Bend Over America! John McCain AGAIN Saves Obamacare

Senator John McCain has come to the rescue of Obamacare again, likely putting a fork into any Republican efforts at killing this monstrosity that is expected to stick Americans with double-digit premium hikes this year.

While Republicans rushed to kiss the ring of Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, the other two of the RINO turncoats who saved the Affordable Care Act back in July – McCain and Susan Collins – were already looking like they were going to go for a repeat of their great American screw job.

On Friday, the pathological attention whore made his announcement that he would not vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal which was partially the brainchild of his longtime sidekick Lindsey Graham.

It remains to be seen whether this latest McCain betrayal will put a chill on his relationship with the Palmetto State princess but Graham spent a considerable amount of political capital on what was likely the last chance for the GOP to fulfill years of promises to repeal Obamacare.

According to The Hill “McCain to vote no on ObamaCare repeal”:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Friday announced that he will vote against the latest proposal to repeal ObamaCare, potentially dooming the legislation and, with it, the GOP’s last shot at passing a health care overhaul this year.

“I cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal. I believe we could do better working together, Republicans and Democrats, and have not yet really tried,” he said in a statement, referring to the legislation spearheaded by GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C) and Bill Cassidy (La.).

Republicans have been racing toward a health care vote next week, ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline for approving the bill on a majority vote.

They had been hopeful that McCain’s close friendship with Graham and the support for the bill from Arizona’s governor would be enough to win him ove — but it was not.

McCain suggested the decision had weighed on him, adding that he takes “no pleasure” in it.

“The bill’s authors are my dear friends, and I think the world of them. I know they are acting consistently with their beliefs and sense of what is best for the country. So am I,” he said.

Mr. Sunday Morning issued a statement via his website that can be summed up in a nutshell as saying that he no longer wants to be bothered with this issue unless his Democrat buddies are included.

It is yet another stinging defeat of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who has talked smack for years but when the chips were down, was unable to even control his own party’s contingent who threw him under the bus repeatedly. McConnell’s feckless “leadership” will likely continue to be called into question with this latest dumpster fire.

It’s just the latest stab in the back from a charlatan who has wrapped himself in the flag and his “war hero” mythology while in reality is one of the most seditious, disloyal, double-dealing rat bastards in the history of the U.S. Senate.

The red carpets are already being prepared at Meet the Press, CNN’s State of the Union and ABC’s This Week whose hosts will do all but scatter rose petals at McCain’s feet come Sunday morning.

BOHICA! (Bend Over Here It Comes Again)

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Musk’s SolarCity To Pay $29.5 Million To Settle Federal Probe

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September 22, 2017 4:00 pm

SolarCity, a company acquired by Tesla last fall, has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $29.5 million to resolve allegations that it lied to the federal government and overinflated its costs to receive higher stimulus funds than it deserved, the Justice Department announced Friday.

The settlement, which is not an admission of guilt, resolves a longstanding dispute with the solar energy company, owned by billionaire Elon Musk.

Congress and the Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General have spent five years investigating SolarCity, the largest provider of residential solar panels in the nation, and other renewable-energy companies.

The probes were trying to determine whether the companies inflated their costs for providing their products in order to cash in on the stimulus funds the federal government provided to help the country recover from the economic crisis in the early years of the Obama administration.

“This program expired but this settlement demonstrates that the government will still hold accountable those who sought to take improper advantage of government programs at the expense of American taxpayers,” Acting Assistant Attorney General Chad Readler said in a statement.

The federal investigations focused on the Section 1603 program, which was created by the Obama administration to boost the solar-energy industry by subsidizing installation costs. The program provided solar companies like SolarCity federal grant money to compensate them for roughly 30 percent of the cost to install or acquire solar systems.

SolarCity has denied the charges that it over-inflated its costs and countersued the U.S. government, claiming it was still owed money. The company has now dropped that countersuit as part of the settlement.

A SolarCity spokesperson said its projects were always valued correctly in its claims to the federal government and the “methods used to value its projects were sound.”

“It’s telling that after a five-year investigation, the government did not bring any lawsuit accusing SolarCity of any wrongdoing of any kind, and that it has agreed to drop all its claims upon SolarCity” in exchange for the company replaying approximately 5 percent of the cash stimulus grants provided, the spokesperson said in a statement.

The company said it took its responsibilities seriously under the program to accurately value its costs and submit accurate claims, using independent appraisers, accountants with industry expertise, and investors.

