Happy New Year all!! This is the year of "The Donald". The GOP has the White House, the Senate, and the House.....a real trifecta!! If the GOP and the Pres can't make some major changes to make America great again NOW, then they never can. I am soooo looking forward to the first 100 days, just to hear a lot of heads explode, including Zippy's, and then the next four years of good change for our Country. I really believe that it can be accomplished with Donald at the helm, and can only hope that a majority of GOP....and a few Democrats, will fall in line and help out where needed. This is history, and is so needed. We all got to see it, and live in it!!!

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Now that is absolutely great! Stolen and forwarded to a number of friends.

Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W9TtgDgog4

Just couldn't handle this being on page 2

this is a great photo showing the despair and utter disrespect he has for the office

he had the opportunity to be a president of a country, yet it was always about him - the well-being of the country never once entered his feeble little mind

It will be so very nice to not ever have to see this bastard in the Oval Office ever again

may he rot in hell for the rest of the days he's alive

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
may he rot in hell for the rest of the days he's alive

May he rot in hell for a bit longer. Eternity sounds good to me.

Neither one of them have any class. I have seen pictures of him with his feet propped up on the desk.

The amount of damage he has done to this country is amazing like releasing information about our Top Secret sites, etc. Far worst then the damage Bill Clinton did to the technology given to the Chinese.

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Senate confirmation hearings are scheduled to begin next week

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.0eae687dce0a

Schumer has told McConnell that DEMs will target 8 of the nominees:

Rex Tillerson (State Dept)
Jeff Sessions (AG)
Mick Mulvaney (OMB)
Betsy DeVos (Education)
Tom Price (HHS)
Andrew Pudzer (Labor)
Steve Mnuchin (Treasury)
Scott Pruitt (EPA)

Schumer has told McConnell that he wants at least two days of hearings for each of these eight nominees, including at least one panel made up of witnesses that can speak to the pick’s past record, aides said. At each hearing, members of the committee would get at least 10 minutes to ask questions, with no limits on multiple rounds of questioning, if requested.

Democrats also want hearings for each of these eight nominees to be held on separate weeks, with no more than two Cabinet picks sitting for a hearing in the same week. That would mean that Tillerson’s and Mattis’s hearings could happen in the same week, but not the hearings for Price and Mulvaney, aides said.

Republicans have scoffed at Schumer’s proposal, noting that the New York senator went along in 2009 when the Senate unanimously confirmed seven of President Obama’s Cabinet nominees on Inauguration Day and five more later that week .

“It’s curious that they’d [Democrats] object to treating the incoming president’s nominees with the same courtesy and seriousness with which the Senate acted on President Obama’s nominees,” Antonia Ferrier, a McConnell spokeswoman, said in an email. “Our committees and chairmen are fully capable of reviewing the incoming Cabinet nominations with the same rules and procedures as the same committees did with President Obama’s nominations.”
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I hope the DEMs get crushed in their initial battle to hamstring the Trump administration.

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Originally posted by sdy:
Senate confirmation hearings are scheduled to begin next week

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.0eae687dce0a

Schumer has told McConnell that DEMs will target 8 of the nominees:

Rex Tillerson (State Dept)
Jeff Sessions (AG)
Mick Mulvaney (OMB)
Betsy DeVos (Education)
Tom Price (HHS)
Andrew Pudzer (Labor)
Steve Mnuchin (Treasury)
Scott Pruitt (EPA)

Schumer has told McConnell that he wants at least two days of hearings for each of these eight nominees, including at least one panel made up of witnesses that can speak to the pick’s past record, aides said. At each hearing, members of the committee would get at least 10 minutes to ask questions, with no limits on multiple rounds of questioning, if requested.

Democrats also want hearings for each of these eight nominees to be held on separate weeks, with no more than two Cabinet picks sitting for a hearing in the same week. That would mean that Tillerson’s and Mattis’s hearings could happen in the same week, but not the hearings for Price and Mulvaney, aides said.

Republicans have scoffed at Schumer’s proposal, noting that the New York senator went along in 2009 when the Senate unanimously confirmed seven of President Obama’s Cabinet nominees on Inauguration Day and five more later that week .

