meazza Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/article/Tillerson-and-Exxon-part-ways-180M-retirement-10834168.php Must be nice! Don't be envious little Tiberius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 THAT VOW WAS JUST FOR THE RUBES: Whatever happened to that smooth presidential transition Obama vowed? Andrew Malcolm: Since Obama vowed to run a smooth presidential transition, what’s the real point of picking a tardy diplomatic scuffle with Putin? What’s the real point of setting Israel (and the annoying Netanyahu) adrift at the United Nations now? Why issue all these offshore drilling bans and new federal regulations? Why commute more federal prison sentences than a dozen past presidents combined? Why keep releasing Guantanamo terrorists when so many return to their homicidal careers? For the first time in nearly a century a former president decided to reside in Washington. Obama has rented a mansion and office space where he’ll be easily accessible to media friends for, say, kibitzing his successor – unlike Obama’s predecessor, who went silent for more than a year. Obama is the Loki of presidential politics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 THAT VOW WAS JUST FOR THE RUBES: Whatever happened to that smooth presidential transition Obama vowed? Andrew Malcolm: Since Obama vowed to run a smooth presidential transition, what’s the real point of picking a tardy diplomatic scuffle with Putin? What’s the real point of setting Israel (and the annoying Netanyahu) adrift at the United Nations now? Why issue all these offshore drilling bans and new federal regulations? Why commute more federal prison sentences than a dozen past presidents combined? Why keep releasing Guantanamo terrorists when so many return to their homicidal careers? For the first time in nearly a century a former president decided to reside in Washington. Obama has rented a mansion and office space where he’ll be easily accessible to media friends for, say, kibitzing his successor – unlike Obama’s predecessor, who went silent for more than a year. Obama is the Loki of presidential politics. The transition is smooth. Obama never promised that the Trump Administration's governance would be, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Don't be envious little Tiberius. That would be a mistake. I'm doing great, better than most so no envy. Sort of like how I don't get poster envy like some other poster around here who is a little jealousy case, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meazza Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 That would be a mistake. I'm doing great, better than most so no envy. Sort of like how I don't get poster envy like some other poster around here who is a little jealousy case, lol Could someone translate this into english please? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Could someone translate this into english please? Thanks No, sorry, I don't speak fluent potato head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 (edited) More Than 1,100 Law Professors Oppose Jeff Sessions; Nobody Should Care by David French Via the front page of the Washington Post website comes the “news” ( ) that more than 1,100 law professors signed their names to a letter urging the Senate to reject Jeff Sessions’s nomination for attorney general. I’m sorry, but the cost of relentless academic partisanship is academic credibility. Is it “news” that leftists don’t like a conservative nominee? Perhaps if law schools were known for scrupulous nonpartisan hiring practices and balanced presentations of ideological issues, the letter would be compelling. But they’re not, and it’s not. {snip} What’s actually happening is that a collection of liberals are using the (rapidly-diminishing) prestige of their institutions and profession to make news when there is none. Of course liberals oppose a conservative nominee, and of course academic liberals are prone to play the race card. If any of them wish to make a detailed case based on law and facts, then make that case. Until then, however, their letter is little more than an especially pretentious version of a Change.org petition. Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner TYLER O’NEIL: 7 Desperate Liberal Lies About Trump’s Education Pick Betsy DeVos. Chuck Schumer has already promised to drag out Trump’s cabinet confirmation process for months, so really this story is just the warmup. . Funny the left can't imagine any other system of picking a cabinet than the Affirmation Action model. What a revolutionary idea that positions are assigned on the basis of merit! Just like a business would do! Edited January 4, 2017 by Dante Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 No, sorry, I don't speak fluent potato head. That's an affront to potatoes everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Dear wealth-bashers: Rex Tillerson's net worth is more or less equal to John Kerry's. Oh, and he earned it, rather than married it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Not quite his face on a $3 bill, but you have to laugh: US Military Commander in Chief Gives Himself Defense Dept. Medal for Distinguished Public Service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Not quite his face on a $3 bill, but you have to laugh: US Military Commander in Chief Gives Himself Defense Dept. Medal for Distinguished Public Service. 1) The Secretary of Defense awards it. A shade of difference, sure...but it's not like Obama said "I'm giving myself a medal!" 2) Giving the exiting president this medal has become something of a tradition. Bush got one. More hilariously, so did Clinton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Some suggest (I don't know) that he was not really even eligible for this award.........just private citizens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Some suggest (I don't know) that he was not really even eligible for this award.........just private citizens. Wrong site. The medal Obama received was a DOD medal; you're referencing an Army site. From what I read, the medal can be awarded to elected officials. But what I saw wasn't authoritative either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 How many Purple Hearts did he get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 GOP schedules first six cabinet confirmation hearings on one day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Good move. "Keep on plowin'!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 GOP schedules first six cabinet confirmation hearings on one day Hey Chuckie, enjoy pulling water all the wells Harry poisoned for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 ANOTHER LEADING ALABAMA DEMOCRAT ENDORSES JEFF SESSIONS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 at first i believed trumps son in law was just simple nepotism. while it may be a touch of this i also think it is not a bad idea as he has a good relationship with trump and it is a working relaitonship in which they trust each other. that could be a good thing. either way, he's a senior adviser now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 at first i believed trumps son in law was just simple nepotism. while it may be a touch of this i also think it is not a bad idea as he has a good relationship with trump and it is a working relaitonship in which they trust each other. that could be a good thing. either way, he's a senior adviser now. He's a really interesting guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 He's a really interesting guy. jared fogle is a really interesting guy. jared kushner is a very boring guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 jared fogle is a really interesting guy. jared kushner is a very boring guy. ...To some people, I guess, sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 How did Jack Kennedy get to appoint Robert Kennedy as his Attorney General? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 New York Times Runs Front-Page Ad for Jeff Sessions Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/443703/jeff-sessions-new-york-times I didn’t think I could be more favorably disposed toward Senator Jeff Sessions’s nomination as attorney general until I read today’s front-page New York Times profile, published in anticipation of tomorrow’s confirmation hearing. http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/08/us/politics/jeff-sessions-attorney-general.html?_r=0 Corey Booker, No Longer ‘Mr. Bipartisan’ It looks like New Jersey Senator Corey Booker is interested in running for president in 2020. That’s the easiest way to explain a guy whose initial reputation in politics was “Mr. Bipartisan” throwing himself onto the tracks of an oncoming train of an all-but-certain confirmation: Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is set to testify against Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions Wednesday in an unprecedented move during his attorney general confirmation. This would be the first time in Senate history that a sitting senator will testify against another sitting senator for a Cabinet post during a confirmation. “I do not take lightly the decision to testify against a Senate colleague,” Booker said. “But the immense powers of the attorney general combined with the deeply troubling views of this nominee is a call to conscience.” Of course, it wasn’t that long ago that Sessions and Booker got along pretty well. Back in 2015, the pair introduced legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal to participants of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/443705/corey-booker-no-longer-mr-bipartisan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 What a douche. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 So Republicans rejected him in the 80's as too racist to be a judge but now he's going to be attorney general? Will he wear his Klan robes to the nomination hearings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keepthefaith Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 New York Times Runs Front-Page Ad for Jeff Sessions Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/443703/jeff-sessions-new-york-times I didn’t think I could be more favorably disposed toward Senator Jeff Sessions’s nomination as attorney general until I read today’s front-page New York Times profile, published in anticipation of tomorrow’s confirmation hearing. http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/08/us/politics/jeff-sessions-attorney-general.html?_r=0 Corey Booker, No Longer ‘Mr. Bipartisan’ It looks like New Jersey Senator Corey Booker is interested in running for president in 2020. That’s the easiest way to explain a guy whose initial reputation in politics was “Mr. Bipartisan” throwing himself onto the tracks of an oncoming train of an all-but-certain confirmation: Of course, it wasn’t that long ago that Sessions and Booker got along pretty well. Back in 2015, the pair introduced legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal to participants of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/443705/corey-booker-no-longer-mr-bipartisan Should make for interesting theater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 (edited) So Republicans rejected him in the 80's as too racist to be a judge but now he's going to be attorney general? Will he wear his Klan robes to the nomination hearings? Don Williams had the 14 hit on the country charts on this day in 1989 with "I wouldn't be a man." Edited January 10, 2017 by Boyst62 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Don Williams had the 14 hit on the country charts on this day in 1989 with "I wouldn't be a man." Corrupt and rotten regime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Yes. And it finally ends in about 10 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Black pastors rally in Washington for AG nominee Jeff Sessions http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/09/black-pastors-rally-washington-ag-nominee-jeff-sessions/96367850/ WASHINGTON — A group of black pastors Monday criticized African-American opponents of attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions for demonizing the Alabama Republican, instead characterizing him as someone who shows “respect and care for people of all races.” Ehh, what do they know ? Liberals know what's best for them........... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Miner Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Black pastors rally in Washington for AG nominee Jeff Sessions http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/09/black-pastors-rally-washington-ag-nominee-jeff-sessions/96367850/ WASHINGTON A group of black pastors Monday criticized African-American opponents of attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions for demonizing the Alabama Republican, instead characterizing him as someone who shows respect and care for people of all races. Ehh, what do they know ? Liberals know what's best for them........... . Since they've lived under the white man's oppression, black people don't know what's best for themselves. The evil white oppressors have to make amends by reaching down to help the black man by telling him what's good for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Corrupt and rotten regime of his 46 singles only 4 didn't make top 10. That's a doozy for any artist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 More "fairness" Why exactly did protesters and senators ask Jeff Sessions peculiar questions? Because they yield headlines such as this one. Fortunately.............SEN. SESSIONS IS BREEZING THROUGH HIS CONFIRMATION HEARING But does it matter ? As reported earlier, Jeff Sessions waltzed through his confirmation hearing today. The Democrats’ questioning was desultory, and none of the Democratic Senators laid a glove on the nominee. Only the inept Al Franken even tried. As Byron York put it, the anticipated “showdown fizzle[d].” But perhaps the Democrats had the last laugh. All they had to do was send their talking points to the television networks, and they got the stories they were looking for, without having to deliver anything in the actual hearing. Kyle Drennen has the story at Newsbusters: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 More "fairness" Why exactly did protesters and senators ask Jeff Sessions peculiar questions? Because they yield headlines such as this one. Has Obama every denied KKK sympathies? I want someone to run a headline "President Obama Does Not Deny KKK Sympathies." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 VIDEO: Ted Cruz Steals the Show at Jeff Sessions Hearing With a Pummeling for Democrats That Has to Be Seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 (edited) Fellow senator Cory Booker breaks with tradition and testifies against Sessions, but this has absolutely nothing to do with an attempt to catapult himself into the celebrity ranks of the Democrat party. Live: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/watch-live-sen-jeff-sessions-returns-day-2-confirmation-hearings/ Edited January 11, 2017 by Azalin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Jeff Sessions Faces Democrats’ Decades-Old Race-Baiting Routine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Jeff Sessions Faces Democrats’ Decades-Old Race-Baiting Routine. I'm watching it now. Between Cedric Richmond and John Lewis, you'd think that Sessions is a klansman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 I'm watching it now. Between Cedric Richmond and John Lewis, you'd think that Sessions is a klansman. Lots of people DO think Sessions is a Klansman. Many of them vote for Richmond and Lewis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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