Along with Neo, I used to worry that Trump might compromise with the Dems too much. I worry less about that now. Trump’s governing performance has been conservative way beyond what I hoped for, and I think he has learned that Democrats are not trustworthy, in Congress or in the “news” media. That’s something he didn’t know before he came down the escalator in 2015.
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“May you live in interesting times” — isn’t that supposed to be a curse?
They can’t help overplaying their hand because it’s a losing one; however, as long as they have the media to cover for them, they will do okay.
The Senators lost on Kavanaugh because they got big media coverage of what they thought was going to be a barn-stormer case, and it was a barn-burner instead.
As to Trump’s political orientation now, I doubt he will give the Democrats the time of day unless there’s an upside for something he promised to do.

How did we ever get a president who actually believes in accomplishing what he campaigned on, instead of just putting out lies to soak the rubes (as Project Veritas so ably demonstrated recently)?

TARP was a originally a bad asset purchase program, that Bill Seidman, former head of the resolution trust corp. (RTC), immediately said was impossible to accomplish fairly. So TARP was converted to a mandatory confidence building preferred stock loan program. JP Morgan didn’t need it at all. Citi desperately needed it, because of all the damage Jack Lew did to the company. Remember who he is? Bank of American needed it moderately.

With the exception of Barney Frank’s pet local bank and few others, all that cash was paid back with a ton of interest. Yet the BLS tots up the TARP loan as an expenditure on G.W. Bush’s federal balance sheet. It all came back on Obama’s balance sheet, and STILL he had a biggest debt accumulation in history.

Again, the banks got bridge loans, which they paid back. The transactions on which the Federal Reserve and the Treasury lost money were the AIG rescue, the rescue of the auto industry components, and the rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (In ascending order of the sums involved). There isn’t any Deep State there. The UAW is a client of the Democratic Party and has been for 80+ years. As for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, they’re collecting pools of Democratic Party insiders and do not hide that. We’re not talking about people four layers deep in the CIA. We’re talking about senior Clinton Administration officials and prominent lobbyists: James Johnson, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelick, Herb Moses.

Her gambit at this point is to insist that provisional ballots be counted in an effort to reduce her opponent’s share of the total vote. He won 50.3% of the official tabulation. If she can force him down to 50% – 1, she compels a run-off election in December. If you’re a cynic, you’d suggest she’s stalling until shady NGOs in Atlanta and other places can put together sacks of absentee ballots cast in the name of people who’ve moved out of state. These ballots then appear either in this count or during the runoff. Given that her opponent is leading by 68,000 votes, I don’t think they can pull together a sufficient number of bogus votes to defeat him in this poll. She’d need to locate a minimum of 28,000 provisional ballots to force a run off. My last experience with retail politics at this level was in hand tabulating absentee ballots in a county which had 150,000 residents. I think the number of affidavit ballots we had to examine was in single digits. I cannot imagine she could locate 28,000 such ballots.

See here:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/07/politics/georgia-governors-race-stacey-abrams/index.html

Another part of this gambit is to claim she lost because of ‘voter suppression’, perhaps as a prelude to getting a Democratic operative on the federal bench to issue an order (whether he has any legal authority so to do or not) to annul the election.

Graceful loser she ain’t.

ok, here comes the fun, as Trump being a man who does real estate internationally, he is very big on RULES and understanding them and what you can do with them. even if no one else has….

the dems are used to people who tend not to have another choice at making a living, as politicans tend to be abysmal in investing unless they are using their inside info or political cache… ie. few of them can afford to fight in a real way!!! [even less so with a fickle public that wont back them if they do!]

House Rule XI, clause 2(m)(1) and (3) authorizes House committees and subcommittees to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents

this is what they are focused on..
they have lost situational awareness and are over focused
which is not going to be the plus it seems to them…

Senate Rule XXVI, paragraph 1 authorizes Senate committees and subcommittees to subpoena witnesses and documents.

Given the way this works, who has the REAL ADVANTAGE?
think hard..
Trumps hand is assumed and hidden… there is no requirement he shares his tax returns, there is no evidence he did anything illegal with it, he gets audited almost every year… so whatever happens most of the issue is going to fall on democrat administrations IRS failing…

but here comes the kicker!
you want his tax returns?
lets get all the paper on the russia nuclear deal that destroyed the nuclear finger print system
Nuclearfingerprinting of radioactive material in a radiological and nuclear safeguard perspective
http://www.nks.org/download/RADIOANALYSIS2013/rw13_mats_eriksson.pdf
[the sale of this stuff and other things insured that russia could make a nuclear bomb with a finger print from the USA… when before, they could not… ie. they could not set one off and then argue its US not russia, look at the isotopic ratios… etc]
https://www.iaea.org/topics/nuclear-forensics
Radioactive substances leave electron ‘fingerprints’ behind
New forensics technique could help solve nuclear whodunits
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/radioactive-substances-leave-electron-fingerprints-behind

