Friday, December 19, 2014
The Cromnibus, Illustrated
And they wonder why Americans in flyover country are crazy about Ted Cruz and Mike Lee?
Who is On the Obama Enemies List?
We are pleased to announce that Judicial Watch has joined forces with investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed jointly against the Department of Justice (DOJ). We want “any and all records” relating to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) background checks on the award-winning correspondent. The request includes correspondence between Attkisson and FBI agents.
According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch one month ago, the DOJ and the White House targeted the former CBS correspondent as a result of her investigations into the growing Operation Fast and Furious scandal. In an October 4, 2011, email to White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz, Attorney General Eric Holder’s top press aide, Tracy Schmaler, described Attkisson as “out of control.” Schmaler added ominously, “I’m also calling Sharryl’s [sic] editor and reaching out to Scheiffer” (an apparent reference to CBS’ Chief Washington Correspondent and Face the Nation moderator Bob Scheiffer). Schultz responded, “Good. Her piece was really bad for the AG.”
Leaving no stone unturned, the Judicial Watch/Attkisson lawsuit specifically asks for:
NO. PRINTABLE. COMMENT: Obama Apologizes to Castro
Barack Obama apologized to Cuban president Raul Castro during their phone conversation after the American commander in chief's opening remarks... Obama began the phone call with Castro with what he described as 15 minutes of opening comments. It was the first conversation between the heads of state in both countries since 1961.
"I apologized for taking such a long time," Obama said... According to the president, Raul Castro proceeded to speak to Obama uninterrupted for 30 minutes.
I tremble to think what additional damage this President will do to liberty, both here and abroad, in his remaining 25 months in office. Twenty. Five. Months.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Larwyn's Linx: Why Obama Loves Dictators
Nation
Why Obama Loves Dictators: Sara NobleNorks Nix Yanks' Pix: Mark Steyn
‘Racial’ Cop Stories That Didn’t Make The Cut: Larry Elder
Mrs. Obama’s Tall Tales of Racialized Victimhood: Michelle Malkin
Sanctuary City Mayor Orders Security Fence, For His House: Sara Noble
Did Obama’s new Cuba policy just launch Rubio’s presidential campaign?: LI
The Empire Strikes Back: Jeff Sessions out as Budget Committee Chair: RS
Once Again, the Establishment Cries Foul Over a Stand for Principle: FW
Why the Individual Mandate is Still Super Unpopular: Julie Borowski
The Perfect Ticket: Clinton-Bush: Rush
GOP Sen. Mark Kirk Vows To Screen “The Interview” At Fundraisers: Surge
Surprise! Rauner says IL budget problems worse than expected: ABC-7
Economy
Reminder to the Uninsured: Obamacare Fines are Coming: RSShumlin: Single-payer ‘greatest disappointment of my political life’: Watchdog
CBS Poll: Fewer Americans Find Healthcare Affordable: Lid
Scandal Central
MO Lt. Gov. Demands That DOJ Make Ferguson Findings Public: Dana LoeschAnti-Semites at Harvard to Stop Buying SodaStream Machines: NRO
Colorado sued by neighboring states over legal pot: Trevor Hughes
Climate & Energy
EPA: Time to Abolish, Not Merely Restrict: William F. JasperEnergy usage reports designed to shame, VT couple says: Bruce Parker, Watchdog
Media
President Obama Rewards Media Matters with a Political Nomination: PJMFake Conservatives In The Media: Cliff Kincaid
Nitwit Punk Seth Meyers: I'm OK With Elizabeth Warren Controlling My Money: NB
Capitulation Complete: Paramount Bans Showing of Team America: World Police: Ed Driscoll
When Hollywood Had Stones: The Stooges' gutsy move: IMDB
Bill Ayers applauds Obama's Cuba move, wants continued Cuban protection of fugitive terrorist: Marathon
World
Top 10 Lies in Obama's Cuba Speech : BreitbartCuba: Why was it decided secretly, and is it now open season on American kidnappings?: Allen West
Deal between U.S., Cuba culminated 18 months of secret talks: Miami Herald
EU Backs Palestinian Dictatorship: Khaled Abu Toameh
Hamas's International Triangle of Bases: Gaza, Turkey and Qatar: IPT
Woman who inspired #illridewithyou after Sydney jihad siege now admits she “editorialized”: JihadWatch
Cuba: What is the regime going to do?: Fausta
Australia, ISIS And The Role Of Guns: Herschel Smith
Islamic State Jihadi has executed at least 150 women in Fallujah, some pregnant: Scoop
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
How to Lose a Cyberwar with North Korea: RS2014 TopSpeed Performance Car Of The Year: TopSpeed`
In Just 22 Years, Car Theft Rates Have Plunged by 58 Percent: AutoTrends
Cornucopia
“I’ve been mistaken for a valet” and Other Tales of the Dark Side: MOTUSTouching Obama's robe somehow makes liars of everyone who surrounds him: Obiter Dictum
Meet the 'accidental American' with a big tax bill: Sophia Yan
Image: Kim's Plans
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QOTD: "Jeb Bush has made it clear that he wants to win the Republican nomination without needing the votes of the Republican base, i.e., the Tea Party.
