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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
No One Should Take the Democrats
Seriously About Russia Now
by Erick Erickson
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Top Headlines
Great news: One-third of feds won't commit to staying during Trump administration. (Government Executive)
Report: 300,000 small business jobs lost due to liar-nObamaCare. (Washington Free Beacon)
HHS nominee Price sees "access" to coverage as health reform goal. (The Washington Post)
Betsy DeVos hearing highlights the need for less government control in education. (The Daily Signal)
Trump EPA nominee Scott Pruitt grilled on climate change at Senate hearing. (Reason)
Army plans Dakota Access oil pipeline environmental study. (Associated Press)
Donald Trump taps Sonny Perdue as his agriculture chief. (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
U.S. military moves to clear "ghost soldiers" from Afghan payroll. (The Wall Street Journal)
Congress looks to punish "sanctuary campus" colleges that protect illegal immigrants. (The Washington Times)
CIA unveils new rules for collecting information on Americans. (Reuters)
Policy: The injustice of commuting Manning's sentence. (National Review)
Policy: When it comes to health care, the answer is supply. (The Gazette) ~The Patriot Post
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Romney Niece Named New RNC Chair
by newsmax.com
{newsmax.com} ~ The niece of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has been tapped to replace Reince Priebus as new chair of the the Republican National Committee (RNC)... Ronna Romney McDaniel, who served as state chairman for the Michigan Republican Party and helped Donald Trump win the Wolverine State, will be the new GOP leader, Politico reported. The 43-year-old mother of two is the second woman ever to chair the RNC and "intends to push back against the notion that the Democratic Party is the party of women," the political news website said... http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Republican-national-committee-RNC/2017/01/19/id/769448/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1706257_01192017&s=al&dkt_nbr=hhoqrevd
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Our Long National Lecture
Is Finally Over, Trump Era Is Here
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts as the country prepares to enter a new era with Donald Trump as our President. “The national mood, I think you would agree, has brightened, brightened it seems almost every day since Trump was elected... I believe most Americans are now, for the first time in a while, looking forward to our future, positive that President Trump will fulfill his promise to make America great again.” Dobbs says, “And yes, there’s considerable relief that our long ‘national lecture’ is finally over. Last Tuesday Mr. liar-nObama gave his final official speech and today held his last news conference, all to the good, spirits lifted.” He points out, “But Mr. liar-nObama couldn’t resist again lecturing, being obstructionist-in-chief on his way out the door. He commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, despite strong objections from the Pentagon and some Democrats. Mr. liar-nObama, self-assured, announced he’s ‘very comfortable’ that justice has been served even though Manning leaked some 750,000 classified documents, identified covert sources and operatives. The Manning commutation only the latest in what has been for eight years a ‘president’ seemingly daily in conflict with an unexpressed ideology or philosophy that seemingly no one understood anywhere.”... http://rickwells.us/dobbs-long-national-lecture-finally-trump-era/
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Carlson The Merciful – Releases Outwitted
Boycotting Rep To Fight Another Day
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Congressman Dwight Evans is a Philadelphia Democrat who was just elected to the House and has made a career decision, as a Democrat, to be a lemming and boycott the inauguration on Friday... Maybe he could make use of that time with a dictionary, learning what the word “aspect” means and then use it correctly next time he’s on national television. Throwing out two syllable words at the wrong time just because they sound big doesn’t guarantee you’ll look sophisticated. Evans says there’s a couple of reasons why he’s boycotting, “First and foremost I believe that the President-elect doesn’t share the same aspect around the Affordable Care Act, which is basically for the constituents that I represent, it’s very important. “Secondly,” he says, “about the Russian hacking, I believe that also should be taken seriously and there should be an investigation and thirdly now more than a couple about the issue of Congressman John Lewis...
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How liar-nObama’s CIA Manipulated the Media
by Cliff Kincaid
{aim.org} ~ The CIA and its media allies have thrown everything but the proverbial kitchen sink at President Donald J. Trump. Media bias, anonymous sources, and intelligence “garbage” have been on display... But the 25-page Intelligence Community report on alleged Russian hacking activities deserves special consideration, since a significant part of it relied on analysts hard at work watching broadcasts of Russia Today (RT) television. You wouldn’t know it by reading the report, but RT has historically been a mouthpiece of “progressives” favorable to the Democratic Party. Indeed, the liar-nObama administration saw RT in the past as part of the “progressive” media organizations supporting left-wing causes. Not only that, but RT was useful in disrupting the 2012 Republican presidential primary. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) dismissed my well-documented 2012 complaint about RT’s open support for libertarian Ron Paul and his pro-Russia views. We cited evidence that RT was funded by the Kremlin and prohibited under law from intervening in U.S. elections. The FEC dismissed the complaint, saying RT was a legitimate press entity and a U.S. corporation with First Amendment rights... http://www.aim.org/special-report/how-obamas-cia-manipulated-the-media/
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Orrin Hatch Spanks Dems On
liar-nObama Offshore Account Hypocrisy
by Katie Frates
{dailycaller.com} ~ Sen. Orrin Hatch had to remind Democrats they were being enormously hypocritical when attacking Secretary of the Treasury nominee Steven Mnuchin... Various senators on the Senate Committee on Finance, including Sen. Robert Menendez, pressed Mnuchin on offshore Cayman Island accounts. “One does not go and create offshore entities at the end of the day other than to avoid, in some form or fashion, the tax laws of the United States. That’s pretty simple,” Menendez said. “What you did may have been legal, but it certainly was to help people and entities avoid taxes.” After a contentious sparring match, Hatch jogged his colleagues’ memories about President Barack liar-nObama’s past nominees...
