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Home Front: Politix
How Obama loyalists conspired to undermine the Trump transition
[Wash Times] Republican-driven investigative reports on Russia have provided an unanticipated view into secret anti-Trumpmaneuvers by Obama loyalists during the span of the presidential transition.

Congress set out in early 2017 to investigate Moscow election interference and any coordination with the Donald Trump campaign.

As the collusion avenues led to dead ends, Republican investigators for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Judiciary Committee traveled on a new lane. They discovered a number of behind-the-scenes moves that they said transformed a traditionally acrimony-free transition into a partisan transfer of presidential power.
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Dick Morris: Forget About ‘Blue Wave' in 2018 Midterms ‐ Get Ready for ‘Red Wave'
[Breitbart Texas] Sunday on New York AM 970 radio’s "The Cats Roundtable," political commentator and former Bill Clinton adviser Dick Morris shot down the idea that there will be a "blue wave" in the 2018 midterm elections, instead saying a "red wave" is on the way.

Morris told host John Catsimatidis he believes "Democrats are overplaying their hand" by going after President Donald Trump for the Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels scandals, adding it will show in the 2018 elections.

"I think that [Democrats] see fool’s gold in these scandals," Morris stated. "They’re putting everything behind the Stormy Daniels scandal and Michael Cohen ... and the country doesn’t give a damn."

He predicted, "There is no blue wave coming. There is a red wave. And what makes it red is the blood of the Democratic Party."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2018 03:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There is a LOT of truth in this "Red wave", business. The American people are not stupid and the Donks have consistently PROVED that are.

Hillary was SURE to win, remember that? Yeah? So WHY didn't she? She was a "sure thing"...the New Yawker SAID so. The Polls SAID so.
Yeah?
Blue wave? Might be just dreams and air up your ass. Its the sort of thing the DNC does, people. Russian COLLUSION. That sort of thing...send in the Mueller Team....they will rip Trump to pieces, just you wait. Right? Well, we are still waiting and the so are the Donks.

Don't wait up late for the returns.
Posted by: Snakes Hupoluse7121 || 05/14/2018 8:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't be so sure. The Left is going to put everything they have into supporting the Democrats. You won't be able to find a single pro Trump comment on Reddit, YouTube, facebook, or twitter. All of which were factors in Trump's very narrow victory last time.

They're out for blood and have no sense of fair play. Fuck democracy and free speech, get Trump.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 05/14/2018 8:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Never underestimate the Pubs ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The Dems are very good at circling the wagons when faced with an issue. The Pubs circle as well..a circular firing squad with the likes of McCain and others. That particular cow poke will cease to be a problem shortly (seems like forever).
Posted by: Warthog || 05/14/2018 9:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Lindsay Grahamnesty will carry McCain's batter banner
Posted by: Frank G || 05/14/2018 9:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Typically Morris is good regarding poll analysis but wrong any time Hillary is involved. I don't know if Hillary is considered involved in this case or not.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/14/2018 11:00 Comments || Top||

#6  In modern history the President's party loses the midterms. This a truism with one exception and in that exception it happened the President lost the popular vote (George W). Make of that what you will.

I suspect there are an awful lot of people that wouldn't admit to voting for Trump but would be happy to pull the lever for him (and his chosen Republicans) in secret.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/14/2018 11:04 Comments || Top||

#7  I remember Dick Morris saying Hillary would never be president. I held on to that all these years and it came true.
Posted by: Boss Uniger4142 || 05/14/2018 22:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Science Proves the Inhumanity of the Abortionist
[Townhall] Willie Parker is a "Christian" who admits to having "probably" performed more than ten thousand abortions since 2005. A communist dictator might say that one murder is a tragedy while ten thousand is just a statistic. But how does a so-called Christian rationalize the serial murder of thousands of innocent human beings? One convenient way is by denying they are human in the first place. Here is Parker’s rationalization:

"Another so-called fact put forth by antis is that ’life begins at conception’ ‐ the justification for the ridiculous claim that abortion is murder. As a Christian and a scientist, I can authoritatively attest that life does not begin at conception. This notion that the union of the egg and sperm constitutes a new person at that moment reflects a religious belief ‐ and a deeply held one. But the fact is, as Justice Blackmun so eloquently wrote way back in 1973, in the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, there is no historical, philosophical, or even scientific consensus on when life begins." P. 145. Life’s Work: A Moral Argument For Choice.

There are at least three major problems embedded in that one statement. They are briefly dissected below:
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2018 08:55 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Parker evidently does not do late term (after 25 months) abortions.

Give him credit for that much.
Posted by: lord garth || 05/14/2018 10:10 Comments || Top||

#2  25 Months? That would be kinda extreme

I suspect you meant weeks :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 05/14/2018 10:13 Comments || Top||

#3  The '25 month' limit would be the progressives desired outcome.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2018 10:15 Comments || Top||

#4  yeah 25 weeks, not months
Posted by: lord garth || 05/14/2018 10:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Humanity has been proving its own inhumanity for a very long time now.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 05/14/2018 14:04 Comments || Top||

#6  If abortion was legal up until age 25 we wouldn't having these discussions.
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2018 17:59 Comments || Top||

#7  So he is the authority? So when does the authority say life begins?

I was called out by a progressive at work one day for being pro-life but never gave anyone any reasoning to my beliefs. I said that as a data analyst for the last 20 years that I look at one particular data point: 100 billion or so humans have been born in the history of the world and all of them starting in a women’s womb and that I suspect is where life begins. I do not claim to know exactly when life begins but by definition an abortion ends any chance of life; therefore, I believe it to be wrong. Why does it matter when it begins when we know when it definitely ends?
If someone wants to kill their own children or pay someone to do it who am I to stand in their miserable way? My beef is that I have to pay for it and listen to convoluted logic to somehow absolve them of their unnatural act.
Posted by: Airandee || 05/14/2018 19:01 Comments || Top||


VDH: 'California is a Medieval Society' (video)
[PJ] Former PJ Media columnist and noted scholar Victor Davis Hanson appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show to talk about his beloved California and its radical, avoidable decline.

Video provides a short summary of the cause of the dysfunction.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2018 07:57 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Government
Trump Allies Slam DHS Secretary Nielsen as ‘Never Trumper'
[Breitbart] President Trump allies in the White House privately slam Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen as a "Never Trumper," a new report alleges.

According to sources with Politico, Trump’s allies in the administration are not keen on Nielsen’s running of DHS, allegedly calling her a member of the failed "Never Trump" movement.

The Politico report claims that "associates" of Trump make "the case that she’s a closeted ’never Trumper’ who still doesn’t fully back his agenda."

Breitbart News was the first to report on Nielsen’s ties to the Never Trump movement last year. For example, former Bush official Tom Ridge praised Nielsen as a "homeland security veteran" and "a patriot" during her nomination process for the job. A year before, Ridge was one of 95 Republican establishment former national security officials who signed a letter opposing Trump in 2016 for his "America First" agenda.

Another example is Nielsen’s friend, former Bush official Frances Townsend, who praised her as well for the DHS nomination, calling her "tough as nails." During the 2016 presidential election, though, Townsend signed a letter with other national security bureaucrats where she called Trump "so utterly unfitted to the office."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2018 03:02 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She's finished. I have a sense there is something else going on here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2018 3:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Part of catching is the process called "reeling in..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/14/2018 6:04 Comments || Top||

#3  And she can't do the job either
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/14/2018 9:32 Comments || Top||



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