The “Master Legislator” And The Agony Of Defeat

After nearly a month of fiddle-farting around, Nancy “The Master Legislator” Pelosi finally accepted defeat.  The battle with Senate Majority Leader McConnell ended with a whimper not a bang.  Forced to accept the Senate would not proceed on terms favorable to the diaper-soiling meltdowns of her party, she quietly surrendered.

During an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash back in December of 2018 Pelosi boasted, “I put on a suit of armor, eat nails for breakfast.  I know how to take a punch.”

So where was this “leverage” everyone on the left claimed she would wield?  Surrendering the fate of judicial proceedings to the Republican-majority Senate was always how this was going to end.

She was outmaneuvered by a stubborn McConnell and a Senate disinclined to entertain sham Articles of Impeachment drawn up by a vicious, spiteful, lying pencil-neck on the House Intelligence Committee and a bespectacled fat man whose pants encircle his portly midriff just beneath his manboobs on the House Judiciary Committee.

She imprudently followed the advice of John Dean, a convicted felon, and a vitriolic Trump-hating Harvard law professor named Laurence Tribe who championed the farcical notion of holding the Articles “as a tactical matter” to strengthen Chuck Schumer’s hand in bargaining over trial rules with McConnell.

Permit me to quote Spanish philosopher Baltasar Gracián:

“Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.”

Pelosi Is Not Suited To Play Three-Dimensional Chess With Mitch McConnell

During the protracted impeachment clown show on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday, we heard Democrats proclaim our democracy is in a “clear and present danger” from a president who has turned around a sagging economy adding 266,000 jobs last month. The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5% matching a 50-year low.  Consumer confidence is up and so is bond market confidence.  Our military is now stronger than at any time in our history.  I could go on, but these are things you already know.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the second-ranking lawmaker in the House, said Wednesday that Democrats must discuss a last-ditch gambit to delay sending Articles of Impeachment to the Republican-controlled Senate to prevent it from summarily discarding the case against President Trump.

Politico reported that senior Democrat aides said the House was “very unlikely” to take the steps necessary to send the Articles to the Senate until at least early January.

“So far we haven’t seen anything that looks fair to us,” Pelosi told reporters at a news conference just moments after the House charged Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. “That would’ve been our intention, but we’ll see what happens over there,” she said.

If Pelosi holds onto the Articles of Impeachment, some Democrats hope it will put pressure on Mitch McConnell to negotiate the trial rules with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.  Its abundantly clear to this observer that House Democrats got hit over the head with a clue bat when they realized their tenacious hold on the process and the narrative of impeachment would end the moment the Articles go over to the Senate.

Any delay in transmitting the Articles will make this sham impeachment process look more political, not less.  Talk about being in a pickle.

Three-dimensional chess requires a higher understanding and mastery of politics, diplomacy and warfare that goes far beyond the comprehension of ordinary observers.

If Pelosi and her minions want to play hardball, Mitch McConnell could open the trial and then litigate subpoenas for Hunter Biden, Adam Schiff, Schiff’s staff, the whistleblower and the dirty cops at the FBI if he were inclined to be mischievous.  There goes their narrative and Trump challengers Pocahontas and Commie Sanders would be precluded from campaigning.   That would be a pity. [snicker]

Following a Trump rally in West Virginia in August of 2017, Charles Krauthammer made an appearance on Fox’s Tucker Carlson Tonight show.  Its relevant to what has been happening to this president for three years.  Krauthammer died ten months later.  He couldn’t know his warning would be prophetic.

UPDATE:  Welcome readers of Pirate’s Cove.  We thank the Admiral for the linky-love.

Where Oh Where Has My Context Been Taken?

Chuck "The Schmuck" Schumer never fails to entertain the electorate with his gleefully obtuse mischaracterizations of conservative opinions.  In his latest thigh slapper Schumer  destroys the entire contextual universe in order to accuse President Trump of insulting the great-great grandparents of millions of Americans. President Trump was actually talking about the savages who belong to the Salvadoran criminal organization known as MS-13.

Schumer naturally took the President's words and ran them through the prevaricator vortex.

