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Only thing I agree with him on in the article is that Trump is not representative of the Republican Party Conservative values and that he will fade as it gets closer to actual voting time.
Then again, Cantor wasn't representative of Conservative GOP values, either, which is why he got beat.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/former-majority- leader-eric-cantor-slams-the-tea-party-and-t#.kt4we99nn
Former Majority Leader Eric Cantor Slams The Tea Party And Trump At Length In Overseas Interview
Cantor says Donald Trump and members of the Tea Party are not conservatives, but “radical populists.”
posted on Oct. 22, 2015, at 8:01 a.m. Andrew Kaczynski BuzzFeed News Reporter
BBC Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor slammed the Tea Party and his party’s current presidential frontrunner in a lengthy and, at times, combative interview with the BBC this week.
“I would not say Donald Trump is reflective of the Republican Party, he’s not a conservative. A lot of the Tea Party issues out there and the agenda that they are pursuing, they’re more populist radicals than they are conservatives,” Cantor said on BBC show Hardtalk.
“Real conservatives are conservatives who believe in progress through incremental progress and a temperament that is befitting of a conservative. Not a revolutionary, and that’s really the foundation upon which the U.S. was built and the Constitution that we have, but I do think as we get closer you’ll see a lot more seriousness on the part of the voters.”
Cantor, who in 2014 was unseated in his Virginia district by a grassroots conservative candidate in a shocking upset, seemed to still be in denial of his loss of conservative support and instead blamed scheming Democrats for his defeat.
“You never sort of enjoy an experience like that,” Cantor said of his defeat. “But I do think there are a lot of teaching moments, but I would also say, see, there’s a lot misconceptions about what but happened then to me and what’s happening now within the Republican conference on Capitol Hill.”
Cantor said the open primary system in Virginia allowed Democrats to strategically vote in his primary to unseat him. The New York Times and Washington Post have said the idea that so-called crossover votes doomed Cantor is a myth.
“I actually won a majority of Republicans it was just 23,000 Democrats crossed over and voted in primary because they didn’t have a primary that day in the Democratic Party,” said Cantor.
“There was never an instance where there was a crossover sabotage vote like that, now the political malfeasance on the part of my political team and I, was we were playing to a primary electorate that was Republican — which we won — it was the Democratic primary voters,” Cantor said again when pressed on his defeat. “There’s a lot of misperceptions.”
“Again, that’s fodder for press,” said Cantor, sounding slightly disheartened when read lines from a column by former Republicans strategist Ron Christie saying he lost touch with his district. “Well again, if you know Virginia, and you look at what had happened, again, there’s a misperception.”
Cantor then pivoted to the “very small but very vocal minority” in the “so-called Tea Party.”
“Somewhere along the way the expectations got to a point where it was just unreasonable,” Cantor said of Tea Party demands of what Republicans could achieve with the majority in the House of Representatives.
Pushed on his defeat, Cantor again claimed he won among Republicans but lost because of Democratic sabotage. “I won the Republicans, see this is misnomer and misperception on my particular race. I won Republican majorities,” he said. “I did not and could not overcome the influx of as many Democrats that came into my primary race.”
Cantor compared his loss to the current situation on Capitol Hill, saying the majority of Republicans would want to keep John Boehner (forced out by hardline conservatives) as speaker or have Kevin McCarthy replace him.
“The problem is, there are 30 to 40 members that have now decided they can block a speaker from being elected on the floor of the House — cause you got to get 218 and Republicans margin is only 27 or 28,” he said, adding there was “no question” Republicans look dysfunctional because of the “vocal minority” causing disruption. Cantor said “things happen” when asked how it felt that he’d be in line to speaker if not for his defeat. “I’ve landed in a great place,” he said of his current job at investment bank Moelis and Company, where he makes a reported salary of $400,000 with incentives into the millions.
Asked of Donald Trump’s appeal, Cantor said it all came back to the Tea Party again. “Here’s where I think a lot of the anger and fury is coming from, go back to what I said before,” Cantor said of Republicans expecting to change the law with just a majority in the House. “The radicals are out there demanding a shutdown or a default on the federal debt and so if Republicans seen and portrayed to not have delivered on what they said would have — which is again an untrue statement,” adding people like Trump, Carly Fiorina or Ben Carson could claim to be outsiders and appeal to voters by saying they had nothing to do with it.
Cantor said Trump would fade closer to the actual primary dates. “We’re going through the early silly season still, you’ve still got four months until we get to Iowa,” he said, saying Trump’s temperament wasn’t “befitting” of someone who wants to be president.
“What it says is there’s a small vocal minority,” Cantor said when asked of why Trump was leading.
Cantor then boosted former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who he has endorsed, saying Bush had the ground game and the endorsements in the early states to win and would win once “silly season” was over.
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I had read the Breitbart cited earlier, but never got around to citing or posting about it.
Note: please take any "personal" comments/complaints about someone to either PM or a thread of its own. Thanks.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A strong coalition of establishment-backed Republicans and House Democrats voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to revive the Export-Import Bank, dealing a defeat to tea party conservatives and Speaker-to-be Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) 58% .
The House approved the measure 313-118 as 127 Republicans joined with virtually every Democrat to support the bank, whose charter expired June 30...
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What's another few trillion among friends, especially when the bills will be due in a decade or two?
John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and Barack Obama have crafted yet another out-of-order budget deal in secret. Par for the course with this egregious crew, members of Congress and the American public were not consulted.
Their "deal" would increase the debt limit for another two years, adding another trillion dollars to our kids' bill, increase spending by $80 billion, and yields the hilarious promise of "entitlement reform" at some point in the future. That last bit is supposed to make you believe that all of these insane IOUs will be paid for, eh, later.
Last week, the House Republican Study Committee offered a serious plan that was -- you guessed it -- completely ignored by the Beltway Cartel.
That plan allowed for a two-year deal on the debt limit, but would also have enforced significant spending cuts to the gargantuan wealth redistribution programs that have become Obama's legacy.
It would also have placed a 21-month moratorium on regulations.
