Trump's biggest win yet

[GuyMontag]

More bad news for the nevertrumpers, Chuck Grassley has opened the floodgates, Dems just lost a parliamentary stall tactic in the Blue Slip courtesy. Votes on judicial nominees can now be called and Dems can go pound sand. He's already way ahead in terms of confirmed judges for a first year as President, and about to go Secretariat in the Belmont with future nominees. Playtime is over.

Congress has handed Trump a historic presidential victory

 

[Darth]

More bad news for the nevertrumpers, Chuck Grassley has opened the floodgates, Dems just lost a parliamentary stall tactic in the Blue Slip courtesy. Votes on judicial nominees can now be called and Dems can go pound sand. He's already way ahead in terms of confirmed judges for a first year as President, and about to go Secretariat in the Belmont with future nominees. Playtime is over.

Congress has handed Trump a historic presidential victory

Hey, I'm not sure what you said, but I don't want to do my actual research, so I agree with you.


#appealtoauthority.

But, j/k, just in response to these absurd posts we've seen lately.

I miss Scars. #UnholyTrinity

 

[kgun12]

Trump Democrats

 

[Acer-m14]

he need to put his boot in the ass of few to get the job done .. looks at Sessions

 

[livingston]

The Taming of The Shrewd – Change Agent Rex Tillerson Takes Rusted State Dept. Down To Frame – “Career Diplomats” Apoplectic…
Walking in a Winner Wonderland. Oh yeah, the New York Times writes about the bloated bureaucracy and career diplomats being removed from the U.S. State Department as if it’s a bad thing. The condescending DC elites cannot fathom why they are unable to stop Secretary of State Rex Tillerson from cutting the rust out of the enterprise and streamlining the mission.
No-one, repeat NO-ONE, could have pulled off what T-Rex is accomplishing except T-Rex himself; with the full support of President Trump, of course. The former leader of the worlds largest private business, Exxon-Mobil, is now systematically bringing efficiency and effectiveness to the worlds largest public institution, the State Dept.

One fundamental question: “what is your specific and quantifiable value to the core DoS mission; and how do we measure your effectiveness therein”? The lack of reasonable answers within the bureaucratic ranks is leading to massive downsizing.

Making America Great Again means Making Interventionism Irrelevant Again – The New York Times outlines why the diplomatic retention of irrelevant snobbery is vital to those within the State Department’s cocktail circuit influence network. At the rate Tillerson is going he might even eliminate the entire staff for the Assistant Cultural Ambassador to the U.N. Center for Biodiversity and Southern Hemispheric Aquatic Species Rights. That’s the threshold where things are really going to get ugly:


New York Times […] For those who have not been dismissed, retirement has become a preferred alternative when, like Mr. Miller, they find no demand for their expertise. A retirement class that concludes this month has 26 senior employees, including two acting assistant secretaries in their early 50s who would normally wait years before leaving.

The number of those with the department’s top two ranks of career ambassador and career minister — equivalent to four- and three-star generals — will have been cut in half by Dec. 1, from 39 to 19. And of the 431 minister-counselors, who have two-star-equivalent ranks, 369 remain and another 14 have indicated that they will leave soon — an 18 percent drop — according to an accounting provided by the American Foreign Service Association.

The political appointees who normally join the department after a change in administration have not made up for those departures. So far, just 10 of the top 44 political positions in the department have been filled, and for most of the vacancies, Mr. Tillerson has not nominated anyone.

Mr. Tillerson, a former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, has made no secret of his belief that the State Department is a bloated bureaucracy and that he regards much of the day-to-day diplomacy that lower-level officials conduct as unproductive. Even before Mr. Tillerson was confirmed, his staff fired six of the State Department’s top career diplomats, including Patrick Kennedy, who had been appointed to his position by President George W. Bush. Kristie Kenney, the department’s counselor and one of just five career ambassadors, was summarily fired a few weeks later. (read more)
If you go back to the larger State Dept. challenge, Secretary Tillerson is essentially in charge of a U.S. Department that is comprised almost exclusively of Kerry/Clinton/Obama/Bush/UniParty/GOPe big “G” Globalists.

These entities, together with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, see themselves as a complete and separate structure of U.S. government. They also function as a complete and separate ideological structure of government:

More at ..The Taming of The Shrewd – Change Agent Rex Tillerson Takes Rusted State Dept. Down To Frame – “Career Diplomats” Apoplectic…

 

[livingston]

At the rate Tillerson is going he might even eliminate the entire staff for the Assistant Cultural Ambassador to the U.N. Center for Biodiversity and Southern Hemispheric Aquatic Species Rights
WTF .. is that. I would bet there re thousands of departments like this scattered across our government payroll
Bloated bloated bloated ...

 

[livingston]

Diplomats Sound the Alarm as They Are Pushed Out in Droves
In the following months, Mr. Tillerson launched a reorganization that he has said will be the most important thing he will do, and he has hired two consulting companies to lead the effort. Since he decided before even arriving at the State Department to slash its budget by 31 percent, many in the department have always seen the reorganization as a smoke screen for drastic cuts.

