And then some! Pretty sure this is a fool me twice moment for the President and Republicans. This is certainly not an 'art of the deal' policy...it's just disappointing, and predictably so...
On Thursday’s Mark Levin show, The White House has done something extremely disappointing; they have taken DACA and expanded it to include Dreamers which brings the number to 1.8 million and offered them citizenship. This is a bigger number than even Barack Obama contemplated. Those outside of the 800,000 are those who did not come forward. Some are crooks and criminals and others didn’t have evidence that they came here as children. But we are told not to worry because of concessions the White House got. After this, Daniel Horowitz of Conservative Review calls in to talk about DACA. The main problem is that the DACA compromise President Trump and the Republicans are engaging in is the wrong mix of ideas and politics. They have lost their leverage and Democrats don’t have any incentive to agree with them. They will just pocket the 1.8 million and not build the wall like Trump had campaigned on. Democrats are just doing to Trump what they did to Ronald Reagan, promise border security while not appropriating the funds when they reclaim power. In addition, you will see the pretend conservatives come out and say: “What do you want perfection”? There is no perfection, that is just a diversion and Republicans are giving Democrats numbers they didn’t even dream of. This is why we need serious people of substance talking about this.
CR: On Thursday, the White House told reporters that the Trump administration will propose an immigration deal that will grant amnesty with a path to citizenship to 1.8 million so-called “Dreamers” in exchange for funding for a border wall and reforms to chain migration and the diversity visa lottery.
On his radio program, CRTV host Mark Levin interviewed CR Senior Editor Daniel Horowitz on the content of the deal and the political ramifications of supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants. Horowitz told Levin that the main problem with the Trump immigration plan is that Republicans have said up front they “badly want DACA” and have lost their leverage with the Democrats.
“Democrats have no incentive to ever agree” to the reforms in the deal, Horowitz said.
The Democrats “do not operate in good faith,” Levin said, questioning why Trump would offer amnesty with citizenship for more illegal immigrants than the total number of DACA recipients. “It’s a huge error. Huge.”
Towards the end of the interview, Levin said this was not the immigration deal conservatives expected from President Trump and urged congressional Republicans to fight against amnesty.
“We expect conservatives in Congress to hold the line,” Levin said.
Don't be fooled, Mr. President. They'll do to you what they did to Reagan. Different times, same outcome. No solution.
How far we have fallen as a political system: An entire political party is now willing to shut the government down over a policy exclusively for illegal aliens, not Americans. Even more appalling is that the very leader of the shutdown is a man who has lied to us numerous times on immigration and has created the very immigration crisis we face today by pushing similar amnesty policies before. Most ironic, Schumer himself once expressed support for the very policies he is now calling racist and over which he has triggered the Schumer Shutdown.
...but beyond the standard Democratic hypocrisy that's become par for the course, several other common sense Americans have it precisely right...
"The fact of the matter is, ladies and gentlemen, we are blackmailed by the Democrat Party at least once a year, typically multiple times a year. We are blackmailed by the Democrat Party that insists on more spending OR that its priorities come first and our priorities come never. ... The Democrat Party today is saying either you legalize 800,000 illegal aliens or we're gonna shutdown the government for the entirety of America. 320 million Americans, the hell with you. Screw YOU!"
They’d rather shut down children’s health insurance and military funding to give illegal immigrants amnesty. #SchumerShutdown doesn’t seem to help Americans first. https://t.co/meE1QpkPa4
Graham-Jeff Flake-Durbin-Gardner plan ignores Trump's popular pro-American immigration reforms, gives amnesty to more than 3.5M illegal aliens, as well as their parents & 25K foreign nationals on temporary protected status. https://t.co/AobmqNscU6
Senate Democrats put politics above national security, military families, vulnerable children, and our country’s ability to serve all Americans. We will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while Democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage over their reckless demands.
