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Sounds like Trump very well may nominate Joe Lieberman as new FBI Director? Guess I'm a little surprised at that pick. Haven't even heard his name mentioned in a long time. Best known as Al Gore's VP running mate. He endorsed Hillary of course. Don't get why Trump would want him in that position or any for that matter.

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Joe Lieberman is maybe the very last of the old-style Democrats around. He is not particularly "Leftist" in his views, is calm and soft-spoken, and at least makes sense when he talks. He has had some serious departures with his Democrat "brethren" on numerous occasions. And he appears to actually be a man of his word.

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And he appears to actually be a man of his word.

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Lieberman is a man i would sit down an buy a beer for.
 
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I have less worry about Lieberman's politics than whether he has actually run anything. If he is picked.
 
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I can see that my suggestion fell upon deaf ears.


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55 KRC in Cincinnati saying Maxine Waters has loads O money tied up in Russia. Who has ties to Russia? Waiting to hear more.
 
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Another "small" change in the right direction:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...ir-citizens-n2328867

One of the many issues Department of Homeland Security officials have faced in trying to remove criminal aliens from the U.S. is the fact that many countries refused to take back their citizens. A 2001 Supreme Court ruling complicated matter in ruling that illegal immigrants whose home countries won’t take them back cannot be detained indefinitely. Thus, many ended up on the streets, committing even more crimes.

Now, however, things are changing.

With persuasion, threats, and punishment, DHS has managed to drop the number of countries that won’t take back immigrants the U.S. is trying to deport from 20 to 12 since the presidential election.

Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Burkina Faso, the Gambia, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone are now off the list of recalcitrant countries.

Cuba, China, Burma, Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea, Iran, Laos, Morocco, South Sudan, Vietnam, and Hong Kong remain, however.
 
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Rush: The best strategery for the President:

I think now, folks, there is a golden opportunity. I don't know how big an opportunity, but it's an opportunity. It's an opening. Since they've announced this stupid special counsel investigation, just head full speed down the road of the domestic agenda. Let's get going on repealing Obamacare. And use the force of Trump's personality and his victory to get Republicans in Congress signed up and doing this. Ditto on tax reform. The one thing - the one thing that's gonna provide Trump some insurance here is actually making America great again, is actually improving the circumstances. It's gonna be hard, because the Republicans don't want to do it!



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these are Deputy AG Rosenstein's comments to Congress. Note his agreement to fire Comey.



 
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Cuba, China, Burma, Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea, Iran, Laos, Morocco, South Sudan, Vietnam, and Hong Kong remain, however.


OK, fine, we'll compromise, and meet them halfway.

Take the miscreants halfway home and drop them off for Cuba, China, Burma, Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea, Iran, Laos, Morocco, South Sudan, Vietnam, and Hong Kong to pick them up.


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Another "small" change in the right direction:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...ir-citizens-n2328867

One of the many issues Department of Homeland Security officials have faced in trying to remove criminal aliens from the U.S. is the fact that many countries refused to take back their citizens. A 2001 Supreme Court ruling complicated matter in ruling that illegal immigrants whose home countries won’t take them back cannot be detained indefinitely. Thus, many ended up on the streets, committing even more crimes.

Now, however, things are changing.

With persuasion, threats, and punishment, DHS has managed to drop the number of countries that won’t take back immigrants the U.S. is trying to deport from 20 to 12 since the presidential election.

Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Burkina Faso, the Gambia, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone are now off the list of recalcitrant countries.

Cuba, China, Burma, Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea, Iran, Laos, Morocco, South Sudan, Vietnam, and Hong Kong remain, however.


I'd never make it as a diplomat or a politician.

"If you won't take back your citizens that we wish to deport, no more visas for anyone from your country. No tourists, no students, no businessmen (or women), no athletes, no performers, no sailors, no pilots, nobody.". If that doesn't get your attention, next month we'll consider refusing any products shipped from or originated in your country. If that doesn't get your attention, the following month we'll PNG everyone in any diplomatic mission you may have here and ship their asses out too.

