30/2021], Wolf also used his line-item veto authority to
remove a budget legislation proposal that would earmark millions of dollars to create an election-auditing agency.
Nancy
Pelosi and Democrats Block Bill to Ban Tax-Funded Abortions for 20th Time. Over the last week, Speaker Nancy
Pelosi and House Democrats have blocked a bill to ban taxpayer-funding of abortions 20 times. Each day over the last
week, multiple pro-life Republican House members have asked the House for unanimous consent to bring the pro-life bill to the
floor for a vote. Each time, Democrats have refused. On Monday [6/28/2021], Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-OK),
Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA), Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA), and Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) asked for unanimous
consent to get a floor vote on H.R. 18, The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. As they had 16 times previously,
Democrats refused a vote to protect taxpayers from being forced to fund killing babies in abortions. The bill would
make the Hyde Amendment permanent law and protect taxpayers from being forced to fund the killing of unborn babies in
abortions. The Hyde Amendment, which has strong public support, prohibits taxpayer funding for elective abortions in
Medicaid and other federal programs.
Lawsuit: Biden
[is] Refusing to Disclose Coronavirus Information on Illegal Aliens Released into U.S.. A lawsuit filed last
week alleges that President Joe Biden's administration is refusing to disclose information related to the Chinese coronavirus
transmission, testing, and treatment of illegal aliens who are then released into the United States interior. The
government watchdog organization Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against Biden's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
after they failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request which sought coronavirus data records on illegal
aliens the administration has continued releasing into the U.S. interior.
Nancy
Pelosi and Democrats Deny a Vote Six Times on Bill to Ban Tax-Funded Abortions. Six times in one day, House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats rejected calls for a vote on a bill that would permanently ban taxpayer-funded abortions
in Medicaid and other federal programs. On Thursday [6/24/2021], Republicans asked for a unanimous consent request on
the House floor to demand a vote on the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (House Resolution 18), sponsored by U.S.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey. However, Democrats who control the House rejected their requests. The bill
would make the Hyde Amendment permanent law and protect taxpayers from being forced to fund the killing of unborn babies in
abortions. The Hyde Amendment, which has strong public support, prohibits taxpayer funding for elective abortions in
Medicaid and other federal programs. Since 1976, it has saved an estimated 2.4 million babies' lives, including about
60,000 each year, according to the Charlotte Lozier Institute.
Biden
May Hinder Oil and Gas Drilling Even After Court Loss. U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has the power
to stymie oil and gas development on government-controlled lands and waters, industry and environmental experts said, even
though a court decision ended his freeze on federal drilling auctions. Some options, they said, include offering sparse
acreage or imposing more time-consuming permitting requirements. "We lived through the Obama administration, and they
did a lot of things to constrain leasing and other activity on federal lands," Kathleen Sgamma, president of industry trade
group Western Energy Alliance, said in an interview. "And frankly they have the power to do so."
Several
Hundred Thousand Maricopa County Ballots Missing, Boxes Identified With Totally Blank Ballots. [Scroll down] If this
reporting turns out to be accurate, this will be an explosive development. However, that said, if this report is accurate... this is
likely the reason why Maricopa County officials have been fighting the audit, hiring lawyers and positioning themselves in an attempt to
undermine the chain-of-custody of the ballots. Remember, the county Board of Supervisors would not let the State Senate audit take place
in their tabulations center. In an effort to block and stall the audit, the county officials forced the audit organizers to transfer the
tabulation machines and truckloads of ballots to the Veterans Coliseum. Then the board of supervisors held closed-door meetings
(shutting out the public) with their lawyers.
The Texas Voting Lie.
In Austin, Texas, where Republicans control the governor's mansion and both chambers of the legislature, House Democrats'
walking out to prevent the passage of a bill with majority support is portrayed as a heroic act preserving our
democracy. The bill in question is an election-reform measure that Democrats allege is the latest instance of
state-level GOP voter suppression.
The New Secession Crisis: The Democrats have
already left the Union. The Democrats have already seceded from America's historic conception of nationhood in many respects: [...]
THEY have engaged in bureaucratic and judicial nullification of our laws, particularly on immigration — perhaps the most important element in
determining who makes up the American polity. Donald Trump ran on the platform of toughening up immigration policy. It was
his defining issue. Yet the Left made a mockery of the rule of law, using the bureaucracy to throw up procedural roadblock after
procedural roadblock to Trump's agenda, while left-wing judges issued blatantly absurd rulings using invented doctrines to block Trump's
rescission of Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals order and accuse the administration of a "Muslim ban" that, in fact, was based
heavily on an earlier Obama Administration effort.
NYC
veterans fume over parade lockout after pot-smokers get permit to march. Mayor de Blasio is refusing to allow a
group of military veterans to march on Staten Island on Memorial Day — after welcoming public pot smokers to puff
their way down Broadway in last week's Cannabis Parade. "It's a slap in the face," Jamie Gonzalez, 57, a Marine
infantryman who saw combat in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm, told The [New York] Post. Gulf War vets like Gonzalez
were set to be given special honors in Staten Island's 102nd annual Memorial Day Parade this year to mark the 1991 conflict's
30th anniversary — until the city pulled the plug.
Turn
Over Routers or Face Subpoenas, Arizona Lawmakers Tell Maricopa County. Legislators in Arizona and officials in
the state's largest county clashed anew this week over election audit subpoenas, with county officials refusing to hand over
routers and claiming they do not have passwords to access administrative control functions of election machines. Arizona's
Senate told Maricopa County on Friday [5/7/2021] that it would issue subpoenas for live testimony from the county's Board of
Supervisors unless it received the materials that are being withheld. "We've been asked to relay that the Senate views
the County's explanations on the router and passwords issues as inadequate and potentially incorrect," a lawyer for the
Senate said in an email to county officials. The Arizona Senate subpoenaed a slew of election materials, such as ballots,
following the 2020 election. Lawmakers also issued subpoenas for election machines, passwords, and other technology.
In
the face of most Democrats' opposition, US Steel cancels a billion-dollar investment. Exactly two years ago,
U.S. Steel Corporation announced that the company would turn its Mon Valley operations into a key source of lightweight steel
for the automotive industry. At the time, local leaders and company officials called the investment "transformational."
It involved a whopping $1.5 billion upgrade to its Mon Valley Works. This included an upgrade of the Edgar Thomson Works in
Braddock, the Irvin Plant in West Mifflin, and Clairton Coke Works, with technology and improvements that would have provided cleaner
air for all three communities where the plants are located, as well as good-paying jobs that would have provided prosperity for the
region for decades. On Friday, U.S. Steel said after months of tug-of-war with the Allegheny County Health Department, it is
canceling the $1.5 billion upgrade and idling three batteries at Clairton Coke Works by 2023.
Biden
Administration Deny Parking Permit for Rolling Thunder Patriots, Ending 32-Year Tradition. American flags,
veterans, patriotism, pride in America, courage, pride, honor, strength — all the things represented by the
motorcycle group known as "Rolling Thunder" who have traditionally rallied on Memorial Day in Washington DC.
Unfortunately, all those adjectives are also things the intolerant leftists hate. So the Biden administration denies
the group a parking permit.
Governor
Kristi Noem Sues Biden Over Mount Rushmore 4th Of July Fireworks Ban. The Biden administration's assault on the
rights of Americans to celebrate the Fourth Of July is now heading to court courtesy of South Dakota Governor Kristi
Noem. On Friday [4/30/2021], Noem announced that the state would be suing Biden for the cancelation of the fireworks
display at Mount Rushmore, the majestic monument in the Black Hills that features the faces of four iconic American
presidents chiseled into granite. This beautiful site has become a hated symbol of the rabid left. Soon after he
took up residency in the White House, Biden struck another blow against freedom when his National Park Service denied the
state's request to hold the patriotic celebration at the monument, citing "health and safety risks" associated with the coronavirus.
Arizona
Democrats sue to try to stop Senate's election audit just before it begins. Just before the Arizona Senate
Republicans' hand count of all Maricopa County ballots cast in the November presidential election begins, Democrats are suing
to try to stop it. The Arizona Democratic Party and Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Gallardo filed a lawsuit in
Maricopa County Superior Court on Thursday [4/22/2021] saying that the audit is unlawful and asking a judge to stop it from
proceeding. The complaint alleges the Senate's audit, which is set to begin Friday, is violating state election law in
numerous ways, including by not setting up proper security to protect ballots, voting machines and voter information.
This is harmful, they write, because their private information "will be placed into the hands of unknown, untrained agents of
the private auditors" without the safeguards outlined in state law.
President Biden Just Crossed
The Line In Texas — He Uses Civil Rights Act To Slam Brakes On Highway. If there was any progress
that started under Trump, Biden is grinding it to a halt. We've seen Biden frequently interrupt or cancel projects from
the Trump administration. That includes the direly needed border wall. He's also canceled projects that meant
thousands of jobs, including the Keystone XL Pipeline. Well, add this to Joe's "destroy America in four short years"
list. Texas needed improvements to a major highway system. They were in the process of doing just that. So,
Biden put a stop to it.
Joe
Biden DOT Halts Texas Highway Project Using the Civil Rights Act. President Joe Biden's Department of
Transportation (DOT) has paused a highway widening project in Houston, Texas, citing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
as legal justification. In what could be a first for any administration in this context, the Biden administration is
using its federal powers to pause the Texas DOT plan to widen Interstate 45. The administration is doing this as a test
to address what it calls a history of "government-driven racial inequalities." This comes after complaints from local
activities during the federal DOT's intervention period. The proposed plan, known as the North Houston Highway
Improvement Project, is proposed to widen I-45 at three different sections.
Democrat
Georgia Lawmaker Arrested, ragged Out of Capitol For Interrupting Kemp's Livestream Announcement That He Signed New Election
Legislation. On Thursday Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R) signed a sweeping bill that overhauls his state's
election laws that includes new restrictions on mail-in voting. The legislation was pushed through Georgia's House and
Senate after Kemp and the crooked Secretary of State handed Georgia over to the Democrats in TWO separate elections.
Because of mail-in ballots, ballot drop boxes, no signature checks and ballot harvesting, the Democrats took control of the
White House and flipped the Senate blue. Kemp finally signed new election laws that would require a photo ID in
order to vote by absentee ballot and it would limit the number of drop boxes (they should be eliminated completely).
No
Wonder Democrats Are Delaying Everything Related to the 2020 Election — Irregular Ballots from the 2020 Election
in Arizona Can be Destroyed Six Months After the Election. Jovan Pulitzer reported today [3/5/2021] that we may
not have as much time as expected to audit the ballots from the 2020 election in Arizona. In fact, we are only months
away. Jovan Pulitzer has a process where he believes he can identify invalid ballots from the 2020 election based on
paper, ink, layout, and folds in ballots recorded in the election. His work is expected to produce an inventory of
invalid ballots and then determine the final results from the election based on valid ballots. [Video clip]
White
House will start charging members of the press $170 to have a COVID-19 test before they can enter the grounds.
The White House will start charging members of the press $170 to have a COVID-19 test before they can enter the grounds,
according to a report, in a move that could financially cripple news organizations and limit coverage of the Biden
administration altogether. The White House press office will from Monday [3/1/2021] bill journalists for their own
coronavirus tests, which are mandatory for anyone entering the White House complex. Under the Trump administration,
COVID-19 testing for the media was only available to members of the press pool who were coming into close contact with Donald
Trump or to people exposed to a positive case via a White House event.
The Editor says...
Obviously the major networks can absorb such a surcharge without missing a beat. This $170-per-visit charge is
just to filter out internet-only news organizations.
Democrats
Block Rep. Andy Barr's Amendment To Prevent COVID-19 Relief Funds From Going To China. Democrats in the
House Rules Committee on Friday voted against an amendment by Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) that would prevent any American
taxpayer-funded COVID-19 relief dollars from going to the Chinese Communist Party. His amendment would have barred any
of the $1.9 trillion in COVID-19 relief bill funds from being made available to "any enterprise, agency, instrumentality
owned by the Government of the People's Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party."
As
Trump Is Getting Ready To Give His Speech, CPAC's Website Is Allegedly Being DDOS'd. Former President Donald
Trump will close out the Conservative Political Action Conference today with his first public address since leaving the White
House on Jan. 20. The former president was scheduled to take the stage at 3:40 p.m. Sunday [2/28/2021] but the
speech is now moved to 4:55 EST. But as Trump is getting ready to start his speech Ian Miles Cheong tweeted that CPAC's
website is being DDOS'd.
Conservatives Must
Read Marx. When Tucker Carlson defended Trump's Wall, his antagonists didn't collect evidence against his
words. No, they threatened his advertisers with boycotts. When Jordan Peterson refused an Ontario law mandating
pronoun usage, his critics didn't mount arguments against him. They demanded the University of Toronto fire him.
Money, jobs, resources, access — that's the target now. Academia requires that all job candidates compose a
"diversity statement," essentially a loyalty oath that imposes leftist ideology onto the hiring process. An honest
conservative doesn't survive, and that's the point.
Seattle
Antifa Show How Childish and Dangerous They Are. These are literally children in adult bodies. That's my
takeaway from this new video of Seattle Antifa acting like idiots from Andy Ngo. The group piled up snow in front of
the ramp where police vehicles are dispatched from. This prevented Seattle PD from being able to respond to calls, at
least with these specific units at this station. Given people often call the police because they are in
life-threatening situations, it can't be overstated how dangerous this is. This is the equivalent of protesters a road
and stopping ambulances from getting to a hospital. [Video clip] You may be asking yourself why there isn't
a follow-up video of these people being put in handcuffs. The answer is simple. The Seattle government, from the
Mayor, to the prosecutors, to the leadership at the police department, have taken a hands off approach with Antifa.
Why
are Democrats so scared of Donald Trump when they just defeated him? In a nation returning to "normalcy," does
Congress cower behind armed troops and 12-foot fences? Does a party securely in control try to enlist tech firms and
media to snuff out voices of opposition? In a normal America, does a defeated presidential incumbent pose such a threat
to the party in power that he must be impeached after leaving office, to ensure he doesn't win back the White House in four
years? That's where we are. The Democrats aren't acting like a party secure in its position; they're acting
nervous and insecure and lashing out at any perceived threat. The Republicans didn't impeach LBJ or Jimmy Carter after
they left office — although in LBJ's case, at least, there were probably grounds. The Democrats didn't try
to make sure George H.W. Bush was ineligible for future office after he was beaten by Bill Clinton, even though Clinton
failed to win a majority of the vote. Yet Democrats have made quite plain that the purpose of this after-hours
impeachment of a former president is to ensure Trump doesn't rise from the political grave and run again in four years.
Police,
allies fight back as Soros-funded liberal DAs oversee big-city bloodshed. District attorneys implementing
liberal agendas in some of America's biggest cities oversaw soaring homicide counts last year and are now being hit with
lawsuits and recriminations from police agencies. Angry police officers and their backers are doing all they can to
boost a May primary challenge to Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, who refuses to prosecute some gun possession
and drug crimes. A California court is scheduled to hear a lawsuit Tuesday [2/2/2021] filed by the Association of
Deputy District Attorneys in Los Angeles against District Attorney George Gascon. The suit accuses Mr. Gascon of
illegally blocking prosecutors from pursuing enhanced sentencing in violent crimes and other major criminal cases.
Joe
Biden set to unveil a 'historic' climate change plan that will block all new federal oil and gas leasing. Joe
Biden is set to announce on Wednesday a radical proposal for tackling climate change, which will emphasize the fact that
marginalized communities and ethnic minorities frequently bear the brunt of global warming. Biden, who rejoined the
Paris Climate Agreement on the first day of his presidency, will direct agencies across the federal government to invest in
minority communities hardest-hit by pollution, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday [1/26/2021]. Two sources told
the paper that the president will sign an executive order establishing a White House interagency council on environmental
justice.
The Editor says...
Please explain how "ethnic minorities frequently bear the brunt of global warming." What brunt? How much global warming has occurred
in this century? What characteristic of ethnic minorities makes them more susceptible to the weather? Have you ever heard
anyone — minority or not — complain that global warming was making his or her life unbearable? (No, you have not.)
Why
are U.S. House webpages down? The official website for the House of Representatives has been undergoing
"maintenance" for weeks. As of 1/24, the contact webpages for congressional representatives are still not available,
with the message displayed: "The requested page could not be found." But the Senate webpages are operating as
normal. The maintenance excuse doesn't pass the smell test. Other organizations perform website maintenance in a
matter of hours rather than weeks and they usually do it overnight to minimize disruptions. It may be that the members
of the House of Representatives are afraid that there will be a torrent of angry messages if the contact webpages go back
online, and they are probably right. But that is not an acceptable reason to cut off the best way for constituents to
express their opinions on issues to their representatives.
Biden
Moves To Block Oil And Gas Leases On Public Land And In New Mexico That Could Be A Big Problem. This week the
Biden administration put a 60-day hold on new oil and gas leases on public lands. While this is only temporary at the
moment, the expectation is that this moratorium will become permanent sometime soon. This shouldn't come as a shock to
anyone who has been paying attention because Biden promised prior to the election that he would do this. [...] Today
[1/23/2021] the Associated Press reports that some leaders in New Mexico are very concerned about the impact this could have
on the state.
Biden's
Path of 'Destruction' Continues: Orders Freeze on Trump's Order to Slash Prices on Two Life-Saving Drugs.
As part of Joe Biden's determined mission to undo Donald Trump's presidency, his handlers
he ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday [1/21/2021] to freeze executive orders from Trump
designed to significantly lower prescription drug prices for Americans, including the potentially-life-saving drugs, insulin,
and epinephrine.
Pentagon
Rejects President's request for huge military-style farewell parade with crowd of supporters hours before Biden's inauguration.
The Pentagon will break with recent tradition by refusing to engage in an armed forces farewell or throw Donald Trump's requested
military-style parade as the president leaves office on Wednesday [1/20/2021]. Trump wants an extravagant goodbye —
not unlike the exuberance he exuded during his presidency — despite his recent fallout of favor with middle-of-the-line
Republicans following the storming of the Capitol earlier this month, which Democrats impeached him for last Wednesday claiming he
'incited an insurrection.' The president wanted his departure from Washington to involve a 'military-style sendoff and a crowd
of supporters,' a person who has discussed the matter with Trump told CNN.
Nancy
Pelosi Just Admitted Why Dems Obstructed COVID Relief Bill for Eight Months. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-IllegalHairAppointment) appeared on Sunday's [1/10/2021] "60 Minutes" to discuss a wide range of topics with Lesley Stahl,
most of which had to do with painting Donald Trump as an insurrectionist and Republicans as his accomplices. After
giving Stahl a breathless, faux-emotional tour of the damage her office sustained (Pelosi was more upset about a broken
mirror in her office than she was about thousands of businesses destroyed during months of BLM rioting), the two sat down to
chat. While Pelosi did her best to seem like the reasonable leader protecting the Republic from crazed animals, Stahl
pushed back on some of Pelosi's assertions — to Pelosi's chagrin. One such topic was whether Pelosi's tone
and "obstruction" cost the Democrats seats in November. [Video clip]
Stripe
announces they will no longer process payments for Trump campaign website. More big businesses continued a
boycott on Sunday of Republican members of Congress who followed Donald Trump's demands and voted to overturn the
election. JPMorgan Chase said that it will pause all contributions from its political action committee for at least the
next six months, saying 'the focus of business leaders, political leaders, civic leaders right now should be on governing and
getting help to those who desperately need it most right now. There will be plenty of time for campaigning later.'
U.S. digital payments company Stripe is to also stop processing payments for Trump's campaign website following the riot, a
company spokesperson said.
Marriot,
Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Commerce Bank suspend donations to lawmakers who objected to certifying Electoral College
vote. In the wake of the violent attack on Capitol Hill last week, at least three corporations have announced
that they would suspend contributions to the campaigns of lawmakers who objected to the certification of Electoral College
votes. [...] Before the demonstrations turned violent, a number of lawmakers expressed support for the protests. After
the Capitol was secured, 147 Republican lawmakers, 139 representatives and eight senators, cast their vote objecting to the
certification of Electoral College votes that sent President-elect Joe Biden to the White House.
Pelosi
Sought To Have Military Limit Trump's Authority As Commander-In-Chief. Democrats, their activist media arm, and
their Big Tech doorkeepers are perilously close to pressing their advantage far too far and alienating sympathetic
right-leaning and centrist voters with their ongoing attacks on President Trump. Not only has the sitting President of
the United States of America been deplatformed pretty much everywhere on the internet, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
reportedly spoke to the Joint Chiefs about stripping him of his Constitutional authority with regard to his role as Commander
in Chief.
A Daring Left and
a Cowed Center. The first fact of sociopolitical life in America today is this: liberals in elite positions are
frightened of the Left. A college president may direct an institution with a $900 million endowment, meet with
legislators and business heads, and boast a 30-year record of academic honors, but the sight of eight African American
undergrads marching toward his office with scowls on their faces alarms him like nothing else. A CEO may draw a $3 million
salary and manage 1,300 workers, but the threat of a boycott coming from a few networked Millennials with ties to Sleeping Giant
calls for immediate emergency action. They know what they're up against. Leftists form digital mobs, shut down events,
block access, cancel, and dox. They show up at people's homes, harass employers, and ruin businesses. They're
ruthless, they're irrational, but the tantrums they throw muck up the works and clog the pipes. That's the advantage they
press — they will tear the system down if the people in power don't comply.
Rep.
Joaquin Castro launches a bid to keep President Trump's name off public buildings. Rep. Joaquin Castrro
(D-Texas) who was last seen in the news doxxing and harassing his constituents, holding them up to public shame for the
'crime' of supporting President Trump has a new means of proving his Trump-hating vindictiveness: By putting up
legislation to mandate that President Trump's name can't go up on any public buildings.
Biden
Reveals Plan To Sabotage Trump's Midnight Orders On Day 1. Unless an unprecedented series of events occur in DC
over the next week, it appears that Joe Biden will complete the steal of the 2020 election and be installed in the White
House by the deep state. According to Fox News, his first order of business will be to sabotage President Trump's
latest executive orders on Day 1 of his "presidency".
Reminder:
Democrats Have Objected To Electoral Certification The Last Three Times A Republican Won. Democrats are
absolutely freaking out abut the fact that some Republicans are planning to object to the certification of Joe Biden by the
Electoral College. Not only did they spend the last four years freaking out about Trump, they have objected to the
certification the last three times a Republican won the presidency.
Democrats
Have Objected to Electoral Vote Certification For the Last 3 GOP Presidents. Democrats are outraged that
Republicans are planning on objecting to the certification of electoral votes. It's "conspiracy and fantasy," says
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. "The effort by the sitting president of the United States to overturn the results
is patently undemocratic," the New York Democrat said. "The effort by others to amplify and burnish his ludicrous
claims of fraud is equally revolting." "This is America. We have elections. We have results. We make
arguments based on the fact and reason — not conspiracy and fantasy," he added. There's only one problem
with Chucky's "argument based on fact and reason." Democrats have been challenging the electoral vote certification
for two decades.
Will
Washington, DC lock out Trump supporters on January 6th? When the left says they want to silence us, arrest us,
re-educate us, and utterly and completely destroy us, they mean it. And as we know all too well, they will use any
means necessary. This is what tyrants do. And so, as patriots start to converge on Washington DC for Trump's
rally, the left is applying pressure to make it difficult for us to secure accommodations. First up is the Hotel
Harrington which just announced it will be closed on January 4th, 5th and 6th in order to deny access to Trump
supporters. They cite concerns about the Proud Boys, who have apparently stayed at the hotel and patronized the bar
during prior protests. My guess is this is just the beginning. DC residents are lobbying other hotels,
businesses, and city officials to deny service to Trump supporters.
What
the American Aristocracy Has Wrought. President Donald Trump has been the rare epitome of a president "of the
people, by the people and for the people," but the four years of his presidency have uncovered an unpleasant reality: there
is a gigantic thumb on the scale in federal politics, courtesy of a group who could ill afford the success of a citizen
president. For his entire term, every absurd charge against President Trump was investigated, with daily leaks and
blockbuster stories that amplified outright falsehoods. His surrogates, supporters, and family have been relentlessly
(and frivolously) persecuted. Meanwhile, not a single legally compelling case against the Bidens, the Clintons, or the
Obama administration has resulted in mainstream media attention, let alone prosecution. Investigations have all been
half-hearted and perfunctory. The DOJ always declines to prosecute, regardless the obvious merits.
Leftists
Are Upset With the Ongoing Presidential Transition. Let's Look Back at How They Behaved in 2016. With so
much pearl-clutching by the left and the media over delays and disruptions of the ongoing presidential transition, it helps
to put things in perspective by reviewing how things went for President-elect Donald Trump during his transition period,
starting from Election Day 2016 to his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2017. Before and during Trump's transition period, he
and his campaign were under investigation by President Barack Obama's FBI based on the baseless Russia election conspiracy.
Just two weeks before Trump's inauguration, with Obama's blessing, FBI Director Jim Comey met one-on-one with Trump in New York
to inform him of the "salacious" details of the so-called Steele Dossier (a collection of fabricated nonsense financed by the
Hillary Clinton campaign). But the purpose of Comey's briefing was not to inform or enlighten Trump, but rather to gather
information on him for the ongoing sham investigation known as "Crossfire Hurricane."
Whitmer Has State Police in
Michigan Block GOP Electors From Getting Into State House to Vote for Trump, Pence. As we reported earlier, the
Republicans are pulling a procedural move to help preserve the election. They have an "alternate slate" of Republican
electors in the contested battleground states casting their votes for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike
Pence. That way they've protected their rights in the event they prevail in the legal cases. The Congress and
state legislatures then have an alternate slate to choose from. [...] While the Republicans are trying to do this by the
Constitution and have their electors vote in the state houses, the Democrats in Michigan would appear to be behind trying to
block them from doing so. The GOP electors marched to the state house but then were met at the door by the State Police
and not allowed to enter as the Democrats were inside voting for Joe Biden.
Whitmer Has State Police
in Michigan Block GOP Electors From Getting Into State House to Vote for Trump, Pence. As we reported earlier,
the Republicans are pulling a procedural move to help preserve the election. They have an "alternate slate" of
Republican electors in the contested battleground states casting their votes for President Donald Trump and Vice President
Mike Pence. That way they've protected their rights in the event they prevail in the legal cases. The Congress
and state legislatures then have an alternate slate to choose from. [...] While the Republicans are trying to do this by the
Constitution and have their Electors vote in the state houses, the Democrats in Michigan would appear to be behind trying to
block them from doing so. The GOP Electors marched to the state house but then were met at the door by the State Police
and not allowed to enter as the Democrats were inside voting for Joe Biden.
Defense
attorney in Floyd case says prosecutors shared disorganized, duplicate evidence. A defense attorney for the
ex-Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd accused prosecutors of mishandling how they
share evidence with the defense — including burying important information in between irrelevant material,
providing duplicates of the same item and turning over thousands of pages of unrelated documents. Eric Nelson, who
represents Derek Chauvin, filed a motion and affidavit Monday [12/14/2020] accusing Attorney General Keith Ellison's office
of delaying his progress in Chauvin's case. "With every single round of discovery that has been disclosed there have
been numerous problems and issues involving the manner in which the state disclosed it," Nelson wrote. "...Substantive
evidence is often 'hay stacked' between other information."
Left-Wing
Activist Group Launches Strategic Harassment Campaign Targeting Trump Election Lawyers. Shutdown DC, the same
group that organized protests to "make sure Trump leaves the White House" by any means necessary after the Nov. 3 election
and teaches people how to "punch a Nazi," is assigning people on its email list to harass lawyers from one of the firms
representing the Trump Campaign in election lawsuits. King & Spalding is a Georgia-based firm that the Trump Campaign
has used in lawsuits before. "Here's what you do: Call and email the King & Spalding lawyer below and tell them
how you feel about what their firm is doing," the email reads, providing scripts for phone calls and templates for
emails. "We have divided up the list of lawyers who work at the firm so that together we can contact a huge number of
people — and this is your assigned person."
Law
Firm's Withdrawal Reflects Chilling Reality. [Scroll down] Porter Wright is a mid-sized law firm with
offices in eight cities across the country. But apparently it lacked the courage to stand up against the Twitter
mob. The "Lincoln Project" doxxed the two Porter Wright lawyers who signed the Pennsylvania complaint, tweeting their
pictures, addresses and telephone numbers, and encouraging leftists to harass them. Reportedly there also were
employees at the law firm who objected to representing President Trump. Porter Wright's abandonment of its client is
shameful conduct for which I suspect it will receive little but praise. Not many years ago, every terrorist in
Guantanamo Bay was represented by one of a group of America's top law firms. For free. No one batted an
eye. Now, the President of the United States is having trouble getting lawyers to represent him in asserting perfectly
legitimate claims. Some dictator. This is the latest instance of the most troubling trend in American culture,
leftist bullying. Rare is the company (or, as in this case, the law firm) with the courage to stand up against it.
Left-wing
'Shut Down DC' Sends Mob to Confront Election Attorneys. The militant left-wing group Shut Down DC is doxxing
specific attorneys in a mass email sent on November 13, 2020. In the email, Shut Down DC provides supporters with a unique
"assigned" attorney to harass with form letters and pre-scripted phone calls. Shut Down DC, along with their many
allies in big tech, the mainstream media and the democrat-funded Lincoln Project, have launched a full-on attack on law firms
and individual attorneys for daring to take on cases that may possibly bring wrong-doing to light, as reported at RAIR
Foundation USA. Shut Down DC asks supporters to join them in "visiting [law firm] King & Spalding" and to assist in
their "virtual campaign" where they provide supporters with their "assigned" attorney's name, phone number and email
address. The left-wing group also reminds supporters that they can participate in shaming attorneys on social media.
Feinstein
Begs Graham to Stop Confirming Judges and 'Allow Biden-Harris' to Appoint. The behavior of the Democrats in
regard to the appointment of federal judges, especially Supreme Court justices has been abysmal for decades, starting with
Robert Bork and finishing with Justice Amy Coney Barrett. It has been so bad for so many years that the Republicans
finally learned to fight back during the attacks on Brett Kavanaugh during his hearing and stood their ground with Amy Coney
Barrett despite the Democrats throwing a tantrum and leveling all kinds of attacks at them. Now, with a supreme lack of
self-awareness, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter to
the Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, asking that he stop confirming judges until after the inauguration.
The Editor says...
Even if Biden was legitimately elected, which he wasn't, his term would not begin until January 20.
Until then, Donald Trump is still the President.
Trump
Resistance Plans 'Mass Mobilization' After Election To Shut Down The Country If Biden Doesn't Win. Riot and
protest instigators plan to "make sure Trump leaves the White House" by any means necessary after the Nov. 3 election,
according to website posts from the group Shut Down DC and their allies. "[W]e're making plans to be in the streets before
the polls even close, ready to adapt and respond to whatever comes our way," the group says on its website currently. [...]
The group linked to protests at the homes of Trump administration officials tells its DC-area supporters to "Come to Black
Lives Matter Plaza" on election night "to create serious disruption if Trump really tries to steal the election!" Black Lives
Matter Plaza is the site of repeated anti-Trump summer rioting and defacement of the historic Saint John's Church one block
away from the White House. On the page, Shut Down DC sketches out its plans for election night and immediately
following. On Nov. 4-7, the group says it plans to "do whatever it takes".
Democrats'
deadly strings on new COVID-19 aid. Families and businesses are watching their bottom lines and stretching each
dollar. But House Democrats are pushing a plan to prevent America's schools from doing the same thing. The
proposed HEROES Act, laying out their demands for the next federal COVID-19 relief package, pledges $175 billion to K-12
public schools to help cover pandemic-related costs and backfill lost state revenues. But to qualify, states must keep
spending as much on education as they averaged during the past three years from now until mid-2022. That condition was
a priority for teachers unions, which claimed that otherwise states might shift funds to other priorities. But there's
a real chance that state tax receipts won't rebound to their pre-pandemic levels until 2023 or later, meaning states should
be looking for long-term fixes instead of short-term bailouts. And no state needs to look more carefully at how it
spends education money than New York.
Democrats'
Amy Coney Barrett tantrum. Democrats aren't just opposing the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S.
Supreme Court. They're having a tantrum over it. On Thursday [10/22/2020], as the Senate Judiciary Committee
voted to advance Barrett's nomination, Democrats boycotted. [...] Instead of showing up, they planted behind their
microphones large-sized photos of children who they claimed would be in danger were the Supreme Court to overturn Obamacare
next month. This was part of their strategy to turn the hearings into a messaging event about the issue of preexisting
conditions.
Struggling
Democrats force Senate into closed session which lasts all of 20 minutes. Wednesday Democrats announced that
they would boycott the Judiciary Committee vote on Amy Coney Barrett. Instead of showing up for the vote they set up
over-sized photos in their chairs of people who could lose their Obamacare insurance. This stunt didn't accomplish
anything except to signal to frustrated resistance Democrats that their representatives are willing to fight every inch of
the way to oppose Barrett. Democrats want outrage, not the calm collegiality (and the hug) offered by Sen. Feinstein.
Today [10/23/2020] those efforts to impress the angry base continued as Democrats made a number of moves to delay progress
toward Barrett's confirmation.
Biden,
Running on 'Unity,' Says He Couldn't Work with Republicans. One of the more bizarre answers Joe Biden gave
during Thursday night's [10/22/2020] presidential debate was that he could not achieve criminal justice reform when he was
vice president because he and President Barack Obama faced a Republican Congress. [...] Obama was notorious for refusing to
work with Republicans. He ignored GOP suggestions on the 2009 stimulus, telling them, "I won." He repeated that pattern
with Obamacare, which passed without any Republican support as a result. In 2011, he blew up budget negotiations
because he demanded more tax revenues at the last minute. In 2012, Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) rather than work with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on a legislative proposal.
Senate
Judiciary Republicans advance Barrett nomination despite Democrats' boycott, committee rules. The Senate
Judiciary Committee on Thursday unanimously advanced the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett at its executive
business meeting despite a decision by Democrats to boycott the markup in protest of how close Republicans are moving the
nomination to Election Day. Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said that the boycott "is not a
decision the members of the committee have taken lightly, but the Republican majority has left us no choice. We are
boycotting this illegitimate hearing." Barrett was reported favorably out of the Judiciary Committee by 12-0, with no
Democrats present. "That was their choice. It will be my choice to vote the nominee out of committee," Senate
Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said at the beginning of the meeting. "We are not going to allow
them to take over the committee. They made a choice not to participate."
Senate
Democrats to boycott Barrett's Judiciary Committee vote Thursday. Senate Democrats plan to boycott Supreme
Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett's Judiciary Committee vote Thursday in an act of protest, Senate Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer announced Wednesday [10/21/2020]. "We will not grant this process any further legitimacy by participating in a
committee markup of this nomination just 12 days before the culmination of an election that is already underway," the New
York Democrat said.
As
Schumer Schemes to Block Barrett, Kennedy Suggests Chuck Should 'Fill Out a Hurt Feelings Report'. On the eve
of Judge Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation by the Judiciary Committee, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted: "I
am forcing a vote to adjourn the Senate until after the November election. We are not going to have business as usual
here in the Senate while the Republicans try to use an illegitimate process to jam through a Supreme Court nominee." Even
before Schumer said that, Committee Democrats were talking about boycotting today's committee hearing. But Sen. John
Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Judiciary Committee, is unfazed. "Let me just say, and I say this with deep confidence,
Judge Barrett's nomination is going to be reported favorably out of the Judiciary Committee today," Kennedy told "Fox & Friends"
on Thursday [10/22/2020].
Senate
Democrats Block GOP's Coronavirus Aid Bill. Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked McConnell's Coronavirus aid
bill. The Democrats blocked the GOP's $500 billion Coronavirus bill as Speaker Pelosi and Steve Mnuchin continue
negotiations. It is unlikely a relief bill will be passed before Election Day. Democrats see this as a way to
hurt President Trump's re-election bid since the proposed bill included more PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) funds and a
$300/week unemployment benefits for businesses.
Biden
Is Allegedly Raising Money For Post-Election Litigation. According to the Daily Beast, the Biden campaign is
still raising money for the November 3rd election despite the fact that they still have a massive amount of cash to
spend. The Daily Beast explains that the campaign currently has $435 million in cash and is still raising another $150
a minute. A Biden spokesperson however told the outlet that they are now raising money for a post-election legal battle
to contest the 2020 election results.
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Chuck
Schumer Tries, Fails To Force Senate Out Of Session In Midnight Vote. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
(D-NY) tried and failed to vote the Senate out of session Monday night [10/19/2020], as the GOP reversed his last-ditch
effort to derail judge Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court. Late Monday, Schumer announced that he
would hold an emergency, near-midnight vote to send the Senate out of session until after the presidential election,
effectively ending all votes before November, preventing the Senate Judiciary Committee from electing to send Barrett's
nomination to the Senate floor, and blocking the GOP from seating Barrett on the Supreme Court before the presidential
election. [...] The idea was a novel one, particularly given that many Democrats spent the last week complaining that
Republicans were distracting from efforts to pass a coronavirus-related stimulus package by focusing on Barrett's
confirmation. Adjourning the Senate would effectively guarantee that no relief bill would pass in the next two weeks,
[...]
Activist group
plans widespread, 'disruptive' election activities to thwart potential Trump 'coup'. An activist group is
planning large-scale and widespread 'disruptive activity' starting on the night of the election, in an attempt to stop what
it predicts will be an "attempted coup" by President Trump in the form of a refusal to accept the election results.
"Shut Down D.C." is setting the stage for mass gatherings in D.C., noting that the "resistance" must begin during the
"muddied" legal and political debate over the election outcome. "Trump will not leave office without mass mobilization
and direct action," the group says on its website. In a separate document, first reported by The Federalist, the group
characterizes its planned movement as an "uprising," and calls for potentially blockading the White House, blocking traffic,
shutting down government office buildings and even Amazon fulfillment centers.
Chuck
Schumer: Dems Will Deny GOP A Quorum To Advance Barrett. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says that
Democrats will not supply a quorum with which to advance the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.
Schumer defended this move, saying that Barrett's nomination is "illegitimate, dangerous and unpopular." There's no
point debating Schumer on these partisan claims. The question is whether the Democrats can block Barrett's nomination
through this ploy. I don't think they can. A quorum in the full Senate is 51 members. In the Judiciary
Committee it's nine members including two from the minority party. A quorum in the full Senate won't be a problem
for the GOP and Barrett unless a few Republican Senators get sick and can't make it for the vote.
Schumer
says Democrats won't give GOP quorum to advance Barrett nomination. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on
Sunday night promised that Democrats will not "supply quorum" for votes to advance Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett's
confirmation effort, essentially meaning that Democrats will boycott the votes in an attempt to stall the confirmation ahead
of the election. [...] There are ways around this. Most notably, the Senate can vote on a discharge resolution that
would remove the responsibility of considering the Barrett nomination from the committee, allowing Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to call the nomination for a full vote. The committee itself could also change its rules to get
rid of the requirement that two Democrats be present, James Wallner, a senior resident fellow for governance at the R Street
Institute told Fox News. "The key for Democrats is to make Republicans' doing so as painful as possible," Wallner said
about the move to force Republicans to change the committee rules, as well as other procedural moves they could try.
Schumer
Says Democrats Will Try To Block Barrett Confirmation By Not Giving Republicans Quorum. Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer said Democrats will not "supply quorum" for votes in the Senate as a way to try and block the confirmation of
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett before the election. During a Sunday night [10/11/2020] press conference,
Schumer slammed Republicans for pushing Barrett's confirmation forward, saying Senate Democrats will do everything they can
to prevent Barrett from being confirmed. Schumer went on to say that one way Democrats are considering blocking the
confirmation is by not supplying quorum, meaning Democrats would not show up so work could not be done.
A
Better Plan Than Pelosi's: Repeal the 25th Amendment. It's starting to look like the states never should
have ratified the 25th Amendment to begin with. At least not the part that deals with a dysfunctional president.
Certainly it's hard to imagine a scheme more nefarious than the one that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is advancing. In one of
those crises the Democrats don't like to let go to waste, it would turn over the task of removing an elected president to a
panel of — wait for it — psychiatrists. Mrs. Pelosi's plan has nothing to do with President
Trump's case of Covid, contrary to what she suggested in her mincing press conference on Thursday. She suggested the
idea was precipitated by the President's bout of Covid leaving him in an altered state. On Friday, though, she fetched
up with the bill a congressman from Maryland, Jamie Raskin, has been nursing. We call it the "Et Tu, Brute!
Enablement Act." Mr. Rankin's bill — he's been nursing it since 2017 — would pick up an
unused power granted to Congress in the 25th amendment. The amendment allows for the temporary removal of the president
if a the vice president plus a majority of the cabinet declares he's unable to discharge his duties. The veep and the
cabinet majority just have to transmit that declaration to the Speaker and the president pro-tem of the Senate. If
two-thirds of each house agrees, the president can indefinitely sidelined.
Senate
Intel Russia Report Shows Committee Allowing Dan Jones, Fusion-GPS and Cody Shearer to Avoid Questioning.
[Scroll down] This key highlight from the SSCI is evidence of how the attempted coup against President Trump was
coordinated by people outside government and inside government. Dan Jones left the SSCI prior to the 2016 election and
went to work pushing the Trump-Russia narrative through his media contacts. Jones took over funding Fusion-GPS and
Chris Steele in 2017 at the same time Senator Mark Warner took over as SSCI vice-chairman. Dan Jones and Mark Warner
coordinated the efforts outside and inside government on the same objective. The Senate Intel Committee was part of the
effort. As a result of their alignment and common purpose the SSCI didn't investigate the origin of the Trump-Russia
narrative; and instead positioned themselves as a shield to block any investigative inquiry into what took place.
Will
the Failed 'Silent Coup' Become the 'Stolen Election?'. Although the left continues to downplay the issues
surrounding "election integrity" this November, mounting evidence points to what is likely to turn into an eventual series of
disputes, lawsuits, and potential anarchy in a year that has already been marred by civil unrest nationally. This
election season has so far seen the discarding of a number of military ballots in the state of Pennsylvania, most of which
were for President Trump. The fate of the Pennsylvania vote also looms large as some new procedures in the state during
this unprecedented "coronavirus election" are sure to wind up in court due to a recent ruling that is gives PA voters an
extra three days to return their mail ballots. This matter may also play into the Supreme Court confirmation process of
Amy Coney Barrett, as Republicans in Pennsylvania are already asking the SCOTUS to review the controversial ruling.
COVID-19
Hype is Needed In Order to Justify "Virtual Debates" Between Biden and Trump. In order to support the most important
political objectives of the DNC writ large in the 2020 election, COVID-19 hype is essential:
• Without COVID-19 panic Democrats cannot easily achieve 'mail-in' voting; which they desperately need in
key battleground states in order to control the outcome.
• Without COVID-19 panic Democrats cannot shut down rallies and political campaigning efforts of President Trump;
which they desperate need to do in key battleground states.
• Without COVID-19 panic Democrats cannot block the campaign contrast between an energetic President Trump
and a physically tenuous, mentally compromised, challenger.
• Without COVID-19 panic Democrats do not have an excuse for cancelling the DNC convention in Milwaukee; thereby
blocking Team Bernie Sanders from visible opposition while protecting candidate gibberish from himself.
• Without COVID-19 panic Democrats do not have a mechanism to keep voters isolated from each-other;
limiting communication and national debate adverse to their interests.
• Without COVID-19 panic Democrats cannot keep their Blue state economies easily shut down and
continue to block U.S. economic growth. [...]
• Without COVID-19 panic Democrats cannot easily keep club candidate Joe Biden sealed in the basement;
where the electorate is not exposed to visible signs of his dementia.
• Without COVID-19 panic it becomes more difficult for Big Tech to censor voices that would outline the fraud and
scheme. With COVID-19 panic they have a better method and an excuse.
Don't
fall for Democrats' bad-faith delay tactics on Amy Coney Barrett confirmation. As President Trump and several
Republican Senators battle COVID-19, Democrats are trying to use the news as an excuse to call for delaying Amy Coney
Barrett's confirmation hearings, which begin next Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Nobody should fall for
such desperate and disingenuous attempts to derail a nomination that Democrats would be opposing under any circumstances.
[...] This is complete hogwash. For months, Congressional committees have functioned by allowing for both members and
witnesses to testify remotely. Anthony Fauci has testified this way on the coronavirus. Just last week, James
Comey testified remotely about the Russia investigation. The Judiciary Committee, in particular, has been functioning
in a hybrid way that allows members to participate either remotely or in person and ask questions of nominees. This has
included many hearings for the lifetime appointments of federal judges.
The
White House Outbreak Won't Derail Amy Coney Barrett's Nomination. An outbreak of coronavirus at the White
House, which has infected not just the president and his senior staff but also at least three Republican senators, has
presented Democrats with an opportunity. They seem eager to make the most of it. In a letter addressed to Senate
Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, the committee's Democratic members insisted that confirmation hearings (to which
they had already objected on procedural grounds and which some Democrats had already threatened to boycott) must be postponed
indefinitely due to concerns about the health and safety of senators and their staffs. The letter reminds its readers
that at least two of the three Republican senators who contracted COVID-19 are Judiciary Committee members, and CDC guidance
advises anyone exposed to this disease to isolate themselves for at least 14 days — even if they test
negative. Moreover, the remote hearings that the committee has conducted throughout this pandemic are "not an adequate
substitute." The whole thing must be put on hold. "To proceed at this juncture with a hearing to consider Judge
Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court threatens the health and safety of all those who are called upon to do the work of
this body," the letter insists.
Who targeted
the president? [Scroll down] The timing is a second factor. Key Republicans fell ill after the
Barrett announcement, the debate, and Comey's flaccid testimony, and now we are full-blown into October — the
final leg of the campaign. We have Radcliffe's damning evidence that Obama, Comey and Brennan were aware of Hillary
Clinton's intent to frame Trump of colluding with Russia and, suddenly, Andy McCabe cannot do a Zoom appearance in the Senate
under the pretext of fearing for his family's safety from contracting COVID. Schumer, on cue, demands the cancellation of
the Barrett hearings — all or part of which can be done remotely to prevent COVID spread.
Nancy
Pelosi's Lack of Foresight May Guarantee Amy Coney Barrett's Confirmation. With news that two GOP Senators on
the Judiciary Committee have contracted COVID, the calls to postpone the hearings and a vote have started.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has become a bit of a ghost since getting passed over for VP, made such a request last night.
[...] CNN's Manu Raju is also pushing this narrative that things can't progress because of the current infections. [...] So
is that true? Can the Senate not proceed with the nomination if these people can't appear in person for hearings and
for a vote? Ironically, or not so ironically, if you've been paying attention to the shortsightedness of Democrats over
the years, it may be Nancy Pelosi who ensures that Amy Coney Barrett does end up getting confirmed. Why? Because
it was Pelosi who insisted on setting the precedent within Congress that it was acceptable for members to not only conduct
business remotely, but even vote remotely via proxy.
Democrats
threaten to block Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation by refusing to take part in the remote hearing. Leading
Democrats have described pressing ahead with Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination 'irresponsible and dangerous' and
said a virtual confirmation is not acceptable, after seven people at her nomination ceremony tested positive for COVID-19.
Six of the 12 Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee were present at Saturday's event — Mike Lee, Marsha Blackburn,
Ben Sasse, Josh Hawley, Thom Tillis, and Mike Crapo. Two — Lee and Tillis — tested positive on Friday [10/2/2020].
Judge
blocks large parts of temporary work visa ban. A judge on Thursday temporarily lifted a visa ban on a large
number of work permits, undercutting a measure that the Trump administration says protects American jobs in a
pandemic-wracked economy.
Coronavirus is the Democrats' all-purpose excuse for delaying, blocking, or restricting everything.
Democrat
Chris Murphy: 'No Business Should Proceed' in Senate After Trump Coronavirus Diagnosis. Sen. Chris Murphy
(D-CT) wrote in a statement Friday that "no business should proceed" in the Senate, which would include the confirmation of
Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, until the Senate understands the scope of the coronavirus spread in Washington,
DC. Murphy released a statement after President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for the
coronavirus, as Breitbart News reported.
Feinstein
Again Calls For Delayed SCOTUS Hearings, Cites Trump's, GOP Senator's Positive Coronavirus Test. Only two days after
calling on Republicans to delay the Supreme Court nomination process until after the presidential election, Senator Dianne Feinstein
(D-CA) has, once again, called on Republicans to delay Judge Amy Coney Barrett's nomination process. In a joint statement Friday
morning [10/2/2020], Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-CA) and Feinstein called on Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) to delay the
hearing, in part because of President Donald Trump's recent positive coronavirus test.
The Editor says...
The President's day-to-day health has no bearing on a Senate confirmation hearing.
Federal
judge stops AG Barr's law enforcement panel from issuing report, citing lack of diversity. A federal judge
Thursday halted a Justice Department commission studying issues plaguing the law enforcement community from releasing its
report because the panel excluded civil rights leaders. U.S. District Judge John Bates ruled the much-ballyhooed
Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act,
which requires government committees to receive input from "fairly balanced" viewpoints. Judge Bates, a George W. Bush
appointee, wrote in his 45-page opinion that the commission was full of law enforcement officials, but none of the members
have "a criminal defense, civil rights, or community organization background."
Davis:
CIA Director Gina Haspel Is Blocking Declassification Of Remaining Russigate Documents. CIA Director Gina
Haspel is personally blocking the declassification of documents detailing corruption at the highest levels of the
intelligence community during the 2016 election, according to The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis. While new
information about wrongdoing at the FBI has recently been declassified, including recent revelations about Hillary Clinton
campaign's collusion with Russia, Davis reported on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Wednesday that Haspel herself is standing in the
way of the declassification of other relevant documents.
CIA
Director Gina Haspel Blocking Declassifying Critical Documents Related To Russia Investigation, Report Says.
Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, reported on Wednesday night that CIA Director Gina Haspel is reportedly blocking
the declassification and release of critical documents related to the FBI's surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016.
"I can report here tonight that these declassifications that have come out, those weren't easy to get out and there's in fact
far more waiting to get out," Davis told Fox News host Tucker Carlson. "Unfortunately, those releases and
declassifications, according to multiple sources I've talked to, are being blocked by CIA Director Gina Haspel, who herself
was the main link between Washington and London as the London station chief for John Brennan's CIA during the 2016 election."
'Locked
safes, lost keys': Richard Grenell details 'crazy' excuses about classified reports. Former Director of
National Intelligence Richard Grenell said on Monday that officials make up "crazy" excuses not to release classified
reports. Fox News host Sean Hannity alluded to Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham saying over the weekend that
"more damning" information about the Russia investigation will soon be released to the public and asked Grenell if he had any
idea what is in store. "We've heard every excuse in the book about why these reports aren't coming out: locked
safes, lost keys, all sorts of crazy stuff," Grenell said as he called for further transparency. Critics of such
declassifications have also warned about putting sources and methods at risk.
Democrats
can't smear Amy Coney Barrett. [Scroll down] In 1987, it was Robert H. Bork, nominated to the nation's
highest court by President Reagan, who was a gentleman. Democrats held all the advantages in that fight because instead
of a gentleman, they had Sen. Ted Kennedy, a slovenly drunk menace to women. Before the sun set, Mr. Kennedy
strode to the well of the Senate to accuse Judge Bork of murdering women by denying them abortions — a darkly
ironic slur given Mr. Kennedy's own sick history when it came to women. Little more than a decade later came
Miguel Estrada, a superlative jurist nominated by President George W. Bush to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals —
a frequent stepping stone to the Supreme Court. Democrats, led by present-day Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and
Minority Whip Dick Durbin, didn't like Mr. Estrada and blocked his nomination because, their staffers said, he was
"Latino." You know, "especially dangerous." With each federal cours cage fight, Democrats got more and more unhinged
from humanity. More dishonest. More ridiculous.
Biden
Says Moving Forward With Barrett Nomination Before Election Day Is An 'Abuse Of Power'. During remarks on
Sunday [9/27/2020], Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden accused Republicans of engaging in an "abuse of power" for
moving forward to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day,
emphasizing that early voting has already started in some states. "U.S. Constitution provides one chance —
one — for the Americans to have their voices heard on who serves a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, who
makes those big decisions about their healthcare, their civil rights, and much else," said Biden.
The
Barrett Nomination Leaves Democrats With No Options but to Whine, Threaten, and Quiver. What can they
do — whine? Threaten to pack the Court? Impeach President Trump for acting under his constitutional
duty and with his constitutional authority? They already have been whining for four years. Nothing new
there. Hillary Clinton still tells Americans, four years after having lost, that she won the 2016 presidential
election. Likewise, they have been threatening to pack the Court since the successful nomination of Justice
Brett M. Kavanaugh. So nothing new there. And they already impeached President Trump, even passing around
specially ordered gold souvenir pens to prove it. Nancy Pelosi has no arrows left in her quiver. That is why
the Democrats now are quivering.
Democrats
say Judge Barrett should recuse herself in election disputes. Senate Judiciary Democrats are demanding Supreme
Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett pledge to recuse herself from any election challenge, saying she would side with
President Trump. Sen. Cory A. Booker, a member of the Judiciary Committee that will hold the confirmation
hearings, said he will press her about recusal when they meet one-on-one before the hearings. "I'm going to make it
very clear. One of the things I want to ask her is will she recuse herself in terms of any election issues that come
before us because if she does not recuse herself, I fear that the court will be further delegitimized," Mr. Booker, New
Jersey Democrat, said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
The Editor says...
What does that tell you? The Democrats plan to contest the election and take it to the Supreme Court.
'Leaked'
document contains blueprint for left to disrupt Supreme Court nomination proceedings. A document posted online
by investigative journalist Millie Weaver provides an in-depth blueprint for left-wing demonstrators and groups on how to
disrupt upcoming Supreme Court nomination proceedings after President Donald Trump's scheduled announcement Saturday
[9/26/2020], in which he is expected to name Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's successor. The link to the document, which
is titled, "SCOTUS Rapid Response Action Guide," was tweeted by Weaver Friday evening, who tagged the D.C. Metropolitan
Police Department and the Justice Department.
Hirono, Blumenthal
say they won't meet with Amy Coney Barrett. Two Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee said they will not
meet with Amy Coney Barrett — President Trump's pick to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. Trump
announced on Saturday evening that he intends to nominate Barrett to fill the vacancy on the nation's highest court after the
death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last week. Democrats indicated that they will oppose Barrett's nomination, citing
her conservative credentials which they see as a threat to health care and abortion rights, while also arguing that it is too
close to Election Day for Trump to nominate a justice.
Democrats
Take Aim At Amy Coney Barrett. The message Trump is sending by appointing someone so different from the old
ruling caste cast of characters is that he's replacing the elite — those dour, bitter leftists who have a
never-ending series of complaints about how we peasants think and pray and live — with someone like those of us
who don't live in some blue enclave on the coast, eat kale, and loathe America. Liberals realize that they must
therefore destroy her, because she will not only block their extra-constitutional schemes but because she represents our slow
yet steady progress in liberating our country and culture from the control of our failed elite. So, how will they come
at her? Look for procedural shenanigans to delay her vote until after the election. You might have noticed that
getting her confirmed is really important to the GOP base, and preventing the Republican Senate from doing it before November
3rd is vital to the Dems' dwindling election hopes.
Democrats
Are Making a U-Turn on Mail-In Voting. Democrats used COVID-19 as a pretext to try and change the way America
votes. In fact, mail-in voting, ballot harvesting, and other various and sundry election law changes were part of the
reason Democrats refused to debate a narrow COVID relief bill. Because Republicans wouldn't agree to give up every
election security feature we have, you and your family couldn't get your unemployment benefits extended, schools lost money,
and small business owners were left without assistance. To block the bill, Democrats used the filibuster, which Barack
Obama called a Jim Crow relic during the Democrat National Convention. However, we will leave that blatant hypocrisy
for another time. It is becoming exceedingly clear that Democrats intend to use whatever tools they can to gain power
and retain it. Burning down our institutional norms and any semblance of consensus is their obvious goal.
Leftist
group plans a massively nasty campaign against Trump's nominee. On a late Thursday afternoon [9/24/2020]
conference call of the left-wing group Patriotic Millionaires, group President Erica Payne urged activists to work against a
coming Trump Supreme Court nominee by "mak[ing] this an unbelievably painful process for Senate Republicans" and "kick[ing]
[...]" Democratic senators who won't fight hard enough.
Democrat
Senator: 'We'll use every tool at our disposal' to slow Trump's court nomination. Senate Democrats are going to
use "every tool at our disposal" to "slow down" President Trump's nomination to the Supreme Court, Connecticut Democratic
Sen. Chris Murphy told Just the News Tuesday [9/22/2020]. Some Democrats have expressed a willingness to increase
the number of justices on the Supreme Court. Murphy was asked if he wants to see the court expanded. "Our focus
right now needs to be on stopping this justice," Murphy said after speaking on a conference call about the Supreme Court case
California v. Texas related to the Affordable Care Act.
Schumer
invokes "two-hour rule" to block Senate committee hearings. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer invoked the
"two-hour rule" Tuesday [9/22/2020], a measure that constrains the scheduling and duration of Senate committee meetings.
The move was intended to retaliate against Republicans, who have agreed to vote on confirming President Trump's nominee to fill
the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death. Under the rule, no Senate committee or subcommittee
can meet after the Senate has been in session for two hours or after 2 p.m. The move threatened to delay a briefing
on national security and a confirmation hearing for Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf.
Tammy
Bruce goes 100% scorched-earth on Dick Blumenthal for threats over RBG's seat. Democrats keep issuing threats
... As in elected Democrats, not just random liberal Democrats. Elected Democrats like Sen. Richard Blumenthal,
who threatened in a tweet posted Saturday afternoon that "nothing is off the table" if his Republican colleagues go against
his party's wishes and vote on President Donald Trump's expected SCOTUS nominee. "If Republicans recklessly &
reprehensibly force a SCOTUS vote before the election — nothing is off the table," the full tweet by the
Connecticut senator reads.
'Every
tool at our disposal': AOC, Schumer urge 'unprecedented' action over Supreme Court. Sen. Chuck Schumer and
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined forces in Brooklyn on Sunday to issue a "fervent plea" that Ruth Bader Ginsburg's
seat on the Supreme Court remain vacant until after the November presidential election. Speaking from the late
justice's alma matter, James Madison High School in Midwood, Ocasio-Cortez said Dems need to use "every tool at our disposal"
to block a Senate confirmation hearing for any potential replacement nominated by President Trump. "We need to make
sure we mobilize on an unprecedented scale to ensure this vacancy is reserved for the next president," she said.
Pelosi
doesn't rule out using impeachment as option to stop Trump Supreme Court pick. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on
Sunday would not rule out impeachment as an option to stop President Trump's U.S. Supreme Court pick from being confirmed to
the bench, saying Democrats will "use every arrow in our quiver" to block the eventual nominee. Just hours after it was
announced that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed away on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
R-Ky., vowed that a Trump nominee to the Supreme Court to fill her vacancy "will receive a vote on the floor of the United
States Senate."
Unhinged:
Pelosi's Comments Concerning Impeachment to Stop SCOTUS Nomination. [Scroll down] These folks have gone
off the deep end and are dangerous. Americans, take a look if any of you are considering voting for Democrats.
They are now threatening action against the president for following the Constitution. Even if you didn't like what
Republicans did in 2016, there is absolutely no question that the president and Republicans are completely in accord with the
Constitution if they proceed with a hearing now. There is nothing which is even remotely impeachable. Attacking
it or threatening the president over it is against the Constitution. It's the Democrats who once again are threatening
to upend all norms. What wouldn't they try to do to get their way? Democrats have already threatened to try to
pack the court if they won back the presidency. Is there any greater evidence with all this that they should never be
voted back in and never given that chance?
I
was raped by whoever Trump picks to replace Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. I haven't come forward yet because I
was ashamed and afraid. This person is clearly very powerful, but now that this person is being considered for the
Supreme Court, I think it's necessary to let people know who they're dealing with, especially after Trump picked a literal
serial killer last time. And the Soros money doesn't hurt. But this stain on my soul does hurt. And it will
be with me forever — or at least until after the confirmation hearing — the very painful confirmation
hearing.
