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Home Front: Politix
Schumer's 'Make America Sick Again' slogan bombs
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The Democrats' new healthcare slogan, "Make America Sick Again," is a clunker with a majority of voters, according to fresh data from a Republican pollster.

The national survey, conducted for a GOP political group, asked 1,000 likely voters if they agree that, "If Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act, it will make America sick again." Overall, only 32.1 percent of voters agreed, including, at 57.1 percent, a majority of Democrats; 64.8 percent of Independents disagreed, as did 85.9 percent of Republicans.

"Nearly 70 percent of respondents support repeal of ACA with a realistic modest transition period and letting people keep their coverage while they wait for the new law to be in place," read the polling memo prepared for American Action Network, a political nonprofit organization aligned with House Republican leaders. Even Democrats support this by a [48 percent to 43 percent] margin. Additionally, respondents disagree with the Democratic claim that if Republicans repeal ACA that it will make America sick again."

Posted by: Fred || 01/10/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What a despicable little rodent.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/10/2017 0:51 Comments || Top||

#2  And to think for a minute there I considered Chuckie to be a better person then Dirty Harry. My bad!
Posted by: Raj || 01/10/2017 11:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Schumer is a pompous, megalomaniac blowhard, Raj.

At least he's not a pederast like weird Uncle Harry.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/10/2017 16:25 Comments || Top||


Nancy Pelosi: Obamacare Was ‘Bipartisan’ Legislation
That's true, for a certain definitian of bipartisan that means completely mono-partisan.
[BREITBART] House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...
(D-CA) now says the process of passing Obamacare
... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read...
in 2010 was "bipartisan," and that only "tweaks" were made to the healthcare law using the reconciliation budgetary process.

Pelosi’s comments come as Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
begin the process of repealing President Barack Obama
If you like your coverage you can keep it...
’s signature legislation.

Obamacare passed in the House on March 21, 2010 with no Republican votes in favor of it and 34 Democrats voting against it.

Posted by: Fred || 01/10/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Ministry of Truth is proud of her.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/10/2017 0:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Not one republican voted for it
Posted by: newc || 01/10/2017 1:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Looks like they misinterpreted the Republicans trying to tie elephants to the parachutes.
Posted by: gorb || 01/10/2017 1:34 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: junkiron || 01/10/2017 2:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Image did not post for whatever reason ... ?

Caption by Nancy Pelosi reads:

OBAMACARE - It's like a "stool sample".

We had to pass before we could see what was in it.
Posted by: junkiron || 01/10/2017 3:50 Comments || Top||

#6  But literally she is correct. The 'pubs voted against it. See, both parties were involved.




/sarc - really necessary?
Posted by: AlanC || 01/10/2017 9:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Why does it sounds familiar? Ah, I wrote a paper about pedophilia couple of months ago.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/10/2017 10:36 Comments || Top||

#8  Democrats from both the Left and the Far Left supported it!
Posted by: Iblis || 01/10/2017 11:01 Comments || Top||

#9  I wonder what color the sky is on her planet.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 01/10/2017 11:36 Comments || Top||

#10  She means 'bipartisan' in the sense that it was passed with the votes of bipeds. All were Democrats but all were indeed bipeds.
Posted by: Grins Snese4215 || 01/10/2017 11:36 Comments || Top||

#11  G(r)om are you serious about the term-paper gig? I cranked out reams of sundry Humanities crapola papers in late HS and early college.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/10/2017 11:39 Comments || Top||

#12  Not one republican voted for it

They were also literally locked out of the rooms when they were putting this piece of shit law together.
Posted by: Raj || 01/10/2017 12:01 Comments || Top||

#13  It's a living.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/10/2017 12:07 Comments || Top||

#14  I wonder what color the sky is on her planet.

Shiraz.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/10/2017 12:39 Comments || Top||

#15  This is your brain on Botox.

Any questions?
Posted by: charger || 01/10/2017 19:35 Comments || Top||

#16  She hasn't come far from blinking out SOS messages during Boooosh SOTU speeches. Botox needs to be refreshed, and not shot directly into the lobes...apparently
Posted by: Frank G || 01/10/2017 21:14 Comments || Top||


Schumer threatens Trump Cabinet confirmation delays
Uninterrupted stinky politix by the Dem establishment.
[POLITICO] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower.
offered an explicit warning to Republicans on Monday, saying Democrats are willing to slow down confirmation hearings for Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's Cabinet until potential nominees finish independent ethics reviews.

