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If commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 
Were a Conservative
by Marc A. Thiessen  
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Pulosi Sets Impeachment Stage With Tweet: 
“What Does Putin Have on Trump?”
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ The tweet itself is connected to, and comes on the heels of, Speaker Pulosi publishing a statement about the Special Counsel, DOJ and FBI arrest of Roger Stone...  All indications are that Speaker Pulosi will refuse to allow President Trump to deliver a State of the Union address from the capitol building. Factually, the Speaker is currently barring President Trump from entering the premises. The implication within both the tweet and the published press release appears to be groundwork justification to forbid President Trump from entering the venue by claiming his administration is illegitimate. Obviously this approach would be unprecedented. However, as with everything that has happened thus far, this level of resistance continues to raise political confrontation into uncharted territory. Secondly, as we noted in the new Speaker Pulosi ‘House Rules‘, the framework of the congressional committees are specifically structured to accomplish an impeachment process. The shift yesterday to a more hostile, aggressive and confrontational tone would seem to indicate all House ‘impeachment‘ pretense is being dropped... There must be something that Trump can do to stop Pulosi.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/01/26/speaker-pelosi-sets-impeachment-stage-with-tweet-what-does-putin-have-on-trump/
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Trump White House drafts national 
emergency order that would fund border wall
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{conservativeinstitute.org} ~ Although President Donald Trump announced on Friday  afternoon that the government will temporarily reopen while talks continue on the GOP’s proposed border wall... the Republican administration is still considering a potent Plan B. “As everyone knows I have a very powerful alternative, but I’m not going to use it at this time,” Trump told reporters from the White House Rose Garden. Behind the scenes, however, the White House is making gingerly preparations to bypass Congress altogether by declaring a national emergency and using defense funds to construct the wall. The administration has already prepared a draft proposal and identified more than $7 billion in potential funds to secure the southern border.“I am very proud to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and reopen the federal government,” Trump said on Friday, signaling the end of the longest partial government closure in U.S. history. But even before the president seemed to give up on his plans for a barrier along parts of the U.S.-Mexico border, White House officials were already considering an alternative course of action, which could take authority out of the hands of congressional Democrats. The president has reportedly prepared a draft proclamation in the event that he decides to declare a state of emergency along the southern border... Yes, do it Trump.
Can Congress do a border deal in just 
three weeks? 'A lot of complicating issues'
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Senate Republicans are skeptical that Congress will be able to reach an agreement on a deal in just three weeks to boost border security that includes funding for a border wall... as President Trump is demanding. On Friday, after Trump agreed to end the shutdown and give Congress a three-week period to find a deal, some were already saying a deal of this magnitude probably requires more time than Congress has. "It's immigration. That's the hard part — it's immigration," said Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., as he left the Capitol Friday. "When you deal with immigration, there are a lot of complicating issues.""Everybody tries to push this thing as big as they can, and that's hard because that's not  three weeks. That's three months," Lankford said, on how much time might be needed. The plan approved by Trump, and which Congress passed soon afterward, calls for House and Senate lawmakers to negotiate some way forward on border security. Trump stressed that a border wall should be part of that discussion, but there's no guarantee Congress will be able to agree to that. If it doesn't, Trump indicated several times he would declare a national emergency to seize control of funds he could use to build a border wall, a plan that would likely face court challenges...
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Jordan said to bar hundreds of Israelis 
from disputed ‘Isle of Peace’ on border
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{timesofisrael.com} ~ The Jordanian army on Saturday reportedly prevented hundreds of Israelis from entering the Naharayim border area, which was leased to Israel under an appendix to the 1994 peace accord that is set to expire later this year... Jordan’s King Abdullah II announced in October 2018 he would not renew the appendix to the peace treaty that granted Israel use of the area — two small parcels of agricultural land, long farmed by Israeli farmers, which are also home to the remains of a hydroelectric power station built by Jews in 1921. Known in Israel as Naharayim in the north and the Tzofar enclave in the southern Arava desert, the territories are thus set to return to Jordanian hands when the lease expires in October. Israel is hoping to persuade the Jordanians to reconsider, but no progress is known to have been made in such efforts. Israeli tourists who arrived Saturday at the Naharayim site, also known as the Isle of Peace, were turned away by the Jordanian military despite being in possession of the necessary permits and having coordinated the trip with authorities in advance, Hadashot TV news reported. A local Israeli official told Hadashot news that Jordanian officials were changing the facts on the ground, but that he remained hopeful that tourists from both sides would be able to continue to visit the site...
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If commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Were a Conservative
 
