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Obama’s pathetic ‘Blame Fox’ excuse
by Joe Simonson
Original ArticleIt’s been a rough few weeks for President Obama. Voters in so-called “Blue Wall” states seemingly rejected the vast majority of the president’s legacy.
Whether it was ObamaCare, lax immigration enforcement or the Trans Pacific Partnership, millions of voters (many of whom voted for him in 2008 and 2012) decided they didn’t want to hand the White House keys over to someone who campaigned almost entirely on the status quo. Voters told Obama and the Democratic Party that they were out of touch with their concerns.
So how did the president respond? Essentially: It’s all Fox News’ fault.
As he put it in a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the reason Democrats can’t attract voters beyond the East and West coasts isn’t their policies but the fact that “Fox News [is] in every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country.”
Sure, Mr. President, millions of Americans across the country leave their jobs and homes at the end of the day, go to their neighborhood eatery or watering hole, watch “The O’Reilly Factor” and have their brains washed. Please.
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PRECIOUS SNOWFLAKES: Virginia schools ban ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ ‘Huckleberry Finn’ for racial slurs.
The decision to remove “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain and “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee came after a parent filed a complaint, WCMH-TV reported. The parent cited excessive racial slurs as the reason for wanting the books banned, Superintendent Warren Holland told the news station.The parent, whose son is biracial, said that her concerns are “not even just a black and white thing.”“I keep hearing, ‘This is a classic, This is a classic,’ … I understand this is a literature classic. But at some point, I feel that children will not — or do not — truly get the classic part — the literature part, which I’m not disputing,” she said at a Nov. 15 school board meeting. “This is great literature. But there (are so many) racial slurs in there and offensive wording that you can’t get past that.”No, you can’t get past that.
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CIVIL RIGHTS: Democrats promise to kill any national conceal carry reciprocity agreement in the senate.
Imagine having this debate over which places you could speak freely in, and in which other places you had better watch yourself.
Oh, wait…
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More Election Backlash..................
North Side beer bar drops MillerCoors over Trump
POST-ELECTION VANDALISM, INTIMIDATION, PROTESTS AND RECOUNT: Seems a competent FBI would ask if there are connections…
“Kristin Davis rocked a ‘Love Trumps Hate’ button on Election Day. The ‘Sex and the City’ star hasn’t exactly lived up to that sentiment since then:”
CNN CREW JOKES ABOUT TRUMP PLANE CRASHING BEFORE CARRIER SPEECH.
ROGER SIMON: ‘Panic in Progressive Park’ — What If Trump Is Actually Good?
“Reason for the panic — the dawning realization, repressed and often unrecognized though it may be, that Donald Trump may even a be a good president. Then what?” He certainly seems to be off to a strong start. And the Mattis pick is inspired.
And I was briefly in DC this week, and noticed a palpable reduction in smugness among its denizens compared to the last time (pre-election) I was there. . . .
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Don't you guys have kids ?.......there's only one Prince Eric
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FLASHBACK: OBAMA MOCKS TRUMP PROMISE TO KEEP CARRIER PLANT IN USA...
Obama also singled out Trump for derision, saying:
When somebody says, like the person you just mentioned who I’m not going to advertise for, that he’s going to bring all these jobs back, well how exactly are you going to do that? What are you going to do? There’s — there’s no answer to it. He just says, “Well, I’m going to negotiate a better deal.” Well, how — what — how exactly are you going to negotiate that? What magic wand do you have? And usually, the answer is he doesn’t have an answer.
On Wednesday, the White House downplayed Carrier's decision to remain in the U.S. And today the White House doubled down, claiming Trump would need to make a similar announcement every week for eight years to match Obama's record
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WISCONSIN HELD HOSTAGE – Recount Day 1
Hillary’s campaign joined an unsuccessful suit filed by Stein and one other independent candidate which sought to block the use of ballot-counting machines. Stein claims she’s working alone, but, and I’m sure it’s purely coincidence, has only requested recounts in three states where Hillary was projected to win, but came in second behind Donald Trump. Pennsylvania and Michigan.
