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Fear Not Nihilists, Yon Republicans — For any Republican legislator who feels a need for a shot of spine concerning the protests at GOP town halls, it has been conclusively revealed that those causing the disruptions are not their constituents but organized — and often paid — outsiders.
“No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there’s nothing to be afraid of,” as Walter Sobchak would say.
Here’s the audio as obtained by 96.5 KPEL of Lafayette, La.
Stradley Ronon Boasts About Val — Stradley Ronon, the Philadelphia-based octopus that can be a poster child for the Deep State, has put out a release about how one of its trusted officers now heads the Pennsylvania Republican Party.
“Stradley Ronon Partner Valentino F. DiGiorgio III was elected Chairman of Pennsylvania’s Republican Party during the state party’s convention in Hershey, Pennsylvania,” they bragged. “. . .Val is co-chair of Stradley Ronon’s public finance and banking practice groups. He handles all legal aspects of financial services, including commercial lending and tax-exempt financing for 501(c)(3) entities, governmental units and other entities.”
Before Democrat Josh Shapiro was elected Pennsylvania Attorney General last November he had been a counsel at Stradley Ronon. You think he might still be on their quick dial?
Wonder whose interests are Shapiro and DiGiorgio more inclined to consider in making policy: The law firm/lobbyist with whom they are connected or the average citizen?
OK, we don’t wonder.
The Trump voter still has work to do in taking back the country.
Robert Davi Refugee Challenge — Robert Davi has issued an Oscar-night challenge to his fellow actors objecting to Donald Trump’s vetting and immigration policies. Invite, he says, the illegal and unvetted into the event.
And then bring them to the after-Oscar parties.
“It’s time the walls and electronic security gates come down,” he said. “There are roughly 3,600 seats to the Oscars; we should have at least 2,500 seats reserved for illegal aliens, refugees and migrants, or maybe even more.”
The crickets chirp.
I propose that Meryl Steep, Chelsea Handler, Richard Gere, Robert DeNiro, Christoph Waltz and others lead an Oscar first: let’s do away with the rules, barriers, and tickets to the Oscars and after-parties, such as the swanky Vanity Fair party or the Weinsteins’ star-studded affair. I ask all migrants, all illegal immigrant criminals and all un-vetted refugees to converge on Hollywood to come to the Oscars and all the after-parties, even those held at the mansions or the Chateau Marmont or anywhere else. After all, we in the Hollywood community want to show all Islamic extremists that we have love in our hearts — and what better way to do that than by inviting them along on our most important night?
It’s time the walls and electronic security gates come down. There are roughly 3,600 seats to the Oscars; we should have at least 2,500 seats reserved for illegal aliens, refugees and migrants, or maybe even more. For those celebrities skipping the ceremony, each should invite at least 100 illegal aliens, refugees or migrants to come to their home to watch the Oscars with them. The Academy and the Vanity Fair people should also get the 150 criminals who have recently been deported from Los Angeles and bring them to the show as honored guests.
Liberal Women Weak And Meek –For those who have long believed that liberal “progressive” Democrat-voting women were not “strong and independent” but weak, stupid, and easily cowed hypocrites, well, it looks your instincts were right.
Kathleen Wynne is the premier of Ontario. She is a lesbian, ultra-liberal and an outspoken feminist. After a mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque on Jan. 29 that left six dead and 19 injured — how did that happen anyway, don’t they have gun control in Canada?? — she decided to show solidarity by visiting a mosque in Toronto.
So what happened? They made the province’s leading politician put on a head covering and sit on a rickety folding chair way back in a corner well behind the men. If a woman is in front of a man as he is praying, his prayer is invalidated, after all.
And of course, unlike a pro-life conservative woman, she meekly accepted.
Oh, and the subject of the sermon was the evils of homosexuality.
She has yet to lead a demonstration against it.
Pardon Edward Snowden — President Trump has dumped serious hate on whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Wonder if he still feels that way.
