The only holdouts now are the 3 stooges, Collins, Murkowski, and Romney.
Graham now says Sens Alexander, Isakson, Gardner and Enzi have also signed on to his impeachment resolution, bringing the total to 50 Senators: https://t.co/NpZ9DYTwLq
Here are the 3 GOP Senators who have not yet signed onto the resolution: Collins Murkowski Romney
“Who Will Fall First: Trump or the ‘Praetorian Guard’?
The race is on to see who will survive—the duly-elected president of the United States or a modern-day Praetorian Guard comprised of former law enforcement and intelligence officials tasked with taking down that president.”
“Attorney General William Barr has suggested that top officials in the Obama Administration behaved like a “Praetorian Guard” in their unprecedented and possibly criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
“Republics have fallen because of a Praetorian Guard mentality where government officials get very arrogant, they identify the national interest with their own political preferences and they feel that anyone who has a different opinion, you know, is somehow an enemy of the state,” Barr told CBS News reporter Jan Crawford in May.
The Praetorian Guard originated in the Roman Empire to protect the emperor and his commanders. The elite cohort quickly grew from a few bodyguards into a massive army, complete with armor, weaponry, and a cavalry. The Guard enjoyed special privileges including a guaranteed tenure and vaunted social status.
But the Guard became emboldened by its own power. “Over the years, the guard would become a dangerous threat to imperial power and emperors were forced to gain its favour in order to ensure their reign,” according to historian Mark Cartwright. “The body specifically created to protect the emperor’s person had become his greatest liability.”
Sound familiar?
The race is on to see who will survive—the duly-elected president of the United States or a modern-day Praetorian Guard comprised of former law enforcement and intelligence officials tasked with taking down that president.
As Barr gets closer to the key people involved in concocting the phony Trump-Russia collusion hoax—which included the use of powerful surveillance tools and government informants—House Democrats are escalating efforts in their attempt to impeach Trump before Barr’s department starts issuing indictments. If Trump goes down before Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham, his point man on the investigation, can complete their work, that investigation could be completely discredited if not halted altogether as the by-product of an illegitimate presidency.
The clock is ticking, fast. Two dependable sources of Trump-Russia collusion propaganda—the New York Times and NBC News—nervously reported this week that Barr’s inquiry has expanded, although neither outlet has the foggiest idea why. “
“When it comes to energy and the environment, the United States ranks a clear number one among the world’s nations. Not only have we increased our energy production, courtesy of fracking, to the point that we are the world’s pre-eminent energy power, we have, at the same time, reduced our pollution and our CO2 emissions (if you think that matters) more than any other country. So when it comes to energy, the U.S. is the undisputed champion. This video by my friend Mark Mathis of the Clear Energy Alliance tells the story beautifully:
It is instructive that both our explosive growth in energy production and the decline in CO2 emissions have been driven by the fracking revolution. Fracking is a technology that was developed and executed by private companies with the cooperation of a number of states. The Obama administration was saved, arguably, by the fracking revolution, but that administration had nothing to do with it. On the contrary, if Obama had figured out a way to block fracking, he likely would have done so.”
“CNN Fails To Disclose Key Facts About Andrew McCabe In Interview About DOJ Criminal Investigation”
“CNN interviewed Andrew McCabe on Friday about developments in a Justice Department criminal investigation of the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, but the network failed to disclose that the former FBI deputy director is suing the Justice Department and is under criminal investigation himself.
Interviewed by CNN’s Jim Sciutto, McCabe, a CNN analyst, was largely critical of the investigation, which is being led by John Durham, a U.S. attorney in Connecticut, and overseen by Attorney General William Barr.
Durham’s investigation has recently shifted from an administrative review of U.S. intelligence activities related to the Trump campaign to a full-blown criminal investigation.
Sciutto noted at the top of his interview with McCabe that the former FBI official could very well be a target of the Durham probe.
But neither Sciutto nor McCabe disclosed during the interview that McCabe is under investigation for making false statements to the FBI and Justice Department regarding his authorization of leaks to the media in October 2016.”
“THE WELFARE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX [WITH COMMENT BY JOHN]
Every so often someone will do the back-of-the-envelope calculation of the total amount of government spending on behalf of the poor, divided by the number of poor people, and yielding a figure that usually comes out to something like $50,000 per poor person. But very few if any poor people get anywhere close to that amount of aid through the various programs (welfare, food stamps, housing assistance, Medicaid, etc). In other words, the “service charge” of government social welfare bureaucracies take up a lot of the money. We need professionals in charge of these aid programs, dontchaknow.
