The "Bitch" card, has been thrown down.

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Originally posted by Loaded Round:
The left has to feel like they have stepped in a swarm of killer bees. They're dancing around trying decide where to swat first.

Feel the Bern folks!!

I wonder what this is about?

WASHINGTON – The chief of the Border Patrol has left the agency that's in charge of securing America's borders with Mexico and Canada.

According to a U.S. official and a former official, Border Patrol agents have been told that Mark Morgan is no longer on the job. It's not immediately clear whether Morgan resigned or was asked to leave.

The U.S. official wasn't authorized to discuss the move before a public announcement and spoke on condition of anonymity. The former official asked not to be identified before a government announcement.

Morgan's departure comes a day after President Donald Trump announced plans to build a wall at the Mexican border and hire 5,000 Border Patrol agents.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...er-fence-decree.html

Canned, I imagine

Resigned is code for "you're fired" at that level.
The quitting thing is hilarious. If you know you and all your flunkies are about to get shit-canned, might as well quit and score some cheap political points. I'm sure the Washington 'think tanks' will love that on your resume.On the downside, it's harder to compel private citizens to testify about Hillary's grifting during her tenure but that`s what subpoena`s are for.

A little insight and opinion from the heads of a couple of auto manufacturers...



Ford, Fiat Chrysler Say Trump Policies a Win for Autos


The heads of Ford (F) and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCAU) predict that President Donald Trump’s economic policies will provide a tailwind for the automotive business.

Coming off a meeting at the White House earlier this week, Ford CEO Mark Fields praised the new administration’s focus on revamping the tax code and federal regulations.

“I think his first couple of days in office, having meetings with manufacturing companies and automotive companies, I think bodes very, very well because he’s looking for policies that are going to stoke both investment and job creation here in the United States,” Opens a New Window. Fields said in an interview Thursday on the FOX Business Network’s “Mornings With Maria.”

Fields added that while the North American Free Trade Agreement is closely linked to the industry’s supply chain, Trump was right to walk away from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

“One of the things we talked to the president about is having trade deals that are free and fair,” he said. “We applaud the president’s decision on TPP because currency manipulation is one of the biggest trade barriers these days, and TPP did not meaningfully address that.”

Fiat Chrysler, which reported some progress in talks with the Environmental Protection Agency over claims of high diesel emissions, also suggested that the Trump economy will bolster earnings. CEO Sergio Marchionne told analysts during a conference call Thursday that Trump’s policy proposals would be a net positive for the Italian-American automaker and U.S. auto sales, despite concerns of a potential border tax on cars imported from Mexico.

“Of the three [Detroit automakers], we are the ones who could potentially benefit most,” Marchionne said.

Fiat Chrysler recently said an expansion of a factory in Michigan could allow the company to bring production of Ram heavy-duty pickup trucks back from Mexico. A final decision is expected at a later date. On Thursday, Marchionne added that Fiat Chrysler can execute the move “relatively quickly.”

That possibility, along with Ford’s decision to scrap plans for a new plant in Mexico, came at a time when Trump had ramped up his criticism of growing car production south of the border.

During a meeting at the White House on Tuesday, Trump continue to urge Ford, Fiat Chrysler and General Motors (GM) to invest in U.S. manufacturing facilities. Trump also met other manufacturing CEOs on Monday and repeated his threat to impose tariffs.

“I strongly believe the right policies will prevail on trade and others,” including taxes and regulations, Fields told FOX Business.

Ford and Fiat Chrysler reported fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday reflecting strong profit gains from sales of lucrative SUVs and trucks.

However, Ford reported its first quarterly loss in seven years because of costs related to pension accounting changes and a $200 million charge from the cancellation of its Mexican factory. Ford’s loss amounted to $783 million versus a $1.9 billion profit in the same period a year earlier. For the full year, Ford’s pre-tax earnings totaled $10.4 billion, its second-best mark in company history.

