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Bizarre moment 6ft3in Jeb Bush towers over Trump by craftily standing on his TIPTOES for group photo
Post Date: 2015-09-17 08:55:47 by cranky
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Jeb Bush was caught standing on his tiptoes during the group photo at Wednesday's Republican debateThe 6'3" Bush did it multiple times, despite being the tallest candidate on the stageHe also stretched out his arms, taking up more space than anyone else in the photosJeb Bush found a surefire way to put himself a head above the other candidates during Wednesday night's debate - standing on his tiptoes.As the Republican hopefuls lined up for their group shot, the 6'3" Bush was caught on video glancing at Trump and then sneakily pushing himself up to add a few inches.The trick made Bush - already the tallest person in the group shot - stand out just a little bit more ...
White House Invites Several Opponents of Catholic Teaching to Greet Pope Francis
Post Date: 2015-09-16 16:00:02 by cranky
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President Obama will apparently test just how far Pope Francis’ notorious tolerance will go by inviting a rogue’s gallery of people opposed to Catholic teaching to greet the pontiff at the White House during his visit next week. In a stunning show of political indecorum, Obama has invited a series of individuals who publicly flout Catholic teaching, including a pro-abortion religious sister, a transgender woman and the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, along with at least two Catholic gay activists. The White House was illuminated in gay pride colors on June 26, 2015, after the Supreme Court legalized gay same-sex marriage. One of the invitees, retired Episcopal bishop Gene ...
Scott Walker’s last best chance
Post Date: 2015-09-16 10:39:48 by Tooconservative
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Scott Walker needs to reassure his supporters and his donors. And Wednesday’s debate might be his last chance. After a sleepy performance in the first Republican presidential debate that fueled a steep slide in his standing with voters, the governor’s team has pushed him to prepare. Round Two will be different, according to sources inside Walker’s camp. He won’t stop talking before his time is up, as he did at that first debate – a decision that left some of his top backers scratching their heads. He will be more assertive, according to people who have been briefed. And he won’t just answer the moderators’ questions but instead pivot to his personal ...
Paul Ryan Wrong, Jeff Sessions Right on Immigration in Trade Deal
Post Date: 2015-09-14 21:19:42 by cranky
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The United States Trade Representative (USTR) — responding to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request — is finally revealing the chapter titles of the pending Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, confirming there is a chapter relating to immigration titled, “Temporary Entry for Business Persons.” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) warned about the potential of U.S. immigration being included in the Trans Pacific Partnership, but House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and the White House previously and continuously denied any immigration clause existed within the trade deal throughout their push for President Obama’s fast-track trade ...
Report: Scott Walker Cancels Speech at California GOP Convention
Post Date: 2015-09-12 18:09:22 by cranky
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GOP presidential candidate Gov. Scott Walker is reportedly canceling an appearance at the California GOP Convention next weekend. Walker is scheduled to appear at the CNN GOP presidential primary debate in Simi Valley, California on Wednesday. Trail Guide’s Seema Mehta reported that Walker backed out of his speaking engagement scheduled for September 19. Walker’s speech was supposed to be in front of hundreds of guests in Anaheim, California. Fellow GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is scheduled to attend the party event on Friday. Walker’s campaign did not confirm or deny this report.
Quinnipiac poll of Iowa: Trump leads with 27% as Scott Walker crashes to ... tenth place
Post Date: 2015-09-12 10:39:56 by Tooconservative
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Tenth farking place. Three months ago, I would have told you that a midwestern evangelical governor with Scott Walker’s record could stay home in Wisconsin and never campaign and still do no worse than, say, third in Iowa. Remember, this is supposed to be Walker’s must-win early state. Donald Trump has the support of 27 percent of Iowa likely Republican Caucus participants, with 21 percent for Ben Carson and 9 percent for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. This compares to the results of a July 1 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN- uh-pe-ack) University showing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at 18 percent, with Trump and ...
First one out! Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry pulls out of 2016 Republican presidential primary race
Post Date: 2015-09-11 17:40:42 by cranky
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Underperforming pol says during speech at conservative gathering that he's 'suspending' his campaignWas polling at 1 per centReports swirled that Perry's campaign was running on fumes and he was down to just a few paid staffersSecond White House run was hampered by criminal anuse-of-power indictment Democrats brought against him in his home state p class="mol-para-with-font">Former Texas Governor Rick Perry said Friday that he is pulling out of the 2016 race.'Today I am suspending my campaign for the presidency of the United States,' Perry said, according to prepared remarks released in advance of a speech at the conservative Eagle Forum in St. Louis, ...
