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For months, people have been openly wondering who is the real power behind the throne in the Biden administration? Who is really running the country? We now know who is calling the shots when it comes to their policy on the border. Word is that former Obama security adviser Susan Rice is calling the tune on border issues. Additionally, members of Biden’s team must have been looking at polling on immigration and the border, because they have formed a circular firing squad over the issues. Axios reported: Infighting broke out among those on Biden’s team. Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice...

This is the problem with the DNC burying their debates a week before Christmas. Noboby wants to see those Grinches argue about how much Christmas government is entitled to right before the big day...and then we miss moments like her bathroom break.Next time Hillary should have a pair of these.

Hillary Clinton told a New Hampshire audience Dec. 19 that Donald Trump is becoming "ISIS' best recruiter." Hillary Clinton's decision to bash Donald Trump during the final Democratic debate of 2015 appears to have revealed her true feelings on Islam. Radio host Rush Limbaugh said Monday that calling Trump "ISIS' best recruiter" makes no sense if the terror group is a total perversion of Islam. Clinton told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York last month that Muslims "have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism,"

Donald Trump is accusing Democratic primary front-runner Hillary Clinton of lying in her claim that terrorists are using the Republican primary front-runner in recruitment videos. "Right, nobody has been able to back that up. It's nonsense," Trump said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. "It's just another Hillary lie." "She lies like crazy about everything, whether it's trips where she was being gunned down in a helicopter or an airplane, she's a liar and everybody knows that," he added. "But she just made this up in thin air." Clinton claimed at the Saturday Democratic primary debate that Trump was...

Donald Trump says he wants Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to apologize for claiming that he was "becoming ISIS's best recruiter." "I will demand an apology from Hillary. She should apologize," he told TODAY's Matt Lauer on Monday. "She lies about emails, she lies about Whitewater, she lies about everything. She will be a disaster about everything as president of the United States." Over the weekend, Trump fired back at his Democratic rival for claiming that Trump was "becoming ISIS's best recruiter," saying Islamic extremists were using Trump's comments about Muslims and Islam as a recruiting tool.

Accusing your opponent of committing evil and unpardonable crimes is basic presidential campaign jujitsu. But Hillary’s Clinton's team is genuinely jittery about the sneak peek taken by Bernie Sanders staffers into their secret voter file. The unauthorized fishing expedition into the database housing the names and demographic information of voters Clinton plans to target - which led to the sacking of a top Sanders staffer and the suspension of two more - has embittered the campaigns against one another, even if the two principals made nice on the debate stage Saturday night. And it's a source of real and deepening...

WASHINGTON -- In what's sure to be another ratings washout, the Democratic National Committee held it's third debate on a weekend evening, this time also pitting themselves against a major NFL game. The timing -- the Saturday before Christmas and in competition with the Jets' 19-16 win over the Cowboys in Dallas -- seemingly calculated to keep Hillary Clinton as protected as possible while assuring her challengers remain underexposed, critics noted. At one point, Clinton came back late to the stage after an overly long bathroom break. The moment left her two competitors cooling their heels at their podiums --...

I call it the paradox of finger pointing at the finger pointers. In a holier-than-thou sermon last Friday which was meant to be an update to the American people regarding the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico president Barry Hussein Soetoro pontificated on the evils of companies finger pointing at one another and not owning up to their corporate responsibilities. However in the midst of the president’s homily if one listened closely one could hear the faintest mea culpa also in a speech which resonated largely in, “do as I say, but don’t finger point as I do” tones....

Reid Offers Olive Branch on Bush Nominee By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 25 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Monday offered the Democrats' support for one of President Bush's judicial nominees, former Senate lawyer Thomas Griffith, as a goodwill gesture in the confrontation over banning judicial filibusters. "Let's take a step away from the precipice," Reid said. "Let's try cooperation, rather than confrontation, which seems to be the hallmark of what we've been doing here lately." The offer came as President Bush and Senate Republicans renewed their pressure on Democrats to stop...

