December 5-6, 2019
Dec 05 00:21 Jack Brewer & the black vote Dec 05 07:10 Partisan impeachment theories Dec 05 09:04 Schiff's ruthlessness personified Dec 05 11:38 Pelosi's Christmas Massacre Dec 05 14:30 Feisty 'Gramps' Biden gets hot Dec 06 05:38 Pelosi admits defeat in House Dec 06 09:19 It's the economy, stupid Dec 06 11:27 Pelosi's jobs report statement
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Jack Brewer & the black vote
Jack Brewer wrote about the black vote in 2020 in this op-ed , noting that "I'm one of those who have become full-fledged supporters of the president and want to see him reelected. Others, like Prince, haven't endorsed Trump for reelection at this point, but support some of the president's policies and appreciate what he has done."
That's where Brewer starts explaining why he supports President Trump:
We also recognized that while Democrats make big promises to black voters in the run-up to every election , too often those promises are forgotten once the polls close. In part that's because Democrats take our votes for granted; they just assume the vast majority of black people will vote Democratic. If more of us voted for Republicans, candidates in both parties would do more to compete for our votes.
What good are big promises that aren't kept? Back in the mid-90s, a men's religious movement got started by then-University of Colorado Football Coach Bill McCartney. The movement was called Promise Keepers. Its first study book was titled "The Awesome Power of a Promise Kept". The point behind the book is that keeping promises changes lives.
From another perspective, Newt Gingrich's Contract with America gained popularity by keeping these promises made to the American people:
On the first day of their majority in the House, the Republicans promised to bring up for vote, eight major reforms:
- require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply to Congress;
- select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
- cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
- limit the terms of all committee chairs;
ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
- require committee meetings to be open to the public;
- require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
- guarantee an honest accounting of the Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.
In 1994, Republicans took back the House for the first time in 40years. First, Newt's Republicans stood for something appealing. Next, Newt's Republicans kept their promises. Third and perhaps most importantly, Newt's Republicans promised to not exempt themselves from the laws they passed. Period.
Since he took office, President Trump has worked hard to improve the lives of African-Americans. Democrats can complain all they want but that doesn't change reality. President Trump has put in place policies that are putting smiles on people's faces. African-Americans have the lowest unemployment rate in their history. Opportunity Zones have brought back wealth into poor neighborhoods, thereby creating middle class employment opportunities.
President Trump is keeping promises and making life better for African-Americans. It isn't lost on people when comparing Trump's pro-African-American accomplishments with the Democrats unfulfilled promises. That's why President Trump is making significant inroads into the African-American community.
Posted Thursday, December 5, 2019 12:21 AM
Comment 1 by Dan at 28-Dec-19 02:36 PM
Dear Mr. Brewer:
Please run for Congress as a Senator or Representative. I worked in inner city schools in the 1980s and 1990s and agree with your assessment of the African American situation.
By the way, OPRAH said during the Obama Whitehouse years that I needed to die because I am a white male over 55 years of age and probably racially prejudiced; the same way they unfairly accuse POTUS #45 but I still say; "Please run for public office as a U.S. Senator or Congressman" because you will be great at it, in my opinion.
Good luck, God bless and have a blessed and prosperous 2020!
Sincerely,
Dan Whittman
PO Box 935
Blythe, CA 92226-0935
Partisan impeachment theories
Democrats aren't interested in bipartisanship when it comes to impeachment. Democrats don't even care if their hearings take pot shots at teenage kids. Democrats don't even care if they don't have evidence that proves their charges. In the Democrats' minds, they know that President Trump is evil and must be impeached and convicted. In the Democrats' minds, they don't need proof to impeach. They just need fanciful theories that support the Democrats' bloodlust to impeach and convict President Trump. In this case, the fanciful theories that Democrats are relying on are found in the Findings of Facts section of the Schiff Report.
For instance, Finding of Fact #IV says "President Trump ordered the suspension of $391 million in vital military assistance urgently needed by Ukraine, a strategic partner, to resist Russian aggression. Because the aid was appropriated by Congress, on a bipartisan basis, and signed into law by the President, its expenditure was required by law. Acting directly and through his subordinates within the U.S. government, the President withheld from Ukraine this military assistance without any legitimate foreign policy, national security, or anti-corruption justification . The President did so despite the longstanding bipartisan support of Congress, uniform support across federal departments and agencies for the provision to Ukraine of the military assistance, and his obligations under the Impoundment Control Act."
Saying that "the President withheld from Ukraine this military assistance without any legitimate foreign policy, national security or anti-corruption justification" isn't proof. That's opinion. The Constitution gives the President the authority to conduct foreign policy. Monies appropriated by Congress and signed by the President must be spent by the end of the fiscal year. In the case of the Ukraine appropriation, the money was sent to Ukraine with time to spare.