Pelosi:
House has 'arrows in our quiver' to delay SCOTUS nomination. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday morning
that the House has plenty of options available to delay the Senate from acting on President Donald Trump's nominees for the
Supreme Court. "Well, we have our options," she said on ABC's "This Week," replying to host George Stephanopoulos'
question about whether the House would consider launching impeachment proceedings to block the confirmation of a Trump
Supreme Court nomination. "We have arrows in our quiver that I'm not about to discuss right now, but the fact is we
have a big challenge in our country. The president has threatened to not even accept the results of the election with
statements that he and his henchmen have made."
Hillary
Clinton: Dems Must Employ Every Possible 'Obstacle' to Stop McConnell from Replacing Ginsburg. Former
Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton called on Senate Democrats to use every possible
"procedural obstacle" to stop Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) from replacing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg on Friday's broadcast of MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show."
The Editor says...
The remainder of the article above was a series of Hillary Clinton quotes, for which this web site has no available space.
Democrats'
Plot to Abolish Election Night. The left and its media allies are warning Americans not to expect a winner on
election night. If Donald Trump leads on Nov. 3, the victory will be nothing more than a "red mirage," says Josh
Mendelsohn, whose firm consults for the Democratic National Committee. In the days or weeks afterward, a Trump victory
will be beaten back and undone as mail-in ballots tip the election for Joe Biden, predicts New York Times columnist David
Brooks. "Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances," warns Hillary Clinton. Don't swallow this
propaganda that election night victories are a thing of the past because of mail-in voting. Election night is a
hallmark of American democracy. The public should be demanding the easy reforms that would protect it.
Coalition
of more than 50 leftist groups preparing for "mass public unrest" if election results are unclear, or Trump disagrees with
reported Biden win. An association of more than 50 left-wing organizations is discussing and preparing a
variety of strategies for potential responses to the results of the 2020 election. According to a report by The Daily
Beast, a recent virtual meeting of the group, which calls itself the Fight Back Table, included discussions of how to
initiate large-scale public civil disobedience if it believes Democratic nominee Joe Biden has won the election, but
President Trump is contesting the result. "It is very obvious that Trump is laying the groundwork for claiming victory
no matter what," said Rahna Epting, a participant in the call and the executive director of a group called MoveOn.
Salvaging
the 2020 Election. The November election is shaping up to be a repeat of the one in 2000 when recounts of the
presidential vote tally dragged on for five weeks. There's even a new website called "The Recount." But it's not a
recount that Americans are being conditioned to accept as normal, this time it's the initial count. It's the initial
vote count that Democrats want to drag on and on; perhaps past the Electoral College deadline in December and even past
Inauguration Day in 2021. And if the initial counting drags on for long enough, there won't be time for any recounts.
That's because just like the proverbial show, the government must go on. And you can take this to the bank: if the
counting produces a Biden win, Democrats will declare victory and attempt to stop the counting cold.
"You're
Not Allowed To Film": The Fight To Control Who Reports From Portland. "YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO FILM!" is a cry
you hear incessantly at protests in Portland, Oregon, always shouted at close range to your face by after-dark
demonstrators. You can assert that, yes, you can film; you can point out that they themselves are filming incessantly;
you can push their hands away from covering your phone; you can have your phone record them stealing your phone —
all of these things have happened to me — and none will have any impact on their contention that "YOU'RE NOT
ALLOWED TO FILM" and its occasional variation, "PHOTOGRAPHY EQUALS DEATH!" I cannot say who came up with these
anti-camera battle cries. But it's easy to understand why protesters use them: to shape the narrative the country sees
about the protests.
"Bipartisan"
Washington Insiders Reveal Their Plan For Chaos If Trump Wins The Election. A group of Democratic Party
insiders and former Obama and Clinton era officials as well as a cadre of "Never Trump" neoconservative Republicans have
spent the past few months conducting simulations and "war games" regarding different 2020 election "doomsday"
scenarios. Per several media reports on the group, called the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), they justify these
exercises as specifically preparing for a scenario where President Trump loses the 2020 election and refuses to leave office,
potentially resulting in a constitutional crisis. However, according to TIP's own documents, even their simulations
involving a "clear win" for Trump in the upcoming election resulted in a constitutional crisis, as they predicted that the
Biden campaign would make bold moves aimed at securing the presidency, regardless of the election result. This is
particularly troubling given that TIP has considerable ties to the Obama administration, where Biden served as Vice
President, as well as several groups that are adamantly pro-Biden in addition to the Biden campaign itself.
"Bipartisan"
Washington Insiders Reveal Their Plan for Chaos if Trump Wins the Election. A group of "bipartisan"
neoconservative Republicans and establishment Democrats have been "simulating" multiple catastrophic scenarios for the 2020
election, including a simulation where a clear victory by the incumbent provokes "unprecedented" measures, which the Biden
campaign could take to foil a new Trump inauguration.
Dem
unions planning strikes over social justice, just in time for the election. Thus far there's no official
announcement or projected date, but some of the staunchest allies of the Democrats are cooking up one of the most shamelessly
political maneuvers I can ever recall seeing in an effort to squeak out a win in November. With Joe Biden's poll number
slipping in several critical states, a collection of labor unions have issued a letter calling for a general, national strike
to obtain "racial justice" and to support the Black Lives Matter movement. You don't need to look much further than the
list of unions signing on to this scheme to see what's going on. But the net effect, if they manage to pull this off,
would be another gutshot to the economy just as we roll into the final couple of months before voters go to the polls.
Black
Lives Matter activists shut down I-5 in Seattle, nine arrested. A group of Black Lives Matter protesters who
call themselves Morning March shut down half of the I-5 freeway into Seattle Friday morning [9/4/2020]. After lecturing
people with a bullhorn for half an hour police arrived and arrested nine people. At least one driver had to be dragged
out of his vehicle. All of this was captured on video because a reporter from The Stranger was in one of the cars that
blocked traffic. [...] Ultimately, nine of the protesters were arrested and the rest were allowed to walk to an
off-ramp. The vehicles they were driving have all been impounded. I wonder if all of the charges against the
group will be dropped immediately. No one should ever be allowed to hold a gathering on a busy freeway, creating an
inconvenience for thousands of people, but those rules don't seem to apply to BLM protesters.
Democrats
are telling us they will not accept a Donald Trump win. Are you listening? Hillary Clinton said under no
circumstances should Biden concede Election Night, and Democrats should plan for weeks and months of litigation and ballot
fights. [Video clip] "The Red Mirage" theory, recently floated by a Democrat data firm and promoted by
Axios, predicts that Trump will have a large lead on Election Night that will evaporate in the ensuing weeks as mail-in
ballots are counted. It provides a ground upon which Democrats will refuse to concede the election either Election
Night or even the following day. Rather, the claimed certainty that there is a wave of Biden mail-in votes yet to be
counted is all Democrats will need to make a concerted post-Election Day effort to steal the election. [...] There also was
something called the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), a supposedly 'bipartisan' but the Republican side represented by the
likes of Michael Steele and Bill Kristol, devoted NeverTrumpers. So the TIP is the Democrat/NeverTrump version of what
might happen.
Democrat
Mail Fraud Will Take Us to the Brink. Now that a top Democrat data analytics firm has finally confirmed that
Democrats plan to claim victory weeks after the presidential election once enough of their "votes" show up in the mail to be
counted, I don't think any rational observer could view this as anything but a promise to destroy the legitimacy of the 2020
election. [...] They have a three-tailed con in play: (1) attempt to win swing states fast and declare victory before
fraudulent ballots can be scrutinized; (2) harvest loose ballots after election day until Trump vote leads disappear;
(3) throw the whole mess into state and federal courts until a Democrat-leaning judge gives them a Democrat lead. At
any time that one of these tails secures a Democrat victory, the "useful idiot" #NeverTrumpers and hacks in the press will aid
the Democrats in quickly declaring the election over and calling for President Trump's concession. [...] All the chaos lying
ahead was preventable, of course. In the most modern and technically advanced nation in the history of the planet, the
idea that the United States cannot vouchsafe the results of a democratic election is absurd.
Trump
campaign bracing for legal battle over election, forming 'coalition' of lawyers. The Trump campaign is bracing
for the possibility of a protracted legal battle in the event of a contested election, even forming what it's calling a
"Lawyers for Trump" coalition to "protect the integrity" of November's vote. Campaign General Counsel Matthew Morgan
told Fox News this week that the campaign is urging active and retired attorneys and even law students to volunteer in their
nationwide efforts. "Democrats are working to shred election integrity measures one state at a time, and there's no
question they'll continue their shenanigans from now to November and beyond," Morgan told Fox News. "The Trump campaign
is fighting to ensure every valid ballot across America counts — once."
Hillary
Clinton: Biden 'should not concede under any circumstances'. Hillary Clinton urged Joe Biden not to
concede the presidential race if he is trailing President Trump on election night. Clinton, who lost to Trump in the
2016 election and conceded the morning after the contest, said she believes this year's election will drag out for several
days because of issues with voting during the pandemic. She told Showtime's The Circus that Biden would be wise to stay
in the race long past Election Day. "Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances because I think this is going
to drag out, and eventually, I do believe he will win if we don't give an inch and if we are as focused and relentless as the
other side is," Clinton said.
The Editor says...
If Joe Biden loses the election by a substantial and undeniable margin, it doesn't matter if he concedes or not.
Protesters
drive 10 mph in I-94 freeway blockade between St. Paul and Minneapolis. Rush hour on Interstate 94
between St. Paul and Minneapolis can be a slow trip under normal circumstances, but Wednesday evening's commute came to
a crawl when a convoy of vehicles driving at a snail's pace blocked all westbound lanes. The incident, which the State
Patrol described as a protest, included as many as 60 vehicles driving about 10 mph. Four drivers were cited as of
Thursday afternoon and could face charges of impeding traffic. Troopers were working to identify others who were
involved, said patrol spokesman Lt. Gordon Shank.
Court
Rejects Democrats' Attempt to Block Trump Admin's Title IX Campus Sex Misconduct Rule. The U.S. District Court
for the District of Columbia rejected an attempt by a coalition of 18 Democrat attorneys general to block the Trump
administration's new Title IX rule that governs campus sexual misconduct. The court denied the Democrats' motion for a
preliminary injunction Wednesday, allowing the rule to take effect on Friday.
Cowards:
New York Legislators Boot FNC's Janice Dean From Hearing. On Monday [8/10/2020], Fox News senior meteorologist
Janice Dean was set to address a committee of New York legislators investigating the state's response to the coronavirus
pandemic and specifically Governor Andrew Cuomo's nursing home policy, but she was never given a chance to speak due to fears
that her presence would be uncomfortable. Of course, Dean's story hasn't been covered from the newscasts and websites
of ABC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC/NBC since they all don't want to upset Cuomo and take themselves out of the running for any
future lovefests with the "love gov." It must be nice to know that most of one of the country's most powerful forces
won't consistently hold you to account. In other words, they don't really care.
Hundreds
of Oregon protesters delay ICE buses detaining 2 men for hours: report. Federal agents in Bend, Ore., clashed
with hundreds of protesters late Wednesday night after an hourslong standoff sparked by the arrest of two men by U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, who said they were a "threat to the public." Bend's episode, which is about a
three-hour drive from Portland, was the latest in tensions among protesters, local police and federal agents. "I've
never been so disgusted by my government and so proud of my community," Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel, who
attended the protest, wrote on Twitter.
McConnell:
Dems won't allow 'a penny' in stimulus 'unless Texas and Florida bail out New Jersey'. Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell argued on Monday that Democratic leaders view the coronavirus pandemic as a political "opportunity" to "bail
out" states such as New Jersey, adding that Republicans are willing to support another coronavirus stimulus plan that
includes funding for other areas. McConnell said the Senate GOP's coronavirus relief package "focused on kids, jobs,
healthcare, and legal protections to help our country reopen," as well as another round of direct stimulus payments.
"I'd hoped the Senate would be spending this week turning a major agreement into law, but sadly for the country, sadly for
struggling Americans, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Senate Democratic leader decided we would not
deliver any of that," McConnell said during a speech on the Senate floor.
President
Donald Trump: 'Obstructionist' Nancy Pelosi 'Wasn't Interested' in Helping People in Need. President Donald
Trump told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Monday afternoon in the Oval Office that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are "obstructionists" who were not "interested" in helping people in need.
Asked to open the nearly 30-minute interview why he needed to continue coronavirus economic recovery aid via executive order
instead of through legislation passed by Congress, Trump told Breitbart News that it is because "we have obstructionists on
the other side."
Democrats'
SNAP Demands Stall Coronavirus Stimulus. Congressional Democrats are stretching out the latest round of
coronavirus stimulus negotiations by demanding substantial, potentially permanent, changes to the food stamp program.
Party leaders have made boosting payments from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) into "one of the sticking
points during this round of negotiations," a House GOP aide told the Washington Free Beacon. They've also floated
the defunding of widely popular work reforms — a permanent cut that would extend beyond the coronavirus pandemic.
Dems'
demand for 'slush fund' in aid package threatens to derail PPP extension. Extending the popular Payroll
Protection Program is one of the few areas of agreement between the White House and Democrats in the latest proposed
coronavirus stimulus — a spending bill criticized by many in the Republican base as a wasteful bailout for cities
and states. Administration and banking industry sources say Senate Republicans' proposal to extend the PPP, which is
set to expire this week, for companies with fewer than 300 employees and a reduction of 50% or more in revenue is accepted in
principle in the talks. But the provision, which also offers more generous terms for loan forgiveness, could get
sidetracked by Democrats' insistence on an overall $3.4 trillion package that would include massive aid for states and
cities. The White House opposes the state and local aid as a "bailout."
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Democrat Myths William Barr Debunked Between Deliberate Interruptions. When Attorney General William Barr
testified before the House Judiciary Committee last Tuesday, Democrats' rhetorical questions reinforced eight falsehoods
previously peddled by left-wing media. Notwithstanding these attempts to prevent Barr from setting the record straight,
the attorney general dismantled much of the fake news that has made headlines over the last two months.
No Holds Barred at the House Lynch
Session. [Attorney General William Barr] is strong and fierce, does not give an inch, does not get thrown off
message, sticks to his guns, and sticks it to those who would take him down. [...] For the Democrats the hearing [7/28/2020]
was "no holds barred." No lie was off the table. No insult was beneath them. Under the guise of asking the
Attorney General to answer questions, they rather used their allotted time to berate him, to berate President Trump, and to
lie about the Antifa and other anarchist-driven riots that seek to undermine our Republic and to tear away our freedom.
They were not asking questions, and they did not allow Barr to answer them or speak when he tried. Rather, they were
like a parent on a tear against a child in big trouble, or a boss on a rampage about to fire his or her employee.
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Big Takeaways From the Attorney General's Capitol Hill Testimony. Attorney General William Barr announced a new
investigation Tuesday while strongly defending the Justice Department's actions in protecting the federal courthouse in
Portland, Oregon. Barr's comments came in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, a hearing that not only was
partisan as expected but characterized by rudeness by the panel's Democrats. A Democrat would ask a question, but when
Barr began to answer, he or she would interject, "Reclaiming my time" and continue speaking until the allotted time was
up. Despite this tactic, Barr managed to make several points, though he sometimes had to wait for time reserved for
Republicans so that he could answer questions posed by Democrats.
The Editor says...
The Democrats invited the Attorney General to a hearing, and then didn't want to hear him.
'Reclaiming
my time': Tensions soar as Jim Jordan rips Democrats for repeatedly interrupting Barr. Ohio Rep. Jim
Jordan condemned Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee for what became a pattern of asking questions of Attorney General
William Barr only to interrupt and not allow him to answer. Jordan, the top Republican on the panel, noted hours into
the hearing that Democratic members had repeatedly cut off Barr while shouting that they were "reclaiming my time." He asked
why Democrats even invited Barr to testify if they were not going to allow him to answer their queries fully. "I don't
think we've ever had a hearing where the witness wasn't allowed to respond to points made, questions asked, and
attacks — attacks made. Not just in this hearing, not just in this committee, but in every committee I've
been on," Jordan said. "Particularly when you think about the fact that we have the attorney general of the United
States here."
When 'j'accuse'
is just a smear. Last week, the Chicago Tribune's most prominent writer, John Kass, wrote a column
decrying the rise in urban violence. Its compelling title: 'Something grows in the big cities run by Democrats: an
overwhelming sense of lawlessness.' In today's woke world, it is risky to speak such hard truths about gang shootings,
unprosecuted shoplifting, looting, carjackings and more. This rising lawlessness is often cloaked in the language of
protest, racial justice and income equality. Speaking out against it runs real risks. You might be doxxed, your
home tagged with graffiti, or your family threatened. If you are a columnist, like John Kass, you might face ostracism
from left-wing colleagues, attacks by the reporters' union, and concessions to the mob by your paper's editor, Colin
McMahon. The dispute began when the union representing Tribune writers (of which Kass is not a member) decided
to go after him, full-bore. Their false charge was... wait for it... Kass's column was anti-Semitic.
Hurting
Americans to Beat Trump. Democrat governors are not giving up their lockdowns no matter how much they hurt
people's lives. With a total lack of irony, they ignore the real science calling for reopening the economy and schools,
while at the same time they label "deniers" anyone who disagrees with fake climate change science. Science is defined
as "the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical
and natural world through observation and experiment." Samples of science: Don't wear masks, wear masks; coffee
will kill you, coffee is good for you; chocolate will kill you, chocolate is good for you; fatty foods will kill you, carbs
will kill you; the world will freeze in a nuclear winter, the oceans will bubble away as "kettle's on the boil, [when] we're
so easily [led astray]." Even though science does not always live up to its reputation, a decision must be made
and when the preponderance of the science says open, you should open.
BLM
Protesters Block Highway In Colorado, Some Men Go To Confront Them, Get Beaten. Protesters blocked a section of
Highway 24 in Teller County as part of a demonstration against the sheriff's office's policy to detain ICE inmates, and one
small group of counter protesters got involved in a fight that's now under investigation. The TCSO gave the community
notice about the planned protest outside of the detention facility on Friday [7/17/2020], but at a certain point, a rally of
cars moved toward Highway 24 and blocked a part of the road. [Video clip]
House
Dems advance spending bill that would slash ICE funding, block Trump asylum policies. Brushing aside worries of
spurring a new border surge, House Democrats led the push Wednesday [7/15/2020] to slash ICE funding, saying they were
determined to punish the agency for "willful disregard of Congress's role" in setting immigration priorities. Democrats
on the House Appropriations Committee also voted to undo the key Trump policies that helped solve last year's border surge,
including new standards for asylum-seekers and deals with Mexico and Central American nations that helped slow the flow of
people headed north. Rep. David Price, North Carolina Democrat, said they were intent on pushing back on "cruel
and arbitrary immigration policies" they say have distorted the immigration system.
Will
the Left Kill America's Energy Dominance? If the "liberal" green movement had the political power during
earlier periods of our nation's history that it has now, we would not have built the railroads. Also, there would be no
interstate highway system, and the electric grid system that powers our country would be disconnected and shattered.
What else can one conclude when a significant and vital energy pipeline, the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline from West
Virginia into the southern states, has been canceled because of environmental activist opposition? Another pipeline,
the Dakota Access Pipeline, has been suspended by a federal judge's order in recent days. Even the urgently needed
Keystone XL Pipeline, which will transport natural gas and oil from energy-rich areas in Canada and the Dakotas down to
Houston for export and delivery across the country, faces a court-ordered injunction. These actions are all said to be
in the name of wetlands preservation, Endangered Species Act issues and other environmental protections.
Houston
Mayor Cancels Texas G.O.P. Convention, Calling It 'Public Health Risk'. Local outcry had grown for weeks over
plans by the Texas Republican Party to hold its convention in Houston in the middle of one of the nation's worst coronavirus
outbreaks. Sponsors, including the Texas Medical Association, dropped out. Gov. Greg Abbott said he would
appear only by video. The city's top public health official called it a "clear and present danger." Yet party
activists held firm. Then on Wednesday [7/8/20202], Mayor Sylvester Turner of Houston put an end to the standoff,
effectively canceling the gathering a week before it was scheduled by pulling out of a contract to host the event in a
city-run convention center. The decision by a Democratic mayor to cancel the state's largest gathering of Republicans
set the state up for rancorous finger pointing and potential legal action. Even before the announcement, Republican
Party officials suggested that Mr. Turner did not have the authority to do so.
Texas
Republican convention in Houston canceled; Montgomery County judge offers to host. Houston Mayor Sylvester
Turner announced Wednesday, July 8, that Houston First agreed to his request to cancel the upcoming state Republican
convention. The convention was expected to bring some 6,000 delegates to the George R. Brown Convention Center
from July 16-18. "Houston is a hotspot in a global pandemic, and we cannot have thousands of people gathering at GRB,"
Turner said. "This convention is not moving forward because of the public health risk it poses." "Mayor Turner's
hypocritical flip flop on public gatherings is a political stunt," Harris County GOP Chairman Paul Simpson said. "While
he joined in massive marches in the streets last month, he has now blocked Republican grassroots activists from peaceably
assembling even under the most stringent health safeguards." The mayor said Houston First's contract with the state GOP
included the right to cancel during a health crisis and said the decision had nothing to do with politics.
The Editor says...
This decision was 100 percent politics. That's why the announcement was made four days before the convention started, when
it could do the most damage. (The committee meetings were to start on Monday, but the delegates attend Thursday through
Saturday. I've been to a few of these.) That aside, there is no health crisis. The crisis — if
it ever really existed in Texas — was finished at least a month ago. The mayor's actions will immediately
rob the city of a week's worth of tourism income, and jeopardize Houston's convention business from now on. Democrat
conventions won't be affected, of course, because the actions of Houston's mayor are 100 percent political.
Point of No Return.
Since Trump led a revolution against all the established factions of both parties, they joined hands to deny him any
honeymoon. The first three years of his presidency were consumed by the almost certainly criminal Trump-Russian
collusion hoax and the spurious impeachment attempt. By late January, Trump's success in almost eliminating
unemployment, oil imports, and illegal immigration, and his revival of economic growth, revision of trade agreements, and
elevation of nearly 200 constitutionalist judges, had made his election appear almost inevitable. The Democrats
naturally shrieked with glee at the prospect of shutting down the economy to fight the COVID-19 virus, and have continually
demanded an economically self-strangling shutdown for an indefinite period. The pandemic has had the additional
blessing of giving Democrats an excuse to hide their candidate in his basement, as Joe Biden is obviously not up to the very
tough process that a successful presidential candidacy requires.
Liberals
reserve tickets to Trump's New Hampshire rally to try making venue look empty. A liberal-leaning group and
individuals are using social media to encourage Trump opponents to reserve tickets for the president's upcoming reelection
rally in Portsmouth, N.H., in an attempt to make the venue appear empty. "Get your tickets and don't go," one Twitter
user wrote Monday [7/6/2020]. The "Make America Great Again! Rally" is scheduled for Saturday and follows one in
late June in Tulsa, Okla. In advance of the rally, TikTok users reserved tickets and didn't show up to reduce crowd
size. "If you have two minutes of your day to troll the president....Reserve two tickets and laugh knowing that's two
seats not filled," another person tweeted about the New Hampshire rally.
Activists
Blocking Entry Into Mount Rushmore to Keep Out People Coming for Trump Speech. Just as radical leftists folks
tried to keep Trump supporters out of his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma by blocking off a gate and making people concerned about
violence, activists at Mount Rushmore are trying the same tactic. The whole tactic is try to depress the crowd to make
it look like fewer people attending the president's event. But this isn't a Trump rally, but a celebration of July 4th
but the activists don't [care] about that. They parked vans across the road, linked them and slashed or removed the
tires to make it harder to move them and block the way in.
A Will to Overthrow the United
States. Last week, federal legislation recommending police reforms was proposed by Senator Tim Scott, a
Republican from South Carolina. The House Democrats, refusing even to discuss any of them, blocked the measure.
Later the House Democrats came up with a reform bill of their own, however it seemed aimed more at eradicating police forces
than reforming them. [...] The House Democrats appeared only to want to block the Republicans from having a victory and an
issue about which to rail instead of a solution. (The same political thinking also appears to underpin why so many American
children are not able to receive a quality public school education.) The question then arises: are the politicians
who claim to want help distressed communities the very ones keeping the distressed communities distressed — and in
a perpetual state of reaching out to those same politicians for dangled promises of help?
Duckworth
to Block Promotions for 1,123 Military Officers Unless Esper Promotes Vindman. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
announced Thursday that she would block the promotions of 1,123 senior military officers until Defense Secretary Mark Esper
promises that he will promote Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who is believed to have communicated with the
"whistleblower" that sparked Trump's impeachment. Her office called the move "unprecedented" but said it came in
response to reports of "political interference in military matters" by Trump — the commander in chief.
Nothing
Is Off Limits to Defeat Trump. We are now witnessing the American dream dying on the altar of the left's belief
that Barack Obama's election guaranteed an ascendant Democratic Party's eternal governance. Accordingly, President
Trump's election in 2016 was illegitimate. And as illegitimate, any action taken to end the travesty of Trump's
presidency, however violent or undemocratic, would not only be justified but also dutiful. Democrats concluded that if
they must destroy our economy with false lockdowns and open rebellion to regain power, they will do so because they would
rather rule in the ashes than be the minority party in a prosperous republic. As the days dwindle in the runup to
November's presidential election, "We the people" appear not to realize that the Democrats will not allow Donald Trump a
second term. Citizens believe we are in the midst of a campaign to win the presidency when what we are really seeing is
the open rebellion of civil war.
Romney
leads bipartisan group to stop Trump pulling troops from Germany. Sen. Mitt Romney is leading a bipartisan
group of senators in an effort to curb President Trump's ability to remove troops from Germany after the commander-in-chief
opted to withdraw tens of thousands of US soldiers from the region. Romney (R-Utah) introduced a measure Monday
alongside Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Jeanne Shaheen
(D-NH) prohibiting the White House from reducing the number of active-duty troops in the country below 34,500 without
Congress confirming that such a move would not negatively impact European alliances or NATO. On Wednesday [6/24/2020],
Trump announced that he planned to withdraw tens of thousands of US troops from Germany — accusing the European
nation of taking advantage of his administration by not paying its fair share to NATO.
The
Marxist Mob Isn't Coming — They're Already Here. An amazing thing has happened in America over the
past week. Radical Marxist activists have attempted to gaslight the entire country into believing that a real national
conversation is now underway about "systemic racism" and "white privilege", and that it has triggered a dramatic "cultural
shift". None of this is real. There is no national dialogue or cultural shift going on. The same old Communist
subversives are simply going for broke as they try to stave off total defeat at the hands of President Donald J. Trump.
Having failed to take Trump down by a fake impeachment, then politicizing a CCP virus pandemic, politicizing the economic
shutdown, and then a coordinated nationwide series of violent rioting, the American Left is now reduced to siccing their
Marxist mobs on ordinary Americans in an attempt to browbeat them into submission.
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Recent Signs Democrats Want a Socialist Revolution. Three events last week showed that Democrats do not want a
mere transfer of power if they win the November election: they intend to revolutionize our entire system of government.
The first happened Wednesday, when Democrats blocked the Senate from considering a bill on police reform by Sen. Tim
Scott (R-SC). Scott, who is African American, has been working on the issue for years. He had the full support of
the rest of the Republican caucus. He also agreed to consider whatever amendments Democrats offered. They still
used the filibuster to block the bill from even being debated.
Report:
Tulsa Arena Management Sabotaged Trump Rally Attendance. An article published several days ago written by an
anonymous attendee made the claim that the management for the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma sabotaged attendance for the
campaign rally by President Trump held there last Saturday resulting in thousands of empty seats in the BOK Center and the
cancellation of plans for Trump and Vice President Pence to speak to an expected overflow crowd of thousands on a stage set
up just outside the arena before speaking at the rally inside. The fire marshal and arena management put attendance at
just over 6,000 while the Trump campaign claimed 12,000 had cleared metal detectors.
US
Postal Worker Caught on Video Throwing Stack of GOP Congressional Candidate Campaign Mailers in Dumpster. A US
Postal worker was caught on video throwing a stack of GOP congressional candidate campaign mailers in a dumpster.
Sheriff Troy Nehls is running for Texas Congressional District 22. Mr. Nehls is a pro-Trump conservative, a
church-going family man, tough on crime and tough on border security. No wonder why the left is trying to derail his campaign.
Sheriff Troy Nehls Tweet.
A US Postal worker was just caught on video throwing a stack of my campaign mailers in a dumpster. Some patriots nearby
heard a noise when she tossed them in & went to investigate. They found a stack of them and called me. No wonder
people are skeptical of mail in voting. [Video clip]
When Black
lives matter to Democrats, and when they don't. In the words of Black Republican Senator Tim Scott of South
Carolina: "They cannot allow this party to be seen as a party that reaches out to all communities in this nation."
So Scott's bill can't pass. The bill would make lynching a federal crime. It would also place stringent reporting
requirements on so-called "no-knock" raids, and tie federal grants to the elimination of police chokeholds like the one that
killed George Floyd. It would also use grants to encourage the use of police bodycams. As Washington Post
columnist Mark Thiessen put it, If Democrats cared about police reform, they would have advanced Tim Scott's bill. He
called the Democrats' move "shameful," and observed: "If Democrats cared about getting something done, they would have
allowed the Senate to move forward and sought to amend Scott's bill on the floor. There was plenty of basis for
compromise. Scott's legislation had already incorporated a number of Democratic proposals."
Democrats' Despicable Treatment of Senator Tim Scott.
Over the past two weeks, Republican Senator Tim Scott, a black man from South Carolina, extended the olive branch of
bipartisanship to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on police reform. On
June 17, Scott introduced the JUSTICE Act as a way to tackle what he believes are needed reforms in cities across the
country. He quickly gained 50 co-sponsors and opened the door to the "conversation" Democrats regularly claim America
needs to have about race, communities and policing. But it turns out, the talking points about "having a conversation"
weren't stated in good faith. After Scott accepted 20 amendments on his legislation from Senate Democrats, they still
voted it down, not even allowing debate on the bill.
Anarchists
and Trump's Reelection. Leftist governors and mayors are tripling down on their absurd overreaching COVID-19
mandates to depress Americans and stop the remarkable comeback of Trump's unprecedented booming economy. One of Mary's
favorite stores in Virginia was empty of merchandise. "Are you going out of business?" she asked a clerk. The
clerk said, "No." He explained that upon reopening, customers purchased everything. The store had not restocked its
shelves yet. His explanation was in keeping with the 2.5 million new jobs and amazingly swift comeback of our
economy. Maryland mandates that shoppers wear masks. However, stores and shoppers have begun relaxing the absurd
decree. With a 98% recovery rate, more and more Americans realize the COVID-19 hysteria was created to shutdown our
country to destroy our economy to block Trump's reelection.
House
Democrats Block GOP Resolution Opposing Efforts to Defund Police. Democrats in the House on Thursday blocked
consideration of a Republican resolution opposing efforts pushed by some on the left to defund police departments across the
country. "Our resolution strongly opposes what I think is one of the craziest public policy proposals I have ever
seen — this idea that we're going to defund the police," Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Thursday [6/25/2020]
in remarks delivered on the House floor. The resolution, introduced by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., was a procedural
move organized by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Rejected by Democrats on a straight party-line vote of
231 to 176, the resolution condemned the May 25 killing of George Floyd as "a horrific act," but opposed efforts to defund
the police in reaction to it.
McConnell
Responds to Democrats Blocking Police Reform. The American people have been asked to swallow a number of
contradictions over the past few weeks. I've already discussed some of them here on the floor. Many citizens were
told by their mayors that small religious services were just too dangerous — at the same time that massive
political protests were not just allowed, but encouraged. Americans have been told they should very carefully
distinguish good people from bad apples if they are talking about protests and riots — but they must not make the
same distinction if they're talking about the police.
Tim
Scott Unleashes Hell in Speech Laying Out Real Reasons Why Senate Dems Blocked Police Reform Debate. As
expected, Senate Democrats stalled Republican Sen. Tim Scott's police reform bill today, blocking the bill from being
advanced to the Senate floor for debate: [...] Like every other Republican working to try and get meaningful police reforms
passed in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, Scott understands that the real reason why Senate Democrats rejected
debate on the bill is because they don't want to give off the appearance of giving Republicans and Trump any sort of
legislative victory at a time when Democrats are trying to score all the racially-charged political points they can in a
critical election year.
'There
is danger coming': Tim Scott masterfully and mercilessly takes Dems apart for police reform snub. South
Carolina Sen. Tim Scott snapped. After days of enduring racist tirades and death threats from random left-wing
callers, after days of being dismissed by the Democrat Party's top brass, after days of total bullschiff, the black senator
finally let them have it. In a 30-minute-long speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, Scott laid into Democrats for
refusing to engage on the issues, for walking out in the middle of discussions, for saying no to everything he'd proposed,
for smearing him and his Republican colleagues, for being disloyal to black voters and for running so many cities to the
ground. [Video clip]
Trump's
planned trip to Mount Rushmore draws fire from Native American activists. President Donald Trump's plans to
kick off Independence Day with a showy display at Mount Rushmore are drawing sharp criticism from Native Americans who view
the monument as a desecration of land violently stolen from them and used to pay homage to leaders hostile to native people.
Woman
whose TikTok video led to fake sign-ups for Trump Tulsa rally: This wasn't just a prank. The person who
inspired an effort to distort the number of planned attendees to President Trump's Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally said it was not
just a "prank" but also a form of protest. CNN's Brian Stelter spoke to Mary Jo Laupp, a TikToker who posted a video
Thursday encouraging people to sign up for the Tulsa rally with no intention of going. [...] The Tulsa Fire Department claims
that only about 6,200 people attended the rally. The venue where it was held has a total capacity of just over 19,000.
Earlier in the week, Trump and his campaign bragged about how more than 1 million people registered to attend the event.
Never
Trumper George Conway Trying to Sabotage Trump's Next Event. Never Trumper George Conway appears to be
attempting to sabotage President Trump's next event just one day after the president's critics took credit for a TikTok
prank, which they claim flooded the campaign with fake RSVPs, thereby heightening expectations for Saturday's [6/20/2020]
rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, attended by 6,200. The president is scheduled to speak at a Students for Trump event in
Phoenix on Tuesday. However, Trump critics are seemingly hoping to bombard his upcoming campaign events by artificially
inflating the numbers with fake RSVPs, much like what Trump critics say occurred on Saturday.
TikTok
Tix Tricks Are Fraud — For Which Watergate Perps Went To Jail. [Scroll down] There's one
word for what these perps claim to have pulled off — fraud. Under case law in Oklahoma, "the elements
of a common-law action for fraud are: 1) a material misrepresentation, 2) knowingly or recklessly made, 3) with intent
that it be relied upon, and 4) the party relying on the false statement suffers damages." Hmmm. Let's put on our legal
hats for a second. "Material misrepresentation:" "I want to attend your rally." Check. "Knowingly or recklessly
made:" "There's no way I'd be caught dead there. I just want to troll Orange Man." Check. "With
intent that it be relied upon." "I want the campaign to think millions of people want to come so we can embarrass them."
Check. "The party relying on the false statement suffers damages." Discouraging people who actually wanted to come but
didn't, thereby dulling the impact of the event. Economic harm from reserving a large arena that is partly full. Humiliation
in being trolled by teenagers. According to some commentators, a "boost" for his opponent. Check, check, check, and check.
Brad
Parscale: Campaign Was Not Duped, Media Scared Supporters from Tulsa Rally. Trump 2020 Campaign Manager
Brad Parscale on Sunday [6/21/2020] berated the media for savaging the campaign's small crowd size in Tulsa on Saturday,
despite boasting a million campaign ticket requests beforehand. "For the media to now celebrate the fear that they
helped create is disgusting but typical," Parscale wrote in a lengthy statement to reporters. "And it makes us wonder
why we bother credentialing media for events when they don't do their full jobs as professionals."
Democratic
'Dirty Tricks' Sabotage Trump Tulsa Rally. Tik-Tok and K-Pop users are claiming they reserved hundreds of
tickets for Donald Trump's Tulsa rally, never having any intention of showing up. The result was a half-empty arena in
Tulsa for the president's post-coronavirus restart of his campaign. In fact, Twitter is alight this morning with
reports that dozens of teens reserved thousands of rally tickets to sabotage the optics of Trump's speech.
The Editor says...
I'm no attorney, but this sounds like wire fraud to me. In the future, surely there will be ways to prevent this.
Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, page 661.
Oklahoma
Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Block Trump Rally. The Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit Friday from
Stormy Daniels's lawyer challenging President Donald Trump's upcoming Tulsa rally. The suit was brought forth by Tulsa
attorney Clark Brewster, who began representing Daniels in March 2019. Brewster's suit attempted to delay the rally, citing
concerns that it would aggravate the spread of coronavirus. [...] The suit was previously rejected by a Tulsa County District
Court judge, but Brewster appealed to the state Supreme Court on Thursday. That appeal was rejected Friday afternoon [6/19/2020].
Oklahoma
Supreme Court denies bid to stop Trump rally over coronavirus. The Oklahoma Supreme Court paved the way for
President Trump's Tulsa rally to take place. The court rejected an appeal from a previous lawsuit on Friday that sought
to block the campaign from holding a rally indoors on the basis that it could lead to the spread of the coronavirus.
The suit, which was filed on behalf of local residents in the historically black district of Greenwood earlier this week,
demanded the arena to enforce social distancing guidelines. The plaintiffs wanted the court to issue a temporary
injunction against ASM Global, the parent company of the organization that manages the BOK Center, "to protect against a
substantial, imminent, and deadly risk to the community," according to the Washington Post. The court ruled in favor of
the campaign, arguing that the state's June 1 reopening plan allowed business owners to use discretion over social distancing
measures and thus were not mandatory.
Confusion
in Tulsa: Mayor Issues Curfew as Trump Supporters Gather for Upcoming Rally. Confusion descended upon
downtown Tulsa on Thursday evening [6/18/2020] after the mayor issued a curfew for the area surrounding the BOK Center, where
Trump supporters have already begun gathering in anticipation of Saturday's rally. Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum (R) signed an
executive order instituting a 10 p.m. curfew for the area around the Bank of Oklahoma (BOK) Center, where the president's
rally is set to take place. [...] The curfew went into effect at 10 p.m. and will remain in effect until 6 a.m.
Saturday.
Judge
rejects legal bid to stop Tulsa Trump rally. Two black-history organizations that said nothing when tens of
thousands of Black Lives Matter demonstrators "protested" and in some cases rioted across the country filed a lawsuit this
week in an attempt to block President Donald Trump's upcoming Tulsa rally. But in a ruling Tuesday, Oklahoma Judicial
District 14 Judge Rebecca B. Nightingale reportedly rejected the suit. Filed in Tulsa County by the Greenwood Cultural
Centre and the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation, the suit had sought a temporary injunction against ASM Global,
the owners of the BOK Center arena where the rally is set to take place this upcoming Saturday.
New
York Attorney General says she will go to court to stop Donald Trump deploying military to the state. New York
State's top prosecutor is threatening to sue President Trump if he follows through on his threat to deploy the United States
military to put down domestic protests that were sparked by the police-involved killing of George Floyd. 'The President of
the United States is not a dictator, and President Trump does not and will not dominate New York state,' Attorney General
Letitia James said in a statement on Monday [6/1/2020]. 'In fact, the president does not have the right to
unilaterally deploy US military across American states.' Trump on Monday vowed to order a military crackdown on
once-in-a generation violent protests gripping the United States, saying he was sending thousands of troops onto the streets
of the capital and threatening to deploy soldiers to states unable to regain control.
Nancy
Pelosi's just wrong to keep the House from meeting. President Trump's task force has been working hard to fight
the coronavirus pandemic and open up America. Meanwhile, the House of Representatives has been silent —
AWOL, you might say. Even as the Senate returns to work this week, the House remains shuttered. And now, feeling
the heat for their prolonged absence, House Democrats are floating plans that would upend centuries of legislative precedent
and concentrate power in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's hands. One Democratic idea would allow a representative to ask a
colleague to cast a vote on her behalf, known as a proxy vote. And this proxy vote would count for purposes of a
quorum, the majority needed to proceed with business. If implemented, this brainstorm would create a procedural fiction
in which a representative would be considered "physically" present in the Capitol when she is home with her freezer full of
gourmet ice cream.
California
Judges Block Trump Rule that Immigrants Must Have Health Insurance. A three-judge panel in California has
blocked President Donald Trump's October 2019 immigration reform that requires that would-be legal immigrants be able to pay
for their own healthcare costs. The nationwide legal block — a "stay" — will allow the continued
entry of legal immigrants who cannot cover the cost of treatment during the coronavirus epidemic. One million legal
immigrants are admitted each year, regardless of the economic impact on taxpayers, home buyers, and unemployed Americans.
McCarthy
says Pelosi refuses to do it, so he released his own plan to re-open Congress safely. House Minority Leader
Kevin McCarthy admitted Congress "will look and feel different" but still needs to reopen as he revealed details of a plan to
get the House of Representatives back to work. The California Republican and some of his GOP colleagues released
details of the plan even as the Senate returns to work in the Capitol on Monday [5/4/2020] and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
continues to delay the return of House members.
New
Democrat Coalition to Pelosi: We respectfully request you reopen Congress. Respectfully? Pretty
much, yes, but the subtext of this request from the New Democrat Coalition leadership to Nancy Pelosi clearly questions the
wisdom of her strategy, if not her leadership. With the COVID-19 crisis stretching out more than a month without any
significant oversight in Congress, Pelosi appears to be facing a backbench revolt as House Democrats begin to wonder why
Pelosi keeps them sidelined.
Pressure
Mounts for Schiff to Release Russia Investigation Witness Transcripts. Republicans are ramping up the pressure
on House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff to release of dozens of witness interview transcripts from the panel's
investigation into Russian election interference. The House Intelligence Committee voted in September of 2019 to
publish the transcripts, and at the time, it was thought that their release would come within days. Donald Trump Jr.
took to Twitter on Sunday [4/26/2020] and linked to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece asking why Schiff is still
refusing to make the transcripts public. According to the WSJ, Schiff is blocking 43 transcripts that have been
declassified and he won't allow the declassification of 10 others.
Adam
Schiff Has Transcripts From Key Witnesses Of Russia Investigation But Won't Release Them, Report Says. House
Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) won't release transcripts from key witnesses in the Russia investigation
even though his committee voted unanimously in 2018 to release them. The Washington Examiner (my former employer) reported
exclusively on Friday [4/24/2020] that Schiff is in possession of declassified transcripts but has yet to release them.
The outlet reported that the declassification process, performed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, was
supposed to take a few weeks or months. That was almost two years ago, however, and the transcripts have not been
released. Many blame Schiff.
How
does Nancy Pelosi get away with blocking desperately needed aid? How does Nancy Pelosi get away with it?
How does the speaker of the House, in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic crisis, delay desperately needed aid to small
businesses and, in the process, escape blame in a highly politicized environment? Pelosi didn't stand in the way of aid
for just an hour or two, or a day or two. She stonewalled for two weeks while small-business people across the country
struggled to stay afloat in a time in which public fear of the coronavirus and government stay-at-home orders reduced their
business incomes to zero.
Schumer:
Paycheck Protection Program delayed to get loans for minority groups and rural areas. Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer touted how minority communities and rural areas will receive aid via provisions added to the Paycheck
Protection Program in response to a claim that Democrats are holding up funding for small businesses. Schumer joined
CNN's State of the Union on Sunday [4/19/2020] and responded to a statement from the former administrator of the Small
Business Administration, Karen Mills, who said: "Complexity is not our friend here ... things that have to be
implemented quickly can't have a lot of bells and whistles or else there will be too many unintended
consequences — one of which is delay. And we don't have time for delay."
Democrats
Block Job-Saving Program. Let's not hear one more consonant from Democrats and their housekeepers in the
left-wing media about President Donald J. Trump's allegedly slothful response to the COVID-19 crisis. Democratic
lawmakers and leftist journalists now are slowing things, on purpose. And that's far, far worse. [...] While Trump
stayed busy "not responding," Democrats hurled wrenches into the works. On the brink of bipartisan passage of COVID-19
relief, filibustering Senate Democrats stalled the $2.2 trillion CARES Act for five business days last month. Pelosi
abused this national emergency to demand taxpayer dollars for the musician-hating Kennedy Center, subsidies for windmills and
solar panels, an ingenious ruse to fund illegal-alien-criminal-coddling fugitive cities, a federal ban on voter-ID cards, and
loads more that would have done zero to remedy this homicidal virus or its economic aftermath.
Small
Business Relief Program Runs Out of Money After Dems Hold Up Funding. Thanks to actions taken by Congressional
Democrats, the small business rescue program has officially run out of money. Last week Republicans and Democrats
clashed over additional financing. While Republicans sought an additional $250 billion to prevent this, Democrats used
the situation as an opportunity to demand even more spending, including cash for state and local governments, hospitals, and
food stamp programs.
Is
Nancy Pelosi trying to be the most hated woman in America? As part of its coronavirus relief package, Congress
passed the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP"), a $349 billion fund to help businesses with fewer than 500 employees. [...]
Pelosi seems determined once again to put her agenda ahead of "the little people's" needs. This time, she's refusing to
let the Democrats agree to Mitch McConnell's clean bill: ["]Instead, Democrats want McConnell to acquiesce to
jumps in funding for several entities that received billions under the CARES act, including health care systems, and to
demands to reconfigure the PPP system so that minority and female entrepreneurs are given priority in lending.["]
That's bad. What's worse is that, as small business owners are forced to fire their employees and shut down their
life's work, Pelosi is boasting about blocking the PPP infusion.
As
we rebuild from COVID-19, we cannot allow the Democrats, the liberal media or China to take us for a ride. If
you have followed American politics over the past four years, you likely picked up on the hatred Democrats harbor for
President Donald Trump. Perhaps the best example of this hatred is liberal darling Bill Maher's comments from 2018 when
he said he was hoping for a crashing economy because it was the only way to defeat President Trump in 2020. This perverse
thinking perfectly exemplifies the mindset of the modern-day Democratic Party, and unfortunately, Americans are forced to
witness this irrational hatred on a daily basis. If President Trump says the sky is up, the Democrats will say it is
down. If he says north, the Democrats will say south. This irrational hatred is a very dangerous game to play
during the COVID-19 pandemic that has paralyzed our country and shattered our economy. Now more than ever, Americans
are relying on accurate information and instead of providing that, too many Democrats would rather grandstand on why
President Trump is wrong — even when he is right.
Dems
block McConnell bid to swiftly approve $250 Billion more for small business fund. A $250 billion urgent request
to shore up a depleting small business fund failed to pass the Senate Thursday after Democrats objected to the measure pushed
by the White House and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. With lawmakers home and social distancing, McConnell sought
to pass the cash infusion swiftly Thursday by unanimous consent with a skeleton group of senators, but Democrats blocked the
effort because they want add-ons to help businesses in disadvantaged communities and an additional $250 billion in funds
for other priorities.
McConnell
torches Senate Dems for blocking urgent job protection program 'which they themselves literally coauthored'.
Senate Democrats sidetracked a request from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to pass additional small business funding with
unanimous consent. Democrats blocked what they called a "political stunt" by the Kentucky Republican, effectively
stalling a request from President Donald Trump for a $250 billion small business loan program.
Tom
Cotton Outlines Nancy Pelosi Emergency Relief Scheme. There are many people, many voters, simply stunned at how
the Democrats are trying to use the COVID-19 economic emergency to add unrelated ideological elements to the Coronavirus Aid,
Relief, and Economic Security Act. Senator Tom Cotton walks through some of the items the Democrats are demanding
before they will allow economic relief to U.S. companies and workers. [Video clip]
GOP
details Pelosi's $2.5 trillion 'socialist wish list' in coronavirus aid package. House Republicans on Monday
night offered a detailed critique of what they called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "socialist wish list" in House Democrats'
$2.5 trillion proposal for responding to the coronavirus outbreak. "Speaker Pelosi unveiled legislation aimed at
exploiting the COVID-19 public health crisis by attempting to force the inclusion of a socialist wish list of policies that
have nothing to do with the public health and economic emergency," said House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, Louisiana Republican.
Cruz
Rips Pelosi on Stimulus, 'What [...] Does a Windmill Have To Do With This Crisis'. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
went on a fiery tirade against Speaker Nancy's Pelosi's (D-CA) pork-laden stimulus proposal that demands "racial pay equity"
and "airplane emissions standards." "Nancy Pelosi decided it was time to play politics. Decided it was time to throw
a grenade into the whole process," Cruz said. "The demands she's pushing, I ask you, do they have anything to do with
the coronavirus epidemic?" "What are they pushing for? Changing the emissions standards on airplanes.
Mr. President, what the hell do the emissions standards on airplanes have to do with thousands of people dying and
millions of people out of work in the coronavirus epidemic," Cruz thundered from the podium.
Here
is the Far-Left Wish, List Nancy Pelosi Just Blew Everything Up For. According to a source close to the process on Capitol Hill,
in order to move forward with any kind of [coronavirus emergency] relief package, Pelosi and her far-left Democrat caucus will demand the following be included:
• Publication of corporate pay statistics by race and race statistics for all corporate boards
• A bail out on all current debt at the Postal Service
• Required early voting
• Required same day voter registration
• Provisions on official time for union collective bargaining
• Full offset of airline emissions by 2025
• Publication and reporting of greenhouse gas statistics for individual flights
• Retirement plans for community newspaper employees
• Federal $15 minimum wage
• Permanent paid leave
• Study on climate change mitigation efforts
Pelosi
Democrats: No Money to Fight #WuhanVirus Unless We Get Voting Rights for Illegal Aliens. As workers
around the country lose their jobs, please remember that Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Invisible Joe Biden want illegal
aliens to vote. Because that will fix the Wuhan Virus.
Journey
to Surrealville: What's really fuelling Pelosi's shutdown of America's relief package? After days of
unusual comity between Republicans and Democrats in the coronavirus crisis, the big congressional economic aid package to
help hospitals, laid off workers, and battered small businesses all came crashing down as Nancy Pelosi jetted in from
vacation, blocking the set-to-go bill over the weekend. In place of that, she came up with a 1,400-nightmare political
goody bag for the left — everything from ballot-harvesting to corporate diversity requirements to greenie airline
regulations to a $15 minimum wage and a lot of other horrors — attempting to slip through the entire panoply of
laws her party wants to enact but can't get passed. It was Pelosi's and other Democrats' doing, all right —
just look at how the New York Times changed its headline sequence, first putting out the facts about Democrat road-blocking,
then, likely after some Pelosian phone calls, softening the blame, and then declaring the whole thing a bipartisan
morass. Yeah, sure.
Susan
Collins Unloads On Senate Democrats For Blocking Coronavirus Deal. Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins let
loose on her Democratic colleagues Monday, criticizing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer directly over the failed
coronavirus deal. Collins took the floor to express her disappointment over Senate Democrats blocking the
bill — which they claim includes too many "corporate" protections rather than protections for workers —
as well as her anger at Schumer for attempting to prevent her from speaking.
Senate
Democrats block mammoth coronavirus stimulus package. Senate Democrats on Sunday [3/22/2020] blocked a
coronavirus stimulus package from moving forward as talks on several key provisions remain stalled. Senators voted
47-47 on advancing a "shell" bill, a placeholder that the text of the stimulus legislation would have been swapped into,
falling short of the three-fifths threshold needed to advance the proposal. Hopes of a quick stimulus deal quickly
unraveled on Sunday as the four congressional leaders and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin failed to break the
impasse. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) also delayed the procedural vote for three hours as they tried
to get a deal.
Pelosi's Coronavirus Stimulus
Bill Mentions 'Diversity' 32 Times. The word "diversity" appears 32 times in the coronavirus relief bill House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) unveiled on Monday [3/23/2020]. Pelosi released her plan as critics questioned the priorities
of Democratic lawmakers facing the China-caused pandemic. Senate Democrats voted Sunday to block a coronavirus stimulus
package worth up to $1.8 trillion, and continued voting down procedural motions on the bill Monday. Democrats in the
upper chamber were reportedly upset that the legislation does not do enough to increase fuel-emissions standards for the
airline industry or to provide additional tax credits to promote wind and solar energy. Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R., Ky.) said Senate negotiations over the relief package were going well until Pelosi imposed herself on the
process. Democratic obstruction gave the House speaker time to introduce her own coronavirus relief package in the House.
Republicans
want a lifeline; Democrats want to remake the country. The cynical partisan opportunism of Democrats exhibited
during the coronavirus economic crisis has been breathtaking. Rather than move forward with quick, no-frills, massive
$1.8 trillion dollar rescue plan, Democrats decided to hold the country hostage by trying to cram through a slew of lefty
goodies that have absolutely nothing to do with the pending economic crisis. As corporate boards struggle to figure out
ways to keep their companies afloat, Nancy Pelosi is demanding that they spend time filling gender and racial quotas, down to
"subcommittee assignments." As the transportation sector wrestles with a once-in-a-century economic disaster, Democrats are
trying to compel airlines — who have seen a 90 percent drop in customers — to cut greenhouse gas
emissions every year until they hit a 50 percent reduction. If Pelosi keeps this up, airlines are going to see a
100 percent reduction soon enough.
'Don't
treat this bill like a partisan Christmas list': Sen. Ted Cruz unloads on Democrats on the Senate floor.
If you've been following Twitchy at all today, you've heard from plenty of people what House Democrats have decided to sneak
into the 1,400 coronavirus relief bill — such things as airline emissions, same-day voter registration, student
loans, corporate diversity, etc. Sen. Ted Cruz unloaded on the Democrats Monday, telling them to stop treating the
bill like a "partisan Christmas list." [Video clip]
Nancy
Pelosi Proposes 1,400-Page Coronavirus Bill Stuffed with Special Interest Goodies. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
debuted a 1,120-page coronavirus rescue bill after Democrats tanked the Senate proposal on Sunday night. The bill
includes a wish list of Democrats' pet issues including: [#1] Increased fuel emission standards for airlines receiving funds
and carbon offsets [...] [#2] Payment for up to $10,000 in student loans [...] [#3] Same-day voter registration, early
voting, voting by mail, ballot harvesting [...] [#4] Preserving collective bargaining powers for unions [...] [#5] The
expansion of wind and solar tax credits [...] [#6] Requirements for federal and corporate gender and racial diversity data
[...] [#7] Post Office Bailout [...] [#8] Automatic extension of nonimmigrant visas [...] [#9] Restricting colleges
from providing information about citizenship status [...] [#10] Money for Planned Parenthood
Schumer
and Pelosi Try to Add Fuel Emission Standards For Airlines, More Wind and Solar Tax Credits to Coronavirus Stimulus
Package. Pelosi and Schumer continued to play politics on Monday [3/23/2020] amid the Coronavirus shutdown and
demanded a wish list of Socialist policies that have nothing to do with the global pandemic. Pelosi and Schumer are now
pushing these demands: [#1] Unprecedented collective bargaining powers for unions [#2]
Increased fuel emissions standards for airlines [#3] Expansion of wind and solar tax credits Even worse,
not only are these demands totally unrelated to the Coronavirus pandemic, they could prevent companies from participating in
the loan programs — directly causing unnecessary layoffs, according to a senior GOP aide.
McConnell:
Democrats Won't Fund Hospitals or Save Businesses 'Unless They Get to Dust off the Green New Deal'. During a
speech on the Senate floor on Monday [3/23/2020], Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) [...] said, "Here are some of
the items on the Democratic wishlist over which they choose to block this legislation last night. Tax credits for solar
energy and wind energy, provisions to force employers to give special, new treatment to big labor, and listen to this, new
emissions standards for the airlines. Are you kidding me? This is the moment to debate new regulations that have
nothing whatsoever to do with this crisis? That's what they're up to over there. The American people need to know
it. Democrats won't let us fund hospitals or save small businesses unless they get to dust off the Green New Deal."
Pelosi
and Schumer Making Non-Coronavirus-Related Demands While Holding Up Relief Bill. On Sunday evening, Senate
Democrats filibustered a bill designed to provide immediate relief to American workers and businesses, in the midst of a
global pandemic and its resulting economic stoppage. The upper chamber worked through the weekend to hammer out a
legislative outline, on a bipartisan basis. Ideas from both parties were put into the plan, leading to an agreement in
principle on a broad framework. Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived back in town and announced that she would
torpedo the bill, then her Senate counterparts abandoned it. They blamed a "slush fund" for corporations.
Republicans dispute this claim — but even setting it aside, the bulk of the bill was bipartisan (Schumer himself
hailed the bipartisanship over the weekend) and contained: (1) Direct checks to American workers, (2) hundreds
of billions in loans to small businesses, and (3) aid to hospitals.
Democrats
Block Coronavirus Bill That Provides Lifeline To Economy, Families. Democrats blocked a massive $1.8 trillion
stimulus spending bill to protect the U.S. economy and provide relief to American families who are suffering as a result of
the coronavirus outbreak. [...] Townhall political editor Guy Benson reported that Senate sources said that Democrat House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi was responsible for tanking the bill. "Talking to some Senate GOP sources. They seem stunned and
angry," Benson said. "I'm told there was lots of bipartisan input into the legislative outline & emerging specifics —
including an agreement in principle on broad strokes. Then Pelosi showed up and threw a partisan grenade."
Nancy
Pelosi Nixes Bipartisan Talks on Coronavirus Package. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said on Sunday that she
has decided to move forward with her own emergency coronavirus relief package. Pelosi spoke just hours before the
Senate was scheduled to take a procedural vote that would lead towards a final vote on a bipartisan economic relief
package. The bill would provide economic relief after the coronavirus epidemic ravaged the country's economy.
Democrats
Block Senate Coronavirus Package. Democrats blocked a coronavirus package on Sunday [3/22/2020] that would
provide economic relief to businesses and Americans suffering from the impact of the coronavirus outbreak. The Senate
GOP package failed, with 47 votes in favor and 47 against, which fell 13 votes short of what was necessary to advance
the legislation.
Are
Dems Refusing to Support $2 Trillion Stim Bill Unless It Includes a Bailout for Planned Parenthood? Earlier on
Sunday, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin sounded optimistic that Republicans and Democrats were getting close to
finalizing a $2 trillion stimulus package for the American people and businesses. [...] But that optimism disappeared a few
hours later after Democrats balked at several sections of the bill that failed to advance their political agenda. [...] Even
more ominous to Democrats was a Medicaid restriction that would hurt Planned Parenthood and other non-profits.
The Real
Threat to Our Democracy During Coronavirus. If there ever was a real threat to our democracy in today's rancid
political climate, it emanates from Pelosi, Schumer, and the Democrats who follow them like lemmings. [...] These endless
internecine efforts by Democrats, aimed not at advancing the public's needs or the common weal but solely at gumming up the
machinery of government and sabotaging the Trump Administration, are proving to be the single greatest threat today to our
democracy. They raise the question whether such a system of government is capable of protecting the public from
invasion, be it by military munitions or biological, from abroad and terror at home. They go around the country ranting
about "Medicare for All" and about how we need a "Green New Deal" or everyone will be dead in eleven years, but the reality
is that the Democrats became so married to "Resistance" in 2016 when President Trump was elected that they have failed to
protect the public and to let the President do his job and focus on what he needs to get done.
Democrats
block measure to prevent terrorists from working at TSA. Well, not just terrorists, but that's probably the
more alarming part of the headline. With all of the coronavirus and Democratic primary news swamping the networks, you
might think that Congress was basically shut down, but it turns out that they're actually trying to get some work done.
One example of this effort was a vote this week on the Rights for Transportation Security Officers Act. The bill is
designed to bring the handling of TSA employees more in line with other federal workers, possibly making it easier to attract
new applicants. But as part of the process, an amendment was offered that would require screening applicants and
conducting background checks. These would specifically prevent the hiring of people convicted of sexual assault and
other violent crimes or those whose names appear on the terror watch lists. Given all of the complaints about TSA
agents misbehaving when screening travelers at airports, that seems to make sense, doesn't it? Apparently not to a lot
of the House Democrats.
