That photo of Bill Clinton looks as if his brain has been sucked out of his head--he's a dead man walking.

flashguy

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Originally posted by flashguy:
That photo of Bill Clinton looks as if his brain has been sucked out of his head--he's a dead man walking.

flashguy

That's because it's been photoshopped. Unfortunately people just can't deal with the fact that the man looks pathetic in reality, they have to go over the top. I think one thing the last 6 months has underscored is that we don't have to make the left any more clown-like than they make themselves.

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS CONGRESS
February 15, 2017

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Let's compare what President Trump has accomplished since the inauguration (with that enormous crowd!) with what congressional Republicans have done.

In the past three weeks, Trump has: staffed the White House, sent a dozen Cabinet nominees to the Senate, browbeat Boeing into cutting its price on a government contract, harangued American CEOs into keeping their plants in the United States, imposed a terrorist travel ban, met with foreign leaders and nominated a Supreme Court justice, among many other things.

(And still our hero finds time to torment the media with his tweets!)

What have congressional Republicans been doing? Scrapbooking?

More than 90 percent of congressional Republicans kept their jobs after the 2016 election, so you can cross "staffing an entire branch of government" off the list. Only the Senate confirms nominees, which they've been doing at a snail's pace, so they've got loads of free time -- and the House has no excuse at all.

Where's the Obamacare repeal? Where are the hearings featuring middle-class Americans with no health insurance because it was made illegal by Obamacare?

The House passed six Obamacare repeals when Obama was president and there was no chance of them being signed into law. Back then, Republicans were full of vim and vigor! But the moment Trump became president, the repeals came to a screeching halt.

After the inauguration (gigantic!), House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put out a plan for repealing Obamacare ... in 200 days. They actually gave their legislative agenda this inspiring title: "The Two Hundred Day Plan.”

TWO HUNDRED DAYS!

What was in the last six Obamacare repeals? If we looked, would we find "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" carefully typed out 1 million times? Seriously, what does Paul Ryan's day look like?

This is the Silence of the Lambs Congress. They're utterly silent, emerging from the House gym or their three-hour lunches only to scream to the press about Trump.



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To the delight of the media, these frightened little lambs are appalled by nearly everything Trump does. They've been especially throaty about Trump's temporary travel ban from seven terrorist nations -- as designated by the Obama administration (and by everybody else who hasn't been in a deep freeze in a Finnish crevasse for the past decade).

Just like the six Obamacare repeals, a refugee ban was already written and passed by one house of Congress. Then suddenly: the Silence of the Lambs. McConnell and Ryan are hiding under their desks, as Trump is being attacked from every side.

Way, way back, 15 long months ago, congressional Republicans didn't have a problem with a total ban on Syrian and Iraqi refugees. Not for a mere three months like Trump's order -- but permanently, unless the director of the FBI, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and the director of national intelligence personally certified that a particular refugee posed no danger to the U.S.

That bill passed the House with an overwhelming, veto-proof majority, including 47 Democrats. Then it went to the Senate to die.

But when President Trump imposed a comparatively mild three-month ban on immigrants from Syria, Iraq and five other terrorist nations, the same Republicans who had voted for a limitless ban on refugees whiled away their days calling reporters to denounce Trump.

A little more than a year ago, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, bragged in a press release that he had introduced the House's refugee ban, calling it a bill that would "protect Americans from ISIS.”

But when it came to Trump's three-month pause, McCaul told the Post that Trump's order "went too far.”

I guess that ISIS problem just sort of faded away. (Or maybe we should check with Mrs. McCaul, inasmuch as it's her family money that makes Rep. McCaul one of the richest members of Congress.)

Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., who voted for the House's permanent refugee ban, demanded that Trump immediately rescind his travel ban, babbling on about the "many, many nuances of immigration policy" -- which he must have learned about on one of his congressional jaunts to a Las Vegas casino.

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., said that Trump's order "overreaches and undermines our constitutional system." Evidently, he was suddenly struck by the realization that it's "not lawful to ban immigrants on the basis of nationality," despite having voted to ban refugees on the basis of nationality just 15 months earlier. (I'm OK with this, provided the Syrians, Somalis and Yemenis are sent to live on Justin's street after being told about his support for gay marriage.)

Sens. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Ben Sasse, R-Neb., both rushed to The Washington Post with this refreshingly original point: NOT ALL MUSLIMS ARE TERRORISTS! Why, thank you, senators! Where would the GOP be without you?

The Post also quoted spokesmen -- spokesmen! -- for Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Rob Portman of Ohio and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina complaining about not having been briefed on Trump's order. The senators themselves were far too busy to talk to the press because they were -- wait, what were they doing again? Words With Friends? Decoupage?

Since the election, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., has been mostly occupied polishing his anti-Trump quotations to get a pat on the head from an admiring media. He complained about Trump's order, saying it was "poorly implemented" and that he had to find out about it from reporters. (I wonder why.)

