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Irony of sweet irony. In case you haven't been paying attention to the liberal media (and why would you), the Clinton's are on tour.....and no one cares. (Maybe try New Jersey, everything is unreal there, including Santa Claus....Ha).
Hard to believe, but an ex-President and an ex-president wannabe, one who received $500,000 for a speech he gave in Russia and one who paid Russia at least a half million for a phony dossier, can't get $10 for a ticket......to either show. And that's Canadian money....(less than $2 bucks real money).
But the real irony is this tour was being touted as a grassroots level attempt to preclude hrc's third shot at another run for the residency....of the Big House. First off, hrc has no grassroots appeal, never has. Secondly, the pay for play cash cow, the Clinton Foundation, can't get a promissory promise for a promissory penny. So, an overpriced ticket to an underpriced speaking engagement is pretty much the same thing as an overpriced payment for services not rendered, political or charitable. Nobody wants to put any more money into false promises, false hope, and especially false ex-politicians.
So I'm hoping the tour encompasses new sights and scenary for the Clintons, something to do as well, because take a hint Hillary, your days of peddaling promises for payments are over. Please though, run again and spend some of your millions for a pipedream (like the Mullet probe)....give some back. The time for you to spend money instead of stealing it is long overdue.
As ever was,
Drcoctail
Hard to believe, but an ex-President and an ex-president wannabe, one who received $500,000 for a speech he gave in Russia and one who paid Russia at least a half million for a phony dossier, can't get $10 for a ticket......to either show. And that's Canadian money....(less than $2 bucks real money).
But the real irony is this tour was being touted as a grassroots level attempt to preclude hrc's third shot at another run for the residency....of the Big House. First off, hrc has no grassroots appeal, never has. Secondly, the pay for play cash cow, the Clinton Foundation, can't get a promissory promise for a promissory penny. So, an overpriced ticket to an underpriced speaking engagement is pretty much the same thing as an overpriced payment for services not rendered, political or charitable. Nobody wants to put any more money into false promises, false hope, and especially false ex-politicians.
So I'm hoping the tour encompasses new sights and scenary for the Clintons, something to do as well, because take a hint Hillary, your days of peddaling promises for payments are over. Please though, run again and spend some of your millions for a pipedream (like the Mullet probe)....give some back. The time for you to spend money instead of stealing it is long overdue.
As ever was,
Drcoctail
Trumps Triumps
Trump Triumps
President Trump keeps hitting home runs and what do we hear from the bleachers, the cheap seats?
Nothing....they're so far out in left field they couldn't tell you what inning it is. While President Trump keeps scoring run after run the peanut gallery is covering 'chaos' theory and the tabloid section of the National Enquirer. Yeah they have so much to report...the goings on and outs of the administration, what hooker slept with Trump in 1994 and the 100's of virgins they claim he raped, their Hail Mary hope for the Mullet investigation. They seize on every morsel of the daily muse hoping something sticks. The hate, the obsession so palpable they cannot see how he has kept his promises to the country. But the people do and his support keeps growing.
The Heritage foundation came out with a report that President Trump has already completed 64% of his campaign agenda, far more than even Reagan. Yet the downstream media refuses to cover ANY of his accomplishments, not one. They are intent on destroying one man no matter how it effects the country. And all because they got it all wrong and backed another token candidate, (the boon and a loon/woman) that they had all their money bet on, as well as their credibility.
Tax cuts for a record surpassing economy, trade barriers and tariffs, (even China coming on board as their economy is in recession), North Korea, ISIS, border security (the wall is now on the table and will likely be a big bargaining chip), jobs and unemployment for minorities, deregulation, our veterans, renewed pride and confidence in America, and that's the short list.
osama rattled the conservative base that was complacent for 8 years, but we're always quiet and wide awake. No more token presidents... ....no more PC, no more life participation trophies for the whiny amoebas on the left. You are officially out of the loop, liberals have become personas non gratis, an endangered species we are bent on making extinct. We control two branches, the most long lasting effective ones and we'll add to that for the next 8 years. (Demos won't get a shot at the Senate until 2026).
So crow about winning the midterms, by tradition you scraped by. Forget about legislation, you have no policy agenda save trying to resurrect osamacare and the party is so fractured even hrc is trying to become a moderate. Celebrate now because its going to be a short lived win. MAGA
As ever was,
Drcocktail
President Trump keeps hitting home runs and what do we hear from the bleachers, the cheap seats?
