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Post by oilsooner on Apr 21, 2018 11:51:20 GMT -6
I know history shows that the party in power typically loses ground in the mid terms, but I really don't see the Dems making huge gains this time around. They seem to be focusing more on bringing Trump down than winning races. Still a long way to go. Yeah, I still don’t know either. I mean, the Dems have to gain some ground. If they don’t, they’ll be a laughing stock again, and I worry that will be enough to finally focus their efforts and cull the bullshit. That would make 2020 less certain. I think they have to win some races, and prob enough to flip the house or senate. There are enough long term GOPers who are bowing out that an interesting situation becomes stressful. But, that’s what it meant to drain the swamp.
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Post by cfin5256 on Apr 21, 2018 12:08:01 GMT -6
I know history shows that the party in power typically loses ground in the mid terms, but I really don't see the Dems making huge gains this time around. They seem to be focusing more on bringing Trump down than winning races. Still a long way to go. Yeah, I still don’t know either. I mean, the Dems have to gain some ground. If they don’t, they’ll be a laughing stock again, and I worry that will be enough to finally focus their efforts and cull the bullshit. That would make 2020 less certain. I think they have to win some races, and prob enough to flip the house or senate. There are enough long term GOPers who are bowing out that an interesting situation becomes stressful. But, that’s what it meant to drain the swamp. I really thought we'd see a change of focus for the Dems after the election because losing to Trump left them with egg on their face a bit. Especially considering that it was supposed to be a Hillary cake walk. But instead they're doubling down on the same tired bullshit they've been pushing since the election. Mind boggling.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 22, 2018 13:21:00 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/29733/democratic-donor-network-wants-reparations-agenda-joseph-curlDemocracy Alliance, a far-left donor club embraced by the leadership of the Democratic Party, has a vision: The way to win in 2022 is reparations to blacks for slavery. The Alliance hosted a reception — "Way to Win: 2022 Victory Party" — which offered an insight of things to come if Democrats can win. Why they picked 2022 no one knows, but apparently they're thinking it'll take two mid-term elections plus the 2020 presidential election to get in position to control the agenda. "Take a ride in our time machine to hear from the true political geniuses who made this happen," the group said in an invitation to the reception, which was held last week in the ritzy neighborhood of Buckhead outside Atlanta. "It's 2022 and we are celebrating policy victories across the nation: Medicare for All and Free College, and next on the agenda is Reparations."
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Post by trumped on Apr 22, 2018 18:05:08 GMT -6
DNC: Fundraising woes tied to 2016 conspiracy
By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times - Friday, April 20, 2018
Then the truth:
David A. Clarke, Jr. David A. Clarke, Jr. @sheriffclarke Blah, blah, blah. Be honest. DNC fundraising woes are directly related to having an uninspiring and dull candidate in the 2016 election. Mrs. Bill Clinton kept falling down & disappeared for days at a time while counting on being HANDED the Presidency.
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Post by okie52 on Apr 22, 2018 18:12:34 GMT -6
Just about every sitting president loses ground in congress at midterms...I expect trump to do the same.
But the senate stacks up poorly for the dems in 2018 and the house would be a big hurdle for the dems to overcome.
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Post by stinger1066 on Apr 23, 2018 4:29:30 GMT -6
This is a very long read, but this guy details how the Republicans have absolutely failed to take advantage of their majorities in Congress and a sitting President, not only this past year, but at various other times in the past. A Complete and Utter FailureBelow is an excerpt, and even it is quite long.
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Post by stinger1066 on Apr 23, 2018 4:33:55 GMT -6
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Post by trumped on Apr 23, 2018 6:55:51 GMT -6
Unless you have a super majority in Senate the Dems will obstruct every bill because they vote as a block.
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Post by ictsooner7 on Apr 23, 2018 8:41:19 GMT -6
Unless you have a super majority in Senate the Dems will obstruct every bill because they vote as a block. Just like republicans did for 6 years. Sen. Mitch McConnelll made in an interview with the National Journal's Major Garrett on Oct. 29, 2010: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." Not fix the economy - but politics.
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Post by trumped on Apr 23, 2018 20:17:49 GMT -6
Another “Swamper” who needs to be drained:
Kambree Kawahine Koa Kambree Kawahine Koa @kamvtv John McCain hasn’t been to work once this year.
If Senator McCain is too sick for work it’s time for him to retire.