I don't trust this "goodwill gesture" from Dingy Harry As a "goodwill gesture,” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has agreed to a floor vote on the nomination of Thomas Griffith. Of the gesture, Reid said, “Let's take a step away from the precipice. Let's try cooperation, rather than confrontation, which seems to be the hallmark of what we've been doing here lately.”

Much has been made recently about the decline of civility in today’s political discourse. The lament is heard from liberal Democrats, moderate Republicans and the national news media, all of which seem to believe that there is ample blame on both sides of the political aisle. The truth, for anyone willing to see it, is that incivility in Washington is hardly a two-way street. Yes, there are always individuals on both sides willing to engage in rhetorical assassination of their political enemies. On the left, Michael Moore, Al Franken and other Hollywood liberals have joined forces with George Soros, MoveOn.org...

There was a time when the weighty affairs of state superseded in importance the petty grievances of politics, a time when the occupying of federal office required congressmen to comport themselves with some degree of decorum. Yesterday the "Honorable" Senator Harry Reid let spill the true Democrat spirit of "bipartisanship" that the Democrats have been invoking, with almost dazzling monotony, as necessary for governing this nation, since President George Bush won elected office in 2000. In a cheap attack, for a cheap laugh from juniors at a Del Sol High School (Las Vegas) civics lesson, the "Honorable" Harry Reid said...

Harry Reid went to High School yesterday and Called President Bush “A Loser.” By N. Beaujon May 7, 2005 Petulant Democrats have once again sunk to a new low in civility. House Minority Leader Harry (“Harry Who?”) Reid called President Bush “a loser”. After High Schoolers were done snickering over the name “Harry”, one remarked, “You’re bald.” Another, Annie Carson from Reid’s home town of Searchlight, Las Vegas, remarked “You’re ugly and old. Plus you wear funny ties.” Administrators in charge called an abrupt halt to the meeting and gave Harry Reid a detention. The Democrats being the party of...

In the course of a discussion on filibusters and Senate rules, Washington's top Democrat gave the 60 juniors a lesson in partisan politics, particularly about the commander in chief. "The man's father is a wonderful human being," Reid said in response to a question about President Bush's policies. "I think this guy is a loser. "I think President Bush is doing a bad job," he added to a handful of chuckles. "He's driving this country into bankruptcy," Reid said, referring to the deficit. "He's got us in this intractable war in Iraq where we now have about 1,600 American soldiers...

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tracey Schmitt 202-863-8614WASHINGTON -RNC Communications Director Brian Jones today issued the following statement on Sen. Harry Reid’s comment calling the President a “loser”: “Sen. Reid’s comments are a sad development but not surprising from the leader of a party devoid of optimism, ideas or solutions to the issues people care about most. The President will continue reaching across party lines to save Social Security, enact an energy policy, grow our economy and support our troops.”

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid has privately told individual Republicans he doesn't intend to block votes on any Supreme Court nominees except in extreme cases, according to officials familiar with the conversations. At the same time, Reid has declined in private — as well as in public — to offer the type of firm no-filibuster assurance that might help him prevail over Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn. in a struggle over President Bush's conservative court appointments and rules covering future confirmations. The disclosures illustrate the challenge facing the Nevada Democrat, who is struggling against a GOP attempt to...

Bill Clinton's remarks at Davos may end being more controversial than Eason Jordan's. Other blogs, especially Little Green Footballs, have been all over the story. Here is the latest. It is now fully evident that a gloablist left-leaning elite uses Davos as an exercise to get similarly-inclined Americans to denounce their own country and pay homage to the icons of "progressive" politics - meaning, basically, anti-Americanism. How anyone could classify the mullahs of Iran as "progressive" and keep a straight face is beyond my understanding. It demonstrates how illogical and twisted a group the global anti-Americans have become.