174
Democrats Vote Against Amendment That Aims To Make It Harder To Hire TSA Employees With Terrorist Or Sexual Crime
Record. House Republicans and 42 Democrats joined forces Thursday to pass an amendment to the Rights for
Transportation Security Officers Act that would keep people convicted of sexual assault, terrorism and other violent crimes
from working for the Transportation Security Agency (TSA). But 174 House Democrats — including House
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer — did not support the legislation.
The Editor says...
That's because the TSA workers are unionized, and their union dues go right back to the Democrats.
Obama-Appointed
Judge: Ken Cuccinelli 'Not Lawfully' Named USCIS Director. A federal judge, appointed by former President
Obama, has ruled that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli was not previously
"lawfully appointed" to his job as Acting Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). In a
federal ruling on Sunday [3/1/2020], U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss sided with the Refugee and Immigrant Center for
Education and Legal Services — an open borders lobbying group — by stating that Cuccinelli had not been
lawfully named to head USCIS in an acting role and thus his policies implemented during his tenure are void.
The Editor says...
Since the U.S. Congress is full of lawyers, one would think that someone in Congress would have noticed this illegality before now.
Instead, we have lobbyists and an activist Obama judge making the claim.
Cuccinelli
unlawfully appointed to head Citizenship and Immigration Services, judge rules. A federal judge ruled Sunday
[3/1/2020] that one of the Trump administration's top immigration officials, Ken Cuccinelli, was unlawfully appointed to his
post because of a decades-old law on federal vacancies. U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled that Cuccinelli's
appointment as the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) circumvented a law that said a senior
government position could be filled only if the Senate first approved the individual. It was not immediately clear what
impact this would have on Cuccinelli's tenure, if any.
An
Obama Holdover in an Obscure Government Arm Helped Cause the Country's Coronavirus Crisis. Two months after the
outbreak of the coronavirus, #TrumpVirus began trending on Twitter. Why? Because it's the only chance that the
Democrats have of winning back the White House in 2020. Saddled with broken primaries whose nominee, after a possible
brokered convention, will either be a Socialist who admires Communists, a senile lecher who admires young girls, or a
billionaire who admires power, the coronavirus is a much more effective candidate than Sanders, Biden, or Bloomberg.
#TrumpVirus follows in the footsteps of #TrumpHurricane which attempted to blame a natural disaster and local corruption in
Puerto Rico on President Trump.
7
Reasons the Left's Hatred of Trump Is So Deep. President Trump's popularity is higher than before the
Democrats' impeachment debacle began, and that continues to frustrate and outrage the leftists in our midst. Like Wile E.
Coyote learns over-and-over again, no matter what he does, the Roadrunner just keeps tweeting on down the road at record
speed. They've worked to impeach Trump since he took office and finally achieved it, only to have him exonerated by the
Senate. They've mocked him, his tweets, and his priorities. They've drowned him in negative media coverage.
They've called him a narcissist, a tyrant, and an uncaring fraud. But nothing is working, and the rage in the social
media just grows by the day as there are growing signs that no Democrat is in a position to stop his march to a second term.
The Next Coup Against Trump
Has Begun. It was inevitable. After the Democrats failed to evict Donald Trump from office through the
Mueller investigation and then the ridiculous impeachment over the Zelensky telephone call, they would have to try something
else to ruin him before the November election. Rush Limbaugh was the first to predict that they'd go back to the
"Russia collusion" narrative, and they have.
States
sue Trump administration at record pace. State attorneys general have filed an unprecedented number of lawsuits
against the Trump administration, as Democratic-led states exercise new levers of power to block some of President Trump's
most controversial initiatives. States have formed coalitions to file 103 multi-state suits against the administration
in its first three years, according to data compiled by Paul Nolette, a political scientist at Marquette University.
The vast majority of those suits, 96, have been led by Democratic attorneys general. By contrast, states filed 78
multi-state suits in the eight years of President Obama's administration, and 76 multi-state suits during President
George W. Bush's eight years in office.
EVERYTHING is done over the Democrats' objections.
After
impeachment acquittal, Senate advances another Trump court pick over Dem objections. Minutes after Chief
Justice John Roberts gaveled out President Trump's impeachment trial, which had consumed the Senate for almost three weeks,
Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., got right back to what he's said is his top priority —
confirming judges. Less than half-an-hour after TV networks cut away from the Senate to dive into the ramifications of
the body acquitting Trump, McConnell filed cloture on the nomination of Judge Andrew Brasher to the 11th Circuit Court of
Appeals, a procedural step that moved the controversial nominee one step closer to confirmation. The Senate took the
next step to confirming Brasher with a 46-41 cloture vote Monday, then confirmed him 52-43 on Tuesday [2/11/2020].
Progressive groups, which have opposed many Trump nominees, cried foul over the move.
Trump
Beats Congressional Democrats' Emoluments Lawsuit. President Donald Trump beat back a lawsuit by 215
congressional Democrats who say he has been violating the Constitution's emoluments clauses by profiting from foreign
government spending at his Washington hotel and other properties. A federal appeals court in Washington on Friday
[2/7/2020] dismissed the case, saying members of the House and Senate lacked the legal standing to sue the president.
Appeals
court rejects Democrats' emoluments suit against Trump. A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit from
Congressional Democrats who accused President Donald Trump of violating the Constitution by receiving profits from foreign
governments' spending at his luxury Washington hotel and other businesses. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision
did not address the legality of Trump's business dealings, but held that the more than 200 Democratic senators and House
members who banded together in 2017 to bring the suit against the president lacked legal standing to do so.
Trump
Wins AGAIN As Court Throws Out Dems' Emoluments Lawsuit. On Friday [2/7/2020], President Trump scored another victory, as
a three-judge panel ruled against congressional Democrats, dismissing their emoluments lawsuit, the first case where they sued Trump, that
alleged Trump violated the emoluments clause of the Constitution, arguing he had done so because his ownership of certain businesses meant
that he was receiving payments from foreign officials without approval from Congress. The Emoluments Clause of the Constitution states,
"no person holding any office ... shall, without the consent of Congress" accept gifts or other benefits from foreign states. [...] Trump
was enormously persistent in challenging the lawsuit; a district court had originally ruled the members filing the lawsuit had "sustained
their burden to show that they have standing to bring their claims."
Next
Week Will Bring Something Else. The Impeachment fiasco was just the latest in a nonstop series of Democrats'
attempts to overthrow the Trump presidency. They started long before the 2016 election, with the Obama administration's
illegal spying on the Trump campaign and the bogus Russia investigation. It continued after he was elected, when they
tried getting vote recounts (only in states that Trump won) and attempted to influence the electors to recast their Electoral
College votes against Trump. This was closely followed by the Russia collusion hoax, which led to the Mueller
investigation. When Mueller came up empty, we were treated to several weeks of "Trump is a racist," because he tweeted
criticisms of Democratic congressmen. The impeachment nonsense followed soon after. Now that it too has failed,
you can be assured that the Dems are not finished; they will continue to bang their head against the Trump wall.
The Left's Opposition to Mining
Threatens Its Green Dream. Though environmentalists may not realize it, increased domestic production of
"critical" minerals would benefit the environment. But existing restrictions on recovering these elements are forcing
U.S. firms to purchase these resources overseas. This can be problematic if our trading partners are unstable,
unreliable or unfriendly, as was the case before the fracking revolution when the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC) dominated the global market for crude oil. Now the United States is a net exporter of oil and natural
gas. But we continue to be dependent on imported minerals, not because domestic supplies don't exist, but because
restrictive regulatory policies prevent their recovery. As a result, the United States today imports 100 percent
of the minerals considered critical by the Interior and Defense Departments.
The
Democrats' Last Ditch Effort To Upend the Trump Trial. Has the Trump impeachment drama reached its Brett
Kavanaugh or Clarence Thomas moment? That would be the moment when, after the hearings are more or less done and it
looks like the target will survive, the Democrats confect a last ditch scandal to block, in the case of the two justices,
Senate confirmation or, in the case of President Trump, acquittal. We confess we've been expecting something to be
brought up at the last minute. It is, after all, the Democratic Party's modus operandi. In the case of
Clarence Thomas, it looked like the hearings were done and the nominee on the way to confirmation, when there was suddenly
leaked an FBI report touching on Anita Hill's allegation of sexual harassment. Something similar happened in respect
of Justice Kavanaugh.
Judge
blocks Trump's attempt to let governors refuse refugees. A federal judge ordered a halt Wednesday [1/15/2020]
to the Trump administration's plan to give states and localities a veto over refugees being sent into their territory, saying
the law doesn't allow them a say. The ruling is a major victory for immigrant rights groups, who had feared some
communities would shut their doors thanks to President Trump's executive order last year establishing the veto policy.
Judge Peter J. Messitte, an appointee of President Clinton to the U.S. District Court in Maryland, issued an injunction
stopping the policy just days before it was to kick in.
House
Democrat: We'll Keep Investigating Trump-Russia Conspiracy After Impeachment. Appearing Tuesday [1/14/2020] on MSNBC,
House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) vowed Democrats will continue to investigate President Donald Trump over
possible ties to Russia after the Senate impeachment trial concludes.
Is
today's Democratic Party deceiving the people? [Scroll down] The most dangerous assault on our system of
government today is the orchestrated efforts by the Democratic Party to actively work in a series of campaigns to invalidate
the results of the 2016 election. Democrats actively resist, impugn, and call into question without exception any
policy initiative by the Trump administration. The Democrats currently promote an environment of resistance by outright
deception indicating a determination not to offer any compromise on issues. In addition, they do not seem to display
any regard for the consequences of their actions on our country.
Trey
Gowdy Says Removing Trump is Not Democrats' Goal — They Have a More Devious Plan. Republican
Congressman Trey Gowdy said Thursday that Democrats are not using impeachment to try to get rid of President Donald Trump,
they instead want to kneecap his second term by regaining control of the Senate so he can't get anything done. [...]
"There is no mathematical way he is ever going to be convicted and they know that," Gowdy added. "So their goal cannot
be to remove Donald Trump from office, it is to neuter his second term. I think he is going to win in November.
It's to neuter that second term by targeting the Cory Gardners and the Martha McSallys and the Thom Tillises and the Susan
Collins and Joni Ernst because if Trump wins and doesn't have the Senate then he is not going to get any judicial vacancies
filled and he's not going to replace a Supreme Court Justice if he or she retires."
Democrats
Have Become a Disfigured Reflection of the Party They Once Were. [Scroll down] We see in their contempt
for federal marijuana laws, the institution of sanctuary cities, and their hostility to border enforcement a deranged lack of
perspective regarding the health of our citizens, many of whom are struggling with or dying from drug usage. The opioid
epidemic we face is clearly connected to the opioid supply, and that, in turn, is clearly a border issue. Yet they put
aside the well-being of so many poor souls caught by the hook of addiction into ignoring border enforcement in order to score
political hate points against the president. Instead of looking at border issues in terms of law and national health,
they turn enforcement into an ugly, defamatory argument about American and Trumpian racism. Only 14 years ago, they
were able to agree with Republicans on the need for stronger border enforcement, whereas now they try to block every Trump
attempt — mandated by the American people — to bring order out of chaos on our southern border.
Rep.
Hoyer floats additional legislation to limit President Trump's military powers. Democrats on Capitol Hill may
be looking to further rollback the president's war powers. On Friday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said he might
introduce additional legislation as early as next week. Specifically, he could take aim at the 2002 Authorization for
Use of Military Force Against Iraq, which the president recently used to carry out the airstrike against Iran's top general.
Hoyer also mentioned the House may be looking to block Pentagon funds from going toward any further action in Iran.
Nancy Pelosi's
pointless war-powers ploy. Speaker Nancy Pelosi just pushed through a bill aiming to limit President Trump's
ability to hit Iran, even though the crisis is over. Why? Thursday's [1/9/2020] House passage of her war-powers
resolution is almost certainly pure symbolism: Nothing like this is going to pass the Senate, and even if it did its
constitutional status would be dubious. And events, including the president's actions, have shown that the fears that
inspired the bill are unfounded.
Pelosi
on 'Urgent' Impeachment Articles: 'I'll Send Them Over' to Senate 'When I'm Ready'. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-CA), during her weekly press conference Thursday, said she is not holding back the two articles of impeachment approved
against Donald Trump last month "indefinitely." A reporter asked the Speaker," Are you holding the articles indefinitely?"
"No. I'm not holding them indefinitely. I'll send them over when I'm ready. That will probably be soon," she replied.
Rep.
Bradley Byrne Moves to Censure Pelosi for Holding Up Impeachment. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL) will introduce
a resolution on Thursday to censure House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for obstructing the impeachment proceedings against
President Donald Trump, Breitbart News has learned exclusively. Byrne, who is vying for the Republican nomination for
U.S. Senate this year from his native Alabama, believes the speaker has broken congressional precedence by refusing to send
the articles of impeachment to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Pelosi's
Urgency of Impeachment at a Snail Pace. Nancy Pelosi's delay in sending the articles of impeachment to the
Senate undermines the implied urgency of the issue. Senate Democrats are getting impatient with the delay. Like
most Americans, they want to get the process started. Nancy isn't getting her way. She wants a guarantee that
witnesses will be called to testify in the Senate hearing. Senate Republicans aren't preventing witnesses, but using
the same guideline as the most recent impeachment trial of President Clinton. The video of a discussion between Mitch
McConnell's and Nancy Pelosi's former Chiefs of Staff highlights the process and party strategy behind her delay.
Trump
calls on all Republicans to oppose 'Crazy Nancy Pelosi's' War Powers Resolution. President Trump called on
fellow Republicans to oppose a resolution meant to place restrictions on his ability to take military action without
congressional approval, as the House prepares to vote on the measure late Thursday [1/9/2020]. House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi announced the planned vote in a one-page statement that said last week's U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian
Gen. Qassem Soleimani was "provocative and disproportionate," despite Trump administration claims to the contrary.
Many Democrats were also incensed that the administration did not notify Congress in advance.
Schiff
Calls For Congressional Hearings Into Trump's Drone Strike That Killed Soleimani. House Intel Chairman Adam
Schiff (D-CA) called for Congressional hearings into Trump's drone strike that killed top Iran commander and terrorist Qassem
Soleimani. The Democrat-led House has made it clear that they will meddle in every single foreign policy decision
President Trump makes.
Democrats
draft resolution to limit President Trump's war powers. Senate Democrats are seeking to curb President Trump's
war powers in retaliation for his initiation of the drone strike that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.
Sen. Dick Durbin and Sen. Tim Kaine are cosponsoring a resolution that would force the administration to withdraw
all troops from Iran, unless Congress itself declares war.
The Editor says...
The Democrats weren't too concerned about undeclared wars while Obama was president.
Gov.
Andrew Cuomo cites Trump in vetoing bill that would have allowed federal judges to officiate weddings. New York
Gov. Andrew Cuomo cited Donald Trump in announcing his veto last week of a bill that would have allowed more federal judges
to officiate weddings in the state because some were nominated by the President. The bill, which passed the New York state
senate and assembly with overwhelming bipartisan support, would have expanded officiating authority to all federal judges.
New York law currently only permits state judges to solemnize weddings, along with certain federal judges like those sitting on
the second circuit court of appeals and some federal judges from particular districts. "I cannot in good conscience support
legislation that would authorize such actions by federal judges who are appointed by this federal administration," Cuomo, a
Democrat, said in his veto message on Friday [12/20/2019].
Newt
Gingrich: Nancy Pelosi looks 'foolish' holding up impeachment process. Former Speaker of the House Newt
Gingrich said Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's temporary hold on two articles of impeachment is "absurd" and that she
looks "foolish." Appearing on "America's Newsroom" with host Sandra Smith, Gingrich explained that Pelosi, D-Calif., is
in a "world that's out of control." "Why would you start a fight in the House knowing you are going to lose control of
it to the people who are very capable of making you look very foolish?" he asked. "And yet, that's the dance they began."
Pelosi
threatens to delay Senate impeachment trial. Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to commit Wednesday [12/18/2019] to
delivering articles of impeachment to the Senate, citing concerns about an unfair trial on removing President Donald Trump
from office. Senior Democratic aides said the House was "very unlikely" to take the steps necessary to send the
articles to the Senate until at least early January, a delay of at least two weeks and perhaps longer.
Judge
Napolitano: Pelosi withholding articles of impeachment from Senate would be 'grave injustice'. House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has a constitutional obligation to send articles of impeachment to the Senate, Judge Andrew
Napolitano said Thursday [12/19/2019]. Appearing on "Fox & Friends" with hosts Pete Hegseth, Steve Doocy, and Ainsley
Earhardt, Napolitano said that while he has said there was a legal basis for impeachment in the House, lawmakers now have a
"moral and constitutional obligation" to send the two articles of impeachment to the Senate. In a news conference on
Wednesday, following the House impeachment vote, Pelosi said that Democrats may wait to send their articles of impeachment
against President Trump to the GOP-controlled Senate, for fear that they are incapable of holding a fair trial. "Well,
guess what?" asked Napolitano. "Under the Constitution, the Senate writes its own rules not subject to the approval of
the speaker of the House or even the majority of the House."
Pelosi
throws impeachment into confusion. Minutes after the House impeached President Donald Trump, House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi threw the process into confusion by refusing to say when or whether she would send the articles of impeachment
to the Senate for a trial. At a news conference held immediately after the vote, Pelosi said "we'll see what happens"
when asked if she would send the articles to the Senate.
Some
House Democrats push Pelosi to withhold impeachment articles, delay Senate trial. A group of House Democrats is
pushing Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other leaders to withhold the articles of impeachment against President Trump that are
expected to emerge on Wednesday, potentially delaying a Senate trial for months. The notion of impeaching Trump but
holding the articles in the House has gained traction among some on the political left as a way of potentially forcing Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to conduct a trial on more favorable terms for Democrats. And if no agreement
is reached, some have argued, the trial could be delayed indefinitely, denying Trump an expected acquittal.
Cunning
Lawfare Maneuver — House Will Withhold Submission of Articles from Senate. Seemingly overlooked by
most, when the House voted on the 'rules of impeachment' they removed the traditional appointment of House Managers to a
later date. Normally the House Managers would be appointed at the same time as the impeachment vote; however, by
withholding the appointment House Democrats are indicating they will not immediately send articles of impeachment to the
senate but will rather hold the articles as support for pending court cases toward their judicial authority. A cunning
Lawfare ploy.
Extortion:
Nancy Pelosi Threatens to Withhold Impeachment Articles from Senate Republicans. Today was truly a clown show,
with scores of Democrats trying to make the case that Trump is an existential threat to the United States. There was a
lot of hot air. The evidence against Trump is the very definition of weak sauce. It's so thin and so nakedly
partisan that swing-state voters are sour on impeachment. This move by Democrats has increased the president's
popularity. It hasn't moved the needle. In fact, the approval numbers for impeachment are now underwater.
It has done the exact opposite of what Democrats had hoped, and this could be one massive in-kind contribution to the 2020
Trump campaign. Maybe within the leadership, they know this too, but they're at the point of no return.
Pelosi
turns impeachment circus into even more of a comedy. Ed suggested this maneuver was on the way yesterday
[12/18/2019] and now it appears that Speaker Pelosi has decided on the lame explanation the Democrats will hang their hats
on. In order to attempt to give Chuck Schumer some "leverage" in the impeachment trial, the Speaker may refuse to send
the articles of impeachment to the upper chamber, dragging all of this nonsense out even further. [...] When I turned on CNN
this morning, the anchors were desperately trying to explain why the Constitution doesn't demand the Speaker send the
articles of impeachment to the Senate. That's technically true, but the Constitution doesn't really "demand" much of
anything, other than requiring the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to preside when the President is on trial.
Dems'
Real Impeachment Goal: Sabotage Trump's Second Term. Democratic Party leaders can't possibly be unaware
of the fact that their impeachment case has no merit. Despite the endless talk of bribery, extortion, campaign finance
violations and other supposed crimes Trump has committed, not one of the articles of impeachment accuses Trump of breaking
any of those laws, or any federal law for that matter. Instead, they accuse Trump of an "abuse of power" and of
"obstruction of Congress." As Sen. Ted Cruz explained this week at a Heritage Foundation event, as weak as the first
article is, "the second article is orders of magnitude weaker." "They've simply said that the mere fact that you assert
a privilege is itself impeachable, without their bothering to issue a subpoena or litigating anything.
1
Minor Judge Shouldn't Be Able to Block Trump's Agenda. When a federal district judge issued a nationwide
injunction preventing the Trump administration from blocking funds for sanctuary cities, conservatives protested and liberals
cheered. Liberals were similarly thrilled by a district court ruling that halted the president's order blocking travel
to the U.S. from certain Middle Eastern nations. Yet when several red states sued to block Obamacare, law professors
writing in The Atlantic asked, "Can one judge really impose his ruling from one coast to the other?" District
courts — whose reach should be limited to the area within their geographic jurisdictions except in certain
narrowly-defined circumstances — have inappropriately claimed authority to block presidential and congressional
actions throughout the entire nation.
Judge
blocks Trump's border wall emergency. A federal judge in Texas issued a permanent injunction Tuesday blocking
President Trump from using billions of dollars Congress earmarked for the Defense Department to instead build his border
wall. Judge David Briones, a Clinton appointee to the bench, had previously ruled Mr. Trump's move illegal, but
had given both sides a chance to argue over what the remedy should be. "Because defendants' actions are unlawful and
the people's representatives — Congress — declined to augment the border wall budget as defendants
attempt, the public interest would be served by halting them," the judge wrote.
Federal
judge blocks billions in Pentagon funding from paying for border wall. Judge David Briones of the U.S. District
Court for the Western District of Texas issued the block in response to a lawsuit by El Paso County, Texas, and the Border
Network for Human Rights. "The President's emergency proclamation was a blatant attempt to grab power from
Congress. Today's order affirms that the President is not a king and that our courts are willing to check him when he
oversteps his bounds," Kristy Parker, an attorney for the litigants, said in a statement. Secretary of Defense Mark
Esper approved $3.6 billion in Pentagon funds to be diverted from other military projects toward construction of the border
wall in September. Half the money allotted came from overseas projects and the other half from projects in the U.S.
Judge
blocks Trump's health insurance rule for immigrants. A U.S. judge in Oregon on Tuesday [11/26/2019] granted a preliminary
injunction blocking a Trump administration proclamation that would require immigrants to show proof of health insurance to get a visa.
Impeachment
Lesson: Cut Government. Every Republican president starts day one on the job in charge of a massive
disloyal workforce. Follow the money. Almost every single dollar, to the tune of 95%, donated by a federal
bureaucrat during the 2016 election went to Hillary Clinton. This is a massive challenge for every Republican
president. One of the easiest jobs in the world is being a Democratic president. The federal bureaucracy quite
literally worships you. The media, academia, and entertainment industries call in supporting fires to portray every
move as a Nobel Prize-worthy gesture. The corollary to this is that the hardest job in the world is to be a Republican
president. The executive branch workers you oversee despise you and seek to undermine every move. They are the
head of the resistance, the very heart of the deep state snake.
Drag
queen storms into Trump impeachment hearings. A drag queen from Asbury Park, NJ., crashed Capitol Hill on
Wednesday — appearing for the first public impeachment hearings in a red latex dress and bouffant platinum
wig. Pissi Myles, who character is a riff on the actress Missi Pyle, was spotted stalking the halls of the Longworth
building among a sea of grey suits and was reportedly recruited to cover the hearings for a news app called Happs.
"It's a crazy day in Washington! I'm flipping my wig over the high-energy proceedings today," Myles told NBC News.
Kimberley
Strassel's Home Run. [Scroll down] As she notes, the very term "the Resistance" is associated throughout
history with movements designed to fight "occupying powers" as, say, the French Resistance came to life to fight the forces
of the occupying Nazi Germany. And once one goes down that road, as has the Trump-hating Resistance, the Resisters
"view themselves as justified in taking any action necessary to get rid of the occupier." Set loose the Department of
Justice and the FBI to spy on a presidential campaign? No problem. Ambush a Supreme Court nominee "with
uncorroborated sexual assault allegations"? No problem. Use "the impeachment process for political retribution"?
No big deal. This, says Strassel, "has been the behavior of the Resistance leaders, and it has already caused harm to
vital institutions." Yes indeed. And none more prominent than the self-inflicted massive damage the Justice
Department, the FBI, and the "mainstream media" have done to their own credibility.
Nancy
Pelosi's Stall Tactics Hurt America's Economy. We haven't had a true bipartisan victory in Washington for
seemingly ages, but we are tantalizingly close to getting there. This would be the passage of the U.S. Mexico Canada
Trade Agreement (USMCA). Both parties want this modernized version of the North American Free Trade Agreement to
pass. It is the legacy of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. But this latest modernized trilateral trade deal for
North America hasn't happened yet because of an endless parade of stall tactics by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She is
blockading a vote of the 435 members of the House of Representatives.
The Military-Intelligence
Complex. Much has been written about the so-called Resistance of disgruntled Clinton, Obama, and progressive
activists who have pledged to stop Donald Trump's agenda. The choice of the noun "Resistance," of course, conjures up
not mere "opposition," but is meant to evoke the French "resistance" of World War II — in the melodramatic sense
of current loyal progressive patriots doing their best to thwart by almost any means necessary the Nazi-like Trump.
A
judge just blocked a new Trump rule forcing immigrants to prove they have health insurance before they can get visas. A federal
judge in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday [11/2/2019] put on hold a Trump administration rule requiring immigrants prove they will have health
insurance or can pay for medical care before they can get visas.
'Abolish
ICE': Protesters shut down event with Thomas Homan at UPenn. An event at the University of Pennsylvania featuring former
Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting Director Thomas Homan as a speaker was shut down by protesters before it even started last
week. Students chanted, "Go home, Homan," and held signs that read, "Abolish ICE," as Mr. Homan sat alongside former Philadelphia
City Solicitor Sozi Tulante and former ICE Public Advocate Andrew Lorenzen-Strait on a panel called, "Detention and Deportation from Obama
to Trump," at the university's Perry World House on Wednesday [10/30/2019]. According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student
newspaper, the speakers sat and watched the disruption for 15 minutes before an organizer finally announced that the event had
been canceled.
Haley
Recalls Serving With Some Who Tried to Undermine Trump; 'What's At Stake is the Constitution'. Officials serving in
the administration are not free to push their "personal agenda" if they do not like President Trump, former U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations Nikki Haley said this week, arguing that "we have one president at a time, and that president attained his office
by the choice of the American people." Speaking at an American Enterprise Institute event in Washington, where she received
the conservative think tank's Irving Kristol Award, Haley recalled serving in the Trump administration "alongside colleagues who
believed that the best thing to do for America was to undermine and obstruct the president."
Republicans
blocked in what Democrats charge is effort to uncover whistleblower. House Republicans are complaining that
House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff has blocked efforts to uncover whom Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman spoke
with about concerns that President Trump abused his power in dealings with Ukraine, efforts Democrats charge were designed to
discover the identity of the whistleblower. Democrats who heard at least some portion of the testimony Tuesday [10/29/2019]
by Vindman said the Republicans were pressuring him to reveal the identity of the whistleblower, whose complaint first surfaced
the allegations that sparked the impeachment process.
Nancy Pelosi
'fiddles while the USMCA is in the deep freeze'. The U.S-Mexico-Canada Agreement is ready to go, but the Trump
administration blames one person for holding it back: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "She fiddles while the USMCA is
in the deep freeze," White House trade adviser Peter Navarro told FOX Business' "Mornings with Maria" on Thursday. "The
false narrative here is this whole issue about labor enforcement. That problem's effectively been solved." The
USMCA was ratified by Mexico on June 19. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said Canada will ratify the deal once
Pelosi brings it up for a vote in the House, where her Democratic party regained control in mid-term elections in 2018.
Democrats'
'Immigrants First' Policy. President Donald Trump's key immigration rule change, to discourage immigrants from
relying on public health programs, food stamps, housing assistance and other welfare, got derailed on Friday [10/18/2019] by three
federal judges. Their decisions, blocking Trump's rule from going into effect, are wins for Democrats and immigration
lobbyists. America's poor are the losers. Our country needs to take care of its own needy first. Trump's
proposed rule would make it harder for immigrants who use welfare to qualify for green cards and permanent residence, and it
would give preference to immigrants who fend for themselves. The rule would also require visa applicants to show they
won't use welfare if they're let in the country. Manhattan federal Judge George Daniels blasted Trump's proposed rule
as an "exclusion in search of a justification," implying it was a racist ploy to keep out foreigners.
The Strategies
of Targeting Trump. After failing with the voting machine gambit, the Logan Act, the 25th Amendment, the
emoluments clause, the McCabe-Rosenstein faux-coup, the Comey memos farce, the "resistance" efforts outlined by the New York
Times anonymous op-ed writer, the campaign finance violations accusations, Stormy, tax returns, whistleblowers, leakers, the
Mueller 22 months charade, and now impeachment 2.0, what exactly is the point of impeaching Trump just 13 months
before the election? [...] There doesn't have to be a point to impeachment. Democrats loathe Trump. That is
enough. They would have impeached him on day one of his presidency before he set foot in the White House but they
did not have control of the House. Now they do, so they can.
Trump
violated the law by declaring emergency to divert funds to border wall, judge rules. President Trump acted
unlawfully when he declared a national emergency in order to fund his long-promised border wall, a federal judge ruled Friday
[10/11/2019]. Texas federal Judge David Briones' order left open the option he could also temporarily bar construction
of the wall at the southern border. The County of El Paso and an organization called Border Network for Human Rights
sued Trump and the administration earlier this year, claiming the president violated the law when he declared a national
emergency in order to divert funds from the Department of Defense to bankroll the project.
Judge
blocks Trump policy that makes green cards harder to get. A Manhattan federal court judge has issued a nationwide order
blocking the Trump administration from enforcing a new regulation that would make it easier to deny green cards and visas to immigrants
who might need public assistance in the future. Judge George Daniels' Friday [10/11/2019] ruling came just days before the so-called
"public charge" rule was set to go into effect on Oct. 18. The new rule would have made it possible to brand any immigrant with
the potential to end up on public assistance as a burden, and consider that in deciding to issue green cards or visas.
Trump
Campaign Says Target Center Has 'Backed Off Cancelling The Contract' For Thursday Rally. President Donald
Trump's campaign will soon arrive in Minneapolis to prepare for Thursday's rally at Target Center. It comes after a day
filled with a back-and-forth between the president and Mayor Jacob Frey about who will pay the bill for security at the event.
Team
Trump: We'll sue Minneapolis over $530,000 shakedown by liberal mayor. As of now, Donald Trump is
scheduled to appear at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Thursday [10/10/2019], part of his plan to flip Minnesota to the
GOP in 2020. The city wants to make sure he pays for the privilege — through the nose, apparently. The city
sent a $530,000 security bill to the venue for Trump's rally, which then passed it along to Team Trump, which then promptly
threatened to sue the city over its "outrageous abuse of power."
Left-Wing
Minneapolis Mayor, Jacob Frey, Attempts to Block President Trump MAGA Rally. The radical leftist mayor of
Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, is abusing the power of his office and attempting to extort President Trump's re-election campaign
by conjuring a phony and outlandish bill for security in an effort to block a scheduled Keep America Great rally.
Democrat Mayor Frey is using the bogus security charges to pressure the Target Center, site of the contracted October 10,
2019 rally, into preventing Minnesota residents from exercising their First Amendment rights in support of President
Trump. Frey's city government preemptively informed the Target Center that it would be responsible for $530,000 in
security and other costs related to the event. The Target Center attempted to pass the costs on to the Trump campaign
under threat of withholding the use of the arena.
Liberal
Minnesota Mayor Tries to Extort Money and Block President Trump from Holding Rally in Twin Cities. Liberal
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is trying to extort money from the Trump Campaign to pay for an outlandish security bill to hold
a campaign rally in the Twin Cities this week. This is a common tactic of the left to deny Trump supporters access to
venues for their events and gatherings. Of course, the violent left NEVER have to go through this same torment.
Mayor Frey is quite bold though for pulling this on the Republican President of the United States. The Justice
Department should sue him for harassment.
Trump
campaign threatens to sue Minneapolis over 'phony' security bill for rally. Tensions between Minneapolis city
leaders and President Donald Trump's campaign escalated Monday when the campaign threatened to sue the city for trying to
force it to pay $530,000 for security during this week's rally. Trump's campaign team said in a news release late
Monday night that Mayor Jacob Frey is "abusing the power of his office" by "conjuring a phony and outlandish bill for
security" to cover those costs for Thursday's [10/3/2019] campaign rally. City officials told the Target Center, which
is managed by AEG, that it would be responsible for paying the costs. The center then allegedly tried to pass the bill
on to Trump's team and told them they would not be able to use the arena unless they agreed to the charges.
Minneapolis' liberal
mayor trying to 'bully' President Trump out of Minnesota, says head of police union. The mayor of Minneapolis,
a Democrat, is trying to "antagonize" and "bully" President Trump to discourage him from coming to the historically blue
state, a police union leader said Tuesday. Lieutenant Bob Kroll, president of the Police Officers Federation of
Minneapolis, said on "Fox & Friends" that Mayor Jacob Frey is discriminating against Trump ahead of his upcoming rally at the
Target Center on Thursday [10/3/2019]. Kroll's claims are in line with Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, who
accused Frey of "abuse of power" over a proposed $530,000 security fee to use the arena.
Trump
Campaign: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Trying to Block Trump Rally. President Donald Trump's campaign accused
Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey on Monday [10/7/2019] of trying to block the president's scheduled political rally in the city.
"This is an outrageous abuse of power by a liberal mayor trying to deny the rights of his own city's residents just because he hates
the President," Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement sent to reporters.
The
Walls Really are Closing In On the Elite. If the Ukraine corruption case is so obviously weak, why rush to use
it as a basis for impeachment? The best answer is that they're scared. They needed something, anything, to
bring down this administration, and this was the best weapon they had on hand at that moment. [...] The personal corruption
and moral bankruptcy of our elite are ripe for exposure. The scandals of the Obama administration, which have been
hushed by a supine media, could be thrust before the public. The attempts of our elites and their allies in the
bureaucracy to prevent Trump's election or to depose him after he became president, are clearly targets of Barr's and
Durham's investigations. Once the dominoes begin to fall, who can say what will follow?
How
The Media's Lies About Innocent Fathers Also Harm Their Daughters. While I don't know them personally, I can't
help but feel empathy for Justice Brett Kavanaugh's two young daughters, Margaret and Liza. I'm sure it's hard for them
to understand why anyone would attempt to humiliate someone they know is a wonderful man, all based on something even the
attackers know is a lie. I suspect that, like me, Margaret and Liza never thought they would have a famous father, or
that anything so terrible could happen to him as it has to all three of us. My father certainly wasn't famous when I
was growing up, but he is now. He's Andy Puzder. He's often in the press talking or writing about ideas to help
American workers. My dad comes from a working-class background; he worked his way through law school and later became
the CEO of a big company and President Trump's first choice to be America's secretary of labor. While Justice Kavanaugh
made it through the confirmation process, my dad didn't. His nomination was defeated because of abuse allegations that,
like those against Justice Kavanaugh, were not only unsupported but admittedly false.
Dick
Durbin Stalls Landmark Immigration Bill, But Won't Explain Why. The "Fairness For High Skilled Immigrants Act"
has already passed the House of Representatives and has bipartisan support in the Senate. The bill would eliminate the
cap on the number of immigrants who come from certain countries, which would in turn reward high-skilled immigrants who want
to come to the U.S. Currently, the U.S. government hands out roughly 1 million green cards every year, but mandates that
no country can receive more than 7% of all employment-based green cards.
How Trump wins.
The Democrats have disgraced themselves through their antics since before Trump took office. They've proven they hate
America, and Americans themselves are only a means to an end for them. They play to the ignorant and uninformed, the
dependent and the needy, the inner-city poor, the Left Coast loonies, and the New England trust fund fortunes. They
have made every effort to resist, delay, halt, or otherwise dilute the impact of Trump's policies and decisions, despite
every measurable metric of national health trending toward greater health and prosperity. [...] They have ended any sense of
honorable disagreement, respectful debate on the merits, or concept of agreeing to disagree. They must leave no trace
of a contrary idea, shut down dissenters, and destroy lives, careers, and businesses. No one is safe.
No one is off limits.
Obama
judge blocks Trump attempt to close illegal immigrant family 'loophole'. A federal judge in California ruled Friday
[9/27/2019] against the Trump administration's plan to detain illegal immigrant families longer than 20 days, undercutting the
president's attempt to close the chief "loophole" that caused this year's border surge. Judge Dolly M. Gee, an Obama
appointee, has long been a stumbling block for Homeland Security and its immigration plans, and the ruling was expected.
The administration is likely to quickly appeal. Homeland Security had asked Judge Gee to cancel the Flores agreement, a
1990s-era court settlement that sets out strict rules for how illegal immigrant children who arrive at the border without
parents are treated. Judge Gee in 2015 expanded the agreement to children who arrive with parents.
Why the Democrats
have gone insane. [Scroll down] So what's really going on here? Why have the Democrats, to put it
bluntly, gone berserk? [...] The president is engaged in negotiations of tremendous significance with the Chinese and trying
to neuter as much as possible the violent mullahs of Iran, but the Democrats don't care. In fact, they would prefer he
fail, and seem to be doing everything in their power to make it so. To call that un-American is an understatement.
Actually, it's despicable and deeply immoral, not just for the citizens of this country, but for the world.
Federal
judge bars Trump administration's plan to open Alaskan forest for development. The Trump administration's plan
to allow logging in more than 40,000 acres of an Alaskan national forest was put on hold by a federal judge Monday
[9/23/2019]. The U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska issued a preliminary injunction blocking the
development of 42,500 acres of the Tongass National Forest for logging. The court said: "Plaintiffs have
demonstrated that they are very likely to suffer irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary injunctive relief."
The rulings come the day before the Trump administration would have begun reviewing logging bids and offering contracts to
clear out parts of the nation's largest temperate rainforest.
Climate
Activists Block D.C. Roads, Disrupt Morning Commute. Climate activist groups plan to "Shut Down D.C." early Monday
morning [9/23/2019], aiming "to take action all over the district to disrupt business as usual." The protest follows a
weekend of climate strikes across the country and coincides with the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York.
Frivolous
Lawsuits Once Again Threaten the Gun Industry. In 2005, a wave of lawsuits threatened to bankrupt the gun
industry. These suits were based on — pick your adjective — "creative," "novel," "inventive," and
"imaginative" legal theories that rarely held up in court, and they did their damage primarily by forcing gun companies to
incur the costs of defending against them. Congress, seeing the problem, stepped in to put a stop to it — or
at least tried to — by passing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). A decade and a half
later, anti-gun activists have responded with yet more new legal theories, and the Connecticut courts have bought one of them.
Cruz
on reported Kavanaugh allegations: There's nobody Democrats don't want to impeach. Sen. Ted Cruz
(R-Texas) said the attention to the recent New York Times report on sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Justice
Brett Kavanaugh reflects the "shameful circus" from the Senate hearing last year. The Texas senator told George
Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week" that he thinks the Democratic candidates will call for impeachment to rile their
base. "I bet you, the next Democratic debate, they'll all be saying, 'Impeach Kavanaugh. Impeach Trump,'" Cruz
said. "There's nobody they don't want to impeach. And at some point, they just have to let the anger go and
recognize that the democratic process actually moves on."
Climate
Activists Try to Shut Down Heathrow by Flying Drones in Front of Passenger Planes. Brain-dead climate activists
came up with the scathingly brilliant scheme of protesting against airplanes at Heathrow Airport by flying drones in front of
passenger planes to prevent them from taking off or landing. I guess the climate activists got it in their heads that
making airplanes crash would be an excellent way to reduce the world's carbon footprint. Fortunately, British police
foiled their plan by jamming drone frequencies. Several nutcases were arrested and, for the moment, plane passengers
have been spared the ordeal of being grounded by idiots who think threatening to kill people is a legitimate way of battling
global warming.
Why
a 'Fair and Impartial Judiciary Has Special Meaning' to Second Circuit Nominee Menashi. According to someone
present at Second Circuit nominee Steven Menashi's confirmation hearing on Wednesday, it was difficult to hear Menashi's
poignant retelling of his family's flight from vicious mobs in 1940s Iraq because of a vicious mob in the Dirksen
building. So I provide here an extensive excerpt from Menashi's opening statement: [...]
Democratic
Candidates Want To Punish Energy Companies To Satisfy Left-Wing Nuts. Democratic presidential candidates have
gone so far off the rails that they are now even fabricating their records to promote policies so far to the left that they
are at odds with many former top Obama Administration officials. Last week, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) lied and
said she sued Exxon Mobil when she was California's attorney general. In reality, she did not sue Exxon —
she only investigated the oil company. While this demonstrates Harris's loose relationship with the truth, it does show
she thinks it's good to sue Exxon and other energy companies. Harris supports climate litigation, even if she hasn't
pushed it herself. Climate litigation aims to punish energy companies for the sake of the environment. These
lawsuits don't actually help the environment, but they do waste taxpayer dollars on behalf of politicians' ambitions, and
enrich plaintiff attorneys.
The Enemies
of American Infrastructure. In less than 20 years, the Chinese have completely transformed their rail
transportation network. This is typical for the Chinese. China is also building three new airports —
offshore. [...] To argue that Americans don't need high-speed rail, or massive new airports on ocean landfill, or yet
another massive hydroelectric dam, is beside the point. Americans can't do any big projects. A perfect
example is the Keystone Pipeline, which, if it's ever completed, will be capable of transporting 830,000 barrels of oil per
day south from the tar sands of Alberta to existing pipelines in Nebraska. This pipeline has been tied up in permitting
delays and litigation since 2008. Eleven years later, not one mile of pipeline has been built. Even with aggressive
support from the Trump Administration, will Keystone ever get built? Not if an army of environmentalist plaintiff
attorneys have their way.
Liberals
In Pittsburgh Announce Boycott Of Local Businesses For Trump Support, Backlash Ensues. The far left has been
saying for two years now that Trump is a fascist, but they need to look into a mirror if they want to see what a real fascist
looks like. In Pittsburgh, leftists have been compiling a list of local small businesses which are owned by Trump
supporters because they want to put these people out of business.
Anti-ICE
protesters block rush-hour traffic in Boston area; 12 arrested for trespassing at Amazon. Police in
Massachusetts reportedly arrested 12 pro-immigration protesters Thursday [9/5/2019] after hundreds of demonstrators marched through
the Boston area, blocking rush-hour traffic. The group, arrested for trespassing at the Amazon building in nearby
Cambridge, across the Charles River via the Longfellow Bridge, were advocating for private businesses to stop cooperating
with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Cambridge police said, according to The Hill. The unscheduled
route frustrated passengers and police. "It's rush hour, there's only one way (on the bridge). Take some other way
around," a man said to WBZ-TV in Boston. The protesters reportedly refused to tell police their planned route.
Federal
Reserve Bank's 'myth of political neutrality' now is dead and gone. Donald Trump is only the most recent POTUS
to discover that the Fed wields enormous political power, able to speed up or slow down the economy via its manipulation of
interest rates and the money supply. He is far from the first president to complain about the Fed when he perceives it
as hampering his growth agenda. What is different is that one of the top officials of the Fed in recent years has
fought back and urged the Fed to operate so as to exert political influence against Trump.
Lawfare
Expects McCabe Arrest — That Explains Why CNN Hired Him. The Lawfare group are the external
influence agents for corrupt politically motivated lawyers working in government. The group fingerprints show up
everywhere including among "beach friends" and legal schemes hatched from the premise of their assembly. Lawfare = use
the law as a tool in warfare. The Lawfare group is headed by Comey's friend Benjamin Wittes; and the group give resistance
advice to ideologues inside government as well as outside organizations who are resisting (suing) the Trump administration.
Ex-Federal
Reserve Official Bill Dudley Calls on Fed to Manipulate Economy to Stymie Trump's Reelection. Former New York Fed
President Bill Dudley on Tuesday [8/27/2019] called on the Federal Reserve to manipulate the economy to stymie President Trump's
reelection. Dudley made the plea in an op-ed published by Bloomberg News. Dudley argued that Trump's effort to reset
trade with China is hurting the economy and that the Fed should enact policies that hinder Trump and hurt his reelection chances.
FNC's
Wallace: If Ginsburg Leaves, It'll Make Kavanaugh Hearings 'Look Like a Tea Party'. On Friday's [8/23/2019]
broadcast of Fox News Radio's "Guy Benson Show," FNC host Chris Wallace stated that if Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
has to leave the court, the fight over her replacement would make the Kavanaugh hearings "look like a tea party."
New Anti-Trump
Ploy Is Conjuring A Recession. The latest ploy of the anti-Trump press phalanx, and their weekly echo chamber
of assorted Democratic candidates and legislators, is to try to move the voter-approval needle by insisting an economic
recession is about to occur. The problem is, it isn't. As weeks pass without a recession or even increasing
objective statistical hints of a recession, the continued trumpeting of a recession becomes self-stifling. Not even the
economically illiterate mouthpieces of CNN and MSNBC can keep a straight face for long predicting recession when there are no
signs it is happening.
The Editor says...
The surest way to induce an economic recession in this country is to elect another socialist nitwit as president.
House
Democrats appear less likely to get Trump's tax returns before 2020 election. House Democrats appear
increasingly unlikely to secure President Trump's tax returns before the 2020 presidential election, according to interviews
with legal experts and several lawmakers, as resistance from the Trump administration has stymied the party's efforts to
obtain his personal financial records. Several Democrats involved in oversight, including Rep. Daniel Kildee
(Mich.) of the Ways and Means Committee, see a long path to getting a final court decision, even if they expect to win in the
end. Trevor N. McFadden, a Trump-appointed judge who was assigned the case in July, will hear the case first, and
any decision is likely to be appealed to higher courts, up to the Supreme Court.
Presidential
Candidate John Delaney: Democrats Guilty of 'Cheering on a Recession'. Former Rep. John Delaney (D-MD)
told the Associated Press in Iowa on Wednesday that fellow Democratic presidential candidates were guilty of "cheering on a
recession because they want to stick it to Trump."
Bill
Maher Doubles Down on Wish for a Recession. Real Time host Bill Maher doubled down on his desire for a
recession Friday night [8/16/2019]. Maher has expressed his wish for a recession multiple times; hoping that an
economic downturn would lead to President Trump losing his bid for a second term in the White House. Maher first indicated
that he was rooting for a recession on June 8 of last year, when he said "I feel like the bottom has to fall out at
some point and by the way, I'm hoping for it because I think one way you get rid of Trump is to crash the economy. So
please, bring on the recession. Sorry if that hurts people but it's either root for a recession or you lose your democracy."
The Editor says...
Who hates America as much as the man who would rather see the entire economy crash than to see his political foes succeed?
China
joins MSM and Federal Reserve in trying to tank the stock market. In the hours before American equity markets
open for trading, China sent a huge sell signal to the traders on Wall Street. [...] China made this announcement after
viewing yesterday's steep decline in the American equity markets, sort of a one-two punch aimed at searing into investors and
the voting public the notion that a recession is coming, which can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. No matter that our
economy is still strong, even as Europe and Japan falter. Jack Hellner points out that the yield curve inversion
yesterday [8/14/2019] was a very weak excuse to drive down the market, yet the media pretended and hammered home the theme
that it is a sign of impending doom.
'Flagrantly
illegal.' Trump sues California over new law targeting his tax returns. President Donald Trump, the California
Republican Party, and the national GOP joined together Tuesday [8/6/2019] to sue California over a new tax-return law Gov. Gavin
Newsom signed last week. The law requires Trump and other presidential candidates to release the last five years of their tax
returns to get their names on the state's 2020 primary ballot.
Trump
Just Got Another Win In Court, Democrat Party Lawsuit Is Dismissed With Prejudice. Ridiculous lawsuits have
become the norm during the Trump era in regards to targeting a Presidential administration. Just a few weeks ago, a
judge threw out a lawsuit brought by various activists alleging that Trump was violating the emoluments clause. While
there are still quite a few outstanding, another frivolous lawsuit bit the dust today [7/30/2019] and this one was filed
directly by the Democratic party.
Trump,
Baltimore, and Racism. One of the great anomalies of today's U.S. House of Representatives is the propensity of
elected Democrats to ignore their Congressional districts and voters' needs for the glories of the Trump Investigation
Circus. [...] It is not clear how many hours Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Jerrold Nadler, or Elijah Cummings sleeps, but these
individuals devote their days, nights, staff times, television appearances, and public speeches to conducting one after
another ridiculous investigation of President Trump. That is their focus, their attention, their purpose. They
simply do not attend to their constituents with the focus that voters presumably would expect if constituents were more
sophisticated.
Yelling
'racist' won't clean up our cities. [Scroll down] So it seems we can't talk about our southern border
because to do so is racist. We can't have a dialogue about problematic inner-city schools because any such discussion
is racist. America can't debate violent crime because the judicial system is racist. America cannot move forward
in any way because liberals don't want to. They like things the way they are — the crime, the rats, the
drugs, the decay, and the rot.
Northern
Virginia state delegate interrupts President Trump's speech in Jamestown. Virginia Del. Ibraheem Samirah (D-86th)
interrupted President Donald Trump's speech Tuesday [7/30/2019] in Jamestown. Trump was speaking at the 400th Anniversary of
the America's First Representative Legislative Assembly, but the president was stopped by Samirah a few minutes into his speech.
"I disrupted the President's speech in Jamestown because nobody's racism and bigotry should be excused for the sake of being
polite," Samirah said in a prepared statement. "The man is unfit for office and unfit to partake in a celebration of
democracy, representation, and our nation's history of immigrants. [...]"
Dems
refuse to help fix border crisis because bashing Trump is more fun. Now that Democrats have stopped calling the
untenable situation at America's southern border a "manufactured crisis" and recognized it as a "humanitarian crisis,"
perhaps a bipartisan solution can be found to at least one aspect of the problem: the continuing flow of unaccompanied
children across the border. But we shouldn't hold our breath. The left — activists, the media and Dem
politicians — are more interested in badgering the Trump administration than solving the crisis.
The Mueller Fantasy
Comes Crashing Down. In the hours and days after Mr. Mueller gave his opening statement before the House
Judiciary Committee, it became clear how tenaciously many liberals and progressives are clinging to fantasy — not
just that President Trump will eventually find himself impeached and removed, but also that they can advance their values by
means of legal machination rather than political vision. And at a moment of intense polarization in American politics,
this fantasy is especially shortsighted.
Democratic Party has become
a Continuing Criminal Enterprise. In cooperation with Democrat-aligned Federal Judges, and with the complicity
of multiple outlets of the liberal media, the Democrat Party continues to act to block and delay efforts by the Federal
Government to prohibit and interdict the illegal entry of persons into the United States from Mexico. An unknown number
of those persons pose a clear and present physical danger to America's citizenry. Facilitating the entry of criminals
into the U.S. is, on its face, a criminal enterprise.
10 Things Democrats Want
to Take Away. Lately, Democrats have been talking a lot about "what's at stake." Want to know what's at
stake? A booming economy, safer communities, and a strong military. When everyday Americans look at their bigger
paychecks or the "now hiring" signs in their hometowns, they have only one party to thank for that. Spoiler: it
isn't the Democrats. No, they fought us every step of the way as we worked to help everyone in this country have a
chance at a better life. When we rolled back regulations that were hurting families and small business owners, they
voted NO. When we overhauled an outdated tax code so that workers and families could get ahead, they voted NO.
And they had plenty of chances to help us with border security, and they always voted NO.
Trump trade deal with
Canada and Mexico gives Dems what they want — Why won't they support it? This week, President Trump
appeared to renew his threat to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) if Democrats do not pass his
new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). His threats may worry pro-trade Republicans, but they are music to the
ears of anti-NAFTA Democrats, who would love nothing better than to get rid of NAFTA without giving Trump a trade victory.
Democrats
are lying to the American people about ICE and immigration. The issues surrounding zero tolerance and the
conditions of confinement at Border Patrol stations is an important one and it is vital that the American people know the
facts. But every time one of the witnesses or members of Congress said something that was downright wrong —
a lie, an intentional mis-truth — and I attempted to speak up and correct the record, I was refused many times the
opportunity to speak. They didn't want to hear from me. They didn't want the truth. They simply wanted to
continue to push their false narrative about the Border Patrol and ICE. They wanted to continually attack our president.
Feinstein
objects to Trump judicial nominee — who was her intern! Sen. Dianne Feinstein is an excellent
judge of character, except when she's not. Last fall, America learned Feinstein employed a spy for the Chinese
government for two decades. Feinstein told the FBI she was unaware and promptly fired the man, who worked as her
driver, without any consequences for either of them. Now, the 86-year-old senator from California is weighing in on the
character of a man President Trump appointed to fill a seat on the Ninth Circuit Court, and it seems Feinstein's judgement
hasn't improved.
Trump
responds to big win; appeals court dismisses Emoluments Clause case attacking his brand name. The Fourth Circuit
Court of Appeals dismissed an Emoluments Clause claim against President Trump on Wednesday [7/10/2019], questioning whether the
lawsuit was an "appropriate use of the courts." "The District and Maryland's interest in enforcing the Emoluments Clauses
is so attenuated and abstract that their prosecution of this case readily provokes the question of whether this action against
the President is an appropriate use of the courts, which were created to resolve real cases and controversies between the
parties," wrote Judge Paul Niemeyer, speaking for the court.
9th
Circuit refuses Trump request to block judge's ruling to stop military funds for border wall. An appeals court
denied the Trump administration's emergency request to block a federal judge's ruling that prevents President Trump from
using $2.5 billion in military funds to build a wall along the southern border. [...] The Justice Department appealed after
U.S. District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam, who is an appointee of former President Barack Obama, ruled to permanently block
the $2.5 billion after issuing a temporary injunction in May to stop the administration's use of the funds. The ruling
stymied several construction projects in California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Federal
judge blocks Trump policy keeping asylum seekers locked up. A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday [7/2/2019]
blocked a Trump administration policy that would keep thousands of asylum-seekers locked up while they pursue their cases,
saying the Constitution demands that such migrants have a chance to be released from custody.
9th
Circuit judge rules against border wall construction in Ariz., Texas, N.M. In their decision Friday [6/28/2019], the U.S.
District Court of Northern California added a number of states where construction of the wall will not be allowed. Those states include
Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. The judge also solidified a previous order barring wall construction From [sic] may [sic], which
pertains to California. This comes amid an ongoing battle for funding to build the wall, which the judge in this latest ruling called an
attempt to bypass Congress. The president has since denounced the ruling as being against border security, and in favor of crime.
Judge
blocks Trump from using billions in military funds for border wall. A federal judge on Friday [6/28/2019] issued a ruling
blocking the Trump administration from tapping billions of dollars in military funds to construct a wall on the United States's southern
border. U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam issued the permanent injunction in a California federal court, after initially ruling
last month to temporarily halt the administration's use of military funds for the border wall. President Trump declared a national
emergency earlier this year in order to divert roughly $6 billion in Defense Department funds toward border wall construction.
Friday's ruling blocks the administration from using $2.5 billion in military funds for a border wall.
Podesta's
CAP Fuels Dark Money Group Hitting Trump with Lawsuits. The Democracy Forward Foundation, a D.C.-based 501(c)3
nonprofit, was founded in 2017 to "help expose the rampant corruption in the Executive Branch and fight in court on behalf of
the people it hurts." The group also has a 501(c)4 "social welfare" arm that goes by Democracy Forward. The foundation
has filed suit against numerous government agencies, such as the Department of Justice, Department of Treasury, and the
Office of Management and Budget, and has aided other entities with similar litigation, including Baltimore's lawsuit against
the Trump administration over immigration policy. The group, which has maintained a relatively low profile despite its
litigation efforts against the administration, dubs itself "nonpartisan" and is referred to as "anti-corruption" by major
media outlets. The group's leadership, however, is made up of Democratic operatives, including [former Clinton campaign
manager John] Podesta himself.
The
Dems' 2020 Election Strategy. Investigations. Every single day's news is dominated, day after day, week
after week, month after month by investigations of the President, subpoenas to his executive branch, his friends and
associates, his family. Investigations that go from Michael "Cash Cab" Cohen as the very first sworn witness of the
Congressional term to Mueller to John Dean, who masterminded Watergate. It's like swearing-in Harvey Weinstein to
testify about Bill Clinton. And never-ending daily discussions of: FISA warrants. Redactions. Grand
jury transcripts. Hold the Attorney-General in contempt. Hold the Secretary of the Treasury in contempt.
Hold the Secretary of Commerce in contempt. Demand the President's taxes. Subpoenas and litigation for his taxes.
Massachusetts
federal judge blocks ICE from making civil immigration arrests inside state's courthouses. A federal judge in
Massachusetts on Thursday [6/20/2019] blocked federal authorities from making civil immigration arrests inside the state's
courthouses. US District Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction that blocks US Immigration and Customs
Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security "from civilly arresting parties, witnesses, and others attending
Massachusetts courthouses on official business while they are going to, attending, or leaving the courthouse," according to
the court order.
Judge
in MA Blocks ICE from Arresting Alien Criminals in Courthouses. This is absurd. Anyone can come into the country
without vetting and ICE can't arrest criminal illegal aliens in courthouses. These Democrats are destroying the country.
Democrats
pass bill to STOP Trump from going to war without their approval. House Democrats passed an appropriations bill
Wednesday that includes a measure that would block Donald Trump from using the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force
to go to war with Iran as tensions with Tehran continue to rise. The 11-line measure, approved as part of a nearly $1 trillion
appropriations bill that includes funding for the military, health programs and the Energy Department, will likely be struck down
in the Republican-controlled Senate. It's reasonable to anticipate that Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, would not
send the version of this bill to the president's desk — especially since it takes away power from the presidency.
The Editor says...
Such a law already exists. It's called Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. It's just a shame that
elected Members of Congress don't know about it.
Dems'
New Strategy To Defeat Executive Privilege: Subpoena Randos! After the John Dean debacle, Washington Post columnist Karen
Tumulty lamented, "Is this the best Democrats can do?" Staging stunt hearings is apparently the only thing Democrats can do.
Without
Mining There Is No 'Green Revolution'. The recent threats by Beijing to cut off American access to critical
mineral imports have many Americans wondering why our politicians have allowed the United States to become so overly
dependent on China for these valued resources in the first place. [...] The U.S. Geological Survey reports that we still have
about 86% of key mineral resources such as copper and zinc remaining in the ground, waiting to be mined. These
resources aren't on environmentally sensitive lands, such as national parks, but on the millions of acres of federal, state
and private lands. The mining isn't happening because of extremely prohibitive environmental rules and a permitting
process that can take five to 10 years to open a new mine. Green groups simply resist almost all new drilling.
Democrats
Block Emergency Funding for Border Crisis. Democratic Senator Pat Leahy bluntly told GOP Senators that
Democrats are blocking $4.5 billion needed to manage the Central American migration emergency until Republicans
submit to their pro-migration demands.
The Open Border Extremists.
Since he was inaugurated, President Trump has been searching for solutions to the immigration problem and most —
nearly all — of what he's tried to do has been thwarted by the Dems and court actions.
Democrats
go dumpster diving for William Barr contempt. Democrats finally formally introduced what they've been
threatening to introduce for weeks now: their latest lame-road attempt to derail President Donald Trump's presidency.
They call it a contempt resolution. It's aimed at holding Attorney General William Barr and ex-White House counsel Don McGahn
in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over documents that would put Barr in violation of the law — the full,
unredacted findings of special counsel Robert Mueller, the ones that contain protected grand jury statements.
California
City Officials Fight To Keep Chick-Fil-A From Doing Business. Another city has taken up the torch in the Left's
ongoing quest to hound fast-food giant Chick-fil-A. "A San Mateo County official is pushing to stop a Chick-fil-A
restaurant from opening up in Redwood City," reports CBS Local news. "The McDonald's restaurant on Whipple could soon
be tuning into a Chick-fil-A, making it the chain's 13th restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area." San Mateo County
supervisor David Canepa told reporters he is seeking to prevent the restaurant from obtaining an "architectural permit" due
to its founder, Dan Cathy, previously expressing support for traditional marriage and for donating funds to pro-marriage groups.