And it would have restored regular order to the budget process, something that has never occurred during the Obama years of budget blowouts. Regular order would include the involvement of hundreds of members of Congress who sit on authorizing committees and have been omitted completely from the process.
Members of Congress should reject this pathetic deal and ensure that regular order is restored.
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Oxymoron: A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
One sometimes thinks the word started with our government: Government Intelligence… Government Efficiency… Government Accountability… In reality, it’s been around since the Greeks first coined the phrase, no doubt adding oxy to a word they probably used to describe their politicians too: Moron.
The Greeks may have invented the word, but the US government has perfected its common use. We have a welfare system whose ostensible goal is to get people back on their feet during hard times yet the numbers of people on the program never seems to go down. We have an education system that spends an ever increasing amount of money to somehow do an increasingly bad job of “educating” our students. Barack Obama has penned an agreement with Iran to keep them from getting nuclear weapons that actually rewards them for bad behavior AND makes it more likely they will get nuclear weapons!
As bad as those things are, and there are countless other examples, this very day we are witnessing possibly the single best example of government incompetence possible. So far this fiscal year the IRS has taken in more money than ever before, $2.6 trillion! Yet somehow they still managed to run a deficit of almost half a trillion dollars. And just two nights ago the utterly worthless GOP introduced a bill that enables even more incompetence in the form of a giant two year spending bill that would also raise the debt limit. Somehow, Americans watch the middle class struggle while programs for the poor proliferate and the connected rich see their incomes skyrocket as Washington and its regulatory machine smothers more and more of the free market.
This is Washington unhinged. This is how liberalism works… including when enabled by the GOP. The government takes more and more of the citizens’ money, which leaves the citizens with less income with which to live their lives, nevermind have money left over to start businesses as they pursue the promise of prosperity. Seeing the resultant slowing economic growth, the government decides to come to the rescue by creating more regulations and more giveaways to make up for the “failures” of the free markets. It’s a viscous cycle… More government equals less freedom and less prosperity.
And today we have on full display the GOP’s disdain for freedom and prosperity. They seek crony capitalism for the specific purpose of ensuring their continued participation in the Washington cocoon – a comforting place where 7 out of the 10 richest counties in the country are located – out of a total of 3,143 counties! That Washington cocoon provides them with parties to attend, a staff to do their bidding, jobs for friends and family, introductions to the “right” people and of course a golden parachute upon leaving after having done enough favors for big business.
Unfortunately, this is likely a fait accompli as the anointed one, Paul Ryan, the soon to be head squish has jumped onboard. The result of this betrayal of the American people makes it only that much more important that voters look to someone like Ted Cruz to be the next president. We are at a point where the government continues to take more and more of our money, yet continues to demand to borrow even more, and this is while the GOP has both the House and the Senate. Ted Cruz has both the intellect and the intent to thwart the liberal enablers in the GOP. No one else in this race has shown the willingness to fight the GOP establishment the way Cruz has. Today’s treachery puts the nation on notice. If you want a change from the failure of liberal policies and crony capitalism, put someone in the White House who does more than talk a conservative game. Put someone in there who has shown a willingness to fight the leviathan of government and it’s GOP enablers. Someone who’s not an oxymoron… That man is Ted Cruz.
I refuse to call this a “budget deal”, it’s a scheme to extend federal spending until March of 2017 when the next President’s (whoever gets elected next year) legally required federal budget (for fiscal year 2018) is due.
3:00am? …Jackasses! You know what else passed in the middle of the night when no-one was watching? ObamaCare, that’s what ! 1:27am 12/23/09 – Only a few of us, and Santa of course, were paying attention and throwing bricks at our TV sets. {A Pox On Their Houses}.. Oy, I hate these corrupto-critters.
I’m not even sure why, how, or even ‘if’, President Obama will proffer a Fiscal Year 2017 budget, normally legally required by March 2016, given that congress has already agreed to spend whatever they need through Fiscal Year 2017. Of course that’s without even discussing spending of Fiscal Year 2016 (which began a month ago).
Fiscal Year 2017 – hypothetically due for signature Sept of 2016 – is ‘WHAT’ exactly? Status? Damn interesting seeing as the new Speaker of the House was the former Chairman of the Budget Committee that couldn’t put Fiscal Year 2016 budget on Obama’s desk….
Didn’t you like how the debt, deficit and debt ceiling was debated on CNBC last week. What’s that?.. It wasn’t?… Huh, imagine that. And,… Well,… Oh yeah, I forgot, Paul Ryan was/is also the childhood BFF of RNC Chair Reince Prebius…. say-no-more!
“The bill is the product of an unfair, dysfunctional, and undemocratic process — a process that is virtually indistinguishable from what we promised the American people a G.O.P.-controlled Congress would bring to an end,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said from the Senate floor.
He added that the legislation “represents the last gasping breath of a disgraced bipartisan beltway establishment on the verge of collapse.”
Lee and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) circulated a letter ahead of the vote asking that their colleagues join them in rejecting the deal.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was the only GOP presidential contender to vote for the package. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) all voted against it..
The Senate’s action on the agreement comes after House lawmakers passed the deal 266-167, including the support of 79 Republicans.
The package was a final legislative victory for outgoing House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who officially submitted his resignation on Thursday.
It also gives new Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) breathing room as he settles in to the House’s top spot, by allowing him to avoid what had been a looming Nov. 3 deadline to pass a debt bill and mid-December deadline fund the government.
The deal suspends the limit on borrowing until March 16, 2017, leaving the next fight to Obama’s successor. It also raises spending levels above the 2011 Budget Control Act, increasing funding by $80 billion through September 2017.
It also includes changes to entitlement programs, including avoiding a premium hike for many Medicare enrollees and bolstering funding for Social Security’s disability trust fund.
With the deal headed to Obama’s desk — where he’s expected to sign it — lawmakers will now turn their attention to passing either 12 individual spending bills or one large omnibus bill.
More promises unfulfilled. pGoP...does the "p" stand for practical or proregressive?
In a panel discussion at the University of Colorado after the recent Republican debate, I was asked by a student why she should be a Republican. The question forced me to ask myself the same thing.