So, will this shutdown once again be blamed on Republicans? Certainly. The Democratic propaganda wing (a.k.a. The Mainstream Press) will blame this one on the GOP just as they blame for practically EVERYTHING, but part of the fault lies within a Republican Party that allows its unprincipled RINOs to take the lead in governmental acquiescence and ultimate failure...
Every year the people are told that there is a budget showdown, and if the Republicans don’t cut off the freedom and liberty wing of their party and become reasonable and nonpartisan, they will cause a government shutdown.
Every year the Republican leadership insists there will be no government shutdown, then turns and throttles the freedom and liberty wing and, by extension, the people who put them there, telling them to shut up and sit down.
Then, every year, certain Republicans give away so much leverage over fear of a government shutdown that now, after about a decade of this, they have played their part in the possible destruction of this nation by way of our $20 trillion in debt.
Where does all the fear come from? From the fake outrage ginned up by the media, of course.
Republican leadership constantly put themselves in a box of media outrage because they lack purposeful messaging, detectable principles, or any real disagreement with the Democrats on a large majority of issues that regular Americans truly find important. And for that, the Republicans will, indeed, always get the blame.
This results in frantic offers by the Republican leadership to find a way to procrastinate or make a deal detrimental to their own party’s stated mission in order to create the illusion that they have averted the very terrible shutdown.
That’s not leadership. That’s simply playing the game the Democrats and media want them to play.
But there's really no need to continue with this charade, because there's never any apocalypse from such shutdowns...
"I'm not scared of a government shutdown. Are you, folks? ...[every weekend] the government has shutdown, and here we are, eating, breathing, clothed, most of us; in our cars, in our homes, in our offices, most of us. We're utterly and completely unaffected. The government shutdown for nearly a month under Jimmy Carter and nobody noticed, and nobody will notice it now. We get this cacophony of media coyotes howling, and front groups howling, and Democrats howling, and miscreant Republicans howling. But the fact of the matter is most of you will be completely unaffected by this. No, the United States military isn't shutdown. No, the CIA isn't shutdown. No, the Border Patrol isn't shutdown. Here's the irony: The very programs and the policies that the Democrats and the liberals promote, most of them will be limited! ... Most of the departments and agencies that are affected are on the domestic side. So the Democrats are saying, 'hey, we're gonna commit harakiri, unless you give us what we want.' And I say let them commit harakiri! Let them say'we stand for the illegal alien against the American citizen.' Let them say it!"
Fact of the matter is even with the government shut down, food inspections, federal law enforcement, airport security checks and other vital services will continue, as will Social Security payments, other federal benefit programs and military operations. So this is purely political drivel that's all about Schumer Democrats choosing illegal aliens over American citizens. Plain and simple. For Republicans to continue fretting over theatrical shutdowns and not lead us out of this ridiculous illusion is almost as offensive. It's certainly abhorrent for those cheerleading for lawlessness alongside Dems.
UPDATE: As fast as they shut it down Friday, they fired it back up Monday. That was an extended weekend! Hardly a shutdown. The Schumer Dems chose illegal aliens over the American people during this short-lived government shutdown and that position clearly BACKFIRED...
Schumer buckles, and the media spins on. Congrats to the President and Republicans for the time being, while we continue to monitor whether Congress will do the right thing.
45 years has been far too long. This one's easily a copy/paste job, because I agree with every single word of Horowitz's assessment...
CR: Today is the annual marking of the grim milestone of Roe v. Wade. The annual March for Life, although well intentioned, is the day every Republican politician can freely feign outrage over a decision that led to the deaths of 60 million babies while refusing to use the constitutional tools they have to rectify this evil.
Particularly jarring about this year’s march is that it coincides with complete GOP control of Washington, and nobody paying the slightest attention to the power they hold to rectify the abortion travesty. In fact, it appears that virtue-signaling about babies has become an end to itself rather than ensuring their brains don’t actually get sucked out with taxpayer funds. Meanwhile, there’s a thing or two conservatives can learn from Democrats.
