[CIRCA] Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) has been released from a Minnesota prison and transferred to a re-entry facility in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... , according to Federal Bureau of Prisons records.
He is set to be released from the re-entry management office on Aug. 16.
Once second in line to the presidency, Hastert, 75, is one of the highest-ranking U.S. politicians to ever go to prison.
He had been serving a 15-month sentence in a banking violations case that revealed accusations that he had sexually abused teenage boys while coaching wrestling at Yorkville High School in suburban Chicago from 1965 to 1981. U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin called Hastert "a serial child molester" during his sentencing.
Hastert was not charged with child abuse because of statutes of limitation.
Hastert pleaded guilty to violating federal banking laws in his efforts to pay $3.5 million to keep the accusations secret.
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Could this have possibly been a Paul Ryan prisoner exchange ?
[Yahoo] WASHINGTON -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., has some questions about President Trump’s daughter, Ivanka.
Beyer put together a group of over 20 Democratic members of the House of Representatives who sent a letter to Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe on Wednesday asking him to "conduct a review of a potentially serious issue involving First Daughter and Assistant to the President, Ivanka Trump." The group wants to know if Ivanka properly filled out Standard Form 86 (SF-86), which is the security clearance required for federal officials.
Their questions stem from recent revelations involving Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner, who is also a top White House adviser, and her brother, Donald Trump Jr. The SF-86 asks whether "you or any member of your immediate family" has had "any contact" with a "foreign government, its establishment ... or its representatives" in the past seven years. Kushner has updated his security clearance forms three times to add over 100 foreign contacts, including a meeting he attended with Donald Trump Jr. during last year’s presidential election, where they spoke with a Russian lawyer who offered them damaging information on President Trump’s opponent on behalf of the Russian government. Beyer said the news raised questions about whether Ivanka has also updated her forms and whether she included all of her family’s foreign contacts.
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Kushner has updated his security clearance forms three times to add over 100 foreign contacts
Notification and updating one's foreign contacts is entirely appropriate. But it does make one wonder how anyone besides his Security Manager or the Central Clearance Facility knew about the updates. Rhetorical question no doubt.
#3
Right CF. They've got another 18 months to come up with something, or a basket of impeachable somethings. The 'free stuff' is clearly imperiled. The angry left wants Trump obstructed at every turn and out as soon as possible.
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They will try to intimidate and throw mud and invent things she said, whatever it takes. Yes it is not their choice but that will not stop the attempt.
Having said that they would probably be a lot happier with Ivanka who is still a registered Democrat if I remember correctly.
[Daily Caller] Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opposed a Russian human rights sanctions bill weeks before her husband gave a $500,000 speech to a Moscow-based financial firm, according to campaign emails published by Wikileaks. A smiling Sergey Lavrov should always be cause for concern.
Clinton was joined in her opposition to the sanctions bill, known as the Magnitsky Act, by Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who offered Donald Trump Jr. information related to Russian support for Clinton’s campaign. The Magnitsky Act was passed in 2012 and imposes sanctions on Russian human rights abusers.
The Trump administration has attempted to divert attention away from Trump Jr.’s June 2016 meeting with Veselnitskaya by citing the proximity of Clinton’s opposition to the Magnitsky Act to her husband’s profitable Moscow speech.
"If you want to talk about having relationships with Russia, I’d look no further than the Clintons," Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at a mid-July press briefing. "Bill Clinton was paid half a million dollars to give a speech to a Russian bank, personally thanked by President Putin."
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Sure sounds like a "Pay for Play." Hillary opposes Russian human rights sanctions for Russia. Shortly thereafter Slick Willy is given $500Gs for a speech to Russian interests.
Did the Clinton Foundation also get large donations from Russia about this time? Is this about the time that the Uranium I deal was arranged. And Podesta got a sweet Russian deal for $35mil? Just asking.
#7
Kamala you peoples and you shall see
The cutest lil candidate since John F Kennedy
She's bright! She's shiny! That's what she is!
Straight teeth! Um, and oh how coiffed her Harris!
[Free Beacon] Freshman senator Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) mingled with top Democratic donors in the Hamptons this weekend, where many indicated she may be considering running for president.