Why Are Democrats
Obstructing Justice? In what can only be described as legitimate obstruction of justice, unlike the vague
allegations against Donald Trump in the Mueller report, Democrats are frustrating Barr's investigative efforts with a number
of procedural maneuvers coupled with public ad hominem attacks against the attorney general. Panicked over a White
House directive that would permit the declassification of key documents related to the FBI probe, House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) encouraged top intelligence officials to quit rather than submit to Trump's
request.
The
Democrats are preventing Trump from securing the border. President Donald Trump has announced that he will impose a
5 percent tariff on goods imported from Mexico on June 10, 2019, unless Mexico takes effective action before then to
dramatically reduce the number of Central American migrants crossing its territory to reach the United States. If the
crisis continues, Trump said he will raise the tariff every month until it reaches 25 percent in October. This is a
dramatic shift from his previous border security measures, such as a border wall. The money for those projects would
have come from federal taxes. Voters wouldn't have been impacted directly. The tariff, however, will raise the
cost of groceries, cars, and many other consumer goods. Voters will notice, and they won't be happy about it.
Jerry
Nadler Starts The Mueller Hearings And His First Witness Is Hilariously Bad. Jerry Nadler, Chairman of the
House Judiciary Committee, has decided he's moving forward with hearings on the Mueller report. Because we must get to
the bottom of what happened, according to Democrats, and 400+ pages from the Mueller report just won't do. In reality,
this is a partisan exercise with no real end game except to drag the issue out into the 2020 election.
Adam
Schiff Demands Authority Over Executive Branch Declassification, and Advanced Warning of Investigative Content.
First, the executive branch controls the declassification process unilaterally. The legislative branch can request
briefings; and customarily the executive informs the 'gang of eight' (when needed) on matters of intelligence releases.
However, the legislative branch has no authority over the independent decisions/purposes of the executive in that
regard. Second [Mr. Schiff] claims the Declassification Directive is inappropriate because President Trump has
empowered the U.S. Attorney General with discretionary decision-making; while Schiff simultaneously avoids/manipulates the
inherent conflict avoided by President Trump in granting discretionary decision-making authority to the AG.
Trump
Finally Has the Wind at his Back. President Donald Trump has been sailing into the wind, against the tide,
dragging an anchor, for the first two years of his presidency. And despite these hindrances, he is presiding over a
booming economy and record low unemployment, circumstances that were said to be unattainable without a magic wand, according
to the last president. [...] The wind against him has been the virtually nonstop negative media coverage each and every
day. Not just anti-Trump spin, but actual fake news. Media outlets bristle when accused of peddling fake news,
but one has to only look to last weekend for the latest example. Time columnist Ian Bremmer fabricated a Trump
quote and set it loose in the Twitterverse, only to be immediately retweeted by other Trump haters like CNN's Ana Navarro,
before being deleted. No contrition was offered since in their view the quote "could have" been true.
CNN's
Cooper Complains About FB After They Won't Remove Funny Pelosi Parody Video. For the past two years, what have
Democrats accomplished? Resist, investigate, whine, divide, project promote identity politics, whine, lie, deceive, and
lay false accusations. Did I mention whine? I may have missed a few things here, but what have they accomplished?
Federal
judge blocks Trump from using Defense funds for parts of border wall. A federal judge on Friday night
[5/24/2019] blocked President Donald Trump from tapping into Defense Department funds to build parts of his US-Mexico border
wall. In a 56-page ruling, Judge Haywood Gilliam of the Northern District of California blocked the administration from
moving forward with specific projects in Texas and Arizona, saying Trump couldn't disburse the funds without congressional
approval. The lawsuit that prompted the ruling was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the
plaintiffs, the Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition. Although Friday's ruling does not prevent the
Trump administration from using funds from other sources to build the projects, it's a setback for the President on a
signature agenda item that has consistently been thwarted by Democrats in Congress.
AG
Barr Joins VP Pence, Also Says 'Nationwide Injunctions' Are Unconstitutional. This week, Attorney General
William Barr joined Vice President Mike Pence in condemning the harrowing recent rise of "nationwide injunctions" as
anti-constitutional judicial power grabs that disturb the carefully calibrated separation of powers system that the
Constitution's Framers so sagaciously devised. [...] As a factual and historical matter, Barr is completely correct about
the anti-constitutional remedy having only recently increased so dramatically in its judicial deployment.
Democrats' Wall Funding Lawsuit Runs Into a Skeptical U.S.
Judge. A U.S. House of Representatives attempt to block President Donald Trump from spending about $6.1 billion
on a southern border wall ran into what could be a major obstacle of its own Thursday — a skeptical federal judge.
The Democrat-led chamber asked U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden in Washington to bar the administration from reallocating the
money from other Defense Department projects in the wake of Congress's outright refusal to give the president all the funding he
sought for the project. But the judge — a 2017 Trump nominee — had reservations, opining at the outset
about an apparent lack of legal precedent and whether courts are the right forum for resolving disputes between the executive and
legislative branches.
Democrats
aren't interested in legislating, and Trump knows it. Politics is a business of trade-offs, and I don't know a
single person who would give me something I want if they know I'm going to go on TV immediately after and call them a lying
criminal. But that's what Democrats are asking for. The endless probes into Trump's 2016 campaign and the Russia
collusion that never was, his tax history, and his personal business is exactly today what it was two years ago:
political. It has worked. Trump's presidency is handicapped by the accusation that he worked with Russia to steal
the 2016 election, even if he was cleared. There's a perpetual cloud over the White House with Democrats pushing
conspiracy theories about Trump and his family, their businesses, and personal lives.
Trump
Correctly Cannot Work Productively With People Aiming to Destroy Him. Anyone who ever has been in any business
or profession knows the difference between the challenges of trying to get something done with others who have differing,
even competing, goals versus the utter impossibility of accomplishing anything serious and meaningful with people bent
on personal vendettas of destruction. When Trump tries to engineer a revamped trade deal with Mexico and Canada, he
knows that each side will negotiate to achieve its respective goals. [...] By contrast, when dealing with Democrats driven by
an insane desire to impeach Trump or "at least" to destroy him personally — to ferret through his personal taxes,
to go after his family and associates, to concoct one hoax after another aimed at bringing down his very reputation and raising
preposterous specters regarding treasonous collusion with enemies or engaging in "cover-ups" — there is no point in
his proceeding with them. No matter what is agreed, they ultimately will sabotage him and the agreement.
Jerry Nadler's cynical, cowardly
show. Jerry Nadler was at it again Tuesday [5/21/2019], waxing indignant about former White House counsel Don McGahn's refusal to
testify before the House Judiciary Committee. It's all a show, meant to keep old news in the headlines, and to appease the large "Impeach
Now!" wing of the Democratic Party without actually doing anything. Everyone on Judiciary knows perfectly well that Congress can't compel
testimony from top presidential advisers except in the most extraordinary circumstances: The chief executive's right to frank, confidential
discussions with his staff is well-established. So Nadler's bluster about how he'll "go to court to secure" McGahn's appearance is just
noise for the cameras.
Obsessive
Democrats like Nadler and Schiff are a plague upon this nation. After the 2016 election, the disease broke out
throughout the Democratic Party, infecting millions of progressives who had confidently assumed that Hillary Clinton would be
their president. Unable to accept their loss, they descended into a depression of their own making. Those first
afflicted, James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Robert Mueller, et al., rather than do their due diligence to stop the
epidemic they had begun, doubled down and did everything they could to exacerbate the plague. For nearly three years now,
this truth-resistant cancer has eaten away at our body politic. So blighted are the Democrats in Congress that they have
been unable to perform any of their duties as representatives of their constituents.
Obama
Judge: Congress Can Subpoena Trump's Personal Finances. House Democrats are pursuing members of the
president's family and private family-owned businesses, demanding banking records and financial statements. As part of
this partisan attack strategy, two committees in the U.S. House of Representatives controlled by Democrats — the
Financial Services Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence — issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and
Capitol One Bank for at least ten years of records involving President Trump's children, the children's spouses, and various
family businesses including the Trump Organization.
Trump's
agenda hampered by troubling number of lower court injunctions, Barr says. Attorney General William Barr on
Tuesday said he has noticed a troubling trend of nationwide injunctions issued by lower courts that have taken their toll on
President Trump's agenda and threaten the political process for future administrations. Barr, who has been accused by
Democrats of protecting Trump after the release of the Mueller report, told the American Law Institute that there is a new
trend of judicial "willingness" to review executive action, which injects courts into the political process. He pointed
to the district court in California that in January 2018 issued a temporary injunction to block the Trump administration from
ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
Contempt
vote on hold as House takes 'inventory' of additional contempt charges against Trump administration.
Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said Wednesday [5/15/2019] the House won't take up a contempt measure against anyone in the Trump
administration before the Memorial Day recess, which would push off any action until June at the earliest. Hoyer, told
reporters Democrats are waiting to "take an inventory," of more contempt charges against Trump administration officials
related to the president's refusal to fully cooperate with sweeping House investigations by six different committees.
Trump
vs. Congress Isn't a 'Constitutional Crisis,' It's How the Constitution Is Designed to Work. House
Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi say we are now in a "constitutional crisis" because
Attorney General William Barr declined to comply with a Judiciary Committee subpoena for the unredacted Mueller Report and
underlying materials based on President Trump's assertion of executive privilege. The Judiciary Committee responded by
recommending, with a party-line vote, that Barr be held in contempt. The Democrats' pronouncement comes amidst other
disputes between the executive and legislative Branches: Barr's no-show at a Judiciary Committee hearing; the Treasury
Department's refusal to provide the House Ways & Means Committee with Trump's business and personal tax information; and the
unresolved effort by the House Intelligence Committee to get the full Mueller Report, ostensibly for counterintelligence purposes.
Democrats
Continue Presidential Harassment — Committee Chair Subpoenas Trump's Tax Returns. Democrat House
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal issued a subpoena Friday for President Trump's tax returns. Demmocrats
want the billionaire's returns so they can find something to attack him with. Trump knows this and refuses to release them.
This
'Constitutional Crisis' Has Been Completely Contrived By #Resistance Democrats. At this very moment, there is a
virtually redaction-free version of the Mueller report available to Nadler and other top Democrats. In this version,
supplied by the Justice Department in deference to Democrats' demand for more transparency, the sum total of the redaction in
Volume II of the Mueller report — the part Democrats say they are most interested in because it deals with
obstruction of justice — is two full lines of text and seven partial lines of text. That document is sitting
in a secure room in the House. Yet not a single Democrat has bothered to look at it.
New
York State Making Moves To Give Congress Access To Some Of Trump's Taxes. With President Donald Trump not
playing the Democrats' impeachment games (and rightfully so), states have done their part in fighting this administration.
Washington State and New Jersey have passed laws keeping presidential candidates off the ballot if they don't release their
taxes. Well, it's not like any Republican candidate was going to win those states anyway, but it's all part of the two-year
long temper tantrum over Hillary Clinton's shocking election loss in 2016. Taxes remain another front in the ongoing crusade
to impeach Trump. Democrats don't have Russian collusion anymore; that was nuked by the Mueller report. They're still
clinging to obstruction of justice, but there's not enough evidence to pursue charges, as determined by Attorney General William
Barr and soon-to-be-ex Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
No
Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans Publicly Stand Up for Richard Burr's Rogue Donald Trump Jr. Subpoena.
Not one GOP senator on the Senate Intelligence Committee was willing to publicly align himself or herself on Wednesday evening [5/8/2019]
with the panel's chairman, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), after Burr made the determination, against indications from Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell, to issue a subpoena to Donald Trump Jr. to testify again on the Russia probe. News broke late Wednesday
afternoon that Burr had issued Trump, Jr. a subpoena to try to compel the president's eldest son to testify again. The subpoena
is in contravention of a previous promise Burr made to Trump, Jr. that he would only need to testify once and would not be subpoenaed,
and it contradicts McConnell's edict on Tuesday that the Russia hoax is "case closed" after two years of investigating with no evidence
of collusion or obstruction.
Why
are so many Democrats so reprehensible in exactly the same way? [Eric] Holder actually was in contempt of Congress for
authentic scandals involving deaths of Americans, such as Operation Fast and Furious. Barr is not. Unlike Holder, Barr is
the smartest lawyer in the room. He knows, as does any sentient legal scholar, that to give the House Judiciary Committee what they are
asking for — names of intelligence assets, legally protected grand jury testimony — would be breaking the law. The Democrats with
their handmaidens in the media are manufacturing a "constitutional crisis" simply to hound the president and prolong the collusion hoax as
long as possible.
Congress
contempt citations pretty toothless, says Brit Hume. Eric Holder, Lois Lerner proved that. There are a
lot of growls and roars coming from congressional lions of the Democrat party, such as Rep. Jerrold Nadler, over
Attorney General Bill Barr's refusal to comply with their demands that he turn over documents and appear before the hostile
House Judiciary Committee. The thing about that, according to Brit Hume of Fox News, is that none other than the Obama
AG Eric Holder proved congressional contempt citations are toothless. On Wednesday [5/8/2019], the House Judiciary
Committee, chaired by Nadler, is set to vote on whether to hold AG Barr in contempt of Congress, specifically for refusing to
comply with a subpoena for the full, unredacted Mueller report.
Ilhan
Omar Boasts: I'm Trump's 'Biggest Nemesis'. Speaking with The Huffington Post, Rep. Ilhan Omar, who
has made numerous anti-Semtic and anti-America remarks, bragged that she is President Trump's "biggest nemesis." Omar
boasted, "This is a president who has come to power because he was very much willing to vilify and demonize immigrants and
refugees. He so proudly said we should halt Muslims from entering our country. He clearly has a disdain for black
women who see themselves as equal to him. And so, for many people, it's not a surprise that he finds his biggest
nemesis in me. Clearly, I am a nightmare — because he can't stop really thinking about ways that he can
continue to use my identity to marginalize our communities."
The Brainwashing
of a Nation. The "Resistance" isn't a political movement. It's a political cult whose crisis was the 2016
election. Its irrational belief that Trump is a Russian agent is typical of the conspiratorial mindset of cults.
Its inability to understand that its convictions are completely irrational show how brainwashing works. The 2016
election inflicted on its members a loss of control. Trump became the crisis embodying their loss of control.
Their fear, guilt and anger induced stress that altered their behavior and beliefs. And, within the very recent past,
millions came to believe that Trump was really working for Moscow. This is brainwashing on a timescale so immediate
that we can easily recall it. Yet most of us have trouble understanding how it works and why it works.
California
moves to keep Trump off 2020 primary ballot. The California Legislature is trying again to force presidential
candidates to publicly disclose their tax returns, hoping a new Democratic governor known for his clashes with President
Donald Trump won't block them this time.
The
Latest: San Francisco sues Trump over conscience rights. The city of San Francisco is suing the Trump
administration over its new regulation allowing health care professionals to opt out of providing treatments they oppose.
Tom
Cotton: No, Jerry Nadler's Tactics Aren't Normal Procedure. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry
Nadler is threatening to subpoena Attorney General Bill Barr. Barr threatened to back out of scheduled and voluntary
testimony on Thursday after Nadler changed the ground rules for the hearing. Nadler wants Committee attorneys, in
addition to lawmakers, to ask questions about the Mueller report. He argues this is standard practice and that Barr
should comply. But according to Republican Senator Tom Cotton, who used to be in the House, Nadler's demands for this
format style are unusual.
Inside
the EPA's 'resistance room,' where Trump was never president and climate change is real. No such
thing. That was the verdict delivered by the security guard inside the Ronald Reagan Building on the question of
whether there existed a museum of the Environmental Protection Agency and, more to the point, whether that museum was
somewhere within this airy warren of federal offices in downtown Washington. In fact, she appeared to regard the
question as downright insane. Actually, there was — and is, as of this writing at least —
such a thing as an EPA museum. The security guard looked on with annoyed concession as this reporter produced on his
phone seemingly incontrovertible evidence that not only did an EPA museum exist in the reality-based community, it existed
inside the Reagan Building, which is adjacent to the EPA's headquarters (and just a few hundred feet from the Trump
International Hotel).
Obama-Era
Judge Slams the Brakes on Trump Order to Open Fed Lands to Coal Mining. A federal judge in Montana delayed a
Trump administration attempt to open up more federal lands to coal mining Friday [4/19/2019], The New York Times
reported. U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris ruled that the Trump administration illegally overturned a moratorium
placed on coal mining on federal lands by former President Barack Obama. Obama instated the policy in 2016 as part of
his administration's environmental agenda to cut coal usage.
Obama
judge blocks Trump from keeping illegals in Mexico. Democrat obstruction of the presidency continues as
Obama-appointee Judge Richard Seeborg sided with a liberal group in stopping President Donald John Trump from executing his
constitutional duty as commander in chief. Seeborg is the same obstructionist judge who earlier blocked the Trump
administration from restoring the citizenship question on the census that Obama had unilaterally removed in the 2010
Census. That unconstitutional decision is on appeal.
Ineffective
Democrat subpoenas. A House panel voted yesterday [4/3/2019] to authorize subpoenas to obtain Robert Mueller's full report
on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The vote was strictly along party lines. Democrats aren't going to
issue the subpoena yet. First, they will negotiate with the Justice Department. But Democrats are holding a
losing hand. This subpoena, like all the others House Democrats are thinking about issuing, cannot, in all likelihood,
be effectively enforced. The normal enforcement mechanism for a subpoena is to cite for contempt the party that refuses
to comply. But it's up to the Justice Department to prosecute that case. The DOJ isn't going to prosecute its head.
Estrada's Revenge.
Largely as a result of unprecedented Democratic obstructionism in the United States Senate, President Trump has yet to staff
many executive positions in his administration or fill many judicial vacancies. This afternoon comes word that the
Republican majority has finally altered Senate rules to reduce debate time on most presidential nominees by reducing
post-cloture debate. They have done so by exercising what the media refer to as the "nuclear option" — what
should probably be known as the Harry Reid option — under which a Senate majority changes the Senate rules.
Senator
Amy Klobuchar's Claims about Post-Cloture Debate Shouldn't Go Unchallenged. The Senate today began the process
of addressing one of the tactics Democrats have used to slow the confirmation process. It voted on a resolution that
would limit the time available for debate after the chamber has voted to bring debate to a close. Speaking against the
change earlier today, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), made claims that cannot go unchallenged. Senate Rule 22 provides
a process for invoking cloture, or ending debate. This process includes the voting on a motion that asks: "Is it
the sense of the Senate that the debate shall be brought to a close?" If that motion passes, Rule 22 currently allows
up to 30 more hours of debate before a final vote on confirmation.
House
Dem asks IRS for 6 years of Trump's tax returns, setting up showdown with White House. President Trump
responded with a dismissive taunt on Wednesday after a House committee chairman formally requested the IRS provide several
years of his personal and business tax returns, in a move that prompted congressional Republicans to warn that Democrats had
"weaponized" tax law. Told by a reporter at the White House that Democrats wanted six years of his tax returns, Trump
replied: "Is that all? Usually it's 10. So I guess they're giving up. We're under audit, despite
what people said, and we're working that out — I'm always under audit, it seems, but I've been under audit for many
years, because the numbers are big, and I guess when you have a name, you're audited. But until such time as I'm not
under audit, I would not be inclined to do that."
The Editor says...
[#1] What the President did with his tax returns six years ago is irrelevant and immaterial to his performance as President.
[#2] Two can play this game, and Mr. Trump could easily use his critics' tax returns to counter anything they find in his.
Finally!
Mitch McConnell shuts down Democrats' obstruction of confirmation of Trump appointees. Because of unprecedented
abuse of Senate rules, two and a half years into his presidency, President Trump has not been able to put all of his own
qualified, confirmable appointees into senior-level positions. This obstructionism has allowed Obama administration
holdovers to obstruct and sabotage implementation of his policies (and to leak to the media). Senate Democrats have
cynically exploited the Senate rules allowing 30 hours of debate of each appointee to slow down the staffing of his
administration. Finally, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell yesterday pushed through a majority-vote measure that
changes those rules, limiting debate to two hours per appointment. The same trick has been used to limit the
confirmation of federal judges, and those rules also have been changed.
Democrats
hate Trump more than they want to keep our country safe and secure. For decades, presidents along with scores
of Members of Congress from both political parties have been in agreement that our nation's immigration system is broken and
that a crisis is brewing at our southern border. During his historic 2016 campaign for the presidency, Donald J. Trump,
the ultimate political outsider, made border security and building a beautiful border wall the signature issue of his
candidacy. President Trump appealed to hardworking American citizen-taxpayers from coast to coast who were elated that
there was finally a candidate with the courage to confront the failed status quo by stopping illegal immigration and
reforming the ridiculous chain migration and visa lottery systems. During the first two years of his presidency,
President Trump has never wavered on his commitment to secure our porous southern border. Much to the dismay of the
D.C. swamp creatures, he's determined to make good on his promise to solve the existential threat at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Obama
Judge Decrees That Obama's Decisions Are Permanent and President Trump Can't Change Them. In the late December
2016, just a few weeks before his term of maladministration and race-baiting ended, Barack Obama decided to take one more
shot at the country he despised above all others. By executive order, he banned drilling in large swaths of the
Arctic. This had been done by past presidents, but always with a time lime. Obama, being the Lightworker, desired
his decisions to have immortality and he banned drilling in perpetuity. Shortly after he was sworn in, President Trump
issued an executive order overturning Obama's executive order an opening the Arctic to exploration and drilling. The
enviro-nazis sued and yesterday an Obama-appointed judge in Alaska handed down a surprising, yet unsurprising, decision that
because Obama had intended for his ban to last forever, it could not be changed by any other president, but only by act of
Congress.
Judge
tosses Trump executive order, restores Obama drilling ban. President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when
he reversed bans on offshore drilling in vast parts of the Arctic Ocean and dozens of canyons in the Atlantic Ocean, a U.S.
judge said in a ruling that restored the Obama-era restrictions.
Judge scraps Trump
order for Arctic, Atlantic oil leasing. A federal judge in Alaska has overturned U.S. President Donald Trump's
attempt to open vast areas of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans to oil and gas leasing. [3/29/2019]
Six
Dems Submitted A Letter To Barr Saying... Six Democratic Congressmen who chair various committees on Monday [3/25/2019]
sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr formally requesting Special Counsel Mueller's "full report." "Each of our
committees is currently engaged in oversight activities that go directly to the President's conduct, his attempts to interfere
with federal and congressional investigations, his relations and communications with the Russian government and other foreign
powers, and/or other alleged instances of misconduct," the letter reads. According to the Committee Chairmen, Barr's
summary is "not sufficient for Congress, as a coequal branch of government, to perform this critical work."
House
Democrats Are Relentlessly Harassing the President with Abusive Investigations. [Scroll down] In October
of 2018, Koppel got under the skin of CNN's Brian Stelter when he said that the network's ratings would be in the toilet if
it weren't for Donald Trump, despite the anti-Trump bias that oozes from the television set. It's all part of a rather
funny dynamic. The media hates Trump, but they get rating boosts when they broadcast his rallies, which in turn could
help him win re-election in 2020.
House
Democrats pass yet another laughable measure. It's pretty clear that the Democratic caucus that runs the House
of Representatives has a low opinion of the intelligence of the American public, but a measure passed Tuesday takes the cake
when it comes to wasting the taxpayers' time, attention span, and money. At least the media have done them the favor of
largely ignoring it. Intoxicated with the idea of investigating President Trump right out of office, until yesterday,
they were able to cling to some pretense of plausibility, even if making ridiculous (and financially ruinous) demands on
anyone associated with President Trump, including his children. Those constraints no longer apply.
Pentagon
Issues 2020 Budget Request To Strengthen American Military. Dems Will Likely Oppose It. The Trump administration has
been determined to restore the American military to strength, and the Democrats taking the House of Representatives may impede that
mission. As far back as June 2017, former Secretary of Defense James Mattis stated that he was shocked at the state of the
American military's readiness.
Nadler
leading Cold War-style 'inquisition' against Trump, House Judiciary panel's ranking Republican says. The top
Republican on the House Judiciary Committee unloaded on the panel's chairman, Jerry Nadler, in a fiery letter on Thursday [3/7/2019],
accusing the New York Democrat of conducting an unconstitutional "inquisition" into President Trump and his associates "reminiscent
of Eastern regimes during the Cold War." Nadler, who would oversee any impeachment proceedings against President Trump, this
week announced dozens of document requests — including to the National Rifle Association, WikiLeaks and key figures in the
Trump Organization — in a barrage that Nadler called the opening salvo in new and wide-ranging investigations into the
White House. Georgia Republican Rep. Doug Collins, the ranking member on the committee, charged that Nadler's investigation
runs "afoul of nearly 150 years of Supreme Court precedent and over 200 years of oversight conducted by this committee."
None of this is normal.
Half a dozen House committees with Democrats in charge are investigating Trump, his administration, family, appointees, political affairs,
businesses, lifestyle, and various antics. This is abnormal. There's never been an offensive so vast against a president by his
rival party. It took only two committees — one in the Senate, one in the House — to look into the Watergate scandal and
drive President Nixon out of the White House in 1974. But Trump is more popular today than Nixon was, and Democrats are taking
no chances he might escape their grasp.
Ninth
Circuit Has Just Made Deportation Of Illegals Nearly Impossible. On RedState, we've posted repeatedly on how a
small number of hyper-partisan judges are using the cover of a legal decision to impose their preferred policy goals on the
nation by way of nationwide injunctions and are working actively to stymie any effort by the Trump administration to create
its own policies. While malicious decisions have affected all manner of programs, they are most pronounced and frequent
in those areas most cherished by progressives, in particular, immigration. In its very first days, the Trump administration
was forbidden to place any limits on travel to the US from failed states or state sponsors of terrorism. It took several
trips to the Supreme Court before the Resistance was overcome. One of the most egregious was the decision to forbid the
Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This program, patently illegal
and created by a simple memorandum signed by Janet Napolitano, should have been easily quashed, but it wasn't. Now at least
three federal judges have taken the position that a memo written four Homeland Security secretaries ago cannot be rescinded.
"Show me the man and I'll find you the crime."
House
Democrats using extreme tactics. House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) — formerly of Framingham — are everything thing that's wrong
with Washington. Consumed with hate toward the president, the partisan hacks are leading a scorched-earth campaign by
waging endless investigations against President Trump, his family and associates. Unsatisfied that multiple extensive
congressional investigations have found zero evidence of "Russian collusion" with the 2016 Trump campaign —
despite Democrats telling us and every media outlet otherwise — they're now shifting their focus to Trump's
business dealings, taxes, former charitable foundation and virtually every aspect of his life.
G-Men
Out of Control. Every nomination to the Supreme Court is now a pitched battle replete with paid demonstrators at hearings
and extensive campaigns of character assassination, but that court has sat inert as practically all the Bill of Rights' constitutional
assurances of due process, prompt and impartial justice, and the avoidance of capricious prosecutions have been abandoned. It is
in this, as other civilized jurisdictions would consider it, tenuous state of the rule of law that the antics of the Comey-McCabe FBI
and Brennan-Clapper intelligence direction, and their partisan effort to bend the law to install Hillary Clinton as president and
sandbag Donald Trump, should be considered.
Schumer
pledges to defund Trump's 'fake climate panel'. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed Tuesday to defund
any effort by the Trump administration to form an advisory committee on climate change, calling it a "fake climate panel."
His floor remarks came after multiple media outlets reported that the White House is assembling a group of science advisers,
including those who cast doubt on worst-case climate scenarios, to assess the federal government's findings on global warming.
The
Resistance is Everything They Accuse Trump of Being. The fictitious dossier, written by a foreign spy citing unnamed Russian
intelligence sources, was deployed to smear Trump. When the dossier failed to defeat him, it was used to justify endless investigations,
congressional hearings, and ominous news coverage that hobbled his presidency, wrecked his efforts to improve relations with Russia and greatly
diminished voters' confidence in our democracy. Only after this witch-hunt was set in motion was it revealed that the bogus dossier was
a product of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Rep.
Schiff Warns of Subpoenas, Lawsuit Over Mueller Report. A top House Democrat threatened on Sunday to call
special counsel Robert Mueller to Capitol Hill, subpoena documents and sue the Trump administration if the full report on
Mueller's Russia investigation is not made public.
Adam
Schiff has collusion problems of his own. [Rep. Adam] Schiff has kept up the pressure in Congress that's
led to endless investigative hearings and the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But he may have played a
bigger role in all this than anyone realized. Last summer, as John Solomon noted recently, Schiff was spotted openly
talking with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson in Aspen, Colorado. This, of course, leads to many new questions about
Schiff's affiliation and involvement with Fusion GPS. Was this the first time he met with Glenn Simpson? What is
his past history with one of the more significant characters in the Russia-collusion hoax? Schiff is still working to
hold up the increasingly waterlogged tent of the "collusion" story.
The
shrinking states sue Trump. As expected, many of the blue states are challenging President Trump in the 9th
Circuit. Again, it's not a shock for those who understand "judge-shopping." The states are California, New York,
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico,
Oregon, and Virginia. So let the lawsuit go forward, and we will see what happens.
Why
is Trump, and not Obama, the so-called 'dictator'? Trump has tried to get sanctuary cities and states to comply
with immigration law and cooperate with ICE, but he has been blocked by Democrats and complicit judges. Trump is
essentially trying to enforce immigration laws Congress passed and is being thwarted at every turn. Democrats have
declared that illegal aliens crossing the border had to be stopped in the past, but have never followed through. Now
they are absolute obstructionists.
What We Still Have to
Lose. These are dangerous times. The Left has made them so and insists on increasing the danger.
Leftists hold virtually every commanding height in our society — financial, intellectual, educational, cultural,
administrative — and yet they affect the posture of an oppressed and besieged "resistance." Nonsense.
The real resistance is led by President Trump. It is resistance to the Left's all-consuming drive for absolute power,
its hostility to all American and Western norms — constitutional, moral, prudential — and its boundless
destructive enmity. [...] The president stands clearly and firmly against these virulent attacks on America and firmly for
the protection of life and liberty, and the promotion of the good life for the American people. Those are the core
responsibilities of any American president.
Dems
Blocked Steve Scalise From Testifying on Gun Violence. House Democrats blocked Republican Whip Steve Scalise
from testifying at a hearing on "gun violence" this week despite being a victim of a shooting. The reason? He
doesn't support new gun control measures Democrats are hoping to pass with their new majority. "It was pretty bizarre.
Historically when Republicans were in charge, even when Democrats were in charge prior to this more radical leftist majority, if
a member of Congress wanted to testify on a committee, they always provided a venue for that to happen," Scalise said. "In
this case they were holding a hearing in the Judiciary on reducing gun violence and I've got a perspective clearly mine dealt with
something that happened to me and I saw how guns were used to save people's lives. It should have been able to be part of
the testimony. They wanted to focus on taking away the rights of law abiding citizens which their bill ultimately does."
Senate
Dems block bill requiring medical care for abortion survivors. The Democratic Party seems to be willing to
protect not just late-term abortions, but killing of babies who survive the attempt on their lives. Governor Ralph
Northam's cold-blooded explanation of allowing parents and doctors to discuss whether or not to finish off the victim, as
part of the bill sponsored by Democrat Kathy Tran, shocked most people who heard about it — those who don't rely
on the mainstream media.
Senate
Democrats Try to Block 'Emergency Funds' For President Trump's Border Wall. Senate Democrats introduced a bill
Monday to block 'emergency funds' for President Trump's border wall. The legislation, sponsored by Senator Tom Udall
(D-NM), would prevent President Trump from using funds from the Army Corps of Engineers or the Department of Defense's
military accounts to be used to fund his border wall should he declare a national emergency.
NJ
Dems Propose Legislation To Potentially Remove Trump's Name From 2020 Ballot. Lawmakers in New Jersey have revived
legislation intended to keep President Donald Trump's name off the ballot in 2020. Democrats have targeted Trump with a
proposal that "requires candidates for President and Vice-President of United States to disclose federal income tax returns
to appear on ballot" and "prohibits Electoral College electors from voting for candidates who fail to file income tax returns."
As he has yet to disclose his tax returns, President Trump's name, if all things were to stay the same, would not appear on the
ballot in the Garden State come 2020 if the bill were to pass.
Dems
are trying to Bork and Kavanaugh appeals court nominee Neomi Rao. Neomi Rao is the nominee to fill the vacancy
created on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals created when Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court after a vicious
campaign against him. Rao's Judiciary Committee hearing is Tuesday, February 5. Senate Democrats and liberal
interest groups are trying to attack Rao in order to damage her prospects for a future Supreme Court nomination and to serve
as a warning that if she is nominated, they will Bork and Kavanaugh her.
Senate
Dems introduce bill to block Trump from using military funds to build wall. Senate Democrats introduced
legislation on Monday to prevent President Trump from using military and disaster relief funds to construct the U.S.-Mexico
border wall should he declare a national emergency. The legislation would prevent Trump from using funding from the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works funds and military construction funding "for the construction of barriers, land
acquisition, or any other associated activities on the southern border without specific statutory authorization from
Congress" if he declared a national emergency. Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) said that while an emergency declaration to
construct the U.S.-Mexico border wall would be challenged in court, "Congress should not wait for the courts to act."
President
Fires a Shot Over the Bow of Obstructionist, Pro-Crime Democrats. President Trump is growing impatient over the
lack of progress bipartisan negotiators in Congress have been making in talks over funding a desperately needed wall on the
nation's porous multi-state border with Mexico — and this continuing failure makes another government shutdown increasingly
likely this Feb. 15. The GOP-controlled House of Representatives voted 217 to 185 on Dec. 20 for a spending bill with
$5.7 billion for the wall. The measure floundered in the Senate and the partial shutdown got underway Dec. 22.
The Senate remains in Republican hands but the House is now controlled by Democrats.
How
long are we going to tolerate the sliming of decent people? You'd think they would learn: assassinating the character
of a decent person, just because you disagree with their politics, will not turn out the way you hoped. After their failure to prevent
the elevation of Justice Brett Kavanagh to the Supreme Court, the left is now going after Neomi Rao, who is the Trump administration's nominee
to the important D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. With Kavanagh, they went back to his high school yearbook, searching desperately for
anything that would slime his teenage character. With Rao, they've gone to her college writing!
Obstructionist
Democrats vow lawsuit if Trump declares wall emergency. Obstructionist open-borders Democrats will promptly
file a lawsuit to halt the building of a desperately needed wall on the nation's porous multi-state border with Mexico if
President Trump declares a national emergency to move forward with construction, the new chairman of the House Armed Services
Committee is threatening. White House aides have reportedly prepared an executive declaration that gives the president
the ability to redirect billions of dollars in military construction and flood-control funds.
It's Time to Get Real
About Our Enemies. There is more to #TheResistance than the political panic inspired by the likes of House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). They are riding a monster not of their own making.
In order to survive, they are providing cover and normalization of something not at all normal. Conservative pundits have
latched onto the fun words "hysteria" and "Trump derangement syndrome." These words, though cute, mask the seriousness of
what is actually happening. The mass hysteria is a goal and a tactic, whipped up by cool-headed, purposeful people.
It was not caused by Trump's tweets or orange coloring. It has everything to do with a long game to change our country.
The exaggerated, weird loathing of President Trump and all Republicans — that flies in the face of our peace and
prosperity — is the daily work of thousands of professional leftists.
Democrats
Block GOP Attempts to Pay Federal Workers During Shutdown. House Republicans voted twice over the past two
weeks to pay federal workers during the partial shutdown. Democrats went on tropical spas during the shutdown but won't
pay government employees. They know the liberal media will carry their water.
Senator
Lindsey Graham to Investigate Obama and Hillary Scandals. Since taking over the House, Democrats have promised
to open the investigation floodgates. If Donald Trump or anyone in his administration ever so much as misplaced a paper
clip, you can be sure there would be hearings. When the Mueller probe reveals that there is no evidence of Russian
collusion, they will start their own investigation, no doubt. Their main objective is to make sure Trump is not
reelected, and in the meantime, they will do everything they can to make it impossible for him to govern. To them, that
is called transparency and accountability.
Schumer
blocks bill to pay Coast Guard. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) blocked a request to pay the
Coast Guard on Thursday after Republicans refused to also open the rest of the federal government. Sen. John
Kennedy (R-La.) tried to take up legislation to pay the Coast Guard, which is part of the Department of Homeland
Security. Schumer blocked the request after first asking if Kennedy would modify his request to instead reopen the
quarter of the government currently closed.
Trump's
State of the Union address is still not happening Tuesday despite shutdown ending, Pelosi says. Despite
President Donald Trump ending the government shutdown, his State of the Union address is still up in the air. One thing
is for sure, however: It's not going to take place on Tuesday as originally planned. "It's not happening on
1/29," said Drew Hammill, a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi and the Caucus of Crazy.
Less than a month after regaining their majority in the House of Representatives, the Democrats have already demonstrated why they can
no longer be trusted with power. They are so in thrall to their special interest financiers and extremist base that they
can't accept a compromise favored by 70 percent of the voters on the government shutdown. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's
arbitrary dismissal of President Trump's latest offer as "a non-starter" is not merely unreasonable[,] it does genuine harm to
millions of her own party's most loyal constituents.
The
state of Nancy Pelosi's union. The new majority party has elected to marshal all resources to destroy President
Trump. Their strategy is to refuse to engage him on public policy (i.e. do their jobs). Instead, they are pouring
all of their energy into investigating every aspect of his life. Rather than provide solutions, they obsess about how
much money people from Liechtenstein might be spending at Trump hotels. Democrats use their bully pulpit not to sell
good ideas, but to complain and whine about the president day in and day out. For voters who just want peace and a
strong economy, it is exhausting, unproductive and ultimately unattractive.
Dems
introduce bills to block offshore drilling. A group of House Democrats introduced a suite of eight bills
Tuesday aimed at blocking President Trump's proposal to expand offshore oil and natural gas drilling around the
country. Taken together, the bills would ban or put a 10-year moratorium on offshore drilling in the Atlantic, Pacific
and Arctic oceans, as well as the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The bills came as the Interior Department is expected soon to
move forward on its plan released in January 2018 to open the offshore areas of the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic and Gulf coasts
to offshore oil and natural gas drilling. That plan has met stiff opposition from political leaders and coastal
communities that neighbor nearly all of the areas.
Dreamers:
Pawns of the resistance. On Saturday afternoon [1/19/2019], President Trump put an idea on the table:
DACA for the wall! It was a courageous idea because many in the GOP will balk at it. In other words, President
Trump was willing to take some heat from his side to move the ball forward. What did the Democrats do? Resistance
and more resistance.
Why
Democrats Said No to Trump's Border Compromise. Lots of people are wondering just why Democrats rejected
President Trump's plan to reopen government agencies even before he announced the plan. House speaker Nancy Pelosi
called it a "non-starter," and Senate Democratic whip Dick Durbin rejected it even though, as the Daily Caller noted,
Trump's proposal to protect immigrant "Dreamers" from being deported "included everything" that Durbin had asked for "just
over two years ago."
It's All About the Wall.
In his brief remarks Saturday on border security, Donald Trump outlined a plan that made multiple concessions to Democratic
desiderata in exchange for $5.7 billion to fund 230 miles of the wall along the southern U.S. border. Indeed,
the president's plan deliberately took cues from some Durbin's own legislation on the subject. Didn't matter.
Pelosi said the president's plan was "a non-starter."
Buzzfeed,
Like Lawfare, Has a Role to Play in Resistance Operation. While the media banter relentlessly about their
latest resistance angle du jour; it is perhaps a more beneficial discussion to remind and outline the larger strategy at
play. Honing the political skills. The baseline here is that everything the institutional-left does, is
sequential and planned. This is what they do. This is all they do. None of the characters within the
institutions of professional leftism create anything; build anything; have a life purpose for anything, other than organizing
their efforts to exploit control of others via politics. This is all they know how to do.
It's Now Undeniably The
Pelosi Shutdown. In a nationally televised statement from the White House, President Trump offered concessions
on DACA, expressed a desire to work with Democrats toward a much-needed overhaul of the outdated immigration system and a
desire to end the government shutdown. Speaker Pelosi's handlers released a response to the media even before the
president finished his speech. That response was NO and came at the same time reports indicated Speaker Pelosi was
leaving Washington D.C. for a long weekend at one of her many (walled) properties.
They already have
amnesty. In exchange for a few more miles of a border wall, President Trump agreed to amnesty for about a
million illegal aliens, those whose sympathy stories are worthy of the Amana washer on "Queen for a Day." This is the
same offer he made in September 2017 when Coulter freaked out. The problem with conservatives is we already have open
borders and have had them all along. Democrats have no incentive to negotiate, and they won't.
The
Left Attacks Trump's Pick to Replace Brett Kavanaugh for Her Smart College Writings. Young conservatives, be
warned: Reasonable ideas written in college — such as the notion that binge drinking can lead to dangerous
consequences for young women — can and will be twisted and used against you should you be nominated for high-powered
positions two and a half decades later. That's what's happening to Neomi Rao, President Donald Trump's nominee to replace
Brett Kavanaugh on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and who reportedly is on the short list for
the Supreme Court.
DOJ
Seeks to Stall Court-Ordered Discovery on Clinton Email Scandal; Cites Government Shutdown. Susan Rice and Ben
Rhodes will be deposed under oath on the Benghazi scandal. Last week Judicial Watch submitted a court-ordered discovery
plan seeking depositions from top Obama officials involved in Hillary Clinton's email scandal including Susan Rice and Ben
Rhodes. The discovery plan stems from a December, 2018 ruling by Judge Royce Lamberth ordering the State Department and
DOJ to submit discovery in three areas. Judge Lamberth called Clinton's use of the private email server "one of the
gravest modern offenses to government transparency."
After
Puerto Rico Retreat, Dem House Now Taking An ELEVEN DAY 'Break' From Congress. After more than 30 Democrats
flocked to Puerto Rico over the weekend for a fancy retreat, the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives will take
an 11-day "break" from Congress. On Tuesday, Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., took to Twitter to slam his progressive
colleagues and urged them to stay in town until the partial government shutdown is over.
Embarrassed
by Optics — Democrat House Leader Steny Hoyer Cancels (not really) 11-Day Recess. Amid the ongoing
partial government shutdown; and with the unwillingness of Democrats to negotiate on border security funding; and coming on
the heels of a massive Puerto Rico junket funded by K-Street lobbyists; it may have been a bridge-too-far for Democrats to
start another eleven day vacation on Thursday. So they cancelled it, sort of. House Leader Steny Hoyer technically
cancelled (in writing only) the recess (to keep the talking points out of the hands of the opposition), while factually telling
membership to go ahead and take the vacation but be prepared to return if needed.
Secret
Service, DHS say they can handle State of the Union security. The Secret Service and Department of Homeland
Security said they can handle security at President Trump's State of the Union address — which House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi wants Trump to postpone. Both federal agencies have been largely shuttered as the partial government shutdown
enters its record-breaking 26th day. But Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen wrote on Twitter that both agencies
are good to go.
Pelosi
asks Trump to postpone SOTU until gov't reopens; Dems planned move for "months"? It's tough to tell. Does
this make the shutdown a bug, or a feature? Nancy Pelosi has asked Donald Trump to put off his State of the Union
speech to the joint session of Congress until after the funding issues have been resolved: [...] Pelosi's not looking to
restore the proper co-equal-branch dynamics under the Constitution. She was delighted to offer regal hosannas to
Barack Obama, and she'd be equally delighted to offer them to President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or President Jill Stein, for
that matter. She just doesn't want Trump using Congress to beat up Democrats over the wall.
Citing
'security concerns' due to government shutdown, Speaker Pelosi urges delay of State of the Union address. House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked President Donald Trump to reschedule his State of the Union address this month if the government
remains shuttered — or deliver it in writing. "Sadly, given the security concerns and unless government re-opens
this week, I suggest that we work together to determine another suitable date after government has re-opened for this address or
for you to consider delivering your State of the Union address in writing to the Congress on January 29th," Pelosi wrote in
a letter to Trump on Wednesday [1/16/2019].
McCarthy:
Pelosi's move to disinvite Trump 'unbecoming of the office'. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday [1/16/2019] it was
"unbecoming of the office" for Speaker Nancy Pelosi to call for a postponement or cancellation of President Trump's planned January 29 State
of the Union address. "I think Speaker Pelosi is playing politics like I've never seen a speaker before," McCarthy, R-Calif., told the
Washington Examiner Wednesday. "I think it's unbecoming of the office to disinvite the president. The American people have the right
to be able to hear the president and the president has a right to deliver a state of the union." Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a letter to
Trump that the partial government shutdown would make it difficult to secure the event, which is attended by members of all three branches of
government and typically requires a massive law enforcement presence.
Obama
Judge Strikes! Admin Can't Ask on Census If One's a Citizen! An Obama federal judge in the southern
district of New York has ruled against the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020
census. The Trump administration can't ask if someone is a citizen, even though it was done in 1950. U.S. District
Judge Jesse Furman ordered the administration to stop its plans to include the question on forms for the upcoming national
head count "without curing the legal defects", the judge identified in his opinion released on Tuesday [1/15/2019]. The
Trump administration announced last year that the 2020 census would include a question about U.S. citizenship status.
The left likes to call the question "controversial" because they disagree with it.
Federal
judge blocks citizenship question on 2020 census. A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from asking about
citizenship on the 2020 census, ruling that the government cut too many corners in its decision-making on adding the question. The
ruling is a serious blow to President Trump, whose campaign has repeatedly bragged about the controversial question's inclusion.
Judge Jesse M. Furman, an Obama appointee to the bench, rejected immigrant-rights groups' claims that the question was motivated by
racism or other nefarious motives, saying those claims went unproven.
A nuisance lawsuit turns into a serious problem:
Colorado
Supreme Court rules in favor of oil and gas regulators in Martinez environmental case. The Colorado Supreme
Court on Monday [1/14/2019] overturned a lower court's decision that said the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
was required to weigh the impact of oil and gas development on public health and the environment in deciding whether to
approve new drilling permits and rules pertaining to the oil and gas industry in Colorado. Colorado Supreme Court Justice
Richard Gabriel wrote the unanimous 7-0 decision that was released Monday [1/14/2019], which found that the COGCC "properly
declined to engage in rulemaking to consider a rule" proposed in 2013 by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and a group of Boulder teenagers.
Not
About the Wall: Democrats are Rejecting a Long List of Other Border Security Measures to Spite Trump.
Last week, Office of Budget and Management Acting Director Russell Vought sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations
Committee outlining requirements for an adequate funding bill. "Appropriations bills for fiscal year (FY) 2019 that
have already been considered by the current and previous Congress are inadequate to fully address these critical issues.
Any agreement for the current year should satisfy the following priorities," the letter states. "The President requests
at least $563 million for 75 additional Immigration Judges and support staff to reduce the backlog of pending
immigration cases." The current backlog for asylum claims made at the border is 800,000 cases. According to the
Department of Homeland Security, asylum claims have increased by 2000 percent over the past five years and approximately
90 percent of them are thrown out in court. President Trump has also requested additional funding for 750 new Border
Patrol Agents and $571 million for 2,000 additional Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents to help "address gang
violence, smuggling and trafficking, and the spread of drugs in our communities."
How
Convenient: Charter Spectrum has Major Outage Across US before President Trump's Address on Border Security. Spectrum
has announced a major cable outage across the country just 1 hour before President Donald Trump is supposed to address the nation about the
immigration crisis and the need to build the wall. What are the odds? Interesting how the outage is in all major cities and
border states.
'Swamp
strikes again!' Less than 4 hours on the job and Dems unanimously vote to leave town. Don't blame President
Trump for the ongoing government shutdown. Look to the Democrats, who unanimously voted to leave town just four hours
into the first day of the 2019 Congress. [...] Republican Congressman Steve Scalise dared the media to report on the
continued Democrat obstructionism. (So far, nada).
Ninth Circuit
Finally Hands Trump A Big Win Against Youth's Global Warming Lawsuit. The Trump administration's battle against
a global warming lawsuit brought by 21 youths will continue into 2019 after a federal court handed the government a big win
over the holiday season. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Department of Justice (DOJ) in a
Dec. 26 ruling largely missed by major media outlets. The court granted DOJ's petition for interlocutory appeal
that decreases the chances of the climate lawsuit going to trial anytime soon.
The Left Will
Make 2019 a Dark Year. Thanks to the Left's control of the House of Representatives and the news media,
Americans will be kept in a fevered state throughout 2019 — with innumerable hearings, exposés, criminal
investigations and possible indictments of those around the president and the president himself. Truth will not be the
point. Defamation will. Anything that might muddy the president, no matter how spurious, no matter how thin the
evidence, will be pursued with gusto. The media will drop "bombshell" after "bombshell." If lives and careers are
ruined, so much the better; no one should be associating with this president anyway, as far as the Left is concerned. [...]
The goal of the Left to weaken, disable and impeach the president is the heart of its mission to undo the 2016 presidential
election.
Mick
Mulvaney Highlights Nancy Pelosi Position to Weaponize Government Shutdown as Part of Coordinated Resistance Agenda. Incoming
chief of staff Mick Mulvaney gives an impromptu press briefing to the media highlighting the position of incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
and the democrat intention to weaponize the government shutdown. Career Democrats are working through a highly coordinated political agenda,
defended by institutional media allies, that involve weaponizing the House of Representatives.
Democrats
Hate the Wall because Trump Loves It. "The Democrats don't want to let us have strong borders — only
for one reason. You know why? Because I want it," said President Donald J. Trump Wednesday [12/26/2018], to the
laughter of U.S. troops at Iraq's Al Asad Air Base. "But you gave me an idea, just looking at this warrior group.
I think I'll say, 'I don't want the wall.' And then they're going to give it to me." President Trump is on to
something. Democrats seem determined to stop his plans for a southern-border wall as revenge for beating Hillary
Clinton. They hate Trump's guts more than they love America.
Going Ballistic: What the Democrats' 'subpoena
cannon' means for Trump. With Democrats seizing the House and Republicans keeping the Senate, bills beyond the
proverbial post-office-naming will be hard-pressed to make it out of both chambers in the next Congress. The threat
President Trump faces from Democrats, then, isn't legislative obstruction, but the ready-aim-fire of the opposition's
"subpoena cannon." That's the term one senior Democratic source used last month in describing to Axios the opposition's
main anti-Trump weapon. Not all of the investigatory weapon's payload will be fired at once, but the appetite for
"resistance" is strong and will tie up significant White House and agency resources.
Kavanaugh
2.0: Smears Against Court Nominee Tom Farr. We learned during the fight over Justice Brett Kavanaugh that
Democrats will stop at nothing to block nominees who defend the Constitution's limits on government. Lies, smears,
screams, and even crimes are the tools of their trade. Now, the same tactics are being used to smear another nominee to
the federal bench — Tom Farr from North Carolina. Farr was appointed by President Trump for a vacancy on the
United States District Court that sits in Raleigh — the site of multiple fights over election process laws and
Congressional redistricting. The seat has been vacant since 2006, the longest vacancy on the federal bench
nationwide. Farr, like Kavanaugh before him, is experiencing ritual defamation by his opponents.
Special
Counsel opens investigation on Matt Whitaker, acting AG. Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker is facing more
opposition as he is now the subject of a federal investigation into potential Hatch Act violations. As Democrats have
continuously come against President Trump's temporary appointment of Whitaker following the departure of former Attorney
General Jeff Sessions, the Office of Special Counsel confirmed that a complaint had been filed against him by the "watchdog"
organization, American Oversight.
The Saddest Election Ever.
For Republicans, they lost the House and had a bunch of House and Senate seats flipped, and the Senate races they did win,
they won by a thread — with some victories subsequently erased via a "recount" (*cough*). For Democrats,
yeah, they won the House, but not by 2010 GOP margins. Whether or not they manage to "recount" their way to a tie in
the Senate, they're having to struggle for a victory that they thought would be an easy win. And they know that no
matter how many boxes of ballots they find [...], they still can't actually win the Senate, meaning that if Ruth Bader
Ginsburg slips on one more banana peel between now and 2020, they're gonna have to work [hard] to concoct some unprovable
disqualifying transgression from Amy Coney Barrett's past [...]
Why they
hate Matthew Whitaker. On the surface, Democrats going all in to fight the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as
acting attorney general makes little sense. It is perfectly legal. Republicans control the Senate which confirms
nominations. Going after Brett Kavanaugh backfired. But Sundance at the Last Refuge (aka, Conservative Treehouse)
offered evidence that Whitaker has given them cause by exposing Democrat skulduggery in the Department of Justice. As
chief of staff, Whitaker had access to everything that crossed the desk of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Good
News: House Democrats have readied more than 84 subpoenas to gridlock government and attack your President.
I have a sneaking suspicion that issuing all of these subpoenas may play well with the Antifa-BLM-Code Pink-Jennifer Rubin types,
but not with the American people. At some point, most of us will come to the rightful conclusion that Democrats don't care
about election results. They hate Republicans and therefore don't believe they should be allowed to win elections, or
fight back, or even be allowed to speak.
Democrats
Will Investigate, Not Legislate. It will be all investigations, all the time — a two-year grudge
match between Congress and the Trump Administration. The games already have begun. From subpoenaing Trump's tax
returns to probing former and current cabinet officials, Democrats and the media are salivating over all the damaging
headlines they think they can generate just as the 2020 presidential race gets underway. The House Oversight Committee
alone has at least 60 subpoenas ready to go when Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) takes over.
The
Democratic Party Is Working To Destroy The American Way Of Life. When they didn't get the president they wanted
in 2016, Democrats attacked the legitimacy of our election and of the Electoral College. They questioned the integrity
of the result and boycotted his inauguration. They encouraged electors to go rogue and overturn the election, and moved
to abolish the Electoral College, disregarding its purpose of preventing mob rule. As they undermined faith in the
American electoral process in these and other ways, they helped Vladimir Putin achieve one of his primary election-meddling
goals. Democrats weaponized the FBI and the Justice Department in hopes of taking down Trump, or at least of bogging
him down in investigations and a cloud of suspicion that would undermine the legitimacy of his presidency. Some who are
paid to implement the president's agenda continue to brag about efforts to sabotage him from within the administration.
Democrats
boycott another hearing for Trump judicial nominees. Democrats boycotted Wednesday's [10/24/2018] hearing on
another slate of President Trump's judicial nominees, continuing their attempts to hinder Republicans' plans to stock the
courts with an army of conservative judges. The Judiciary Committee heard from four nominees, including two picks for
the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, one of the most liberal panels in the country and long a target for Republicans who
complain of activist liberal judges. Wednesday's boycott is the second in a row after Democrats refused to show for a
hearing last week on other court picks.
Eric
Holder Rallies Resistance Inside Trump Admin: 'We Support You'. Former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. sent
a message of encouragement to discontented Justice Department "career employees" on Friday morning [10/19/2018]. "Trump and
Sessions are trying to destroy the traditions of the Justice Department," Holder wrote. "Hope is found in the career employees
who stand for institutional norms. Now is the time for them to continue to be strong — change will come.
We support you." Holder recently made news by pressing for the impeachment of President Trump under the 25th amendment.
Trump:
Democrats Obstruct Easy Fixes for Border Crisis, Caravan. On Friday [10/19/2018], the caravan broke through
barriers at the Guatemalan side of the border and rushed onto a bridge linking the two countries. Mexican police used
tear gas to stop the migrant column, which then stayed on the bridge during the night. Mexican officials say they will
allow 100 migrants through the barrier to seek asylum in Mexico. Once in Mexico, officials expect most of the migrants
to travel north to the U.S. border alongside thousands of other migrants who are being covertly trafficked into the U.S. by
cartel-connected human smugglers.
Confirm 'em All.
The editors of the Wall Street Journal urge Senate Republicans to keep Democrats in Washington, D.C. until every pending
Trump administration nominee is confirmed. They have a point. Democrats have succeeded to a shocking (and
unprecedented) degree in preventing the president from staffing his administration with the well-qualified personnel of his
choice. Eric Dreiband and Jeff Clark are perhaps the two best examples of this pattern of obstruction but, at the same
time, are the tip of the iceberg.
George Soros's March on Washington. I started
following the money for the "resistance" when it was born, hours after Election Day 2016. I have organized my findings in a
spreadsheet I have made public. At least 50 of the largest organizations that participated as "partners" in the Jan. 21,
2017, Women's March had received grants from Mr. Soros's Open Society Foundations or similar funds in the "House of Soros,"
as his philanthropic empire was once called internally. The number of Soros-backed partners has grown to at least
80. At least 20 of the largest groups that led the Saturday anti-Kavanaugh protests have been Open Society grantees.
The Resistance
is Everyday, Everywhere. We've learned that there are active efforts inside the administration to thwart
President Trump's agenda and policies. This person thinks he (or she) knows better than the tens of millions of
Americans who voted for Trump. But what should be sobering to Trump supporters — and to all serious
conservatives and Republicans, for that matter — is the fact that [the New York] Times op-ed represents
just a small sliver of what's going on inside even a Republican administration on virtually a daily basis. There is a
vast, unelected body inside the federal government that silently influences the ways in which our country is run. This
permanent, unelected elite views citizens and their elections as nothing more than white noise. Something to be
tolerated, but never heeded.
Hundreds
of Unhinged Kavanaugh Protesters Descend on Capitol Hill — Dozens Arrested. Far-left protesters
donning "Be a Hero" t-shirts flooded the Russel Rotunda on Capitol Hill Monday morning [9/24/2018] chanting "We believe the women!"
Other protesters lined the hallways outside of Jeff Flake's and Susan Collins' offices. Capitol police began to make
arrests early Monday afternoon; dozens so far have been arrested according to USA Today.
Deep
State Unmasked, Leaks at HHS; DOJ Official Resists "From Inside," and "Can't Get Fired". Project Veritas has
released the second installment in an undercover video series unmasking the deep state. The first report in this series
featured Stuart Karaffa, who admitted to engaging in political activism on behalf of the Democratic Socialists of America
(DSA) while working at the Department of State. The Department of State issued a response to the video stating that
they are investigating the matter. Today's [9/19/2018] video features Department of Justice paralegal Allison Hrabar
reportedly using government-owned software and computers to push a socialist agenda. Also featured is Jessica Schubel,
the former Chief of Staff for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services during the last Obama administration. Both
Schubel and Hrabar make admissions revealing that federal employees appear to be using their positions inside our government
to resist or slow the Trump administration's policies. It appears some laws have been broken in the process.
James
O'Keefe Strikes Again: Open Communist in GAO Admits to Slow-Walking President's Agenda. James O'Keefe and
Project Veritas released the third installment in their undercover video series unmasking the Washington DC Deep State.
The first report in this series featured Stuart Karaffa, a member of the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), who
admitted to engaging in political activism while working at the Department of State. The second report featured Allison
Hrabar of the Department of Justice, also a member of DSA, reportedly using government owned software and computers for
advancing political activism.
Project
Veritas Second Release: DOJ Official Resists "From Inside" and "Can't Get Fired". Project Veritas has
released the second installment in an undercover video series unmasking the administrative state, ie 'deep state'. Today's
video features Department of Justice paralegal Allison Hrabar using government-owned software and computers to push a socialist
agenda. Also featured is Jessica Schubel, the former Chief of Staff for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
during the last Obama administration. Both Schubel and Hrabar make admissions revealing that federal employees appear to
be using their positions inside our government to resist or slow the Trump administration's policies. It appears some
laws have been broken in the process.
DOJ
Looking into 'Misuse of Government Resources' Alleged in Project Veritas 'Deep State' Sting. The U.S. Department of Justice
said on Wednesday [9/19/2018] it would look into alleged "misuse of government resources to advance personal interests" in response to a
video from James O'Keefe's Project Veritas purporting to expose "deep state" federal employees. In the video, a Department of Justice
paralegal, Allison Hrabar, is caught on camera saying there is "a lot of talk about how we can, like, resist from inside."
