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Big Brother is Watching
This guy is enough of a jerk to qualify as a liberal Democrat. Good God! He’s dumb enough to be a Massachusetts Democrat.
House Expands Hillary Clinton Email Probe – Will Question FBI Director’s Chief of Staff
Why hasn’t Hillary Clinton been prosecuted for sending and disseminating highly classified materials on a home email server? We’re about to get answers, as Clinton faces serious legal issues.
The FBI chief of staff and senior counselor to Director Christopher Wray will meet with the House Oversight Committee on Thursday. And Republicans on the Committee are ready to demand real answers.
The House Oversight Committee, through a spokesperson, has confirmed Jim Rybicki will testify as part of their investigation into Obama’s Department of Justice probe into Clinton’s illegally operated private home email server. That initial investigation led to former FBI Director James Comey quickly announcing, in the heat of the 2016 presidential race, there would be no criminal charges filed against the former Secretary of State and Democratic nominee, despite overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing.
This joint investigation was announced by the House Oversight and Judiciary committees in December. The goals of the investigation have been announced by Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), and they are intent on exploring just how much of a role various FBI and Justice Department officials played in the Hillary Clinton probes.
In a letter to department leadership, they requested interviews with Rybicki, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer who traded anti-Trump text messages with another FBI agent who had also been assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
McCabe was the first FBI insider to be questioned, having been grilled just before the Christmas holiday. He has announced his plans to retire in early 2018.
McCabe was the first FBI insider to be questioned, having been grilled just before the Christmas holiday. He has announced his plans to retire in early 2018.
The most shocking development we have learned after the 2016 election is how members of the Deep State, including top FBI officials, were using their official capacities to assist Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. These agents are charged with protecting America’s national security interests and are supposed to be nonpartisan, but these investigations have shown that even the FBI is not immune from partisanship. Considering what we know now, it’s amazing that Donald Trump was still able to pull off a victory.
Individuals have been charged and imprisoned for far less than what Hillary Clinton has been accused of. The information on her server was accessed by foreign governments, and that included details of agents actively in harm’s way. There is no excuse for how Hillary handled national security while selling access to the Obama Administration through Clinton Foundation donations. And it’s time for serious legal consequences.
CNN’s Ana Navarro Says Trump Is A Racist if He Fails to Pass DACA, Calls Him a Vile Word
Have to love it when the mainstream media is outraged at President Trump’s language, then sets out to one-up him when it comes to curse words.
Political commentator Ana Navarro, CNN’s version of a ‘Republican,’ insisted that the only way President Trump could prove he’s not a racist is by passing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
She then punctuated her point by calling him a vulgar term in Spanish.
“If @realDonaldTrump wants to try to do something to contradict the widely-held perception that he is a dark-hearted racist, there is a quick way for him to do it: exert some damn leadership and pass #DACA,” Navarro wrote on Twitter.
“Pass it now,” she added. “¡Coño!”
‘¡Coño!’ according to sites like Urban Dictionary and SpeakingLatino.com, can mean several things, none of which are particularly lady-like. The word can equate to the c-word in English, or it can mean ‘p****.’ Some translations also indicate it could mean ‘motherf*****.’
The CNN commentator didn’t apologize for her crass language, instead mocking conservative websites for actually being able to translate her Spanish.
Navarro is a frequent critic of President Trump and conservatives in general, which makes her even more of a darling of CNN as their token Republican.
She was recently caught cropping a photo in an attempt to paint the Trump Administration as a bunch of ‘old white guys.’
Navarro likely has a personal vendetta against the President, since he’s been calling her out as a ‘loser’ for many years.
She doesn’t deliver votes, she doesn’t deliver real news, and she sure as hell doesn’t deliver ratings for CNN.
Economists Reveal Which President They Credit For U.S. Economic Growth, Stock Market
"Happily for President Trump, the pros agree with him."
By RYAN SAAVEDRA
Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump has repeatedly touted the flourishing economic climate in the United States as being one of the major successes of his administration — a fact that goes either largely unreported in the media or is reported as the fruits of the Obama administration. But a new report shows that economists agree with Trump’s assessment.
