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That’s all you got?

Two years of non-stop campaigning, denouncing and doxing — and all the Resistance has to show for it is a House majority smaller than the one Republicans currently have and a net loss of three Senate seats? (Thank you, Justice Brett Kavanaugh!)

Democratic leaders may try saying, “THIS IS JUST WHAT WE WANTED! We wanted to be down by three Senate seats.” But I think their voters are saying, We were hoping for more of a rebuke.

The media exhausted itself on this election! Can they go back to that level of hysteria today?

Dems prey on constitutional ignorance over Sessions ouster

When the “Constituitonal Crisis™” drumbeats start pounding, it’s usually around the idea that the president doesn’t have the power to fire the head of some “fourth branch” board, agency, or bureau (which he does).



What the Constitution actually does, however, is vest executive power in the president of the United States and give him the authority with advice and consent of the Senate to “appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for.” Cabinet members are officers of the United States.

You know what a bigger constitutional crisis would be? Too many of our fellow citizens don’t seem understand how the Constitution and the separation of powers outlined therein actually work, and there are too many politicians and pundits waiting to pounce on that ignorance like a coiled spring.

Non-Racist, Non-Sexist Left Shames White Women for the Scourge of a Crushed Blue Wave

The View’s Joy Behar Blames Gerrymandering for Democratic Senate Losses

Joy Behar of The View displayed her lack of knowledge on Wednesday when she blamed the Democratic Senate losses in the midterm elections on gerrymandering – despite that U.S. Senators represent the whole state rather than individual districts.

Fox's Howard Kurtz: It was a "misstep" for the White House to smear Jim Acosta with a "doctored video put out by InfoWars"

ANDRA SMITH (CO-ANCHOR): Sarah Sanders put out this tweet in response to revoking his press pass. They stand by that decision. She's most recently tweeted, "President Trump believes in a free press and expects and welcomes tough questions of him and his administration. We will, however, never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as White House intern." The White House Correspondents' Association, however, making it clear that they do not support this decision:"The Correspondents' Association strongly objects to the Trump administration's decision to use U.S. Secret Service security credentials as a tool to punish a reporter with whom it has a difficult relationship. Revoking access to the White House complex is a reaction out of line to the purported offense and is unacceptable." Howie?

HOWARD KURTZ (FOX NEWS MEDIA ANALYST): Yeah, I think it's a misstep on the part of the White House to claim that Jim Acosta was laying his hands on this young intern who tried to take the mic away. The contact was very incidental. I also think it was a misstep for Sarah Sanders to tweet out a doctored video put out by Infowars, the Alex Jones' conspiracy site that kind of made it look more aggressive than it was. His real offense here was being rude, as the president said, and he called him a terrible person. I don't know, President Trump knew what he was getting when he called on Jim Acosta, maybe he wanted some kind of confrontation. If so, Acosta played into his hands. But now you have CNN, you know, which says it tries to cover the president fairly, putting out a statement saying that the president's attacks on the press are un-American -- that's a really strong word. And so another setback for the relationship, the very tense relationship, as we saw throughout that 90 minute news conference between the president and some of his questioners.

EU Hails Democrats’ Gains in the Midterms

I don't think this is playing quite the way they want it played, but it is unfortunately, playing.

These people treat Trump and his administration with kid gloves

Where was the outrage when Obama barred a reporter, simply because he didn't like the question?

Revoking the press pass of one person is no big deal. CNN can still cover Trumps press conferences, they just need to get another reporter to do it.
Acosta has made it clear he dislikes Trump, but there is a time and place to show some decorum.
In the military, we were told that even if you don't respect the person, respect the rank.
I believe that jim Acosta has forgotten that simple concept.

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I know they really should rename the WH press briefing to something like WH spin room.

Are you naive enough to think that any administration does not spin things their way? Why is Trump and his administration not allowed to do what every other administration has done since this country's inception?

mysteryman wrote:

Where was the outrage when Obama barred a reporter, simply because he didn't like the question?

Revoking the press pass of one person is no big deal. CNN can still cover Trumps press conferences, they just need to get another reporter to do it.
Acosta has made it clear he dislikes Trump, but there is a time and place to show some decorum.
In the military, we were told that even if you don't respect the person, respect the rank.
I believe that jim Acosta has forgotten that simple concept.

Obama had a rude and obnoxious reporter thrown out of the White House and the WH Press Corps cheered. Prior to the order to toss him, they gave Obama their permission by chanting "Throw him out!"

They are a bunch hypocritical liars.

This clip documents an incident which took place at a July 2015 event at the White House in honor of LGBT Pride Month. President Obama was delivering a speech (not taking questions at a press conference) when a protester (not a reporter) interrupted and shouted at him to demand an end to the deportation of LGBT immigrants: