Category Archives: U.S. Senate

by | January 26, 2017 · 8:24 am

Pro-Life News

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Jan 23, 2017:  President Trump signed an executive order restoring the Mexico City Policy, which bans the U.S. from funding any group like International Planned Parenthood that performs abortions outside the country.  He also took steps to defund UNFPA, a United Nations agency which promotes abortions worldwide.

Jan 24, 2017:  The House passed a bill to completely and permanently ban taxpayer funding of abortions.  Currently, this has to be done year by year.  President Trump said that, if the bill passes in the Senate, he will sign it into law.

Jan 24, 2017:  The Senate voted 96-4 to confirm Trump’s appointment of Governor Nikki Haley as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.  She is strongly pro-life and swore she will use her new post to oppose abortion on an international level.

Jan 25, 2017: Sean Spicer announced that Kellyanne Conway and other White House staff will attend the D.C. March for Life tomorrow.  In previous years, Obama marked the day of the march by issuing a presidential statement praising Roe vs. Wade.

Jan 25, 2017: Vice President Mike Pence says pro-lifers should drop what they are doing and show up to the national mall on Friday.  Dearest plans to do just that.  

Jan 25, 2017: U.S. Senator Ben Sasse reintroduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act today in Congress amid strong hopes that the bill will pass this time around. The bill would provide federal legal protection to newborns who survive abortions by requiring appropriate care and admission to a hospital.

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by | January 18, 2017 · 1:18 am

The Sideshow Continues


Betsy DeVos, Trump’s nominee for Education Secretary, is currently being grilled as required before she can face a vote. Conservatives balked at first because she had been in favor of Common Core, the brainchild of leftists intent on completely controlling how students think. When she was first introduced, she declared her opposition to it. What is not in dispute is she is in favor of local control of schools and an advocate for vouchers for poor kids to escape the failing public system.

Betsy DeVos, Trump’s education pick, lauded as bold reformer, called unfit for job
The Senate education committee was deeply divided over ­President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for education secretary at her confirmation hearing Tuesday evening, with Democrats attacking Betsy DeVos as unfit for the job and Republicans defending her as a bold reformer.

DeVos is an unusually polarizing nominee to helm the Education Department. She has lobbied for decades to expand charter schools and taxpayer-funded vouchers for private and religious schools, but she has no professional experience in public schools and has not held public office.

In his introduction of DeVos at Tuesday’s hearing, Joseph I. Lieberman, the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, argued that her status as an outsider is an asset.

The Democrat Party has been in the pocket of their most powerful ally, the teachers union, for decades. Quite naturally, they are doing their utmost to try to savage this nominee.

DeVos Grilled by Union-Funded Democrats
Gets Sanders to admits that free college isn’t free

Sanders also grilled DeVos about whether she was qualified for the post. The senator, who has received more than $140,000 from the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, questioned whether her family’s political donations played a role in the nomination.

“I don’t mean to be rude, but do you think if you were not a multi-billionaire, if your family has [sic] not made hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to the Republican Party that you would be sitting here today?” Sanders asked.

“As a matter of fact I do think that there would be that possibility. I have worked very hard on behalf of parents and children for the last almost 30 years,” she said.

Murray has received $129,000 from those unions, making her the third largest recipient of union cash behind Sen. Sanders and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D., Wis.). The 11 Democrats on the committee have received nearly $740,000 from those unions.

BOOM! Betsy DeVos Shuts DOWN Bernie Sanders On “Free College”

Education Committee Dems Awash in Union Cash

The NEA spent more than $35 million to help Hillary Clinton and national Democrats in 2016, making it one of the top 10 biggest spenders in the country, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), an avowed socialist and Clinton’s sole serious challenger in the 2016 primary, has been the biggest career recipient of NEA money on the committee, raising more than $100,000 from the union’s PACs, employees, and members over the course of his career. Those donations have made NEA one of his 20 largest career contributors.

WATCH: Betsy DeVos Hearing Starts With HEATED Argument
LAMAR ALEXANDER AND FAUXCAHONTAS STARTED THE FIREWORKS

HEATED: Al Franken to Betsy DeVos: “It Surprises Me That You Don’t Know This Issue”

I ONLY POSTED THIS BECAUSE IT IS MERCIFULLY SHORT.  THE DEMOCRATS WERE ANGRY BECAUSE THEY WERE ONLY ALLOWED 5 MINUTES EACH TO ASK QUESTIONS, NOT NEARLY ENOUGH TIME FOR THESE INQUISITORS TO MANAGE TO DRAW SIGNIFICANT BLOOD. I DIDN’T BOTHER TO POST ANY MORE, SINCE THEY ALL HAVE THEIR TALKING POINTS FROM THE UNION AND THE PARTY.