He doesn't want to have to sell his soul for the Tea Party vote. What that means is, he doesn't want to have to pretend to be a conservative at any time during the primary to get the Tea Party or conservative vote... He's not gonna pander. And as evidence, I offer you this from the Washington Times. This is back in 2009, May 3 of 2009, but it's important that you have this in the hopper.
"Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Saturday that it’s time --" this is May 3rd of 2009, so five years ago, admittedly, but it fits nicely with yesterday. "Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Saturday that it’s time for the Republican Party to give up its 'nostalgia' for the heyday of the Reagan era and look forward, even if it means stealing the winning strategy deployed by Democrats in the 2008 election." --Rush Limbaugh
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Jeb Bush's Unseemly Love Affair with Communist Core
Election 2016: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush embraces one-size-fits-all national education standards that would turn schools into re-education camps for the left. His decision could cause trouble with GOP primary voters.
As is the tradition these days, Jeb Bush, brother of one former president and son of another, has announced via social media that he is preparing to run for president, setting the stage for another Bush-Clinton contest in 2016 should former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton get the Democratic nomination.To be the Republican nominee, Bush must run a gauntlet of primaries where he'll need to persuade Tea Party types and hard-core conservatives to get behind an "establishment" candidate who supports Common Care, a program that former Rep. Allen West has called "the ObamaCare of education."
Common Core is a set of education and learning standards that so far has produced bizarre lesson and learning plans. Some see it as a progressive dream of turning K-12 schools into leftist re-education camps — much as many major universities and colleges already are.
Some five years ago, a majority of states gave up a big chunk of their sovereignty by embracing a set of national teaching and education standards. Because the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) concept originated with a coalition of state governors and the goal of setting a uniform standard for grades K-12 nationwide, the common belief was: What could go wrong?
Since Washington stepped into the picture, Common Core has morphed into a tool to eliminate local control of education. Instead of teaching kids how to read and count, CCSS lesson plans often contain subliminal messages that teach them what to think.
Consider the worksheet that asks students to rewrite sentences to make them "less wordy." Sentences such as "The commands of government officials must be obeyed by all." Presumably, "commands" include executive orders that shred the Constitution.
These worksheets, published by New Jersey-based Pearson Education, ask fifth-graders to edit such sentences as "he (the president) makes sure the laws of the country are fair" and "the wants of an individual are less important than the well-being of the nation."
That last sentence, by the way, sounds to us suspiciously like the old Marxist axiom "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need."
Déjà vu: Corrupt, Senile GOP Leaders Viciously Attack Party's Statesmen, But Not a Rogue President
The "CRomnibus" government funding bill passed handily last weekend, but not before Senators Lee and Cruz had their say. In a controversial move, the two senators managed to put their colleagues on record voting for or against funding President Obama's latest unconstitutional executive power grab. Many Republican senators, however, protest too much, claiming that Lee and Cruz may have allowed the Democrats to pass a number of executive nominees because of their insistence upon making their point.
As the story goes, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had promised to adjourn the Senate after passing the CRomnibus and a couple of other bills, leaving these controversial nominees on the table. The Republicans lambasting Senators Lee and Cruz are making the argument that Reid was absolutely, totally going to keep his word and not advance these controversial nominees. As Senator Lee has pointed out this was not only unlikely, but it would be “political malpractice” for a departing Democrat majority leader to fail to cram through every one of his president’s nominees as possible. In Lee's words, "if you think… that [Reid] was going to leave town without confirming everybody that he wanted to confirm in the post-nuclear Senate, they’re crazy."Even the same day that Lee and Cruz put forth their point of order, Reid and the Democrats were reportedly searching for ways to get their nominees through before the end of the session. Were Lee and Cruz really supposed to let Reid’s non-binding promises stop them from exercising their ability to get the Senate on the record against executive overreach?
The point that dissenting Republicans are covering up is that their party alone could and should have held up the bloated spending bill on account of its many flaws, but they chose not to. But apparently, they were more concerned with getting home for the holidays without controversy, since 77 Senators, including 28 Republicans, voted to let the bloated Cromnibus through without a contest.
