"Our party must be big-hearted and creative and opportunistic," the ex-White House hopeful, who was President-elect Trump's greatest rival for much of the GOP primary, wrote in a Friday op-ed for the Wall Street Journal.
I had so hoped we were done hearing from this particular life-long political type, but he seems to have decided to flick his forked tongue into the air in an effort to determine whether or not it's safe to emerge from under his rock. It isn't. Get back under there, Jeb!
Bush, presumably in a direct plea to Trump, said the GOP can broaden its base by "reforming legal immigration and affirming the role that immigrants play in building up our economy and our nation."
This is perhaps the most defining contribution to Jeb!'s loss: the USA's legal immigration system doesn't need reformation, and unlike Jeb!, most people realize that. And unlike Jeb!, most people realize that illegal aliens present a clear danger to American national security and citizen health. And since Jeb! is so clearly ignorant of these issues, it's past time for this loser to shut up and go away.
PORTLAND, Ore. – After nights of protests and riots, Portland city leaders Saturday said enough is enough.
Police Chief Mike Marshman said that criminal behavior will not be tolerated.
“If you’re upset with the election, please don’t come out and protest,” he said. “We are done with criminal activity in this city. It’s time to move on and to move forward.”
And finally last night the police got a break: there were far fewer "protesters" out on the streets and police response was swift; they kept the rabble from blocking streets and setting fires, confining the folks mostly to the sidewalks. Of course, the shooting Friday night during a "protest march" may have persuaded many that it might be safer to protest at home. There are four people in custody for the shooting; two are charged with attempted murder, but police are being tight-lipped regarding the full range of charges to be filed against the quartet.
For Portland, last night was relatively quiet.
Elsewhere, not so much, as Democratics are in disarray and fuming:
Progressives believe the Democratic establishment is responsible for inflicting Donald Trump upon the nation, blaming a staid corporate wing of the party for nominating Hillary Clinton and ignoring the Working Class voters that propelled Trump to victory.
Liberals interviewed by The Hill want to see establishment Democrats targeted in primaries, and the “Clinton-corporate wing” of the party rooted out for good.
These are the same people who derided the TEA party and laughed at Republicans as TEA party-backed candidates began winning office. Now, they're looking to adopt the same tactics against their own establishment Democratics.
“We have to install the playbook of the Tea Party,” said Ohio state lawmaker Nina Turner, a Sanders surrogate. “The Tea Party had mainstream Republicans shaking in their boots. Even the ones that hung on knew they had to listen to what the grassroots was saying. Obviously, we don’t want to govern anything like the Tea Party, but from a tactical standpoint, we have to run and support progressive candidates to keep the establishment honest.”
Well, at least Nina understands how the TEA party works in that they support conservatives, but like most Democratics, she misses a crucial fact: the TEA party stands for limited government under Constitutional principles and the maximization of individual opportunity. The regressive approach that Democratics favor even as they refer to themselves as progressive involves more regulations, more taxes, and an ever-growing shadow government populated by lifer bureaucrats with the same mindset. That doesn't work, and they don't get it.
Handing regressive lifer bureaucrats the ability to write rules with the force of law, completely bypassing the legislative branch, has never been a good idea, as anyone who examines the results can clearly see. They want to see more of it; we want to see less.
EPA, DOE, the "Education" Department, and Obamacare are all in need of serious pruning. The establishment in both parties has never considered the ramifications that accompany allowing them to run wild, without supervision. This election completely blind-sided the establishment Democratics, but it was also a refutation of the complicit media.
The Republican convention began today in Cleveland, and so the media, hoping to capitalize upon increased ad placements, are all over it; bringing in slews of "analysts" to let everybody know what to expect. As if there would be any doubt.
However, with the place swarming with cops and Secret Service folks and especially in view of the recent multiple shootings of cops in two cities, it'd be a particularly stupid time for "protesters" to try anything. Not that they've ever been known for their intellectual skills.
The fact that Granny and Ferret-head are apparently the best our country can offer speaks volumes.
After much soul-searching - and very possibly due to the threat of a potential disaster involving his Depends™ undergarments - Bernie has endorsed Granny, claiming that it is "his job" to see to it that a person who stands firmly against everything he professed to believe is elected as the next president of the USA. If the kids who supported Bernie were confused before, they must now be thoroughly befuddled; they actually believed that the career politician harbored ethical standards, and so it must come as a shock to their systems to find that he has now disabused them of that quaint notion.
Welcome to the real world of politics in America, kids: the establishment, composed of both Democratics and Republican'ts, run the show. It may not be the greatest show on earth anymore, but it's the only one in town.
The "Triple 2" wildfire started in Mexico but has now crossed the border into the USA in the vicinity of Nogales, Arizona.
Well, this sort of thing won't happen when Donald Trump is president....
But speaking of Arizona, it seems that Sen. John McCain is in kind of a tight run for reelection down there, and he's playing dirty:
U.S. Sen. John McCain wrote the rules on dark money when he sponsored campaign finance reform, also known as the McCain-Feingold Act. Now he’s using millions of dollars in dark money in a bid to hold on to his tightly contested Arizona seat.
What a coinkydink! Both of these committees just happen to have the exact same address, but of course they're totally unrelated; that would violate the federal McCain-Feingold Act. Oh, and as noted previously here, his top campaign worker in Arizona was busted last week on multiple felony drug charges.
Sen. Lindsey Graham shocked Washington reporters Thursday night by saying that Sen. Ted Cruz is so disliked, no one in the Senate would look to convict his murderer.
"If you kill Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial is at the Senate, no one will convict you," he said.
But it's probably a good thing that he hates his fellow Senator so much that he feels comfortable making such a public statement. After all, he liked Jeb! and endorsed his candidacy; shortly thereafter, the Jeb! campaign flamed out.
As a result of the recent "budget deal", the Cadillac tax that was to have impacted their gold-plated health insurance plans has been taken off the table for now - although some fear that it will never come back onto the table. Two other taxes have likewise been deferred.
Most significantly, the legislation would again push back the “Cadillac” tax on employer healthcare benefits – a measure at the center of the Obama administration's efforts to contain healthcare costs.
In total, those changes would take a $35 billion bite out of the law’s revenue stream, according to analyses released by congressional budget scorekeepers on Wednesday.
Oh, say it isn't so! Let's see: we were all told by Barry that we'd save $2500 a year in premium costs, but instead they've doubled and in some cases tripled. And of course, the other things we were promised never happened either: "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan." If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."
"Savings will be achieved as younger, healthier people purchase health insurance." That one was gutted when Barry decided that they should be allowed to stay on Mom & Dad's health plan until they turn age 27.
Not one of these promises has been fulfilled, and they never will be.
Walden, R-Hood River, has been a close ally of the Republican House Speaker from Ohio. Andrew Malcolm, spokesman for Walden’s office, said Walden was surprised by Friday’s announcement.
“Greg was actually with the speaker in the early part of this week; they had breakfast together on Wednesday, and he had no indication this was coming,” Malcolm said.
Naturally, Greg's supporting the guy from California to take over Boner's slot as Weeper of the House. I get that Greg's the only guy who purports to be Republican that Oregon has in national orifice, but it's really a shame that they can't elect someone who's willing to actually represent the people east of the Cascades.
