Just a tad hypocritical, no?
[TMZ] President Obama is taking a cue from Donald Trump ... he's building himself a wall.
We got photos of construction at Obama's soon-to-be D.C. rental. You also see construction in the garage. As we reported, it will become an office with a bathroom. AKA the Secret Service's office.
We broke the story ... the rental will be home until Sasha graduates so the Obamas needed the property outfitted for the Secret Service and ... it needed more fortification.
BTW ... he's getting a new neighbor. Ivanka Trump and fam are moving nearby to a rental. Bwahhh ha ha ha!
At least the landlords know the checks will clear. And guess who's paying for it? Hint - it's not Obama. He throws around quarters like they were manhole covers.
House Republicans this week reinstated an arcane procedural rule that enables lawmakers to reach deep into the budget and slash the pay of an individual federal worker -- down to $1 -- a move that threatens to upend the 130-year-old civil service.
The Holman Rule, named after an Indiana congressman who devised it in 1876, empowers any member of Congress to propose amending an appropriations bill to single out a government employee or cut a specific program.
The use of the rule would not be simple; a majority of the House and the Senate would still have to approve any such amendment. At the same time, opponents and supporters agree that the work of 2.1 million civil servants, designed to be insulated from politics, is now vulnerable to the whims of elected officials.
The revival of the Holman Rule was the brainchild of Rep. H. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), who is intent on increasing the powers of individual members of Congress to reassign workers as policy demands.
He favors a strategic application, likening it to a bullet from a sniper rifle rather than a shotgun. It's unlikely -- but not impossible -- that members will "go crazy" and cut huge swaths of the workforce, he said.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., indicated Thursday that he is exploring all possible procedures at his disposal to delay certification of the Electoral College results during a joint session of Congress on Friday.
Perlmutter hasn't committed to putting up a roadblock to finalizing the results, but his office confirmed that he is "reviewing certain laws and the U.S. Constitution as it pertains to efforts to undermine our electoral process."
The rules allow politicians to protest the counting of Electoral College votes, but because the votes are counted during a joint session of Congress, a senator would also have to protest the results to halt their certification.
Perlmutter was reacting to intelligence community officials' statements during hearings on Capitol Hill Thursday about Russia's meddling in the November elections. Intelligence officials say Russia was behind the hacking into Democratic emails last year in an attempt to sway the election.
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To the Left its all ritualistic formality. They have no loyalty to a republic, only power. That lust will not abate till a lot of blood flows.
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They're gonna fight Trump tooth and nail for the entire time he is in office. That's what Perlmutter is doing and it's the same thing with this Russian hacker business. They're gonna fight him every step of the way and the MSM is gonna be yapping right along with them.
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On the other hand AU, the reason the lot of them are so "brave", is because - so far - there wasn't any costs just benefits to this type of behavior.
The background to this article g(r)omgoru posted late yesterday.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The website Newsmax is floating the idea that Hillary Clinton is 'talking about' running for New York City mayor
Clinton is reportedly feeling pressure from donors and Democratic Party leaders who are less-than-pleased with current Mayor Bill de Blasio
While it's highly unlikely that Clinton would give politics another go so soon, she has surprised people in the past by running for senate in 2000
Her decision to become President Obama's secretary of state in 2008, was also eyebrow-raising, after the two politicians' bitter primary battle earlier that year
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From the Sharpe series, "You get dross from dross I always say".
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The entire Clinton Foundation and paid speaking engagement scheme are based on selling access to power. Since the entire Donk system has been reduced to making noise and virtue signaling to keep the serfs awake it's hard to get six figure speeches to fund their majestic lifestyle expectations and ego salving. So, Gracie Mansion offers a low rent option and a place from which to continue to get media attention. Sadly, in the nest of vipers that is NYC politics, even more of the shabby truth about Hildabeest will be revealed in the tabloid press each morning. Plus, imagine the photos of Bill and the energizer bunny in Chapaqua while Huma spends evenings with her wife?
