Secretary Pete Buttigieg wants fast trains. He'll have to succeed where Obama couldn't
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CNN ^
| FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wants the United States to lead the world on high-speed rail, a goal that's easier said than done. American
transportation investments been car-dominated since hundreds of billions were spent to build the Interstate Highway System in the 20th century. But Buttigieg, echoing his boss, President Joe Biden (who is sometimes called "Amtrak Joe," thanks to his habit of riding the train between his home state of Delaware and Washington) has spoken recently of upgrading American rail. "We gotta take things to the next level," Buttigieg said on MSNBC last week. "I think we have a real...
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Can Biden Succeed Where Obama Failed? (haha alert)
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Newsweak ^
| 1/29/2021 | Newsweak International
Only the cover of the upcoming issue of Newsweek International. I wouldn't waste my time finding any articles or going to the website of this worthless birdcage liner.
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Bin Laden plotted killing Obama so the 'totally unprepared' Biden would succeed him
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American Thinker ^
| 23 Apr, 2020 | Monica Showalter
Joe Biden has always billed his decades-long stretch in the swamp as "experience." His
presidential election team has put him out as the steady hand, the familiar reassuring standard-bearer of business as usual, the competent guy who can handle a crisis. So what does it say about Joe Biden's vaunted leadership in a crisis that a creature as vile as Osama bin Laden thought it would serve his interests best to have him at the helm of the U.S. as a sure way of creating chaos instead of Barack Obama? Here's the Fox News report: Usama bin Laden wanted to...
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Obama Warns of ‘Real Human Suffering’ if GOP Succeeds in Repealing Obamacare
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NBC News ^
| September 20, 2017 | by ANDREW RAFFERTY
Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday warned that Republican-backed efforts to undo the Affordable Care Act would cause “real human suffering” and said “people are alive today" because of his signature legislation. “So
when I see people trying to undo that hard-won progress for the 50th or 60th time, with bills that would raise costs or reduce coverage or roll back protections for older Americans or people with pre-existing conditions, the expecting mom or the child with autism or asthma for whom coverage would once again be almost unattainable, it is aggravating,” Obama said at an event hosted by the...
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How and Why Obamacare Repeal Will Succeed
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american spectator ^
| David Catron
The tsunami of criticism that greeted last week’s introduction of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) was probably inevitable, considering the questionable character of some career politicians, the liberal inclination of the legacy media, and the hopelessly convoluted maze of mandates, taxes, and regulations that is Obamacare. Even honest observers got important
details of AHCA wrong, while failing to comprehend its place in the overall GOP plan to rid the nation of the “Affordable Care Act.” Saturday morning, President Trump used his weekly address to clear up some of the confusion: This plan is part of a three-pronged reform process....
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Obama Engineered an Obama-Friendly Lawyer to Succeed Sessions In Case Sessions Had to Recuse Himself
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Ace of Spades ^
| 03/04/2017 | Ace of Spades
On his way out the door, Obama also rewrote the line of succession in cases where the AG recuses himself. (I
didn't know there was such a previously-planned chain of succession.) He specifically wrote one senior guy out of the succession, and re-routed the succession to go right to his friendlies. Amid Thursday;s over-hyped brouhaha about Jeff Sessions meeting with the Russian ambassador, a curious detail emerged. In Sessions's recusal memo, it was explained who at the Justice Department would be handling any investigations into the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia. "Consistent with the succession order for the Department...
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Hacked Memo: George Soros Lobbied Obama To Accept 100,000 Refugees Per Year — and Succeeded
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Breitbart ^
| 18 Aug 2016 | Aaron Klein
Hacked documents from George Soros’s Open Society Institute state that the billionaire and his foundation helped to successfully press the Obama administration into increasing to 100,000 the total number of refugees taken in by the U.S. annually, Breitbart Jerusalem has found. The
documents reveal that the billionaire personally sent President Obama a letter on the issue of accepting refugees.
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Has Barack Obama Already Succeeded in Erasing the Distinct American Culture?
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Rush Limbaugh.com ^
| July 12, 2016 | Rush Limbaugh
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Crazy Bernie's up there saying -- and this is key, folks -- (impression) "We become stronger when we all stand together." That's
Bernie this morning for Hillary. "We become stronger when we all stand together." Stand together for what? What is the unifying thing in our country today? Can somebody tell me? Is there one? (interruption) No, no. I'm not trying to be snarky or humorous or anything. I'm serious. What is there in America that we could all unify around? Police brutality? Cops mistreating blacks? What is it? They don't ever identify what it is we...
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British Politician Nigel Farage Credits Pompous Obama For Helping Brexit Succeed…
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Conservative Treehouse ^
| 6/24/2016 | Sundance
Appearing on Breitbart Radio Nigel Farage tells Stephen K. Bannon that President Obama’s visit to the UK (telling the people to vote Remain) offended a lot of British and backfired on the Remain campaign...
