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Originally posted by justjoe:
I hope Trump can rally the Republicans to use the "nuclear option" on Gorsuch's nomination. The hard truth is this: Republicans are cowards. As a group, cowards. Fretting about what the press with think, what the Democrats will say....

You have to give the Democrats this much, corrupt bastards that they are: When Harry decided to use the nuke, he just did it. They are all swamp creatures, but swamp creatures with balls. That is why they have kicked Republican ass for decades.

I've been saying this for a long time. The Dems play hard ball punch you in the mouth politics. The Republicans have never learned this. Almost like it's supposed to be this way.

With nuclear options and executive orders being how things are run anymore it's pretty much like having no government at all which is not a good thing either. We need much less of it but we do need a functional government.
We are a long ways from having that.

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
The Dems play hard ball punch you in the mouth politics.

No they don't. They play stab you in the back, slime your family and acquaintances, and lie about everything, politics. Essentially the 'mob' version of government.

Trump is being given a chance to fire Comey soon.
The House Intel Chair Nunes has requested documents from the FBI pertaining to the dossier written by a British spy about Trump.
The FBI is refusing to cooperate.

Seems as good a a reason as any to fire Comey.
I think it is coming soon.

Whatever the type of politics the republicans play is, one thing is for certain. They don't play to win.

Byron York: Senate committee targets FBI No. 2 in Trump dossier probe

http://www.washingtonexaminer....robe/article/2619120

Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has sent a letter to FBI Director James Comey demanding the story behind the FBI's reported plan to pay the author of a lurid and unsubstantiated dossier on candidate Donald Trump. In particular, Grassley appears to be zeroing in on the FBI's deputy director, Andrew McCabe, indicating Senate investigators want to learn more about McCabe's role in a key aspect of the Trump-Russia affair.

Grassley LTR:

https://www.grassley.senate.go...Investigation%29.pdf

Grassley began his investigation after the Washington Post reported on February 28 that the FBI, "a few weeks before the election," agreed to pay former British spy Christopher Steele to investigate Trump. Prior to that, supporters of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign had paid Steele to gather intelligence on Clinton's Republican rival. In the end, the FBI did not pay Steele, the Post reported, after the dossier "became the subject of news stories, congressional inquiries and presidential denials." It is not clear whether Steele worked under agreement with the FBI for any period of time before the payment deal fell through.

"The idea that the FBI and associates of the Clinton campaign would pay Mr. Steele to investigate the Republican nominee for president in the run-up to the election raises further questions about the FBI's independence from politics, as well as the Obama administration's use of law enforcement and intelligence agencies for political ends," Grassley wrote in a letter to Comey dated March 28.

Grassley demanded the FBI turn over all its records relating to Steele and the dossier, in addition to "all FBI policies, procedures, and guidelines applicable when the FBI seeks to fund an investigator associated with a political opposition research firm connected to a political candidate, or with any outside entity."

But the most noteworthy thing about Grassley's letter is its focus on McCabe. Grassley noted that McCabe is already under investigation by the FBI's inspector general for playing a top role in the Hillary Clinton email investigation even though McCabe's wife accepted nearly $700,000 in political donations arranged by a close Clinton friend, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, for her run for state senate in Virginia.

"While Mr. McCabe recused himself from public corruption cases in Virginia…he failed to recuse himself from the Clinton email investigation," Grassley wrote, "despite the appearance of a conflict created by his wife's campaign accepting $700,000 from a close Clinton associate during the investigation."

Now, Grassley wrote, there could be a problem with McCabe's participation in the Trump-Russia probe. If McCabe had a conflict being too close to Clinton, how could he then investigate Trump?

The March 28 letter is the second Grassley has sent to FBI Director Comey regarding the Trump dossier. Grassley's first letter, on March 6, demanded that the FBI turn over extensive documentation and answer questions about how the bureau came to agree to pay for Steele's services in the midst of a presidential campaign. So far, Grassley has not received the material he seeks.

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Originally posted by mbinky:
Whatever the type of politics the republicans play is, one thing is for certain. They don't play to win.

Sure, they do. Your mistake is in thinking limited and

Constit

utional government is their prize. They depend on this.

saw this in a Fox report.

one more example of the "caliber" of Susan Rice:

Rice also told ABC News in 2014 that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl "served the United States with honor and distinction" and that he "wasn't simply a hostage; he was an American prisoner of war captured on the battlefield."

