We are the drain the swamp people

A NEW LEADER OF THE “FLAKE WING” OF THE GOP SENATE EMERGES!

-This must be what legalizing marijuana in Colorado gets us

• Now let’s see how many Democrats ‘break’ from their Party’s position (how about Neil Cavuto’s favorite Democrat, ‘Moderate’ Joe’ Manchin?)

Editorial: Sen. Cory Gardner to break with Republicans on Trump’s wall — it’s the right thing to do

“Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner’s spokesman told us Wednesday he intends to vote for a clean funding bill that would open the government with no increased border-security funding attached.
“It’s the right thing to do.

“We cannot stress enough that our democracy’s health is at stake in this political stalemate. When we allow funding measures and budgets to be tied to policy objectives and pet projects, everyone suffers. Both parties are guilty of the malpractice, as we noted at about this time last year when Democrats were the ones orchestrating a shutdown in pursuit of protections for immigrants without legal status who were brought to America as kids.”

So think about that “When we allow funding measures and budgets to be tied to policy objectives and pet projects, everyone suffers

Senator you do understand that what government finances it fosters. What it decides to pay for is policy. No, apparently you don’t.

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GEE. I DIDN’T KNOW THAT BY BEING ‘ELECTED’ SPEAKER, AMERICA GAVE NANCY PELOSI A QUITCLAIM DEED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CHAMBER!!!!

YOU S’POSE HER FIVE KIDS WILL INHERIT THE JOINT? MAYBE THEY’LL RENT IT OUT….HMMM?

WHAT WITH THE DEMOCRATS REFUSAL TO TAKE TRUMP’S YES TO DACA FOR AWHILE AND OTHER STUFF OFFERED IN RETURN FOR THE WALL AND ENDING THE “GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN” WELL THEIR INTRANSIGENCE MEANS THEY ALSO OWN THE SHUTDOWN

As posted by Sundance at Conservative Treehouse

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Blocks President Trump Entry into Capitol Building – Confirms State of Union Speech Cancellation…

It looks like Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi has no intention of allowing the House chamber to be used for a State of the Union address.
Speaker Pelosi has informed the House Sergeant at Arms that no executive branch official will be permitted entry into the Capitol building.

Earlier Fox News reported Pelosi cancelled a walkthrough last week, and a second request for reconsideration from the White House is expected to meet the same fate. The House Speaker controls who is, and who is not, permitted entry to the House floor. Until Speaker Pelosi calls for a vote to support a joint session of congress, the President cannot enter the chamber.

Deputy White House Press Secretary Hogan Gidley discusses the status of the current shutdown negotiations and the likelihood a SOU address will have to take place outside Washington DC.

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Thanks to Susan Frazer for forwarding this sadly insightful article by Daniel Greenfield writing at Sultan Knish. Posted here in its entirety as is permitted. Bold emphasis ours.

Journalism Doesn’t Exist

Scrolling through my feed, I see the title of a New Yorker piece, “Does
Journalism Have a Future?” And then I keep on going, knowing exactly what’s in it without having to read it.

That’s true of most media products.

Journalism doesn’t have a future. It doesn’t even have a present.

Journalism isn’t the opposition research, hit pieces, narcissistic
blogging, conspiracy theories and viral scandal manufacturing, with its
satellites of hot takes, that passes for journalism these days.

Those are the eviscerated lifeless organs of journalism.

There are still individual journalists, but there’s no profession. And
there hasn’t been one in a while. It’s hard to know exactly when the line
was crossed. Was it Woodward and Bernstein, the Pentagon Papers, Bill
Clinton, Dan Rather, Obama’s media entourage?

It’s hard to know and it doesn’t really matter. You don’t need to know
exactly when Rome fell when you’re standing in the rubble.

Why Rome fell is equally obvious.

It isn’t just politics. Though that’s a big part of the answer.

Biased people can be journalists. Liars can be journalists. Con artists,
extremists and otherwise unhinged people can be journalists.

What happened though was that the different functions that journalism
performed were subdivided, and those that were useful were diverted to
serve private causes and agendas, while those that weren’t died.

Imagine a police department that only protected the homes of powerful politicians while ignoring everyone else. There would eventually be no difference between them and hired goons except their insistence that they have noble principles and serve an important function.

It’s not just the corruption. Journalists have often been corrupt. It’s the
loss of professional functionality.

Journalists, like those hired goons, no longer occupy a distinct professional class. They’re a subset of political operations. And the ones that don’t occupy even worse roles or are dying out.

Technology, cultural changes and political extremism have all played a role in creating that reality. And it’s the future.

It’s also the present.

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Michael Goodwin authored a piece appearing yesterday in many prominent publications and news sites.

Like many conservatives, Goodwin is displaying a great deal of satisfaction over the debunking of the third rate “news” site, Buzzfeed’s sensational story that President Trump suborned perjury and was thus certain to very soon to be gone from the Oval Office.

