Our Blake at 3 plus. Should have named him Dennis.
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We all want to believe in our government. The problem is our government seems to lie. Particularly is this so when it comes to vetting.
Listen to this and then decide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Erick Erickson writes Obama's Middle East Policy will lead to war. and I could not agree more. (See 1 below.)
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What more do we expect of Trump?
First, he promised to make America great again and not think about any position other than number one.
Would anti-Trumpers want America, the best hope for the world, to be second hand Rose?
Second, he tried to get Republicans to rid us of the scourge called Obamacare and pass a healthcare bill that was practical and more suitable.
His own party members failed to produce on their promise to voters.
Does his party believe thwarting their leader is good for the nation and for their own re-elections?
Are Republicans in office to accomplish nothing after controlling both houses.
Trump began his foreign policy initiatives by sending mixed signals to our enemies to keep them off balance and even went public telling Sec.Tillerson, 'negotiations with N Korea were worthless.' Then he travels to Asia and invites "Fat Boy" to come to the table and negotiate a deal. He reaffirmed, we believe in peace through strength instead of Obama's message of apology and weakness. Trump reaffirmed we would protect and defend our allies, and has urged China, as well as Russia, they must help get N Korea's ruler to rethink his diatribes and nuclear threats and development.
What does the mass media do? They ask him about gun control measures.
His policy initiatives have restored a level of confidence that has resulted in higher markets and lower unemployment. He has also pressed for a review of our tax raising policies after over 30 plus years which crippled our ability to compete and sent jobs and businesses overseas..
Once again, the mass media and anti-Trumpers focus on the debunked Russian Dossier and ignore the disarray in the Democrat Party exposed by Ms. Brazille
Trump has committed to rebuild and allow the military to execute his orders without second guessing and, while in Asia, he spent time with our troops telling them he was proud of and behind them all the way, unlike Obama who signaled his contempt for our military and police.
Finally, Trump has not only rebuilt our relationship with one of our strongest friends and democracies, Israel and through Amb. Haley, he has clearly signaled to the U.N. we will no longer fund their bias and support their anti-Semitic attitudes and actions.
Yes, we have a tweeting president who often shoots himself in the foot but he has proved he is clear eyed, knows how to manipulate the mass media, who remain in the pocket of the Democrat Party, and is a hard, dedicated worker. He also has a sense of humor that is often misunderstood because so many are predisposed to find nothing positive about their president because they cannot accept their loss gracefully.
When one looks at what Trump has accomplished in less than 10 months, or tried to, and all we have from the other side is demonstrable efforts of stonewalling and obfuscation and are willing to ignore the constant carping and nit-picking, I submit we actually elected a potential winner. Quirky at times, but probably what we needed and what "deplorables" intuitively understood and both coast elites plus the hypocrites in Hollywood never could.
And I have not even mentioned Trump's efforts at making the trading turf level as well as draining the swamp of the privileged
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Is the Democrat attack on Brazile because she is both a woman and also black? We have instant after instant where Democrats are guilty of what they accuse others. It is a cleverly honed strategy they have perfected, defended by their friends in the mass media and employ time and again.They love using the race card. (See 2 below.)
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Dick
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Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy Is Leading the Middle East to War
In a nutshell, here’s the basics of what is happening in Saudi Arabia. Every single king of Saudi Arabia has been one of the 45 (!!!) sons of Ibn Saud, the first king of the modern House of Saud. King Salman is one of the youngest, replacing dead brothers. Well, now they are out of brothers to replace Salman so he has decided to name his oldest son and set up a dynastic succession within his line. But there are a bunch of princes whose fathers have already been king. The best way to stop them from exerting claims or playing tribal loyalties is to round them all up and arrest them. That part of the equation is easy. The other part of the equation, i.e. Saudi Arabia going to war with Yemen, declaring a state of war with Lebanon, etc. is also easy to understand. Barack Obama is to blame.
The left is vastly more interested in protecting Barack Obama’s legacy than ensuring a stable world. One of the key components of his legacy that is destabilizing the world is the Iran deal. It will allow Iran to build nuclear weapons and it has provided funding for Iran to renew funding Hezbollah. Iran is stretching its legs trying to assert power in the Middle East and Saudi Arabia is the only power in the Middle East that can contain Iran.
That is why the left in America was upset with President Trump defending King Salman today. The king and his son are modernizing Saudi Arabia, rounding up often convenient targets of public corruption, and liberalizing the country. It is not altruistic, but a way to force diversification with cheap oil prices right now and also to get the people on the King’s side against the King’s relatives.
This is normally something the American left would celebrate, but the efforts by Saudi Arabia run headlong into confronting Iran’s resurgence due to Barack Obama’s Iran deal. This is another reason President Trump should scuttle the deal. The engagement with Yemen, the saber rattling with Lebanon, and the direct sniping with Qatar and Iran are all about containing Shiite terrorist groups through whom Iran wants to exercise control over the Middle East.
And much of this would not be happening had Barack Obama not been so committed to his Iran deal. Of course, Democrats will scream in denial about all of this because rather than a stable world, they want a legacy for Barack Obama.
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2)Brazile Blowback: Democrats Circle the Wagons and Defend Their Party
They’re focused on their main goal: the ‘resistance.’ Republicans should emulate their discipline.
2)Brazile Blowback: Democrats Circle the Wagons and Defend Their Party
They’re focused on their main goal: the ‘resistance.’ Republicans should emulate their discipline.