The Wall Street Journal asked 68 economists spread across academia and throughout the business world who was responsible for the booming economy, and, "happily for President Trump, the pros agree with him," The Hill reported. "A recent survey of economists suggest it is President Trump, and not Obama, who should be taking a bow."
Key takeaways from the report:
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Most of the economists said Trump was "'somewhat' or 'strongly' positive for job creation, gross domestic productgrowth and the rising stock market."
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The experts said Trump’s decision to cut regulations and cut taxes were a major factor.
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The group gave Obama "neutral-to-negative for GDP growth and negative for long-term growth," while scoring Trump as "neutral to positive for long-term gains."
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The group of economists said Trump scores higher than Obama because business confidence is higher and business investments are increasing under Trump.
The report comes as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the recent GOP tax reform bill was "insignificant," and only gave "pathetic" "crumbs" to workers — which stands in stark contrast to how she described Obama’s $40 payroll tax cut.
As previously reported by The Daily Wire, major economic victories for the Trump administration include:
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Dow Hits 25,000 For The First Time Ever
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Job Creation In December Smashed Expectations
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Job-Cut Announcements In 2017 See Lowest Level Since 1990
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Manufacturing In The U.S. Had Its Best Year In 2017 Since 2004
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Approximately 100 Companies Have Announced Or Are Planning To Announce Bonuses, Wage Hikes, And Charitable Donations Due To GOP Tax Reform
President Trump insisted on taking a cognitive assessment exam as part of his annual physical last week, and scored a 30/30 on the test, confirming his doctor's belief that he does not show any signs of mental deterioration.
"I had no concerns about the president's cognitive ability," Dr. Ronny Jackson, Trump's in-house doctor who oversaw his physical exam at Washington's Walter Reed Medical Center last week, told reporters on Tuesday.
Jackson said Trump nevertheless requested that he undergo a neurological exam, presumably to combat heightened speculation among his critics about his fitness for office and overall mental health.
"He mentally is very sharp, very tact," Jackson told reporters, noting that Trump scored 30 out of of 30 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a test that can help detect mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's.
"The cognitive test, it's well-respected. It's a test that's used throughout the United States," he said. "The fact that the president got 30/30 on that exam, there's no indication whatsoever that he has any cognitive issues."
In a book released earlier this week, several unnamed White House aides said Trump has been known to constantly repeat himself and forget the names of key people in his circle and the West Wing. The passages led critics of the president to suggest he may be unfit for office.
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, for instance, claimed on air that Trump may be suffering from "dementia." Others suggested he may not have the stamina to spend three more years in office.
But Jackson disputed that narrative on Tuesday, suggesting the president has "incredible genes" and is extremely healthy despite having no regular exercise regime or diet.
"All clinical data indicates that [Trump] is currently very healthy, and that he will remain so for the duration of his presidency," he said.
DHS seeking to charge leaders of sanctuary cities
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen confirmed Tuesday that her department has asked federal prosecutors to see if they can lodge criminal charges against sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with federal deportation efforts.
“The Department of Justice is reviewing what avenues may be available,” Ms. Nielsen told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Her confirmation came after California’s new sanctuary law went into effect Jan. 1, severely restricting cooperation the state or any of its localities could offer.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan says those policies put his officers and local communities at more risk because they have to arrest illegal immigrants out in the community.
Mr. Homan told The Washington Times last July that he wanted to see local officials charged as complicit in human smuggling if they shielded illegal immigrants through sanctuary policies.
Mr. Homan told The Washington Times last July that he wanted to see local officials charged as complicit in human smuggling if they shielded illegal immigrants through sanctuary policies.
Mr. Homan repeated that demand in an interview with Fox News earlier this year, setting off a firestorm of criticism.
House will vote to fund government until Feb. 16
by Susan Ferrechio
Temporary government funding expires on Friday, Jan. 19, and the federal government would partially shut down unless new legislation is passed into law by then. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)
The House this week will try to pass a bill to temporarily fund the government for another four weeks, until Feb. 16, a GOP aide told the Washington Examiner.