Democrats cannot stop Trump's Cabinet with filibusters, thanks to a rules change they pushed through in 2013, but they can prolong the process for weeks by forcing the GOP to burn through extra time before final floor votes are scheduled. Schumer suggested that such a delay could be in the offing.

"To spend an extra day or two on each nominee; even if it takes several weeks to get through them all in order to carefully consider their nominations...that’s well worth it," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 01/10/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just wait till Trump starts calling him names again. Stinky politics. Stinky Schumer. Yeah, I can see that becoming the Next Big Meme.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/10/2017 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  OK, how about some recess appointments when they go home at night?
Posted by: gorb || 01/10/2017 1:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Mitch can gavel the Senate closed. Then Trump can just seat everyone.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/10/2017 6:41 Comments || Top||

#4  OK, how about some recess appointments when they go home at night?

Why wait for night? Just spreed rumors that a Saudi sheikh with a suitcase of dollars was seen behind the Smithsonian.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/10/2017 10:23 Comments || Top||

#5  "Democrats: Making things worse since, seemingly, forever."
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 01/10/2017 21:24 Comments || Top||


‘There Are No Jobs’: Obama Loyalists Scramble To Find Work
[DAILYCALLER] Outgoing White House staff and President B.O.-appointees are struggling to find new work after Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
and Republicans generally swept into office last November.

Thousands of Obama loyalists are struggling to find work in a city now dominated by the GOP, according to a report from Politico. "It feels like there are just thousands of us trying to find a job, and there are no jobs," Mira Patel, a longtime Clinton aide told Politico.

Democratic operatives and Obama staffers no longer have the more than 4,000 presidential appointed jobs to transition to after President-elect Trump takes office.

Politico describes how a generation of young operatives from the Hillary Clinton
... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook...
campaign and failed down-ballot races are still managing their "shock and grief" from Clinton’s loss.
Posted by: Fred || 01/10/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  To the former appointee - If you have a friend in similar circumstance...

A plague o' both your houses!
William Shakespeare
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/10/2017 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope the 8 years of graft was worth it.
Still, your duffelbag is in the hall.
Make DC great again by leaving
Posted by: newc || 01/10/2017 1:17 Comments || Top||

#3  I hear FedEx was hiring part time drivers a bit ago.
Posted by: gorb || 01/10/2017 1:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Better start getting in shape if you want to be a delivery driver these days. You may find yourself taking 100 pound packages to the third floor by stair wells, and that's rough even with a dolly.
Posted by: Jeasing Creque5352 || 01/10/2017 2:37 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 I hear FedEx was hiring part time drivers a bit ago.

Going to be serious competition from unemployed climate scientists.
Posted by: phil_b || 01/10/2017 2:57 Comments || Top||

#6  I know of a prideful Yale grad, east coaster, upwardly mobile snobbish WH worker who found work in administration, at U of Idaho.
The joke involving his equally annoying wife during introductions...
"Where are you from?"
"Idaho."
"Yes, but where do you live?"
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/10/2017 3:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Turnabout seems to be very schadenfreude inducing...

Very few deserve a taste of funemployment more than those wage destroyers.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/10/2017 3:57 Comments || Top||

#8  "unemployed climate scientists"

I think most scientists will be fine, It's climate lysenkoists that will have to find a new scare to get the grants rolling.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/10/2017 3:59 Comments || Top||

#9  Good. I hope you all starve.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/10/2017 7:47 Comments || Top||

#10  Try local adult bookstores - third shift.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 01/10/2017 8:17 Comments || Top||

#11  There are no jobs? Thought there were all kinds of jobs created by Obama. You mean these were fake jobs and numbers? Shame on you. You might be able to cobble together two or three jobs to make ends meet if you have any skills. It'll be O.K., you still have ObamaCare for awhile.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/10/2017 8:30 Comments || Top||

#12  This is sort of like what happened in Silly Con Valley when the dot com bust happened and the "$33,000.00 a year to manage the coffee room" jobs dried up.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/10/2017 8:37 Comments || Top||

#13  There are petrochemical and construction jobs available. Soon, there will be auto industry jobs available. Oh, those jobs are beneath you? Sucks to be you.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/10/2017 8:53 Comments || Top||

#14  See war crime footage can you imagine having proof and signatures and orders and interviews and on the record testimony!
Posted by: Crinegum Ulaigum2776 || 01/10/2017 9:34 Comments || Top||

#15 
#7 At least they've got a hundred weeks' now.
Posted by: Fred || 01/10/2017 10:05 Comments || Top||

#16  I think most scientists will be fine

Not many left in academia nowadays.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/10/2017 10:30 Comments || Top||

#17  The good news is all the high quality daytime television these days...

Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/10/2017 11:04 Comments || Top||

#18  ‘There Are No Jobs’

There... are... four... lights!
Posted by: Jean-Luc Picard || 01/10/2017 13:10 Comments || Top||

#19  There are 4 lights said capt Picard to his cardasian captor there is a Trekkie in the room
Posted by: Unomotch Thrilet2067 || 01/10/2017 17:59 Comments || Top||

#20  Thousands of Obama loyalists are struggling to find work in a city now dominated by the GOP, according to a report from Politico

S'what happens when your change-of-government is relatively civilized.
Posted by: Pappy || 01/10/2017 18:33 Comments || Top||

#21  Wait, I thought that the Obamaconomy was supposed to be awesome.
Posted by: charger || 01/10/2017 19:31 Comments || Top||

#22  Sorta feels like Main Street 2009 felt to the rest of the country with actual Main Streets, you Nabob"s
Posted by: Capsu78 || 01/10/2017 19:34 Comments || Top||

#23  My wife made the comment, after I read the article to her, "OHHHH!!!! So THAT is what Michelle Obama meant when she said 'Now we have no hope!'"
Posted by: Ptah || 01/10/2017 20:18 Comments || Top||

#24  They're screaming for petrochemical construction folks in South Louisiana this time of year, Deacon. Excellent pay.

Lots of rigs and refineries being retrofitted, and there's plenty more to come.

You'd have to work hard and be willing to get your hands dirty, though.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/10/2017 22:31 Comments || Top||


Government
Iran: U.S. Surrendered More Than $10 Billion in Gold, Cash, Assets
[Free Beacon] The Obama administration has paid Iran more than $10 billion in gold, cash, and other assets since 2013, according to Iranian officials, who disclosed that the White House has been intentionally deflating the total amount paid to the Islamic Republic.

Senior Iranian officials late last week confirmed reports that the total amount of money paid to Iran over the past four years is in excess of $10 billion, a figure that runs counter to official estimates provided by the White House.

The latest disclosure by Iran, which comports with previous claims about the Obama administration obfuscating details about its cash transfers to Iran--including a $1.7 billion cash payment included in a ransom to free Americans--sheds further light on the White House’s back room dealings to bolster Iran’s economy and preserve the Iran nuclear agreement.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi confirmed last week a recent report in the Wall Street Journal detailing some $10 billion in cash and assets provided to Iran since 2013, when the administration was engaging in sensitive diplomacy with Tehran aimed at securing the nuclear deal.

Ghasemi disclosed that the $10 billion figure just scratches the surface of the total amount given to Iran by the United States over the past several years.

"I will not speak about the precise amount," Ghasemi was quoted as saying in Persian language reports independently translated for the Washington Free Beacon.

The $10 billion figure is actually a "stingy" estimate, Ghasemi claimed, adding that a combination of cash, gold, and other assets was sent by Washington to Iran’s Central Bank and subsequently "spent."

"This report is true but the value was higher," Ghassemi was quoted as saying.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/10/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  could have built the wall for $10 billion

tell me again how there's no money for roads, hospitals and schools?
Posted by: anon1 || 01/10/2017 8:59 Comments || Top||

#2  So then, in light of this Breitbart article posted in today's Rantburg, the question must be asked: Isn't this treason?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/10/2017 10:55 Comments || Top||

#3  So then, in light of this Breitbart article posted in today's Rantburg, the question must be asked: Isn't this treason? Posted by: Abu Uluque

Yes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/10/2017 11:42 Comments || Top||

#4  tell me again how there's no money for roads, hospitals and schools?

Well, there's no money now...
Posted by: Raj || 01/10/2017 12:02 Comments || Top||



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