Donna Brazile probably wasn’t seeking to start a revolution in the Democratic party when she wrote her new book Hacks, whose excerpts published last week in Politico unleashed a bitter controversy about the 2016 presidential election. In telling her story, perhaps she was, like most authors of political memoirs, mostly interested in settling scores and making money. But the blowback from her dishing on the Clintons provides some important lessons for both Democrats and Republicans.
By revealing how the Democratic National Committee sought to steer the nomination toward Hillary Clinton at Bernie Sanders’s expense, Brazile set off a storm of bitter commentary about the 2016 race. Left-wingers such as Senator Elizabeth Warren were ready to accept the notion that the party establishment had cheated liberal insurgents and “rigged” the nomination process. At the same time, President Trump was happy to proclaim Brazile’s book as yet more proof that Hillary was “crooked,” as he has long described her.
Brazile’s willingness to further damage the already tattered reputation of her party’s 2016 nominee is rightly seen as proof that the Clintons are finished as a force to be reckoned with in American politics. But anyone who thought the story was going to lead to serious strife in the Democratic party was bound to be disappointed. After an initial surge of interest, most Democrats responded to the controversy with earplugs planted firmly in their ears and an accusatory finger pointed at Brazile. The Sanders wing of the party is still bitter about the thinly veiled pro-Clinton bias of Brazile’s predecessor, Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, but Democrats generally have little appetite to rehash their disastrous 2016 experience.
As liberal columnist Charles Blow noted today in the New York Times, beyond the natural interest in behind-the-scenes gossip about the campaign, the only real significance of Brazile’s exposé is the political damage it could do to the Democrats’ brand. But even those who are most eager to join Brazile in shoveling dirt on the political graves of the Clintons are not interested in wrecking their party. Democrats are as divided as Republicans are about where their party should go, but most have retained some of the political discipline they showed during the Obama presidency, when loyalty to the president overcame any doubts they had about his administration. As Blow explained, Democrats’ only agenda at the moment is resisting Trump; for the foreseeable future, they should ignore anything that distracts from that.
Democrats pooh-poohing the Brazile story are probably right to point out that the cozy relationship between the DNC and the Clinton camp wasn’t illegal. It’s also true that the former secretary of state received 3 million more primary votes than Sanders. But the sleazy management of the party’s finances, the paucity of primary debates and their timing (to attract as few viewers as possible and keep Sanders out of the limelight), Clinton’s stranglehold on the officeholders and party officials who served as unelected superdelegates — all this made the outcome seem a foregone conclusion and taints the legitimacy of Clinton’s triumph.
Yet most of the noise about Brazile’s book is coming from Republicans eager to make political hay from it, not the Democrats who have a right to complain about an unfair process.
The kerfuffle thus illustrates a clear difference between the parties. The Democratic base may have as much contempt for Clinton as the Republican grass roots seem to have for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. But unlike the GOP, the Democrats have kept their eye on the main prize. In the GOP, the mutual antipathy between the base and the establishment seems to have eclipsed any animus either used to have about Democrats and the liberal policies they promised to overturn.
For all of the simmering discontent on the left, liberals are firmly focused on attacking Trump rather than one another. Conservatives would love it if liberals were prepared to conduct a systematic effort to oust members of the Democratic establishment in the way that Steve Bannon and the Breitbart crowd want a Leninist purge of the GOP. But those hopes are likely to be disappointed no matter what we learn about Clinton’s tawdry ploys to ensure that her coronation would not be disrupted by a septuagenarian socialist.
That ought to be a sobering thought for Republicans: In spending more time opposing one another than the Democrats, they are sabotaging a rare opportunity to govern while controlling both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
There is plenty of blame to go around for the GOP civil war. The president has spent little energy trying to unify his party and continues to waste time and tweets attacking party foes instead of concentrating on herding the congressional cats so that they’ll pass legislation. At the same time, Republicans such as Senators Jeff Flake and Bob Corker, George W. Bush, and some die-hard anti-Trump conservative columnists seem to have decided that their repugnance for the president’s “unpresidential” behavior, comments, and tweets is more important than any attempt to pass agenda items on taxes, health care, and energy — the very goals that generally unite conservatives.
Flake and those who have praised him for calling for GOP resistance to Trump (even as he waved the white flag on his reelection efforts) seem to think that distancing themselves from a distasteful figure is more important than working with other Republicans. Meanwhile, Democratic leaders are giving a master’s clinic in party discipline. Conservatives would do well to emulate them.
Whatever Republicans might think of Trump — and there is good reason to disdain his behavior as well as a dysfunctional White House that has often failed basic tests of governance — so long as Democrats regard the Trump “resistance” as their priority, Republicans stand aloof from the president and his agenda at their own peril.
The Democrats are heading in only one direction: anti-Trump guerilla warfare until a push for impeachment if they regain control of the House in 2018. Nothing that Brazile or anyone else dishing dirt on Clinton or anything the Democrats did last year will deter them from this agenda. As Blow wrote, the “resistance” is the Democratic party these days. The choice facing Republicans is not between a GOP led by Trump and a more attractive option. It’s between Trump and the Democrats. Any Republican who forgets that, even while defending what he thinks is his party’s honor against the flawed man in the White House, is taking his eye off the ball. The Democrats are much more focused.
— Jonathan S. Tobin is the opinion editor of JNS.org and a contributor to National Review Online.
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