As reported at CNBC.com: “Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, undergoes lung procedure to remove cancerous growth”
But, wait…wasn’t it Obama who said seniors at a certain point should just take a pill?
“Trump calls for ‘nuclear option’ to ram border wall funding through the Senate”
Yeah…
…the anti/never-Trump crowd need to look up ‘caving’ in their dictionaries, ‘cuz if that Washington Examiner headline is accurate (and it is) that’s not what caving looks like.
House Republicans passed a bill with border wall funding, now it’s up to the Senate, and that body has a super-majority (60-vote) rule for this type legislation…
…which means Democrat votes are needed to get it passed.
But, as we noted before, the GOP Senate can change rules – like Harry Reid did.
Invoking the ‘nuclear option’ means just that…change rules to a simple majority.
Senate Republicans need to grow a spine, and get it done.
You can bet the leading Democrat politicians sneering at a southern border wall as ‘not effective’ themselves live in gated, secure communities – protected from the masses.
If ‘walls don’t work’ then why are THEY behind them?
A border wall is like lockable doors on a home…both keep unwelcome visitors at bay.
Next time a liberal buddy says walls don’t work, ask them if they’ll live without doors.
Arguably, not voting is just as private an issue as voting.
So, how can ballot-harvesting be legal, when it’s an invasion of privacy?
Developing…
Told you so – Fox News headliner moments ago…“Trump throws government funding deal into doubt, presses anew for border wall money”
Grow a spine, Republicans.
What else is new? In a fit of predictable hysteria, Democrat senator (writ small) “Schumer calls on Trump to pull attorney general pick over Mueller memo“
That Trump nominee, you see, wrote a reasoned article on what was known as publicly available information on the obstruction charges Mueller was considering vs Trump.
God forbid a reasoned individual should be Attorney General.
Andy McCarthy has a great in-depth analysis concerning that article William Barr wrote, saying “Barr, whom President Trump has nominated to be the next attorney general, was not prejudging the facts. He was addressing the law and Justice Department policy. With great persuasive force, the 19-page memo posits two contentions. First, based on what is publicly known, the special counsel’s theory of obstruction is legally flawed. Second, if a Justice Department investigation is going to be used to take down a democratically elected president, the social cohesion of our body politic demands that it be over a clear, very serious crime, not a novel and aggressive theory of prosecution.”
“Legally flawed” prosecution is a serious matter.
Likewise, to “take down a democratically elected president” is a serious matter.
When a nominee for Attorney General is not worthy of consideration because he/she is willing to address serious matters in a forthright, open manner, it’s silly season in DC.
Especially if we consider that, on a wide range of issues liberal Supreme Court Justices like Ginsberg has opined…should she recuse on abortion and gun-ownership rights?
Schumer is a blithering idiot – a symbolic image of New York elitists.
Weighing in on legal issues is what reasoning legal minds do, Chuck. Get over it.
Next time your Liberal buddy complains the rich are benefitting most, give ’em this…
“Look Who’s Benefitting Most from the Trump Boom“
Key takeaway: “A recent Wall Street Journal economic analysis of current jobs reports found that worker wages were starting to rise above inflation and that the biggest percentage gains were showing up in the paychecks of the lowest income workers.”
And then, there’s this: “employment data is showing the same positive trends for those demographic groups that are often on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder: young people, those without high school degrees, Hispanics, and blacks. The Bureau of Labor statistics found that over Trump’s first two years in office, these groups experienced the largest declines in their group unemployment rates…”
The irony? “…every group that was least likely to vote for Trump has seen an abnormally large gain in jobs and wages. Our supposed racist president has delivered outsized economic gains for blacks and Hispanics – with both groups now experiencing the lowest unemployment rates in at least a half century.”
And the FINAL irony? “…income gains under Mr. Obama were mostly concentrated in those Americans in the top 20 percent of income. This is why the income gap between rich and poor rose nearly every year under Obama.”
(bold, underline emphasis added in each excerpt)
Numbers don’t lie, but think you’ll hear any of this from the FakeNews media?
CNS News: “Least-Educated State: California No. 1 in Percentage of Residents 25 and Older Who Never Finished 9th Grade; No. 50 in High School Graduates”
Class dismissed.
Congressman Ryan is leaving, and his good-bye address should be considered a mea culpa…he laments all the ‘urgent’ legislation the Nation needs that didn’t get passed.
But, as he bemoans the partisan nature of a Congress unwilling to do the heavy lifting on immigration and entitlement reform, he hopes we don’t remember one little detail…
…Republicans controlled the House, and could’ve done that heavy lifting.
And, before anyone points out the super-majority rule on passing legislation involving any expenditures, it would be wise to consider this…rules could’ve been changed.
Besides, there’s always legislative sleight-of-hand that could’ve been employed, like the kind Democrats used to get Obamacare through the Senate on a simple majority vote.
(Who remembers the Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act, a defunct House bill, was amended with the ENTIRE TEXT of a health bill to get it passed…as Obamacare?)
So, MISTER Ryan…
…if items of such magnitude were so critical, so vital to America’s future, why didn’t you and the Republicans running Congress do WHATEVER was needed to get it done?
We’re faced with 2 alternatives: either ‘urgent’ needs for America aren’t all that urgent, and it’s just partisan hype meant to make the opposition to such needs look bad…
…or they ARE URGENT – and the GOP failed America – in which case…
…Congressional Republicans are a national disgrace.
PERIOD.
FULL.STOP.
(But look at the bright side…there are days left in 2018 to do it right.)
(Yeah – like that’ll happen.)
The Insp. Gen’l for the Dept of Justice discovered anti-Trump text messages of the FBI love-trio (Page/Strzok) on their FBI cell phones, and informed special counsel Mueller.
Mueller had hired them in May ’17 as part of his Trump-Russia ‘collusion’ investigative team, and they “were issued special counsel iPhones. They apparently used those phones in addition to the Samsung S7s, which they still had”.
As a result of the IG information, Mueller removed them from the team: Lisa Page left July 15, 2017, and Peter Strzok was gone in ‘late July 2017’…but the plot thickens.
As York notes…Mueller “thought the situation serious enough to remove Strzok and Page…Yet…the Mueller office stripped Page’s iPhone of all data without ever checking on its contents, and they stripped Strzok’s iPhone after a perfunctory check that may or may not have taken note of the content of its text messages. When Horowitz asked for and (belatedly) received the phones, he could recover nothing from them.”
Remember, Page/Strzok had been using those special counsel cell-phones for the two months prior to their final departure, in conjunction with their investigative efforts. And Mueller discharged them because of the virulent texting that had been going on prior, yet made no effort to protect the SC-issued iPhones, letting them get scrubbed.
Either Mueller’s not the sharpest pencil in the box, or he’s duplicitous in spoliation.
Either way, it disqualifies him as capable of a special counsel investigation. Hell, based on this information it disqualifies him from holding any kind of office…or a law degree.
(One can only hope somebody in the IG office remembers there’s an NSA.)