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Holding Trump accountable -- for our own good
by DAVID LIMBAUGH
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Rep King – No Amnesty Is Acceptable – Let
DACAs Stay In The Shadows For Now
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ In the clip before the interview starts, President Trump is heard modifying his previous position of the wall “will come later” to “if we don’t have the wall we’re doing nothing.”... It’s not a consistent statement on its face. From the sounds of that adjustment by President Trump, the wall is now part of any DACA Package. That was not the original White House position. The statement by Marc Short, President Trump’s Director of Legislative Affairs, indicated the opposite was the position of the administration, not to tie amnesty to the border wall. Shortly after the announcement by clown-Schumer and Pulosi that they had gotten everything they wanted in amnesty concessions in their dinnertime deal with President Trump and that it was now just a matter of putting it on paper and having the vote, Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued an early correction... https://rickwells.us/king-amnesty-daca-stay-shadows/.
U.S. Senate Betrays Constitution,
Fails To Stop Perpetual War Policy
by Aaron Kesel
{activistpost.com} ~ The U.S. Senate voted 61-36 to kill an amendment proposed by Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) which would repeal the 2001 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Afghanistan and Iraq... The two bills have heavy scrutiny; the 2001 AUMF was approved in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, while the 2002 AUMF authorized the Iraq War. Senators opposed the amendment stating that “It would mean that we would immediately need to start winding down” U.S. forces abroad, said Senator Bob Corker (R-Tennessee), who opposed Paul’s amendment. The Senate can’t repeal the AUMF without replacing it with a new authorization, said war porn posterboy and head of the Congressional Armed Service Committee (SASC) Senator RINO-John McCain (R-Arizona)... https://www.activistpost.com/2017/09/us-senate-betrays-constitution-fails-to-stop-perpetual-war-policy.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=d8a6381946-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-d8a6381946-387888649
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Judiciary Chairman Considers
Subpoenas in Trump Investigation
by NICHOLAS FANDOS
{nytimes.com} ~ Senator Charles E. Grassley, facing what he sees as Justice Department stonewalling, is considering subpoenas to compel several witnesses to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee... and divulge what they know about President Trump’s connections to Russia and his firing of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director. Mr. Grassley and the committee’s top Democrat, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, have agreed that the witnesses are key to the committee’s investigation and could compel them to appear despite apparent objections by the Justice Department and the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. The witnesses include two top F.B.I. officials who worked alongside Mr. Comey, James Rybicki and Carl Ghattas, as well as Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/us/politics/grassley-judiciary-chairman-russia-probe-subpoenas.html
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Tom Cotton, David Perdue want tougher
immigration language in DACA deal
by Anna Giaritelli
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Two Republican senators are lobbying senators to include their bill creating a merit-based immigration system in any bill to protect immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children... Spokespeople for Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia confirmed to the Washington Examiner the lawmakers are educating colleagues about the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy Act. They hope to make the case for the proposal and swing enough members of the GOP majorities to insist it be added if the Senate takes up the so-called Dream Act. Democrats are demanding action to help younger illegal immigrants because President Trump has said he would rescind the liar-nObama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tom-cotton-david-perdue-want-tougher-immigration-language-in-daca-deal/article/2634606?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20From&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20From%20-%2009/16/17&utm_medium=email
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Sharpton Playing His Favorite Card
Again – And Making Up New Rights
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ What many of these skin color opportunists and lobbyists are unwilling to recognize is that there is a proper place and time for most things. Not everything is or should be considered appropriate in all situations... They attempt to blanket the inappropriate actions that they support in a presumption of a “right” to do it that may or may not exist even exist. That’s what snake oil and hair grease salesman Al Sharpton is doing in this instance. Just like the NAACP tried and failed to get Colin Kaepernick a job in the NFL following his shameful and disruptive anti-American behavior, Sharpton is making threats about this nobody ESPN bobble-head who likely wouldn’t even have a job were it not for federal guidelines placing less qualified people into positions that the free market would see given to others... https://rickwells.us/sharpton-card-new-rights/.
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Holding Trump accountable -- for our own good
by DAVID LIMBAUGH
{wnd.com} ~ What is Donald Trump up to, and what are his supporters to do? Is Trump betraying his supporters, or are clown-Chuck, Nancy and the media misrepresenting his position?
For the hundredth time, I supported Ted Cruz, not Trump, for the GOP presidential nomination. But when Trump was victorious, I supported him against liar-Hillary Clinton, and I have no regrets about that because though Trump sometimes disappoints, liar-Clinton would have been a wholesale nightmare. Even in hindsight, it’s not a close call.