NBC News icon Andrea Mitchell led the media-Democrat hit job on President Donald Trump over remarks he made about deporting illegal immigrant gang members, calling them “animals” when he was asked about MS-13 at an illegal immigration roundtable at the White House Wednesday. Mitchell and others falsely said Trump called all immigrants ‘animals’, with several equating Trump to Hitler. Well, despite EVEN the left-leaning AP deleting their “animals” tweet, Schumer is doubling down. Of course. 

This time, hilariously comparing all of our “great-great-grandparents” to MS-13 gang members. Twitter is not having it.

Schumer quote: "When all of our great-great-grandparents came to America they weren’t “animals,” and these people aren’t either.

I have several layers of immigrant great-great-grandparents; all of whom came to the US shortly after the Civil War.  My maternal great-grandmother's father was a minor French noble. My maternal great-grandfather's father was a crippled Irish shepard boy. My paternal great-great grandparents were both from Hungary.

I did a lot of research on Ancestory.com and although two people on my father's side did time in NYS prisons, *blush* absolutely no one raped, beheaded or dismembered a single soul. No one sold heroin or cocaine. Booze - well yeah - Prohibition and all that - but no drugs!

President Trump was not referring to my great-great-grandparents and only an uniformed idiot would think so.

More here.

Hey Chuck: No Pallets Of Cash, No Swap For Five Taliban Generals

Daily Mail.com, for the moment, is live blogging the release of three Americans freed by North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.  Lara Keay is reporting Sen. Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor this morning, “The release of the three detained American citizens was no great accomplishment” and that President Trump was weakening foreign policy by exalting the release.

"I worry that this president, in his eagerness to strike a deal, and get the acclaim and a photo op, will strike a quick one and a bad one, not a strong one, not a lasting one" with North Korea. 

The images of Otto Warmbier returning to the United States on a stretcher and dying a few days later as a result of being tortured by the North Koreans hung heavy over yesterday's North Korean prisoner release. No one is talking about Bowe Bergdahl. It cost the U.S. five high-value terrorists to get him back. It seems, so far, to have cost us nothing to rescue three Korean-American citizens.

Perhaps “Chuckles” Schumer should check in with his minions at CNN, who rather astonishingly reported, “Just maybe, the extraordinary scene that unfolded in the dead of night on an airfield outside Washington early Thursday is the start of something truly historic.”

Sen. Jon Tester’s Vicious Character Assassination By Innuendo

The man in charge of the personal health of three presidents from both parties, a decorated combat vet (deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and forward deployed with the Surgical Shock Trauma Platoon in Taqaddum, Iraq) who received the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, four Navy/Marine Corps Commendation medals, three Navy/Marine Corps Achievement medals and numerous unit and campaign awards, never got the chance to answer his accusers or even learn their names this week.

Playing a central role in ending Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson’s chances of leading the Department of Veterans Affairs was Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) who relied on hearsay and innuendo from 23 people alleging a lengthy history of professional misconduct to include a “pattern” of distributing medication without a patient history and crashing a government vehicle while intoxicated following a Secret Service going-away party.

In addition, the Secret Service offered two paragraphs on "outstanding professional" Dr. Ronny Jackson and explained how he is crucial to their mission. pic.twitter.com/Knlfk4aVwA

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) April 27, 2018

Some Republicans who sit on the Veterans' Affairs Committee said they got no warning Tester would air the allegations so publicly.

Tester should have treated serious allegations with discretion, but he’s out to feed The Resistance as he runs for re-election.

RADM Jackson, who routinely received glowing performance reviews from Presidents Bush and Obama, continued to proclaim the portrait painted of him in recent days was false.

Tester had, heretofore, managed to keep a low profile in Congress but the Chuck Schumer puppet and former Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (2015-2017) has caught the attention of Americans for the way in which he toppled the Veterans Affairs nominee.  Dr. Jackson didn’t deserve days of leaks and smears.

Former White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush, Ari Fleischer, tweeted:

If Senator John Tester was a Republican who made allegations against Jackson when he was Pres Obama’s physician, there would have been Hell to pay. The press would be all over Tester for launching false charges. There ought to be a feeding frenzy now. https://t.co/0RbUpqwgRz

— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) April 27, 2018

Chuck Schumer’s Democrats have invoked cloture on 89 of President Trump’s nominees, a move which triggers 30 hours of debate even on non-controversial candidates, their goal of giving the country and this President only half a government.

