I missed Meet The Press today, it interfered with Encore Western Channel’s tribute to Clint Eastwood. At least I have my priorities right.
Kellyanne Conway was on with F. Chuck Todd and set him straight. The Trump Administration won’t play the media’s game of defending itself against every liberal lie. We’ve been waiting a very long time for somebody with a spine to stop playing patty-cake with these braying jackasses.
Todd asked, “I’m curious why president Trump chose yesterday to send out his press secretary to essentially litigate a provable falsehood when it comes to a small and petty thing like inaugural crowd size. My question to you is why do that?
Conway said “Chuck, if we’re going to keep referring to our press secretary in those types of terms, I think we are going to have to rethink our relationship here. I want a great open relationship with our press.”
She added that Spicer gave the press “alternative facts” to the press to correct the record.
“Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods,” shot back Todd.
Conway then cited the failed agenda of Barack Obama, with the loss of health insurance for millions of Americans, the 16.1 million women still living in poverty, and the billions spent of education that has done next to nothing to improve standards or conditions. That’s what Conway and this administration want the press to focus on since Obama’s failure is the reason they’re occupying the White House.
THE OLD BOSS: THE ONLY THING DIFFERENT IS THAT HE CAN DO NO MORE HARM
•The 44th president was up at 9am Pacific time for a trip to a country club’s gym
•It was near the Rancho Mirage, CA, home where he and Michelle are staying with friends for a two-week vacation.
•He was pictured in a Secret Service SUV leaving the private community of Thunderbird Heights and heading to the country club for a workout.
•Beside him in the SUV was his host James Costos, who was the ex-president’s ambassador to Spain.
•Then he went out to play golf at Porcupine Creek, a course owned by Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison.
•Former first couple’s final trip on the presidential flight was extended when it could not land at Palm Springs because of bad weather conditions. Fiesta De Pijamas … At My Spanish Ambassador’s Crib
YOU DIDN’T THINK HE’D ACTUALLY PAY FOR ANYTHING, DID YOU?
HE’S LIKE A GUY WHO USES A PROSTITUTE AND SOMEBODY ELSE PAYS FOR IT. The house is in Rancho Mirage, near Palm Springs, inside the Thunderbird Heights gated community … perched at the top of the development and spread over 8 acres. It’s been completely gutted and renovated since 2011 … and looks brand spanking new. The Obamas have stayed at James and Michael’s home 4 times prior to this visit.
As Donald and Melania Trump arrived for President Trump’s Inauguration, Melania Trump handed Michelle Obama a large, blue Tiffany’s box. Something that every woman in the world adores. Mooch… not so much. Leave it to Michelle Obama to look disdainful over an elegant gift from a woman that makes her look incredibly unfeminine. Mooch looked like she couldn’t get rid of the box fast enough, as if it were a bomb. Then she acted like she wanted to wipe her hands. Tres rude and totally in keeping with Michelle’s winning style.
BEAUTY MAY BE SKIN DEEP….UGLY GOES CLEAN TO THE BONE
Trump Plans to Eliminate NEA, NEH, Cut Spending by $10.5 Trillion
The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities would be eliminated, according to a new report on the administration’s spending priorities published by the Hill.
Both arts agencies have budgets of roughly $147 million. The NEA awards millions of dollars worth of grants for art projects each year, which have included plays about assassinating Christopher Columbus, food stamps, and gun-control activist lesbians, climate change poetry, and “Doggie Hamlet.”
REMEMBER ALL THE BIG SHOTS WHO WOULDN’T PERFORM FOR THE INAUGURATION? PAYBACK’S A BITCH
President Donald Trump Will Sign Executive Order Sunday to Defund International Planned Parenthood
Most pro-life Americans are anxiously awaiting Congress to pass a bill to defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business. While that defunding legislation concerns the domestic-based Planned Parenthood abortion corporation, President Trump has the ability to put in place an executive order that would revoke funding for its international affiliate.
When pro-abortion former President Barack Obama took office, Obama overturned a policy that prevented funding of groups that promote or perform abortions overseas. The Mexico City Policy covered over $400 million in federal funds, part of which flowed to the abortion businesses International Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes International for their foreign efforts.
Trump Says NAFTA Renegotiations Are Set To Begin
The president seems keen on fulfilling this campaign promise to renegotiate current trade deals. A plan on the White House website says the U.S. will withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and that President Trump plans on renegotiating the North American Free Trade Alliance, NAFTA, enacted under President Bill Clinton.
President Trump spoke with both Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto Saturday. Leaders from both countries have expressed a willingness to renegotiate NAFTA.
For eight long years, the Obama kids were treated like royalty. Vacations in Martha’s Vineyard and Hawaii, travel all over Africa, Europe, and Asia. Every picture ever taken shows how unappreciative they are of anything anybody does for them. They expect special treatment, just like their daddy. The only time I ever saw Malaria smile was when she was blowing weed and showing her butt at Lollapalooza in Chicago.
Now the shoe is on the other foot. There’s a new president, a Republican president. He has several children, including a 10 year old named Barron. Will he be shown the same courtesy the Obama kids had? Not on your life. There are no rules when it comes to attacking any Republicans family.
Katie Rich wrote: ‘Barron will be this country’s first homeschool shooter’
She deleted the tweet and set her account to private after barrage of criticism.
Some called for her Twitter account to be deleted; others tried to get her fired.
Barron Trump attends elite private school in New York’s Upper West Side and will finish out the year before he moves to the White House with Melania Trump.
Modern Family actor Julie Bowen was also criticized for several Instagram posts.
In one, she joked the 10-year-old was on his Gameboy, while another caption suggested he was embarrassed by his dad.
Melania Trump received a lot of criticism for not appearing on the campaign trail with Trump. But with the way that people attack her son can you blame her? I bet the kid has a hard enough time trying to enjoy a normal life and that’s all Melania wants to give him. Make life for him as normal as possible.
Screw you, leftists. Quit preaching for tolerance when you can’t even be nice to a kid.
[CtH: What the HELL?! Barron is ten years old. TEN. I’m so glad these twerps got so much blow back.]
They say that brevity is the soul of wit. Brevity has never been one of my long suits. However, there is no possible way to cover a fraction of what transpired yesterday.
I got up this morning and the sun was out for the first time in what seemed weeks. A fitting metaphor for the beginning of a new era. We can look forward to 4 years of liberal whining, temper tantrums, celebrities preening, and the term ‘fake news’ taken to a whole new level.