Jindal: Trump a ‘Narcissist,’ ‘Egomaniac,’ ‘Lacks Intellectual Curiosity’
Post Date: 2015-09-10 15:00:03 by cranky
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Thursday at the National Press Club, Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA), a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, went after front-runner Donald Trump calling him a “narcissist” and “egomaniac,” and saying his campaign is a “carnival act.” Jindal said, “Donald Trump is not a serious candidate. He’s a narcissist. He’s an egomaniac. The only thing he believes in is himself. The reality is I want to say what everybody is thinking about Donald Trump, but is afraid to say.” He continued, “Here is the truth about Donald Trump. Donald Trump is shallow. He has no understanding of policy. He is full of bluster. He has no substance. ...
Here we go again: Bobby Jindal to rip Trump as “unserious” in major speech tomorrow
Post Date: 2015-09-10 07:58:21 by Tooconservative
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It worked for Rick Perry, didn’t it? Jindal to go after Trump in DC speech tomorrow. Campaign insists it will avoid the fates of Perry, Paul, Graham and others who've done so… — Caitlin Huey-Burns (@CHueyBurnsRCP) September 9, 2015Jindal campaign says we're going to see "Bobby the Brawler" tomorrow in speech attacking Trump as "unserious." — Caitlin Huey-Burns (@CHueyBurnsRCP) September 9, 2015 He’s giving it at the National Press Club in D.C. for extra media attention. If you’re wondering what the theme will be, it sounds like it’s less a Perry-esque “cancer on conservatism” cri de coeur than a simpler complaint that ...
Judge Says House Can Sue Administration Over Obamacare Spending
Post Date: 2015-09-09 18:06:13 by cranky
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The House can pursue some constitutional claims in a lawsuit against the Obama administration over appropriations and implementing the health care overhaul law, a federal district judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling means Congress has cleared a high procedural hurdle in the separation of powers case, one that usually stops the judiciary from stepping into fights between lawmakers and the executive branch. The House has legal standing to pursue allegations that the secretaries of Health and Human Services and Treasury are spending $175 billion over the next 10 fiscal years that was not appropriated by Congress, Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., wrote ...
How the GOP Pretends Not to Authorize Obama’s Agendal
Post Date: 2015-09-09 17:49:45 by cranky
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In my weekend column I offered a concrete plan to undermine President Obama’s atrocious Iran deal. It is an easy one, because all that the Republican-controlled Congress has to do, if it really wants to derail this thing, is follow the law that they wrote and Obama signed, the Corker law — the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, sometimes also known as “Corker-Cardin,” after Senate sponsors Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) and Ben Cardin (D., Md.). Sadly, in another iteration of the anger that is the wind beneath Donald Trump’s wings, many readers insist that GOP leadership has no intention to block Obama on Iran. If that is so, it is passing strange. The ...
No Movement That Embraces Trump Can Call Itself Conservative [NRO's Goldberg "Count Me Out"]
Post Date: 2015-09-09 06:45:15 by Tooconservative
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Dear Reader (if there are any of you left), Well, if this is the conservative movement now, I guess you’re going to have to count me out. No, I’m not making some mad dash to the center. No, I’m not hoping to be the first alternate to Steve Schmidt on Morning Joe, nor am I vying to become my generation’s Kevin Phillips. I will never be a HillaryCon. And I have no plan to earn “strange new respect” from the Georgetown cocktail-party set I’m always hearing about but never meeting. But even if I have no desire to “grow” in my beliefs, I have no intention to shrink, either. The late Bill Rusher, longtime publisher of National Review, often ...
New plan: have the Democrats nominate Michael Bloomberg
Post Date: 2015-09-08 10:45:42 by Tooconservative
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There seems to be a creeping pathos among the political commentariat these days as one poll after another indicates that no matter how many rotten eggs you throw at Donald Trump he somehow continues to turn them into delicious omelets which he serves up to the faithful. Over the course of the summer this was viewed as a primarily (pun intended) Republican problem. Democrat supporters were content to leave it to the GOP as to how they should clean up their own house and evict the unwelcome guest. But now even the most die-hard are forced to acknowledge that not only might Trump be the nominee, but he could actually beat Hillary Clinton. Michael Wolff, writing for USA Today, has clearly ...