Fiat Chrysler booked a full-year net profit of 1.81 billion euros ($1.92 billion), well above the company’s 2015 earnings of 93 million euros. While demand ticked lower in North America, utilities comprised a larger share of Fiat Chrysler’s sales, boosting profit margins.

Based on North American profits, Ford and Fiat Chrysler hourly workers will receive profit-sharing checks of $9,000 and $5,000 on average, respectively.



http://www.foxbusiness.com/mar...s-win-for-autos.html

Meanwhile, the rank-and-file Border Patrol peeps... Head Of Border Patrol Union Weighs In On Trump's Wall Plans

And...

The peso is tumbling after Mexico's president said he wouldn't meet with Trump

Oops?

He looks good.

So sick of that prissy, limp wristed prance Obama would do coming down the stairs of AF1.

I have a message for the president of Mexico:

Last time we were here, the guacamole seemed old. It had a funny taste to it. Can you please make sure the guac is fresh? Also, may I please have a new fork? I dropped mine on your foor.

HEE HEE

Obama is systematically going to get his ass handed to him over the next 4 years.

Go ahead and stay in DC and run your mouth, I hope you suffer embarrassment every time you show your face. To know that everything you have done over the last 8 years to destroy this country is going to be reversed.

Trumpster is going to run out of things to undue if he doesn't slow down, its only Thursday for Pete's sake.

Thank goodness for President Trump & Vice-President Mike Pence.

God bless the USA.

It is so refreshing to see a real Commander-in-Chief in the White House!

Trump Has EPA Employees ‘Coming To Work In Tears’

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees are reportedly arriving at work in tears because of President Donald Trump.

An anonymous EPA communications career employee told Pro-Publica that “more than a few friends were ‘coming to work in tears’ each morning as they grappled with balancing the practical need to keep their jobs with their concerns for the issues they work on.”

The Trump administration allegedly instructed the EPA to freeze all grants for projects, research on global warming, air quality monitoring and education, and instructed employees not to discuss the spending freeze outside the agency, according to reports earlier this week.

Trump also allegedly ordered the EPA to take down its global warming webpage, however, it is currently still up as of Thursday. The page contains some links to EPA’s data on carbon dioxide (CO2) as well as other greenhouse gas emissions and lists the effects the agency says global warming will have. The site doesn’t host much of the data, however, and only aggregates links to it.

The Trump White House global warming webpage was taken down seconds after President Donald Trump formally took office. The link for Obama’s old global warming webpage currently redirects to a Trump transition webpage.

Trump pledged during his campaign to get rid of the agency “in almost every form,” leaving only “little tidbits left.”

Trump nominated Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, who has battled the EPA numerous times in court, to head the agency. A leaked memo from Trump’s transition team indicates that the administration plans $513 million in cuts to the “states and tribal assistance grants,” $193 million from eliminating agency global warming programs and another $109 million in savings through cutting “environment programs and management.”


http://dailycaller.com/2017/01...ng-to-work-in-tears/

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
The peso is tumbling after Mexico's president said he wouldn't meet with Trump

Mexico is going to pay for that wall one way or another.

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
Trump Has EPA Employees ‘Coming To Work In Tears’

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees are reportedly arriving at work in tears because of President Donald Trump.

EPA employees best be updating their resumes.

just another little headwind for the legacy express...


Study: Obama Had Worst Record in Supreme Court in Modern History - Former president won just half of cases argued before Court, significantly lower than other administrations

BY: Elizabeth Harrington
January 26, 2017 5:00 am

President Barack Obama had the worst record before the Supreme Court in modern history, losing half of the cases argued before the High Court in his two terms, according to a new study.

While liberals point to legalizing same-sex marriage and the upholding of Obamacare subsidies as cementing the former president’s legacy, the study reveals Obama had a much weaker record with the Supreme Court than previous presidents.

The academic study written by Washington University professor Lee Epstein and University of Chicago law professor Eric Posner found Obama had the “worst record of any President” since Franklin D. Roosevelt. In fact, his presidential performance before the Supreme Court “may be the worst since the Zachary Taylor administration” in the 19th century.

