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This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful Hillary Clinton is not president
The Washington Post ^ | November 22, 2017 | Marc A. Thiessen

Posted on 11/22/2017 9:09:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

This Thanksgiving, I am grateful for many things — but when it comes to politics, I am especially thankful that Hillary Clinton is not sitting in the Oval Office.

I am thankful that Neil M. Gorsuch is on the Supreme Court and that President Trump has secured a conservative majority that will protect human life, religious liberty, the Second Amendment and limited government. I am also thankful the president is moving at record pace to fill the federal appeals courts with young conservative judges. While the Supreme Court only hears about 80 cases a year, the federal appeals courts get final say on about 60,000 — and because Democrats ended the filibuster, they can’t stop Trump from filling those courts with conservative legal rock stars. The Senate has already confirmed eight of Trump’s nine appellate nominees — the most this early in a presidency since Richard Nixon – and Trump will appoint plenty more before his first term expires. As former Clinton adviser Ronald A. Klain complained in The Post, “the next two generations of Americans will live under laws interpreted by hundreds of [Trump-appointed] judges.”

That alone is worth it. But there is more to be thankful for.....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: thanksgiving; thiessen; trump; trump45
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If he gets tax reform and even 1/10th of the wall he's re-elected.
1 posted on 11/22/2017 9:09:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anyone who loves America is thankful the Wicked Witch is not any position of power.


2 posted on 11/22/2017 9:14:59 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How did this get into the WAPO?


3 posted on 11/22/2017 9:17:57 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'm thankful that our federal prisons are not so full that there isn't room for one more:


4 posted on 11/22/2017 9:18:31 PM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Mears

bfl


5 posted on 11/22/2017 9:20:25 PM PST by Mears
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To: bigbob

6 posted on 11/22/2017 9:25:11 PM PST by Bobalu (The NFL, Watching their demise is more fun than watching their games.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Early picture of Hillary...


7 posted on 11/22/2017 9:26:03 PM PST by Bobalu (The NFL, Watching their demise is more fun than watching their games.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think you’ve got the wrong publication. The stool would never allow something like to be published.


8 posted on 11/22/2017 9:32:11 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I noticed the banner of the WAPO is DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS.

Seems prophetic.


9 posted on 11/22/2017 9:36:39 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

It’s going to die in darkness, huh


10 posted on 11/22/2017 9:37:44 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Electric Graffiti
The stool would never allow something like to be published.

Maybe all the execs are off on Thanksgiving Vacation.

11 posted on 11/22/2017 9:38:04 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Electric Graffiti

Thiessen is the Post’s token conservative.


12 posted on 11/22/2017 9:38:51 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Pure democracy is mob rule.

It needs to die. In darkness and dispair.


13 posted on 11/22/2017 9:40:00 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I think John “Skippy” Podesta must be busy with something or other.


14 posted on 11/22/2017 9:42:05 PM PST by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: UCANSEE2

Well, the U.S. model is a representative republic, a kind of indirect democracy.

The real question that needs to be asked is, what guides the “demos” (people) of the democracy.

If those people can safely say, more often than not, “No king but Jesus” (as the original devout settlers could) then it’s going to work okay.

I’m not sure the founders anticipated what was going to happen when Christian awareness died out. They didn’t realize that their own circumstances had selected for those who were empowered by faith. But, God has no grandchildren. Evangelism kept it going for awhile, but that too died out to nominal levels.

It’s going to need a revival of some kind. A spark so big that it can’t be ignored. Or else the USA will slouch into nothingness.


15 posted on 11/22/2017 9:44:35 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Slyfox

Probably restructuring all his corporate interests.


16 posted on 11/22/2017 9:44:56 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

I’m also not sure anyone, even our dear Democrats, have ever called for “pure democracy.”

A fair and mandatory plebiscite, should it be possible, probably would still underscore the more conservative elements of America.

What Democrats are calling “democracy” is more like poll stuffing.


17 posted on 11/22/2017 9:48:46 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How does this guy still write for Compost Sludge? Thiessen worked for Bush and Rumsfeld. I remember him being interviewed by that dastardly bitch Amanpour and reputing anything the witch said. A token truth teller saved by the retromingent jackass Bezos. Never shop at Whole Paycheck.


18 posted on 11/22/2017 10:09:32 PM PST by Fungi (A fungus for every life.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Missed an “f.” Refuting....Thank you....


19 posted on 11/22/2017 10:19:44 PM PST by Fungi (A fungus for every life.)
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To: Fungi

We have a better version here called Central Market owned by HEB.


20 posted on 11/22/2017 10:19:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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