Maybe just cutting out the bureaucrats and simply sending checks—something the government is actually pretty good at doing—is a bad idea, but one has to wonder whether the bureaucratic self-interest of what I call the Welfare-Industrial-Complex really aligns with the interests and needs of their poor (in both senses) clients.
KTVU-TV in San Francisco recently reported on the question, “Millions spent on fixing Bay Area homeless crisis, but where does the money go?” Not that much on the homeless it turns out:
OAKLAND, Calif. – Every year, the Bay Area’s three largest cities spend millions of dollars trying to house homeless people, but 2 Investigates found that a big chunk of the money doesn’t funnel down to programs and services that actually get people off the streets. . .
San Jose’s budget shows the city spent about $14 million on homelessness. Much of that money — $12 million — goes toward rental subsidies, administrative costs, and crafting plans for new affordable housing developments. What’s left – about $2 million — is directed toward running homeless shelters and providing clothing, food, and medical care to people without a home.
In Oakland, 2 Investigates found it’s much of the same. Nearly $24 million is set aside in the annual budget for homelessness issues, but only $4 million goes directly to help people living on the streets get into permanent housing.
A recent count of homeless people found there are more than 4,000 people living on the streets of Oakland, roughly 6,000 people homeless in San Jose, and about 8,000 homeless individuals in San Francisco. If all of the money was being spent strictly on the visible homeless, the three biggest cities could house a third, half, or all of its homeless population.
Yeah, but if you actually housed the homeless population somehow, the budget for homeless “service” providers wouldn’t go up next year. In fact some “caring professionals” might have to find other jobs. To paraphrase a famous political operative, “Never let a good homeless crisis go to waste.” It’s great business for the Welfare-Industrial-Complex.”
Folks talk about Texas flipping, but Georgia is the most likely conservative Southern state to vote against Trump in 2020. Like Texas, Georgia has lots of college graduates and Yankees. Both states are now dominated by urban centers.
Having spent so many years involved with foster care and then adoption special needs, and now adult mental health, it continues to amaze me how many people have their fingers in each pot and how difficult it is to get funds or services to the individual. For eighteen year old, I can think of ten people off hand, who are supposed to be involved in her care and are getting paid for their involvement, only a couple of whom have ever met her or spoken to her. I can’t imagine how it works when you have millions needing assistance.
Free advice: Never “butt dial” a reporter when you’re talking with someone.
That also brought up memories of something similar happening to one of our reporters who, at the time, was in touch with ‘The Donald’ over a story about his LA Trump golf course project being developed on the ocean cliffs in our area. Would have been in the early 2000s. Seems DT once failed to disconnect after he thought he’d hung up on our reporter, but none of us can remember if anything interesting was said. I’ll have to ask the reporter who’s still working for us.
But as I recall, DT hung up a few times on him during the course of reporting that story over a couple years. The reporter is very ornery himself (a Brit with a heavy accent still) so it was often hilarious to listen to those one-sided phone conversations going on in the newsroom. Belligerent, both of them. So the conversations were often quite short. 🙂
“Who will be the first to flip in spygate criminal investigation?
Wait. With John Durham leading the investigation, maybe the question should be: Who was the first to flip? Because it may already have happened.”
“It was clear after the release of the Mueller Report that Attorney General William Barr was determined to get to the bottom of the spying on Trump and his campaign.
Because of that expressed determination, Barr became a public enemy. On May 2, 2019, I wrote, Bill Barr is going to expose Spygate, and the Democrat-Media Russia Collusion Complex is panicking:
It was Barr’s comments about spying on the Trump campaign, and his pledge to investigate that spying, that explains the frenzy to take down Barr. That spying, regardless of whether lawful, has the potential to be a scandal that could touch deep into the Obama administration, and some former officials who loom large in the anti-Trump resistance.
It also could reach deep into the media, with the involvement of Fusion GPS in feeding Russian-provided, Clinton/DNC paid-for, disinformation to the mainstream journalist community.
So the stakes are huge. The Russian collusion scandal may be a Democrat and media scandal. People may go to jail for that collusion, and if so, they may be the first people to go to jail over Russian collusion involving the 2016 election.
Barr is the single greatest threat to the Democrat-Media Russia Collusion Complex. That’s why Democrats, with help from the mainstream media, will spare no effort to tarnish Barr as a way of discrediting the investigative train that is rolling down the tracks.”
