We are the drain the swamp people

And set forth below, the insufferable Hillary for your viewing pleasure.  We do note that she does call for calm,. She of course means regarding the attacks on her and Obama. 

 GOP lawmaker jokes:

‘More people have died from knowing Hillary’ than coronavirus: 

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To me, this seems very alarming…a ‘civil war’ in the U S judicial system!!! I wonder if Chief Roberts still thinks there are “no Obama judges, or Clinton judges, or Bush and Trump judges.”

I thought that no federal judge would dare be openly critical of the High Court…that there would be pretty severe repercussions. Apparently there are no restrictions or even simple professional courtesy in effect today.

These federal judges are definitely out of control…as should have been realized as they’ve taken presidential authority unto themselves…immigration law, foreign affairs, etc, etc

Bunch of arrogant asses!*

Disorder in the courts: Federal judge blasts Chief Justice John Roberts
By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News

A federal judge leveled harsh accusations against Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and the rest of the conservative majority, claiming that they are “actively participating in undermining American democracy.”

Judge Lynn Adelman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin blasted the Roberts-led court in an article titled “The Roberts Court’s Assault on Democracy,” set to be published in the Harvard Law & Policy Review.

“[T]he Roberts Court has been anything but passive,” wrote Adelman, who was appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton. “Rather, the Court’s hard-right majority is actively participating in undermining American democracy. Indeed, the Roberts Court has contributed to ensuring that the political system in the United States pays little attention to ordinary Americans and responds only to the wishes of a relatively small number of powerful corporations and individuals.”

Adelman pointed to two particular types of cases. First were those dealing with what he called “direct assaults on democracy such as cases that affect voting rights.” He said some cases have hurt minorities by weakening the Voting Rights Act. In a recent case, the court refused to intervene in partisan gerrymandering.

The second type of case Adelman described was where he said the court “increased the economic and political power of corporations and wealthy individuals and reduced that of ordinary Americans and entities which represent them.” These included Citizens United, which said that corporations enjoy free speech protections that allow them to spend large sums in connection with elections. Adelman said that this decision “weaponized the First Amendment.”

Adelman was even unhappy with Roberts’ own opinion and key vote that upheld ObamaCare because it knocked down its expansion of Medicaid. He said this “thwarted Congress’ efforts to address one of the most serious problems that the poor face, the lack of health insurance[.]”

The judge did not reserve his ire for the Supreme Court alone. He took shots at Senate Republicans for their handling of President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, which GOP senators ignored in order to allow Obama’s successor to appoint someone else – this resulted in President Trump successfully nominating Justice Neil Gorsuch.

Adelman went so far as to compare the Republican senators to pro-slavery Southerners.

“The zealous partisanship the Republicans displayed in connection with the Garland nomination, as well as judicial appointments generally reminds one of nothing so much as the ‘fire-eaters,’ those fervent defenders of slavery who pushed the South into the Civil War,” he wrote.

Ultimately, though, Adelman’s focus was on Roberts, insisting that he has exhibited a harmful bias and that his description of a Supreme Court justice was of an umpire who “calls the balls and strikes” was “a masterpiece of disingenuousness.”

He concluded with a dire warning that the current state of the judiciary has contributed to “a new and arguably dangerous phase in American history” that requires fixing and necessitates “every bit of democratic resourcefulness that we can muster to undo the damage that the Court has already caused.”

*More about Judge Adelman here.

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WELL, OK. MAYBE I WAS WRONG ABOUT MICHELLE O. GETTING THE DEM PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION!

An editorial in “Issues and Insights” suggests the Former First Lady may instead join the Biden ticket as VP nominee

Must concede that “I&I” might be right as it becomes more obvious that if, indeed Biden is the Dem’s nominee, and is somehow elected, there’s little to no chance he’ll serve out his term; Our guess has been that if he’s elected, he likely won’t finish out his first month in the Oval Office (less if Hillary is the VP).