I’m going to try to break this down into several easy-to-digest posts. A large number of links I had bookmarked have been deleted since news has a rather short shelf life.
THIS CLASSLESS HACK WAS SUPPOSED TO INTRODUCE VICE PRESIDENT PENCE. HE STARTED TO FILIBUSTER AND THE CROWD SHOWED THEIR APPRECIATION FOR THE VENOM HE ALWAYS HAS READY TO SPIT AT THE FIRST REPUBLICAN THAT COMES INTO RANGE.
[CtH: I can ignore the alt-left whack jobs, but when the minority leaders in Congress call us vile names, it really rankles. Besides which, Pelosi is a fellow Catholic and Schumer is my senior senator, so they bug me even more! Harumph.]
The Thrill: The Story of Chris Matthews and Barack Obama
[CtH: Seriously? Did these people watch the same speech I did?!]
‘Is he crazy enough try something? To drop a bomb in the middle of the Pacific? Something I have to react to.’
‘And that would be — but I’m thinking, when [President Trump] said today, America first, it was not just the racial, I mean I shouldn’t say racial, the Hitlerian background to it, but it was the message I kept thinking.’
“It was militant and it was dark,” Maddow said. “The crime, the gangs, the drugs, this ‘American carnage,’ disrepair, decay. You can’t imagine the outgoing president giving a speech like that.”
[CtH: No, cuz Obama just lied about how great everything has been under his watch and then right back to blaming whites, Republicans, and cops for everything bad.]
Maddow: Trump’s Speech ‘Militant,’ ‘Dark,’ ‘America First Has ‘Dark Echoes’ of Anti-Semitism
I CONFESS TO SWITCHING THE CHANNEL A COUPLE TIMES JUST TO DRINK IN THE ANGST
(((CNN))) & Liberals Run with Fake Trump Inauguration Crowd Photo #fakenews MORE MEDIA TRICKERY
CHECK THIS OUT
Liberal Cries on the ground at Trump’s Inauguration #videoftheday #sjw #trump
IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN HILLARY GIVING SLICK WILLIE THE DEATH STARE, YOU NEED TO
[CtH: I’m sorry that this is just FUNNY!]
[CtH: I actually saw someone on Facebook going on and on about how beautiful and classy and wonderful Michelle was as FLOTUS. I remember a lot of this scowling and sneering and especially that time she rolled her eyes and said, “All this for a flag.” Also, that other time when she let the WH organic garden go to hell, because the government was shut down and she couldn’t be bothered to LET’S MOVE her butt out there and harvest any of that good produce she supposedly cared so much about.]
[CtH: I gotta give them credit for coming. This had to be a very bitter pill, but unlike the whiny House Democrats who had to retire to their safe space and suck on their binkies, these two actually came.]
[CtH: I’d like to see the condition of D.C. that the Trump supporters left, so we could compare it to the mountains of TRASH those Obama inauguration fans left. Also, please to point out that a bajillion Pro-Lifers like Dearest are already committed to a trip to Washington next week and, yeah, can’t afford to take that much time off from work in a single month. ]
THE DIFFERENCE IN FIRST LADIES MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED
MELANIA’S ORIGINAL RALPH LAUREN CANNOT BE BOUGHT (SORRY, CHRISSY) — IT WAS MADE EXCLUSIVELY FOR HER.
[CtH: Aw, Pete! You so flatter me! As if I could BEGIN to wear anything our new hot supermodel babe of a FLOTUS can wear!]
Today’s task is to cull the articles I’ve bookmarked over the past few days, pick out the ones that are informative, inspirational,thought-provoking and socially significant. After I delete those I’ll have the normal mindless drivel you’ve come to expect from me.
Obama could use 5 minute window to FORCE SCOTUS PICK Garland Obama has one last chance to force his pick for the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, on to the highest court in the land. Obama will have a 5 minute window known as “intersession recess” when he can force the move.
The liberal New Republic believes that Obama should put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court during this intersession recess although they state: “Based on everything we know about Obama’s temperament and politics, he won’t resort to this.”
Most conservatives would say that based on everything we know about Obama’s temperament and politics he is highly likely to resort to this.
IT IS ALMOST CERTAIN HE’LL TRY THIS. HE ACTS LIKE THE SPOILED BRAT WHO DIDN’T GET EVERYTHING HE WANTED FOR CHRISTMAS SO HE’S SETTING ABOUT BREAKING EVERYBODY ELSE’S STUFF SO THEY CAN’T ENJOY IT.
[CtH: GREAT analogy, Pete. That’s exactly what he’s acting like!]
Frank Luntz: Obama on a ‘FU Tour,’ Trying to ‘Settle Scores’ With Republicans
[CtH: The new sugary drinks “tax is higher than the one on alcoholic beverages.” Cuz, yeah, THAT totally makes sense. I’m so sure sugar is worse for you than alcohol. NOT.]
YOU WONDER WHY PENNSYLVANIA WENT REPUBLICAN?
Sean Spicer: Trump to ‘Repeal a Lot’ of Obama’s Actions on Day One In an interview with ABC’s “This Week”, Trump’s incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that President-elect Donald Trump plans to repeal a lot of President Barack Obama’s executive actions in his first day in office.
Spicer said that the Trump administration will immediately “repeal a lot of the regulations and actions that have been taken by this administration over the last eight years that have hampered both economic growth and job creation.”
Obama will travel to the Capitol on Wednesday morning for the meeting with House and Senate Democrats, according to an invitation sent to lawmakers. The White House is casting it as an effort to unite Democrats behind a plan to protect the law, known as the Affordable Care Act. Obama also plans a major valedictory speech in Chicago, his hometown, shortly before his presidency ends.
[CtH: I had lab work today at the hospital, where CNN was blatting in the waiting room. The talking heads were hyperventilating about Trump’s eeeeeeeeevil plan to sabotage Obamacare. I sat there wondering if they’d had even the slightest concern back in 2009 about what negative effects it might have or about the totally bogus way the Democrats passed it … in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve and without a single Republican vote? I can’t say for sure, but my guess is they did not.]
Schumer: “Democrats Will Resist Trump’s Picks Vehemently!” TRANSLATION: WE’RE GOING TO BE THE SAME HATEFUL, DESTRUCTIVE PRICKS WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN
According to the report, Schumer told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that he will target Trump’s pick for the head of State, Sen. Jeff Sessions for head of the Justice Department, and two other notable appointees.
