Story here.
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Republicans develop a spine, advance nominees Mnuchin and Price without Democrats who are boycotting the process
From the story here:
By unanimous consent, the Republicans gathered in the hearing room agreed to change the committee’s standing rules, which normally require at least one member of each party to be in attendance for committee work to proceed.
“It’s just another way of roughing up the president’s nominees,” said committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). “They have been treated fairly. We have not been treated fairly.”
Republicans made the unusual move after Democrats refused to attend a vote on the nominees for two days running, arguing the pair had made misleading statements to lawmakers that needed to be rectified.
The Biden Rule: No nominee for a Supreme Court vacancy in a presidential election year is in keeping with the past practice of a majority
Senator Joe Biden in 1992, here:
But in a speech on the Senate floor in June 1992, Mr. Biden, then the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said there should be a different standard for a Supreme Court vacancy “that would occur in the full throes of an election year.” The president should follow the example of “a majority of his predecessors” and delay naming a replacement, Mr. Biden said. If he goes forward before then, the Senate should wait to consider the nomination.
“Some will criticize such a decision and say that it was nothing more than an attempt to save a seat on the court in hopes that a Democrat will be permitted to fill it, but that would not be our intention,” Mr. Biden said at the time. “It would be our pragmatic conclusion that once the political season is underway, and it is, action on a Supreme Court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over.
“That is what is fair to the nominee and essential to the process. Otherwise, it seems to me,” he added, “we will be in deep trouble as an institution.”
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Biased Neil Swidey article in Boston Globe never tells you how the Democrats' Immigration Act of 1965 flooded the country with non-Europeans
He just slides right over that part of the history, here, and never mentions Operation Wetback under Eisenhower, either:
In 1850, 9.7 percent of the US population was foreign-born, according to the Pew Research Center. By 1890, it had jumped to 14.8 percent, spurring Hall into action. In 1920, though, that figure began its steady drop, and by 1970 it had plummeted to 4.7 percent.
By 2015, fueled largely by surging immigration from Latin America, it had rebounded to 13.7 percent, nearly the same level that Hall had found so intolerable at the start of his crusade.
But you can figure it out from this graph, which clearly shows the flood in (non-European) immigration after 1965:
In 1850, 9.7 percent of the US population was foreign-born, according to the Pew Research Center. By 1890, it had jumped to 14.8 percent, spurring Hall into action. In 1920, though, that figure began its steady drop, and by 1970 it had plummeted to 4.7 percent.
By 2015, fueled largely by surging immigration from Latin America, it had rebounded to 13.7 percent, nearly the same level that Hall had found so intolerable at the start of his crusade.
But you can figure it out from this graph, which clearly shows the flood in (non-European) immigration after 1965:
Ann Coulter hates Hardiman for Supremes, so if he's the nominee and Dems stop his confirmation . . .
. . . mission accomplished.
Next!
Basic principles of Americanism as understood by Mark Tooley
Here, from what is expected of applicants for US naturalization:
- Embrace the principles of the US Constitution
- Support the good order and happiness of the US
- Reject communism, totalitarianism, Naziism, persecution, genocide and terrorism
Monday, January 30, 2017
New Rasmussen poll finds 57% support Trump's temporary ban on refugees
Reported here:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 57% of Likely U.S. Voters favor a temporary ban on refugees from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen until the federal government approves its ability to screen out potential terrorists from coming here. Thirty-three percent (33%) are opposed, while 10% are undecided.
Trump fires acting attorney general who would not defend his immigration order
Now we're talking.
From the story here:
The acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States. This order was approved as to form and legality by the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel. Ms. Yates is an Obama Administration appointee who is weak on borders and very weak on illegal immigration.
Quinnipiac poll found plurality of Americans want immigration suspended from terror prone regions
But of course Americans also want infrastructure spending increased and their taxes cut.
From the poll, here:
A Quinnipiac University national poll conducted January 5 - 9 showed American voters support 48 - 42 percent "suspending immigration from 'terror prone' regions, even if it means turning away refugees from those regions."
The independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University Poll also found in the January 5 - 9 survey that American voters support 53 - 41 percent "requiring immigrants from Muslim countries to register with the federal government."
Mark Levin covers a multitude of sins tonight, reams Ben Sasse and Justin Amash in the first hour
Over their opposition to Trump's executive orders on immigration and refugees.
Justin Amash raises hell over Trump's immigration ban in 2017, but not over Obama's in 2011 or 2016
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The reason?
Because Amash was basically on Obama's side on the broader immigration issues, that's why.
Justin Amash is soft on illegal immigration.
Because he's an open borders libertarian.
Reuters falsely reports Trent Lott hails from Missouri in slanted story on "Muslim" ban
Here:
By executive order on Friday, Trump banned immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries – Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen – and temporarily halted the entry of refugees.
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