Biden’s America, while the #USELESS GOP does nothing about it.
Oversight?
Pfffftttt…..
FBI losers brag about helping put a mother of 8 with no criminal record behind bars for almost 5 years. Imagine going thru Quantico only to take away women from their children over a broken window. https://t.co/4OgL4ie0OM
SHOCKING: As if they hadn’t already destroyed enough lives, the DOJ is now attempting to appeal the sentences of the J6 protesters. They believe the 15-22 year sentences weren’t enough and want them punished even more.
“SHOCKING: As if they hadn’t already destroyed enough lives, the DOJ is now attempting to appeal the sentences of the J6 protesters. They believe the 15-22 year sentences weren’t enough and want them punished even more.
The DOJ hasn’t submitted a reason behind this, only that they want them to serve longer sentences. One man, who wasn’t even there, was sentenced to 22 years.
Not only is Biden’s DOJ targeting Trump, they’re also using all of their power to go after his supporters. This is a dangerous time in America to be a Trump supporter.
Why isn’t the GOP doing anything to stop this? How long will we put up with this?”
I demand @CapitolPolice preserve all video footage inside and outside the Cannon House office building today.
There must be an investigation into the organized breach and occupation that stopped Congress from holding a Speaker election and continuing legislative business today. https://t.co/QBWVF1XjT9
Texts like this were used as incriminating evidence in Proud Boys seditious conspiracy case which led to convictions and prison sentences up to 22 years. https://t.co/djStMHYt9u
Why is Joe Biden silent on the violent insurrection happening at the Capitol? Where is a statement from Merrick Garland and Chris Wray condemning this attack? I’m serious, where’s the outrage?
“Almost this entire al-Ahli Baptist Hospital story is a massive lie started by Hamas and amplified by western media
There was no Israeli bombing, a hospital was not hit or seriously damaged, something hit the parking lot leaving cars just yards away intact, almost certainly part of a misfired terror group rocket, and the likelihood that over 500 people were killed is slim.”
“We have had several posts about the false allegation that Israel bombed a Gaza hospital killing 500 or more civilians. This set off riots on “the Arab street” in numerous nations, caused the cancelation of a summit with Biden, the President of Egypt, the King of Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority President. It also helped Iran make the case for regional war on Israel and the U.S. to its proxies.
People have died and will die because of this lie.
Almost this entire al-Ahli Baptist Hospital story is a massive lie started by Hamas and amplified without question for hours by western media, including the NY Times, Islamic world media, and alt-right influencers. There was no Israeli bombing, a hospital was not hit or seriously damaged, something hit the parking lot leaving cars just yards away intact, almost certainly part of a misfired terror group rocket, and the likelihood that over 500 people were killed is slim.
Here is the sourcing, “for the record”.”
Almost this entire al-Ahli Baptist Hospital story is a massive lie started by Hamas and amplified without question for hours by western media, including the NY Times, Islamic world media, and alt-right influencers. There was no Israeli bombing, a hospital was not hit or seriously… https://t.co/br1VU5c6V2
“The physical evidence shows a small crater, no substantial damage to the hospital, and a hit in a parking lot”
And we now have footage of the (partially) burnt-out parking lot at the Ahli Hospital in Gaza.
Overall damage to the structures in the complex appears to be limited, a clay-tiled awning adjacent to the parking lot is still mostly intact. pic.twitter.com/Tf0EAUJLR5
I didn’t even think about that. NYT used a picture from a completely different location while (falsely) blaming the strike on Israel because the hospital location doesn’t have any destroyed buildings. https://t.co/lWreWz3rZv
“Many of the same outlets have obsessed over the spread of “misinformation” in recent years yet created their own by parroting Hamas during a war the terror group savagely provoked with Israel.
The journalistic fiasco was an example of the media’s tendency to adopt the Palestinians’ narrative about the conflict with Israel, even when that narrative is unsupported by the facts. In this case, there were geopolitical consequences: U.S. Democratic lawmakers and Arab leaders condemned Israel for the bombing, Jordan canceled a planned summit with Biden, and riots broke out in the West Bank and elsewhere in the Muslim world.
Immediately after the hospital blast, which occurred around 7:30 p.m. local time, outlets reported that Israel had bombed the facility, killing hundreds of Palestinians. The reports generally referred to their source—the Hamas terrorist group that governs Gaza—as “Palestinian officials” or “health authorities.””
BREAKING: An Israeli air strike killed hundreds of Palestinians at a Gaza City hospital crammed with patients and displaced people, health authorities in the besieged enclave said https://t.co/mEam2SDwFHpic.twitter.com/iIIowjPq5l
Breaking News: An Israeli airstrike hit a Gaza hospital on Tuesday, killing at least 200 Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, which said the number of casualties was expected to rise. https://t.co/f3iHo5n7Y0
The Palestinian Health Ministry says 200-300 at minimum were killed in an Israeli bombing of a Gaza hospital. Raf Sanchez reports on the scenes of “absolute devastation” and the response from the Israeli military saying in part they are “currently investigating” it. pic.twitter.com/rqnzTBpf8d
Hundreds are likely dead after bombing of Gaza's Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, which was sheltering thousands of displaced people, the Palestinian Health Ministry said https://t.co/NsrFUVMGSbpic.twitter.com/cBeyh95iCI
Hundreds of people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, according to the enclave's Ministry of Health. https://t.co/aKT115w5uz
BREAKING: The Gaza Health Ministry says at least 500 people killed in an explosion at a hospital that it says was caused by an Israeli airstrike. https://t.co/QXPgbAvtQ6
“Still, the media were not deterred from relying on Hamas for information. On Thursday, outlets continued to cite the terrorist group’s improbable claims about the numbers of dead and injured. NBC News on Wednesday broadcast a report from a Gazan journalist who said that “according to the experts,” 900 people were killed in the hospital blast, and only “the Israeli occupation” could be responsible for such a large death toll.”
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And those weren’t the only media outlets running with Hamas propaganda as truth….
Click the tweet and read on….
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A deadly blast hit Gaza yesterday. Hamas blamed Israel. The media rushed to parrot their claims. Evidence suggests they were lies. @FreeBeacon
Here are the outlets who carried water for a terrorist group to smear Israel ⤵️ https://t.co/z3RW3XVmEe
Right now there are two paths forward for the GOP in the Speaker battle:
1) Elect Rep. Jim Jordan Speaker of the House, an actual conservative who already has support from most of the Republican conference, as well as the voters, and get back to doing what Americans elected a…
“Right now there are two paths forward for the GOP in the Speaker battle:
1) Elect Rep. Jim Jordan Speaker of the House, an actual conservative who already has support from most of the Republican conference, as well as the voters, and get back to doing what Americans elected a GOP majority to do, holding the Biden admin accountable.