The ultimate signal at the Bridgehampton event, a top donor said, was that Harris was "thinking much bigger" than the Senate, The Hill reported.
Democrats have indicated that they want ‐ and are in need of ‐ a fresh face.
"There's a big hunger for somebody new and different," Bill Carrick, who challenged Harris in last year’s senatorial race, said. "There are people who might not know her real well but want to like her. What little they know, they like."
In an election night address, Harris put herself in a position that led her fans to see her as the antidote to Donald Trump.
"Our ideas are at stake right now, and we all have to fight for who we are," she said. "I believe this is the moment in time for our country, where we are collectively being required to look in the mirror, and with furrowed brow, we are asking a questions: ’Who are we?' In California, I believe the answer is a good one. We are a great country."
The Hill reported that donors and fundraisers see Harris as someone who embodies the qualities needed for a Democratic presidential candidate to take the White House in 2020.
"She's running for president. Take it to the bank," one fundraiser said. "She’s absolutely going to run."
#1
Unless Harris can actually convince millions that she doesn't represent a party which perceives them as subhumans, she's not winning anything nationally. The jig is up on that and it will be a generation or more until people have forgotten what "bitter clinger" and "deplorable" mean.
The circles she travels in and the company she keeps virtually assures that it will come to light that she shares the view with the Democratic base that Christians, gun owners, and people who believe in limited government, free enterprise, and intact borders are untermensch. All the sunshine rhetoric about helping "the needy" or that all Americans should have "equal share" of the economy won't fool us the way said rhetoric did in '08 coming from Obama.
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There's a big hunger for somebody new and different,
And how is a black first term senator different from what we suffered through the last 8 yrs.?
Oh right she's a female that makes all the difference to some people.
#3
The Dems are still elated from their 2008 success. Of course they're looking for another unknown contender such as BarackHusseinObama. This time it a liberal (as well as rude and nasty) black woman--a twofer to go against Trump|given that he makes it for that long--the Beltway Party and Deep State are trying to take him down.
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Kamala you peoples and you shall see
The cutest lil candidate since John F Kennedy
She's bright! She's shiny! That's what she is!
Straight teeth! Um, and oh how coiffed her Harris!
[Breitbart] Tuesday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh ripped Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV) for stalling efforts in the GOP-controlled Senate to repeal Obamacare.
By losing those three votes, a repeal is effort is out of reach for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and that according to Limbaugh showed McConnell was not in charge of the U.S. Senate. Instead, he said it was controlled by "three female leftists."
"Now we find out the Republican caucus in the Senate is infected with essentially leftist members," Limbaugh said. "Collins, Murkowski, Capito ‐ these three female leftists in the Republican caucus are running the Senate, not Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell is not running the Senate. These three women are running the Senate. The conservative Republicans in the Senate are not running the Senate. Three liberal women who call themselves Republicans are running the Senate."
#2
Nearly all the Pubs voted for a repeal of Obamacare in 2015--48 current Senators voted for repeal and 1 against. List. It will be hard them to justify backing away from repeal now without appearing to be spineless hypocrites.
Whatever happened to "Milquetoast" McConnell? Has he retired?
#3
I would ask what the end game of this nonsense is, if I didn't already know.
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Perhaps Repeal & Replace was a bad idea. That would put the GOP label on a failure.
Remove the punishments (against individuals and corporations) from Obamacare and let the market sort itself out. Few have signed up, exchanges are closing, the problem will minimize in time and in the meantime the pain, hopefully minimal, will have the Dem label on it.
#5
The Beltway Rino's have chosen their hill to die on. (Figuratively NSA, figuratively) In some ways, I suspect over the next 6 years nearly every current Republican senator who votes no on repeal will be replaced by someone that gives the democrats screaming nightmares.
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[Daily Caller] Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opposed a Russian human rights sanctions bill weeks before her husband gave a $500,000 speech to a Moscow-based financial firm, according to campaign emails published by Wikileaks.
[Free Beacon] Freshman senator Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) mingled with top Democratic donors in the Hamptons this weekend, where many indicated she may be considering running for president.