I gave the young woman the standard talking points–that Republicans believe in smaller government, individual rights, fiscal responsibility, and free enterprise. But as I drove home, her question–and my inability to respond with any level of real conviction–got me thinking: Does the Republican Party leadership fight for these values and principles today?
After much thought, I reluctantly concluded that the answer is “no.” The proudly socialist Democrats are full of passionate intensity, while the Republican leadership is full of pathetic excuses. After this week’s House GOP “budget deal,” which betrays nearly every promise made to grassroots conservatives since 2010, I have decided it is time to end my affiliation with the Republican Party...
Further on in the article:
...Sadly, it has become obvious that the Republican establishment simply has no intention of ever fulfilling promises made in platforms and campaign speeches. To their mind, there are elections, and then there is “governing,” and governing to them means not messing with a gargantuan government on autopilot.
The Republican establishment does not want to control spending.
It does not want to secure the borders or enforce immigration laws.
It does not care about American sovereignty.
It has no interest in ending the unaccountable and corrupt culture that has become a hallmark of official Washington.
By insulting the grassroots, the GOP leadership has set upon a suicide mission. The problem is that failed leadership is allowing Obama to destroy the Constitution and take the whole country down the drain. Well, count me out.
The Boehner budget deal is the last straw, and enough is enough. I cannot any longer defend this transparently dishonest charade called the Republican Party.
What I will do instead is join the largest political group in the nation, unaffiliated Independents. In Colorado, they outnumber both “major” political parties.
The next day I will begin working my tail off for the next twelve months to organize Independents to help elect Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as President of the United States. Cruz is the only candidate who both understands the left’s agenda and has demonstrated the courage to fight for our liberties, our sovereignty, and the survival of constitutional government.
In a little-noticed interview earlier this year with Univision’s Jorge Ramos,Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) declared that, as President, he would keep Barack Obama’s executive amnesty for DREAMers in place until it was permanently codified through legislation.
MORE @ Breitbart.
I like him on a lot of things, but that amnesty crap is a deal breaker.
Senator Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) says he’s not concerned with the vetting of the 10,000 Syrian refugees coming to the United States.
“Are you concerned with the refugees coming here in the next 12 months? Are you concerned about the vetting process?” talk show host Dan Mandis asked Corker on Nashville’s WWTN radio Wednesday.
“Well, I’m not, because we are going to vet them,” Corker said.
Corker’s claims that the 10,000 Syrian refugees the State Department plans to grant entry to the United States in Fiscal Year 2016 are being properly vetted is in direct conflict with FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee last week.
As CNS News reported:
“We can only query against that which we have collected, and so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interests reflected in our database, we can query our database til the cows come home, but … there’ll be nothing show up, because we have no record on that person,” said Comey…
Ranking member Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) 19% asked Comey, “Mr. Director, before this committee, [FBI] Assistant Director [Michael] Steinbach said that the concerns in Syria is that we don’t have the systems in place on the ground to collect the information to vet. That would be the concern. Databases don’t hold the information on these individuals. Is that still the position of the department?”
“Yes, I think that’s the challenge we’re all talking about, is that we can only query against that which we have collected, and so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interests reflected in our database, we can query our database til the cows come home, but we’re not gonna—there’ll be nothing show up, because we have no record on that person,” said Comey.
At a subsequent House Judiciary Committee hearing last week, Comey told Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) 95% neither the FBI nor any part of the Obama administration “could offer anybody an absolute assurance that there’s no risk associated with [admitting these 10,000 Syrian refugees in Fiscal Year 2016].”
In Wednesday’s radio interview, Mandis brought the Obama administration’s admission it could not vet these refugees to Corker’s attention.
“Authorities in Canada, in the last 24 hours or so, have said that they intend to take in 25,000 Syrian refugees, meanwhile, our own government, as you know, they plan on bringing in some 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year or so. Some of those are going to be coming to Tennessee, while admitting we have no way to properly vet those wanting to come in,” Mandis noted.
Corker blew right past that important point, completely ignoring FBI Director Comey’s testimony that the Obama administration cannot properly vet any of the Syrian refugees.
“There’s no way that we’re going to allow refugees into the country that aren’t vetted. So, and that takes, typically, it’s been taking about two years,” he added.
“We’ve had conversations with State, the entity that … deals with this vetting, and obviously …we don’t want to cut down in quality in any way, but they’re looking at ways of speeding up the vetting,” Corker added.
“When you look at people who would be coming to the U.S., these are people that have been in the pipeline for a long, long time. They’re not the people that you’re seeing on the TV screen,” the senior senator from Tennessee claimed.
“And that’s why we keep saying. . . ,people are lending a hand, but we’re not lending a hand to those people that you’re seeing on the screens, and what we really need to do is to stop this at the root, and that is in Syria where Assad is barrel bombing his own citizens, where Russia now is taking part and killing the moderate Syrians we have been supporting,” Corker concluded.
Corker also claimed that the 10,000 refugees the State Department plans on granting entry to the United States between now and September 2016 are “not the people that you’re seeing on the TV screen.”
Instead, they are among the 18,000 Syrian refugees Corker says “have been in the pipeline for a long, long time” who have been referred to the United States by the United Nations for vetting.
As the New York Times reported:
Under pressure from Europe and other countries confronting the global migration crisis, Mr. Obama has raised the number of Syrian refugees who will be offered legal status to at least 10,000 this fiscal year.
Some cities and towns have resisted. In Duncan, S.C., residents and elected officials argue that the federal government cannot possibly screen out terrorists, and some say that more Muslim immigrants would threaten American culture.
The Times also reported that “1,854 Syrian refugees [were] admitted by the United States between 2012 to Sept. 2015,” in contrast to 92,991 admitted by Germany during the same time period. It also claimed “[t]he additional 10,000 Syrian refugees this year would come from 18,000 referrals already submitted by the United Nations. State Department officials said that more than half of them were children.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), has an entirely different view of the Obama administration’s capability to vet the 10,000 Syrian refugees than does Senator Corker, whether they are among those 18,000 on the current United Nations list, or the thousands of refugees seen on the TV screen.