Around 2012, the company said, the Treasury Department began to reconsider some of its own valuations and revisited the amounts it had previously approved and paid. An academic that Treasury hired to provide accurate appraisals of the costs, the spokesperson said, had been discredited in a similar lawsuit last year.

“With its expert discredited, and a trial of SolarCity’s claims approaching, the government agreed to drop its case in exchange for a settlement,” the spokesperson said.

Tesla, Musk’s electric vehicle automaker, acquired SolarCity last fall. Musk personally owned 22 percent of SolarCity, whose shares were plummeting last year and faced a billion dollars in leasing-and-installing debt payments before the merger.

The Los Angeles Times in 2015 estimated that Musk’s companies have benefited from nearly $4.9 billion in state and federal “green” tax subsidies.

Musk in early June resigned from the presidential business advisory councils he sat on after President Trump pulled out of the Paris climate agreement.

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Rasmussen Poll: 34% Less Likely to Watch NFL Because of Anthem Protests

Rasmussen Poll: 34% Less Likely to Watch NFL Because of Anthem Protests

22 Sep, 2017
22 Sep, 2017

Yet another poll now shows that fans are less likely to watch the NFL, because of Colin Kaepernick-styled national anthem protests.

The new poll by Rasmussen finds that 34 percent are less likely to watch the NFL because of the protests. Only 12 percent said the protests made them more likely to watch while 50 percent said the protests did not impact their viewing habits.

While the league may hope that the ubiquity of the protests might cause fans to just accept it all as part of the game, Rasmussen’s numbers have not much changed from its results on the question last October.

The poll found that 63 percent of Americans say they occasionally follow the NFL in person at stadiums, on TV or radio, or via the Internet. Findings also showed that 39 percent said they watch the league several times a week, and another 35 percent said they never follow football.

Of those who do follow the NFL, 30 percent say the protests are causing them to drift from the sport. Only a tiny 8 percent said the protests had invigorated their interest in football.

Interestingly, last year, Rasmussen also found little difference in the opinion of football fans when they accounted for race.that Whether among white, black or other minorities, a third of fans of said the protests made them less likely to watch football.

Rasmussen is far from the only polling firm to find that football fans are tired of the anti-American protests.

At least two other polls last year found fans who were upset by the protests. One poll found that 44% of fans said they would stop watching the NFL if protests against the national anthem continued. A second poll by J.D. Power showed fans citing the anthem protests as the main reason they stopped watching NFL games.

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It’s looking like Obama and Comey wire-tapped Trump Tower after all, and that’s just the start

Here’s a question to ponder about the “Russia interfered” story that has thus far produced nothing of substance to justify its own existence: Was the whole thing contrived in order to justify a Democratic administration wiretapping a Republican campaign?

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Mexican Foreign Minister: “Send The Illegals Back, It’s Your Loss”…

Deal.

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NEW YORK—The U.S. southern border wall was not a topic of discussion between the U.S. and Mexico’s delegations at the United Nations.

Mexico’s Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray Caso told reporters, “It [the border wall] was theme that was never discussed between Mexico and the United States. It was never discussed.”

Videgaray Caso, however, did however give his thoughts on the current debate happening in the U.S. over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy that could affect scores of Mexicans living in the U.S. He claimed that sending such individuals back to Mexico would be his country’s gain and America’s loss.

“In the states, we acknowledge that immigration policy and immigration decisions, it’s something to be defined by Americans and Americans only — by American institutions it’s the sovereign right of a sovereign nation,” Videgaray Caso said.

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TOM FITTON: “Mueller is Setting Up His Own Justice Department, Shut it Down”

MISSION CREEP.

President of conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton has repeatedly called for the Mueller witch hunt of Trump and his associates to be shut down as it is unconstitutional and unsupervised.

Mueller’s team of lawyers is so big and powerful now that Fitton described it as the Special Counsel’s ‘own Justice Department’. This is all thanks to AG Jeff Sessions recusing himself.

In response to a Daily Beast article titled “Bob Mueller Brings on ‘Tough’ Guy Stephen Kelly to Handle Capitol Hill”, Fitton said, “Bob Mueller setting up his own Justice Department. Shut it down.”

The Daily Beast article says Mueller has now brought on a liaison to Capitol Hill:

Having hired a host of seasoned federal prosecutors for his probe of the president’s associates, Bob Mueller has now brought on a liaison to Capitol Hill.

Stephen Kelly, formerly the longtime congressional affairs chief for the FBI, has joined the probe, according to several sources familiar with his new role.

“Stephen Kelly is exactly who I would hire if I wanted to share as little information with Congress as possible,” said a Hill staffer who has interacted with Kelly in his new role as Mueller’s congressional liaison.

Robert Mueller also just hired his SEVENTEENTH liberal hack lawyer to investigate Trump. The latest hack is an Obama/Hillary donor.

Fitton is right. Mueller has essentially set up his own Justice Department; he’s the one doing all the investigating while Trump’s Justice Department sits idly by doing absolutely NOTHING.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller added his 16th radical left-wing lawyer to his team in early August as he continues to investigate Trump’s personal finances under the guise of a ‘Russia probe’.

Greg Andres is the 16th lawyer to be added to Mueller’s team. He worked under Eric ‘Fast N’ Furious’ Holder from 2010 to 2012. No bias here though. This is a completely fair investigation as Paul Ryan says.

Here is a look at the 15 other attorneys who will investigate Trump.

    • Rush Atkinson, an attorney on detail from the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section at the Department of Justice
      — Donated $200 to Clinton in 2016
    • Peter Carr – DOJ spokesman under Barack Obama.
    • Andrew Goldstein, a public corruption prosecutor on detail from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York
       Worked under Trump-basher Preet Bharara in the liberal New York southern district.
    • Adam Jed, an appellate attorney on detail from DOJ’s Civil Division.
      —  Defended Obamacare at the DOJ.
    • Rober Mueller – Special Counsel Team leader.

— Best friend to fired leaker James Comey.

  • Lisa Page, an attorney on detail from the FBI’s Office of the General Counsel and a former trial attorney with the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime and Gang Section
    —  Investigated Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash, a one-time business partner of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, at the DOJ.
  • Elizabeth Prelogar, an appellate attorney on detail from the Office of the Solicitor General.
    –Fluent in Russian; former law clerk to Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.
  • James Quarles, a former partner at WilmerHale and a former assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force.
    –Former assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force.
  • Jeannie Rhee, a former partner at WilmerHale who has served in the Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ and as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
    — Rhee is a Clinton Foundation Lawyer and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel under Barack Obama.
  • Brandon Van Grack, an attorney on detail from the Justice Department’s National Security Division.
    — Led a grand jury inquiry in Northern Virginia scrutinizing former Trump associate Michael Flynn’s foreign lobbying.
  • Andrew Weissmann, who is on detail from the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and who has served as general counsel at the FBI and as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
    — Weissmann donated $2,300 to the Obama Victory Fund in 2008, $2,000 to the DNC in 2006 and at least $2,300 to the Clinton campaign in 2007.
  • Aaron Zebley, a former partner at WilmerHale who has previously served with Mueller at the FBI and has served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia.
    — Worked with Robert Mueller at the WilmerHale firm.

These other Mueller attorneys have less conspicuous political leanings:

  • Aaron Zelinsky, an attorney on detail from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Maryland.
    — Worked under Assistant AG Rod Rosenstein in Maryland.
  • Zainab Ahmad, a top national security prosecutor on detail from U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York.
  • Michael Dreeben, an appellate attorney on detail from the Office of the Solicitor General, described by former colleagues as one of the brightest criminal law experts of the past two generations.

Trump is an innocent man and he is being investigated by almost 20 left-wing lawyers while Hillary Clinton is freely walking around after decades of corruption and proof of pay-to-play while she was Secretary of State. Let that sink in.

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The Uniparty, unmasked 

It is hard to underestimate the furious rage of conservatives who, whether or not they supported Trump during the campaign, used to believe in the Republican Party.  No more.  The Republicans have a majority in both houses of Congress and a Republican in the White House.  Are they doing their job as members of the majority party?  Absolutely not.  Of course, some of them are trying, but to no avail; they are a righteous minority, too few in number to win.  The leadership, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, are intransigent to the point of being traitors to the constituents who put them in office.  There are plenty of other traitors as well.  Clearly, they never meant to actually repeal the disastrous Obamacare.  They voted to repeal it all those times only because they knew that Obama would veto their bills.  So we conservatives have learned an important lesson: there is only one party in Congress, and it is the Establishment Party, and it is a swamp thing. 

The Establishment Party has no principles, no core beliefs.  They ascended to their positions of power via the usual channels: family wealth, power, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and by selling their souls.  This path to power does not describe every person in Congress – just enough of them to stop Trump from implementing the campaign promises that won him the presidency.  The bad ones, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, virtually all of the Democrats, are doing their usual damage.  Then we have Ryan, McConnell, Bob Corker, John McCain, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Jeff Flake, etc.  Traitors to their party all.  There are many more.

