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53 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It should be, Jan 6 was a year ago… that sucked.  Glad that’s over…. Now let’s take a look at…

 

- the covid situation that persists with no end in sight 

- fed realizing they have no choice but to boost rates due to rapid inflation 

- Kazakhstan mess

- American solders under attack in iraq

- current administration gridlock within its own party 

- skyrocketing murder rates in every us city 

- border town overwhelmed with influx of migrants

 

and and and …

 

 

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Blue on blue attack: Georgia Dems slam visit from Biden and Harris as “insufficient and unwelcome”

by Karen Townsend

 

The White House considers Georgia as “ground zero” for voter suppression laws. Somewhere along the way, Georgia Democrats didn’t receive the memo. They question why Biden and Kamala are traveling to their state tomorrow to echo the themes of Biden’s highly divisive January 6 speech and talk up his endorsement of a filibuster carveout in order to pass voting rights legislation in the Senate. This is a perfect example of the tone-deafness that plagues the Biden administration. Biden and Harris can’t even get on the same page as their own party activists. 

 

https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2022/01/10/blue-on-blue-attack-georgia-dems-slam-visit-from-biden-and-harris-as-insufficient-and-unwelcome-n440458

 

 

 

 

 

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4 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

Blue on blue attack: Georgia Dems slam visit from Biden and Harris as “insufficient and unwelcome”

by Karen Townsend

 

The White House considers Georgia as “ground zero” for voter suppression laws. Somewhere along the way, Georgia Democrats didn’t receive the memo. They question why Biden and Kamala are traveling to their state tomorrow to echo the themes of Biden’s highly divisive January 6 speech and talk up his endorsement of a filibuster carveout in order to pass voting rights legislation in the Senate. This is a perfect example of the tone-deafness that plagues the Biden administration. Biden and Harris can’t even get on the same page as their own party activists. 

 

https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2022/01/10/blue-on-blue-attack-georgia-dems-slam-visit-from-biden-and-harris-as-insufficient-and-unwelcome-n440458

 

 

 

 

 

 

The article made some good points. However I have to dispute one of the points.

 

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Democrats don’t care about election integrity safeguards. Their focus is on passing legislation that will likely create a path for a permanent Democrat majority in Congress.

 

Actually Republicans also don't care about "election integrity safeguards" either. Neither party does. What the do want is elections they can win.  And they're both working on making that happen.

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5 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

Blue on blue attack: Georgia Dems slam visit from Biden and Harris as “insufficient and unwelcome”

by Karen Townsend

 

The White House considers Georgia as “ground zero” for voter suppression laws. Somewhere along the way, Georgia Democrats didn’t receive the memo. They question why Biden and Kamala are traveling to their state tomorrow to echo the themes of Biden’s highly divisive January 6 speech and talk up his endorsement of a filibuster carveout in order to pass voting rights legislation in the Senate. This is a perfect example of the tone-deafness that plagues the Biden administration. Biden and Harris can’t even get on the same page as their own party activists. 

 

https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2022/01/10/blue-on-blue-attack-georgia-dems-slam-visit-from-biden-and-harris-as-insufficient-and-unwelcome-n440458

 

 

 

 

 

 

I watched their reason for not wanting Biden and Harris there. They blame both of them for not getting Manchin and  Sinema  to carve out filibuster to have 51 votes for voting rights. Voters had the last say for their Senators simple as that.

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Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor and one of the nation’s best known voting-rights advocates, will not be there. Nor will a coalition of Georgia’s most active voting-rights groups.

 

Ms. Abrams has a scheduling conflict, an aide said on Monday. She expressed support for the event on Twitter.

 

Say what? This is Abrams’ signature issue! There won’t be a more high-profile event in Georgia focusing on “voting rights” ever. How often does a president and VP of one’s own party come to the same event in one’s home state? Especially given Abrams’ new gubernatorial run and her claims of being robbed in her previous attempt, skipping this event is astonishing. What could possibly be on her schedule that has more potential and a higher profile than this?

