Thursday, December 28, 2017
How to Stick it to the Democrats in 2018
The Democrats and the MSM are congenital, institutional contra-constitutional liars
The cabal of political parrots has been screeching about the end of the world as we know it, all caused by the tax cut proposed by Trump, supported and passed by the Republicans without the support of one honest Democrat ( a five star oxymoron).
The Democrats scraped bottom looking for a talking point and settled for the real big lie that this legislation is really a tax increase for the middle class because it will expire in ten years and taxes will go up.
Allow me to help.
At the return of Congress, The GOP in the House and Senate should introduce simple legislation extending the tax benefits beyond ten years. A simple up and down voice vote will do just fine. This will give the Democrats an opportunity to ensure their constituents will not get a future tax increase.
Please use excellent camera crews and sound recordings on each of the Democrat's vote.
Just in case.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Rasmussen Poll shows Trump at 46% APPROVE this morning, with 53% DISAPPROVAL.
ReplyDeleteObama, same exact date, first year in presidency: 46% APPROVE, 53% DISAPPROVE!
.
DeleteQuirkThu Dec 28, 10:23:00 AM EST
POLLS: RCP Average
President Trump Job Approval
Approve 39.3
Disapprove 56.2
Disapprove +16.9
Direction of Country
Right Direction 32.3
Wrong Track 59.3
Wrong Track +27.0
Trump Favorability Ratings
Favorable 38.1
Unfavorable 57.1
Unfavorable +19.0
.
.
DeleteQuirkThu Dec 28, 10:47:00 AM EST
If you are talking solely the polls, there is little doubt based on an average of the polls Trump is the least popular president in modern US history.
Drudge is simply a right wing hack, running a right wing blog, who picks and chooses stories to support his right wing views. Though I haven't specifically heard it, I suspect Trump probably likes the guy. They are a lot alike.
Yesterday, Trump met with a bunch of firemen in a photo op supposedly designed to praise the firemen and the job they do. As is usual, he spent more time praising himself and his accomplishments, some true like the tax bill and some more than questionable like his claim that he got more laws passed than any other president in US history during the first year. [In fact, of the last 10 presidents, he comes in last.]
Perhaps, he is merely talking about the unilateral negatively based actions he took in removing regulations on a wholesale basis, many of which moves have been widely criticized. However, we will never know for sure what he's talking about since as in the case of his tax turns he usually refuses to actually release any evidence to back up his absurd claims.
Just saying.
.
Maybe the dirty cops running the FBI can save them.
ReplyDeleteReasons to doubt the veracity of the ‘Steele dossier’ on Trump are still emerging
ReplyDeleteThere is a parallel but lesser-publicized narrative running alongside the dominant media-favored Trump-Russia collusion story.
It centers not on Trump and his alleged collusion with Moscow, but on Fusion GPS, the shady firm behind the infamous Steele dossier.
Stories about the 35-page ‘intelligence report’ written by former MI6 spy Christopher Steele very often do not make so much as a passing mention of Fusion GPS or its co-founder, former journalist Glenn Simpson, but both are crucial players in what could potentially be a scandal of massive proportions.
A recent investigation by online magazine Tablet using public sources to “trace the evolution” of the dossier has pieced together information which suggests central elements of the Russiagate story emerged “not from the British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s top-secret “sources” in the Russian government” but from a series of stories co-written by Simpson and his wife Mary Jacoby, which were published in the Wall Street Journal before Fusion GPS ever existed.
{...}
{...}
DeleteSimpson and Jacoby had written about former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his dodgy dealings in Ukraine as far back as 2007. It stands to reason, Tablet writer Lee Smith explains, that when the Trump campaign hired Manafort in 2016, Simpson and Jacoby's ears perked up again. Could Manafort be the key to bringing down Trump? Manafort was a corrupt guy with some dubious connections, and Trump had just hired him, so the stage was set. Manafort’s involvement with the campaign meant that Trump’s ties to Russia would be the target of the firm’s opposition research — which they would soon be hired to conduct.
Russiagate fans who claim to be part of the ‘resistance’ to Trump are also strikingly ‘resistant’ to any piece of information which doesn’t back up their preferred version of events. To them, the roots of and motivations behind the Steele dossier are all but irrelevant. All that matters in ‘Russiagate-land’ is that it is chock-full of salacious accusations about Trump. But the origins of the Steele dossier, as Smith explains, are hugely significant.
Why?
{...}
{...}
DeleteIf former President Barack Obama used instruments of the state to legitimize an unverified intelligence document to obtain warrants to spy on a candidate’s campaign — and then attempt to delegitimize the election results when the disfavored candidate won, Smith writes, that would be a scandal that “dwarfs Watergate.”
It’s important to note that Tablet’s investigation into Fusion GPS and the Steele dossier is not supposed to be a hit job on Hillary Clinton. Nor is its aim to exonerate Trump of any and all wrongdoing. It simply is what it is: a deep dive into how the Steele dossier came about and the timeline of events leading to its publication.
But let’s get back to how it all happened.
{...}
{...}
DeleteFor those only coming to know of Fusion GPS’s role in Russiagate now, here’s a brief history: Fusion GPS was hired in 2015 by conservative website the Washington Free Beacon to dig up dirt on Trump. One of the website’s backers was a supporter of Marco Rubio at the time, which explains the website’s efforts to fund opposition research against Trump.
Later, the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee, through the Perkins Coie law firm, paid Fusion GPS to compile the now-infamous dossier. To help produce that document, Fusion hired ex-British spy Christopher Steele — and paid him $168,000 with the money it had received from Perkins Coie (which was $1.02 million in total).