Saying that President Trump withheld aid from Ukraine without legitimate "anti-corruption justification" requires Democrats to look past the fact that, at the time, Ukraine was rated the third-most corrupt nation on the planet. Further, the NDAA required certification that Ukraine had met the anti-corruption standards.
Chairman Schiff didn't mention that this happened with Pakistan, the Northern Triangle countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador and from the nation of Lebanon. Why? Here's Representative John Ratcliffe inquiring with State Department Undersecretary David Hale how often aid was withheld within the past year:
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There goes that Schiff theory. Here's another example of Democrat theory dressed up as proof:
In furtherance of this scheme, President Trump - directly and acting through his agents within and outside the U.S. government - sought to pressure and induce Ukraine's newly-elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to publicly announce unfounded investigations that would benefit President Trump's personal political interests and reelection effort. To advance his personal political objectives, President Trump encouraged the President of Ukraine to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani.
Schiff's Democrats don't have proof of this accusation. In fact, the only proof in either direction comes from President Zelenskiy. He's said twice that he was never pressured. This is third-hand testimony presented by Bill Taylor. It's from one of the participants in the call. It isn't surprising that Democrats have ignored President Zelenskiy's statements that contradict their impeachment storyline. That's what Democrats consistently do with exculpatory evidence. Either that or these Democrats insist that it's just another discredited conspiracy theory.
It's nothing of the sort. It's an oft-repeated statement from Ukraine's president. He was one of 2 people on the call. He knows what was said. He knows whether lethal military aid was tied to anything. That's proof that would be admitted into any court in the United States. The Democrats' hearsay testimony (like we heard from Bill Taylor) isn't admissible anywhere in the United States.
The Democrats apparently want to become the first politicians to impeach a sitting president while using hearsay testimony. That isn't just an abuse of political power. It's corruption personified. If the same 232 Democrats vote to impeach President Trump who voted to open the inquiry, the American people will administer a punishment that will be studied for decades.
Posted Thursday, December 5, 2019 7:10 AM
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Schiff's ruthlessness personified
It's becoming increasingly apparent that Adam Schiff, the Democrats' Impeachment Committee Chairman, doesn't care who he demolishes on his path to impeaching President Trump. Schiff's latest act of intimidation was his "decision to publish the phone records of the president's personal attorneys, a journalist, a fellow lawmaker, a National Security Council aide, and others."
Schiff's behavior since 2016 has been hostile and corrupt. The definition of corruption is "perversion of integrity" or "corrupt or dishonest proceedings." If anyone personifies a "perversion of integrity", it's Schiff. He's been caught lying so often that he's often called 'the little boy who cried wolf too often.'
Now Schiff's depravity has reached a new low by releasing this private information. If Schiff is willing to do that about journalists and political opponents, why shouldn't we think that he'll next extend that behavior to anyone that stands in his way of impeaching President Trump. Unfortunately, Schiff can't be arrested for this corrupt behavior because of the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution. What can be done is to expel him from the House the minute Republicans retake control of the House in 2021.
In a text exchange, I asked one Republican lawmaker with knowledge of the situation whether Schiff's move raised any attorney-client issues:
Not legally. They used their subpoena authority. The decision to publish certain records is out of bounds as clearly political retribution, but it's not illegal as far as I can determine.
Whether Schiff broke any laws is irrelevant. His actions were the personification of corruption. It isn't a stretch to think that Schiff's actions were meant as retribution against people who tried stopping his impeachment obsession.
Democrats who protect Schiff should be defeated at the next election. Schiff's actions are reprehensible. Schiff has specialized in extreme lies. This is the most well-known example of Schiff's lies:
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What a worthless collection of human cells.
Posted Thursday, December 5, 2019 9:04 AM
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Pelosi's Christmas Massacre
This morning, Speaker Pelosi announced that she's instructed the House Judiciary Committee to start drafting articles of impeachment . In making the announcement, Speaker Pelosi said "His wrongdoing strikes at the very heart of our Constitution. Our democracy is what is at stake. The president leaves us no choice but to act because he is trying to corrupt, once again, the election for his own benefit."
It's frightening to think that someone as constitutionally illiterate as Ms. Pelosi is just 2 heartbeats away from the Oval Office. We don't have a democracy. We have a constitutional republic. It's frightening that a person that's 2 heartbeats away from the Oval Office is so corrupt that she's willing to say that President Trump is trying to rig the elections. What's worse is that she's saying this without offering a bit of proof.
"Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our founders, and our heart full of love for America, today I am asking our chairmen to proceed with the articles of impeachment," she said.
