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A Message to Republicans: Do What You Can
For the last several months, I have tried to understand what is not working with the new Republican team.
The GOP-led White House, House, and Senate have not been getting key
legislative results at the level that people reasonably expect.
One national Republican leader said to me this week: “When you travel around the country, you discover the base is very unhappy because they do not see any of the major projects being completed. They elected a Republican House in 2010. They elected a Republican Senate in 2014. They elected a Republican President in 2016. Now, they are getting frustrated. They want results – big results.”
The unhappiness is growing so strong that it is conceivable the Democrats could take the House in 2018. That would be a disaster.
The core problem is not that Republicans are not trying hard enough. The problem is that Republicans have set unattainable goals and have publicly crashed on the rocks of the impossible for six solid months.
Former Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck warned that "politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best."
The job of leadership is to define what is possible and then achieve it.
Sometimes, trying to do something you can't do is a formula for frustration and defeat.
Republicans keep telling me what they have to do, but they don't have the votes to do what they have to do. Instead, they must learn to identify what they can do.
When I worked with President Reagan, he had a constant desire to force a successful negotiation, get as much as he could, and then come back another day for another step forward.
Reagan understood that dismantling the big government system was like eating an elephant – you must take one bite at a time to succeed.
Republicans are about to face a serious challenge trying to cut taxes. If they persist in pushing a large, complex tax reform plan, they will almost certainly fail.
So, it is imperative that they keep it simple.
Americans love tax cuts. Well-designed tax cuts can attract a wide range of support from people who will get to keep more money and create more jobs. Well-designed – and popular – tax cuts can attract a big enough coalition that Democrats who are up for reelection in 2018 may decide that survival requires voting yes. Look at the 1981 Reagan tax cuts and the 1996 welfare reform bills to see how it works when a large number of Democrats have to vote with Republicans to survive.
On the other hand, aside from the government elites, most Americans don't care about tax reform. Tax reform invariably creates winners and losers – and the losers invariably fight harder than the winners.
Republicans spent a long time talking about repealing and replacing Obamacare. They thought they could get it done in the first quarter, with one bill. We saw the result.
Republicans have been talking about a large, complex tax reform bill, which some thought they could have marked up back in February. We know how unlikely it is that such a bill can pass soon enough to boost the economy for 2018.
Before following the same road on taxes that they have followed on health care, Republicans might remember Albert Einstein's warning that insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Let's get what we can done, as fast as we can, and then use the momentum of winning to come back and get more. Ten steps can cover more ground than one giant leap – and steps are more doable.
Your Friend,
Newt Gingrich
Kid Rock Tweets Out First Campaign Message
BY MARTIN LIOLL
When Donald Trump put Michigan in the GOP column in last November’s election, Democrats sat up and took notice. It was the first time that the state had gone red since 1988, and it signaled a new capacity for the GOP to reach working class voters.
Robert James Ritchie — the Detroit musician known as Kid Rock — hopes to capture some of that magic in the race for the Michigan Senate seat held by Democrat Debbie Stabenow. On Monday, he made it official that he was running with a tweet directing supporters to his new website, kidrockforsenate.com.
“I believe if you work your butt off and pay taxes, you should be able to easily understand and navigate the laws, tax codes, health care and anything else the government puts in place that affects us all,” the message read.
That message should be enough to have his challengers in a full panic. After all, those are the same things that the president ran on, and he won Michigan, too.
As for now, Kid Rock’s campaign website only has a picture of Mr. Rock in a rocking chair (very meta!) along with merchandise and slogans derived from his lyrics: “Get in the Senate and try to help someone” and “You never met a politician quite like me” were just two of them. (Another one, “Pimp of the nation,” is bound to get some negative attention — but then, much like President Trump, Rock seems inured to controversy.)
In a statement on his website last week, Kid Rock dismissed those calling his interest in running a hoax and, while not confirming that he was going to run, went after Sen. Stabenow in his trademark style.
“Senator Stabenow and I do share a love of music, although probably not the same kind,” he wrote. “I concede she is better at playing politics than I am so I’ll keep doing what I do best, which is being a voice for taxpaying, hardworking AMERICANS and letting politicians like her know that We the People are sick and tired of their bulls***!”