Regarding Michelle O., the conventional wisdom among conservatives, and most political observers, has been that Mrs. Obama is enjoying the good life way too much to be willing (or energetic enough) to endure the rigors of a 2020 campaign against Trump. And, even if she won that grueling contest, she would not be interested enough in the job to do other than entertain Hollywood celebs in White House galas.

Maybe so, but this editorial addresses several of those notions, and I would suggest another…Michelle, I agree, is far too enamored with the ‘good life’ to go through a ‘grueling campaign’. However, as #2 on the ticket, she wouldn’t have to; just her presence on it would attract all those voters motivated by their own self-assessment as being so “virtuous” as to put a black female into the Presidency… literally through the ‘back door’ if possible.

And, does anybody think that Ms. Obama’s ego and enormous self-esteem would resist all that celebrity pressure to accept a place on the Biden ticket…with the virtual certainty that she and her husband would be back in the White House “making her proud again, for the second time in her adult life”?

And, finally, with her delegation of the main presidential duties to Barack, Michelle could indulge in handling the more pleasurable activity of entertaining the fawning press and celebrity community!          dlh

(One note: We believe even the ‘Bernie bros and sisses” could put aside their disappointment to back the obvious prospect of an imminent Michelle presidency since that ‘most admired former First Lady’ actually shares their authoritarian/socialist views…she just hides them slightly better.)

Is Trump Ready For Biden-Obama 2020?     (excerpt)
I & I Editorial Board,  March 12, 2020

If black Americans really are the heart and soul of the Democratic Party, as Biden contends, getting them out to the polls in numbers rivaling their turnout in support of Barack Obama will likely mean more total votes than focusing on energizing Bernie’s largely youthful supporters.

And nothing would enthuse black Democrat voters like an Obama on the ticket. Still, don’t hold your breath.

Biden Steps Down, Michelle Becomes 47th President

Between now and the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee in mid-July, it should become fairly clear if age and verbal self-flaggelations are getting the better of Joe Biden, or if, instead, he has a serious chance of beating Trump. For Michelle Obama to agree to be on a ticket that ends up losing the election would further blemish the once-shiny Obama legacy.

But consider the effect if she did agree. Voters would not only understand that there would be no second Biden term, but the unspoken message of a Biden-Obama campaign might be that Biden wouldn’t even serve out his first term. This could be relayed to voters in any number of subtle ways, including Democratic Party surrogates suggesting the idea through various media.

If enough winks and nods could convince voters they were actually voting for Michelle Obama to be president – in effect a third Barack Obama term, with the still-popular ex-president undoubtedly at her side advising her throughout her presidency – it might be much easier for a great many of them to vote against Trump. At any rate, with a Biden-Obama ticket voters would feel they knew better what it was they were voting for.

How would the Trump campaign attack the former first lady? There’s the infamous 2008 clipof her saying she had never in her adult life been proud of her country before, of course. But depicting the likable, attractive Michelle as a dangerous extremist would be a formidable task. Plus, Mrs. Obama has been comparatively underexposed since leaving the White House; her return to the limelight would make for a stark contrast to the pageant of grotesques who ran for the Democratic nomination.

It’s a long shot that this mother of two college-attending daughters would accept Biden’s offer to join him, but it might be the only way to get voters to discount Biden’s never-ending faux pas. And for Trump it would be a crafty curve ball, an unexpected and unprecedented campaign challenge.

*If Michelle is interested it would perhaps more aptly be: Michelle O and the Tipsy Canoodler Too

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• Showed no comprehension either
• Didn’t even ask how many pushups he could do
• ALSO, THERE’LL BE NO “WEEKEND WITH BERNIE”!

Here is the video and then we set forth pretty much the Democrat take on the matter

Former Vice President Joe Biden says America needs steady presidential leadership that is honest, trusted and truthful.