2) Give expanded powers to Rep. Patrick McHenry with support from a handful of RINOs, Hakeem Jeffries, and the rest of the Democratic Caucus. Continue to fund all of Biden’s unpopular priorities that led to Republicans winning the House in the first place while telling conservatives to go shove it.
Republican voters overwhelmingly support one.
DC lobbyists and special interests overwhelmingly support the other.”
Shouldn't someone who broke the law be, you know, in JAIL???
Can you imagine if someone published Paul Pelosi's Grindr texts? The FBI would be on them faster than they were for the national crisis of recovering Ashley Biden's diary…
“The Internal Revenue Service recently awarded a lucrative contract to help modernize its computer databases to the same Washington firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, that employed the man who pleaded guilty last week to stealing and leaking thousands of private tax returns of wealthy Americans, including former President Trump, according to records reviewed by RealClearInvestigations.
The massive IRS theft is the third major breach of confidential and classified government information by Booz Allen contractors over the last decade – including Edward Snowden’s 2013 leak exposing the National Security Agency’s worldwide anti-terror surveillance program.
Cyber-thief Charles “Chaz” Littlejohn was working on an IRS contract for Booz Allen in 2018 when he stole more than two decades of Trump’s personal tax records from IRS computers. He later leaked them to the New York Times, which published negative stories on Trump’s long-sought returns several weeks before the 2020 election, which Trump narrowly lost in a handful of battleground states.
After the election, Littlejohn leaked a trove of sensitive IRS data on Elon Musk, Michael Bloomberg and other billionaires – including major conservative donors – to ProPublica. The left-leaning news site used them to write a series, “The Secret IRS Files,” about how the rich use loopholes and tricks to avoid paying taxes. Congressional Democrats cited the series in their push for higher taxes on the wealthy.
Trump lawyer Alina Habba said she suspects Littlejohn was an operative in a broader political conspiracy to sabotage the former president before the 2020 election.
“What Mr. Littlejohn did, I do not believe he did alone,” she said last week at the Washington courthouse where he pleaded guilty. Habba added that the leak probably “cost my client thousands of votes and was all by design.”
A Democrat donor, Littlejohn struck a deal with federal prosecutors in which he copped to a single count of disclosing tax information without authorization. Though facing a maximum of five years, his plea deal calls for an estimated range of eight to 14 months when he is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 29.
“That looked more like a Hunter Biden plea deal,” Habba said. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) agreed, saying Littlejohn is getting a “slap on the wrist.” “
You just can’t make this up. The U.S. Government Hired A Pro-Hamas former spokeswoman for the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) To Handle Asylum Claims. She openly celebrated the attacks on Israel. https://t.co/2TPtRFeSB6
Indefensible. This antisemitic radical should be fired immediately.
Biden “Department of Homeland Security officer is repeatedly posting pictures of Hamas terrorists parachuting in with guns and writing, ‘F*** Israel and any Jew who supports Israel.’” https://t.co/bO7jOCrYnI
Congress is finally investigating Sequoia Capital after years of funding CCP military tech & paying millions to McCarthy, McConnell, Schumer, and Pelosi to look the other way
This investigation only began after McCarthy was ousted & that’s not a coincidence https://t.co/cqmqio5YjQ
Last night Newt Gingrich called the GOP Gang of 8 "traitors". He is correct. These conservatives betrayed the GOP Swamp.
After 25 years of the GOP raising billions of dollars from conservatives, promising their constituents they'll fight for fiscal sanity, all the while having…
“Last night Newt Gingrich called the GOP Gang of 8 “traitors”. He is correct. These conservatives betrayed the GOP Swamp.
After 25 years of the GOP raising billions of dollars from conservatives, promising their constituents they’ll fight for fiscal sanity, all the while having zero intention of doing that, going along with the Democrats’ wild, crazy, irresponsible spending – which is why our debt is out of control – this “Gang of 8” stood up and said: No more. And ousted the leader of the House Swamp – Kevin McCarthy.
And that’s why the Swamp is against Jim Jordan now. They fear he’ll keep his word and be another “traitor.””
Enemies within indeed…now to close the borders, get illegal invaders out and more states to follow suit…good move Sarah!!!
On Tuesday, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that she was ordering Syngenta to relinquish its 160 acres of land holdings in northeastern Arkansas, accusing its owner of “posing a clear threat to our state.” The Switzerland-headquartered agricultural chemicals producer was acquired in 2017 by the state-owned China National Chemical Corporation, and primarily trades in pesticides and seeds.
“Seeds are technology,” Sanders said at a press conference. “Chinese state-owned corporations filter that technology back to their homeland, stealing American research and telling our enemies how to target American farms. That is a clear threat to our national security.”
The Speaker fiasco and the Fulton Co. deal (among other things) reveal that RINOs are more interested in punishing/sidelining Pres. Trump and maintaining the status quo (and all their perks) than in defeating the Democrat Marxists.
“When Florida governor Ron DeSantis tapped local funds late last year to start flying undocumented immigrants out of his state and into blue states, Democrats blasted him for trying to score “political points” with taxpayer money. DeSantis countered that the $12 million fund that financed the flights represented only a tiny portion of the money that Florida was spending on asylum seekers, after the federal government briefly detains them at the border, releases them, and they wind up in the Sunshine State. Florida hospitals alone had racked up hundreds of millions of dollars in costs for uncompensated care to migrants, DeSantis noted—and the state had to subsidize those services. And it was largely progressive-led municipalities declaring themselves immigrant “sanctuaries” that helped attract record recent numbers of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants, DeSantis argued, so it was only fair that those cities and states pay for sheltering them. “If the policy is to have an open border, I think the sanctuary cities should be the ones that have to bear that,” said DeSantis.
For many Democrat-led cities and states, those flights, and similar migrant trips to blue locales that Texas officials had arranged, have made much clearer the full price of dealing with the flood of immigrants released into the country by federal officials over the last several years. Because of their distance from America’s southern border, these governments had felt insulated from such pressures, but no longer. New York, a sanctuary city since 1989, spent $8 million a day throughout much of this year to care for migrants, including housing some 3,000 families in hotels for hundreds of dollars a night. Massachusetts—where liberal cities like Boston and Cambridge have also proclaimed themselves sanctuaries—scrambled last year to expand its shelter system to meet the influx. The projected bill for taxpayers: nearly $140 million, thanks to “the federal government’s inability to address our country’s immigration challenges,” then-governor Charlie Baker, a Republican, charged. Several Democratic states, including California, Illinois, and New York, have expanded access for illegal immigrants to social programs like Medicaid, deeming it humane. They now face eye-watering unanticipated bills, as illegals deluge the system.
