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Saturday, May 27, 2017
Mencken: No decent man would accept a degree he hadn't earned . . . honorary degrees are for riffraff
Friday, May 26, 2017
Lock him up: FBI under Comey committed hundreds of 4th Amendment privacy violations
From the story here:
For instance, a ruling declassified this month by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) chronicles nearly 10 pages listing hundreds of violations of the FBI’s privacy-protecting minimization rules that occurred on Comey’s watch.
The behavior the FBI admitted to a FISA judge just last month ranged from illegally sharing raw intelligence with unauthorized third parties to accessing intercepted attorney-client privileged communications without proper oversight the bureau promised was in place years ago.
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Trump resurrects Bush's idiotic war on evil ideology
Trump, quoted here:
'This wicked ideology must be obliterated – and I mean completely obliterated – and the innocent life must be protected. All innocent lives. Life must be protected.'
"The long-term solution is to promote a better ideology, which is freedom. Freedom is universal," Bush said in 2011 after Osama bin Laden was assassinated by Obama.
How long is long term? 6 years? 10 years? 16 years in Afghanistan and Iraq? The better ideology isn't working too well, is it?
You don't defeat ideas. You defeat the people who have them, and keep them out of your society. You know, like a Muslim ban.
How long is long term? 6 years? 10 years? 16 years in Afghanistan and Iraq? The better ideology isn't working too well, is it?
You don't defeat ideas. You defeat the people who have them, and keep them out of your society. You know, like a Muslim ban.
But no, we're "rights" absolutists and can't bring ourselves to infringe the rights of those who want to kill us.
That's the ideology that is killing us.
Living in the West should be viewed as a privilege, which then distributes the rights. Lose the privilege, and lose the rights.
Our real enemy is libertarians and liberals who think every man, woman and child in the world is entitled to come here, live here and enjoy the benefits previous generations bled and died to ensure for themselves.
The Manchester bomber is not equal to George Washington.
Monday, May 22, 2017
Visa overstays hit 740,000 through September 2016
From the story here:
Countries with the highest visa overstays during the period from October 2015 to September 2016 were Canada, Mexico, Brazil, China and India.
Trump isn't fighting to build a wall, in fact he keeps caving
Trump got nothing in the continuing resolution through this fiscal year, and will get even less than he was asking for, if he's lucky, in the next.
Story here.
What a pathetic loser this guy's turning out to be.
What the hell is this?! Now Comey is colluding with the special prosecutor to get their story straight!
Comey shouldn't be allowed to come near Mueller.
Chaffetz is a putz.
Trump's battle of good vs. evil sounds like George W. Bush, kind of warmed over for 2017
Flashback to 2004 here and The President of Good and Evil:
Bush's tendency to see the world in terms of good and evil is especially striking. He has spoken about evil in 319 separate speeches, or about 30 percent of all the speeches he gave between the time he took office and June 16, 2003. In these speeches he uses the word "evil" as a noun far more often than he uses it as an adjective-914 noun uses as against 182 adjectival uses. Only 24 times, in all these occasions on which Bush talks of evil, does he use it as an adjective to describe what people do-that is, to judge acts or deeds. This suggests that Bush is not thinking about evil deeds, or even evil people, nearly as often as he is thinking about evil as a thing, or a force, something that has a real existence apart from the cruel, callous, brutal and selfish acts of which human beings are capable. His readiness to talk about evil in this manner raises the question of what meaning evil can have in a secular modern world.
Ann Coulter's excellent rant against Heritage Foundation
We can bring Ann up to speed on the Germans later.
Best one: Burke said Americans were descendants of Englishmen, and Protestant.
Heritage should sell everything and donate it to the Center for American Progress. They're already doing their work anyway:
"champion the common good over narrow self-interest, and harness the strength of our diversity."
The Heritage Foundation are lunaticks, as the King James Version of the Bible would put it
They are oft cast into the sea in danger of drowning, or into the fire in danger of burns, were it not for the common sense of Americans who have been repelled by their passions, for health care mandates for example.
For a think tank they really should get some thinkers over there one of these days.
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Trump calls war on terrorism a battle between good and evil
Full transcript of remarks in Saudi Arabia here.