May have also said that, though ‘full of shit’, “Michigan voters know a real ‘statesman’ who will bring civility back to the political discourse…”

Joe Biden swept to victory in Michigan’s pivotal primary contest Tuesday, while notching wins elsewhere in the Midwest and the South, building on the former vice president’s momentum from Super Tuesday a week ago and further clouding Sen. Bernie Sanders’ path forward in the presidential race.

Saying America needs a president who “believes in empathy and compassion and respect for everyone,” rather than one bent on divisiveness, Biden sounded a measured tone as he addressed supporters in Philadelphia late Tuesday.        dlh

Via  Daily Wire and AM 565

‘You’re Full Of Sh**!’ Joe Biden Rages At Michigan Auto Worker Over Gun Rights, ‘AR-14’

Then he shushes the woman next to him, then argues with the gun owner (Twitter).  From David Harsanyi: The man in the video — whose name I wish I knew — is right. Biden supports every single serious national effort to restrict gun rights, all of them part of a concerted effort to incrementally terminate civilian gun ownership in the United States. It’s all right there on his campaign issues page. When CNN asked Biden what he had to say to gun owners who claimed that “a Biden Administration means they’re going to come for my guns,” he answered, “Bingo, you’re right if you have an assault weapon” (National Review).  From Ben Shapiro: The problem here isn’t Biden’s language. No pearl-clutching from people who love this sort of stuff from Trump. The problem is Biden lying about his own position and completely botching every fact possible about guns (Twitter).  When MSNBC told the story, they edited out Biden swearing (Red State).  Gun ownership tends to jump when Democrats start talking (PJ Media).

From the Twitter world  — (Pro and con ol’ Joe) note especially David Frum and Dan Rather comments

David Frum @davidfrum
Kind of amazing that anybody thinks this video makes Biden look anything other than terrific. He shushes the aide who wants to lead him away – and then engages a hostile critic face to face, fact to fact. Impressive.

Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze
Replying to @davidfrum
David, what did Biden get correct in that exchange, other than your cheers of “He fights!” which sounds so familiar.

Bimmerella @bimmerella
I’ve kinda been waiting for someone to say “bullshit” right to the face of these gun humping ding dongs…..they’re gonna need to get used to it. We’re done being cowed by their bullying & aggression. I love that Joe stood HIS (90+% of Americans) ground!

@PawsDragon                                                                                                                                 Those darn AR-14s eh? Pretending he’s only trying to ban guns that don’t even exist.
Rolling on the floor laughing

Rosie memos @almostjingo  Replying to @davidfrum
Right? As a female voter it’s super hawt to have a lifelong politician put his hand in a woman’s face and yell “SHUSH” then threaten to fight a worker, call him names and make up a gun type! You really have your hand on the pulse of the people David.

Rigel @RigelOrionBeta
This is a sign of dementia. My grandfather had it and he would get irrationally mad out of nowhere at people. Start yelling.

Dan Rather @DanRather
Joe Biden’s speech tonight was inclusive, soft-spoken, empathetic, and positive. It was about decency, dignity, and honor. It included one of my favorite words – “steady.” It suited him well and may bode for a heck of a showdown of style and substance in November

Bernie Bernie Bernie. Bernie @JeremyWard33
@DanRather
Earlier that same day, Joe Biden threatened to slap a union worker.
Nice style and substance there.

#BidensCognitiveDecline

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• Did Chicken Little wear a bow-tie? (Tucker Carlson)
• Never let a crisis go to waste

Don’t forget the Hon Kong Flu*

“We” have all had the flu. It is a debilitating disease (temporarily) to the healthy and can be very serious or deadly for the medically vulnerable.  I  would guess I have had a significant bout with “the flu” less than a half-dozen times in my dozens of years as an adult. I could be bed ridden for a day or two and wiped out of energy for days. I do not get flu shots because the efficacy seems suspect but I may start.