The northward flight of migrants has changed the immigration conversation. New York City was being “destroyed by the migrant crisis,” warned Mayor Eric Adams. He complained that President Biden had “failed” the city and demanded federal aid to ease the crisis. Adams has tried to offload some arriving immigrants to suburban New York communities. A Democratic governor, Colorado’s Jared Polis, ignited his own controversy early in 2023 when he joined Republicans in transporting migrants to out-of-state cities, including Democrat-run New York and Chicago, after Denver declared a state of emergency because of an illegal immigrant influx.
Even if the southern border were completely secured, the costs of the massive movement of migrants into the U.S. over the last few years will reverberate for decades on city and state budgets. That price will include not merely the short-term burden of housing and feeding asylum seekers, but the longer-term expenditures of providing the newcomers with basic services like health care and education. Just how much these undocumented migrants will contribute, in turn, to America’s economy, given that many are largely unskilled and poorly educated, remains to be seen—though it’s unlikely to be enough to help balance municipal and state books anytime soon. Meantime, Congress and the White House neglect sensible reforms to the legal immigration system that would open doors to the skilled workers our economy needs.
In 2021, shortly after Democrat Joe Biden became president, long lines of migrants began heading to the U.S. border. Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador noted that these sojourners saw Biden as “the immigrant president.” With good reason. During a Democratic presidential debate, Biden had blasted President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, saying (in garbled language), “I would in fact make sure that there is, that we immediately surge to the border—all those people are seeking asylum. They deserve to be heard.” Soon after Biden assumed the presidency, the surge he had seemed to call for overwhelmed U.S. immigration facilities. Detention centers mandated by the Immigration and Nationality Act to house asylum seekers while they appealed for permanent entry soon ran out of room. Federal officials started scheduling court hearings for immigrants’ cases far into the future, and then just releasing the migrants into the U.S.
Many relocated to border towns like El Paso, Texas, and Yuma, Arizona, where local facilities lacked the capacity to manage them. In one summer month in 2022, El Paso spent nearly $10 million processing new immigrants. In August 2022, border officials reported detaining 3,453 attempted entries in the El Paso sector; two years earlier, with the U.S. operating under a Trump presidential order that let officials expel illegal border crossers, the number during the same period was just five, though Covid had also slowed crossings. Illegals released by the feds also proved too much for Yuma, which racked up some $20 million in new hospital costs in 2022.
By late 2022, the immigration court backlog had swelled to 1.6 million people. Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema, then a Democrat, ripped Biden officials for not preparing for the wave, though they knew it was coming, especially with the expiration of Trump’s immigration order. “The reality is that the Biden administration had two years to prepare for this,” Sinema said. “They chose not to do so, and I believe have dramatically underestimated the burden that Arizona will bear as a result.”
The chaos has shaken border state budgets. Several have created their own security forces to disrupt illegal border activity. Texas launched Operation Lone Star in early 2021, for example, spending an eye-popping $4.5 billion in the first two years of the program. So far, Texas officials say, the operation has caught 376,000 illegal border crossers, arrested 28,000 individuals suspected of other crimes, and seized more than 400 million doses of fentanyl. The effort has also tried to slow what one Texas county sheriff calls a “silent invasion” across the border of military men, many armed, whom officials fear work for Mexican drug cartels. In 2022, Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe observed, his deputies made 3,045 arrests for smuggling, compared with just 67 the year before. And those latest numbers represent just a fraction of the total number of illegals; the county’s security cameras recorded some 21,500 people crossing the border last year without getting caught.
In April 2022, Texas governor Greg Abbott and his then-counterpart in Arizona, Doug Ducey, asked Republican governors nationwide to contribute to border security. With the consequences of surging illegal immigration felt throughout the country, some 26 pledged support. “[E]very state is a border state,” Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin said. Many governors emphasized the importance of border security in stemming the fentanyl flow into their states. “We’re seeing the 20 times increase in fentanyl deaths,” Youngkin lamented. “Five Virginians will die today, and five more will die tomorrow because [Biden] has failed to secure the border.” Virginia sent about 100 National Guard members to the southern border to boost security. Cost: $3 million monthly. Arkansas and South Dakota were among the other states providing National Guard border deployments; Iowa, Ohio, Nebraska, and Florida sent state law-enforcement officers. Earlier this year, Florida increased its border task force in Texas to more than 1,100 National Guard and state police personnel, accompanied by state aircraft, drones, and boats.
The stepped-up enforcement isn’t limited to Republican border states. Earlier this year, California, working with federal law enforcement, launched Operation Blue Lotus, seeking to impede the supply of illegal drugs coming across the border into the Golden State and poisoning the streets of San Francisco and other cities. In less than two months, state and federal agents seized about 6,500 pounds of fentanyl and related drugs and arrested approximately 200 smugglers and dealers. Encouraged by this early success, Governor Gavin Newsom doubled the state resources dedicated to the initiative.
State and local social spending on migrants is exploding. In a 2021 lawsuit filed by Texas against the Biden administration after it froze deportations of illegals, the state listed $850 million of extraordinary costs due to illegals—including more than $579 million annually at public hospitals for uncompensated medical care and more than $30 million in prenatal care. Texas also reported spending about $150 million a year on incarcerating criminal migrants, and up to $63 million to educate unaccompanied immigrant minors now domiciled in the state.
Florida faces similar pressures. Hospitals delivered $312 million in uncompensated health services to a total of 111,475 illegals in 2020, and another $340 million to treat a similar number in 2021. Births to illegal-immigrant mothers are one of the biggest burdens on Florida’s health-care system. In 2019, one study estimated, Florida hospitals delivered nearly 9,200 babies to uninsured illegals, with an average price tag of $5,359 per birth. The same study estimated that the state was also spending $1.6 billion yearly on public school education for the children of illegals.
States farther from the border aren’t immune. A lawsuit filed earlier this year by attorneys general in 18 states against the Biden administration’s border policies reported hundreds of millions of dollars in migrant-related expenditures. Indiana, for instance, calculated that it is spending $971 million annually in state and local tax dollars for 207,000 illegals. And the price keeps mounting. Data suggest that roughly 10,000 additional illegal immigrants have come to Indiana since Biden became president, including more than 3,000 kids, meaning soaring new costs for medical care, education, and other services.
Another party to that suit, Iowa, calculated that it now has about 83,000 illegals, and that state and local government expend about $400 million annually in social services on them. Iowa also noted that it has boosted spending by “tens of millions of dollars each year for increased law enforcement,” necessitated by the growth of illegal immigration. Iowa citizens, the lawsuit contended, “suffer increased crime, unemployment, environmental harm, and social disorder, due to illegal immigration.” Though far from the southern border, Iowa “has been identified as a hot spot for trafficking activity due to the junction of Interstate 35 and Interstate 80. Traffickers bring illegal immigrants to and through the State,” the lawsuit said.
Mississippi estimated that it has some 45,000 illegal immigrants, 75 percent of them with no health-care coverage, placing a huge weight on hospitals, which the state must compensate. Its total expenditures for illegals average more than $4,100 per individual, the state reported—about $187 million a year. Kentucky, with approximately 94,000 illegals, puts its annual cost at about $430 million, while Oklahoma, with about 183,000 illegals, claims to be spending more than $780 million yearly.