 

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/01/11/hmmm-voting-rights-groups-to-boycott-biden-harris-event-in-georgia-and-abrams-awol-too-n440669

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1 hour ago, ALF said:

I watched their reason for not wanting Biden and Harris there. They blame both of them for not getting Manchin and  Sinema  to carve out filibuster to have 51 votes for voting rights. Voters had the last say for their Senators simple as that.

 

No, they didn't want to associate with Biden and Harris.  Those 2 have no power over Manchin and Sinema so that's not a plausible excuse.

 

1 hour ago, ALF said:

Did McConnell carveout the filibuster to appoint 3 Supreme Court Judges  for Trump ?

 

Nope, that would be Harry Reid.

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1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor and one of the nation’s best known voting-rights advocates, will not be there. Nor will a coalition of Georgia’s most active voting-rights groups.

 

Ms. Abrams has a scheduling conflict, an aide said on Monday. She expressed support for the event on Twitter.

 

Say what? This is Abrams’ signature issue! There won’t be a more high-profile event in Georgia focusing on “voting rights” ever. How often does a president and VP of one’s own party come to the same event in one’s home state? Especially given Abrams’ new gubernatorial run and her claims of being robbed in her previous attempt, skipping this event is astonishing. What could possibly be on her schedule that has more potential and a higher profile than this?

 

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/01/11/hmmm-voting-rights-groups-to-boycott-biden-harris-event-in-georgia-and-abrams-awol-too-n440669

 

She doesn't want to be associated with the Demented Biden/Harris clown show stank.  When a total nobody like Abrams doesn't want to be in a photo op with a sitting President - you've got a ***** show on your hands.  What a mess!

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13 hours ago, ALF said:

 

Did McConnell carveout the filibuster to appoint 3 Supreme Court Judges  for Trump ?

 

11 hours ago, Doc said:

 

No, they didn't want to associate with Biden and Harris.  Those 2 have no power over Manchin and Sinema so that's not a plausible excuse.

 

 

Nope, that would be Harry Reid.

 

Fact check: Republicans, not Democrats, eliminated the Senate filibuster on Supreme Court nominees

In 2013, Reid and Democrats lowered vote threshold on most nominees, but not for Supreme Court picks


In 2013, Democrats held a majority in the Senate while President Barack Obama occupied the White House. 

For four decades, a 60-vote supermajority had been required to advance all federal judicial nominees and executive-office appointments, per The Washington Post.

 

Then, Senate Republicans attempted to filibuster multiple Obama nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, his pick for Defense secretary, and his choices to lead the National Labor Relations Board and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

 

In response, Reid orchestrated a move to lower the Senate vote threshold to 51 to confirm most presidential appointments — but not nominees to the Supreme Court.

 

 

In 2017, McConnell and Republicans lowered the threshold for nominees to the Supreme Court

By 2017, roles had reversed — Republicans held the majority in the Senate, and President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office.

 

After Senate Democrats, now in the minority, filibustered the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch — Trump's first nominee to the Supreme Court — McConnell engineered his own "nuclear option."

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/01/fact-check-gop-ended-senate-filibuster-supreme-court-nominees/3573369001/

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15 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor and one of the nation’s best known voting-rights advocates, will not be there. Nor will a coalition of Georgia’s most active voting-rights groups.

 

Ms. Abrams has a scheduling conflict, an aide said on Monday. She expressed support for the event on Twitter.

 

Say what? This is Abrams’ signature issue! There won’t be a more high-profile event in Georgia focusing on “voting rights” ever. How often does a president and VP of one’s own party come to the same event in one’s home state? Especially given Abrams’ new gubernatorial run and her claims of being robbed in her previous attempt, skipping this event is astonishing. What could possibly be on her schedule that has more potential and a higher profile than this?

 

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/01/11/hmmm-voting-rights-groups-to-boycott-biden-harris-event-in-georgia-and-abrams-awol-too-n440669

I suspect Ms. Abrams' campaign is concerned with associating her with a President and Vice President with very low approval ratings and will focus their messaging on what's good for the people of Georgia rather than what's good for the progressive agenda in general. 

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5 hours ago, ALF said:

 

 

Fact check: Republicans, not Democrats, eliminated the Senate filibuster on Supreme Court nominees

In 2013, Reid and Democrats lowered vote threshold on most nominees, but not for Supreme Court picks


In 2013, Democrats held a majority in the Senate while President Barack Obama occupied the White House. 