The “flu” in general has an economic impact. Nothing new there. I  have lost work because of it and had to cover for people who came down with it.   Flu season happens to the world every year. So what is so special about the corona virus? From what we have read it has some peculiarities but they are no cause for panic or shortages.

The general population death rate from Wuhan Corona virus, as these articles point out, is not remarkable compared to any other flu.  Its containment solutions are not all that different from other flu seasons the world has dealt with.  Take the same precautions you would and should for the flu in general.

A high percentage of people can be exposed to it and will never get it, for a variety of reasons. Yes they can pass it on but that is true for other viruses as well. You can be a host or carrier and not come down with something.  But for the hysteria about this one, people would go about their general daily routines including going to work, ideally with some increased precautions during the season.

Those should include hygienic wipe downs and more attention to some “processes” that should always be — assume you might be a carrier and contain your coughs, sputters, allergy sneezes, throat clearings and wash your hands frequently.

But there is no cause for panic and none for criticism of the adequacy of the Trump administrations response (other than perhaps toward overreacting a bit).  There is also no  reason to give Tucker Carlson’s comments any particular credence on the matter.

Tucker Blasts Both Sides For ‘Chinese Coronavirus’ Response: In ‘A Few Weeks,’ U.S. Could Be ‘Where Italy Is Now’ 

More authoritatively: (from the same publication — Daily Wire)

Dr. Drew On Coronavirus: Media ‘Hurting People,’ ‘Need To Be Held Accountable’ For Causing Panic

Physician David Drew Pinsky, commonly referred to as Dr. Drew, slammed the media in a CBS News interview late last week, saying that it is responsible for causing the American public to panic, which is hurting businesses and people.

“A bad flu season is 80,000 dead, we’ve got about 18,000 dead from influenza this year, we have a hundred from corona,” Dr. Drew said. “Which should you be worried about, influenza or Corona? A hundred versus 18,000? It’s not a trick question. And look, everything that’s going on with the New York cleaning the subways and everyone using Clorox wipes and get your flu shot, which should be the other message, that’s good. That’s a good thing, so I have no problem with the behaviors.”

“What I have a problem with is the panic and the fact that businesses are getting destroyed, that people’s lives are being upended, not by the virus, but by the panic,” Dr. Drew continued. “The panic must stop. And the press, they really somehow need to be held accountable because they are hurting people.”

Trump gives perspective on the matter

President Trump took to Twitter Monday morning to try to promote calm amid an increasingly panicked public — and stock market — by posting some statistics to help put the coronavirus epidemic in perspective.

“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu,” the president tweeted. “It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life [and] the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!”

The predominant influenza virus this year is not  “corona”  ( excerpt via RedState)

As Coronavirus Fears Spread, CDC Reports Show Influenza Has Already Claimed the Lives of Thousands

With Coronavirus being the new kid on the block and getting all the media attention — thanks in small part to the fact that it’s affecting the economy, giving them another anti-Trump narrative to play with — it’s gone overlooked that right here at home, the influenza virus has been wreaking havoc all on its own.

According to the Daily Wire, CDC reports are showing an unusually high number of deaths thanks to the flu. A number that ranges to around 20,000 people:

According to the most recent report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), among the roughly 34 million people who have suffered from the flu this season, 20,000 have died. Influenza A viruses were the most commonly reported, as opposed to the usual predominance of Influenza B. 136 deaths of children have been reported; the CDC noted, “rates among school aged children and young adults are higher at this time than in recent seasons and rates among children 0-4 years old are now the highest CDC has on record at this point in the season, surpassing rates reported during the second wave of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.

The CDC reported that this season, the predominant flu virus is influenza A (H1N1).