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by | January 13, 2017 · 12:21 pm

Blumenthal’s Slander

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 10, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — During the Attorney General confirmation hearings for Senator Jeff Sessions on Tuesday, pro-abortion Sen. Dick Blumenthal said that the pro-life group Operation Rescue advocates violence against abortionists.

Immediately, Operation Rescue called for a retraction, pointing out that the Connecticut Democrat’s statement was “completely false and slanderous,” and demanded an apology.

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“Operation Rescue has a long history of peaceful activism,” an Operation Rescue press release noted. “We call on Sen. Blumenthal to retract his false and slanderous statements and issue a public apology to Operation Rescue and [President] Troy Newman.”

Blumenthal also held up a “wanted” poster of abortionist George Tiller and falsely said it came from Operation Rescue. “This organization never circulated that poster, and never called for anyone to harm Dr. Tiller,” Operation Rescue’s statement responded.

Blumenthal also falsely accused Operation Rescue of defending Tiller’s murderer as a “political prisoner.” The group said in response, “Operation Rescue never made any such statement and has always been clear that murder or other violent acts are an unacceptable means of advocacy.”

Newman said Blumenthal “thinks he can lie about us with impunity and without consequences in order to advance his political agenda.” He added, “We are considering legal action to protect our good reputation.”

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by | January 12, 2017 · 6:39 pm

Mattis hearing

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Before Mattis can join the Cabinet, Congress must approve a one-time exception to a law requiring a military officer to be out of uniform for at least seven years before leading the Pentagon. Even some of Trump’s strongest critics say Mattis merits the exception — and the Senate voted decisively today to approve the waiver on a 81-17 vote. It goes next to the House.

Jan 12, 2017: Gillibrand tried desperately to make Mattis look like a sexist homophobe.

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by | January 12, 2017 · 8:38 am

The Confirmation Follies

There’s so much going on it feels like I just flushed a coven of quail and don’t know which one to shoot at.

Moonbat Interrupts Tillerson Confirmation Hearing: “Rex Tillerson, I Reject You. I Reject You. My Home Was Destroyed By Hurricane Sandy”
Apparently Tillerson has access to the government’s super secret weather machine and used it to make Hurricane Sandy.

Code Pink Removed From Tillerson Hearing Before It Begins

IF YOU HAVE AN ERECTION LASTING MORE THAN 4 HOURS, IMAGINE MAKING LOVE TO MEDEA BENJAMIN. YOU SHOULD DEFLATE FASTER THAN A BALLOON WITH A HOLE IN IT.

Cory Booker Lays Groundwork for 2020 Run at Jeff Sessions Hearings
There may as well have been a banner hanging in the grand marble meeting room that housed Jeff Sessions’ hearings for attorney general: Booker 2020.
But Booker, swarmed by far more cameras than any other witness of the day when he entered the room, used the afternoon to take a splashy stand and lay groundwork for a potential 2020 presidential run.

Senate Showdown: The Real Reason Cory Booker Testified Against Jeff Sessions
“Sen. Cory Booker will use his testimony to cement support among the Democratic activist/populist wings of the party as he considers a 2020 presidential run,” Schweitzer, who has helped confirm over 20 nominees at the Senate, said.

Senator Who Attacked Jeff Sessions Caught in BOMBSHELL Scandal
FIND A DEMOCRAT THAT DOESN’T TAKE KICKBACKS. JUST TRY IT.
Senator Cory Booker is embroiled in a Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation (NWCDC) scandal involving allegations of massive kickbacks, Politico reports. Yesterday, Donald Bernard Sr., who was the senior projects manager at the company that ran Newark’s water infrastructure under the direction of then-mayor of Newark, New Jersey Cory Booker, pled guilty in federal court to accepting nearly $1 million in bribes from contractors.

Cory Booker Has No Idea What The Hell An Attorney General Does
Rex Tillerson Fends Off Little Marco Rubio at Confirmation Hearing – January 11, 2017

THE LITTLE PRICK CALLED TRUMP ‘UNFIT TO LEAD,’ THEN A MONTH LATER HE ENDORSED HIM.

