[Breitbart] With less than one week before the Iowa caucuses, the establishment media is zeroing in on former Vice President Joe Biden and the culture of corruption that has permeated his immediate family for decades.
On Tuesday, Politico published an in-depth exposé on the financial ties between the former vice president’s younger brother, James, and a high-powered Washington, D.C., lobbyist. According to Politico, James and his wife purchased an acre of land in the U.S. Virgin Islands for $150,000 in May 2005. A year later, James resold a third of that acre to Scott Green, a national security lobbyist who previously served as a Senate staffer for Joe Biden. Green paid $150,000 for the land, even though the tax assessed value was only $38,000.
"In effect, James and [his wife] had gotten their money back while keeping most of the land‐recouping their investment in just 12 months," the outlet reported.
Any money that Green may have lost through the deal was offset when Joe Biden became vice president. In 2010, as Politico notes, Green and members of the lobbying firm he founded, the Lafayette Group, were frequent visitors at the Obama-Biden White House.
That year, Green’s ties to the Biden clan seemed to be especially beneficial. On April 11, 2010, the Lafayette Group was awarded two taxpayer-funded contracts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The contracts, worth a total of $5.8 million, were for support services geared toward developing FEMA’s "communications strategies."
It remains unclear what involvement Joe Biden had, if any, in the awarding of the contract to the Lafayette Group. What is clear, though, is that three days after Green’s firm received the contracts, he gave James Biden and his wife a $133,300 mortgage on their property in the Virgin Islands.
Politico’s exposé comes after Breitbart News reported last week on a series of revelations from Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite. The book, authored by Peter Schweizer, senior contributor at Breitbart News and president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), offers a detailed account of the ways in which members of the Biden family have benefited from their proximity to power.
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Shirley, the best bits of this book will be reported in the New York Times.
Surely not.
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01/29/2020 8:48 Comments ||
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Inoculation is no good after the infection occurs...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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In 2010, as Politico notes, Green and members of the lobbying firm he founded, the Lafayette Group, were frequent visitors at the Obama-Biden White House.
Can't gloss it over any longer. None of this shit could have happened if Baraq wasn't in on it.
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01/29/2020 12:28 Comments ||
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So, I guess, it was decided - Sanders for now, and Hillary at 90th minute.
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ It’s Mitt Romney’s big moment, again.
The 2012 Republican presidential nominee has for a year been a freshman senator from Utah. He’s sitting in judgment of the president he has called unfit for office. And he’s defying President Donald Trump by calling for one witness in particular, former national security adviser John Bolton, as the Senate weighs the impeachment allegations against the nation’s 45th president.
The trial is a chance for Romney to wield influence in the Senate as an independent GOP voice ‐ or become one of the Republicans standing by the president when it’s time to be counted. For now, the Utah senator has been clear about wanting more than the manuscript of Bolton’s book, which alleges that Trump directly linked the release of military aid to Ukraine’s willingness to investigate Democrats.
"I’d rather hear from Mr. Bolton," Romney, 72, told reporters Tuesday.
He may yet get the chance. On Tuesday night, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Republicans in a closed session that they lacked the 51 votes to block the 100-member Senate from calling any witnesses. A motion to call them would pass if Romney and at least three other Republicans voted with all Democrats.
#4
Chartering a 737 MAX and flying a delegation of like-minded democrats and CNN media team to Wuhan, China for a lengthy on site investigation would gain him much needed attention.
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Just a guess, but here's what's about to happen. Confident that they can force witnesses, Willard and Murkey will stick their necks out and Droopy (Collins) will throw them under the bus. Like eating your dead enemy's heart, Droopy will come out way ahead and Willard and Murkey will get primaried.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/29/2020 8:08 Comments ||
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NYT is reporting there are 4 repubs ready to vote for witnesses. Smart money laughs and bets the other way.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/29/2020 8:09 Comments ||
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The funniest thing would be if 4 'pubs vote for witnesses and 5 Dems don't.
Doesn't work that way. You pick your party, the party doesn't pick you. Witness - lots of NRA members are disgusted with WLP. But they are still counted as members.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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I thought this was the Bee... My bad.
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01/29/2020 11:25 Comments ||
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Its just Romney trying to be more relevant than he really is.
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It's a win/win. Mitt establishes his NeverTrump bona fides and the Dems *finally* get Trump. BWHAHAHA!
The only fly in that ointment is that witnesses also means witnesses about matters Ukrainian, and Ukraine means Bidens plural, and suddenly that whole corrupt Obama-era mess is being explained on national TV. Gonna be embarrassing to hear about the Biden clan actually doing the things Trump is charged with.
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Constitution Amendment:Any member of Congress that are on the Presidential Ballot and fail to be elected must leave the government and the territory of the USA for 10 years.
The Athenians had the custom of Ostracism and shipping Hillary!, McCain and Romney overseas has a certain charm.
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Actually, here, meth is the plague. G-d didn't send it either...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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If it was because of transgender children wouldn't god have started the virus in a place that has transgendered children? Just saying, very bad aim if that's the cause of the smiting from on high.
#7
This idiot is the mirror image of that Canadian environmentalist and politician who claimed the bright side of the virus is that it will help China reduce its carbon footprint. Gaia be praised.
Quote From "Victory Girls blog (Quoted at Quick's blog):
Last week I advised that the best course of action as the left attacks our rights is to keep a civil course, wow them with facts, decency, and knowledge and defend our rights with knowledge, passion, and eloquence.
I felt that we could win based on logic and rational discourse, but having watched the events of this week unfold in front of my eyes, I realize just how wrong I was.
I thought that after engaging with our political opponents en masse, peacefully stating our concerns, and rationally discussing the issues of due process and Second Amendment rights in Richmond, the Democrats would step away from their insane assault on our freedoms.
I was wrong.
Response from Quick:
I'd be much more inclined to cut you some slack but for those two little words I highlighted at the beginning of your post: "Last week."
Really? You just figured out last week that the Democrats are out to destroy you and all normal Americans? I hope you always have friends around to remind you to breathe, because frankly, you don't sound bright enough to remember to do it on your own.
But read the whole thing, if you want to know why "conservatives" haven't actually conserved anything in ...quite a while. (Ever?)
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The naïve character who says "Maybe they're friendly" is a staple of the plot drivers in science fiction involving aliens.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Victory Girls is a multiperson blog.
The post in question was by one person, Marta Hernandez.
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And "don't wrestle the pig, it just gets you and the pig dirty and the pig likes that." remains worthwhile advice. I hadn't heard or thought of Bill Quick in years. His superior attitude reminds me of why that is.
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Let me lay it out. Whenever people like Bill Quick (and the guy who can't be criticized here who routinely promotes him) get all on their high horse, I'd point out, if the right had it all figured out, it would not be a fight. But it is a fight and the right is losing. So quit listening to the Bill Quick types and recognize we are in a fight.
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Thinking the left would response to civility, facts, decency, and knowledge is like thinking the Palestinians will respond to calls for peace in the M.E.
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[Breitbart] With less than one week before the Iowa caucuses, the establishment media is zeroing in on former Vice President Joe Biden and the culture of corruption that has permeated his immediate family for decades.