NYT: Second review of Hillary e-mails confirms Top Secret/compartmented info
Post Date: 2015-09-08 09:22:01 by Tooconservative
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Despite weeks of denials, a second review by the originating agencies confirms that Hillary Clinton improperly received Top Secret/compartmented information on her unsecured and unauthorized e-mail server. The New York Times’ Michael Schmidt reported late last night that both the CIA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) agree on that point, backing up the referral from two Inspectors General a month ago to the Department of Justice: A special intelligence review of two emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton received as secretary of state on her personal account — including one about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program — has endorsed a finding by the ...
Powell: I had two email accounts and two computers, personal stuff on a regular computer and the other as a classified computer, both on my desk
Post Date: 2015-09-08 09:04:54 by Tooconservative
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Powell: Say, this Iran deal looks pretty good to me. . .Drivel from Powell shilling for Obama and the Iran deal ommitted.. . . Todd also asked Powell how he handled e-mails as Secretary of State. Powell served from 2001-5, well before Hillary Clinton’s tenure. Powell pitched his book, which details how he tried to reform the internal communications of State, including the use of e-mail that “gave them access to the whole world.” Nonetheless, Powell had two computers on his desk — one for secure transmissions, and the other for personal and light-task work e-mails: What I had to do is bring the State Department to the 21st century. And the way of doing that ...
Hillary Misses Mark With Millennials [sign the Hillary pledge!]
Post Date: 2015-09-07 23:03:04 by Tooconservative
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From a distance, the visual of students lining up along Bellflower Road in this Rust Belt city's University Circle neighborhood was good B-roll for Hillary Clinton's campaign, seemingly showcasing her appeal to young people. It also was an opportunity to claim she was building a firewall of supporters for Ohio's March primary, should Joe Biden step in or Bernie Sanders catch up in a meaningful way. That initial impression was quickly dispelled. What looked like a block-long line turned out to be a crowd that could barely fill one-fourth of a football field. And the students in attendance? Well, they weren't exactly there to support the former secretary of State. ...
Republican Senator Says He Will SHOOT You If You ‘Don’t Show Him Respect’ With Your ‘Smarty Pants’ Questions
Post Date: 2015-09-07 09:35:35 by Deckard
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An Arkansas state senator recently bragged that he will “shoot” and kill people if they do not approach him with the “proper respect” and if they try to ask him “smarty pants questions.” The Arkansas Times blog says that Republican Senator Jason Rapert was tweeting about an incident at a Lowe’s hardware store. He says that recently a constituent named Lance White approached him, but didn’t show the proper “respect” when asking a question about public policy. “Wow! I introduce my self kindly to my state legislator at Lowe’s last night. I then ask him a complicated question regarding government/law, to ...
Trump Signs Loyalty Pledge. So What?
Post Date: 2015-09-06 13:44:39 by CZ82
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Trump Signs Loyalty Pledge. So What? By: Leon H. Wolf (Diary) | September 3rd, 2015 at 02:59 PM | 29 The cable news networks are all breathlessly reporting that after a one-on-one meeting with Reince Priebus, Donald Trump has signed a pledge in which he promises to support the eventual Republican nominee, regardless of who it might be. I am sure that in the corridors of the RNC national headquarters, they are all slapping themselves on the back confident that eventually Trump will fade away and that they have averted a third party disaster. In the first place, I don’t think they have accomplished any such thing. I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion anymore that Trump ...
Endgame? SurveyUSA poll finds Trump beating Clinton, all other Dems [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-09-05 09:13:06 by Tooconservative
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So there you were, enjoying a perfectly lovely Friday heading into the Memorial Day weekend, safe and secure in the knowledge that all the things you needed to know about the 2016 presidential race were, for the moment, known. And then this happened. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump leads Democrat Hillary Clinton head-to-head, according to a new poll released Friday. The poll by SurveyUSA finds that matched up directly, Trump garners 45 percent to Clinton’s 40 percent. In other head-to-head matchups, Trump beats out Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) by 44 percent to 40 percent; Vice President Joe Biden by 44 percent to 42 percent; and former Vice President Al Gore by 44 ...
