Great VP pick, Mr. No Scandals Obama!
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Club for Growth and Freedom Works both stop funding Justin Amash, so he'll just have to tap the family Chinese tool company fortune made on the backs of America's downward-spiraling middle class
Story here, whose author has probably never once in his life seriously thought about trimming legislative power overreach.
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Matt Taibbi: Bernie Sanders "poised to receive the same kind of bump Trump got in 2016 from media stupidity"
Here in Rolling Stone.
I don't think so.
Biden's lead today over Sanders is 8 points, higher than it was in March 2019 when Sanders peaked at 24.0 in the polls. Sanders is at 20.4 now.
No one has been able to dirty up Biden enough to bring him down. Meanwhile both Bernie and Warren have brought themselves down by their own radicalism.
And now the revenge of Nancy Pelosi's impeachment will sideline the radicals for a while, just as Iowa prepares to vote.
The radicals' only hope is a quick trial from Cocaine Mitch.
Everyone on the Democrat side who wants to drag out this impeachment is on the side of sidelining the radicals.
Monday, January 20, 2020
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Saturday, January 18, 2020
World's second best kept secret: Joe Biden once had a big problem with stuttering
Could partly explain some of his verbal gaffes, but honestly, nobody but a nincompoop says "JOBS" is a three letter word.
CNN Business is stupid: "Women now hold more jobs than men"
Here's the lede:
Women held slightly more jobs than men in December — the first time that's happened in nearly a decade.
That's based on the Establishment Survey, which undercounts civilian employment by the millions.
Friday, January 17, 2020
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Oops, GAO charge that Trump OMB violated 1974 Impoundment Control Act is hogwash
But concerning the withholding of funds, there is no potential crime
here either. There is a process in place to sort out any disagreement
between Congress and the president on such a matter. Section 683 of the
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 states that “whenever the President
determines ... that such budget authority should be rescinded … [or]
reserved from obligation for such fiscal year, the President shall
transmit to both Houses of Congress a special message” to that effect
with an explanation. The Congress then has 45 calendar days to concur,
or the funds are to be “made available for obligation” and “may not be
proposed for rescission again.”
Although Section 684 calls for a special message if the
funds are to be deferred within the fiscal year, this special message
does not force Congress to concur.
The lack of a special message from Trump for either section
is not an impeachable offense. First, the president clearly had not
made a conclusive decision that he wanted to propose the funds should be
“rescinded” or “reserved from obligation.” Neither Trump nor his
Democratic critics disagree that he was awaiting further information
before deciding whether or not he wanted the funds conclusively
rescinded. All he had done as of this summer was to withhold the funds temporarily. Therefore, it would have been premature for Congress to receive a proposal from him to rescind the funds.
More here.
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Breaking: Pelosi delayed the impeachment waiting on her commemorative embossed souvenir pen order bearing her signature
The choreography is so over the top for the somber occasion, too, designed doubtlessly to mock Trump.
Speaking of carving out new states of the union, Virginia looks set to divide again, over guns, giving us West Virginia, Virginia, and South Virginia
Maybe what's left of Virginia will call itself Northern Virginia, but probably not. Might remind people of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee, minstrel shows in blackface, Gov. Ralph Northam, you know, that kind of thing.
With the budget deficit topping $1 trillion again, Larry Kudlow promises a middle class tax cut proposal for later in the year
The American people are for two incompatible things, spending and tax cuts, and Trump is giving it to them, good and hard.
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Speaker Pelosi snubs Justin Amash for impeachment manager, names some unknown Democrats instead
- Pelosi names Reps. Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Hakeem Jeffries, Zoe Lofgren, Val Demings, Jason Crow and Sylvia Garcia to manage the House impeachment case against Trump.
I sure hope the job comes with a map so they can find the US Senate chambers, and a pocket copy of the constitution.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
The idiots at Vox don't know that the constitution specifies a minimum congressional district size of 30,000
Here:
"Literally nothing in the Constitution prevents Congress
from admitting the Obama family’s personal DC residence as a state — a
state which would then be entitled to two senators, one member of the
House, and exactly as much say on whether the Constitution should be
amended as the entire state of Texas."
Article I, Section 2.3:
The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for
every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one
Representative;
You can't have two per thirty thousand, that is, one per fifteen thousand, let alone one representative for just four people.
It doesn't occur to the idiots at Vox, nor Harvard Law whence the idea comes, that the main problem with the federal government is that the US House concentrated power in its hands decades ago by stopping the growth of representation. It's been on a spending spree ever since, picking the taxpayers' pockets.
Why do you think we have a $23 trillion debt?
Giving Obama his own representative just makes the Obama family more like Wyoming, our least populous state, which already has too much representation relative to California according to these liberals.
The feds grabbed this power by fixing the number of representatives at 435 way back in 1929, contrary to the intent of the constitution, which required a census every ten years in order to add representatives to the US House as the country grew in size. The original First Amendment to the constitution would have fixed the formula at one per fifty thousand, giving us over 6,000 representatives by today. It failed ratification by just one vote. The bastards finally realized this loophole in 1929 and pulled a power play.
Yes, maybe some mega states like California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio should be carved up to add states to the union and increase representation that way. Northern Californians and Southern Illinoisans already feel this way.
But carving up DC into a bunch of states? Really? It has about 705,000 residents total, less than the current average size of one US congressional district. If it were a state, the most representatives it should have today would be fourteen, but under the current way it's done, just one.
And the Obama family doesn't get its own private Representative to the US House, not while we're alive anyway. He got to be president for eight years. He can cast his useless vote now like everyone else.
What a farce is Vox.
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