Michael Fumento  at NY Post

Coronavirus going to hit its peak and start falling sooner than you think  

Summation via  AM 560

He explains “Farr’s Law. First formulated in 1840 and ignored in ­every epidemic hysteria since, the law states that epidemics tend to rise and fall in a roughly symmetrical pattern or bell-shaped curve. AIDS, SARS, Ebola — they all followed that pattern. So does seasonal flu each year” (NY Post).  According to John Fund, “Fumento has often been one of the few who gets big health stories right” (Twitter).  More people are worried about getting the flu than coronavirus (Fox Business).  And movie audiences were still turning out over the weekend (ABC News).

Never let a crisis go to waste:

Trump Makes Major Announcement In Providing Economic Relief For Coronavirus Outbreak  

On that score we would repeat that the market reaction presented a good buying opportunity

* graphic via  HP post on Facebook

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“Now, we don’t mean to hype a coronavirus ‘panic’, y’understand; but, well, you know, Trump is responsible for this whole thing…”

That seems to be what the “New Drudge” is trying to say.

This list of “headlines’ on the Drudge website must be about the most irresponsible and hysterical attempt possible  to incite abject panic and spread utter hopelessness, depression and fear.

We think it’s appropriate to ask what in the world is ‘Drudge” hoping to accomplish with this?

New York Prison Labor Prepares to Dig Graves…
Now making hand sanitizer…
CA restaurant takes temperatures before serving customers…
Top Virus Doctor Says High Blood Pressure Is Major Death Risk…
NYC considers shutting subway system…
Top Transit Official Tests Positive…
NJ’s First Patient Warns ‘It Happened So Quick’…
Shocking escalation from ‘no symptoms to death’ in just hours…
Threat fuels demand for herbal remedies…
Florida Republican goes into quarantine AFTER flying on Air Force One…
Georgia Rep. visited CDC with Commander-in-Chief…
CRAMER BLASTS TRUMP: ‘We Want Leadership — We Don’t Want Golfing’…
President retweets photo of himself fiddling…
Reassures donors response is under control…
Stock Trading Halted After Selling Triggers Circuit Breaker…
White House Drafting Economic Steps to Fight Fallout…
Wall Street execs coming Wednesday…
Anxiety grips companies across world…
‘We’re past the point of containment’…
Congress Considering Emergency Shutdown…
Foreign officials ‘discouraged’ from visiting Oval Office, State Dept…
Conference calls, video chats instead…
WASHPOST, POLITICO, DAILY BEAST reporters quarantined…
Era of ‘Social Distancing’ Begins…
Deadly Prison Protests Break Out in Italy…
‘Caged’ pope receives guests — from afar…
Flight Diverted After Passengers Turn Unruly Over Person Coughing, Sneezing…
Woman sparks panic by deliberately coughing on crew!
Saudi Arabia to fine people $133,000 for hiding health details on entry…
All travelers to Israel to be isolated…
Italy expands travel restrictions to entire country…
Locking down 60 million people…

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Tell us … How is Ol’ Joe any more incoherent, confused, and ignorant of the greatness of America than Nancy P., Ilhan, AOC, Bernie, etc, etc, ??

(A message brought to you by the “Keep ‘Sleepy’ in the Race Committee” … and the… “How About That Stacy Abrams as his Running Mate?” Council)

———At the Daily Wire——–
Rogan On Biden: ‘This Should Get You Into A Mental Hospital,’ ‘Not A Joke’

Podcast host Joe Rogan raised concerns during a recent episode over Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, saying that the former vice president’s alleged struggles were not a joke and should be taken seriously.

Rogan, a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), highlighted a clip from last week where Biden forgot the Declaration of Independence.

Biden said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women created by, go, you know the, you know the thing.”