Temporary government funding expires on Friday and the federal government would partially shut down unless new legislation is passed into law by then.
The House will consider the measure first and then send it to the Senate, where Democrats are threatening to vote against it because Republicans refuse to include a provision to protect so-called Dreamers, who came to the United States illegally as children.
While the House likely has the votes to pass the measure with only Republican support, the Senate filibuster rule means the upper chamber will need nine Democrats to clear the bill for President Trump's signature. Republicans may include disaster aid and a bill reauthorizing funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program, which would make it more difficult for Democrats to vote "no."
The stopgap measure is the fourth bill introduced to temporarily fund the fiscal 2018 government budget. Republicans and Democrats have not been able to agree to a long-term spending deal.
by Susan Ferrechio
Temporary government funding expires on Friday, Jan. 19, and the federal government would partially shut down unless new legislation is passed into law by then. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)The House this week will try to pass a bill to temporarily fund the government for another four weeks, until Feb. 16, a GOP aide told the Washington Examiner.
Temporary government funding expires on Friday and the federal government would partially shut down unless new legislation is passed into law by then.
The House will consider the measure first and then send it to the Senate, where Democrats are threatening to vote against it because Republicans refuse to include a provision to protect so-called Dreamers, who came to the United States illegally as children.
While the House likely has the votes to pass the measure with only Republican support, the Senate filibuster rule means the upper chamber will need nine Democrats to clear the bill for President Trump's signature. Republicans may include disaster aid and a bill reauthorizing funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program, which would make it more difficult for Democrats to vote "no."
The stopgap measure is the fourth bill introduced to temporarily fund the fiscal 2018 government budget. Republicans and Democrats have not been able to agree to a long-term spending deal.
Donald Trump Insults White House Press Corps. by Ordering Them ‘Out’
By Jim E
President Trump has been under a new storm of attacks ever since he allegedly referred to third world countries as “sh*tholes” during a private meeting with congressional Democrats and Republicans last week.
The outrage has reached a fever pitch, and some liberals are actually weeping over the comments. That’s right, weeping.
Over the weekend, you couldn’t read a major news site without encountering journalists screaming that Trump was a racist for the comments, despite the fact that every American has said the exact same thing at some point in their life.
It’s obnoxious behavior, but it’s par for the course for the contemporary media. The press has long given up the veil of impartiality and revealed itself to be partisan mouthpiece of the Democratic Party. That truth couldn’t be more apparent in all the fake reporting going on around Trump, whether it’s through publishing fake scoops or using fake pictures to slander President Trump.
Today, it looks like the President had enough of the media’s dirty reporting. At the end of a press conference with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Trump tired of the aggressive questioning from the White House press corps. In one word, he ordered them
out of the room. Get ready, cause this is epic:
Wow! He just ordered them out of the room like how you order your dog to go outside and take care of his business.
The media won’t be happy about this treatment, but if they’re going to act like a bunch of misbehaved hounds, they deserve to be treated as such.
Just look at CNN’s resident whiner correspondent Jim Acosta:
Oh, boo hoo, Jimmy! Sorry President Trump didn’t answer your inappropriate ‘gotcha’ question. Better luck next time!
The outrage has reached a fever pitch, and some liberals are actually weeping over the comments. That’s right, weeping.
Over the weekend, you couldn’t read a major news site without encountering journalists screaming that Trump was a racist for the comments, despite the fact that every American has said the exact same thing at some point in their life.
It’s obnoxious behavior, but it’s par for the course for the contemporary media. The press has long given up the veil of impartiality and revealed itself to be partisan mouthpiece of the Democratic Party. That truth couldn’t be more apparent in all the fake reporting going on around Trump, whether it’s through publishing fake scoops or using fake pictures to slander President Trump.
Today, it looks like the President had enough of the media’s dirty reporting. At the end of a press conference with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Trump tired of the aggressive questioning from the White House press corps. In one word, he ordered them
out of the room. Get ready, cause this is epic:
Wow! He just ordered them out of the room like how you order your dog to go outside and take care of his business.