Nothing....they're so far out in left field they couldn't tell you what inning it is. While President Trump keeps scoring run after run the peanut gallery is covering 'chaos' theory and the tabloid section of the National Enquirer. Yeah they have so much to report...the goings on and outs of the administration, what hooker slept with Trump in 1994 and the 100's of virgins they claim he raped, their Hail Mary hope for the Mullet investigation. They seize on every morsel of the daily muse hoping something sticks. The hate, the obsession so palpable they cannot see how he has kept his promises to the country. But the people do and his support keeps growing.
The Heritage foundation came out with a report that President Trump has already completed 64% of his campaign agenda, far more than even Reagan. Yet the downstream media refuses to cover ANY of his accomplishments, not one. They are intent on destroying one man no matter how it effects the country. And all because they got it all wrong and backed another token candidate, (the boon and a loon/woman) that they had all their money bet on, as well as their credibility.
Tax cuts for a record surpassing economy, trade barriers and tariffs, (even China coming on board as their economy is in recession), North Korea, ISIS, border security (the wall is now on the table and will likely be a big bargaining chip), jobs and unemployment for minorities, deregulation, our veterans, renewed pride and confidence in America, and that's the short list.
osama rattled the conservative base that was complacent for 8 years, but we're always quiet and wide awake. No more token presidents... ....no more PC, no more life participation trophies for the whiny amoebas on the left. You are officially out of the loop, liberals have become personas non gratis, an endangered species we are bent on making extinct. We control two branches, the most long lasting effective ones and we'll add to that for the next 8 years. (Demos won't get a shot at the Senate until 2026).
So crow about winning the midterms, by tradition you scraped by. Forget about legislation, you have no policy agenda save trying to resurrect osamacare and the party is so fractured even hrc is trying to become a moderate. Celebrate now because its going to be a short lived win. MAGA
As ever was,
Drcocktail
Interesting piece in the opinion section of the Washington Post last week
In response to:
Trump’s battle to destroy the Mueller investigation is officially doomed
By Paul Waldman
Opinion writer
November 16
President Trump’s long struggle to destroy Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into the Russia scandal is officially over.
The president himself might not quite realize it yet, and he probably doesn’t understand why it happened. But he has lost that conflict, and the reason is simple: His attempts to fight Mueller were so ham-handed and so public that it made it impossible for him and his administration to shut Mueller down.
The president is simply incapable of subtlety and judges everything by how it plays out in the media. But in this case, the more attention he drew to his rage at Mueller, the greater the consequences of moving against Mueller became. And now it’s too late.
Look, for example, at the way he handled Attorney General Jeff Sessions. It was precisely because Trump complained publicly so many times that he was livid with Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia probe — which made it clear that he wanted Sessions to oversee it so Sessions could shut it down — that it became impossible to fire Sessions before the midterm elections. Those public statements created a situation where firing Sessions would create a backlash from Republican senators and a huge media scandal, since Trump himself had all but said it would be for the purpose of obstructing justice.
It was July 2017, sixteen months ago, when Trump told the New York Times that if he had known Sessions would recuse himself from the Russia investigation he never never would have hired him. But it was that very statement that made it so much harder to do what what he wanted and fire Sessions. So months passed while Mueller was diligently working away — amassing evidence, turning witnesses and handing down indictments — and Trump could fire Sessions only after the midterms were over.
Then when he finally did it, Trump once again acted without any subtlety or understanding of how his moves would be interpreted publicly, installing Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general likely in no small part because of Whitaker’s apparent hostility to the Mueller investigation. But Whitaker became so controversial so quickly that it’s now impossible for him to fulfill Trump’s wishes without, once again, causing a huge media scandal. Whitaker now seems to feel that his hands are tied on this matter; the AP reports that “Whitaker told Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham in a meeting on Thursday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation will proceed.”
And now, Republicans in the Senate are pushing the administration to find a new attorney general who can be confirmed quickly — which means someone who will pledge in their confirmation hearings not to interfere in the Mueller investigation:
Even after Trump’s latest attack on Mueller in a flurry of tweets Thursday, most Republicans argue the president will not fire Mueller or derail his investigation because the political consequences would be too great.
But they said that naming an attorney general nominee as soon as possible — specifically one who would vow to preserve the Russia probe — would go a long way in halting legislative momentum to protect Mueller and Democratic messaging that acting attorney general Matt Whitaker will undermine the investigation.
“If we had some confidence that there is somebody nominated that would be confirmed in a reasonable period of time, to me it seems like it would relieve a lot of the controversy,” said Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, who predicted that Whitaker, who was openly critical of the Mueller probe before Trump tapped him for the job, is “not going to be there long.”
Trump’s battle to destroy the Mueller investigation is officially doomed
By Paul Waldman
Opinion writer
November 16
President Trump’s long struggle to destroy Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into the Russia scandal is officially over.