In the end, the real story is that a few principled senators exercised their ability to force their colleagues to go on the record supporting a massive presidential breach of Constitutional authority. The fact that their fellow Republicans are upset about this speaks volumes.
Read more at FreedomWorks
HISTORICAL TIMELINE: The Bush Royal Family
- 1988-1992 George Herbert Walker Bush: Bush the First
- 1992-2000: Age of the Usurper
- 2000-2008 George Walker Bush: Bush the Younger
- 2008-2016: Age of the Usurper
- 2016-2024 John Ellis "Jeb" Bush: Bush the Second
- 2024-2032 William Jefferson Bush: Bush the Elder
- 2032-2040 Augustus Herbert Bush: The Great and Powerful Bush
- 2040-2048 James Tiberius Bush: His Eminence
- 2048-2073 Caesar Octavius Bush: His Majesty Caesar the First
- 2073-2073 George Caligula Bush: Bush the Mad, assassinated by his brother, Romulus
- 2073-2074 Hillary Rodham Bush: Bush the Pantsuited
- 2074-2083 Titus Rove Bush: Bush the Crony
- 2083-2090 Malik Obama Bush: Emperor Bush I
- 2090-2091 Carlos Hernandez Bush: First Lord of Aztlan
- 0 YA-11 YA Vladimir Lenin Bush: Czar Bush the Mighty
- 11 YA-current Kim Jong-Bush: Dear Leader

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Larwyn's Linx: Communists Win the Day. Frank Marshall Davis Would Be Proud of Obama
Nation
Communists Win the Day. Frank Marshall Davis Would Be Proud of Obama: RSBlatant, Undeniable, Indisputable Hypocriscy on Cuba: Scoop
Obama Exchanges Castro’s Killer For American Hostage: Cliff Kincaid
The Unified Ted Cruz Blame Theory Goes Up in Flames: Leon H. Wolf
Cruz Obamnesty Vote: Better Scrupulous Cowards Than Treasonous Liars: VDARE
Subpoena Bringing Obamacare Adviser Gruber Back to Seek ‘Whole Truth’: PJM
The Stupid Continues to Burn: Flopping Aces
The Rules Of War Need Updating: Cal Thomas
Michele Obama: Someone Asked Me to Reach Something for Them at Target!: Ace
Jeb Tide: Mark Steyn
Backing the Wrong Horse: City Journal
Obama Issues Rare Pardons, With More to Come: Clark Mindock
Scandal Central
When Interrogations Began: A View From Inside the CIA : Joseph R. DeTraniThe Bastinado, Rack, Iron Maiden, and the Waterboard: Sara Noble
Ft. Bend Police, Prosecutors Accused of Abuse in SWAT Incident: Fox 26 Houston
Media
Pathetic: Obamas Claim ‘We’ve Been Treated Like the Help’: JWFFLASHBACK: Valerie Jarrett Mistakes 4-Star General For Waiter: Jamie Weinstein
Michelle Obama’s Story of Racism at Target is a TALL TALE: Sooper
Exclusive: James O’Keefe On Authority’s Threat To Citizen Journalism: RebelPundit
Mark Levin: Is the presidential ambition of one family good for our republic?: Scoop
Who Buys $14 In Gas? – Jessica’s Story: Treehouse
Why Liberals Really, Really Hate Us: Spengler
Americans Should Be Safe To Go To the Movies: AmInt
Networks Barely Mention Brutality of Castro Regime or Cuba Being Communist: MRC
World
Rubio: Obama Is Worst Negotiator Since Carter, Maybe in Modern US History: WFBRUBIO RESPONDS: This is just another concession to a tyranny by Obama: Scoop
The Last Communist City: Michael J. Totten
The Russians worked hard for this disaster, let them enjoy it: RS
WARNING - GRAPHIC IMAGES: Indoctrination Of Children In The Islamic State Caliphate (ISIS): MEMRI
This Bullet Just Designed for the U.S. Military Should Have ISIS Terrorists Freaking Out: RWN
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
This Is Cyberwar, Not Tabloid Fodder: Abe GreenwaldHow to stop wasting wireless spectrum : AEI
Microsoft offers blow-by-blow Azure outage account: Register
Cornucopia
Liberal Heads Explode: Cop Creates "Breathe Easy – Don’t Break the Law" T-Shirts: BuzzPo10 famous characters each drawn in the style of 10 famous cartoonists: Gizmodo
A simple solution to Sony Entertainment's current 'crisis': Obiter Dictum
Image: WARNING - GRAPHIC IMAGES: Indoctrination Of Children In The Islamic State Caliphate (ISIS)
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QOTD: ""I just think it’s ironic that in the 50 years that have passed under embargo, America has moved closer to communism than Cuba has to liberty. --Kate McMillan
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
LAME-DUCK DEMOCRATS SPIT ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT: Confirm Radical Leftist as Surgeon General
Rights: No longer fearing electoral revenge from the National Rifle Association, an outgoing Democratic Senate pushed to confirm an anti-Second Amendment radical, who thinks guns are a health issue, as the nation's top doc.