They pretend to be conservatives but are Republicans in name only.  With each passing day that Obamacare goes un-repealed, the tax system goes un-reformed, and illegal immigration remains unrestricted, as long as so many of these so-called Republicans continue to sabotage President Trump’s agenda, the one he was elected to implement, we conservatives are more certain of their treachery.  Women like Collins and Murkowski have no intention of ever limiting the damage done by Planned Parenthood.  The rest of these RINOs have no intention of helping Trump be the successful president he is trying to be.  He is an outsider, and they cannot have that.  They mean to submarine him just as surely as do the odious, open-borders, pro-unrestricted abortion, Obamacare-loving, tax-everyone-more Democrats.

Many of us who voted for Trump did so with some trepidation; we had other candidates in mind, and he was an unknown quantity, a loose cannon.  But once he became the candidate, we got on board.  No voter who was paying attention could vote for Clinton, the most corrupt candidate ever to seek the office.  Thanks to a thoroughly biased media and skewed polling, we had little hope he would win.  But he did.  It was a miracle, one that saved the nation from further descent into the tyranny of the radical left that used to be the liberal Democratic Party.  It is no longer liberal; it has become fascist in the real sense of the word, totalitarian and autocratic.  They even want to criminalize speech with which they disagree.  The Democratic Party today is anti-Constitution (see Pelosi encouraging illegal immigration), anti-free speech, anti-American, anti-science (they embrace the silly notion that man affects the climate of a planet that is 4.5 billion years old).  It is the party of racism, in that it sees race everywhere and has made white privilege a scourge Caucasians must bear as a scarlet letter.  But “race is an idea, not a fact.”  Most Americans could not care less about skin color.  We are all a mixture of many ethnicities and proud of it.  Only the left sees skin color and sexual orientation as badges of victimhood.  Leftists have made it a status to be sought.  They teach victimhood as a platform to be embraced. 

Leftists have long been abrogating history to present themselves as the good guys, the anti-racists.  But that is a big lie.  They are the racists, the inventors of identity politics, the notion that we are not valuable as individuals, only as members of one or another minority group.  It was the party of Lincoln, the founder of the Republican Party, that ended slavery, the Democrats who were the Confederacy.  It was the Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights laws of the 1960s.  Those laws were passed by Republicans.  It was the Democrats who undermined Reconstruction and imposed the odious Jim Crow laws in the South.

The Democrats were and still are the racists.  Now they see fomenting it in subsequent generations as their path to power, to votes.  The nonsense being taught in college classes, designed and implemented by the left, amounts to a criminal enterprise, not to mention child abuse.  The academic class has reinstituted segregation as some kind of refuge for oppressed minorities who are not oppressed at all.  They live in the freest, fairest, least racist nation on the planet.  The Establishment Party that tyrannizes us from D.C. is responsible.  They all see it and do nothing to stop it.  They apparently approve.

There are obvious exceptions among the Republicans – Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louis Gohmert, Tom Cotton, Ron Johnson, Mark Meadows, Dave Brat, Jim Jordan, and a few others, heroes all – but they are a minority, and they are openly reviled and discriminated against by their own colleagues and Republican pundits like Karl Rove.  Most of the others just want to go along to get along, to stay in office, to enjoy the perks.  They don’t want to rock their oh, so privileged boat.  They need to be voted out of office.

This entrenched establishment is ignoring the Constitution, ignoring their constituents, and destroying what for over two hundred years was the most amazing experiment in civilization, freedom, federalism, and democracy in the world, which is why so many people risk their lives to come here.  Words cannot adequately express the anger we conservatives feel toward our faux Republicans, the establishment bunch.  They should all be ashamed of themselves for their vacuity and their submission to their baser instincts.

It is hard to underestimate the furious rage of conservatives who, whether or not they supported Trump during the campaign, used to believe in the Republican Party.  No more.  The Republicans have a majority in both houses of Congress and a Republican in the White House.  Are they doing their job as members of the majority party?  Absolutely not.  Of course, some of them are trying, but to no avail; they are a righteous minority, too few in number to win.  The leadership, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, are intransigent to the point of being traitors to the constituents who put them in office.  There are plenty of other traitors as well.  Clearly, they never meant to actually repeal the disastrous Obamacare.  They voted to repeal it all those times only because they knew that Obama would veto their bills.  So we conservatives have learned an important lesson: there is only one party in Congress, and it is the Establishment Party, and it is a swamp thing. 