The media won’t be happy about this treatment, but if they’re going to act like a bunch of misbehaved hounds, they deserve to be treated as such.
Just look at CNN’s resident whiner correspondent Jim Acosta:
Oh, boo hoo, Jimmy! Sorry President Trump didn’t answer your inappropriate ‘gotcha’ question. Better luck next time!
Muhammad resigns as prophet amid sexual assault allegations
On the heels of this week's resignation of Karl Marx as leading figure in the communist movement due to allegations of sexual misconduct, the triggered social justice organizers of the #MeToo collective have claimed the scalp of another progressive icon.
At a press conference, supported by her family and lawyers, a woman named Aisha claimed that she was taken as a bride by Mr. Muhammad when she was nine years old. When asked why it took so long for her to come out, she stated that she feared nobody would believe her since the testimony of a woman is not worth a lot in her social circle. The crying woman also confessed that Mr. Muhammad used to beat her when she displeased him, and she feared physical retribution.
Mr. Beelzebub, the lawyer representing the accused prophet, denied the gravity of the accusations, saying that "everyone was doing it at the time," and that his client "did not remember the situation in quite the same way."
But later that day more stories emerged from other victims, encouraged by Aisha's testimony and resulting in the viral #MuhammadToo campaign on Twitter.
The first ones to come out were members of a Muslim Boy Scout group, who claimed that Mr. Muhammad ordered their fathers to beat them if they refused to pray. They were followed by a slave girl who was a victim of sex trafficking and claimed that the Prophet of Islam was present while she was being gang-raped shortly after his companions captured her and turned her into a sex slave.
These revelations led the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, the prestigious Islamic university in Cairo, to issue a statement, calling on Mr. Muhammad to step aside. "I've struggled with this decision because he's been a good Prophet, and I consider him a friend," the statement said. "But that cannot excuse his behavior and his mistreatment of women."
Reacting to pressure from colleagues and the media, Mr. Muhammad called a press conference and declared that after a good deal of soul-searching and consulting with his family members and lawyers, he finally made the tough decision to step down as prophet - a move that many in the Muslim community saw as a shock, followed by a sudden sense of relief.
The first world leader to respond was the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran. "I consider Mr. Muhammad a dear friend and respect his accomplishments, but he has a higher obligation to his believers," Mr. Khamenei said in a short statement. "Now that his legacy is tainted beyond repair, I call for the immediate dissolution of Islam as an ideology and a political movement. We are making preparations to convert the Islamic Republic of Iran back to Zoroastrianism immediately. Praise Zarathustra."
Worldwide, Muslims are now discovering further evidence of Mr. Muhammad's past misdeeds in the Islamic holy texts, which has remained overlooked for 14 centuries, despite having been reproduced in millions of copies, written or printed in black ink on white paper.
"If only I had known!" cried King Salman of Saudi Arabia, who spoke on behalf of the world's majority of Muslims. "Now that I'm reading the Quran more thoroughly, I'm suddenly finding all kinds of sexual misconduct and other improper behavior. All this talk about killing apostates, terrorism, and torture. Who could have guessed? He seemed like such a nice gentleman."
King Salman has not yet made a decision on what new replacement religion he will impose on his country, but insiders have indicated he is "showing an interest in Judaism."
People in the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank celebrated the resignation today by dancing in the streets and passing out candy to children. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, insisted that from now on he wanted to be known only as "Mr. Mo" and described the new faith of his people as "officially atheist."
With no more reason for strife and jihad to continue, Mr. Mo set up a telephone call with Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu, proposing to start negotiations about the incorporation of the territories previously controlled by the PLO and HAMAS into the state of Israel. "Because after all," the PLO leader explained, "their army has hotter chicks."
Linda Sarsour was seen entering a nunnery. According to inside sources, she will henceforth be known as "Sister Linda of the Sacred Heart." The abbess declined an interview, saying only that "Sister Linda has taken a vow of silence, to atone for her sins. Leave her alone. She has suffered enough."
