January 26-27, 2018
Jan 26 00:52 United We Dream reacts Jan 26 17:50 Is the DFL in trouble? Jan 27 00:32 Dayton administration fails again Jan 27 01:53 Minnesota catches 'tax cut fever' Jan 27 11:56 The Dog That Didn't Bark Jan 27 16:58 Tina Smith's investigation campaign
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United We Dream reacts
Saying that United We Dream is far outside the mainstream on immigration issues is understatement on steroids. Their statement starts off with a outrageous statements and finishes the same way.
United We Dream's statement starts by saying "Let's call this proposal for what it is: a white supremacist ransom note. Trump and Stephen Miller killed DACA and created the crisis that immigrant youth are facing. They have taken immigrant youth hostage, pitting us against our own parents, Black immigrants and our communities in exchange for our dignity. To Miller and Trump's white supremacist proposal, immigrant youth say: No."
Apparently, United We Dream isn't capable of making rational arguments. I've seen fifth graders who've made more adult-sounding arguments than that. Then again, it's typical for hardline progressives to immediately jump to race-baiting.
United We Dream's statement finishes by saying "So let us be clear: any politician who backs up this ransom note is enabling Trump and Miller's white supremacist agenda. Members of Congress of conscience must make the moral choice to reject this white supremacist proposal and pass legislation that protects us without harming others."
The thought that they've broken the law didn't enter their statement. Instead, there's just a sense of entitlement to living in the United States. Following the rules of the United States hasn't entered these illegal immigrants' minds.
I'm not just talking about DREAMers, either. It's impossible to identify a single demographic group of illegal immigrants who don't think they're entitled to ignore U.S. law. Then there's enablers like this:
By ending DACA, @realdonaldtrump subjected 800k Dreamers to deportation. Now he wants to hold them hostage to Steven Miller's anti-immigrant wish list. It's insulting. We already have a bipartisan solution to the Trump-created crisis: it's called the Dream Act. #DreamActNow
- Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 25, 2018
By saying "By ending DACA, @realdonaldtrump subjected 800k Dreamers to deportation. Now he wants to hold them hostage to Steven Miller's anti-immigrant wish list. It's insulting. We already have a bipartisan solution to the Trump-created crisis: it's called the Dream Act", Sen. Pocahontas has told America that she hates the rule of law. That isn't surprising since she apparently thinks she's a Native-American even though she's white. We don't need people who think they can make up the rules whenever they want.
Posted Friday, January 26, 2018 12:52 AM
Comment 1 by JerryE9 at 26-Jan-18 08:46 AM
Trump did not end the DACA law. He is enforcing it. Obama was breaking it and Trump mercifully extended it to give Congress time to fix it.
What I want to know is this: Why, when these nutjobs show up to protest, are they not immediately loaded on a bus for the border?
Is the DFL in trouble?
Anyone that thinks that the DFL is a smooth-running operation isn't paying attention. The DFL doesn't have a message. Most importantly, they don't think highly of people who live in rural Minnesota. Recently, Chairman Ken Martin said "Our brand is [expletive deleted]. Our brand is toxic. People don't know what the heck it is. If you got a hundred Democrats in this room right now, and ask them what the Democratic Party stands for, you'd get a hundred different answers. There's no consistency. No one knows what the Democratic Party is."
That's because the DFL, like Democrats nationally, have a different message for each special interest group rather than having a unifying message for everyone in general. For instance, it's impossible to please the environmentalists one minute, then please blue collar unions the next. The messages fit together like oil mixes with water or round pegs fit into square holes.
The other problem that the DFL has is their disdain for people. Recently, a DFL campaign staffer was quoted as saying "Just tell them the trailer-court story; they're not big thinkers out there." If you've never seen DFL elitism before, that's what it looks like. You can't win people's hearts when you're disgusted with them.
Why aren't Range DFLers asking what they have in common with Metro DFL environmentalists? Why haven't Rangers figured it out that they have much more in common with the GOP? Republicans should exploit the divisions within the DFL. These aren't microscopic differences. These are gigantic philosophical divisions.
For the entire Obama administration, the DFL locally, and Democrats nationally, hasn't had a unifying message. They've held the tribes together with mirrors. With Trump ushering in a new generation of prosperity, Republicans can run on the unifying message of putting pro-growth policies in place that benefit everyone.
Ken Martin has lots of reasons to be worried about the DFL this fall. By then, the economy will be humming. People will be able to compare Trump's economy with Obama's economy and Dayton's economy. That isn't a fair fight. The Republicans' gubernatorial candidate should make economic growth throughout the state the centerpiece of their campaign. Any campaign staffer or consultant that isn't singing from that hymnal should be immediately fired.
Republicans at all levels should highlight the fact that they're hoping that everyone in all 87 counties will benefit from their policies. That doesn't mean redistribution or socialism. It means pro-growth policies that help everyone's upward mobility.