Goodwin greets the news as so many of us did with great anticipation that, in the aftermath of this fiasco, the long playing off-Broadway show, “Mueller Saves Democrats” will soon be closing.

His confidence flows from his admiration for William Barr whom Goodwin sees as a virtual certainty to be confirmed by the Senate as Attorney General and will definitely be the one to close down the Mueller debacle.

Something Conservatives, many Republicans, and we, believe, a very large segment of the American people very much look forward to!

In our most humble perspective, however, we suggest they hold off on the champagne! The show’s not over!

In addition to failing to share Goodwin’s optimism that William Barr is the “conqueror” we’ve prayed for, we are skeptical about the carefully worded announcement by the Special Counsel’s office that the Buzzfeed story is “inaccurate”.

What part of the story…that President Trump directed his ‘attorney’, Michael Cohen to lie to Congress, an impeachable felony, is “inaccurate”?

Is it “inaccurate” because Cohen did not admit it, but that the allegation was ‘corroborated’ by some ‘documents’ Mueller’s people obtained from Cohen’s files and have or fished through for months to find something, anything that could be portrayed as sufficient to ‘nail’ the president?

Is it “inaccurate” in some other detail, perhaps even a quite insignificant one…but just enough to claim “inaccuracy” until Mueller can dramatically “confirm” the essence of the story in a highly dramatic fashion? And be carried off stage on the shoulders of left-wing conspiracy!

We don’t think that Mueller would like to be ‘scooped’ by an outfit like “Buzzfeed” on the ‘biggest victory in prosecutorial history’!

But that’s just our opinion. DLH

Goodwin writes…

“The BuzzFeed News report that special counsel Robert Mueller had corroborating evidence that Trump had instructed his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress … was the bombshell development Dems and 90 percent of the media have dreamed of — and finally it was here. Oh, Happy Days!”

Suborning perjury! Impeachment! Maybe prison for a terrible person…and a worse president!

Goodwin continues…

“Except it wasn’t true. Mueller said so in an unprecedented debunking that slammed the brakes on the celebration.

“Mueller’s statement, though brief, was specific and thorough enough to rip out the guts of the report. It said: “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate.”

“The site’s editor and others called the statement inadequate, but that was wishful thinking.”

Later in the piece, Goodwin concludes…

“…Mueller has operated without restraint or guidance, with abuses and conflicts of interest on his team swept aside in what too often looks like a determination to knock off a duly elected president.

William Barr

“…I believe, (William Barr) will be the antidote to this destructive situation. He is, as I wrote last week, “a respected adult” who can tame the waters in the Justice Department and get to the bottom of the anti-Trump cabal that has robbed the FBI of its reputation for fair play.

And he will not be a pushover for anyone. Barr has a first-rate legal mind and a mature self-confidence born of experience, both of which he demonstrated at his confirmation hearings.

Goodwin’s article as it appears in the NY Post:

The media’s ‘Gotcha!’ hysteria is shameful

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It’s an ego thing. Any punk reporter decorating birdcage liner can draw on it for copy from politicians.

Steve King isn’t stupid but we can all have stupid moments

The politicians submit to an interview from an antagonistic newspaper thinking the brilliance of their insights, or their sincerity, or their cleverness or charm, or an effort to educate or indulge some solicitous perhaps charming reporter, or the idea that ~~well as long as they spell my name right . . .

One element or another of those temptations explains Steve King’s mistake in talking to the New York Times. Whatever made him think his words would not be corrupted? We have run into such eagerness before, seen it in other worthy conservative elected officials with generally good policy positions.

We have little doubt King’s words were corrupted in print, out of context and if not were merely fumbling misstatements as ANYONE can trip over the thought and tongue interchange. Just don’t give such opportunities to the NYT without back-up of some sort present – other newspaper reporters, a recorder of your own . . .

Milwaukee Sheriff David Clark (ret) writing at Townhall has an excellent commentary making that point but more focused on the tendency propensity of Republicans to eat their own. Highly recommended.

Why Do GOP Politicians Obligingly Eat Their Own?

We would only add that the propensity is often not innocent or forgivable weakness or greater-good nonsense but political treachery.

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We are working on a commentary regarding the recent controversy surrounding Iowa Congressman Steve King and allegations or interpretations over what he said to a New Your Times reporter. KING IN OUR JUDGEMENT WAS TRYING TO DEFEND WESTERN VALUES AND DECRY THE LACK OF INTEREST IN DOING SO. The fallout over the allegation and interpretations has included that the House Republican leadership stripped King of ALL committee assignments. Their intent is to dangle him in the wind hoping he will resign. We hope not. In offering no quarter they of course are exercising all the character, integrity and prowess of bear-baiting.