That's insulting in the extreme. Ms. Pelosi just instructed the Judiciary Committee to start writing articles of impeachment with what Prof. Jonathan Turley described as a "paucity of evidence and abundance of anger."
Democrats seem willing to forge ahead despite the fact that the only firsthand evidence is exculpatory evidence. The people who listened to the call verified that the transcript was accurate. Ukraine's president has repeatedly stated that he wasn't pressured into investigating the Bidens. Despite that verified and verifiable proof, Ms. Pelosi said this:
"The facts are uncontested. The president abused his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our national security by withholding military aid and crucial oval office meeting in exchange for an announcement of an investigation into his political rival."
When Democrats insist that 'the facts are uncontested', what Democrats really mean is that they're contested but Democrats aren't willing to listen to exculpatory evidence. Further, Democrats haven't hesitated in trusting hearsay evidence.
It's incredible that Ms. Pelosi didn't hesitate in saying that an Oval Office visit was crucial to our national security. After saying something that stupid, we shouldn't take Ms. Pelosi seriously. It's noteworthy that each time Ms. Pelosi speaks about impeachment, she talks about the Constitution, national security, the survival of our democracy and that President Trump didn't leave Democrats a choice.
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Since opening the impeachment inquiry, not a single bit of convicting evidence has been introduced. GWU Law Prof. Jonathan Turley was right in saying that there's a "paucity of evidence." When Ms. Pelosi says that President Trump left them no choice, what she meant is that her socialist activist base insists on impeaching President Trump.
If she holds to form, the House will vote for impeachment within 48 hours of Christmas. That's what she did with the ACA. If that's what happens, expect House Democrats to experience a similar electoral bloodbath. Expect it to be Ms. Pelosi's second Christmas Massacre.
Posted Thursday, December 5, 2019 11:38 AM
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Feisty 'Gramps' Biden gets hot
Proving that he still swings a wicked wooden cane, Gramps Biden lashed out at a man at a townhall meeting during Biden's No Malarkey tour. Biden's overreaction started when a man at an Iowa townhall meeting "accused the 77-year-old former vice president of being 'too old'" and after the man "took a swipe at son Hunter's role on the board of a controversial Ukrainian natural gas firm."
Then the man dug in deeper, saying "accused the 77-year-old former vice president of being "too old" and took a swipe at son Hunter's role on the board of a controversial Ukrainian natural gas firm." That was apparently more than Biden could handle, causing the former VP to respond "You're a damn liar, man. That's not true and no one has ever said that."
Then things got really heated:
"Look, the reason I'm running is because I've been around a long time and I know more than most people and I can get things done," Biden said. "And you want to check my shape? Let's do push-ups together man, let's run, let's do whatever you wanna do. And number two, no one has said my son has done anything wrong and I did not, on any occasion," he continued, only to be cut off by the man in the audience who shouted that he "never said" Biden was "doing anything wrong."
What a bunch of BS. It's impossible to think that everything was innocent when Hunter Biden got a $1,000,000/yr. no-show job in an industry he knew nothing about in a nation he'd never visited.
What part of that sounds even slightly plausible? A: There isn't a part of it that sounds plausible. Here's the video of the exchange:
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Posted Thursday, December 5, 2019 2:30 PM
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Pelosi admits defeat in House
When Speaker Pelosi announced on Thursday morning that she was instructing Chairman Nadler's committee to start drafting articles of impeachment, what she was really doing was admitting that Democrats would lose their House majority Next November. What I've been convinced of is that Republicans would retake the House barring a massive voter fraud effort by Democrats. Forget the 31 Democrats representing districts that Trump won in 2016. The majority of those districts will be flipped by Republicans next November. Depending on turnout and enthusiasm, it's possible that the vast majority of those districts will get flipped by Republicans.
The next set of targets for flipping are seats where President Trump came close to winning but fell just a little short. MN-2 and MN-3 fit into that category perfectly, where Angie Craig and Dean Phillips currently hold the seats. Both are seats that Republicans have held literally for decades. It'll take a bit of a fight but those seats should return to the GOP fold.
Thanks to the RNC's fundraising haul, the GOP is hosting massive voter registration drives at Trump rallies across the nation. A significant number of those rallies aren't hosted in districts that are GOP-friendly -- yet. Depending on the national mood next fall, these districts might constitute the third set of districts targeted.
There's no question that Pelosi wants to maintain her majority. She knows, though, that they've focused too much attention on impeachment and not nearly enough attention on fulfilling policy promises. There's no getting rid of the Do-Nothing Democrats label. Resist Movement Democrats dug a hole with their my-way-or-the-highway attitude. That isn't where the nation is.