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“Since the NY Times reported that the Durham investigation is a criminal investigation, that is the question again.
The stakes are so much higher for those involved. Whoever cuts a deal first could be spared prosecution or prison. So someone is likely to sing, and that someone likely is a mid-level person in the FBI who was disgusted with what happened but close enough to it that the person is at risk.
Rush made that point today:
To me all of this is so obvious that it doesn’t even need an investigation. It’s already been investigated, it’s been learned, but they’ve gotta be able to prove it in court if they want to go there. They’ve got to get testimony. When they impanel this grand jury, folks, I’m telling you, that’s when people start flipping, that’s when people start asking themselves, “Do I want to go to jail for John Brennan? Do I want to go to jail for Obama? Do I want to spend some time in jail for Clapper or Comey?”
This is when these questions start getting asked of people. You know, their loyalty will be tested. And we don’t know how that’s gonna go. But all it’s gonna take is one person to flip. And even if that person eventuates, surfaces, if there is a successful effort to make one of them flip, I can’t predict. I just think everybody is involved in this, even some people in the Trump White House are involved in it. It just depends on how far they want to dig up and go and how far they think they need to go to prove what this was.
Durham leading the charge should strike fear in the heart of the deep state:”
Leave it to the WaPo to carry water for the terrorist so advanced is their TDS. Disgusting WaPo. Un-American to boot.
They had it right the first time.
The Washington Post changed the headline on its Al-Baghdadi obituary from “Islamic State’s terrorist-in-Chief” to “austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State.” pic.twitter.com/cs243EVz7W
"Acquaintances would remember him as a shy, nearsighted youth who liked soccer but preferred to spend his free time at the local mosque" pic.twitter.com/XFFBnUsHEO
Wandering Views 
The only holdouts now are the 3 stooges, Collins, Murkowski, and Romney.
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Who falls first?
“Who Will Fall First: Trump or the ‘Praetorian Guard’?
The race is on to see who will survive—the duly-elected president of the United States or a modern-day Praetorian Guard comprised of former law enforcement and intelligence officials tasked with taking down that president.”
“Attorney General William Barr has suggested that top officials in the Obama Administration behaved like a “Praetorian Guard” in their unprecedented and possibly criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
“Republics have fallen because of a Praetorian Guard mentality where government officials get very arrogant, they identify the national interest with their own political preferences and they feel that anyone who has a different opinion, you know, is somehow an enemy of the state,” Barr told CBS News reporter Jan Crawford in May.
The Praetorian Guard originated in the Roman Empire to protect the emperor and his commanders. The elite cohort quickly grew from a few bodyguards into a massive army, complete with armor, weaponry, and a cavalry. The Guard enjoyed special privileges including a guaranteed tenure and vaunted social status.
But the Guard became emboldened by its own power. “Over the years, the guard would become a dangerous threat to imperial power and emperors were forced to gain its favour in order to ensure their reign,” according to historian Mark Cartwright. “The body specifically created to protect the emperor’s person had become his greatest liability.”
Sound familiar?
The race is on to see who will survive—the duly-elected president of the United States or a modern-day Praetorian Guard comprised of former law enforcement and intelligence officials tasked with taking down that president.
As Barr gets closer to the key people involved in concocting the phony Trump-Russia collusion hoax—which included the use of powerful surveillance tools and government informants—House Democrats are escalating efforts in their attempt to impeach Trump before Barr’s department starts issuing indictments. If Trump goes down before Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham, his point man on the investigation, can complete their work, that investigation could be completely discredited if not halted altogether as the by-product of an illegitimate presidency.
The clock is ticking, fast. Two dependable sources of Trump-Russia collusion propaganda—the New York Times and NBC News—nervously reported this week that Barr’s inquiry has expanded, although neither outlet has the foggiest idea why. “
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We’re #1!
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/10/were-number-one.php
“When it comes to energy and the environment, the United States ranks a clear number one among the world’s nations. Not only have we increased our energy production, courtesy of fracking, to the point that we are the world’s pre-eminent energy power, we have, at the same time, reduced our pollution and our CO2 emissions (if you think that matters) more than any other country. So when it comes to energy, the U.S. is the undisputed champion. This video by my friend Mark Mathis of the Clear Energy Alliance tells the story beautifully:
It is instructive that both our explosive growth in energy production and the decline in CO2 emissions have been driven by the fracking revolution. Fracking is a technology that was developed and executed by private companies with the cooperation of a number of states. The Obama administration was saved, arguably, by the fracking revolution, but that administration had nothing to do with it. On the contrary, if Obama had figured out a way to block fracking, he likely would have done so.”