The Establishment Party has no principles, no core beliefs.  They ascended to their positions of power via the usual channels: family wealth, power, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and by selling their souls.  This path to power does not describe every person in Congress – just enough of them to stop Trump from implementing the campaign promises that won him the presidency.  The bad ones, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, virtually all of the Democrats, are doing their usual damage.  Then we have Ryan, McConnell, Bob Corker, John McCain, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Jeff Flake, etc.  Traitors to their party all.  There are many more.

They pretend to be conservatives but are Republicans in name only.  With each passing day that Obamacare goes un-repealed, the tax system goes un-reformed, and illegal immigration remains unrestricted, as long as so many of these so-called Republicans continue to sabotage President Trump’s agenda, the one he was elected to implement, we conservatives are more certain of their treachery.  Women like Collins and Murkowski have no intention of ever limiting the damage done by Planned Parenthood.  The rest of these RINOs have no intention of helping Trump be the successful president he is trying to be.  He is an outsider, and they cannot have that.  They mean to submarine him just as surely as do the odious, open-borders, pro-unrestricted abortion, Obamacare-loving, tax-everyone-more Democrats.

Many of us who voted for Trump did so with some trepidation; we had other candidates in mind, and he was an unknown quantity, a loose cannon.  But once he became the candidate, we got on board.  No voter who was paying attention could vote for Clinton, the most corrupt candidate ever to seek the office.  Thanks to a thoroughly biased media and skewed polling, we had little hope he would win.  But he did.  It was a miracle, one that saved the nation from further descent into the tyranny of the radical left that used to be the liberal Democratic Party.  It is no longer liberal; it has become fascist in the real sense of the word, totalitarian and autocratic.  They even want to criminalize speech with which they disagree.  The Democratic Party today is anti-Constitution (see Pelosi encouraging illegal immigration), anti-free speech, anti-American, anti-science (they embrace the silly notion that man affects the climate of a planet that is 4.5 billion years old).  It is the party of racism, in that it sees race everywhere and has made white privilege a scourge Caucasians must bear as a scarlet letter.  But “race is an idea, not a fact.”  Most Americans could not care less about skin color.  We are all a mixture of many ethnicities and proud of it.  Only the left sees skin color and sexual orientation as badges of victimhood.  Leftists have made it a status to be sought.  They teach victimhood as a platform to be embraced. 

Leftists have long been abrogating history to present themselves as the good guys, the anti-racists.  But that is a big lie.  They are the racists, the inventors of identity politics, the notion that we are not valuable as individuals, only as members of one or another minority group.  It was the party of Lincoln, the founder of the Republican Party, that ended slavery, the Democrats who were the Confederacy.  It was the Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights laws of the 1960s.  Those laws were passed by Republicans.  It was the Democrats who undermined Reconstruction and imposed the odious Jim Crow laws in the South.

The Democrats were and still are the racists.  Now they see fomenting it in subsequent generations as their path to power, to votes.  The nonsense being taught in college classes, designed and implemented by the left, amounts to a criminal enterprise, not to mention child abuse.  The academic class has reinstituted segregation as some kind of refuge for oppressed minorities who are not oppressed at all.  They live in the freest, fairest, least racist nation on the planet.  The Establishment Party that tyrannizes us from D.C. is responsible.  They all see it and do nothing to stop it.  They apparently approve.

There are obvious exceptions among the Republicans – Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louis Gohmert, Tom Cotton, Ron Johnson, Mark Meadows, Dave Brat, Jim Jordan, and a few others, heroes all – but they are a minority, and they are openly reviled and discriminated against by their own colleagues and Republican pundits like Karl Rove.  Most of the others just want to go along to get along, to stay in office, to enjoy the perks.  They don’t want to rock their oh, so privileged boat.  They need to be voted out of office.

This entrenched establishment is ignoring the Constitution, ignoring their constituents, and destroying what for over two hundred years was the most amazing experiment in civilization, freedom, federalism, and democracy in the world, which is why so many people risk their lives to come here.  Words cannot adequately express the anger we conservatives feel toward our faux Republicans, the establishment bunch.  They should all be ashamed of themselves for their vacuity and their submission to their baser instincts.

