Wednesday, December 18, 2019
NDAA creating Trump's Space Force and paid family leave for The Swamp will also give immigration amnesty to 4,000 Liberians
Many Liberians fleeing
civil war in the 1990s were given temporary protected status to stay in
the U.S. — with no path to citizenship — and became part of the DED
program in 2007. They faced the prospect of deportation under
administrations of both parties, with continual extensions.
Trump
twice moved to end the program, saying Liberians could return to their
homeland because conditions in the country had improved: It was no
longer experiencing armed conflicts and had recovered from a 2014
outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. But as Liberians' DED status was set
to expire on March 31 this year, the administration approved a one-year
reprieve.
When you imagine Republicans did what Joe Biden did
Career civil servant Mark Sandy testified on Nov. 16, 2019 that he was told that military assistance to Ukraine was put on hold by Trump because Trump was concerned other countries were not contributing more to Ukraine:
Mr. Sandy: I recall in early September an email that attributed the hold to the President's concern about other countries not contributing more to Ukraine. ... Mr. Meadows: And, all of a sudden, we get some additional information that's provided in terms of what other countries contribute to Ukraine aid, and then the aid was released. Is that a fair characterization? Mr. Sandy: In terms of the sequencing, yes.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issues rare public order rebuking FBI misconduct, acknowledges Americans cannot trust the FBI
This order responds to reports that personnel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) provided false information to the National Security Division (NSD) of the Department of Justice, and withheld material information from NSD which was detrimental to the FBI's case, in connection with four applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for authority to conduct electronic surveillance of a U.S. citizen named Carter W. Page. When FBI personnel mislead NSD in the ways described above, they equally mislead the FISC. ... The FBI's handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the OIG report, was antithetical to the heightened duty of candor described above. The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable.
Read the whole thing here.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Twas the night before impeachment
Twas the night before impeachment
and all across Twitter
not a conservative was stirring
And Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself
and all across Twitter
not a conservative was stirring
And Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself
After 3 years of Donald Trump, US Debt to the Penny is up $3.3 trillion
Trump, Republicans and Democrats are spending us blind.
President Trump could easily veto these spending bills and get spending compromises from Congress, but won't because he's a wimp
The narrow majorities of Democrats in the House and Republicans in the Senate mean there would be great difficulty achieving 2/3 majorities to override the veto except for the most necessary spending, which means Trump has the upper hand.
President Trump is in the catbird seat when it comes to spending, but he does NOTHING. All he does is veto the occasional "Joint Resolution", which is meaningless to the taxpayer and in the same class as conservatism in this country, which has again been reduced to this or that irritable mental gesture.
Donald Trump is a complete and utter fool who knows nothing about the power he has.
Ann Coulter was right to say Trump has replaced Bush 41 as biggest wimp ever to serve as president.
After passing NDAA whopper funding The Military Industrial Complex and The Swamp, US House passes another $1.4 trillion in spending in two bills to let Trump say he didn't sign another Omnibus spending bill
TRUMP IS WORKING WITH THEM AGAINST US YOU IDIOTS.
The House passed a $1.4 trillion federal spending package that averts a government shutdown and maintains some funding for a southern border wall. The measure passed Tuesday despite the objections of
liberal Democrats and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, who
said they opposed the $1.375 billion allocated for the construction of a
southern border wall as well as other border security provisions. The spending bill would provide funding through the rest of
fiscal 2020. It passed in two different measures in order to avoid
sending President Trump one “omnibus” package, which he had vowed to
reject.
More here.
Sean Hannity must be smoking something if he thinks this is a picture of much improved labor participation
We are stuck in the toilet.
Justice Neil Gorsuch worries me
Quoted here:
"Originalism says the rights of the Constitution that were given in
1789 are the rights you enjoy today and they can never be taken -- and
if you want to add to them, we the people add to them," Gorsuch told
Bream.
Add rights? You mean like a right to healthcare? A home? A pony?
The original Bill of Rights enshrines the chartered rights of Englishmen which were perceived by the first Americans to have been abused by England's king. They are old rights, anciently memorialized in the long history of England's Christian civilization. While not exhaustive in an ideological sense, it is dubious to assert we can just invent new rights such as those out of thin air if we want to. The list is pretty complete as it is.
Amending the Constitution is not the same thing as "adding rights". If it is, we're all in trouble.
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