*not to be confused with “no quid pro quo”

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Some of our picks from collection at GOPBriefingroom.com.  Referred to us by TN

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Fox Business host Lou Dobbs recently criticized Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham, for not doing enough to initiate investigations the president and his allies have long called for. (According to Mediaite)

“LINDSEY GRAHAM SAYING THAT HE JUST CAN’T GO ALONG WITH SENATOR RAND PAUL IN SEEKING TO REFORM FISA AND HE WANTS A LITTLE TIME TO BE DELIBERATIVE. AT WHAT POINT IS THERE GOING TO BE AN ACCOUNTABILITY QUOTIENT IN THIS TOWN THAT SMACKS OF ANYTHING LIKE REAL JOURNALISM?” : L. Dobbs

Lou Dobbs accurately reflects our views. However, it is not just Lindsey Graham or lousy journalism who seems to be on a “different page” than President Trump’s voters and supporters of his administration.

The highly touted Attorney General William “get to the bottom of the Obama reign of disgrace” Barr appears to be in the same camp as Graham. Oh…and John Durham?…anybody remember him?

And, of course there’s Christopher Wray (FBI?) and Geena Haspell (CIA)…whose pace is so slow, they seem to be going backward in any effort to impose ‘accountability’ or to reform their corrupted organizations. But, then, we never expected a whole lot from those two…the Democrats were too anxious to confirm them.

Here, it might be appropriate to mention Jeffrey Rosen. “Who?”, you might ask. Way back in May of last year, he was confirmed (along Party lines of course) to replace ROD ROSENSTEIN!

Bet you forgot him. I think he was named to handle day-to-day affairs of DOJ so that Barr could continue to “get to the bottom of” the previous administration’s attempt to overthrow the then-incoming Trump presidency.

But then Barr named Durham to help him with that, and Durham has apparently joined “John Huber” and, maybe O J Simpson, in the hunt for ‘perpetrators’.

(If we do hear from them (not OJ) before the November election, it will be by some carefully ‘sanitized’ report like the DOJ Inspector General’s set of non-conclusions, gentle suggestions on people to indict, and a statement that says in so many words…”wasn’t no political bias goin’ on here”.)

At any rate, if things ‘go south’ for the American people in November, in large part due to the lack of will and competency on the part of those named above, and the DC Establishment, we’ll get either a communist, a senile hack, or a former First Lady (and children’s nutrition expert) in the White House… and you can kiss ‘accountability’ and the “Republic for which…”oh, you know, the “thing”, as a ‘great statesman’ once said…”goodbye”!          dlh

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Related reading: (at Politico)

Senate confirms Jeffrey Rosen to replace Rod Rosenstein at DOJ

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• Its OK, she and the rest of the Never- Trumpers are our betters

“Read my Lips…”

Make that her particular ilk, not generation

The Speechwriter who coined that ill-fated phrase for G H W Bush has coined another:

“We are not socialists, we’re Democrats.”

Good old Peggy Noonan, the aging superstar columnist (in her own mind), who was the “mastermind” (also only in her mind) behind Ronald Reagan’s immensely successful presidency, has resented every GOP president since the “first” Bush because none ever recognized her genius and thus did not bring her into their administration, to give it the appropriate ‘gravitas’, again plays to her curious band of ‘fans’.

Peggy has always, in our opinion, been a huge fraud. She portrays herself as a ‘conservative Republican’, thus amassing a readership of ‘uninformed easy marks’ who believe that she is, and “never Trumpers”, who know what she is and want to go along with, and promote, her con.

Her columns in recent years, however, have become less and less devoted to continuing the pose. She seldom, if ever, had a kind word for G W Bush since he obviously failed to recognize her genius. With Trump, she apparently decided she could safely drop the con altogether.

From the beginning Peggy has been 100% ABT (Anybody But Trump). We’ve called attention to that fact often in the past.

Her column today in the Wall Street Journal, however, is classic in advancing the “Noonan Narrative”.

Jim Clyburn Saves the Democrats 

It is a ‘heartwarming’ tribute to the “goodness of Joe Biden”…and a tacky hymn of praise to Jim Clyburn.

A subhead in Ms. Peggy’s column says it all:

“He (Clyburn) didn’t just endorse Biden when his campaign was in trouble. He showed him how to revive it.”

dlh

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