Louisiana Rep Says Being Made to Wait to Testify Last At Sessions Hearings Is Like Being on ‘Back of the Bus’
AN ASPIRING RACE HUSTLER WHO IS A COUPLE I.Q. POINTS HIGHER THAN THE PEOPLE WHO BLINDLY VOTE FOR HIM BECAUSE HE BE BLACK…KINDA LIKE THEM

Sen. Tim Scott Obliterates Twitter Troll Who Called Him A “House N***a” With One Perfect Word

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) picked up a nasty troll.
However, Scott’s one word response was perfect!
Tillerson Pledges Support for Israel

“Israel is, has always been, and remains our most important ally in the region,” Tillerson said. “They’re important to our national security.”

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by | January 10, 2017 · 8:32 pm

Sessions Hearing and Racist Democrat Tweets

Jeff Sessions is a Southern White Republican, so OF COURSE he must be a Raaaaaacist!  NEVER MIND THE EVIDENCE!

But, you know what?  It wasn’t Republicans tweeting RACIST crap today!

When Ira Madison saw Sessions sitting with his darling granddaughter on his lap, the MTV culture writer tweeted for Sessions to “kindly return this Asian baby to the Toys ‘R’ Us you stole her from.”

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And when Sen. Tim Scott announced his support for Sessions as AG, racist Democrats crawled out from under their rocks to scream Uncle Tom, house boy, housenigger, and porch boy at him.

Scott proved himself to be a gracious gentleman, responding to tweets like “You’ve sold your soul voting for Jeff Sessions” with “Sorry ma’am, but my #SoulIsPurchasedByJesus.”

He also showed he has the better sense of humor.  When one tweeter called him “A white man in a black body”, he asked “Is that like a Liger?”

Thank you for your grace, Senator Scott. You make me proud to share your party, your nation, and most importantly your faith in Jesus Christ.

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by | January 10, 2017 · 2:40 pm

Today’s Posts… Stave Three

So much to do. I’m watching the confirmation hearings and I hope to have the video I’m watching now to post later. Sen. Ted Cruz is absolutely disemboweling the Democrats who suddenly are obsessed with the rule of law while they said nothing for 8 years while Holder made a mockery of the word ‘Justice’. He had special words of disgust for Sen. Stuart Smalley (Idiot-Minnesota).

Never to be deterred, two stupid white people got up in the gallery screaming ‘black lives matter!’ before being escorted out by DC police.

[CtH: I’m not holding my breath for #BlackLivesMatter or #NOW to give a toot about Debra Thomas Clayton, the Black female cop who was killed in the line of duty in Orlando.  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4105884/Manhunt-continues-Orlando-gunman-shot-dead-veteran-cop.html%5D

Still, there are other newsworthy items.

Alibaba job boom: Jack Ma chats with Trump about how to create 1 million US jobs over 5 years
ALI BABA IS AN ASIAN VERSION OF E-BAY. MA IS THE RICHEST MAN IN ASIA.

“We’re focused on small business,” Ma told reporters. “We specifically talked about … supporting 1 million small businesses, especially in the Midwest of America. Small businesses on the platform selling products — agriculture products and America services — to China and Asia, because we’re pretty big in Asia.”
Like Etsy or eBay, Alibaba enables third-party sellers in China to take their own businesses to the web. The company only had 36,446 full-time employees, almost all in China, as of March 31, according to SEC filings. But with more than 10 million active sellers as of 2015,  Alibaba estimates its China retail marketplaces “contributed to the creation of over 15 million job opportunities.”

[CtH: But I’m sure he “didn’t build that.”]

‘There Are No Jobs’: Obama Loyalists Scramble To Find Work
Thousands of Obama loyalists are struggling to find work in a city now dominated by the GOP, according to a report from Politico. “It feels like there are just thousands of us trying to find a job, and there are no jobs,” Mira Patel, a longtime Clinton aide told Politico.

[CtH: Karma sucks, don’t it?]

Final bill for Hillary futility: $1.2 billion
bef4d5b2eec11580c5b9c8b56e01a1784a596d760840aa7374c03dcf13d5ce05As Matt Vespa reminds us, Hillary Clinton once offered this zinger about Donald Trump’s claims to be a business wizard: “What kind of genius loses a billion dollars in a single year?”
The New York Post has the answer in their review of election-campaign financial disclosures. The final cost of Hillary’s futile bid for the presidency — including monies spent by the Democratic Party and supporting PACS — exceeded $1.2 billion.