Posted Friday, January 26, 2018 5:50 PM
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Dayton administration fails again
When I first heard about the abuse happening in elder care facilities, it was heart-wrenching. Follow this link to read my first post about this crisis. This is the link to my next post . Earlier this week, Sen. Karin Housley issued this statement after conducting a hearing on the crisis, saying "On November 30, 2017, Gov. Dayton requested a 'time-limited work group to provide guidance on steps the state should take to improve the health and safety of Minnesota seniors: ', with the recommendations due on January 26, 2018. It is now January 26 and I am disappointed to learn the work group's recommendations have been delayed. It is my expectation that the governor's office will release the unedited report, in full, on Monday morning. I expect to hold a committee hearing shortly to review the recommendations and chart our course forward. Elderly and vulnerable Minnesotans, and their families, have suffered for too long due to bureaucratic backlogs and inaction. Minnesotans should expect nothing less than full accountability and action from their state government."
The Dayton administration has already taken too much time to fix this crisis. Some of the testimony in this video is heartbreaking:
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Some of the testimony from the commissioners is infuriating. They're so far out of touch that it's maddening. What's more maddening is this statement from Gov. Dayton :
While the health department takes heat for poor oversight, Governor Dayton blamed providers. "First and foremost, they are the ones to blame for these egregious abuses," he said Wednesday.
Why do I think that Gov. Dayton won't hold investigators and other bureaucrats accountable for not conducting investigations? Obviously, the 'caregivers' (I use that term loosely in this instance) have the primary responsibility but it's equally true that the Dayton administration had an affirmative responsibility to investigate these situations. That's what supervisors are supposed to do.
This testimony is disgusting:
"In my case, my father's body laid in his room for seven days without the facility doing a wellness check,' said Kristine Sunberg with Elder Voices Family Advocates.
That's inexcusable and unjustifiable. Period. How can something like that happen? A law needs to be written that the people like the ones who ignored Ms. Sunberg's father are punished, prosecuted and sent to prison for a long time. What they did was sub-human.
Posted Saturday, January 27, 2018 12:32 AM
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Minnesota catches 'tax cut fever'
Thus far, it's seemed like big multi-national corporations have been the only companies that have spread the wealth gained through the Trump/GOP tax cuts. Apparently, that's coming to an end. According to this article , Minnesota companies are getting into the action.
According to the article, "Data Sales Co. said it will benefit from a cut in the corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 percent. The rate cut is part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed by Republican majorities in Congress and signed in December by President Trump. 'With the majority of our 80-plus-strong workforce here in Burnsville, I'm pleased that the benefits of tax reform will be felt at home,' Data Sales CEO and Burnsville resident Paul Breckner said in a news release."
Breckner praised Rep. Jason Lewis, praising him "for his consistent advocacy of tax reform and seeing it through to becoming law." Lewis replied, saying "Critics said the business cuts 'wouldn't help the hardworking middle-class families that work for these businesses,' Lewis said in a Jan. 22 message to constituents. 'Thankfully, it's actually the case that making American businesses more competitive is very good for our families. Across the country, employers have responded to tax reform by giving a combined total of over $1 billion in bonuses to their employees over the past month. That's over 1 million Americans with approximately $1,000 more in their pocket today!'"
The American Action Network put together this ad thanking Congressman Lewis for voting for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act:
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Congressman Lewis is a rising star in the Republican Party. He's principled, articulate and conservative. Congressman Lewis's intellectual heft is impressive, too. I'd love to see him debate nonentities like Betty McCollum or Rick Nolan. Frankly, it'd be a mismatch.
The rematch between Congressman Lewis and Angie Craig, if it happens , would also be a mismatch. Lewis is already hitting her:
"It seems the Erdmann campaign is feeling the Craig hypocrisy we saw regularly last cycle as the same Democrats who claim to be working to get money out of politics seem more interested in someone who can raise money than someone to represent their values," his campaign manager, Becky Alery, said in a statement. She added: "In 2016, the country made it clear they didn't want Hillary and this year Minnesota will (once again) make it clear they don't want Angie Craig."
Angie Craig would be a good fit in Minnesota's 4th or 5th districts because she's exceptionally liberal. She's a terrible fit for Minnesota's 2nd District because she's too liberal for the district. Lewis didn't vote for the Schumer Shutdown. Angie Craig would've voted for the Schumer Shutdown.
Posted Saturday, January 27, 2018 1:53 AM
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The Dog That Didn't Bark
This week, Democrats lost their minds because President Trump didn't fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller. That caused shock waves amongst Democrats. They warned President Trump that he'd better not fire Mueller. Of course, this is after President Trump or Sarah Huckabee-Sanders have told the MSM that President Trump won't fire Mueller countless times. It's essentially a rewrite of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel of "The Dog That Didn't Bark."
Thanks to Thad McCotter's delightful sense of humor, we have an insightful perspective of what's happening . McCotter writes "The Left's media sheep bleat recently leaked 'bombshells' that Trump considered firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller (as if 'Trump Didn't Fire Mueller!' is news ). Picking up the tune, Senate Democrats warn Mueller's dismissal would be a ' red line ' the president must not cross and introduce bills to prevent it. Doubtless, House Democrats will harmoniously ape similarly breathtaking displays of constitutional and legislative ignorance."
