[Daily Caller] Donald Trump said Sunday that if Hillary Clinton "gets indicted, that's the only way she's going to be stopped" from getting the Democratic nomination.
Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper on Sunday, Trump said, "I will tell you this, as a candidate, I will bring over many, many Dems. We're going to bring over a lot of Democrats, we're going to bring over a lot of independents. Nobody else will. In all fairness to the other candidates, they will never bring over independents."
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He's right. The Democrat (as opposed to Democratic) nomination is rigged in favor of Hildabeest. The superdelegate votes are stacked towards Hilary. These voters can vote for whomever they want; they don't have to represent the general Donk voter in any particular way--they are uncommitted in that way and are going for Hillary rather than Sanders. In 2008 about a third of the delegate votes were superdelegate votes. The superdelegate votes tend to protect the party and the establishment candidate.
Given that Mr. Sanders refused to join the Democratic Party throughout his long political career because he is a capital S Socialist -- he spent one summer at an openly Stalinist kibbutz in Israel, his honeymoon in Moscow, and flew down for an America-bashing fest in Noriega's Nicaragua -- it seems fair to me that those who hitched their wagons to the Democratic Party might prefer he not be their standard bearer.
Unfortunately, they foreclosed all the options that aren't Mrs. Bill Clinton.
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My not-quite-a-constitutional-scholar-but-pretty-bright wife says they gotta convict her before she could be pardoned.
Sounds logical...
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Bobby, one would think so. However there was a Supreme court case, Ex parte Garland, that said that the president can pardon a federal crime at any point, even before conviction.
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If Sanders gets the popular vote and its taken away by superdelegates we may see the Dems divide into two parties. Socialist and Power-hungry crony capitalist pseudo-socialists.
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As per FREEREPUBLIC, despite son Jeb suspending his campaign Bush Matriarch Babs is repor tsrongly pushing Jeb to negotiate wid the Marc Rubio about colluding to knock "The Donuuuld" Trump out of the GOP nonmination in return for Jeb getting a possible top job in any POTUS Rubio Admin???
DARE DA DONUUULD BE IN TROUBLE NOW - BABS/MA BUSH IS RILED UP???
[Breitbart] Flanked by liberal legislators, and Black Lives Matter founders Brittany Packnett and DeRay Mckesson, President Obama told White House meeting of young militant leftists that they "are much better organizers" than he was at their age, and that he is "confident that they are going to take America to new heights."
During Thursday's meeting on the U.S. criminal justice system, Obama praised Baltimore mayoral candidate DeRay Mckesson for his "outstanding work mobilizing in Baltimore around these issues."
#4
This POTUS is a shameful example for a president--racist and radical leftist.
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Yes, a shameful example indeed. Even more shameful however is that fact that more than half a dozen 'Americans' voted for him, not once, but twice.
As we examine the Champ along side our current roster of presidential candidates [both pub and dem], perhaps one could conclude that the process is FUBAR, or we are getting the type of leadership we deserve, or both.
#5
Outstanding for Obama. What is Obama going to be doing when he is no longer President?
I'd say he would take the usual path of corrupt former politicians of speaking for exorbitant fees in return for influence and political favors while in office, but in this case I don't think anybody would be able to afford it anymore.
#6
Next Job? President of Harvard or Yale to buy off the insurgent Red Guard SJWs. He gets reasonable prestige points, another bully pulpit to feed his ego, additional income flow. I'm sure the position gets access to some nice golf courses too.
#12
I still think that 'Only Black Lives Matter' [bowel] movement is a offshoot of the Democratic Party. Much like the Klu Klux Klan and the New Black Panthers.
[DAWN] THOUGH many amongst Pakistain's religious right prefer interpretations of faith anchored firmly in the past and shun most aspects of modernity as 'innovations', they have few qualms about using technology to their advantage.
For example, as noted in a recent report in this paper, the 'cyber team' of Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... seems to be quite an active concern. Young, tech-savvy men are at the forefront of an operation designed to transmit the message of a group with barely disguised links to religious militancy.
Volunteers stream footage from rallies, send out live tweets and update websites.
In fact, the team claims to be active in 45 cities and towns in Pakistain. Its members say they are countering hostile propaganda from "anti-Pakistain" elements, which, surprisingly, include the TTP as well as the turbanIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, along with 'secularists'.
Of course, this is a far cry from the ideology of old, according to which photography and film-making were both deemed unacceptable. But perhaps it is the ubiquitousness of technology, as well as the challenge posed by even more ferocious turban groups, that has caused JuD to change tack.
JuD is not the only turban group to embrace technology. A plethora of jihadi and sectarian outfits in Pakistain as well as internationally have used cyberspace as a recruiting ground and a propaganda outlet.
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It would be convenient to convince them that their phones need to automatically shut down 5 times a day for prayers, and NSA backups...