Gee, sounds just like Bush (and ISIS) and conservative talk radio is thrilled.
Typically, this rhetoric is used to justify treating the evil as less than human, which is what ISIS does, or sending American troops abroad in search of monsters to destroy. But we're 16 years into Afghanistan now, with no end in sight, and the monsters just keep reproducing themselves.
This is not to suggest moral equivalence, but only that the West continues to delegitimize the "Islamic" in Islamic State in order to keep the military-industrial complex busy.
The goal of war, rather, is supposed to be to end the enemy's ability to wage it. We haven't been serious about that, and I don't think Trump will be either.
Either end it, or quit it, but carrying on like this is bankrupting the country.
Enough.
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Flashback: Robert Mueller and James Comey at FBI accused the wrong guy in the 2001 anthrax letter deaths
Carl Cannon recounts the sorry episode of their incompetence, here, in The Orange County Register.
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Robert Mueller can't investigate Comey's record either, because Comey's his "protégé"
Conflict of interest.
Reported here:
Comey regards his predecessor as a mentor, while Mueller considers Comey his protégé. When Comey was appointed to succeed Mueller as FBI Director, both men appeared together and were effusive in their praise of one another. Their relationship is not merely a casual one. It is precisely the kind of association which ethical rules are designed to guard against.
Friday, May 19, 2017
Oops, Robert Mueller's law firm represents both Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort
Conflict of interest!
If Jeff Sessions had to recuse himself, then Kushner and Manafort must be off limits to Mueller. Or, Mueller has to go.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Reported here:
Mueller's former law firm, WilmerHale, represents Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who met with a Russian bank executive in December, and the president's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, who is a subject of a federal investigation.
Hey WaPo: Thom Hartmann, Larry King, Jesse Ventura and Ed Schultz get $ from RT RIGHT NOW, are they Russian agents?!
You turds.
Here:
Flynn also received $45,000 to appear in 2015 with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a dinner for RT, a Kremlin-controlled media organization.
If you had a good mother and father, that's socialism
They did everything for you because you were of them and belonged to them.
No one else will ever care for you like that.
And that's as far as socialism goes, unless you're an Italian, capisce?
Robert Shiller blames housing bubbles on get rich quick flipper narratives, still completely misses the tax angle
Here, in The New York Times:
There is still no consensus on why the last housing boom and bust happened. That is troubling, because that violent housing cycle helped to produce the Great Recession and financial crisis of 2007 to 2009. We need to understand it all if we are going to be able to avoid ordeals like that in the future.
Ordinary Americans were suddenly able to make a lot of money by flipping their homes because of the tax law changes of 1997. Capital that was previously locked-up in housing by the rules of the New Deal until 1997 was suddenly unleashed to slosh around in the economy when lawmakers gave homeowners the right to avoid most capital gains on the sale of their homes as long as they lived in them only two years. Until 1997, if you didn't buy a more expensive home after you sold yours, you were exposed to a tax hit, unless you took the option of a once in a lifetime exclusion on the gain. The old arrangement had insured, along with the 30-year mortgage, that housing capital built up over a long period of time, creating forced savings for the middle class which could be safely liquidated in retirement without adversely affecting the housing market.
The Republican and Democrat geniuses who ran our government in 1997 changed all that, and within ten years the dang thing blew up. Yeah, I'm talking about you, Bill Clinton, and you, Newt Gingrich.
Too bad Robert Shiller still doesn't get it.
It would probably be unwise to turn back the tax clock now that the damage has been done, but the reinflation of the housing bubble after the crisis wasn't inevitable. The Fed's unprecedented zero interest rate policy has been responsible for that.
When the next housing crash comes, we'll probably not understand it either.
Meanwhile, the median sales price of homes in the aggregate has never been higher, or more unaffordable, and remains the primary driver of wealth inequality in America.
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Obstruction of justice is Hillary Clinton deleting over 30,000 emails after they were subpoenaed
Lock her up, with the guy who gave her a pass.
You know, if Trump picks Joe Lieberman for FBI, I'm done
If we wanted that version of The Swamp in 2000, we would have voted for Al Gore.