Snowden revealed in May 2013 that American intelligence services were spying on just about every American phone call and email. It turns out this includes those of cabinet members if those cabinet members aren’t part of the right club.
Two days ago, Feb. 13, 2017, Michael Flynn was forced from his job as Trump’s National Security Advisor after intelligence bureaucrats leaked to anti-Trump publications intercepted communications showing that he had discussed easing Obama-imposed sanctions on Russia with that nation’s ambassador.
The leak was a clear violation of the law, — far clearer, in fact, than the one that Snowden is accused of doing.
The scary thing, though, is that the swamp-dwellers who took down Flynn also want Snowden locked up for life.
We think The Donald is just starting to understand how deep that swamp really is. Bringing Citizenfour home and saying all is forgiven would significantly help with draining it.
Snowden, by the way, is not kissing up to either Trump or benefactor Vladimir Putin. Check out his interview with Katie Couric.
Bruce Springsteen Embarrassed He Says – Rich hypocrite Bruce Springsteen told a crowd in Australia that he and his band are “embarrassed Americans” because Donald Trump is now his leader.
Wonder if he feels embarrassed when he plays Mansion on the Hill.
He should write a song about the plight of rich horse farmers in New Jersey. It can go something like this:
I had to pay a lotta taxes in cold February
‘Cause I live on a horse farm
Far from the refinery.
Feel free to use Boss. No credit is needed.
Wayne Langerholc Temptation Test
By Lowman S. Henry
As the saying goes you never get a second chance to make a first impression. That is very bad news for freshman State Senator Wayne Langerholc who arguably has made the worst first impression of any legislator in the history of Penn’s Woods.
Langerholc is one of three Republican senators who captured seats in last November’s election formerly held by Democrats. Their election has given the GOP a veto proof majority in the state senate helping to further tilt the scales in Harrisburg against the big spending policies of Governor Tom Wolf.
But the champagne corks were put back into the bottles when Langerholc decided to renege on a key campaign pledge even before being sworn into office. The result has been an uproar not seen since the rebellion over the middle-of-the-night pay raise a decade ago.
First some background: Langerholc began 2016 as a challenger to long time State Senator John Wozniak in a district sandwiched between Johnstown and Altoona. The district had been trending Republican giving rise to GOP hopes of a pick-up. Wozniak himself realized the hopelessness of his situation and bailed out of the race long before Election Day.
Early on Langerholc made a pledge to the Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania (CAP), a Harrisburg-based pro-growth PAC that he would not accept a pension if elected. CAP generally requires such a pension declination of its candidates because it supports pension reform that would move away from the current defined benefits to a defined contribution (401k) style system. (By way of full disclosure I serve on the board of CAP PAC’s affiliated nonprofit.)
Having declined the pension and otherwise fitting the profile of a CAP candidate the PAC invested over $15,000 in Langerholc’s general election campaign including sending a glossy mailer to voters in his district highlighting his pledge not to take the state pension.
But then he did.
Langerholc’s reason for breaking his pledge to the taxpayers of his district is clear as mud. As the uproar over his apostasy went viral he offered various explanations. The wayward senator claimed he still supports pension reform and told a Harrisburg television station that he wants all legislators and newly hired state employees in a 401k-style retirement system.
So why not lead by example? Langerholc then offered up another statement employing pretzel logic that resembled John Kerry’s infamous “I voted for the bill before I voted against it” comment by claiming he had to sign up for the pension in order to eventually join a 401k-style system. To justify that position he cited provisions in proposed legislation.
But the bottom line is whatever the requirements will be for those currently in the state employees retirement system to move into a 401k-style plan the law will be written by the legislature which, for the moment at least, includes Senator Langerholc. He has quickly learned an old Harrisburg trick: claim to be captive of the very laws you write.
The initial ABC27 report on Langerholc’s pension pledge violation quickly spread with the senator’s subsequent interviews on the subject becoming more and more convoluted. His response included everything except an admission that he lapped up a perk which many consider to be unconstitutional in the first place. The result was not only a media firestorm, but a viral reaction on Facebook with the senator being called many names not suitable for recounting here.