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Rice also told ABC News in 2014 that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl "served the United States with honor and distinction" and that he "wasn't simply a hostage; he was an American prisoner of war captured on the battlefield."

Given the Realm of Distortion/Delusion/Lies/the DNC creatures inhabit, perhaps Miz Rice is unable to discern the difference between a video parlor and a battlefield.

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Originally posted by mbinky:
Whatever the type of politics the republicans play is, one thing is for certain. They don't play to win.

They all have The McClellan Complex. McClellan talked a great fight, but when the chips were down he never had enough troops, or enough artillery, or he estimated the enemy at twice its actual size.

For years the Republicans have been whining that, okay, they have the House, but they don't have the Senate. Okay, they have the House AND the Senate, but they don't have the Executive. Now they have the House, Senate and the Executive, and they still act like they just don't have quite enough to beat the Democrats.

By amazing good luck McClellan had Lee's actual battle plans at Antietam. In detail. And still-- knowing how many troops Lee had, how they were disposed, exactly how Lee planned to proceed-- McClellan still blew it with caution and uncertainty, and still managed to overestimate Lee's forces.

Make you think of the Republican Party at all?

Trump frightens and upsets them because he wants to lead and govern. (The way Lincoln frightened and upset McClellan, to complete the comparison.)

Trump promised us that this surveillance of him was going to come out and come out big and it has.

Yes, despite all the political rancor, crap like this is being drained from the swamp.
It's Big league and the MSM either doesn't see Trump's accomplishments or won't report it.

To the MSM, it's all about presidential approval numbers.
And they were right in the past when Presidents were from the status quo.

The MSM learned nothing regarding how and why Trump got elected. He is an outsider.
The MSM will succeed in driving down Trump's approval numbers.
What they miss is that Trump is not beholden to the status quo, he's an outsider and low approval numbers will not deter him like Presidents in the past were.

The MSM's reputation is so self sullied that I don't think they can get out of it... unless they see America for what it really is and start reporting that.
Until then, I guess the MSM will continue to be hermaphroditic.
The MSM gives new meaning to the term go fuck yourself and the MSM is actually doing such.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Ooopsie

Oh, I'm certain there's a reasonable explanation for all of this. It's probably due to an internet video or something.

The Ruskies, they did this.



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Originally posted by Ryanp225:
The First Lady looks quite lovely. As always.

Simply Stunning!

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Originally posted by mbinky:
Whatever the type of politics the republicans play is, one thing is for certain. They don't play to win.

They play to get re-elected. Someone make a website with every vote each political guy made and publish it widely. Maybe people will get eatin

I read he donated his first paycheck to the national park service.

He's pretty slick, weren't they trolling him early on?

"This is the key to the whole enchilada. Russian oil giant Rosneft wants to drill in the Arctic. They need a merger with ExxonMobil to do this cost effectively and to exploit new drilling patents and procedure. Obama shut that down with sanctions for the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. Ukraine was invaded to provide unfettered access to sea ports to market this oil. Trump was promised broker's fee on 19% sale of Rosneft stock in exchange for lifting of sanctions. Kushner and Boris Epshtein involved. This is why Flynn committed treason and perjury. This is why Tillerson is now Secretary of State. This is why the GOP and Washington is awash in Russian oil money bribes. This is why Trump is signing executive orders to limit transparency of oil company finances, weakening the EPA and deregulating banks. This is why even before the election, a plank regarding the Ukraine was removed from the RNC platform. This is why intelligence agencies have been investigating Russian banks and Trump for months."

Comments from a leftist loon. The Trump Derangement Syndrome is worse than Bush Derangement Syndrome ever thought of being.

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Originally posted by sdy:
saw this in a Fox report.

one more example of the "caliber" of Susan Rice:

Rice also told ABC News in 2014 that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl "served the United States with honor and distinction" and that he "wasn't simply a hostage; he was an American prisoner of war captured on the battlefield."

fyi

Ms Rice, a protege of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, was the youngest assistant secretary of state in history when appointed by Bill Clinton in 1997, dealing with African affairs.

