Obama Real GDP Averaged 1.48%, never got above 2.6%

Obama finishes with the worst GDP growth record in the post-war

Bush era current dollar GDP grew 38.97% vs. Obama era at 29.62%

Had Obama era current dollar GDP grown at the Bush rate, we would have $1.36 trillion more GDP at the end of 2016 than we do.

Clinton era neocon seriously worries about US starvation and societal collapse from EMP attack

James Woolsey, here.

Yeah, but Bill Clinton enabled North Korea's current nuclear capabilities, which you won't learn from the story.

Hillary's new mantra is R.I.P.E.

Resist.

Insist.

Persist.

Enlist.

h/t to a caller to the Chris Plante Show

The Laugh of the Day is an oxymoron from Rush Limbaugh

"Genuine, legitimate fraud."

As opposed to your fake, illegitimate fraud.

So good, so good . . .

James Brown

Maxine Waters

Just when Bill O'Reilly begins to turn me on, he somehow immediately finds a way to turn me off

Liberals never apologize for ridicule.

Here:

[Maxine Waters] deserves a hearing and should not be marginalized by political opponents. In fact I made that mistake this morning on Fox & Friends. I said in a simple jest that the congresswoman's hair distracted me ["I didn't hear a word she said, I was looking at the James Brown wig"]. Well that was stupid, I apologize. It had no place in the conversation.

DNC didn't allow FBI to examine servers for malware, used private firm issuing opinion it was Russian, other firms disagree

The Miami Herald has the story here.

Mark Levin's twisting of Mitch McConnell's statements about Obamacare repeal failure is as bad as MSM

Levin is proving to be as untrustworthy as the main stream media in reporting the news, as for example the source of the McConnell quotations provided below. But read the statements, and forget the commentary, whether The Hill's or Levin's.

McConnell isn't resigned to Obamacare staying in place forever as Levin implied on the radio tonight. McConnell is resigned to the recent failure to overturn Obamacare, that's all.

Of course the bill that failed is out of the question going forward.

McConnell, quoted in the story here, acting above it all and nonpartisan for public consumption, which is his job as Senate Majority Leader:

"[W]e have the existing law in place and I think we’re just going to have to see how that works out." 

"We believe it will not work out well, but we’ll see. [Democrats] have an opportunity now to have the status quo go forward, regretfully," he added. ...

"I want to thank the president and the Speaker, they went all out to try to pass a repeal and replacement," McConnell said. "I’m sorry that didn’t work, but our Democratic friends now have the law that they wrote in place, and we’ll see how that works out."

LawNewz calls armed teenage burglars shot dead in Oklahoma kitchen by homeowner's son "victims"

For a change it wasn't WaPo.

Story here.

This is why 100 lawyers at the bottom of the sea is called a good start.

Trump reverses Obama's Clean Power Plan, lifts ban on coal mining leases on federal lands

Another promise kept. Now if we could just get back all the income we lost because Obama deliberately did nothing about middle class jobs for eight years.

From the story here:

The Clean Power Plan required states to collectively cut carbon emissions [CO2] from power plants by 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

Second night in a row, Mark Levin praises HR 3762 as a "clean repeal bill"

After trashing it as a sham last week.

That audio of Paul Ryan talking all tough about reintroducing the veteod HR 3762 after the 2016 election really impressed Mark Levin.

HR 3762 wasn't a clean repeal in the Senate's form passed by the House. It was veto bait, and political posturing.

Alabama's Mo Brooks introduces one sentence Obamacare Repeal Act

The Obamacare Repeal Act, here:

"Effective as of Dec. 31, 2017, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted," the bill states.

Last week HR 3762 was a sham, now Mark Levin calls the Freedom Caucus standing for it heroes

Mark Levin obviously used the weekend to bone up on the legislative history.

Why weren't bills for Trump to sign lined up like planes on a runway on January 20th?

Glenn Reynolds wants to know, here.

Ted Poe quits House Freedom Caucus because it sees itself as the opposition party to the Republicans

Well there you go. It dawns on Ted that their self-identity is not Republican.

He's right. They see themselves as libertarians.

Here:

[T]he Freedom Caucus has always been the opposition caucus against the Democrats, and now that we are in the majority, it continues to be the opposition caucus.

Jim Jordan blames House leadership for not beginning 2017 with HR 3762 from 2015

Quoted here:

Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), a member of the [House Freedom] caucus, also said that House Republican leaders were the ones who had moved the goal posts, not the caucus, when they decided against bringing up a bill that would simply have repealed the 2010 health law.

“You know when the goal posts were moved? When they didn’t start with the legislation we all voted for 15 months ago,” Mr. Jordan said on Fox.

Mick Mulvaney, charter member of House Freedom Caucus, is not too happy with it

Quoted here:

Mick Mulvaney, formerly a member of the Freedom Caucus and now Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, denied any move against the speaker.

“Never once have I seen him blame Paul Ryan,” Mulvaney said on NBC’s Meet the Press. “The people who are to blame are the people who would not vote yes.”

Mulvaney was one of the leading officials lobbying House Republicans to pass the bill, which was pulled less than an hour before lawmakers were due to vote.

“We haven’t been able to change Washington in the first 65 days,” Mulvaney said. “I know the Freedom Caucus. I helped found it. I never thought it would come to this.”

Laugh of the Day: Hillary arrested for trying to scale White House fence for a second time