The President is justifiably outraged by the obstructionist shenanigans of the left.  I hope the good people of Montana vote Sen. Jon Tester out of office come November.

Trump accused Sen. Jon Tester of making "false accusations" about ex-VA secretary nominee Ronny Jackson. "He's an American hero and I think he's been treated very unfairly." pic.twitter.com/6ptIiNAVNN

— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) April 27, 2018

UPDATE 1:10 PM 04/28/18:  Report from The Associated Press ─ Sen. Tester responded to President Trump’s calls for him to resign by saying he has a duty to make sure veterans in his state get what they’ve earned.  “I’ll never stop fighting for them.” 

Schumer Demands President Trump Discriminate In Favor Of African Americans

Would you trust your healthcare to a physician who graduated from med school with a D minus?  Logically, you’d place your trust in someone more qualified with your life.

When Sen. Chuck Schumer rejected the President’s nominee for a long-vacant South Carolina federal judgeship because of his race, he drew the indignation of Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) who is a former federal prosecutor.

I hate to interrupt Senator Schumer with facts. But one nominee was withdrawn because of a significant bond issue, while the other became the Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court.https://t.co/Hoj9e1xWhs

— Trey Gowdy (@TGowdySC) March 1, 2018

In addition, Senator Schumer did not oppose a recent white nominee in South Carolina also nominated by President Trump.

— Trey Gowdy (@TGowdySC) March 1, 2018

Marvin Quattlebaum is uniquely well qualified for the bench and universally respected by all in South Carolina. Hopefully Senator Schumer can find a way to look at really unusual factors (like qualifications) in the future.

— Trey Gowdy (@TGowdySC) March 1, 2018

Schumer said he would not be a part of the Trump administration's pattern of nominating white men.

"The nomination of Marvin Quattlebaum speaks to the overall lack of diversity in President Trump’s selections for the federal judiciary. It's long past time the judiciary starts looking a lot more like the America it represents. Having a diversity of views and experience on the federal bench is necessary for the equal administration of justice."

The Democrat Party has a long, long history of identity and race-based politics.  He expressed no qualms about Marvin Quattlebaum’s record or his judicial views. Schumer was gung-ho over nominating Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in 2016 who is a white guy.

Sen. Tim Scott, the Senate's only black Republican, pushed back on Schumer's rationale and urged other Senate Democrats to instead address diversity issues by starting with their own staff.

"Perhaps Senate Democrats should be more worried about the lack of diversity on their own staffs than attacking an extremely well-qualified judicial nominee from the Great State of South Carolina," Scott tweeted Thursday morning.

Despite Schumer’s crybaby tactic, Quattlebaum was confirmed by the Senate 69-29.  Sen. Angus King (I-ME) voted to confirm him along with 18 other Democrats who broke with Schumer. 

Schumer’s not-so-veiled call for affirmative action on the federal bench raised quite a few eyebrows and while being interviewed by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer today, Schumer did an Olympic-style gold medal flip-flop.

Blitzer asked if Schumer's vote was "payback," since the senator justified his comments about Quattlebaum's race by arguing Republicans were unfair toward prior nominees.

Schumer blamed "right-wing radio" for "distorting his words."

"What I said is this: that Barack Obama had nominated, I think as early as 2013, two people for this seat, and our Republican senators from South Carolina blocked them with the withholding of the blue slip, which has been a tradition. So, this seat has been vacant for a long time, the two people nominated were African-Americans and I said, ‘Now this fellow is white, and we need the bench to have real diversity. The president's record in nominating people of color, even nominating women to the bench—I think the bench should look like America, and I think most Americans agree with that. And the fact they held up two people for so long and now wanted to get their fellow to come in made no sense, and compounding the injury was the lack of diversity on the bench."

NOTE:  The “blue slip” Chuckles cited is a form used in the Senate to voice a senator’s support for or disapproval of a judicial nominee.  Last year Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) abandoned the blue slip precedent.