A Democratic Senate that earlier balked at the nomination of Dr. Vivek Murthy to be surgeon general of the U.S. no longer feared the possible electoral consequences of approving him in the wake of November's Republican tsunami.That, along with the GOP's obsession to not be blamed for a government shutdown, gave us a bad budget deal and the Democrats a chance to confirm Murthy.
A brief rebellion over immigration led to a weekend session that arguably gave outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid an opportunity to advance several of President Obama's nominees toward confirmation, including the once-stalled nomination of Murthy.
On Saturday, the Senate voted 52-40 to bring Murthy's nomination to the floor for a vote. With Murthy confirmed to a post that had been vacant since July 2013, the White House push for gun control will proceed with renewed vigor.
The NRA's Chris Cox called Murthy a "prescription for disaster for America's gun owners," in a letter to Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in February. Spooked red-state Democrats stalled Vivek's nomination. With the election over and control of the Senate lost anyway, Democrats seized the opportunity to leave America a going-away present.
I Really, Really Want to See "The Interview"
Hard to tell at this point, but it could -- I emphasize the world could -- even reach keeper status like Animal House, Old School, Stripes, Caddyshack and Ghostbusters. That's a stretch, I know, but the trailer's promising enough for me to want to see the flick.
Obiter had a compelling idea for the feckless boobs at Sony*:
THE INTERVIEW
on YouTube.
Available for the entire internet world to view,
WITHOUT CHARGE
You know: make the genocidal mass-murderer Kim-Jong Un a global laughingstock.
And at this point, to paraphrase the smartest Secretary of State ever, what difference does it make?
We also have an administration certain to blame a video, whether warranted or not -- so that angle's covered.
*I call Sony a bunch of feckless boobs because this ain't the company's first dance at the Hackbarn. The Playstation Network was hit earlier this year and in 2011 as well.
You'd think they'd have spent some serious money on network defense, countermeasures and cyberwar talent.
That does not appear to be the case. Obvi.
Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.
5 Observations About Jeb Bush Running for President
Allow me to offer some perspective for the GOP Elites and others suffering from the fevered delusion that Jeb Bush might someday serve as President, in this universe or any other.
1. This is one situation where an open primary benefits conservatives: I contend that Democrats will turn out in droves -- like there was an announcement for free government cheese at the mall -- to vote against the Bush name. Heck, you and I have heard it for years: debate any policy position with a progressive and, no matter the facts, logic, history, and reason you muster -- the inevitable result is what some call Bush Tourette's Syndrome (i.e., "But- but- but- Bush!). This sad disease is sure to manifest itself in the primaries and amplify Democrat turnout like nothing we've seen since the dead walked the streets of Chicago in 1960 to cast ballots for John F. Kennedy.
2. Jeb Bush's support for Amnesty is wildly unpopular among a huge majority of Americans: 88% of Republicans, 66% of independents and even 50% of Democrats believe that the border should be locked down before any Amnesty efforts are undertaken.
3. Bush's support for a nationalized education curriculum (also known as "Common Core") is generally despised. Only 34% of U.S. adults with children of elementary or secondary school support the federal takeover of educational standards.
4. Should Bush secure the nomination (which, if it occurs, we can thank John Boehner's newly uncorked personal campaign contribution limits in the CRomnibus), I believe we'll see the first viable third-party candidate since 1992. Reince Priebus, Karl Rove and the rest of the GOP Oligarchs should know that the Republican Party will be torn asunder by a Bush nomination. Guaranteed. A third party will result and the GOP will go the way of the Whigs -- deservedly so.