The New York Times reports that the Clinton camp, during Hillary Clinton's campaign for the Democratic nomination, regarded Ms Rice's support for Mr Obama as a defection. However, she and Mrs Clinton, as US secretary of state, have had to work closely together in the Obama administration.
Ms Rice told the New York Sun that she was drawn to support Mr Obama because of his position on Iraq, saying that he had made "the same unpopular choice I had made" despite huge pressure in Washington to support the war.

Born in 1964, Susan Rice is married to an ABC producer, Ian Cameron , and has two children.

Growing up, Ms Rice dreamed of becoming a senator for the District of Columbia. She graduated in history from Stanford University, then went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, where she completed a D Phil in international relations.

During her stint in the Bill Clinton White House, she was described as "brilliant" but also "authoritarian" and "brash". According to the New York Times, she acknowledges "a certain impatience at times".

She is no relation of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-20722189

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:

quote:

Originally posted by sdy:
saw this in a Fox report.

one more example of the "caliber" of Susan Rice:

Rice also told ABC News in 2014 that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl "served the United States with honor and distinction" and that he "wasn't simply a hostage; he was an American prisoner of war captured on the battlefield."

fyi

Ms Rice, a protege of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, was the youngest assistant secretary of state in history when appointed by Bill Clinton in 1997, dealing with African affairs.

The New York Times reports that the Clinton camp, during Hillary Clinton's campaign for the Democratic nomination, regarded Ms Rice's support for Mr Obama as a defection. However, she and Mrs Clinton, as US secretary of state, have had to work closely together in the Obama administration.
Ms Rice told the New York Sun that she was drawn to support Mr Obama because of his position on Iraq, saying that he had made "the same unpopular choice I had made" despite huge pressure in Washington to support the war.

Born in 1964, Susan Rice is married to an ABC producer, Ian Cameron , and has two children.

Growing up, Ms Rice dreamed of becoming a senator for the District of Columbia. She graduated in history from Stanford University, then went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, where she completed a D Phil in international relations.

During her stint in the Bill Clinton White House, she was described as "brilliant" but also "authoritarian" and "brash". According to the New York Times, she acknowledges "a certain impatience at times".

She is no relation of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-20722189

Susan rice is the Luca Brazzi of the ever growing Obama crime family

The Justice Department warned employers Monday not to discriminate against U.S. workers by over-hiring foreign workers under the H-1B visa program.

Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division Tom Wheeler said in a release that the Justice Department will "not tolerate employers misusing the H-1B visa process to discriminate against U.S. workers."

"U.S. workers should not be placed in a disfavored status, and the department is wholeheartedly committed to investigating and vigorously prosecuting these claims," he said.

The department is starting the process of accepting H-1B visa petitions for the next fiscal year. Last year, the cap of 85,000 was reached less than a week after the application period began.

An H-1B visa is a nonimmigrant visa that allows U.S. employees to temporarily employ foreign workers in a specialty occupations in the science and information technology fields.

President Trump slammed H-1B visas early in his campaign, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has long targeted the program.

"It's simply wrong to think that we're in a totally open world and that any American with a job can be replaced if somebody in the world is willing to take a job for less pay," Sessions told the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing.

http://www.washingtonexaminer....kers/article/2619175

Susan Rice Ordered Spy Agencies To Produce ‘Detailed Spreadsheets’ Involving Trump

Former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice ordered U.S. spy agencies to produce “detailed spreadsheets” of legal phone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides when he was running for president, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova.

“What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. Rice were detailed spreadsheets of intercepted phone calls with unmasked Trump associates in perfectly legal conversations with individuals,” diGenova told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group Monday.

“The overheard conversations involved no illegal activity by anybody of the Trump associates, or anyone they were speaking with,” diGenova said. “In short, the only apparent illegal activity was the unmasking of the people in the calls.”

Other knowledgeable official sources with direct knowledge and who requested anonymity confirmed to TheDCNF diGenova’s description of surveillance reports Rice ordered one year before the 2016 presidential election.

Also on Monday, Fox News and Bloomberg News, citing multiple sources reported that Rice had requested the intelligence information that was produced in a highly organized operation. Fox said the unmasked names of Trump aides were given to officials at the National Security Council (NSC), the Department of Defense, James Clapper, President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, and John Brennan, Obama’s CIA Director.

Joining Rice in the alleged White House operations was her deputy Ben Rhodes, according to Fox.