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[DAWN] NOTHING intrigues me more than the power of our security establishment. National interest is shorthand for the interests of an institution that reigns supreme. Let us consider the recent news that has gone largely unnoticed or has been deliberately ignored. Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another William H. Seward ... 's presidential campaign received a jolt when the State Department confirmed she had used her personal server to send some top secret emails.
Our present envoy to the UN Maleeha Lodhi apparently acted as an informal messenger between the US administration and former army chief Gen Ashfaq Kayani
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Why do I picture Rodney Dangerfield as a spokesman for the Trilateral commission?
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The Obama administration will tell any lie and break any law to prevent the president’s signature health-care program from collapsing.
Insurance companies such as UnitedHealthcare and Aetna are losing billions trying to sell ObamaCare plans, and the risk is they’ll drop out at the end of 2016. No insurance companies means no ObamaCare.
In 2014, the White House tried to avert that disaster by promising insurers a taxpayer-funded bailout, but public outrage and quick action by Sen. Marco Rubio put a stop to it. Now the administration is at it again.
Desperate to keep insurers on board, the administration scrambled to find another pot of money. Unfortunately, once again, a big part of that money pot belongs to the public.
President Obama doesn’t seem to care. On Feb. 12, the administration announced that the money will be handed out to insurers — a whopping $7.7 billion this year alone.
But it’s not just expensive: That huge handout to the insurance industry is also illegal.
This is money you and everyone else who already has insurance are forced to pay, called a reinsurance fee. You pay the fee whether you buy your own plan or get covered at work, even if your employer self-insures. You may be clueless about it, but the fee is buried in your premium or taken out of your compensation.
The text of the Affordable Care Act is clear as a bell on what this money can be used for.
Some of these annual fees — adding up to billions a year — belong to the public, not the insurance companies. The law states a fixed share “shall be deposited into the general fund of the Treasury of the United States and may not be used” to offset insurance companies’ losses.
But the administration gave all of it to the insurance companies last year, and got away with that heist. So now they’re trying it again.
Anyone in the corporate world who misused funds that way would be headed to prison. This rogue administration is going to any length — including running afoul of the law — to keep insurers hooked into ObamaCare.
In the words of University of Houston law professor Seth Chandler, who tried to call attention to the crime several months ago, this is “an illegal diversion of funds . . . to enrich insurers.” Last year alone, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas got $549 million of these reinsurance funds, while Anthem Blue Cross of California got $401 million.
How did this fly under the radar last year? Because no one — especially members of Congress — has read the law. Insurance companies weren’t about to object to getting more money than the law allows.
Plus, the announcements of these payments were buried in mind-numbing federal agency releases. The latest such disclosure came late last Friday — heading into a holiday weekend.
This week, a few health scholars took notice, including Galen Institute senior fellow Doug Badger. He says the illegal maneuver is “designed to keep a sinking ship from hitting rock bottom.”
ObamaCare was sold on lies: You can keep your health plan if you like it. And keep your doctor if you like your doctor. Then, once it was passed, the administration resorted to a long string of lawless executive actions to keep an unworkable scheme going, despite the damage being done to employers, doctors and consumers.
The administration’s diversion of public funds to its insurance-company cronies is just the latest defiance of the law.
The president has illegally delayed the employer mandate repeatedly. He’s handing out free ObamaCare plans to illegal immigrants. Statutory deadlines are routinely ignored, and funds are slyly shifted from one program to another — the law be damned.
Ultimately, ObamaCare is imperiling not only our health and our nation’s economic growth, but even our nation’s most precious asset — the rule of law.
Betsy McCaughey is the author of “Beating Obamacare” and a senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research.
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Unfortunately, once again, a big part of that money pot belongs to the public.
A big part? All the money belongs to the public. To the tax-paying public, anyway.
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Just another 'tax'. Same as Social Security when the Johnson Administration merged all the books to loot the pot for the Great Society programs. Doesn't make much difference they'll still spend more than they'll ever take in. That's covered by the inflation tax by creating/printing money without any backing. Taking 10 percent directly of your income or allowing the value of what you do have devalue by 10 percent, the loss is still the same to you.
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These Alinskyites are going to do anything to keep this turkey alive; even break the law and break the bank. Breaking the bank was probably one of their original goals along the lines of Cloward and Piven. SCOTUS had its chance to drive a stake in the heart of this deplorable legislation but alas, they lacked the cajones to do this. Nothing in the Constitution provides for the Federal government to enact this kind of legislation at the Federal level. If a State wanted to have health insurance, it should have passed such legislation under States rights amendments. It should not have been passed at the Federal level. Rather than have a single State going broke, the entire country will go belly up.
#4
The Champ regime racking up a whopping $19T, more debt that all of the rest of the presidential administrations combined. Sort of validates the author's story I suppose.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Hillary Clinton