the left, as per nechyeve and history, does NOT accept good guys in their ranks
they much prefer dirty people who have something to hide, then control them by holding back the knowing
[which is why there are more scandals with dems, and their rino counter parts… ALSO, this is why wealthy areas want dems, tey can be bought, and so, wealth has more influence in these areas to preserve the cows with money being milked at the expense of others who are hurt so they squeel to provide excuses and impetus to act (on other things – gotta keep em squeeling)]

want to guess who has more skeletons?
IF YOU WANT TO CLEAN THINGS UP, THEN THE PRESIDENT ATTITUDE WILL BE BRING IT ON!!!!
Nothing cleans house more than a subpeona war that exposes the swamp in details!!!

anyone want to take a side and play tit for tat?

here are some interesting starting points for the president:

Obama seems to think nobody will remember he grabbed almost a trillion dollars for “stimulus” spending, created virtually zero private-sector jobs with it, allowed a great deal of the money to vanish into thin air, and spent the rest of his presidency complaining that he needed hundreds of billions more to repair roads and bridges. Vast sums of taxpayer money were wasted on foolish projects that came close to the Keynesian economic satire of hiring some people to dig holes, and others to fill them in.

Operation Fast and Furious, the Obama administration’s insane program to use American gun dealers and straw purchasers to arm Mexican drug lords, is a scandal with a huge body count, prominently including Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jamie Zapata, plus hundreds of Mexican citizens. The more sinister take on Fast and Furious is that the Obama administration wanted to create gun crimes in Mexico so they could complain about lax regulations on American gun sales

Eric Holder held in contempt of Congress – Holder was the first sitting member of a president’s cabinet in the history of the United States to be held in contempt of Congress.

Establishment media came about as close to falling out of love with Barack Obama as ever when his administration was caught spying on journalists. Rosen was treated so badly that even Attorney General Eric Holder eventually admitted feeling a bit of “remorse” about it. Apparently he felt so much anguish that he suffered temporary amnesia and forgot to tell Congress that he signed off on the request to wiretap Rosen while he was testifying under oath.

this one could be a lot of fun with lots of dems involved and inconvenient facts a flowing…

The selective targeting of conservative groups by a politicized Internal Revenue Service was a scandal grenade Democrats and their media pals somehow managed to smother, even though the story began with the IRS admitting wrongdoing. There’s also no question about the facts of the follow-up scandal, in which IRS officials brazenly lied about having backups of relevant computer data. The American people were expected to believe that multiple state-of-the-art hard drives failed, and were instantly shredded instead of being subjected to data recovery procedures.

here is another one chock full of fun for them

Hillary Clinton’s secret server: While we’re on the subject of Hillary Clinton, her secret email server is an Obama scandal, too. She perpetrated her email offenses while working as his Secretary of State, and contrary to Obama’s false assertions, he knew about it.

Plenty of Obama officials other than Clinton played email games, most infamously EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, who created a false identity for herself named “Richard Windsor” to get around government transparency rules.

The Pigford scandal

the ghastly spectacle of Attorney General Holder thanking Snowden for performing a public service by exposing surveillance programs Holder’s own administration didn’t want to talk about. President Obama and his administration made many false statements as they tried to contain the political damage. The fallout included significant losses for U.S. companies, and diplomatic problems for the United States.

Iran nuclear deal and ransom payment: Everything about Obama’s dealings with Iran has been scandalous, beginning with his silence while the Green Revolution was brutally put down by the mullahs in 2009. The Iran nuclear deal was pushed with lies and media manipulation. The infamous pallet of cash that wasn’t a ransom has become symbolic of Obama’s mendacity and penchant for breaking the rules, when he thinks following them is too much trouble.

Polluting the Colorado river: The Environmental Protection Agency managed to turn the Colorado River orange under this greenest of green Presidents.