End of story. 6:18 PM · Apr 23, 2018
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Post by ictsooner7 on Apr 23, 2018 20:43:45 GMT -6
Another “Swamper” who needs to be drained: Kambree Kawahine Koa Kambree Kawahine Koa @kamvtv John McCain hasn’t been to work once this year. If Senator McCain is too sick for work it’s time for him to retire. End of story. 6:18 PM · Apr 23, 2018 Just assumed you were going to talk about pruitt. Largest gator in the swamp Press: Why does Scott Pruitt still have a job?No matter how important, all the speculation about whether President Trump will fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, special counsel Robert Mueller or even Attorney General Jeff Sessions distracts from one even more immediate and pressing question: Why hasn’t he already fired Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt? Pruitt’s a walking ethics time bomb. He’s now under investigation on so many fronts he needs a whole team of lawyers to defend him: from luxury travel, to private security overkill, to lavish improvements to his office, to steep, unauthorized pay raises for key staffers, to a sweetheart bedroom deal on Capitol Hill. In a Cabinet full of grifters, he’s grifter No. 1. One thing about Trump Cabinet members: They love private jets. And, like Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Scott Pruitt has enjoyed his fair share. According to CNBC, Pruitt cost taxpayers more than $163,000 in his first year by taking first-class flights, military aircraft and charter flights. Flying first-class instead of coach alone cost over $105,000. Troubled by HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s $31,000 dining room suite? Scott Pruitt tops that. On his demand, EPA shelled out $43,000 to build a soundproof phone booth in his office, though neither he nor the agency provided any explanation for why he needed it, given the existence of a secure communications center in the same building. There’s no good explanation for why he needs a massive security detail, either, but he’s got it, 24/7: 19 agents and a fleet of 19 vehicles at an annual cost of more than $2 million, not counting training, travel or equipment. All this at a time when Trump proposed cutting the EPA’s budget by 30 percent. That’s greater protection, by the way, than members of the Supreme Court or most other Cabinet members enjoy — and the first round-the-clock protection ever provided for an EPA administrator. Christine Whitman, who held the job under Bush 43, walked to work. But Pruitt’s received the most flack for his sweetheart housing deal: renting a room on Capitol Hill condo for $50 a night — payable only on those nights when he actually stayed there — from the spouse of an oil industry lobbyist, who lobbied for clients at the EPA while Pruitt was sleeping in his wife’s condo. Pruitt insists there’s no conflict because he was paying market rate. Baloney. I live on Capitol Hill. You couldn’t sleep on the ground under the 395 freeway for $50 a night. Living high on the hog isn’t anything new for Pruitt. The New York Times reports that, as Oklahoma attorney general, he purchased a mansion near the state capitol in a special deal arranged by a local banker who now — surprise, surprise — has a top job at the EPA. The point is: For anybody else, any one of those offenses would be a fireable offense. Price and Shulkin were fired for a lot less. So why’s Pruitt still on the job? Because he’s doing exactly what Donald Trump wants by killing, one by one, all environmental regulations adopted under President Obama. When his former HHS secretary got in trouble for private plane travel, President Trump said Price was a “fine man,” he just didn’t like “the optics.” But Trump doesn’t care about the “optics” of Pruitt’s ethical problems. As long as he continues his one-man war on clean air and clean water, Pruitt can line his pockets all he wants.
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Post by okie52 on Apr 23, 2018 21:07:55 GMT -6
Another “Swamper” who needs to be drained: Kambree Kawahine Koa Kambree Kawahine Koa @kamvtv John McCain hasn’t been to work once this year. If Senator McCain is too sick for work it’s time for him to retire. End of story. 6:18 PM · Apr 23, 2018 AZ will be better served when he is gone.
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Post by trumped on Apr 23, 2018 21:12:08 GMT -6
Another “Swamper” who needs to be drained: Kambree Kawahine Koa Kambree Kawahine Koa @kamvtv John McCain hasn’t been to work once this year. If Senator McCain is too sick for work it’s time for him to retire. End of story. 6:18 PM · Apr 23, 2018 AZ will be better served when he is gone. Glad you responded to the post you quoted. McCain needs to retire he is part of the swamp. Someone else above you “changed” the topic again and is struggling to maintain focus on the topic he quoted. I see a straightjacket in his future
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Post by okie52 on Apr 23, 2018 21:32:22 GMT -6
AZ will be better served when he is gone. Glad you responded to the post you quoted. McCain needs to retire he is part of the swamp. Someone else above you “changed” the topic again and is struggling to maintain focus on the topic he quoted. I see a straightjacket in his future Well Icky has been living in the delusion that he is a superior poster. He does add some facts from time to time which I’m glad for... but he can’t quite move himself to objective posting because of his blind adherence to the dnc...there are points that the dnc supports that could be credible...but unfortunately Icky loses all viability because of his refusal to admit democrats fallacies...in fact, I don’t think he sees any. I was was hoping that there might be some therapy he could obtain that would help him in his struggles with reality. Nothing wrong with those in need seeking help.