I have also criticized a small fraction of conservative pundits for their seemingly obsessive knee-jerk opposition to Trump and their apparent glee when he sometimes lives down to their expectations. My main objection to some never-Trumpers is their gratuitous piling on and apparent joy in doing so, even on unfair allegations, such as those of pre-election collusion with Russia. None of us should be motivated by bragging rights – the dubious satisfaction of saying “I told you so,” especially when the interests of the nation hang in the balance.
Since the primaries, I have hoped that despite my doubts about Trump’s allegiance to certain conservative principles, he would be able to advance a conservative agenda more than a centrist Republican could or would. This is not because he is a so-called outsider but mainly because he has shown a willingness to fight. Whatever else you might say about the Republican Party, it has lost its backbone, particularly on budget battles.
But the courage to fight is meaningless unless you are willing to fight for the right things. Given Trump’s general non-ideological bent, why should his feistiness give us any solace?
Good question.
Well, Trump campaigned mostly as a conservative, and if the campaign showed him anything, it is that leftists – no matter what he may have learned living his entire life in liberal New York City – are his sworn enemies. If he hadn’t chosen sides before, he had no choice now. If he hadn’t been paying much attention to ideological issues before, he surely was learning now and becoming more conservative in the process.
No, I had no illusions that Trump had converted overnight to constitutional conservatism, but I was hopeful that he would make significant strides in rolling back Barack liar-nObama’s agenda. I sincerely want to hold on to that optimism.
Recently, however, Trump has given many of his supporters pause – including even some of the die-hardiest of the die-hards. Others in his camp are impervious to any evidence Trump is faltering or is capable of it. Still others define what is good by whatever Trump does, just as some define what is bad by whatever he does, and those types are unreachable anyway.
A debate has emerged among certain Trump supporters over whether he has betrayed them by cozying up to Democratic leaders or he is playing some elaborate version of 4-D chess. Those unfazed by Trump’s two-step with Pulosi and clown-Schumer are ecstatic that he is finally taking it to Ryan and McConnell. But it will be a cold day in Hades before I rejoice in Trump’s humiliating establishment Republicans when it comes at the price of abandoning his campaign pledges and a mainstream conservative agenda. Let’s not lose our heads.
Admittedly, political analysis is difficult in such a chaotic, convoluted, paradigm-shifting environment. The stakes are enormously high. There are many moving parts. Political constituencies are more fluid than they’ve been in decades. And there is an unusually high level of intramural tension in the Republican Party. Arguably, even the conservative movement is experiencing an identity crisis, with chest thumpers from all sides claiming they are the true conservatives and everyone else is a fraud.
For me, the jury is still out. Yes, Trump is making me nervous sometimes. Reports of his vacillation wouldn’t bother me so much except for his history of sympathy for certain liberal issues, his basic non-ideological bent, his desire for personal approval, his focus on the deal-making process as distinguished from the goals to be achieved in the deals and the presence in his inner circle of socially liberal influencers. How, then, can we not be uneasy when we read that Trump’s tax cuts will punish the “wealthy,” that he’s abandoning his opposition to amnesty or his commitment to the wall and that he’s losing interest in undoing the Iranian nuclear deal?
You feel me?
I don’t want to rush to judgment and prefer to believe that Trump will quit going wobbly and make course adjustments back toward those who brought him to the dance. For the record, I happen to believe that those who brought him to the dance are essentially conservatives – not populists, racists or political cultists.
I never want to pile on Trump with those malevolently motivated to destroy him. But his opponents’ bad faith must not blind us to his missteps or silence us about his policy betrayals, should they occur. Political leaders must be held accountable, sometimes on a daily basis. This is for their own good, as well as the nation’s.
Just this week, we read reports of Trump’s alleged deals with Democrats, and within a few hours, after significant blowback from Trump supporters, he raced to Twitter and public microphones to assure us he isn’t fishtailing on the wall.
At this point, it’s difficult to tell whether the media reports were completely fallacious about Trump’s caving or he actually did an immediate 180. Either way, we got strong and expeditious clarification – and that can only be healthy.
If Trump’s supporters don’t ever criticize him for fear of strengthening the position of his opponents, then he might just strengthen the position of his opponents on his own initiative. Trump is an old hand at business, but he is new at the game of politics, and the more constructive feedback he gets the better his governance will be.
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