Can Kid Rock score a win in Michigan? Stranger things have happened. Just ask Hillary Clinton.
Al Gore Got Caught Red Handed Telling One Massive Lie
Al Gore blasted Donald Trump for his decision to pull out of the Paris Accords.
He thought he could get away with using fake news to make Trump look bad.
But he was caught red handed telling a massive lie.
Gore falsely claimed Trump was defying the will of the American people by withdrawing the United States from Barack Obama’s global warming agreement.
But polls showed very few Americans feel battling so-called “global warming” is a high priority.
Michael Bastasch wrote at The Daily Caller:
“FORMER VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE ATTACKED PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S DECISION TO WITHDRAW FROM THE PARIS ACCORD MONDAY, CALLING GLOBAL WARMING “THE MOST SERIOUS CHALLENGE WE FACE.”
“WE’VE NEVER HAD A PRESIDENT WHO’S DELIBERATELY MADE DECISIONS THE EFFECT OF WHICH IS TO TEAR DOWN AMERICA’S STANDING IN THE WORLD, STARTING WITH HIS WITHDRAWAL FROM THE PARIS AGREEMENT,” GORE SAID ON NBC MONDAY MORNING.
“THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS BY FAR THE MOST SERIOUS CHALLENGE WE FACE,” GORE SAID.
HOWEVER, A BLOOMBERG POLL FOUND THAT ONLY ONE IN 10 AMERICANS AGREE WITH THIS STATEMENT.”
Trump argued that the Paris Accords was a globalist scheme to redistribute American jobs and wealth to other countries.
In fact, one of the reasons foreign leaders kicked up such a fit when Trump announced he was pulling out of the deal was because it would rob them of a slush fund generating tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money that they could sink their mitts into.
But this was not the only fake news Gore has been peddling about so called “global warming.”
In a recent interview on Fox News Sunday, he was called to account for his false predictions from 2006 that the world only had ten years to deal with global warming or all would be lost.
The Daily Caller reports:
“FOX NEWS SUNDAY” HOST CHRIS WALLACE CONFRONTED FORMER VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE ON HIS 2006 CLAIM THAT UNLESS DRASTIC ACTION WAS TAKEN HUMANITY WOULD FACE A “TRUE PLANETARY EMERGENCY” IN THE NEXT DECADE.
“UNLESS WE TAKE DRASTIC MEASURES THE WORLD WOULD REACH A POINT OF NO RETURN WITHIN 10 YEARS,” WHICH GORE SAID WOULD PRECIPITATE A “TRUE PLANETARY CRISIS” DUE TO MANMADE GLOBAL WARMING.
WALLACE POINTED OUT IT’S BEEN 11 YEARS SINCE GORE MADE THE CLAIM IN HIS 2006 FILM “AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH,” AND THERE DOESN’T SEEM TO BE A PLANETARY EMERGENCY…
… GORE’S FIRST FILM “AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH” HAS BEEN CREDITED WITH POPULARIZING THE GLOBAL WARMING DEBATE. THE FILM EMBOLDENED ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND PROBABLY PLAYED A ROLE IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S FAILED EFFORT TO PASS CAP-AND-TRADE LEGISLATION IN 2009.
BUT MANY (IF NOT ALL) THE CLAIMS GORE MADE IN H(IS 2006 FILM NEVER MATERIALIZED. THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION FACT-CHECKED GORE’S CLAIMS ON HIS FILM’S TEN-YEAR ANNIVERSARY”
Gore has made repeated false claims, such as the highest peak on Mt. Kilimanjaro becoming snow-free within the decade.
That was fake news.
But maybe his most famous lie about global warming was his false claim in 2008 that the Arctic would be free of sea ice by 2013.
That didn’t happen.
Gore has made a career out of alarmist claims about the environment.
But he’s taken his lying to new levels now that Trump is President.
Bernie Backtracks: Denies Saying GOP Health Care Efforts Will Kill People
Vermont senator has claimed on at least six occasions Americans "will die" if Obamacare repealed and replaced
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) dubiously denied saying various GOP efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare would “potentially kill Americans” when a co-host of ABC News’ “The View” pressed him Wednesday about the use of “irresponsible rhetoric.”