The GSA scandal: The General Services Administration was caught wasting ridiculous amounts of taxpayer money on lavish parties and silly projects. Heroic efforts to resist accountability were made, leaving puzzled observers to ask what it took to get fired from government

the secret death lists veterans were put on while executives handed in phony status reports and signed themselves up for big bonuses. Obama was more interested in spinning the news and minimizing his political exposure than addressing problems; in few areas outside ObamaCare has his rhetoric been more hollow

[where i work they take the tax money they get extra for employing me, dont give raises, pocket it, and run through millions in some welfare for startups and other stuff… amazing.. but medical is now like chicago all over… ]

Solyndra: The marquee green energy scandal wrote “crony capitalism” into the American political lexicon, as corners were cut and protocols ignored to shovel billions of taxpayer dollars at companies with absurdly unrealistic business models.

and the most fun part?

with Trump as president, ANYTHING that has not expired on statutes of limitations becomes actionable…
they would have hard time going after trump in college… but he could go after some of the old timers in office since… the 1960s…

i have a hot air popper.
we make our own butter!!! (shake shake shake)
anyone want to sit and watch the fun?

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“Two can play that game!”

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“It’s not like we’re going to go drunk-crazy with subpoenas. But it may seem that way because we are coming off a two-year drought of no subpoenas,” said Representative Gerald Connolly of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Oversight subcommittee on government operations.

next post, where the fun will come from!!!!!!!!!!
[i am good at strategy, neo has watched me retain my job
despite being under fire for years and more… most people suck at it…
they are quite easy to predict and have lots of wrong ideas of what makes it work]

Why was TARP converted from the purchase to a slush fund for wealthy individuals? Interesting issues still not understood.

Nearly 3 million jobs have been created since President Trump took office.

304,000 manufacturing jobs have been created since President Trump took office, and manufacturing employment stands at its highest level since December 2008.

337,000 construction jobs have been created since President Trump took office, and construction employment stands at its highest level since June 2008.

the unemployment rate has dropped to 3.8, the lowest rate since April 2000, and job openings have reached 6.6 million, the highest level recorded

American families received $3.2 trillion in gross tax cuts and saw the child tax credit double.

The top corporate tax rate was lowered from 35 percent to 21 percent so American businesses could be more competitive.

In 2017, President Trump far exceeded his promise to eliminate regulations at a two-to-one ratio, issuing 22 deregulatory actions for every new regulatory action. [which is why the house doesnt matter as much. removing things dont need them… ie. doesnt cost to remove cost]

The President improved the KORUS trade agreement with the Republic of Korea, which will allow more U.S. automobile exports to South Korea with lower tariffs and increase U.S. pharmaceutical access to South Korea.

Under President Trump, the United States has led an unprecedented global campaign to achieve the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

n May 2018 alone, Venezuela released one American and North Korea released three Americans who came home to the United States.

President Trump signed legislation to provide $700 billion in defense spending for fiscal year (FY) 2018 and $716 billion for FY 2019.

From the start of President Trump’s Administration to the end of FY 2017, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) made 110,568 arrests of illegal aliens. Of the 110,568 arrests made, 92 percent had a criminal conviction, pending criminal charge, were an ICE fugitive, or had a reinstated final order of removal.

In 2017, the Department of Justice worked with partners in Central America to file criminal charges against more than 4,000 members of MS-13.

As of April 2018, U.S. Border Patrol has seized 284 pounds of fentanyl in FY 2018, already surpassing the total of 181 pounds seized in FY 2017.

President Trump has confirmed the most circuit court judges of any President in their first year, and secured Justice Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation to the United States Supreme Court.

President Trump successfully eliminated the penalty for Obamacare’s burdensome individual mandate.

here are a few more, hope there arent repeats:
100 percent vote by UN Security Council to sanction North Korea.

41 percent decline in illegal southern border crossings

97,482 illegal immigrant arrests, 70 percent convicted of additional crimes, 52,169 expelled

Adopted a resolute policy on Afghanistan

Advocated for practical tertiary education

Advocated for skills-based immigration policies

American companies now expanding rather than shipping jobs overseas

Announced sanctions targeting Iran’s Revolutionary Guards

Appointed a Transportation Secretary who is modernizing air traffic control

Appointed an Education Secretary who is correcting abuses of Title IX

Appointed an EPA administrator who has rescinded over 30 regulations

Appointed an FDA director who is facilitating generic drug competition

Appointed an Interior Secretary to improve forest management and expand users of public lands

Approved the Keystone pipeline

Called for international support of Iranian protesters

Canceled school lunch program that failed to force children to eat unpopular foods

Constructed test models of the border fence

Convinced Japan and South Korea to increase defense spending

Convinced NATO members to honor minimum financial commitments

Decertified Iranian nuclear treaty and sent it to Senate as constitutionally required

Designated North Korea as a state-sponsor of terrorism

Eliminated prohibition on interstate health insurance sales

Ended abuses of the student loan forgiveness program

Ended forced provision of contraception by Catholic nunneries

Ended requirement for state funding of Planned Parenthood

Ended research into Y2K preparedness

Ended rule requiring employers to report pay data by gender and race

Expanded school-choice efforts

FCC has begun to dismantle unnecessary Internet “Neutrality” regulations

Foreign firms building plants and creating jobs in the U.S.