In a letter to President Obama this week, Goodlatte wrote:
Based on the concerns raised by security officials within your Administration at the agencies relevant to conducting security checks, I request that you rescind your directive to Secretary Kerry to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees during Fiscal Year 2016, and that your Administration not admit any Syrian refugees until such time that a security check process is implemented that will ensure no refugee is admitted who is a terrorist or is likely to be a terrorist.
Senator Corker’s apparent disconnect from the facts surrounding the federal government’s inability to properly vet Syrian refugees, as confirmed by FBI Director James Comey, is yet another reason why conservatives in Tennessee are looking seriously at mounting a challenge to him in the 2018 Republican primary in the state.
Businessman Donald Trump 37.7%
Surgeon and author Ben Carson 15.4%
Fla. Sen. Marco "Amnesty" Rubio 10.3%
Tex. Sen. Ted "The Man" Cruz 7 .5%
Gov. Jeb "Donor Class "Bush 6.4%
Wouldn’t vote "Ball Takers" 6.3%
Carly "Hatchet"Fiorina 3.8%
Sen. Rand "Boot Licker" Paul 3.6%
FGov. Mike Huckabee 2.9%
NJ Gov. Chris Christie 2.3%
Ohio Gov. John Kasich 1.6%
Former Sen. Rick Santorum 0.8%
La. Gov. Bobby Jindal 0.7%
SC Sen. Lindsey Graham 0.3%
Former Gov. George Pataki 0.2%
Former Gov. Jim Gilmore 0.0
Or perhaps they do: Declaring an internal war against Trump, they hope by suppressing the primary election numbers of voters, they can derail Trump. And then, they expect the same voters that they didn't want voting for Trump to come out in large numbers for the "preferred" candidate.
In its incredibly limited wisdom, the D.C.-based Republican Party establishment is declaring war on current GOP voter favorite Donald Trump, and it seems they’ve enlisted the help of at least a couple of Keystone Cops — consultants Liz Mair and Rick Wilson — in an effort to destroy their own front runner.
In the Republican primary race, the newest NBC News/SurveyMonkey online poll shows Donald Trump has the frontrunner spot to himself, with 28% support among Republican and independent voters who lean Republican.
In fact, so arrogant is the establishment, they want to encourage their own voters to stay home. In what political realm, other than the D.C.-based Republican establishment’s, which nearly always surrenders presidential elections, as well as to Barack Obama, does that make sense? Make no mistake, what they are saying to their own voters here is, we think you’re so dumb you’ll still come out to support us in the general, even after we spend millions of dollars insulting you and your presumed candidate of choice during the primary.
The goal, according to the memo, isn’t to convert Mr. Trump’s supporters into backing other candidates, but to dissuade them from voting altogether, especially in New Hampshire’s influential first-in-the-nation primary.
Furthermore, as with many recent GOP establishment presidential campaigns, the latest Republican Keystone Cop-like effort to take down Trump appears to be connected to some real losers who have already been in the news this year for all the wrong reasons.
The most concerted effort is Trump Card LLC, the self-styled guerrilla campaign being launched by Liz Mair, the former online communications director of the Republican National Committee.
“In the absence of our efforts, Trump is exceedingly unlikely to implode or be forced out of the race,” according to the Trump Card memo.
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Which begs the questions: are the GoP debates really relevant any more?
CANCEL THE DEBATE! CNN CAUGHT SELECTIVELY-EDITING TRUMP’S ‘MUSLIM’ COMMENTS
Left-wing cable news network CNN has been caught red-handed selectively editing Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s comments about a “Muslim registry,” and doing so in order to make it sound as though he is agreeing to this registry. He is not.
The edited video is yet another lying log on the left-wing garbage fire that is CNN, and yet in just three weeks, this very same garbage fire is hosting the next Republican presidential debate!
What exactly does CNN have to do in order to lose its right to depose these candidates for two hours in front of the whole world? If CNN is already maliciously editing video to “take out” out the frontrunner, I don’t even want to speculate...
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Oh, well...it's just politics. And it's getting harder to tell the difference between the two parties. Both put the power of office ahead of the American people.
What happens if the RNC, because of its actions, creates the situation where Trump calls them on their pledge they got from him WRT running as an independent?
When the RNC goes to war against Trump with more determination than the party has ever demonstrated against Obama and his toadies; he can well claim that they violated the agreement made and he could run as an independent candidate.
Should that happen, it is a guarantee that Hillary will win. The GoP created the environment where the Trump candidacy was inevitable. Going to war against him will not win an election. It might be more wise to realize that the only alternative to him would be putting party weight behind Cruz or Carson.
Trump Fires Warning Shot At RNC: ‘That Wasn’t The Deal!’
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is firing a warning shot at the Republican National Committee after it was reported that some establishment Republicans are forming an outside organization to try to harm his candidacy.
In a tweet on Monday, Trump referenced a recent Wall Street Journal article about these anti-Trump efforts, tagging the RNC’s official Twitter account, @GOP, in his complaint.
“@WSJ reports that @GOP getting ready to treat me unfairly—big spending planned against me,” Trump tweeted. “That wasn’t the deal!”
The Wall Street Journal report does not say that the RNC is involved. But the story says Liz Mair, the architect of the Trump Card LLC organization described in the article, once worked for the RNC.
The “deal” Trump is likely referring to is his agreement in September to sign a pledge not to run as an independent. He said at the time he was given the “assurance that I would be treated fairly” by RNC chairman Reince Priebus in return for signing the pledge.
The Wall Street Journal article referenced by Trump is titled “GOP Operative Plans ‘Guerrilla Campaign’ Against Donald Trump.”
“In the absence of our efforts, Trump is exceedingly unlikely to implode or be forced out of the race,” a memo from the Trump Card LLC states...
Trump wins or loses all on his own. And God save this country if he loses to Hillary in the general election.
well....THAT'S a given!
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tells Sean Hannity that he’d “hate to use” Congress’ power of the purse to block Obama’s refugee resettlement program. He’d prefer to opt for Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)’s plan, which would allow the President to resettle 85,000 or more refugees this year from countries including Somalia, the Congo and Syria.