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Post by heff on Apr 23, 2018 23:09:50 GMT -6
Another “Swamper” who needs to be drained: Kambree Kawahine Koa Kambree Kawahine Koa @kamvtv John McCain hasn’t been to work once this year. If Senator McCain is too sick for work it’s time for him to retire. End of story. 6:18 PM · Apr 23, 2018 Just assumed you were going to talk about pruitt. Largest gator in the swamp Press: Why does Scott Pruitt still have a job?No matter how important, all the speculation about whether President Trump will fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, special counsel Robert Mueller or even Attorney General Jeff Sessions distracts from one even more immediate and pressing question: Why hasn’t he already fired Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt? Pruitt’s a walking ethics time bomb. He’s now under investigation on so many fronts he needs a whole team of lawyers to defend him: from luxury travel, to private security overkill, to lavish improvements to his office, to steep, unauthorized pay raises for key staffers, to a sweetheart bedroom deal on Capitol Hill. In a Cabinet full of grifters, he’s grifter No. 1. One thing about Trump Cabinet members: They love private jets. And, like Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Scott Pruitt has enjoyed his fair share. According to CNBC, Pruitt cost taxpayers more than $163,000 in his first year by taking first-class flights, military aircraft and charter flights. Flying first-class instead of coach alone cost over $105,000. Troubled by HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s $31,000 dining room suite? Scott Pruitt tops that. On his demand, EPA shelled out $43,000 to build a soundproof phone booth in his office, though neither he nor the agency provided any explanation for why he needed it, given the existence of a secure communications center in the same building. There’s no good explanation for why he needs a massive security detail, either, but he’s got it, 24/7: 19 agents and a fleet of 19 vehicles at an annual cost of more than $2 million, not counting training, travel or equipment. All this at a time when Trump proposed cutting the EPA’s budget by 30 percent. That’s greater protection, by the way, than members of the Supreme Court or most other Cabinet members enjoy — and the first round-the-clock protection ever provided for an EPA administrator. Christine Whitman, who held the job under Bush 43, walked to work. But Pruitt’s received the most flack for his sweetheart housing deal: renting a room on Capitol Hill condo for $50 a night — payable only on those nights when he actually stayed there — from the spouse of an oil industry lobbyist, who lobbied for clients at the EPA while Pruitt was sleeping in his wife’s condo. Pruitt insists there’s no conflict because he was paying market rate. Baloney. I live on Capitol Hill. You couldn’t sleep on the ground under the 395 freeway for $50 a night. Living high on the hog isn’t anything new for Pruitt. The New York Times reports that, as Oklahoma attorney general, he purchased a mansion near the state capitol in a special deal arranged by a local banker who now — surprise, surprise — has a top job at the EPA. The point is: For anybody else, any one of those offenses would be a fireable offense. Price and Shulkin were fired for a lot less. So why’s Pruitt still on the job? Because he’s doing exactly what Donald Trump wants by killing, one by one, all environmental regulations adopted under President Obama. When his former HHS secretary got in trouble for private plane travel, President Trump said Price was a “fine man,” he just didn’t like “the optics.” But Trump doesn’t care about the “optics” of Pruitt’s ethical problems. As long as he continues his one-man war on clean air and clean water, Pruitt can line his pockets all he wants. If he fires 10,000 of the 15,000 EPA employees and ends the tyranny of that bureaucracy, he'll have saved this country BILLIONS.Do I need to post the numbers from the Obama administration that grotesquely outweight that $100,000. (which btw I agree he needs the phone booth - with how entrenched the deep state is in departments like the EPA, it is necessary if we're going to gut your bullshit redundant jobs program called government) Government is for sale at a much much much higher rate for Democrats that Republicans, just by virtue of, for those who are principled, ideology. If your platform is to grow government, as is the case for Democrats, it results in Ambassadorships for sale, swelling the ranks of government employees by the millions, and taking money from foreign governments and dictators and NGOs and laundering it through slush funds like the Clinton Foundation and Organizing For Action (Obama's version of Clinton Foundation) by the billions of dollars.