It’s eerie watching the March for Life as we are in the midst of a budget battle in which funding for Planned Parenthood is not even up for debate — with Republicans in full control. The publication of the videos two years ago showing Planned Parenthood engaged in trafficking and harvesting of baby organs was a watershed moment in the 45-year debate over Roe because it proved conclusively that abortion was not about being a “safe, rare, and legal” necessary evil, but rather a triumph of barbarism as a virtue in itself.
Nonetheless, Republicans, who could have forced the issue even under Obama, won’t even discuss the issue of these unborn American dreamers who are being wantonly killed every day. Nope. The entire landscape of debate over the budget is about amnesty to illegal aliens, which has nothing to do with a budget anyway, unlike funding a criminal organ trafficking network.
And speaking of illegal aliens, it’s awe-inspiring to observe the asymmetrical warfare between the two parties. The GOP, when in the majority and buttressed by the Planned Parenthood videos, will not even entertain merely cutting off taxpayer funding for a criminal abortion enterprise. Yet, Democrats, even when in the minority, will fight to the brink of a shutdown to get amnesty and taxpayer benefits for illegal aliens — completely extraneous to the budget bill.
That is because whereas Republicans seek office, Democrats seek power. While Republicans will use our issues to get elected and then avoid every opportunity to advance that agenda, Democrats will use their election victories (and even losses!) to advance their agenda while leaving no stone unturned — legal and illegal — to block dissent.
Which brings us to the ultimate shutdown of our government – the reign of judicial supremacy.
Any discussion of abortion, or frankly, any important issue these days, is meaningless without discussing judicial reform. What we learned in 1973 was that if an unelected court can decide a fundamentally political and philosophical question not addressed in the Constitution — and have that decision unflinchingly adhered to by all the states and the other branches of the federal government — then there is no limit to what they can do to our Constitution, sovereignty, security, and society.
This point was so tragically and absurdly on display this past year as the second most important court in the land mixed an expansion of abortion jurisprudence together with lawless immigration jurisprudence to create a right for illegal aliens to trespass and demand access to an abortion. Yet nothing seems to jolt Republican members of Congress out of their slumber to discover that Article I gives them 100 percent control over the lower courts and that Article III Sec. 2 grants them full power to regulate the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
The entire strategy of the “Right” for the past 45 years has been to legitimize judicial supremacy, while promising to get enough of their own people on the courts to overturn bad decisions. Aside from the numerous other faults in this argument, there is no guarantee that Alito and Gorsuch would necessarily reverse Roe and Casey, at least not categorically. And even if they would, it’s clear we’d only have three votes.
Meanwhile, as we’ve legitimized the specter of judicial supremacy, the courts have redefined married, citizenship, foreign policy, sexuality, and election laws. The list goes on.
It seems that there is no floor to the depths of judicial Gomorrah that will ever elicit a righteous reaction from the Right to use its constitutional powers over the courts. We’ve seen that 60 million dead babies weren’t enough reason. Mandating transgenderism in the military, abortions for illegals, and concocting an international right to immigrate aren’t either. After all, if courts can make death out of life, they can make denizens of aliens and Y chromosomes out of X chromosomes.
Courts are now elevating Roe and Casey to such a level that states are being prohibited from even imposing basic safety regulations on abortion clinics or banning the most gruesome abortion practices. They are even forcing states to actually fund Planned Parenthood. As we learned in the illegal alien abortion case, anything short of directly driving an illegal alien to an abortion clinic is deemed an undue burden on a fundamental right. Legal immigrants have no First Amendment right to donate to political campaigns or Second Amendment right to own a gun, but illegal aliens now have the “right” to the phantom amendment of abortion, which has been elevated over real rights.
And what is the reaction from the GOP and even so-called social conservative groups? Crickets. They obsequiously listen to every whim of a district judge, even when it violates statute, Constitution, settled case law, common sense, and morality.