Sanders appeared on “The View” as Republicans were in the throes of dealing with their latest inability to pass a bill that would dismantle Obamacare and provide relief to Americans suffering under the law’s burdensome regulations and mandates.
Through each step in the process, Sanders predicted death and destruction for millions of Americans if GOP efforts came to fruition.
But when “The View” co-host Jedediah Bila cornered him on his previous statements and the rhetoric used by other prominent Democrats, Sanders appeared to suffer a bout of forgetfulness.
"I want to talk about the rhetoric then, senator," Bila began. "Because if you're going to sit down with people on both sides of the aisle, some Democrats have branded Republicans 'the party of death,' for example, calling the tax cuts in the Senate health care bill 'blood money.'"
"You yourself have said Republicans are potentially killing Americans. Is that rhetoric irresponsible?" Bila asked. "And does it provide an impasse to compromise? If you're going to sit down with those very people that you have now said want to kill people —"
Sanders interrupted Bila, claiming, "I never said — that's not — you're using rhetoric that I didn't use."
"Oh am I?" Bila replied. "These are quotes. 'Party of death' is a quote."
The "party of death" quote came from Sanders' Democratic presidential primary rival, nominee Hillary Clinton, who tweeted June 23, "Forget death panels. If Republicans pass this bill, they're the death party."
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Forget death panels. If Republicans pass this bill, they're the death party.
But Sanders also took issue with Bila's claims that he accused Republicans of concocting a bill that would kill Americans.
"This is what I said, and it's not me. This is a dozen or more studies that show that if you throw 22 million people off the insurance they have — these are people who have cancer. These are people who have heart disease, diabetes, other life-threatening illnesses," Sanders said. "What study after study shows is that thousands of those people will die. That's what Harvard says. That's what study after study shows. It's not me, I'm just telling you what the studies are showing."
But Bila pressed Sanders further, asking him how it would be possible for Sanders and the Democratic senators to sit down with their Republican colleagues and engage in a productive conversation on health care reform if one side was accusing the other side of "killing Americans" with inflamed rhetoric.
"I have said publicly nobody here in the Congress wants anybody to die. I understand that," Sanders claimed, before noting that Americans dying "is the result of throwing 22 million people off of health insurance."
Sanders has a history of using apocalyptic rhetoric to accuse the GOP of willingly inflicting death upon millions of Americans by seeking to dismantle Obamacare.
In early May, Sanders told CNN's Anderson Cooper on "Anderson Cooper 360°" that "if the bill passed today in the House became law, thousands of Americans would die, because they would no longer have access to health care."
"Let us be clear, and this is not trying to be overly dramatic: Thousands of people will die if the Republican health care bill becomes law," Sanders tweeted on June 23.
Let us be clear and this is not trying to be overly dramatic: Thousands of people will die if the Republican health care bill becomes law.
Let us be clear and this is not trying to be overly dramatic: Thousands of people will die if the Republican health care bill becomes law.
"People who can't afford health care do not deserve to die," Sanders tweeted on June 26.
People who can't afford health care do not deserve to die.
That same day, Sanders said during a speech in Pittsburgh, "The horrible and unspeakable truth is that if this legislation was to pass, and if millions of people, many of whom are terribly ill today, would [sic] to lose their health care that they have, there is no question but that many, many thousands of our fellow Americans will die unnecessarily."
After receiving some backlash in June following his harsh rhetoric, Sanders appeared on NBC News' "Meet the Press" to defend his viewpoint that the Republicans would be responsible for killing millions of Americans if they repealed and replaced Obamacare, insisting that "it's true."
"If you have cancer and your insurance is taken away from you, there is a likelihood you will die and certainly a likelihood that you will become much sicker than you are today," Sanders said.
And in a statement July 13, Sanders said the revised GOP health care plan "is an absolute disaster that will inflict severe economic pain on millions of Americans."
"Make no mistake about it, thousands of Americans every year will die unnecessarily if this legislation is passed," Sanders said. "Let's be clear: the Republican bill is fatally flawed, and no small tweak here or there will undo the massive damage that it will cause to Vermont and the entire country. It must be defeated."
