Democrats defied tradition by attempting a filibuster of a SCOTUS nominee.

THAT’S the real news.

Senate Republicans simply followed the latest Democrat tradition of changing rules to get confirmation of Neil Gorsuch done…you wouldn’t know that from headlines.

Ssooo…

Fake-news claims Republicans went nuclear…by following in Democrat footsteps.

Haven’t heard anything on this yet, but we imagine the political abuse of power that is using surveillance intercepts and leaking them must impact our foreign affairs.

After all, what foreign power wants their sensitive comments revealed to the world?

From a Democrat perspective, a side-effect benefit to hamstring Republicans.

It’s reported that, after commenting on Syria using chemical agents to attack rebels, President Trump condemned that act and vowed to ‘fix’ the Middle East.

There’s every evidence most actors in the Middle East don’t want to be fixed.

And, when you add to the mix a religion that places sanctity of life as a lower priority than its religious doctrine, it leaves little hope that anything can be done.

Until that region’s primary religion is ready to make sanctity of life and tolerance of other religions as its highest priority, their self-inflicted misery will continue.

From Supreme Court confirmations to budget issues, Republicans control Congress, and therefore have control over the rules with which it presides, in both Houses.

They can’t hide behind rules that they allow to obstruct them.

The game is up…govern, or resign.

As Obama’s serial liar...errrr…national security advisor Susan Rice makes the round of safe interviews with lapdog media, claiming her unmasking activities weren’t political…

…we’re reminded of her Sunday round of TV ‘news’ cycle Benghazi lies…

…and Bowe Bergdahl lies…

…and ‘I don’t know anything about unmasking’ lies (just days ago)…

…before asking ourselves…

…REALLY?

If you’d prefer, though, put her serial lying history aside, and ponder this: she was working directly for Obama as an ADVISER, not an analyst.

As Andy McCarthy points out, the White House does NOT do investigations…they’re a consumer of information from Intel sources.

If unmasking had been required as part of any investigation, it would have been the intel agency requesting that act…

…not Obama’s White House flunkies.

(And, as Rush points out just moments ago, if it ‘wasn’t political’, where and when did Rice ask for Hillary – or any other Democrat – to be unmasked?)

It was political, and no amount of lapdog media spin can refute that.

If unmasking Republican opponents wasn’t political (as caught-out Democrat operatives will no doubt claim), refer to nsa adviser Rice’s lie just days ago that she ‘didn’t know anything’ about unmasking…that SHE ordered…

…former Obama administration Farkas’s comments on gathering/dispersing as much unmasked intel info as possible…

…then, ask yourself why Obama widened the scope of Intel dispersal just days before he left office.

Democrats have a standard that Republicans should begin to apply in this matter…

…regarding the appearance of impropriety.

As even more news comes out about the Obama team abusing signal-Intel, is it beyond belief that they saw Trump as the beatable candidate…

…and so, used surveille data to sabotage his GOP primary opponents?

Just askin’…

The sham-stream media frantically tries to stuff the manure back into their jackass, but this egregious abuse of power can’t be obscured or ignored any longer.

Double standards are a given, but sooner or later there comes a tipping point, and the latest news of how Nat’l Security Adviser Rice abused intelligence may be it.

She answered directly to Obama, and the data she ordered collected on Mr. Trump (and God knows how many other GOP rivals) was made widely available by the last-minute machinations of then-president Obama, before his leaving office.

Circumstantial it may be, but the abuse of office by Obama, and provable abuses by Rice and her aides, call for immediate articles of impeachment, followed by criminal trials against those who, through organized acts, violated RICO statutes.

Only a crazy Left base would argue there’s nothing to see here. Any honest person, no matter how ideologically biased, sees abuse of intelligence data as wrong…

…and BEYOND THE PALE.

A news agency reports that “the unmasked names of Trump aides were given to officials at the National Security Council (NSC), the Department of Defense, James Clapper, President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, and John Brennan, Obama’s CIA Director.” They should all be indicted as co-conspirators.

We tire asking how media would act if this were done by a Republican: relentless howling would’ve ensued, if Obama had been such a target.

(And, can they finally shut up their disingenuous lie about Russia-Trump collusion? With the latest news, knowing he was spied on for a year, how empty can that get?)

Is political weaponizing of national security intelligence gathering the final straw? Or must we continue to live with a Democrat double-standard where anything goes?

Hopefully, honest Democrats will demand perpetrators in their midst be accountable.

But we’ve seen the raw deceit and thuggery of their last administration, so hold on.

There’s an old adage that ‘patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel’…

…we have no doubt Obama, Rice, and their cohort will soon seek that refuge.

Anyone questioning why Obama’s not being interviewed about Surveille-Gate?

Which, by the way, tells us who the sham-stream media thinks is behind it.

The Left is going whacko over Pres Trump negating Obama’s coal/fracking policies.

Why?

According to IBD, from 2007 to 2015, “without any government mandates”, our CO2 emissions have dropped over 12% (and overall carbon intensity dropped as well).

Fossil fuel is still the least expensive energy source, and you’d think the ‘champion’ of the little people would want to keep fuel and electricity costs affordable, right?

So…why is the Left going crazy over Pres Trump’s actions that will do so?