For four decades, a 60-vote supermajority had been required to advance all federal judicial nominees and executive-office appointments, per The Washington Post.

 

Then, Senate Republicans attempted to filibuster multiple Obama nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, his pick for Defense secretary, and his choices to lead the National Labor Relations Board and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

 

In response, Reid orchestrated a move to lower the Senate vote threshold to 51 to confirm most presidential appointments — but not nominees to the Supreme Court.

 

 

In 2017, McConnell and Republicans lowered the threshold for nominees to the Supreme Court

By 2017, roles had reversed — Republicans held the majority in the Senate, and President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office.

 

After Senate Democrats, now in the minority, filibustered the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch — Trump's first nominee to the Supreme Court — McConnell engineered his own "nuclear option."

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/01/fact-check-gop-ended-senate-filibuster-supreme-court-nominees/3573369001/

 

Yup.  McConnell was just finishing Reid's fine work...

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Joe Biden’s Magical Malarky Tour

 

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Back when Joe Biden was mercifully not yet our President, he had a period where he flailed about like a deranged mongoose searching for “messaging.”

 

We all remember his bizarre “tell your kids to stop listening to the record player” rant as if he was addressing June and Ward Cleaver instead of actual humans in 2020. Then there was his infamous pronouncement in an interview with alleged personality Leonard Larry McKelvey (known professionally as Charlamagne Tha God) that if an African-American like McKelvey didn’t yet know if he would vote for Biden or Donald J. Trump “then you ain’t black.”  Of course, if Trump had uttered anything that shockingly stupid, he’d have been tarred and feathered.

 

But since it was just ol’ Lunchpail Joe from Scranton, everyone guffawed and moved on to cover Biden’s next “rally” featuring six people sitting inside their cars wearing Fauci-approved facemasks, flashing their headlights and honking their horns…reminiscent of being at a drive-in double feature from the 1950’s, “Attack of the 50-foot Woman” followed by “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.”

Finally, Biden landed on a slogan he like so much that his campaign plastered it on the side of his tour bus and on t-shirts as well as coffee mugs. Joe Biden would stand for “No Malarky.”  (Again, not exactly a relatable word to Gen Z voters, but probably comforting to a guy born in November of 1942 when kids would gush over something being “the bee’s knees” or “the cat’s pajamas.”)

 

This week in violation of that premise, Biden and his hapless vice President Kamala Harris have apparently opted to crank up the “Magical Malarky Tour” in which they can honeycomb the nation (even the darkest corners of your own back yard) spouting non-stop malarky. Oh by the way, for those of us younger than 79… malarky was 1940’s slang meaning nonsense or rubbish.

Harris was leadoff act on the tour.  After having hemorrhaged close to a dozen staffers since becoming Veep, she’s grousing about the bad p.r. she’s “unfairly” getting; of course, it probably doesn’t say much about Kamala’s personnel skills that her most senior staff member and chief spokesman Symone Sanders just jumped ship to become a weekend host on MSNBC, the Ham Radio of television networks. But I digress.

 

Kamala Harris has been quoted as confiding to allies that she thought the news would “cover her differently” if she were white and male…by inference attributing negative media coverage to her race and gender. Apparently not much of a history buff, I guess the Vice President never heard of Dan Quayle; last time I checked, that non-stop butt of late-night comedy routines was neither black nor female. But hey, don’t let the facts get in the way of a great “woke” narrative of victimhood.

 

But move over, Madam Vice President. Because the Boss is about to step up to the microphone and you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

After “taking the gloves off” is his unhinged screamfest in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill last week, Joe Biden launched into nonstop blasts against the “defeated former President” (he must have referred to Trump that way two dozen times, as if trying to convince himself and the nation that he had actually won the election. “No Joke. Folks! I mean it!”) I’d love to see Biden’s Rorschach tests sometime for a clue to why he’s always portraying himself as a prize-fighter, or threatening to take Trump “out behind the gym” and “beat him up.” When in reality he looks like the guy in the BEFORE pictures displayed in pitches for bodybuilding courses.