There's probably a million reasons why this wouldn't work or would cause bigger problems, but damned if it doesn't seem like an attractive approach...

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Another "small" change in the right direction:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...ir-citizens-n2328867

One of the many issues Department of Homeland Security officials have faced in trying to remove criminal aliens from the U.S. is the fact that many countries refused to take back their citizens. A 2001 Supreme Court ruling complicated matter in ruling that illegal immigrants whose home countries won’t take them back cannot be detained indefinitely. Thus, many ended up on the streets, committing even more crimes.

Now, however, things are changing.

With persuasion, threats, and punishment, DHS has managed to drop the number of countries that won’t take back immigrants the U.S. is trying to deport from 20 to 12 since the presidential election.

Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Burkina Faso, the Gambia, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone are now off the list of recalcitrant countries.

Cuba, China, Burma, Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea, Iran, Laos, Morocco, South Sudan, Vietnam, and Hong Kong remain, however.


I'd never make it as a diplomat or a politician.

"If you won't take back your citizens that we wish to deport, no more visas for anyone from your country. No tourists, no students, no businessmen (or women), no athletes, no performers, no sailors, no pilots, nobody.". If that doesn't get your attention, next month we'll consider refusing any products shipped from or originated in your country. If that doesn't get your attention, the following month we'll PNG everyone in any diplomatic mission you may have here and ship their asses out too.

There's probably a million reasons why this wouldn't work or would cause bigger problems, but damned if it doesn't seem like an attractive approach...


I like it slosig, DO IT!!




 
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"Net Neutrality" is/was just a stalking horse for government takeover of the internet. Here's another example of good things coming out of the Trump Administration: LINK

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FCC Votes to Begin Net Neutrality Repeal
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to start the process to repeal the controversial net neutrality regulations on Thursday.

Internet freedom was once a decades-long, bipartisan consensus. In 1996, President Bill Clinton and a Republican Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, stating that the United States would “preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet . . . unfettered by Federal or State regulation.”

Net neutrality passed under former Democrat Tom Wheeler’s FCC in 2010. The rule, known as the Open Internet Order, reclassified the internet as a public monopoly. Critics chided the rule, stating that it would diminish the freedom of the internet. Proponents argue that the regulations prevent Internet service providers from discriminating against content providers.

Breitbart News asked the FCC Chairman Ajit Pai in an exclusive interview why he thinks that net neutrality is a problem, and why we must eliminate the rule. He said:

Number one there was no problem to solve, the internet wasn’t broken in 2015. In that situation, it doesn’t seem me that preemptive market-wide regulation is necessary. Number two, even if there was a problem, this wasn’t the right solution to adopt. These Title II regulations were inspired during the Great Depression to regulate Ma Bell which was a telephone monopoly. And the broadband market we have is very different from the telephone market of 1934. So, it seems to me that if you have 4,462 internet service providers and if a few of them are behaving in a way that is anticompetitive or otherwise bad for consumer welfare then you take targeted action to deal with that. You don’t declare the entire market anticompetitive and treat everyone as if they are a monopolist.

Going forward we are going to propose eliminating that Title II classification and figure out the right way forward. The bottom line is, everyone agrees on the principles of a free and open internet what we disagree with is how many regulations are needed to preserve the internet.

During the Chairman’s speech announcing his proposal to end net neutrality, he referenced Robert McChesney, the founder of Free Press, and his group’s wish for the government to monopolize the internet. Pai explained that McChesney openly bragged about taking over the internet. He said, “At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to eliminate the telephone and cable companies. We are not at that point yet. But, the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.”

Robert McChesney even said, “In the end, there is no real answer but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.”

To put McChesney’s influence on net neutrality in context, he was cited 46 times in the Obama net neutrality order.