All the attorneys general participating in the lawsuit against Biden represented Republican-leaning states. Until recently, those states had complained the loudest about migrant crisis. That began to change, however, once border states began shipping recent arrivals northward to states and cities that had declared themselves sanctuaries. The first landing place for many was Washington, D.C., where Mayor Muriel Bowser had affirmed, just days after Donald Trump was elected in November 2016, that the city was a sanctuary for illegal immigrants. “We celebrate our diversity and respect all DC residents no matter their immigration status,” she declared. From April 2022 until September of that year, some 9,500 illegals arrived in Washington from Texas and Arizona. Bowser then sought federal aid to manage the mess, including asking that the National Guard be called out—which the administration refused. Bowser subsequently declared a state of emergency.”
“After meeting with House leadership this morning,
@Jim_Jordan
agreed to back Patrick McHenry for interim speaker until January.
At this point, it does NOT seem like Jordan is bowing out, but may instead be using the time between now and January to whip the votes to become Speaker.
DO NOT LET THE RINOs WIN!”
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My understanding is that to get the moderate votes he would have needed, Jordan would have had to relent on Ukraine funding and give wealthy New York liberals SALT tax relief
Some pigs are more equal, and they squeal more too….
When Pro-Palestine protesters storm the Capitol, they are victims of police brutality.
When Trump supporters protest at the Capitol, they are domestic terrorists who get shot and killed or locked in solitary confinement for years without trial
The one who orchestrated most of it will now squeal like a pig too, to save their own bacon.
As part of her guilty plea, Powell will be required to testify at future trials and write an apology letter to the citizens of Georgia, prosecutors said at a hearing Thursday, @MarshallCohen reports.
Another pro-Hamas media outlet gets fact checked for their Hamas propaganda.
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to grow following a hospital explosion that killed hundreds. CBS News spoke to a doctor who says Israel's army had previously warned the facility to evacuate. pic.twitter.com/QhJhOomDG1
LATEST: About 300 people were arrested after gathering in the Capitol complex rotunda to demonstrate against the Israel-Hamas war, according to a Capitol Police spokesperson. https://t.co/SiR93m9bICpic.twitter.com/vI4F2VfjfK
I’d say the GOP is clearly and officially in a state of dysfunction at this point. I’m not seeing a path to recover. 2024 approaches …
WSJ ~ WASHINGTON—Republican speaker nominee Rep. Jim Jordan is throwing his support behind a plan to put caretaker speaker Rep. Patrick McHenry in charge of the House until January, according to a person familiar with the matter, a move that could reopen the chamber after a two-week impasse.
Rank-and-file GOP lawmakers had started to lose patience with Jordan’s efforts to continue his campaign for speaker after losses on two consecutive ballots. There will be no third vote Thursday, but Jordan plans to stay in the race. The approach would give the Ohio congressman several months to build support for his bid while allowing the House to move forward with votes expected on Israel and Ukraine aid and keeping the government funded.
The proposed leadership setup would be unprecedented, and questions remained about how it would work. Jordan’s support marked a potential breakthrough, but it was far from a done deal. Putting the plan in place would require a House vote, though it was uncertain when such a vote would be held. While some Republicans backed the plan, others signaled they weren’t on board. … ~
It’s two parties under the same roof, and the only solution is a coalition — between themselves or with Democrats.
~ There’s a reason why House Republicans can’t settle on a speaker.
It’s the same reason there are effectively parallel GOP presidential primaries. One is between a series of candidates embarked on all the usual rituals vying for support from about half the party’s voters, while the other half has long ago made up its mind about who its preferred nominee is. His name may ring a bell.
There is no longer a cohesive Republican Party. There’s a pre-Trump GOP and a post-Trump GOP, living together uneasily. They may be roommates but they’re not married.
Which is why it was unintentionally unironic for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), after watching 20 Republicans oppose his candidacy for speaker, to lament what could come next in the House. “No one in our conference wants to see any type of coalition government with Democrats,” Jordan told reporters after the first vote Tuesday.
Yet that’s precisely what his own conference has become — a would-be coalition government, if under the same banner. The fitful and still fruitless negotiations that have taken place since Kevin McCarthy’s ouster two weeks ago are closer to a European-style coalition-led parliament struggling to be born than a factional dispute within an American party. … ~
The Whitehouse media team shared this picture last night (I added the black boxes) without blurring or censoring the faces of the “Delta Force” (CAG) operator’s faces. They deleted it an hour later after hundreds of thousands had already viewed it.
“the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it…the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them…”
Hey @ucdavis, do you think it’s appropriate that one of your faculty advisors, @jemmaisOKeh, is publicly threatening to murder Jews at their homes and their children at their schools? pic.twitter.com/xAx97LHYbr
Looks like @ucdavis took down DeCristo’s faculty page, but still hasn’t publicly acknowledged that one of their professors was threatening to murder Jews. pic.twitter.com/EP4uYayIUd
The U.S. State Department was released an Extremely Rare “Worldwide Travel Alert” stating that American Citizens should Exercise Increased Caution around the World due to Increasing Tensions in various Countries. pic.twitter.com/jbCArjd6ru
BREAKING: The Biden regime has just issued a WORLDWIDE CAUTiON for Americans traveling abroad. Biden has made the entire world unsafe for Americans. What more proof do Democrats need? But at least no mean tweets. pic.twitter.com/dvgaxNmwaQ
Marjorie Taylor Greene is wrong about a lot of things, but not that. All of you are working overtime to help Hamas, even after they just killed 30 Americans and are holding American hostages. You're a disgrace.
Rashida Tlaib is attempting to ignite a religious war in the United States. She repeats terrorist propaganda without a second thought. She’s obviously an enemy of the United States. There’s no argument about this.
There was a political cartoon I saw — I think it may have run in one of the news magazines at the time — following the disastrous GOP defeat in 1964.
The party’s symbol, an elephant, was lying in bed, head under a huge ice pack and stars spinning around, bruised and covered in bandages, with an empty bottle lying on the floor labeled “Goldwater.”
Both parties have gone off the rails from time to time giving in to their more extremist wings. They usually stabilize the ship in a few years, but it sometimes takes a while.
I do wonder if the party may just have to agree to a divorce this time, but it would decimate the conservative side, at least for a while. GOP is split almost completely down the middle right now, as is the U.S. electorate (Ty), so it’s not looking too feasible that consensus can be found any time soon, certainly not before 2024.
Who do the voters want? That’s the million $ question with no answer right now. Many are pretty much only fed up with it all.
The Gaetz of Republican Hell
The House GOP still doesn’t have a Speaker after Jim Jordan loses a third vote.