We certainly don't want it now.
Kevin McCarthy is the poster boy for stupid Republicanism, but I repeat myself
No wonder Democrats run California.
From the story here:
“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.
Previously while preparing to replace Speaker John Boehner McCarthy infamously said with a straight face that Republican success was evident from the House Benghazi investigation because it was proving to be politically detrimental to Hillary. The mug. He never knew what hit him.
When are they going to lock up these Americans who "receive money from Russia" like Mike Flynn?
They all work for "RT" just like Flynn did once: liberal radio man Thom Hartmann, liberal CNN interviewer Larry King, former Minnesota governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura, and liberal radio man Ed Schultz.
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Tom Fitton is right, Robert Mueller will never find fault with anything done by Comey's FBI
Mueller led the FBI under Bush II and Obama before his pal Comey was appointed.
Fitton heads Judicial Watch, interviewed right now on Laura Ingraham.
Laura Ingraham singles out Justin Amash as a turncoat
In the last hour.
Good on her, but he's never been on our side. He's on his own side.
The people who leaked are imputing obstruction of justice as the meaning of Comey's memo
That was the political purpose of drafting the memo in the first place and showing it to others.
But Comey will testify under oath that he never saw it that way.
Otherwise he'll be in trouble himself.
He's a Niebuhrian. The end justifies the means.
What this is about is the deep state not wanting improved relations with Russia EVER . . .
. . . and it and the Clinton wing trying to criminalize the policy change by Trump & Company.
From the story here:
[T]he two [Flynn and Kislyak] discussed establishing a back channel for communication between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that could bypass the U.S. national security bureaucracy, which both sides considered hostile to improved relations, four current U.S. officials said.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
The New York Times has nothing on Trump, who only expressed a hope, that's all, IF the memo is legit
Meanwhile the dishonest media keep reporting such things as "Trump asked Comey to cut short the Flynn investigation" when Trump did nothing of the kind.
Here, claiming to quote Trump from Comey's memo:
“I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Mr. Trump told Mr. Comey, according to the memo. “He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
That's why Turley says there's no evidence in the memo. Trump asks for nothing, threatens nothing, and only expresses a hope.
And even if it were "evidence", it would only be "he said" vs. "he said", a form of hearsay and inadmissible.
Princeton's Stephen Cohen blames false Russia narrative about Trump on Clinton wing of Democrat Party and the intelligence complex
Here:
"Two motives have dirven this false narrative about Trump, that he is somehow a Kremlin agent. There have been two forces. One is the Clinton wing of the Democratic Party, which doesn't want to admit she lost the election... and that may be because she wants to run again.... At the same time, there has long been in Washington, let's call it the fourth branch of government -- the intelligence services, who have opposed any rapprochement or cooperation with Russia."
If Comey suspected obstruction of justice in February, he was obligated to report it immediately
From the story here:
Under the law, Comey is required to immediately inform the Department of Justice of any attempt to obstruct justice by any person, even the President of the United States. Failure to do so would result in criminal charges against Comey. (18 USC 4 and 28 USC 1361) He would also, upon sufficient proof, lose his license to practice law. So, if Comey believed Trump attempted to obstruct justice, did he comply with the law by reporting it to the DOJ? If not, it calls into question whether the events occurred as the Times reported it.
Jonathan Turley: The Comey memo is not proof of an impeachable offense
Here:
[W]e need to move beyond the hyperventilated pronouncements of criminal conduct or impeachable offenses based on this memo. This conversation in the Oval Office is a valid matter of concern and worthy of further investigation. It is not proof of an impeachable offense any more than it is proof of a crime.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Mark Levin: Let's see ALL Comey's memos
Levin correctly asks why Comey reveals a memo about a possible Trump misdeed now. If it's the real deal, he might have lied to Congress months ago when he said Trump was not a target of his investigation.
Here's the testimony of Comey's number two, who stresses there has been no interference "to date":
The notes taken by Comey appear to contradict testimony offered just last week by his temporary successor, acting FBI director Andrew McCabe.
"There has been no effort to impede our investigation to date,'' McCabe said last week in response to a question posed by Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. "Simply put, sir, you cannot stop the men and women of the FBI from doing the right thing, protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution.''