Schumer Shutdown: The State Of Play

After a continuing resolution to keep the government open was passed in December of 2017, Democrats signaled they would not support future spending bills, even clean ones, until the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) were addressed. FISA is a done deal. CHIP was funded for six years with the House spending bill that passed on January 18th and DACA permits won’t expire until March 5th. 

President Trump issued a six-month enforcement delay on DACA when he decided to wind down the program gradually last September, citing the Obama-era program as constitutionally questionable. The delay was meant for Congress to get the DACA legislation right. 

The mantra from the Left when the government shutdown became effective was Republicans control the White House, the House and the Senate.  The Senate make-up is comprised of 51 Republicans, 47 Democrats and 2 Independents who caucus with the Democrats.  The Democrats do not control the Senate, but they can obstruct any and all bills due to the 60-vote threshold required to pass legislation.  Majority Leader McConnell asked to take up the Continuing Resolution that would have prevented the shutdown, but Sen. Schumer objected.

During the 2013 debt ceiling negotiations, Sen. Schumer noted tying immigration to budgetary matters was an exercise in chaos. “You know, we could do the same thing on immigration. We believe strongly in immigration reform. We could say, ‘We’re shutting down the government, we’re not gonna raise the debt ceiling, until you pass immigration reform.’ It would be governmental chaos.”

As Congressional leaders and White House officials ran around Capitol Hill like chickens with their heads cut off during a rare Saturday session, Chuck Schumer spoke with a poster strategically placed in the background as he spoke from the floor.  The poster read:  Trump Shutdown.

Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL) spoke from the well of the House with a poster behind him as well which had a photo of Schumer and his 2013 quote:  “A government shutdown is the politics of idiocy, of confrontation, of paralysis.”  This rankled the Democrats who objected to the poster’s presence on the floor.  There was a vote and The Great Poster War of 2018 was settled allowing Byrne to continue his speech.

On Saturday evening, McConnell said he would force another vote on a short-term funding bill at 1 a.m. Monday, unless there's an agreement before then. That will ramp up the pressure on both sides to come up with a deal over the next 24 hours.

Meanwhile, the Twitterverse rightly mocked the Schumer Shutdown.  The graphic above uses an image from the 2009 film The Road.  Within the graphic I took a tweet from Jonah Goldberg I found most amusing.  His tweet was a perfect smackdown of a tweet from CNN’s Jim Acosta lamenting a “completely empty” snack machine in the White House.

5:55 in DC. Dusk falls. GAO and CBO have devastated the Botanical Garden with their pitiless battle for control over the Rayburn Office Building. Corpses lie amidst shattered glass, illuminated by the burning piles of draft legislation. Look away, someone says, but you cannot.

— (((Megan McArdle))) (@asymmetricinfo) January 20, 2018

We MUST Stop This Christmas From Coming! But HOW?

Our Cartoon Democrats

Showtime will premiere “Our Cartoon President” after President Trump’s first State of the Union address.  The new 10-episode animated parody is the brainchild of late-night host Stephen Colbert and his Late Show producer.

CBS Television Studios, the producer of the series, claims the show will “examine the quintessentially Trumpian details of the presidency and his most important relationships, and no one is safe─from his close family and confidants to key political figures from both parties and members of the media.”

The smarmy Colbert is counting on ruffling the feathers of folks on the right.  That’s fine.  We’ve had our own animated TV series for years about Trump and the cartoon Democrats─it’s called The Roadrunner.  BEEP! BEEP!

Listening To Crying Chuck Schumer Is So Hilarious

Watching the Democrats’ death rattle of indignation against the GOP tax reform bill for the last week or so has been amusing to say the least.  At every turn they have knowingly lied that the reform effort would hurt the middle class.

The day before the House voted Crying Chuck Schumer tweeted:

Tomorrow, Republicans will have a chance to vote down the #GOPTaxBill, which is one of the least popular pieces of legislation in the last 30 years. If they do, they’ll find a Democratic party that’s willing to work with them on real, bipartisan tax reform.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) December 18, 2017

One of the least popular pieces of legislation was Obamacare that was jammed down the American people’s throat.  It’s hard to put any faith in what he says.  Schumer’s party shunned bipartisanship while they crafted that disaster.  Not a single Republican in the House or Senate cast a vote for it.  It was an unparalleled disaster and precisely what put Donald Trump in the Oval Office and gave Republicans control of both houses of government.