Democrats will also target picks for the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, Treasury and the Environmental Protection Agency.
[CtH: And the MSM will self-righteously depict every accusation as totally legit, just like they did back when Anita Hill was the Democrat Lying Shill trying to sabotage Clarence Thomas.]
The Daily Beast‘s Jackie Kucinich said to CNN’s Nia-Malika Henderson on Sunday that it would be interesting to see what kind of reception President Obama will receive when he meets congressional Democrats next week, adding that the president has hung his party “out to dry” during his time in the White House.
[CtH: I remember hearing a story some years ago about a meeting of top Democrat leaders in Congress. Obama was “there” via conference call, but reportedly, as he yammered on and on the way he does, someone (I think it was Pelosi) hit MUTE! Then the continued their meeting.]
Democrats prepare for early ‘act of cowardice’ with GOP attempt to repeal Obamacare
QUOTH THE FOUR-TERM MINORITY LEADER
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, preparing for her fourth straight Congress in the minority — she lost her speakership in 2010, in an anti-Obamacare backlash — now says it’s the GOP that will pay a political price if it moves to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. “You break it, you own it,” the California Democrat said.
Alabama band to march at inauguration, igniting controversy GOOD ON THEM
The marching band of Alabama’s oldest private, historically black liberal arts college has accepted an invitation to perform at President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural parade, organizers said.
“After how black people were treated at Trump’s rallies, you’re going to go and shuck and jive down Pennsylvania Avenue? For what?” Seinya SamForay said in an interview. “What they did is a slap in the face to other black universities.”
HOW WERE BLACK PEOPLE TREATED AT TRUMP RALLIES? WITH A HELL OF A LOT MORE RESPECT THAN TRUMP SUPPORTERS WHO WERE ROUTINELY ASSAULTED BY YOUR HATEFUL RACIST BRETHREN.
SO MANY Trump Hate Hoaxes By Deranged Liberal Fascists – The Complete Video
The left has made it a sport to fake hate crimes. And since the historic November election hate hoaxes are a dime a dozen.
There have been at least 17 faked hate crimes NOT committed by Trump supporters since the November election.
What should be noted is that there were 2,000 verified hate crimes against Trump supporters since the election.
So we all know where the real hate, violence and intolerance exist.
The First Family rung in 2017 at their Kailua vacation rental and spent the night before enjoying a luau Downbeat-looking Sasha and Malia return from Hawaii with their parents after last family vacation on Air Force One. The Obamas departed Hawaii around 10pm on Sunday and arrived Monday at Andrews Air Force Base. Obama spent his last day on the island visiting his grandfather’s grave and spending time at the beach.
JUST $298 FOR THE BAG MALARIA IS TOTING. A WONDERFUL BARGAIN.
CHECK OUT MOOCH IN HER WALRUS COAT AND STYLISH JACKBOOTS
Melania Trump Rocked a Black Dolce & Gabbana Minidress for New Year’s Eve WHAT A DIFFERENCE IN FIRST LADIES
On its site, the brand described the dress as being made of virgin wool and spandex. It has bows on each strap, which are embellished with jewels and a fitted silhouette that hits a few inches below the knee. The dress retails for $2,995.
TRUMP PAID FOR IT WITH HIS OWN MONEY … BIG DIFFERENCE.
[CtH: Actually, the real difference is that Trump made his dough creating jobs, while Obama became a multi-millionaire largely due to sale of his autobiography that he probably didn’t write. I’m fairly certain the taxpayers never had to pay for Michelle’s wardrobe. That’s probably not true of her staff’s salaries and benefits, which include a hairdresser and makeup artist. But the clothes themselves, no.]
[CtH: Wow … Michelle’s dress is truly heinous. Hillary had a couple of expensive designer outfits during the campaign that were butt ugly too. What’s with their lack of taste? Both of them can afford to buy beautiful clothes by designers who know how to make a woman look her best. So why do they shop with designers whose outfits are ugly and unflattering to their figures?]
[CtH: While Dearest and I were enjoying our breakfast date at the cute cafe in the hospital (following my overnight fast for tests), the Garden Club ladies showed up to take down all the beautiful decorations they’d put up for the holidays. I just had to go thank them. They’re all volunteers and those decorations had cheered me up today while I was feeling so hungry and thirsty and uncomfortable getting all those tests done. I’m glad I got there before they came down. Tomorrow would’ve been too late.]
Water heater stopped working a couple days ago. Had to wait until today to call the landlord. Having DW call, because I might say the wrong thing and get us evicted from Casa Pistol. The driveway didn’t get shoveled after the last snow, so SS went out and shoveled by hand yesterday. We’re heating water on the stove to wash with, so we don’t go near anybody who isn’t family. All in all, a wonderful day. Today eldest is coming with her family. She had a houseful yesterday so we’re getting together today, when we can spend more time together.
In other news, Christmas was better for millions of Christians than it has been for years. What makes the mood brighter is that soon we’ll be rid of the hateful creature that’s been ruining the country for the last eight years.
The Iraqi Christian town of Bartella was liberated in October by Iraqi forces after two years of ISIS control. After ISIS took over the town, its residents were forced to flee to camps, and various Christian religious symbols at their church were destroyed. Shortly after the town was finally freed, a video of residents making a cross for their church and ringing the church bells for the first time in years went viral.
THE FAKE NEWS DOESN’T STOP, EVEN ON CHRISTMAS
Dem ‘Fake News’ Even On Christmas: RNC “Refers To Trump As ‘King’, Compares To Jesus”
Matt McDermott is a Democrat pollster and his own words pusher of ‘propaganda’. I think this qualifies: What Matt McDermott apparently doesn’t understand is that Christians say this each year, welcoming the new King, Jesus. What it reveals is not that RNC is trying to pitch Trump as King, but that McDermott and other Democrats don’t understand this simple concept.
The response to the statement was swift. Jonathan Chait, a liberal writer for New York magazine, said, “The distinction between a president and a king is not trivial.” Kyle Griffin, a producer for MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” tweeted, “No joke—This line is actually in the RNC’s Christmas message.” And Politico reporter Glenn Thrush quoted the statement and wrote “#KEOTUS,” meaning “King-elect of the United States.” The Trumps Celebrate Christmas Services at Church Where They Married The Trumps received communion at the service and returned back to their beachside resort around 12:30 AM., reported the New York Post.