Mr. Tillerson has frozen most hiring and recently offered a $25,000 buyout in hopes of pushing nearly 2,000 career diplomats and civil servants to leave by October 2018.

Diplomats Sound the Alarm as They Are Pushed Out in Droves

 

[livingston]

New York Times […] For those who have not been dismissed, retirement has become a preferred alternative when, like Mr. Miller, they find no demand for their expertise. A retirement class that concludes this month has 26 senior employees, including two acting assistant secretaries in their early 50s who would normally wait years before leaving.

Now they know what the coal miners felt like when Obama shut down the mines ... with glee....

Except they have their 100,000/year pension to look forward to .... The miners a welfare check that will hardly put food on the table

 

[Airborneguy]

The courts are all that matters. While the nonsense swirls, the important groundwork is being laid behind the scenes, and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it.

 

[Catskillkid]

The courts are all that matters. While the nonsense swirls, the important groundwork is being laid behind the scenes, and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it.

Hope you're right. I'll be happy when a few more SCOTUS vacancies are filled.

 

[Marine Cpl]

Hope you're right. I'll be happy when a few more SCOTUS vacancies are filled.

That's about all we can hope for since he's being blocked by his own people on the issues he ran on. He was still an excellent choice though.

Could you imagine where we would have been if Hillary was elected after these shootings? SCOTUS would be taking cases left and right after Scalia was replaced with Eric Holder.

 

[GuyMontag]

Could you imagine where we would have been if Hillary was elected after these shootings?

You'd be registering your muskets at this point.

 

[Airborneguy]

SCOTUS would be taking cases left and right after Scalia was replaced with Eric Holder.

Well Merrick Garland, but same thing. And Holder may have been next. We need Ginsburg to croak. I swear I’d trade that for a million dollars right now!

 

[HighlandLofts]

Once regular undecided people start seeing the good he does the more popular he will become.

Soon the swamp sum will be running their cum,puss infested mouths as fast as the can against out president worse then they have been.

 

[GuyMontag]

Ginsburg, Kennedy and Breyer are all in their 80s, and ripe to retire.

Kennedy will retire next term, and Breyer and Ginsburg are rapidly approaching fossilization.

That's how big Trump's win is, and why the nevertrump bitches need a kick in the chops for not seeing the big picture.

 

[kev74]

The courts are all that matters. While the nonsense swirls, the important groundwork is being laid behind the scenes, and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it.

It all matters. Trump and his team are systematically dismantling the obamanation of our government in ways we won't realize for years to come. The rollback of regulation, the elimination of positions and the cutting of budgets all mean .gov will have less tentacles interfering with our daily lives. I'd love to see him go further and dismantle the Dept. of Homeland Security and not renew the un-Patriot Act, but I think we're stuck with that crap.

 

[MikeyCNY]

This reaffirms my belief that the number one argument in favor of voting in Trump was the judicial vacancies. Without them, none of the other stuff matters. Every day I wake up thankful that he won over $hillary. While I obviously don't agree with everything the Trump Admin is doing, I don't think I'd agree with ANYthing from the other side.

 

[livingston]

This reaffirms my belief that the number one argument in favor of voting in Trump was the judicial vacancies. Without them, none of the other stuff matters. Every day I wake up thankful that he won over $hillary. While I obviously don't agree with everything the Trump Admin is doing, I don't think I'd agree with ANYthing from the other side.

+1000

 

[Celt]

Its definitely good for freedom, but im still pissed that there has been no movement on 2nd Amendment issues.

 

[1911guy]

Its definitely good for freedom, but im still pissed that there has been no movement on 2nd Amendment issues.

Patience, my child

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Its definitely good for freedom, but im still pissed that there has been no movement on 2nd Amendment issues.

Agree.

But think of the alternative. If Hillary won, I'm sure we would have seen 2a cases. And we wouldn't have liked the results.


He isn't a miracle worker he can only do so much and he is relentlessly being blocked by everyone on the left at 80% of those on the right. He's trying to restack the courts in our favor.

We will like the results more of any litigation once the courts are filled with those who actually value the words of the constitution

Hang in there...be patient

 

[livingston]

BREAKING: CFPB Legal Counsel Agrees With President Trump on Appointment Authority…
BREAKING: CFPB Legal Counsel Agrees With President Trump on Appointment Authority…
Posted on November 26, 2017 by sundance
What’s this? …MORE winning? …Sheesh. Well, just add it to the pile in the corner over there, along with all the other winning we haven’t got around to yet.

The internal legal counsel for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has just agreed with the White House Office of Legal Counsel that President Trump has full authority to appoint OMB Director Mick Mulvaney as the acting head of the agency.

Oh noes, Princess Moonbat Feathers is gonna have a ‘splodey head in 3…. 2…. 1…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top lawyer for the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has concluded that President Donald Trump has the authority to name its acting director, three sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday, rejecting an effort by her former boss at the agency to name his immediate successor.