Scarcely a December has gone by since 1843 in which a stage adaptation hasn't been performed of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.  It’s always been a Christmas tradition in my home.  I chose a screencap from Disney’s adaption to depict what Schumer must be feeling after the successful passage of the bill.  In it Jacob Marley, Scrooge’s deceased business partner, now a chained and tormented ghost, is damned to wander the Earth forever as punishment for his greedy, selfish and uncaring attitude towards mankind.

The GOP tax plan is the Democrats’ worst nightmare.  After a year of resistance against a duly elected president, stone-walling Cabinet confirmations, slow-walking the departure of Obama appointees and perpetuating unfounded rumors about Russian collusion the Democrats are facing an emboldened President and Republican Party.

After a year of stunning stock market gains and a reviving economy Republicans will have an overabundance of good news to run on in the 2018 midterms and that, my friends, is Armageddon for the corrupt and flailing Democrats.

“Under this bill the working class, middle class and upper middle class get skewered while the rich and wealthy corporations make out like bandits. It is just the opposite of what America needs, and Republicans will rue the day they pass this," Schumer said in a statement. 

Who’s ruing the day now? Crying Chuck and his band of miserable miscreants are now condemned to wander the halls of Congress and witness what they cannot share.

The Republican tax bill caps the deduction for state and local taxes at $10,000. In 2015, more than 6 MILLION California households claimed the SALT deduction with an average deduction of $18,400. BOTTOM LINE: California families pay MORE so corporations pay LESS. #GOPTaxScam

— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) December 16, 2017

Then maybe California should lower its taxes. https://t.co/gZcTnsnzhS

— jon gabriel (@exjon) December 20, 2017

UPDATE:  If you’d like to see what your potential tax relief will be use this Tax Plan Calculator. 

Empty Chair Part Deux: Trolling “Chancy”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi were missing for a legislative strategy session at the White House with President Trump Tuesday afternoon.

President Trump called out the Democrat leaders for boycotting the meeting by leaving two seats conspicuously empty accusing them of being "all talk" and "no action." The President said he would blame Schumer and Pelosi if the government shuts down.  

"Meeting with 'Chuck and Nancy' today about keeping government open and working. Problem is they want illegal immigrants flooding into our country unchecked, are weak on crime and want to substantially raise taxes. I don’t see a deal!" Trump tweeted. 

The current funding bill expires on Dec. 8, leaving Congress less than two weeks to work out a deal or approve a stopgap bill to buy more time for talks. 

Democrats are demanding the inclusion of a measure that would allow certain young undocumented immigrants to continue to live and work in the U.S.  They want to provide a fix for people who benefitted from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an Obama-era initiative that Trump cancelled earlier this year. 

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement, "It's disappointing that Senator Schumer and Leader Pelosi are refusing to come to the table and discuss urgent issues. The President's invitation to the Democrat leaders still stands and he encourages them to put aside their pettiness, stop the political grandstanding, show up and get to work. These issues are too important."

Trolling the two butthurt Dems with the empty seats in the Roosevelt Room reminded me of another notable empty chair scenario.  Picture it.  The year was 2012.  The Oscar-winning actor/director/legend Clint Eastwood entered the Tampa Bay Times Forum, the site of the RNC Convention, in dramatic fashion with the backdrop screen showing a large silhouette of him from the film “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”.  The speakers in the arena were blaring the score from the film. The crowd ate it up.

The long-time Republican, endorsed Romney at an Idaho fundraiser at the beginning of August, where he told reporters that he was backing the GOP presidential candidate "because I think the country needs a boost somewhere."

Eastwood addressed an invisible President Obama sitting in an empty chair.  He told the chair it was a “national disgrace” and maybe it was “time for someone else to come along and solve the problem.”

Laughter rang out in the arena as Eastwood pretended the invisible Obama was uttering colorful objections.

"What do you want me to tell Romney?" Eastwood asked the empty chair. "I can't tell him to do that to himself…you're getting as bad as Biden…of course, we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it."

How Many More Corpses Need To Pile Up On Our Streets Before The Gutless Political Class Decide To Stop Importing More Of It?