THE LEFT MADE SUCH A HUGE DEAL OUT OF CLAIMING OBAMA WAS A CHRISTIAN. DID HE ATTEND CHURCH EVEN ONCE IN 8 YEARS?
IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME IF HE PRAYED 5 TIMES A DAY WITH HIS HEAD ON THE FLOOR AND HIS ASS IN THE AIR….EXCEPT WHEN HE WAS GOLFING. IT WOULD HAVE MADE PUTTING DIFFICULT.
Christmas Day Blizzard Blast Could Put End To Anti-DAPL Campsites The National Weather Service reported Saturday that a massive blizzard is expected to dump more than a foot of snow on the protester’s encampment. The storm could bring with it 45 to 55 mph winds throughout Monday.
THINK THESE MORONS MIGHT GET A CLUE IT’S TIME TO MOVE ON?
US Should Not Only Defund UN But Withdraw From It
Let’s take our $3 billion and go. The United States pays 22% of the total UN budget. What we get for our $3 billion a year is a corrupt organization whose dysfunctional and hostile agencies are united in opposing us around the world.
The United Nations does only two things consistently and effectively: waste money and bash Israel. Sometimes it manages to do both at the same time.
No wonder the UN Security Council just condemned them. Who wouldn’t rightfully be upset that Jews living in Jerusalem somehow causes poor Mohammed to batter his wife?
Jonah Goldberg: Obama Going Out the Door ‘Flipping The Middle Finger’ At Israel
He points out that this is where Obama’s heart has been all along, “Screwing Israel”
Supporter Of Samantha Power: She Watched Half a Million Arabs Die, Then Slammed Israel For the duration of the seemingly endless Syrian civil war, she has figuratively fiddled while that country burns. Now, with one foot out the door from a tenure that has all but obliterated her once formidable reputation as an anti-genocide activist, she’s decided to kick Israel in the teeth.
Hillary’s Horribles Yes, Clinton won the popular vote. Who cares? That was never, nor should it ever be, the measure that determines who is elected president. She knew it. Her supporters knew it. Her campaign knew it. They just chose not to campaign that way.
Call it arrogance or ignorance, but Hillary spent more time in California, a state she’d have won comfortably no matter what, than Wisconsin and Michigan in the final days of the election. She and her team made that choice, consciously. Just like she chose to call half of Trump’s supporters “a basket of deplorables” who, even worse, were “irredeemable.”
Imprisoned Blagojevich awaits Obama decision on commutation One of the last chances for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to win early release from federal prison rests on a pending decision by the man whose Senate seat Blagojevich was convicted of trying to sell — President Barack Obama.
D.A. PATRICK FITZGERALD INDICTED POOR ROD BEFORE THE CORRUPTION COULD REACH THE BLACK PRINCE. BLAGO DIDN’T DO ANYTHING THAT ISN’T DONE EVERY DAY IN THE CESSPOOL OF A STATE I LIVE IN.
Back in the day, when I was a working stiff, one of the accounts I serviced had an R&D department. On one of the engineers’ desks was a sign that read: “There comes a time in the history of every project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production.”
There is at least a score of links I have bookmarked, so the time has come to begin production. There is no particular rhyme or reason for anything you find here, but you should be used to that by now.
Are there any adults left in the Democratic Party? Since Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton, Democrats’ behavior has been sad to watch.
It’s fairly easy to laugh at this childishness, even from the famously petty president of the United States. But the left’s road trip to Crazytown took a darker turn when accusations that Russia hacked the election results to make Trump president were made by formerly “respectable” voices and given oxygen by the media and Democrats.
VA manager bans Christmas tree from office cubicle TRUMP NEEDS TO GET RID OF THIS NEST OF VIPERS AT THE TOP OF THE VA AND APPOINT SOMEBODY WHO CARES ABOUT OUR VETERANS.
THE VERY FIRST THING HE SHOULD DO IS ISSUE AN EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT VETS CAN GO TO ANY HOSPITAL THEY CHOOSE FOR TREATMENT. ONE CASE OF A VET COMMITTING SUICIDE BECAUSE HE CAN’T GET MEDICAL HELP IS TOO MANY. AND I’VE SEEN MORE THAN ONE.
“There is a Christmas tree, ornaments, and decorations in the cubicle across from Luis Stevenson’s desk (the same cubicle where the scanner is housed),” wrote VA supervisor Rebecca Cellucci. “If this belongs to you, please claim it. Otherwise, it will be discarded on Friday.”
“Either management has a policy against any mention of Christmas or religion, or they are absolutely tone deaf, to talk about executing a Christmas tree a couple of weeks before Christmas,” the employee said.
Gingrich: Trump has no obligation to hold news conferences TRUMP HAS THE AUTHORITY TO PULL THE CREDENTIALS OF VERMIN LIKE CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPO, AND ALL THE OTHER WHORES WHO WILL ATTACK HIM AT EVERY TURN. REPLACE THEM WITH NEW MEDIA, LIKE BREITBART.
“The news media so totally disgraced itself in this election, if I were Trump I would just say no,” Gingrich, a Trump adviser, said during an interview with USA Today’s Capital Download.
“And if the White House Correspondents’ Association doesn’t like it, I’d say, ‘Fine, disband.'”
Melania Trump Threatens To Sue Over False Autism Video About Son Barron GOOD ON HER. FOR FAR TOO LONG OUR SIDE HAS SWALLOWED RAW SEWAGE JUST TO SHOW THAT WE CAN BE POLITE. SCREW THAT. MESS WITH MY KIDS, YOU GOT TROUBLE… BIG TIME. WE HAD TO LISTEN TO THESE ASSCLOWNS FAWN OVER THE OBAMA KIDS FOR 8 YEARS. ENOUGH ALREADY.
LawNewz.com has confirmed that she’s asked for the video to be removed and has demanded an apology from the person who posted it. The video, which has been viewed more than 3 million times, purports to raise awareness about autism, and claims that Barron exhibits some telltale signs.
It’s no secret that Rosie O’Donnell hates Donald Trump, but she insists that she wasn’t trolling the president-elect when she shared a YouTube video speculating that his 10-year-old son has autism. She has since gone public with her own daughter’s recent diagnosis with the developmental disorder and said that she reposted the clip because she found it “educational and informational.” Trump dines with Romney amid cabinet speculation The president-elect and his guest were greeted by a polite round of applause by the diners at the restaurant.