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No One Should Take the Democrats
Seriously About Russia Now
by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ With President liar-nObama castrating commuting Bradley Manning’s prison sentence and pardoning General James Cartwright, no one should take him or any of the Democrats seriously about Russia’s involvement in our Presidential election. Their outrage and complaints are clearly motivatived by partisan butt hurt and not by any concern for our national security or democracy.
Though James Cartwright gets little attention, it was Cartwright who leaked the existence of the Stuxnet virus that, along with the Israelis, we used to temporarily incapacitate the Iranian nuclear program. Cartwright’s leak had the effect of undermining both our and Israel’s national security and made it more difficult for us to be able to use such cyber attacks in the future. Likewise, it more likely than not emboldened foreign governments interested in doing the same to us. I am not surprised that Barack liar-nObama would pardon a man who hurt Israel’s national security.
Bradley Manning, too, directly sought to cripple our national security. His advocates claim that Manning was just a whistle blower, but saying so is revisionist history. Manning leaked critical intelligence to Wikileaks that included names of people helping the United States and other valuable national security data. His actions put the lives of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines in jeopardy. His actions may have actually cost lives of those who tried to help us against terrorists.
We know for certain Manning’s trial, Osama Bin Laden himself had requested a collection of documents for review that were on Wikileaks’ website. Those documents had been leaked by Manning.
While Bradley Manning has generated sympathy in our identity politics filled world by declaring himself “Chelsea” and seeking taxpayer funded sex reassignment, he is a traitor who aided and abetted our enemies.
That the Democrats are outraged at Russia trying to disrupt our elections, but are cheering on Bradley Manning is another example of how unserious they are. To be upset with Russia, but treat Manning a hero is hypocrisy at its finest. It is worth noting that Manning helped put Wikileaks on the map and Wikileaks would not have had the stature in 2016 to credibly leak DNC emails had Bradley Manning not first helped Wikileaks.
Likewise, it goes without saying that those Republicans who have cheered on Wikileaks for revealing DNC emails, but are upset with liar-nObama pardoning Bradley Manning should rethink their kind words toward Wikileaks.
Finally, we should offer up a small bit of sympathy for both Edward Snowden and Beau Bergdahl who are both, no doubt, considering whether a castration in the next twenty-four hours might aid their pardon efforts. I think it is a fair statement to say that if Bradley Manning had not been a mentally disturbed gay man trying to become a woman, he would not be seen as sympathetically by the American left.
Though James Cartwright gets little attention, it was Cartwright who leaked the existence of the Stuxnet virus that, along with the Israelis, we used to temporarily incapacitate the Iranian nuclear program. Cartwright’s leak had the effect of undermining both our and Israel’s national security and made it more difficult for us to be able to use such cyber attacks in the future. Likewise, it more likely than not emboldened foreign governments interested in doing the same to us. I am not surprised that Barack liar-nObama would pardon a man who hurt Israel’s national security.
Bradley Manning, too, directly sought to cripple our national security. His advocates claim that Manning was just a whistle blower, but saying so is revisionist history. Manning leaked critical intelligence to Wikileaks that included names of people helping the United States and other valuable national security data. His actions put the lives of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines in jeopardy. His actions may have actually cost lives of those who tried to help us against terrorists.
We know for certain Manning’s trial, Osama Bin Laden himself had requested a collection of documents for review that were on Wikileaks’ website. Those documents had been leaked by Manning.
While Bradley Manning has generated sympathy in our identity politics filled world by declaring himself “Chelsea” and seeking taxpayer funded sex reassignment, he is a traitor who aided and abetted our enemies.
That the Democrats are outraged at Russia trying to disrupt our elections, but are cheering on Bradley Manning is another example of how unserious they are. To be upset with Russia, but treat Manning a hero is hypocrisy at its finest. It is worth noting that Manning helped put Wikileaks on the map and Wikileaks would not have had the stature in 2016 to credibly leak DNC emails had Bradley Manning not first helped Wikileaks.
Likewise, it goes without saying that those Republicans who have cheered on Wikileaks for revealing DNC emails, but are upset with liar-nObama pardoning Bradley Manning should rethink their kind words toward Wikileaks.
Finally, we should offer up a small bit of sympathy for both Edward Snowden and Beau Bergdahl who are both, no doubt, considering whether a castration in the next twenty-four hours might aid their pardon efforts. I think it is a fair statement to say that if Bradley Manning had not been a mentally disturbed gay man trying to become a woman, he would not be seen as sympathetically by the American left.
http://theresurgent.com/no-one-should-take-the-democrats-seriously-about-russia-now/
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