 

This week, Biden’s Magical Malarky Tour pivoted from attacking Trump to rewriting history…trying to drape efforts to tighten election security around the necks of Republicans like Ku Klux Klan robes. (“No, really, folks. I’m a uniter, not a divider. I mean it. No joke!”) And he positioned the total failure of Democrats who control The White House…the U.S. Senate…and the U.S. House on racists in the GOP. But like his fact-challenged junior partner, Biden totally mangled history while downloading the Big Smear in front of historically black Morehouse College.

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://townhall.com/columnists/tomtradup/2022/01/12/joe-bidens-magical-malarky-tour-n2601731

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Old fool. Lol at the background.

I'm always at the edge of my seat expecting(and hoping) his falsies come flying out.

Must be hard for ol squinty to keep his teeth in while doing his Hitler yelling impression.

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On 1/12/2022 at 9:48 AM, Doc said:

 

Yup.  McConnell was just finishing Reid's fine work...

 

Supreme Court Judges should be neutral not far left or right being accepted by at least 60 votes not just a majority.

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51 minutes ago, ALF said:

Supreme Court Judges should be neutral not far left or right being accepted by at least 60 votes not just a majority.

 

I agree.  Would you say that Kagan and Sotomayor are neutral?  Would you say Kavanugh, Gorsuch and Barrett are not?

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Watch: Joe Biden Appears Visibly Flustered, Defeated in Post-Sinema Speech Interview

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It’s been 48 hours since President Joe Biden gave a train wreck of a speech in Georgia and told the American people that if you don’t agree with changing the Senate rules on the filibuster and/or federalizing elections, you are no better than prominent racist Democrats of the past including Bull Connor, George Wallace, and Jefferson Davis.

 

For those who believed Biden’s campaign promises of being a “uniter in chief,” it was a shocking moment, a dramatic turning point in his presidency. For the rest of us who have long been familiar with Joe Biden’s history of fanning the flames of racism for political gain including trying to sabotage the SCOTUS confirmation of Clarence Thomas, it was further evidence that Joe Biden is who we’ve always said he is: one of the most ruthless, cutthroat people in politics when he doesn’t get his way.

 

What’s happened in that 48 hours since Biden went full-metal woke in front of that Georgia crowd? He’s been roundly criticized, not just by the right but by some on the left as well, including the Senate’s second in command Dick Durbin. Much worse than that for him, though, the Supreme Court just blocked him on the private workplace vaccine mandate.

 

On top of that, Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema took to the Senate floor earlier today to let Biden know in so many words that his smear tactics from Tuesday will not work on her, and that she is still committed to preserving the filibuster, which pretty much guarantees his agenda will be nuked.

 

After Sinema’s speech, fellow Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin endorsed her statement, saying that “I think it’s the points that I’ve been making for an awful long time and she has, too.”

 

With one loss after another piling up on Biden after his failed attempt at strong-arming his political opposition, he appeared before the cameras a couple of hours ago after a private meeting with Senate Democratic leaders (Sinema gave her speech a few minutes prior to that meeting), and the signs of defeat were there. Gone was the “we will get this done” attitude we’ve heard and seen from him in the past. In its place? A visibly flustered Biden, who acknowledged that he didn’t know if “we can get it done”:

 

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That’s the look and sound of someone who knows he’s lost the argument, and who realizes that he screwed the pooch with his bitterly divisive speech yesterday in which the man who has zero political capital one year into his presidency tried to “persuade” holdouts by playing the raaaacism card. It backfired – big time.

 

Any hope that Manchin or Sinema will change their minds on the filibuster going forward appears lost now, although privately White House aides are reportedly saying “never say never.”

 

As I said in response to his Georgia remarks, Joe Biden told us – and Sens. Manchin and Sinema – who he really was in his Tuesday speech. Both Democrat Senators responded accordingly today. Voters should do their part, too, in November 2022 and 2024.

 

https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2022/01/13/watch-joe-biden-appears-visibly-flustered-defeated-in-post-sinema-speech-interview-n506167

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15 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Watch: Joe Biden Appears Visibly Flustered, Defeated in Post-Sinema Speech Interview

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It’s been 48 hours since President Joe Biden gave a train wreck of a speech in Georgia and told the American people that if you don’t agree with changing the Senate rules on the filibuster and/or federalizing elections, you are no better than prominent racist Democrats of the past including Bull Connor, George Wallace, and Jefferson Davis.