For an appetizer the trio sipped garlic soup and chomped on frog legs.
Then they devoured diver scallops before the main course.
Trump and Priebus ate prime sirloin while Romney had lamb chops.
All three had chocolate cake for dessert. HMMPPHH….I HAD LEFTOVER TUNA CASSEROLE.
“I do regret that. Frankly I think many of us will regret that in this congress because it would have been a terrific speed bump, potential emergency break, to have in our system to slow down the confirmation of extreme nominees,” Coons said.
Coons continued saying that blocking President-Elect Trump’s appointments now came down to the will of the American people, arguing that the general public will find his nominees too extreme and sound the alarm with their senators.
YOU MEAN IN THE 3,084 COUNTIES HE WON?? THOSE AMERICANS?
Town Hall Cut Short After Charles Barkley Defends Police And Crowd LOSES It Barkley asked why people didn’t mourn when four police officers were shot throughout the country in a 24-hour period. A black man stands accused of killing white San Antonio Detective Benjamin Marconi.
“Did anybody say, ‘Man, I feel bad for their family?’” Barkley reportedly asked the audience. He had stopped in Baltimore to film part of his new documentary, “The Race Card.”
“I don’t know you, I don’t like you,” Diane Butler declared. Butler’s son, Tyrone West, reportedly died after being restrained by police officers.
CANADA’S “WHITE OBAMA” BROADCAST A VIDEO MESSAGE AT THE GRAY CUP (CANADA’S SUPER BOWL) AND HE WAS BOOED SO LOUDLY THAT NOBODY HEARD WHAT HE SAID.
Trudeau, a member of the Liberal Party, released a statement after Castro’s death calling the former Cuban president a “remarkable” and “larger than life” leader. His comments immediately drew criticism because of Castro’s human rights abuses and political oppression.
DFU Sing-Along: Castro Is Weekend at Bernie’s (Weekend in New England)
FROM THE DERANGED GENIUS, DOUG FROM UPLAND
Byron York: Senate Democrats plan to ‘Ashcroft’ their good friend Jeff Sessions WATCH WHAT THEY DO TO THIS GOOD, HONEST MAN
The Democrats — Patrick Leahy, Dianne Feinstein, Richard Durbin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Amy Klobuchar, Al Franken, Chris Coons and Richard Blumenthal — demanded that the committee hear from witnesses who will discuss Sessions’ views on “immigration; violence against women; civil rights; including LGBT protections; racial justice, and hate crimes; workers’ rights; national security and civil liberties; voting rights; criminal justice; and government conflicts of interest, transparency, and oversight.”
WOW! MSNBC Host Calls Out Elizabeth Warren AS “SHRILL,” “UNHINGED” ELIZABETH WARREN: Republicans are taking over Congress, they are taking over the White House, but Republicans do not have majority support in this country. The majority of voters supported Democratic Senate candidates over Republican ones, and the majority supported a Democratic presidential candidate over a Republican one. The American people didn’t give Democrats majority support so we can come back to Washington and play dead. They didn’t send us here to whimper, whine, or grovel.
Black Congressmen Refuse To Condemn Ellison’s Past Proposal For A ‘Black State’ Under the name Keith E. Hakim, Ellison wrote: “Finally, blacks would have the option of choosing their own land base or remaining in the United States. Since black people toiled most diligently in the southeastern section of the United States, this land, quite naturally, would be most suitable. That means Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi. Blacks, of course, would not be compelled to move to the black state, and, of course, peaceful whites would not be compelled to move away.”
Y’ALL, I’VE SPREAD ENOUGH MANURE TO BURY THE BLACK CAUCUS UP TO THEIR ROLEXES 10 TIMES OVER
California regulates cow farts CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS ARE PERSECUTING HOLSTEINS FOR NORMAL BODILY FUNCTIONS
Despite strong opposition from farmers, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation in September that for the first time regulates heat-trapping gases from livestock operations and landfills.
Dairy farmers say the new regulations will drive up costs when they’re already struggling with five years of drought, low milk prices and rising labor costs. They’re also concerned about a newly signed law that will boost overtime pay for farmworkers.
But the biggest target is dairy manure, which accounts for about a quarter of the state’s methane emissions.
State regulators want more farmers to reduce emissions with methane digesters, which capture methane from manure in large storage tanks and convert the gas into electricity.
New Hope Dairy, which has 1,500 cows in Sacramento County, installed a $4 million methane digester in 2013, thanks to state grants and a partnership with California Biogas LLC, which operates the system to generate renewable power for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
PLEASE LORD, JUST ONCE BEFORE I DIE, LET ME RUN INTO SOME OF THESE IDIOTS
Melania Trump On Her Life, Marriage And 2016 | Morning Joe | MSNBC – Feb 24, 2016
She appears to be a truly classy lady with strong values.
She’s an immigrant, the first to ever become First Lady. (Louisa Adams was not born here, but there was no United States when she moved here, so she can’t really be called an immigrant.)
She grew up under Communism, emigrated and became a naturalized U.S. citizen legally.
She speaks six languages: Serbo-Croatian, English, French, Italian, German, and her native Slovene. Barron is fluent in Slovenian, which he speaks when he is with his maternal grandparents.
Despite their enormous wealth, she refuses to have a nanny for Barron and did not go out stumping for Donald because Barron needed her to be at home.
She’s keeping Barron in New York where he can continue at his usual school, away from the brouhaha of life in the White House.
Obama Looking Forward To Vacation After The White House The Obamas Just Bought Another House — And This One Is Really Far From Home Though the family has already leased a posh nine-bedroom mansion in the North West neighborhood of Washington, D.C. for when they leave the White House, Barack and Michelle Obama are now the proud owners of a fifth home on the West Coast.
The Obamas bought a house in Rancho Mirage, Calif., a small town located near Palm Springs that is known for its golf resorts and was frequented by Obama during his presidency.
[CtH: The better for them to never again have to endure living in the same house. Remember when Candidate John McCain was reamed out for owning 7 houses? The hypocrisy of the Left never lets up. Candidate Rubeo was ripped for owning a fishing boat that cost less than a Prius. SecState Kerry owns a multimillion dollar yacht. And they’ve already started tut-tutting over the cost of Melania’s clothes, having ignored Michelle’s pricey wardrobe for 8 years.]
