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Re: “Hunter's lawyer [Lowell] requested the US attorney for DC [Graves] investigate Bobulinski for making false statements about business to FBI”

Sounds as though Hunter and the Biden clan are feeling the heat. But Graves, appointed by Biden, is certainly Biden-friendly.

Biden Wants Another $56 Billion in 'Emergency' Spending

Congress is being asked to borrow more money to fund broadband access and other pet projects. Only about $9 billion would be spent on natural disaster recovery efforts.

https://reason.com/2023/10/30/...-emergency-spending/

Under the guise of responding to natural disasters, the White House is pushing Congress to approve $56 billion in additional borrowing to fund a wide range of nonemergency spending like broadband internet and humanitarian aid.

Less than half of the $56 billion requested by the Biden administration would be directed toward disaster relief—and only $9 billion would "address ongoing disaster response and recovery efforts," according to a breakdown published by the White House. The majority of the new spending would be aimed at what the White House calls "critical domestic priorities" like welfare programs, the war on drugs, and government-funded broadband internet.

In other words: nonemergency line items that could—and should—be decided as part of the regular budget process, not as a supplemental funding bill.

That would be true even if the federal government weren't already $33 trillion in debt and coming off a year in which it ran a $2 trillion deficit. Yes, another $56 billion in new borrowing and spending is less than 1 percent of the roughly $6.3 trillion the government spent last fiscal year, but we've reached the point where every little bit absolutely matters.

The latest request comes on top of the $16 billion in emergency spending Congress approved in September as part of the short-term continuing resolution (the one keeping the government open through mid-November). It's also in addition to $106 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel, and other countries that the Biden administration has requested.

If all that gets approved, the $162 billion in "supplemental" new spending will wipe out all the projected savings from the Fiscal Responsibility Act for fiscal year 2024, note Cato Institute budget experts Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett. "Congress should reject phony emergency spending and consider Biden's 'critical needs' request as part of the regular appropriations process, subject to existing spending caps," they write.

Indeed, one has to stretch the term "critical domestic priorities" pretty far to include all the things the White House is asking for.

For example, the Biden administration wants $6 billion in new funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program, which was created as part of the 2021 infrastructure bill and subsidizes low-income Americans' internet bills. However, much of the existing broadband spending in the infrastructure bill has been poorly allocated—wealthy Washington, D.C., got a greater share of the money than any other part of the country, despite the broadband spending being sold as a way to bring faster internet to rural America. And how is it that ongoing subsidies for an existing program count as an emergency—or, for that matter, something that the government should be doing at all?

The same question can be asked of most of the other line items in the White House's supplemental funding request. That includes the $16 billion for child care programs administered by the Department of Health and Human Services, the $2.2 billion meant to improve the Department of Energy's uranium enrichment program, and the $1.6 billion aimed at a program that helps low-income Americans pay their heating bills. There's no reason that these things can't be part of the regular budget process.

The same is true for the proposed $1.55 billion grant program that would help local law enforcement fund anti-fentanyl efforts and the $1.05 billion for foreign food aid. In fact, lawmakers might ask why that last item is included in a list of "domestic" priorities in the first place. (The answer is that foreign food aid programs mostly serve as a way to provide backdoor subsidies to American farmers but are costly and ineffective at actually delivering aid to starving foreigners.)

Certainly, it's possible to make a case for providing funding for each and every one of these line items. But budgeting is about setting priorities, and Congress has done a poor job of that for many years.

With deficits rising and borrowing growing more expensive, lawmakers should be extremely skeptical about hiking spending for the White House's pet projects outside the official budget process.

All this spending on stuff, don't want to hear about Social Security running out of money...

Bringing out the long knives.

Former Obama adviser recommends Biden drop out of 2024 race

David Axelrod, former White House official, recommends US Pres. Biden announce he won't run in for re-election in 2024.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/379813

Former White House official David Axelrod on Sunday recommended that US President Joe Biden rethink his decision to run in the 2024 US presidential elections.