5. BONUS: Jeb's formula for victory:
#Jeb2016 road to victory: (Democrats who liked Bush + The Chamber of Commerce) - (All other Democrats + All Conservatives) #NotBloodyLikely
— Doug Ross (@directorblue) December 17, 2014Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Larwyn's Linx: House Conservatives Have the Power and Should Depose Speaker John Boehner
Nation
House Conservatives Have the Power to Depose Boehner: Erick EricksonJeb Bush: The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce’s Waterboy: Michelle Malkin
GOP Butt-hurt: Pocket
Ted Cruz Was Right, Again: Matthew Vadum
Cruz, Lee and why the GOP establishment thinks you are an idiot: RS
Vote Ted Cruz or No One: AWD
Sen. Ted Cruz: “I’m Not Trying to Play Washington Rules”: Scoop
The Man with the Gruber Vids: Power Line
Gun control groups rejoice at surgeon general confirmation: Guns
The Jeb Bush Fantasy: Ace
Rand: 'Will Be Very, Very Difficult' for Jeb to Run in 2016 Primary: Breitbart
Cromnibus Winners And Losers: Betsy McCaughey
Economy
Meet Your Newest Legislator: Citigroup: Pam MartensVoters Finally Learn What’s in the CRomnibus Bill Passed by the Senate: NewAm
Fed Will Implement QE4 in Early 2016: Rickards: Bloomberg
Scandal Central
HHS Violates ACORN Funding Ban to Pay for Obamacare Navigators: JWWhile Country Crumbles, Democrats Address the Needs of Transgender Illegal Alien Children: MB
Federal judge finds Obama amnesty order is unconstitutional: Stephen Dinan
Climate & Energy
Scott Walker to EPA: Take Your Clean Power Plan and Keep Walking : Rod KackleyMedia
PolitiFact ignored the real lie of the year: Don SurberGOP Senators Whine Because They Had to Work on Saturday: GayPatriot
PolitiFact: Defensible Opinions About the Spread of Ebola are THE LIE OF THE YEAR!!!!1!!!!11!1!!!: Patterico
McConnell won't explain why he voted against constitutional point of order on Obama’s executive amnesty: Breitbart
No Mas Bush or Mittens: Bill Quick
Paul PAC Hits Jeb With Web Ads: Breitbart
Three Questions for Jeb Bush: Jeb Bush
Jonathan Gruber Should’ve Been Time’s Person Of The Year: Jonah Goldberg
Masters of Deceptive Persuasion: Chuck Norris
World
Iran to use CIA torture report as leverage against US and UN: AEIObama Calling Islamic State Terrorists the ‘JV Team’ Named Top Lie of the Year: WFB
Erdogan Arrests Opposition Media Figures: AmInt
Over 100 children massacred as Taliban storms school; ‘set teacher on fire, made kids watch’: BPR
Taliban Attack on Pakistan School Kills at Least 125: JWF
Obama Fails to Blame Taliban for Mass School Murder in Pakistan: Daniel Halper
Silence on Bowe Bergdahl, months after Army investigation concludes: WaPo
Cuba’s largest export is the sale of enslaved doctors – but ‘slave’ is such a harsh word: Babalu
Sydney hostage taker to Obama: Stop Hiding your Muslim Religion: BNI`
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Uber Claims to Have Scaled Back Use of Its 'God View' Tool: Jamie CondliffeSony Kit Looks To Turn Any Glasses Into Google Glass: TWE
China reveals long-range heat ray gun: Independent
Cornucopia
What the Hell?: AceInterrupting our regularly scheduled mockery…: Riot
Our Elves Are Watching U: MOTUS`
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QOTD: "...to their everlasting shame, 20 Republicans voted to reject Cruz's point of order, waive the Constitution, and green-light Obama's amnesty.
These quislings are Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), John Barrasso (Wyo.), Dan Coats (Ind.), Thad Cochran (Miss.), Susan Collins (Me.), Bob Corker (Tenn.), John Cornyn (Texas), Mike Enzi (Wyo.), Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Orrin Hatch (Utah), Dean Heller (Nev.), Ron Johnson (Wisc.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), John McCain (Ariz.), Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Pat Toomey (Penn.), and Roger Wicker (Miss.)." --Matthew Vadum
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
The Jebster's First Run at a Political Slogan Seems Strangely Familiar
Yogi Berra, a Master of the English language, once said that something felt like “Déjà vu all over again” (looks more urbane with the accent marks, doesn’t it?).
As you gentlemen and ladies well know, Jeb Bush is testing the POTUS waters, with the encouragement of the GOP Establishment’s donor class and the liberal media (e.g., see WaPo, NYT, Politico and HuffPo). Jeb’s doubtless trying to impress same with his abilities to attract financial support.It was in this context that Deja overcame me, as it does all of us occasionally. Usually dismissed soon as the workings of an errant Higgs slamming against a larger molecule in our brains.
In this case, it may have been simple political plagiarism rather than the mischief of some loose sub-atomic particle.