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Breaking: KJU Drops “Declaration of War” Statement after Trump’s Speech to UN

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Breaking: KJU Drops “Declaration of War” Statement after Trump’s Speech to UN

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In a rare statement on camera after President Donald Trump’s Tuesday speech at the United Nations, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un said Thursday that Trump’s remarks constituted a “declaration of war” and promised the “highest level of hard line counter measure in history” in response.

In a rather ironic statement, given the fact that he was threatening war over words, Kim also called Trump “mentally deranged.”

“His remarks remind me of such words as ‘political layman’ and ‘political heretic’ which were in vogue in reference to Trump during his presidential election campaign,” Kim said, according to the Guardian. Trump, Kim said, should “be considerate of whom he speaks.”

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“Now that Trump has denied the existence of and insulted me and my country in front of the eyes of the world and made the most ferocious declaration of a war in history that he would destroy the DPRK, we will consider with seriousness exercising of a corresponding highest level of hard line counter measure in history.”

“His remarks … have convinced me, rather than frightening or stopping me, that the path I chose is correct and that it is the one I have to follow to the last,” Kim said..

“As a man representing the DPRK and on behalf of the dignity and honor of my state and people and on my own, I will make the man holding the prerogative of the supreme command in the U.S. pay dearly for his speech,” Kim said, referring to the North by its official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”

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He saved the best for last, assuming you find Kim’s attempts at being tough funny: “I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire.” Righty-o, big guy.

Kim’s remarks came just days after Trump issued a powerful challenge to the world in his speech before the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.

“The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea,” Trump said. “Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. The United States is ready, willing and able, but hopefully this will not be necessary. That’s what the United Nations is all about; that’s what the United Nations is for. Let’s see how they do.”

Well, how the United Nations does is certainly going to be up for debate. However, Donald Trump did well enough to get Kim Jong Un to pitch a hissy fit on the world stage. In my book, that counts as pretty darn good.

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McCain Saves Obamacare Again, Tanks Graham-Cassidy Obamacare Repeal Bill

McCain Saves Obamacare Again, Tanks Graham-Cassidy Obamacare Repeal Bill

22 Sep, 2017
22 Sep, 2017

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said in a statement on Friday that he will oppose the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill. McCain’s vote against Graham-Cassidy effectively tanks renewed efforts to repeal Obamacare.

McCain said in a statement:

I cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal. I believe we could do better working together, Republicans and Democrats, and have not yet really tried. Nor could I support it without knowing how much it will cost, how it will effect insurance premiums, and how many people will be helped or hurt by it. Without a full CBO score, which won’t be available by the end of the month, we won’t have reliable answers to any of those questions.

This is the second time McCain saved Obamacare from repeal in the Senate. He first tanked Obamacare in August when he and Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) voted against the “skinny” Obamacare repeal bill. The measure failed by one vote.

McCain added that he takes no pleasure in derailing legislation sponsored by his friends Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy and hopes that Congress can strike a bipartisan deal on the future of health care.

McCain concluded his statement by saying, “I hope that in the months ahead, we can join with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to arrive at a compromise solution that is acceptable to most of us, and serves the interests of Americans as best we can.”

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Ex-CIA Agent Valerie Plame Tweets Article Blaming Jews For ‘Driving America’s Wars’

Ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson claims she was just being “thoughtful,” by re-Tweeting an openly anti-Semitic article titled, “America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars.”

Plame serves on the board of the Ploughshares Fund, an organization that advocated for the Iranian nuclear deal, and who, along with her husband Joe Wilson, was among the top donors to Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign. Earlier this year, she tried to organize a campaign to buy Twitter, so that she could remove “hateful” President Donald Trump from the social platform.

Ironic.

The article is worse, even, than it appears from the headline. According to the author, American Jews must “recuse themselves” from any conversation about the Middle East, and media organizations should be “required to label” Jewish commentators.

“What makes the war engine run is provided by American Jews who have taken upon themselves the onerous task of starting a war with a country that does not conceivably threaten the United States,” the author writes, in his vomitous screed.

Plame, apparently unconvinced that her overt anti-Semitism was a problem, tried to justify posting the article. In a series of follow-up Tweets, Plame claimed she wasn’t endorsing the article’s obscene viewpoint, just deeply considering whether Jews were responsible for all global violence. She intended to be “provocative,” she says.

Oddly enough – or perhaps not oddly at all – this isn’t the first time Valerie Plame has shared an article by this same author. Back in 2014, when she was still a darling of the liberal establishment, Plame Tweeted another one of his articles, that one criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his tough stance on Israeli security. Plame commented, “Well put.”

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