You Are A Child Even drunk I'm smarter than you.
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Post by trumped on Apr 25, 2018 8:18:26 GMT -6
Republican candidate Debbie Lesko won a special election for a U.S. House seat in Arizona Tuesday night, to replace former Rep. Trent Franks.
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Post by trumped on Apr 25, 2018 8:31:07 GMT -6
Donald J. Trump Donald J. Trump @realdonaldtrump Congratulations to Republican Debbie Lesko on her big win in the Special Election for Arizona House seat. Debbie will do a Great Job! Press is so silent. 6:53 AM · Apr 25, 2018
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Post by stinger1066 on Apr 25, 2018 10:04:46 GMT -6
Republican candidate Debbie Lesko won a special election for a U.S. House seat in Arizona Tuesday night, to replace former Rep. Trent Franks. She seems very conservative. Except for warrantless searches.
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Post by trumped on Apr 25, 2018 10:39:31 GMT -6
She is a “wall builder” backer
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Post by stinger1066 on Apr 30, 2018 6:32:11 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 30, 2018 21:04:18 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/30068/dem-governor-puerto-rico-wants-revenge-trump-and-hank-berrienThe Democratic governor of Puerto Rico has decided he will wreak revenge on the Trump Administration and the GOP because he feels they neglected Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island last Sept. 20. Governor Rick Rosselló, 39, saw the tax reform bill passed by the GOP last December as a disaster for his island, as it eliminated tax breaks for manufacturers operating in Puerto Rico. Rosselló told Yahoo News, “At that juncture, it just dawned on me that, even though conceptually, at a high level we knew we had to start some sort of a movement, that unless we started a robust, results-oriented structure, we were always going to be on the short end of the stick.” Yet less than a week after Hurricane maria struck the island, here was the exchange Rossello had with John Yang of PBS: Yang: Governor, are you getting all the aid you need or getting it fast enough from the states? Rossello: First of all, we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times. FEMA and the FEMA director have been here in Puerto Rico twice. As a matter of fact, they were here with us today, making sure that all the resources in FEMA were working in conjunction with the central government. Puerto Rico, which has $123 billion in bond and pension obligations, filed for bankruptcy on May 3. The island has suffered from a decade-long recession. Last Tuesday, Rosselló, who was a delegate for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, announced the creation of Poder Puerto Rico, a nonpartisan 501(c)4 organization planning on convincing displaced Puerto Ricans living in swing states to vote for the Democratic Party. He complained, “I recognize that the situation of Puerto Rico is hard to explain. I mean, we’re talking about a colonial territory in the 21st century, the oldest, most populated colonial territory in the world, and it is under the biggest democracy in the world.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 3, 2018 14:11:58 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/30223/red-wave-poll-shows-republicans-could-pick-9-ben-shapiroAccording to new Morning Consult polls, Democrats are in serious trouble in Senate races across the country. Republicans have serious leads in West Virginia, where incumbent Democrat Joe Manchin trails by 14 points; North Dakota, where incumbent Democrat Heidi Heitkamp trails by 8; Indiana, where incumbent Democrat Joe Donnelly trails by 5; Missouri, where incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill trails by 5; Montana, where incumbent Democrat Jon Tester trails by 5; Florida, where incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson is locked in a near-deadlock with Rick Scott; and Pennsylvania and Ohio, where incumbent Democrats Bill Casey and Sherrod Brown are leading by less than two points each, plus Virginia, where Tim Kaine leads by just 3 on the generic ballot. In the best-case scenario for Republicans, then, they could win up to nine additional Senate seats. The polls are similarly shoddy in the House of Representatives for Democrats. The RealClearPolitics poll average for the generic ballot has Democrats up 6.7%, but the polls are all over the place: The Economist/YouGov has Democrats with a 3-point lead, Quinnipiac has Democrats with an 8-point lead, as does Monmouth. The best available data, then, suggest that the Democrats are heavy favorites to take the House, but face a seriously uphill battle to take the Senate from Republicans. This is a rarity in modern politics; the last time a president’s party picked up seats in the Senate but lost seats in the House was Ronald Reagan in 1982 (the Republicans lost 26 House seats but picked up a Senate seat). In 1970, Richard Nixon’s Republicans dropped 12 House seats but picked up two Senate seats; in 1962, Kennedy’s Democrats lost four House seats but gained three Senate seats. Today, Republicans are expected to lose dozens of House seats but could simultaneously pick up a half-dozen Senate seats.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 6, 2018 12:45:36 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2018/05/05/rosie-odonnell-illegal-donations-democrats/Rosie O’Donnell’s campaign donations to Democrats have gone over legal limits, according to a report by the New York Post. She gave a total of $5,400 in illegal donations to five different candidates, as reported in Federal Elections Commission (FEC) filings. O’Donnell responded to inquiries from the Post via email, claiming that her excessive donations — made through the online liberal platform ActBlue — were completely accidental and “nothing nefarious.” “I was not choosing to over donate. If 2700 is the cut off — [candidates] should refund the money. I don’t look to see who I can donate most to … I just donate assuming they do not accept what is over the limit. My anxiety is quelled by donating to those opposing Trump [and] his agenda — especially at night — when most of these were placed.” However, according to the Post’s report, O’Donnell’s illegal contributions were made using four variations of her name and five different addresses. The candidates who received the questionable donations were Conor Lamb (D-Pa.), Doug Jones (D-Ala.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.), and Omar Vaid (D-N.Y.).