A recent poll showed that a majority of the public opposes letting any Syrian refugees into the United States, and Rasmussen polling shows that 65 percent of conservative voters believe we should admit zero refugees from across the Middle East. Under current immigration levels the U.S. would admit 200,000 refugees and asylees from Muslim countries and will permanently resettle half a million migrants from Muslim countries over the next five years...
Ryan and McRubio: the Boehner/McConnel Obama affirmation marches on. eGoP--deaf to their base.
Today I find out that he has tossed his support for Bush!
I will be voting for anything other than him next November. His replies to letters and emails have never addressed any of the issues or concerns I raised. Typical of the generic politician.
Is Jeb Losing the Primary to Win the General?
from article:
"At this time, Republican machines in each state are gearing up once again to promote a moderate squish."
Interesting article...worth reading.
EXCLUSIVE– Attorney For Displaced Disney Workers: Rubio A ‘Liar’ Appeasing ‘His Corporate Donors’
From the article:
"...In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, the workers’ attorney, Sara Blackwell, provides details about the lawsuit, and slams the workers’ home state senator— Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)— for pushing to triple the H-1B visa to appease his “corporate donors.”
“I think Sen. Rubio is a liar,” Blackwell said:
When you tell America that there are not enough qualified American workers— whether you are Mark Zuckerberg, or [Disney CEO] Bob Iger, or Marco Rubio— when you say that there aren’t enough qualified Americans while hundreds of qualified Americans are being fired, and replaced by less qualified foreigners, that’s a straight lie. And I think Rubio lies. And the only motivation I can imagine he has to do so is the support he gets from his corporate donors.
Blackwell tells Breitbart that the Disney employees are filing complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which is a prerequisite to bringing forth a discrimination lawsuit. Blackwell explained that by terminating the Americans and forcing them to train their foreign replacements, the employees will make discrimination claims under the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act..."
It seems that the "eGoP" has more interest in rejecting the only demonstrable successes the Republican Party has had during the Obama era. I would also postulate that popular support for movement candidates (Cruz, Carson, Trump) comes not only from the actions of Obama and the proregressives, but also the overall submissive attitude and FAIL of the establishment beltway Republicans.
READING THE ELECTORAL TEA LEAVES: We Win, They Lose
By Richard Larsen
It’s hard to think of any other way to characterize the off-year elections results across the nation, than that the rejection of liberalism and progressivism continues unabated. Races across the country, and even some key social-issue elections, don’t portend well for those on the left of the political spectrum.
Perhaps the most significant race was for the governorship of Kentucky. Matt Bevin, a political outsider and Tea Party activist, was trounced just a year ago by 25 points in a primary defeat by the Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell. A year later, he’s the governor elect of the state.
There are many takeaways from his success, but the most obvious is that his conservatism was across the board, from fiscal to social. While the Obama administration has been holding Kentucky up as an exemplary success story for Obamacare, Bevin ran against it, based on costs, cost of coverage, and declining healthcare provision under the ACA. He also ran on the social side of the issue, proposing to defund Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the nation.
And he embraced and supported the cause of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis who refused to issue marriage licenses for same-sex marriages because of her religious cohttp://larsenfinancial.us/nvictions. And according to Davis, the governor elect even (gasp) prayed with her when she was incarcerated.
His first order of business is to make the Bluegrass State a right to work state. Diminishing union political clout and increasing voter focus on economic issues could have more broad ramifications even beyond Kentucky, and the southern states generally.
It’s difficult to say what the key factor was in Bevin’s victory. As recently as a day before the election, he was projected to lose by five points. Instead, he won by ten. But it’s hard to overstate the significance of a fiscal and social conservative winning the gubernatorial race in a seat that has only had one other Republican governor in the past 50 years. Oh, and his running mate, the Lt. Governor elect, Jenean Hampton, is now the first black elected to statewide office in the state’s history. And she’s also a Tea Party activist.
Elsewhere across the land, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a close friend of the Clintons, went all-out to pick up at least one additional seat to give his party control of the state senate. He solicited PAC money from outside the state and by all accounts, outspent Republicans nearly 4 to 1, yet was unable to pick up even one seat. Interestingly, much of the outside money was advocating stricter gun control legislation. This may be indicative of the mood of the country toward restrictive 2nd Amendment efforts, which does not bode well for the left.
Houston had an Equal Rights Ordinance on their ballot that banned discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. It had been passed by the Houston city council and had only been on the city ordinance books for three months, before voters overwhelmingly repealed it with Tuesday’s vote. Even the White House had weighed in on this local issue, but on the losing side of the argument.
In San Francisco, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi was defeated. The sheriff received national attention when he steadfastly defended the city’s controversial “sanctuary city” policy of protecting illegal aliens, after illegal migrant Francisco Sanchez shot and killed a 32 year-old woman on the waterfront in July. But based solely on one logical vote, it’s entirely premature to claim voters in San Francisco may have actually found their marbles so long lost.
In Mississippi, Republican Governor Phil Bryant was easily reelected. The GOP also increased their majority in their House by nearly 10%, giving them nearly a super majority, defeating the House Minority Leader in the process. Voters in Ohio rejected liberalization of medical and recreational marijuana laws.
With but few exceptions, it was a banner election for liberty, free markets, economic growth, traditional social conventions and institutions, rule of law, and common sense governance. As boisterously as the mainstream media have been proclaiming the demise of the Tea Party, one can’t help but surmise, as did Mark Twain, that news of their death has been greatly exaggerated.
If anything, there seems to be a deepening and widening conviction that exceeds the traditional purview of the Tea Party, and is more fundamentally etched in the broader body politick. It’s gone mainstream. That conviction has been spawned, nurtured, and invigorated by none other than our community organizer in chief. He almost single-handedly has orchestrated the resurgence in the conservative ideals of American exceptionalism. Just as he’s been the most effective gun salesman over the past several years, he’s been the poster child of all that can go wrong when distinctly anti-American ideals are foisted upon the republic.