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What, being the Norma Desmond of Chappaqua is not enough?
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It's a possible win for NYC here. I mean, Hill hasn't been able to accomplish anything in her other jobs, so it would be net improvement for the citizens of NYC.
Think of it as a "loser's consolation" prize.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Republican senators are warning Democrats that their efforts to resurrect racism charges against Sen. Jeff Sessions' nomination for attorney general won't derail his confirmation and will only serve to poison the well for future bipartisanship early this Congress.
Since Sessions' nomination, Democrats and liberal civil rights groups have reiterated racism charges from 1986 that sunk the Alabama senator's appointment to a federal judgeship by President Reagan. Sessions' supporters and those who believe some of the charges are overblown have spoken out on his behalf in recent weeks in an attempt to debunk the 30-year-old claims.
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., who calls Sessions a friend of 18 years even though he doesn't agree with all of his policy positions, has said Democrats' decision to re-level charges of racism against the Alabama senator could poison the well for any chance of cross-party cooperation this year.
"I think it's very questionable what the Democrats are doing," he told the Washington Examiner. "It has a way of pulling our string of comity in the Senate -- it's been pulled pretty hard and it looks like we're going to go through some more pulling."
If Democrats decide to call witnesses who made the original charges from the 1986 Judiciary Committee hearings, Roberts said it could seriously hamper any chance for bipartisan cooperation this session.
"I hope that doesn't happen," Roberts said. "I mean, that really eliminates any possibility for meaningful bipartisan action because then that opens the door for us to respond in kind and then it keeps devolving and poisons the well for any cooperation down the line."
Other Republican senators said Democratic efforts to cast Sessions as a racist simply won't work regardless of whom the Democrats call as witnesses because the Alabama senator, a 20-year veteran of the Senate, has worked well with so many Democrats over the years.
"We all know Jeff and have worked with him for a long time," said Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D. "I think you are going to see strong support for him among Republicans but also some Democrats too."
"He's worked with a lot of Democratic members of the Senate for a long time and built up good relations," he added.
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won't derail his confirmation and will only serve to poison the well for future bipartisanship early this Congress
What a maroon. 'Bi-partisanship' means either you agree with the Donks and vote with them, or their specific representative is doing so badly back in the district or state they have to vote with the Trunks to survive another election.
Thursday at a press conference on Capitol Hill, when asked about President-elect Donald Trump calling Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) a "clown" in tweets about the congressional fight over the Affordable Care Act, Schumer fired back by saying it "was not a time for calling names."
Trump: "The Democrats, lead by head clown Chuck Schumer, know how bad ObamaCare is and what a mess they are in. Instead of working to fix it, they..
...do the typical political thing and BLAME. The fact is ObamaCare was a lie from the beginning. "Keep you doctor, keep your plan!" It is....
...time for Republicans & Democrats to get together and come up with a healthcare plan that really works - much less expensive & FAR BETTER!
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[FOX] A Republican congressman took matters into his own hands Friday and personally removed a painting depicting police officers as pigs that a colleague had allowed to be displayed at the U.S. Capitol complex.
"I was angry," Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., told FoxNews.com. "I’ve seen the press [reporting] on this for about a week or so. ... I’m in the Marine Corps. If you want it done, just call us."
Hunter said he walked over to the artwork Friday morning with a few colleagues and unscrewed it. He then delivered it to the office of Rep. Lacy Clay, D-Mo., the congressman whose office had allowed the piece to be displayed. The painting, hanging since June, was done by a high school student who had won Clay’s annual Congressional Art competition.
The piece drew outrage, however, from law enforcement groups and fellow lawmakers.
[American Thinker] President Obama has another ironic award for his trophy shelf, to accompany his Nobel Peace Prize and all those participation trophies he got at Punahou for his basketball skills. His appointee and subordinate Ash Carter yesterday pinned a military medal ‐ the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service ‐ on his boss, as Warner Todd Huston reported for Breitbart.