Rand Paul Reluctantly Defends Trump from Hewitt’s ‘Gotcha’ Questions
Post Date: 2015-09-04 20:40:47 by Hondo68
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“I’m not big on defending Donald Trump by any means and I’ve been one of his fiercest critics,” Rand Paul told host Michael Smerconish on his SiriusXM radio show Friday morning. But all that being said, the candidate still proceeded to take Trump’s side on the question of whether Hugh Hewitt was guilty of asking “gotcha” questions about the Quds Force during his interview with the GOP frontrunner last night. Paul said he too sometimes has trouble hearing the difference between “Quds” and “Kurds” and gave Trump the benefit of the doubt on that confusion. “And I also thinking that running through a list every different Arab name ...
Trump Praises His Sister, a Pro-Abortion Extremist Judge
Post Date: 2015-09-04 07:44:28 by Tooconservative
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Donald Trump told Mark Halperin yesterday that his sister, a federal judge, would be a “phenomenal” Supreme Court justice. He also said that “we will have to rule that out now, at least.” If he ever becomes president, let’s hope he rules it out permanently. Maryanne Trump Barry came up in my book The Party of Death for writing one of those heated judicial decisions in favor of giving constitutional protection to partial-birth abortion. She called a New Jersey law against it a “desperate attempt” to undermine Roe v. Wade. It was, she wrote, “based on semantic machinations, irrational line-drawing, and an obvious attempt to inflame public opinion ...
The Deciding Vote for Obama’s Iran Deal Was Bob Corker, Not Barbara Mikulski
Post Date: 2015-09-04 07:32:24 by cranky
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The Beltway press tried to make the passage of President Obama’s nuclear sellout to Iran look like a moment of high political drama, but you could tell their hearts weren’t really in it. Everyone knew this was a done deal from the very beginning, thanks to the efforts of the true “deciding vote,” Republican Senator Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) 51% of Tennessee. Democrat Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) 2% might have been the 34th vote from her party that made it impossible for the Senate majority to stop the deal, but Corker was the key figure in turning Congressional rules upside-down and rendering the majority powerless. Everything since Corker’s deal has been mere ...
The GOPÂ’s Loyalty Pledge Targeting Trump Is Ridiculous. HereÂ’s A Better Idea.
Post Date: 2015-09-03 14:54:51 by Tooconservative
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“GOP circulates loyalty pledge to box Trump in,” reports Politico, adding “The GOP is taking its most aggressive step yet to force Donald Trump’s hand.” What is the text of this loyalty pledge?“I [name] affirm that if I do not win the 2016 Republican nomination for president of the United States I will endorse the 2016 Republican presidential nominee regardless of who it is,” the pledge reads. “I further pledge that I will not seek to run as an independent or write-in candidate nor will I seek or accept the nomination for president of any other party.” Really? Really? Listen, I thought the question at the first debate — asking whether ...
Hot Air exclusive: Scott Walker speaks out on cop murders and American leadership
Post Date: 2015-09-03 09:54:04 by Tooconservative
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Hot Air is pleased to provide Governor Scott Walker with an opportunity to speak directly to voters in this guest column. We Need a Uniter-in-Chief, Not a Divider-in-Chief By Gov. Scott Walker Over the last week, we’ve seen a disturbing trend of police officers being murdered on the job. Texas Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth was killed Friday, gunned down while pumping gas for no apparent reason other than the uniform on his back. And just yesterday, in my neighboring state of Illinois, police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was assassinated by three men, who are still on the run. This isn’t the America I grew up in or that I want my children to grow up in. When the very ...
The Clintons’ plan to counterattack Obama
Post Date: 2015-09-03 08:48:16 by cranky
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The president holds the cards and they are damning Obama Administration Squeezes the Hillary CampaignHas the Clinton counterattack against President Obama begun? The Clintons have never taken a political hit lying down. But given their weak and panicky reactions to Mr. Obama’s current, well-orchestrated hit on her — the FBI investigation into her alleged mishandling of classified material as secretary of state — they have appeared to passively absorb the escalating attack. Until now. As he presses his attack, Mrs. Clinton has two choices. Option one: fold early and negotiate a mild end to the investigation in exchange for dropping out of the race. But Mr. Obama is not a ...
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