The National Journal, run by Ron Fournier, the former UP Washington Bureau Chief, who has become strangely critical of Obama after shilling for him for years, told us this:
ERICKSON: House Conservatives Have the Power to Depose Speaker Boehner and Should Do So in January
The vote on whether Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) will be Speaker will occur in January, and 30 conservative House members can deny him re-election. It will be an actual public vote—not a behind-the-scenes, paper ballot vote. Although many would have you believe otherwise, Boehner has not yet been elected Speaker for the new term. House Republicans elected him as their nominee for Speaker in November, but the full House of Representatives needs to vote on his nomination in January.
House conservatives must summon the courage to oppose Boehner’s nomination on the floor in January. It is a moral imperative. You cannot consistently complain about Leadership’s many failures—and the treachery involved with a Speaker fresh off a successful wave election conspiring with President Obama to fund amnesty and enjoy a celebratory phone call in the aftermath—and then vote for him to continue in this role. To paraphrase Albert Einstein, that is the definition of insanity, and it is enabled by a vote for Rep. John Boehner.
...Boehner’s team lied to Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) to get his vote on the all-important procedural “rule” setting up the debate on the cromnibus. He promised to pull the cromnibus if Stutzman voted for the rule. Stutzman gave his vote, and Boehner went back on his word.
House conservatives need to understand that they are not conspiring against a family member or team member. They are conspiring against an adversary intent on thwarting the change they came to Washington to bring. It is that simple.
Federal Judge Rips Obama's Executive Amnesty as Unconsitutional
Judge Arthur J. Schwab, sitting in the western district of Pennsylvania has found parts of President Obama’s new deportation amnesty to be unconstitutional, and he issued a scathing memo accusing him of usurping Congress’s power to make laws, and dismantling most of the White House’s legal reasoning for circumventing federal statute.
Stephen Dinan adds some colorful detail.
“President Obama’s unilateral legislative action violates the separation of powers provided for in the United States Constitution as well as the Take Care Clause, and therefore is unconstitutional,” Judge Schwab wrote.
The judge also said the policy allows illegal immigrants “to obtain substantive rights.”
The memo came as part of a deportation case before the judge, and Judge Schwab’s order does not invalidate the president’s policies. But it serves as a warning shot as other direct challenges to the new amnesty begin to make their way through the courts.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., will hear one of those challenges in oral arguments next week, and a similar case is proceeding in Texas.
...The administration lawyers also said the policy doesn’t grant illegal immigrants any rights, and said they could still be deported “at any time.”
But Judge Schwab went point-by-point in refuting those arguments, saying that since Mr. Obama couched his policy as a moral imperative to keep families together, it is not so easy to undo his policy... And the judge repeatedly used Mr. Obama’s own words against him, listing some of the times the president had previously said he didn’t have the power to take the exact actions he has now taken.
It's an encouraging baby-step.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Larwyn's Linx: Ted Cruz: They want to come after me? Knock yourself out
Nation
Ted Cruz: They want to come after me? Knock yourself out: ScoopObama's Grand Plan: Ed Lasky
GOP joins Democrats in defending Obama’s amnesty executive order: RS
Operation Remove Speaker Boehner: Josh Bernstein
Mark Levin Reads the Riot Act to the GOP: Scoop
Mike Lee: We are not to blame for Harry Reid pushing through nominees: Scoop
Ted Cruz: They want to come after me? Knock yourself out: Scoop
The Madison Project Endorses Senator Mike Lee for Re-Election: Madison Project
WA: Thousands of Gun Owners Defy Gun Ban Law at Rally: RWN
Commie Elizabeth Warren Won't Rule Out Future Presidential Run: Daniel Halper
A “Mind-blower” of a Nominee: Mark Pulliam
Defiant Pelosi Stands Firmly on Left: Roll Call
Economy
How the minimum wage destroyed 1.4 million jobs: Stan VeugerSmotherers of Invention: Steven Malanga
Money Laundering Is Financial Thoughtcrime : Jon Matonis
Scandal Central
Obama DHS Inspector General Sentenced to More Than Three Years in Prison: DOJUnlike 2014, witches got trials: Don Surber
Life in Post-Truth America: Sultan Knish
Climate & Energy
UN Ridiculed Over Non-Binding “Climate” Deal in Peru: Alex NewmanIn These 13 States, Gas Is Selling for Below $2 a Gallon: Natalie Johnson
Warmists Reach “Bare Minimum” Deal At #COP20Lima: Cove
Media
MSNBC Host: ‘Too Early To Tell’ If Man Asking For ISIS Flag Was Motivated By Islam: DCUnhinged WaPo Blogger Jennifer Rubin Falls for Left's Tricks Every Time: Jen Kuznicki
The Sandy Hook Families’ Lawsuit Against Bushmaster Will Fail. Here’s Why.: Bob Owens
