Month: July 2019

One of the central themes within the anti-Trump news media is the issue of Republicans – especially conservatives and evangelicals – who stick with President Trump.  This issue is strategically designed to use Trump to wipe Republicans out of office across the board. That is the proper mission of the Democratic Party.  That is the nature of politics.  You want your team to win.  What has corrupted the process is the so-called news media becoming largely the communications wing of the increasingly left-wing Democratic Party.  They have abrogated all devotion…

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Joe Biden remains the so-called front-runner in the various recent polls at 26 percent of the vote – and he has slipped from a 35 percent lead after the first Democratic Party debate.  That is not necessarily good news for the former Vice President. The significance of recent surveys is not just Biden’s numbers but the shift in numbers for other candidates – especially those in double digits.  The relative upward improvement of both Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Kamala Harris has been widely reported but still underappreciated. According to…

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Former special counsel Robert Mueller’s highly anticipated Capitol Hill testimony – originally scheduled to begin this Wednesday, July 17 — will be delayed one week under an arrangement he reached with House Democrats, the Intelligence and Judiciary committees announced last Friday evening. The arrangement, first reported by POLITICO, not only changes the date but extends Mueller’s time facing questions from the Judiciary Committee to three hours. Junior members of that panel had grown increasingly frustrated that the initial two-hour time frame would have prevented many of them from having a…

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced a bill that aims to end the separation of migrant children from their families while improving living conditions in border detention facilities. According to the New York Post, the measure has already amassed more than 20 Senate co-sponsors, all Democrats — including some running for president, however, without Republicans on board, it is destined to be Dead On Arrival. The bill, called the “Stop Cruelty to Migrant Children Act,” was unveiled on Capitol Hill the morning of Thursday, July 11. “It is not American…

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The ongoing feud between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and other so-called “progressive” freshman Democratic Representatives continues to heat up. The left-wing activist group that spearheaded the political rise of AOC is now working to take down several incumbent Democrats who have defied the party’s freshman progressive wing, leaving some of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s loyalists on Capitol Hill anxiously wondering if they might soon fall in the crosshairs themselves. Justice Democrats, which was co-founded by Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti, has already announced it is…

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In a series of leaked “Diplomatic Cables” the United Kingdom’s top diplomat, Kim Darroch, Britain’s ambassador to Washington, D.C., has called President Donald Trump “inept,” “insecure” and “incompetent.” Mainstream news outlets, most notably NBC News, who first broke the story, have confirmed the authenticity of the documents. In a statement, a spokesperson for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office said, “a formal leak investigation will now be initiated.” The leaks provide a rare insight into how a key U.S. ally views the Trump administration behind closed doors. In the full…

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