Pelosi Haunted by
Women Her Party Suppressed. The Democratic Party was the primary obstacle in the way of women's suffrage for
half a century until the Republicans finally passed the Nineteenth Amendment — codifying the right of women to
vote. Democrat obstruction of suffrage led Anthony's National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) to support Republican
President Grant's 1872 reelection campaign. Moreover, she shamed the election board of Rochester, NY into registering
her to vote (over the protests of the 3-man board's only Democrat). She cast her ballot on November 5, 1872, for
which she was arrested and put on trial. The Democratic war on women's suffrage became even more vicious in 1878, when
Republican Senator Aaron A. Sargent, a friend of Susan B. Anthony, introduced the Nineteenth Amendment.
Congressional Democrats, when they were unable to bottle it up in committee, voted it down every time it reached the floor
of either House until 1919, when the GOP won landslide victories in both houses of Congress.
Protesters
plan to disrupt Labor Day traffic to [and] from O'Hare. An anti-violence demonstration scheduled for Monday [9/3/2018]
plans to shut down a part of the Kennedy Expressway aiming to disrupt traffic to O'Hare International Airport. The Labor Day
protest is led by Reverend Gregory Livingston, who organized a similar protest that shut down a part of North Lake Shore Drive on
August 2.
Document:
Nancy Pelosi Will Destroy Trump Presidency with over 100 Investigations If Dems Win House. A spreadsheet
reportedly circulating among House Republicans details over 100 potential investigations into President Donald Trump that
Democrats will launch if they win the November elections. They intend to impeach him — or, at best, cripple
his presidency. The document, reported by Axios on Sunday [8/26/2018] and hinted at by HuffPost on Friday (which put the
number at a mere 52 investigations), is said to have Republicans "getting ready for hell," as Democrats will use oversight to create
gridlock, or worse
The
Democrats' Entire Agenda After The Midterms: Investigate Trump, 24/7. As the New York Times put it,
Democrats "are discarding the lessons of successful midterms past and pressing only a bare-bones national agenda, leaving it
to candidates to tailor their own messages to their districts." Democrats do have an agenda, however, one they
plan to pursue with abandon should they take the House: Tie the Trump administration up in endless investigations, then
hope they can stitch together something to justify impeaching the president. At the moment, of course, they aren't
openly talking about impeachment. Not because they don't intend to do so. But because party leaders realize that
impeachment doesn't poll well, and could energize the GOP base.
Oregon
Gov. Kate Brown fights for political life as voters tire of 'resistance'. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown positioned
herself early on as a leader of the anti-Trump opposition, but the state's never-ending panoply of protest activity has backfired
on her re-election bid with voters suffering from resistance fatigue. Ms. Brown, who was expected to coast to victory in
deep-blue Oregon, has found herself deadlocked in the latest polls with state Rep. Knute Buehler, an affable orthopedic surgeon
whose moderate brand of Republicanism is attracting crossover voters.
What Do Serial
Killers and the Left Have in Common? Fact is, the last two years of "resistance" has had little to do with
upholding morality or fighting for what the Left believes in. Whatever it may believe in, the Left's pursuit of raw power —
its long march through the institutions — has always been its primary goal. [...] The Democrats are utterly abusing
the immense powers of the federal government's intelligence and law enforcement capabilities in order to accomplish that
which they cannot at the ballot box: defeat the Republicans. So terrible has the "resistance" to Trump's
presidency been that the Democrats now impede the president's governing abilities, as mandated by the very same Constitution
the Left is claiming to defend.
Future
Congresswoman Chelsea's Scottish Book Festival. [Scroll down] Exhibiting familial messiah-complex
tendencies, Chelsea shared that "every day," she is "outraged ... by something our president has done or said or left undone
or neglected." Then again, a booming economy, Americans working, a soaring stock market, affinity for the Constitution,
respect for life, and healed relationships with problematic world leaders are successes that should outrage any self-respecting
progressive. Mimicking her mother's thoughtful mid-sentence pauses and injecting ostentatious vocabulary into a discussion
about children's literature, at the U.K. book event, know-it-all Chelsea expressed gratitude toward obstructionist Democrats in
Congress erecting barriers to Trump's agenda every step of the way when she said: ["]At the federal level, as much
as I abhor so much of what President Trump is doing, I have a great amount of gratitude for what my congresswoman and my senators
are doing to try to stop him at every point.["]
The
'But Judges' argument applies much more this election. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., kept the
Senate in session this month with two goals in mind. First, he wanted to prevent vulnerable Democrats from getting out
on the campaign trail. The longer they're stuck in Washington, the less time they have to defend their records back
home. Second, he wanted to keep the judicial confirmations rolling, in spite of ongoing Democratic obstruction.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has been resourceful in using every possible tool to delay hearings and votes
for as long as possible. It isn't hard to see why. Democrats are in a struggle for ideological survival, and it's
nobody's fault but their own.
Mark
Warner threatens amendment to block Trump from stripping security clearances. Senate Intelligence Committee
vice chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., said Friday [8/17/2018] he plans on introducing an amendment next week that will prohibit
President Trump from stripping critics of their security clearances.
MSNBC's
Geist to Dem Sen Baldwin: 'Looks Pretty Nakedly Political' to Oppose Kavanaugh Before Meeting Him. During a
Friday [8/17/2018] interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," guest host Willie Geist pressed Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) about
her decision to not support President Trump SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh before meeting with him, telling her it "looks
pretty nakedly political." "Shouldn't you wait to get all the documents and shouldn't you wait to get through the
hearings before you declare that you won't support his nomination, because that kind of thing, and it's not just you, by the
way, looks pretty nakedly political to a lot of people," said Geist.
Statue
of Liberty climber spews anti-American chant outside court. The immigrant rights activist who ruined July 4 for
tourists visiting the Statue of Liberty when she scaled the green lady and forced the icon's evacuation, was in Manhattan federal [court]
on Friday pushing for a no-jail guarantee from a judge — and then promptly spewed an anti-American message outside court.
Therese "Patricia" Okoumou climbed onto Lady Liberty's right foot, causing an emergency evacuation of the monument on one of the busiest
days of the year.
Protesters Tried
To Blockade A Colorado ICE Facility, Then SWAT Showed Up. A group of protesters in Colorado were arrested
Thursday [8/2/2018] after blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials from entering or leaving its facility
in Centennial. [...] The SWAT team arrived in riot gear roughly four hours after the blockade began, according to Westword.
Protesters were asked to disperse or face arrest. Eight protesters were ultimately arrested for not complying.
Chicago
highway closure latest US protest targeting affluent. A planned march Thursday along Chicago's picturesque
roadway bordering Lake Michigan to one of the most historic baseball stadiums is the latest chapter in the nation's long
history of protesters targeting places where they believe their anger goes unnoticed.
Soros-Funded
Illegal Alien Activists Shut Down Florida Intersection. A group of illegal alien activists with the open borders
organization "United We Dream" — partially funded by globalist billionaire George Soros — shut down an intersection
in Miramar, Florida last week, demanding an end to all immigration enforcement. More than a dozen of the illegal alien activists were
arrested after shutting down the Florida intersection for hours, sitting around in human chains wearing orange shirts that read "abolish ICE."
Black
Conservatives Booted from Uber for MAGA Hats Won't Be Silenced. Matthew Handy and Adria Barrington discovered
it is not always easy to be a black conservative who supports President Donald Trump in Washington, DC. Handy and
Barrington were part of the Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives' summer intern program. The program, which just wrapped
up last week, affords young, black conservatives the opportunity to work with like-minded members of Congress and at
conservative think tanks in the nation's capital.
Just How Far Will
the Left Go? Progressives are urged to go to stores, gas stations, restaurants and confront Trump
Administration officials, in a sort of Obama-like "get in their faces" or "take a gun to a knife fight" advice to make life
miserable for anyone who would dare work for Trump. A former Clinton aide has organized adolescent noise-maker rallies
near the White House, ostensibly to make so much racket that Trump will not be able to sleep in the presidential
bedroom. Restaurants have refused to serve Trump appointees. There is no respite from the war against
Trump. The NFL, the NBA, late-night comedy shows, cable news, sitcoms, Hollywood movies, books, and music have all
found ways to turn their genres into anti-Trump theater. There is no respite; there is no refuge — not the
Super Bowl, not the Emmys, not the Grammys, not the Oscars. Almost every aspect of American culture has been weaponized
to delegitimize Trump.
It's Oakland in Muellerville.
The Mueller investigation and its attendant pseudo-pods in the media and "intelligence community" are indeed
self-perpetuating. But they exhibit a purpose that goes far beyond their own self-perpetuation. No, in this
safari, big game is the object, the end, the purpose, to wit the destruction of the president of the United States.
That is the true purpose of this charade: not the truth about "Russian meddling," not alleged wrong doing by Paul Manafort
in 2005, not a lack of candor under FBI questioning by George Papadopoulos (who?) or Michael Flynn. The one true purpose
(in addition to the welcome subsidiary effect of helping out the ratings of the MSM) is to hobble Donald Trump, a prelude to
removing him from office.
Democrat
Congressional Candidate Repeatedly Booed and Heckled During Debate for supporting ICE. A Democrat congressional
candidate in Arizona was booed and heckled at least five times for supporting U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE)
during a debate on Thursday [7/19/2018]. Ann Kirkpatrick, a candidate for Arizona's 2nd Congressional District, raised her
hand when asked by the moderator if any candidates would declare "support for ICE agents without any increased oversight."
She was the only candidate to do so. The crowd erupted in an angry chorus of boos.
One
Picture Shows Why Democrats Who are Protesting Trump's SCOTUS Pick are Unprincipled Losers. Trump could have
nominated a reincarnated Earl Warren and he'd face opposition from the goose-stepping, far left, resistance-at-all-costs
Democrats.
Why
Comey and Company Want Democrats to Take Back the House. House investigators are seeking to learn more about
the Obama administration's improper actions toward the Trump campaign in 2016, but with the 2018 midterms quickly approaching,
they could be running out of time. The Justice Department inspector general, meanwhile, is also investigating Comey for
leaking information to the media. In a recent interview with his House colleague Rep. Sean Duffy (R., Wis.), Nunes
accused top officials at the FBI and DOJ of "putting all their chips on the Republicans losing the House" so that Democrats
could "shut down" the Intelligence Committee probe.
Antifa Attempts
Attack on Lauren Southern — Fails Miserably. The Canadian-born Conservative activist Lauren Southern
is on tour in Australia. In a video posted to YouTube promoting her visit, Southern said Australians are "at a crossroads."
She asks "Do you want to retain your culture, do you want to retain your borders, family, identity." As you'd expect, her tour
will focus mainly on immigration and multiculturalism. The 23-year-old commentator rose to popularity almost exclusively online,
working for the right-wing group Rebel Media before pursuing an independent career funded by fan donations, posting her own reports to
her YouTube channel that boasts nearly 800,000 subscribers. The cost to see Southern speak in Australia starts at $79 a seat and
goes up from there, but it's clear that she didn't have much trouble filling an auditorium despite the cost. Australian media billed
her as an "alt-right" activist coming to Australia, which predictably led to Antifa groups planning massive protests against her talks.
They
Want Trump's Liquor License Yanked — and They Just Might Win. Five Washington, D.C., religious
leaders and two retired or inactive D.C.-based judges have launched an effort designed to force President Trump to fully
disengage from the Trump family business while serving in office. And unlike other challenges, this one has a very
narrow, precise, and attainable target: The Trump International Hotel D.C.'s liquor license, which Trump continues
to hold personally, despite having purportedly stepped back from Trump Organization business dealings.
DC
commissioners fight to revoke Trump Hotel liquor license. The anti-Trump resistance has gone from blasting
Russia's interference in the White House race to interfering with White Russians. Fox 5 reports that a D.C. Advisory
Neighborhood Commission (ANC 4C) is backing a petition that looks to pull the Trump International Hotel's liquor license —
citing D.C. law that only individuals of "good character" qualify for a liquor license.
Young
Republicans say Uber driver kicked them out of car, taunted 'welcome to the resistance'. Chris Godbey,
executive director of the Young Republicans National Federation, and his peers said they were abruptly told to exit an Uber
driver's car over the weekend after an event near Raleigh, North Carolina. The reason: an anti-Trump "resistance"
driver wanted to deliver a message. "About halfway through the trip our driver said he needed to stop and get gas,"
said Mary Russell, a federation volunteer, the Daily Caller reported Monday [7/16/2018]. "Then he quickly turned off
and stopped the car and said, 'your ride has been terminated and you've reached your destination — and I have the
right to deny you service. And so, we were all shocked. ... And then he drove off and said, 'welcome to the resistance.'"
The
Left's dismally weak case against Brett Kavanaugh. The venerable Washington Post, the newspaper that brought
down a Republican president and spawned at least two Hollywood movies, a paper backed by the resources of the wealthiest man
in America, sicced three reporters (including a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter) and six researchers on Supreme
Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. This fearsome team produced two exposes on the nominee revealing that — drum
roll, please — Kavanaugh drinks Budweiser at his local pub and used a credit card to buy season tickets to his
hometown baseball team. When NARAL, the multimillion-dollar abortion lobby, trained its resources on the man, they came
up with — another drum roll, if you please — a tweet mocking his name and calling him a frat boy.
Will
Upcoming Emmy Awards Double as Resistance TV? Awards shows have always had an emotional element to the winners
and losers. The best movie, TV show, song, or production should snare the highest awards, but other factors can't help
but creep in. When an actor is in his or her golden years, for example, they have a sentimental edge over the
competition. Or, as in the case of this year's Best Actor Oscar winner Gary Oldman, a legacy of rock solid performances
prior to becoming Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. Today, there's another factor threatening to overwhelm
the usual standards for the best of the best. How does the nominee factor into The Resistance?
Women's
March mocked for pre-written press release opposing Supreme Court nominee 'XX'. The Women's March opposes XX. A
pre-written — and poorly edited — statement from the Women's March on President Trump's Supreme Court nomination
became the subject of mockery on Twitter on Monday night [7/9/2018], including from Mr. Trump's former press secretary. The
feminist group blasted out a statement shortly after Mr. Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh, saying him confimation would "further
erode protections for almost every marginalized group in America." The introduction to the statement read "In response to Donald
Trump's nomination of XX to the Supreme Court of the United States."
The
Democrats Disgrace Themselves. Peter Strzok testified today [7/12/2018] — sort of —
before a joint session of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees. The hearing crashed on takeoff and never
recovered. After giving an opening statement lauding his own patriotism, Strzok refused to answer questions on the
ground that an FBI lawyer had told him not to. What followed was a farce — a farce deliberately created and
sustained by the Democratic members of the committee. They interrupted constantly with silly points of order, heckled
the committee chairman, and generally tried to disrupt the proceedings.
Protesters
Shut Down Major Chicago Highway; Mayor Emanuel Says Go For It, Comrades. Today [7/7/2018], a massive movement
of "anti-violence" protesters blocked traffic across a major Chicago highway in an effort to shutdown the road and call for
"commonsense" gun laws. Mayor Rahm Emanuel had initially disapproved, then approved of the group's plan to march on the
Dan Ryan Highway, but Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner claims today that the group moved beyond what it was permitted to
do. The march is led by Rev. Michael Pfleger, an Illinois Roman Catholic priest who advocates liberation theology,
and the left-wing Rev. Jesse Jackson.
The
Democrat Plot to Stop Trump's Supreme Court Pick. Heeding the call of their radical left base and a pliant
Trump-hating media, Democrats are promising total resistance to even meeting with the president's nominee before the mid-term
elections, let alone holding any hearings or an up or down floor vote. They are still sore over what they view as the
Supreme Court seat stolen from the left in 2016 when Senator McConnell, backed by the Republican majority in the Senate,
refused to allow hearings or a vote on former President Obama's nominee to fill the seat left vacant by Justice Scalia's
passing, Judge Merrick Garland.
Federal
Court Orders DOJ to Begin Searching and Producing Fusion GPS Records in Response to Judicial Watch Lawsuit.
Judicial Watch announced U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton instructed the Justice Department to immediately begin
producing records about DOJ communications with Nellie Ohr, the wife of senior DOJ official Bruce Ohr. Nellie Ohr
worked for Clinton campaign vendor Fusion GPS on the anti-Trump Dossier campaign document. Judge Walton rejected a
Justice Department request to begin producing documents six months from now and ordered the DOJ to begin producing documents
immediately on a rolling basis over the next two months. Judge Walton also rejected DOJ's efforts to restrict their
search to only 2016.
Sore
Loser Hillary Clinton Works to Block President Trump's Next Supreme Court Nominee. President Trump is choosing
Justice Kennedy's replacement from a list of 25 judges — the same list he chose Justice Neil Gorsuch from last
year. On Friday [29/2018], President Trump said he cut his list of potential Justice nominees down to five candidates,
including two women; he will be announcing his pick on July 9th. Twice-failed presidential hopeful, Crooked
Hillary wasted no time and immediately got to work fighting Trump's next SCOTUS nominee.
Democrats
Plot to Block Trump Kennedy Replacement. Justice Anthony Kennedy's announcement Wednesday of his retirement
from the Supreme Court has sent the left into a tizzy. Although Justice Kennedy has often sided with the more
conservative-leaning Justices in 5-4 decisions, he has also joined the four liberal-leaning Justices as the swing vote on
several contentious cases important to the left involving such issues as abortion rights and same-sex marriage. With
Justice Kennedy's retirement, which will take effect at the end of July, the door is open for President Trump to nominate a
more reliable conservative replacement in the mold of his first pick, Justice Neil Gorsuch. "We have to pick a great
one. We have to pick one that's going to be there for 40 years, 45 years," President Trump told supporters
at a campaign rally Wednesday night [6/27/2018] in North Dakota.
DOJ
to Devin Nunes: We already 'provided documents and answers to your inquiries'. The Justice Department
responded to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes' latest deadline, telling him he already has the "documents
and answers" he has been inquiring about. "Your letter asks whether the Department and the FBI 'intend to obey' the
law. We believe that is exactly what the Department and the FBI have been doing responding to the Committee's subpoenas
and requests," wrote Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd in a Monday letter obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Curious
Releases — FBI Provides "Initial" Compulsory Documents To House Oversight Amid Ongoing Impeachment
Threats. Due to the ongoing and unresolved scale of corruption within the administrative offices of the DOJ
(Sessions/Rosenstein) and FBI (Wray/Bowdich), it is no longer possible to provide any benefit-of-doubt regarding their
obstruction of oversight. The IG report; the manipulation (red-lining) of the draft content therein; and the subsequent
DOJ/FBI willful blindness toward the remaining content; affords no leniency toward motive. In essence, if we are to
honestly call the baby ugly, we are also to admit: there is an ongoing and institutional cover-up taking place. Yes,
even by Trump officials.
Mark
Meadows says Justice Dept. turned over only 'small percentage' of subpoenaed Russia documents. A conservative
lawmaker is challenging media reports that the Department of Justice gave members of Congress documents related to the probe
of Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Late Saturday, The Associated Press reported the Justice
Department this week turned over documents related to the probe. But Rep. Mark Meadows, North Carolina Republican,
called the report "not accurate" and said the department provided merely a fraction of what lawmakers subpoenaed.
DOJ
turns over docs to House Intelligence following explicit threats by Republicans. The Justice Department has
begun to provide documents to the House Intelligence Committee this week, following explicit threats by Republican
chairmen. A small cache of documents was given to intelligence panel staff on Tuesday [6/19/2018], followed by another
tranche on Wednesday, a congressional source told the Washington Examiner. The exact content of those records was
not disclosed, but they came on the heels of tough talk from House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy over the weekend.
DOJ
hands over documents to GOP committees after contempt threat. The Justice Department this week gave House
Republicans some of the documents they seek related to the Russia election-meddling investigation and Hillary Clinton email
probe — after lawmakers threatened to hold officials in contempt for stonewalling.
No
more 'internment camps': Democrats disrupt congressional hearing. U.S. President Donald Trump told Republican
lawmakers on Tuesday he would back either of the immigration bills making their way through the House of Representatives, as
the outcry grew over his administration's separation of immigrant parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border.
House
Dems, John Cusack Block Border Patrol Office in Protest. House Democrats protested the Trump administration
deterrence policy of separating children from parents at the border with a rally today in front of the U.S. Customs and
Border Protection office. Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), the House Democratic Caucus chairman, collapsed at the rally
from heat exhaustion. "Thanks for everyone's concern — doing fine now," he tweeted later. "Wish I
could say the same for the children and parents at the border."
Judicial
Watch Uncovers Hidden Strzok Emails in Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Documents. This is just too rich. We now have
emails from notorious anti-Trump, pro-Hillary Clinton FBI officials who seem to confirm that James Comey and Loretta Lynch
decided to let Hillary Clinton ride on her email abuses before she was even interviewed by the FBI. [...] The FBI
originally informed us it could not locate any records related to the tarmac meeting. However, in a related FOIA
lawsuit, the Justice Department located emails in which Justice Department officials communicated with the FBI and wrote that
they had communicated with the FBI. As a result, by letter dated August 10, 2017, the FBI stated, "Upon further
review, we subsequently determined potentially responsive documents may exist. As a result, your [FOIA] request has been
reopened..." This is the second batch of documents the FBI produced since telling us they had no tarmac-related records.
So this makes two cover-ups!
Lawmakers
Warn IG Being Pressured to Slow Roll Clinton FBI Report. The Department of Justice and the FBI are deliberately
attempting to slow roll and redact significant portions of DOJ Inspector General, Michael Horowitz's report on the bureau's
handling of the Hillary Clinton investigation, according to numerous congressional officials and investigators. The
400-page report, which was completed several weeks ago and addresses Clinton's use of her private server for government
business, is currently being reviewed by the DOJ and FBI. According to sources, individuals mentioned in the reports are also
allowed to review the document. It is expected to be "long and thorough" and will criticize the handling of the investigation by
former FBI Director James Comey, who has spent the better part of the past several months promoting his book A Higher Loyalty.
State
Department says it'll take 45 to 65 YEARS to get me info on its role in the 2016 election. For years my
organization, Citizens United, battled the Obama State Department over dozens of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests
and lawsuits. It became common knowledge that if you wanted to get information out of the State Department in a timely
manner, you had to go to court. During the 2016 presidential campaign, it was Citizens United and Judicial Watch that
pried open Foggy Bottom to expose Hillary Clinton's emails and pay to play scandals at the Clinton Foundation. Fast
forward to today and we are still being forced to litigate with the "Deep State" Department. Unbeknownst to President
Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the State Department continues to stonewall our investigations by slow-walking the
production of vital documents that might be detrimental to the left's fake narrative of so-called Russian collusion with the
Trump presidential campaign.
Tom
Fitton: FBI Delays Release of 16 Pages of Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Meeting Docs Again. The FBI once again
delayed the release of 16 pages of Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting docs which were supposed to be given to government watchdog
groups Thursday [5/31/2018].
Why
the Mueller probe is really five scandals, not one. [Scandal #4] Documents requested by the Senate Judiciary
Committee were heavily redacted for supposed national security reasons — which turned out to have nothing to do with national
security (including the fact that the FBI had spent $70,000 on a conference table). Meanwhile, more than 1 million documents
were withheld from the House Judiciary Committee for so long that the committee had to issue a subpoena. The reason for this deep
state resistance is simple. Transparency is going to get a lot of people in trouble — and it goes to the very top.
When Lisa Page wrote Peter Strzok in September 2016, "POTUS wants to know everything," there is good reason to believe President Obama
was the one she was referring to as POTUS. If President Obama wanted to know everything, given the way his White House worked,
it is very likely his senior adviser Valerie Jarrett knew everything. The more we learn, the bigger the scandal web gets.
Environmental
red tape stalls border agents trying to fill drug-smuggler tunnels. Environmental red tape is causing "long
delays" for border agents as they try to fill tunnels used to smuggle people and dangerous drugs into the U.S. from Mexico,
according to border officials and Republican lawmakers who have discussed the problem with agents. Frustrated agents
complain the lengthy federal review process can stall critical tunnel-plugging efforts for months after passageways are first
discovered. The tunnels are being used to move people, illegal drugs and even fake pharmaceuticals. But regulations
stemming from laws like the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
are putting "remediation" on hold.
Progressives
on the Brink. The left's opinion of the president, echoed in every left-leaning corner of the media, is that he
is illegitimate; incompetent; racist; sexist; and, in some vague and inchoate sense, "fascist." Because they view President
Trump in these extreme terms, progressives view themselves not as violent extremists, but as "the resistance." But
resistance implies that there exists something worthy of resisting. The progressive resistance began just seconds after
Trump was declared the victor on election night. The resistance was not engendered by anything Trump had actually done.
It was just a refusal to accept any candidate who varied from the left's own line of thinking.
Republicans
override Dem objections to confirm federal judge. The political battle over President Donald Trump's judicial
nominees escalated on Thursday when the Senate took the rare step of confirming the nomination of a Wisconsin attorney to
serve as a federal judge despite the objections of one of his home-state senators.
The pathetic
push to torpedo Gina Haspel. Democrats' obsession with opposing President Trump on all fronts, no matter the
merits, opens a new phase this week as CIA Director-designate Gina Haspel goes before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
That there's any opposition at all to this supremely qualified candidate only underscores just how petty and partisan the
Democrats have become. Haspel would be not only the first woman to head the CIA, but also the first career officer
in 52 years to rise through the ranks directly to the director's chair.
Illegal
Immigrants Block Traffic in Grand Rapids Marching for Driver's Licences, Other Rights. Thousands of protesters
marched in Grand Rapids, Michigan this week demanding rights for illegal immigrants. Blocking traffic has become a
staple tactic for the left despite being extremely dangerous and annoying.
Stormy
Daniels' Lawyer Makes Stuff Up About Probe Into Trump's Lawyer. It was quite the week for lawyers outdoing
themselves on television. Let's start with the ever-present Michael Avenatti. In less than two months, Avenatti
appeared on CNN 59 times. Fifty-nine times! As tweeted by the Washington Free Beacon's David Rutz, Avenatti
appeared on seven different programs on MSNBC on a single day, May 4. [...] On Thursday [5/3/2018], he was on MSNBC and just
made stuff up about Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and the alleged "wiretap." I'm not exaggerating. He not only spewed
nonsense, but he made it appear that he had inside knowledge to confirm his statements as fact.
How
To Counter Democratic Obstruction Of Trump Nominees. Senate Democrats are holding up President Trump's nominees
to a degree never witnessed before in my lifetime, and probably not in all of American history. [...] What is to be done?
Sen. James Lankford has presented a resolution that would cut post-cloture debate for most executive branch nominees from
30 hours to just eight. It passed the Senate Rules and Administration Committee on a 10-9 straight party line
vote. Unfortunately, it seems destined to fail in the Senate. Sen. Susan Collins says she opposes the Lankford
measure. With Sen. John McCain absent (and who knows how he would vote if present), the resolution almost surely will
fall short of majority support.
Let's talk Deep State.
[Scroll down] To make matters more interesting, in 1962, by fiat, JFK did what no one had dared to do before:
Permitted the unionization, after the Italian Fascist form, of government employees, colective bargaining et al. Nixon
modified it in 1969, but the cat was out of the bag. [...] The unionization of government employees created a new class of
American citizen: A mass of untouchables who ran the daily business of government and who, through the alliance of
their unions with the Democratic Party, created a state within the state. Government contracts flowed in one direction
guaranteeing the unions ever increasing revenues, and these let the campaign contributions flow at the same rate; and an army
of "operatives" was ready to stuff envelopes, slash tires or, more recently, write absentee ballots. If an opponent was
elected by chance, he or she'd have to confront a sea of molasses slowing their every move.
Are
There Any Adults Left in Washington, D.C.? Trump is a junkyard dog from New York City. He will fight back and likely
prevail, but at what cost to his administration, his agenda, the Constitution, and the country? Is this Trump coup, attempting to
force him out of office or pressure him to resign, worth the damage to the Constitution and the country? Fortunately, the
president's agenda successfully marches on, but imagine how much more he could be accomplishing if he didn't have everyone in
Washington, D.C., including his own party, constantly throwing stones and placing roadblocks in his way.
Revolution
and Worse to Come. First came the failed lawsuits after the election alleging voting-machine tampering.
Then there was the doomed celebrity effort to convince some state electors not to follow their constitutional duty and to
deny Trump the presidency — a gambit that, had it worked, would have wrecked the Constitution. Then came the
pathetic congressional boycott of the inauguration and the shrill nationwide protests against the president. Next was
the sad effort to introduce articles of impeachment. After that came weird attempts to cite Trump for violations of the
emoluments clause of the Constitution. That puerile con was followed by plans to declare him deranged and mentally
unfit so that he could be removed under the 25th Amendment. From time to time, Obama holdovers in the DOJ, National
Security Council, and FBI sought to leak information, or they refused to carry out presidential orders.
TGP
Still Under DDoS Attack Since Posting Soros Article- 918K DDoS Hits Today. The Gateway Pundit has been under
constant DDoS attack for the past ten days from an unknown source originating in California, DC, and Seattle. A DDoS
(short for distributed denial of service) attack is a cyber attack that floods a website with so much fake traffic that the
server that the infrastructure that hosts the website is unable to function, shutting the site down and providing unreliable
service. It's a very common tool used by malicious leftists, the Drudge Report was targeted with a similar attack last year.
Supreme
Court justices to weigh in on Trump's powers with travel ban case. What the Supreme Court does with President
Trump's travel ban case, which reaches the justices this week, is likely to determine whether courts across the country give
him the usual deference due a president and allow him leeway to pursue his immigration crackdown — or whether they
join the anti-Trump resistance determined to thwart him at every turn. From battles in California, Illinois and
Pennsylvania over sanctuary cities, to illegal immigrant teens gaining abortion rights, to the border wall, to Mr. Trump's
attempts to limit some paths to legal immigration and to cancel the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program
for illegal immigrant Dreamers, immigration rights activists and the administration have been battling on nearly every front
of the issue.
Supreme
Court and the Trump travel ban case: What's really at stake is our country's future. The threat began
with the practice, begun over a year ago, of federal District Court judges announcing that Trump's travel bans were
unconstitutional. It wasn't that presidents lack the authority to manage immigration policies. That wasn't in
question. Rather, it was the authority of this president that was impugned. Trump was poison, and his
directives were the fruit of a poisoned tree. He had shown himself to be biased against radical Islam, and as a
consequence was deprived of any constitutional authority over immigration from Muslim countries. As the Fourth Circuit
Court of Appeals put it, Trump's tweets showed that he was "tainted with animus toward Islam." There have been a series
of such decisions, from District judges cherry-picked as Trump haters. And they did more than impugn Trump's authority
in their judicial District. They went beyond this to issue a countrywide injunction, a single judge ruling over the
United States as a whole.
Tom
Perez: DNC didn't ask Hillary Clinton for permission to file collusion lawsuit. Democratic National
Committee chairman Tom Perez said failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has not been consulted on the DNC's civil
lawsuit alleging collusion between Russia, WikiLeaks, and the Trump campaign. Perez said on NBC's "Meet The Press"
Sunday he hadn't talked to Clinton ahead of the DNC filing the lawsuit. "I have not consulted Hillary Clinton to ask
her permission to file a complaint. The buck stops with Tom Perez and we filed this complaint because our democracy is
at risk," Perez said. "This was an assault on our democracy and we have to protect that."
The Editor says...
[#1] If you filed a lawsuit on my behalf, and for my benefit, would you not consult with me
first? [#2] What are the plaintiffs asking for? The reversal of the last presidential election?
Would the benefits outweigh the enormous consequences? This is the political equivalent of a chess player
throwing a tantrum upon realizing he can't win. Civilized people don't act that way.
FBI
Wants to Take 16 Months to Process Only Half of Comey Docs Requested Under FOIA. President of Judicial Watch
Tom Fitton was outraged on Thursday [4/19/2018] after the FBI told the watchdog group it will take 16 months to process
only half of the Comey docs they requested under FOIA.
Muslim
group sues to block Trump terrorism report. Two anti-Trump organizations filed a lawsuit Monday [4/9/2018] arguing that a
government report earlier this year linking immigrants to most of the country's terrorism cases since 2001 is so misleading that it
violates federal law. The request seeks to recruit federal judges to police the accuracy of the administration, in what —
if it's successful — could become a model for anti-Trump groups to push back on a president they see as having a tenuous
connection to the truth. The January report concluded that 73 percent of the 549 people convicted of international
terrorism between 2001 and 2016 were foreign born.
Screaming
Code Pink Leftists Interrupt Mike Pompeo Senate Hearing. [Video clip]
Indian
Tribe Won't Let National Guard Into "Most Notorious Area for Drugs Entering the County" — Border Patrol:
"They Told Us They Don't Want White Man on Their Land". An Indian reservation along one of the most perilous
sections of the Mexican border won't allow National Guard troops to enter its land, which is a notorious smuggling corridor
determined by the U.S. government to be a "High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA)." Sources inside the U.S. Border
Patrol and other law enforcement agencies working along the Arizona-Mexico border tell Judicial Watch that the tribe, Tohono
O'odham Nation, has banned National Guard troops deployed by President Donald Trump to help crack down on a crisis of drug
smuggling and illegal crossings along the 2,000-mile southern border. "They told us they don't want white man on their
land," said a high-level federal official working in the region. "The agency, of course, is going to cater to that."
FBI
Notifies Judicial Watch It Needs At Least Three Years To Turn Over Strzok-Page Communications. On Monday
[4/9/2018], the FBI notified Judicial Watch that the bureau will need at least three years to hand over "releasable,"
communications between anti-Trump FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
Federal
judge blocks Trump administration officials from stopping immigrant teens from getting abortions. A federal
judge on Friday evening temporarily blocked Trump administration officials from stopping pregnant, unaccompanied immigrant
teens who are or will be in federal custody from getting an abortion. Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court
for the District of Columbia said the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is violating the teens' constitutional rights to
obtain the procedure. According to the judge, the administration cannot strip unaccompanied immigrant minor children
"of their right to make their own reproductive choices," Chutkan wrote in the decision.
The
FBI Gets The Attention Of The AG And Courts Over Ignoring Subpoenas. Morale Possibly Ruined. Late last
week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte hit Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein with a subpoena for
documents related to several investigations, such as the Clinton email investigation. What brought this on was
stonewalling of the committee's document requests by the FBI.
Injunction
Junction, What's Your Function? Since taking office, President Trump has phased out President Obama's Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals program for illegal aliens, initiated a travel ban, put in a place a new policy on refugees,
and stripped federal grants from sanctuary cities. So, why aren't any of these policies in place? Because each of
them has been blocked by individual judges at the lowest level of the federal judiciary. District judges, empowering
themselves with a judicial tool known as the national injunction, have single-handedly blocked the president from
implementing his electoral mandate.
Democrats'
Obstructionism is Unprecedented. When the Democrats say, "He's not my president," they aren't kidding.
Most Democrats still refuse to accept the result of the 2016 election, and their party consistently refuses to extend to
President Trump the routine cooperation that makes our democracy function. The most blatant example of this is the
Democratic minority in the Senate. The Democrats under Chuck Schumer have abused longstanding Senate rules and
courtesies in a way that we have never seen before.
White
House: Chuck Schumer's 'Historic' Obstruction Will Block Some Trump Admin Nominees for More than a Decade. Legislative
Director Marc Short took the White House briefing podium on Friday to call out "historic obstruction" by Democrats for requiring 30 hours
of debate over Trump administration nominees at a rate far beyond that which prior administrations faced. Short repeatedly pointed to
Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for "...the historic obstruction that we have faced by Sen. [Chuck] Schumer and Senate
Democrats in confirming our nominees to enable us to fill out our White House."
FBI
Continues to Skirt Court Order to Turn Over McCabe Communications. For more than two months, the FBI has failed
to abide by a judge's order to turn over all of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's text messages, emails and SMS
phone messages to a government watchdog group that has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a former senior FBI special agent.
The communications in question are related to McCabe's wife's unsuccessful run for Virginia State senate and might also
contain invaluable information on McCabe's role in the Bureau's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server
used to send classified information, several former FBI sources and a government official told this reporter.
Pity
a Poor Liberal Activist. If you haven't noticed in the last week or so, our liberal friends seem to have taught
just about every young head full of mush how to do "protest." In the liberal universe, activism and protest are the highest
forms of human social interaction. When liberals enact a day of marches, or a town hall full of baying students, this
is seen by all as a triumph of the progressive will and faithfully recorded by our modern Leni Riefenstahls. But is it
really such a good idea?
Dems
Delay Trump's Judicial Nominees by Running Out the Clock. President Donald Trump has nominated 84 people for
federal judgeships. Yet despite Republicans' enjoying total control of the federal government, the judiciary has more
vacancies than when the president took office. Trump inherited 112 vacancies when he took the oath of office in January
2017. That has grown to 148, a 32 percent increase, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
Democrats
Stonewall Ed Civil Rights Nominee As Anti-Semitism in Schools Rises 94%. Democratic obstruction in the Senate
has left the Department of Education without leadership in its office of civil rights at a time when anti-Semitism has risen
by 94 percent in U.S. schools. Kenneth Marcus, the Trump administration's nominee to be assistant secretary for civil
rights, has been stalled since Oct. 30. Marcus is the founder and president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for
Human Rights Under Law, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing civil rights of the Jewish people. Marcus was not confirmed
out of the Senate HELP committee until last month on a party line vote and now awaits confirmation before the entire body.
While the permanent position to lead the civil rights division remains vacant, news broke this week that anti-Semitism is surging
throughout America, particularly in K-12 schools.
Anti-Trump
bureaucrats accused of weaponizing security clearance process. The security clearance process has tied the
Trump administration in knots — and that is exactly what the bureaucrats running the White House personnel
security office intended, said a lawyer who has been battling the office. The problem is a small group of career
bureaucrats holed up in the Old Executive Office Building who turned security reviews into quicksand to ensnare President
Trump's team, said Sean M. Bigley, a federal security clearance lawyer who represents several senior administration officials
caught up in the process. "The security clearance process is being weaponized by anti-Trump bureaucrats who are using
it as a tool to not only thwart the president's agenda but to prevent him from installing appointees who will execute it,"
Mr. Bigley told The Washington Times.
Liberal
state attorneys general promise unrelenting fight against Trump for 'illegal' environmental moves. A coalition
of liberal state attorneys general opposing the Trump administration's rollback of environmental regulations expressed
confidence on Tuesday that they would emerge victorious in court. "We are resolute with our colleagues that we will
fight tooth and nail to stop reckless activity by Secretaries Zinke and Pruitt, who not only fail to act as stewards, but
joyride around the country on first class flights consulting with folks on the other sides of these issues and fail to stand
up for the American people," said Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, referring to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's and EPA
Administrator Scott Pruitt's frequent use of first class travel. Frosh, a Democrat, on Tuesday participated in a
briefing for reporters with colleagues on the sidelines of the National Association of Attorneys General 2018 Winter Meeting
in Washington. He was joined by fellow Democratic state attorneys general Xavier Becerra of California, Maura Healey of
Massachusetts, and Karl Racine of Washington D.C.
Mark
Levin: The attacks on Trump and his family are 'unparalleled in American history!'. Friday night
[3/2/2018] on his radio show, LevinTV host Mark Levin went off on the media and the Democrats for their attacks on President
Trump and his family, calling their relentless assault "unparalleled in American history!" "I have never seen anything
like this in my entire life ... these people have done nothing to deserve this kind of treatment," Levin said. He also
broke down how leftists in the government and media have sought to undermine Trump since the beginning of his campaign.
Dem
Obstruction of Education Officials Handcuffing Agency on School Safety. The Department of Education has been
handcuffed as it works to provide guidance on school safety following the murder of 17 students at a Florida high school due
to continued Democratic obstruction of nominees for its top leadership posts. One appointee who has been waiting months
to be confirmed is Frank Brogan, who happens to have a personal experience with school shootings.
Senate
Democrats are trying to stall Trump's nominations by rewriting the history of 'blue slips'. The blue slip was
not intended to give a single senator the power to veto the president's nominees for political or ideological reasons.
But in 1956, Sen. James Eastland, D-Miss., became chairman of the Judiciary Committee and decided to change tradition.
He imposed a strict policy requiring both home-state senators to return positive blue slips before he would schedule a
hearing for a nominee. Some scholars have maintained that Eastland, an unapologetic segregationist, adopted this policy
to prevent judges sympathetic to school desegregation from sitting on the federal bench in the South. Sen. Ted Kennedy,
D-Mass., succeeded Eastland as chairman in 1979 and reverted to the original blue slip policy. Under Kennedy, a negative
or unreturned blue slip would not necessarily prevent the nominee from receiving a hearing before the committee.
How
the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Could Derail Trump's Agenda. It was ruled constitutional in 2013 —
but then unconstitutional in 2018. Yet it, the Pennsylvania congressional districts map, hasn't changed in the last five
years. Nor has the Keystone State's constitution. What's different is Pennsylvania's Supreme Court; it now has
five more Democrats and has decreed that the judges' own redistricting map, which gives a relative advantage to Democrats,
must be implemented. As Politico reported, "Democrats' hopes of winning the House this fall got a boost Monday
with the release of a new congressional-district map in Pennsylvania that could help the party pick up several seats in the
battleground state." This, along with redistricting challenges in other states, could facilitate a congressional power
shift that helps derail President Trump's agenda.
Yes,
It's True, Michael Moore Did Participate In A Russia-Sponsored Anti-Trump Rally. The question now is who paid
for Mr. Moore's trip there? Moore is notoriously stingy and has a longtime habit of showing up to such events
after negotiating a fee to do so. Did he collect a fee for this? Who provided transportation? Was it the
DNC? The Hillary Clinton campaign? And if so, would that not be clear evidence of collusion between the DNC/Clinton
with the Russians? They did it with the fake Trump dossier. Why not with fake anti-Trump rallies —
some of which became very violent by the way, thus pushing the wrongdoing beyond mere collusion and into full-on treason.
The Judicial Resistance
Reveals Itself. Over the past 60 years, the federal judiciary has led a transformation of American society — from
mandating enormous expenditures on diversity programs, to requiring the provision of abortion on-demand, to redefining the meaning of
marriage itself. No other nation in the world has been subjected to these judicially imposed upheavals. But the 2016
election, in challenging the wisdom of our ruling elites, has elevated this judicial activism even further, fostering what constitutional
law professor Josh Blackman has aptly dubbed the "judicial resistance."/p>
Our New Secessionists.
As the months pass, however, and Trump's achievements pile up the disjunction between the reality of his administration and
the hysteria of his opponents becomes ever more glaring. We long ago passed through the stage where the antics of "The
Resistance"™ seemed merely comic to the stage where they are merely pathetic. What, after all are they
resisting? The results of a free, open, democratic election in which their candidate lost.
Our
Radicalized Media: A Clear And Present Danger. The Washington establishment, the Deep State, and special interests have
launched their own jihad, built on a battle cry to "resist." Today, calls to "resist!" echo through Congress as half of the House and
Senate stage a mutiny against a duly elected president. "Resist!" is the call to arms from Democrat leaders (Hillary Clinton and Barack
Obama) and radical activist groups (Black Lives Matter, Antifa). More than 50 organizations have formed to "resist!" the Trump
administration. Just as ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi calls on his followers to resist infidels, so this Washington cabal calls
on its warriors to resist our government, to obstruct the president. These machinations are not conducted in the shadows, not a
secret plot carried out in the dead of night. It's all in our faces.
Police
Remove Activists Blocking Way to US Bank Stadium. Police in Minneapolis have removed protesters who locked
themselves across a light-rail line near U.S. Bank Stadium, temporarily halting trains carrying fans to the game.
Activists protesting police brutality chained themselves along the Green Line carrying ticketholders to the Super Bowl on
Sunday [2/4/2018], stopping trains in both directions. In a release Sunday afternoon, organizers said Black Lives
Matter, the Movement for Black Lives and other groups shut down light rail at "several critical transit lines in Minneapolis"
starting about 2:30 p.m. It was unclear how many lines were affected.
Good speech - tough room.
President Trump was good. Maybe even great at last night's State of the Union address. One problem, though.
Too many in the room were rooting against him, and always will, no matter what he says. They want him to lose and when
he succeeds, to them, to the Democrats, it's counted as a failure for their cause and their Party. So, everything
that's right for the country is wrong for them — means another seven years on the outside looking in... and they
certainly will not join him to Make America Great Again. While HE'S in office? No way. Their job is to trip
him up at every turn. The last thing they want is to "work together."
The
Shabby, Sophomoric Behavior of Democrats at the SOTU. It is difficult to imagine a more galling demonstration of incivility
than the Democrats in the room for Trump's SOTU speech. They scowled, frowned, and sat on their hands throughout the speech. They
could hardly be bothered to acknowledge the heroes in the audience when they were introduced. While the Dems brought illegal immigrants,
Trump invited actual paragons of American character and the families of victims of illegal immigrant crimes, as well as a victim of North
Korea. It was embarrassing, like watching the anti-Semites in the UN stomp out of the room when Benjamin Netanyahu speaks. How
is it any different? Our Democrats behave exactly like the most racist, intolerant people on the planet, and in their own Capitol.
Despite Dems'
Petulant Scowling, Trump's SOTU Was Strong and Effective. From start to finish, Democrats looked like they were
attending a funeral. Some didn't stand, and many did not applaud, as the president entered the chamber and made his way
to the lectern, bucking a long bipartisan tradition. They rose and cheered when they absolutely had to, but remained
seated and stone-faced throughout much of the speech — including appearing glum or bitter as Trump celebrated
unequivocally good news for the American people. It wasn't a great look. We get it, guys — you don't
like Trump and you oppose most of his agenda. But looking downright angry when the president accurately notes
that, for example, black unemployment is at an all-time low looks really strange.
No class.
Democrats
scoff, boo, groan, glower at Trump's State of the Union. Many Democrats showed how little stock they put in
Trump's calls for cooperation by staying seated during rhetoric that would have prompted bipartisan applause if it came from
almost any other president. And on Twitter, Democrats splashed cold water in real-time on Trump's proposals, even on
traditionally noncontroversial items like infrastructure spending and combating the opioid epidemic.
Prejudged:
Liberals Warn Pundits Not To Call State Of The Union 'Presidential'. Hours before the State of the Union
address, many prominent liberals were already forming the left-wing narrative in response to the speech by warning their
fellow ideologues against referring to anything President Donald Trump says as "presidential." New York Times columnist
Charles Blow made it clear he will be banning anyone who uses the word, no matter what the president says.
Senator
Grassley burrowing in to DoJ, Democratic party corruption. If there's one thing Democrats have learned since
Republicans took over the House and Senate, it's that they can stonewall, lie, and simply refuse to answer questions put to
them with no consequences whatsoever. From the ATF, to the IRS, to the State Department, to the Clinton Foundation and
Hillary's staff, the byword has been non-cooperation. Think of all the subpoenas that have been ignored or only
partially filled. Think of the misleading and even lying testimony given over the years.
From Conspiracy
Theories to Conspiracies. [D]id anyone believe that in the year 2017 the losing side in an American election
would immediately dub itself the "Resistance" — channeling the World War II nomenclature of the guerrilla campaign
against the Nazi occupation of France? Or that the defeated candidate Hillary Clinton would formally embrace the
imagery of liberationist patriots fighting a Nazi-like Trump's occupation of the United States? One ingredient for
removing a president would entail a nonstop effort by the opposition to use the courts, the legislative branch, the
investigatory agencies, and the administrative state to discredit, undermine, and remove an elected government.
Using
Nullification To Destroy Federalism. Animosity reigns supreme among Democrats who now are anything but "the
loyal opposition." The intention to disrupt, undermine, insult, reject, and vilify anything and everything about
President Donald Trump's person, his programs, and his policies is there for all to see. Character assassination is but
one dimension of the attack on this administration. Ridicule on late night talk/comedy shows is standard and has been
standard throughout the President's first year in office. Incessant conversations about the investigation into the
bogus "Russia collusion" has been allotted more than 80% of news and discussion time on major media outlets. But
lately, with the failure to make collusion stick, the failure to make Trump's mental health disqualification stick, the
failure to make his breaking of the emoluments clause of the Constitution stick, and the failure to make his supposed
womanizing and #metoo wrongdoings stick, the disloyal opposition is now clinging to the charge of racism for his having
reversed President Obama's executive order regarding DACA for a class of persons living within our borders.
Desperation
Time As Democrats Seek to Stop Trump From Succeeding. Remember back in the day when Democrats were supposed to
be the friends and protectors of oppressed minorities who stood up for their rights out of basic decency and courage?
Me neither — the Party of Bull Connor was never really concerned about any minority, just about creating client
voter groups they could pillage for money and ballots. Well, now the Democrats are holding up the confirmation of
Ric Grennell as ambassador to Germany. Luckily, Germany is not an important country going through a political crisis
right now. Phew! So, why are the Dems eager to ensure this vital post remains unoccupied? Because Ric is
openly gay and a hardcore conservative. His track record at the U.N. as a U.S. spokesman beating the foreigners into
line is terrific, and he went to all the fancy schools that normally make the pinkos squee, but the Democrats just can't
let Trump nominate an openly gay, pro-military conservative to a very high position in the government. That would be
another blow to the lie the Dems have been telling their clients for decades about how the Republicans are evil monsters
of terror.
Report:
'Resistance' Leader George Soros Spent $16 Million Opposing Trump in 2017. Radical leftist billionaire George
Soros has funded violent insurrections all across the globe. In 2017 alone, Soros spent a record $16 million
opposing President Donald Trump.
The
Resist Movement in the Federal Government. The #Resist movement is strong within the federal government.
Ever since Donald Trump became president, his policies — or frankly, just his presence — has led government workers
to stage public protests or quietly resign.
The DeepState Endgame.
Immediately following the election we commenced Operation Hypo. As I noted in the after action report, a new phase of
infiltration and investigation was launched to penetrate the "resistance" movement that had been formed to obstruct the
President and attempt to remove him from power. Our efforts started by infiltrating a George Soros led group named
"Democracy Alliance". This organization is singularly focused on undermining the President and financially supporting
a myriad of efforts towards that objective.
Rep.
Adam Schiff, election transparency crusader, does NOT want to Release The Memo. California Democrat
Rep. Adam Schiff has been among the leading voices on the Left calling for full transparency about the 2016 election so
the American people can know exactly what happened. However, the transparency Schiff has called for apparently only
applies to anything that might fit the Democrats' "Trump/Russia collusion" narrative. As far as the classified memo
that has shocked Republicans in Congress by documenting alleged surveillance abuses, Schiff is saying "not so fast":
Schumer's
shutdown reveals: Democrats will destroy America just to spite Trump. Donald Trump was inaugurated one
year ago after promising to make America great again. Throughout the campaign everyone knew what he believed, though it
was not clear what his opponents stood for. The Schumer shutdown has revealed the totality of the Democrats' agenda:
animosity and amnesty. When President Trump set out to deliver historic tax cuts for the American people, Democrats sat
on their hands, rather than participating in the legislative process. Now they've come off the sidelines to actively
sabotage the government established to serve the American people. Their stated reason for doing so is even more
astounding than the act itself.
What
The Shutdown Tells Us About Modern Democrats. Democrats will block the longest-ever extension of the CHIP program,
because they believe it politically expedient to connect the DACA issue to the funding debate. Perhaps it's good
politics. We'll see. But the fact is, during the shutdown of 2013, the consensus of all serious, right-thinking
people was that Republicans, who took basically the same position, were unfit to govern.
A
Primer on the "Government Shutdown". It seems Senate Democrats are determined to have a government shutdown
probably because of the default requirement of the Democratic base of "total resistance" to Trump. [...] Democrats are
banking on the premise of the media-academic complex that a government shutdown will be blamed on Republicans. The
second premise of the media-academic complex is that Republicans are supposed to forever be the Washington Generals to the
Democratic Progresstrotters, and roll over for "the side of history." Trump just might be the kind of person who will
call an end to this perverse state of affairs.
Democrats
decree death in the swamp for the Dreamers. Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and their Democratic followers laid a
careful trap for their Republican tormentors, and then fell in it. The Republican leadership can keep them from
climbing out if they're smart and show a little courage. Determined not to recognize the results of the 2016 election,
as if they were the losers of an election in a third-world backwater, the losers set out to put their candidate on the throne
by "any means necessary." The Democrats established not the usual loyal opposition, but a "resistance." A resistance
does not try to make a government work, but to thwart it by fair means or foul.
Fearful
Dems preemptively strike State of Union. "Democrats ramp up efforts to boycott Trump's State of the Union
address," blasted one Fox News headline. That's after four Dems — Reps. Frederica Wilson, Maxine
Waters, John Lewis and Earl Blumenauer — announced intent to boycott the speech. Not that anyone cares.
But just in case you wondered why, here's a bit, from Waters to MSNBC: "Why would I take my time to go and sit and
listen to a liar?" [...] All this comes in addition to Democrats' announced plans to bring sexual misconduct victims to
the speech — not to protest their own party's Al Franken-types, but rather, allegations against Trump —
and to hold as many protests both inside and outside the venue as possible.
Democrats
ramp up efforts to boycott Trump's State of the Union address. Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson added her
name to a growing list of Democratic lawmakers who say they are fed up with President Trump and will boycott his State of the
Union address at the end of the month. Wilson, who was elected in 2010 and made headlines last year for fighting with
Trump over his telephone call to the widow of a fallen soldier, cited the president's "recent racist and incendiary remarks
about Haiti and African nations" for reasons why she wouldn't be attending the Jan. 30 speech. "For the first time
since I began serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, I will not be attending the president's State of the Union address,"
Wilson said in a statement late Sunday [1/14/2018]. "I have no doubts that instead of delivering a message of inclusivity
and an agenda that benefits all Americans, President Trump's address will be full of innuendo, empty promises and lies."
The Editor says...
Barack H. Obama made his share of State of the Union speeches that were "full of innuendo, empty promises and lies," and the Republicans
didn't boycott those event for political gain. As a public service, I have kept excerpts from the reviews of Obama's SOTU speeches
(and many others) here
and here.
The Obstruction of a Vital Election Integrity Commission.
The commission's assignment was to examine the integrity and security of the American election process. It was similar
to work done by several prior presidential commissions. This time, however, unprecedented obstruction from many state
election officials and partisan "lawfare" made fulfilling our responsibilities virtually impossible. Right off the bat,
a third of the states flatly refused to give the commission the voter registration and voter history data we
requested — even though it is supposed to be publicly available information. States routinely provide that
same data to political parties, candidates, and other third parties. There are only two possible explanations for their
refusal: either they were part of the partisan resist-Trump-at-any-costs movement, or they were afraid of what we might
find. Additionally, a swarm of meritless lawsuits, filed by progressive groups, hobbled our ability to make progress on
our assignment. Even one of our fellow commissioners joined in. Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap (a Democrat)
rushed to federal court because he didn't feel sufficiently included.
Is
the Washington Post Part of the Far Left? We may have been the first to expose the Democracy Alliance, back in
2014. The Democracy Alliance is a shadowy group of far-left money men who organize their efforts to try to radically
transform American society through left-wing organizations of various kinds. The Democracy Alliance rates such groups
and encourages its far-left donors to support those who rate the highest, and it attempts to coordinate the efforts to
transform America that are carried out by elements of the far left. [...] The Democracy Alliance seeks to lead the
"resistance" to President Trump's common-sense policies, and the Washington Post has placed itself squarely in the
ranks of the "resistance." (When a Democrat is president, resistance is called "obstructionism.")
A
Ludicrous Ruling That Trump Can't End DACA. Yesterday [1/9/2018], Judge William Alsup ordered the Trump
administration to keep its predecessor's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in place. This
remarkable 49-page order has all the aesthetics of a judicial decision but is, at heart, an amateur act of punditry.
Judge Alsup paints the picture of a divided White House, wherein "the Chief Executive publicly favors the very program [his
Administration] has ended." Citing a "presidential tweet," the court suggests that DACA's recision "was contrived to
give the administration a bargaining chip to demand funding for a border wall in exchange for reviving DACA." These
talking points could have been plagiarized from the MSNBC chyron. Such rhetoric in a judicial decision would have
been unthinkable barely a year ago. But now it passes for the new normal. Once again, the judiciary has attempted
to shackle President Trump from making his own judgments about how to exercise his own power. The Supreme Court
has reversed Judge Alsup's outlandish rulings on DACA before. And it will do so again.
Trump
and Sessions must tell this amnesty judge to shove it. Not in [Alexander] Hamilton's wildest imaginings could
he ever have envisioned a time when a lowly district judge can force a president to make denizens of aliens, contrary to the
most foundational sovereignty statutes. Even King George couldn't do what Obama did on immigration without the consent
of Parliament, according to the Library of Congress. In that sense, the power of lower court judges has been elevated
to a higher status than that of a king, much less a president. Remember when Hamilton said even the Supreme Court would
have "neither force nor will" on political issues even governing American citizens? Those were good days. It's
not worth delving into the details of the ruling from this Antifa-style judge in San Francisco who declared last night that
Trump must continue renewing work permits, visas, and Social Security cards for people who, pursuant to law, must be
deported. After all, Judge William Alsup is merely continuing "the resistance," with the power of supremacy that even
conservative legal eagles have bestowed upon the judicial robes. Let's put aside the fact that it is a settled,
uninterrupted stream of case law that illegal aliens are considered as if they are outside the country and do not have
standing to sue in court. This is why we have administrative immigration judges, given that aliens have no access to
Article III courts.
Judge
rules against Trump administration on rescinding DACA. A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday barred the
Trump administration from turning back the Obama-era DACA program, which shielded more than 700,000 people from deportation,
Reuters reported. U.S. District Judge William Alsup, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, ruled that the program
must stay intact while litigation is played out. Alsup ordered that until a final judgment is reached, the program must
continue and those already approved for DACA protections and work permits must be allowed to renew them before they expire.
The Judicial
Rebellion. We are witnessing a treasonous rebellion by leftist judges who are declaring the last election null and void.
At the core of these traitors' arguments is the belief that the people do not have the right to express their views through the electoral
process. Essentially, these courts are declaring that President Trump doesn't have the same authority as his predecessor and that the
powers of the executive branch are constrained by what the judiciary thinks is good policy. These judges assert that President Trump
can't overrule the executive orders of his predecessor with his own executive orders. If that were the case, elections would be
meaningless, since one president could effectively prevent the people from rejecting his position by voting for a candidate who disagreed
with him. We see this in the judge's ruling on DACA. Ignoring for a moment the fact that DACA was an unconstitutional usurpation
of power by Obama, there is still a huge problem with a court effectively declaring that one president, Obama, can make edicts that other
presidents can't change.
Judicial
Anarchy Over DACA. A federal judge, U.S. District Judge William Alsup, took it upon himself to order that the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), put in place by former President Obama's executive order and wound
down towards ultimate termination by President Trump's own executive order last September, must stay in place at least for
the time being. The judge issued a preliminary injunction against ending DACA while lawsuits over President Trump's
decision go forward. The effect of Judge Alsup's order is to throw out a temporary lifeline to the illegal immigrant
"Dreamers" who have or have had DACA protection to be able to continue staying and working in the country while they apply
for renewals. Needless to say, President Trump was not happy with this latest example of judicial overreach.
White
House: San Francisco Court DACA Ruling 'Outrageous'. The White House responded to a ruling issued by a
federal district court in San Francisco demanding that President Donald Trump immediately reinstate DACA. "We find this
decision to be outrageous, especially in light of the President's successful bipartisan meeting with House and Senate members
at the White House on the same day," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. Sanders added that
President Donald Trump was determined to work on DACA through Congress, not through executive action.
Leaked
Memo: DREAMers Are 'Critical' To Dems 'Future Electoral Success'. The Center For American Progress (CAP)
Action Fund circulated a memo on Monday calling illegal immigrants brought here at a young age — so-called
"Dreamers" — a "critical component of the Democratic Party's future electoral success." The memo, co-authored
by former Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri, was sent around to allies calling on Democrats to "refuse to offer
any votes for Republican spending bills that do not offer a fix for Dreamers and instead appropriate funds to deport them."
Kris
Kobach: Voter Fraud Commission 'Being Handed Off' to DHS, Will No Longer Be 'Stonewalled' by Dems. Kansas
Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach says the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity
will be "handed off" to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to "more effectively" investigate voter fraud without being
"stonewalled" by Democrats. In an interview with Breitbart News, Kobach said the news that President Trump is
dissolving the voter fraud commission should not be grounds for leftist organizations and Democrats — who sought
to stop the investigations into double voting and ballots cast by non-citizens — to celebrate, as the
investigations will continue under DHS.