This is the permanent, categorical, and almost irreversible government shutdown nobody is discussing. We can only go so long as a nation when states are forced to follow illegitimate edicts of illegitimate powers but other states can openly thwart the most legitimate and foundational laws flowing directly from constitutionally granted powers. And we can only go so long as a nation when one party is willing to fight for the illegitimate and immoral with 100 times the gusto the other party is willing to fight for the legitimate and the moral. The solutions and tools are there for us in the Constitution. But we won’t come to a resolution on abortion or any other important issues as a nation until Republicans care about 60 million murdered babies as much as Democrats care about illegal aliens.
A new year brings new challenges. 2017 demonstrated some noted accomplishments, but there are still major ones to confront in 2018, including significant measures that the majority party ran on and were elected in 2016 to implement with immediacy upon winning both houses of Congress and the Presidency. Repealing and replacing Obamacare was one of them. And though there's been some unraveling with the repeal of the individual mandate at the end of the year, this socialized medical approach continues to remain enshrined in law and in the minds of Washington. Though I could go on about that (maybe for another post), there is another major measure that the focus has now turn towards, one which continues to affect America's citizenry in detrimental fashion regarding society, culture and sovereignty. Yep, we're talking immigration, primarily illegal, but in much of a sense, the overall concept and its exhorbitance at this critical point. And who better to lead this topic into a new year than a favorite professor of common sense, the Great One...
On Tuesday’s Mark Levin show, Do you realize over the last half-century, every significant change in immigration policy has taken place without the support or affirmation of the American citizenry? We’ve been deceived about this over and over and over again by Democrats and Republicans alike. Not only is every single big immigration policy pursued without the support of the American people, it occurs often under the cover of darkness. It is both Republicans and Democrats who have pursued open-borders policies over the years. The Democrats want to destroy America but the Republicans have no excuse. What we need from the President and conservatives in Congress is for them to articulate a conservative position on immigration before we lose this country. The Democrats have boxed us in but we don’t have to be, as enforcing immigration policy has nothing to do with race. It is regrettable that Republican leadership is not making the case for republicanism and national sovereignty. Enforcing our immigration laws is not an alt-right position but an American position. In addition, the wall was Trump’s top issue, yet he is wavering, which is very concerning. Two parties are united against the people today. We have been losing our country since the 1965 Hart-Celler act and the Supreme Court decision in 1982 that allowed children of illegal immigrants to come to attend public school.
"Who is it who are the real humanitarians? We are! We want people to know that in order to come here, they shouldn't try to sneak across the border where they might be killed or raped or something horrific may happen to them. We want them to know that there's an orderly process. You follow the orderly process, you may or may not get in. You do not have a right to come to America. You do not have a right to be legalized in America. You do not have a right to a citizen of America. You do not have a right to have welfare in America. It all began changing during the Great Society..."
"...and what I regret is that neither the White House nor the leadership in the Senate nor the leadership in the House, ALL of which we control, make the articulate, comprehensive case for Americanism, for republicanism (little 'r'), for national sovereignty."
Then security, then reform. Instead, we hear about a 'bill of love'?
President Trump says any DACA legislation “should be a bipartisan deal. This should be a bill of love.” pic.twitter.com/beNcsfYK1j
So, what does that mean? See here. Some good, some not so much(and some of the excerpts give one a good idea of what they really think of constitutional conservatives who desire a restoration of law and order first). But the conclusion:
The message is clear: Trump will be flexible on immigration reform, even potentially supporting a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants in the future. But if a deal on DACA is going to be made before the March deadline when protections for DACA recipients expire, border security measures and the wall must be included.
We'll see how this pans out, but honestly, I hold more hope in the States and its People than more of the same from Washington on the matter.
For conservatives, the year has been much more optimistic, but definitely not without its challenges. Between the wins and losses, the battle for principle, as well as trying to steer a new administration towards said direction, wages on. So as we near the year's end with a season of America's most merry tradition, it's only natural to reflect on particular lists. Both the naughty and nice one...
“He’s making a list. He’s checking it twice. He’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice.” When it comes to the mainstream media, Santa definitely has them on the naughty list. The whole biased crew of them should expect nothing but coal in their stockings this Christmas.