Congressman Greg Walden (R-OR), Senator John Thune (R-SD), Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) released a statement supporting Chairman Pai’s proposal to rescind Net Neutrality regulations. The statement read:

We have long said that imposing a Depression-era, utility-style regulatory structure onto the internet was the wrong approach, and we applaud Chairman Pai’s efforts to roll back these misguided regulations. Consumers want an open internet that doesn’t discriminate on content and protects free speech and consumer privacy. It’s now time for Republicans and Democrats, internet service providers, edge providers, and the Internet community as a whole to come together and work toward a legislative solution that benefits consumers and the future of the internet.

Pai explained that many liberal organizations, such as Free Press, and government officials hold disdain for free speech. Chairman Pai pointed out:

It’s hard to predict, although the very same people that want the government to regulate the internet and they are fundamentally hostile to free speech in a variety of different ways. They want unpopular views to be censored online; they don’t stand up to the bullies on college campuses who even violently of late resist against people, including Berkeley which is ironic that it was supposedly the birth of the free speech movement. There are some members of government who want to regulate online platforms, I mentioned in the speech that some of the Federal Election Commission members, for instance, want to restrict political speech and regulate online platforms like the Drudge Report. It seems the worst thing we want is to restrict that core value of the First Amendment to discuss political issues and if anything, else that’s exactly what the Founders had in mind when they enshrined the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights. They want people to express themselves in terms of political opinions.

Net neutrality protesters, in advance of Thursday’s FCC meeting, held signs arguing that they should ban conservative publications such as Breitbart, Infowars, and the Drudge Report.

Ahead of the meeting’s the chairman published the entire text of the proposal to restore internet freedom. The 2015, 313-page net neutrality order was only published after the Commission passed the regulations.

Chairman Pai has argued that a legislative solution would end the political uncertainty of internet regulation.

He said, “I think the best solution would be for Congress to tell us what they want the rules of the road to be for the FCC and the country when it comes to the digital world. Part of the problem is that we are consistently looking at 1934 laws and 1996 laws then we try to shoehorn our modern marketplace to some of those paradigms that frankly we didn’t anticipate a marketplace as dynamic as the internet. I really think that Congress, ideally looking at all the opinions, and all the constituencies they can come to a consensus. Because again as Commissioner O’Reilly pointed out we don’t want the regulatory winds to keep shifting every four or eight years we want to provide some level of consistency to the marketplace so that consumers and companies alike can enjoy the digital revolution.”

Chairman Pai previously said that the internet prospered before net neutrality was enacted. Pai said, “The internet is the greatest free market success in American history.”


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SapperSteel, thanks.
Another superb Trump appointment, just superb.
I've said it before, but this is likely the most conservative cabinet and set of appointees since...I don't know, Coolidge?
Dare I say, more conservative than Reagan's cabinets?

The deregulation effort is very serious and Congress is working well with the administration to make it happen in a serious way. Trump's greatest achievement so far.


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I'd like to see the daily briefing cease and just hand out a sheet of paper with a dozen bullet points called "Here's What We Did Today"

let them do their own research, but then everyone gets a message with no noise attached

if the press wants to ask a question, they can put it in writing - if any of them even know how to write any more



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I knew there'd be bi-partisanship with the republicans and democrats fighting Trump but never thought they'd burn the Country down if they didn't get their way.

We know for a fact obama gave the worlds biggest state sponsor of terrorism- iran billions of dollars in cash= and we didn't blink an eye.

Yet the media is thrown into a tizzy by vague anonymous accusations against Trump.

What's Trump accused of doing again?


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The coverage of Trump in Saudi is something. They really rolled out the red carpet for him.

Did you know the Beast (limo) rides in the cargo hold of the 747?

The US women must be wowing those desert rats. No hair covering! Not even the translator. Melania was wearing a black outfit with broad gold belt, looked like $5 million in small unmarked bills.




Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
 
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I firmly believe Trump is the best thing to happen to this country since Reagan. A breath of fresh air. The dems, and the republicans, are trying their damnedest to sink him. I have to keep telling myself it is early yet. Grind on.

I am just so disgusted at the Congress. Absolutly filthy people. They truly don't deserve to call themselves Americans. We bust our asses and they take us for granted. We pay taxes, try to raise families, and all they can think of is their carreer. Ugg. Depressing.
 
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