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THIS is CNN.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/25/cnn-andrew-mccabe-criminal-barr/
“CNN Fails To Disclose Key Facts About Andrew McCabe In Interview About DOJ Criminal Investigation”
“CNN interviewed Andrew McCabe on Friday about developments in a Justice Department criminal investigation of the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, but the network failed to disclose that the former FBI deputy director is suing the Justice Department and is under criminal investigation himself.
Interviewed by CNN’s Jim Sciutto, McCabe, a CNN analyst, was largely critical of the investigation, which is being led by John Durham, a U.S. attorney in Connecticut, and overseen by Attorney General William Barr.
Durham’s investigation has recently shifted from an administrative review of U.S. intelligence activities related to the Trump campaign to a full-blown criminal investigation.
Sciutto noted at the top of his interview with McCabe that the former FBI official could very well be a target of the Durham probe.
But neither Sciutto nor McCabe disclosed during the interview that McCabe is under investigation for making false statements to the FBI and Justice Department regarding his authorization of leaks to the media in October 2016.”
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Math is hard.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/10/the-welfare-industrial-complex.php
“THE WELFARE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX [WITH COMMENT BY JOHN]
Every so often someone will do the back-of-the-envelope calculation of the total amount of government spending on behalf of the poor, divided by the number of poor people, and yielding a figure that usually comes out to something like $50,000 per poor person. But very few if any poor people get anywhere close to that amount of aid through the various programs (welfare, food stamps, housing assistance, Medicaid, etc). In other words, the “service charge” of government social welfare bureaucracies take up a lot of the money. We need professionals in charge of these aid programs, dontchaknow.
Maybe just cutting out the bureaucrats and simply sending checks—something the government is actually pretty good at doing—is a bad idea, but one has to wonder whether the bureaucratic self-interest of what I call the Welfare-Industrial-Complex really aligns with the interests and needs of their poor (in both senses) clients.
KTVU-TV in San Francisco recently reported on the question, “Millions spent on fixing Bay Area homeless crisis, but where does the money go?” Not that much on the homeless it turns out:
OAKLAND, Calif. – Every year, the Bay Area’s three largest cities spend millions of dollars trying to house homeless people, but 2 Investigates found that a big chunk of the money doesn’t funnel down to programs and services that actually get people off the streets. . .
San Jose’s budget shows the city spent about $14 million on homelessness. Much of that money — $12 million — goes toward rental subsidies, administrative costs, and crafting plans for new affordable housing developments. What’s left – about $2 million — is directed toward running homeless shelters and providing clothing, food, and medical care to people without a home.
In Oakland, 2 Investigates found it’s much of the same. Nearly $24 million is set aside in the annual budget for homelessness issues, but only $4 million goes directly to help people living on the streets get into permanent housing.
A recent count of homeless people found there are more than 4,000 people living on the streets of Oakland, roughly 6,000 people homeless in San Jose, and about 8,000 homeless individuals in San Francisco. If all of the money was being spent strictly on the visible homeless, the three biggest cities could house a third, half, or all of its homeless population.
Yeah, but if you actually housed the homeless population somehow, the budget for homeless “service” providers wouldn’t go up next year. In fact some “caring professionals” might have to find other jobs. To paraphrase a famous political operative, “Never let a good homeless crisis go to waste.” It’s great business for the Welfare-Industrial-Complex.”
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I would not call them “serious”, but I suspect that Dear Leader still believes in the atomic rabbit.
https://twitter.com/mattklewis/status/1187776350033240064?s=21
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https://twitter.com/mattklewis/status/1188059289614802944?s=21
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Folks talk about Texas flipping, but Georgia is the most likely conservative Southern state to vote against Trump in 2020. Like Texas, Georgia has lots of college graduates and Yankees. Both states are now dominated by urban centers.
https://twitter.com/politidope/status/1187740595051270144?s=21
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Yeah, and we know how accurate your polls were last time around, huh Ricky?
Still pushing loser narratives I see as well.
Can you show us on this doll where the Bad Orange Man hurt you Ricky?
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At least Georgia and Texas got the college educated Yankees. It could have been much worse.
