[PJ] 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.
But when the tables are turned, and the real crimes and abuses of power by Democrats are suddenly in the crosshairs of Republicans with a thirst for accountability... well, there’s outrage:
New tensions are flaring on the Senate Judiciary Committee over plans by newly minted Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to dig into Obama-era scandals.
Graham, a close ally of President Trump’s, has outlined several areas he wants to probe now that he has the Judiciary Committee gavel.
They include the FBI’s handling of its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant applications targeting former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), asked about Graham’s plans, started laughing and compared them to the "thrilling days of yesteryear."
"This is going to be like the History Channel it turns out. Instead of taking a look at the current issues, Lindsey Graham wants to go back and answer important questions about the Bermuda Triangle and Hillary Clinton," Durbin told The Hill.
Durbin said he was "concerned" about Graham’s plans but quipped that "you know there is that question about Jimmy Carter which he probably wants to ask."
Democrats may dismiss Graham’s plans as pointless, but deep down don’t believe for a second they’re laughing. We all remember Graham’s epic smackdown of the Democrats’ actions during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. I’m sure Graham is legitimately miffed that Obama and Hillary have managed to avoid accountability for their illegal actions, so there are really only two possible motives here. The first is that he really wants to see Obama and Hillary get what they deserve. The second possible motive is that Graham wants to hold these investigations over Democrats' heads as a bargaining chip and keep them from abusing their investigative powers as a means to tie Trump’s hands for the next 2-6 years and make it impossible for him to govern.
The big difference between congressional Democrats and Senator Graham is that Graham wants to investigate legitimate scandals. Consider the facts: Even though the BuzzFeed story about Trump directing Michael Cohen to lie to Congress has been proven to be fake news, Democrats still want to investigate it!
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Former NSA Chief, Admiral Michael Rogers. Yes, this is the fellow (along with Former Congressman Mike Rogers) we never hear from. They never write, they never call.
Unless Graham's proposed investigation is another Trey Gowdy bridge to nowhere, I suggest he start with these fellows.
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It's not about misplaced paperclips or holding investigations over Democrats' heads as a bargaining chip. It's about abuse of power, illegal spying on citizens and candidates for political advantage, election-rigging and trying to frame a duly elected president and sedition and treason. It's about a 2-tier system of justice; one for Washington elites and one for the "deplorables."
Congress, start doing your damned job and quit being silly asses.
[REDSTATE] Over the weekend, Disney producer Jack Morrissey tweeted his wish for the Covington High School students to be fed into a woodchipper.
After a hefty public backlash, the psych– I mean, Morrissey — issued an apology. He claimed it was just a funny joke, and he didn’t wish any violence on the students in any way.
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Maybe he could get a job at National Review or Hot Air.
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Should be a wake up call about who they believe are the real bad guys. Look in the mirror. However, since they've made themselves their own gods, they're grant themselves forgiveness, and carry on as usual.
He claimed it was just a funny joke, and he didn’t wish any violence on the students in any way.
Said by many in the community the next day after the lynching. Victims get buried.
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It wasn't even a newsworthy event. Any respectable news organization would have listened politely to this whack job who calls himself a Native American, wished him a nice day and then quickly forgotten him. But WAPO, not a respectable news organization, has turned it into the kind of incident that could spark a civil war. To all the hot heads on both sides I say, Be careful what you wish for. When the shit hits the fan it tends to go all over the place.
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And yes, DV, I've been boycotting Disney since I watched Diane Sawyer's slanted coverage of Fast and Furious on ABC News. Now I've added anything owned by Jeff Bezos and that includes Amazon. I got along quite well before Amazon and I think I'll do OK without them now. I hope those Covington kids sue his ass off.
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Walt would have had his head on a pike for the bad PR generated and for saying something to the general public that was not 'approved'.
But mostly for the bad PR. 'Corporate Image' was everything to Uncle Walt.
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Apocryphal epitaph from Boothill in Tombstone, AZ:
Here lies George Johnson,
hanged by mistake 1882.
He was right we were wrong.
But we strung him up and now he's gone.
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When DisneyCorp started pushing for instating the Eternal Copyright™ was when I started getting tired of them. Also when they started busting Mom n' Pop daycare centers for daring, The Audacity!, to paint Disney™ characters™ in their establishments without licensing™.