Dem
Wants To Block Trump From Nuclear First Strike Without Congressional Permission. California Democratic
Rep. Ted Lieu told his Twitter followers Tuesday night to support his legislation to prevent President Trump from
launching a nuclear first strike without congressional authorization. The bill, known as the Restricting First Use of
Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017, (H.R. 669), had been proposed by Lieu and was referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
last January, just four days after Trump was sworn into office. According to the bill summary, the legislation would
bar the president from using the military "to conduct a first-use nuclear strike unless such strike is conducted pursuant to
a congressional declaration of war expressly authorizing such strike."
Texas
County 'Concealing' Noncitizen Voter Records, Says Group. A public interest watchdog put one Texas County on
notice for failing to disclose noncitizen registered voter records, the group says. Shortly before the holidays, the
Indiana-based Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) sent a letter to attorneys representing Bexar County Elections
Administrator Jacqueline Callanen to state her office is "hereby notified that it now faces federal litigation should [it]
continue to deny access to requested" records related to voters that were later removed for failing to be U.S. citizens.
New
York's Attorney General in Battle With Trump. Eric Schneiderman, New York's attorney general, reached a
milestone of sorts recently. By moving to sue the Federal Communications Commission over net neutrality this month, his
office took its 100th legal or administrative action against the Trump administration and congressional Republicans.
His lawyers have challenged Mr. Trump's first, second and third travel bans and sued over such diverse matters as a
rollback in birth control coverage and a weakening of pollution standards. They have also unleashed a flurry of amicus
briefs and formal letters, often with other Democratic attorneys general, assailing legislation they see as gutting consumer
finance protections or civil rights.
Feeble Resistance.
Shocked by Donald Trump's election, Democrats adopted a strategy of resistance that's simple and blunt: Anything Trump
is for, they're against. It's turned out to be one of the least successful strategies a political party has ever
pursued. Yet Democrats have stuck to it. At least resistance does have one benefit. It assures Democrats
they're operating on higher moral ground than Republicans. This may explain why their commitment to resist Trump didn't
flag in 2017. They didn't bother with offering an alternative tax bill. Their job is to resist. The result has
been a string of failures.
Washington
Bureaucrats Are Quietly Working to Undermine Trump's Agenda. In report after report following Donald Trump's
election, career staffers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration kept saying the same thing: climate change
is real, serious and man-made. That's surprising because Trump has called global warming a hoax. His political
appointees at the Commerce Department, which oversees NOAA, have complained to its staff, but stopped short of demanding
changes or altering the findings. So the reports, blog posts and public updates kept flowing. The bureaucrats
won. "Everything coming out of NOAA does not reflect this administration," said David Schnare, a retired lawyer for an
industry-backed think tank who served on Trump's transition team and is skeptical about climate change. "It reflects
the last one." That's true across the government as some of the roughly two million career staff have found ways to
obstruct, slow down or simply ignore their new leader, the president.
Judge
blocks Trump administration rules on contraceptive coverage. A U.S. judge on Friday blocked President Donald
Trump's administration from moving forward with new rules that undermined an Obamacare requirement for employers to provide
health insurance that covers women's birth control.
Things
fall apart: The decline of 'Dumbledore's Army'. Resistance to the Trump administration within the
intelligence community is beginning to unravel. When Mick Mulvaney was selected to lead the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau (CFPB), he complimented the staff for being professional. There are a significant number of CFPB
employees opposed to the president and any of his appointees. They have formed a resistance group they call
Dumbledore's Army. Although members of other departments, agencies, and bureaus do not call themselves Dumbledore's
Army, they are essentially of the same mindset. Perhaps the largest number of these Dumbledores are in the Department
of Justice and the intelligence community. They are mounting an attack on the Trump administration and are suffering
one defeat after another.
Trump
is the Most Conservative President Since Reagan. He would like to build up the military further. They're
blocking him. He would like to secure the border, including physical barriers like a wall. They're blocking
him. He would like to repeal all of Obamacare. They're blocking him. A president can only do so much if a
president actually honors the Constitution, unlike Obama. He's trying to undo what Obama did to some of our lands, our
open spaces, which were nationalized by Obama.
Obama
blocked deportation of 550,000 illegals, more than Atlanta's population. U.S. immigration officials have
revealed that they face a deportation backlog of 550,000 illegal immigrants who were given temporary amnesty by former
President Obama or simply let off the hook by liberal judges. The massive backlog is being tackled by Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, but the sheer numbers — bigger than the populations of Atlanta or Sacramento — is
overwhelming the agency's enforcement and removal department.
Trump's
Downsizing Utah's Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments Taken To Court. Another decision
made by President Donald Trump is being taken to court. The president issued two proclamations Monday to reduce the
size of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, as well as the Bears Ears National Monument, and to allow mining in
the newly public lands, and conservation groups filed a lawsuit against it a few hours later.
Congress
Stalling Trump Ambassadors, Harming U.S. Effort to Combat N. Korea, Conduct Diplomacy. Amid a global showdown
over North Korea's repeated and increasingly dangerous nuclear tests, Republican leaders in the Senate have declined to hold
a vote on several of President Donald Trump's picks for U.S. ambassador, most notably Richard Grenell, the former U.S.
spokesman at the United Nations who was tapped in September to serve as the next American ambassador to Germany. With
no indication that Congress will move in the near future to confirm Trump's picks, congressional and administration insiders
are expressing growing concerns that the holdup is interfering with U.S. attempts to rein in North Korea's nuclear program,
according to multiple sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon about the situation.
Exclusive:
Liberal Organizers Incentivize Protesters To Get Arrested. Organizers with the left-leaning group Housing Works
told protesters they must "risk arrest" in order to be reimbursed for airfare to Washington, D.C., according to an internal
email obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. "We will transport, house and feed you, and deal with all legal
support. Caveat: if you are far away from DC and expensive to transport, we can probably only fly you if you can risk
arrest," the internal email told supporters.
Sen.
Tom Cotton: Here's How to End Democrats' Obstruction of Trump's Nominees. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.,
says Democrats have forced the Senate into 47 cloture votes this year alone on President Donald Trump's judicial nominees,
compared with just six cloture votes in the first years of the four prior administrations combined. Cotton said Senate
Democrats are abusing procedures that allow them to stymie Trump's executive branch nominees. He said that allows
career bureaucrats to run their agencies anyway they want, "without any political accountability." The freshman Arkansas
senator leveled the charge in remarks to the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group, on Nov. 16 in Washington.
Federal
judge says Trump administration can't stop funding sex-reassignment surgeries for military members. A second
federal judge has halted the Trump administration's proposed transgender military ban, finding that active-duty service
members are "already suffering harmful consequences" because of the president's policy. The ruling Tuesday [11/21/2017]
by U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis in a Maryland case comes just weeks after another judge in Washington blocked the
administration's proposal that would have stopped military recruitment of transgender men and women and possibly forced the
dismissal of current service members, starting in March. The preliminary injunction issued by the judge in Baltimore on
Tuesday goes further than the earlier ruling by also preventing the administration from denying funding for sex-reassignment
surgeries after the order takes effect.
Ted
Cruz: Dems Filibustered Legislation That Would Have Had Texas Church Shooter in Prison. Yesterday, on
"Fox News @ Night," Cruz really laid into Democrats. He said that in 2013, the Democrats filibustered the Grassley-Cruz
legislation that "would have resulted in this shooter being in federal prison instead of murdering those innocents in that
Texas church." I still admire and really follow Ted Cruz and I know he is sick in his soul over this killing in his
state. I'm also sure he's furious because it didn't have to be this way.
The Dems' Tax
Demagoguery. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Party are trying to torpedo the biggest tax cut
since 1986. Schumer accuses GOP tax cutters of "messing up the good economy the president inherited from President Obama and
hurting the middle class." The senator must think we're stupid. The Obama economy wasn't "good." It was lousy,
sputtering along at a pathetic 2.1%, far below the 3.8% norm for this nation. Who got clobbered? The middle class,
who had to settle for almost no increase in wages and disappointing job prospects.
11-minute
Trump Twitter outage prompts company investigation. President Trump blamed his 11-minute Twitter account outage on Thursday
[11/2/2017] on a "rogue employee." "My Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I guess the word
must finally be getting out-and having an impact," Trump tweeted early Friday morning. Twitter launched an internal investigation
Thursday after a "customer support" employee, reportedly working his or her last day with the company, briefly deactivated the highly viewed
account of the president.
Twitter:
Employee 'inadvertently' deactivated Trump's account. Twitter attributed a brief disappearance of President
Trump's personal Twitter account on Thursday night to "human error" on the part of one of its employees. "Earlier today
@realdonaldtrump's account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee," Twitter said in a
statement posted to the platform. "The account was down for 11 minutes, and has since been restored. We are
continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again," Twitter added.
It's
Time For GOP Leadership To Stop Letting Democrats Stall Judicial Nominations. Legislative victories are
typically short-lived, budget reforms sunset, regulations can be rescinded, and policy guidance is often not worth the paper
it's written on. But federal judicial appointments are for life; those black-robed arbiters continue shaping our world
long after the president who appointed them has left the White House.
The Left's
Last Spasm. As far as anybody knows, the November 4th revolution/tantrum/jamboree planned by Antifa and its
associate organizations remains on schedule. The "Opposition" — Antifa, the John Brown Clubs, Refuse
Fascism, and assorted other scraps have announced that on that date the revolution will begin with a mass nationwide uprising
that will continue until the Trump/Pence regime is overcome. Dozens of hundreds of the people's vanguard will hit the
streets, squatting at intersections and holding their breaths until the fascists are exorcised and the new epoch of light is
fully underway.
Judge
blocks latest Trump travel ban hours before set to take effect. A federal judge in Hawaii on Tuesday [10/17/2017] blocked
President Trump's newest attempt to implement a travel ban, hours before it was scheduled to take effect at midnight. U.S.
District Court Judge Derrick K. Watson issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday [10/17/2017] on Trump's third executive order,
which had banned citizens of eight countries from entering the U.S. because of national security concerns. The Justice
Department said it would appeal the decision.
Federal
judge blocks Trump's third travel ban. A federal judge on Tuesday [10/17/2017] largely blocked the Trump
administration from implementing the latest version of the president's controversial travel ban, setting up yet another
legal showdown on the extent of the executive branch's powers when it comes to setting immigration policy. The decision
from U.S. District Judge Derrick K. Watson in Hawaii is sure to be appealed, but for now, it means that the administration
cannot restrict the entry of travelers from six of the eight countries that officials said were unable or unwilling to provide
information that the United States wanted to vet the countries' citizens.
Here
Are The Lawmakers Fighting Trump's Transgender Ban. Democratic and Republican members of Congress introduced a
bill Friday [10/13/2017] to block the Pentagon from removing active-duty transgender troops. Republican Reps.
Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida joined Democratic Reps. Jackie Speier of California,
Susan Davis of California, Adam Smith of Washington, and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona in introducing the House companion bill to
Senate bill S. 1820, that blocks the Department of Defense (DOD) from removing transgender troops based on gender
identity. "Kicking out members of the United States Armed Services solely based on their gender identity is hateful,
discriminatory, and on the wrong side of history," Speier said in a statement Friday. [...] Former President Barack Obama's
administration repealed the ban on transgender individuals serving openly in the military in June 2016.
Democrats
promise to derail Congress until Dream Act passes. Leading Hispanic Democrats said Monday they're so
disappointed in President Trump's new 70-point immigration enforcement plan that they'll withhold support for must-pass
legislation in Congress until lawmakers work out a better deal to protect illegal immigrants. "They are not going to
have Democrats to get them over the finish line on anything they need," said Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, chairwoman of
the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. She and fellow Democrats, on a conference call with reporters, said Mr. Trump's
demand for a border wall, a crackdown on sanctuary cities, more deportation agents and a rewrite of a number of loopholes
that have allowed illegal immigrants to gain a foothold in the U.S. are all non-starters.
Ryan
Zinke plans overhaul because Interior Department employees 'not loyal'. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said
Monday 30 percent of his agency's employees are "not loyal" to him or President Trump and he is developing a plan to overhaul
the department. "I got 30 percent of the crew that's not loyal to the flag," Zinke said in remarks to the National
Petroleum Council, a federal advisory panel.
Oregon
Dems Push Phony Precedent To Block Ninth Circuit Court Nominee. Oregon's two Democratic senators are blocking
one of President Trump's judicial nominees with claims that a "longstanding" state tradition mandating that nominees be
chosen from their "judicial selection committee" was violated, but the tradition they cite has never applied to picks for the
U.S. Circuit Court, according to records viewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff
Merkley alerted the White House that they would be blocking the nomination of Oregon native Ryan Bounds for a seat on the
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Bounds is currently serving as assistant U.S. Attorney for the
District of Oregon.
The
Deep State Wraps Its Protective Cocoon Around Hillary Clinton. Question: Now that the Republicans control
all three branches of government, my question is really simple. Why is it that when organizations have sued the Justice
Department and State Department — I'm, of course, speaking of Judicial Watch here — for documents
related to Hillary Clinton, Benghazi and all of the other Obama scandals... why is it that State and Justice are so slow in
releasing the documents that the judges have ordered to be released? And if it is the deep state that you talk about, then
why isn't Secretary Tillerson and Attorney General Sessions getting in there and kicking some tail to get this information out?
Colorado
joins lawsuit to block Trump from ending DACA. Colorado on Wednesday [9/13/2017] announced that it would join 15 other
states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit against President Trump's decision to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) program. Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) called Trump's decision to end the program "outrageous," pressing
Congress to "immediately" pass the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act and immigration reforms.
Trump
prods State Department to stop delaying release of Clinton emails. The White House has been privately urging
the State Department to speed up its protracted process for releasing Hillary Clinton's still-undisclosed emails. [...] The
pressure from the White House may be working. On Thursday, the State Department released a batch of Clinton-related
emails that show how she honored requests from Clinton Foundation and campaign donors to pull some strings. The
department turned over to Judicial Watch, a government watchdog group, 1,617 pages of documents, including
97 email exchanges not previously disclosed.
Luis
Gutierrez: Democrats ready to shut down government if Dream Act fails. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.,
said he and other liberal House Democrats are prepared to support a government shutdown if House members fail to pass the
Dream Act and protect hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants from being deported. "We have a Democratic
caucus where I know the vast majority of the members of the Democratic caucus are ready to say 'If there is no pathway
forward, not only for the 800,000 and for visas for all of you, but also for the rest of immigrant youth through the Dream
Act, then there is no government for anyone,'" Gutierrez said Friday [9/8/2017] during a press conference with the United
We Dream advocacy group. "We will shut it down or let the Republicans keep it open with their own votes."
Al
Franken will use Senate blue-slip tradition to block Trump judiciary nominee. Sen. Al Franken said Tuesday
that he will use an arcane Senate tradition to try to derail one of President Trump's appeals court nominees, marking an
escalation in what has become a nasty fight over the shape of the federal judiciary. Mr. Franken said he won't
return his "blue slip" for Minnesota Supreme Court Justice David Stras, Mr. Trump's nominee for the 8th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals. Under Senate tradition, the chamber won't proceed on a judicial nominee unless both home-state
senators return their blue slips, signifying acquiescence in the pick. Left with little power to filibuster, the blue
slip has become the most effective tool Democrats have to obstruct Mr. Trump's court nominees.
Filibuster is Senate
invention to aid and abet senators. First of all, let's get it straight. There is no such thing as
filibuster in the United States Constitution. The notion that this was an invention of the Founding Fathers is just
wishful thinking by senators who want to give their shameless power grab the imprimatur of legitimacy. Actually, the
Constitution provides that a simple majority in both the House and Senate is sufficient to do business. We know that
was the plan because the authors of the Constitution spelled out only a handful of circumstances when a super-majority would
be required such as ratifying treaties.
What
Are Democrats So Afraid Of? Mention voter fraud near a liberals and you'll see Pavlov's Basic Principles of
Classical Conditioning in action. "There is no voter fraud," they'll instinctively say, then expect a treat. [...] But
why would Democrats, both elected and in the media, be so upset at the prospect of looking into it? As Napoleon is
credited with saying, "Never interfere with your enemy when he is committing a mistake." Yet Democrats are adamant that
this commission end, and their fellow Democrats in positions of power in the states resist any cooperation. Their
activist arms have gone so far as to file lawsuits to delay sharing voter information with the commission. Not to stop
it — it's public information, after all — but to slow the process in the hope of stopping it altogether.
Klobuchar,
Franken Impede the Path of an Outanding Judge. When Minnesota Supreme Court Justice David Stras was nominated
for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the news was met with enthusiastic support by Minnesotans from
across the political spectrum. A diverse group of judges, attorneys and law professors urged the Senate to act on
Stras' nomination and confirm him for the Eighth Circuit. Among those who signed letters of support for Stras are
former colleagues on the Minnesota Supreme Court, including retired Justice Alan Page and others appointed by a bipartisan
list of governors, as well as former Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Gov. Mark Dayton. Stras is also supported by 12
former members of Congress from Minnesota (Republicans and Democrats), by members of the faculty at the University of
Minnesota Law School and by more than 100 prominent Minnesota attorneys.
Big
Plans on the Hard Left for November 4. One thing overlooked in the uproar over Charlottesville is that this
was, evidently, merely a dress rehearsal for a much larger-scale effort planned for this Autumn. Activist groups on the
left evidently have something big in store for November 4th. The idea seems to be a revival of the 1971 "Days of
Rage" — an effort to shut down the country as a whole to force a change in government.
ACLU sues Trump administration over arrests
of immigrant teens. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a class action lawsuit against President Trump's administration over
the detention of immigrant teenagers for "unsubstantiated claims of gang affiliation." The lawsuit, announced on Friday [8/11/2017], targets Attorney
General Jeff Sessions, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement.
In a press release, the ACLU accuses ICE and the Office of Refugee Resettlement of detaining children and transporting them to detention facilities without
notifying their parents or lawyers.
Federal Government, HHS, DOJ: Gaming the
Freedom of Info System. In addition to the active lawsuit I have in federal court over the intrusion into my government computers, I
have been litigating several of the many failed government responses to lawful Freedom of Information Act requests. I'm giving up on one
of them as of this week. It's my request for public material the government withheld after the disastrous launch of Obamacare in 2013 when I
was reporting on the topic for CBS News. We have learned, among other things, that federal officials gave incorrect and misleading information
to the public and under oath to Congress regarding serious security failures in development and testing of the national website and system, and
other important topics.
Transgender
Active-Duty Troops Sue Trump Over Military Ban. President Donald Trump is being sued by five transgender people
serving in the United States military who are requesting for transgender troops to be permitted to stay in the armed
forces. The lawsuit comes in response to Trump's July tweets announcing transgender troops would not be allowed to
serve in the military in "any capacity," according to the New York Times. The case, organized by the National
Center for Lesbian Rights and the GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, is filed under pseudonyms "Jane Doe" one through five.
Fired NSC Aide Reveals
Political Warfare Operation Targeting Trump. A White House National Security Council official has charged that leftist opponents of
President Trump are engaged in political warfare operations designed to subvert his presidency and drive him from office. Rich Higgins, until
recently director of strategic planning at the NSC, revealed the program in a seven-page memorandum produced in May that warns of a concerted
information warfare campaign by the Marxist left, Islamists, and political leaders and government officials opposed to the populist president.
"The Trump administration is suffering under withering information campaigns designed to first undermine, then delegitimize and ultimately remove
the president," Higgins states.
Silencing
ALL opposition voices: Inside The Media Matters Playbook. Even to casual observers, it has been obvious
for months that the left is orchestrating a tightly-coordinated campaign to undermine and delegitimize the current
presidential administration. As an extension of the decades-long campaign to wrestle the narrative away from
conservatives, independents and centrists, they're smearing right-leaning commentators with anything they can find. [...]
So, what exactly do they want? Nothing less than complete control over political discourse in America.
Russia
probe: Democrats block key witness against shadowy firm Fusion GPS. Senate Democrats used a parliamentary maneuver
Wednesday [7/26/2017] to cut short a high-profile hearing, where a key witness was set to testify on Russia's misdeeds and also raise
fresh allegations against the company behind the infamous anti-Trump dossier. Bill Browder, the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage
Capital, was set to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee that the co-founder of the firm Fusion GPS was hired to conduct a "smear
campaign" against him.
Senate
Parliamentarian Blocks Defunding Of Planned Parenthood. On Friday night [7/22/2017], Elizabeth MacDonough, the
Senate parliamentarian, made [...] sure that defunding of Planned Parenthood will not be part of the Senate health care bill,
citing the Byrd rule to stipulate that the key provisions violated Senate rules. [...] It is now clear the Senate's version of a
new health care bill will not defund Planned Parenthood, as it would require 60 votes in the Senate to implement such an action.
Will the
Senate Parliamentarian Try to Save Obamacare? [Scroll down] This was the "clean repeal" that Senator Rand
Paul and other conservative Senators would like to vote on rather than BCRA, and President Trump would certainly sign it into
law if Congress could get it to his desk. Would the Senate parliamentarian move the goalpost on reconciliation to
prevent that? Probably. This functionary is expected to be a kind of nonpartisan referee and advisor to the
Senate leadership concerning the proper interpretation of that body's rules and procedures. That anonymous person you
sometimes see on C-SPAN quietly conferring with the presiding officer is likely to be the parliamentarian explaining some
arcane rule. But that specialized knowledge is no guarantee of political neutrality.
Soros-Funded
Groups Fight to Stop Trump's Voter Fraud Commission. President Donald Trump's voter fraud commission announced
late Monday it's temporarily suspending its collection of voter data from states following a lawsuit by the Electronic
Privacy Information Center. The Electronic Privacy Information Center had asked for a temporary restraining order in
its July 3 suit, saying the commission should have had a plan to protect the data on individual voters before it set
about collecting it from the state. But there's more to the story.
Americans
want results, not resistance. Beltway Democrats like Elizabeth Warren can barely contain their glee at what
they perceive as a difficult pace of change. But their euphoria is misplaced. [...] Democrats are oddly convinced they
are winning when they keep losing. In the four post-Trump special elections Democrats are 0 for 4. That
is not momentum. That is failure. My special election in Kansas was one of those four races, along with contests in
Georgia, Montana and South Carolina.
White
House to Dems: Stop Obstructing Trump's Nominations. Democrats in the Senate have launched an "unprecedented obstruction"
campaign of President Donald Trump's nominees, the White House said Monday [7/10/2017]. Marc Short, director of Legislative Affairs,
likened the Democrats' behavior to children on the playground who take their toys and go home out of spite.
White
House slams Senate Democrats' 'unprecedented campaign of obstruction' against Trump nominees. Senate Democrats
are blocking President Trump's political nominees at unprecedented rates, White House legislative affairs director Marc Short
said on Monday [7/10/2017]. "The Senate is conducting the slowest confirmation process in American history," Short told
reporters at the White House. Short accused Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., of spearheading an "unprecedented
campaign of obstruction" against Trump's nominees. "It is the will of the American people that is being denied," Short said.
Senate
stonewall: 23% Trump picks OK'd vs. 69% of Obama's. Putting numbers behind his claim that Senate Democrats have
stonewalled his agenda and creation of a Republican government, President Trump today charged that he's only been able to get
approval of 23 percent of his top picks compared to former President Obama, who had 69 percent confirmed at this stage of his
first term. In a long and detailed accounting of the effort to block his administration, the White House today said,
"Less than a month away from the August recess, the Senate has confirmed only 23 percent of President Trump's 216
nominations. By the first August recess during President Obama's first term, the Senate had confirmed 69 percent
of his 454 nominations."
Trump
mulls cancelling Congress' summer recess to break Senate Democrat obstruction of nominees. President Trump has
not ruled out cancelling Congress's August recess to force votes on nominees that the administration says have been held up
by unpretending obstructionism by Democrats. Marc Short, the White House director of legislative affairs, said Senate
Democrats blocking of confirmation of key nominees was jeopardizing national security and denying Americans a fully staffed
federal government. "The president has every right to call Congress back if necessary," Mr. Short told reporters
at the White House.
ACLU
sues to demand transparency from Trump's voter integrity panel. The ACLU filed a new lawsuit Monday [7/10/2017] against
President Trump's voter integrity commission, delivering a fierce rhetorical attack on the panel as part of a complaint that the
commission is violating open-government rules. Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union said the commission, which
Mr. Trump set up to study the scope of voter fraud and the size of potential barriers to voting, is actually an attempt
to give "a veneer of legitimacy" to the president's claims that millions of illegal votes were cast in last year's election.
Time
to Do Away With the Blue Slip. The "blue slip" — the power of senators to block judicial nominations
within their states — is a venerable Senate tradition that has long outlived its usefulness. Similar to the
filibuster, liberals view the blue slip either as incorrigible obstructionism or as the height of prudent constitutionalism,
depending only on which party's president is nominating judges.
Immigration
agency won't commit to giving noncitizen data to voter fraud commission. The U.S. immigration agency that holds
millions of records on noncitizens living legally in the U.S. will not commit to turning over that data to President Trump's
commission on voter fraud. The Commission on Election Integrity already has clashed with Democrat-run states that are
refusing to meet its written requests to provide voter rolls. The information is considered public and is often given
or sold to political groups. Commission Vice Chairman Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, told The Washington
Times in May that he also wants U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to provide the identifications of noncitizens
living as permanent residents with green cards.
Kris
Kobach: Only 14 states have refused Trump election commission request. Kris Kobach, vice chair of the Presidential Advisory
Commission on Election Integrity, said Wednesday [7/5/2017] that only 14 states and the District of Columbia have refused the commission's recent
request for voter data, disputing reports that dozens of states had rejected the request. "At present 20 states have agreed to provide
the publicly available information requested by the commission and another 16 states are reviewing which information can be released under
their state laws," Kobach said in a statement. "In all, 36 states have either agreed or are considering participating with the
Commission's work to ensure the integrity of the American electoral system."
Senate
Democrats blocking Trump court picks. Senate Democrats are turning to procedural tactics to delay confirmation
of President Trump's appeals court picks, and conservative groups are firing back with a new ad in Michigan trying to force
two Democrats to clear a path for one embattled nominee. The Judicial Crisis Network says it will spend $140,000 on the
ad, which demands Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters drop any objections to Michigan Supreme Court Justice Joan
Larsen, who Mr. Trump nominated to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on May 8.
Terry McAuliffe Again Obstructs
Efforts to Investigate Voter Fraud. The decision by Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe (D.) not to cooperate with a White House commission
examining voting processes in federal elections comes after a year in which the governor circumvented the commonwealth's supreme court to restore voting
rights for convicted felons and stalled efforts by the Virginia legislature to fight voter fraud. McAuliffe announced on Thursday evening [6/29/2017]
he has "no intention of honoring" a request for publicly available voter data made by the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which
was established through a May executive order and is being led by Vice President Mike Pence. McAuliffe stated in his rejection that there is
"no evidence" of voter fraud in Virginia, and that the "only irregularity in the 2016 presidential election centered around Russian tampering."
He also stated his belief that the commission was set up as a "tool to commit large-scale voter suppression."
The Editor says...
In a way, Mr. McAuliffe is correct: The commission was set up to help suppress the votes of dead people,
non-citizens, incarcerated felons, and the victims of identity theft.
Schumer uses Senate
rule to scuttle meeting on 'unmasking' by Obama officials. Capitol Hill's competing Russia-election meddling investigations boiled over as
Senate Democrats blocked a closed-door hearing into possible Obama White House efforts to "unmask" members of the Trump presidential campaign, while the
chairman of the leading Senate probe said he hoped to complete the panel's work by the year's end. A planned Senate Judiciary Committee inquiry into
whether Mr. Obama's aides tried to improperly identify U.S. citizens swept up in intelligence surveillance of foreign targets was short-circuited after
Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer invoked a parliamentary rule against holding committee meetings beyond the first two hours of the Senate's day.
Paying
workers to protest: The controversial trend of social justice benefits. Since the election, scores of
activists have taken to the streets, town halls and rallies to blast President Trump. That's all with the blessing of
their boss thanks to social justice benefits and paid time off work policies that are growing in popularity. At San
Francisco marketing firm Traction, social justice benefits take the form of two so-called "Days of Action" a year.
"They can take part in a protest, they can volunteer for a cause that is meaningful to them," says CEO Adam Kleinberg.
"Civic engagement is a foundation of our democracy, and companies should encourage it."
Video:
Health Care Bill Protesters Dragged Away by Capitol Hill Police. Hundreds of protesters gathered this morning
[6/22/2017] Capitol after Senate Republicans released their plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare. Katie Pavlich noted
that many of the demonstrators have not even gotten a look at what's in the 142-page bill. [Video clip]
Bernie
Sanders: Act in 'unprecedented' ways to thwart Republicans. Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders says "unprecedented" actions
by his supporters must be taken to stop Republicans from passing a health care bill in the Senate. A Facebook Live event Monday
[6/19/2017] with Mr. Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren included a call for unorthodox actions to halt Republican
efforts to replace Obamacare, former President Barack Obama's signature legislative achievement.
Dems
to grind Senate to a halt over ObamaCare repeal fight. Senate Democrats are slowing the Senate to a crawl as
they escalate their fight over the GOP push to repeal and replace ObamaCare. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer
(D-N.Y.) announced that Democrats will invoke the so-called "two hour" rule on Tuesday [6/20/2017], which blocks committees
from meeting after the Senate has been in session for two hours.
Democrats
Block Witnesses from Testifying in House Intel Probe. House Democrats are continuing to block testimony from
about a dozen witnesses who sought to appear before the intelligence oversight panel investigating Russian interference in
the 2016 election. Congressional officials said one of the key witnesses, former informal adviser to the Trump campaign
Carter Page, was scheduled to testify at a closed hearing of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. But
Democrats on the committee blocked the testimony, asserting they needed more time to prepare.
Democratic
Slumber Party Part VI: Seizing The Senate Floor Over Obamacare Repeal. Senate Democrats took over the floor to
protest Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court. Okay — that's not exactly fair. It was mostly
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), but they held another slumber party over global warming. Over on the House side,
Democrats occupied the floor to force a vote on gun control after the horrific mass shooting at the LGBT Pulse nightclub in
Orlando. And now, Democrats are going to takeover the Senate floor again for the lack of transparency over the GOP
health care bill... until about midnight.
Schumer
Wants to Hear Lynch's Side of the Story Before Requesting Investigation. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
(D-N.Y.) said he wants to hear former Attorney General Loretta Lynch's side of the story before calling for an investigation
into whether she tried to downplay the seriousness of Hillary Clinton's email practices. "Well, before I say anything
further on this, I want to hear what Loretta Lynch's side of the story is. I haven't heard that yet," Schumer told a
press conference on Tuesday [6/13/2017].
Trump Is
Winning His War on Washington. No one who followed closely really believed that the war was over on election
night. The Democrats contested some local results, very unsuccessfully, and then, in their stark disbelief, took out
television advertisements reaching tens of millions of people to ask some of the 538 people elevated to the electoral college
to break their pledges and vote for Hillary Clinton instead of Donald Trump. It was an absurd fiasco. Democratic
Senate leaders Chuck Schumer and Richard Durbin made prodigious efforts to block virtually every nominee of the incoming
administration to high office.
Despite
not knowing a anything about it, 66% of millennials oppose Trump budget. Just like Congress passes bills before
they know what's in them, millennials are passing judgement on President Donald Trump's budget before the full details are
known and understood. Millennials, which mostly get their news from Facebook, couldn't possibly understand the impacts
of Trump's budget overhaul, but in a GenForward poll, 66 percent of young Americans say they oppose the budget because it
helps the rich. How exactly does the Trump budget help the rich?
Trump
calls for rebuilding transportation systems, blasts Democrats as obstructionist. Standing on the banks of the
Ohio River, President Trump pledged Wednesday to rebuild America's waterway transportation system and took a swipe at
Democrats for failing to support his efforts. Saying Americans "deserve the best infrastructure any where in the
world," the president promoted his $1-trillion plan to rebuild roads, bridges and canals with a direct investment of
$200 billion from the federal government.
Treason. There is a division of the nation that
cannot be repaired. While the media pretends that everything it does is out of concern for the nation, it is really out of concern for the advances
toward collectivism that have been made under Barack Obama that piques their concern. The way that the media and the "deep state" cooperate to
maintain those collectivist advances is startling, or would be, if anyone reported on it. Understand that everything that has gone on
since the election of Donald Trump has been to deny him the presidency, not so much the office, but the power of the office.
Prominent
Anti-Trump Group has Received More than $20 Million in Government Grants. A prominent liberal activist group
that is closely involved with anti-Trump campaigns has been awarded more than $20 million in taxpayer-funded government
grants since 2002, according to a review of the organization's Form 990s. Make the Road New York (MRNY), a New York
City-based Latino immigrant group with 19,000 dues-paying members, has been actively involved with anti-Trump campaigns and
is closely linked to an organization that is spearheading a new $80 million anti-Trump network that will span across
32 states. In addition to generous funding from liberal billionaire George Soros, MRNY has hauled in millions in
government grants.
Schumer's
effort to cripple Trump. Sen. Chuck Schumer is trying to sabotage the Trump administration, at the expense
of the country. [...] Schumer says he will try to block a new director of the FBI until Trump appoints a special counsel to
investigate Russia's meddling in the 2016 election. It's obvious what Schumer sees to gain from this effort. It
pleases the liberal base and serves Schumer's broader purpose of crippling an administration, making it ineffective, and then
reaping the electoral rewards of complaining against a president who can get nothing done.
DNC
funds 'Resistance Summer' in the hopes of harnessing Trump opposition. The Democratic National Committee
reportedly is planning to pump $1 million into everything from rallies, town halls and neighborhood meetings in hopes of
growing voter opposition to President Trump. The so-called "Resistance Summer" is billed as a 50-state strategy.
The DNC plans to hold events across the country in early June before sponsoring a national training summit in the hopes of
attracting scores of new Democratic voters, the Hill reported. The move is the party's first concrete expansion plan
since Tom Perez took over as chairman.
Chuck
Schumer's Threat To Block New FBI Director Shows Democratic Incompetence. One of the reasons Democrats freaked
out over [James] Comey's firing is because they said it interfered with the ability of the FBI to function properly and do
their job. So the solution is to block the appointment of a replacement? [...] It's fascinating to watch. Donald
Trump keeps shooting himself in the foot, and instead of sitting back, allowing it to happen, Schumer is grabbing the gun
from Trump and firing shots into both of his own feet.
Democrats
Ponder Whether Resisting Donald Trump Is Enough. For Democrats these days, the key word in their political vocabulary is "resistance."
Amid the flurry of analysis and commentary marking President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, the Democratic Party's position was clear:
It is fighting the president and all he does, pure and simple.
California's
latest move to "fight the wall" is truly something out of La La Land. There are still budget battles and (probably) blockades
from the 9th Circuit to come, but sooner or later the President is going to get some work started on the border wall. But if and when
he does, California is laying some landmines in advance for any private contractors who dare to bid on the job and pour a single yard of
concrete. In a move being dubbed, "Build it and be banned," California legislators are proposing to impose a permanent ban for
government contracts on any company who takes part in the project.
The
Democrats' Desperate Ploy To Block Tax Reform. Democrats say they won't work with President Trump on tax reform
unless he first releases his tax returns. This has to be the lamest excuse for not fixing the tax code we've ever heard.
More
Than 70 Liberal Groups Partnered for Anti-Trump Tax Day Protests. A coalition of more than 70 liberal groups
coordinated to plan nationwide protests demanding President Donald Trump release his tax returns. The April 15 protests
drew thousands of people in Washington, D.C. 'Local protests' took place in 44 states, with international protests in
Germany, Japan, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. The protests were organized through a website called TaxMarch.org.
The site claims the demonstrations were the result of ordinary Americans, community organizers, advocates, and "people from all
walks of life and all backgrounds" holding Trump, his administration, and Congress accountable.
With
Gorsuch Gambit, Democrats Claim The Stupid Party Label. Trump derangement syndrome claimed its first victim today [4/6/2017], when
Senate Democrats decided to filibuster the appointment of the supremely qualified Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, and
ended up handing Trump and the GOP the opportunity to dramatically shift the ideological balance on the court.
Dianne
Feinstein In 2006: You Can't Block A SCOTUS Nominee Because You Disagree With Him. The Democrats are going
crazy over the appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Gorsuch is completely qualified but they're trying to
block him just because they hate Trump for winning. Back in 2006, Dianne Feinstein had a much more reasonable view on
this subject. [Video clip]
The Yasser Arafat of the
Democratic Party. [Chuck] Schumer is so practiced at saying one thing to Democratic elites and another to the
Democratic base that it is easy to fall for his charade. But neither Arafat nor Schumer should fool you. [...] His decision
is chum in the water for the frenzied "resistance" to President Trump, which has decided that a judge who was approved to the
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals with Democratic support — including Schumer's — and whose fans include
President Obama's former solicitor general and legal scholar Cass Sunstein is somehow a jurisprudential freak who should be
prevented from joining the Supreme Court by extraordinary means.
Soros-Tied
Networks, Foundations Joined Forces to Create Trump 'Resistance' Fund. Three liberal donor networks and
foundations with ties to billionaire George Soros have joined forces to form a new fund to "resist" President Donald
Trump. The Emergent Fund, which carries a goal of fighting "immediate threats" to "immigrants, women, Muslim and
Arab-American communities, black people, LGBTQ communities, and all people of color," was established late last year to
quickly fund groups to take direct, immediate action against Republicans. Since the fund's formation, it has received
little public attention. It has raised over half a million dollars to give to groups opposing Republicans, such as the
Black Lives Matter Network. The fund has extensive ties to significant liberal networks and groups.
Dem
Chair Pledges Opposition to Trump on Everything but Socialized Medicine. Newly-elected DNC Chairman Tom Perez
downplayed the notion that Democrats are becoming the "Party of No" by saying he'd be willing to work with Trump on socialized
medicine, while vowing to block nearly every other White House initiative from infrastructure spending to Supreme Court nominee
Neil Gorsuch.
Even
Dick Durbin Blasts Democrat Anti-Gorsuch Strategy. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) has taken a different tone
regarding the confirmation process of Judge Gorsuch, and his Democrat colleagues should take note. While radical
left-wingers like Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown, and Jeff Merkley have said they would oppose Gorsuch even before the
hearing, Sen. Durbin stated rejected that kind of behavior, saying: "I don't think that serves the country well."
$15,000
a month offered to 'A Teams' to fight Trump agenda. A group known for its successes fighting digital wars, notably net neutrality, is
offering $15,000 to activists who quit their jobs and form "A-Teams" to jump into a war on President Trump's agenda.
Monasteries
of the Mind. There is now something called the "Resistance," which by its nomenclature poses that its opposition to Trump is
reminiscent of European partisan resistance to Hitler: Affluent progressives are now on the barricades to stop another Holocaust?
Cities now nullify federal law in the spirit of the Old Confederacy. A federal judge doesn't enforce federal law because he says he does
not like what the president and his associates said in the past, during the campaign. Op-ed writers overseas wait eagerly for the
president's assassination.
Supreme
Court needs judges like Gorsuch because America has leaders like Schumer. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,
D-N.Y., [...] trotted out three people, representing supposed "victims" of [Judge Neil] Gorsuch's jurisprudence. He hoped
to demonstrate that Gorsuch is hostile toward workers and cancer patients, and takes the side of "the powerful" and corporations
against the "powerless" little guy. Never mind that in all three cases, one of which was decided unanimously by a three
judge panel that included one of former President Bill Clinton's appointees, Gorsuch scrupulously applied the text of the laws
as written by the Congress in which Schumer serves. Schumer just didn't like the outcomes or, to be more precise, he hopes
the outcomes might be sufficiently tear-jerking that they can inflict damage on the judge's chances of confirmation.
Chuck Schumer calls for chaos.
New York's senior senator doesn't like the fact that Republicans mean to insert provisions for border-wall funding and deportation of illegal
immigrants in a must-pass bill to keep the government funded past April 28. So he's threatening a filibuster to block
passage — which would result in furloughing government employees, just like last time. Back then, Democrats called it
"hostage-taking." Now they're blaming Republicans for leaving Democrats no option but to take hostages themselves. Or, as
Schumer put it: "They will be shutting down the government and delivering a severe blow to our economy." Meaning:
When they do it, it's reckless; when we do it, it's principle.
Today's Riot-Prone Mobs
Are A Product Of America's Cult-Like Education System. If you are of sound mind and watched the anti-Trump demonstrations unfold on Inauguration
Day, then during the recent anti-speech riots at the Cal Berkeley and New York University campuses, two developments probably stood out to you. First,
you could see how violent rioters systematically infiltrated and punctuated those purportedly "largely peaceful" protests. I dare say, the Black Bloc
presence and body language looks eerily similar that of ISIS terrorists, right down to the black hoods and masks. Second, there is a particularly
cult-like feel to the behavior of these mobs: the incoherence, blind rage, encouragement of lawlessness, and utter hostility to anyone who doesn't conform
to their mindset. It's an anger sustained by vilification tactics reminiscent of the "two minutes hate" in Orwell's novel "1984." Rather than
acting as individuals who exercise rational thought, participants in these mobs act more like atomized parts of manufactured hives. They have been
deployed at the drop of a hat — at airports, town halls, campuses — no doubt to create the illusion of mass resistance to a duly elected president
and his administration. Such mobs are also aggressively pre-packing and swarming town halls of GOP members of Congress in solidly GOP districts.
Rep.
Vern Buchanan Holds Off Thousands of Leftists Who Storm His Town Hall: 'The Bottom Line Is' Donald Trump 'Won the Election'. Both
sides — pro-Trump activists and anti-Trump activists — showed up in force as a capacity crowd of thousands packed into
the Van Wezel Performing Arts center with thousands more watching outside. Interestingly, Trump won this district in the general election by
11 percent, so the outsized show of force from leftists is not representative of the feelings of those in the district, which sprawls along
Florida's southwestern coast. Despite the clear and concerted efforts to disrupt, Buchanan kept his cool for more than an hour throughout,
made his case, and did not buckle under the left's pressure.
Author:
It's Not College Kids Creating Chaos To Resist Trump, 'They're Professionals'. A New Zealander we interviewed
at the Conservative Political Action Conference, who has studied the radical left for some 30 years, says he is watching an
escalating number of radicals foment hate, violence and chaos by any means necessary to destroy the American constitutional way
of life. These "ain't college students; they're professionals." He hopes more Americans are connecting the dots and
paying attention.
ACLU
Leading Resistance Movement Against Trump, Launches Nationwide Protest Training. According to the Associated
Press, the American Civil Liberties Union recently launched a nationwide training event to "urge organized, public resistance
by those opposed to policies of President Donald Trump." The first one happened over the weekend at a University of Miami
sports arena and was streamed to all 50 states. The executive director of the ACLU, Anthony Romero, said 200,000 people
attended across 2,000 local events. Romero said the seminar focused on protesters knowing their rights and encouraged
them to march for "priority issues" such as immigration, LGBT, free speech, religious freedom, and civil and reproductive rights.
The
Dirty Dem Dogs of Disruption. A new nonprofit called American Oversight launched this week to combat President
Trump's "culture of impunity." The outfit declared itself "nonpartisan" and claims its crusaders will fight for a
"transparent and ethical government." [...] These Democrat operatives aren't interested in accountability. Their
mission is to attack, obstruct and destroy their political opponents at all costs. Executive Director and Obama donor
Austin Evers is certainly familiar with the "culture of impunity." He worked as a lawyer at Williams and Connolly —
the firm representing Hillary Clinton and the same firm that boasts longtime Clinton consigliere David Kendall, who shepherded
scandal-ridden Bill and Hill through Whitewater, Lewinsky-gate and Email-gate. Evers had zero experience handling public
records and classified document requests before he was hired by the State Department in 2015 to be Hillary's information blocker.
They Broke It, Why Won't
They Help Fix It? Last night [3/8/2017], House Democrats forced a series of nuisance votes, in an attempt to
slow debate down as much as possible and obstruct any effort to replace Obamacare. House Democrats have "declared
parliamentary warfare in an attempt to delay the bill as much as possible."
New
Trump executive order hurts Hawaii's feelings. There's a race going on for states to file or join new lawsuits against President
Trump's second executive order temporarily halting entry into the U.S. for some people from a few terror-plagued countries. The new actions
promise to be rehashes of the states' earlier suits against Trump's original order. Washington State, for example, which managed to stop the
first order, has gone so far as to argue the new order and the now-rescinded original measure are identical, and has asked a judge to simply apply
his emergency stop to the new order as if nothing has changed.
Democrats
vow government shutdown over Trump border wall. Congressional Democrats signaled Monday [3/13/2017] that
they're ready to block spending bills over President Trump's planned border wall, raising the risks of a new government
shutdown early in the new administration. Adding more immigration agents to Homeland Security's deportation agency,
making Planned Parenthood ineligible for federal cash and changing former President Barack Obama's policies on the environment,
labor, veterans or consumer protections would also invite a shutdown, Senate Democrats said in a letter to GOP leaders.
ACLU
launches nationwide training on protest, resistance. The American Civil Liberties Union staged a nationwide
training event Saturday to make sure people are aware of their rights as protesters and urge organized, public resistance by
those opposed to policies of President Donald Trump.
Democrats
announce bill to revoke Trump's 'extreme vetting' order. Senate Democrats announced a bill Monday [3/13/2017] to revoke
President Trump's latest extreme vetting executive order, saying it's discriminatory and counterproductive to the country's efforts to
influence allies. Led by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, the new bill is succinct —
it cancels the March 6 order that suspends the refugee program and puts a 90-day halt on most admissions from six Middle East and African
countries. "President Trump's discriminatory executive order isn't about strengthening our national security. It's a transparent
effort to fulfill his campaign promise to implement a 'Muslim Ban,'" Mrs. Feinstein said in a statement.
Legal
watchdog launches to hound Trump agencies. Concerned by the shortage of government experience and early
missteps by Trump administration officials — including President Trump — a group of lawyers is
launching a watchdog organization that will seek to track the administration's ethics and expose potential conflicts, fraud
or other wrongdoing. The organization, "American Oversight," which says it is nonpartisan despite some of its founders
having deep ties to Democrats, will focus on prying loose documents through public records requests and lawsuits under the
Freedom of Information Act. Regardless of what they uncover, such efforts could haunt the administration much the way
similar actions by conservative group Judicial Watch produced emails from the State Department that dogged Hillary Clinton's
presidential campaign.
Hawaii Sues to Block Trump Travel Ban; First
Challenge to Order. President Trump's revised executive order barring citizens of six predominantly Muslim countries from traveling
to the United States confronted its first legal challenge late Tuesday [3/7/2017], the day after it was signed, when lawyers for the State of
Hawaii asked a federal judge to block it temporarily. The court filing from the office of the attorney general of Hawaii, Doug Chin, a
Democrat, may signal a wave of legal assaults on Mr. Trump's second take on the travel ban, which preserves the fundamentals of the first while
lifting restrictions on Iraqis, green card holders and lawful permanent residents, and people who are already approved to enter the United States.
'This
is Muslim Ban 2.0': Hawaii plans to fight President Trump's revised travel ban in court. A day after President
Donald Trump signed a revised travel ban, attorneys for Hawaii said the state plans to challenge that order as well.
The state wants to amend its existing lawsuit challenging Trump's previous order to contest the revised one, according to a
motion filed Tuesday [3/7/2017] in federal court in Honolulu. The new order bars new visas for people from six Muslim-majority
countries and temporarily shuts down America's refugee program, affecting would-be visitors and immigrants from Iran, Syria,
Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Libya.
Left-wing group
to Democrats: Don't even meet with Trump, or else. [Scroll down] We disagree on a lot, but surely
we agree on some things. There is such a thing as bipartisan action, and it takes place when parties can find common
ground. It doesn't sound like we're going to see much of that during the Trump Administration, because congressional
Democrats are apparently under orders from the left-wing group We Will Replace You to engage in all-out, total obstruction of
everything Trump wants to do — even to the point that they will be punished if they meet with the administration
or try to seek common ground.
Sabotage
is All They Have Left on the Left. This is no longer "just politics." This is political jihadism that attempts
to make America ungovernable. There is no concern for the potentially dire consequences here or abroad of their actions.
All that matters to today's progressives is that they, and they alone, hold all the power in the massive progressive state they have
built. Elections, the law, the future of the nation, and even logic [notwithstanding]. The latest manifestation of
progressive sabotage comes in the assault on AG Sessions.
Schumer's plan to Keep Obama
appointees in power. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Democrats continue to snub President Trump by slowing down Senate confirmation of
his Cabinet appointments. Their underlying goal is to allow remaining Obama-appointed bureaucrats to do as much damage to the Trump administration as
they can before leaving. CNN reported last week that "Trump is noticeably behind the last three presidents when it comes to securing the confirmation
of his Cabinet and other top appointments that require Senate approval."
Schumer's
plan to Keep Obama appointees in power. [Scroll down] Senate Democrats are keeping the Department of
Justice from functioning at full capacity. But other seats are currently filled by Obama appointees quietly working
behind the scenes to sabotage Trump's efforts by continuing their previous leader's agenda while Schumer works to hamstring
Trump's presidency. These include deputies, managers, and political appointees who are meant to keep the government
running while a new administration comes into power. A clear example of this is occurring in the Department of
Education, where bureaucrats are continuing what the Washington Post called Obama's "ideological crusade" on
for-profit colleges.
Krauthammer:
Obama WH Officials Engaged in 'Revenge of the Losers' to Make Trouble for Trump. For weeks now, some of the
reporting around Russia and the intel community has concerned actions of members of the Obama administration and holdovers
serving under Trump. President Trump himself and others have argued that the big leaks are coming from those holdovers,
and one report last month said that Obama loyalists engaged in a "months-long campaign" to take down Michael Flynn in the
name of preserving the Iran deal. And now this week there's a new report that Obama White House officials rushed to
leave a "clear trail of intelligence" on Russia for the right people to investigate once President Trump was sworn in.
Townhall
"Protesters" All Following the Same Script Authored by... George Soros. A radical group linked to rogue
billionaire George Soros has been providing scripts containing anti-Trump talking points for constituents to read aloud
during congressional town hall meetings. One of the scripts distributed by the Revolutionary Love Project encourages
town hall participants meeting with their member of Congress to accuse the Trump administration of — wait for
it — "xenophobia, racism, and Islamophobia." Constituents are urged to use those precise words to "forcefully
condemn" President Trump's immigration and border security initiatives, Aaron Klein reports at Breitbart News.
Voters
say Democrats hurting party, nation with scorched-earth anti-Trump tactics: Poll. The Democratic Party's
never-ending anti-Trump siege isn't just bad for the country, it's also hurting Democrats with the voters. A Rasmussen
Reports poll released Tuesday [2/28/2017] found that 63 percent of those surveyed said it was better for the country as well as
the Democratic Party for Democrats to work with President Trump instead of countering him at every turn. Just 29 percent
agreed that it's better for the party and the nation for Democrats to oppose Mr. Trump "in every way possible."
Soros-Financed
Groups Provided Script for Anti-Trump Town Halls. An organization partnered with far-left groups that calls
itself the Revolutionary Love Project distributed an actual script with anti-Trump talking points for citizens to use when
meeting with constituents in town halls, including during last week's Congressional recess. The script provides
word-for-word language suggestions that accuse the Trump administration of "xenophobia, racism, and Islamophobia." It
asks activists to use the descriptors to petition their representatives to "forcefully condemn" and support legislation
opposing President Trump's immigration and border security agendas.
Trump's
Speech and Our Infantile Left. Tuesday's [2/28/2017] address to a joint session of Congress was without a doubt
the best speech President Donald Trump has ever given, perhaps the best speech to a joint session of Congress since the great
Ronald Reagan. But who could watch it and not be embarrassed by our infantile, bitter Left? [...] Like spoiled
children, who had not gotten their way, they refused to applaud at the most obvious good-for-the-country lines. In
fact, they were like a clique of mean girls in middle school who have decided to target one of their own. They knew
what they were hearing was monumental and good for the nation. But consumed in schoolyard jealousy, they got angry, not
glad. In doing so, they showed no intention of working "with" President Trump. They are still scrambling for, and
planning to sabotage him any way they can.
The Coming
Border War: A Prediction. A prediction: when the "Wall" along the southern border begins to be
constructed, the left's professional activists will implement an extensive disruption campaign. It will be modeled
after the Keystone Pipeline protest (that involved a makeshift city of 10,000), but be more mobile and flexible, spread out
along the border that marks the path of the wall. Protestors will stand in the path of construction, just at activists
have, in the past, chained themselves to trees in the Northwest to stop logging.
Portland
Mayor: 'Culture Of Protest' New Norm For 'Foreseeable Future'. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler called for peace in
the wake of the latest violent anti-Trump protests, but said the "culture of protest" is going to continue both locally and
nationally for the "foreseeable future." Wheeler also said he wants Portland's police officers to "create a more positive
space for expression" for protesters. Portland, known for its liberal politics, has been the site of regular anti-Trump
protests since the election last November. Those demonstrations have often devolved into riots and property destruction,
forcing police to arrest dozens of agitators.
Trump
Versus Obama: Whose Cabinet Nominees Faced More Obstruction? President Trump is still waiting for the
Senate to confirm several of his Cabinet nominees one month after he was inaugurated. "We're using everything we can to
stop these awful nominees," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said at a press conference earlier this month.
The same day, Trump decried "obstruction by Democrats" for delaying confirmation votes to fill his Cabinet.
Seven
Days in February. Currently, the political and media opponents of Donald Trump are seeking to subvert his
presidency in a manner unprecedented in the recent history of American politics. The so-called resistance among EPA
federal employees is trying to disrupt Trump administration reform; immigration activists promise to flood the judiciary to
render executive orders inoperative. Intelligence agencies had earlier leaked fake news briefings about the purported
escapades of President-elect Trump in Moscow — stories that were quickly exposed as politically driven
concoctions. Nearly one-third of House Democrats boycotted the Inauguration. Celebrities such as Ashley Judd and
Madonna shouted obscenities to crowds of protesters; Madonna voiced her dreams of Trump's death by saying she'd been thinking
a lot about blowing up the White House. But all that pushback was merely the clownish preliminary to the full-fledged
assault in mid February.
Michael
Moore Launches 'Resistance Calendar' to Track Anti-Trump Protests. Leftist documentary filmmaker Michael Moore
launched what he called a "resistance calendar" on Sunday [2/19/2017] that will track anti-Donald Trump demonstrations across the
country. In a tweet announcing the launch of the calendar, the 62-year-old filmmaker described it as a "one-stop site
for all anti-Trump actions EVERY DAY nationwide."
Trump
under attack by 187 organizations directly funded by George Soros. There have been many articles written about
George Soros and his collectivist activism. Soros is a business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author who is of
Jewish-Hungarian ancestry and holds dual citizenship. He is chairman of Soros Fund Management. Discover the
Networks has published a comprehensive list of organizations funded by Soros and his Open Society Institute. Some of
these groups have actively opposed Donald Trump for president and may be part of the recent levels of violence and chaos seen
at his rallies. Many of the groups favor: open borders, amnesty, giving illegals voting rights, Muslim migration and
social justice.
Obama-linked
activists have a 'training manual' for protesting Trump. An Obama-tied activist group training tens of thousands of agitators to
protest President Trump's policies plans to hit Republican lawmakers supporting those policies even harder this week, when they return home for
the congressional recess and hold town hall meetings and other functions. Organizing for Action, a group founded by Obama and featured
prominently on his new post-presidency website, is distributing a training manual to anti-Trump activists that advises them to bully GOP lawmakers
into backing off support for repealing ObamaCare, curbing immigration from high-risk Islamic nations, and building a border wall. In a new
Facebook post, OFA calls on activists to mobilize against Republicans from now until Feb. 26, when "representatives are going to be in their
home districts."
Trump
Necessitates a 'New Standard' for SCOTUS Nominees, Schumer Says. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said
President Donald Trump's behavior in the first few weeks of the new administration necessitates a "new standard" for Supreme
Court nominees, including a unique a demonstration of judicial independence. "What is particularly new" about the
circumstances of Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the High Court, Schumer said Sunday [2/12/2017], "is that we have a
president who is overreaching dramatically, who shows little respect for the rule of law, who seems to violate the
Constitution in his first three weeks, and intimidates judges who have cases before them."
The Editor says...
In other words, there's nothing wrong with the nominee or his qualifications, but the Democrats are stonewalling just to burden the President.
Democratic
Obstruction on Trump Cabinet Reaches Historic Levels. Not since President George Washington's initial formation
of a cabinet in 1789 has an American president's cabinet picks been approved as slowly as the Senate is approving President
Donald Trump's nominees. Trump has now been president for a full three weeks, and the number of approved members in his
cabinet stands at seven — a number that was boosted by three contested confirmations last week that were opposed
by almost the entire Democratic caucus. Senate Democrats, vowing to use "everything" they can to stop Trump's nominees,
have used procedural tricks like boycotting committee meetings to slow the confirmation process to a historically slow pace.
Cardin
on Trump Cabinet Nominees: 'We Are Going to Take Our Time'. Sen. Ben Cardin (D., Md.) said on Sunday [2/12/2017] that
the reason there has been such a low number of nominees confirmed to President Trump's Cabinet is because Senate Democrats are "taking
their time." "We can't stop these nominees and we know that," Cardin told host Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. "I think
it's important that we took as much time as possible so that the American people understood our concerns."
The
Media Can't Attack Gorsuch On Much, So They Went After His Mother. Pretty much everyone has lauded President
Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. The man is eminently qualified. He has academic credentials that are
impeccable — he has a Ph.D. from Oxford — and he's unified the Republican Party behind his nomination.
As for Democrats, you have some, like Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), threatening to go to the mattresses and filibuster his
nomination. Yet, Democratic opposition has splintered.
DNC
Candidate Keith Ellison Wants Full Democrat Filibuster on Gorsuch Nomination. During the last of the DNC
regional forum's today in Baltimore Maryland, leading candidate Keith Ellison outlines why every non-Democrat should hope he
wins the chairmanship. Ellison's expressed approach is that Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch should be filibustered
by all Senate Democrats.
Black
Caucus members storm Senate floor to protest Sessions. House lawmakers led by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and other
Congressional Black Caucus members staged a protest against Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions' nomination to attorney general on the
Senate floor Wednesday [2/8/2017]. The group of roughly 10 House members, including the dean of the House, Rep. John Conyers,
D-Mich., and Democratic Reps. Lacy Clay of Missouri, Hank Johnson of Georgia and Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, traveled to the Senate side
of the Capitol and marched onto the floor in an effort to draw attention to their opposition to Sessions' confirmation on civil rights grounds.
Why
Democrats can't just obstruct their way back into power. Democrats are preparing to try to stop President
Trump's agenda at all costs. Senate Democrats have voted more and more in unison against Trump's Cabinet nominees, and
now there is even talk of an unprecedented filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee. It's what the party's base is
demanding right now. But there is a difference between doing what feels good and what is strategically sound.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) said it well this week: "You've got to pick which ones you're going to fight about; not
every pitch has to be swung at."
Dem
Who Lied About Vietnam Service Calls for Extreme Vetting of Gorsuch. A Democratic senator who lied about his
military service for decades is now calling on his colleagues to thoroughly vet the background of President Donald Trump's
Supreme Court nominee. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.), a member of the Senate committee that handles legal
confirmation hearings, said that Appellate Court Judge Neil Gorsuch will face tough questions about his background. He
said the Colorado-based judge will have "every aspect of his background" investigated by Democratic committee members before
his nomination to the nation's highest court moves forward.
Anti-Trump,
Pro-Obamacare Crowds Target GOP Lawmakers' Town Halls. A crowd of about a thousand people, dominated by
opponents of President Donald Trump's agenda, packed a raucous town-hall event here in the latest example of increased
activism targeting Republican members of Congress.