Media bias is nothing new. But in 2017, it shifted into overdrive. Donald Trump’s inauguration as president set off a year of outright media hostility that is unprecedented in its scope.
...as well as the wishlist filled with desires and necessities...
Last year, following Donald Trump’s historic and unexpected election to the presidency, I put together a conservative Christmas 2017 policy wish-list. With full control of Congress and the White House, Republicans were in a unique position to implement the conservative agenda following the disastrous presidency of Barack Obama.
One year later, President Trump and the Republicans can claim several promises fulfilled, but too many are left unfinished. The Republicans still have one year to deliver on their campaign promises before the 2018 midterm elections. Failure to do so may sweep them out of power.
Which promises were kept? Which are still waiting? Let’s review.
However, for Christians, conservative or otherwise, this season should trump all lists of political virtues and vices, traversing beyond our natural inclinations. In fact, this is a season in which I generally attempt to set aside our human folly known as politics long enough to meaningfully observe and contemplate its true uniting reason: the perfect incarnation of a Savior to save humanity from itself. God knew we needed it then and knows we need it just as evermore now...
AND it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. ~ Luke 2:1-14
Upon reflection of God's covenants through the ages, Erickson reminds us, "This Christmas, as the burdens overwhelm you, be overwhelmed by God's desire for a relationship with you." For the moment you can, unshackle your life from the usual squabbles, and remember to love God and your neighbor and allow all good will to flow from there. That's the least of where we might begin on a more righteous path in observance of One born into the world to inevitably sacrifice for the salvation of His creation, forgiving the transgressions of our own devices, and providing a path of everlasting life. Remember the reason for the season, and may we remain as vigilant in returning our nation to Christ as keeping watch for His redeeming return. Now that's a list I want to make! Merry Christmas.
As Republicans on Capitol Hill prepare to wrap up a tax bill today to send to President Trump's desk, which he will swiftly sign, the majority of what we're hearing in the liberal, Democrat-led media spin is how 'unpopular' the bill is. That's right, the same media that pushed and praised the worthless Obamacare, despite the underinsured doubling since 2003. I even heard mention this morning now using Obamacare in the negative to cast admonition on this tax bill! To further demonstrate the absurdity of the lib press, the blind allegiance of their like-minded voter base and unfortunately how easy it is to sucker the people at large with such coverage, upon removing 'Trump' or 'Republicans' from polling questionnaires, responses change dramatically towards a positive direction. Imagine that!
CR: If you pay attention to the mainstream media, you’d think that the vast majority of Americans hate the tax bill and the policies it contains.
Is that really true, or is it just more fake news? The editorial board at Investor’s Business Daily found out something interesting when they polled the actual policies in the tax reform bill: Americans largely support them.
It’s as if the mainstream media is asking leading questions to produce a response they desire — that advances an agenda. Well, of course.
...That is mostly because of the wording of the question, and the job that the mainstream media has done to drive down both Donald Trump and Republican legislators’ approval numbers. This polling is reflective of that.
When you look at the actual policies, there is broad support.
Most of the surveys, however, only ask people broad questions about the tax cuts: Do they support the plan overall? Do they think they'll get a tax cut? Will they boost economic growth? Here’s what IBD says:
What's more, when people are asked about key provisions in the tax bill, support rises across the board.
The IBD/TIPP poll is one of the few that has bothered to ask such questions. The results from the November survey:
57% support lowering corporate rate from 35% to 20%. 55% support reducing the number of tax brackets. 83% support cutting the pass-through tax rate for small businesses to 25%. 66% support doubling the standard deduction.
Other polls produced similar findings. CNN found that 55% support increasing the standard deduction, 79% back the boost in the child tax credit, and a plurality support the mortgage deduction limit.
Imagine that, the American people actually want a tax cut, if they actually get one. That is why the GOP is right to ignore the media narrative on polling and focus on delivering a tax cut for the vast majority of actual taxpayers. Come election time, the liberal media ruse will be shattered. And they know it.