[Bloomberg] BuzzFeed is eliminating 15 percent of its headcount across the company, the latest pullback for digital-media sites dealing with a challenging advertising market.
As it trims staff, BuzzFeed has been examining the “the evolving economics of digital platforms,” Chief Executive Officer Jonah Peretti said in a memo to employees. “We’ve developed a good understanding of where we can consolidate our teams, focus in on the content that is working, and achieve the right cost structure.”
The cutbacks are part of a wave of media layoffs. Verizon Communications Inc. said earlier Wednesday that it would be cutting about 7 percent of its digital-media operations, a business that includes AOL, Yahoo and the Huffington Post. Gannett Inc. also has been laying off journalists from its collection of newspapers.
BuzzFeed, a pioneering site that spans hard news, personality quizzes and listicle-style features and bullshit, was long seen as a way for journalism to prosper in a post-print era. But growth alone hasn’t been enough to ensure success, Peretti said in his memo.
[REDSTATE] "Recon Ranger" was actully a refrigerator repairman, never left CONUS, got a general discharge (Discharged, not Honorably Discharged).
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They never are.
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And in further news, Phillips led a noisy protest at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in DC during the 7 pm Mass on Sat. The group was kept out by security. The doors were locked and for a time the congregation was locked inside. These people are not going to quit. Catholic News Agency
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Ask, and the internet provides. Omaha, but the tribe doesn’t like what he’s been doing, though they won’t say so on the record about a man working through problems caused by bouncing around foster homes since the age of five and subsequent alcoholism. See here.
#11
I respect the tribal leadership's hands off, "let him find his way" approach in that old news story. Unfortunately, refusing to acknowledge the damage he is doing now is no help to anyone.
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I believe he's Pawnee. The term Elder doesn't mean a tribal leader per se, but one who is older than 55.
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"It's just this war and that lying son of a bitch, Johnson! "
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@#6 Besoeker---
HAHAHAHAHAA!!!! Freon Ranger. That is great. Really enjoyed it. Great work.
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a man working through problems caused by bouncing around foster homes since the age of five and subsequent alcoholism I have many relatives with a very similar story.
[Fox News] President Trump announced on Twitter late Wednesday that he will deliver a "great" State of the Union address after the partial government shutdown is over, ending a tense day in Washington where Republicans criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for blocking the president from giving the speech.
Pelosi told Trump that the House won't approve a resolution allowing him to come to Capitol Hill until the government reopens.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a close Trump ally, said Pelosi's action "sets a new low for American politics." He called Pelosi's decision "absurd, petty and shameful," adding: "The judgment of history will not be kind."
Trump said he is not going to look for an alternative venue due to the long tradition of the speech being delivered in the chamber of the House of Representatives.
Pelosi told Trump in a letter Wednesday that the Democratic-controlled House would turn down a measure for him to deliver the speech. Trump slammed Pelosi and called the decision a "great blotch on the country that we all love."
White House officials told Fox News they were preparing for two tracks for next week's speech. The preferred track is an address at the Capitol. The second track is a backup plan for a speech outside of Washington, D.C. More at link
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So the Trumper Thumper rolled over? Or has he something clever in mind?
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I suspect that Trump is picking his battle!
IMO, Pelosi is a person who's bat sh*t crazy to begin with so not really worth fighting with. By giving in now, it takes the wind out of Pelosi 'fight' and leave her with a hallow victory.
I would never bet against the Don, he's a master at this game.
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The passive Right lost the ability to project righteousness even when defending core American principles, and indeed the pillars of Western civilization, like the presumption of innocence. The Left openly demands we sacrifice those things for their crusades.
#6
Probably a calculated move. Let the market and economy pick up a bit more. Bring home a few more troops and leave room for a limited declaration of national emergency. Conduct a NORK summit in Vietnam. Move the State of the Union a bit closer to the upcoming election.
I can almost see Darth Bolton, Mark Meadows, Kushner, Conway, and Pence nodding in approval.
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Agree with #2. Gives up nothing and again shows he is willing to bargain. The Demorrhoid base is beginning to crack and wants to negotiate,
this will help it along.
I'm all for sticking to a course of action but it makes you predictable. Keep them on their heels and look for the opportunity to deliver the haymaker.
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US Constitution Article II, Section 3: (The President) "shall from time to time give to the Congress Information on the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient;"
It doesn't specify when, how often, where or how; historically it was by letter sometime in the first part of the year. As mass communications developed it effectively became a media campaign event.
