Chuck Schumer’s Failure Is Now Complete

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

Giving Us Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch Is Way Better Than Getting Beat Up By “Workout Bands” Isn’t It Harry?

Thanks to all of you who encouraged me to consider filibuster reform. It had to be done.

— Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) November 21, 2013

@andrewklavan a good time to pause, take the moment, and express gratitude that Hillary Clinton is NOT President, but off hiking in the woods....

— Iknewthat (@Iknewthatchief) April 7, 2017

A toast to Merrick Garland, without whom, this week would not have been so sweet.

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) April 8, 2017

UPDATE:  Welcome readers of iOTWReport.  We thank the kind folks at iOTWReport for linking to this post. 

They’re Getting Sloppy Over At Obama’s Ministry Of Propaganda

Watching television yesterday I distinctly remember hearing an anchor on one of the cable news channels clearly say The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer would take to the podium at 4:30 PM in the White House Press Room to make a televised statement on the slaughter of three Baton Rouge police officers.  His statement would follow the presser held at 4:00 PM by Col. Mike Edmonson of the Louisiana State Police, Governor John Bel Edwards and other top officials to release the latest information regarding the shootings.

When 4:30 came and no president stood at the podium, the aforementioned anchor noted that word from the White House was the “president will be delayed because he is putting the final touches on his statement.”  Turns out that was bullshit.

The unvarnished truth is The Insufferable Airhorn was actually speaking to the 2016 Netroots Nation at 4:30 PM.  I know what you’re thinking.  Surely on a matter of such import our president would not let politics take center stage during a tragedy.

Go to this link and you will see the insipid video including the following caption:

July 16, 2016 4:30 PM EDT - President Obama speaks to progressive Netroots Nation activists in a video where he shares wisdom "from the future" to the people of 2008. (Netroots Nation)

Because I share your hope that our fearful leader wouldn’t do such a thing I checked and found this Tweet from another news source:

JUST IN: Pres. Obama to deliver statement on #BatonRouge shooting at 4:30 p.m. ET.

— ABC News (@ABC) July 17, 2016

Ol’ Jug Ears entered the briefing room and began speaking to the nation at 5:18 PM.  To prove it here’s a Tweet from CNN’s Jake Tapper.  NOTE:  The Tweet now carries a time stamp of 8:18 PM, but if you follow this link it carries the original time stamp of 5:18 PM

Obama on Baton Rouge: We need to 'temper our words and open our hearts' @CNNPolitics https://t.co/bOBAAfdCnz

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 18, 2016

Why was the Netroots Nation conference so damned important?  Let me ‘splain.  The Guardian, noted liberal rag, published a report yesterday titled “Democrats Struggle For Unity As Protesters Swarm Netroots Convention.”

The surprise walk-out of protesters from a conference of US progressives in St Louis this weekend forced the cancellation of its panel on “translating millennial votes into power”. 

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Organizers of Netroots—which was set up in 2006 to celebrate internet bloggers “gathering virtually in the new public square”—put on a brave face despite being upstaged by events in real public squares. 

“Our next president just pledged to do everything we have been campaigning for,” said Executive Director Raven Brooks after Clinton addressed the conference via a recorded video and promised to take modest steps toward campaign finance reform. 

“The Progressive Left is in the ascendance in this country,” added Keith Ellison, one of the few Democratic congressmen to back Sanders but, like many leaders in Washington, now sliding reluctantly behind the Clinton campaign.

This year’s Netroots Nation featured a scarcity of A-list Democratic lawmakers. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Reps. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Mark Takano (D-CA) and Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) appeared on panels, but none received time on the main stage and, similarly, no candidates were showcased.

Despite the official optimism about post-Sanders unity, behind the scenes, the mood is described as “subdued” and the movement as on a knife’s edge.

The knife’s edge imperils everything liberals progressives have battled for in their efforts to “fundamentally transform” America.  It jeopardizes their longing to shift the balance of power in the Supreme Court for decades.