This is the moment we've been waiting for our entire lives, but Republicans in Congress refuse to do the people's will. Their sole, driving obsession is to see Trump fail.

I am not presently calling for these useless, narcissistic, Trump-bashing Republicans to be defeated in their re-election bids, but they're on my Watch List. To be cleared, they can start by getting off the phone with The Washington Post and passing one of those six Obamacare repeal bills.

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Good post, Tonyny.

Trump names National Security Advisor

Trump announces that General H.R. McMaster will be named national security advisor. He also said acting national security advisor Keith Kellogg will return to his position as chief of staff of the National Security Council. FInally, Trump said he will ask John Bolton to serve in another capacity.
Let's hope Kellogg doesn't have any Russian ties.



http://news.forexlive.com/!/tr...-mike-flynn-20170220

McMaster is a badass.


google Battle of 73 Easting.

cliff notes version: young Army Captain in Gulf War 1; score: US 80 - Iraqis 0.



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I've met him several times, as a major at the NTC, a colonel in Tal Afar and again in Baghdad, and lastly as a guest speaker at my company, as a 3-star. He's not only a warrior he's a scholar of war. PhD from Duke, author of a book on LBJ and the JCS in Vietnam. Very much like Mattis. Great choice

McMaster was a classmate of mine at CGSC and is a great soldier. He's a good choice, but I'm not sure if he's the best choice.

Coincidentally, my wife and I just boarded a flight from Atlanta to Washington, and John Bolton is in the row in front of us. I said I didn't know what the President had in mind for him and wished him well. He said he didn't know, either

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Don'tavi-ous L'emon walks off the set.

Triggered snowflake alert!!

Wanna know why CNN is history (and they know it), just watch the video. No opposing viewpoints permitted on that sinking barge.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
That photo of Bill Clinton looks as if his brain has been sucked out of his head--he's a dead man walking.

flashguy

Considering where his brain is really located, that is a distinct possibility.



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a link w some background on Gen McMaster:

http://hotair.com/archives/201...al-security-advisor/

normally posts by "Allahpundit" are negative towards Trump. This one isn't.

also:

Pool: Sarah Huckabee Sanders sent word to the pool that POTUS "gave full authority for McMaster to hire whatever staff he sees fit."

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Originally posted by sjtill:
I'm watching a recorded video of Chris Wallace interrogating Reince Priebus. Following other things he has done recently, I have lost all respect for Wallace.

I just viewed the interview and looks like Chris thinks he is part of the fake news......seems he has a guilty feeling.

41

I had been putting all of the Sunday morning shows on DVR then watching in the afternoon after Church.
Tried real hard to to keep up with what the Mainstream Media was putting out.
After A few minutes of Chris Wallace this Sunday, I hit critical level.
I no longer care to hear any of the network news, FOX included.
Turned of the DVR and likely will just cancel TV cable service.
Will be just sticking to the Internet and radio from here on out.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article...rgets-same-countries

WASHINGTON (AP) — A draft of President Donald Trump's revised immigration ban targets the same seven countries listed in his original executive order and exempts travelers who already have a visa to travel to the U.S., even if they haven't used it yet.

A senior administration official said the order, which Trump revised after federal courts held up his original immigration and refugee ban, will target only those same seven Muslim-majority countries — Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan and Libya.

The official said that green-card holders and dual citizens of the U.S. and any of those countries are exempt. The new draft also no longer directs authorities to single out — and reject — Syrian refugees when processing new visa applications.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the order before it's made public. The official noted that the draft is subject to change ahead of its signing, which Trump said could come sometime this week.

Even if Syrian refugees are no longer automatically rejected under the new order, the pace of refugees entering the U.S. from all countries is likely to slow significantly. That's because even when the courts put Trump's original ban on hold, they left untouched Trump's 50,000-per-year refugee cap, a cut of more than half from the cap under the Obama administration.

The U.S. has already taken in more than 35,000 refugees this year, leaving less than 15,000 spots before hitting Trump's cap, according to a U.S. official. That means that for the rest of this fiscal year, the number of refugees being let in per week will likely fall to a fraction of what it had been under the Obama administration's cap of 110,000.

"McMaster is on active duty, which means, according to CNN's Barbara Starr, that he couldn't turn down the president's request, which would have further rattled the White House."

Barbara Starr is flat wrong. In any case, Trump wouldn't appoint a man that didn't want the job.

I think it's fantastic that Trump makes a definite pause to recognize and salute his Marines as he boards and deplanes. He truly respects those guys with more than just a rainbow wave as he slides by.

David French is another long-time Trump skeptic but an honorable man who served in Iraq.

He has written the following about General McMaster:

H.R. McMaster: The Neil Gorsuch of Generals

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Originally posted by flashguy:
That photo of Bill Clinton looks as if his brain has been sucked out of his head--he's a dead man walking.

flashguy

Maybe he's still seeing Monica?

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Originally posted by ryan81986:

She shops a Nordie's