Sanders has been confronted before about the nature of his impassioned rhetoric — especially in the wake of the June 14 shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) at the hands of one of Sanders' primary campaign supporters.
CNN's Jake Tapper asked Sanders on "State of the Union" following the shooting, "Now, Senator, as you know, you have not only never advocated violence. You have — you have condemned it repeatedly. But you have been speaking the language of revolution for many years. When you see a comment like this from this political consultant, and then you see what happened on Wednesday, are you concerned that some individuals are able to take your rhetoric as a literal call to arms?"
Sanders replied that it "goes without saying that violence is not part of that process."
He continued: "Now, right now, what we are seeing in Washington with this healthcare bill, where the Republican leadership wants to throw 23 million Americans off of health insurance, raise premiums for older workers, defund Planned Parenthood, cut Medicaid by over $800 billion, this is the worst piece of legislation to have passed the Congress since I have been in Congress. It is an outrage. And it has to be protested, and we have to make sure that nothing like that gets past the Senate. But it has to be done, of course, in a nonviolent way."
"So, I think this is a moment where the American people have got to stand up, fight back to a Congress which is out of touch with where working families are," Sanders added.
The Nuclear Option: After Using Americans as Pawns, Democrats Blame Trump for Obamacare Failure
Written by Charles Hurt
Behold, this is your health care, run by the federal government.
Politicians far, far away in Washington — advised by armies of bureaucrats whose salaries you pay but you have never met — all huddled in Congress deciding what pills they will give you and how long is long enough for you to be on life support.
Also, they will decide just how much money you will pay for pregnancy insurance, even though you do not technically have a uterus and your name is not Caitlyn Jenner. (Isn’t it funny how the only way anybody buys something named the “Affordable Care Act” is if the federal government forces them to buy it?)
Oh, and they are deciding just how much of your money they are going to set aside to “stabilize the insurance market,” which is just the latest rosy euphemism for “dump trucks full of your tax cash given to massive insurance companies that you already despise.”
Meanwhile, throngs of cloaked lobbyists slither the hallways of Congress in search of legislative gems and baubles they can haul in dirty sacks back to their nests to be pawned off later.
The closest thing to you — actual American citizens — here in Washington these days are the hoards of screaming unwashed healthcare “protesters,” by which I mean people who somehow do not work yet somehow manage to loaf across the country to bang drums and caterwaul up and down the sidewalk outside the Capitol at all hours. (For every one of them, somewhere there is a mom and dad just glad to have them out of the basement for a couple of days.)
Yet, to listen to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi or Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer bark and howl over today’s debate about Obamacare, you would think this is not exactly what they signed up for when they jammed Obamacare through Congress with little debate and precisely ZERO bipartisan support.
Well, what the heck did you expect putting federal bureaucrats and spineless politicians in charge of the American people’s health care?
Of course, it will be messy forever. Did you really think Washington was the place best suited in all of America to make all the decisions about the most intimate and personal health care decisions?
Politicians far, far away in Washington — advised by armies of bureaucrats whose salaries you pay but you have never met — all huddled in Congress deciding what pills they will give you and how long is long enough for you to be on life support.
Also, they will decide just how much money you will pay for pregnancy insurance, even though you do not technically have a uterus and your name is not Caitlyn Jenner. (Isn’t it funny how the only way anybody buys something named the “Affordable Care Act” is if the federal government forces them to buy it?)
Oh, and they are deciding just how much of your money they are going to set aside to “stabilize the insurance market,” which is just the latest rosy euphemism for “dump trucks full of your tax cash given to massive insurance companies that you already despise.”
Meanwhile, throngs of cloaked lobbyists slither the hallways of Congress in search of legislative gems and baubles they can haul in dirty sacks back to their nests to be pawned off later.
The closest thing to you — actual American citizens — here in Washington these days are the hoards of screaming unwashed healthcare “protesters,” by which I mean people who somehow do not work yet somehow manage to loaf across the country to bang drums and caterwaul up and down the sidewalk outside the Capitol at all hours. (For every one of them, somewhere there is a mom and dad just glad to have them out of the basement for a couple of days.)
Yet, to listen to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi or Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer bark and howl over today’s debate about Obamacare, you would think this is not exactly what they signed up for when they jammed Obamacare through Congress with little debate and precisely ZERO bipartisan support.