The stupid BURNS! Nearly half of Hillary voters say ‘good chance’ recount will show she won (ha!)
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WaPo says it’s Mad Dog Mattis for SecDef.
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis to be secretary of defense, nominating a former senior military officer who led operations across the Middle East to run the Pentagon less than four years after he hung up his uniform, according to people familiar with the decision.To take the job, Mattis will need Congress to pass new legislation to bypass a federal law that states secretaries of defense must not have been on active duty in the previous seven years. Congress has granted a similar exception just once, when Gen. George C. Marshall was appointed to the job in 1950.An announcement is likely by early next week, according to the people familiar with the decision. Mattis declined to comment. Spokespersons for Trump’s transition team did not respond to requests for comment.Mattis, 66, retired as the chief of U.S. Central Command in spring 2013 after serving more than four decades in the Marine Corps. He is known as one of the most influential military leaders of his generation, serving as a strategic thinker while occasionally drawing rebukes for his aggressive talk. Since retiring, he has served as a consultant and as a visiting fellow with the Hoover Institution, a think tank at Stanford University.A HEARTWARMING GENERAL MATTIS CHRISTMAS STORY:
At about 4 a.m., General Krulak would drive himself to every Marine guard post in the Washington-Annapolis-Baltimore area and deliver a small package of Christmas cookies to whatever Marines were pulling guard duty that day. He said that one year, he had gone down to Quantico as one of his stops to deliver Christmas cookies to the Marines on guard duty. He went to the command center and gave a package to the lance corporal who was on duty.He asked, “Who’s the officer of the day?” The lance corporal said, “Sir, it’s Brigadier General Mattis.” And General Krulak said, “No, no, no. I know who General Mattis is. I mean, who’s the officer of the day today, Christmas day?” The lance corporal, feeling a little anxious, said, “Sir, it is Brigadier General Mattis.”General Krulak said that, about that time, he spotted in the back room a cot, or a daybed. He said, “No, Lance Corporal. Who slept in that bed last night?” The lance corporal said, “Sir, it was Brigadier General Mattis.”About that time, General Krulak said that General Mattis came in, in a duty uniform with a sword, and General Krulak said, “Jim, what are you doing here on Christmas day? Why do you have duty?” General Mattis told him that the young officer who was scheduled to have duty on Christmas day had a family, and General Mattis decided it was better for the young officer to spend Christmas Day with his family, and so he chose to have duty on Christmas Day.General Krulak said, “That’s the kind of officer that Jim Mattis is.”You can see why troops love him.
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HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE UPDATE: College bans protesters from campus in wake of flag burning.
Left vs Left: UCLA students compare feminism to white supremacy.
University of California, Los Angeles students were treated to a dinner dialogue this month on the topic of “white feminism” and its relation to white supremacy.The “White Feminism” dinner dialogue was hosted by the campus Intergroup Relations Program, an administrative center that seeks to educate the UCLA community on issues of “social identity, interpersonal, and intergroup relations/conflict, prejudice reduction, and social justice.”Celia Cody-Carrese, an Intergroup Relations Center intern who helped put on the event, told The Daily Bruin that organizers chose white feminism as their topic because they think feminism has traditional ties with white supremacy, noting that the term “feminism” is most frequently applied to white women, while the concerns of black women are generally treated as a separate, racial issue.Mitali Gupta, a UCLA Senior who attended the event, told Campus Reform that feminism’s link to white supremacy was indeed discussed during the meeting, adding that she agrees that such a connection exists.You can’t make this up. Sadly, you don’t have to.
USA TODAY COLUMN: Campus Censorship: Some folks on the right may feel that turnabout is fair play, but that’s dangerous.
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Told you..............he is incapable of constructive discussion.
Meanwhile,
Trump’s Treasury Choice Says ‘No Absolute Tax Cut’ for the Wealthy.
