Monday, December 19, 2016
NOT satire! Obama warns Trump not to overuse executive orders
United Press International
. . . "In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep on Thursday that aired in its entirety Monday on Morning Edition, Obama said it's preferable to work with Congress.
" 'Keep in mind, though, that my strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done," Obama said from the Cabinet Room in the White House. "In my first two years, I wasn't relying on executive powers, because I had big majorities in the Congress and we were able to get bills done, get bills passed. And even after we lost the majorities in Congress, I bent over backwards consistently to try to find compromise and a legislative solution to some of the big problems that we've got — a classic example being immigration reform, where I held off for years in taking some of the executive actions that I ultimately took in pursuit of a bipartisan solution — one that, by the way, did pass through the Senate on a bipartisan basis with our help.' " . . .
Elector Even Receives Threatening ‘Christmas Card’
Weasel Zippers
"This is the kind of thing the Electors have had to put up with: "
Another compassionate, tolerant liberal.
"This is the kind of thing the Electors have had to put up with: "
Another compassionate, tolerant liberal.
Hillary Clinton supporters need to quit whining about the Electoral College; The Founding Fathers got it right, and California is proof
MarketWatch via Drudge
"Second, Clinton’s 2.3-million-popular-vote plurality over Trump depends on the votes in a single state: California. Clinton has more than a 4-million-vote plurality over Trump there. In the other 49 states plus the District of Columbia, Trump actually has a 1.7-million-popular-vote plurality over Clinton. So California single-handedly turns a Trump plurality into a Clinton plurality."Video discussion here.
. . . "Many die-hard Clinton supporters cannot bring themselves to believe their candidate could lose to Donald Trump. They think: How could such a crude and inept con man be elected president? Even after it has happened, it is unthinkable, a nightmare. So, the election must not have been fair.
"Those on the fringe raise the specter of diabolical Russians hacking away at our democracy. More grounded Clintonians have less malevolent boogeymen — our Founding Fathers. As they see it, the election’s outcome should be blamed on a dysfunctional and archaic electoral vote system. Hillary won the national popular vote. She should be president. It is as simple as that. The Electoral College should go the way of Trump University.
"They are right about one thing: Hillary did win the national popular vote. As votes continued to trickle in three weeks after Election Day, Clinton received 50.9% of the two-party vote to 49.1% for Trump. With about 135 million votes counted, Clinton has 2.3 million more votes than Trump.
"Yet Clinton has only 232 electoral votes (in 20 states plus Washington, D.C.) to Trump’s 306 (in 30 states plus one from Maine), making him the president-elect. So Trump’s election without a popular-vote plurality is regarded as an injustice. Some Democrats claim a moral victory as victims of an electoral vote system that once again horribly “misfired.” Their claim, however, neglects two facts." . . .
Under our electoral vote system, American voters elected a national president, not California’s choice.
PROJECT ‘Save the Snowflakes:’ Hilarious Video To Mock Hillary Supporters Has Them FURIOUS
MRC, a conservative media watchdog created this video to show the idiocy and childishness of the liberal mind that makes them scurry to their safe spaces, and their affinity for safety pins, puppies, and coloring books.Lady Liberty
. . . "Let’s hope that some day these special snowflakes realize that they are being laughed at, regain some God-given common sense. Until then, we can enjoy little gems like this video and be entertained by all of the ridiculously pathetic things the left tries to pull daily. Enjoy!!!" . . .
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Thomas Sowell asks, Where Are We?
Thomas Sowell
"We are now in a kind of political no-man's-land between an administration on its way out and a new
administration taking shape. Predictions are always risky and nowhere more so than in times like
these.
"What we can do, however, is assess where we are, and what some of the opportunities and dangers
are.
"The opportunities are many, which is to say that many things are in desperate need of changing,
beginning with rebuilding our dangerously neglected and undermined military forces. The
monstrosity of ObamaCare needs to be gotten rid of, not just cosmetically adjusted.
"Our fundamental freedoms under the Constitution are at stake in the choice of the next nominee to
become a Justice of the closely divided Supreme Court. We need someone with both the depth and
the strength to resist the pressures and the temptations that have seduced too many supposedly
"conservative" justices, over the years, into betraying Constitutional principles. " . . .