Well, what the heck did you expect putting federal bureaucrats and spineless politicians in charge of the American people’s health care?
Of course, it will be messy forever. Did you really think Washington was the place best suited in all of America to make all the decisions about the most intimate and personal health care decisions?
Here we find ourselves in the very sewer of political depravity where only the most depraved politicians would dare to be seen.
“The president would not be ‘letting Obamacare collapse,’” Mr. Schumer said Tuesday, after President Trump signaled the failure by Republicans to fix Obamacare. “He is actively trying to undermine the health care system in the country, using millions of Americans as political pawns in a cynical game.”
Like I said, only the most depraved and dishonest.
Again, Obamacare is circling the throat of the toilet and taking the economy, the American people and even insurance industry with it. And Mr. Schumer’s argument here is that Mr. Trump and Republicans are to blame for not FIXING the Obamacare that Mr. Schumer foisted on the American people?
Like I said, only the most dishonest weasels are capable of preening at times like this.
“He wants to throw up his hands rather than roll up his sleeves to work with us and solve the problem,” Mr. Schumer said of Mr. Trump as the sewage began filling in around him in the Senate chamber.
“The president is playing a dangerous game with the health care of this country,” he said.
No, Mr. Schumer, you and your democrats are to blame for this mess. And you are the ones who turned the American people into “political pawns.”
Now we’ll just see who it is the American people blame for this whole mess.
Charles Hurt can be reached at churt@washingtontimes.com; follow him on Twitter via @charleshurt.
Like I said, only the most depraved and dishonest.
Again, Obamacare is circling the throat of the toilet and taking the economy, the American people and even insurance industry with it. And Mr. Schumer’s argument here is that Mr. Trump and Republicans are to blame for not FIXING the Obamacare that Mr. Schumer foisted on the American people?
Like I said, only the most dishonest weasels are capable of preening at times like this.
“He wants to throw up his hands rather than roll up his sleeves to work with us and solve the problem,” Mr. Schumer said of Mr. Trump as the sewage began filling in around him in the Senate chamber.
“The president is playing a dangerous game with the health care of this country,” he said.
No, Mr. Schumer, you and your democrats are to blame for this mess. And you are the ones who turned the American people into “political pawns.”
Now we’ll just see who it is the American people blame for this whole mess.
Charles Hurt can be reached at churt@washingtontimes.com; follow him on Twitter via @charleshurt.
Death of the baby guranteed...
You and I both know how pro-abortion judges "legislated" abortion-on-demand with Roe v. Wade.
But they haven't stopped there. When they handed down Roe v. Wade they included a hidden kill switch.
In order to keep their pro-abortion agenda, they insisted that legislatures couldn't limit abortion in any form without first giving the courts the right to carve out an exception in any given case.
They called it judicial bypass.
Take for example, an underage girl who gets pregnant and doesn't want her parents to find out.
Instead of dealing with the consequences, she goes before a judge and gets a judicial bypass so she can get an abortion without her parents' knowledge.
All so she won't have to deal with the embarrassment.
Just as the Supreme Court judges came down with the pro-abortion Roe v. Wade decision: you and I know that there are plenty of pro-abortion judges at both the state and federal level ready and eager to grant a rubber stamp to any girl seeking an abortion.
For example, under many state parental notification laws, judges have the power to grant judicial bypass if the judge determines that the minor is "mature enough" to have an abortion without consulting her parents.
Pro-abortion judges frequently take advantage of this type of vague criteria to readily bypass the parents for virtually any reason or no reason at all.
And don't think that abortion clinics don't know which judges will and won't do it.
In fact we know of abortionists who brag that no requests for judicial bypass in their area have been denied.
In Pennsylvania for instance, hundreds of petitions for bypasses are filed each year and only a handful are ever denied.
There is a solution.
That solution is the national Parental Notification and Intervention Act -- a federal law drafted by the National Pro-Life Alliance that would require "clear and convincing evidence of danger of physical abuse of the minor by the parent" before its provisions are waived by the judges.
Thus, not only would this law apply in all 50 states but it would remove the gray areas that allow pro-abortion judges to justify their rubber stamping of abortion.