NYPD Shreds de Blasio After Cops are Assaulted by ‘Peaceful’ Protesters: JWF
Four Things You Need to Know About the First Amendment: Free Enterprise
No Blogger, You Don’t Understand the Senate Better than Ted Cruz Does: Leon Wolf
World
Sydney Siege and Monitoring Extremists: Max BootIn Wake of Sydney Siege, Liberals Side With Radical Islam Yet Again: MB
The Moral Minority: Erick Erickson
Australian Jihadist Took Hostages To Prove Islam Is Religion of Peace: Treehouse
Australian Hostage Taker Named as Iranian Refugee with Criminal Past: WFB
A Man of Peace: GoV
Read Sydney Muslim Terrorist Man Haron Monis’s 2008 Letter to Barack Obama : GotNews
Gazans Speak Out: Hamas War Crimes: Mudar Zahran
Latest Hamas Gems: A Failed Terror Plot, Praise for ISIS: IPT
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Panicked Hollywood Avoids Email, Returns to Faxes After Sony Hack Attack: TheWrapComcast Will Finally Let Roku Owners Stream HBO, Showtime: Recode
The Flu Shot Isn’t a Good Match This Year. Is It Ever?: Gizmodo
Cornucopia
What happens if you ask 13 gay-owned bakeries to bake a pro-marriage cake?: KnightChristmas Penguins: MOTUS
Taxed Enough Already: IOTWreport
Image: Heroic Sydney cafe manager, 34, shot dead as he grabbed terrorist's gun
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QOTD:
CRUZ: "The omnibus is full of cronyism, full of everything except what Americans want. There is corruption in this town and it's bipartisan"
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) December 16, 2014
--Sen. Ted Cruz
Monday, December 15, 2014
SEN. MIKE LEE: The CRomnibus Was The Perfect Bill
On Saturday night the Senate held a vote on a $1.1 trillion dollar spending bill that many referred to as the CRomnibus. I voted against this bill because I oppose the cynical substance of the legislation. I also could not support the un-republican and undemocratic process by which a small collection of political and economic insiders crafted it, to benefit each other at everyone else’s expense. I also oppose the signal this bill sends to political insiders on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue; the signal it sends to special interest cronies on Wall Street and K Street; and the signal it sends to working families struggling on Main Streets across this country who have been waiting for a decade for someone in this city to start putting them first. Above all, this bill failed to exercise Congress’ power of the purse to prevent the president’s lawless executive amnesty.
Since this bill was taken up in the House of Representatives, supporters of the CRomnibus have couched their support in the language of compromise. “This isn’t a perfect bill,” they say.However, I believe it is perfect. As a representation of everything wrong with Washington, D.C, and as an example of exactly the kind of unfair, unrepresentative legislating that triggered successive electoral waves of bipartisan condemnation in 2006, 2008, 2010, and again in 2014 – the CRomnibus is perfect.
More and more today in America, the people who work hard, play by the rules, and live within their means are being forced to subsidize political and economic elites who don’t.
The miserable process we have witnessed last week represents the last gasping throes of a discredited Washington status quo. Ten years ago, this bill would not have been controversial. Five years ago, an easy majority would have been purchased with earmarks. This week, with the full weight of both party’s leaderships, it barely made it over the finish line.
Change comes slowly, as we know. And it comes slowest to those institutions that make the rules.
But change is coming. The era of passing 1600-page bills, written in secret, via a process that includes lobbyists but excludes the American people is coming to an end. The era of big government rigging the rules for big business and big special interests while leaving everyone else behind is coming to an end.
The Pigmen Win Again
“The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they’re an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They’ve got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They’ve got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else.” - George Carlin
The entire episode has been nothing but Kabuki Theater. Both parties have proven to be puppets marching to the tune of Wall Street moneyed interests, while further entrenching the status quo by voting to allow more corporate influence over the election process. Each side of the aisle allowed just enough dissent to make it appear they might not reach an agreement. But at the end of the day Pelosi, Boehner, Reid and McConnell joined hands and gave it to the American public good and hard. And of course we had the candidates for president in 2016 Warren and Cruz playing to their constituents with speeches and maneuvers designed to make them look like fighters for the common man. It was nothing but a show, as they did nothing substantive to stop the bill from passing.
The Stupid, It Burns
- MSNBC Host: ‘Too Early To Tell’ If Man Asking For ISIS Flag Was Motivated By Islam: because an ISIS flag is ambiguous, right, Ben Affleck?