The website The Religion of Peace, known to keep track of jihad terror worldwide, has acknowledged a complete lack of new material since Mr. Muhammad's resignation and announced that it will probably have to shut down. "The world seems to have suddenly become a less violent and a much safer place," their editorial stated, asking readers to contact them if they find a reasonable explanation for this phenomenon.
Manufacturers of real news, CNN and BBC, were quick to point out that this newfound tranquility should not make us jump to conclusions, stressing that "world peace has nothing to do with the disappearance of Islam, and saying otherwise makes one a bigoted racist or maybe even a Trump supporter."
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For the readers who would like to learn more about the now abolished religion known as "Islam," we heartily recommend the new, guaranteed Non-Fake-News publication, The Gospel According to Muhammad.
It is available on Amazon, with a foreword by Comrade Red Square, People's Director, himself. Buy your copy now, before the thought police raids our clandestine printing machine.
Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer’s (N.Y.) efforts to unify Democrats and prevent a shutdown are complicated by lawmakers with presidential hopes who are pushing for a hard-line stance against any short-term spending measure that doesn’t protect certain young immigrants from deportation.
Senate Democrats such as Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Kamala Harris of California have signaled they will not support a short-term spending bill that leaves the fate of these immigrants, often called Dreamers, up in the air.
All three potential presidential candidates, along with two others, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), voted against a recent four-week spending stopgap that did not address the plight of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
They argue that taking a principled stand won’t hurt Democrats in tough races because there’s strong bipartisan support for protecting Dreamers.
One Democrat close to Harris said the senator is open to a deal, “but she wants to see what it looks like.”
“She has said she wouldn’t vote for any spending bill without DACA being addressed,” the Democrat said. “She’s open to bipartisan negotiation, but she’s not going to vote for a bill until DACA is addressed beforehand.”
After all, the Democrat added, “it’s up to Republicans. They control the House, the Senate and the White House. It’s their job to fund the government.”
Democrats up for reelection in states won by President Trump in 2016 have sung a different tune.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D), who saw Trump win his home state of West Virginia by 42 points, says he won’t vote against a short-term spending measure that doesn’t include legislation to replace DACA.
“We’re trying to find [a deal], but shutting down the government is not going to help them,” Manchin told reporters Tuesday.
Democratic aides brush off any sense of friction, saying Schumer’s job isn’t really that tough on the issue because Republicans will take the blame for a shutdown given their control of both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Senior Democratic leadership aides are trying to assure jittery incumbents. They emphasize that Trump’s combustible remarks — he told officials at a White House meeting last week that the United States shouldn’t take more immigrants from “shithole countries” — are giving them more leverage in the blame game.
“At this point, the blame for any catastrophe this week is squarely on the president’s back,” said a Democratic leadership aide. “Senate Democrats have been reasonable, we compromised on the wall, on chain migration, and ended the diversity lottery in a bipartisan deal.”
A bipartisan group of senators including Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) and Republican Sens. Jeff Flake (AZ) and Lindsey Graham (SC) plan to introduce a compromise immigration bill Wednesday. The legislation, however, failed to win Trump’s support last week.
Democrats won a victory the last time the government shutdown in 2013 because of a fight over ObamaCare, but the present situation poses more risk.
Control of the Senate in 2019 depends on the reelection of 10 Democrats in states that voted for Trump, including Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia.
Some allied Democratic strategists agree with leadership aides who predict that vulnerable centrists have little to fear because Republicans would likely take the blame for a shutdown.
“I think fundamentally this is a bigger problem for Republicans than it is for Democrats,” said Jon Selib, a Democratic strategist who served as chief of staff to then-Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.).
He believes a shutdown over immigration would pose a bigger problem for Sen. Dean Heller, a vulnerable Republican whose home state of Nevada has a large Hispanic population, than any Democrat up for reelection.
“How would you like to be Dean Heller this week? He’s pinched up against a Hispanic constituency who has proven to turn out and vote and a hard-right-wing base. It’s a really difficult issue for him,” Selib said.
