[Wash Times] President-elect Donald Trump’s senior adviser Kellyanne Conway offers a simple reality check regarding all the media chatter implying her boss could have possible friendly ties with Russia, and Russia President Vladimir Putin. Ms. Conway recounts past history between Russia, and two certain Democrats.
"I want your viewers to be reminded of one thing," she told to CBS News anchor John Dickerson on Sunday.
"When it comes to Russia and coziness, let’s not forget Hillary Clinton and her craven family foundation requests. Then Bill Clinton got a million bucks to give a speech in Russia. And then she turned over 20 percent of U.S. uranium rights.
So let’s be honest about who for money, who for power, and who for access has cozied up to the Russians."
And while the nation ponders what’s "fake news" and what isn’t over the ongoing melodrama, an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll reports that while Americans may have concern about reported Russian interference in the 2016 election, "just 37 percent believe the actions helped Donald Trump win the presidential contest, while 57 percent say it didn’t make a difference."
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And the whole time she was saying that Dickerson was trying to interrupt her. Those statements made him extremely nervous so he kept trying to ask her other questions and get her onto another track.
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Dickerson was shown as a Dem Tool by the email leaks. EVERY interview with him should start out with that poignant observation
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[Zero Hedge] In one of the most euphoric praises for Donald Trump and the president-elect's fledgling administration to date, overnight Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio said economic changes under the Trump administration may be more dramatic than shifts from "the socialists to the capitalists" in the U.K., U.S. and Germany from 1979 to 1982, and predicted that "we are about to experience a profound, president-led ideological shift that will have a big impact on both the US and the world."
Comparing Trump to Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Helmut Kohl, Dalio said the incoming administration may have a much bigger impact on the U.S. economy than can be measured by tax changes and fiscal spending. The Trump era could "ignite animal spirits" and attract productive capital.
In his summary of Trump's economic policies, Dalio urges readers to read Ayn Rand "as her books pretty well capture the mindset. This new administration hates weak, unproductive, socialist people and policies, and it admires strong, can-do, profit makers. It wants to, and probably will, shift the environment from one that makes profit makers villains with limited power to one that makes them heroes with significant power."
[Breitbart] The American politician, a presidential aspirant, was explicit in his secret-but-audacious message to the Russian leadership in Moscow: Help me win the White House, and then, once I’m in the Oval Office, I will return the favor. "This is my last election ... After my election I have more flexibility"
The Russians carefully considered the American’s quid pro quo. And if it’s not so clear what Moscow actually did, or didn’t do, in response to the offer, well, what about Russia is clear? As Winston Churchill once said of the whole country, "It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
So about the only thing we know for sure is that the American wanted to sell out his county for his own political advantage.
Is Virgil alleging treacherous machinations by Donald Trump, working with Vladimir Putin, to defeat Hillary Clinton?
Nyet! I am simply recalling the well-documented history of the multiple efforts by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) to conspire with Leonid Brezhnev and other leaders of the Soviet Union in the 70s and 80s, as he schemed to win the American presidency.
This disturbing bit of history was first reported in Great Britain in 1992, and has been recalled in the US many times since: notably, by historian Herbert Romerstein in 2003, by historian Paul Kengor in 2007, by writer Kevin Mooney in 2010, by Breitbart’s James Zumwalt on August 12, 2016, and by Mooney again on December 14.
Yet curiously, the Main Stream Media has never been interested in the voluminous Kennedy-Russia story.
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Another difference is 1980 Soviet Union's goal was an enemy whose final goal was to destroy the United States while 2016 Russia ia no friend to United Staets but it is not her enemy, at least not her mortal enemy.
[Daily Caller] Democratic Rep. Tammy Duckworth, a veteran of the Iraq War, warned that GOP President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are sliding the country towards a military dictatorship.
Duckworth, an incoming senator, told David Axeldrod on "The Axe Files" podcast that filling key positions with retired generals is a "real danger" and said Washington should avoid traveling down that path to a military junta, that is, a military dictatorship, CNN reports.
"We’re the greatest nation on the face of the Earth, and the greatest democracy, because we’re not a military junta," Duckworth said. "So we shouldn’t be starting on that slippery slope towards it."
Trump has taken a liking to military officers, stacking his cabinet full of former military officials like retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, and just on Monday, former Army infantry officer Vincent Viola for the position of secretary of the Army.
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Question: for which side did this guy serve in Iraq? You have to be sure when you're discussing Democrats.
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Washington, Jackson, Taylor, Grant,...Eisenhower. Seems we've had more than one with their hands directly on the wheel of state without it evolving into a military dictatorship. Then again, that was all before the Donks centralized so much power and weaponized the federal government. Maybe if you hadn't done that you'd feel better about it all.
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Yeah, yeah, a military dictatorship over a country that has more arms in private hands than in the militaries of NATO members. Coming from a president-elect that calls for reciprocity in concealed carry between states.
Call back when Trump and the Republicans start braying like Donks for the confiscation of private arms and the abolition of the Second Amendment. Until then, buy a gun, practice with it, and shut up.
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She's a double amputee (both legs) and has fairly severe damage to one arm from being shot down (Army Helo pilot) in Iraq. She uses the 'disabled veteran' response a lot when faced with opposition.
Other than my respect for her serving the country, I still think she's a dangerous loon.
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Well Mullah Richard, how many veterans you know who like generals?
[Breitbart] WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 - With about one month to go before he leaves office, President Barack Obama gave some exit interview-type advice to his successor Donald Trump: Don’t rely too heavily on executive orders.
In an interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep on Thursday that aired in its entirety Monday on Morning Edition, Obama said it’s preferable to work with Congress.
"Keep in mind, though, that my strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done," Obama said from the Cabinet Room in the White House. "In my first two years, I wasn’t relying on executive powers, because I had big majorities in the Congress and we were able to get bills done, get bills passed. And even after we lost the majorities in Congress, I bent over backwards consistently to try to find compromise and a legislative solution to some of the big problems that we’ve got -- a classic example being immigration reform, where I held off for years in taking some of the executive actions that I ultimately took in pursuit of a bipartisan solution -- one that, by the way, did pass through the Senate on a bipartisan basis with our help."
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That statement by O is one of the most Bozonic utterances I ever heard.
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That depends on just how many EOs overturn BOs EOs. Ifor one have never been able to figure out just EOs affecting domestic policy are constitutional. But then my mind doesn't understand Beltwayese
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[Wash Times] President-elect Donald Trump’s senior adviser Kellyanne Conway offers a simple reality check regarding all the media chatter implying her boss could have possible friendly ties with Russia, and Russia President Vladimir Putin. Ms. Conway recounts past history between Russia, and two certain Democrats.
[Daily Caller] Democratic Rep. Tammy Duckworth, a veteran of the Iraq War, warned that GOP President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are sliding the country towards a military dictatorship.
[Breitbart] WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 - With about one month to go before he leaves office, President Barack Obama gave some exit interview-type advice to his successor Donald Trump: Don’t rely too heavily on executive orders.