Obama’s Never-Ending Lecture Tour President Obama, who has done less for Europe than any American President since Calvin Coolidge, cannot stop telling Europeans what to do. As Obama sets out on his final European tour as President, with his political party back home in a state of near collapse, and with Putin inflicting yet another painful humiliation on the least successful American President in the history of the modern Middle East, nothing seems able to shake his serene confidence that he knows more than other people, sees farther than they do, and that other people are eager to gather up his pearls of insight.
[CtH: I’m guessing he surrounds himself with people who lick his shoes.]
SR 1352 – Hillary Clinton Cannot Steal the Election From Trump!
McCain To Trump: I’ll Take You To Court If You Start Waterboarding Terror Suspects Again WITH 52 SEATS IN THE SENATE THIS BACKSTABBING LITTLE TURD AND HIS ASSHOLE BUDDY GRAHAM THINK THEY CAN MAKE TRUMP BEG FOR THEIR COOPERATION… NEENER, NEENER, NEENER
“I don’t give a damn what the president wants to do,” he said. “We will not waterboard. We will not torture people.”
McCain went even further to say that anyone who brought back waterboarding would be in court in a “New York minute.”
“If they started waterboarding, I swear to you that we’d have them in court in a New York minute,” McCain said.
House erupts in chaos after LGBT vote
KARMA’S A BITCH, AIN’T IT? It was an unruly scene on the floor with Democrats chanting, “Shame!” after GOP leaders barely muscled up the votes to reject, 212-213, an amendment by Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) that would have effectively barred federal contractors from getting government work if they discriminate against the LGBT community.
Maloney, the amendment’s author, was furious with Republicans for how they handled the floor fight over his offering. He singled out Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in particular for criticism, saying the No. 2 House Republican personally lobbied GOP members to change their votes when it looked like Maloney’s proposal would pass.
Jeff Sessions may prosecute ‘sanctuary cities’ if confirmed as attorney general ACCORDING TO THE 10TH AMENDMENT, STATES CANNOT BE FORCED TO COOPERATE WITH FEDERAL AUTHORITIES.
From his first day in office, Mr. Sessions will have the power to strip some federal funding from sanctuary cities, thanks to rulings this year by the Justice Department’s inspector general, who said federal law requires localities to cooperate with immigration agents — and who provided an initial list of a handful of the worst offenders.
“The sanctuary cities thing is huge. I think most jurisdictions are going to fold like a cheap suit,” said Rosemary Jenks, government relations manager at NumbersUSA, which lobbies for stricter immigration laws.
Shocker: In Wake of Hillary’s Defeat, Donations to Clinton Foundation Dry Up THAT WOULD BE LIKE PAYING A HOOKER FOR A HANDSHAKE. NO BANG FOR THE BUCK.
Donations fell as the former Secretary of State left the group in April last year shortly after announcing her run for the White House. Her departure also meant that revenue brought in from paid speeches plunged from $3.6 million in 2014 to just $357,500.
House Warns Obama, Passes New Law That Prevents Him from Pushing Through Last Minute Rules And Regulations
He knows his time is running out and he also knows he hasn’t really accomplished much.
It’s crunch time and we often see presidents try to cram parts of their agenda into these last few months.
Remember Bill Clinton’s infamous pardon of Marc Rich?
House Republicans made a big move this week to try and prevent any last-minute funny business from the president.
Obama blocks new oil, gas drilling in Arctic Ocean HE’S GOING TO DO ALL HE CAN TO CREATE AS MUCH CHAOS AS POSSIBLE BEFORE HE LEAVES
A five-year offshore drilling plan announced on Friday blocks the planned sale of new oil and gas drilling rights in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas north of Alaska. The plan allows drilling to go forward in Alaska’s Cook Inlet southwest of Anchorage.
The blueprint for drilling from 2017 to 2022 can be rewritten by President-elect Donald Trump, in a process that could take months or years.
Despite that, industry representatives reacted bitterly to the latest announcement, calling the decision blatantly political.
“The arrogance of the decision is unfathomable, but unfortunately not surprising,” said Randall Luthi, president of the National Ocean Industries Association, an industry group.
EBT Card Shutdown Apocalypse — Fatopotamus gets stupid after Card Gets Rejected
WHY ARE SO MANY “POOR” PEOPLE OBESE?
Whites need not apply for ‘Hamilton’ open audition I HAD TO POST THIS BECAUSE AFTER I TOLD MY FRIEND WILLIE ABOUT IT, HE DIDN’T BELIEVE ME.
“This adheres to the accepted practice that certain characteristics in certain roles constitute a ‘bona fide occupational qualification’ that is legal.”
It also noted other shows like “The Color Purple,” “Porgy & Bess” and “Matilda” that call for “race, ethnicity or age specific casting” — but agreed to tweak the ad.
“The casting will be amended to also include language we neglected to add, that is, we welcome people of all ethnicities to audition for ‘Hamilton,’” the statement added.
Asked about the casting call, the city Human Rights Commission reiterated that discrimination based on age, race, gender, disability and “other protected categories in employment advertisements” is prohibited.
HAMILTON Star Makes Jokes On Twitter About “Black Dudes” Taking Sexual Advantage of Drunk “White Chicks” THIS IS THE LOWLIFE THAT DISRESPECTED PENCE. NICE GUY, HUH?
When not lecturing the Trump Administration form his bully pulpit, Hamilton star Brandon Victor Dixon is advocating rape, recently unearthed Tweets reveal.
“St. Patty’s day weekend is like Christmas for black dudes who like white chicks. Happy holidays boys. @reesewaters #seasonsgreetings.” AT LEAST PENCE IS IN GOOD COMPANY
Donald Trump graciously Supplies Tent, Heater, and Hot Soup to Members of the Press Camped Outside His New Jersey Golf Club Where He Is Meeting Prospective Members of His Government
‘Stick to modeling’: Gigi Hadid is savaged on Twitter for ‘racist’ Melania Trump impression in which she puts on an Eastern European accent during debut hosting gig at the American Music Awards
Gigi Hadid has been attacked on social media over her ‘racist’ impression of Melania Trump during the American Music Awards
Model had put on a fake Eastern European accent and pulled a Melania-style pout to mock the First Lady-to-be’s plagiarism row
‘I love my husband Barack Obama,’ Hadid said as Melania, in reference to accusations that Mrs Trump ripped off a speech by Michelle Obama
Impression has been slammed as ‘racist’ and ‘disrespectful’ on Twitter while Hadid was told to ‘stick to modeling’
Model wore a variety of revealing dresses for her first hosting gig of an awards show
I NEVER WATCH AWARD SHOWS BECAUSE THEY’RE NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF EGOMANIACAL, SELF-ABSORBED TRASH WHO THINK THEIR OPINION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYONE ELSE’S. THE LAST ELECTION PROVED THEM WRONG, SO NOW THEY SHOW THEIR TRUE COLORS. A PILE OF TRASH IN A FANCY DRESS
Queen Elizabeth Plans Invitation for Trump Family Official Visit Next Summer I REMEMBER VIVIDLY HOW ANNOYED THE QUEEN WAS WITH OBAMA. SHE KNEW HIM FOR THE COMMON WANKER HE TRULY IS.
