Had enough yet

[shortstuff]

The Virginia's race was the HOPE this country needed. I am so happy today. New Jersey, bring it in

[Lee Chowaniec]

Wokeness and culture war under siege

From progressive dream, to democratic nightmare as voters in Virginia, New York City, Buffalo, New Jersey, and Minneapolis push back against leftwing overreach, incompetence, and intolerance.

Carville blames 'stupid wokeness' for Democratic losses

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp

Democratic political strategist James Carville blamed his party's recent losses and weak performance in state elections on "stupid wokeness" on Wednesday.

"What went wrong is just stupid wokeness. Don't just look at Virginia and New Jersey. Look at Long Island, look at Buffalo, look at Minneapolis, even look at Seattle, Wash. I mean, this 'defund the police' lunacy, this take Abraham Lincoln's name off of schools. I mean that - people see that," Carville said.

"Wokeness is a problem, and everyone knows it. It's hard to talk to anybody today - and I talk to lots of people in the Democratic Party - who doesn't say this. But they don't want to say it out loud," said Carville.

[mark blazejewski]

Big Trouble Ahead For Hillary Clinton?

Feds Arrest Primary Steele Dossier Source As Durham Investigation Heats Up

BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, NOV 04, 2021 - 10:16 AM

Federal authorities on Tuesday arrested Igor "Iggy" Danchenko, a Russian national who was the primary researcher for the so-called Steele Dossier - a compendium of opposition research funded by the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and used to smear Donald Trump as a Russian operative. It was also used as justification for an FBI wiretap application targeting former Trump adviser Carter Page.

Reference: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fe...XjgE6SkoVO37UY

[shortstuff]

Wokeness and culture war under siege

From progressive dream, to democratic nightmare as voters in Virginia, New York City, Buffalo, New Jersey, and Minneapolis push back against leftwing overreach, incompetence, and intolerance.

Carville blames 'stupid wokeness' for Democratic losses

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp

Democratic political strategist James Carville blamed his party's recent losses and weak performance in state elections on "stupid wokeness" on Wednesday.

"What went wrong is just stupid wokeness. Don't just look at Virginia and New Jersey. Look at Long Island, look at Buffalo, look at Minneapolis, even look at Seattle, Wash. I mean, this 'defund the police' lunacy, this take Abraham Lincoln's name off of schools. I mean that - people see that," Carville said.

"Wokeness is a problem, and everyone knows it. It's hard to talk to anybody today - and I talk to lots of people in the Democratic Party - who doesn't say this. But they don't want to say it out loud," said Carville.

What happened in Buffalo Lee?

[mark blazejewski]

What happened in Buffalo Lee?

I'll answer that shortstuff.

Mayor Brown/Write In defeated Walton on the order of 59%-41%.

Thank God!

[Lee Chowaniec]

The foil to use Donald Trump to detract from everything wrong happening in the country today is no longer working and the Democrats are finally waking up after the recent elections.

Trump may have been uniquely unpopular and polarizing, and the ‘blame Trump’ playbook may have worked for a long time, but last night shows the Democrats need a different strategy. All that is happening in this country today is happening under Biden’s watch!

Biden’s reacts to the Major Democratic election loses declaring:” People want us to get things done.” Well, not everything you are proposing, especially considering the consequences resulting from many of your actions, or non-actions, taken in only ten months in office, Mr. Biden.

It was made quite clear Tuesday night that suburban voters who do not like Trump voted for Youngkin. Democrats have yet to fulfill their campaign promises and need to have a message showing that the problems Americans are facing are being addressed and by taking concrete actions to solve them.

Despite Democrats having control of the Presidency, the House and Senate, the Build Back Better bill and infrastructure plans are floundering and supposedly because of Trump's iconic, evil name There is bickering and dissention within its own party preventing resolve. And yet instead of focusing on resolve the Democratic Party and liberal media focuses on everything Trump.

[shortstuff]

I'll answer that shortstuff.

Mayor Brown/Write In defeated Walton on the order of 59%-41%.

Thank God!

OMGosh, that is awesome Even thought Brown is a Democrat, he is a moderate. Walton was probably the closest person to true Socialism. How Brown got himself in this predicament, I do not know. But between Lancaster & Buffalo, that is truly a remarkable political success, IMO.

Thanks Mark

[mark blazejewski]

OMGosh, that is awesome Even thought Brown is a Democrat, he is a moderate. Walton was probably the closest person to true Socialism. How Brown got himself in this predicament, I do not know. But between Lancaster & Buffalo, that is truly a remarkable political success, IMO.