Now we have had a bone to pick with Cong King on a subject or two near and dear to us but we never doubted that his heart was in the right place. His tormentors who are allowing no benefit of the doubt, will get no sympathy from us when they are misconstrued by political rivals. It is inevitable because the lot of them are actually less articulate than King, and not doubt could be exposed for word choices and even some hypocrisies that are cringe worthy .

In the mean time how about this ditty by Ray Stevens that we embed in honor of Steve King. To King’s Republican detractors ,we know that they would eschew this, but we ask what is untrue about it? Hmmm?

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Also contrast with “women’s march” same weekend (below)

What follows is a link to a time-lapse video by Students for Life of just the street march portion of attendees at the annual convocation March for Life commemorating Roe v Wade and the right to life. Of note as well is the number of views that the video has received just hours after the event.

Having attended several of the Washington DC March for Life events I know that many more are in attendance on the mall before and after that do not march in the procession for various reasons — logistics, time available etc. The cause is growing and we are particularly gratified by the number of under 30’s that attend — Roe babies.

2019 March for Life (march only) time-lapse

At The Federalist this morning are several commentaries related to the occasion. We have excerpted a couple of items of note.

8 Things We Saw At The 2019 March For Life
By Madeline Osbur

5. Center for Medical Progress Founder David Daleiden
David Daleiden’s undercover filming of Planned Parenthood selling baby parts has been vindicated with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling. He tells us about it. #MarchForLife pic.twitter.com/hesBpvzB0F
— DC McAllister (@McAllisterDen) January 18, 2019

Thursday evening the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Daleiden’s undercover videos of Planned Parenthood were authentic, accurate, and could be used to justify removing taxpayer funding from the abortion provider.

Planned Parenthood has of course for many months sent out their PR flaks to deny the “accuracy” of the videos. Of course they have long been guided by the Father of Lies.

So simple, so profound a response to a common retort of our pro-abortion antagonists by featured speaker Ben Shapiro, a pro-life Jew;

7. Ben Shapiro
Ben Shapiro at March for Life: “The truth is no pro-life person would kill baby Hitler. Baby Hitler was a baby.” pic.twitter.com/PPgQcbWSrq
— jordan (@JordanUhl) January 18, 2019

More reading on the 5th Circuit ruling here:

Court Rules Undercover Videos Of Planned Parenthood Selling Baby Body Parts As Authentic
The court ruling refutes Planned Parenthood’s own talking points about how the CMP videos were “highly edited.”

Contrasting two marches, one for women’s rights unborn, and one for women’s license —

Viewing this link to a National Review report, to call the ‘women’s marchers’ “Pigs in a Procession” is too kind:

March for Life art contrasts with vulgar signs at women’s march – 30 photos.

The contrast is remarkable!
Show it in every newspaper…and in every classroom.
If the behavior of the participants in three “women’s march” is defensible the “American Experiment” is indeed, gone forever!

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There aren’t 29% of Democrats who would oppose any wackiness Nancy or chuckle would ever propose…or any Dem nominee

Romney Redux: Why Mitt Wants To Be ‘The Frosted Flake’

“Romney may consider such contradictions clever, but it is something that fails to win him support within his own party. A new Rasmussen Poll finds that only 29 percent of Republicans think the GOP should be more like Romney; 63 percent of GOP respondents say that their party should be more like President Trump.”

So if “29% of Republicans Think The GOP Should Be More Like Romney”

IF YOU KNOW ANY OF THOSE ’29 PERCENTERS’ TELL US WHO THEY WOULD WANT AS ‘MITTENS’ RUNNING MATE…OCASIO-CORTEZ ?! DLH

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“So enjoy being exhausted for the next two years while we ‘gang rape’ you with the progressive agenda.”*

Is THAT what Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez said?!

Well, not precisely verbatim, although she did use the term the Urban Dictionary says means exactly that.

Ocasio-Cortez: “So enjoy being exhausted for the next two years while we run train on the progressive agenda.”

This is a child acting out because she got approval from certain “adults”

Those “adults” were the Democratic voters in New York’s 14th district.

“AOC”, as she has become known…another thing that has raised her personna to a nationwide high; her own ‘media identity’! DLH

TOP DEFINITION from Urban Dictionary:
“run train”
to “gangbang” a girl with several friends.

*ed. note: DLH sent this observation and commentary early this morning but “administration” was unavailable to post it.

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Yesterday we expressed that such would be a great theatrical counter-punch to Nasty Pelosi throwing tantrum and locking herself and her friends in her room (declining to host Trump’s SOTU in the House Chambers). Trump has already responded with a jab here and there including pulling the keys to the car (airplane).

If Mitch McConnell can’t make this happen then Nasty Pelosui truly runs the Congress. If Schumer can filibuster a housekeeping item then he runs the Senate. Room is not an issue. Set up some extra chairs wherever and have at it. That would be political theater at its best and the Dems would look like the churlish louts they are.

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