President Obama strained the relationship by criticizing the United Kingdom’s colonial heritage, removing a Winston Churchill bust from the oval office, and giving the Queen the gift of an iPod containing all of his own speeches.
Flashback George Will: ‘Donald Trump Has NO Future In Politics’…’He’s a Buffoon and a Political Sociopath’
Oh yeah, George Will pretty much laughs at Trump’s political future.
This was a while back in the Green Room at ABC News
WATCH– George Will is really not as smart as everybody thinks he is.
Pence’s Hamilton Lecture Is A Reminder That Urban Elites Just Don’t Get It They still don’t get it. They still don’t freaking get it. The metropolitan elites (i.e. snobby liberals) simply cannot grasp the America that exists beyond the highways and the suburbs. The forgotten communities that President-elect Trump resonated in and who had their revenge on November 8 when they loudly shouted that they’re not with her [Clinton].
Obama: “Extremely Proud Over 8 Years, We Have Not Had Kinds Of Scandals That Plagued Other Admins” NOPE. NO DEEP-SEATED MESSIANIC COMPLEX HERE
If anybody knows how to jerk the press around, it has to be Donald Trump. I can imagine he gets a real kick out of them making fools of themselves as they try to trip him up at every turn. He slipped out the other night to have dinner with his family at 21, a high-end steak house. It so happened there was a reporter there who immediately tweeted to all his co-conspirators that he was there. High dudgeon all around. How dare he actually go to dinner with his family without checking with them first? The nerve of the guy! Who does he think he is, the president?
FROM NBC: As Trump Leaves Press Behind for Steak Dinner, Incoming Admin Already Showing Lack of Transparency In a highly unusual move, President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday night left his Manhattan residence without notifying the reporters covering him or giving any indication of where he was going.
The maneuver seemed to deliberately limit access to the media.
The only way the press eventually ascertained his whereabouts was after a Bloomberg reporter, who happened to be dining at the 21 Club, tweeted a photo of Trump and some of his transition team in the Midtown steakhouse.
While the dinner choice left the media mad, diners inside the former speakeasy were ecstatic.
“There was a standing ovation when he came and left,” said Andrew Testo, a 43-year-old who was eating with friends. “He was with his whole family. It was like Sunday dinner with the Trumps, but on a Tuesday. It was awesome.”
THINK HE DID IT ON PURPOSE? YOU BETCHA. AND WITH GOOD REASON.
MEDIA WAR ON TRUMP: Top 28 of 35 US News Stories on Tuesday were Anti-Trump Hit Pieces
The top stories on Tuesday show the absolute anti-Trump bias by corrupt American media.
28 of the top 35 articles are anti-Trump hit pieces.
The headlines include:
— Trump Transition Shake-Up Part of ‘Stalinesque Purge’ of Christie Loyalists
— Was Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s Attack Dog, Paid Illegally?
— There’s No Such Thing as a Good Trump Voter Noted Constitutional Scholar, Barbra Streisand, Urges Obama To Bypass Senate, Appoint Supreme Court Justice Unilaterally “According to the Washington Post, he has the power to do this since Congress has refused to vote, and apparently that can be considered a waiver of its rights to advise and consent,” she said.
Her Washington Post citation referred to an April 8 op-ed by Gregory L. Diskant, a national board member of the liberal advocacy group Common Cause, who argued that the Senate would have “waived its right” to confirm a justice if it failed to do so in a “reasonable amount of time.”
Democrats’ new Senate leader open to filibustering Trump’s Supreme Court picks COUNT ON OBSTRUCTION AT EVERY TURN
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, said nominations to the high court should get support from both parties, and said the filibuster is a way to enforce that on a president. He pointedly noted that when his party changed filibuster rules three years ago, they left intact the ability to filibuster at the Supreme Court level.
“I’ll underline that we did not change the rules for Supreme Court because we thought on something as important as this, there should be some degree of bipartisan agreement,” Mr. Schumer said.
Nancy Pelosi On Trump Win: “We’ve Been Through Hell” A lot of the newer democrat reps think after 14 years as leader, it’s time to put this swaybacked nag out to pasture.
One senior House Democratic aide described Tuesday’s meeting as being unusually contentious as members grappled with how the Democratic Party should rebuild following last week’s election losses, with some wanting new blood in leadership.
“After every single election cycle, she (Pelosi) says things are going to change” in how she interacts with the caucus, the aide said characterizing lawmakers’ concerns. “But then, she doesn’t do anything different. It’s the same inside circle” surrounding her.
President Trump is Going to Hit Some Very Nasty Greenies Where it Really Hurts Like a baby sea otter on MDMA, basically: frolicking and swooping and frisking and diving in the lovely warm, salty water made up entirely of the tears of Hillary voters, greens, and the bien-pensant wankerati.
THE BIEN PENSANT WANKERATI…. DELINGPOLE HAS A WAY WITH WORDS
When it comes to dealing with people who behave badly and ruin the lives of others, I’m with the Old Testament rather than the New one: don’t turn the other cheek, let alone love them as thyself, but smite them, salt them, and crush them underfoot like the mutant slugs they are.
Nowhere, it seems to me, is the kind of retribution more necessary than in the field of environmentalism.
The MSM Savaging of Melania Trump Begins
And so, a piece at Yahoo News made an issue of a dress that Melania Trump recently wore. The headline read: “Melania Trump Wore a $1,655 Fiery Red Dress for 60 Minutes Interview.”