“To assess presidential performance in the U.S. Supreme Court, we created a dataset of cases of concern to the president,” Epstein and Posner wrote. “The dataset covers Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt through Barack Obama (1932-2015 terms), which amounts to 84 Court terms and 13 presidents.”

The results were presidents “prevailed in nearly two-thirds of their cases; and captured over 60 [percent] of all votes cast.”

However, Obama’s success rate is “significantly lower” at just 50.5 percent, the lowest Epstein and Posner found.

“A few commentators have noticed Obama’s problems in the Court, attributing them to Obama himself,” they said.

The Supreme Court ruled on 186 cases during Obama’s presidency where the United States, the president, or the attorney general was a party; or the solicitor general represented the petitioner or respondent in the case.

The study also suggests that presidents have had less success in the Supreme Court since the Reagan administration, when Ronald Reagan won 75 percent of cases before the Court.

Since the data revealed a “downward secular trend in presidential success ever since the Reagan years, it may be that the Obama administration is just the latest victim of a Court that has gradually been losing confidence in the executive branch,” Epstein and Posner said.

Even still, Obama’s record was an outlier. “On the one hand, the data seem to confirm a story that scholars have long told: When the president goes to Court, he wins,” the study said. “Over the course of the 84 terms and 13 presidents in our dataset, presidents prevailed in nearly two-thirds of their cases (and captured 60 [percent] of all votes). By comparison, the states won significantly fewer of their cases during the same period (53 [percent]).”

Comparatively, Obama’s performance was “especially poor.” “He prevailed in just 50.5 [percent] of his cases—a percentage slightly lower than the states’ win rate while Obama was in office (55.4 [percent]).”

Noteworthy losses during Obama’s presidency included the blocking of an executive action giving work permits to 5 million illegal immigrants, “effectively ending what Mr. Obama had hoped would become one of his central legacies,” the New York Times reported.

The Court also handed a “humiliating” loss to Obama in his attempt to make recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was in session. “Indeed the case was so clear-cut one can only conclude that the president didn’t care what the Constitution said,” the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin observed at the time.

Experts have argued that executive overreach by President Obama led to more losses in the High Court. In the 2016 term, the Obama administration argued 10 cases that resulted in unanimous decisions against the government, meaning the president did not receive a vote from his own justices he appointed to the Court, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

“[T]he reason this president has done so poorly at the high court is because he sees no limits on federal—especially prosecutorial—power and accords himself the ability to enact his own legislative agenda when Congress refuses to do so,” wrote Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute.

Epstein and Posner note that since the Reagan administration, presidents have averaged a 60 percent win rate before the Supreme Court, five points lower than in years’ prior.

According to the study, one explanation to presidents’ declining win rates is the arrival of more skillful attorneys who now practice for the Court.
“The president’s win rate has declined as the quality of this group has increased,” they said.

http://freebeacon.com/politics...ourt-modern-history/

That can't be correct! Barry's a COMPSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR!!

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
Meanwhile, the rank-and-file Border Patrol peeps... Head Of Border Patrol Union Weighs In On Trump's Wall Plans

And...

The peso is tumbling after Mexico's president said he wouldn't meet with Trump

Oops?

Double oops. It is clear the Mexican economy needs the US much more than the US economy needs Mexico. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I fully support allowing immigrants into the US who want to upgrade their lives, benefit from what America has to offer, as long as they are willing to accept the commensurate responsibilities. The problem is too many immigrants come here, demand their free ticket on the gravy-train (supported by liberals), and have no intention of adopting US standards.

Rather, they insist on bringing the cultures from their homelands to the US, the things that create the lifestyle they are trying to escape, and demand that the US assimilate such cultures.

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Trump boarding AF 1 for first time

Even though I was never in the military I really appreciate seeing President Trump returning the salutes given him.

He clearly understands it is a courtesy with thousands of years of important meaning for both parties.