They're not reporting the truth, folks. Simple as that. Of course, they wouldn't know it if it bit'em on the ass. If they were capable of acknowledging it, this tidbit would assuredly be at the top of your radar:
If the tax bill passes the Senate and becomes law, beginning in Feb. 2018, millions of Americans will see a higher take-home paycheck. That’s because withholding will be adjusted to reflect the tax cut they are getting. When that happens, those people, who have been lied to by the media, will start to see the tangible effects of this tax legislation.
When that happens they will realize that they have, once again, been lied to by the media.
It's freedom of the press, not Pravda, American mainstream media! You'd do good to remember that, instead of feeding us propaganda filled with the preclusion of failure just because it involves Republicans and Trump. Is it perfect? Is anything perfect? Obviously, if government has anything to do with it, no. Though we'll likely see a deficit increase, because Washington has overextended their never-ending spending spree on either side of the aisle, this has the potential to draw businesses back to our shores with reinvestment and jobs, while taking out less in our paychecks and allowing us to take more home where it's needed most. Not to mention if earned pay is given back to the people who actually earned it, this begins to place the reigns of an out-of-control government back into the hands of the people, instead of the rulers who've misspent our tax funds all these years, thus forcing constraint and cuts toward the overall debt. Either way, sounds like less government waste of our money, and that's a net win. Report that, American media! Related links:Awesome announcement from AT&T thanks to the GOP TAX CUT COMCAST SAYS MAKE THAT FOUR – more companies announce they are investing in employees because of GOP tax cut! The Trump tax cuts are ALREADY raising wages
It's absurd that every time this collusion crap points directly back to Democratic subversion, the biased press go mum & divert to whatever garbage controversy of the day will distract the people. Then when they think some remote nothing has sprang up to harm Trump, they're incessantly right back at it. Suddenly, it's 'news' again to smear across the screen, when they've literally got zilch. This has been the exhausting cycle for a solid year now (which of course is the left's point). Meanwhile, the rest of us are yelling at our flat panels and radios, "INVESTIGATE THE INVESTIGATORS!" Maddening, as is the brunt of politics these days.
You want the skinny on the real collusion in a compact nutshell? After discussing the need to maintain control of the House if anything of the truth is ever to be revealed (yeah, I know, this is Washington we're talking about), Levin laid out the 'concoction' on Thursday's program, making what's going on as clear as day...
"There was no Trump collusion with Russia. There was a concoction...of Kremlin apparatchiks feeding "opposition researchers" funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign and the DNC. The sickening irony of all this is that the Democrat Party and their operators at the top levels of the FBI, parts of the Justice Dept., and in the Special Council's office, they're the ones who've been colluding with the Russians, wittingly and unwittingly, directly and indirectly. Wouldn't you think by now, ladies and gentlemen, with thousands of reporters investigating who hate Donald Trump, with hundreds of members of Congress investigating who hate Donald Trump, with multiple committees of Congress investigating who hate Donald Trump, that if there was one scintilla, ONE SCINTILLA, of evidence that Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, her husband, their cousins, whatever, if there was one scintilla of evidence that they colluded with Putin on this election, that by now we would have it?! Where is it, Mr. Mueller? Where is it, Mr. Comey? Where is it, New York Times and Washington Post? Where is it, Mr. Schiff? Where is it, Mr. Warner? Spit it out! Show it to us! We want to see it, and we want to see it right now! But they can't. It doesn't exist.
What does exist is one of the most corrupt efforts by the senior levels of the FBI, by certain prosecutors at the Dept. of Justice and the Special Council's office, and I may add the senior levels of our Intelligence agencies, to try and take out a candidate, and now to try to take out a president."