The president himself might not quite realize it yet, and he probably doesn’t understand why it happened. But he has lost that conflict, and the reason is simple: His attempts to fight Mueller were so ham-handed and so public that it made it impossible for him and his administration to shut Mueller down.
The president is simply incapable of subtlety and judges everything by how it plays out in the media. But in this case, the more attention he drew to his rage at Mueller, the greater the consequences of moving against Mueller became. And now it’s too late.
Look, for example, at the way he handled Attorney General Jeff Sessions. It was precisely because Trump complained publicly so many times that he was livid with Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia probe — which made it clear that he wanted Sessions to oversee it so Sessions could shut it down — that it became impossible to fire Sessions before the midterm elections. Those public statements created a situation where firing Sessions would create a backlash from Republican senators and a huge media scandal, since Trump himself had all but said it would be for the purpose of obstructing justice.
It was July 2017, sixteen months ago, when Trump told the New York Times that if he had known Sessions would recuse himself from the Russia investigation he never never would have hired him. But it was that very statement that made it so much harder to do what what he wanted and fire Sessions. So months passed while Mueller was diligently working away — amassing evidence, turning witnesses and handing down indictments — and Trump could fire Sessions only after the midterms were over.
Then when he finally did it, Trump once again acted without any subtlety or understanding of how his moves would be interpreted publicly, installing Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general likely in no small part because of Whitaker’s apparent hostility to the Mueller investigation. But Whitaker became so controversial so quickly that it’s now impossible for him to fulfill Trump’s wishes without, once again, causing a huge media scandal. Whitaker now seems to feel that his hands are tied on this matter; the AP reports that “Whitaker told Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham in a meeting on Thursday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation will proceed.”
And now, Republicans in the Senate are pushing the administration to find a new attorney general who can be confirmed quickly — which means someone who will pledge in their confirmation hearings not to interfere in the Mueller investigation:
Even after Trump’s latest attack on Mueller in a flurry of tweets Thursday, most Republicans argue the president will not fire Mueller or derail his investigation because the political consequences would be too great.
But they said that naming an attorney general nominee as soon as possible — specifically one who would vow to preserve the Russia probe — would go a long way in halting legislative momentum to protect Mueller and Democratic messaging that acting attorney general Matt Whitaker will undermine the investigation.
“If we had some confidence that there is somebody nominated that would be confirmed in a reasonable period of time, to me it seems like it would relieve a lot of the controversy,” said Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, who predicted that Whitaker, who was openly critical of the Mueller probe before Trump tapped him for the job, is “not going to be there long.”
(continued in my first comment below)
It Is Not Over, Arizona Election Results Being Audited For Election Fraud
The Arizona senate election in which Democrat Rep. Kyrsten Sinema defeated Republican Rep. Martha McSally is not over.
McSally lost to Sinema despite a 16,000 vote lead on Election Night as the votes were slowly counted.
Some Republicans have suggested that there could have been shenanigans that led to the defeat and now they are doing something about it.
The GOP is set to do an audit of the Maricopa County votes which took a major swing to the left and evaporated not onlyMcSally’s vote but other Republican candidates too, The Daily Caller reported.
Despite leading on election night and for some time afterward, GOP Rep. Martha McSally ultimately lost her Senate campaign to Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema. The neck-and-neck race took almost a week to call. The former Air Force pilot initially led her Democratic challenger by about 16,000 votes the day after Election Day. However, the slow count of mail-in ballots pushed Sinema into the lead and eventually handed her victory.
McSally wasn’t the only Arizona Republican who saw her lead vanish as outstanding ballots trickled in.
Republican Frank Riggs initially led Democrat Kathy Hoffman in the race for Arizona superintendent of public instruction. He went on to lose about a week later. Katie Hobbs, the Democratic candidate for Arizona Secretary of State, had been trailing Republican Steve Gaynor on Election Day, and The Associated Press went so far as to project Gaynor the winner that night. However, after several days of ballot counting, the Democratic candidate is expected to win that race.
The Arizona GOP wants to review the counting process in Maricopa County, the most populous county in the state.
“Arizona Republican Party Chairman Jonathan Lines today announces the formation of an independent audit to review the actions of the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office in the recent midterm elections,” read a Thursday press release from the Arizona GOP. “It is the AZ GOP’s hope that this audit will produce a fair, factually-based report that will help us better understand what happened in this drawn-out election and address the many concerns of the voters.”
There are a number of issues the audit plans to analyze, such as the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office’s decision to open emergency voting center before Election Day; voting challenges and procedures on Election Day; how ballot counting and results reporting was handled; and allegations of election fraud.
