The only presidents to lose more seats in the midterms than Obama are Truman and FDR. http://t.co/fiNKOZFVw3 pic.twitter.com/4N04qKczCK
— Capital Journal (@WSJPolitics) November 10, 2014Hat tip: BadBlue News.
The only presidents to lose more seats in the midterms than Obama are Truman and FDR. http://t.co/fiNKOZFVw3 pic.twitter.com/4N04qKczCK
— Capital Journal (@WSJPolitics) November 10, 2014This was tweeted out this morning from the Ayatollah Khamenei’s Twitter account. This is the insanity leading a country on the brink of nuclear weapons…
Why should & how can #Israel be eliminated? Ayatollah Khamenei's answer to 9 key questions. #HandsOffAlAqsa pic.twitter.com/IVPOuNfMQH
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) November 9, 2014
QOTD: "Rob O’Neill, the man who claims he killed Osama bin Laden, said that “Osama bin Laden died like a p***y” in a series of interviews with freelance journalist Alex Quade that were excerpted on Friday’s “AC 360” on CNN.
O’Neill said “anytime anyone says ‘You know, my brother died at Cantor Fitzgerald, or my mom, whatever’ one thing I tell them is, ‘All right Osama bin Laden died like a p***y. That’s all I’m telling you, just so you know. He died afraid. And he knew we were there to kill him.’”
He also reported that other members of SEAL Team Six “knew we were going to die. we knew we weren't coming back…we all accepted it and nobody was afraid,” but that the victims of 9/11 helped motivate them saying, “we didn’t do it for us, we did it for the people who didn’t want to die.” And “9/11 is very significant. It was the whole reason we were there.” He added that the thought process before the mission was, “we’re gonna die, but we’re gonna die when the house blows up, but knowing that f***face blew up, too.”" --Breitbart TV
50 Democrats, 47 Republicans, and three Independents. Bernie Sanders is a sure thing to caucus with the Democrats, and Angus King won’t switch if doing so doesn’t put him in the majority. Orman won’t jump to the party he just beat, especially if it means being in the minority. So the Democratic caucus will end up at 53.
Like I said, I’m an optimist. But Democrats seem to be finally figuring out that a more full-throated defense of their values, especially when it comes to a woman’s right to choose, which is playing a key role in many of these elections (just look at the ads) is the path to victory. As long as the economy doesn’t take a sudden turn for the worse, I expect Democrats to surprise much of the punditry on November 4.
As if it weren’t bad enough that the U.S. spends exorbitant amounts of taxpayer funds to support illegal immigrants in this country, it’s allocating north of a million dollars to help the Mexican government combat employment discrimination in Mexico.
Is there no end to the madness? Each year Americans are forced to pay tens of billions of dollars to educate, feed, house, incarcerate and medically treat illegal aliens—most of them from Mexico—in the U.S. and now we’re sending cash south of the border for a cause that’s hardly ours to fund. Uncle Sam will dole out around $1.4 million to help Mexico enforce a two-year-old federal labor law that’s supposed to protect workers, but the Latin American country evidently doesn’t have the resources to enforce it.
The generous U.S. contribution will fund a technical assistance project in Mexico that’s supposed to help the government there combat gender discrimination and discrimination based on sexual orientation in the workplace. This also includes sexual harassment and forced pregnancy testing. The cash will flow through the Department of Labor (DOL), which has funded other similar causes in Latin America in the last few years. In this particular case, the mission is to improve working conditions, raise living standards, protect workers’ abilities to exercise their rights and address the workplace exploitation of vulnerable populations, according to the DOL grant announcement.
Aides to conservative members of the U.S. Senate say their bosses are rallying around a strategy to prevent President Obama from taking executive action to move illegal immigrants toward citizenship: Use government funding bills to withhold the money the president needs to implement his plan.
At the same time, some of the Senate’s most conservative members are worried that party leadership could try to strike a deal with Democrats in the lame duck session on a longer-term spending agreement that could limit lawmakers’ ability to defund whatever Obama decides to do.