by Marc A. Thiessen

If Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., were a conservative, all anyone would be talking about is how uninformed she is. She would be facing trick questions from reporters designed to expose her lack of knowledge, and brutal sketches on “Saturday Night Live” mocking her intelligence and fitness for office. Instead, SNL fawns over her, while CBS’s “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert — far from making jokes at her expense — eats ice cream with her and asks how many “f—s” she gives about her critics.

Boy, it’s good to be a socialist.

It’s not that there is a lack of material. This week, for example, commie-Ocasio-Cortez declared that “the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.” She has said that $21 trillion in “Pentagon accounting errors” could pay for most of her massive $32 trillion Medicare-for-all plan — as if there were $21 trillion in unspent tax dollars sitting around in a Pentagon vault. She opined that “just last year we gave the military a $700 billion dollar budget increase, which they didn’t even ask for” — unaware, apparently, that the entire Pentagon budget is $716 billion. She wrongly claimed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement “is required to fill 34,000 beds with detainees every single night and that number has only been increasing since 2009” — when ICE is required only to have that number of beds available and that number has remained flat. She has declared that “unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs” — which is flat untrue. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are only 6 million to 7 million Americans with two jobs and 148 million with just one.

Those are examples of ignorance. But apparently she is also dishonest. This week, she told Colbert that she has not been able to open a district office yet to handle constituent casework because of the federal government shutdown. “There’s a lot of things we can’t do as freshman members,” she said. “We can’t properly set up our district offices. We can’t get laptops delivered. We can’t start doing the work that we were elected here to do. … It takes the green stuff. And those workers are furloughed.” That’s wrong. Last September, Congress passed the 2019 Legislative Branch Appropriations bill, which funds congressional salaries and offices for the coming year. commie-Ocasio-Cortez knows this because, unlike furloughed workers, she is getting paid. The New York Times reports that the three other first-term members from New York have managed to open offices in their districts. A more likely explanation is that commie-Ocasio-Cortez is spending her time building her national media profile instead of taking care of the constituents who sent her to Washington in the first place.

So where are the articles bemoaning “The incredible, thuggish stupidity of commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”? Where are the journalists trying to trip her up with questions like “Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?” to see if she knows what it is? Nowhere to be found. To their credit, the fact-checkers have been on the case. PolitiFact gave her unemployment claim a “Pants on Fire” rating, and she is rapidly accumulating a large cache of Post Pinnochios — so much so that she claims to be the victim of “false equivalency + bias.” Give me a break. She told CBS’s “60 Minutes” that “being morally right” is more important than “being precisely, factually … correct.” Apparently, facts matter less as long as you support Big Government.

But facts are crucial, especially when you are proposing the largest increase in government spending in human history. Vox recently added up the cost of all her proposals — from Medicare-for-all, to free college, guaranteed jobs and the “Green New Deal.” The price tag was $42.5 trillion over the next decade — more than twice the current national debt. Sorry, you can’t pay for that through Pentagon accounting errors.

It is a tremendous testament to America that someone who was working as a bartender in a Mexican restaurant a year ago can throw their hat into the ring, unseat a 10-term member of Congress and be elected to the House of Representatives. It’s what makes this such an exceptional nation. And it is obvious that she has political talent. But that doesn’t excuse her from the responsibilities as a legislator to learn the facts and serve her constituents. Even Whoopi Goldberg, an commie-Ocasio-Cortez supporter, warned her on “The View,” “I would encourage you to sit still for a minute and learn the job.”

That’s good advice. Once people decide you are ignorant, it’s hard to recover — just ask Sarah Palin or Dan Quayle. Of course, they were conservatives, so the standards are different.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/60764?mailing_id=4035&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4035&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
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