Islamic Jew-hatred has made a treacherous alliance with Western academics and activists- and the US campuses are on fire
Phyllis Chesler "Hate Spaces: The Politics of Intolerance on Campus," an important new film, brought to us by Americans for Peace and Tolerance on Campus (Charles Jacobs and executive Producer and Director, Avi Goldwasser), is about another kind of Jihad arson: the way in which the American campuses have been set ablaze by a well-choreographed and well-funded propaganda campaign against Jews and the Jewish state.
Once such propaganda takes hold, actual, physical, murderous Jihad is not far behind. The cognitive war, as my colleagues Richard Landes and Charles Jacobs know, is very hot; it, too, is on fire.
The accumulated footage of increasingly aggressive and menacing keffiyeh-and hijab-draped mobs utterly disrupting peaceful pro-Israel or truth-telling lectures; the omnipresent swastikas, anti-Jewish graffiti ("Kill all the Jews," ""I hate Jews," Kike", "Dirty Jew," ), the frightening hate speech ("Jews, your days are numbered," "Long live the Intifada," "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free," "You are child murderers," ), the prominent mock Apartheid Walls, the mock eviction notices, the dorm storming, the bullying, etc.--document what I first called the Brownshirt phenomenon on campus way back in 2003.
By now, the Brownshirts have come into their own. They rule the American campuses from coast to coast, on the subjects of Israel, Islam, Palestine, Jews, and "Amerika."
Russia challenges US to prove campaign hacking claims or shut up
CNN "The United States must either stop accusing Russia of meddling in its elections or prove it, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday.
"Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was "indecent" of the United States to "groundlessly" accuse Russia of intervention in the US election campaign, Russian state news agency Tass reported.
" 'They should either stop talking about that or produce some proof at last. Otherwise it all begins to look unseemly," Peskov reportedly said about the latest accusations that Russia was responsible for hacker attacks." . . .
"Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was "indecent" of the United States to "groundlessly" accuse Russia of intervention in the US election campaign, Russian state news agency Tass reported.
" 'They should either stop talking about that or produce some proof at last. Otherwise it all begins to look unseemly," Peskov reportedly said about the latest accusations that Russia was responsible for hacker attacks." . . .
Michelle Obama: ‘Now we’re feeling what not having hope feels like’
Legal Insurrection
"Actually, more Americans feel hopeful now that Trump has been elected"
"Michelle Obama had her final White House interview with Oprah Winfrey and bemoaned President-elect Trump’s victory with a series of silly, solipsistic observations.
"Despite her husband’s naive and childish approach to the presidency, she wants a “grown up” in charge, and despite the horrific results of Obama’s failed policies, she claims that she now understands what it’s like to have no hope.
The First Lady used her final interview in the White House to tell Oprah Winfrey that a ‘grown up’ should be in charge of the country.Looking forward to president-elect Trump’s looming inauguration, she said even though hope was lost, it was necessary to move on.‘Now we’re feeling what not having hope feels like. Hope is necessary,’ she said in her first direct response to the November 9 election result.
Hillary: Attack on Her Campaign is An Attack On Our Country
"This is not just an attack on me and my campaign, although that may have added fuel to it. This is an attack against our country. We are well beyond normal political concerns here. This is about the integrity of our democracy and the security of our nation."
"Hillary, Obama, and the Democrats view the release of the Podesta and DNC emails as an attack on our country. The truth is that if she and Obama had not lied, and if she had not sold access to the State Department, then there would have been nothing to hack and release. The release of the emails is an attack on Hillary for her lying and corruption. It is not an attack on our country. It benefitted(sp) our country that we had the documentation of Hillary’s lying and corruption.
" Hillary is following the lead of Harry Reid who said the hacking and release of the emails is the same as the September 11, 2001 attack."
. . .
"Obama is finished but continues to divide the country, as he has done for the past eight years, before he left for his last taxpayer-funded vacation in Hawaii."
A college under siege; Losers want to trash the Electoral College, but reality says they can’t
. . . Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founders . . . defended the Electoral College because it would be a source of stability, and that “an intermediate body of electors will be much less apt to convulse the community with any extraordinary or violent movements, than the choice of one who was himself to be the final object of the public wishes.”
Washington Times
"The losers this year are leading the charge for change, such as it is. Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, which voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton, has introduced a constitutional amendment to eliminate the college, and hundreds of thousands of Americans — some of them voters and many who no doubt are not — have signed online petitions in behalf of Mrs. Boxer’s amendment.
"Al Gore, who lost the Electoral College but won the national popular vote in 2000, supported the college when late in that campaign it appeared briefly that he might lose the popular vote and win the electoral votes, has changed his tune." . . .
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