By
The Editorial Board
~ The eight House Republicans who ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy two weeks ago are getting exactly what they bargained for, whether they knew it then or not. The instigator, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, thinks a better Speaker would be Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan. But on Friday Mr. Jordan lost another floor vote, making it three this week, first with 20 defections, then 22, and finally 25.
Some of the Jordan dissenters are still angry about the shabby treatment of Mr. McCarthy and the conference’s No. 2 choice, Rep. Steve Scalise. Others seem to believe Mr. Jordan is too much of a firebrand to serve as the party’s frontman. The no votes Friday included half of the Republicans in districts carried by President Biden in 2020. Mr. Jordan lost ground despite some notable attempts at sausage-making.
He reportedly tried to lure blue-state Republicans with a plan to double the federal deduction for state and local taxes, or SALT. Capping it at $10,000 was a huge victory in President Trump’s 2017 tax reform, so Mr. Jordan’s pledge contradicted the claim that as Speaker he’d be a conservative’s conservative. Also, seven of the McCarthy mutineers said in a letter that in exchange for electing Mr. Jordan, they’d accept “censure, suspension, or removal from the Conference.” Maybe they could have landed Mr. Jordan the job if they had offered seppuku.
By late Friday afternoon, chaos reigned. About a dozen Republicans had begun making calls to line up their own supporters, or were considering it, in advance of another Speaker candidate forum expected this Monday. Have a real fun weekend, guys. The GOP is right to refuse the idea, dangled by Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, of a “bipartisan governing coalition.” But Republicans need to come up with a consensus candidate, and fast.
Perhaps it’s acting Speaker Patrick McHenry, or perhaps someone else. This isn’t a life sentence, after all. But friends in Israel and Ukraine need America’s support, government funding runs out again in a month, and Virginia goes to the polls a week before that. ~
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Wandering Views 
Biden’s America, while the #USELESS GOP does nothing about it.
Oversight?
Pfffftttt…..
“SHOCKING: As if they hadn’t already destroyed enough lives, the DOJ is now attempting to appeal the sentences of the J6 protesters. They believe the 15-22 year sentences weren’t enough and want them punished even more.
The DOJ hasn’t submitted a reason behind this, only that they want them to serve longer sentences. One man, who wasn’t even there, was sentenced to 22 years.
Not only is Biden’s DOJ targeting Trump, they’re also using all of their power to go after his supporters. This is a dangerous time in America to be a Trump supporter.
Why isn’t the GOP doing anything to stop this? How long will we put up with this?”
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Meanwhile, some pigs will once again be shown to be more equal than others…..
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Yay Hamas media!
“Almost this entire al-Ahli Baptist Hospital story is a massive lie started by Hamas and amplified by western media
There was no Israeli bombing, a hospital was not hit or seriously damaged, something hit the parking lot leaving cars just yards away intact, almost certainly part of a misfired terror group rocket, and the likelihood that over 500 people were killed is slim.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/almost-this-entire-al-ahli-baptist-hospital-story-is-a-massive-lie-started-by-hamas-and-amplified-by-western-media/
“We have had several posts about the false allegation that Israel bombed a Gaza hospital killing 500 or more civilians. This set off riots on “the Arab street” in numerous nations, caused the cancelation of a summit with Biden, the President of Egypt, the King of Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority President. It also helped Iran make the case for regional war on Israel and the U.S. to its proxies.
People have died and will die because of this lie.
Almost this entire al-Ahli Baptist Hospital story is a massive lie started by Hamas and amplified without question for hours by western media, including the NY Times, Islamic world media, and alt-right influencers. There was no Israeli bombing, a hospital was not hit or seriously damaged, something hit the parking lot leaving cars just yards away intact, almost certainly part of a misfired terror group rocket, and the likelihood that over 500 people were killed is slim.
Here is the sourcing, “for the record”.”
“The physical evidence shows a small crater, no substantial damage to the hospital, and a hit in a parking lot”
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Omar and Talib aren’t the only enemies within the gates.
“WATCH: Here Are the Media Outlets That Uncritically Regurgitated Hamas Propaganda
Reporters and major news outlets claimed without evidence that Israel blew up a hospital in Gaza. They were wrong.”
https://freebeacon.com/media/here-are-the-media-outlets-that-uncritically-regurgitated-hamas-propaganda/
“Many of the same outlets have obsessed over the spread of “misinformation” in recent years yet created their own by parroting Hamas during a war the terror group savagely provoked with Israel.
The journalistic fiasco was an example of the media’s tendency to adopt the Palestinians’ narrative about the conflict with Israel, even when that narrative is unsupported by the facts. In this case, there were geopolitical consequences: U.S. Democratic lawmakers and Arab leaders condemned Israel for the bombing, Jordan canceled a planned summit with Biden, and riots broke out in the West Bank and elsewhere in the Muslim world.
Immediately after the hospital blast, which occurred around 7:30 p.m. local time, outlets reported that Israel had bombed the facility, killing hundreds of Palestinians. The reports generally referred to their source—the Hamas terrorist group that governs Gaza—as “Palestinian officials” or “health authorities.””
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1714357083674468621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1714357083674468621%7Ctwgr%5E07f2fea8f66a7afa2d31dbe20876b815d6a0b882%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffreebeacon.com%2Fmedia%2Fhere-are-the-media-outlets-that-uncritically-regurgitated-hamas-propaganda%2F
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“Still, the media were not deterred from relying on Hamas for information. On Thursday, outlets continued to cite the terrorist group’s improbable claims about the numbers of dead and injured. NBC News on Wednesday broadcast a report from a Gazan journalist who said that “according to the experts,” 900 people were killed in the hospital blast, and only “the Israeli occupation” could be responsible for such a large death toll.”
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And those weren’t the only media outlets running with Hamas propaganda as truth….
Click the tweet and read on….
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#USELESS GOP
“Right now there are two paths forward for the GOP in the Speaker battle:
1) Elect Rep. Jim Jordan Speaker of the House, an actual conservative who already has support from most of the Republican conference, as well as the voters, and get back to doing what Americans elected a GOP majority to do, holding the Biden admin accountable.
2) Give expanded powers to Rep. Patrick McHenry with support from a handful of RINOs, Hakeem Jeffries, and the rest of the Democratic Caucus. Continue to fund all of Biden’s unpopular priorities that led to Republicans winning the House in the first place while telling conservatives to go shove it.
Republican voters overwhelmingly support one.
DC lobbyists and special interests overwhelmingly support the other.”
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Well I’m shocked….
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https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/10/18/leaker_of_trump_taxes_worked_for_biden_beltway_donor_that_just_won_a_big_new_irs_contract_986770.html
“The Internal Revenue Service recently awarded a lucrative contract to help modernize its computer databases to the same Washington firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, that employed the man who pleaded guilty last week to stealing and leaking thousands of private tax returns of wealthy Americans, including former President Trump, according to records reviewed by RealClearInvestigations.