In a Facebook post published by Jacoby (Simpson’s wife) in June of this year, she openly complains not enough credit has gone to her husband for blowing open Russiagate: “It’s come to my attention that some people still don’t realize what Glenn’s role was in exposing Putin’s control of Donald Trump,” she wrote. “Let’s be clear. Glenn conducted the investigation. Glenn hired Chris Steele. Chris Steele worked for Glenn.”
But, confirming suspicions that Steele’s role in composing the dossier was much smaller than Fusion and the media led people to believe, was the revelation that the firm also hired Nellie Ohr, the wife of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, to work on the document. Smith contends that perhaps Ohr, who is fluent in Russian and whose expertise is Russian history, may have conducted interviews and written much of the ‘Steele’ dossier herself. He suggests that Steele’s position as a former spy may have been used by Fusion GPS to lend more credibility to the document and allow them to market it as an ‘intelligence product’ — despite the fact that Steele has not lived or worked in Russia for 25 years.
{...}
{...}
DeleteBut Ohr hasn’t lived in Russia for decades either — and she isn’t a spy or a journalist, as Smith notes. This presumably is why much of the ‘reporting’ in the dossier is based on rumor and hearsay; the kind of information that gets bandied around in Moscow’s expat circles where everyone is trying to one-up each other by claiming to have ‘insider’ knowledge.
This phenomenon is actually key to understanding not just Russiagate, but Western reporting on Russia in general. It’s almost a kind of Cold War nostalgia. Journalists are lured by the prospect of appearing to be ‘in on’ the latest Kremlin intrigue or, even better, the appearance that they are so important that the Kremlin is out to get them; that they are truly living on the edge.
It’s why journalists like Luke Harding and Anne Applebaum want their readers to believe they are part of James Bond-style events in Moscow, where KGB agents are breaking in their windows and stealing their purses. More than anything else, those dubious tales are about confirming their own relevance and making sure their readers know how ‘important’ they are: Look at me, I was brave enough to venture into the Russian abyss, please acknowledge my efforts with endless praise and adulation.
But, I digress.
{...}
{...}
DeleteWhat’s really, truly mysterious and intriguing about the Steele dossier is that its alleged author has admitted that it may only be 70 percent true, but he hasn’t divulged which 30 percent is untrue. As Smith writes in a separate piece for Tablet, imagine a prosecutor telling a jury that 70-90 percent of what he is going to say is true, but up to 30 percent of it will be false — and the jury just has to guess which parts they should believe. “That case would be thrown out of court,” he writes.
Journalists who are willing to look beyond the partisan nature of American politics and get to the crux of a story as controversial as this are sadly few and far between — and Smith’s investigation for Tablet deserves to be read in its entirety to understand the scale of the potential deception that has underpinned Russiagate.
Danielle Ryan is an Irish freelance journalist. Having lived and worked in the US, Germany and Russia, she is currently based in Budapest, Hungary. Her work has been featured by Salon, The Nation, Rethinking Russia, Russia Direct, teleSUR, The BRICS Post and others. Follow her on Twitter @DanielleRyanJ, check out her Facebook page, or visit her website: danielle-ryan.com
DeleteRINSE AND REPEAT
ReplyDeleteIf former President Barack Obama used instruments of the state to legitimize an unverified intelligence document to obtain warrants to spy on a candidate’s campaign — and then attempt to delegitimize the election results when the disfavored candidate won, Smith writes, that would be a scandal that “dwarfs Watergate.”
.
DeleteIf.
.
On the week prior to the election, Obama was in West Philadelphia in full ghetto. I speculated as to why was Obama so in the tank for Hillary Clinton. My oh my, internal polls must have shown that the entire Obama/Clinton $1.2 billion election shoe-in was in reality Cinderella's chubby sister's foot trying on the glass slipper. And slipper it was!
ReplyDeleteWHAT HAPPENED
ReplyDeleteHappy 🎩 New Year
THE OUTCOME OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE IN UK:
ReplyDeletePatients face going blind while waiting for cataract surgery after new figures showed waiting times for operations have risen in more than half of NHS authorities.
Average waiting times of almost six months are being recorded in the worst areas, with waits increasing by 50 per cent in some parts of England over the past three years.
Delaying cataract surgery can cause isolation for patients who lose the confidence to leave their homes as their sight deteriorates, and can in some cases increase the risk of permanent sight damage or post-operative complications.
Eye surgeons say a shortage of trained eye specialists and of operating theatres, coupled with increased pressure caused by the ageing population, is behind the rise in waiting times.
Eye surgeons say a shortage of trained eye specialists and of operating theatres, coupled with increased pressure caused by the ageing population, is behind the rise in waiting times.
ReplyDeleteGovernment knows best
With what is left of my voting life I have trouble imagining I'd ever vote for a Democrat again
ReplyDeleteAnd I HAVE voted for Democrats in the past.....I voted for Gov Cecil Andrus for example.
But that was in a different era and the Democrats are not now who they used to be.....
Cecil was Guv for a long time too.... everyone liked him. .
DeleteGovernor "Butch" Otter is finally dismounting after four terms in the saddle....Quirk, who has mocked Butch mercilessly, should be pleased as he loves Idaho and has the best interest of all us hayseeds at heart....k
Quirk has always secretly longed to move to Idaho...
ReplyDeleteI'm with Judge Jeanine Pirro.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to put the handcuffs on all these charlatans starting with Hillary and that oily swine Comey and working right down the line to all involved, if we have the prison space available.
Honey Do List calls.
DeleteHope to read endless dissing of the sad state of affairs of the today's Democrat Party upon return !
Ciao