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Home Front: Politix
Champ Considers a Trunk, just to mess with Trunks
President Obama reportedly is considering nominating Nevada Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval to the Supreme Court to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

The nomination of a Republican would be seen as an attempt by Obama to break the Senate GOP blockade of any of his choices.
Just to send the Pubs into a frenzy.

However,

Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval took himself out of consideration for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday. Link
Posted by: Bobby || 02/25/2016 16:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sandoval says he doesn't want to be a pawn in this political chessmatch.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/25/2016 16:39 Comments || Top||


Unless the Democrats run Sanders, a Trump nomination means a Trump presidency
[Dhaka Tribune]

Trump will not be US president, says Obama
[Dhaka Tribune]
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nope. Trump = Hillary. Especially after the press unloads all the dirt on Trump and starts asking hard questions, and he throws a tantrum.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
Posted by: Glusomble Grumble4393 || 02/25/2016 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Nobody believes the press nowadays.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/25/2016 2:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Give 'em some time. They're still trying to get a handle on reality.
Posted by: gorb || 02/25/2016 3:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Even among Democratic party operatives, she’s acknowledged as “awkward and uninspiring on the stump,” carrying “Bill’s baggage with none of Bill’s warmth.” New York magazine described her “failing to demonstrate the most elementary political skills, much less those learned at Toastmasters or Dale Carnegie.” Last year the White House was panicking at her levels of electoral incompetence, her questionable decision making, and her inclination for taking sleazy shortcuts.

So the Donk party is out of control, too? Overrun by a personality cult?
Posted by: Bobby || 02/25/2016 7:40 Comments || Top||

#5  On the other hand - "I continue to believe that Trump will not be president. And the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people," said Obama. They recognize that being president is a serious job. It's not hosting a talk show or a reality show, it's not promotion, it's not marketing, it's hard. It's not a matter of pandering and doing whatever will get you in the news on a given day."

I wish I was clever enough to make up this stuff.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/25/2016 7:45 Comments || Top||

#6  "I continue to believe that Trump will not be president. And the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people," said Obama.

Says a Marxist who lied his way into the job. As for the media (aka Party Operatives), they're not fooling enough people this time around.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/25/2016 7:51 Comments || Top||

#7  BTW, who hiring the trolls to do hit jobs on blogs these days? I'm see a lot of new names.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/25/2016 7:52 Comments || Top||

#8  Polls and media heads have done their best to run him into the ground and he just gets stronger. They have had him fail every week since he announced. He is not part of the inner circle. The IVY league born wealthy crowd. Money control people have gone to Rubio who in my opinion is a RINO to do their bidding(cross the isle, accommodate). I would love to see Trump clean house. Bush was Mr. nice guy and left Democrat holdovers. They stabbed him in the back as often as they could. Trump is showing them how ineffective they are and they don't like looking unable to control outcomes.
Posted by: Dale || 02/25/2016 8:00 Comments || Top||

#9  This seems like a last shot for the US.

Trump or Cruz may have a chance to stop the descent if it's at all possible. I think the Cruz wants to. I'm not sure about Trump. The rest of the crew I'm sure of.

Rubio will try and continue the slow inexorable descent into the chaos.

Hillary and Bernie will push us off the cliff to make sure the bottom is reached as fast and as fatally as possible.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/25/2016 8:18 Comments || Top||

#10  Example: Trump mob connections that are not being asked by the big progressive media outlets... yet. Conservatives asked these LAST SUMMER year and they go unanswered and unaddressed by press. And folks like some suppoerters here ar so enamoured of the tough talk they seem oblivious to the glaring flaws that will eventually bring Trump down in the general election.

Read up, there are important questions around Trump.

http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/28/how-close-was-donald-trump-to-the-mob/

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421236/donald-trump-university-scam-candidate-2016

This is the best overall summary by a real conservative, Dana Loesch, as to why no personal that cares for this nation should be supporting Donald Trump

http://danaloeschradio.com/how-i-came-to-my-opinion-on-donald-trump
Posted by: Herb the Wide4371 || 02/25/2016 8:45 Comments || Top||

#11  Just on queue. Any businessman doing business in NYC in the 60s, 70s, and 80s probably touch or were entangled in some part of the mob. Anything like Kennedy the Martyr and the mob? K Street is just another mob but with better suits and lawyers.

Note for you sunshine - it's not a constitutional republic anymore. It's an oligarchy. You have your choice of Pompey, Caesar or Crassus.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/25/2016 9:58 Comments || Top||

#12  Mob? If you wanna ship anything into or out of New York you have to go through the longshoremen. Good luck.
Posted by: Bill Lumplump1529 || 02/25/2016 10:49 Comments || Top||

#13  Mob / longshoremen's union - distinction without a difference.
Posted by: Raj || 02/25/2016 11:17 Comments || Top||

#14  Build anything in NY, PA you have to pay the man. Get used to it. Only a matter of time before the Clinton Foundation is part of The Commission.
Posted by: regular joe || 02/25/2016 13:12 Comments || Top||

#15  Trump will not be US president, says Obama

Obama: "I'm really good at killing people"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/25/2016 13:19 Comments || Top||

#16  Jihad Watch: CAIR vows to save US from “the Trumps, the Cruzs, the Pamela Gellers, the Robert Spencers”
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 02/25/2016 13:43 Comments || Top||

#17  Of course, the American people are still jittery about socialism. But they're less jittery then they used to be, and Bernie does a good job portraying Socialism as being about little more then paid family leave and sickdays.

The favorite leftist fantasy on full display.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 02/25/2016 13:44 Comments || Top||

#18  I don't trust anyone who spends much time dogging Trump while not addressing Hillary, Bernie, and Obama.

One of those 4 folks loves this country--the other three don't. You don't have to like Trump, but there are better uses of one's time than dogging him. I'd prefer Cruz, but I'll gladly accept Trump if it means a White House free of Obama, Clinton, and Sanders.
Posted by: Crusader || 02/25/2016 14:09 Comments || Top||

#19  Trump will not be US president, says Obama

Yet another red line.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/25/2016 15:00 Comments || Top||

#20  Sven for snark of the day.

Wouldn't you love to see a reporter ask Oblahblah that question?
Posted by: AlanC || 02/25/2016 16:27 Comments || Top||


Government
Mayor wants to open supervised injection facility for heroin in NY city
[Fox] One upstate New York city is planning an unconventional approach to combating a growing heroin epidemic: Letting addicts shoot up on government property under the supervision of medical professionals.

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick unveiled his controversial proposal to open a supervised injection facility during an interview with The Associated Press released Monday. The facility would provide a space for users to inject pre-purchased drugs with clean needles under the watchful eye of healthcare professionals who could, in theory, keep them safe and direct them to addiction services.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2016 14:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We as a nation have simply gotten stupid.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2016 15:27 Comments || Top||

#2  No ethical "medical professional" will be associated with this. And people like me will challenge any who do.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/25/2016 15:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe it's difficult for local authorities to know what to do if they have a crisis on their hands and they are at their wits end. At the national level, securing the border would be a good place to start.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/25/2016 16:30 Comments || Top||

#4  You can't stop people from doing stupid things to their own bodies. Enabling doesn't seem smart. Spiking the (illegal) supply with a drug that makes you feel ill might help.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/25/2016 16:43 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 Maybe it's difficult for local authorities to know what to do if they have a crisis on their hands and they are at their wits end

their "wits end" was a very short drive
Posted by: Frank G || 02/25/2016 16:59 Comments || Top||



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