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Trump Blasts Partisan Coup

 Gary Bauer

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Inspector General Horowitz Testifies to 

Senate Homeland Security Committee

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Earlier today Inspector General Michael Horowitz appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee to answer questions about his investigation into FISA abuse and the conduct of DOJ and FBI officials.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/18/inspector-general-horowitz-testifies-to-senate-homeland-security-committee/  

VIDEO:  https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/fisa-horowitz-with-small-group.jpg?w=640&h=361

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House of Representatives 

Debate and Vote on Impeachment 

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Today the House of Representatives is holding structured and highly controlled statements ahead of a predetermined vote to impeach U.S. President Donald Trump... The democrats established six hours of debate on the articles will be divided equally between Democrats and Republicans. At 3:00pn ET the House is approximately half way through their statements. The impeachment vote will come later into the evening.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/18/house-of-representatives-debate-and-vote-on-impeachment-300pm-livestream/  

VIDEO 1:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEE-MZcAgx8&feature=emb_title

VIDEO 2:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I6mIT-MxtA&feature=emb_title

VIDEO 3:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DJOz0Ux_gc&feature=emb_title

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Democrats Prepare To Sabotage Impeachment Process Before Senate Even Hears the Case

By Joe Saunders 

{ westernjournal.com } ~ They’re already sabotaging the results. Facing almost certain failure in any Senate trial to impeach President Donald Trump... Democrats in Congress are already doing their best to lay the groundwork to undermine the constitutional process they themselves set in motion. And they’re not even trying to be subtle. “I think we’re going to have to call for a mistrial before it ever gets over to the Senate,” California Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier told CNN correspondent Jake Tapper on Tuesday. In other words, they know they’re going to lose but don’t want Americans to trust the verdict. In a liberal party, of course, Speier is known for taking far-left positions. But she wasn’t the only Democrat attacking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s qualifications to take part in what could be the most momentous moment of the already-momentous Trump presidency. Even the  occasionally sensible Sen. Sherrod Brown beclowned himself during an “MTP Daily” interview on MSNBC with host Chuck Todd. Brown, who had been discussed as a possible late entry into the Democratic presidential race as recently as October, spoke of “increasing talk” that McConnell should recuse himself from the impeachment trial. Because McConnell has had the courage to call out the Democratic impeachment drive for the “political” process it is and has been forthright enough to announce that he will work directly with the White House to put the travesty to bed as quickly as possible, Brown accused the Senate majority leader of lacking “respect” for the institution he heads. It’s the kind of lunacy that has to be seen to be believed. If Democrats think they can win an argument by claiming that a man like McConnell, who as served in the Senate for 35 years or almost half his life, doesn’t “respect” the upper house of Congress, they might as well throw in the towel now. The fact that Brown chose to make the argument on an openly anti-Trump network like MSNBC should tell any reasonable observer what kind of audience he thinks will buy it...

https://www.westernjournal.com/democrats-prepare-sabotage-impeachment-process-senate-even-hears-case/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune  

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Three Major scumbag/liar-nObamacare 

Taxes Bite the Dust

by DAVID CATRON

{ spectator.org } ~ House Democrats, forced by a budget deadline to divert a little energy from impeachment to their primary legislative function, have reluctantly negotiated a spending agreement with congressional Republicans and the White House... The bill, which must be passed by the Senate and signed by the president before federal funding runs out this weekend, contains some good news for Americans facing ever-increasing medical expenses. It permanently repeals three looming scumbag/liar-nObamacare taxes: the medical device tax, the tax on premium (Cadillac) health plans, and the health insurance tax (HIT). All three were unpopular and would have increased health-care costs. The 2.3-percent tax on medical devices, which was due to go into effect this January, has long been promoted by scumbag/liar-nObamacare advocates as a mere corporate tax. Like all taxes levied on corporations, however, it would have inevitably been passed on to health-care consumers. Among the patients who would have been adversely affected by this stealth excise tax are the many Americans who need crucial medical devices such as pacemakers, stents, artificial joints, and insulin pumps. Countless patients would also have been hit by higher prices at hospitals and stand-alone facilities to which they must go to avail themselves of MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, and other tests involving expensive technology. The medical device tax would also have killed thousands of jobs and stifled innovation. This is not a matter of idle speculation. It originally went into effect in January 2013, pursuant to the stipulations of the Affordable Care Act, but it bedeviled the medical device industry to such an extent that Congress decided to suspend it after two years. The medical device industry naturally hoped it would be dumped altogether, but Congress has continued to dither on repeal. During the time this misbegotten tax remained in effect, medical equipment manufacturers were frequently forced to choose between R & D and creating jobs. These consequences were described by the editors of the Wall Street Journal as follows: The tax was intended to raise spare change to pay for scumbag/liar-nObamaCare — an estimated $25 billion over 10 years — but even Democrats don’t believe the economic damage is worth the revenue.… An Iowa State University study last year found that the tax on average decreased research and investment by $34 million and sales by $188 million per company from 2013 to 2015. The Tax Foundation recently projected the tax would result in 21,390 job losses. This week’s spending deal will finally banish the medical device tax to outer darkness, where it will also send the so-called Cadillac tax. The latter is an excise tax on high-dollar health insurance plans. Its implementation has been repeatedly postponed by Congress because, with the possible exception of the individual mandate’s penalty, it is the most unpopular of the many taxes imposed by scumbag/liar-nObamacare. The tax is not merely reviled by Republicans, it is extremely unpopular with crucial Democratic constituencies like the labor unions. In early December, more than 1,000 employers, insurers, unions, and various other organizations sent a letter to Congress pleading with it to scrap the justly reviled tax: The undersigned organizations — a diverse group of employers, industries, health care stakeholders, unions, patient and disease groups — urge you to take immediate action to protect the health care of the more than 178 million Americans who receive health care coverage through an employer. We are asking you to swiftly, and fully, repeal the impending 40% tax on employer-provided health care before this onerous tax increase hits the pocketbooks of hardworking Americans...   https://spectator.org/three-major-obamacare-taxes-bite-the-dust/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=0ee30df3dc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_18_02_49&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-0ee30df3dc-104608113   