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Having spent so many years involved with foster care and then adoption special needs, and now adult mental health, it continues to amaze me how many people have their fingers in each pot and how difficult it is to get funds or services to the individual. For eighteen year old, I can think of ten people off hand, who are supposed to be involved in her care and are getting paid for their involvement, only a couple of whom have ever met her or spoken to her. I can’t imagine how it works when you have millions needing assistance.
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Posted by our former copy desk chief:
Free advice: Never “butt dial” a reporter when you’re talking with someone.
That also brought up memories of something similar happening to one of our reporters who, at the time, was in touch with ‘The Donald’ over a story about his LA Trump golf course project being developed on the ocean cliffs in our area. Would have been in the early 2000s. Seems DT once failed to disconnect after he thought he’d hung up on our reporter, but none of us can remember if anything interesting was said. I’ll have to ask the reporter who’s still working for us.
But as I recall, DT hung up a few times on him during the course of reporting that story over a couple years. The reporter is very ornery himself (a Brit with a heavy accent still) so it was often hilarious to listen to those one-sided phone conversations going on in the newsroom. Belligerent, both of them. So the conversations were often quite short. 🙂
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https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/24/why-its-probably-not-a-coincidence-that-the-mother-transing-her-7-year-old-isnt-biologically-related/?fbclid=IwAR3VNPVtgyFDKE_z7RyHiJB-AuqLPHWTv3HpCEiDiz77SOpHqF4BrgsB054#.XbMQFo5mfHY.facebook
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Remember kids, he who flips first, gets the best deal.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/10/who-will-be-the-first-to-flip-in-spygate-criminal-investigation/
“Who will be the first to flip in spygate criminal investigation?
Wait. With John Durham leading the investigation, maybe the question should be: Who was the first to flip? Because it may already have happened.”
“It was clear after the release of the Mueller Report that Attorney General William Barr was determined to get to the bottom of the spying on Trump and his campaign.
Because of that expressed determination, Barr became a public enemy. On May 2, 2019, I wrote, Bill Barr is going to expose Spygate, and the Democrat-Media Russia Collusion Complex is panicking:
It was Barr’s comments about spying on the Trump campaign, and his pledge to investigate that spying, that explains the frenzy to take down Barr. That spying, regardless of whether lawful, has the potential to be a scandal that could touch deep into the Obama administration, and some former officials who loom large in the anti-Trump resistance.
It also could reach deep into the media, with the involvement of Fusion GPS in feeding Russian-provided, Clinton/DNC paid-for, disinformation to the mainstream journalist community.
So the stakes are huge. The Russian collusion scandal may be a Democrat and media scandal. People may go to jail for that collusion, and if so, they may be the first people to go to jail over Russian collusion involving the 2016 election.
Barr is the single greatest threat to the Democrat-Media Russia Collusion Complex. That’s why Democrats, with help from the mainstream media, will spare no effort to tarnish Barr as a way of discrediting the investigative train that is rolling down the tracks.”
—–
“Since the NY Times reported that the Durham investigation is a criminal investigation, that is the question again.
The stakes are so much higher for those involved. Whoever cuts a deal first could be spared prosecution or prison. So someone is likely to sing, and that someone likely is a mid-level person in the FBI who was disgusted with what happened but close enough to it that the person is at risk.
Rush made that point today:
To me all of this is so obvious that it doesn’t even need an investigation. It’s already been investigated, it’s been learned, but they’ve gotta be able to prove it in court if they want to go there. They’ve got to get testimony. When they impanel this grand jury, folks, I’m telling you, that’s when people start flipping, that’s when people start asking themselves, “Do I want to go to jail for John Brennan? Do I want to go to jail for Obama? Do I want to spend some time in jail for Clapper or Comey?”
This is when these questions start getting asked of people. You know, their loyalty will be tested. And we don’t know how that’s gonna go. But all it’s gonna take is one person to flip. And even if that person eventuates, surfaces, if there is a successful effort to make one of them flip, I can’t predict. I just think everybody is involved in this, even some people in the Trump White House are involved in it. It just depends on how far they want to dig up and go and how far they think they need to go to prove what this was.
Durham leading the charge should strike fear in the heart of the deep state:”
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Looks like Ol’ Traitor Jim is already planning to flee prosecution. 🙂
Way better than where he deserves to be for his treasonous acts against the president…..
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Message fail clowns.
Try again.
https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1188453071581523969
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https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1188522348678389762
You clowns were saying?
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Leave it to the WaPo to carry water for the terrorist so advanced is their TDS. Disgusting WaPo. Un-American to boot.
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Yep, that about sums it up.
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