But some Democratic strategists warn that a high-profile fight over immigration is not a smart fight in the states that will determine the next Senate majority.
They say candidates such as Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Heidi Heitkamp(D-N.D.) and Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) are better off debating the recently passed tax-reform bill, which polls suggest is unpopular and seen as tilted toward the rich.
“They’ve got to get back to the issues that impact constituents in their states,” said Steve Jarding, a Democratic strategist and former senior adviser to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “If immigration is not a big issue in their state, why end up talking about it?”
A survey released Tuesday by Hart Research Associates, a Democratic polling firm, showed a majority of respondents in 12 Senate battleground states want to protect Dreamers from deportation and would see Trump and congressional Republicans as more to blame for a shutdown.
Democrats fighting for their political lives aren’t in the mood to take any chances.
Donnelly, who is up for reelection in a state that gave Trump a 19-point margin of victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, said Monday that “Congress needs to do its job and work in a bipartisan way to keep the government open and find a solution to protect DACA youth.”
Tester last month called threatening a government shutdown to gain leverage on immigration “stupid talk.”
“You don’t want to shut the government down,” he warned.
And Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) of Missouri, a state Trump won by nearly 20 points, warned her leadership not to draw a line in the sand over immigration. She also expressed some frustration with the influence of presidential politics.
“We’ve got people running for president all trying to find their base, and then you’ve got people from Trump states that are trying to continue to legislate the way we always have — by negotiation,” she said.
Schumer is also under pressure from activists who were outraged that the December spending bill tiptoed around the immigration debate.
More than a dozen Democratic lawmakers in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus marched over to Schumer’s office in the Capitol last month to ask why he wasn’t rallying his caucus to vote down the spending measure.
Twenty-nine Democrats and Sanders — more than half the Senate Democratic caucus — ended up voting against the measure.
Senate Democrats such as Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Kamala Harris of California have signaled they will not support a short-term spending bill that leaves the fate of these immigrants, often called Dreamers, up in the air.
All three potential presidential candidates, along with two others, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), voted against a recent four-week spending stopgap that did not address the plight of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
They argue that taking a principled stand won’t hurt Democrats in tough races because there’s strong bipartisan support for protecting Dreamers.
One Democrat close to Harris said the senator is open to a deal, “but she wants to see what it looks like.”
“She has said she wouldn’t vote for any spending bill without DACA being addressed,” the Democrat said. “She’s open to bipartisan negotiation, but she’s not going to vote for a bill until DACA is addressed beforehand.”
After all, the Democrat added, “it’s up to Republicans. They control the House, the Senate and the White House. It’s their job to fund the government.”
Democrats up for reelection in states won by President Trump in 2016 have sung a different tune.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D), who saw Trump win his home state of West Virginia by 42 points, says he won’t vote against a short-term spending measure that doesn’t include legislation to replace DACA.
“We’re trying to find [a deal], but shutting down the government is not going to help them,” Manchin told reporters Tuesday.
Democratic aides brush off any sense of friction, saying Schumer’s job isn’t really that tough on the issue because Republicans will take the blame for a shutdown given their control of both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Senior Democratic leadership aides are trying to assure jittery incumbents. They emphasize that Trump’s combustible remarks — he told officials at a White House meeting last week that the United States shouldn’t take more immigrants from “shithole countries” — are giving them more leverage in the blame game.
“At this point, the blame for any catastrophe this week is squarely on the president’s back,” said a Democratic leadership aide. “Senate Democrats have been reasonable, we compromised on the wall, on chain migration, and ended the diversity lottery in a bipartisan deal.”
A bipartisan group of senators including Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) and Republican Sens. Jeff Flake (AZ) and Lindsey Graham (SC) plan to introduce a compromise immigration bill Wednesday. The legislation, however, failed to win Trump’s support last week.
Democrats won a victory the last time the government shutdown in 2013 because of a fight over ObamaCare, but the present situation poses more risk.