Since the 2010 midterms, the Democrat party has lost over 1,200 seats in government according to Real Clear Politics. That’s governorships, state senate, state house, town councils, county leadership, city councils, and mayors. Not only are they losing on economic issues, but they’re losing on the social issues. And it’s no surprise, for even though the left has been winning on so many fronts, the broader populace is not pleased. According to a Washington Post, ABC News poll in July, fully 63% of adult Americans are either strongly or somewhat uncomfortable with the direction of the country on social issues. We mustn’t forget who is driving that “uncomfortable” agenda.
With the socialist-left end of the political spectrum dutifully and ideologically represented by the Democrat party, the worst thing would be for Republicans to basically be the socialist-lite party. If the GOP wants to continue winning, it appears increasingly that the way for them to do so is by returning to the core values their party is based on, economically and socially.
Read more at Larsen Financial.
As Cruz gains, GOP senators rally for Rubio
The idea of Cruz as the nominee makes fellow GOP senators shudder.
Ted Cruz has built his Senate career and presidential campaign on his willingness to stick it to the Republican establishment. And now that he’s gaining momentum in the primary, his many GOP nemeses in Congress are returning the favor by quietly coalescing behind Marco Rubio.
Senior Republican senators who’ve clashed with Cruz for years have had nothing but nice things to say about Rubio even as he’s dissed — and largely ditched — his day job in the Capitol. Just this month, Rubio has racked up endorsements from nine members of Congress, compared with two for early GOP front-runner Jeb Bush. More House endorsements for Rubio are set to roll out in December, according to campaign sources, and several GOP senators said privately they expect their colleagues to get behind Rubio once the GOP field thins.
The movement toward Rubio appears to be as much about anxiety over the possibility of Cruz going up against Hillary Clinton as it is affection for the Florida senator. The idea of Cruz as the nominee is enough to send shudders down the spines of most Senate Republicans.
Mainstream elected Republicans now see Cruz as a bigger threat than Donald Trump or Ben Carson to clinch the nomination — but equally damaging to their party’s chances of winning the White House and keeping the Senate next fall. Rubio would be a much stronger general election standard bearer, they believe.
“Marco is a true next-generation conservative,” said Steve Daines (R-Mont.), one of three senators who endorsed Rubio in November. “Every time there’s a debate, his stock goes up.”
(WTF is a "next generation conservative" but a new definition of boehnerism?)
Cruz winning the nomination "could happen with the angry situation we have out there” among the GOP electorate, said one Republican senator who hasn't endorsed in the race but does not want Cruz. 151121_ben_carson_ted_cruz_1160_ap.jpg
Rubio's GOP colleagues are looking to exploit what they see as Rubio's advantage on national security in the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks (more immigrants/Muslims! Yeah!). They're heaping praise on Rubio's hawkish (???) foreign policy views and panning Cruz’s attempt to find middle ground on national security. Asked about Rubio’s attacks on Cruz’s votes for the USA Freedom Act, which scaled back federal surveillance authorities, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas replied: “It’s always fair to question votes and hold people accountable.”
As for Cruz’s attempt to stake out a centrist position on national security between the party’s hawkish and libertarian poles, Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) said: “I don’t think you can split that baby."
“Candidates running for national office who are articulating strong, firm, decisive positions that are well-thought-out are going to have an advantage,” said No. 3 Senate Republican John Thune of South Dakota. Rubio, he added, is “well positioned to make the arguments.”
Cornyn, Thune and Coats have not endorsed in the presidential primary, and lawmakers interviewed for this story said many senior Republicans do not want to embarrass long-shot presidential hopeful Lindsey Graham by endorsing Rubio while the South Carolina senator is in the race. They’re also aware that endorsements from top GOP lawmakers at this point in the primary wouldn’t help Rubio’s cause with the Republican base.
Cruz scoffed at the notion that Rubio is more electable, telling POLITICO that that’s precisely the logic that paved the way for Democrats to win five of the past six popular votes for the White House.
“Democrats also told Republicans Bob Dole was more electable, Democrats also told the press John McCain was more electable, Democrats also told the press Mitt Romney was more electable,” Cruz said. “Then the Democrats were quite happy to go to their inauguration balls."
Cruz predicted that millions of blue-collar Democrats would rally behind him in a general election, like they did with Ronald Reagan three decades ago. Rubio's earlier support for comprehensive immigration reform — or a “massive amnesty plan,” in Cruz's words — would preclude that kind of crossover appeal, the Texan said.
But congressional Republicans say the truest indicator of Rubio’s strength is the abuse he’s getting from Democrats. They’ve been pounding him daily over missed votes and briefings, while dissecting his policy plans. Cruz, by comparison, has been getting kid-glove treatment, to the extent Democrats mention him at all in opposition dumps from the party apparatus and outside liberal groups.
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Democrats for two years have held up Cruz as the de facto leader of the Republican Party, dubbing him "Speaker Cruz" after he prodded former Speaker John Boehner into a 2013 battle over Obamacare that shut down the federal government. Just this month, Democrats annoyed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell by insinuating he had agreed to take up a hard-line immigration bill heavily touted by Cruz. The idea that McConnell would take cues from Cruz after the Texas senator’s withering criticisms of the GOP leader was perceived by Republicans as a subtle Democratic attempt at boosting Cruz.
THE REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT HATES TRUMP BECAUSE HE OWNS THE MEDIA
The eGoP hates Cruz almost as much as they do Trump...probably even more as Cruz has the creds of a true conservative and a spine. And they are just as confused now as they became when Trump started gaining popularity.
You can be certain that if Trump were to "implode as expected" or drop out and Cruz gained top status, the clique would go after him as they have attempted to do with Trump.
As Rush noted, Trump has demonstrated that the media have become his playthings.
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GOP LEGISLATORS PUSH PLAN THAT COULD REPLACE AMERICANS, IMPORT 264,000 FOREIGN WORKERS
GOP House leaders are preparing a huge appropriations bill for a vote next week — and top GOP legislators want to include a rider that could allow employers to replace at least 100,000 blue-collar Americans with up to 264,000 foreign temporary H-2B workers.
The plan would actually cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year, because the unemployed Americans workers won’t pay taxes, but would get unemployment checks and welfare aid from the taxpayers.