On Thursday’s Mark Levin show... 54% of the American people believe that Robert Mueller’s investigation is partisan. If he was interested in justice he would have shut down this operation and said there was no collusion between the Trump administration and Russia. To add, Jim Comey has demonstrated himself to have obstructed justice. He was not pursuing justice in the Hillary Clinton investigation but was trying to clear her. The FBI did a lot of editing which erased serious concerns in Comey’s press conference speech about Hillary’s conduct. All across the spectrum of this investigation there was an effort to soften language and downplay Hillary’s actions. These events will never see the light of day if Republicans do not hold onto the House. In their place we will see endless efforts to impeach President Trump.
"You beat Mo Brooks with millions in dishonest ads during the GOP primary because Brooks pledged to vote against you for majority leader. Then you helped Doug Jones in the general election well before the Washington Post story on Roy Moore was published. You didn't get your guy so you sabotaged the process." ~ Mark Levin to Mitch McConnell, 12/12/17
Let's not forget about helping feed the media frenzy to besmirch a man based solely on allegation. That won't stop the media cheerleading today, though. With all of these disgusting components, the supposed right colluding with the left, Alabamians gave up and fell for it, giving their state the first Democrat senator in 25 years (one of the headlines you'll find celebrated by the lib press)...
AmericanThinker: Obviously the Democrat pollsters were right about their projected win of Doug Jones over Roy Moore. The relentless attacks by self-righteous Democrats and their willing accomplices in the liberal drive-by media to paint Roy Moore as an immoral pedophile worked like a charm.
"And their willing accomplices" would most certainly include McConnell and the Bush/Establishment league, as well as the NeverTrump hanger-ons (the election was over a year ago, fools), who played their parts perfectly along with the Democrats. I believe I've stated before concerning many of these men, like McConnell, McCain, Flake, several of the Republican operatives out there, that for all intents and purposes, they're Democrats now. Sorry, but it's true. This disunity could easily contribute to larger consequences to come...
Regardless of the facts concerning any of Moore’s accusers’ stories, the constant drumbeat of sexual assault by Roy Moore seemed to be enough to wear down many of his supporters while energizing the opposition against him.
What’s even more significant for the Democrats is that Doug Jones won in a highly red state that Donald Trump won by well over twenty points. This is huge for the Democrats moving forward to the next Presidential election and will play the biggest part in their strategy to defeat President Trump.
And here lies the latest stratagem...
So it’s no coincidence that President Trump’s sexual assault accusers reemerged just days before the Alabama Senate election. And it’s no coincidence that many Democrats came out and demanded that President Trump resign. The battle for the Presidency in 2020 for the Democrats has begun.
The strategy to defeat President Trump in 2020 will be exactly what defeated Roy Moore last night. Democrats and their willing accomplices in the liberal drive-by media will continue to paint President Trump as a serial sexual abuser from now until election night in November 2020. You can bet there will be many more women coming out soon with allegations against President Trump; and regardless of the facts of any of their stories, they will be given constant exposure by the liberal media outlets and the full support of every Democrat in office.
Because this strategy is really all the Democrats have, they will be relentless and do whatever it takes to pull it off – even if it means sacrificing more of their own along the way. Their ace in the hole is the drive-by media - which they know will be all-in on this strategy.
Democrats know this strategy has a good chance to work because after a couple of years the American people will be so tired of the constant attacks against President Trump that enough of them will just want it to stop. And the only way to get it to stop will be to get rid of President Trump. Unfortunately for conservatives, the 2020 presidential election will play-out in America just like it did in Alabama.
I saw first-hand the same strategy work in my home state of North Carolina against a very moderate Republican Governor. While it wasn’t sexual misconduct allegations against Gov. Pat McCrory, there was a constant barrage of negative, and mostly false political allegations, that were espoused at a weekly liberal gathering in Raleigh called “Moral Mondays.” Those gatherings were covered every week like it was the second coming and were reported religiously by every liberal media outlet. By the end of McCrory’s first term people were so sick of the partisan bickering they wanted it to stop. It worked and McCrory was narrowly defeated – and Trump even won NC.
Let's not forget the Democratic/Republican/Media establishment's part in Chris McDaniel's defeat as well. #RememberMississippi?
Nationalizing state and local politics is paying off for the Washington elite.