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..Jim Clyburn’s 76,...... Nancy Pelosi’s 76, .......Steny Hoyer’s 77.
Your Democrat "leaders"
Hillary 2020 !!
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It’s Time for Honest Talk about Muslim Immigration
by David French
Some immigrants from jihad zones will be involved in murdering Americans. Is this an acceptable price for compassion?
At 9:52 a.m. on Monday morning, a silver Honda jumped a curb at Ohio State University and plowed directly into a crowd of students, sending bodies flying through the air. As students rushed to help, a young Somali immigrant, Abdul Razak Ali Ratan, got out of the car and began attacking horrified students with a butcher knife. All told, eleven people were wounded before a university police officer shot and killed Ratan, ending the attack.
Ratan is the third Muslim immigrant to mount a mass stabbing attack in 2016. The first occurred at an Israeli-owned deli in Columbus, Ohio, the second at a mall in Saint Cloud, Minn., and the third Monday at Ohio State. The attacks together wounded 25 people. The latest stabbing comes on the heels of Afghan immigrant Ahman Khan Rahami’s September bomb attacks in New York and New Jersey that left 29 injured.
The toll continues. Muslim immigrants Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev killed five Americans and wounded 280 in the Boston Marathon bombing and subsequent shootouts. Muslim immigrant Muhammad Abdulazeez killed five men and wounded two in attacks on military recruiting stations in Chattanooga, Tenn. Muslim immigrant Tashfeen Malik accompanied her first-generation Muslim-American husband to attack a Christmas party in San Bernardino, Calif., killing 14 and wounding 22. First generation Muslim-American Omar Mateen — son of Afghan immigrants — carried out the deadliest domestic terror attack since 9/11, killing 49 and wounding 53 at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub.And if you think these are the only terrorist immigrants — or terrorist children of immigrants — you’re sadly mistaken. The Heritage Foundation has maintained a comprehensive database of terror plots since 9/11, a database that includes foiled attacks. The number of Muslim immigrants involved is truly sobering. For every successful attack, there are multiple unsuccessful plots, including attacks that could have cost hundreds of American lives.
After all these incidents, can we finally have an honest conversation about Muslim immigration — especially Muslim immigration from jihadist conflict zones?
When we survey the American experience since 9/11, two undeniable truths emerge, and it’s past time that we grapple head-on with them. First, the vast majority of Muslim immigrants — no matter their country of origin — are not terrorists. They won’t attack anyone, they won’t participate in terrorist plots, and they abhor terrorism. Some even provide invaluable information in the fight against jihad. That’s the good news.
The bad news is the second truth: Some Muslim immigrants (or their children) will either attempt to commit mass murder or will actually succeed in killing and wounding Americans by the dozens. All groups of immigrants contain some number of criminals. But not all groups of immigrants contain meaningful numbers of terrorists. This one does. It’s simply a fact. Moreover, there isn’t an even geographic distribution of terrorists. We don’t have as many terrorist immigrants from Indonesia, India, or Malaysia as we do from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, or from the conflict zones in the Middle East. It’s much less risky to bring into the country a cardiologist from Jakarta than a refugee from Kandahar.
If the Democrats wish to maintain immigration from jihadist conflict zones, they need to rid their rhetoric of the language of “Islamophobia” and tell the truth. If they want to continue admitting refugees from jihad zones, they need to make the case that meeting the humanitarian needs of an an extremely small fraction of the world’s Muslim refugees is worth the cost of importing a small number of mass murderers. They must make the case that the human toll in America is the price we must pay for national compassion. Of course no Democrat wants a terror attack to occur, but Democrats must understand and acknowledge that under present policies, such attacks will occur — despite our best efforts to stop them.
