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.)

As reported by Byron York…

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.)

Now that the Trump administration is signaling that it is looking through his Cabinet departments for available funds to build the border wall, there’s talk Trump’s caving.

Fact is, he’s giving congressional Republicans the time to work out how to join with him on border-wall funding legislation…a President’s job politically is to help his Party win.

But, if enough Republicans can’t be found to push a project through, President Trump’s top priority is national security; controlling our southern border falls within that priority.

If the GOP signals it believes it doesn’t have the willpower or constituent support to go along with the President’s agenda, and a shutdown would hurt them, he’ll do what he can to protect their status by not forcing Congress to do it’s job, and fund another way.

A wall will be built…with the help of Congress, or without their help.

This RedState.com article sums it up in mind-numbing accuracy…“After Two Years of Exhaustive Investigations, Journalists Still Cannot Corroborate Any Allegations In Dossier Which Triggered Russian Collusion Probe”

“For over two years, teams of investigators and reporters have thoroughly examined the claims contained in the Steele Dossier and have been unable to corroborate a single one. Trump’s presidency has been held hostage for two years now over a document that is nothing but a collection of lies.”  (bold, underline emphasis added)

In a truth-stranger-than-fiction reality, Democrats and their media masters unable to acknowledge their failure in a terrible candidacy of Hillary Clinton have destroyed not only the credibility of mainstream media, but our trust in America’s federal agencies.

Is there anyone honest on the Left, willing to call a halt to their madness?

Trump supporters should not let FakeNews create a distrustful environment over the build-a-wall promises of President Trump, because it’s gonna get done, sooner or later.

Sure – he promised a wall…but he didn’t promise to destroy Republicans in Congress.

Part of his job as the Leader of his Party is to give them every opportunity to succeed; time and again, he’s opened the door for Republicans in Congress to get on his wagon.

He wins BIG if Congress funds the wall, but still wins if he has to go around them. Give him the benefit of the doubt – he wants the congressional GOP to be winners too.

Failing that, he can still build the wall…so, give him credit for trying to help his Party.

All this hype over him backtracking on the wall is just that…HYPE.

Calling for the National Enquirer to be charged with campaign finance violations for not running a story on Pres. Trump prior to his election could have serious consequences.

It’s being claimed that an act of not printing a negative story is a campaign contribution.

But, extending the logic, then it means RUNNING stories must be contributions as well.

(Besides…‘freedom of the press’ also means they’re free to run or not run stories.)

Can’t wait to see how this plays out.

Daily Caller: “New Facts Indicate Mueller Destroyed Evidence, Obstructed Justice”

Evidence destruction and obstruction of justice are serious charges, and regardless of the issue, would qualify as all the reason needed to disqualify an ongoing investigation.

“The Inspector General of the Department of Justice reported late last week that Mueller wiped Peter Strzok’s cell phone of all messages during the crucial time he was working for special counsel. The IG was unable to recover any text messages from it.”

(bold, underline emphasis added)

What credibility is left for an investigative team (and its leader) guilty of such actions?

Talk about gall…

We’ve noted in the past that openly enticing illegal immigrant behavior will always put the most vulnerable at risk; now a 7-yr old Guatemalan has died after being rescued by Border Patrol agents, during an illegal crossing with her father into New Mexico.

Seriously dehydrated and malnourished, she suffered seizures, dying in a hospital.

And the very same Party encouraging child endangerment wants accountability?

Look in the mirror, you damn fools.

Speculation of how many votes candidate Trump would’ve lost if his ‘womanizing’ had become known is laughable, when you consider how ‘Slick Willie’ Clinton and Ted ‘waitress sandwich’ Kennedy were idolized for their sexual escapades.

Based on those examples, arguably Trump might have actually received more votes…

…from Democrats.

American Thinker reports: “Inspector general discovers that Team Mueller scrubbed Strzok and Page text messages during critical post-election period”

“Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office (SCO) destroyed a potential treasure trove of evidence about the “insurance policy” Trump-haters Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were implementing against the Trump administration as it prepared to take office and establish itself in its first few months.” (underline, bold emphasis added)

This isn’t the first time exculpatory evidence has been sent down the memory hole folks.

DOJ lawyers on the Mueller team have done it before, to the extent that a U.S. District judge routinely instructs prosecutors to turn over ALL exculpatory evidence to the defense prior to starting court proceedings, because of these same tactics.

The special counsel records officer who allowed the texts on the cell phone to be scrubbed “reviewed Strzok’s DOJ issued iPhone after he returned it to the SCO and determined it contained no substantive text messages.” Yeah…right.

Mueller and his DOJ cohort don’t mind framing innocent men and don’t mind fabricating and hiding information as it fit their agenda before: why expect anything different now?

But, hey, nothing to see here…move along…

(Meantime, wonder if anyone’s called the NSA?)