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I enjoy pointing out to Sanders supporters that their candidate was *robbed* by the HRC campaign, and that their brave leader was complicit in the theft. The pained looks I receive in response always make me smile.
I usually also try to find a way to drop in the fact that this "socialist" and "man of the people" has 3 separate luxury houses.
[Wash Times] What caused the Barack Obama administration to begin investigating the Donald Trump campaign last summer has come into clearer focus following a string of congressional hearings on Russian interference in the presidential election.
It was then-CIA Director John O. Brennan, a close confidant of Mr. Obama’s, who provided the information -- what he termed the "basis" -- for the FBI to start the counterintelligence investigation last summer. Mr. Brennan served on the former president’s 2008 presidential campaign and in his White House.
Mr. Brennan told the House Intelligence Committee on May 23 that the intelligence community was picking up tidbits on Trump associates making contacts with Russians. Mr. Brennan did not name either the Russians or the Trump people. He indicated he did not know what was said.
But he said he believed the contacts were numerous enough to alert the FBI, which began its probe into Trump associates that same July, according to previous congressional testimony from then-FBI director James B. Comey.
The FBI probe of contacts came the same month the intelligence community fingered Russian agents as orchestrating hacks into Democratic Party computers and providing stolen emails to WikiLeaks.
Mr. Brennan, who has not hidden his dislike for Mr. Trump, testified he briefed the investigation’s progress to Mr. Obama, who at the time was trying to aid Hillary Clinton in her campaign against the Republican nominee.
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The FBI probe of contacts came the same month the intelligence community fingered Russian agents as orchestrating hacks into Democratic Party computers and providing stolen emails to WikiLeaks.
Emphasis added.
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Sounds a lot more like CIA interference in the election than anything else.
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Behind Brennan and the CIA cronies, you will find the actual architects of Champs administration. - ValJar, Soros and the Center for American Progress.
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Behind Brennan and the CIA cronies, you will find the actual architects of Champs administration. - ValJar, Soros and the Center for American Progress.
Yes, with Brennan at the wheel, architects of the 'Deep State' or 4th branch of government, or shadow government. You pick the title, it's all the same. Soetoro was little more than a face, an empty suit.
[THEBLAZE] Two liberal co-hosts on “The View” decried any shred of validity in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails during Tuesday’s airing of the ABC daytime show, calling the topic “fake news.” E pur se muove.
Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar claimed that the controversy behind Clinton’s email server could be chalked up to “fake news” planted by the Russians.
The women began addressing the Russian investigation as a whole, and discussed allegations from anonymous sources that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner was heard communicating with Russians prior to the 2016 election.
Conservative host Jedidiah Bila gave the story no credence, but the remaining liberal panelists claimed that they believed the “leak” about Kushner and his purported tie to Russian officials to be creed.
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Fake show offering fake information claiming it is fake news.
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Their collective IQ's wouldn't light an incandescent bulb. Shrieking stoopid harridans. Hillary's right at home there
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It's ABC. What do you expect?
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Anyone over 30 years old with a high school education that voted for Hillary Clinton is an evil person. I forgive the mistakes of youth, and I pity those who lack an education. But I don't forgive or turn my back on evil.
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The View panel and hostess are all Kool-Ade drinkers with the possible exception of Jedidiah Bila who used to be at Fox. Regurgitation of Dem talking points.
Ten Thousand Commandments is the Competitive Enterprise Institute's annual survey of the size, scope, and cost of federal regulations, and how the U.S. regulatory burden affects American consumers, businesses, and the economy. Authored by CEI Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr., it shines a light on the large and growing "hidden tax" of America's regulatory state.
Federal government spending, deficits, and the national debt are staggering, but so is the impact of federal regulations. Unfortunately, regulations get little attention in policy debates because, unlike taxes, they are unbudgeted, difficult to quantify, and their effects are often indirect. By making Washington’s rules and mandates more comprehensible, Crews underscores the need for more review, transparency, and accountability for new and existing federal regulations.
