The Democrats get away with it because the press doesn’t call them out on it. ===== WSJ 8/4/2018 By David B. Rivkin Jr. And John Shu When Harry Reid and the Democratic Senate abolished the filibuster for most nominations in 2013, the idea was to overcome obstruction from the Republican minority and allow President Obama to fill positions expeditiously. Now that Republicans hold the... Read more
Archive for the ‘Democrat Party’ Category
Can You Say ‘Obstruction’?
August 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party PoliticsGovernments Steal Money
May 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Democrat Party, The LeftYou are not surprised, are you? ==== WSJ 5/3/2018 Progressives might get more Americans to trust them with health care or education if Democratic state politicians could do the government basics of enforcing public safety and picking up the garbage. Witness how states are diverting fees that fund 911 emergency services into other priorities. Commissioner Michael O’Rielly of the Federal Communications Commission has... Read more
Romney’s Vindication
February 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Russia, The LeftPoliticians… will they never, ever change??? ===== WSJ 2/20/2018 Mitt Romney announced Friday that he’s running for the U.S. Senate from Utah, and the timing on the same day as the Justice Department indictments of Russians for meddling in the U.S. presidential election was apt. Mr. Romney was right about the Russian threat in 2012, and Democrats who are now echoing him when... Read more
Redistricting and the US Supreme Court
February 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Law, US ConstitutionThis one is flying under most people’s radar…to America’s harm. ===== WSJ 2/21/2018 Political chaos has broken out in Pennsylvania after the state’s high court last week redrew the congressional map for this year’s midterm elections. Behold our future judicial overlords if the U.S. Supreme Court rules that partisan gerrymanders are unconstitutional. Last month a 5-2 liberal majority of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court... Read more
Charles Is in Charge – WSJ
January 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, TrumpWell, Mr. President??? ===== By The Editorial Board WSJ Jan. 19, 2018 Donald Trump spent 90 minutes talking to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer at the White House on Friday trying to avoid a government shutdown, and after he left Mr. Schumer vouchsafed that “we made some progress.” But apparently not enough to stop him and his fellow Democrats from threatening to filibuster... Read more
D & D
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Jenkins, Liberal Press( Dossiers and Disinformation…) ========= Holman W Jenkins, Jr. 1/12/2018 WSJ Glenn Simpson, in the now-released transcript of last summer’s interview with congressional investigators on the Trump dossier, mentions his former employment with The Wall Street Journal and Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper. He doesn’t mention the Unification Church-owned (i.e., Moonies) Insight magazine in the mid-1980s. I know because I worked there too.... Read more