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The scumbag-Schumer Principle: Lying 

Under Oath Is Not Impeachable

By Terence P. Jeffrey

{ cnsnews.com } ~ Twenty-one years ago, then-Rep. Charles scumbag-Schumer worked to establish the precedent that a president could lie under oath... The question for scumbag-Schumer was not whether the president was lying but what he was lying about. The ultimate question underlying then-President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton's impeachment was this: Did Paula Jones, an Arkansas state employee, have a right to fair and honest proceedings when she brought a federal civil suit against the former governor of Arkansas who had gone on to become the president? "She claimed the Governor made boorish and offensive sexual advances that she rejected, and that her superiors at work subsequently dealt with her in a hostile manner and punished her in a tangible way for rejecting those advances," Judge Susan Webber Wright would eventually write in a 1999 opinion in which she held scumbag/liar-Clinton in contempt. scumbag/liar-Clinton, as Wright summarized the case, fought all the way to the Supreme Court to prevent Jones' suit from proceeding while he was president. In 1997, the Supreme Court ruled against scumbag/liar-Clinton, and he had to give a deposition addressing Jones' suit in Wright's court. "In addition, the Court travelled to Washington, D.C., at the request of the President to preside over his civil deposition on January 17, 1998," Wright wrote. In her contempt opinion, the judge said scumbag/liar-Clinton made "intentionally false" statements in that deposition. Her realization that scumbag/liar-Clinton might be in contempt of her court occurred the day scumbag/liar-Clinton testified before the grand jury convened by independent counsel Ken Starr...

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/schumer-principle-lying-under-oath-not-impeachable  

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Drops 

A BOMB On Impeachment

by Martin Walsh

{ explainlife.com } ~ After months of sham hearings, partisan witnesses, and still no evidence President Donald Trump did anything wrong on his July phone call with the Ukrainian president... the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives will vote on impeachment this week.  After dropping two of the original charges they levied against the president, House Democrats have finally decided they will vote to charge Trump with obstruction of Congress and abuse of power. While it’s likely the House will impeach the president, the GOP-controlled Senate has already made it clear impeachment will die quickly in the upper chamber. But Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sent shock waves this week when she spoke publicly about the Democrats impeachment witch hunt into Trump — something none of the other Justices have done. Speaking at the event Monday night in New York City, the 86-year-old liberal Justice spoke about Trump’s repeated calls for House Democrats to end their ongoing impeachment effort. “The president is not a lawyer,” Ginsburg said, appearing to take a shot at the president by suggesting he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. For starters, none of the other Supreme Court Justices have made public remarks about impeachment. Yet, Ginsburg felt the need to publicly rebuke Trump’s opposition to the impeachment proceedings, another sign of her anti-Trump bias, which could also extend to her rulings on the court. Secondly, the Supreme Court will play a major role in the Senate impeachment trial. If the House votes to impeach Trump which they will, the Senate will hold a trial, with Ginsberg’s colleague Chief Justice John Roberts serving as the judge. With a Senate impeachment trial, Roberts would moderate the proceedings, setting the pace, authorize senators to speak or stop speaking, and decide on motions and admissibility of evidence. In the event a vote is called and there’s a tie, Roberts — a conservative who is unpredictable and has voted with Democrats on major issues — would break it. The vice president normally breaks tied votes in the Senate, but Mike Pence will be recused during an impeachment trial because of a conflict. If the Senate impeaches Trump, Pence would then become the president of the United States. There are countless hypotheticals of how all of this could play out. But in reality, it will be pretty simple. The Democrat-controlled House will vote to impeach Trump this week. Then, Trump will be completely acquitted and fully exonerated in the Senate.