The GOP’s pink-slip plan would also cut the wages of many other American workers before the 2016 election. That’s because the foreign temps hold down the normal wages that Americans could otherwise negotiate in a free market for their labor.
The GOP legislators, the House appropriations committee and the GOP’s leadership would not respond to repeated requests for information about the measure. A Hill aide, however, provided Breitbart with documents indicating legislators are pushing to include it in the omnibus bill. GOP leaders plan to rush that huge spending bill through the House by the end of next week.
The complex bill is a gift to donors and businesses because it would allow them to reduce wages offered in advertised jobs, thus deterring American applicants and then justifying their requests for H-2B visa workers. It also provides a huge loophole that technically keeps the current annual cap of 66,000 H-2B workers — but excludes from the cap any H-2B workers who got an H-2B visa in the prior three years. That clever loophole would allow employers to simultaneously hire up to four years of H-2B workers, or 264,000 foreign workers.
“This bill reads like it was written by landscaping industry… it’s a wish list of everything they could possibly want,” said Ed Tuddenham, a lawyer in New York. “The steel industry doesn’t get low-wage labor to compete with foreign steelmakers,” he scoffed.
The bill is being pushed by the H-2B Workforce Coalition, which includes hotel owners, golf courses, landscaping companies, realtors, the National Federation of Independent Business, building contractors, roofing companies, the racetrack association and many other groups. “Failure to enact a returning worker exemption will decimate seasonal businesses across the country,” the group claimed in a May letter, which also includes a 20-page list of companies looking to hire foreign workers instead of American workers.
The group declined to comment for this article.
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A pivotal vote on Muslim immigration split the Republican presidential field in the Senate—with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) voting to continue to allow large-scale Muslim immigration and Senator Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) voting to pause Muslim immigration.
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The political stupidity of the GOP's political 'experts'
The GOP's political specialists — its political operatives and consultants — aren't very smart about politics.
GOP operatives seem to believe that what GOP voters really like about Donald Trump is his "style" and "populism." If only other Republican candidates would imitate some aspects of Trump's style, the consultants bleat, they could surf some of the Trump wave.
This is facile nonsense.
Political operatives and the media like to blast "Trumpism" as substance-free bluster. But the parts of Trumpism that have most resonated with GOP voters actually map onto a clear and fairly obvious political agenda: hostile to immigration, trade and globalization, foreign adventures, and an economic and political system that seems to be rigged by insiders against outsiders. Combine that with a big appetite for national greatness. Regardless of the merits of this agenda, it's an agenda. Call it the radical center, as my colleague Michael Brendan Dougherty and the Washington Free Beacon's Matt Continetti have.
This is why Republican insiders' attacks against Trump have been singularly ineffective. He's not a true conservative! they shout. Yes, and Trump voters are, at least in part, rebelling against conservative orthodoxy. If you want to deflate Trump, you have to put forward actual proposals that will appeal to Trump voters in a package that doesn't have Trump's baggage. Emoting like a reality TV star while peddling a flat tax simply won't do.
But the GOP political class' political stupidity goes beyond Trump. Consider immigration. I'd have my own super PAC if I got a dollar for every time a GOP political operative told a journalist on background that the way for the GOP to be nationally competitive and win Latinos is to support comprehensive immigration reform. This is simply not true, as Real Clear Politics' Sean Trende has exhaustively and laboriously documented.
If it supported comprehensive immigration reform, the GOP would lose a chunk of the white vote, and anyhow, Latino voters are by and large driven by the same concerns as other voters, not just immigration. The GOP's disadvantage among them has more to do with the income difference between Latino voters and median voters than with anything intrinsic to Latino voters.
Or consider another issue where GOP political operatives are simply out of touch with political reality: abortion. While most Republicans are socially conservative, most GOP political operatives tend to fall more on the libertarian side of the conservative spectrum and are often socially liberal. Their advice to most GOP politicians: Just shut up about abortion, lest you turn off women. Just do the minimum required to signal to pro-life voters that you're on their side, and thereafter duck the issue.
This is wrongheaded, and almost certainly hurts the GOP nationally. Millions upon millions of women are more likely to call themselves "pro-life" than "pro-choice." What's more, the significant political gap within women is between single women and married women. Single women are very pro-choice, and very Democratic anyway. Many more married women are Republicans — and the rest are up for grabs. They may even be the single most important swing constituency. And many of them are pro-life, albeit squishy on the issue.
Republicans have a built-in political advantage against Democrats on abortion. They could use something like late-term abortion to drive a wedge between the Democratic nominee and key swing voters — especially suburban moms. For the GOP, it is a tragedy of politico groupthink that the party doesn't use this strategy more.
Political operatives think voters are boobs. And sure, your average voter may not be a policy wonk, but that doesn't mean she's stupid. People can be quite canny, especially when you're talking about their wallet. So no, Trumpism isn't just about flash, and giving flash without substance in response won't change it, because voters (yes, even Trump voters) do care about substance. Similarly, Latinos are not an interest group that cares only about issues related to their identity, but care instead about a broad spectrum of issues. And women, believe it or not, are not defined by their uteruses, and are just as capable as men of forming their own considered views on abortion, as with any other issue.
Voters want to feel like politicians understand them, yes, but they also want politicians to give them answers that will solve their problems, and they do have a capacity for evaluating these answers and formulating views about them, and that does influence how they vote.
And if the GOP got a better class of politicos, it might win more elections.
Trump recognized this early, while the political class remained oblivious. It seems that they are still confused and see Trump as the enemy, and not the messenger.
Supportive data: look at state and local successes by conservative Constitutionalists that have decimated the Democrat party.
No more "can't/won'ts". Their time is UP!
The Speaker of the House and two presidential candidates—all of whom have supported amnesty and immigration expansions—are coming after GOP frontrunner Donald Trump following his declaration that the U.S. should pause Muslim migration into the United States.
In the face of reality (mood of the public), the lemmings race for the cliff...