“It’s curious that they’d [Democrats] object to treating the incoming president’s nominees with the same courtesy and seriousness with which the Senate acted on President Obama’s nominees,” Antonia Ferrier, a McConnell spokeswoman, said in an email. “Our committees and chairmen are fully capable of reviewing the incoming Cabinet nominations with the same rules and procedures as the same committees did with President Obama’s nominations.”
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I hope the DEMs get crushed in their initial battle to hamstring the Trump administration.

I don't think the stupid dems have much say in the matter, or am i wrong? These nominations are going through whether they like it or not. Hopefully they go through quickly.

Schumer can go fuck himself with a BBQ brush - he's not calling the shots

he will quickly find out that he is just going to go along for the ride, and if he thinks he has anything to say about it, he's as delusional as Bloomberg

his 5 minutes are up

he is another one of those people that I like to call disposable - they're meaningless and useless

The Dems seem to be forgetting that they are the minority party; they are in no position to demand anything. McConnel should tell Schumer "I want 8 confirmed the first day; the rest in the next few days. Let's see if we can't break Obama's record eh"?

And if they stall? Nuke 'em. Force them through so Trump can get on governing withouth being distracted by whiney snowflakes.

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And if they stall? Nuke 'em.

Literally?

I hope they go thru quickly also.

We will have to see whether some REP senators get a burr up their butt.

Who knows what cheap shots might come from the likes of McCain, Graham, Rubio, Sasse, Collins, Flake etc.

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I hope they go thru quickly also.

We will have to see whether some REP senators get a burr up their butt.

Who knows what cheap shots might come from the likes of McCain, Graham, Rubio, Sasse, Collins, Flake etc.

Sen. McConnell should just tell those limp Republicans that if they ever want anything to get through the Senate again they will shut up and vote for those confirmations.

flashguy

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
this is a great photo showing the despair and utter disrespect he has for the office

he had the opportunity to be a president of a country, yet it was always about him - the well-being of the country never once entered his feeble little mind

It will be so very nice to not ever have to see this bastard in the Oval Office ever again

may he rot in hell for the rest of the days he's alive

The Resolute desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to Pres. Hays, 1880. That cretin has been using it as a footstool. The Washington Times put a slideshow together. GTFO.

http://m.washingtontimes.com/m...tool-famous-resolut/

Trump victory spurs women to run for office across US: 'Our time is coming


The Guardian's dyke journalist doesn't mention how many conservative women may also be considering runs for office due to inspiration from Trump.



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Victoria Oliver has been a police officer for 20 years, the last 10 as a detective, but it didn’t take a Sherlock Holmes instinct for her to deduce that it was time for her to run for political office.

“The election was so divisive. You can take the easy option and sit on the sidelines and criticize, or you can get involved and try to change things,” she said.

The surprise victory of Donald Trump in November was the clincher.

“They’ve picked a petulant boy to run our nation, instead of this incredible woman who was such a force and won the popular vote,” she said.

Oliver, a member of the Denver police department, will embark on a training course this January aimed at preparing her to become a candidate in future local, state or national elections.

She is part of a surge of women across the country who are rushing to run for office in the aftermath of the election – women disappointed that Hillary Clinton lost and disgusted with the sexist and racist rhetoric of Trump’s campaign and the ultra-conservative credentials of his proposed cabinet.

“We are a force to be reckoned with,” said Oliver. “Our time is coming.”

VoteRunLead (VRL), an organization that trains future female politicians, normally receives between 30 and 80 applicants for each of its regular webinars.

“In a 48-hour period after the election, we had 1,100 women sign up for our next webinar and we had to close it and start a wait list,” said Erin Vilardi, executive director of VoteRunLead.

“Most women said they woke up on November 9 and realized they could no longer just spectate or click on online petitions, they wanted to know how to run for office, whether it’s the school board, the city council, state or national representation,” she added.

VRL is a non-partisan organization and women signing up are not asked whether they intend to run as Democrats or Republicans. The main theme of the new influx could be summed up as “a rejection of Trump”, Vilardi said. Two-thirds of existing VRL members who state an affiliation are Democrats. Other organizations that specifically aim to put Democratic women in power, such as Emily’s List and Emerge America, are also reporting a dramatic spike in interest from women.

In Maryland, Eve Hurwitz, 44, had thought about entering politics before but had been concerned at her lack of experience.

“My degree is in music and my career is in business and the military. But when Trump won, I thought: ‘He isn’t qualified either and he’s going to be president,’” she said.