Hillary must never be elected president.  The fate of our nation is in the hands of the voters.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (L), Imam Talib Shareet (2nd L) and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) listen during an event at Masjid Muhammad, The Nation's Mosque, December 16, 2015 in Washington, DC. Sen. Sanders participated in an interfaith roundtable at the mosque. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

White House Silent On Second Anniversary Of ObamaCare Scam

March 23, 2012 marked the second anniversary of ObamaCare, but there were no celebrations at the White House marking President Obama’s signature accomplishment.

Instead, the White House is hawking a potty-mouth T-shirt for 30 bucks that refers to Joe Biden’s vulgar whisper in the president’s ear, and caught on tape, calling the Affordable Care Act a “big f—king deal.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a sarcastic poke in the eye saying, “I saw the president down at the White House.  I’m a little surprised, but there wasn’t a birthday cake to celebrate the second anniversary of ObamaCare."

That’s not a new necklace the president is wearing.  It’s a political albatross around his neck.  This regime awaits the high stakes hearings on the constitutionality of the law by the Supreme Court beginning March 26.

The next day, March 27th, will be devoted to arguments involving the administration's claim that not buying insurance somehow constitutes interstate commerce that may be regulated by Congress. 

The 28th will be devoted to the commandeering and severability issues.  The Democrats, you will recall, failed to include a severability clause in Obamacare. This, in theory, means that the Court must invalidate the entire law if it strikes down the mandate. If the justices follow the example of U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, PPACA is toast. Unfortunately, the precedents aren't as clear on this issue as one might wish. The justices have demonstrated a willingness to ignore the absence of severability language when it suits them.

Charles Krauthammer’s Op-Ed in The Washington Post sums up ObamaCare nicely:  “Rarely has one law so exemplified the worst of the Leviathan state—grotesque cost, questionable constitutionality and arbitrary bureaucratic coerciveness. Little wonder the president barely mentioned it in his latest State of the Union address. He wants to be reelected. He’d rather talk about other things.”

“But there’s no escaping it now. Oral arguments begin Monday at 10 a.m.”

Oh, and just for shits and giggles, the #ILikeObamaCare hashtag launched by President Whiny’s re-election campaign was hijacked by conservatives.  The Daily Caller dutifully notes, “The Twitter hashtag was the most popular in the world Friday afternoon, but not for reasons the Obama campaign wanted.” 

Yeah.  I bet.

Speak No Evil

Allahpundit begins his post over at Hot Air with this line: “Faced with the reality that his chances have collapsed, the Sweater Vest begins to unravel.”

I haven’t yet weighed in on who I’d vote for in this presidential primary cycle.  Well, that’s not entirely true.  Prior to the Iowa Caucuses, my support was going to Thad McCotter.

Thad McCotter wasn’t allowed to participate in the Fox News/Washington Examiner Iowa Republican Party debate. Criteria for inclusion in the debate did not allow several other candidates, or potential candidates, to participate in the debate, including Buddy Roemer and Fred Karger who did not meet the polling criterion of at least 1% in 5 national polls.

Shortly after the debate in Ames, Iowa Thad dropped out of the race saying in an interview with The Detroit News that, "If they keep you out of the debates, you are out of the conversation, and you can't run. It was sort of death by media."

It is my considered opinion that if McCotter had been in the Ames debate that the GOP political landscape would look very different today and for the better.  But that’s a discussion for another day.

On Thursday, March 22, 2012 Rick Santorum uttered something unbelievably reckless:

“You win by giving people a choice,” Santorum said during a campaign stop in Texas. “You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who’s just going to be a little different than the person in there.”

Santorum added: “If they’re going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk of what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate for the future.”

Many of my blogger friends have come out strongly for Rick Santorum.  I had chosen to wait and watch.  I’ve waited long enough.

