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layman
 
  -4  
Fri 30 Jun, 2017 12:09 pm
Ya aint no Babe, McCabe:

Quote:
Acting FBI boss Andrew McCabe faces pressure, probes

Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe is under mounting scrutiny and increasing calls for him to step aside amid allegations of politicized leadership, conflicts of interest and significant investigative missteps at the nation’s top law enforcement agency.

“There is no way McCabe can survive. I’d be shocked."- Former FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom

Kallstrom was referring to McCabe’s reported role in several controversial probes during the 2016 election. According to the Wall Street Journal, it was McCabe who told lower-level FBI investigators to “stand down” in their inquiry into whether illegal influence-peddling or financial crimes were being committed at the Clinton Foundation. Meanwhile, McCabe did not recuse himself from the investigation into presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails, despite an apparent conflict of interest involving his wife.

“I’ve talked to numerous agents that have some knowledge of what’s going on inside the FBI,” said Kallstrom. "The appearance of conflict of interest is substantial, and you can’t have a high position in the bureau and have even the apparent conflict of interest.

The latest challenge is coming from a former FBI agent who told Fox News that McCabe has created an overly politicized environment at the bureau, and her career suffered because of it.

“McCabe is vicious to anyone who either stands up to him or is a threat to his ‘power’ and [he] is a screamer,” said former Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz, who lost her job after 16 years with the FBI investigating some of the most high profile terrorist incidents in recent history, after getting tangled up with her superiors, who pushed her out and pulled her security clearance.

According to Circa News, Gritz's sexual discrimination and retaliation complaint is one of three such administrative inquiries faced by McCabe.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/30/acting-fbi-boss-andrew-mccabe-faces-pressure-probes-uncertain-future.html

More corruption in the FBI, eh? They need to clean house, sho nuff.

Wray's just the man to do the job, too. Before being nominated, he forswore allegiance to the constitution and pledged his loyalty exclusively to Trump.
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snood
 
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Fri 30 Jun, 2017 01:47 pm
@McGentrix,
With the guy the Republicans put in the White House, it doesn't track as real sensible to be casting aspersions about mental health.
layman
 
  -2  
Fri 30 Jun, 2017 01:47 pm
@McGentrix,
They're trying to create some lame-ass "panel," but if you read the amendment AND assume that such a panel is (1) proper to begin with, and (2) declares Trump's "inability" to act, it STILL requires Pence to agree with them.

If, and only if, Pence agreed, it would STILL take a 2/3 super-majority in BOTH houses.

These cheese-eaters really think their fondest fantasies have a basis in reality

Who's nuts here, I ax ya?
snood
 
  7  
Fri 30 Jun, 2017 01:57 pm
@McGentrix,
But seriously McG, just between you and me ...
Does Trump strike you as someone who is emotionally and mentally healthy?
ossobucotemp
 
  3  
Fri 30 Jun, 2017 02:08 pm
@snood,
Meantime, many state Attorney Generals are considering sueing the EPA:
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/Connelly-Stop-flaunting-the-Clean-Air-Act-or-11256322.php

clip:
The Trump administration will be sued if it does not immediately halt violating and flouting the Clean Air Act, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and 12 AG colleagues told EPA administrator Scott Pruitt in a letter today.

The attorneys general have acted in response to foot dragging over rules limiting emissions of methane and other pollutants by the oil and gas industry.
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Sorry, snood, I didn't mean to send the above directly to you.

layman
 
  -3  
Fri 30 Jun, 2017 02:15 pm
@ossobucotemp,
ossobucotemp wrote:
The Trump administration will be sued if it does not immediately halt violating and flouting the Clean Air Act, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and 12 AG colleagues told EPA administrator Scott Pruitt in a letter today.

The attorneys general have acted in response to foot dragging over rules limiting emissions of methane and other pollutants by the oil and gas industry.


Heh, nice try, cheese-eaters. "Rules" aint the "law." Pruitt can write, or revoke, any damn rules he wants, anytime.

Quote:
Ferguson feels the Trump administration is not only violating the law, but squelching an opportunity to limit greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere.

The EPA, last year, adopted a rule limiting methane emissions from new and modified oil and gas extraction and pipeline facilities.


"Rules" don't come from congress, fools. They come from within the agency itself.

Even if he doesn't take the time to revoke the rule, it will soon be a moot point anyway, because the EPA is going to soon be abolished as a separate department.
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layman
 
  -2  
Fri 30 Jun, 2017 02:35 pm
Vote for me. There will be free **** for all, I tellzya!

Quote:
Senate Democrat blasts 'Obamaphone' over fraudulent findings, complete lack of oversight'

A new government audit finds more than a third of enrollees of the "Obamaphone" program may not be qualified -- among other fraudulent findings -- prompting a Senate Democrat to roundly criticize the program's "complete lack of oversight."

A report released Thursday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) claims the program, which gives cell phones to poor people, stashed $9 billion in private bank accounts, the Washington Times reported.

The 90-page report was requested by Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat who serves as ranking Democrat on the Senate’s chief oversight committee and who is a former state auditor in Missouri.

The GAO report found that about 10.6 million people have an Obamaphone, but 36 percent of them may not qualify, according to the Washington Times. The audit also concluded that more than 5,500 people were found to be enrolled for two phones, while the program was paying for about 6,400 phones for persons the government has listed as dead, the paper reported.

"We’re currently letting phone companies cash a government check every month with little more than the honor system to hold them accountable, and that simply can’t continue," she said.


Nine BILLION!? That's some pretty bigtime fraud, eh?

We aint talkin millions, but BILLIONS.
oralloy
 
  -4  
Fri 30 Jun, 2017 02:44 pm
@layman,
layman wrote:
If, and only if, Pence agreed, it would STILL take a 2/3 super-majority in BOTH houses.