The 2017 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments is unique and will serve as a benchmark to measure President Trump's efforts to cut red tape against those of his predecessors. President Obama's final year in office showed a regulatory surge. Will Trump keep his promise and slam the breaks on overregulation?
Highlights from the 2017 edition include: Prepare for the butt screwin'
Based on federal government data, past reports, and contemporary studies, this report estimates regulatory compliance and economic impacts of federal intervention to be $1.9 trillion annually.
The Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St. Louis and the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center in Washington, D.C., jointly estimate that agencies spent $63 billion in fiscal year 2016 to administer the federal regulatory state. Adding the $1.9 trillion in off-budget compliance costs brings the total reckoned regulatory enterprise to about $1.963 trillion.
If U.S. regulation was a country, it would be the world's seventh-largest economy, ranking behind India and ahead of Italy.
The estimated cost of regulation is equivalent to half the level of federal spending, which was $3.854 trillion in 2016.
Regulatory costs of $1.9 trillion amount to 10 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, which was estimated at $18.861 trillion in 2016 by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis.
When regulatory costs are combined with federal FY 2016 outlays of $3.854 trillion, the federal government's share of the entire economy reaches 30 percent (not including state and local spending and regulation).
During calendar year 2016, Congress enacted 214 laws, whereas agencies issued 3,853 rules. Thus, 18 rules were issued for every law enacted. This "Unconstitutionality Index"--the ratio of regulations issued by agencies to laws passed by Congress and signed by the president--highlights the delegation of lawmaking power to unelected agency officials. The average for the past decade has been 27.
If one assumes that all costs of federal regulation and intervention flowed all the way down to households, U.S. households would "pay" $14,809 annually on average in a regulatory hidden tax. That amounts to 21 percent of the average income of $69,629 and 26.45 percent of the expenditure budget of $55,978. The "tax" exceeds every item in the budget except housing. More is "spent" on embedded regulation than on health care, food, transportation, entertainment, and apparel.
Of the 3,318 regulations in the pipeline, 193 are "economically significant" rules, which the federal government defines as having annual effects on the economy of $100 million or more.
The five most active rulemaking entities--the Departments of the Treasury, the Interior, Transportation, Commerce, and the Environmental Protection Agency--account for 1,428 rules, or 43 percent of all federal regulations under consideration.
Public notices in the Federal Register normally exceed 24,000 annually, with uncounted guidance documents and other proclamations with potential regulatory effect among them. There were 24,557 notices in 2016. There have been 550,489 public notices since 1994 and well over a million since the 1970s.
The 2016 Federal Register contains 95,894 pages, the highest level in its history and 19 percent higher than the previous year's 80,260 pages.
Last year, the Obama administration averaged 86 "major" rules, a 36 percent higher average annual output than that of President George W. Bush. President Obama issued 685 major rules during his term, compared with Bush's 505. The power of the Executive order needs to be severely scaled back. Regulations are little more than taxes as people and resources need to be expended to meet them. This should have stayed with congress (before congress gave up its power and let the agencies make their own rules) and any major rules that change how an agency operates should come from congress, not the president.
Of course I believe that 90% of these agencies need to be dismantled and the rest scaled back a bunch. They are truly becoming not only a drain on our national economy but also are running down the path of nanny state tyranny.
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Congress doesn't just pass the buck to the apparatchiks in the bureaucracy, they make the bureaucracy for everything. They need to show they are doing 'something'. See, we passed a bill! Poof, another bureaucracy. They're part of the cancer, enabled by issuing bonds and notes of promise that indenture future generations. If expenditures had to match receipts, a lot of this would not exist.
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[Wash Times] What caused the Barack Obama administration to begin investigating the Donald Trump campaign last summer has come into clearer focus following a string of congressional hearings on Russian interference in the presidential election.
Ten Thousand Commandments is the Competitive Enterprise Institute's annual survey of the size, scope, and cost of federal regulations, and how the U.S. regulatory burden affects American consumers, businesses, and the economy. Authored by CEI Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr., it shines a light on the large and growing "hidden tax" of America's regulatory state.