But I’d submit that America can show compassion without opening its borders to an uncertain number of jihadist killers. We can maintain and expand existing safe zones in the Middle East. We can project power to continue to roll back ISIS and provide space for people to return to their homes. We can implement new tests for immigrants and restrict immigration from volatile regions. At the same time, we can avoid paranoia and appreciate the peacefulness and patriotism of the vast majority of our existing Muslim population.The Trump administration has an opportunity to implement a rational policy — one that rewards friends, preserves Muslim homes in the Middle East, and protects our borders far more effectively than did the Obama administration. In the 15 years of American engagement since 9/11, we have worked with a host of interpreters, allied soldiers, and sympathetic officials — many of whom have endured enormous risks to fight jihad. We should welcome these people with open arms. Muslim immigrants from outside jihadist conflict zones should be welcome as well, provided that they do not profess allegiance to the ideology of our enemies.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442565/muslim-immigration-ohio-state-stabbing-shows-dangers-lets-be-honest -
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Has Trump appointed Trump University personnel to his administration?
You're wasting your time.
New York Times: Trump Victory Tour Set as Cabinet Comes Together.
I’m old enough to remember when the transition was in “chaos.”
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Let’s Not Jinx It, But This Incoming Cabinet Looks Pretty Darn Good So FarLet’s take a look at this Trump administration cabinet nominees so far:Attorney General: Sen. Jeff Sessions.Secretary of Health and Human Services: Rep. Tom Price.Secretary of Transportation: Former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao.Secretary of Education: Philanthropist Betsy DeVos.Ambassador to the United Nations: Gov. Nikki Haley.White House Chief of Staff: RNC Chair Reince Priebus.National Security Adviser: Former DIA Director Michael Flynn.CIA Director: Rep. Mike Pompeo.Treasury Secretary: Banker Steven Mnunchin.Secretary of Commerce: Financier Wilbur Ross.Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: Indiana Health policy consultant Seema Verma.We may quibble with a few here and there, but overall it’s a really good group, particularly considering the perceived limited circle of connections and talent around Trump during the campaign.By and large, this is a pretty darn conservative cabinet, and one that’s sufficiently experienced, professional, and knowledgeable, prepared for the massive tasks before them. In fact, if any of the other 16 Republican presidential candidates had won, it’s easy to picture some of these same names appearing in those alternative Republican cabinets.What’s more, there’s still quite a bit of experienced managerial and legislative talent walking through the lobby of Trump Tower these days: Mitt Romney, David Petraeus, Rick Perry, retired General James Mattis, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin.Perhaps most surprising is that some of the figures most loyal and visible during the campaign haven’t been named to any cabinet positions yet: Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, and Chris Christie. (There’s the rumor, not yet officially announced, that Ben Carson will run the Department of Housing and Urban Development.)
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Biggest post-election news yet, and Trump announces it in a series of tweets................bypassing the media.
No wonder they are in a tizzy.
Donald Trump Promised Wednesday To Remove Himself From His Businesses
Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 7h7 hours ago I will be holding a major news conference in New York City with my children on December 15 to discuss the fact that I will be leaving my ...
great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country in order to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! While I am not mandated to ....
do this under the law, I feel it is visually important, as President, to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses..
Hence, legal documents are being crafted which take me completely out of business operations. The Presidency is a far more important task!
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The Democratic Party enters the wilderness.
Lisa Boothe:
What is left is the reality that the Democratic Party has been propped up by the personal likability of President Obama that pushed them past the finish line in 2008 and 2012. Now they are grappling with what is next in a post-Obama landscape.But instead ofshifting leadership or messaging strategies, they are poised to reelect the same people and failed ideas that led them into the darkness of irrelevancy. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco liberal, will likely stay at the helm. Rep. Ben Lujan, who ran the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and picked up only an embarrassing six seats for his party in the House, will stay in command as well. Chuck Schumer has already been tapped to lead Democrats in the Senate as minority leader.A separate race for the Democratic National Committee has exposed how liberal and out of touch the party truly is right now. Candidate Rep. Keith Ellison, who once called for a separate country for black Americans, has received the endorsement of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Ellison has also been accused of anti-Semitism and has ties to the Nation of Islam. The Daily Caller has also identified law school columns in which Ellison calls the Constitution “best evidence of a white racist conspiracy to subjugate other peoples.”The Democratic Party will likely continue its sharp turn left.Steve’s Second Law of Holes says that when you’re opponent is in one, hand them a bigger and nicer shovel.