Note
to bewildered Democrats: Hating Trump is not a policy. Democrats are overjoyed that the 9th Circuit Court
of Appeals has ruled against President Trump's immigration order. That figures; never mind the legal issues or the
possible impact on the White House's ability to enact measures aimed at keeping the country safe. Most important: it
was a blow to Trump, and Democrats couldn't be happier. It's gotten personal. The decision will doubtless pump up
House Democrats who are meeting in Maryland, presumably exploring a path back to relevance. Given their strident denunciations
of President Trump, working with Republicans to move the country forward does not appear to be an option.
Call It
'Going Original': Time's Come To End The Senate's Filibuster. Republicans control both houses of Congress
and the White House. Yet Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer boasts that he can block Trump's legislative agenda.
"He won't be able to do it," Mr. Schumer says confidently. What allows Schumer to thwart the majority's will and paralyze
the Senate? Not the Constitution. No, the answer is a centuries-old Senate practice called the filibuster.
Senators in the minority could take the floor and talk endlessly, never agreeing to formally end debate so the majority could
vote. They'd talk the legislation to death, in the process shutting down all other Senate business. The House never
permitted it, always allowing a simple majority to shut down debate. In the Senate, the idea was to make sure the minority
was heard. But over the years, the rule was exploited to actually stop legislation altogether.
The
Numbers Don't Lie: Comparing Trump's Cabinet Confirmations With Obama's. Donald Trump began his presidency with fewer
Cabinet nominations confirmed than any other president in almost 30 years. Both George W. Bush and Barack Obama had seven
of their nominees confirmed by their first day in office in 2001 and 2009. Bill Clinton had three confirmed the day he was sworn in.
Trump had two. By this time in 2001, Bush had his entire Cabinet confirmed.
Warren
Breaks Senate Rule, Prohibited From Debating Sessions Nomination. For the remainder of Tuesday night [2/7/2017]
and for most of Wednesday, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren is prohibited from debating on the floor of the
Senate. That's because her Senate colleagues found her guilty of impugning another senator, Jeff Sessions, whose
nomination for attorney general is being considered. With a 52 seat Senate majority and control of the White House,
Republicans are now able to confirm Trump cabinet nominees with a 50 vote majority and Democrats are furious. And while
Democrats can't stop nominees unless Republicans defect, they're resorting to the time-honored Senate tactic of parliamentary delay.
Why
Did Obama's Cabinet Picks Get Voice Votes But Not Trump's? Orrin Hatch, the old, Utah RINO is going around
Twitter bragging how spineless Republicans were at the start of the first Obama term. As we enter the third week of the
Trump administration, only four cabinet level positions have been confirmed by a Republican lead Senate. After two
weeks of the first Obama administration, many of Obama's cabinet picks were confirmed, many by simple voice votes.
Back
to the Future with Nancy Pelosi. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has served in Congress a long time.
She has served long enough to oppose Republican presidents going back to Ronald Reagan. In the modern era she has
missed only Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon, but she opposed them too! Make no mistake about that. She has served
in Congress long enough to oppose both Presidents Bush, father and son, over a period of twelve years. It therefore
makes perfect sense that in a press conference yesterday she confused her current opposition to President Trump with her
opposition to the Presidents Bush in ages past.
Not
Even My Contractor Takes This Long to Get a Cabinet in Place. I can understand the opposition to a
game-changing, consequential pick like Betsy DeVos. I can understand the Democrats' need to placate their base by
opposing Jeff Sessions in every way possible. But tell me, what's the advantage of slow-walking Ryan Zinke's nomination
to be Secretary of the Interior? Or Sonny Purdue's nomination to be Secretary of Agriculture? The nominee to be
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, David Shulkin, is a holdover from the Obama administration! This isn't reasoned or
justifiable opposition, this is obstructing nominees for the sake of obstruction.
From
George Washington To Barack Obama: Senate Democrats' Cabinet Blockade Has Never Been Seen Before. The
Senate Democrats' obstruction of President Trump's cabinet nominees has reached a record-setting level. Yesterday
[2/2/2017], ABC News reported: "President Trump has more unconfirmed Cabinet nominees at this point in his term than
all previous presidents combined." Senate Democrats have failed to a historical magnitude to offer deference to the
president, running counter to what they argued for during previous administrations.
Democrats
are becoming the party of secession. Some call it Trump Derangement Syndrome, but that's too kind. It's
not a temporarily insane reaction, it's a calculated plan to wreck the presidency, whatever the cost to the country.
Things never seen in the modern era are now rapidly becoming common. Impeachment talk already is rumbling in the
party's hothouses, and Trump was met with a lawsuit the minute he took the oath. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the
top Dems in Congress, led a raucous demonstration Monday night, as if they are community organizers. And Obama couldn't
bear the irrelevance after eight days out of office and felt compelled to encourage disruptions. This is Third World
behavior and it's now the M.O. of one of America's two political parties.
Schumer
And Leadership Team Refuse To Meet With Gorsuch. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Democratic
Senate leaders refused to meet with Judge Neil Gorsuch Thursday [2/2/2017]. The act appears to be revenge against
Republicans for holding the seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia open and not holding a hearing for Obama Supreme Court
appointee Merrick Garland. The White House requested that Gorsuch meet with Schumer, but aides said he declined in
order to learn more about the nominee's record, The Washington Post reported.
Senate
GOP suspends rules, advances Trump picks without Democrats. The Senate Finance Committee advanced Steven
Mnuchin to lead Treasury and Rep. Tom Price as health secretary on a pair of 14-0 votes without any Democrats
present. The votes were supposed to occur on Tuesday. Yet Democrats derailed the markup by refusing to show up,
which meant the panel didn't have the quorum needed to do business.
Comparison
of Number of Cabinet Nominees Confirmed by Senate. When even Chuck Todd calls the Democrats' obstructionism a
"petty delay tactic", you know things have gotten out of hand.
GOP
changes rules to push through nominees after Dem boycott. Senate Republicans pushed through a pair of President
Trump's Cabinet nominees Wednesday, upending standard committee rules to circumvent a Democratic boycott. The Senate
Finance Committee advanced a pair of Trump's nominees with only Republican members present — Steven Mnuchin to
head the Treasury Department, and Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) as secretary of Health and Human Services. By unanimous
consent, the Republicans gathered in the hearing room agreed to change the committee's standing rules, which normally require
at least one member of each party to be in attendance for committee work to proceed.
Dems escalate anti-Trump offensive.
From Washington State to Washington DC, Democrats across the country are stepping up what some call "The Resistance" to
President Trump, moving across political, legal, bureaucratic, legislative, and civil disobedience fronts to frustrate the
newly elected president's agenda.
Should Sally
Yates Be Indicted? No matter what your attitude about the substance of Donald Trump's executive order
temporarily suspending visas from seven countries involved in terrorism, that an acting attorney general took it upon herself
to disobey it is nothing less than the deliberate subversion of the rule of law in the United States of America. She
deserves to be indicted — or at least be disbarred. Not only did Sally Yates announce she would not enforce
the order, she gave absolutely no legal justification for her inaction.
180
federal employees sign up for 'civil disobedience' class. A large group of federal employees have signed up to
participate in a workshop on civil disobedience in the President Trump era. According to a Washington Post report, 180
federal employees have signed up for a workshop featuring expert advice on workers' rights and expressing civil
disobedience. Dozens of federal workers have reportedly attended a support group for civil servants that serves as a
forum for discussing opposition to the Trump administration.
Democrats
boycott vote on EPA nominee Scott Pruitt. The boycott by Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works
Committee comes amid other attempts to hold up Mr. Trump's nominees. In the case of Mr. Pruitt specifically,
Democrats claim he's failed to answer substantive questions. But Republican leaders say that excuse simply doesn't hold
water. "The minority may not like all of Attorney General Pruitt's answers, but he's given them answers," said
Sen. John Barrasso, Wyoming Republican and committee chairman. "Mr. Pruitt ought to get at least a vote."
Democrats
running Tea Party playbook against Trump. Senate Democrats are dispensing with talk of cooperation and
preparing to fight President Trump across the board, delaying his nominees where possible and filibustering his Supreme Court
pick if necessary. Despite their minority status in the Senate, Democrats are under increasing pressure from their
progressive base to stand up to a president they consider authoritarian and illegitimate. These activists demand that
Democrats emulate Tea Party conservatives' opposition to President Obama by doing everything in their power to obstruct
President Trump.
Unreasonable
Obstructionists: Democrats Use Fill-In-The-Blank Protest Signs to Oppose Gorsuch. There really is no
reason to keep the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees. Democrats are showing they are going to obstruct no matter
who it is. Now we know it is going to be Neil Gorsuch who even Barack Obama's Solicitor General supports. But the
left does not care about his credentials or pedigree. [...] They are going to oppose Gorsuch for the sake of opposing
him. You need no further evidence of this than one tweet by Ben Sasse. At the Supreme Court tonight [1/31/2017],
the Democrats had pre-printed opposition signs, but had to let protestors hand write in the name of the nominee.
The
Democrats' New Opposition Strategy: Obstruction. President Trump's selection for the Supreme Court won't
get a fair hearing from the Democrats. No, that's not an opinion. The Democrats themselves say so. [...] Then
there's the case of the nominations of Dr. Tim Price as Health and Human Services secretary and Steve Mnuchin as the
next Treasury secretary. They were scheduled to be approved Tuesday by the Senate Finance Committee and sent to the
floor or a vote so that President Trump could get his government up and running. But the Democrats didn't show.
Literally. Senate rules require a simple majority with at least one member of the minority party for a quorum. But
the Democrats, despite promising just one day earlier to vote, deserted the chamber. No quorum, no vote.
Tom
Cotton suggests ordering sergeant at arms to force Dems to vote on nominations. Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton
on Tuesday suggested ordering the sergeant at arms to force Democrats to vote for President Trump's nominees at the committee
level, ratcheting up the rhetoric after Democrats delayed the votes with a boycott Tuesday morning [1/31/2017]. "I don't
know how long they plan to do this," the Republican said from the Senate floor. "I don't know if they intend to abscond
out of the District, if we're going to have to vote to have the sergeant at arms track them down, haul them to work to do
their business."
Milk
Carton Democrats — Washington Democrats in 2017 Deploy Wisconsin Senate Democrat 2011 Strategy.
History repeats. Many people will remember what happened in Wisconsin in 2011 when control of the state legislature
flipped from Democrat control to Republican control and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker began initiating a series of state
budget reforms. In 2011 the fourteen defeated Wisconsin senate democrats that remained in office fled to Illinois in
a failed attempt to block legislation by not providing a quorum.
Dems
boycott confirmation votes for Trump nominees. Senate Democrats on Tuesday [1/31/2017] refused to attend a
committee vote on two of President Trump's more controversial nominees, effectively delaying their consideration. [...]
Republicans expressed outrage at the move, while Democrats gathered outside the Senate Finance Committee hearing room to
outline their gripes with the selections.
Democrats,
Including Chuck Schumer, Voted Unanimously to Confirm Neil Gorsuch in 2006. President Donald J. Trump on
Tuesday nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court. Democrats immediately pounced on the decision with
preprepared statements they would've released regardless of whom the president nominated. Judge Gorsuch, 49, who serves
on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Colorado, was appointed in 2006 by President George W. Bush. In
July 2006, the U.S. Senate confirmed him unanimously by a voice vote, in which had the support of the very Democrats who are
now objecting to his nomination.
Democrats
announce plans to filibuster of Gorsuch nomination. Democrats have already decided they will force a filibuster on Judge Neil
Gorsuch, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Tuesday [1/31/2017], just minutes after President Trump announced the pick.
"The Senate must insist upon 60-votes for any Supreme Court nominee," Mr. Schumer said in a statement. Republicans could counter
with the so-called "nuclear option," using a shortcut to change the rules and eliminate the 60-vote filibuster threshold. But GOP
leaders have been circumspect on that option.
Democrats
are already plotting to block Trump's Supreme Court pick. Eager for political payback, Senate Democrats plan to
do everything they can to block President Trump's nomination for the Supreme Court — even though they don't know
who it will be. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said Monday [1/30/2017] that he will filibuster any pick that is not Merrick
Garland — former President Obama's nominee to replace the late Antonin Scalia — who was never granted a
hearing or a vote by the GOP-controlled Senate. "This is a stolen seat. This is the first time a Senate majority
has stolen a seat. We will use every lever in our power to stop this," Merkley told Politico, adding that an overwhelming
majority of his Democratic caucus will oppose Trump's pick.
Soros
Bankrolling Effort to Stop Trump's Temporary Refugee Halt Order. The flurry of anguished news stories and
protests surrounding President Trump's executive action temporarily suspending "immigrants and non-immigrants" from
"countries of particular concern" appears to be part of a coordinated PR effort financed by left-wing billionaire George
Soros. Rather than a complete "Muslim ban" as promised during the campaign, Trump's executive order contains moderate
refugee restrictions, similar to those that have been implemented by President Obama.
Chuck
Schumer wants delay on Rex Tillerson vote, possibly other nominees, after executive order. Senate Minority Leader
Charles E. Schumer said Monday [1/30/2017] he plans to ask for a delay on the confirmation vote of Rex Tillerson, President Trump's
secretary of state pick, in the wake of the administration's "extreme vetting" immigration executive order and resulting fallout.
Anti-Trump
Protests Block Airports, Frustrate Travelers. Protests against President Donald Trump and his executive order
restricting travel from several terror-prone countries continued Sunday evening [1/29/2017] at several West Coast airports,
blocking traffic and causing some travelers to miss their flights. In contrast to the demonstrations on Saturday
evening, which ostensibly were aimed at securing the release of individuals who had been detained after arriving from one of
seven countries on a list originally approved by the Obama administration, the protests on Sunday aimed primarily at
disrupting travel and creating chaos to send a signal to the Trump administration.
Trump's
EPA Secretary Will Have '16,000 Employees Working Against Him'. When likely EPA Secretary Scott Pruitt walks into his first day at the
office, "He'll have 16,000 employees working against him," Sen. James Lankford told a large gathering of libertarian donors Saturday evening.
"And I expect a flood of lawsuits over everything he does." Pruitt, who has been nominated to lead the EPA by President Donald Trump, is the
attorney general of Lankford's state, Oklahoma. He has faced fierce opposition from the environmentalist left.
Soros
Bankrolling Effort to Stop Trump's Temporary Refugee Halt Order. The flurry of anguished news stories and
protests surrounding President Trump's executive action temporarily suspending "immigrants and non-immigrants" from
"countries of particular concern" appears to be part of a coordinated PR effort financed by left-wing billionaire George
Soros. Rather than a complete "Muslim ban" as promised during the campaign, Trump's executive order contains moderate
refugee restrictions, similar to those that have been implemented by President Obama. If reports are true that restrictions
are being applied even to green-card holders, that is an unfortunate misapplication of the law that will likely soon be corrected.
Trump
backs curbing filibuster if Dems block Supreme Court pick. President Trump is urging Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R-Ky.) to abolish the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees if Democrats block his pick. Trump told Fox News
that he would back getting rid of the 60-vote threshold for high court nominees if he can't win over the support of at least
eight Democrats for his nominee, who is expected to be announced next week. "We have obstructionists," Trump said,
pointing to Democrats' treatment of his Cabinet nominees and their push to delay a committee vote on Sen. Jeff
Sessions's (R-Ala.) attorney general nomination.
Dems
Force Trump's Ed. Nominee To Answer 1,397 Questions In Writing — Obama's TWO Had 109, Combined. Democrats are
blocking the confirmation of Donald Trump's Secretary of Education nominee Betsy Devos by forcing her to answer 837 written, followup questions
from her Senate confirmation hearing. "Mrs. Devos' Senate opponents are grasping for straws," Sen. Lamar Alexander said of the
decision in a post for Medium. "We didn't have time to question her, they say, even though she met with each one of them in their offices,
and her hearing lasted nearly an hour and a half longer than either of President Obama's education secretaries."
Trump's
Nominees Face 'Unprecedented' Democrat Obstructionism. President Donald Trump starts his first full week in the
White House with just two Cabinet secretaries confirmed by the U.S. Senate. That's the lowest number in decades and a
sharp contrast from former President Barack Obama. Trump's picks have fared worse than past Cabinet nominees.
Even though Trump enjoys a Republican-led Senate, Democrats have kept their promise to delay confirmation of his nominees,
even if they lack the votes to ultimately defeat them.
Chuck
Schumer Says Democrats Will "Absolutely" Obstruct SCOTUS Nominee. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has only been
Democratic leader for one day, yet his media appearances show he's already way out of his depth. Last year, in his
capacity as head of the Democratic Policy and Communications Center, Schumer was one of the most vocal advocates for the need
to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. Yet last night [1/3/2017(?)] on MSNBC, Schumer announced that he would "absolutely"
look to block a Supreme Court confirmation indefinitely.
And
Now The Left's War On Normal Americans Truly Begins. The left's strategy is simple — deny normal
Americans normalcy. After all, that's what we really want, a return to normal. [...] It's what we want, and liberals
want to deny it to us in order to doom Donald Trump and reopen their path back into power. So how will they do
it? Constant resistance at every turn. They will ignore norms and rules — remember, norms and rules
are only supposed to constrain us. They will lie, cheat, and engage in any conduct that they believe will help
their hateful cause. A huge part of the progressive effort will go toward policing their own for any weakness or
faltering in their lockstep opposition to everything Trump and the GOP do.
California
Lt. Gov: We'll Stop Trump's Wall with Environmental Suits. President-Elect Donald Trump's plan to
build a border wall along with U.S.-Mexico Border will be challenged through environmental lawsuits, according to California's
second-highest official. California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom said in an interview with 'The Golden State Podcast' that
he would use specific environmental laws in the state to stop the border wall from being built, at least in southern California.
The Editor says...
In this case, environmental laws are being used as weapons. The matter at hand has nothing to do with the protection of the environment.
One thing politicians and environmentalists do well: they obstruct and impede their enemies' progress.
Chuck
Schumer's Unprecedented, Unreasonable Demand to Slow Walk Trump's Cabinet Nominees. It may be a new year, but
Senate Democrats are continuing on a course of obstruction. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants to slow
down the confirmation process of President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet nominees. In a recent Washington Post
story, Sen. Schumer indicated that his conference planned to target eight nominees, including Scott Pruitt, who is
President-elect Trump's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.),
the nominee to serve as director of the White House Office of Budget and Management (OMB).
How liberals squelch opposing
points of view. Journalist and TV pundit Kirsten Powers has a problem with her own people — liberals.
The liberal columnist for USA Today doesn't have a problem with all liberals, just the subset she defines as the "illiberal left."
As political discourse has become more coarse, she sees growing danger.
Inauguration
Protesters Plan To Destroy Property And Disrupt Balls. On the day of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration protesters are
planning an anti-capitalist march, road blockades and disruptions to inauguration balls. The protests will likely include property destruction,
a source with intimate knowledge of the protest plans told The Daily Caller Friday [1/13/2017]. The blockades are not limited to roads but
will also be at every security checkpoint, the source said. The source added that the protesters blockading each checkpoint will represent
a different liberal cause such as climate change or money in politics.
Protesters
planning to blockade inauguration checkpoints, 'party' outside Pence home. An anti-Donald Trump group is
planning massive disruptions for next week's inauguration covering everything from "blockades" at security checkpoints to a
"dance party" outside VP-elect Mike Pence's house, according to group leaders as well as newly obtained audio of their
apparent plans. The organization #DisruptJ20 already announced at a press conference Thursday its various plans to
wreak havoc at Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration and in the days leading up to it.
The
Left Means to Break This President. Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign against Donald Trump largely amounted to a
reprise of the left's attacks on Judges Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas in the 1980s. "Borking" — nice slang
for Hillary's "politics of personal destruction" (which she decried when it was employed against her husband in 1998) —
succeeded against Judge Bork. It did not work against Justice Clarence Thomas. And it demonstrably didn't work against
president-elect Trump. So what is the left going to try next, now that Borking Mr. Trump has failed? "Massive
resistance." That's what.
Protesters
dressed as KKK members [were] dragged out of Sessions' attorney general hearing. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) had barely
entered the room for his Attorney General confirmation hearing when he was met by protesters. A pair of men dressed as KKK members
jumped up on their seats in the back of the Senate hearing room the moment Sessions walked in, adopting seemingly fake southern accents
to troll the controversial senator.
Protests
erupt as Jeff Sessions confirmation hearing begins. A series of protests disrupted the opening minutes of the
confirmation hearing for attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., with opponents of the nominee apparently
staggering their interruptions for maximum effect. First up were a pair of demonstrators posing as Ku Klux Klan members
masquerading as Sessions supporters, who erupted into protest at the outset in order to highlight charges of racism against him.
In
Historic Move, Sen. Booker to Testify Against Sessions. Sen. Cory Booker is set to make history this
week when he testifies before the Judiciary Committee against Sen. Jeff Sessions' nomination for attorney general in hearings
that begin Tuesday morning [1/10/2017]. Booker's office said Monday [1/9/2017] that the Senate historian had been unable to
find any previous instance of a sitting senator testifying against a fellow sitting senator nominated for a Cabinet position.
Democrats
hunker down for 'permanent opposition' to Donald Trump presidency. For those stunned to see Tuesday's [1/10/2017] Senate
confirmation hearing disrupted by shouts, chants and protesters dressed as Ku Klux Klan members: Get used to it. President-elect
Donald Trump won't take office for another week, but Democrats and left-wing groups have already laid the groundwork for a relentless
four-year assault on his presidency, vowing to disrupt and discredit his administration long before he signs his first bill. Trump
campaign manager Kellyanne Conway and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich have a name for it: the permanent opposition.
The
Real Reason Cory Booker Testified Against Jeff Sessions. Although it is not without precedent for a Senator to vote against the nomination of a
fellow Senator, never in the country's history has a sitting member of the legislative body actively testified against the confirmation of one of his or her
peers for a cabinet position. [...] "Senator Booker is putting partisan politics over legitimate policy concerns with his stunt," Congressman Chris Collins
(R-NY) said in a statement to FOXBusiness.com. "This is just the latest desperate attempt by Democrats to derail the inevitable and avoid the reality
that Americans rejected their liberal ideas on Election Day."
Jeff
Sessions attorney general showdown fizzles. There was a lot of talk that the Senate Judiciary Committee's
confirmation hearing for Attorney General-designate Jeff Sessions would be an epic showdown, with Democrats slashing
Sessions' record and protesters turning the historic Russell Senate Office Building hearing room into a war zone. The
buzz in the minutes before the hearing seemed to suggest something was up. A group of protesters staged a brief sit-in
in Sessions' office just down the hall. Khizr Khan, center of a white-hot controversy with President-elect Trump last
summer, showed up, talking with Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy. Al Sharpton came in, after Maxine Waters, Sheila
Jackson Lee and others. A brightly dressed contingent from Code Pink took seats in the center of the spectator session.
ACLU
Aims To Derail Sessions' Attorney General Confirmation. The national legal director of the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) David Cole will testify against Republican Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions at his confirmation hearing
to be the next U.S. attorney general. "The ACLU is nonpartisan, and as a matter of longstanding policy does not support
or oppose nominees for federal office. As a result, the ACLU rarely testifies in confirmation hearings," a Saturday
[1/7/2017] statement from the ACLU said. "However, the organization is taking the extraordinary step of testifying in
this hearing because Sen. Sessions' record raises significant, serious questions about his hostility to civil rights and
civil liberties."
Will
Chuck Schumer become Senator 'No' and wipe out his party's future? I'm amazed by the continuing stream of
negativity Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has been communicating to the American people. Schumer
asserted on CNN "The only way we're going to work with him [Donald Trump] is if he moves completely in our direction and
abandons his Republican colleagues." He further warned on MSNBC that "It's hard for me to imagine a nominee that Donald
Trump would choose that would get Republican support that we [Democrats] could support." Schumer knows better than to
get defined as "Senator No".
Biden
gavels down die-hard Clinton loving Democrats who launch futile protests against the electoral vote. Democrats
were shut down in their final, futile attempt to protest President-elect Donald Trump's electoral college win —
and this time it was Vice President Joe Biden wielding procedure against them. Congress met in a Joint Session Friday
to certify the electoral college, which met in December in state capitols across the country. 'It is over,' Biden said at
one point, after shutting down an array of Democrats who tried to force a debate on the certification of the vote.
Celebrities
Call for 'Month of Resistance' to Fight 'Fascist' Trump. Rosie O'Donnell, Debra Messing, Ed Asner and Michael
Shannon are among the dozens of artists, entertainers, and activists who have attached their names to an effort calling for a
month-long protest to stop President-elect Donald Trump. "No! In the Name of Humanity We Refuse to Accept a Fascist
America!" reads a full-page ad placed in the New York Times on Wednesday [1/4/2017] by the group Refuse Fascism.
Impeaching
Trump Before He Takes Office. The single most enjoyable part of Trump's election (thus far) has been the
collective lefty meltdown; a glorious sight to behold. First, there were the attempts to overturn the results of the
election by way of that whole embarrassing Electoral College coup that never materialized. When the coup fell flat, the
entirety of the Democrats and establishment media woke up one Monday and miraculously, simultaneously decided that despite
zero evidence, the Russians had "hacked the election" — whatever that means. Sure they probably hacked into
the DNC's emails, but that was old news. Now, and this is probably my favorite, there's talk of impeaching Trump
before he's been sworn in.
Democrats
to Fight Any Trump Supreme Court Nominee: Schumer. Suggesting that turnabout is fair play, the Senate's
new top Democrat promised Tuesday night [1/3/2017] to do his best to block whomever President-elect Donald Trump nominates to
the Supreme Court. [...] Senate Republicans blocked President Barack Obama's March 16 nomination of U.S. Appeals Judge
Merrick Garland for more than nine months — more than twice as long as any other nomination to the court has gone
without a vote. Garland's nomination expired Tuesday as the new 115th Congress was sworn in.
NAACP
president arrested in Jeff Sessions' office. The president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and
other employees of the organization were arrested around 7 p.m. CST Tuesday [1/3/2017] after they refused to leave Sen. Jeff
Sessions' office in Mobile, Ala. President Cornell Brooks and three other staffers were taken into police custody after spending the day
sitting on the floor of the Republican senator's office. Brooks said they would not leave until either Sessions declined his nomination
as attorney general or they were arrested.
NAACP stages
protest in Jeff Sessions' office. The NAACP staged a sit-in on Tuesday [1/3/2017] to protest the nomination of
conservative U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions as the nation's next Attorney General, vowing to occupy his Mobile, Alabama, office
until he withdrew as a candidate or demonstrators were arrested. Sessions, 70, has a record of controversial positions
on race, immigration and criminal justice reform. Along with the sit-in, the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP) organized demonstrations at his offices statewide to draw attention to their concerns about his
track record.
GOP
to combat Schumer nominee [and] stall with a public shaming. Senate Republicans have launched a public shaming
campaign to try to shift public opinion against Democrats' threats to stall action on eight of Donald Trump's Cabinet
nominees until March. Democrats, led by new Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have repeatedly warned
that they will drag out confirmation votes with a series of procedural tactics. They say they have no qualms delaying
the Trump nominees if they feel they don't receive adequate background information and financial records and don't have
enough time to review them.
Schumer:
"Democrats Will Resist Trump's Picks Vehemently!" According to [a report in The Washington Post], Schumer told
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that he will target Trump's pick for the head of State, Sen. Jeff Sessions for
head of the Justice Department, and two other notable appointees. Democrats will also target picks for the Department
of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, Treasury and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Democrats
prepare for early 'act of cowardice' with GOP attempt to repeal Obamacare. Democrats mounted a preemptive
attack as the new Congress gets ready to meet Tuesday, accusing Republicans of "cowardice" for what is expected to be an
early-session effort to repeal Obamacare. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, preparing for her fourth straight
Congress in the minority — she lost her speakership in 2010, in an anti-Obamacare backlash — now says
it's the GOP that will pay a political price if it moves to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. "You break it, you own
it," the California Democrat said.
The Editor says...
The last sentence is particularly amusing, because Obamacare is already broken, and the Democrats already own it,
since they alone implemented it, yet their only solution is more government intervention.
Democrats
target eight cabinet nominees, threaten to drag out process. Senate Democrats are vowing to stall action on
eight of Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees tasked with carrying out his economic, law enforcement and regulatory agenda, a
senior Democratic aide told CNN Monday. If carried through, the threat that could delay confirming the President-elect's
choices for months. Those targeted include secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson, attorney general pick Jeff Sessions
and health and human services secretary hopeful Tom Price.
Rules
Package Expected To Be Introduced To Prevent Another Dem Sit-In. GOP House Leadership is expected to roll out a
rules change package to prevent lawmakers from doing anything similar to Democrats' anti-gun protest on the House floor in
June. Democrats broke a number of rules during the sit-in, which lasted more than 24 hours. Violations included
live streaming the event on social media and fundraising from the floor. Shortly after the occurrence, House Speaker Paul
Ryan and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy met with the sergeant at arms to review the violations to determine the best way
to address the issue. While their plans for disciplinary action took months, McCarthy assured throughout the process
repercussions would be brought forward to prevent future instances.
GOP
moves to block 'disorderly conduct' in House chamber. In a delayed response to Democrat's sit-in last summer to
protest a lack of Congressional action on gun control, House Republicans are proposing rules to punish members of Congress
who record or broadcast from the chamber floor.
CA's
Senator Boxer Attempts To Block Her Own Bill. California Tea Party activists have long battled the bureaucrats
and politicians over policies related to water. One of the most well-known of the myriad of issues is the diversion of
water from farms in the Central Valley (a major source of this nation's fruits and nuts... outside of San Francisco, that
is). One goal of this reallocation of a prime agricultural resource is the protection of a bait fish known as the Delta
Smelt. Last week, the House of Representatives easily passed a major water bill that includes emergency aid for Flint,
Mich., and boosts U.S. ports, dams and waterways. This bill, known as the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), was
initially co-authored by the notorious Senator Barbara Boxer, who infamously derided a Brigadier General for referring to her
as "ma'am".
National
Mall sites shut down for protests during inauguration. Protests scheduled to take place around President-elect
Trump's inauguration next month won't have access to the Lincoln Memorial and other sites on the National Mall. The
Guardian reported the National Park Service has filed documents securing large swaths of the Mall for inauguration events,
essentially shutting them off to protesters. While this is standard procedure for inaugurations, and would have
happened if Hillary Clinton was elected instead, it has angered some who planned to protest Trump.
Democratic
Senators Stall CR, Force Federal Government into Weekend Shutdown. Senate Democrats from coal mining states
shamed their Democratic colleagues in joining them in a procedural vote Thursday that would have ended debate on the
continuing resolution to extend federal government funding through April over an extension of benefits for out-of-work coal
workers. In the Senate, there are two votes. The first vote ends debate, and that must pass with 60 votes.
The effort to extend debate is called the filibuster, which is what Senate Democrats, led by Ohio's Sherrod Brown, did when they
kept the Republicans from getting the 60 votes to end debate. The second vote on a bill merely requires a simple majority.
Brown
blocks Senate resolution for Pearl Harbor in effort to get better health deal for miners. Sens. Joe
Manchin, D-W.Va.,and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, both vulnerable senators facing re-election in 2018, took to the Senate floor to
block a host of bills and resolutions that usually sail through unnoticed. Manchin and Brown want a longer guarantee of
health benefits for miners beyond April 28. The miners' health care issue has emerged as a flashpoint on a bill to fund
the government through next spring. Funding for the government expires Friday night. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC,
repeatedly tried to get clearance from Manchin and Brown on a panoply of non-controversial bills Wednesday night. But
the Democrats repeatedly objected, effectively blocking each item.
Brown
blocks Senate resolution for Pearl Harbor in effort to get better health deal for miners. Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.,and Sherrod Brown,
D-Ohio, both vulnerable senators facing re-election in 2018, took to the Senate floor to block a host of bills and resolutions that usually sail through
unnoticed. Manchin and Brown want a longer guarantee of health benefits for miners beyond April 28. The miners' health care issue has
emerged as a flashpoint on a bill to fund the government through next spring. Funding for the government expires Friday night [12/9/2016].
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, repeatedly tried to get clearance from Manchin and Brown on a panoply of non-controversial bills Wednesday night.
But the Democrats repeatedly objected, effectively blocking each item.
Led
By California, Democrats Vow to Say 'No' to Trump — on Everything. Democrats are vowing to oppose
incoming President Donald Trump on everything — from his Cabinet nominees to his policy proposals, from his
executive orders to his Supreme Court nominations. They are doing so based on their mistaken projection of Trump as a
nascent fascist; their hysterical and self-serving delusions about being "unsafe"; and their own faulty memories of Republican
opposition to President Barack Obama. In do doing, [sic] Democrats are setting themselves up to continue to fail.
Michael
Moore: Trump 'Has No Right To Enter' White House. On Friday's [12/16/2016] broadcast of MSNBC's "All In,"
filmmaker Michael Moore argued that President-Elect Donald Trump "has no right" to enter the White House. Moore called
for "protesting, obstructing, disrupting, civil disobedience."
Michael
Moore: 'Disrupt the Inauguration'. Liberal documentary filmaker Michael Moore is encouraging Americans to take
to the streets to protest the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.
Black's Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition, 1979, page 5.
Senate
Dems Vow to Hold Up Bills Until Vote on Coal Miners' Healthcare. After Democrats took an Election Day hit in
coal country, a group of Senate Democrats has vowed to block unanimous consent bills until a pension shortfall for retired
mine workers is addressed. Last month, 22 senators wrote to congressional leadership urging that the Miners Protection
Act, sponsored by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), be passed before Congress leaves for the year.
Dem
Rep Ellison: House Democrats Will Do Nothing But 'Vote No' Under Trump. Minnesota Rep. Keith
Ellison, widely considered a frontrunner to be the next Democratic National Committee chair, says House Democrats will do
nothing but "vote no" in the coming years under the new Trump administration. Ellison, who has faced questions over
whether he can juggle both working in Congress and rebuilding a depleted Democratic Party, defended himself at a party meeting
on Friday [12/2/2016] by suggesting that working as a Democratic congressman won't require much effort.
"Fight
for $15" protests sweeping the country. A national day of protests for a higher minimum wage is seeing demonstrations
from O'Hare Airport in Chicago to Kansas City to Los Angeles. The national "Fight For $15" protest is the latest in the fight
for a $15-per-hour minimum wage. Protesters called the day of action "Disruption Tuesday." Fast food employees, child
care teachers, graduate assistants, and others in low-wage jobs who plan to walk off their jobs in 340 cities.
Stick This in Your
Pipeline. The next radical environmental tactic is now evident for eyes to see: block all infrastructure
projects — especially oil and gas pipelines — with criminal trespass and obstruction. Having killed the
Keystone pipeline (only temporarily, now that Trump is going to approve it once he takes office), the red-greenies are trying to
stop the Dakota Access pipeline that has received all of its regulatory permits.
US
Green Party raises enough funds for Wisconsin recount. The former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has
raised the necessary $1.1 million to request a vote recount in Wisconsin, her campaign announced Thursday [11/24/2016].
The Midwestern state was a key battleground in the November 8 election, helping propel the Republican President-elect Donald
Trump past his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to a victory that shocked the nation.
Jill
Stein Raises Enough Money To Force Wisconsin Recount Michigan & Pennsylvania Up Next. A couple of days ago we
wrote about a group of scientists, which included voting-rights attorney John Bonifaz and J. Alex Halderman, the director of
the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, who announced they had found "persuasive evidence" that
results in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania may have been manipulated or hacked. Of course, they presented absolutely
no evidence to support their startling claim other than to point out that Clinton received, on average, 7% fewer votes in
counties that used electronic voting machines rather than optical scanners and paper ballots. Apparently that was all
the evidence that Jill Stein needed to be convinced that she might have a chance in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan where
she received 1.1%, 0.8% and 1.1% of the vote, respectively.
The Editor says...
It's almost comical when a presidential candidate demands a recount after losing by a ratio of 99-to-1.
Obviously the recount will allow the Democrats to "find" another truckload of straight-party Democrat ballots that
weren't counted the first time. As I understand the situation, they'll need to manufacture at least 10,000
more ballots to change the outcome of the election. This effort has nothing to do with fair elections and
everything to do with friction, obstruction and disruption.
Live
from Omaha, it's Jill Stein. At the end of her talk in front of about 250 people in Omaha tonight, Green Party
candidate Dr. Jill Stein strongly hinted that if she and Gary Johnson are not included in the first debate then they
will bring 5,000 followers to the debate site and all get arrested. Apparently she had done something similar when she
ran for Governor of Massachusetts. You read it here first. And please alert the Secret Service. Stein
earned two degrees from Harvard; she can't be stupid. I went to see if she is trying to win or just running to make a
statement. In my view, if she was trying to win she would attack Hillary Clinton full bore on all fronts. So I
tossed her a softball. I stated that it is obvious that Mrs. Clinton has consistently and repeated lied to the
American people. Former US Attorney Rudy Giuliani is of the professional opinion that Madam Hillary should be indicted
under RICO for her activities with the Clinton Foundation. In light of that was she going to attack Hillary's character
down the stretch?
Update:
What
Happened to Jill Stein's Recount Millions? Shortly after the 2016 election, Jill Stein raised more than $7 million
from shell-shocked liberals eager to pursue a swing-state recount. Two years later, the U.S. Green Party's last candidate for
president is still spending that money. Ongoing litigation, travel costs, and staff salaries are also likely to eat up
whatever is left, meaning those who donated to Stein are unlikely to receive a once-promised chance to vote on how the post-recount
money would be spent. Nor have donors been given much of a window into how Stein is actually spending their donations.
Jill
Stein Recount Going Exactly as You Expect. Before the Mueller coup won the soft hearts of progs from Marin County to Martha's
Vineyard, before Hillary's Sour Grapes Across America tour, there was Jill Stein's recount. Dr Jill Stein, DDS, PDHD, DOS, SNAFU,
announced that there would be a recount of the election. The more money gullible idiots sent her, the more recounting there would be.
Until the recount finally proved that Trump didn't win. Jill Stein did. Lots and lots recounting. And now, hold on to your
top hats, the recount is still going on. And no, nobody's getting their money back.
Black
Lives Matter Plans To Block White-Owned Businesses On Black Friday. Black Lives Matter and other groups plan to
block white-owned Chicago stores on Black Friday [11/25/2016] to bring awareness about police shootings, economic issues and alleged
racism. Local churches, Black Lives Matter and the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression will block stores
along Michigan Avenue and prevent customers from entering stores for the second year in a row, reports Crain's Chicago Business.
A big part of the protest is to force on people that it's important to shop at businesses that aren't owned by white men, Kimberly Veal,
a leader of Black Lives Matter, said. It's not yet known who owns the businesses that will be targeted as part of this effort.
Black
Lives Matter Activists Plan to Disrupt Black Friday Shopping in Major Cities. Black Lives Matter agitators plan
to disrupt Black Friday shopping in at least two cities this year in an attempt to draw attention to what they call
unjustified police shootings. Organizers in Chicago and Seattle are planning demonstrations that they hope will attract
thousands of protesters. In Seattle, as many as 2,700 people may attend a Black Lives Matter protest downtown on Black
Friday, according to a Facebook page set up by the "Black Freedom Front of Seattle."
Limbaugh:
Hillary Campaign Behind Push to 'Threaten Electors'. As the revolt against Donald Trump's victory Nov. 8 takes
another turn — with calls to challenge results in three states and more "faithless" electors vowing not to vote
for Trump — Hillary Clinton's lecture to Trump after the third presidential debate on the virtue of accepting
election outcomes comes to mind. When considerable attention was given to Trump's reluctance during the third
presidential debate to pledge that he would accept the results of the election, Clinton went on record stating "one of our
hallmarks has always been that we accept the outcomes of our election."
Report:
Huma Sister Trying To Undermine Legitimate Trump Victory. The sister of Huma Abedin — the longtime
aide of Hillary Clinton and estranged wife of former Democratic congressman and serial sexter Anthony Weiner —
appears to be trying to undermine Donald Trump's legitimate electoral victory. Heba Abedin urged her Facebook followers
to call the Department of Justice to demand an "audit" of votes cast because "there is something really off about the
election results as they come in," according to a screenshot captured by New York Magazine writer Yashar Ali. Heba
appears to have since deleted the post.
Activists
urge Clinton camp to challenge election results in three states. [Scroll down] The group found the
Democratic nominee got 7 percent fewer voters in counties in Wisconsin that used electronic-voting machines instead of
optical scanners or paper ballots, according to the magazine. Clinton could have reportedly not received as many as
30,000 votes, which could have cost her the state, the publication reported. Clinton lost Wisconsin by about 27,000
votes. The group is saying the pattern should be looked into, though it has not found proof of hacking.
Clinton
Campaign Looking into Challenging Outcome of Election to Undermine the Vote. During the weeks before the final
day of the campaign, both the Clinton camp and the media attacked Donald Trump for refusing to say he would automatically
accept the outcome of the vote on Election Day. But now Clinton's campaign chief is taking meetings with groups urging
him to do just that by considering a challenge to the final vote in several of the key states that gave Trump the White
House. Reports from several sources revealed on November 22 that Clinton campaign chief John Podesta was taking
meetings with a group claiming it had discovered "irregularities" in several counties of some of the states that Trump won.
Borking:
How
ugly will Democrats get in smearing Jeff Sessions? Sen. Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump's pick
for attorney general, will likely face a tough confirmation fight. What remains to be seen is how ugly those hearings
will get. No sooner had Sessions been named than the left — and much of the press — were tarring
the Alabama senator as a racist. The NAACP tweeted that he "supports an old, ugly history" when it comes to civil
rights. Most of this traces to 1986, when the Senate rejected his nomination for a federal judgeship, based on hearsay
testimony from two lawyers alleging he'd made racially charged statements.
Democrats'
new Senate leader open to filibustering Trump's Supreme Court picks. Senate Democrats' new leader claimed the
right Wednesday [11/16/2016] to filibuster Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominees, making clear Democrats won't give the president-elect
much of a honeymoon on the most significant of his upcoming appointments. Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, said
nominations to the high court should get support from both parties, and said the filibuster is a way to enforce that on a president.
He pointedly noted that when his party changed filibuster rules three years ago, they left intact the ability to filibuster at the Supreme
Court level. "I'll underline that we did not change the rules for Supreme Court because we thought on something as important as this,
there should be some degree of bipartisan agreement," Mr. Schumer said.
Soros
Gathering With Top Democrats in D.C to Plot Trump Resistance. Liberal billionaire George Soros is meeting
behind closed doors with top Democrats to plot a resistance strategy against President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans.
The three-day conference began Sunday at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Washington, D.C., and is sponsored by deep-pocketed
liberal members of the dark money Democracy Alliance donor network, Politico's Ken Vogel first reported. The
group will seek to pick up the pieces from the 2016 election, plot its strategy for upcoming elections, and map out a
game plan to battle Trump during his first 100 days in office.
Soros Prepares For Trump
War. George Soros and his fellow liberal mega-donors are currently readying the post-Hillary Clinton Democratic
party to oppose President-Elect Donald Trump. According to Politico, Soros and other key members of the so-called
"Democracy Alliance" met in Washington, DC at the Mandarin Oriental hotel on Sunday [11/13/2016] for the first day of the
group's three-day investment conference.
Al
Sharpton Promises Donald Trump 'a Fight for the Future of This Country'. Rev. Al Sharpton warned
President-Election Donald Trump to "saddle up your horse" because he's planning to spend the eight weeks leading up to
Trump's inauguration fighting any changes that could adversely impact communities of color — starting with a rally
at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on January 14. At a special edition of his Saturday gathering and
radio address at the Harlem headquarters of his National Action Network [11/12/2016], Sharpton announced his plans to march on
the on the monument in Washington, D.C. just two days before the official Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and six days before
Trump's inauguration. He urged people to put pressure on the Senate to maintain the Affordable Care Act and to push back
on every proposed member of the Trump cabinet at every confirmation hearing.
Progressive
groups vow to 'obstruct, delay, and halt' Donald Trump's agenda. Despite bipartisan calls for healing and unity
after a brutal presidential campaign, liberal activist groups vowed Wednesday to fight from the get-go to stop
President-elect Donald Trump's agenda. Democracy for America, a leading liberal political action committee and
dependable advocate for the Democratic Party, called for a "progressive political revolution" to stymie what it described as
Mr. Trump's racist and sexist agenda. "So let's be absolutely clear: Democracy for America will do
everything in our power to obstruct, delay and halt the attacks on people of color, women and working families that will
emerge from a Trump administration," said Charles Chamberlain, the group's executive director.
Protesters
Block Upper Level of George Washington Bridge. The inbound upper level of the George Washington Bridge was closed by an immigrant rights
protest on Wednesday morning [10/26/2016], snarling traffic on one of the region's most important crossings at the height of rush hour. Delays at
the bridge for traffic heading into New York from New Jersey were up to nearly 90 minutes; traffic cameras showed bumper-to-bumper traffic barely
inching along.
VA
Suicide Hotline Reform Bill Sails Unanimously Through House, Harry Reid Crushes It. The House approved GOP
Rep. David Young's bill last Monday [10/3/2016] by a vote of 357-0. Young introduced the legislation after hearing numerous
complaints from constituents that the Veterans Crisis Line, designed to provide support for veterans feeling suicidal, simply
failed to answer emails or calls. The bipartisan bill passed the House without a hitch and Democratic Sen. Amy
Klobuchar teamed up with GOP Sen. John Thune to move the legislation through the Senate. Both majority and minority
staff on the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs cleared the bill, Meg Baglien, communications director for Young, told The
Daily Caller News Foundation. But a nod from the committee didn't prevent Reid from stopping the bill in its tracks, [...]
Senate
Democrats Block Zika Funding for Florida. Before adjourning for its August recess, Congress failed to approve
an emergency Zika-funding bill that would have provided $1.1 billion for Zika-related vaccines and research to local and
state health departments, and Medicaid programs. Senate Democrats blocked the bill because they say Senate Republicans
excluded funding for Planned Parenthood.
Many
recovered Clinton emails won't go public before election. Hope you aren't waiting for the State Department to
publish every last document from Hillary Clinton's private email server before making a voting decision — you're
going to be disappointed. A federal judge has set a schedule that will only publish 1,050 pages of recently recovered
material (out of roughly 10,000 pages) by November 4th, mere days before the US presidential election on the 8th.
The Department has promised to process 500 pages per month, so you won't get the full scoop until well after the next president
takes office.
The Editor says...
It is obvious to anyone with a calculator that the State Department is engaged in partisan foot-dragging until after the presidential election.
Here's why: If it takes a month to read 500 pages, that's 86 minutes per page. Does it take you an hour and a half to read
every email message you get, and figure out what it means? Is there only one person at the State Department doing this work?
Obama
pledges to veto bill forbidding ransom payments to Iran. The White House threatened Wednesday [9/21/2016] that President
Obama would veto two bills aimed at curbing the impact of his so-called "ransom" payment to Iran for the release of American hostages.
The administration issued the veto warnings against House bills, one that would forbid any future ransom payments to Iran and another that
would require public disclosure of the assets of all top Iranian leaders, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The House passed the latter
bill, the Iranian Leadership Asset Transparency Act, on Wednesday night by a vote of 282-143. On the ransom measure, the White House
said the legislation is trying to solve a problem "that does not exist."
Obama
threatens veto of bill to disclose assets of Iranian leaders. The White House issued a veto threat Wednesday [9/21/2016]
against a House bill that would require the federal government to publicly report all assets held by Iran's top leaders, calling the
measure "onerous." The administration said the Iranian Leadership Asset Transparency Act wouldn't stop Tehran from financing
terrorism or laundering money, and would spur Iranian officials even more to hide their assets. Further, the White House said
the measure could be "perceived by Iran" as an effort to undermine the administration's nuclear deal with Tehran.
Documents
appear to implicate State Dept. in cover-up on Clinton emails. The U.S. State Department waited over a year
before producing emails stored on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private server despite 17 Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) requests. According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch, "in August 2013, State Department
officials were aware of 17 FOIA requests relating to requests for Clinton correspondence, including four that 'specifically
mention emails or email accounts.' "Despite the large number of FOIA requests and growing concern among top agency
officials, the State Department did not formally request that the former secretary of state produce the emails on the
clintonemail.com server until October 2014."
Obama
expected to veto bill allowing 9/11 lawsuits against Saudi Arabia. President Barack Obama is expected to veto a
bill allowing the families of 9/11 victims to file lawsuits against Saudi Arabia. White House Press Secretary Josh
Earnest said President Obama "does intend to veto this legislation," on Monday [9/12/2016] during a briefing. The veto
would be Obama's 11th during his presidency, setting up for possibly his first veto override.
Trump,
GOP calls on Clinton to have full State Dept schedule released. The Donald Trump campaign and Washington
Republicans are calling on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to have all of her daily schedules as secretary of
state released before Election Day, after the State Department said Friday it cannot comply with the court-ordered release
until after voting. The Associated Press reported earlier this week, after analyzing schedules released so far, that
more than half the people outside the government who met or spoke by telephone with Clinton while she was secretary of state
had given money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation.
Clinton's
full State Dept. schedule won't be released until after Election Day. Seven months after a federal judge ordered the
State Department to begin releasing monthly batches of the detailed daily schedules showing meetings by Hillary Clinton during her
time as secretary of state, the government told The Associated Press it won't finish the job before Election Day.
Hillary
Clinton's run-out-the-clock strategy. She is not planning on sitting for another televised armchair
confessional to rehash regrets about a private email server. Nor is the campaign setting up the kind of war room
employed last year to discredit a book that aimed to expose a quid-pro-quo relationship between Clinton Foundation donors and
State Department officials. With 75 days until Election Day and new emails once again casting a pall over her campaign,
Hillary Clinton aims to "run out the clock," confidants say, on the latest chapters of the overlapping controversies that
have dogged her campaign since the start. According to allies and operatives close to the campaign, Clinton's team
thinks "they can ride out" any negative reaction to a set of new emails that show Clinton Foundation officials trying to
set up State Department meetings for donors during her tenure as the nation's top diplomat.
Activists
Plot Civil Disobedience, Mass Arrests, Infiltration Attempts at DNC. Over five hundred activists have pledged
to risk arrest by engaging in nonviolent mass civil disobedience at the Democratic National Convention here in Philadelphia
between Monday and Thursday, according to Kai Newkirk, mission director for the Democracy Spring activist group. During
an in-person interview outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center in downtown Philadelphia, Newkirk revealed that, besides
street protests, activists from his group will attempt to infiltrate and disrupt this week's DNC events from the inside.
Exclusive — Code
Pink Founder: We'll Try to Infiltrate, Disrupt RNC. Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the infamous Code Pink
leftwing antiwar activist group, admitted in an interview with this reporter that her organization will attempt to infiltrate
the Republican National Convention here this week with the goal of disrupting the event. Code Pink has a history of
infiltrating and briefly disrupting events, including the confirmation hearing for CIA Director John Brennan; a Senate
hearing at which Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was testifying about the threat posed by the Islamic State; Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu's 2011 address to Congress, and many others.
Nitwit
White People Arrested for Being Tools of Black Lives Matter. A group of self-hating white people decided to
become tools of the Black Lives Matter movement and block Interstate 95 in Richmond Monday [7/18/2016]. At least
a dozen protesters blocked off all southbound lanes around 5:45 p.m. and draped a sign on the overpass.
Bringing
Down the Left. The Left, by faithfully executing the strategy as laid out by Saul Alinsky, are now the dominant
political and social force in The United States. However, the one factor that none of the icons of the American
Progressive movement bothered to consider was: what are they going to do with a nation the size and population of a
continent, with a long history of independence and free enterprise, once they vanquished an increasingly spineless
opposition? They do not know how to be or what to do as the new governing class. They are incapable of governance
as they can only oppose, topple and demagogue. Thus, they are destined to fail. Unfortunately, with that failure
will come additional suffering, chaos and displacement for the American people.
Senate
Dems block votes on immigration issues, including sanctuary cities. The Republican-controlled Senate failed
Wednesday to advance efforts to change federal immigration law — including one to cut funding to so-called
sanctuary cities. The vote was 53-44, failing to get the minimum 60 votes to begin debate on the issue. The
measure attempted to block congressional funding for sanctuary cities — municipalities that ban police from
cooperating with immigration officials to potentially deport illegal immigrants. Senate Republicans also failed to get
enough votes to advance their proposed Kate's Law — named after Kate Steinle, who was fatally shot in July 2015,
allegedly by an illegal immigrant who had multiple felony convictions and was deported several times prior to the incident.
Congressional
Black Caucus to 'Cause Chaos' on the House Floor Over Guns. What more do these Congressional Black Caucus goons
want? Paul Ryan has already caved and will allow a House vote on gun confiscation. Apparently that's not good
enough for the racist Congressional Black Caucus. They plan to "cause chaos" and are urging other fascist Democrats to
join them all over gun control and confiscation.
Obama
Administration Wants to Keep Clinton Foundation Emails Hidden Until Late 2018. The Obama Administration is
already infamous for slow-walking information requests, causing investigations to drag out for years, and then complaining
loudly about how long the investigations are taking! But they've really outdone themselves this time. The Justice
Department has filed a motion in court, on behalf of the State Department, seeking to keep a vast trove of correspondence between
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's aides, and the notorious Clinton Foundation, hidden from voters' eyes for 27 months...
in other words, until October 2018, about halfway through President Hillary Clinton's prospective first term.
The
Former "Occupy Wall Street" Fools Now Occupy The House Floor. The chumps who formerly were so proud of their
allies in the Occupy movement, in other words, the liberal/progressive Democrats, are taking their idiocy to laughable ends
by now occupying Congress.
Al
Gore's daughter arrested in Boston pipeline protest. Organizers say the daughter of former Vice President Al
Gore was among 23 people arrested during a protest of a Boston pipeline under construction. The arrests happened
Wednesday at the site of Spectra Energy's West Roxbury Lateral pipeline. Forty-two-year-old Karenna Gore was among
demonstrators that tried to block construction activity on the site by lying in a trench.
Obama
Admin Tells Florida Agencies To Deny Public Records Requests On Orlando Attack. While Attorney General Loretta
Lynch holds firm to her claim that the motive of Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen may never be known, the FBI is instructing
Florida agencies that responded to the attack that night to deny requests for public records pertaining to the case.
Mateen called police several times during the three hour ordeal to declare his allegiance to ISIS, yet only a fraction of his
discussions with authorities that night have been released to the public — first an edited version, than an
unedited one. In response to a lawsuit by local media seeking the release of the 911 audio, the Seminole County
Sheriff's Office released a letter they got from the FBI instructing them to deny all requests for information and refer
news outlets seeking information to the feds, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
FBI
asks agencies who responded to Pulse to deny records requests. The FBI has asked law enforcement agencies who
responded to Pulse nightclub to withhold records from the public, according to officials. A June 20 letter from the
FBI, attached to the City or Orlando's lawsuit over withholding 911 calls and other records from 25 media outlets including
the Orlando Sentinel, was also sent to the Seminole County Sheriff's Office with instructions pertaining to how they should
respond to records requests. The letter requests that agencies deny inquiries and directs departments to "immediately
notify the FBI of any requests your agency received" so "the FBI can seek to prevent disclosure through appropriate channels,
as necessary."
State
Department Won't Release Clinton Foundation Emails for 27 Months. Department of Justice officials filed a
motion in federal court late Wednesday [6/29/2016] seeking a 27-month delay in producing correspondence between former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton's four top aides and officials with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings, a closely allied public relations firm that
Bill Clinton helped launch. If the court permits the delay, the public won't be able to read the communications until October 2018,
about 22 months into her prospective first term as President. The four senior Clinton aides involved were Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State Michael Fuchs, Ambassador-At-Large Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin.
State
Department seeks 27-month delay for release of Clinton Foundation emails. The State Department has sought to
delay the court-ordered release of emails between four of Hillary Clinton's top aides and officials at the Clinton Foundation
and a closely associated public relations firm. The motion, filed in federal court by the Justice Department late
Wednesday, seeks to put off the release of the emails by 27 months. It was first reported on by The Daily Caller.
In the filing, the State Department says it originally estimated that approximately 6,000 emails and other documents were exchanged
between the aides — identified as former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael Fuchs, former Ambassador-At-Large
Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin — and the Clinton Foundation and
Teneo Holdings, a communications shop that former President Bill Clinton helped launch.
Why Hillary Is Stalling
Her FBI Interview. James Comey, the straight-arrow director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is eager to
wind up his investigation of Hillary's use of an unsecure email system, but he can't do that until he and Justice Department
prosecutors sit down with Hillary and interview her. Hillary says that neither she nor her campaign have been contacted
by the FBI. But that is not true. Negotiations have been going on for quite some time between the FBI and Hillary's
attorney, David Kendall, who went to law school with Hillary and defended Bill Clinton in his impeachment trial.
Paul
Ryan: I won't tolerate another sit-in from Democrats. After Democrats held what the Speaker of the House
has called a fundraising stunt last week, some Republicans have recommended he file ethics charges against anyone who
violated House rules. Ryan doesn't seem ready to go there quite yet but he did tell WISN news that if Democrats
try it again his response will be different: [...]
Immigrant
activists stage blockade to stop deportations. Immigrant rights activists attempted to block the road to
federal immigration agents' headquarters in Atlanta on Monday, demanding President Obama stop deporting anymore illegal
immigrants after last week's Supreme Court stalemate. Led by the Not1More campaign, which webcast the protest, the
demonstrators called Mr. Obama to hamstring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the deportation agency,
saying it's up to the administration to protect illegal immigrants now.
Democrats: We
Will Overcome The Constitution. Nothing stirs the passions of Democrats these days quite like the prospect of
gutting the Constitution. In an unprecedented act of pretend political bravery, House members held a catered sit-in,
demanding that Republicans allow a vote to strip away protections of Second, Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the
Constitution. It was quite the scene. There were the selfie-happy Democrats singing "We Shall Overcome" while
demanding passage of a bill that those right-wing nutjobs over at the American Civil Liberties Union have "strongly" argued
would undermine civil liberties. As of this writing, no participant has been beaten down by the cops or thrown into a
dank cell, although iPhones were probably getting perilously low on juice for those who'd forgotten their chargers.
Congressional
Democrats Clueless on Gun Bills. Congressional Democrats emerged from the Capitol building Thursday afternoon [6/23/2016]
from their 25-hour long "sit-in" in the House of Representatives sleepy but satisfied with what they'd accomplished. They may not have
secured a vote on gun control legislation they were demanding in the wake of the Orlando terror attack, but they had grabbed headlines across
the media that portrayed the their gun control ploy as a historic civil rights crusade. To the tune of "We Shall Overcome," members of
the Democratic caucus sang outside the Capitol: "We shall pass a bill, some day."
Sit
in, shut up and disarm: The Democratic response to terrorism. If you are old enough, you remember how
campus after campus in the 1960s had the president's office "occupied" by students who would rather be making demands for
"social justice" than actually attending class. These ruffians were loud, petulant and self-righteous, and they
considered their issues more important than civil behavior, the rights of others or common decency. Sound
familiar? That's because, if you follow the timeline from the late 1960s to now, you will discover that many of those
unwashed radicals or their younger siblings are running everything from major corporations to, yep, Congress. And the
lesson they learned is that if you are loud enough and obnoxious enough for long enough, you just may be able to get your way
after all.
House
gun control sit-in a media coup, but party gets a pass on disruption. [Scroll down] Unlike the Senate,
where anyone can filibuster, the majority party rules the House with an iron hand. So Ryan was basically on target in
telling CNN the move was a "publicity stunt." The speaker, like Nancy Pelosi before him, can keep any bill he wants off the
floor. What's more, and some of the stories acknowledged this, if there had been a vote, the Democrats would have lost,
just as they failed to win approval for four Senate measures, two sponsored by each party. So this is pure protest
politics. Back in 2008, when Democrats ran the House, the GOP tried to block an adjournment, refusing to leave while
insisting on a vote on an energy bill. Pelosi was dismissive, accusing the Republicans of "obstructing common-sense
proposals." She and her party left town for summer recess anyway, darkening the chamber and having the C-SPAN cameras
turned off.
