Posted on 10/10/2018 5:14:33 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
The Winner of our King of Futile Gestures Award this week is…: House Majority Leader and candidate to succeed Paul Ryan as Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced on Tuesday that he is introducing a stand-alone bill that will…drumroll please…fully fund the border wall! Yayyyyy!!!!
Yes, friends, after working hand in glove with Speaker Ryan for almost two full years to repeatedly sandbag President Donald Trump on the wall funding, inventing lame excuse after lame excuse as to why said funding should not be included in one of the gigantic omnibus spending bills congress seems to pass every 3-4 months, Mr. McCarthy is making this big splash in the hopes of fooling GOP voters that it has a chance in hell of becoming law.
Pro tip: It doesn’t.
Oh, if it comes to a vote it’ll pass the house for sure, because it only takes a majority vote there and the Republicans have a strong majority, at least until January. But the senate, where 60 votes would be required and the GOP only has 51 seats? Not a chance.
I like Congressman McCarthy, I really do. Always have. He is an earnest guy and mostly a real conservative. He’s done a lot of “go along to get along” kind of stuff with Ryan just to be the loyal foot-soldier, and we all should understand that. But he knows as well as anyone that the only way to get that border wall funding would be to include it in an omnibus spending bill that also contains stuff the Democrats really want, and have the guts to let the Democrats shut down the government if they want to do so.
A stand-alone bill on this has exactly zero chance of getting through the senate. It’s a futile gesture that mainly serves to highlight just how dishonestly the GOP congressional leadership has dealt with this issue for the past two years.
Oh, well, golly, that didn’t work out the way they’d hoped.: The newsfakers at the New York Times decided recently that it would be a great idea to show everybody how their vaunted “Blue Wave” was shaping up by polling a number of races in the U.S. house and senate and show their demented readers the results in real time. The live polls scheduled for yesterday included the “close” senate races in Texas, Nevada and Tennessee, three races in which GOP incumbents are facing what are considered to be “strong” Democrat challengers, including the media’s favorite Democrat, Irish Bob O’Rourke.
Surely, the Times’ newsfakers no doubt believed, our polling will show the Dems in the lead in at least two of these races. After all, fake polls taken in every one of them had produced results showing the Democrat candidate no worse than tied in each an every one of them as recently as late August.
So what happened? Well, the Times’ poll in Nevada does show the race between Trump-bashing RINO Dean Heller and Democrat Jacky Rosen very close, but with Heller in the lead at 46-45. That was the “good” news for the Times staff.
In Texas, where the Times has repeatedly portrayed Irish Bob as another Kennedy as if that were a good thing, mean ol’ Ted Cruz comes in with a very comfortable 9 point lead of 53-44. If you’ve been following the polls in this race, that 44% level appears to be the point at which Texas voters reach “Peak Beto”, as it were.
Over in Tennessee, it gets even worse for all the newsfakers at the Times, especially since most of them are no doubt huge Taylor Swift fans: In that poll, Republican Marsha Blackburn, who has gained momentum in every poll take there in the last month, holds a whopping 18% lead over her Democrat challenger, ol’ what’s-his-name, at 57-39. Phil Bredesen, that’s his name.
Prior to yesterday, the Times had conducted similar polling in a large number of house races around the country, and again ended up with far more of those “Red” guys and gals leading their favored “Blue” people than the fake newspaper had anticipated. Just so you know I really didn’t make this stuff up, you can see all of those results at this link.
Because, you see, Democrats can only be civil if they win elections. It’s in the constitution or something. – As always the lagging indicator of where her demented and depraved Party has already gone, the Pantsuit Princess decided to go all Maxine Waters in a CNN interview released on Tuesday, calling for an end to “civility” by the Democrats. I’m not kidding – she apparently thinks what we have been seeing from her Party actually is them being “civil.”
“You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about,” Clinton told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “That’s why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that’s when civility can start again.”
Yes, for sure. It’s only when we place lunatics like Mad Maxine and the execrable Jerry Nadler as chairmen of congressional committees that we can achieve true civility in our nation. This was in fact Coughing Crook’s way of overtly signaling her approval for heightened violence on our streets from Soros-paid protesters and violent Democrat proxy groups like Antifa, along with the kind of harassment and violence towards Republicans in public place that has been encouraged by Mad Maxine and many other Democrat office-holders.
Of course, the hilarious thing about this is that the Grasping Grifter was just reciting talking points written for by her demented staff, and probably didn’t even understand the implications of what she was saying. It’s been 30 years since the Hacking Hag uttered an unscripted word in public, and you can be sure that this interview is no exception.
This is the reason why she is always behind the direction of her Party instead of setting its tone. Her mode of operation has always been to carefully calibrate everything she says based on the results of polls and focus groups, meaning that her shame rhetoric is unerringly backwards-looking.
That’s not to give her a pass on this endorsement of street violence and ongoing Democrat Party insanity, it’s just to help explain how an obvious, blatant fraud and career criminal like the Fainting Felon can remain popular among her Party’s demented, willfully-ignorant voters three decades after she came onto the national scene.
That is all.
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In Oct. 2015 I went to a Trump rally in north Atlanta before Trump had SS. There were no airport scanners, no one checked purses or iphones. The doors opened and we all rushed in.
All Trump had was his private security. Very dangerous situation for Trump, but that didn’t stop him.
And while waiting we heard Luciano Pavarotti songs.
On the record, but after the election, as I understand it.
LOL! She used that many handlers just to manage the press at her events.
It's absolutely correct that there's going to be pick up in the House as well> The same people who vote in R senators are NOT going to put in D reps.
Wishful thinking on their part.
The conservatives that stayed home or voted for .doug Jones in Alabama have made things very difficult. Think if we lost Kavanaugh vote.
Let’s see now:
1. Most Americans want the “Wall” to be built.
2. All Democrat Senators will vote against the “Wall”.
3. Some donor-puppet RINOs MAY vote against the “Wall”.
SO...
Either the bill to fund completion of the “Wall” will be passed...
OR...
All the anti-American quislings (Democrats and RINOs) will be un-masked by their votes — BEFORE the Mid-term election!
Sounds good to me!
Yeah... Kinda obvious that it did them in big time...You don’t agree?
Yes, I remember that. That was in 2015 very early on before any debates and any primaries.
They said he had only a few people back stage. He’d show up and wing it.
Hillary had 100s of handlers, and focus groups, and they’d tell her what to say and not say...
Funny thing how wrong they were.
She was the worst candidate, with the worst people, who spent the most money....
I mean, SHE THOUGHT, THEY ALL THOUGH THAT SHE’D WIN...
In the end, I’m thrilled to say, money doesn’t matter in America, it’s your message...it’s you the person...
AND Folks, we’re seeing it again. Trump Matters. He’s making us all embarrassed because he’s the hardest working guy in town...
We’ll find out in November. Manchin was the only Dem to vote for Kavanaugh, then President Trump turns around and says he’ll campaign against him anyway, so we’ll see what happens in that race.
Remember them at first RUNNING after her entourage of cars... and then she’d put up the ropes to keep the press back?!!!!
Trump was the best...
When I saw him at this air plane hanger in Bloomington, IL...He gets off the plane, and walks.. I have the video...walks to the podium. Not far, maybe 100 yards, but
I GUARANTEE YOU, HILLARY WOULD HAVE DRIVEN IT.
Of course he’s going to campaign against him...
Manchin was spotted at a MAGA meet up in DC yesterday...so he could be getting ready to switch parties.
Maybe we’ll have 60 votes in the senate come Jan 1 :)
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