This dust-up brings into focus the larger issue of candidates for legislative seats signing pledges or responding to candidate questionnaires. The vast majority of organizations from local TEA parties to those who employ professional lobbyists will ask candidates to take a position on issues of importance to them.
The political consulting class and many party leaders are more and more advising if not requiring their candidates to not sign pledges or to fill out questionnaires. They don’t want their clients taking stands on tough issues and likely will use the Langerholc kerfuffle as a prime example of what happens when you do.
But when it comes to pledges and questionnaires the solution is not for candidates to refuse to answer. The solution is actually very simple: tell us where you stand, tell us what you will do, and then keep your word.
(Lowman S. Henry is Chairman & CEO of the Lincoln Institute and host of the weekly Lincoln Radio Journal. His e-mail address is lhenry@lincolninstitute.org.)
Strike the king you better kill him.
Bummer CIA. You missed.
As did the rest of the Washington/Wall Street swamp.
The government-connected media has been filling the airwaves all week with reports that Russia “hacked” our election. It’s based on CIA claims that leave dupes with the implicit conclusion that Donald Trump is not a legitimate president.
“Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency,” according to the government (i.e. Obama Administration) report. “We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump. We have high confidence in these judgments.”
The claim has seriously underwhelmed cyber security people.
And the guy who is taking over in a couple of weeks is not happy so expect a lot of out-of-work spy types.
What should be especially disconcerting to the intelligence community is that conservatives who have had an almost knee-jerk instinct to defend it are now starting to say, well, maybe the progressives have a point about them.
Especially damning is the realization that the “intelligence” agencies tasked to understand what is going on in the world are either clueless about what is happening outside the little swamp in which they live, or they are so terrified of losing their wealth and power they are resorting to desperate measures to undermine a duly elected president.
If you are really concerned as to whether the Russians “hacked” into the Democrat National Committee database to reveal that Hillary Clinton told foreign groups that her campaign promises are lies and had squelched a primary opponent via unfair party manipulation, ask yourself if you’d rather had not known she did these things.
Ask yourself if the intelligence community was really concerned about security why did it tolerate the Secretary of State having a private email server not subject to government oversight and in violation of every protocol imaginable, not to mention common sense.
Ask yourself why the Russians (and the Saudis and the Chinese) wouldn’t want someone to whom they siphoned millions for tangible benefits.
Ask yourself why the Democrat Party would twist arms so badly to get this person as their nominee.
Jan. 20 can’t come soon enough.
Mecca Cool With Kerry — Soon-to-be-ex Secretary of State John Kerry went before the UN today, Dec. 28, and blasted the only nation in the Mideast with a track record of respecting human rights.
“Israel can either be Jewish or it can be democratic, but it cannot be both,” he said.
You think this hypocritical fraud can say the same thing about the money-throwing Saudis?
Below is a photo of the entrance to Mecca. Dare anybody in the 0 Administration to condemn it.
Jan. 20 can’t come fast enough.
Dino Media Twists Trump’s Words — Joanne Yurchak has let us know that the dino media is still playing its games.
Huffington Post takes from President-elect Trump’s interview with Chris Wallace that aired yesterday (Dec. 11) on Fox News that “Trump Says He Doesn’t Need Daily Intelligence Briefing Because He’s ‘Smart.'”
Business Insider shouts in a headline “TRUMP: I’m a ‘smart person,’ don’t need intelligence briefings every single day.”
Here’s what he actually said: “I get when I need it. First of all, these are very good people that are giving me the briefings. And I say if something should change from this point, immediately call me. I’m available on one minute’s notice. I don’t need to be told … the same thing every day, every morning ― same words. ‘Sir, nothing has changed. Let’s go over it again.’ I don’t need that . . .”
It seems a rather sensible allocation of priorities than arrogance.
Journalism is a noble vocation and an important bulwark for a free society. The corporate frauds who control our once major media companies have long stopped practicing it.