In a series of interviews with The Daily Signal, conservative Senate staffers said their lawmakers firmly oppose Obama’s acting on his own to allow millions of illegal immigrants to stay in the country. However, they are open to supporting a piecemeal approach on immigration policy that would emphasize border security first.
The results of this week’s election — where Republicans took control of the Senate and picked up seats in the House with a platform opposed to unilateral immigration action by the president — only emboldened their will to fight it, the Senate staffers said.
“We know this issue motivates voters,” one aide said:
This election is validation for that. Voters don’t support amnesty and expanding DACA. It’s one of the only issues that is at the cross section of the economy and national security. We should not run from it. We should embrace it.
DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is the Obama administration program delaying deportation of illegal immigrants who were brought to America as children.
QOTD:Is there a better reason for term limits than Harry Reid? #FoxNews #Hannity #KellyFile #greta pic.twitter.com/Gc5ULTPy4L
— Janie Johnson (@jjauthor) November 7, 2014
Limbaugh has a most excellent idea:
Now, Boehner is gonna do his press conference, and I want to expand on something. I got an idea. It’s not a new one. It’s been done before. There will be legislation. In fact, part of stopping Obama is gonna be sending him stuff that we would hope he would sign. He won’t, he’ll veto it. So there will be stuff getting done, but they will be working, they will be coming up with legislation, for those of you who think that’s important. But here’s what I think they ought to do. With every bill the House and Senate come up with that they send to Obama, it must be a package, and the package that’s sent to Obama contains the actual legislation and a letter and polling data.
If you remember, the Contract with America back in 1994, that campaign, one of the promises made in the Contract with America: only legislation that featured 60% support or more of the American people would be passed. It was part of the promise to do the work of the American people, to govern with the will of the American people. The Republicans running for Congress in ’94 promised they would not govern against the will of the people, because the Democrats were and always have. They’ve been doing that more than ever in the past six years.
Virtually everything that’s happened has been against the will of the American people. Amnesty, Obamacare, it’s never had the majority support. So what I think Boehner ought to do, give himself some cover. You know, these guys are looking for cover anyway. So you come up with whatever your legislation, say it’s repeal part of Obamacare, whatever it is, repeal the medical device tax. Fine.
Send it up there and accompany it with a letter from McConnell and Boehner to President Obama complete with polling data showing this is supported by the American people by whatever percentage the poll says and then publicize it, release it. “Today we sent legislation up to President Obama in our effort to get along and our effort to get something done and our effort to compromise,” whatever gobbledygook you want to say, and then include the fact that 60, 65, 67% of the American people support this and want this, and then make Obama react to it.
“But, Mr. Limbaugh, Obama will say he doesn’t care because that means two-thirds didn’t, and he’s got to stand for all Americans.” Doesn’t matter what he does, what you do is what matters. His reaction, we know he’s gonna veto it anyway. The point of this is not for Obama. You assemble this package, this bill and the letter and the polling data for public consumption, so that the public knows what Obama is doing when Obama vetoes something. It’s not a War on Women bill. It’s not something the Democrats and the media lie about and concoct. You submit the bill, a letter explaining it complete with polling data showing massive public support, release that so that the American people know what Obama is vetoing.
So the American people know what Obama and the Democrats oppose, thereby putting gridlock on their shoulders. Thereby putting opposition to getting things done on their shoulders. Thereby making them the obstructionists. The Republicans are simply representing the will of the people. The people want the medical device tax removed. Here’s a piece of legislation that will do it. Sign it, Mr. President. (Obama impression) “Hell, no, screw you, and Michael Jordan, too.” Vetoes it, case closed.
What’s so hard about this?
Well, I’ll just about guarantee it’s way too hard for the GOP to ever figure out. But I’d bet Cruz would be down with it.
In a dramatic development, Israeli cabinet members are warning that US President Barack Obama threatened Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US may opt not to oppose future hostile UN Security Council votes, unless Israel accedes to American policy demands...