 

For those who believed Biden’s campaign promises of being a “uniter in chief,” it was a shocking moment, a dramatic turning point in his presidency. For the rest of us who have long been familiar with Joe Biden’s history of fanning the flames of racism for political gain including trying to sabotage the SCOTUS confirmation of Clarence Thomas, it was further evidence that Joe Biden is who we’ve always said he is: one of the most ruthless, cutthroat people in politics when he doesn’t get his way.

 

What’s happened in that 48 hours since Biden went full-metal woke in front of that Georgia crowd? He’s been roundly criticized, not just by the right but by some on the left as well, including the Senate’s second in command Dick Durbin. Much worse than that for him, though, the Supreme Court just blocked him on the private workplace vaccine mandate.

 

On top of that, Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema took to the Senate floor earlier today to let Biden know in so many words that his smear tactics from Tuesday will not work on her, and that she is still committed to preserving the filibuster, which pretty much guarantees his agenda will be nuked.

 

After Sinema’s speech, fellow Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin endorsed her statement, saying that “I think it’s the points that I’ve been making for an awful long time and she has, too.”

 

With one loss after another piling up on Biden after his failed attempt at strong-arming his political opposition, he appeared before the cameras a couple of hours ago after a private meeting with Senate Democratic leaders (Sinema gave her speech a few minutes prior to that meeting), and the signs of defeat were there. Gone was the “we will get this done” attitude we’ve heard and seen from him in the past. In its place? A visibly flustered Biden, who acknowledged that he didn’t know if “we can get it done”:

 

{snip}

 

That’s the look and sound of someone who knows he’s lost the argument, and who realizes that he screwed the pooch with his bitterly divisive speech yesterday in which the man who has zero political capital one year into his presidency tried to “persuade” holdouts by playing the raaaacism card. It backfired – big time.

 

Any hope that Manchin or Sinema will change their minds on the filibuster going forward appears lost now, although privately White House aides are reportedly saying “never say never.”

 

As I said in response to his Georgia remarks, Joe Biden told us – and Sens. Manchin and Sinema – who he really was in his Tuesday speech. Both Democrat Senators responded accordingly today. Voters should do their part, too, in November 2022 and 2024.

 

https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2022/01/13/watch-joe-biden-appears-visibly-flustered-defeated-in-post-sinema-speech-interview-n506167

Dem's use Jim Crow racist tool to block sanctions in support of Putin.

 

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/senate-democrats-use-the-jim-crow

 

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I have no sympathy for any of these people that were drawn into the illusion of a competent Biden despite decades of evidence against it.

 

 

It is solely because they were blinded by their hatred for Trump.

 

 

They have earned their scorn.

 

 

 

 

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50 minutes ago, Doc said:

 

Heading?  It was at 33 a few days ago.

 

 

Their average of all the polls 538 has deemed credible.  So the number is always worse - its naturally inflated for Ds 

 

 

Xiden's approval after one year is the worst in polling history unless you believe the Trump average - I'm pretty sure media coverage of Trump wasn't quite as favorable as Joe's....I mean maybe but my memory is a tad foggy.  I seemed to recall Trump was being impeached from election day on.  

 

 

So Joe is 42%.  Historically bad.  

 

Rightfully so.  That's the state of America and its all him and his party's fault.  

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7 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:

Their average of all the polls 538 has deemed credible.  So the number is always worse - its naturally inflated for Ds 

 

 

Xiden's approval after one year is the worst in polling history unless you believe the Trump average - I'm pretty sure media coverage of Trump wasn't quite as favorable as Joe's....I mean maybe but my memory is a tad foggy.  I seemed to recall Trump was being impeached from election day on.  

 

 

So Joe is 42%.  Historically bad.  

 

Rightfully so.  That's the state of America and its all him and his party's fault.  

 

Uh, yeah, it wasn't favorable at all.  As I've been saying, Joey's dismal approval ratings are of his own doing, not sham conspiracies and impeachments.

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