The massive IRS theft is the third major breach of confidential and classified government information by Booz Allen contractors over the last decade – including Edward Snowden’s 2013 leak exposing the National Security Agency’s worldwide anti-terror surveillance program.
Cyber-thief Charles “Chaz” Littlejohn was working on an IRS contract for Booz Allen in 2018 when he stole more than two decades of Trump’s personal tax records from IRS computers. He later leaked them to the New York Times, which published negative stories on Trump’s long-sought returns several weeks before the 2020 election, which Trump narrowly lost in a handful of battleground states.
After the election, Littlejohn leaked a trove of sensitive IRS data on Elon Musk, Michael Bloomberg and other billionaires – including major conservative donors – to ProPublica. The left-leaning news site used them to write a series, “The Secret IRS Files,” about how the rich use loopholes and tricks to avoid paying taxes. Congressional Democrats cited the series in their push for higher taxes on the wealthy.
Trump lawyer Alina Habba said she suspects Littlejohn was an operative in a broader political conspiracy to sabotage the former president before the 2020 election.
“What Mr. Littlejohn did, I do not believe he did alone,” she said last week at the Washington courthouse where he pleaded guilty. Habba added that the leak probably “cost my client thousands of votes and was all by design.”
A Democrat donor, Littlejohn struck a deal with federal prosecutors in which he copped to a single count of disclosing tax information without authorization. Though facing a maximum of five years, his plea deal calls for an estimated range of eight to 14 months when he is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 29.
“That looked more like a Hunter Biden plea deal,” Habba said. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) agreed, saying Littlejohn is getting a “slap on the wrist.” “
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But no mean tweets, right?
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Traitors, everywhere.
“Last night Newt Gingrich called the GOP Gang of 8 “traitors”. He is correct. These conservatives betrayed the GOP Swamp.
After 25 years of the GOP raising billions of dollars from conservatives, promising their constituents they’ll fight for fiscal sanity, all the while having zero intention of doing that, going along with the Democrats’ wild, crazy, irresponsible spending – which is why our debt is out of control – this “Gang of 8” stood up and said: No more. And ousted the leader of the House Swamp – Kevin McCarthy.
And that’s why the Swamp is against Jim Jordan now. They fear he’ll keep his word and be another “traitor.””
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Enemies within indeed…now to close the borders, get illegal invaders out and more states to follow suit…good move Sarah!!!
On Tuesday, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that she was ordering Syngenta to relinquish its 160 acres of land holdings in northeastern Arkansas, accusing its owner of “posing a clear threat to our state.” The Switzerland-headquartered agricultural chemicals producer was acquired in 2017 by the state-owned China National Chemical Corporation, and primarily trades in pesticides and seeds.
“Seeds are technology,” Sanders said at a press conference. “Chinese state-owned corporations filter that technology back to their homeland, stealing American research and telling our enemies how to target American farms. That is a clear threat to our national security.”
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The Speaker fiasco and the Fulton Co. deal (among other things) reveal that RINOs are more interested in punishing/sidelining Pres. Trump and maintaining the status quo (and all their perks) than in defeating the Democrat Marxists.
So much for serving “We the People.”
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But we’ve been told illegals invading is a victimless crime, and that they aren’t eligible for welfare money and benefits….
In reality, the true costs to taxpayers is staggering, and that’s not even touching on the crime and drugs they bring with them.
“Illegal Immigration’s Terrifying Cost
State and local governments are spending billions on migrants and asylum seekers—and the bill will only grow steeper.”
https://www.city-journal.org/article/illegal-immigrations-terrifying-cost
“When Florida governor Ron DeSantis tapped local funds late last year to start flying undocumented immigrants out of his state and into blue states, Democrats blasted him for trying to score “political points” with taxpayer money. DeSantis countered that the $12 million fund that financed the flights represented only a tiny portion of the money that Florida was spending on asylum seekers, after the federal government briefly detains them at the border, releases them, and they wind up in the Sunshine State. Florida hospitals alone had racked up hundreds of millions of dollars in costs for uncompensated care to migrants, DeSantis noted—and the state had to subsidize those services. And it was largely progressive-led municipalities declaring themselves immigrant “sanctuaries” that helped attract record recent numbers of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants, DeSantis argued, so it was only fair that those cities and states pay for sheltering them. “If the policy is to have an open border, I think the sanctuary cities should be the ones that have to bear that,” said DeSantis.
For many Democrat-led cities and states, those flights, and similar migrant trips to blue locales that Texas officials had arranged, have made much clearer the full price of dealing with the flood of immigrants released into the country by federal officials over the last several years. Because of their distance from America’s southern border, these governments had felt insulated from such pressures, but no longer. New York, a sanctuary city since 1989, spent $8 million a day throughout much of this year to care for migrants, including housing some 3,000 families in hotels for hundreds of dollars a night. Massachusetts—where liberal cities like Boston and Cambridge have also proclaimed themselves sanctuaries—scrambled last year to expand its shelter system to meet the influx. The projected bill for taxpayers: nearly $140 million, thanks to “the federal government’s inability to address our country’s immigration challenges,” then-governor Charlie Baker, a Republican, charged. Several Democratic states, including California, Illinois, and New York, have expanded access for illegal immigrants to social programs like Medicaid, deeming it humane. They now face eye-watering unanticipated bills, as illegals deluge the system.
The northward flight of migrants has changed the immigration conversation. New York City was being “destroyed by the migrant crisis,” warned Mayor Eric Adams. He complained that President Biden had “failed” the city and demanded federal aid to ease the crisis. Adams has tried to offload some arriving immigrants to suburban New York communities. A Democratic governor, Colorado’s Jared Polis, ignited his own controversy early in 2023 when he joined Republicans in transporting migrants to out-of-state cities, including Democrat-run New York and Chicago, after Denver declared a state of emergency because of an illegal immigrant influx.
Even if the southern border were completely secured, the costs of the massive movement of migrants into the U.S. over the last few years will reverberate for decades on city and state budgets. That price will include not merely the short-term burden of housing and feeding asylum seekers, but the longer-term expenditures of providing the newcomers with basic services like health care and education. Just how much these undocumented migrants will contribute, in turn, to America’s economy, given that many are largely unskilled and poorly educated, remains to be seen—though it’s unlikely to be enough to help balance municipal and state books anytime soon. Meantime, Congress and the White House neglect sensible reforms to the legal immigration system that would open doors to the skilled workers our economy needs.
In 2021, shortly after Democrat Joe Biden became president, long lines of migrants began heading to the U.S. border. Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador noted that these sojourners saw Biden as “the immigrant president.” With good reason. During a Democratic presidential debate, Biden had blasted President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, saying (in garbled language), “I would in fact make sure that there is, that we immediately surge to the border—all those people are seeking asylum. They deserve to be heard.” Soon after Biden assumed the presidency, the surge he had seemed to call for overwhelmed U.S. immigration facilities. Detention centers mandated by the Immigration and Nationality Act to house asylum seekers while they appealed for permanent entry soon ran out of room. Federal officials started scheduling court hearings for immigrants’ cases far into the future, and then just releasing the migrants into the U.S.