...The threat, at least as leaked, implies that the United States is prepared to abandon Israel in the dock of the world body, a step that could further destabilize relations between the two allies to an unprecedented degree, Kahana said.
The Palestinians, according to one version, are demanding Israeli pull backs to the pre-67′ war lines by 2016, while another version says the UNSC threat refers to halting any and all Israeli construction beyond those areas...
...a recent article in The Atlantic by Jeffery Goldberg – who is commonly seen as reflecting the US administration’s views towards Israel – referencing the US pressure, but from the American point of view:
Citing what he called “red-hot” anger by the Obama administration “over Israel’s settlement policies,” and his view that “the Netanyahu government openly expresses contempt for Obama’s understanding of the Middle East,” Goldberg warned that “Profound changes in the relationship may be coming.”
“This is a precedent and a very dangerous step,” Kahana cautioned about the American threat, and said it was the most chilling thing he’d heard uttered in decades of Israel-US relations.
Senator Harry ReidQOTD: "I declare this National Republican Gloating Week. We kicked the Democrats’ collective posterior, beat them at their own game, seized territory in deep-blue states, outperformed the MSM polls (often by double digits), killed them in GOTV efforts, in technology, in social media, in mail-in ballots and in the voting booth.
Next week, we can roll up our sleeves and get to work. But today is for savoring." --Jon Gabriel
Election 2014: A Conservative Victory by The Conservative Victory Project
The American people sent an unmistakable message to Washington: Voters expect Republicans in Congress to listen and fight for the conservative agenda they ran on.

- Every single newly elected Republican Senator ran on the full repeal of Obamacare. In most competitive races it was the top issue. Over 40,000 ads against Obamacare were run on behalf of winning candidates. The Republican House and Senate must now keep those campaign promises and use reconciliation to send a bill repealing Obamacare to the President.
- All but one of the newly elected Republican Senators ran a strong campaign in favor of securing the border and opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants.
- Every single newly elected Republican Senator ran in support of an agenda for hard-working middle class Americans that reduces spending, lowers taxes, and balances the budget-not in support of corporate welfare, bloated government spending bills, and endless debt-ceiling increases.
- Far from downplaying social issues, every newly elected Republican Senator is pro-life and supports legislation that would protect unborn life after five months of pregnancy. The liberal candidates who painted pro-life candidates as engaged in a “War on Women” were routinely criticized and defeated.
Simply put, successful candidates ran as conservatives and won.
Oppose a Lame Duck Surrender
The Washington establishment is already calling on Republican leaders to capitulate to the Left in the Lame Duck. This means that opportunities to pursue conservative reforms next year will be lost. New and returning Republican members should only vote for Leaders in the Senate and House who commit not to cave-in to President Obama and outgoing Majority Leader Reid in the Lame Duck. The newly elected Republican Congress must have the opportunity to govern and return competence to a broken Washington.
...tension [inside the Democrat Party] blew up Tuesday when Krone’s comments about Democrats’ dismal showing in the 2014 midterms went public. He accused Obama of paying “lip service” to concerns about helping finance the midterm elections and said the president was an anchor that took down Democrats across the country, costing them the Senate majority.
“The president’s approval rating is barely 40 percent,” Krone said. “What else more is there to say?”
Krone joined Reid’s team as deputy chief of staff, helping guide him through a rocky 2010 reelection, and for the past four years as chief, Krone has channelled Reid. So his comments can reasonably be viewed as Reid’s views of Obama.
Apple pre-announced the much anticipated Apple Watch a few months ago, but neglected to discuss a price or exact launch date. Rumors are now pointing to a Valentine’s Day (February 14th) release in the US and a higher price than expected. The mid-tier stainless steel watch will sell for a somewhat high $500, but Apple will reportedly also offer the 18-karat gold “Apple Watch Edition” version for a whopping $5,000.