PARTY OF YOUTH:
Curtis Kalin@CurtisKalin 30m30 minutes ago The average age of the House Republican leadership is 47.
The average age of the House Democratic leadership is 76.
Reminder:
I'm so old that I can remember (several on this board) "worried" about the GOP shrinking into a "regional party"
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Jim Gerharty:
Me -- 10 am Tuesday: “Burning American flags will play directly into Trump’s hands.” http://bit.ly/2gEWjwf
Lefties -- 10 pm: “Full speed ahead!”
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Do you recall the Obama administration’s “stray voltage” theory? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/04/barack_obama_trolls_the_gop_the_president_intentionally_baited_republicans.htmlThe gist was, “the president purposefully overstates his case knowing that it will create controversy… Controversy sparks attention, attention provokes conversation, and conversation embeds previously unknown or marginalized ideas in the public consciousness.” Part of it was a cynical calculation to let an argument about a presidential statement ensure a topic stayed front and center in the public’s mind; there’s also the side effect of ensuring that a brouhaha about a presidential statement overshadowed actual policy decisions – decisions that may be more consequential, but are less dramatic and interesting to the news media.Almost like, say, a president-elect declaring he wants to strip away the citizenship of those burning the flag.If the incoming Trump administration really is using a variation of the “stray voltage” approach, and Democrats really have an uncontrollable impulse to focus on the controversial statement du jour, the Trump administration could end up being stunningly effective in policymaking. A lot of seemingly dry and boring regulations can be repealed, executive orders withdrawn, rewritten and issued, legislation passed by GOP majorities in Congress and signed, all while the political world froths at the mouth about the president’s latest Tweet or denunciation of the media, or theater performers, or anything else that comes to mind.http://www.nationalreview.com/corner -
PRAISE BE, MISS NANCY RETAINED!: Pelosi, the perfect Democrat leader...................
House Democrats elected Nancy Pelosi to another term as minority leader on Wednesday, rejecting a challenge from Rep. Tim Ryan, of Ohio, who called for a leadership shakeup after the party’s poor election performance.Pelosi won with a little more than two-thirds of the vote, 134-63, a few weeks after she predicted that about two-thirds of the caucus would back her.The early morning vote occurred in a House office building committee chamber. It was closed to the public and the media. Lawmakers made their choice via secret ballot. Pelosi’s victory came after a group of Democrats stood up and praised her as a strong leader who has kept the caucus united and who is “battle-tested, “seasoned,” and “tough.Yes, she’s seasoned.
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Good Heavens, We’ve Never Had Wealthy Cabinet Members Before! .....by Jim GerhartyFormer Hillary Clinton spokesman Jesse Ferguson scoffs at the billionaires and millionaires among Trump’s cabinet selections.
Jesse Ferguson @JesseFFerguson working ppls cabinet...
1) Betsy Devos - $5.1B
2) Wilbur Ross - $2.9B
3) Steve Mnuchin -$40M
4) Tom Price - $13.6M
5) Elaine Chao - >$22MYes, yes, if only we could keep the current salt-of-the-earth, working-class cabinet members like Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker (net worth about $2.4 billion); Secretary of State John Kerry, who enjoys the fruits of the Heinz fortune, about $200 million; Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald, whose net worth is estimated at $12 million; Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, worth anywhere from $11 million to $51 million, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, worth $6.6 million to $25 million; Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, worth $5.4 million to $18.1 million . (All estimates from 2014.)Look, just come out and say it. You’re only bothered by wealth cabinet appointees when the other party does it. Your team’s wealth is pure and well-earned, the other guy’s wealth reflects greed and avarice and ill-gotten gains. Everybody in one party is good and noble, everybody in the other party is evil personified, blah blah blah.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/442577/good-heavens-weve-never-had-wealthy-cabinet-members
Trump's leadership team
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