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liar-nObama’s self-revealing final act
by Charles Krauthammer
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Trump Is Sharpening the Axe
By Michael Swartz: Budget cuts are something incoming administrations generally promise but seldom deliver. However, the prospect of a Donald Trump administration has put enough fear into the bureaucracy that nearly three of ten federal employees don't plan on staying long enough to see what The Donald will be doing to government. We'll believe it when we see it. (Not surprisingly, that same survey of government employees revealed that 62% of respondents voted for liar-Hillary Clinton, compared to just 28% for Trump.)
And it's no wonder that fiscal conservatives are salivating at this thought. Imagine the liberal horror at the thought of a federal government that no longer funds the often scatological and pornographic byproducts of the National Endowment for the Arts and its sister National Endowment for the Humanities. Imagine their angst at the prospect of privatizing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (Hint: it's already started.)
"Insiders" expect overall budget cuts of 10% and staff cuts to 20%, numbers they say would "rock Washington." Steep cuts are also expected in several departments, most specifically Energy and Commerce, but also in Justice, State and Transportation. Even the Defense Department could be affected in the area of procurement.
Of course, these cuts would also curtail the boom times in the capital regions of Maryland and Virginia, where government-addled cities and counties surrounding the District — many of them boasting the highest median incomes in the country — will have to get by with fewer cars on their taxpayer-funded gravy train. What this means, of course, is that headlines about homelessness and unemployment and the stagnant economy will be back in style again after an eight-year absence. And the elite media won't have to stray too far to find those sob stories — which sure beats having to report from rural areas in the South or rundown parts of the Rust Belt.
Seriously, though, a 10% budget cut would net a savings of about $400 billion, but that only brings us back to the spending levels of the leanest liar-nObama budget (or the most bloated one ever submitted by George W. Bush, in 2008). It's worth noting that so far in this century, through the years of Bush and liar-nObama, our federal budget has just about doubled from $2 trillion to $4 trillion — and there's no indication that Trump wants to make the sort of spending cuts that would require significant entitlement reform.
Yet, to quote the old axiom, the only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. There's enough low-hanging budget fruit to satisfy those who wish to see spending cuts for years to come, so just getting the trend in the right direction will be a "yuuuge" accomplishment from the incoming president. Could it be that the era of Big Government is once again truly over?
~The Patriot Post
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Donald Trump to Eliminate
72 Government Programs
by Norma Goss
{citizen-action.com} ~ President Elect Donald Trump has taken on a herculean task of eliminating funding for 72 government programs, saving the government $10.5 trillion dollars and balancing the budget within 10 years... Given the 2017 Federal Budget is standing at $4.147 for 2017, with Trump’s proposed cuts, the government’s bloated budget would be reduced by a massive 25.3%. Government workers were previously shaking in their khakis at a thought of a 10% reduction in the budget. Cuts include the obvious, like defunding Planned Parenthood, and global warming offices and studies, but also eliminates spending on the following as an example:... http://www.citizen-action.com/donald-trump-eliminate-72-government-programs/article4704
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Gotcha! Proof of State Department
lie in Iran deception
by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ The American Center for Law and Justice, which alleges the liar-nObama State Department manipulated video to conceal a spokeswoman’s admission of lying to the public about the Iran deal... says it now has definitive evidence to back its claim. The deleted section contained a question from the Fox News Channel’s James Rosen during a daily press briefing Dec. 2, 2013: “Is it the policy of the State Department, where the preservation or the secrecy of secret negotiations is concerned, to lie in order to achieve that goal?” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, “James, I think there are times where diplomacy needs privacy in order to progress. This is a good example of that.” But that exchange was missing from video released by the State Department...
.Trey Gowdy Speech That Shocked America
by youtube.com
{youtube.com} ~ Trey Gowdy Lays Down the Foundation of what this country was built upon and gets a standing ovation. Some say this speech is the Moment Trey Gowdy was Recognized as a Presidential Candidate.