Writing on X, formerly Twitter, Axelrod said, "It's very late to change horses; a lot will happen in the next year that no one can predict & Biden's team says his resolve to run is firm."

"The POTUS is justly proud of his accomplishments," Axelrod, who served as a senior adviser to former US President Barack Obama, added. "Trump is a dangerous, unhinged demagogue whose brazen disdain for the rules, norms, laws and institutions or democracy should be disqualifying. But the stakes of miscalculation here are too dramatic to ignore."

"Only JoeBiden can make this decision. If he continues to run, he will be the nominee of the Democratic Party. What he needs to decide is whether that is wise; whether it's in HIS best interest or the country's?"

The Dems will find a reason to dump Joe off the 2024 ticket. It could be health reasons, (real or invented), or the puppet masters could get rid of him because of the Biden Crime Family investigations. But one way or another, they'll find someone else to run, and they're running out of time.

The useful idiot has outlived his usefulness. The fact that the Biden Crime Syndicate facts are being reported on should be all the proof anyone needs that the DNC is trying to dump Biden. He’s toxic to the cause and they want him gone.

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The useful idiot has outlived his usefulness. The fact that the Biden Crime Syndicate facts are being reported on should be all the proof anyone needs that the DNC is trying to dump Biden. He’s toxic to the cause and they want him gone.

Yep. He was never more than a disposable puppet anyway. Jill is the problem for the Dems now. If she cared about the man, she never would have allowed him to run in the first place. But she likes being 'first lady' so she wants him to run again. So if he can't be nudged off the ticket, eventually the long knives will come out for him.

DEMs are definitely worried

recent polls:

Nevada Trump 52, Biden 41
Gerogia T 49, B 43
Michigan T 48, B 43
Pennsylvania T 48, B 44
Arizona T 49, B 44

Wisconsin T 45, B 47

73% says things are going badly in America

https://www.powerlineblog.com/...-signal-gone-out.php

One day until we are one year out from the 2024 Presidential Election.

I honestly don't think Joe Biden will be on the ticket. Maybe the "October Surprise" will be him dropping out in August or so of 2024. Maybe sooner the way things are going.

In a breathtaking story much more remarkable for where it was published than what it said, although that was pretty remarkable too, Politico ran a high-profile “Special Report” this weekend headlined, “Fresh revelations contradict Joe Biden’s sweeping denials on Hunter. Uh-oh! Not only that, but Politico’s “Special Report” about Biden’s lies published yesterday, Sunday, November 5th, 2023 — precisely one year to the day before next year’s Presidential election.

The sub-headline jammed the assassin’s dagger even deeper into Biden’s waning political fortunes: “The president hasn’t been shown to have committed wrongdoing, but a POLITICO review of recent developments casts doubts on several statements.”
https://www.politico.com/news/...s-testimony-00125056

The story was a big deal for Politico — a rare, ranging, long-form, magazine-style piece including dramatic non-stock photos, infographics, and custom artwork. Politico took its time recapping all the fundamentals of the Biden corruption story, slowly and carefully walking its audience through the unfamiliar details, and even slipping in a few brand-new arguments of its own.

Politico was not saying Joe Biden is corrupt. It was just saying.

The story’s first target was one of the best-documented of Joe’s lies, the one about not being involved in Hunter business deals. Politico began with a now-infamous April 2015 dinner meeting between Hunter’s group and some shady Ukrainian oligarchs. House Republicans found an email on Hunter’s laptop from one of the thuggish ‘executives’ who attended the dinner politely thanking Hunter “for introducing me to your father.”

It’s embarrassing that oligarchical Ukrainian thugs are more polite and use better-formed English than the chief executive’s own children. Hunter usually emails in all-caps and normally forgets to use punctuation. But I digress.

Anyway, Biden has consistently and vehemently denied attending any of Hunter’s business meetings. He’s protested that point a LOT. But his denials are usually cuddled in complicated locutions, liberally sprinkled with lawyer weasel words and conditional qualifications. So in October 2021, key White House ally Politico emailed its insider source and directly posed the question: was Biden there at the Cafe Milano dinner or not? Even if just informally?