Law enforcement officials declined to explain the apparent contradiction between Comey's notes and McCabe's testimony.
Here's the testimony of Comey's number two, who stresses there has been no interference "to date":
The notes taken by Comey appear to contradict testimony offered just last week by his temporary successor, acting FBI director Andrew McCabe.
"There has been no effort to impede our investigation to date,'' McCabe said last week in response to a question posed by Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. "Simply put, sir, you cannot stop the men and women of the FBI from doing the right thing, protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution.''
Law enforcement officials declined to explain the apparent contradiction between Comey's notes and McCabe's testimony.
New York Times blames housing unaffordability on mortgage interest deduction, never mentions how the Fed just reinflated the housing bubble quite apart from it
Here.
Housing was on its way to being affordable again until the Feds stepped in to stop foreclosures from rising and prices from falling, late in 2008. As a result of rock bottom interest rates which existing owners used to refinance their mortgages, housing is now more expensive than it has ever been, but the Times attacks the mortgage interest deduction for causing the problem.
Prices are up 47% since the 2009 low, in just eight years! The mortgage interest deduction was invented over 100 years ago, and helped to build the post-war middle class.
The Times seems bent on further destroying it.
Monday, May 15, 2017
Voter fraud: Is it really unimaginable that 3 million voted fraudulently in 2016?
In 2004 there were just short of 114,000 polling places in the United States. The number has doubtlessly grown considerably since then, but take 114,000 for a fact even though 12 years out of date and all it takes to get to 3 million is 26 illegal votes per precinct.
Fraud is complicated by in-person early voting in 21 states and DC, making it possible for determined fraudsters to vote multiple times in one state and/or states. Alternative voting methods other than by in-person on election day are now estimated to account for more than a third of all votes cast. These include absentee/by-mail voting in many states, which liberals typically find more susceptible of fraud than in-person systems.
Governments often raised funds with lotteries in the past, but how about $7 trillion in FY2017?
I don't think so.
Lotteries started to fall out of favor after 1830, according to the story here, mostly due to corruption. The guys running the things would run off with the dough. So much for the golden age of the past.
Government at all levels in the US will shell out $7.04 trillion in fiscal 2017, 36.5% of GDP.
In 1817 the number was in the neighborhood of $23 million, about 3% of GDP.
The problem with raising revenues today is only a problem because government is too damn big. Spending 3% of GDP today on government at all levels compared with current outlays means they are twelve times the size they should be, $7 trillion instead of $0.6 trillion.
Besides, you couldn't possibly raise enough using lotteries. In fiscal 2014 lottery revenues countrywide barely totaled $70 billion, just 1% of current total outlays.
Every man, woman and child in this country would have to purchase at least $21,757 in lotto tickets this fiscal year in order to fund government at all levels. And that's before any jackpots are paid out, or lottery workers paid.
Or we could just tax everyone that much.
It would be easier and fairer, right?
After all, we're all "equal".
Except 60 million Americans don't make even that much. If government took it all what would they live on?
Hope, no doubt.
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Wow, Sen. Mike Lee falls 28,000 feet directly into the sea from Mt. Tea Party Olympus
Another phony like Sen. Ron Johnson and Rep. Justin Amash.
Saturday, May 13, 2017
Robert Tracinski skewers some libertarians for the socialism in their heads, but still misses why it's there
Here, chalking it all up to "unexamined collectivist assumptions" and mistakenly allowing "a little dominion of socialism over their thinking" and the left "trying to preserve that territory they own in your head" through various schemes like the estate tax.
In other words, they're insufficiently indoctrinated. You know, like all those intractable Russians who were sent to the Gulag for nothing more than mistakenly expressing incorrect thoughts.
It never dawns on Tracinski that ideology is a coin with socialism on the one side and libertarianism on the other.
The article is amusing because the "conservatives" he skewers for being insufficiently libertarian are or were aligned with the left and leftism: Charles Murray (former labor unionist, six years in the Peace Corps, "rebel"), Ronald Reagan ("I didn't leave the Democratic Party . . ."), Stuart Butler of health mandate infamy (Brookings), Milton Friedman (FDR functionary) and Megan McArdle (self-described former "ultraliberal").