With your continued support I am sure we will ultimately prevail and pass the Parental Notification and Intervention Act and the Life at Conception Act to end all abortion-on-demand.
But they haven't stopped there. When they handed down Roe v. Wade they included a hidden kill switch.
In order to keep their pro-abortion agenda, they insisted that legislatures couldn't limit abortion in any form without first giving the courts the right to carve out an exception in any given case.
They called it judicial bypass.
Take for example, an underage girl who gets pregnant and doesn't want her parents to find out.
Instead of dealing with the consequences, she goes before a judge and gets a judicial bypass so she can get an abortion without her parents' knowledge.
All so she won't have to deal with the embarrassment.
Just as the Supreme Court judges came down with the pro-abortion Roe v. Wade decision: you and I know that there are plenty of pro-abortion judges at both the state and federal level ready and eager to grant a rubber stamp to any girl seeking an abortion.
For example, under many state parental notification laws, judges have the power to grant judicial bypass if the judge determines that the minor is "mature enough" to have an abortion without consulting her parents.
Pro-abortion judges frequently take advantage of this type of vague criteria to readily bypass the parents for virtually any reason or no reason at all.
And don't think that abortion clinics don't know which judges will and won't do it.
In fact we know of abortionists who brag that no requests for judicial bypass in their area have been denied.
In Pennsylvania for instance, hundreds of petitions for bypasses are filed each year and only a handful are ever denied.
There is a solution.
That solution is the national Parental Notification and Intervention Act -- a federal law drafted by the National Pro-Life Alliance that would require "clear and convincing evidence of danger of physical abuse of the minor by the parent" before its provisions are waived by the judges.
Thus, not only would this law apply in all 50 states but it would remove the gray areas that allow pro-abortion judges to justify their rubber stamping of abortion.
With your continued support I am sure we will ultimately prevail and pass the Parental Notification and Intervention Act and the Life at Conception Act to end all abortion-on-demand.
Newt Gingrich Made An Unbelievable Prediction About Nancy Pelosi
Establishment Republicans Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell betrayed Donald Trump’s promise to repeal Obamacare.They are trying to walk away as if nothing happened.
But Newt Gingrich made a shocking prediction about how their failure could impact Nancy Pelosi.
The Democrat base is fired up.
They are out of power and they want to exact revenge on Donald Trump and the GOP by turning out to vote in the 2018 midterms.
So far, Republican voters have matched their enthusiasm in four contested special elections.
Now one expert is warning that unless Republican elites get their act together and start passing Donald Trump’s agenda items, the party will face a reckoning in 2018.
Newt Gingrich is sounding the alarm that Ryan and McConnell need to take immediate action on tax cuts and other Trump priorities or else the GOP base will be sapped of their enthusiasm heading into the 2018 midterms.
And that means a Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The Washington Times reports:
“Republicans may lose control of the House and have Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi take the reins if the party doesn’t move beyond the current health care impasse and begin working toward economic growth, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Monday.
“Do we represent prosperity, economic growth, higher take home pay, more jobs or not?” the former House speaker and GOP presidential hopeful asked Fox News host Sean Hannity during an interview aired Monday evening.
“I personally believe that they ought to do as much as they can on health care right now, but they shouldn’t spend the whole rest of this year on one issue,” Mr. Gingrich said of the Republican Party. “They’ve also got to pass, I think, by Thanksgiving, and get signed into law by Thanksgiving, a very large tax cut retroactively designed back to Jan. 1, to make sure we have enough economic growth in 2018 that Republicans can run as the party of prosperity, of jobs, of higher take-home pay, and of economic growth.”
Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, risks assuming Mr. Gingrich’s former role as House speaker if Republicans don’t heed his advice, he added.
“I would say the highest focus ought to be on getting the tax bill through because if we don’t have economic growth next year, I think we’re in real danger of having Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2019,” Mr. Gingrich said.
“If we do get enough economic growth; I think frankly we will probably get re-elected.”
Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House would completely block Trump’s agenda.
Congress would appropriate no money for the border wall.
Tax cuts would be off the table.
And Democrats would be emboldened to move on impeaching Trump.
In short, it would be a disaster on every level.
