Our own BarbinDC was at the Progressive Change Campaign Rally in DeeCee today. That’s her and her hat standing behind Elizabeth Warren! Barb is carrying a Pantsuit Nation bag.
Barb ain’t going down without a fight! Please thank her for taking a stand.
Also, thanks to Elizabeth Warren.
Okay, Sluggo woke up this morning and decided to pick a fight.
Chuck and Nancy ain’t playing that game.
In response, Schumer and Pelosi said that “rather than going to the White House for a show meeting that won’t result in an agreement,” they’ve asked to meet alone with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.).
“If the president, who already said earlier this year that ‘our country needs a good shutdown,’ isn’t interested in addressing the difficult year-end agenda, we’ll work with those Republicans who are, as we did in April. We look forward to continuing to work in good faith, as we have been for the last month, with our Republican colleagues in Congress to do just that.”
Yeah, Trump, shut down the government during December. Nobody wanted to see your damn Christmas decorations anyway.
The sticking point is that currently government spending on defense and non-defense is about the same: $549 billion for defense programs and $516 billion for non defense.
The defense hawks running the White House want to boost defense spending to $600 billion, which we wouldn’t need if the damn president would quit needlessly pissing off every other country in the world.
Democrats also want to insure that DACA isn’t ended, and that CHIP remains a top priority.
So Republicans are in the position to hurt children in all possible ways they can. Merry Christmas, Trump.
Okay, needless to say, I did not get a White House Christmas Card this year. And from the looks of the way the place is decorated for Christmas (I haven’t seen anything that white since the last Jimmy Buffet concert), I’m kinda glad I didn’t.
Here’s the weird part. Either Donald and Melania have merged their handwriting or he just signed for both of them.
Close up. In gold, of course.
Weird, right?
More weird —
I miss Michelle.
Last night we posted about the Washington Post catching a Project Veritas operative lying to them in one of its more clumsy “sting” operations. The story gets better – a lot better. None other than DJT donated $10,000 to Veritas in 2015; in 2016, they leaked another false story about Hillary supporters supposedly paying protestors to disrupt Trump campaign events. This silly “sting” operation is yet another sorry attempt to smear anyone who opposes conservative politicians.
Even more shocking, O’Keefe’s merry band of propagandists are getting serious dollars from somebody; so far, we haven’t found the full 2016 Form 990, and the 2015 we found had the donor names redacted. However, if you look at the screen shot below, O’Keefe has scooped up over $12 million since 2012, AND he pays himself and his cronies nice hefty salaries.
More important, though, is how in the hell did a 100% partisan political organization get non-profit charitable status from the IRS? O’Keefe is a self-confessed political operative. As far as we know, he’s never done any project through Project Veritas that wasn’t racially partisan and sometimes illegal. The fact that he gets away with it while purporting to be charitable is pretty blatant.
We’ll continue to follow this story.
Y’all remember James O’Keefe, right? He’s the guy who gained notoriety in conservative circles for posting highly edited and misleading videos of ACORN, a community service organization about 8 years ago. Those false stories stuck, destroying the organization. Later, O’Keefe was arrested and then found guilty of impersonating a telephone technician while trying to bug then senator Mary Landrieu’s telephone in her New Orleans office. Since then, O’Keefe has solidified his reputation as perpetual dirtbag and liar, attempting a number of times to entrap the “liberal elite” in various states of non-existent wrongdoing.
Welp, he’s back. Several weeks ago, one Jaime Phillips contacted the Washington Post with a blockbuster story that Roy Moore had gotten her pregnant when she was a teenager, forcing her to get an abortion when she was 15 years old. The problem? The story is utterly and completely bullshit. Assuming that reporters for the Washington Post are stupid and would fall for the “sting”, she wove an irresistibly salacious (so she thought) story hoping the Post would just print without fact checking. Her story broke down pretty quickly, especially when she was observed by Post reporters going into the New York office of…wait for it…James O’Keefe and his very inappropriately named organization, Project Veritas.
The Post reporters were so incensed by this idiotic attempt of entrapment that they published the statements and video from Phillips conversations with it’s reporters. Not only are O’Keefe and his minions dishonest, they’re just plain box-of-rocks stupid. Who in the hell is giving this moron money for this Keystone Cops clown show? Apparently, it’s box-of-rocks stupid conservative donors.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is racking up a strong and undeniable record of being wrong damn near all the time.
He says it’s okay for him to post wrong stuff on his Facebook page because he’s not a news reporter. Well, to be honest, he ain’t much a man either but he still pees standing up.
So now we have this:
A story on conservativefighter.com and similar stories on other sites claim a judge named Hansam al Alallawalahi-Smith made rulings allowing “tenets of Sharia Law” to be practiced in Dearborn, Michigan, and that Trump removed him from office. The story says the judge works on the 22nd Circuit Court of Appeals, which does not exist at the federal level. It is accompanied by a photo of a real judge, but he’s from Florida and has a different name. Finally, the Constitution stipulates impeachment — not presidential executive orders — as the method for removing federal judges.
Ya know, we ought to have a name for Miller’s posts. I dunno, is Fake News already taken?