With the example of McArdle on the estate tax before him, one might have hoped that Tracinski had stumbled into the origin of the socialism in our heads, but no, "there is no such collective entity as 'society.'"
The man wishing to leave his estate to that little society called his family might have begged to differ.
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Grassley wants to end the EB-5 visa program altogether, but Cornyn wants to end the EB-5 cap
Grassley would end the issuance of these "buy-your-way-in" visas, but the Texas Senator would open up the program to thousands more.
Story here.
Libertarianism is adolescence dressed up as a political philosophy
No surprise that it was cooked up by Baby Boomers.
And as we all should know by now, there's no arguing with adolescents, not even after they've wrecked the family car.
What P. J. O'Rourke doesn't get is that free individuals would never make babies without hormones
And they'd never make war, either. So O'Rourke's ideal libertarian world of individual freedom would die out first, from failure to reproduce, and then from war. Compulsion is inevitable. You know, like death.
Looks like we're well on our way.
Here:
And what defines a mob? Mobsters. That Cosa Nostra with its code of omertà at the Clinton Foundation. Those "Make America Great Again" Crips and Bloods wearing their colors on their baseball caps with brims bumped to the right.
We should be learning the value of individual liberty from the failure of the elites and the fiasco of their vast political power. Good things are made by free individuals in free association with other individuals. Notice that that's how we make babies.
Individual freedom is about bringing things together.
Politics is about dividing things up.
Elites would have us make babies by putting the woman on this side of the room and the man on that side of the room while the elites stand in the middle taxing sperm and eggs.
The Grauniad complains P. J. O'Rourke's new book is "rural" and "lazy"
One David Runciman, here, who evidently does not know that the old boy has slowed down since he became sick with cancer:
[O'Rourke] operates more in the mould of HL Mencken, one of his heroes, who rarely felt the need to leave his beloved Baltimore in order to lambast the idiocy of his fellow Americans. O’Rourke lives, as it says on the dust jacket, “in rural New England, as far away from the things he writes about as he can get”. This is American politics as viewed from the back room in front of the TV, feet up on the recliner chair. ... O’Rourke forfeits the reader’s patience and simply comes across as lazy.
Dilbert thinks James Comey took one for the American team
Scott Adams, here, who covers all the bases.
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Senate Intelligence Committee aide anonymously tries to smear Trump with money laundering
Probably a Democrat aide. Democrats on the committee include Diane Feinstein, Ron Wyden, Martin Heinrich, Angus King (I), Joe Manchin, Kamala Harris and Mark Warner.
Here:
The Senate Intelligence Committee wants to see any information relevant to its Russia investigation the Treasury agency has gathered, including evidence that might include possible money laundering, according to a committee aide who spoke on condition of anonymity. Also at issue: to what extent, if at all, people close to Vladimir Putin have invested in Trump's real estate empire.
Susan Collins proves the old adage that even a broken clock is right twice a day
Here.
When the liberal Republican FBI director loses the support of a Susan Collins, he'd better believe he's had it.
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Trump fires Comey from FBI, let's hope he fires Turkey from NATO next
Erdogan, our supposed ally, calls on Muslims to occupy Jerusalem.
Monday, May 8, 2017
Tea Party darling Sen. Ron Johnson of WI introduces massive guest worker/amnesty: 500k annually
The Tea Party was one half open-borders-libertarian from the beginning. That's why it went no farther than it did.
And Wisconsin narrowly reelected Johnson in 2016 why? It was the price we paid for the very narrow Trump victory there.
Story here.
Sunday, May 7, 2017
Emmanuel Macron doesn't know how to speak of France, only of Europe and its citizens
Emmanuel Macron, the new president of France, quoted in the story here:
"I know the anger, the anxiety, the doubts that very many of you have also expressed. It's my responsibility to hear them," he said. "I will work to recreate the link between Europe and its peoples, between Europe and citizens." ...
[Marine Le Pen's] tally was almost double the score that her father Jean-Marie, the last far-right candidate to make the presidential runoff, achieved in 2002, when he was trounced by the conservative Jacques Chirac. ...