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Obama Promises "Trump Will Not Succeed Me" [semi-satire]
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Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^
| 10 Apr 2016 | John Semmens
Calling GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump "an appalling choice," President Barack Obama promised a frightened nation that "I will do whatever I can to prevent this man from succeeding me as president." The
President didn't rule out "any extraordinary, extra-legal actions that might be needed. Hopefully, it won't come to that. I trust that American voters will opt to continue the progress I've made by electing Secretary Clinton in November. But rest assured, I will not shy away from doing what it takes to keep Mr. Trump out of the Oval Office." Meanwhile, Obama's preferred successor sought to differentiate herself...
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Obama: ‘Mr. Trump is not succeeding Me‘
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Politico ^
| 4/08/16 | Nolan McCaskill
President Barack Obama in his most emphatic terms yet disputed the idea that Donald Trump will win this presidential election. “I
recognize that there is a deep obsession right now about Mr. Trump,” Obama told attendees of a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser Thursday evening in Santa Monica, California. “And one of you pulled me aside and squeezed me hard and said, ‘Tell me that Mr. Trump is not succeeding you.’ And I said, ‘Mr. Trump is not succeeding me.’” Obama credited Trump and his primary rival, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, for exposing “some of the nonsense that we’ve been...
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Obama going all in to ensure Hillary Clinton succeeds him [No email indictments?]
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Hotair ^
| 03/17/2016 | John Sexton
Hillary Clinton has a problem. She’s
not a very good candidate. She doesn’t inspire the kind of wild, stand-in-the-sun-for-hours enthusiasm that President Obama did. There is no one passing out at her rallies. She’s raising less money than her challenger Bernie Sanders. She is winning delegates but few people seem to be swooning over her carefully crafted persona.Fortunately for Hillary, she has an ally willing to help her make it to the White House. The New York Times reports President Obama, speaking privately to big donors in Houston, Texas, asked them to stop flirting with Bernie Sanders and line...
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Obama Has Rare Parliamentary Window To Make Recess Appointment To Succeed Scalia
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Fox News ^
| 2/13/16
Obama said Saturday night that he would submit an appointment to the Senate, as part of his constitutional obligation, but “in due time.†This
window is open next week and this week only. In short: Both bodies of Congress are operating in the perfect parliamentary status in which a recess appointment would be applicable. The last such appointment to the high court came by President Eisenhower in 1956 when he appointed William Brennan. Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution states that “The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the...
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Obama Has Rare Parliamentary Window To Make Recess Appointment To Succeed Scalia
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Fox News ^
| 2/13/16
Obama said Saturday night that he would submit an appointment to the Senate, as part of his constitutional obligation, but “in due time.†This
window is open next week and this week only. In short: Both bodies of Congress are operating in the perfect parliamentary status in which a recess appointment would be applicable. The last such appointment to the high court came by President Eisenhower in 1956 when he appointed William Brennan. Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution states that “The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the...
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Obama has rare parliamentary window to make recess appointment to succeed Scalia
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Fox News ^
| 02/13/16 | Chad Pergram
There was much hubbub in late 2012 when President Obama made four recess appointments during a short recess The case later went to the Supreme Court and the maneuver was ruled to be unconstitutional... The key in the 2014 Supreme Court decision regarding the president's appointments to the National Labor Relations Board
over the three-day break was that the justices found the executive branch determined what it interpreted as a recess. But Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in the majority opinion that under the Constitution "the Senate is in session when it says it is." Obama said Saturday night that he...
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Obama: We Will Have A Democratic President Succeeding Me In 2016
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Breitbart.com ^
| January 29,2016 | Pam Key
Thursday in Baltimore at the House Democrats annual retreat, President Barack Obama declared Democrats will win in November, including having a Democratic president succeeding him.
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Obama to White House mentorship grads: You didn't succeed on your own
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examiner.com ^
| june 16, 2015 | joe newby
While speaking at the White House Mentorship and Leadership graduation ceremony in the Blue Room of the White House on Monday, President Obama made a statement reminiscent of his now-famous "you didn't build that" campaign line. According
to Obama, no one, not even him, is capable of succeeding on their own. "This idea that somehow we succeed just on our own is just not true," he said. "Nobody does, not even the President of the United States -- maybe especially not the President of the United States." "There are thousands, tens of thousands of people -- starting with my parents, and now my family -- but tens...
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Former head of Marine Corps: ‘Not a snowball’s chance In hell’ Obama’s plan succeeds
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The Washington Times ^
| September 20, 2014 | Kellan Howell
A former Marine Corps Commandant told an audience that President Obama’s strategy to defeat Islamic State militants doesn’t have a “snowball’s chance in hell” of succeeding. Speaking
at a conference in Washington, General James Conway, who served as the 34th Commandant of the Marine Crops at the end of the Bush administration and beginning of the Obama administration, said that he was skeptical that the U.S. had reliable ground forces in Iraq, the Daily Caller reported Friday. In June, Gen. Conway blasted the White House over the controversial prisoner swap of five terrorism suspects for alleged deserter Bowe Bergdahl.
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