The ceremony took place at Joint Base Myers-Henderson, before a crowd that had an awful lot of empty seats, almost as if the military service members who attended were there on orders.
Yes, has to irk him that after 8 years of servicing Soros, he never got to have anybody put up against a wall just because.
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Pretty sure several Presidents have received that award, and it's always given by the military, of which the POTUS is boss, hence he 'awards himself.'
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Pretty sure several Presidents have received that award, and it's always given by the military, of which the POTUS is boss, hence he 'awards himself.' Posted by Glenmore
Alright, but only if accompanied by a 14 day Hawaii vacation which starts at noon today.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Omarosa Manigault, the incoming director of the White House's Office of Public Liaison, said on Wednesday she jumped parties because Democrats have repeatedly failed voters.
The former "Apprentice" Season 1 contestant told Fox News host Megyn Kelly that she voted for Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... and Barack Obama teachable moment... in their presidential elections, even working for Vice President Al Gore Former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, and crazed sex poodle Al Gore and Clinton in the 1990s.
"Traditionally, African-Americans have been Democrats. I think that the Democrats have taken advantage and taken for granted the African-American vote. We are seeing a huge movement of African-Americans moving to the Republican side. And that's what I did. I'm a Trumplican," Manigault said, coining a new term.
Manigault said in her new communications role, as well as an official assistant to the president, she will be responsible for sharing the public's feelings on policy and other matters with President-elect Trump.
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I don't trust her. She seems opportunistic. She seems like an attention whore, and I read somewhere that she convinced Michael Clark Duncan to will most of his money to her instead of his family shortly before he died, when he seemed to be behaving strangely. They weren't even married! Dunno. Keep an eye on her.
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Traditionally, African-Americans were Republicans. They only became Democrats after the Civil Rights Act was signed by Johnson and we all know what he said about that. He was right.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A staunch opponent of President B.O.'s environmental agenda was formally made the head of the Senate environment committee Wednesday.
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., was unanimously elected to head the Environment and Public Works Committee, which has direct oversight over the Environmental Protection Agency. The agency is a top target of the Republican-led Congress and President-elect Trump.
"Over the past eight years, a runaway Environmental Protection Agency has time and again issued cumbersome regulations that have limited job creation and energy development," Barrasso said. "Our committee will work closely with the next administration to remove these obstacles to economic growth, while protecting the environment."
Barrasso doggedly opposed Obama's agreeing to the Gay Paree climate change accord without Senate consent. He later tried to rescind the State Department's authority to send millions of dollars to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... ' Green Climate Fund, which is a key program under the Gay Paree deal meant to direct $100 billion per year by 2020 to help developing nations cope with the effects of climate change.
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Glen, I am old enough remember the time before the EPA. You're right - they have done some "good" - mostly by shutting down polluting industries. However, they went off the rails when they started to look for new pollutants to regulate like CO2 and dust from farmers.
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Do you hear the sound of document shredders breaking down under heavy unprecedentedfreakingamazing usage as Jan 20 nears? The question is will FOIA requests on the Obama years be stonewalled. Interesting times.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., indicated Thursday that he is exploring all possible procedures at his disposal to delay certification of the Electoral College results during a joint session of Congress on Friday.
Thursday at a press conference on Capitol Hill, when asked about President-elect Donald Trump calling Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) a "clown" in tweets about the congressional fight over the Affordable Care Act, Schumer fired back by saying it "was not a time for calling names."
[American Thinker] President Obama has another ironic award for his trophy shelf, to accompany his Nobel Peace Prize and all those participation trophies he got at Punahou for his basketball skills. His appointee and subordinate Ash Carter yesterday pinned a military medal ‐ the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service ‐ on his boss, as Warner Todd Huston reported for Breitbart.
Former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, and crazed sex poodle Al Gore