Trump said he is not going to look for an alternative venue due to the long tradition of the speech being delivered in the chamber of the House of Representatives.
Traditions and norms have been trashed for some time now, and that process has sped up and ramped up in recent years.
Respecting traditions and norms is a fine thing if both sides do so; otherwise you're playing a mug's game where the rules are a shackle for one side and a cudgel for the other.
[BREITBART] Judge Richard Gergel, U.S. District Court in South Carolina, has halted the Trump administration’s effort to continue processing permits to allow seismic testing off the Atlantic coast during the partial government shutdown.
Gergel, appointed by President Barack Obama, ruled last week in a case left-wing environmental groups, some coastal cities, and businesses brought against the Department of Interior “opposed to the administration’s efforts to expand U.S. offshore drilling,” Offshore Engineer Digital reported.
Gergel made the ruling in conjunction with granting a stay to the Department of Justice, which argued it could not process the case during a government shutdown.
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Not that big a deal; the Atlantic is not a producing area and exploration would be very long term and high risk - the real impact these days is from fracking, which is an onshore activity.
[People's Cube] As a Troskyite, the only way my DЭMOCЯAT Paяty fяiэиds love me is if they stand behind me with a pick axe. Nevertheless, my fяiэиds hate Vlad Pootin even more than all the Truskyites on Earth, because he knows where they live and work, and because he hates Socialism as much as that Enemy of the Peoples, Ronald Reagan, used to (after all, Socialists cannot afford Pootin's oil).
So, it is very illuminating that Pootin stated, without reading from a teleprompter, that the Amэяikaи Intэlligэиce Kommuиity channeled $400 million dollars to the Komяadэ Hillaяy election campaign. That only points to one man (Obama is not a man), Johи 'Ivaи' Bяэииaи. Could it be that Bяэииaи is a closet bourgeois (that is 'rich man', for our komrades in San Francisco)?????
What and how do you think Bяэииaи funded $400 million to Komяadэ Hillaяy?
[Complete Colorado] Denver ‐On a day created to honor the man who spoke about not judging others by the color of their skin but rather by the content of their character, Rep. Perry Buck, R-Windsor, was denied the opportunity to introduce and sponsor her own resolution honoring the late Martin Luther King, Jr. because she is white.
Buck sponsored and introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives last year while Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins introduced it and sponsored it in the Senate.
However, this year, both women were told they would not be allowed to because they were not black, Buck said.
"This is not about you," Buck said she was told by a member of the black caucus, whom she did not want to identify. "This is about our heritage."
Buck questioned whether King would want to make this about race or unity.
"It’s just very, very sad that we can’t come together," Buck said. "It’s sad that we can’t rise together over this angry hate."
Marble was unable to be reached for comment and Rep. Leslie Herod, D-Denver, who is the Chairwoman of the Black Democratic Legislative Caucus, did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment. Complete Colorado will update if more information becomes available.
Rep. Lori Saine, R-Mead, supported both King and Buck during floor speeches on King, calling King a radical truth teller, who spoke of love.
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The answer is simple, any one identifying as something other than 'human' will immediately lose their citizenship and be deported to some nice rock out in the north atlantic. All their possessions will be confiscated and sold to pay any debts they owe.
#4
As the old saying goes, "Now that cancer is cured and crime and poverty are eliminated, our politicians can finally move on to the important stuff..."
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'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/martin_luther_king_jr_115056'
[Legal Insurrection] A former staffer claimed Jackson Lee fired her after she said a former employee of the CBC Foundation raped her. "Just lay back and enjoy it 'for the cause'" A truly loathsome pig-ignorant POS, repeatedly voted "Worst Boss in Congress" by staffers
Last week, reports came out that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) faces a lawsuit from a former staffer who claimed the congresswoman fired her after she said a former employee of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) raped her in 2015.
Jackson Lee has now resigned as CBC Foundation chairwoman and stepped down temporarily from a House Judiciary subcommittee chairmanship. RTWT
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"Her weave, however, remains a member in good standing"
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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.
[PJ] 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.
Over the weekend, Disney producer 
[REDSTATE] 
[BREITBART] Judge 
[Legal Insurrection] A former staffer claimed Jackson Lee fired her after she said a former employee of the CBC Foundation raped her. 