Improved rules of engagement for military in combat situations

Initiated resistance “sue and settle” tactics against EPA

Initiated sanctions on Venezuelan dictatorship

Introduced regulatory budgeting requiring agencies to rescind two rules to issue a new one

ISIS bombing ramped up from about 20 to 500 or more airstrikes per week

ISIS ground campaign intensified; Raqqa captured, its fighters surrendering in large numbers

Issued a National Security Strategy

Kate’s Law passed House now pending in Senate

Leveraged U.S. contribution to UN budget to force 5 percent budget cut and reduce staffs

NLRB reversed rule making indirect employee control sufficient to be “joint employees”

Nominated 60 judges, 21 confirmed, none yet denied

Nominated a new Fed chief

Nominated one Supreme Court judge, who was confirmed

Obtained release of Aya Hijazi after three years in Egyptian prison

Obtained release of Caitlan Coleman and husband from Haqqani

Obtained release of UCLA basketball players from China

Raised awareness of Opioid addiction crisis

Recognized Jerusalem as Israeli capital and announced plan to move U.S. embassy there

Reduced excess size of two national parks in Utah

Reduced permanent staff in all Cabinet agencies except VA, HS and Interior

Reduced White House staff by 110

Repeal of ACA mandate included in tax change bill

Requested increased funding for missile defense in face of North Korean and Iranian threats.

Rescinded (temporarily) the Jones Act, facilitating speedier emergency shipments to Puerto Rico

Rescinded 2015 Waters of the United States rule

Rescinded ban drilling in the Arctic and coastal areas

Rescinded coal mining ban on public lands

Rescinded criminalization of accidental killing of migratory birds

Rescinded Cuban cash give-away

Rescinded the “Clean Power Plan”

Rescinded the “War on Coal”

Rescinded threat to pull funds from schools that prohibit transgenders picking their bathrooms

Rescinded Title IX “guidance letter” on sexual harassment

Restored policy barring federal funding of abortions overseas

Restoring military capability in the face of personnel shortages and equipment failures

Revamped U.S. space program, assigning ambitious new objectives

Revised rules for screening potential terrorist tourists

Sanctioned Venezuela for human rights violations

Sanctuary cities legislation passed House pending in Senate

Signed 74 legislative bills (13 reversing executive orders) and 23 joint resolutions into law

Signed comprehensive tax change bill containing most of the changes he proposed

Signed legislation opening Arctic Natural Wildlife Reserve [ANWR] to oil drilling

Signed legislation to expedite firing of incompetent VA officials

Supreme Court largely upheld ban on selected travelers

Taking steps to control the rogue Consumer Finance Protection Agency

Targeted MS13 gang members for priority deportation

The president’s lawyers announced a framework for restoring the separation of powers:

Congress should cease delegating its legislative power to the executive branch

Courts should stop rubber-stamping regulations and orders that lack force of law

Executive will end informal “guidance documents” that undermine due process

U.S. energy production is on the upswing

U.S. sorties and assisted forces reduced ISIS to 2 percent of the area controlled in 2016

Unemployment is at 4.1 percent, a 17-year low

Withdrew from Paris Climate Accord

Withdrew from UNESCO (a warning to other wasteful, overstaffed UN agencies

you only care about the house if your expansionist… heh

here is a sampling of the topics Cummings and his Democratic colleagues have set their sights on:

White House security clearances (involving Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, national security adviser John Bolton, and others)
The controversial addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census
The Trump administration’s Muslim travel ban
The State Department’s decision to close its cyber office
The Environmental Protection Agency’s use of a political loyalty list
The possible participation of Cambridge Analytica’s foreign employees in US elections
The deadly ambush in Niger that left four American soldiers dead
The use of private email by White House officials
Trump’s response to the hurricane that devastated Puerto Rico
The dealings of the Trump Foundation
Potential conflicts of interest between Kushner’s business actions and his policy advice
Payments the Trump Organization received from foreign sources
Russian intervention with state voting systems
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s contacts with foreign officials

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MANY of these come wiht double binds..
but the funniest thing will be what they actually find
[i have worked with people like this, except for a few who are very well connected politically, they are honest in terms of following laws and rules, which is why they give so much money… you dont pay for rules you arent going to follow… ]

the best part is…
regardless of how the wind blows, it favors trump for re-election!

they are in a lose lose position now…
the current administration now has someone to blame
and to take toys away if they quiet down