Critics of the atmosphere prevailing throughout the Obama administration’s last year in office point to former Obama Deputy Defense Secretary Evelyn Farkas who admitted in a March 2 television interview on MSNBC that she “was urging my former colleagues,” to “get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration.”

Farkas sought to walk back her comments in the weeks following: “I didn’t give anybody anything except advice.”

Col. (Ret.) James Waurishuk, an NSC veteran and former deputy director for intelligence at the U.S. Central Command, told TheDCNF that many hands had to be involved throughout the Obama administration to launch such a political spying program.

“The surveillance initially is the responsibility of the National Security Agency,” Waurishuk said. “They have to abide by this guidance when one of the other agencies says, ‘we’re looking at this particular person which we would like to unmask.’”

“The lawyers and counsel at the NSA surely would be talking to the lawyers and members of counsel at CIA, or at the National Security Council or at the Director of National Intelligence or at the FBI,” he said. “It’s unbelievable of the level and degree of the administration to look for information on Donald Trump and his associates, his campaign team and his transition team. This is really, really serious stuff.”

Michael Doran, former NSC senior director, told TheDCNF Monday that “somebody blew a hole in the wall between national security secrets and partisan politics.” This “was a stream of information that was supposed to be hermetically sealed from politics and the Obama administration found a way to blow a hole in that wall.”

Doran charged that potential serious crimes were undertaken because “this is a leaking of signal intelligence.”

“That’s a felony,” he told TheDCNF. “And you can get 10 years for that. It is a tremendous abuse of the system. We’re not supposed to be monitoring American citizens. Bigger than the crime, is the breach of public trust.”

Waurishuk said he was most dismayed that “this is now using national intelligence assets and capabilities to spy on the elected, yet-to-be-seated president.”

“We’re looking at a potential constitutional crisis from the standpoint that we used an extremely strong capability that’s supposed to be used to safeguard and protect the country,” he said. “And we used it for political purposes by a sitting President. That takes on a new precedent.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/04...trump/#ixzz4dFa5tIDq

oh, and further joys and schadenfreud charging up in 3,2,1... Rice brought down by media leaker.

Ever since Mike Cernovich dropped the bombshell report over the weekend outing Obama's National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, as the person behind the unmasking of the identity of various members of Trump's team who were 'incidentally' surveilled during the 2016 campaign (see "Confirmed: Susan Rice "Unmasked" Trump Team"), a report which was subsequently confirmed by Eli Lake of Bloomberg earlier this morning, everyone has been wondering who within the Trump White House or the intelligence community supplied him with such a massive scoop.

But, as it turns out, Cernovich didn't need a 'deep throat' within the NSA or CIA for his blockbuster scoop, all he needed was some well-placed sources inside of a couple of America's corrupt mainstream media outlets. As Cernovich explains below, his sources for the Susan Rice story were actually folks working at Bloomberg and the New York Times who revealed that both Eli Lake (Bloomberg) and Maggie Haberman (NYT) were sitting on the Susan Rice story in order to protect the Obama administration.

"Maggie Haberman had it. She will not run any articles that are critical of the Obama administration." "Eli Lake had it. He didn't want to run it and Bloomberg didn't want to run it because it vindicates Trump's claim that he had been spied upon. And Eli Lake is a 'never Trumper.' Bloomberg was a 'never Trump' publication."

"I'm showing you the politics of 'real journalism'. 'Real journalism' is that Bloomberg had it and the New York Times had it but they wouldn't run it because they don't want to run any stories that would make Obama look bad or that will vindicate Trump. They only want to run stories that make Trump look bad so that's why they sat on it."

"So where did I get the story? I didn't get it from the intelligence community. Everybody's trying to figure out where I got it from. I got it from somebody who works in one of those media companies. I have spies in every media organization. I got people in news rooms. I got it from a source within the news room who said 'Cernovich, they're sitting on this story, they're not going to run it, so you can run it'."

"If you're at Bloomberg, I have people in there. If you're at the New York Times, I have people in there. LA Times, Washington Post, you name it, I have my people in there. I got IT people in every major news room in this country. The IT people see every email so that's how I knew it."

And while this could certainly be interpreted as a clever ploy to protect his real sources, Cernovich's video comments seem to be validated by both his tweet from yesterday afternoon...

Mike Cernovich