Within hours after the Manhattan truck attack, Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio and a host of other New York chief muckety-mucks gathered at NYPD Headquarters for an obligatory press conference to give New Yorkers and the rest of America an impotent nod signaling this is the way we must now live; nothing can be done about it.

Mayor de Blasio declared, “The last thing the President or anyone else should do is politicize this tragedy. We have to find out what happened here.  That work’s going to be done by the FBI, by the NYPD and all of our partners to determine exactly who this man is, what moved him to this horrible act, what’s going on? Is there any bigger ramification? That’s what we should be focused on.”

The mayor warned against “casting aspersions on whole races of people or whole religions or whole nations,” saying it only makes the situation worse. 

Governor Cuomo asserted, “We go forward together. And we go forward stronger than ever. We're not going to let them win.  We'll go about our business. Be New Yorkers. Live your life. Don't let them change us.”

There are about 3.35 million Muslims in the United States right now, according to recent Pew Research Center’s Factank figures.  Let that sink in for a moment.

On any given day, whether it’s New York, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Nice, Brussels, Paris, Manchester, Orlando or San Bernardino your loved ones or mine will leave home and never return because some ISIS-loving psycho killer is hiding in plain sight because of a blind lottery system called the Diversity Visa Program.  By all means, let’s spin the “Mass Murderer for Allah” wheel.

Who can forget a tearful Chuck Schumer holding back tears on January 29, 2017 while denouncing President Trump’s Executive Order on immigration and refugees?

For the right price, whimpering Chuck Schumer will sell out America, his own religion & bash Trump. Diversity Visapic.twitter.com/bAjdvMjDyX

— CC (@ChristiChat) November 1, 2017

The price of maintaining the gutless political class’ delusion on unvetted and chain immigration is more blood on the pavement.

They love Bush again! https://t.co/upia61oRJW

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) November 1, 2017

Sen. Schumer: "The contrast between President Bush's actions after 9/11 and President Trump's actions this morning could not be starker." pic.twitter.com/EZ9X6GrjW8

— Axios (@axios) November 1, 2017

UPDATE 1:28PM:

Um, one of the NYC terrorist's friends was interviewed by the feds, is a terrorist and...is missing in the U.S. https://t.co/pTLvdPQkor pic.twitter.com/oJpanXpCxt

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) November 1, 2017

I Was Just Reviewing The Minutes Of Our Last Meeting

Early in the day on Wednesday the US House of Representatives voted on a nearly $8 billion aid package to victims of Hurricane Harvey.  Senate Republican leaders had been planning to tie that aid to a bill to raise the debt ceiling after the 2018 midterm elections.

Democrats were amenable to helping move the aid/debt ceiling bill but would only agree to do so for three months.  This prompted Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to go on the record despising the plan calling it “dumb” at a news conference.

“Let’s just think about this: We’ve got all this devastation in Texas. We’ve got another unprecedented hurricane about to hit Florida, and they want to play politics with the debt ceiling? I think that’s ridiculous and disgraceful that they want to play politics with the debt ceiling at this moment when we have fellow citizens in need, to respond to these hurricanes so we do not strand them,” Ryan said angrily.

Shortly thereafter, Ryan and other congressional leaders went to the White House for a strategy meeting with the president.

It was at that meeting that President Trump agreed to endorse a plan proposed by Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi to attach hurricane relief money to a shorter-term bump in the debt ceiling as well as keeping the government open.

Schumer, during the meeting, reminded the president that Ryan had supported short-term increases in the past intended to help create bipartisan deals in 2013.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said later that he would support the deal agreed to by the president but he made very clear following the Republican policy lunch that this was an agreement between President Trump and Democratic leaders. He wouldn't say if he was surprised by the deal, but said Trump's "rationale" was the "feeling that we need to come together."

.@SenateMajLdr says "the president and the Senate and House democratic leadership agreed to a 3-month CR and a #debtceiling into December." pic.twitter.com/6YEGt2HNvQ

— CSPAN (@cspan) September 6, 2017

Countless Americans have become increasingly disgruntled with Congress’s failure to get anything done and see McConnell and Ryan as the obstacles to enacting the president’s agenda.  If things don’t change voters will not only demand new leadership they will throw the bums out come election day.