If Democrats don't get rid of that group of Democrats, which they really can't, they'll be the minority party for awhile. Pelosi fought the AOC wing. In the end, she had to cave to their pressure. Now, it'll cost them their gavels.
Posted Friday, December 6, 2019 5:38 AM
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It's the economy, stupid
It's appropriate to steal James Carville's phrase from the 1992 election. That legendary phrase was "It's the economy, stupid." The White House economic team has reason to celebrate after this morning's November jobs report simply crushed it. Check out this list of positives:
- Nonfarm payrolls surged by 266,000 in November, better than the 187,000 expected by economists polled by Dow Jones.
- The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5% from 3.6%, back to the 2019 low and matching the lowest jobless rate since 1969.
- Average hourly earnings rose by 3.1% from a year ago, slightly above the 3% expected by economists polled by Dow Jones.
Then there's this:
Those totals easily beat the Wall Street consensus. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for solid job growth of 187,000 and saw the unemployment rate holding steady from October's 3.6%.
At the end of this video, the Fox News anchor could be heard excitedly saying "It's a blowout":
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That it is. Stephen Moore was one of then-Candidate Trump's initial economic advisers. You'd expect him to be jubilant after a jobs report like this. He didn't disappoint:
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Leisure and hospitality increased by 45,000 and professional and business services rose by 31,000; the two sectors respectively are up 219,000 and 278,000 over the past 12 months. Wage gains also were a touch better than expectations. Average hourly earnings rose by 3.1% from a year ago, while the average workweek held steady at 34.4 hours.
Economists had been looking for wage gains of 3%. A separate gauge of unemployment that includes discouraged workers and the underemployed declined as well, falling to 6.9%, one-tenth of a percentage point below October.
Wall Street loves this report. As of 9:15 CT, the DJIA is up 1.04%, which translates into a 281- point gain.
Somewhere in DC, Nancy Pelosi is attempting to figure out a way to minimize the impact of this report. Good luck with that.
UPDATE: I just visited Fake News CNN's website to see what they were saying about this morning's jobs report. They hadn't said a thing as of 9:45 am CT. ABC had written an article on the report, characterizing the jobs report as "solid."
Posted Friday, December 6, 2019 9:53 AM
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Pelosi's jobs report statement
The opening paragraph from Speaker Pelosi's statement on the November jobs report indicts the Speaker. Here's what she said:
Despite some encouraging numbers, the November jobs report offers little solace to the farmers and hard-working families who are struggling to stay above water with the costs of living rising and uncertainty surging.
If she's so worried about "farmers and hard-working families", why hasn't she brought USMCA up for a vote yet. For over a year, Ms. Pelosi has said that a) USMCA would be easy to pass and b) she was working her way to yes on ratifying it. Simply put, she's failed farmers. Ms. Pelosi's Do-Nothing Democrats have been more interested in impeaching a president who has created 7,000,000 jobs since taking office less than 3 years ago.
Ms. Pelosi's Do-Nothing Democrats unanimously voted against the Trump-GOP tax cuts that have lit a fire under this economy. These Do-Nothing Democrats voted against eliminating the Obama administration's regulations that would've killed the fossil fuel industry. In short, Pelosi's Do-Nothing Democrats have stood in the way of pretty much every Trump administration plan that's produced this prolific economy.
Thus far, the Trump administration's record includes the lowest unemployment rate in half a century, the lowest black unemployment rate and the lowest Hispanic unemployment rate ever, the lowest unemployment rate for women since WWII, rising wages, improving workforce participation rate and soaring consumer confidence. That's what Pelosi's Do-Nothing Democrats voted against.
Getting lectured by Ms. Pelosi about "struggling" farmers and manufacturers is insulting. Ms. Pelosi's focus on impeachment has prevented her from reaching yes on USMCA. She can complain all she wants about the 275 bills waiting for Senate action but that's bad-faith whining. Why should we trust a caucus of Do-Nothing Democrat Socialists who voted against the policies that built this fantastic economy? This sums things up perfectly:
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"What a contrast? A great economy, terrible politics."
Pelosi's Do-Nothing Democrats haven't helped with anything. They've focused on impeachment, not the economy. They haven't lifted a finger to close the asylum loopholes or the immigration system. The 275 bills are meaningless. It's time for Democrats to focus on what's important instead of focusing on appeasing their special interest base.
Posted Friday, December 6, 2019 11:27 AM
Comment 1 by Chad Q at 07-Dec-19 04:18 AM
No one should take this woman or any other progressive seriously on any topic but especially when it comes to the economy. This is a woman who said something along the lines of unemployment benefits are a good way to grow the economy. Someone this stupid shouldn't be in a position of power let alone 2 steps away from running the country.