Thanks Mark

My pleasure shortstuff.

[WNYresident]

Trump may have been uniquely unpopular and polarizing, and the ‘blame Trump’ playbook may have worked for a long time, but last night shows the Democrats need a different strategy. All that is happening in this country today is happening under Biden’s watch!

A lot to do with Trump's unpopularity was the picture the main stream media was painting 24/7.

It never stopped. Anything and everything was cast in a negative light while people behind the DNC were literally looting, rioting, hitting people with 2 X 4's and burning down people's businesses.

It was nuts....

The hard cord Dem supporters said and did anything they could to make him look as bad as possible.

Just think how much lower Biden's polls would be if the media did the same thing since the day he took office.

Right on facebook I had a poster posting how Putin visited the white house multiple times when Trump was in office. All lies. Others how he is a Russian agent etc... All while ignoring actual evidence like the Biden's family's laptop and emails.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Winners and losers

Biden gets his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill passed by the House, 500,000 jobs were created in the month of October, and the Dow is a record high.

China gets auto chips, Russia gets a pipeline, the Taliban gets US arms, illegals and drug Cartels get open borders.

We get mandates, lockdowns, inflation, supply chain shortages, a chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal and hostage crises, CRT, parents charged as terrorists, increased crime, high gasoline and energy prices, free speech suppression and shamed by the ‘woke’ crowd

Put a sweater on and lower your expectations America until such time Biden thinks about our best interests over that of illegals and foreign interests.

Give no thought about the US being oil independent before his taking office, shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline and cancelling natural gas mining permits.

Our fearless leader asked OPEC and our friends, the Saudi’s, to produce more oil and was rebuffed.

Cheer up! By 2035 we will all be driving electric vehicles and heating / cooling our homes with solar energy. We will all be able to afford that. Right? Uncle Joe and the socialists will see to it!

[Lee Chowaniec]

American intelligence questioned

While taking only one media question on Saturday, saying he would probably get into trouble for even doing that, Biden responded to a question on the supply chain issue and when relief would come. Biden responded the issue was too complex for most American’s to grasp – thereby questioning their intelligence.

This is the same individual who declared McAuliffe lost the Virginia Governor election because Americans are confused. McAuliffe lost the race using CRT, culture war tactics and telling parents they should not be involved in their children’s education.

His advocates and the liberal media are selling his loss as a dog whistle to white supremacists and inborn white racists. Americans are rejecting the race card label, tired of being lied to that there is no such thing as CRT taught in schools and labeled as privileged by just being born white.

While Biden appears to be mocking American intelligence, AOC, and the radical left attribute the term ‘woke’ to the old crowd and now attribute the term to Republicans.. Tuesday’s election results were only the beginning for a ‘new woke’ crowd of Americans just awakening.

Americans who are not too stupid to see empty grocery / supply store shelves; ramping inflation promised to be temporary, now forecast not to end until the end of 2022; high gasoline /energy costs, etc., while at the same time hearing the Build Back Better Act won’t add to the deficit is not true, and that the Act includes enormous immigration provisions.

At the same time Biden now defends migrant payments to illegal immigrant families separated at the border. When pressed by the media on whether he was considering such compensation early last week, he called it garbage sold by the media. His press secretary walked it back the next day and he did as well shortly thereafter. Maybe not $450,000 per person, but some form of compensation for someone entering our country illegally.

Your Administration’s domestic oil and gas development policies are hurting American consumers and workers, are contrary to an "America First" energy agenda, and reinforce a reliance on foreign oil.

Americans are not as stupid or gullible as you would like to think they are, Mr. Biden Your poll numbers reflect that

[shortstuff]

My pleasure shortstuff.

Mark I had another question unrelated to the aforementioned.

In the Reconciliation Bill that was unfortunately passed by Congress, they mentioned that they would use the Parliament Rule to keep this bill from defaulting if the GOP took control in 2022. My question to you since you are a Historian, can they use the Parliament Rule in a Republic Constitutional law?

[mark blazejewski]

Mark I had another question unrelated to the aforementioned.

In the Reconciliation Bill that was unfortunately passed by Congress, they mentioned that they would use the Parliament Rule to keep this bill from defaulting if the GOP took control in 2022. My question to you since you are a Historian, can they use the Parliament Rule in a Republic Constitutional law?

A fascinating question shortstuff.