Ben Domenech, writing at The Federalist surmised, “This is the first sign Trump is waking up to the inaccuracy of the conventional wisdom about needing McConnell and Ryan which has animated so much of the early failures of the Republican legislative agenda.  So, he’s being more honest:  he doesn’t like McConnell and Ryan, never did.  He likes Chuck Schumer, and knows him, and thinks he can work with him.”

Voters began electing men and women to serve in Congress who would repeal and replace Obamacare and legislate tax reform beginning in 2010.  They’ve had years of preparation and yet have been unable to advance their agenda.  Republicans have failed to deliver on their promises to President Trump and to the voters who sent them to Washington to fight for them.

They’ve been blowing smoke like a ’56 Rambler.  I don’t blame the president for taking sides against the feckless GOP elite. 

Mitch McConnell had refused to meet with Trump for weeks, now GOP cries because Trump retaliated on debt ceiling. Welcome to hard ball.

— Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸 (@Cernovich) September 6, 2017

By showing Republicans he can work with Democrats, Trump forces Republicans to unite or become irrelevant. He just changed the game.

— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) September 7, 2017

The Singular Crutch Holding Up A Disillusioned And Fractured Democrat Party

Resisting President Trump has turned Democrats and Liberals into truly crazed McCarthyites.

Russia, Russia, Russia.  That’s all the Left can dredge up to blame Granny’s stunning loss in November.  Russian trolls were responsible for Socialist Pavlov dogs voting for Bernie.  Jill Stein was accused of having ties to Uncle Vlad by The Daily Kos (I refuse to link to them.)  MSNBC’s bread-and-butter.has consisted almost entirely of conspiracies concerning Trump’s connections to Russia and Hillary surrogate Howard (the screamer) Dean declared in late October of 2016 that FBI Director James Comey was on the same side as Putin.

James Comey reported in January that the DNC never allowed the FBI access to their servers or to John Podesta’s Smartphone in order to investigate the hack of their emails. Instead, the DNC hired the private cyber security firm, CrowdStrike, to carry out the investigation and the FBI used the data provided by CrowdStrike to make their conclusions.  It is still unknown why the DNC denied repeated requests by the FBI to investigate the original devices, or why the FBI decided to make any assumptions based on CrowdStrike’s report without access to the original devices. However, some experts are calling this report into question, and are now claiming that the very premise on which the report was based is flawed.  In reviewing the case, cyber security expert Jeffrey Carr determined:

“Part of the evidence supporting Russian government involvement in the DNC and related hacks (including the German Bundestag and France’s TV5 Monde) stemmed from the assumption that X-Agent malware was exclusively developed and used by Fancy Bear. We now know that’s false and that the source code has been obtained by others outside of Russia.”

The Democrat Party and their media mouthpieces continue their frantic red-baiting in an effort to divert attention away from the failures of the last 8 years and their ineffectiveness as a party.

Diogenes’ Middle Finger offered these thoughts on their ring leader, the “snarling old bastard” Chuck Schumer:

“We have a hyper-partisan environment in which all sides too easily and too quickly abandon intellectual honesty. It is notable that Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins, two of the GOP's most strident critics of Donald Trump, are okay with [Comey’s] firing.” 

“It is not a constitutional crisis, nor is it a dark day for democracy. It is a president exercising his constitutional duties on the advice of his cabinet members. The timing is bothersome and may look bad, but the underlying rationale suggests the decision was made thoughtfully. However, the left will never believe President Trump nor believe anything other than the worst possible conspiracies about him. Russia-ism is the new Birtherism.”

Chuck Schumer’s Failure Is Now Complete

You lose. You get nothing.  Good day, sir!

Send in the Democrats (Don't Bother, They're Here!)

No wonder people think clowns are scary!

Chuck Schumer: “I DID NOT Have Relations With That Man, Vladimir Putin”

Chuck Schumer is arrogant, overbearing and self-assured.  Yesterday the senator from the Great State of New York pronounced to the entire world Attorney General Jeff Sessions should resign his post in the Trump Administration as head of the Department of Justice.