Were readers supposed to be outraged by the price tag? Given the media’s predisposition to smear the Trumps at every turn, I’ll assume the worst intentions about the headline. COMPARING MELANIA TRUMP TO MICHELLE OBAMA IS LIKE COMPARING A MASERATI TO A DUMP TRUCK
Anyone remember the dress Michelle Obama wore a couple of years ago when she and Barry hosted French President Francois Hollande at the White House? It cost $12,000. OF COURSE HER DRESSES COST MORE…. IT TAKES 40 YARDS OF MATERIAL FOR CHRISSAKE
Hillary Makes First Appearance Since Concession: I “Never Wanted To Leave House Again” WHY, HILLARY…YOU LOOK LIKE SOMEBODY JUST WALKED OVER YOUR GRAVE
(IF YOU WATCHED “TOMBSTONE” YOU’LL GET THAT ONE)
A weary-looking Hillary Clinton said Wednesday evening at her first public appearance since she conceded to Donald Trump that she considered cancelling her speech to the children’s advocacy group but kept the commitment out of respect for her mentor.
‘I will admit coming here tonight wasn’t the easiest thing for me,’ she said at the Children’s Defense Fund’s gala in Washington, D.C.
Jason Chaffetz: We Aren’t Done With Hillary Yet “We have to get to the truth. It was was never about a political targeting of Hillary Clinton. She created one of the biggest security breaches in the history of the State Department. We still have tens-of-thousands of documents we still haven’t seen, there’s more than Hillary Clinton involved in this, you have dozens of people within the bowels of the organization,” Chaffetz said.
With Trump’s Signature, Dozens of Obama’s Rules Could Fall
Dozens of major regulations passed recently by the Obama administration — including far-reaching changes on health care, consumer protections and environmental safety — could be undone with the stroke of a pen by Donald J. Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress starting in January, thanks to a little-used law that dates back to 1996.
And it comes with a scorched-earth kicker: If the law is used to strike down a rule, the federal agency that issued it is barred from enacting similar regulation again in the future.
No, Obama can’t grant ‘amnesty’ by pardoning illegal immigrants In reality, the president does not possess this authority, as unauthorized presence in the U.S. is a civil violation, not a criminal one. Presidential pardon power only applies to federal crimes, described as “offenses against the United States” in the Constitution. As such, “a pardon can’t make someone a citizen or lawful resident,” explains John Harrison, a law professor at the University of Virginia. “Deportation is not a criminal proceeding, it’s a civil process that removes from the country someone who is not entitled to be here.”
“First of all, the president has a lot of options. President Obama didn’t do what he should have done, under the Constitution. He should have submitted that to the Congress, that’s a treaty. There’s no way of escaping the fact that that’s a treaty,” argued Giuliani.
“It should have been submitted to the Senate… he never did. What that means is, that deal is over with the current president. Trump can disavow it, as a matter of law, like that,” he continued.
Jason Riley: Harlem Gives President Trump a Chance When I asked Pace, who retired from a job in dress manufacturing several years ago, if he thought Mr. Trump would ever win him over, he responded: “He said he’d protect Medicare. I can go along with that. He said he’d get rid of the Bloods and the Crips and the gangs—get them out of here. I like that. If he does those two things, he’s my man.”
USGS Announces Largest Oil And Gas Deposit Ever Assessed In U.S. TRUMP KNOWS ENERGY IS THE LIFE BLOOD OF THE ECONOMY. HOPEFULLY, HE ALLOWS PRODUCTION TO START
On Tuesday, the USGS announced that an area known as the Wolfcamp shale contains 20 billion barrels of oil and 16 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
That is nearly three times more petroleum than the agency found in North Dakota’s Bakken shale in 2013.
“The Texas discovery is in a place that has been drilled before by conventional methods,” Jeff reported for NPR’s Newscast Unit. “But now that oil companies use horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — they can access reserves that previously were out of reach.”
Liberal hysteria over Trump is rapidly becoming self-satire It turns out that the hundred million dollars’ worth of Hillary campaign demonization has paid off in creating millions of people gripped by hysteria over the utter evilness of Donald Trump. Calling Trump Hitler is already passé so the quest for superlatives of evil is running out of material. According to a U.S. Congressman, Hitler, and even Stalin and Mao are all pikers in terms of mass killing.
This Is No Time to Go Wobbly, Donald
Trump must continue to refuse to play the game. Democrats have repeatedly proven that bipartisanship to them means that Republicans roll over for whatever Democrats want. If not, Republicans are tarred as obstructionists, racists, or whatever other epithet du jour. That’s because progressives are cultists hungry for more power so they can impose their ideological vision by any means necessary. Like Goldfinger, they don’t want Republicans to talk, they want them to die.
Obama sets new record for regulations, 527 pages in just one day “This is astonishing and should be of great concern, and intolerable, to policymakers. It is remarkable enough that the all-time record has been passed before Thanksgiving,” he added.
Obama has promised to regulate by executive authority, but the sheer number of pages of regulations being rushed through is astonishing.
Trump Could Cut $42 Billion Worth Of Regs Upon Taking Office
Trump said on the campaign trail that 70 percent of federal regulations “can go,” so the American Action Forum (AAF) put together a list of 48 major regulations Congress could invalidate under the Congressional Review Act (CRA).
“Together, those rules impose more than $42.5 billion in total costs, $6.5 billion in annualized costs, and 53 million paperwork burden hours,” AAF analysts Sam Batkins and Dan Goldbeck wrote in a new report. Obama awards Springsteen, Redford and DeGeneres Medal of Freedom Before he leaves office, President Obama is decorating a starry list of entertainers, newsmakers and civilians with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
It’s no surprise that Bruce Springsteen made the cut.
On Wednesday, Obama named 21 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, which is presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.
The list honors a who’s-who of Hollywood, including Tom Hanks, Ellen DeGeneres, Diana Ross, Robert DeNiro, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, Robert Redford and Cicely Tyson.
I KNOW, I KNOW, SHOCKED, RIGHT?
The doctor actually said President Obama hasn’t done anything for us anyway. Look what just happened now. He’s in the basement of a destroyed hospital and he frankly didn’t think that anything could get worse,” Engel said.
“And he thought maybe with a new president things could get better, so frankly if you’re at rock bottom, which is what they are at in eastern Aleppo, maybe any change looks good,” he added.
At least 87 people, including four children, were killed Wednesday by air strikes over rebel-held eastern Aleppo, CNN reported.
Dem Rep Calls For Review Of Trump’s ‘Financial Empire’ “We have never had a president like Mr. Trump in terms of his vast financial entanglements and his widespread business interests around the globe,” Cummings wrote. “Moreover, we have not had a presidential candidate in modern times who has refused to disclose his tax returns to the American people.”