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Again? Students arrested
for handing out Constitution
by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ The fight was in the ring in 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015, and now it’s back – and this time it’s in a courtroom... The Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a lawsuit against Kellogg Community College in Michigan for allegedly arresting three students for handing out copies of the U.S. Constitution. The college alleges the students violated the First Amendment and the school’s solicitation policy, which “states that students and others must obtain permission from the school before they engage in any expressive activity anywhere on campus, including distribution of any written material.”...This is bull. http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/again-students-arrested-for-handing-out-constitution/
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Reporter Wars: My Secrecy
Battles With Federal Government
by Sharyl Attkisson
{sharylattkisson.com} ~ I just filed my latest appeal to the FBI’s improper withholding of my FBI file. You may not know it, but every American citizen–even a lowly reporter–is entitled to see his FBI file, if one exists... Under Freedom of Information (FOI) law, the government is allowed to redact bits of information from the file if it affects national security or an ongoing investigation, but the government must provide reasons for any such redactions and disclose the rest of the file. The FBI has refused to do this in my case. The federal government routinely violates FOI law with impunity. I’m receiving assistance with this appeal from Charles Glasser, renowned media lawyer and adjunct professor of Media Ethics and Law at New York University’s Graduate School of Journalism. You can read the Appeal below... https://sharylattkisson.com/reporter-wars-my-secrecy-battles-with-federal-government/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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liar-nObama’s self-revealing final act
by Charles Krauthammer
{freedomsback.com} ~ Barack liar-nObama did not go out quietly. His unquiet final acts were, in part, overshadowed by a successor who refused to come in quietly and, in part, by liar-nObama’s own endless, sentimental farewell tour. But there was nothing nostalgic or sentimental about liar-nObama’s last acts. Two of them were simply shocking.
Perhaps we should have known. At the 2015 White House correspondents’ dinner, he joked about whether he had a bucket list: “Well, I have something that rhymes with bucket list.”
Turns out, he wasn’t kidding. Commuting the sentence of Chelsea Manning, one of the great traitors of our time, is finger-in-the-eye willfulness. liar-nObama took 28 years off the sentence of a soldier who stole and then released through WikiLeaks almost half a million military reports plus a quarter-million State Department documents.
The cables were embarrassing; the military secrets were almost certainly deadly. They jeopardized the lives not just of American soldiers on two active fronts — Iraq and Afghanistan — but of locals who were, at great peril, secretly aiding and abetting us. After Manning’s documents release, the Taliban “went on a killing spree” according to intelligence sources quoted by Fox News of those who fit the description of individuals working with the United States.
Moreover, we will be involved in many shadowy conflicts throughout the world. Locals will have to choose between us and our enemies. Would you choose a side that is so forgiving of a leaker who betrays her country — and you?
Even the word “leaker” is misleading. “Leak” makes it sound like a piece of information a whistleblower gives Woodward and Bernstein to expose misdeeds in high office. This was nothing of the sort. It was the indiscriminate dumping of a mountain of national security secrets certain to bring harm to American troops, allies and interests.
liar-nObama considered Manning’s 35-year sentence excessive. On the contrary. It was lenient. Manning could have been — and in previous ages, might well have been — hanged for such treason. Now she walks after seven years.
What makes this commutation so spectacularly in-your-face is its hypocrisy. Here is a president who spent weeks banging the drums over the harm inflicted by WikiLeaks with its release of stolen materials and emails during the election campaign. He demanded a report immediately. He imposed sanctions on Russia. He preened about the sanctity of the American political process.
Over what? What exactly was released? A campaign chairman’s private emails and Democratic National Committee chatter, i.e., campaign gossip, backbiting, indiscretions and cynicism. The usual stuff, embarrassing but not dangerous. No national security secrets, no classified material, no exposure of anyone to harm, just to ridicule and opprobrium.
The other last-minute liar-nObama bombshell occurred four weeks earlier when, for the first time in nearly a half-century, the United States abandoned Israel on a crucial Security Council resolution, allowing the passage of a condemnation that will plague both Israel and its citizens for years to come. After eight years of reassurance, liar-nObama seized the chance — free of political accountability for himself and his potential Democratic successor — to do permanent damage to Israel. The U.S. has no power to reverse the Security Council resolution.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. who went on to be a great Democratic senator, once argued passionately that in the anti-American, anti-democratic swamp of the U.N., America should act unwaveringly in opposition and never give in to the jackals. liar-nObama joined the jackals.