True. But I can't be the only one who is sick of these antics and is ready for an America where the Democratic Party has been abolished.
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gungasnake
 
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Fri 30 Jun, 2017 02:48 pm
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/06/30/brutal-democratic-2018-hopes-get-another-punch-to-the-gut-from-center-left-think-n2348548?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=
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layman
 
  -3  
Fri 30 Jun, 2017 02:48 pm
@layman,
Quote:
"We’re currently letting phone companies cash a government check every month with little more than the honor system to hold them accountable, and that simply can’t continue," she said.


Just doin a little quick math here...Let's see now: 10.6 million phones. 36% fraudulent, that's over three and a half million phones right there, aint it?

Say the monthly check to phone companies is $40 per phone, per month. That comes to around $150 MILLION, every month---closing in on TWO BILLION every damn year.

Whatta scam. Your money.

I wonder how much phone companies contributed to the democratic party, eh? Or maybe they just sent the money straight to Iran, to avoid detection.
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layman
 
  -3  
Fri 30 Jun, 2017 02:59 pm
Whenever there's some big-ass government program to "help the poor," you can bet that fat corporations, frauds, and corrupt politicians are going to steal most of the money which funds it, be it in Haiti, the Congo, or the U.S.
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gungasnake
 
  -4  
Fri 30 Jun, 2017 03:06 pm
@Oralloy

The demopoop party is in the same category of things as the KKK, the Mafia, the green dragon tong, the red dragon tong, the Yakuza, the thug society, the society for the restoration of the Hohenzollern monarchy, Unitede Assholes of Arkansas (UAA), and everything else in the world like that...
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layman
 
  -2  
Fri 30 Jun, 2017 03:18 pm
Wapo fesses up, eh?

The Washington Post wrote:
Even sweeping the Suburbs would not be enough for Democrats to win House majority

The opposition party needs to win 24 seats to take control of the House in 2018. Understandably, operatives and handicappers have focused on the 23 districts that Republicans hold, which voted for Hillary Clinton last year. But some of the incumbents are very popular, with brands that are distinct from Trump’s, and they are unlikely to lose no matter how bad the headwinds become.

In other words, it’s inconceivable that Democrats run the table in those 23 districts. Even if they did, they’d still be one short. And Democrats must defend 12 seats in districts that Trump carried in 2016.

Hatalsky, who co-authored the report with Ryan Pougiales, emphasized that Democrats still would not win the House even if they could get every single 2016 Clinton voter who backed a Republican House candidate to turn out again in 2018 and cross over.

“You can’t get to a House majority without winning over Trump voters,” she said. “There are some people who definitely want to believe that they can because they still don’t know how to deal with Trump voters and are intimidated by the idea of appealing to them.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/06/29/daily-202-even-sweeping-the-suburbs-would-not-be-enough-for-democrats-to-win-the-house-majority/59540e75e9b69b7071abc93e/?utm_term=.b8448b9823cb&wpisrc=nl_daily202&wpmm=1

The loony left just gets loonier by the day, eh?
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layman
 
  -2  
Fri 30 Jun, 2017 03:23 pm
Is it likely that the cheese-eaters will awaken from their self-deluded stupor?

Fraid not. You can convince a chump of virtually anything EXCEPT that he's done been played.
layman
 
  -2  
Fri 30 Jun, 2017 03:38 pm
Now, who coulda guessed this, eh?:

Quote:
Trump, Kushner never blackmailed Scarborough

Scarborough asked Kushner if there was anything that could be done about the article, the source said, given Trump’s friendship with David Pecker, the chief executive of The Enquirer’s parent company, American Media.

Kushner allegedly told Scarborough that the former Republican congressman needed to talk to the president himself about the issue, to which Scarborough replied that Trump was angry at him. The source said Kushner answered: “Well, then maybe you should apologize."

There was nothing in the conversation between Kushner and Scarborough to suggest a quid pro quo or blackmail – merely presenting the idea that if Scarborough wanted to get back on speaking terms with the president, perhaps an apology was in order.

Though Scarborough and Brzezinski were initially criticized for being too cozy with Trump during the Republican presidential primaries, the relationship eventually soured and the pair became frequent and ferocious critics of the president – even going so far as to question his mental health.


Nice try, Lyin Joe.

Lyin Joe seeks presidential intervention in connection with a true story that's going to come out against him, and, when that fails, claims he was "blackmailed," eh?

Sounds like a cheese-eatin professional victim, sho nuff.
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gungasnake
 
  -2  
Fri 30 Jun, 2017 03:40 pm
@layman,
The problem is that the demopoop party has done major damage to the shallow end of the American gene pool (made it shallower) and even if we could eliminate public schools altogether this very day it might take two decades to recover from that damage.
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layman
 
  -2  
Fri 30 Jun, 2017 03:56 pm
This is what happens when entire generations are raised on diets that consist of nothing but cheese, eh?

Quote:
Forty-one percent of Americans under age 35, he said, “now think the First Amendment is dangerous because you might use your freedom of speech to say something that would hurt someone else’s feelings.”


God help us.

Quote:
In three surveys from the past year that asked similarly worded questions about speech that might offend, around 60 percent said Americans need to be able to speak frankly about controversial issues and problems even if some people are offended, while around 40 percent said people should be more careful about the language they use to avoid giving offense to people with different backgrounds.

In a new Morning Consult poll that asked whether universities should allow guest speakers on campus, even if the guest’s words are considered hateful or offensive, only half of 18–29 year said they should be allowed.


http://www.aei.org/publication/polls-on-political-correctness/
 

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