- Harvard Law Prof: Law Students Don’t Want To Hear Rape Law: that's right -- hearing about the case law surround sexual assault is too traumatic to study (memo to self: I predict a downgrade for Harvard's law school rating in the very near future)
- CBS: Voter ID Laws Are Like Violent Attacks on Blacks at Selma: which means the requirement for voter ID in airports, liquor stores, government buildings, the Social Security Administration, etc. are all like Selma
- New way to promote ObamaCare: 7-Eleven: Because nothing says healthy living like the microwavable burrito demographic
- If Racism is So Pervasive Why Do Race Hustlers Make It Up?: that's an easy one, Joe: because everything progressives do is based upon myth, fable, dreams, unicorn farts and shaggy pink ponies
Larwyn's Linx: 'Nancy Boehner' Ushers in Era of Unaccountable Oligarchy
Nation
'Nancy Boehner' Ushers in Era of Unaccountable Oligarchy: Daniel HorowitzCRomnibus passes because of GOP support: RS
It’s Time To Kill The ‘Lame Duck’: Derek Hunter
Cruz corners Harry Reid to make a point conservatives will remember: BPR
Wall Street Über Alles: Rod Dreher
The Architect of Obamacare Speaks: John McCormack
Obama Orchestrating Regime Change in Israel: Steve Berman
The Demand for Perfection: Theodore Dalrymple
Remember how Senate Dems rushed through Obamacare on Xmas Eve 2009?: LI
Terry McAuliffe Pushes Unlawful Gun Control Restrictions In Virginia: Bob Owens
"You are Tea-bagger": Punch Back Twice as Hard: Instapundit
AZ-02 election results to be FINALLY certified on Tuesday: Moe Lane
Economy
The Campus as California: Victor Davis HansonWhy Are We Spending a Billion on Government Preschool?: Lindsey Burke
Let’s Get Government Out of the Charity Business: Star Parker
Scandal Central
Dianne Feinstein's $50 Million Travesty: Rich LowryFormer CIA Chief: Pelosi and other Dems knew exactly what interrogation methods were used: Scoop
Gowdy: Gruber Work Product to Be Reviewed for Possible Fraud, Perjury: Breitbart
Climate & Energy
The China Climate Accord: A bad deal for the US: S. Fred SingerMedia
And yet CNN wonders why their ratings are so lousy?: Doug Powers‘Movements have to cause trouble’ – Frances Piven of Cloward-Piven infamy on Ferguson: Scoop
Time for a convention of states: Ken Kotoski
Did Edward Snowden Hack Sony Pictures?: Roger L. Simon
Moonbats defend fable not the facts: Howie Carr
Blog, online commenters force arrest of alleged child molester: John Ruberry
Life in Post-Truth America: Daniel Greenfield
Black Woman Takes On Narrative: WZ
Reagan Biographer: RFK Got Reagan Fired From General Electric Theater: Jack Coleman
World
How Far Should the CIA Go to Keep Us Safe?: Herbert E. MeyerGod Bless Dick Cheney: Erick Erickson
Cheney: ‘We’re Still at War’ and Dems Are ‘Trashing a Program That Worked and Saved Lives’: WFB
#Lindt café refused to be Halal certified: FAM
Islamist militants take hostages in Sydney cafe, display black jihadist flag: RT
Unrewarded Valor: This Ain't Hell
The Middle East realists: Old and new: Rich Baehr
Rinsing Israel Out of Europe: Brendan O’Neill
Danish ambassador, Caroline Glick exchange verbal blows over EU attitude toward Israel: JPost
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
2015 Is the Year of the Crowd: Jeremiah OwyangForbes Blasts Latests Windows 7 Patch as Malware: Slashdot
Got a Leafblower? Then You've Got a Hoverboard: Gizmodo
Cornucopia
Fishing With Grandpa: SpringerDay By Day: WRSA
How Cool Is This? Paul Revere’s 1795 Time Capsule Was Discovered: Jerome Hudson
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QOTD: "The Senate Intelligence Committee spent roughly $50 million on its investigation into the CIA and apparently couldn’t find Michael Hayden’s phone number.
The committee portrays Gen. Hayden, the former CIA director, as a liar who deceived Congress about the agency’s interrogation program, yet the committee couldn’t be bothered to interview him.
That’s because the committee, led by California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, didn’t bother to interview anyone. The committee didn’t want to include anything that might significantly complicate its cartoonish depiction of a CIA that misled everyone so it could maintain a secret prison system for the hell of it." --Rich Lowry



