What these breathless Democrats won't highlight is that their 'worries' are based on a nonevent that almost happened this past June. What reportedly happened is that President Trump got frustrated with Mueller's make-believe investigation. He reportedly asked White House Counsel Don McGahn what would happen if he fired Mueller. McGahn told President Trump that he had the authority to fire Mueller but that it wouldn't be wise to fire him because it would cause him more headaches than it was worth. Ever since then, Trump has been telling people that he won't fire Mueller.
The Democrats insist that the White House is freaking out, worried that Mueller is pounding the last few nails in President Trump's political coffin. Before leaving for Davos, a panic-stricken Trump interrupted a gaggle:
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People, that isn't what a panicked person sounds like. That's what a calm person sounds like. I'll admit, though, that President Trump sounded feisty at times while interacting with the press. Here's something the MSM hasn't said: President Trump doesn't filibuster and dodge questions like President Obama filibustered.
McCotter explains what Democrats are really up to in this paragraph:
The Left's scam remains the same: use the Russia-gate lie to slow down the president and the Republican majority's agenda; have the special counsel slander or charge President Trump in time to recapture Congress in 2018 and impeach the president; and, ultimately, conceal the mounting evidence of the Obama Administration's efforts to corrupt the rule of law by "fixing" the Clinton email case, using FISA to spy on and unmask political opponents, and leaking any classified information it deemed in their partisan interest (if not the national interest).
What's fascinating about Democrats, including those in the MSM, is that they haven't highlighted the fact that Democrats have frequently called police officers racists (Think Philando Castile) while Republicans have criticized the political appointees in the upper management of the FBI and DOJ. Republicans haven't criticized the hard-working agents. They've only criticized corrupt investigators like Peter Strzok. Newt Gingrich sums things up perfectly in this interview with Bill Hemmer:
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Finally, the dog didn't bark because there was nothing to bark about. When the Mueller 'investigation' is part of history, we'll look at it as one of the biggest nothing burgers in history.
Posted Saturday, January 27, 2018 11:56 AM
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Tina Smith's investigation campaign
Apparently, Tina Smith thinks that she can win her special election by peddling the latest DFL BS about the Trump-Russia nothing burger . She might be able to gin up enthusiasm with the DFL's far-left base with that but I'd doubt that thoughtful people care a whit about the investigation. I'm betting that people will be more interested in interrogating Ms. Smith over why she voted for shutting down the government on Friday night, then voting to reopen the government on Monday, especially considering that the votes were literally on the identical bill.
Further, I'm betting that voters will want to know whether she supports President Trump's immigration framework that would give 1,800,000 illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship in exchange for the appropriation of money to built President Trump's border wall and ending chain migration. Will Ms. Smith represent the DACA recipients she claims to care about or will she vote to keep the issue alive for this year's campaign? In other words, will she represent her constituents? Or the special interests that fund her campaign?
"The report that President Trump sought to fire Robert Mueller - the man leading the Trump-Russia investigation - is profoundly disturbing, to say the least," Smith's statement continued. "I plan to support measures that would help protect this investigation from further political interference."
First, the firing didn't happen. Why be worried about something that didn't happen? It isn't like Smith doesn't have truly important things to do. She's got immigration reform to think through. She's got to decide whether she'll support lifting the spending caps on the military. BTW, the military got hollowed out thanks to Sen. Franken's votes. Will she fix what he broke?
The New York Times reported Thursday night that Trump had ordered a White House lawyer to fire Mueller, but backed down after the attorney, Don McGahn, threatened to resign. If carried out, the firing would likely have created an extraordinary political crisis.
A significantly different version of the story is now making the rounds. In that newer article, it's being reported that President Trump asked McGahn what would happen if he fired Mueller. McGahn replied that it would create more headaches for the President. McGahn then recommended that President Trump drop the idea, which apparently happened.
It isn't a big deal for the President to have expressed frustration with the Mueller investigation. Mueller's team is filled with biased 'investigators' who wanted Hillary Clinton to be president. It'd be a miracle if a person wasn't upset with the team Mueller picked.
Here's a point worth considering: Smith is more upset with something that didn't happen than she's been about the abuse of residents in Minnesota's elder care facilities. Forgive me but why isn't Smith upset about something that's actually happened? Why isn't she upset about that crisis? When you watch this video, I want you to think about the questions you'd ask if your parents were subject to this abuse:
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Ponder what Sen. Housley said:
It snowballed over the Dayton administration and was completely ignored and was brushed completely under the table so I think there needs to be some apologies made and some accountability taken.
I'll be clear. Much of this happened while Tina Smith was Lieutenant Governor, a time when she paraded around the state doing ribbon cuttings, etc. Why didn't Smith dig into this crisis rather than be Gov. Dayton's PR person? Is it because Smith prefers the role of PR spokesperson over the responsibility of fixing things?
Posted Saturday, January 27, 2018 4:58 PM
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