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Drowning in Debt
by Cal Thomas
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Wednesday Top Headlines .
Second judge blocks Trump administration from ending DACA (The Hill) .
Democrat wins legislative seat in Florida — 36 elections go from red to blue since 2016 (The Washington Post) .
Israeli police recommend bribery charges for Netanyahu (The Hill) .
U.S. strikes killed scores of Russian fighters in Syria (Bloomberg) .
Another global warming oops: Sinking islands are apparently growing (The Resurgent) .
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Dumb and Dumber: Trump’s lawyer says he paid Daniels $130,000 out of his own pocket (Fox News) .
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Trending now: Facebook lost around 2.8 million U.S. users under 25 last year (Recode) .
Humor: Trump announces plan to replace food stamps with new low-income foraging program (The Onion) .
Policy: Assessing the Trump infrastructure plan (City Journal) .
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Watergate Part Deux: Still Don’t Think
There Is A Double Standard? Think Again!
by Joe Messina
{ lidblog.com } ~ Many reading this may have no clue as to what “Watergate” was... But because of Watergate, Republican President Richard Nixon had been labeled the biggest crook and most corrupt president in history, until NOW! President Nixon was been involved in and tried to cover up a break in of the Democrat National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington DC. Nixon was well-known for being paranoid and for trying to undermine anyone he suspected of being an enemy. Nixon, like President Trump, was being undermined by Democrat operatives who were stealing information and leaking it to the media. Nixon had a group of men known as the “White House Plumbers” who’s only job was stopping White House leaks... https://lidblog.com/watergate-part-deux/ .
Trump Supporters In Iowa Blow Every Single
One Of CNN’s Narratives Out Of The Water
by JUSTIN CARUSO
{ dailycaller.com } ~ CNN’s Martin Savidge recently visited Iowa to interview supporters of President Trump, and on almost every single question... they defended the president and bucked the media narrative. The panel of four Trump supporters consistently expressed doubt about the Russia investigation and the FBI. One man called the Russia investigation a “political witch hunt from the get-go” and a “disgrace.” Another man said that Trump is “exactly what I voted for.” And when asked whether they had faith in the FBI, one man answered, “Hell no. No, absolutely not.”... http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/12/cnn-iowa-trump-voters/?utm_medium=email.
Intriguing Links Emerge
In GOP Led Dossier Investigation
by CHUCK ROSS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Republican-led investigation into the infamous anti-Trump dossier has recently revealed several intriguing links... between Christopher Steele, lawyers, lobbyists, Democratic politicians, a former State Department official, and a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin. Most of the revelations come thanks to Sen. Chuck Grassley. The Iowa Republican released a letter in January that cited the names of several political operatives and lawyers who had not previously been linked to the dossier Steele wrote while on the payroll of the liar-Clinton campaign and DNC. And Thursday, a batch of text messages leaked to Fox News revealed that Steele used a back channel to communicate with Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence....
Democratic Sen. Mark Warner texted
with Russian oligarch lobbyist in effort to
contact dossier author Christopher Steele
by Ed Henry
{ foxnews.com } ~ Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee who has been leading a congressional investigation into President Trump's alleged ties to Russia... had extensive contact last year with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch who was offering Warner access to former British spy and dossier author Christopher Steele, according to text messages obtained exclusively by Fox News. "We have so much to discuss u need to be careful but we can help our country," Warner texted the lobbyist, Adam Waldman, on March 22, 2017. "I'm in," Waldman, whose firm has ties to liar-Hillary Clinton, texted back to Warner. Steele famously put together the anti-Trump dossier of unverified information that was used by FBI and Justice Department officials in October 2016 to get a warrant to conduct surveillance of former Trump adviser Carter Page. Despite the efforts, Steele has not agreed to an interview with the committee... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/08/democratic-sen-mark-warner-texted-with-russian-oligarch-lobbyist-in-effort-to-contact-dossier-author-christopher-steele.html.
liar-nObama's CIA chief accused
of lying about anti-Trump 'dossier'
by ART MOORE
Under oath before the House Intelligence Committee last May, former CIA director John Brennan testified that the infamous anti-Trump “dossier”... funded by the Democratic Party played no role in the intelligence community’s publicly released conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Brennan further declared he did not know who commissioned the opposition-research document, even though senior national security and counter-intelligence officials at the Justice Department and FBI knew the previous year it was funded by the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Now, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., is investigating whether or not Brennan committed perjury, reports Paul Sperry at RealClear Investigations... http://www.wnd.com/2018/02/obamas-cia-chief-accused-of-lying-about-anti-trump-dossier/ .
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Drowning in Debt
by Cal Thomas
{ townhall.com } ~ In "Hamlet," Shakespeare pens one of the most familiar lines -- and best advice -- ever written. Before Laertes leaves for Paris, his father, Polonius, tells him: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be..."
We have ignored that advice for far too long, which is why the U.S. national debt is $20 trillion with more to come, thanks to the Republican Congress, which has passed a two-year spending bill that calls for $300 billion in new spending and removes caps applied by the Budget Control Act of 2011.
It's being sold to the public with the highest and purist motives. We need to support our "brave" men and women in uniform and repair our roads and bridges.
As Politico first reported, an audit revealed a Defense Department agency can't account for $800 million targeted for building projects. Worse, if that's possible, the Defense Logistics Agency has no paper trail and can't tell auditors where the money went. And Congress is going to give them more.
As for infrastructure, wasn't the liar-nObama "stimulus," otherwise known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, supposed to have fixed roads and bridges? It was more like a down payment because government never has enough of our money.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), spoke the truth when he held up passage of the budget bill. As reported by The New York Times, Paul said: "I want people to feel uncomfortable. I want them to have to answer people at home who said, 'How come you were against President liar-nObama's deficits and then how come you're for Republican deficits?'"
Paul was the only Republican senator to vote against the measure which is expected to increase the debt to $30 trillion over the next decade, when probably all of those in the Senate will be dead or gone and won't have to take responsibility for it.
In addition to providing more money for the military, some Republicans are claiming with a straight face that this massive new spending is needed to finish repeal of liar-nObamacare. No one can seriously believe that, especially with all of the additional pork that is undoubtedly added on to this bill in order to gain "bipartisan" support. So if it's bipartisan, it must be good, right? Spending may be the last bipartisan act in Washington.
President Trump says if there were more Republicans in Congress the new spending and increased debt would not have happened. Maybe.
It's helpful to remind these free-spending Republicans what our Founders warned about the dangers of debt.
James Madison said: "Debts and taxes are the known instrument for bringing the many under the domination of the few" and "I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse."
Thomas Jefferson spoke to the dangers of a government drunk on out-of-control spending that leads to increasing debt: "To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."
Among the reasons empires and great nations have collapsed is public debt. Seeking to pacify the masses by never saying "no" to anything, politicians mortgage the future while preserving their current careers. Maybe America should change its initials from USA to ATM.
To invoke singer/songwriter Don McLean in a different context and applying it to modern politicians: "They would not listen they're not listening still; perhaps they never will."
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