Many relocated to border towns like El Paso, Texas, and Yuma, Arizona, where local facilities lacked the capacity to manage them. In one summer month in 2022, El Paso spent nearly $10 million processing new immigrants. In August 2022, border officials reported detaining 3,453 attempted entries in the El Paso sector; two years earlier, with the U.S. operating under a Trump presidential order that let officials expel illegal border crossers, the number during the same period was just five, though Covid had also slowed crossings. Illegals released by the feds also proved too much for Yuma, which racked up some $20 million in new hospital costs in 2022.
By late 2022, the immigration court backlog had swelled to 1.6 million people. Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema, then a Democrat, ripped Biden officials for not preparing for the wave, though they knew it was coming, especially with the expiration of Trump’s immigration order. “The reality is that the Biden administration had two years to prepare for this,” Sinema said. “They chose not to do so, and I believe have dramatically underestimated the burden that Arizona will bear as a result.”
The chaos has shaken border state budgets. Several have created their own security forces to disrupt illegal border activity. Texas launched Operation Lone Star in early 2021, for example, spending an eye-popping $4.5 billion in the first two years of the program. So far, Texas officials say, the operation has caught 376,000 illegal border crossers, arrested 28,000 individuals suspected of other crimes, and seized more than 400 million doses of fentanyl. The effort has also tried to slow what one Texas county sheriff calls a “silent invasion” across the border of military men, many armed, whom officials fear work for Mexican drug cartels. In 2022, Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe observed, his deputies made 3,045 arrests for smuggling, compared with just 67 the year before. And those latest numbers represent just a fraction of the total number of illegals; the county’s security cameras recorded some 21,500 people crossing the border last year without getting caught.
In April 2022, Texas governor Greg Abbott and his then-counterpart in Arizona, Doug Ducey, asked Republican governors nationwide to contribute to border security. With the consequences of surging illegal immigration felt throughout the country, some 26 pledged support. “[E]very state is a border state,” Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin said. Many governors emphasized the importance of border security in stemming the fentanyl flow into their states. “We’re seeing the 20 times increase in fentanyl deaths,” Youngkin lamented. “Five Virginians will die today, and five more will die tomorrow because [Biden] has failed to secure the border.” Virginia sent about 100 National Guard members to the southern border to boost security. Cost: $3 million monthly. Arkansas and South Dakota were among the other states providing National Guard border deployments; Iowa, Ohio, Nebraska, and Florida sent state law-enforcement officers. Earlier this year, Florida increased its border task force in Texas to more than 1,100 National Guard and state police personnel, accompanied by state aircraft, drones, and boats.
The stepped-up enforcement isn’t limited to Republican border states. Earlier this year, California, working with federal law enforcement, launched Operation Blue Lotus, seeking to impede the supply of illegal drugs coming across the border into the Golden State and poisoning the streets of San Francisco and other cities. In less than two months, state and federal agents seized about 6,500 pounds of fentanyl and related drugs and arrested approximately 200 smugglers and dealers. Encouraged by this early success, Governor Gavin Newsom doubled the state resources dedicated to the initiative.
State and local social spending on migrants is exploding. In a 2021 lawsuit filed by Texas against the Biden administration after it froze deportations of illegals, the state listed $850 million of extraordinary costs due to illegals—including more than $579 million annually at public hospitals for uncompensated medical care and more than $30 million in prenatal care. Texas also reported spending about $150 million a year on incarcerating criminal migrants, and up to $63 million to educate unaccompanied immigrant minors now domiciled in the state.
Florida faces similar pressures. Hospitals delivered $312 million in uncompensated health services to a total of 111,475 illegals in 2020, and another $340 million to treat a similar number in 2021. Births to illegal-immigrant mothers are one of the biggest burdens on Florida’s health-care system. In 2019, one study estimated, Florida hospitals delivered nearly 9,200 babies to uninsured illegals, with an average price tag of $5,359 per birth. The same study estimated that the state was also spending $1.6 billion yearly on public school education for the children of illegals.
States farther from the border aren’t immune. A lawsuit filed earlier this year by attorneys general in 18 states against the Biden administration’s border policies reported hundreds of millions of dollars in migrant-related expenditures. Indiana, for instance, calculated that it is spending $971 million annually in state and local tax dollars for 207,000 illegals. And the price keeps mounting. Data suggest that roughly 10,000 additional illegal immigrants have come to Indiana since Biden became president, including more than 3,000 kids, meaning soaring new costs for medical care, education, and other services.
Another party to that suit, Iowa, calculated that it now has about 83,000 illegals, and that state and local government expend about $400 million annually in social services on them. Iowa also noted that it has boosted spending by “tens of millions of dollars each year for increased law enforcement,” necessitated by the growth of illegal immigration. Iowa citizens, the lawsuit contended, “suffer increased crime, unemployment, environmental harm, and social disorder, due to illegal immigration.” Though far from the southern border, Iowa “has been identified as a hot spot for trafficking activity due to the junction of Interstate 35 and Interstate 80. Traffickers bring illegal immigrants to and through the State,” the lawsuit said.
Mississippi estimated that it has some 45,000 illegal immigrants, 75 percent of them with no health-care coverage, placing a huge weight on hospitals, which the state must compensate. Its total expenditures for illegals average more than $4,100 per individual, the state reported—about $187 million a year. Kentucky, with approximately 94,000 illegals, puts its annual cost at about $430 million, while Oklahoma, with about 183,000 illegals, claims to be spending more than $780 million yearly.
All the attorneys general participating in the lawsuit against Biden represented Republican-leaning states. Until recently, those states had complained the loudest about migrant crisis. That began to change, however, once border states began shipping recent arrivals northward to states and cities that had declared themselves sanctuaries. The first landing place for many was Washington, D.C., where Mayor Muriel Bowser had affirmed, just days after Donald Trump was elected in November 2016, that the city was a sanctuary for illegal immigrants. “We celebrate our diversity and respect all DC residents no matter their immigration status,” she declared. From April 2022 until September of that year, some 9,500 illegals arrived in Washington from Texas and Arizona. Bowser then sought federal aid to manage the mess, including asking that the National Guard be called out—which the administration refused. Bowser subsequently declared a state of emergency.”
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The @#$% show that is the Speaker race continues.
So another blank check for Biden and the Uni-Party traitors.
“After meeting with House leadership this morning,
@Jim_Jordan
agreed to back Patrick McHenry for interim speaker until January.
At this point, it does NOT seem like Jordan is bowing out, but may instead be using the time between now and January to whip the votes to become Speaker.