TED CRUZ: 'HELL WILL FREEZE OVER' BEFORE ESTABLISHMENT GOP LISTENS TO AMERICAN PEOPLE
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)told conservative radio host Mark Levin on Thursday evening that establishment GOP politicians will “never” listen to the American people.
“If we wait on the entrenched politicians in Washington, hell will freeze over before that happens,” Cruz answered when Levin asked whether Republicans will ever listen. “This is nothing new. The answers come from America, from millions of people standing up and holding elected officials accountable.”
Cruz, who coined the Twitter hashtag #MakeDCListen during the government shutdown episode, has often returned to a theme of forcing Washington D.C. insiders to listen to the public.
He noted that in the prelude to the shutdown, many Republicans preferred to push for spending cuts with the debt ceiling as leverage.
“A few months ago, when we were fighting trying to stop the disaster that is Obamacare, where a lot of Washington gray beards said, ‘we are going to fight on the debt ceiling. That’s where the fight will be,'” Cruz said. “It’s like they think the American people are a bunch of rubes, we don’t remember what they say.”
Wednesday, Cruz forced a procedural roll call requiring a 60-vote majority on the “clean” debt ceiling bill, despite Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)’s forceful urging he allow the legislation to go through with only a bare-majority vote. Cruz said Republicans should have united against the cloture motion, preventing the debt ceiling from being raised.
“If 41 Republicans had stood together and just voted no, the clean debt ceiling, the blank check for President Obama and Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)want would have been denied,” Cruz said. “And for all of them who say I am just a crazy rebel, the last 55 times the debt ceiling has been increased, Congress has attached meaningful conditions to it 28 of those times. It’s the only leverage point that has ever been effective.”
Cruz said earlier in the interview that many Republicans in the U.S. Congress wanted to increase the debt ceiling. “Make no mistake about it,” Cruz said. “This was their desired outcome. An awful lot of Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling. But, they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish gullible constituents that they didn’t do it, and they’re mad because by my refusing to consent to [a bare-majority vote] they had to come out in the open and admit to that.”
Cruz’s move to force the 60-vote procedural tally forced a dramatic, hour-long vote in which McConnell and GOP Whip Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)scrambled to find enough Republicans to join Democrats and invoke cloture. During the vote, the clerk abstained from a decades-long practice of announcing each vote into a microphone as it was cast, preventing the public from knowing who had already voted and thus, who was switching their votes. McConnell and Cornyn ultimately joined in voting for cloture, after which six of their GOP colleagues switched to join them, providing additional political cover.
Cruz rises because Americans are seeing a man who has listened to their concerns and has stood firm and supporting him. The rest of the GoP wannabee's have shown allegiance to the uniparty.
Now, the rise of another "movement" candidate, Cruz, has opened up a second front on the GoP war against the common non-donor class American. Tripwire is in effect. Take out Trump...Take out Cruz...and bring on the establishment candidate and save the day for the beltway! (and loose to Hillary)
With The Jebster Tanking And Preparing To Exit Race, Rubio & GOPe Set Sights On Ted Cruz…
Hillary still flying under the radar.
(This is where the GoP should be putting its efforts--jack)
Via DC Whispers:
While Ted Cruz enjoys a surge of support in Iowa that has propelled him to second place among other GOP candidates in that state, Marco Rubio has done the same in the far more important primary state of New Hampshire. Iowa has long little more than an interesting sideshow warm-up to the main show nomination process – a show that most often begins in New Hampshire.
So having solidified his place in the Granite State, Senator Rubio is now determined to make certain Ted Cruz’s appeal goes no further than Iowa and from there, Mr. Rubio sees a path to the GOP nomination.
Jeb Bush is floundering in the low single digits nationally, and has just 7 points in New Hampshire, a state he should have won easily if not for the remarkably unconventional and popular insurgent campaign of Donald Trump. Team Bush is very-very close with the Republican Establishment, and while Bush still hopes for a comeback miracle in New Hampshire, he is said to have also quietly let it be known he will bow out if he fails to make a strong showing in what is the first actual primary voting state on the way to the GOP nomination.
With Bush pushed aside, and likely other candidates like John Kasich and Chris Christie along with him, Team Rubio sees their next primary target to be that of Ted Cruz. The Texas senator has enjoyed a sizable bump in his polling following the just as sizable decline of Dr. Ben Carson. Carson’s supporters appear to have flocked first to Cruz, and then split between Donald Trump and Marco Rubio.
Just How Close Was The 2014 Amnesty Vote? – Here’s The Back Story…
The conclusion of article:
"...Amnesty didn’t die because of Senator Ted Cruz or anything he did or didn’t do. The gang of eight bill had already passed the senate.
Amnesty died exclusively because candidate Dave Brat beat House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Period."
Conservative beats uniparty Republican = WIN for America
It is a 10000% guarantee that Hillary, if elected, will appoint another living document liberal that will deconstruct not only the First and Second Amendment, but also manipulate it to remove its corner stone status for our American republic.
The next President may nominate several justices that will set the view of the court for the next 20 years. It must not be Hillary.
Roberts Strikes Again, Sides With Obama On Air Pollution Rule…
Next guy in office better examine their choices under a microscope or get someone like this guy again.
Via The Hill:
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rejected a plea Thursday to block a contentious air pollution rule for power plants in a big victory for the Obama administration.
Roberts’s order came despite his court’s 5-4 decision last year ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulation, known as the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, is illegal.
Michigan led a group of 20 states last month — empowered by the Supreme Court’s recent unprecedented decision to halt the EPA’s carbon dioxide rule for power plants — in asking the court to live up to its ruling last year and block the regulation’s enforcement.
“Unless this court stays or enjoins further operation of the Mercury and Air Toxics rule, this court’s recent decision in Michigan v. EPA will be thwarted,” the states wrote in a Feb. 23 filing with the court.
The 2016 election should be a slam dunk election for a Republican victory. Unfortunately, the present course seems to be directing their ship of state onto rocky shoals.
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If Cruz were in Trump's position now (rather than second), perhaps the number would only have been 45.
"To quote Natalie Portman in one of the worst movies ever made.... "this is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause"
This election year is a joke... but going out to vote will decide if we get a Jar Jar or a Bantha."