https://explainlife.com/here-we-go-ruth-bader-ginsburg-drops-a-bomb-on-impeachment-18280/?utm_source=Explainlife.com%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email  

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Trump Blasts Partisan Coup

 Gary Bauer

 

As we were wrapping up this report, news broke that President Trump sent Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi a blistering letter blasting the House impeachment process as an “unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power” and an “illegal, partisan attempted coup.”

This is yet another example how this president never stops fighting!

I am against cloning, but if we could figure out how to clone fighters like this for family, faith, and freedom, I would be inclined to change my mind! This is exactly how I believe we must fight back if we are going to have any chance to save the country.

Impeachment Update

The House Rules Committee took up the impeachment resolution Tuesday morning. As the name implies, the Rules Committee will decide the rules of debate on the articles of impeachment when they are presented to the full House for a vote, which is expected either today or Thursday. 

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tipped his hand yesterday regarding what we can expect to see in the Senate. He flatly rejected demands by Senate Democrat Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer to call witnesses that House Democrats decided not to hear from in their rush to impeach President Trump.

But McConnell made it clear that he is not interested in a long, drawn-out trial with both sides calling witnesses. Speaking with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, McConnell said:

Do we know enough, have we learned enough after listening to all this that we want to vote on the two very weak articles of impeachment? Or, do we want to have a show trial in which both sides try to embarrass the other and put on an embarrassing scene, frankly, for the American people? …

Obviously, I think we’ve heard enough. And, after we’ve heard the arguments we ought to vote and move on… We know how it’s going to end. The president is not going to be removed from office.

Democrat Deception

As this sham process moves forward, I want to point out just one example of how deceptive Democrats are being in their attempt to impeach the president.

“Abuse of power” is one of the charges against the president. To support that charge, many Democrats have repeatedly tried to portray the president as a dictator, someone who believes he can do anything he wants to do. 

In fact, they have often quoted the president out of context attempting to make their point. He twice said, “Article II (of the Constitution) allows me to do whatever I want.” Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi used this quote during a recent press conference, and Democrats played a deceptively edited tape from one of the president’s speeches during the Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearings. 

As always, context is crucial. Now here’s the truth that Democrats aren’t telling you. 

Both times Trump said, “Article II allows me to do whatever I want,” the president was specifically referring to one thing — his authority to deal with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, including the right to fire him. 

In short, Democrats and their left-wing allies are intentionally misleading the American people, trying to make us think that the president believes he has unlimited power. That’s not what he said, and the absurd claim doesn’t pass the straight-face test.

For example, this president has been subjected to more nationwide injunctions issued by liberal judges blocking his agenda than any president in history. If Trump believed he could do anything, why would he tolerate these unelected judges getting away with their outrageous abuses of power?

Instead, the president has respected the limits of his authority and the Constitution by appealing their injunctions to the Supreme Court, where he has, thankfully, frequently prevailed.

If Democrats are willing to lie about something like this in their fevered pursuit of impeachment, their entire impeachment report shouldn’t be trusted.

Here’s something else to keep in mind. Democrats keep saying what a somber moment this is and how much they regret their upcoming vote. That’s laughable!

When it came time for the president’s inauguration, a historic moment when the country celebrates the peaceful transition of power, scores of Democrats boycotted the event. This boycott occurred after weeks of unprecedented progressive efforts to overturn the election results by sabotaging the Electoral College. 

It’s clear that what is driving the Democrats’ impeachment push is a shortage of evidence and a surplus of anger. 

Tis the Season … for Grinches

The militant secularists at the Freedom From Religion Foundation have stolen Christmas from some children in Oklahoma this year. Several weeks ago, the radical group told school administrators that the live nativity in Chisholm Elementary School’s holiday concert was illegal and unconstitutional. As proof, the foundation cited a case it brought against an Indiana school in 2015.

Just think that about. With all the challenges facing our children, some Americans are on a search-and-destroy mission trying to locate third graders dressed up as wise men and angels. 

Kudos to Mat Staver and Liberty Counsel for offering their services pro bono to the school board to fight this outrageous attack on religious liberty. As Staver noted, the Freedom From Religion Foundation actually lied to school administrators by failing to inform them that the foundation lost its 2015 case!   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/67447?mailing_id=4749&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4749&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=bod