Hurwitz is a naval flight officer who served as a mission controller flying in an airborne early warning aircraft during combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. She was based on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and switched from active duty to the reserve in 2010. She is now a financial software consultant.

“Trump tipped me over the edge. I thought: what’s stopping me?” She is training with VRL and wants to become a candidate for state lawmaker in Virginia “within six to 12 months”, she said, or perhaps even go straight for national office in 2018.

Emerge America, a progressive political coaching group, reported almost 800 women signed up for different aspects of their training courses since the election, exponentially more than normal.

One of its courses had 35 women sign up in the six weeks before the election - and 230 in the six weeks after.

Emily’s List, which focuses on getting pro-choice, Democratic women into office and offers one-on-one training, reported that it usually put a lot of resources into scouting women suitable for politics, but now those women were coming to them.

“We have seen an unprecedented number of women raising their hands, wanting to run,” said Denise Feriozzi, deputy executive director of Emily’s List.

She said Emily’s List had an eye on state governor races coming up in 2018.

“We’ve had a lot of success in getting women elected to Congress but there are only two Democratic women governors in the country,” said Feriozzi.

Jenny Willford, 30, knows some of what it will take. She narrowly failed to win a local open seat on the outskirts of Denver in 2015, losing to a fellow Democrat and male party stalwart at least twice her age.

“I have stories for days about the sexist stuff I heard. I was told I should have asked his permission and that it was his ‘turn’. Then a voter told me I should be home taking care of my child and baking apple pie – literally. I was called a bitch,” she said.

She is currently weighing whether to run again and meanwhile is running Emerge Colorado, a branch of Emerge America.

Oliver, 50, will enter Emerge Colorado’s training course in January with plans to run for city or state office in two to five years. She became a cop to try to improve community race relations “and because growing up I didn’t see officers like me. I knew black women were there, but I wasn’t seeing them on the beat,” she said.

She takes pride in bridging divides. Oliver said she had a lot of respect for the Black Lives Matter movement and had close friends who were ardent supporters of the grassroots organization that emerged from public outrage over the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and a string of unarmed black men killed by law enforcement.

“When these things occur, I tell people I’m not going to attack the officer because I’m black and I’m not going to defend them because I’m a cop,” she said.

Oliver believes that the vast majority of police officers are sound and well intentioned. When there is a bad officer or a terrible mistake, the authorities need to “hear the whole story, examine it and fix it”, she said.

One of her tenets is good communication.

“Everyone starts on the same page of respect with me, including suspects. But if they drop that I can drop it very fast, too,” she said.

She worries that people have lost faith in the power of their vote in the US and that politicians have stopped listening to the people.

Fayrouz Saad, an Arab American and a Muslim woman, sees “a void” in Congress and state legislatures of young, minority faces.

Saad, 33, has already been through the Emerge Michigan political training program. She works in the Detroit mayor’s office and has a master’s degree in public administration from Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

“I had this moment of clarity after the election that rather than hoping someone else steps in, why shouldn’t I?” she said. “I want to run as soon as possible.”

During the campaign, relatives of hers were told by people they didn’t know: “I can’t wait for Donald Trump to deport you.”

She is interested in immigrants’ rights and women’s rights but also income inequality and improving public education.

“When I was in fifth grade I told my teacher I wanted to be the first woman president,” she said. “Why not? Why not me? Why not continue to work my butt off in the hope I could be secretary of state one day? President? I would like to think that one day America could vote for a Muslim American woman and if not me, then someone.”

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
this is a great photo showing the despair and utter disrespect he has for the office

he had the opportunity to be a president of a country, yet it was always about him - the well-being of the country never once entered his feeble little mind

It will be so very nice to not ever have to see this bastard in the Oval Office ever again

may he rot in hell for the rest of the days he's alive

Take one more vacation Barry, take all your brood, Jar-Rat's clan too, you can squeeze it in, stay gone until the 20th, play all the golf you want, stay out of the WH (family included), is all I ask.

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Originally posted by Tonyny:
Trump victory spurs women to run for office across US: 'Our time is coming

What, four women? That's a movement? The Left is still manufacturing news.



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I hope the US never has a Muslim President, male or female. Sorry, but I just don't think Islam is compatible with our Republic.

flashguy

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Originally posted by flashguy:
I hope the US never has a another Muslim President, male or female. Sorry, but I just don't think Islam is compatible with our Republic.

flashguy

There you go.