Why? To curry favor with the international left? After all, liar-nObama leaves office as a relatively young man of 55. His next chapter could very well be as a leader on the international stage, perhaps at the U.N. (secretary-general?) or some transnational (ostensibly) human rights organization. What better demonstration of bona fides than a gratuitous attack on Israel? Or the about-face on Manning and WikiLeaks? Or the freeing of a still unrepentant Puerto Rican terrorist, Oscar Lopez Rivera, also pulled off with three days remaining in his presidency.
A more likely explanation, however, is that these are acts not of calculation but of authenticity. This is liar-nObama being liar-nObama. He leaves office as he came in: a man of the left, but possessing the intelligence and discipline to suppress his more radical instincts. As of Nov. 9, 2016, suppression was no longer necessary.
We’ve just gotten a glimpse of his real self. From now on, we shall see much more of it.
Perhaps we should have known. At the 2015 White House correspondents’ dinner, he joked about whether he had a bucket list: “Well, I have something that rhymes with bucket list.”
Turns out, he wasn’t kidding. Commuting the sentence of Chelsea Manning, one of the great traitors of our time, is finger-in-the-eye willfulness. liar-nObama took 28 years off the sentence of a soldier who stole and then released through WikiLeaks almost half a million military reports plus a quarter-million State Department documents.
The cables were embarrassing; the military secrets were almost certainly deadly. They jeopardized the lives not just of American soldiers on two active fronts — Iraq and Afghanistan — but of locals who were, at great peril, secretly aiding and abetting us. After Manning’s documents release, the Taliban “went on a killing spree” according to intelligence sources quoted by Fox News of those who fit the description of individuals working with the United States.
Moreover, we will be involved in many shadowy conflicts throughout the world. Locals will have to choose between us and our enemies. Would you choose a side that is so forgiving of a leaker who betrays her country — and you?
Even the word “leaker” is misleading. “Leak” makes it sound like a piece of information a whistleblower gives Woodward and Bernstein to expose misdeeds in high office. This was nothing of the sort. It was the indiscriminate dumping of a mountain of national security secrets certain to bring harm to American troops, allies and interests.
liar-nObama considered Manning’s 35-year sentence excessive. On the contrary. It was lenient. Manning could have been — and in previous ages, might well have been — hanged for such treason. Now she walks after seven years.
What makes this commutation so spectacularly in-your-face is its hypocrisy. Here is a president who spent weeks banging the drums over the harm inflicted by WikiLeaks with its release of stolen materials and emails during the election campaign. He demanded a report immediately. He imposed sanctions on Russia. He preened about the sanctity of the American political process.
Over what? What exactly was released? A campaign chairman’s private emails and Democratic National Committee chatter, i.e., campaign gossip, backbiting, indiscretions and cynicism. The usual stuff, embarrassing but not dangerous. No national security secrets, no classified material, no exposure of anyone to harm, just to ridicule and opprobrium.
The other last-minute liar-nObama bombshell occurred four weeks earlier when, for the first time in nearly a half-century, the United States abandoned Israel on a crucial Security Council resolution, allowing the passage of a condemnation that will plague both Israel and its citizens for years to come. After eight years of reassurance, liar-nObama seized the chance — free of political accountability for himself and his potential Democratic successor — to do permanent damage to Israel. The U.S. has no power to reverse the Security Council resolution.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. who went on to be a great Democratic senator, once argued passionately that in the anti-American, anti-democratic swamp of the U.N., America should act unwaveringly in opposition and never give in to the jackals. liar-nObama joined the jackals.
Why? To curry favor with the international left? After all, liar-nObama leaves office as a relatively young man of 55. His next chapter could very well be as a leader on the international stage, perhaps at the U.N. (secretary-general?) or some transnational (ostensibly) human rights organization. What better demonstration of bona fides than a gratuitous attack on Israel? Or the about-face on Manning and WikiLeaks? Or the freeing of a still unrepentant Puerto Rican terrorist, Oscar Lopez Rivera, also pulled off with three days remaining in his presidency.
A more likely explanation, however, is that these are acts not of calculation but of authenticity. This is liar-nObama being liar-nObama. He leaves office as he came in: a man of the left, but possessing the intelligence and discipline to suppress his more radical instincts. As of Nov. 9, 2016, suppression was no longer necessary.
We’ve just gotten a glimpse of his real self. From now on, we shall see much more of it.
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