DO NOT LET THE RINOs WIN!”
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The useless faction of RINOs continue to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Another Jew gets red pilled.
And the reaction from the anti-Semitic left is exactly what you would expect.
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Some pigs are more equal, and they squeal more too….
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Of course.
The one who orchestrated most of it will now squeal like a pig too, to save their own bacon.
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Another pro-Hamas media outlet gets fact checked for their Hamas propaganda.
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But no mean tweets, right?
Thanks 81 million morons, and the Rs who helped them hoist this idiot onto America.
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Useless frauds.
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Head.
Desk.
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I’d say the GOP is clearly and officially in a state of dysfunction at this point. I’m not seeing a path to recover. 2024 approaches …
WSJ ~ WASHINGTON—Republican speaker nominee Rep. Jim Jordan is throwing his support behind a plan to put caretaker speaker Rep. Patrick McHenry in charge of the House until January, according to a person familiar with the matter, a move that could reopen the chamber after a two-week impasse.
Rank-and-file GOP lawmakers had started to lose patience with Jordan’s efforts to continue his campaign for speaker after losses on two consecutive ballots. There will be no third vote Thursday, but Jordan plans to stay in the race. The approach would give the Ohio congressman several months to build support for his bid while allowing the House to move forward with votes expected on Israel and Ukraine aid and keeping the government funded.
The proposed leadership setup would be unprecedented, and questions remained about how it would work. Jordan’s support marked a potential breakthrough, but it was far from a done deal. Putting the plan in place would require a House vote, though it was uncertain when such a vote would be held. While some Republicans backed the plan, others signaled they weren’t on board. … ~
-dj
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Politico opinion:
Why the GOP Can’t Unite
It’s two parties under the same roof, and the only solution is a coalition — between themselves or with Democrats.
~ There’s a reason why House Republicans can’t settle on a speaker.
It’s the same reason there are effectively parallel GOP presidential primaries. One is between a series of candidates embarked on all the usual rituals vying for support from about half the party’s voters, while the other half has long ago made up its mind about who its preferred nominee is. His name may ring a bell.
There is no longer a cohesive Republican Party. There’s a pre-Trump GOP and a post-Trump GOP, living together uneasily. They may be roommates but they’re not married.
Which is why it was unintentionally unironic for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), after watching 20 Republicans oppose his candidacy for speaker, to lament what could come next in the House. “No one in our conference wants to see any type of coalition government with Democrats,” Jordan told reporters after the first vote Tuesday.
Yet that’s precisely what his own conference has become — a would-be coalition government, if under the same banner. The fitful and still fruitless negotiations that have taken place since Kevin McCarthy’s ouster two weeks ago are closer to a European-style coalition-led parliament struggling to be born than a factional dispute within an American party. … ~
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/18/gop-party-house-speaker-00122371
-dj
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~ “House GOP meeting got heated — one member swore at Gaetz, others railed against Jordan” … meeting went on for three hours. ~
And now as of a few minutes ago:
~ House Republicans are abandoning McHenry resolution and pushing for another speaker vote ~
-dj
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Here’s a hint: Who do the American people want?
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Funny Tychicus, the WSJ and other Establishment press continue to ignore that question.
Because they know the answer, and they don’t like it.
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Here we go again….
The newest criminal BLM martyr.
Pretty sure assaulting and choking a police officer makes this a justified shooting, not that it will matter to the pro-criminal Dem/BLM types.
LANGUAGE AND CONTENT WARNING!!!!!!
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1714765703327150441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1714765703327150441%7Ctwgr%5Ec964dfa96f1be82072c5fa36dea49e67d45ceb65%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Faaronwalker%2F2023%2F10%2F19%2Fwatch-dashcam-footage-of-the-moment-leonard-cure-is-shot-by-police-n2388735
Thinking people don’t….
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Clowns…..
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Thanks NTers…..
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The media sucks.
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The Dem base…..
And yes, that’s a dude pretending he’s not.
Their response was probably “which one this time?”
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Yay NTers!
You built this!
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We sure do……
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Correct!
Also, correct!
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There was a political cartoon I saw — I think it may have run in one of the news magazines at the time — following the disastrous GOP defeat in 1964.
The party’s symbol, an elephant, was lying in bed, head under a huge ice pack and stars spinning around, bruised and covered in bandages, with an empty bottle lying on the floor labeled “Goldwater.”
Both parties have gone off the rails from time to time giving in to their more extremist wings. They usually stabilize the ship in a few years, but it sometimes takes a while.
I do wonder if the party may just have to agree to a divorce this time, but it would decimate the conservative side, at least for a while. GOP is split almost completely down the middle right now, as is the U.S. electorate (Ty), so it’s not looking too feasible that consensus can be found any time soon, certainly not before 2024.
Who do the voters want? That’s the million $ question with no answer right now. Many are pretty much only fed up with it all.
-dl
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Reminder — the background.
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WSJ
OPINION
The Gaetz of Republican Hell
The House GOP still doesn’t have a Speaker after Jim Jordan loses a third vote.
By
The Editorial Board
~ The eight House Republicans who ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy two weeks ago are getting exactly what they bargained for, whether they knew it then or not. The instigator, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, thinks a better Speaker would be Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan. But on Friday Mr. Jordan lost another floor vote, making it three this week, first with 20 defections, then 22, and finally 25.
Some of the Jordan dissenters are still angry about the shabby treatment of Mr. McCarthy and the conference’s No. 2 choice, Rep. Steve Scalise. Others seem to believe Mr. Jordan is too much of a firebrand to serve as the party’s frontman. The no votes Friday included half of the Republicans in districts carried by President Biden in 2020. Mr. Jordan lost ground despite some notable attempts at sausage-making.
He reportedly tried to lure blue-state Republicans with a plan to double the federal deduction for state and local taxes, or SALT. Capping it at $10,000 was a huge victory in President Trump’s 2017 tax reform, so Mr. Jordan’s pledge contradicted the claim that as Speaker he’d be a conservative’s conservative. Also, seven of the McCarthy mutineers said in a letter that in exchange for electing Mr. Jordan, they’d accept “censure, suspension, or removal from the Conference.” Maybe they could have landed Mr. Jordan the job if they had offered seppuku.
By late Friday afternoon, chaos reigned. About a dozen Republicans had begun making calls to line up their own supporters, or were considering it, in advance of another Speaker candidate forum expected this Monday. Have a real fun weekend, guys. The GOP is right to refuse the idea, dangled by Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, of a “bipartisan governing coalition.” But Republicans need to come up with a consensus candidate, and fast.
Perhaps it’s acting Speaker Patrick McHenry, or perhaps someone else. This isn’t a life sentence, after all. But friends in Israel and Ukraine need America’s support, government funding runs out again in a month, and Virginia goes to the polls a week before that. ~
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-dj
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