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Post by soonernvolved on May 6, 2018 16:17:08 GMT -6
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Post by trumped on May 6, 2018 21:41:52 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 8, 2018 12:04:55 GMT -6
Nancy Pelosi with a gift to the GOP before the midterms: www.dailywire.com/news/30379/watch-pelosi-gives-amazing-gift-gop-2018-elections-hank-berrien?ampOn Tuesday, speaking with Politico’s Jake Sherman, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) decided to present the Republican Party a generous gift for the coming elections in November: she admitted she was in favor of raising taxes. Sherman prompted Pelosi by commenting about a new GOP ad that targets her: “They have a new ad that they put out after you said that you thought that you were going to win the majority that says—the title was, “All at Stake.” It said that you would like to institute a single-payer health-care program and raise taxes — I think they mean roll back the tax cuts that they passed this year. Is that—what do you think of that, is that true?" Pelosi laughed, "Well, the second part there is accurate. I do think that we should revisit the tax legislation in the way that we always have, in a bipartisan, transparent way, that the result is unifying for the country." Bingo. Roll back the tax cuts? Translated: Raise taxes. Pelosi, conveniently ignoring exactly how the Democrats passed Obamacare, continued, “I do object, to what they did in the dark of night, at the speed of light.” Really? Here is how the Democrats passing ObamaCare in 2009 has been reported: The New York Times: “After a long day of acid, partisan debate, Senate Democrats held ranks early Monday in a dead-of-night procedural vote that proved they had locked in the decisive margin needed to pass a far-reaching overhaul of the nation’s health care system. The roll was called shortly after 1 a.m., with Washington still snowbound after a weekend blizzard, and the Senate voted on party lines …” The Wall Street Journal: “On Dec. 19, 2009, a Saturday, then Majority Leader Harry Reid tossed the 2,100-page bill the Senate had spent that fall debating and offered a new bill drafted in an invitation-only back room. Democrats didn’t even pretend to care what was in it while passing it in the dead of night on Dec. 24, amid a snowstorm, in the first Christmas Eve vote since 1895.”
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Post by okie52 on May 9, 2018 0:03:21 GMT -6
Well...I hope she is the poster child for illegal immigration...
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Post by trumped on May 9, 2018 8:18:00 GMT -6
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Post by trumped on May 9, 2018 15:13:42 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 9, 2018 19:05:09 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2018/05/09/cnn-poll-democrats-generic-congressional-ballot/Support for Democrats in the generic congressional ballot for the 2018 elections has dropped down to a three-point advantage over Republicans and within the margin of error, according to a CNN poll released Wednesday. The poll shows a massive dip in support for Democrats over the past few months. A CNN poll in February showed that Democrats had a 16-point advantage over Republicans and in March CNN released a poll that showed Democrats had a six-point advantage over the GOP, CNN reported. Forty-seven percent of registered voters in May said they support the Democratic candidate in their district while 44 percent support the Republican candidate, according to the poll. Enthusiasm among Republican voters has also increased in the last few months. Thirty-six percent of Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters said in March they were very enthusiastic about voting. The May poll shows that number is up to 44 percent. The numbers come as media pundits and Democrats have been predicting a “blue wave” will sweep Republicans in the 2018 November elections.
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