Will Ryan and McConnell heed Gingrich’s warning and quickly move to enact Trump’s agenda?
Can wimps change their modus operandi? Doubt it.
Robert Mueller Dropped A Game Changing Bombshell About The Russia Investigation
The media is hyperventilating about Donald Trump, Jr.’s meeting with the Russians.
They are treating it as the silver bullet that proves collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
Now special counsel Robert Mueller made a game changing announcement about the meeting.
Senator Diane Feinstein – the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee – announced that Mueller has cleared Trump, Jr. and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to testify in public.
ABC reports:
“DONALD TRUMP JR. AND PAUL MANAFORT HAVE BEEN CLEARED BY SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER TO TESTIFY IN AN OPEN SESSION BEFORE THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE ABOUT THEIR JUNE 2016 MEETING IN TRUMP TOWER WITH A RUSSIAN ATTORNEY, ACCORDING TO THE COMMITTEE’S RANKING MEMBER SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN, D-CALIF.
FEINSTEIN, WHO MET WITH MUELLER LAST MONTH, SHARED THE INFORMATION WITH REPORTERS TUESDAY, LATER ADDING THAT THE SPECIAL COUNSEL’S INVESTIGATION WOULD “NOT BE A PROBLEM” THAT WOULD PREVENT THEIR TESTIMONY. THE NEWS OF THE PAIR’S CLEARANCE TO BE INTERVIEWED WAS FIRST REPORTED BY CNN.
THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WAS SCHEDULED TO HOLD A HEARING ON THE FOREIGN AGENT REGISTRATION ACT WEDNESDAY, ONE AT WHICH COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN CHUCK GRASSLEY, R-IOWA, SAID HE WANTED MANAFORT TO APPEAR. BOTH HE AND FEINSTEIN ALSO SUGGESTED TRUMP JR. SHOULD APPEAR BEFORE THE COMMITTEE THIS WEEK.
GRASSLEY POSTPONED THE HEARING TUESDAY AFTERNOON. GRASSLEY’S OFFICE DID NOT RESPOND TO ABC NEWS’ QUESTIONS ABOUT POSSIBLE CHANGES TO WEDNESDAY’S HEARING OR CONTACT WITH MANAFORT AND TRUMP JR., WHO WEREN’T SCHEDULED TO APPEAR, PRIOR TO WORD OF ITS POSTPONEMENT. FEINSTEIN DECLINED TO SAY WHETHER THE COMMITTEE HAS CONTACTED MANAFORT.”
This news came at the same time Mueller identified the eighth participant in the meeting attended by Trump, Jr.
CNN reports:
“THE EIGHTH PERSON WHO ATTENDED THE JUNE 2016 MEETING WITH DONALD TRUMP JR. AT TRUMP TOWER IS A SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AT THE COMPANY FOUNDED BY THE RUSSIAN OLIGARCH WHO INITIATED THE MEETING, CNN HAS LEARNED.
IKE KAVELADZE’S IDENTITY WAS CONFIRMED BY HIS ATTORNEY, SCOTT BALBER.
KAVELADZE IS A SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AT CROCUS GROUP, THE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY RUN BY AZERBAIJANI-RUSSIAN OLIGARCH ARAS AGALAROV, ACCORDING TO KAVELADZE’S LINKEDIN. HIS PERSONAL WEBSITE SAYS HE “HOLDS RESPONSIBILITY FOR MULTIPLE ELEMENTS OF THE COMPANY’S RUSSIAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT.”
Kaveladze’s attorney said he attended the meeting as a translator and has had no involvement with the Russian government.
Mueller’s announcement that Trump Jr. and Manafort are cleared to testify in public is a blow to the media’s collusion narrative.
They will be interviewed by the special counsel and if he thought they had something major to say, he would not want them to testify in public and give away areas of inquiry or information.
Every participant in the meeting who has spoken to the press said it focused on the Magnitsky Act and Russian adoption.
There was never talk of collusion or Russian government help for Trump.
It’s all fake news ginned up by the media to distract Trump from enacting his agenda.
With Mueller clearing Trump, Jr. and Manafort to testify in public, it proves just how little there was to their meeting.
G’ day…Ciao…
Helen and Moe Lauzier
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