Whoopi Goldberg: No ‘Right-Leaning Person’ Has ‘Ever’ Lost Their Job for Political Views

After Goldberg read McCain’s tweet, she insisted that people should stop criticizing Hollywood like it was a “bad word.” She then lectured on the history of Hollywood and said that prior to the 1970s, Hollywood was dominated by right-leaning groups.
“That’s how we ended up with McCarthyism and all of these so-called ‘lefties’ being rounded up and eaten up basically for their beliefs,” Goldberg said.

[CtH: The “open mindedness” of liberals in Hollywood totally explains why Republican actors are the ones hiding in their closets now.]

Dem Sen. Dick Durbin Acknowledges Sessions’ Work Has Spared Blacks “Thousands Of Years In Prison”

API Chief: Offshore Oil and Gas Production Could Create 800,000-Plus U.S. Jobs, $200 Billion Annually to Treasury

“Restricted offshore areas could hold more than 50 billion barrels, or more, of oil and more than 195 trillion cubic feet of natural gas,” Gerard said. “Just imagine what the industry could do to further benefit consumers, the economy and the environment if more of that energy were available for responsible and safe domestic production.”

Obama: Don’t Blame Me For The Democrats’ Demise
Clearly, whatever leadership Obama provided, it wasn’t helping Democrats connect with voters across the country.
So what was Obama’s response?
At first, he tried — and we’re not making this up — to blame President Bush.
“I came in the middle of worst financial crisis since the Great Depression,” he said. And since “in 2010 there were a lot of folks who were still out of work,” whoever was president was “gonna get hit.”

[CtH: Reality check, BHO. There are 14.5 million more Americans out of work now than when you took over from Bush.]

Instead, Obama said — and again, we are not making this up — that he was just too darn busy being president to help his fellow Democrats.
“My docket was really full here,” Obama said, “so I can’t be both chief organizer of the Democratic Party and function as commander in chief and president of the United States.”
Stephanopoulos was either too polite or too partisan to not laugh out loud at this statement.

THE GIRLS ARE ON THE CASE

Meryl Streep Underhandely Came For The Donald, Diamond and Silk Straight Out Came For Her

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by | January 10, 2017 · 12:40 pm

Send In the Clowns

It begins. The inquisition against Jeff Sessions, a moral and Godly man strictly for the purposes of political posturing will be forced to defend himself against phony racism charges from people who have worked beside him for 20 years. The hearing is in progress as I bang on this keyboard, so this is an ongoing process. I have it on in the background and it is difficult to listen to the likes of Leahy, Durbin and Feinstein pontificate when they’re all as crooked as a dog’s hind leg.

Sessions’ Granddaughter Stole The Show At His Confirmation Hearing

Sen. Jeff Sessions’ granddaughter captured hearts at his Tuesday attorney general confirmation hearing.  While opening statements were read, Sessions played with his granddaughter, who occasionally interrupted proceedings with adorable toddler babbling.

THE HATE NEVER STOPS

MTV Host Attacks Jeff Sessions For Having An Asian Granddaughter
WHERE ARE THE CLOWNS? DON’T BOTHER, THEY’RE HERE:

Code Pink Protesters Dressed as KKK Greet AG Nominee Jeff Sessions at Hearing


Senator Jeff Sessions desegregated schools in Alabama and took on the KKK in the state. Democrats are desperate to stop the Alabama Senator’s confirmation.  This morning Code Pink activists greeted Senator Sessions dressed as KKK members.

Cory Booker to Testify Against Sessions in Unprecedented Move
So much for the ‘peaceful transition’ that the Democrats said they would facilitate. Democrat Senator Cory Booker is set to testify against Republican Senator Jeff Sessions in an unprecedented move during his attorney general confirmation.
This is going to be the first time in history that a sitting senator will testify against another sitting senator for a Cabinet post during a confirmation.

Booker in 2016: ‘I Feel Blessed and Honored’ to Work With Sessions Celebrating Civil Rights Advocates

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) thanked his colleague Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) last year at the Capitol for his help celebrating the 1965 “Foot Soldiers,” those who marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to promote civil rights for African Americans.

THAT WAS THEN. THIS IS NOW. GOT TO MAKE POLITICAL HAY.

Sessions Faces a Political Lynch Mob

The incident set the stage for what will no doubt be an ugly attempt by Democrats to assassinate the character of the gentleman from Alabama.
Some Democrats are calling him by his given name, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions – a wink-wink, nod-nod to the Civil War – as if he’s a slave-holding plantation owner.

