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Originally posted by 41:
Think about the coming budget reviews for Congress critters and ex-Presidents??? Why all the perks and other costs they get when retiring and becoming JOE CITIZEN?

41

Ex-Presidents do pretty well, but Congressmen and Senators have to go to work for huge lobbying outfits to make ends meet.

All that talk about full salaries for life and health care after a term or two is nonsense.

so, out of the White House to their rented pauper's digs (8,200 square feet, $5.3 million) to become the disloyal opposition to the new regime. Can't wait to see how that works out. I imagine that the new White House communications team will be on full alert to skewer them for each petty outburst. "Hoist on their own petard" will become the schadenfreude of 2017...


Report: Obama Is Setting Up Shadow Government to Undermine Trump Starting on Inauguration Day


Author Ed Klein told Pete Hegseth on Fox and Friends Weekend this morning that Barack Obama is setting up a shadow government in Washington DC to undermine President Trump after Inauguration Day.

Ed Klein: For the past 100 years every president who is outgoing has packed up his stuff gone home and not criticized his successor. This is not what the Obamas are planning to do. They rented an eight-bedroom mansion in the section of Washington near Joe Lockhart, Bill Clinton’s last press secretary. In that house there’s enough room for Valerie Jarrett and Michelle and the kids. A place for ten cars to park. They are setting up what they are calling a shadow government.

Pete Hegseth: The Obamas claim it is because the children want to stay in D.C..

Ed Klein: That’s not the real reason they are staying there. They are staying there because despite what the president said in his press conference, he’s in a sense of outrage over this incoming Trump Administration, which he thinks is going to wipe out his legacy. So he’s setting up this kind of almost insurgency, picking people in foreign affairs, labor, abortion, union matters and setting them up to start appearing on television, making speeches and doing op-ed pieces for next four years, you’re going to see not only a Trump Administration but you’re going to see a shadow government opposing the Trump…

Klein said it was an insurgency by the left starting on Inauguration Day with the mass demonstrations organized by Michael Moore.

Actually the attacks started this past week when classless Michelle Obama whined to Oprah that Americans have lost hope.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.co...ng-inauguration-day/

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Originally posted by parabellum:
BTW, has anyone asked Tom Hanks if he's yet seen any of those spaeships coming down, being flown by dinosaurs wearing red capes?

He said we would see this just about the same time Donald Trump was elected POTUS, so...

I think they called it off and returned to Xnue's DC-8 on November 8th and plan to meet up later with Farrakhan's mothership for a giant pity party...word on the street is that Comey and Huma were not invited.

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:

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Originally posted by sdy:
http://thehill.com/homenews/ca...my-wife-the-election

Former President Bill Clinton is blaming his wife's loss on FBI Director James Comey.

"James Comey cost her the election," Clinton said

Bill Clinton in the new editorial also criticized Donald Trump when asked whether he thought the president-elect was smart.

"He doesn't know much," Bill Clinton said.

"One thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him."

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DEMs keep digging the hole deeper

I've got two words for Bill - and his wife - and they start with F and Y, respectively.
Just go away and leave the country alone.

They should just go away! Preferably to one of those gray bar hotels.

Really ready for Jan 20th to get here.

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Or, rather, is it the last chance for these moochers to bury their snouts in the public trough?

This! The Asshole In Chief has not put in a single day's work in the last 8 years, and never had a job before that.

just need one now with Kellyanne as Lucy pulling the ball away from Hillary...

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That cartoon is waaaaaaaaaay too large.

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Originally posted by mbinky:
I understand the dates, and maybe I missed it, but will results be unknown until 6 January

Yes...that is correct, as just heard on Fox News. The electors confirm their votes today and the results are made public 6-JAN 2017 (my birthday.....I'll be celebrating the results more than my b'day ).

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:
so, out of the White House to their rented pauper's digs (8,200 square feet, $5.3 million) to become the disloyal opposition to the new regime. Can't wait to see how that works out.

If he works as hard in retirement as he did while he had the job we should be OK.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
I think people ought to have the freedom to form groups on any basis they wish. Why should a Muslim be a priest? Why should an Aggie be in the Texas Exes? Why should the KKK be forced to take blacks, Jews, Catholics? Why should Repblicans be forced to take Communists? This is stupid.

Maybe we should have a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing Freedom of Association. It's too bad the Framers didn't think of this.

C Span-1 live coverage of PA electoral vote

Watching Bill cast his electoral college vote now.

Bill who?

Good Lord, when is this going to end? What are today's youth learning about how to accept defeat gracefully? Since everyone gets a participation trophy these days, did they expect a co-presidency if they lost the election? I've never seen anything like this and it just baffles me.

Are the votes public? Will we know before the 6th?

watching C-Span

PA electors filling out presidential ballots.

Now filling out VP ballots.

votes are being counted.

20 votes for Donald Trump !!

there was a moment of drama. As the clerk read out the results, he was talking into a dead mic. You couldn't hear him. Then the assembly broke into cheering. And finally the man running the show announced the vote.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Bill who?

The beloved husband of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Apparently Bill is a member of the New York delegation.

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Originally posted by Expat:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Bill who?

The beloved husband of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Apparently Bill is a member of the New York delegation.

He only got the job due to nepotism.

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Originally posted by Spokane228:
Are the votes public? Will we know before the 6th?

Reference 7 posts above yours.

As a side note, for those born before the 60's, has there EVER been such publicity about the EC proceedings? I don't remember it being the frontal focus in my voting lifetime from the 80's onward. The 1980 Reagan election was my first election in which to participate...

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:

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Originally posted by Spokane228:
Are the votes public? Will we know before the 6th?

Reference 7 posts above yours.

As a side note, for those born before the 60's, has there EVER been such publicity about the EC proceedings? I don't remember it being the frontal focus in my voting lifetime from the 80's onward. The 1980 Reagan election was my first election in which to participate...

Right, but how would they handle a faithless elector? Do they deal with it today? Would the public be made aware as it happens?