Full story:
McSally lost to Sinema despite a 16,000 vote lead on Election Night as the votes were slowly counted.
Some Republicans have suggested that there could have been shenanigans that led to the defeat and now they are doing something about it.
The GOP is set to do an audit of the Maricopa County votes which took a major swing to the left and evaporated not onlyMcSally’s vote but other Republican candidates too, The Daily Caller reported.
Despite leading on election night and for some time afterward, GOP Rep. Martha McSally ultimately lost her Senate campaign to Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema. The neck-and-neck race took almost a week to call. The former Air Force pilot initially led her Democratic challenger by about 16,000 votes the day after Election Day. However, the slow count of mail-in ballots pushed Sinema into the lead and eventually handed her victory.
McSally wasn’t the only Arizona Republican who saw her lead vanish as outstanding ballots trickled in.
Republican Frank Riggs initially led Democrat Kathy Hoffman in the race for Arizona superintendent of public instruction. He went on to lose about a week later. Katie Hobbs, the Democratic candidate for Arizona Secretary of State, had been trailing Republican Steve Gaynor on Election Day, and The Associated Press went so far as to project Gaynor the winner that night. However, after several days of ballot counting, the Democratic candidate is expected to win that race.
The Arizona GOP wants to review the counting process in Maricopa County, the most populous county in the state.
“Arizona Republican Party Chairman Jonathan Lines today announces the formation of an independent audit to review the actions of the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office in the recent midterm elections,” read a Thursday press release from the Arizona GOP. “It is the AZ GOP’s hope that this audit will produce a fair, factually-based report that will help us better understand what happened in this drawn-out election and address the many concerns of the voters.”
There are a number of issues the audit plans to analyze, such as the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office’s decision to open emergency voting center before Election Day; voting challenges and procedures on Election Day; how ballot counting and results reporting was handled; and allegations of election fraud.
Full story:
online today!
How California conservatives became the intellectual engine of Trumpism
How California conservatives became the intellectual engine of Trumpism
The California GOP got wiped out in the midterms. But the heart of California-style conservatism is stronger than ever.
By Jane Coastonjane.coaston@vox.com Nov 19, 2018, 5:00am EST.
FINALLY, CALIFORNIA IS DOING SOMETHING
AMAZING.
The California GOP got wiped out in the midterms. But the heart of California-style conservatism is stronger than ever.
By Jane Coastonjane.coaston@vox.com Nov 19, 2018, 5:00am EST.
FINALLY, CALIFORNIA IS DOING SOMETHING
AMAZING.
online today!
Ted Cruz and his platform
He is big on emphasizing about the illegal immigrants and their negative impact in our country. A man who was deported 20 times, another for 15 times and so on and on.
My question is, how can that ever be possible. The same man who was convicted and deported came back with 20 different names and never got arrested?
Maybe we should just keep them in our jails for the rest of their living life so they wont come back and commit more crimes? Of course, our expense on keeping them in our prison is not cheap either. The report is that about 200 grand per criminal up to a million dollar per year.
Not good no matter how we look at it.
Anyways, Cruz is big on making these criminals pay for their crime. I think he will win if Trump will not run for reelection.
Good morning blog world.
I am in Texas and there is about a thousand of them posts on every corner advertising his candidacy.
Thank you all for your reads and or comments if any. I am busy and might not be able to respond to any comments but I will try to get back now and then.
My question is, how can that ever be possible. The same man who was convicted and deported came back with 20 different names and never got arrested?
Maybe we should just keep them in our jails for the rest of their living life so they wont come back and commit more crimes? Of course, our expense on keeping them in our prison is not cheap either. The report is that about 200 grand per criminal up to a million dollar per year.
Not good no matter how we look at it.
Anyways, Cruz is big on making these criminals pay for their crime. I think he will win if Trump will not run for reelection.
Good morning blog world.
I am in Texas and there is about a thousand of them posts on every corner advertising his candidacy.
Thank you all for your reads and or comments if any. I am busy and might not be able to respond to any comments but I will try to get back now and then.
Why Aren’t Democrats Walking Away With the Midterms?
The night Donald Trump was elected was supposed to be, for most liberals and a few conservatives, the beginning of the end of the world. The economy would surely implode. The U.S. would probably blunder into a catastrophic war. The new American president would be blackmailed into conducting foreign policy as Putin’s poodle.
None of that has happened — not yet, at any rate. On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported the fastest rate of annual wage hikes in almost a decade, depriving Democrats of one of their few strong arguments about the true state of the economy. Unemployment is at its lowest rate since Vince Lombardi coached his last game in December 1969. The North American Free Trade Agreement has been saved with minor modifications and a new name.