[CtH: Remember when they were offended by people calling Candidate Obama “Barack Hussein Obama”?]

Hans Von Spakovsky: Democrats Oppose Jeff Sessions Because He’ll Enforce Our Immigration Laws
“But Democrats really don’t like him because of his views on issues,” he continued. “For example, they really don’t want someone who’s actually going to enforce our immigration laws. They’ve been giving him a hard time in the civil rights area too, even though many of their criticisms really have been false.
SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam suggested that Democrats would be “uncouth” to Sessions to gin up donations and political support from their base.

Sessions Tells Senators: ‘You Know I Believe in Fairness, Impartiality and Equal Justice’
“You know who I am,” he said. “You know what I believe in. You know that I am a man of my word and can be trusted to do what I say I will do. You know that I revere our Constitution and that I am committed to the rule of law. And you know that I believe in fairness, impartiality, and equal justice under the law.”

Feinstein Tells Sessions It ‘Not His Job’ to Prosecute Hillary Because Trump Wants Him To
HE ASSURED HER HE WOULD RECUSE HIMSELF SHOULD CACKLEPANTS BE PROSECUTED

In particular, Feinstein insisted that Sessions’ job does not include the prosecution of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who we all know abused her email use and put national security at risk. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump suggested that he was going to hire a special prosecutor to “look into her situation.”
“The attorney general must put aside loyalty to the president,” she said. The law and Constitution, she emphasized, must come first and foremost.

UNLESS YOU’RE A RACIST PIG (ERIC HOLDER) WHO IGNORED THE LAW WHENEVER HE SAW FIT

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by | January 9, 2017 · 1:28 pm

Senate Majority Leader interview

Russian hacking: It had no impact on the election.

Obamacare: 25 million Americans are still without health insurance and 8 out of 10 Americans want Obamacare repealed or significantly changed.

Democrats impeding confirmation of Trump’s nominees: Democrats need to grow up. We didn’t like Obama’s nominees but we confirmed them right away, because Obama won the election.

Jan 8, 2017: Mitch McConnell on CBS’s Face the Nation

H/t Pistol Pete

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by | January 9, 2017 · 11:49 am

Let the Games Begin

The Senate confirmation hearings start this week. Six are scheduled for today. The Senate democrats will act like ravening hyenas tearing at the flesh of a dead wildebeest. The most notable will be that of Sen. Jeff Sessions, a good and moral man that these wolves have known and worked with for 20 years. That matters little. They have to put on a show for the still-angry and fuming mobs. After the name-calling, baseless allegations, and sideshow theatrics, he’ll be confirmed as Attorney General, thanks to the ham-handed bullying of the almost-departed Harry ‘the slimy toad’ Reid. When he arbitrarily changed the rules from a 60-vote threshold for judges to a simple majority he must have thought the dems would maintain a majority in perpetuity. His short-sighted gamble will cost them dearly.

Jeff Sessions shunned, slandered by longtime Senate Democrat collaborators
sessionsSenate Democrats are poised to throw away 20 years of friendship and a bipartisan working relationship with Sen. Jeff Sessions to wreak political vengeance on him this week as they consider his nomination for attorney general.

Highlighting the deep partisan divide and the bad blood between Democratic lawmakers and President-elect Donald Trump, the same senators who have socialized and co-authored reams of legislation with Mr. Sessions are under pressure from liberal interest groups to air accusations that he is a racist, a sexist and a homophobe.

Senate readies for blizzard of confirmation battles
Democrats are focusing their attacks on eight nominees, three of whom come to Capitol Hill this week: Betsy DeVos, Trump’s nominee for Education Secretary; Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who has been nominated to be Attorney General; and Rex Tillerson, Trump’s choice to be Secretary of State.

Grassley to allow special panel for Sessions witch-hunt
ANOTHER DODDERING OLD D.C. ELITIST WHO’S OUTLIVED HIS USEFULNESS BY ABOUT 20 YEARS.

What this panel will effectively do is give a congressional soapbox, sanctioned by the GOP Judiciary chairman, to conduct a prolonged smear campaign with the intent to paint Sessions as some sort of unrepentant neo-Confederate racist.

McConnell to Dems: ‘Grow Up’ and ‘Get Past’ the Confirmation Stonewalling

What did we do? We confirmed seven Cabinet appointments the day President Obama was sworn in. We didn’t like most of them, either. But he won the election. So all of these little procedural complaints are related to their frustration in having not only lost the White House, but having lost the Senate.

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