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
Mark Levin lies again, says Obamacare was passed under reconciliation when it wasn't
As if it's germane anyway. Levin is just trying to appear to respect the tradition of the Senate.
Well, Harry Reid did away with that by going nuclear on appointments.
And Mitch McConnell went nuclear on Gorsuch.
Two blows to tradition right there.
Like tits, if you've seen one you might as well see the other.
So, Mitch just needs to keep going nuclear.
The Republican Senate should simply jettison the filibuster rule, and pass repeal with the clean Republican majority.
Trump's instincts on this are correct on spending, which means on Obamacare as well, and on every bill which might come the Senate's way.
Then we can focus our attention on Paul Ryan, who hides behind the Senate's filibuster rule like a little boy hides behind his mommy's skirts to restrain what he does in the House.
Talk radio and Republicans are trying to defend this latest indefensible continuing spending resolution
When Democrats took control of the Congress under Obama in 2009, they promptly added about $700 billion to Bush's outlays in the middle of his last fiscal year, and successfully made the new level of spending the baseline for the rest of Obama's two terms. This was done in the name of rescuing the country from the financial/housing crisis.
They sold it as an $800 billion stimulus, but it was in reality the most outrageous expansion of federal spending ever: $5.6 trillion over 8 years. The sum is $1.28 trillion in excess of Obama's entire dollar GDP increase for his presidency. It means we spent $1.30 for every $1 of Obama's GDP.
But you have heard nothing about it because Republicans are co-dependents in government spending.
Spending soared overnight from $2.8 trillion to $3.5 trillion, and stayed at that level right through the final days of the Obama administration, despite Republicans taking the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014.
Now that the tables are turned, Republicans are claiming "the rules" mean they have to compromise with Democrats and continue spending on Democrat items under the Christmas Tree, like Planned Parenthood, sanctuary cities, border security without The Wall, and a variety of non-defense spending items, in order to get what they want in the $1.1 trillion continuing spending resolution, which basically boils down to a big increase in defense spending, but not much for what Trump advocated and promised the people.
Disappointed doesn't begin to describe our displeasure with this disgraceful pack of spendthrift bastards occupying The Swamp.
And they appear to have eaten Donald Trump.
VP Pence in the spin zone on The Rush Limbaugh Show: Trump's number one priority is defense spending
Oh, well, that clarifies things.
Here I thought Trump's campaign for president was all about stopping illegal immigration, restoring law and order, and repealing Obamacare.
Silly me. I must have misunderstood Donald Trump.
First quarter GDP has fallen from an average of 2.95% under Truman to 0.53% under Obama
IKE: 1.05%
JFK/LBJ: 2.97%
Nixon/Ford: 2.52%
Carter: 2.77%
Reagan: 1.70%
Bush I: 1.27%
Clinton: 1.10%
Bush II: 0.95%
Obama: 0.53%
Somebody please tell The Steve Gruber Show that it's not The Stop Female Genital Mutilation Show
Gruber is fixated on the issue. Everyday he talks about it lately.
Male genitals have been mutilated from time immemorial, Steve. But I don't want to hear about that everyday either.
Especially with my morning coffee.
Monday, May 1, 2017
France to be ruled by perverts: It turns out Emmanuel Macron of France fell in love at 16 with his 39 year old married teacher, a mother of three
And they've been together just about ever since. And he's about to defeat Marine Le Pen for the presidency of France. Unbelievable.
They change partners over there like pants, but still.
Story here.
Another Chinese forced laborer writes a plea for help and sequesters it in a purse purchased at Walmart
And Trump expects the Chinese authorities to do something about North Korea.
Yeah right.
From the story here:
“Inmates in the Yingshan Prison in Guangxi, China are working 14 hours daily with no break/rest at noon, continue working overtime until 12 midnight, and whoever doesn't finish his work will be beaten. Their meals are without oil and salt. . . .."
Democrats continue to ignore the revulsion Democrat voters felt for Hillary
It's not like they didn't have information about this in 2008 when primary voters ended up picking Obama over Hillary in the first place.
Here:
[N]ew information shows that Clinton had a much bigger problem with voters who had supported President Barack Obama in 2012 but backed Trump four years later. ... Turning out the base is not good enough, the data suggest.
But Hillary didn't turn out the base in 2016 anymore than she did in 2008. Every single story from the Democrats ignores that Democrats revolted against Hillary in 2016 just as they did in 2008. Just as they did in 1993.
Just look at the top vote-getters by state since 2004.
Trump 2016 was the top-vote-getter in AL, AZ, AR, FL, GA, IN, KY, LA, MO, MT, NC, ND, SC, TN, TX, WV, and WY for a total of 26.4 million votes. Seventeen states, two of them swing states.
But eight years ago Obama 2008 is still today the top-vote-getter in CT, DE, HI, IL, IA, ME, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, VT and WI for a total of 28 million votes. Eighteen states.
Hillary 2016 was the top-vote-getter only in CA, CO, DC, MD, MA, NV and VA for a total of 16.6 million votes, over half of which were in California. Six states and DC.
Obama 2012 was top-vote-getter in WA, Romney 2012 in ID and UT, McCain 2008 in AL, MS and OK, and Bush 2004 in KS, NE and SD.
That's all fifty states plus DC.
Trump is somewhat weak with his base in 8 states going back to 2004, but Hillary is far weaker with hers.
Trump is somewhat weak with his base in 8 states going back to 2004, but Hillary is far weaker with hers.
That's the story which has been ignored over and over again since election night. Hillary underperformed Obama 2012 in 34 states, but Obama 2008 in 39.
They weren't with her. Ever.
They weren't with her. Ever.
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