Any watch priced at $5,000 is a serious luxury item, and this device doesn’t even have all the intricate clockwork that watch enthusiasts love to geek out over. The rumored price is much higher than previous estimates based on similarly sized gold accessories. Jewelers estimated the gold watch could cost about $1,200. This version of the watch will also come with sapphire crystal and exclusive strap options. Still, that’s a lot to spend on a device that will be replaced with a new version in a year.
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted to the court that it failed to search any of the IRS standard computer systems for the “missing” emails of Lois Lerner and other IRS officials. The admission appears in an IRS legal brief opposing the Judicial Watch request that a federal court judge allow discovery into how “lost and/or destroyed” IRS records relating to the targeting of conservative groups may be retrieved. The IRS is fighting Judicial Watch’s efforts to force testimony and document production about the IRS’ loss of records in Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation about the IRS targeting of Tea Party and other opponents of President Obama(Judicial Watch v. IRS (No. 1:13-cv-1559)). The lawsuit is before U.S. District Court Judge Emmett G. Sullivan.
The law requires that an FOIA search encompass all "reasonably retrievable" records, from which the party served can then argue for exemptions from disclosure.
It does not permit the target to choose not to look at its pleasure.
The foundation of any legitimate government is the Rule of Law.
We have lost that in this country, and until it is restored no progress will be made on any of the other issues that face us.
It's that simple, whether you're conservative, liberal or otherwise.
The IRS admitted to Judge Sullivan that the agency failed to “submit declarations about any of the foregoing items because it had no reason to believe that they were sources from which to recover information lost as a result of Lerner’s hard drive failure.” [Emphasis added] Department of Justice attorneys for the IRS had previously told Judicial Watch that Lois Lerner’s emails, indeed all government computer records, are backed up by the federal government in case of a government-wide catastrophe. The Obama administration attorneys said that this back-up system would be too onerous to search. In the October federal court filing, the IRS does not deny that the government-wide back-up system exists, and acknowledges to the court that 760 other email “servers” have been discovered but had not been searched.
The IRS also refuses to disclose the names of the IRS officials who may have information about the IRS scandal, citing unspecified threats. The IRS says it pulled documents about the scandal from various employees into a “Congressional database” and that it has only searched this one “database” for missing records. Incredibly, the IRS has not searched any of the IRS’s regular computer systems for any missing records and admits that it has only searched a “database” that it knows does not contain the missing records being sought by the court, Judicial Watch, and Congress.
QOTD: "On Tuesday, Mark Levin said it’s now time that conservatives take back the GOP once and for all. And he said Republicans must not relinquish the power of the purse during the lame-duck sessions of Congress...
"We gotta kick the liberals out and then take back the Republican party,” Levin declared. “We must get a conservative nominated in 2016... “How many more times are we going to beat our head against the walls” with McCains and the Romneys in presidential elections?
The scholar and former Chief of Staff to Ronald Reagan’s Attorney General Ed Meese said the country is in a post-constitutional period. He warned Republicans not to surrender before the next Congress even starts.
He said that if Republicans leaders work with Democrats on a "massive omnibus budget bill” during the lame-duck session, “then they’ve just surrendered the power of the purse and they have nothing left to rein in Obama.” Levin said that the Framers felt that the power of the purse was “so crucial” that they gave most of it to the House of Representatives “because it’s the people’s house.”
He warned Republican leaders like current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner to not work with Democrats to pass an omnibus bill during the lame-duck session." --Tony Lee
Retired Marine Maj. “Fox” Sinke says he has received threatening phone calls from Arabic speakers since he stood guard at Canada’s National War Memorial last week.
But as he told police: “If they’re looking for a fight, they came to the right guy.”
Sinke said he received at least two phone calls on Tuesday from people who screamed at him in Arabic and then hung up.
“The only words I recognized were ‘kill you,’ because I’ve heard them before,” he said.
When Sinke told police about the phone calls, he added, “I promise you this: If they come here, they’ll die here.”
Political Correctness: The perils of multiculturalism and open borders have reached critical mass in Sweden. There are Muslim enclaves where postal, fire and other essential services — even police officers themselves —require police protection.