POLITICO: “Does this rule out any informal encounter with Pozharskyi in April 2015?”

WHITE HOUSE: “Yes.”

Politico said it was revealing that now-obvious lie for the first time. Two years later. Shoring up the point, Politico then described Devon Archer’s testimony to Congress, where Devon swore under oath that Joe Biden did in fact chow down personally, himself, in the flesh, with the oligarchs that night at Cafe Milano, and Devon provided plenty of supporting background detail.

In other words, Politico volunteered its own internal, behind-the-scenes communications to help pile on the narrative that Biden and his whole crooked White House team are liars.

That seems pretty remarkable.

Politico’s extended-form article seemed like a solid reply to hapless, low-information democrat voters relying on Biden’s current stupid excuse, yeah, yeah, but they never proved Joe did anything wrong and Hunter’s not running for president.

Read these four sentences from the story and you’ll see what I mean:

The explicit White House denial of even an informal encounter, reported here for the first time, was not the only time that statements made by Biden and his camp about Hunter Biden’s dealings have been contradicted by others. Joe Biden and his representatives have repeatedly defended him from criticism related to his relatives, his son in particular, by issuing blanket denials of misconduct and disclaiming contact with their business affairs.
But, in recent months, as congressional Republicans have opened an impeachment inquiry and controversies related to Hunter Biden continue to be litigated in the courts and in the public square, a steady trickle of revelations have contradicted the president’s denials. A POLITICO review of recent congressional testimony and exhibits, along with court filings and media reports, casts doubt on several statements made by Biden and his representatives.

That right there is a meticulously-careful way of saying Joe lied about not doing anything wrong. The article briefly receded from this high accusatory point, back down into the “no evidence” briar patch, suggesting nobody’s claimed Joe Biden ever “took official action” to help his relatives’ “businesses.”

Later, the article reversed itself, and give several examples of exactly such evidence, although labeled as “uncorroborated” and other words like that, to help the red pills go down easier. Here was Politico’s first example of direct evidence of Biden corruption:

The (FBI’s) informant claimed that Burisma’s owner said privately that he was pressured by Joe and Hunter Biden into bribing them for help resolving Burisma’s legal issues, including Shokin’s firing. The informant first mentioned Hunter Biden’s role with Burisma in a 2017 conversation with the FBI, according to an agency form recording his allegations, which was obtained by congressional Republicans and made public in July. The bureau re-interviewed the informant, whose identity remains secret, in 2020, after the Trump Justice Department began scrutinizing claims about Shokin’s ouster.

Next, Politico shockingly but accurately recited the whole disgraceful timeline of drug-addled Hunter’s abandoned Macbook, and the FBI’s and the intelligence community’s subsequent outrageous lies about it being “Russian disinformation.” Then Politico informed its probably-astounded readers that it (Politico), The New York Times, and The Washington Post — the core corporate media team — had each independently verified thousands of Hunter emails from the so-called “fabricated” laptop.

Without drawing attention to the fact’s significance, Politico also deliberately referred to Hunter’s lawsuit against the Mac Shop’s owner for “violation of privacy.” The lawsuit itself confirms the laptop’s authenticity. Obviously, Hunter wouldn’t sue over a fake laptop with fake emails on it. Not for “violation of privacy,” anyway.

Next up was Tony Bobulinski, another long-overlooked former Hunter business partner (overlooked by Establishment Media). In what constitutes even more “evidence” — at least by any legal definition of the word “evidence” — Bobulinski testified under oath and to the FBI that he personally had discussed Hunter’s Chinese business ventures with Joe Biden. For its readers’ benefit, Politico carefully noted that Bobulinski has always made political donations to democrats.