Oh, and: The Islamic State is largely defeated. Tehran has not restarted its nuclear programs despite America’s withdrawal from the Iran deal. U.S. sanctions on Russia are still in place. Democrats badly damaged their chances of taking the Senate with their over-reaching and polarizing crusade to stop Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. What more could Trump ask for?
In normal presidencies, good news, along with your opponents’ mistakes, is good politics. It’s your Topic A. In normal presidencies, the politics of cultural anxiety, social division or ethnic scaremongering — that is, of proposing the end of birthright citizenship and demonizing elite media and militarizing the U.S. border — is Plan B. It’s what you turn to first when you don’t have enough to say for yourself otherwise.
But that’s not how the Trump presidency rolls. In this campaign, fear is what’s on the Republican menu. Peace and prosperity? Mere side dishes.
The mystery of Donald Trump is what impels him to overturn the usual rules. Is it a dark sort of cunning or simple defects of character? Because the president’s critics tend to be educated and educated people tend to think that the only kind of smarts worth having is the kind they possess — superior powers of articulation combined with deep stores of knowledge — those critics generally assume the latter. He’s a bigot. He’s a con artist. His followers are dumb. They got lucky last time. They won’t be so lucky again.
Maybe this is even right. But as Trump’s presidency moves forward, it’s no longer smart to think it’s right. There’s more than one type of intelligence. Trump’s is feral. It strikes fast. It knows where to sink the fang into the vein.
This has been Trump’s consistent strength from the moment he entered the Republican race until the second he got wind of the migrant caravan. Yes, his administration doesn’t even have an ambassador in Honduras, and if the U.S. has any kind of coherent Central American policy it would be news to me. Also, the idea of deploying thousands of U.S. troops to repel and even fire on the caravan is repellent, fascistic and probably unlawful.
Still, several thousand people are pushing their way to the U.S. border with the idea that they will find a way to push their way through it. If they do, tens or even hundreds of thousands more will surely follow. It’s perfectly reasonable for fair-minded voters to wonder how the U.S. will vet and then absorb even a fraction of them (though I think we easily can), and what doing so will mean for our wider immigration system.
The full story:
None of that has happened — not yet, at any rate. On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported the fastest rate of annual wage hikes in almost a decade, depriving Democrats of one of their few strong arguments about the true state of the economy. Unemployment is at its lowest rate since Vince Lombardi coached his last game in December 1969. The North American Free Trade Agreement has been saved with minor modifications and a new name.
Oh, and: The Islamic State is largely defeated. Tehran has not restarted its nuclear programs despite America’s withdrawal from the Iran deal. U.S. sanctions on Russia are still in place. Democrats badly damaged their chances of taking the Senate with their over-reaching and polarizing crusade to stop Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. What more could Trump ask for?
In normal presidencies, good news, along with your opponents’ mistakes, is good politics. It’s your Topic A. In normal presidencies, the politics of cultural anxiety, social division or ethnic scaremongering — that is, of proposing the end of birthright citizenship and demonizing elite media and militarizing the U.S. border — is Plan B. It’s what you turn to first when you don’t have enough to say for yourself otherwise.
But that’s not how the Trump presidency rolls. In this campaign, fear is what’s on the Republican menu. Peace and prosperity? Mere side dishes.
The mystery of Donald Trump is what impels him to overturn the usual rules. Is it a dark sort of cunning or simple defects of character? Because the president’s critics tend to be educated and educated people tend to think that the only kind of smarts worth having is the kind they possess — superior powers of articulation combined with deep stores of knowledge — those critics generally assume the latter. He’s a bigot. He’s a con artist. His followers are dumb. They got lucky last time. They won’t be so lucky again.
Maybe this is even right. But as Trump’s presidency moves forward, it’s no longer smart to think it’s right. There’s more than one type of intelligence. Trump’s is feral. It strikes fast. It knows where to sink the fang into the vein.
This has been Trump’s consistent strength from the moment he entered the Republican race until the second he got wind of the migrant caravan. Yes, his administration doesn’t even have an ambassador in Honduras, and if the U.S. has any kind of coherent Central American policy it would be news to me. Also, the idea of deploying thousands of U.S. troops to repel and even fire on the caravan is repellent, fascistic and probably unlawful.
Still, several thousand people are pushing their way to the U.S. border with the idea that they will find a way to push their way through it. If they do, tens or even hundreds of thousands more will surely follow. It’s perfectly reasonable for fair-minded voters to wonder how the U.S. will vet and then absorb even a fraction of them (though I think we easily can), and what doing so will mean for our wider immigration system.
The full story:
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