Generally, I can't see how, or why, an act of on a previous Congress can not be overturned by a subsequent Congress, provided that the President signs the law or its veto is overridden.

Perhaps not entirely analogous, the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was repealed in 1971.

But under Reconciliation, when an amendment is attached to a spending/budget bill, certain restriction in the legislative process kick-in.

In the Senate, any amendments offered to a reconciliation bill must be germane to the bill — which is not usually a requirement for amendments in the Senate. This prevents the process from getting bogged down by disputes over tangentially related or unrelated amendments, as often happens to other legislation under regular Senate procedures.

Reference: https://www.cbpp.org/research/federa...reconciliation

But, if your question is can the law attached to a budgetary act be separately amended without impacting the rest of the spending bill, yikes, I just do not really know.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Biden’s good week – or not

Biden’s good news

Democrats now have the bargaining advantage on the spending bill, according to Newsweek. This is particularly good news, he added, for Biden and liberal Democrats who "won't face the voter backlash that major new spending programs would inevitably have produced in [the] 2022 and 2024 elections."

Biden also benefitted from positive employment data released Friday suggesting the economy is bouncing back. Over half a million new jobs were added in October, a significant rise from the previous month, according to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report showed that non-farm payroll employment increased by 531,000 in October—compared to 194,000 the month prior—and that unemployment dropped to 4.6 percent, from September's 4.8 percent.
"The number of unemployed persons, at 7.4 million, continued to trend down," the report continued.

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klein said Sunday the administration must maintain support by addressing the economy and the pandemic.

Biden said in a statement on Friday. "I am confident that during the week of November 15, the House will pass the Build Back Better Act."

The not so Biden good news

Biden Shutting Down Line 5 Pipeline Could Send Gas Prices Surging

The Michigan Line 5 pipeline could be under threat due to the White House exploring the potential impact on fuel prices in the region, according to a recent Politico report, amid a drive to reduce the U.S.'s dependence on fossil fuels.

The line, which delivers Canadian crude oil and natural gas from Alberta to Ontario through Wisconsin, the Great Lakes and Michigan, has operated since 1953 and currently transports about 540,000 barrels per day.

Line 5 has come under fire from Michigan's Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer in recent years; however, the issue moved up the White House's agenda after Canada's decision to invoke the 1977 Pipeline Transit treaty a month ago to ensure the line's continued operation, according to Politico.

Lawmakers who urged Biden not to take action claim the government's move to end the line's operation is part of a move to "soothe environmental groups."
An environmental study has been in the works about a potential Line 5 replacement, though that is a separate issue from the dispute between Michigan and Canada about the existing pipeline.

It appears Biden is prepared to let consumers suffer higher prices. Inflation, the daunting Build Back Better Act, paying illegals separation compensation, supply side issues, the border crisis and associated illegal immigration settlement costs, etc., all have consequences and are the cause of the presidents 38% approval rating and the 70% of Americans who feel the country is headed in the wrong direction.

Inflation once thought temporary is now predicted to last through 2022 and is what is particularly souring Americans. Wage increases are being eaten up and then some, savings are being depleted, and low interest rates adversely impact replenishing saving withdrawals.

To shut down pipelines and approve a Russian pipeline, begging Saudi Arabia to increase oil output, all while having no energy plan in place to transition from gas and oil to ‘clean’ energy without acutely impacting pocketbooks will not be tolerated by the American public.

Energy independent a year ago, no more under Biden.

And through all the public is going through the president mocks the public in not having the intelligence to understand his policies or the reasons for his blaming everything under the sun for failures, except his own shortcomings.

Equally frightening is the knowledge the ‘cackling’ loon Harris is one step away from becoming president and the thought that Trump could run again in 2024. We are literally ‘up ****’s creek without a paddle’!

[shortstuff]

A fascinating question shortstuff.

Generally, I can't see how, or why, an act of on a previous Congress can not be overturned by a subsequent Congress, provided that the President signs the law or its veto is overridden.

Perhaps not entirely analogous, the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was repealed in 1971.

But under Reconciliation, when an amendment is attached to a spending/budget bill, certain restriction in the legislative process kick-in.



Reference: https://www.cbpp.org/research/federa...reconciliation

But, if your question is can the law attached to a budgetary act be separately amended without impacting the rest of the spending bill, yikes, I just do not really know.

Great Mark, I knew you would have an answer to my question. I was surprised when I heard the use of the Parliament Rule. I feel they need this Reconciliation bill to reimagine the Utopia world order. It's nuts, I thought I would never see this in my lifetime.