But that wasn’t the only way Politico shored up Bobolinski’s testimony. It fastidiously pointed out that Bobulinski has never been arrested for lying to the FBI:

In September, House Republicans released an FBI summary of an interview agents conducted with Bobulinski in the fall of 2020, showing that Bobulinski told investigators the same basic story: that he had discussed the China venture with Joe Biden. The summary gives extra heft to Boublinski’s public claims because lying to the FBI in order to influence an investigation can lead to criminal charges.

Well my goodness. At this point in the article, democrat readers with any remaining capacity for independent thought must have been wondering, what exactly is the standard for “no evidence”?

This is just the tip of the story’s corruption iceberg. The story goes on and on. It was a methodical tour de force of Biden family corruption, and completely reversed the normal course, taking the opposite approach from what Establishment Media has always taken to these facts. Normally, Establishment Media assiduously undermined witnesses like Devon Archer, Tony Bobulinski, and the unidentified FBI informants.

But in this article, Politico painstakingly boosted the anti-Biden witnesses’ credibility.

Conservative media is mainly designed to provide its readers with information. But liberal media is designed to give its readers permission to think certain thoughts. It’s not so much that the Politico article was informing democrats about certain uncomfortable Biden facts for the first time, although that is certainly true.

The article was more significant because it signaled to democrats that now acceptable to talk about Biden lying and about his being mixed up with all these sketchy characters.

If this Politico article wasn’t an outright hit piece aimed squarely at Joe’s key demographic, it was at least a barely-concealed political torpedo jetting directly towards the S.S. Bob Peters’ exposed port side. Friendly fire!

Do you think it was coincidental this carefully-written article published exactly one year before the election?

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com...ay-november-6-2023-c

There is a lot of strategy involved in timing one's announcement of candidacy. For now it would be smart for a Dem to not announce, leaving Joe to take all the heat. I can't imagine Joe will be the candidate, and the Dem selection process allows them to nominate whomever the power brokers want rather than by primary votes.

We can guess that some of the Dems trying to get national exposure are doing so ahead of trying to get the nomination at the Dem convention next summer.

Missouri Democrats have decided not to engage in the caucus method, and instead use mail in ballots.

If you're a registered voter in Missouri, I suspect you can participate in letting them know who you'd prefer as the Democrat Presidential Candidate.

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We can guess that some of the Dems trying to get national exposure are doing so ahead of trying to get the nomination at the Dem convention next summer.

Yep. Chicago. August 19 to 22.
If that's the case, they are planning a blitzkrieg 2 month campaign.

IRS Targets Conservative Group Exposing the Biden Admin

https://www.dailysignal.com/20...xposing-biden-admin/

The Internal Revenue Service has moved to audit a conservative group that has exposed the radicalism of some of President Joe Biden’s nominees to senior administrative posts, and in so doing, led him to withdraw their candidacies.

The American Accountability Foundation has exposed numerous Biden nominees, and it published emails showing that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., had encouraged the IRS to target conservative organizations, including AAF, for extra scrutiny and investigation.

“Senator Whitehouse has repeatedly called for the IRS to investigate AAF—by name,” AAF President Tom Jones told The Daily Signal in an emailed statement Monday. “Attacking groups like ours has been a priority for Senator Whitehouse and it appears the Biden admin has heeded his calls.”

“We’re auditing your organization’s Form 990 for the tax year ended December 31, 2021,” an IRS revenue agent wrote in a Sept. 14 letter to AAF. The organization provided a copy of the letter to The Daily Signal.

The IRS insisted it does not launch audits for partisan reasons. A spokesman said he could not confirm the audit.

“Under the federal tax law, federal employees can neither confirm nor deny that a particular organization is or is not being audited,” IRS spokesman Anthony Burke told The Daily Signal in a phone interview Monday. “We’re precluded from disclosing tax return information.”

Burke directed The Daily Signal to IRS Publication 556, which explains the examination of returns.

“AAF is being attacked because it is successful,” Jones said. He mentioned a few of the Biden nominees AAF criticized whose nominations Biden later revoked.