Despite the protestations of Erick Erickson of Red State who opined, “Much hay is being made of Rick Santorum saying he’d prefer Obama to Romney. Except that is not what he said or what he meant. Certainly he could have had a clarifying clause in his statement, but given the context, I think he was saying no more and no less than what I have been saying.”

Erick, he said, “…we may as well stay with what we have…”  Even the most rudimentary student of the English language or PoliSci 101 knows the inference was to vote to give the errand boy sent by grocery clerks a second term.

Then there’s Stacy McCain who jumped on the Santorum bandwagon after Herman Cain bowed out of the race following his unfortunate bimbo eruption.  No more stalwart supporter can be found in the dextrosphere.

Stacy posted his thoughts saying, “Santorum was making the same argument Phyllis Schlafly made in her 1964 classic, A Choice Not an Echo. He is saying something he has said many times—and something Newt Gingrich has also said—that Romney fails to offer a clear contrast to Obama. In this context, when Santorum said ‘we might as well stay with what we have,’ he clearly meant to express what the reaction of regular voters would be, if presented with someone who is just ‘a little different’ than the incumbent.  Santorum did not express himself clearly, but awkwardness of expression is not the same as endorsing Barack Obama’s re-election.”

Erickson and McCain both agree that Santorum was, shall we say, inarticulate.  I believe it goes much deeper.

Whoever the next president is, will appoint up to three Supreme Court Justices during his term. Those appointments are for life.  “Staying with what we have” means that Obama will appoint liberal justices who will be activists who could, potentially, increase the threats to the rule of law and further infringe upon our liberty.

During a September 2001 Chicago public radio program that aired on Chicago’s WBEZ-FM on September 6, 2001, titled “Slavery and the Constitution”, then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama said, “I think we can say that the Constitution reflected an enormous blind spot in this culture that carries on until this day, and that the Framers had that same blind spot. I don’t think the two views are contradictory, to say that it was a remarkable political document that paved the way for where we are now, and to say that it also reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day.”

Another point to be made is that the Democrats took solid control of the Senate and the House in 2006.  Their progressive agenda, along with squishy Republicans is what put this country on its knees.

A clear message was sent to the Houses of Congress in the 2010 election via the Tea Party Movement.  It takes time to sever the tentacles of the monster that has held our government hostage for the past six years.

If Romney does become the nominee at the GOP convention in Tampa, we must coalesce behind him.

I find that Rick Santorum is easily led astray by the Left’s taunting of him.  He lacks focus.  He spends too much time with long knives out for his rivals and not enough time attacking the real problem—the current occupant of the Oval Office—a man who is committed to the radical transformation of the country we love.

Four more years will only make the community organizer bolder and brasher and more narcissistic.

Santorum made an egregious mistake uttering those words and I join Jeff Dunetz of Yid With Lid, who today, has withdrawn his support.

Dunetz writes, “Yesterday, Rick Santorum showed himself too immature to be President of the United States.”

He continues, “I am sure Santorum will try and walk back the statement but is too late, the damage has been done.  Rick Santorum committed the ultimate sin for a 2012 GOP candidate—saying Barack Obama would be preferred over his opponents. This was hyperbole, which is both false and irresponsible.”

“Barack Obama represents the biggest threat to individual freedom in my lifetime (Joe Biden might even say in the past 500 years). Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney would be far superior to Barack Obama. With his suggestion to the contrary, Santorum proves himself to be less than ready to handle the job.”

Santorum’s recklessness in the heat of battle is also a clear indicator that he is not ready for prime time.

UPDATE:  On Friday’s edition of Your World, Neil Cavuto said, “A lot of folks think you committed political suicide.” Santorum replied, “Neil, this is just laughable…the highest priority in this country is to defeat Barack Obama. And, what I was saying there was, if we don’t have a choice, then the American public may decide to keep Barack Obama, that’s all I said.”

In the video embedded below, Santorum sounds pathetic and panicky as he attempts to walk back his disastrous comment.

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