Chuck
Schumer, world-class hypocrite. [Senator] Schumer, along with several other Senators and numerous members of the
House, staged a 24-hour "sit-in" on the House floor to demand votes on gun control. (Yes... Democrats actually believe
that stripping the American people of their Second and Fifth Amendment rights is a "civil rights" issue justifying a 1960s-style
sit-in.) Predictably, milquetoast "establishment Republican" speaker Paul Ryan refused to have the protesters arrested or
removed by the House sergeant-at-arms. So the Democratic protesters got away with their misbehavior. Now, dear reader,
what do you suppose would happen to you if you joined a conservative group that employed 1960s-style sit-in tactics to
oppose — oh, let's say, abortion — in front of an abortion clinic? Well, it just so happens that
we know the answer to that question, because a lot of people did exactly that in the early 1990s. And the very same
Chuck Schumer who was part of the "sit-in" for gun control yesterday threw the book at them.
C-Span,
Cameras & Sit-Ins: A Fun Lesson in Selective Amnesia & Hypocrisy. Ah, those eeeeevil Republicans... embracing Orwellian
censorship by shutting off C-SPAN cameras to hide the world from democracy in action and of Democrats in the House who via a sit-in were simply
trying to do the right thing on gun control measures. Even the barely-relevant Trevor Noah got into the act with the usual bias by omission
(some call that "dishonesty") by mocking Ryan for cutting off the feed without ever mentioning the precedent behind it. No matter... he's
allegedly just a comedian, right? [...] Of course, never once in the [Boston] Globe's pious preaching on censorship did they once include this
little tidbit from 2006. [...]
Tom DeLay: I Would've Filed Ethics Charges Over
Sit-in. There was a jubilant, circus-like atmosphere outside of the U.S. House chamber on Thursday afternoon [6/23/2016], as Democrats brought
an end to their day-long "sit-in" over gun control. But one man walking past the bullhorns and cheers found the scene repellant. It was former
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. If the Sugar Land Republican were still running the show at the U.S. Capitol, he said, he would've had no mercy for
the Democrats participating.
The Symbolic Self-Liquidation
Of The Democratic Sit-In. The House gun control stunt has all the trappings of a sit-in protest. Because they're, you know, sitting on the
floor and all. But what are they occupying? Their own legislative chamber. [...] Ah, but if they sat in the chairs, this would look exactly
like any ordinary day in the House of Representatives, and it would be obvious that nothing brave or interesting is happening. Then there are the
copious quantities of food that make the whole think look like a catered picnic.
There
Are Elected Morons Sitting On The Floor In The House Of Representatives. Why? Because they're unhappy
that no gun-grabbing legislation is moving. The Speaker, Paul Ryan, did a great job dealing with this. The House
gavelled into recess, and since it did that C-SPAN's cameras got turned off. And there was no live coverage of John
Lewis' babblings and bad Martin Luther King impressions while sitting on his fat rump.
Nets
Trumpet Democratic Sit-In, Twist House Rules to Trash Republicans. On Wednesday [6/22/2016], House Democrats
staged a sit-it on the House floor trying bring their failed Senate bills to a vote in the House. Many are calling
their actions a publicity stunt, and they seem to be right. All three of the liberal networks were glued to Capitol
Hill during their evening broadcasts. "The dramatic sit-in on Capitol Hill," ABC's David Muir touted on World News
Tonight, "Sitting down, demanding action on gun control." The sit-in also gave them the opportunity to trash House
Republicans. "And as funerals continue for the 49 who were murdered, Democrats today seized the floor of the House of
Representatives, demanding that the Republican majority allow a vote on gun control," stated CBS' Scott Pelley on Evening
News, trying to shame the opposition.
Bias alert!
Read that last sentence again. Why would funerals still be underway ten days after the murders? -->
Rep.
John Lewis: It's OK to Break House Rules 'To Uphold a Greater Law, a Moral Law'. Supported by President
Obama, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) justified Democrats' disruption of House business on Wednesday [6/22/2016] by saying,
"It is always right to do right." Applying 1960s tactics to the ongoing gun control debate, Lewis led Democrats in a
noisy sit-in on the House floor, demanding a vote on gun control legislation that Republicans refuse to bring up.
House
Sit-In: A Brief Tutorial on How American Government Works Now. For those of you who may still be laboring
under the illusion that we live in something resembling the antiquated notion of a constitutional republic, allow me to
enlighten you about how things have changed since your high school government class. Here's how the legislative branch
works now: When the Democrats are in power they get everything they want, even if it means ramming through legislation
in the middle of the night and twisting the rules until they are virtually unrecognizable. When the Republicans are in
power, the Democrats still get everything they want because the Republicans basically just hand it to them to avoid being
called racists or misogynists. When they don't get what they want, Democrats throw temper tantrums and hold their
breath until they get what they want. Either way, they win. Always. This is definitely not how I learned
it in government class, but trust me, this is how it works now.
Determined
To Avoid Islamic Terrorism — Democrats Sit On House Floor, Pout and Whine Against Guns. If you were
paying attention early 2011 you might remember the Wisconsin "Fleebaggers". The Fleebaggers were Wisconsin Senate Democrats
who lost the November 2010 election and lost control of the Wisconsin Senate. In an effort to avoid voting in the
minority, the Democrats literally left the state of Wisconsin, and went to stay in hotels in Illinois, in an effort to shut
down the legislative session. The same mindset is applied today in Washington DC as national Democrats begin staging
a sit-in in an effort to force House Republicans to bring up legislation on gun control measures.
Internet
Has Field Day with House Democrats' Temper Tantrum. In case you missed it, House Democrats staged a sit-in
Wednesday to push for gun sale restrictions. They vowed to stay on the House floor until Republicans allow a vote on
gun control legislation, in what they called an "unprecedented" move. But the political endeavor quickly turned into a
running internet joke once pictures emerged from the House chambers. The "sit-in" started to look more like a daycare
with Democrats throwing a temper tantrum.
Dem:
'The Second Amendment needs some changing'. Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., called for a revision of the Second
Amendment during Wednesday's [6/22/2016] "sit-in" on the House floor, which has shut down the House while Democrats demand a
vote on gun control legislation.
Democrats
stage sit-in on House floor to force gun vote. Dozens of House Democrats staged a "sit-in" on the House floor
Wednesday in protest of GOP leadership's refusal to allow a vote on a gun control measure following the Orlando massacre.
Led by Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the civil rights icon, and John Larson (D-Conn.), more than 40 Democrats walked into the
chamber just before noon and pledged to "occupy" the House floor until GOP leadership allowed a vote. Their numbers over
the course of an hour more than tripled — even as Republicans recessed the House, turning off CSPAN cameras and the
video feed to the public. Democrats countered the TV camera blackout by streaming everything on their cell phones, which
ended up on C-SPAN anyway.
Democrats
Block Sensible Gun Proposals In Senate. This afternoon [6/20/2016], the Senate voted on four proposals for
increased gun control, two submitted by Republicans and two by Democrats. All four went down to defeat, although both
Republican bills had majority support. Senator Chuck Grassley proposed legislation that would have increased funding
for the NICS background check system, and would have pressed states to send more records to the FBI on felons and others
barred from buying guns. It also revamped language that prohibits some people with mental health problems from buying
guns. Grassley's bill had majority support, 53-47, but wasn't passed because the Democrats filibustered it.
Dems
take over floor to protest Senate inaction on gun control. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and other
Democrats have taken over the Senate floor to call for tougher gun control laws and specifically action on keeping people on
terrorist watchlists from buying firearms. "I'm prepared to stand on this floor and talk about the need for this body
to come together on keeping terrorists away from getting guns ... for, frankly, as long as I can, because I know that we can
come together on this issue," Murphy said in beginning the filibuster on Wednesday [6/15/2016]. Murphy began speaking
at about 11:20 a.m., and the filibuster was still going at 2 p.m.
McConnell:
Dems skipped FBI's brief on Orlando to join filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Thursday [6/16/2016] that many
Senate Democrats skipped the FBI's classified briefing on Wednesday about the Orlando shooting attack that killed dozens, and instead chose to participate
in a "filibuster" over gun control. "Senate Republicans attended and asked serious questions," McConnell said on the Senate floor. "A rather
significant group of Senate Democrats skipped it, skipped the briefing altogether for a campaign talkathon out here on the Senate floor, which also
prevented us from going forward on the bill."
Democrats
shout down Paul Ryan after Orlando shooting moment of silence. Shouting erupted Monday evening [6/13/2016] on
the House floor after a moment of silence for the victims of the Orlando massacre as Democrats demanded that the House
consider gun control legislation. After the brief moment of silence that Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, called for,
Democrats began shouting from one side of the chamber, interrupting Ryan. Ryan's office only tweeted out a clip of the
moment of silence, but not the shouting that followed.
Democrats consider every public meeting to be a shouting match.
House
Democrats Protest Moment of Silence for Orlando Victims to Demand Gun-Control Legislation. A moment of silence
held in the House to honor victims of the mass shooting in Orlando didn't quite proceed as House Speaker Paul Ryan had
anticipated. On Monday, following the moment of silence, the House floor erupted in shouts of "Where's the bill?" as
frustrated House Democrats protested their colleagues' inaction when it comes to gun-control legislation. After the
moment of silence ended, Representative James Clyburn of South Carolina requested recognition. "I am really concerned
that we have just today had a moment of silence and later this week the 17th..." Clyburn said before he was interrupted by
a question from Ryan.
HHS
replies to GOP subpoena with one blacked-out page. Department of Health and Human Services officials have only
released "one heavily redacted page of one document" in response to congressional subpoenas about the funding of a disputed
Obamacare program, and HHS staff has refused to communicate with congressional investigators, House Republicans charged
Tuesday [5/31/2016]. "The pattern of conduct to this point suggests that the department intends to frustrate our
legitimate efforts to conduct oversight of the Basic Health Program," House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred
Upton, R-Mich., and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, wrote to HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell.
Hillary
Clinton aide moves to block release of deposition video. Hillary Clinton's former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills,
is asking a federal judge to order a conservative group not to release audio or video recordings of a deposition Mills is
scheduled to give Friday [5/27/2016] about Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.
Schumer
upends 9/11 Saudi suit bill at 11th hour. Last week's unanimous passage of a Senate bill making it easier for
9/11 families to sue Saudi Arabia and other foreign terror sponsors was widely heralded as a major victory. It's more
of a cruel hoax. It turns out that just before the vote, Sen. Charles Schumer and other proponents of the Justice
Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act stuffed an amendment into the final draft allowing the attorney general and secretary of
state to stop any litigation against the Saudis in its tracks.
White
House snubs Chaffetz, refuses to let aide testify after controversial Iran remarks. The White House confirmed
Monday [5/16/2016] that Obama adviser Ben Rhodes will not be allowed to testify before House lawmakers on the Iran nuclear
deal, after a last-ditch attempt by Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz to pry the controversial aide loose for the
hearing. Chaffetz and the White House have been engaged in an escalating feud, all on the heels of a New York Times
Magazine piece where Rhodes was quoted boasting about the administration's success in crafting a public narrative for the
Iran deal. The profile on Rhodes quotes him saying they built an "echo chamber" of experts who sold that narrative to
young, often inexperienced reporters.
Judicial
Watch Lawsuit Uncovers More Hillary Clinton Emails Withheld from State Department. Judicial Watch today [5/5/2016] released new State
Department emails (one batch of 103 pages, the second of 138 pages) that again appear to contradict statements by former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton that, "as far as she knew," all of her government emails were turned over to the State Department and that she did not use her clintonemail.com
system until March 18, 2009. Judicial Watch recently released Clinton State Department emails dating from February 2009 that also call into
question her statements about her emails.
Leftists
Organize to Silence Border Patrol Agents Over Trump Endorsement. Radical leftists pushing for an open borders agenda are attempting to
destroy the ability of over 80 percent of our nation's Border Patrol agents to speak out and sound the alarm to the public and to Congress.
The Huffington Post reported that the open-borders extremist group, Not1More, is a "prominent immigrants rights group" and that they were behind an
effort to have the AFL-CIO kick out the National Border Patrol Council from its ranks. Not1More derives its name from the idea that "not one
more" illegal alien should be deported from the U.S.
The
Questions Liberals Never Have to Answer. Liberals do a poor job of defending their beliefs with facts, logic or
debate, but they have become unparalleled masters at keeping their opponents' side of the argument from being presented at
all. We have kids who are never exposed to conservatism in high school who go to college where the professors are
liberal; then they graduate and get their information from their local paper and all TV outlets except for Fox which are
liberal, and they watch ostensibly non-political Hollywood-produced liberal movies and TV shows that reinforce left-wing
viewpoints. As if that isn't enough, liberals go to great lengths to convince people that their opponents are so
cruel, evil, racist and despicable that their arguments are tainted by default and shouldn't be considered at all.
A Trump-Lover's
Manifesto. Once upon a time, political correctness was an inside joke on elite campuses. Twenty-five years
ago, it referred to outlandish arguments at Cornell and Oberlin about whether to celebrate "Womyn's Herstory Month" or ban the
word "Oriental." Now it's become something far more serious. It grew and grew, breaking out of the college elite to
universities everywhere, and then eventually to the government and all of civil society. It now stands as a system to
silence people who oppose the power brokers' cultural agendas; it punishes dissenters through defamation, intimidation, a new
McCarthyism, and even threats of outright violence. Nothing we debate matters if Americans can't have a real debate.
And we can't have a debate on anything as long as political correctness blockades us.
Report:
Obama denied a record 77 percent of FOIA requests. The Obama administration has set a new record for rejecting
Freedom of Information Act requests, according to a report published Friday [3/18/2016]. The administration censored
materials or rejected requests for access in a record 596,095 cases, or 77 percent of the time, according to the annual
review conducted by the Associated Press. That's an increase of 12 percent since Obama's first year in office.
Obama to GOP: Do As I Say, Not As I
Did. Start with President Barack Obama, who, in introducing Judge Merrick Garland as his choice to replace Justice Antonin
Scalia on the big bench, asked the Senate "to give him a fair hearing and then an up-or-down vote." He told senators: "If you
don't, then it will not only be an abdication of the Senate's constitutional duty, it will indicate a process for nominating and confirming
judges that is beyond repair. It will mean everything is subject to the most partisan of politics — everything." You'd
never guess Obama not only voted against Chief Justice John Roberts but also supported a filibuster — that is, he opposed an
up-or-down vote — to thwart the confirmation of Samuel Alito in 2005. Hillary Clinton also opposed Roberts and supported
an Alito filibuster. Both Roberts and Alito won confirmation with Democratic support — which tells you they were qualified
but not immune to the sort of partisan opposition that Obama now finds distasteful.
10
Times Democrats Vowed To Block Republican Court Nominees. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-K.Y.) has
vowed to block any of lame-duck President Obama's Supreme Court nominations. The media have taken to acting as if this
move is unprecedented, and that a senator has never publicly stated he would intentionally block a presidential nomination.
Not true. Not only have there been several lengthy Supreme Court vacancies, but there are plenty of past instances when
senators refused to confirm a president's nominations. Here are 10 other times Democrats vowed to block Republican court
nominees. [...]
Dems
Passed A 1960 Resolution To Prevent Supreme Court Appointment Ahead Of Election. In the wake of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death, President
Barack Obama said he plans on nominating a successor despite Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's vow not to fill the seat until the election is over.
While Democrats in the upper chamber — including Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York and former Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, both of which called for
blocking former President George W. Bush's nominations — have slammed the GOP for its decision not to consider a nominee until after a new
president is elected, Democrats have not always held that stance. The Democrat-controlled Senate passed a resolution in 1960 preventing a recess appointment,
much to the dismay of Republicans.
Former
Inspector General: Powerful Democrat Women Standing in the way of Hillary Indictment. Former Inspector General
Howard J. Krongard says the current FBI investigation should be focused on how material made it from the classified email
system, known as SIPRNet, to Clinton's unclassified private server. "It can't just jump from one system to the other.
Someone had to move it, copy it. The question is who did that?" Krongard tells the New York Post. [...] Even if the FBI
decides Clinton holds the ultimate responsibility for creating the private server, "It will never get to an indictment," Krongard
tells the Post. The decision to act on the FBI's recommendation would have to pass through, "four loyal Democrat
women." Krongard is referring to Loretta Lynch and her deputies Leslie Caldwell and Sally Yates. In addition, Valerie
Jarrett, one of President Obama's top advisers, could weigh in.
Grassley
probes Clinton aide's refusal to cooperate with investigators. A top aide to Hillary Clinton "refused" to cooperate with
investigators looking into whether the Clinton team suppressed a 2012 records request that could have exposed their private email use
years before a separate congressional inquiry did so, Sen. Chuck Grassley said Monday [2/1/2016]. The Senate Judiciary Committee
chairman raised concerns about the role Cheryl Mills, then-chief of staff to Clinton, played in blocking a Freedom of Information Act
request for Clinton's email use in a pair of letters to the State Department and the agency's inspector general Monday [2/1/2016].
Insider:
Democrats in Congress waste $2 million protecting Clinton on Benghazi. For months, Democrats in Congress have been accusing Republican
lawmakers of wasting taxpayer dollars investigating Hillary Clinton's actions leading up to the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi,
Libya, in 2012. But new information about the inner-workings of the investigation shows that Democrats are the ones wasting money, all in the
name of protecting Clinton's presidential bid. Matt Wolking, spokesman for the House Select Committee on Benghazi, says that roughly $2 million
of the $5.5 million spent by the committee on the investigation is money wasted as a result of Democrats trying to stifle the effort.
Networks
Neglect to Cover Senate Democrats Blocking Passage of Bipartisan Syrian Refugee Bill. On Wednesday night, the
major broadcast networks failed to cover the move by Senate Democrats earlier in the day to filibuster the bipartisan Syrian
refugee legislation that had passed the House in November with the help of 47 Democrats that would have tightened restrictions
to more thoroughly vet refugees from the war-torn region seeking to enter the U.S. Overall, the vote failed to hit the 60 votes
needed to overcome the fatal blow by Senate Democrats as the final tally was only 55 to 43.
Black
Lives Matter Protester Says Disrupting Christmas Travel Is 'A Good Idea'. Black Lives Matter organizer Asha
Long says that disrupting air travel is not a bad thing: "I think it's important for that we realize people who are upset
about missing their air, their flight, that many black lives are disrupted every day." Appearing on "CNN Newsroom" with
Carol Costello on Thursday [12/24/2015], Long was unable to provide statistics to back up her claims arguing, "I do not have statistics
but I do have lived experience which is just as valid."
The
Environmentalist Crusade Against Progress and Technology Aims at Making Man's Life a Hell on Earth. Energy
lights our homes and cities, keeps us cool in summer and warm in winter, moves our cars, ships, trains and airplanes, powers
our industries and factories, and creates all the material goods on which our lives depend. The whole of our civilization
depends upon the production and use of energy. But there is not a single viable energy source that Environmentalism does not
attack. [...] It is important to note that environmentalists offer no alternative solutions to our needs of energy. All of
their efforts aim instead at banning, stopping, restricting and reversing all progress. There is not a single industry or
technology that Environmentalism does not attack, directly or indirectly.
Also posted
under Liberal obstructionism.
Harry
Reid Objects to Bill That Would Ban Taxpayer Funding for Portrait of Harry Reid. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.)
objected to legislation that would prevent taxpayer funding from going towards oil paintings for members of government such as Harry Reid,
Wednesday [11/18/2015]. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R., La.) attempted to pass his bill to ban funding for official portraits of the president,
vice president, cabinet members, and Congress by unanimous consent. Reid, who is retiring after his term ends in 2016, objected,
preventing the legislation's passage. The Senate honors its former majority and minority leaders with portraits after they leave office.
Democrats
Mount Third Filibuster Against Bill to Pay Troops, Fund Military. Remember, the ostensible reason that
Democrats have engaged in this obstruction over recent months — which also entailed filibustering the Veterans
Affairs appropriations bill — was to exploit the troops and veterans as leverage to force Republicans to agree to
higher federal spending on unrelated matters. It was a cynical play, but thanks in part to President Obama's hyper-partisan
veto, it worked. Leadership in both houses huddled together and hammered out a noxious budget deal that raised spending caps
on both defense and domestic discretionary spending, relying on gimmicks to "pay for" the increased outlays. In other words,
Democrats got what they wanted.
Ted
Cruz illegal immigration crackdown blocked by Democratic leader Reid. Senate Democrats rejected an effort to push back
against sanctuary cities Wednesday, denying a request by Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz to immediately begin debating a
bill to impose mandatory minimum federal sentences on repeat-illegal immigrants. Just a day after the "sanctuary sheriff" in San
Francisco, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, lost his bid for re-election in large part due to his stance on the issue, Mr. Cruz tried to force
the debate onto the national level.
Democrats
and GOP Senator Mark Kirk team up to block 'sanctuary cities' law. This is what having a GOP majority and
gutless, go-along-to-get-along leadership in the Senate gets you. [...] The idea that cities can create no-go zones for the
enforcement of US immigration laws, our own equivalent of Parisian suburbs where the national law does not run, is bizarre.
It is doubly bizarre as the Supreme Court has ruled that states and municipalities have to defer to the federal government on
this subject.
Democrats mull exit from Benghazi
panel: House member. Democrats on a U.S. House of Representatives panel set up to investigate the 2012 Benghazi
attacks will discuss resigning from the committee after Hillary Clinton testifies before it this week, a Democratic member of the
panel told Reuters on Tuesday [10/20/2015].
Benghazi
BS — Democrats Begin Coordinated Campaign of Obfuscation. Representative Elijah Cummings has
produced a 124 page report intended to defend Hillary Clinton in advance of her congressional testimony on Thursday
[10/22/2015]. The strategy is for all Democrat operatives, campaign officials, media pundits and spokespeople
to use the Cummings report in their defense of Clinton.
GOP
lawmaker: Dems' obstruction slowing Benghazi probe. Responding to criticism that the investigation into the Benghazi attack has
stretched on longer than the Watergate investigation, Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., said Sunday [10/18/2015] that the committee has been working
for so long because of obstruction on the part of Democrats. "What's taken us so long is Democrats on the committee and in this
administration have played hide the ball," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "We would have been happy to move more quickly but
we were met with obstruction all along the way."
Obama's
puzzling priorities: Veto threat for defense bill, thumbs up to billions for Iran. Each year, Congress takes up
the National Defense Authorization Act, the bill to authorize funds for our nation's military and our national defense. [...] Right
now, the president is threatening to veto the National Defense Authorization Act, even though it meets the funding levels he
requested. Despite the fact this legislation passed Congress with strong bipartisan support, including the approval of
70 senators, the president is threatening to veto it in part because Congress isn't granting him more funding for government
agencies like the IRS and EPA.
Trey Gowdy Smacks Elijah
Cummings Around Over Leaks/Stonewalling on Benghazi Committee. This is pure political gold — you just have to read
Trey Gowdy's letter to Elijah Cummings. He deftly smacked him alongside the head over the Benghazi Committee and his leaks and
stonewalling techniques that have done nothing but throw sand in the gears of the proceedings. It was epic and masterful.
Gowdy simply eviscerated Cummings. I think he obliterated the two brain cells the man had left. The Democrats have done
nothing but throw baseless allegations around concerning the Benghazi Committee. They have not called one new witness in months.
No document requests have been made either. Cummings and his fellow Marxists finagled their way onto the committee to drag it down
and kill it procedurally. It was all arranged and pre-planned. The only ones mischaracterizing testimony here are the
Democrats. It's what they do.
Iowa
Democrat education forum cancelled when not a single candidate agrees to attend. Back in August, a half dozen
of the GOP presidential candidates dutifully showed up for an Iowa forum on education reform to present their plans on the
issue to the voters. A similar event is scheduled for the Democrats this month. Or perhaps I should say that it was
scheduled. The event is now pretty much canceled because not one of the Democrats running for the White House was
willing to show up.
Senate
Dems block GOP bill that would curb late abortions. Senate Democrats thwarted a Republican effort to ban
late-term abortions on Tuesday [9/22/2015] as GOP leaders strained to avoid a government shutdown in eight days over the
dispute — all against a tangled backdrop of presidential politics.
Dems
Try to Block Planned Parenthood Videos at House Hearing. House Republicans showed the gruesome Planned Parenthood
videos in a hearing today [9/17/2015]. Democrats tried to block them. The hearing in the House subcommittee on health
of the Committee on Energy and Commerce was to consider proposals to expand protections for unborn children who survive an abortion
and also the federal ban on partial birth abortion. Reps. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Renee Elmers (R-NC) want the
Congress to give states the right to withhold federal funding, especially Medicaid funding, if an abortion provider is even
suspected to violating either the Infants Born Alive Protection Act or the Partial Birth Abortion Act.
Iran
nuclear deal survives: Democrats block disapproval vote. The hard-fought nuclear accord with Iran survived the
U.S. Senate on Thursday [9/10/2015], as Democrats overcame ferocious Republican opposition and delivered President Barack
Obama a major victory on his top foreign policy priority.
The Editor says...
Sounds like we're getting mixed signals from the Associated Press: Did the Democrats block the vote, or did they overcome ferocious Republican opposition?
The obscene drive to avoid any Senate
vote on the Iran deal. Whether to approve the disastrous nuclear deal with Iran is the most important question to face Congress in
years — yet the president wants to stop the Senate from even debating it. [...] The Senate calls itself "the world's greatest
deliberative body." And the Constitution requires Senate consent for the approval of treaties. Obama's already done an end-run
around the treaty rules. Will Senate Democrats enable even worse — a total mockery of Congress' role?
Wasserman
Schultz blocked Iran resolution at DNC meeting: report. Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie
Wasserman Schultz blocked consideration of a resolution at the party's summer meeting that would have praised President Obama
and backed the his nuclear deal with Iran, The Washington Post reported Saturday [8/29/2015], citing unnamed sources.
Cotton
blasts Reid for threatening to block Iran vote. A leading Republican critic of the Iran nuclear deal Tuesday
[8/25/2015] blasted Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid for pushing to prevent a vote on a resolution that could kill the agreement.
Is
There a Dime's Worth of Difference between the Two Major Parties? With the exception of global warming,
the Republicans are the reformers. It's the Democrats who want to keep things like they are.
President
Obama Averages One Veto Threat Every Five Days. President Obama spent years tarring
House Republicans as the cause of a "do-nothing" Congress, but House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy
(R., Calif.) has turned that critique back on him. Obama welcomed the new Congress by issuing
veto threats about once every five days, on average, McCarthy's team points out.
Obstruction
Leader Harry Reid to Attempt Historic Filibuster on Override of Keystone Veto. In
another example of Democrats playing the role of obstructionists, Harry Reid will force the Senate
to go through procedural hurdles to delay Majority Leader Mitch McConnell from bringing up the
president's Keystone XL veto for an override vote. Last week, President Obama vetoed the popular
bipartisan Keystone XL Pipeline bill passed by the Senate. This week, the Senate is planning a
vote to override the president's veto. Democrats, led by Minority Leader Harry Reid, are set to
revoke normal order and attempt to filibuster the override of the President's veto message. The
cloture vote on a veto message will be the first in the history of the United States Senate.
Republicans
Should Declare War on the Mainstream Media. Unlike Harry Reid when he was majority leader, Mitch
McConnell is willing to entertain amendments proposed by the minority and vote them up or down. The
Democrats will have none of it. Three times the measure has been brought up and three times the
Democratic minority has used the filibuster to prevent debate from even beginning.
Obama Routinely
Breaches Bipartisan Deals. Among so many of President Obama's flaws, near the top of
the list is that he has never understood the art of the deal. [...] Obama rejected the convention of
reaching across the aisle from the very start. In his first two years in office this White House
never moved an inch in the GOP's direction and passed his major bills on stimulus and Obamacare without
a single Republican vote. Those bills were written with zero input from Republicans and when asked
why, he haughtily lectured "we won the election." Then he pouts the Republicans were no help.
Senate
Dems block immigration bill for third day in a row. Senate Democrats on Thursday
[2/5/2015] blocked, for the third time in as many days, a Homeland Security spending measure that
would also torpedo President Obama's executive actions on immigration. Similar to the previous two
votes, Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) joined nearly every Senate Democrat in opposing the roughly $40 billion
spending bill. Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) switched his vote from "yes" to "no" in order to
preserve his ability to bring the measure to the floor again.
Black
Saint Louis Resident Gets On Jury, Sits Through Murder Trial, Then Refuses To Participate In
Deliberations Against Black Defendant. The juror obviously held an agenda, and
manipulated his way onto the jury intent on creating antagonism. He sat through the murder
trial, then when it came to deliberations, presto — he sat in corner and refused to participate.
Report:
Obama Admin Delays Deportation Hearings for Thousands of Illegals Until 2019.
Thousands of illegal immigrants will remain in the United States for at least five more years after
the Justice Department moved their deportation hearings to 2019 — at the earliest.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the Department of Justice "has begun sending out notices
to thousands of immigrants awaiting hearings that their cases will be pushed back nearly five years,"
and "began notifying employees in the immigration court system last week that nonpriority cases were
being bumped off the court docket and would get a Nov. 29, 2019, court date, which happens to be
Black Friday."
But in the meantime, go get a driver's license and some food stamps.
Immigrants
could wait until 2019 to have cases resolved. Thousands of immigrants seeking
legalization through the U.S. court system have had their hearings canceled and are being told by
the government that it may be 2019 or later before their futures are resolved.
The big problem with
Obama's veto threats. This project has been mired in controversy and delay for years.
But it actually has supporters on both sides of the aisle, including labor unions on the left and free-market
conservatives on the right. It's largely just liberal environmentalists who are pressuring Democrats
to hold things up. But Obama's own State Department produced an environmental impact statement long
ago green-lighting the project.
GOP's
Hoeven: Keystone is all about jobs and only Obama's in the way. Along with roads,
rail, and transmission lines, pipelines like the Keystone XL are part of a comprehensive national
energy plan. The pipeline will carry 830,000 barrels of oil a day, including 100,000 barrels of
domestic oil from North Dakota and Montana. Working with one of our closest friends and allies,
Canada, we can achieve true North American energy security at home, and at the same time help our
allies abroad, which makes our people more secure both here and overseas.
Pressure
mounts on Obama as Nebraska ruling eliminates Keystone obstacle. President Obama is
under fresh fire from both sides of the Keystone XL pipeline debate after a Nebraska court last week
eliminated a major legal obstacle and once again put the project's fate in the hands of the White
House. Supporters of the pipeline — including lawmakers of both parties, business,
labor, the Canadian government and others — and opponents each say now is the time for
the president to decide whether to approve or reject Keystone, which has languished in federal
bureaucracy for the past six years.
Wyden
town hall disrupted by 'hands up, don't shoot' protests. A town hall meeting with U.S.
Sen Ron Wyden was called off Saturday afternoon [1/3/2015] when "hands up, don't shoot" protests
broke out. The event, at Portland Community College's Southeast Campus, was canceled after
45 minutes. More than 100 protestors entered the Wyden event shortly after 2:30 p.m.
shouting, "I can't breathe" and "hands up, don't shoot." Wyden, D-Oregon, stepped away from
the microphone as the protesters moved to the front of the meeting area and continued shouting and
holding placards.
Issa:
Obamacare Enrollment Data Provided to Congress Was Password-Protected, in 6 Point Font. Obamacare enrollment
data that the Department of Health and Human Services was compelled by sub poena to provide to Congress was in 6 point
font, unreadable even with glasses, according to Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Darrell
Issa (R-Calif.) Issa said data was also password-protected and locked.
Cornyn:
Obama [was] 'Defiant' When GOP Leaders Confronted Him On Executive Amnesty. Sen. John
Cornyn (R-TX), the incoming majority whip in the 114th Congress, described "person after person"
aggressively confronting the president about his plans to issue a unilateral amnesty for millions of
illegal aliens at a closed-door lunch Friday [10/7/2014]. But President Obama was unbowed, even
after an electoral shellacking last week, Cornyn said. "He was pretty defiant. He was pretty
defiant," Cornyn said. "For the president to poison the well at the very outset is really unimaginable."
If
You Can't Beat Them, Indict Them. [Former Travis County Prosecutor Ronnie] Earle took
it upon himself to go after several people, including: Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, State Representative
Mike Martin, Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox, and Speaker of the House Tom Delay. His record is
spotty at best, but he has succeeded in ending the careers of many of those whom he opposes, Tom Delay
included. The Delay persecution was a classic case of retribution and vindictiveness.
Obama's
post-election plans for a secret radical agenda. He's the Staller in Chief — President
Obama has punted almost every hot-button issue past the key midterm elections on Nov. 4. Obama has
postponed decisions on a raft of contentious issues related to ObamaCare, Gitmo, immigration and his Cabinet.
This is partly to protect Democratic candidates and hold onto the Senate. But it's more than that. Obama
plans a number of radical moves later this year when the administration believes the media, and the public, are paying
less attention. This includes a forced transformation of our neighborhoods, a huge influx of immigrants and
billions of dollars in additional taxes.
Why is there no surgeon general? Ask
Democrats. The Ebola scare has made many Americans aware that there is no U.S. surgeon
general. (The post is filled by an acting official who is not in line for the job.) There is,
however, an Obama nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, who has not been confirmed by the
Senate after more than a year of waiting. Why hasn't Murthy won Senate approval in all that time?
Republicans and the IRS.
On Tuesday [9/22/2014], the Republican House passed several reform bills. One would ensure that
anyone who did what Lois Lerner did — i.e., send out confidential taxpayer info on her
private e-mail — would be violating the law. Others are designed to help taxpayers
appeal when their groups are denied tax-exempt status or to ensure that officials who deliberately
destroy federal records get the old heave-ho. Here's the problem: The bills now head to a Senate
controlled by Democrat Harry Reid. During his time as majority leader, Reid has ensured that the
best reforms passed by House Republicans never even come up for a vote — sparing President
Obama the bother of an embarrassing veto.
Senator
Blocks Ted Cruz bill to seize passports from ISIS fighters who return to the US. A showdown over the passports of so called
'foreign fighters' — Americans and other westerners who have joined the ISIS terror army in Iraq and Syria — came
to a head on Thursday [9/18/2014] when a U.S. senator killed legislation aiming to strip them of their citizenship. Democrat Mazie
Hirono, a freshman senator from Hawaii, objected on the Senate floor when Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas tried to fast-track his 'Expatriate
Terrorists Act.'
Harry
Reid's anti-Koch crusade eats up precious Senate time. There's a lot lawmakers need to
do when the Senate returns from its August recess Sept. 9. To take just one example, the government
is set to run out of money by the end of the month, and senators must pass a measure to keep funding
going and avoid a shutdown. [...] What is striking about the coming session is that Reid has decided
to devote as much as half of the Senate's precious time in Washington to a measure that has no
chance — absolutely zero chance — of passing.
352
Reasons Harry Reid and Senate Democrats Are Actively Working To Stop Congress From Doing Its Job. Barack
Obama and the Democrats have railed against the "do-nothing Congress" (translation: House Republicans) for nearly
six years. So what are the facts? Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) recently addressed the charge: ["]Currently,
352 bills that passed the House are awaiting action on Harry Reid's desk. Of these bills: • 98% passed
with bipartisan support • Nearly 70% passed with 2/3rds support or more • Over 50%
passed with no opposition at all • And 55 were introduced by Democrats["] And still, Harry Reid refuses to
bring them up for a vote.
Harry
Reid's reign of paralysis. The Senate has not voted on jobs bills sent by the House,
any "fix" for Obamacare or a domestic energy development bill. The Senate will not take up a real
vote on the Keystone XL pipeline. It will not take up Iran sanctions. It did pass Veterans Affairs
legislation and Iron Dome funding, not exactly difficult votes. Other than that, not much of
consequence has gone on in the Senate, but not because of Republican objections. The GOP would love
to take up many of these subjects, debate them and offer amendments; it is Reid who either won't
take up meaty issues or won't allow any minority amendments, a practice he has taken further than
any modern Senate leader.
Obama
says GOP must be hounded on economy; Republicans cite 40 jobs bills passed by House.
President Obama urged Americans Saturday [8/2/2014] to pressure Republican lawmakers who are on vacation in
their districts to support his economic agenda, including a hike in the federal minimum wage. [...]
But Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, chairman of the House Republicans' campaign arm, said Mr. Obama
refuses to work with the GOP on measures that would grow the economy. "We've focused on solutions
to rein in big government, and help grow our economy," Mr. Walden said in the weekly Republican
address. "The House has passed more than 40 jobs bills, but the president and his
party refuse to give them a hearing."
Jeff
Sessions Holds The Line, Blocks Democrat Immigration Travesty. There was high drama on
the Senate floor this evening [7/31/2014]. Harry Reid brought on for a vote President Obama's
$2.7 billion proposal to support illegals from Central America who are flooding across the border,
in the form of a supplemental budget request. An extremely knowledgeable Senate insider offers this
blow-by-blow account of what happened: ["]Harry Reid filled the amendment tree on the supplemental,
meaning no amendments can get votes. Sessions offered a motion to table the filled tree with stated
purpose of making room to get a vote on the Cruz amendment.["] "Filling the tree" has been Reid's
preferred strategy for years. It effectively shuts all Republicans out of the legislative process,
while insulating Democrats from having to vote against popular proposals.
The
Democrats Try to Shut Their Opponents Up. Why are the Democrats carrying on this
selective war against "dark money," which is itself, ironically, funded almost entirely with dark
money? Democrats want to be able to identify conservative donors so that the Obama administration
can use federal agencies to take revenge on them; so they can try to get them fired (like Brendan
Eich); and so union goons can lead busloads of demonstrators onto their lawns. When liberal ideas
have to compete with conservative ideas, they consistently lose. So the Democrats want to intimidate
conservative donors in order to have the political field to themselves. There is nothing noble about
their selective enmity toward "dark money."
Tyranny of the Majority
Leader. The Senate once prided itself on being "the world's greatest deliberative body." That it no longer
is. According to the Congressional Research Service, Senator Harry Reid (D., Nev.) has obstructed the amendment process
for his colleagues 85 times — more than double the total of his six predecessors combined. Neither
Republican nor Democratic senators can offer amendments. This negates every senator's right to debate and amend legislation
and thus fully represent his or her constituents. This was especially evident in May, when Senator Reid killed three
bipartisan pieces of legislation in as many weeks.
Obama
dismisses House Speaker John Boehner's lawsuit against him as a 'stunt'. The
House has passed legislation that would curb the president's power to take executive actions
that Republicans say fall outside his constitutional authority, but Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid has declared them dead on arrival.
White
House Vows to Veto 'Unreasonable' Bill to Expedite Cross-Border Pipelines. The
White House has threatened to veto a bill expected to pass the House this week that would remove any
Keystone-like delays from pipeline projects that enter the U.S. from Canada or Mexico. The North
American Energy Infrastructure Act, authored by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton
(R-Mich.) and Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas), requires the secretary of Commerce, with respect to oil
pipelines, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), with respect to natural gas pipelines,
or the Secretary of Energy (DOE), with respect to electric transmission facilities, to approve a
request for approval of construction, connection, operation, or maintenance unless it is not in
U.S. national security interests.
Here's
how the Keystone XL bill will likely die. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Committee is expected on Wednesday to approve legislation mandating construction of the Keystone XL
pipeline's northern leg, but its chances of reaching the Senate floor are already dashed. "I
agreed to give them a vote. They, the Republicans, they wouldn't take it," Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid, D-Nev., in reference to a May proposal allowing the same standalone Keystone XL measure
in exchange for an amendment-free energy-efficiency bill.
Sen.
John Barrasso: Harry Reid won't allow vote on Keystone pipeline bill. Sen. John
Barrasso said Monday [6/16/2014] that he expects a Senate energy committee will easily approve a
bill this week to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will
never let the measure get a vote in the Senate. "Harry Reid continues to block it on the floor,"
Mr. Barrasso said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "The president doesn't seem to want it. I believe he is
being held hostage by extremists and funders." The Senate and Natural Resources Committee is
expected to approve a bill, co-sponsored by Sen. Mary Landrieu, Louisiana Democrat and Sen. John
Hoeven, North Dakota Republican, this week that would green-light the project. But few expect Mr.
Reid, Nevada Democrat, to let the Senate vote on the proposal.
In
Bowe Bergdahl hearing, Chuck Hagel hedges the tough questions. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
is not a lawyer. He's not famous for lawyerly evasions. But when it came to a few of the most
critical issues discussed at the House Armed Services Committee's hearing on the Bowe Bergdahl case Wednesday [6/11/2014],
Hagel was full of wiggle words. Actually, just one wiggle word — "direct" —
but Hagel used it repeatedly to sow confusion about some key questions.
[There
are] Over A Dozen House-Passed VA Reform Bills Sitting on Harry Reid's Desk. Rep.
Jackie Walorski (R-IN) interviewed with Larry O'Connor, WMAL radio in Washington, D.C. on
Wednesday, May 21st. Get this: she serves on the House Veteran's Affairs committee
and says over the last 18 months, the House has passed dozens of reform bills for the VA, some
bi-partisan, none of which have made it to the floor of the Senate — meaning Harry Reid
killed them, didn't give Senators the opportunity to even consider them. Can we say anything
other than Harry Reid may have killed those 40 or more veterans who were not treated, and may kill
more as diseases have advanced during this time? There is only one reason not to bring
legislation to the floor after it is passed and received from the House, and that is to keep
the intent of the bill from happening — in this case, improving the VA.
The
Dems' plot to control America rolls on. Harry Reid's nuclear option has caused a lot
of damage — and the worst is yet to come. [...] Democrats have used the filibuster to
check Republicans when they have been in power, and both Harry Reid and Barack Obama have publicly
extolled the value of the filibuster as a key aspect of democracy. But then they decided it was
an impediment to their power grab and threw it into the dustbin of history. Once that occurred,
Reid and the Democrats went into overdrive to populate the federal courts with left-wing judges
(who have lifetime tenure). Now the damage is becoming more visible.
Democrats
Join Benghazi Hearings — To Obstruct And Play More Politics. Kicking and screaming,
Democrats have agreed to join the House select committee probing the Benghazi attack and cover-up.
But they aren't aiming to air the facts, just to obstruct the GOP. It's politics at its worst.
33 Democrats Opposed a Bill to
Make VA Bureaucrats Easier to Fire. On Wednesday, the House of Representative overwhelming approved the Department of Veterans
Affairs Management Accountability Act, a bill that would relax the standard bureaucratic red tape that makes it exceedingly difficult to fire
government employees, even those implicated in an embarrassing scandal. The vote was not unanimous, however, as 33 Democrats for some
reason voted against the legislation. The opposition was comprised of union-backed liberals, as well as lawmakers such as Jim Moran (Va.),
Steny Hoyer (Md.), and Chris Van Hollen (Md.), who represent the D.C. suburbs where many senior VA employees reside.
House
votes 390-33 to speed up VA firings. The House on Wednesday [5/21/2014] overwhelmingly passed a
bill to grant the Veterans Affairs secretary expanded authority to fire senior executives for poor performance.
The measure passed on a 390-33 vote amid allegations that veterans encountered delays in access to medical care at
multiple VA hospitals across the country, leading to dozens of deaths. All 33 votes in opposition came from
Democrats, including leadership Reps. Steny Hoyer (Md.) and James Clyburn (S.C.). House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.) voted to approve the measure.
Hillary
Stacks the Benghazi Select Committee. On Wednesday, Democrats deigned to join Republicans on the House Select Committee
investigating Benghazi, primarily to protect Hillary Clinton's reputation in particular, and the Obama administration's in general.
Toward that end they will likely do what they always do whenever their party is threatened: denigrate the investigation as it
unfolds and obstruct it as much as possible. Thus, it was completely unsurprising that even as House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi (D-CA) appointed five colleagues to the panel she dismissed the need for it.
Dem
Rep.: We're on Benghazi Committee to 'Scream Bloody Murder' over GOP Abuse. Early this month, when
Democrats still hadn't made up their minds about participation in the Benghazi select committee, Congressman
Adam Schiff said there's no way Democrats would participate in that "colossal waste of time." Well, funny story:
Schiff is one of the five Democrats Nancy Pelosi picked yesterday to actually serve on that committee. And
on Rachel Maddow's show last night, Schiff explained they decided to participate to keep the Republicans from
making it a partisan, stunt-driven affair.
The Editor says...
Yes, there was a bloody murder involved. Too bad that's not what he's talking about.
Nancy
Pelosi appoints five Democrats to fill up Benghazi panel slots days after threatening boycott.
House Democrats have decided to play ball and participate in a special committee charged with investigating the
Obama administration's handling of a 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya that left four Americans dead and
forced the withdrawal of U.S. diplomats from the eastern port city. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
named five Democrats to the panel. [...] Some in the Democratic caucus had floated the idea of boycotting the
committee and leaving Republicans to pursue the Benghazi investigation, opening the opportunity to paint the
investigation as a partisan political stunt in an election year.
Democrats
Still Undecided on Benghazi Committee Participation. House Democrats are still
weighing whether they will appoint members to the GOP-led special committee to investigate the
September 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya — but don't call it a caucus-wide
"division," two senior lawmakers implored. "[It's] the wrong word," Caucus Vice Chairman Joseph
Crowley of New York said at a Tuesday morning news conference. "The caucus is not divided. ... What
the caucus is doing is helping our leadership come up with a plan on how to approach what is a very
serious issue."
Mitch
McConnell: Harry Reid's 'embarrassing' behavior is leading Senate to ruin. Senate
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says his Democratic counterpart is leading the chamber down a
"disturbing" and "embarrassing" path, as Republican lawmakers' frustration over what they consider
a hardline stance on GOP amendments boils over. "This institution has been fundamentally
changed by one man, the majority leader, who has the ability to impose a gag rule on all the rest of
us," McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters Tuesday. "It's a disturbing thing." "This is really quite
embarrassing that the greatest deliberative body in the world doesn't deliberate anymore."
Harry
Reid's Senate Blockade. The U.S. Senate failed to advance another piece of popular
bipartisan legislation late Monday, and the reason tells the real story of Washington gridlock in
the current Congress. To wit, Harry Reid has essentially shut down the Senate as a place to debate
and vote on policy. The Majority Leader's strategy was once again on display as the Senate failed
to get the 60 votes to move a popular energy efficiency bill co-sponsored by New Hampshire Democrat
Jeanne Shaheen and Ohio Republican Rob Portman. Mr. Reid blamed the defeat on Republican
partisanship. But the impasse really came down to Mr. Reid's blockade against amendments that might
prove politically difficult for Democrats.
Obstruction:
Reid Blocks Bipartisan Vote on Keystone Pipeline. [Scroll down] Rich people who engage in the political
process for the "right reasons," as determined by [Harry] Reid of course, should be left alone. Others — who
supposedly get involved in politics for personal gain (about which Harry knows a thing or two) — must be publicly
slandered at every opportunity. Among the hallowed class is Reid's buddy Tom Steyer, a liberal environmentalist billionaire
who's pledged to raise $100 million in support of Democrats this year. Steyer is a staunch opponent of the Keystone
pipeline, as are many of his fellow travelers on the ideological fringe.
Shouting
protestors shut down Senate, some arrested. For about an hour Tuesday morning [5/6/2014], Medicaid expansion
demonstrators shut down the Senate, shouting and praying as police led them away. Twenty-three people were arrested
in a demonstration that involved more than a hundred protestors.
Joe
DiGenova: 'I'm Delighted the Democrats Don't Want to Participate'. Former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova says
he'll be happy if Democrats decide not to appoint members to the special select committee on Benghazi that Republicans plan
to establish. "I'm delighted the Democrats don't want to participate. All they would do is obstruct," diGenova
told WMAL talk radio in Washington, D.C. Monday morning [5/5/2014]. "The president is going to pay a price
ultimately," he added.
Dems
mull whether to boycott House GOP Benghazi hearing. The House GOP leadership just announced [5/5/2014] that
Rep. Trey Gowdy will head the newly announced special committee to probe what happened in Benghazi. Gowdy, as it happens,
has already informed America that he knows that the administration is guilty of a serious cover-up, claiming he has "evidence"
of a "systematic, intentional decision" to withhold untold numbers of Benghazi documents from Congress.
The question now is whether House Dems will boycott the proceedings.
Dem
wants party to sit out new House probe. A Democratic member of the House intelligence committee called Sunday for his
party to boycott the newly announced committee tasked with probing the Benghazi attacks, dismissing new evidence that Republicans
have called a "smoking gun" showing the White House politicized the tragedy. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told "Fox News
Sunday" [5/4/2014] that Democrats should not give the select committee more "credibility" by joining. "I think it's a
colossal waste of time," he said. "I don't think it makes sense, really, for Democrats to participate."
Issa
pens scathing letter to Cummings as IRS feud escalates. Republican Rep. Darrell Issa has penned a personal,
scathing letter to his Democratic counterpart on the House oversight committee, escalating the public feud between the two
high-ranking lawmakers amid the committee's investigation into IRS targeting. The letter to Rep. Elijah Cummings,
D-Md., top Democrat on that committee, was obtained by Fox News. In it, Issa countered, point by point, a series of claims
that Cummings and two legal experts made earlier this week about whether former IRS official Lois Lerner could be held in
contempt for refusing to testify. Issa went further, effectively accusing Cummings of running interference on
behalf of his party and the administration.
Nothing
but hot air from Senate Democrats' talkathon. The talkathon is a product of the Senate's Climate Action Task Force,
co-chaired by Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. Boxer described the purpose of the
marathon gabfest as a call to "wake up Congress" for "action" on global warming. That's an odd claim coming from the chairman
of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Boxer has a solid majority on her committee and could report dozens of
bills to the Senate floor. So her committee is the first place to look for an explanation of the lack of action in the Senate.
Go to Jail — Get
Obamacare. Defend a Cop Killer — Get a Massive Job in DoJ. It seems every day the Democrats currently in power find a new way
to express sneering contempt for everyone who disagrees with them for any reason. Democrat Leahy did not allow the widow of slain police officer
Daniel Faulkner to testify as to why the attorney who represented her husband's murderer should not be confirmed to head DoJ's Civil Rights Division.
Why did he deny her her right to speak? A technicality. And because he could. It would have been inconvenient to the Obama
administration for Congress to have heard directly from Abu Jamal's surviving victim.
Democrats
Block Widow of Murdered Police Officer From Testifying Against Obama DOJ Nominee Debo Adegbile. Last month Maureen Faulker, the
widow of murdered Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, requested a chance to give testimony against President Obama's nominee to head
the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. Her husband was killed in 1981 by former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted
of murder in 1982. Thirty years after the conviction, nominee Debo Adegbile voluntarily took up Abu-Jamal's case and the cause in the name
of race during his time as the head of NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
Silencing the political opposition.
Chuck Schumer, the Senate's No. 3 Democrat, thinks the Internal Revenue Service hasn't done enough to silence the Tea Party. He wants
the White House and the IRS to "immediately redouble" efforts to shut down conservative political-action groups through tougher government oversight
and enforcement. The Tea Party opposes much of President Obama's agenda, and to Mr. Schumer, that's both a sin and a crime.
The Phone and Pen President. The
view that an assertive executive can break the maddening constraints of the constitutional system and enact the public will by personally embodying
it is, of course, at the core of the progressive outlook in our politics — though few progressives today put it quite that way.
But that White House officials would actually express themselves like this — in the form of a kind of trope of pure progressivism devoid
of content — strikes me as more than anything an indication of the sheer intellectual exhaustion of the left.
Harry Reid's Obstructionism.
It took a while, but the media seem to have finally noticed Senate majority leader Harry Reid's unprecedented obstructionism. The
New York Times reported last week on Reid's "brutish style" and "uncompromising control" over the amendments process in the Senate. Why
are more people finally catching on to Reid's flagrant disregard for Senate customs? In part because conservatives aren't the only ones
complaining.
Obstruction
of justice. Congress' top GOP watchdog is warning the secretary of Health and Human Services to stop instructing contractors behind
healthcare.gov not to talk to Congress about the project. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chair Darrell Issa, a hard-charging
California Republican, told Sec. Kathleen Sebelius in a letter on Wednesday that it's against the law to get between Congress and the companies her agency
hired to work on the crash-and-burn website. 'Obstructing a Congressional investigation is a crime,' Issa said Thursday [12/12/2013] in a statement.
Issa Accuses
Sebelius, Health Department Of 'Criminal Obstruction'. Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, stated in a
letter to Sebelius that the Health and Human Services Department instructed Creative Computing Solutions — a contractor that
worked on HealthCare.gov — not to comply with the committee's investigation.
The
'Unprecedented Opposition' Canard. [Wisconsin] Democrats, cheered on by their counterparts in Washington, attempted to oust
the state's duly-elected governor via a do-over election. Scott Walker's crime? Using the democratic process to implement budget
reforms that liberals and Big Labor vehemently opposed. The organized Left pulled out all the disruptive stops to block these measures
from even receiving a vote. Thousands of left-wingers occupied the capitol rotunda in Madison, issuing death threats against Walker
and other Republicans.
Senate
Democrats Just Took Us a Step Closer to the Imperial Presidency. Why would the Democrats, who never seem to stop worrying about
overweening presidential control, roll back the filibuster — and hand their own power to Obama? They'll be sorry, and soon.
An
outbreak of lawlessness. The problem is not the change itself. It's fine that a president staffing his administration
should need 51 votes rather than 60. Doing so for judicial appointments, which are for life, is a bit dicier. Nonetheless,
for about 200 years the filibuster was nearly unknown in blocking judicial nominees. So we are really just returning to an
earlier norm. The violence to political norms here consisted in how that change was executed. By brute force — a
near party-line vote of 52 to 48. This was a disgraceful violation of more than two centuries of precedent.
If a bare majority can change the fundamental rules that govern an institution, then there are no rules. Senate rules today are
whatever the majority decides they are that morning.
America Is One Step Closer to a
One-Party Tyranny. November 21, 2013, may be another date that will live in infamy. Instead of conventional bombs and
aerial torpedoes exploding at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the "nuclear option" went off in the U.S. Senate at Washington, D.C. By a
52-48 vote, the Senate voted to change the institution's regulations related to the filibuster, thereby emasculating a political
minority's ability to thwart, or at least delay, majoritarian dictatorship. A Senate minority can no longer thwart the president's
nominations of judges to lesser federal courts or of executive department officials.
The Senate Loses Its Tradition
of Consensus. After the increasingly problematic Obamacare debacle, it seems as though President Obama and his fellow Democrats
have given up the hope of governing through a national consensus. Instead, Obama has signaled that he will try to rule with the
club of 51 percent for the rest of his term: Push through as much as possible with a narrow majority.
Reid Drops Nuclear
Bomb and His Party Will Rue its Fallout. Fresh off the disastrous rollout of Obamacare which Senate Majority Leader Reid and
(now former) Speaker of the House Pelosi rammed through Congress using unconventional procedures and with zero Republican support,
his extremist wing compelled him to make yet another ham-handed move which predictably will hurt his party in the long run more than it
will help it.
The Very Useful
Lesson of Obama's Judicial Power Grab. It's no secret that President Obama was behind the push to end the filibuster as a
means of blocking nominees for U.S. appeals court judgeships. At a fundraiser earlier this month, he told liberal donors that he is
"remaking the courts." Recognizing that the filibuster stood in the way of a full radical makeover, Obama personally lobbied three
Democratic Senators who were undecided about whether to eliminate it. Obama reportedly told them "how important this was to him and
our ability to get anything done for the rest of the term."
Let's Go Nuclear!. Unless you
live under a rock, you've heard by now that 52 Senate Democrats voted to end the filibuster for executive branch and judicial nominees
after eight years of employing it against President George W. Bush. The hypocrisy is award-worthy.
America has gone
from government of laws to semi-political banana republic. The rule of law has been replaced in Washington by "yes we can." The
events we witnessed Thursday [11/21/2013] in the Senate, that is Majority Leader Harry Reid's success at invoking the so-called 'nuclear option,' stripping the
minority party of its primary power to block nominations, have become a stunning capstone to what has been already a steady erosion of a government
of laws down to a sort of semi-political banana republic. We are now living in a republic in which politicians do what they want without
regard to tradition or the best interests of our country.
Harry Reid Smashes History. Harry Reid went and did it.
He bent the rules to break them. In so doing, he effectively annihilated hundreds of years of procedural convention that has required a firm
60-vote majority to confirm presidential appointments. Now, the president's executive branch and judicial nominees can slide through with a
simple majority. Any opposition will prove toothless.
How Harry Reid Just Nationalized the 2014
Midterms. President Obama delivered remarks today supporting Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to deploy the "nuclear option"
ending minority filibusters of some judicial nominees. The Democrats tried to limit the effect of their action, stating that it only applies to
nominees below the Supreme Court level. But the damage done will go far beyond judicial nominees. Bipartisanship in the Senate is dead.
Harry Reid and Barack Obama had already done grave damage to it by passing Obamacare. Today they finished it off.
Cruz: Dems want to pack court with judges to
protect O-Care. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the Senate's leading critic of the Affordable Care Act, denounced a vote Thursday to prohibit
filibusters against appellate court nominees as a scheme to save the healthcare law. "The heart of this action is directed at packing the D.C.
Circuit because that is the court that will review the lawless behavior of the Obama administration implementing ObamaCare," he said.
Nuclear Option 'Greatly
Eroded' Graham's Leverage to Get Benghazi Answers. "President Obama is committed to protecting Obamacare, his signature achievement,
regardless of the damage done to millions of Americans," he continued. "He is even willing to throw the judiciary into chaos if necessary.
Any American who wants to bring a legal challenge to the thousands of Obamacare rules and regulations lost big today."
Senate Dems weaken GOP power with major
filibuster rule change. Senate Democrats bowled over Republicans on Thursday to win approval for a highly controversial rule change which
would limit the GOP's ability to block nominees, in a move Republicans called a "raw power grab." "It's a sad day in the history of the Senate,"
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said after the vote. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., moving quickly following days of speculation,
used the so-called "nuclear option" to pass the change. Typically, major changes like this take 67 votes, but he did it with just a simple
majority.
Senate Dems go 'nuclear,' eliminate filibuster of presidential
nominees. The change, approved 52-48, would prevent the minority party from using the filibuster to stall most presidential nominations,
though it would not eliminate the use of the filibuster on Supreme Court nominees or legislation. Judicial and Executive Branch nominees once
needed 60 votes to advance to an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor, giving Republicans an opportunity to block them. Under the rule change, only
a simple majority would be needed to advance the nominees, so that Democrats, who control 55 votes, can do so without Republican interference.
Senate votes to limit filibuster after Reid goes
nuclear. The Senate voted Thursday to change its rules to prevent the minority party from filibustering any nominations other than nods to
the Supreme Court. The change was approved after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) triggered the "nuclear option," which allows a change to
Senate rules by majority vote. The 52-48 vote dramatically changes the rules of the Senate and limits the minority party's ability to prevent
confirmation of presidential nominees.
52 Democrats Change
Two-Century-Old Senate Rule: Abolish Filibuster of Nominees. Sweeping aside a century of precedent, Democrats took a chunk out of
the Senate's hallowed filibuster tradition on Thursday [11/21/2013] and cleared the way for speedy confirmation of controversial appointments
made by President Barack Obama and chief executives in the future.
While Obama Remakes the Courts, Harry Reid Wants
to Remake the Senate. Every few months, it seems, Harry Reid (D-NV) threatens to upend the Senate so that he can push something through
without following the rules. This time, it's the President's judicial nominees.
Rangel falsely
claims no Republicans voted for Social Security, sidetracks ObamaCare hearing. Lawmakers had to pause for a fact check about a 78-year-old
law during a hearing that was supposed to be about ObamaCare, after Rep. Charles Rangel made the — inaccurate — claim that no
Republicans supported the Social Security Act. The New York Democrat made the assertion Tuesday [10/29/2013] while railing against Republicans for
opposing the health care law. It was during a House hearing where Marilyn Tavenner, head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, was testifying.
Progressive Activists to Disrupt
GOP Town Halls in August. A progressive group will coordinate with liberal activists to disrupt Republican town halls during the August recess,
when lawmakers will face questions about Obamacare and comprehensive immigration reform. Americans United for Change, run by a former Democratic National
Committee communications head, plans to send activists to Republican town halls in swing states and even red states to target lawmakers like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
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