[A]ny idea of a brave new political dawn will be tempered by an abstention rate on Sunday of around 25 percent, the highest this century, and by the blank or spoiled ballots submitted by 12 percent of those who did vote.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, climate update for April 2017
Mean average temperature was 51.9 degrees F in April 2017 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The mean for April back to 1896 is 46.5.
The lowest minimum temperature was 27. The mean for April is 22.
The highest maximum temperature was 81. The mean for April is 79.
Precipitation was 6.27 inches. The mean for April is 3.3. Sixth wettest April on record.
April snowfall was 0.4 inches. The mean for April is 2.3.
Heating degree days came to 391. The mean for April is 553. The total through April from July 2016 comes to 5366 vs. mean to date of 6404.
The heating season to date has been about 16% warmer than normal.
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Obama's SECDEF said nukes were an option against North Korea
From the story here:
Last month, former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said about an attack on North Korea, “We’ve always had all options on the table… I wouldn’t take any off.” Were North Korea to commence a massive artillery barrage on Seoul, and especially if they used chemical or biological weapons, one potential U.S. response could be nuclear retaliation against Pyongyang and/or their artillery at the border. (Perhaps dialing down the “variable yield” of our B-61 nuclear bombs to reduce radioactive fallout and civilian casualties). As outlandish as this response may seem right now, some U.S. war planners do not think so; it could be considered “proportional” and therefore within the laws of armed conflict. If a nuclear bombing were ordered under Obama–who was widely perceived as thoughtful and hesitant to use force—the world may have been largely willing to listen to his logic. Unfortunately, because much of the international community views President Trump as reactive, even unstable, any such U.S.-initiated action would likely be met by ferocious global condemnation. This perception of our President may be a tactical consideration for our war planners led by the very talented head of Pacific Command, Adm. Harry Harris.
Friday, May 5, 2017
Laugh of the Day: Mark Levin calls caller employed as an electrician without health insurance a parasite
Just now.
They don't call Levin "the great one" for nothing.
On Hannity with Mark Simone, Stephen Moore just said we still have 94 million Americans "of working age" still out of work
The metric measures everyone aged 16 and older who is not in the labor force, the vast majority of which are not in the labor force for very good reasons.
For one example, young people in high school, college and graduate school are included in this number. In 2017 they number about 37 million people.
For another, in March 2017 another 45.7 million were over 65 and getting Social Security. In other words, retired.
Together that's nearly 88% of the current 94.4 million "not working".
That leaves 11.7 million "not working", some of whom are disabled receiving Social Security but some disabled are still working, trying to lead productive lives despite their handicaps.
Typically the rest are homemakers, who are trying to make sure their kids aren't rotten like yours.
George Mason University should take away Steve Moore's MA in economics, if you ask me.
And even if you don't.
Total employment lags 2008 by at least 2.4 million while Drudge plays Trump propagandist
In April 2008 total employed, not seasonally adjusted, hit 145.9 million, which was 48.1% of the US population of 303.38 million.
In April 2017 we're at 153.3 million, 47.4% of the US population of 323.58 million.
If we had employment at the 2008 rate, there would be at least 2.4 million more employed today than there are.
But no, Trump is making America great again, you see.
Thursday, May 4, 2017
American Health Care Act of 2017 passes US House 217-213
The roll call is here.
20 Republicans and 193 Democrats (which is all of them) voted against it.
It's a Rube Goldberg fix to the Rube Goldberg machine known as Obamacare.
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
The vehicle for the obscene $1.1 trillion House omnibus spending bill was the HIRE Vets Act
They can't even tell the truth about the name of the bill.
The roll call vote is here.
131 Republicans united with 178 Democrats to pass the bill, which once again defies regular order for appropriations.
Spineless Michigan Republicans Upton, Trott, Bergman, Walberg, Mike Bishop, Huizenga, Moolenaar and Mitchell all voted for the included Christmas tree of goodies for Democrats in order to get the increased defense spending in the bill.
Only Justin Amash of the Michigan Republican US House caucus voted against the damn thing.
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
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