When Biden nominated David Chipman to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Jones unearthed allegations that Chipman, who had served as a special agent at ATF until 2012, had remarked that “African American agents … must have been cheating” because they passed an exam. Biden withdrew Chipman’s nomination after AAF revealed the alleged comments.

When Biden nominated Gigi Sohn to join the Federal Communications Commission, AAF purchased billboards and ran newspaper and digital ads opposing her nomination. AAF highlighted the Fraternal Order of Police’s opposition to Sohn, which noted her statements indicating “serious animus towards law enforcement officers.” Sohn withdrew her nomination following the scrutiny.

AAF also warned that Saule Omarova, then a nominee for comptroller of the currency, had apparently joined a self-declared Marxist group on Facebook in 2019. Biden also withdrew her nomination.

“Whether it is Gigi Sohn at the FCC, David Chipman at the ATF, Saule Omarova as Biden’s bank czar, there are numerous people who have been exposed because of AAF’s work,” Jones told The Daily Signal. “Apparently, the administration has decided they want to stop that by weaponizing the IRS against us.”

In 2010, conservative groups reported waiting longer than usual to receive verification for tax-exempt status from the IRS. Groups claimed the IRS had targeted them for their political and ideological stances, but the Obama administration denied any ideological discrimination. In October 2017, the Department of Justice settled two cases in the IRS targeting scandal. In a class-action lawsuit involving 428 conservative plaintiffs, the IRS agreed to pay $3.5 million.

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Originally posted by PASig:
One day until we are one year out from the 2024 Presidential Election.

I honestly don't think Joe Biden will be on the ticket. Maybe the "October Surprise" will be him dropping out in August or so of 2024. Maybe sooner the way things are going.

^^^ This
Leaving Joe to take all the heat, as well as the targeted attacks means whomever the Left chooses gets a free pass up until they make the switch. This would leave very little time for real debate. We conservatives should stick to real policy differences and not allow the focus to be Crooked Joe.

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IRS Targets Conservative Group Exposing the Biden Admin

More proof that Obama (IMO) is one of Dementia Joe's puppet string pullers

This has his greasy little fingerprints all over it, recall Lois Lerner and the whole IRS going after the Tea Party and other conservative groups?

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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by wcb6092:

IRS Targets Conservative Group Exposing the Biden Admin

More proof that Obama (IMO) is one of Dementia Joe's puppet string pullers

This has his greasy little fingerprints all over it, recall Lois Lerner and the whole IRS going after the Tea Party and other conservative groups?

Yeah, it isn't smoking gun proof, but damn.

Barry wanted to be a puppet master.



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Looks like he got his wish.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...-testify-under-oath/

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) on Wednesday subpoenaed Hunter and James Biden, along with family associate Rob Walker , to testify under oath on December 13, 2023, at 9:30 a.m. ET.

The subpoenas represent the next step in the House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Comer issued subpoenas for James and Hunter Biden’s bank records in September. The Bidens complied with Comer’s subpoenas.

“The House Oversight Committee has followed the money and built a record of evidence revealing how Joe Biden knew, was involved, and benefited from his family’s influence peddling schemes,” Comer said in a statement obtained by Breitbart News.

“Now, the House Oversight Committee is going to bring in members of the Biden family and their associates to question them on this record of evidence,” he continued.

“Unlike the many lies President Biden told the American people about his family’s business schemes, bank records don’t lie,” he added. “These records reveal how the Bidens sold Joe Biden around to the world to benefit the Biden family, including Joe Biden himself, to the detriment of U.S. interests.”

Along with Hunter and James Biden, Comer demanded Walker appear before the committee after he refused to appear earlier this year.

Walker described himself as someone who “generally [has] been acting as a surrogate for H[unter] around the country and abroad pursuing opportunities.”

Comer wants to question Walker about his receipt of a $3 million payment, which in turn was split between four Biden family members — Hunter, James, Hallie, and an unidentified “Biden.”

The family members received $1.3 million collectively from the $3 million payment.