A police report released last month identifies 55 of these "no-go zones" in Sweden. These zones are similar to others that have popped up in Europe in recent years. They formed as large Muslim populations emigrating to politically correct and tolerant European states refuse to assimilate and set up virtual states within a state where the authorities fear to tread.Soeren Kern of the Hudson Institute has documented the proliferation of these zones. They are de facto Muslim micro-states under Shariah law that reject Western values, society and legal systems. In these districts non-Muslims are expected to conform to the dictates of fundamentalist Islam or face violent consequences.
"A more precise name for these zones," says Middle Eastern expert Daniel Pipes, "would be Dar al-Islam — the House of Islam or the place where Islam rules."
Muslim immigration to Sweden has been fostered by an open-border asylum policy. In the 1990s, the country welcomed 100,000 refugees fleeing the conflict in the Balkans.
"The operation targeted Mexican gun traffickers, but two rifles involved were linked to the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry."
That is the official MSM Koolaid line, but it's a lie. Under Operation Fast and Furious, there was no attempt to track the guns after they crossed the border. We didn't even inform the Mexican government or law enforcement, or seek their cooperation in tracking the guns, because tracking the guns was not the objective. The objective was to buttress the false meme being promoted by Obama, Holder and Hillary Clinton that "90% of the guns found at Mexican murder scenes came from America." The actual objective, by spreading this lie, was to turn Americans against the 2nd Amendment.
300+ Mexicans and a pair of American agents murdered with F&F guns were the price Obama, Holder and Clinton were willing to pay. Mass murder abroad was the price they were willing to pay for a political objective at home. And what did we hear from American Pravda? Crickets. Operation Fast and Furious was pure evil, mass murder for political purposes, and the MSM was a willing partner.
American Pravda's motto today is "It's not a scandal if we don't report it!" "Look, a squirrel! Celebrities are having scandals! Pay no attention to our own government conducting a mass-murder operation to attain a political objective!" And with the help of the collaborating MSM, it worked.
The Washington Post just spent another week celebrating their Watergate scoops with the passing of Ben Bradley. How many people were murdered in the Watergate scandal? Zero, compared to 300+ Mexicans and at least 2 American federal agents.
And what do we get from the WaPo? Crickets, and an occasional article promoting the absurd cover story for Operation F&F, that it was intended to track the guns in Mexico.
QOTD: "...Campaign 2014 is another textbook example of media bias. According to the national media, Kansas and Georgia were going to turn blue. Kansas because of Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS)93%, but more importantly because Gov. Sam Brownback decided to force through “unpopular” tax cuts. For weeks, Chuck Todd has been gearing up to claim tax cuts are no longer a winning issue for the GOP. But Sam Brownback got re-elected, as did Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS)93%, and the Kansas Democrats lost seats in the state legislature. The media ignored so much in Kansas. In Georgia, the media bought into the Democrats’ narrative that the state was going blue. In fact, both Nathan Deal and David Perdue won without runoffs. Neither Jason Carter nor Michelle Nunn improved the Democrats’ position from 2010. In fact, in baseline races where there was no heavy partisan activity, Georgia Republicans averaged 58% of the vote. In Florida, Rick Scott beat Charlie Crist. Were you to believe the media for the past three months, there was no way Scott could get re-elected.
Likewise, the media spent months salivating over Democrats Allison Grimes, Wendy Davis, and Michelle Nunn. All three women lost. Meanwhile, the GOP is sending the first black female Republican to Congress with Mia Love. They’re sending conservative legend Barbara Comstock who won in Northern Virginia. And they’re sending veteran Joni Ernst from Iowa. Ernst, by the way, ran one of the best campaigns in America. But the media ignored the Republican women, focusing instead on the fashion choices of losing Democrats who stroked their world view.
By the way, not only did Wendy Davis lose the gubernatorial election in Texas, but her State Senate seat flipped to the GOP’s tea party candidate, Konni Burton." --Erick Erickson