Mark my words; this strategy against Trump is what is going to happen – and will probably work.
If folks continue to take allegation (whether proven or unproven), as well as slander and outright LIE for truth, while sweeping real issues that affect our lives and our humanity aside, then, yeah, probably so.
Levin picked up on this strategy and the fraud behind it last night as well...
“Here we have the Democrats working with the media to try and change the subject from Hollywood, from Congress, to Donald Trump. It was always going to be the case.”
The snowball effect is what they're hoping for, and if the McConnell Club has its way, that's what they'll provide their colluders...and through our own collective gullibilities, what we'll unfortunately be stuck with.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive, America.
Has been for 3000 years since King David proclaimed it so; has been nearly 70 years since modern Israel's statehood (recognized by President Truman within minutes after its announcement in 1948, btw). Despite four presidential promises broken and 25 years of skirting the common sense truth of the matter (no thanks in part to an anti-Semitic media who seems to cheerlead for violent response), as of December 6, 2017 (St. Nicholas Day no less), a U.S. President finally leads in this affirmation through not only an official recognition, but by moving our embassy to the Jewish state's rightful capital...
I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. I am also directing the State Department to begin preparation to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem... pic.twitter.com/YwgWmT0O8m
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: @POTUS Trump, thank you for today's historic decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The Jewish people and the Jewish state will be forever grateful. pic.twitter.com/Z24lSRezYm
CR: “We cannot solve our problems by making the same failed assumptions and repeating the same failed strategies of the past. All challenges demand new approaches.” — President Donald Trump
This day has been long overdue. In fact, the U.S. initially recognized the Jewish people’s right to sovereignty over the entirety of the land west of the Jordan River, including Jerusalem, 95 years ago. But endless threats of the "Arab street" has deterred them from following through with this commitment … until President Trump.
The fact that he is willing to break the same old paradigm of putting “Arab street” concerns above our interests and doing what’s right is a very positive quality that will hopefully bear fruit on other foreign and domestic policies as well.
There never was an Arab Palestinian state in the Holy Land and all the land west of the Jordan River was originally earmarked for the Jewish state under the Balfour Declaration exactly 100 years ago. That plan was adopted by the Allied powers and the League of Nations in 1920 and 1922.
... For the next 95 years the Arab agitators waged jihad and every modern American president has cowered in the face of jihad. The entire purpose of the agreement on Palestine [which was a Jewish, not Arab term, harkening back to the days of Roman emperor Hadrian] was to give the land only to the entity that would protect the holy sites and civil rights, yet global elites here and abroad rewarded Arabs for violating the agreement.
Violence, indeed, does pay and did pay off for the jihadists. Commensurate with every threat of violence was a demand that Jews pay tribute in the form of blood or surrender.
After 95 years, Trump has righted a wrong and restored the original intent of a unanimous body of Congress in 1922. Heading forward, it’s important for Trump to surround himself with those who share his views and that he not back down in the face of the century-old Arab tactic of threatening violence.
Trump was right to acknowledge the failure of past pathetic policies and the need for new thinking. He can truly be a transformational president if he fixes the personnel problems and commits to translating his rhetoric into policy outcomes by paying attention to details of our broader failed foreign policy in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Finally, this should be a first step in abandoning the entire notion of having jihadists govern Judea and Samaria, and instead fulfill the original Mandate for Palestine. To quote Congressman Chandler from his 1922 speech, “The Greeks have Greece. Let us give Palestine back to the Jews.”
Though this is the beginning of righting a wrong that's to be celebrated by the faithful for sure, this shifting tide also calls for even those of a more secular nature, particularly within Jerusalem's own streets, to bend a knee and give thanks to the Almighty. Remember, He will not abandon His chosen.
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer. ~ 1 Timothy 4:4-5
Despite our constant inundations, we have a lot to be thankful for in this great nation, namely the blessings bestowed on us by God Almighty. And it is with that truth that we're reminded of the real story of Thanksgiving...
A very Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! God Bless.