The office of CFPB General Counsel Mary McLeod has prepared a memo concurring with the opinion of the U.S. Justice Department that Trump has the power to appoint his budget chief, Mick Mulvaney, as temporary leader of the federal watchdog agency, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

One source said the memo would be sent to CFPB staff on Monday.


CFPB officials did not respond to requests by email and phone requesting comment. (read more)

 

[livingston]

 

[livingston]

More background on above story
Elizabeth Warren Goes Bananas Over CFPB Director Change…
Elizabeth Warren Goes Bananas Over CFPB Director Change…
Posted on November 25, 2017 by sundance
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was the brainchild of Senator Elizabeth Warren as an outcome of the Dodd-Frank legislation. With the CFPB Pocahontas tried to set up the head of the agency, the Director, in a manner that that he/she would operate without oversight. Unfortunately, her dictatorial-fiat-design collapsed when challenged in court. Backstory #1 – Backstory #2

A federal court found the CFPB Director position held too much power and deemed it unconstitutional. The court decision noted that giving the President power to fire the Director would fix the constitutional problem.

However, with the prior court ruling as a backdrop, a second issue for Warren surfaces as an outcome of the current CFPB Director, Richard Cordray, resigning and President Trump appointing an ‘interim’ head for the agency.

Senator Warren, apoplectic at the thought of CFPB critic Mick Mulvaney acting as head of the agency, wants the Deputy Director, Leandra English, to become Acting Director and points to Warren’s legislative outline as evidence to support her demand. Except it doesn’t…. not even a little bit.



(WARREN LINK)

The language Pocahontas points to in the CFPB construct, points to the Deputy Director filling in during the “absence” or “unavailability” of the Director. The statute clearly does not provide a mechanism when the Director position is “Vacant”.

 

[Celt]

Agree.

But think of the alternative. If Hillary won, I'm sure we would have seen 2a cases. And we wouldn't have liked the results.


He isn't a miracle worker he can only do so much and he is relentlessly being blocked by everyone on the left at 80% of those on the right. He's trying to restack the courts in our favor.

We will like the results more of any litigation once the courts are filled with those who actually value the words of the constitution

Hang in there...be patient

Oh I fully get it, and I wouldn't have it any other way, but I'm still pissed off he is not leveraging against Congress harder for some of his second amendment promises. Most specifically, National reciprocity.

Although admittedly, I am more aggravated with people like Paul Ryan and the other rinos for how they are fighting against him to protect the establishment.

 

[Marine Cpl]

Oh I fully get it, and I wouldn't have it any other way, but I'm still pissed off he is not leveraging against Congress harder for some of his second amendment promises. Most specifically, National reciprocity.

Although admittedly, I am more aggravated with people like Paul Ryan and the other rinos for how they are fighting against him to protect the establishment.

You are correct. He should be going on TV making a National Press Conference calling out those Paul Ryan's by name and telling the American people that they elected him for national reciprocity, the wall, immigration, ect and the Rhinos are blocking it from happening. He can call on the voters to expel them come next election.

I don't know. Everything I just said sounds like words from Donald Trump himself. Perhaps there are other things in the mix that aren't that simple that we cannot see or aren't allowed to see. It is very unlike him to not blast his employees for not getting the job done. There has to be more to this that meets the eye.

 

[Celt]

You are correct. He should be going on TV making a National Press Conference calling out those Paul Ryan's by name and telling the American people that they elected him for national reciprocity, the wall, immigration, ect and the Rhinos are blocking it from happening. He can call on the voters to expel them come next election.

I don't know. Everything I just said sounds like words from Donald Trump himself. Perhaps there are other things in the mix that aren't that simple that we cannot see or aren't allowed to see. It is very unlike him to not blast his employees for not getting the job done. There has to be more to this that meets the eye.

I'm with you 100%, he should be exposing them publicly to exert pressure on them, and calling them anti-second Amendment people. We need to get rid of these types.

 

[kev74]

Ha ha! Pocahontas! That cracks me up every time.

 

[nortatoga]

This win is pretty funny! The Art of the Deal!!

 

[MilesTeg]

You are correct. He should be going on TV making a National Press Conference calling out those Paul Ryan's by name and telling the American people that they elected him for national reciprocity, the wall, immigration, ect and the Rhinos are blocking it from happening. He can call on the voters to expel them come next election.

I don't know. Everything I just said sounds like words from Donald Trump himself. Perhaps there are other things in the mix that aren't that simple that we cannot see or aren't allowed to see. It is very unlike him to not blast his employees for not getting the job done. There has to be more to this that meets the eye.

Give it time. Have you noticed Trump is a master at letting people dig their own grave. I think the RINO's think they've won and this will be their undoing. The general public is more aware now than before Trump's presidency on how inept congress really is. Personally I always new congress was an issue but I had no clue how bad it really was. I think this is the general sentiment for most people who did vote for Trump in the first place.