"There cannot be even the scintilla of doubt about the impartiality and fairness of the attorney general, the top law enforcement official of the land," Schumer said. "Because the Department of Justice should be above reproach, for the good of the country Attorney General Sessions should resign."

With those words, Schumer didn't just dig himself a hole, he stole a backhoe, dug a really deep hole, drove the backhoe into the hole, wired the backhoe with explosives and blew it up.

Relying on published reports from The Washington Post and The New York Times was an intellectually bankrupt approach given the fact the pages of The New York Times was the cheering section for one of the 20th Century’s most murderous dictators.  Few readers today will remember Walter Duranty; the man history has catalogued as the sycophantic apologist for Josef Stalin’s genocide in the Ukraine.  He covered Stalin’s show trials of his enemies in the 1930s as if the trials were legitimate and dismissed out-of-hand his many thousands of executions and purges.  Duranty was typical of those who look for wickedness in the wrong place and cannot see it at the end of their noses.

Schumer’s beef concerns two meetings then-Senator Jeff Sessions had with Sergey Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to the United States.

As I noted yesterday, more than 30 Democrat senators met with Russian diplomats and foreign officials from the Middle East.  Since then The Daily Caller discovered Visitor Logs showing Ambassador Kislyak visited the White House at least 22 times between 2009 and 2016 during the reign of Teleprompter Jesus.

Also emerging yesterday was a photograph of Kislyak attending President Trump’s address to the Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, February 28, 2017.

But, last year, Schumer dismissed Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s private meeting with the husband of Hillary Clinton, who was under investigation by the FBI.

Lynch had contended that she and Bill Clinton merely discussed grandchildren, golf and social matters.

"She's an honorable person, we know that," Schumer said. "She has said nothing was discussed related to the investigation. So you have two choices to say this didn't matter or she's lying. I think it didn't matter. I don't think she's lying."

What would the good senator say if Attorney General Sessions had met with Vladimir Putin?

Let’s ask him right now.

Wait. A. Minute.  That’s not Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions III.

That’s a photograph of Chuckles from September 26, 2003.  The article from The New York Post reads:

 In possibly the greatest show of political power ever to attend the grand opening of a gas station, Russian President Vladimir Putin showed up in Chelsea yesterday with Sen. Chuck Schumer to help inaugurate the first Russian-owned chain of petroleum stops in America. 

There was no ribbon-cutting at the opening of the Lukoil station at 10th Avenue and 24th Street, but the diminutive Russian leader shook hands with nervous-looking employees, drank a cup of coffee—spiked with skim milk—and sampled a Krispy Kreme doughnut in the station’s Kwik Farms convenience store. 

Schumer said the Russian-drilled petroleum from Lukoil—which bought out Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. in 2000—would be a boon the United States because it could help free America from dependence on oil from the OPEC nations, many of which are hostile Middle Eastern states.

#ChuckSchumer I suppose you were talking about why there is a hole and bagels. #TheFive pic.twitter.com/UPt708FzVd

— Eric M Tyson (@ericmtyson) March 2, 2017

Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, refused to discuss spying allegations against the Russian ambassador to the US with CNN’s Senior International Correspondent Matthew Chance, advising the broadcaster to stop spreading lies and fake news.

A CNN crew attended Zakharova’s weekly briefing in Moscow on Thursday, but asked no questions at the session itself about a fresh report by CNN, which said “current and former US intelligence officials have described Kislyak as a top spy and recruiter of spies.”

Shortly after the noon hour yesterday, the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes (R-CA) cautioned reporters to “be careful what you ask for” during a discussion of FBI phone records implying reporters themselves or “other Americans” could become the target of congressional investigations should phone records implicate them.

 “…for example, [if] you were on the phone with the Russian ambassador and somehow your phone call got recorded, would you want them turning over that phone call and that transcript to the committee?” Nunes asked.

“But isn't there a difference between a call between a private person?” a reporter who is clearly an intellectual midget countered.

“That's the point here. General Flynn was a private American citizen,” Nunes said. “Look, I'm sure some of you are in contact with the Russian embassy, so be careful what you ask for here because if we start getting transcripts of any of you or any other Americans talking to the press, then we can – do you want us to conduct an investigation on you or other Americans because you were talking to the Russian embassy? I just think we need to be careful.”

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