Control of the Senate in 2019 depends on the reelection of 10 Democrats in states that voted for Trump, including Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia.
Some allied Democratic strategists agree with leadership aides who predict that vulnerable centrists have little to fear because Republicans would likely take the blame for a shutdown.
“I think fundamentally this is a bigger problem for Republicans than it is for Democrats,” said Jon Selib, a Democratic strategist who served as chief of staff to then-Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.).
He believes a shutdown over immigration would pose a bigger problem for Sen. Dean Heller, a vulnerable Republican whose home state of Nevada has a large Hispanic population, than any Democrat up for reelection.
“How would you like to be Dean Heller this week? He’s pinched up against a Hispanic constituency who has proven to turn out and vote and a hard-right-wing base. It’s a really difficult issue for him,” Selib said.
But some Democratic strategists warn that a high-profile fight over immigration is not a smart fight in the states that will determine the next Senate majority.
They say candidates such as Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Heidi Heitkamp(D-N.D.) and Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) are better off debating the recently passed tax-reform bill, which polls suggest is unpopular and seen as tilted toward the rich.
“They’ve got to get back to the issues that impact constituents in their states,” said Steve Jarding, a Democratic strategist and former senior adviser to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “If immigration is not a big issue in their state, why end up talking about it?”
A survey released Tuesday by Hart Research Associates, a Democratic polling firm, showed a majority of respondents in 12 Senate battleground states want to protect Dreamers from deportation and would see Trump and congressional Republicans as more to blame for a shutdown.
Democrats fighting for their political lives aren’t in the mood to take any chances.
Donnelly, who is up for reelection in a state that gave Trump a 19-point margin of victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, said Monday that “Congress needs to do its job and work in a bipartisan way to keep the government open and find a solution to protect DACA youth.”
Tester last month called threatening a government shutdown to gain leverage on immigration “stupid talk.”
“You don’t want to shut the government down,” he warned.
And Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) of Missouri, a state Trump won by nearly 20 points, warned her leadership not to draw a line in the sand over immigration. She also expressed some frustration with the influence of presidential politics.
“We’ve got people running for president all trying to find their base, and then you’ve got people from Trump states that are trying to continue to legislate the way we always have — by negotiation,” she said.
Schumer is also under pressure from activists who were outraged that the December spending bill tiptoed around the immigration debate.
More than a dozen Democratic lawmakers in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus marched over to Schumer’s office in the Capitol last month to ask why he wasn’t rallying his caucus to vote down the spending measure.
Twenty-nine Democrats and Sanders — more than half the Senate Democratic caucus — ended up voting against the measure.
Marshall Kamena is a registered democrat and was elected mayor of Livermore, CA.. He ran on the democratic ticket as he knew a Bay Area city would never vote for a republican. He is as conservative as they come. He wrote the following.
Trump’s lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.”
Here’s my answer:
We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.
We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain?
We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney?
And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party. I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”
The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale.. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today. The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety. With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War.
During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”
General George Patton was a vulgar-talking. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then, Hitler and the Socialists would barly be five decades into their thousand-year Reich
Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!”
That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.
Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do. First, instead of going after “the fake media” — and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri — Trump isolated CNN.. He made it personal.
Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.”... Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. ... They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices. They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery. The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve.
It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive. Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s church. Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.
So, to my friends on the Left — and the #NeverTrumpers as well — do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years. So, say anything you want about this president - I get it - he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights for America!
Trump’s lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.”
Here’s my answer:
We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.
We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain?
We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney?
And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party. I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”
The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale.. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today. The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety. With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War.
During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”
General George Patton was a vulgar-talking. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then, Hitler and the Socialists would barly be five decades into their thousand-year Reich
Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!”
That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.
Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do. First, instead of going after “the fake media” — and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri — Trump isolated CNN.. He made it personal.
Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.”... Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. ... They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices. They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery. The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve.
It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive. Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s church. Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.
So, to my friends on the Left — and the #NeverTrumpers as well — do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years. So, say anything you want about this president - I get it - he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights for America!
G’ day…Ciao…
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