Saturday 30th of March 2024

the state of the union...

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President Trump said Thursday that he agreed to delay the State of the Union address because Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was "actually reasonable" in her request to reschedule the speech, despite his previous protestations.

"It’s really her choice," Trump told reporters at the White House. "I would have done it in a different location but I think that would be very disrespectful to the State of the Union to pick some other place." 

"What she said, I thought, was actually reasonable," he added. "We’ll have the State of the Union when the shutdown’s over."

 

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/426889-trump-i-agreed-to-del...

a wall between them...

Pelosi told Trump last week that, because of the ongoing federal government shutdown, she had security concerns about him delivering a speech to Congress as planned on January 29. The Democratic leader invited Trump to work with her to find another time for the address after the shutdown ends.

Intitially, on Wednesday, local time, Trump released a letter to Pelosi in which he declared he would deliver his speech to the House of Representatives next Tuesday as planned. Trump said he had consulted with the Secret Service and they had no security concerns about his speech.

 

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https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/pelosi-blocks-donald-trump-fr...

a temporary deal...

United States President Donald Trump says he has reached a tentative agreement with US politicians for three weeks in stop-gap funding that would end a partial government shutdown, now in its 35th day. 

Key points:
  • The arrangement would require passage in the House and Senate, as well as the President's signature
  • It would also leave Mr Trump's request for border wall funding for later talks
  • They could pass the measure as soon as today

 

A senior Democratic aide said money the President demanded for a border wall was not included.

The President had previously insisted on the inclusion of $US5.7 billion to help pay for a wall along the vast US-Mexico border in any legislation to fund government agencies.

"I am very proud to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and reopen the federal government," Mr Trump said at the White House.

"In a short while, I will sign a bill to open our government for three weeks until February 15.

"I will make sure that all employees receive their back pay very quickly, or as soon as possible."

With the effects of the shutdown spreading, Mr Trump said a bipartisan congressional conference committee would meet to come up with a plan for border security.

Mr Trump triggered the shutdown, which began on December 22 and idled some 800,000 government employees, with his wall-funding demand but Democrats, who control the House of Representatives, rejected it on the grounds that a wall would be costly, ineffective and immoral.

Mr Trump, whose Republicans have a majority in the Senate, has said it was necessary to curb illegal immigration and drug trafficking.

 

read more:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-26/donald-trump-announces-deal-to-en...

the US senate wants war...

 

Roll Call Vote 116th Congress - 1st Session

 

XML Vote Summary 

 

Question: On the Amendment (McConnell Amdt. No. 65, As Amended )

Vote Number:  14

 

 

Vote Date: February 4, 2019, 05:34 PM

 

 

 

 

Required For Majority:  1/2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vote Result:  Amendment Agreed to





Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 65 to S. 1 (Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act of 2019)

Statement of Purpose: To express the sense of the Senate that the United States faces continuing threats from terrorist groups operating in Syria and Afghanistan and that the precipitous withdrawal of United States forces from either country could put at risk hard-won gains and United States national security.

Vote Counts:YEAs70

 

 

NAYs

 

 

26

 

 

 

 

Not Voting

 

 

 

 

4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Information compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

warmongers...

 

 

Sen. Rand Paul accused his Senate colleagues Monday of being warmongers and serving in a “war caucus” — as fellow Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell led a bid to protest the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria and Afghanistan.

“What is the one thing that brings Republicans and Democrats together?” Paul asked. “War. They love it, the more, the better. Forever war, perpetual war.”

McConnell, the Senate majority leader, has led the Senate effort to warn President Donald Trump against a too-hasty retreat from Syria and Afghanistan. McConnell rarely breaks with Trump on any policy.

Paul, though, stood squarely with Trump.

 

 

Read more:

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article225518415.html

 

 

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an infamous biblical quote...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is well known for citing one particular quote from the Bible. Yet recently she had to admit she couldn’t find it anywhere in the Holy Book.

Pelosi has a habit of quoting a line that she says is in the Bible. In fact, the California Democrat has delivered the line 11 times between 2002 and 2018 on the Congressional Record, according to Business Insider.

"To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonour the God who made us," Pelosi says.

However, during an event with a group of Christian colleges this week, Pelosi conceded that the message might not be biblical.

"I can't find it in the Bible, but I quote it all the time," Pelosi, who is Catholic, told the audience, "I keep reading and reading the Bible —I know it's there someplace. It's supposed to be in Isaiah."

READ MORE: 'F*ck You Clap': Twitter Wild as Pelosi's Applause Steals Show at Trump's SOTU

“The Pelosi passage is not in the Bible,” Will Kynes, an associate professor of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Whitworth University, told Slate, adding that the closest analogue is Proverbs 14:31, which discusses aiding the poor: “Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him.”

Politicians often use Biblical quotes to appeal to Christian audiences. Recently, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders both used references to the Bible to argue about environmental protection. 

 

 

Read more:

https://sputniknews.com/us/201902071072192702-nancy-pelosi-favorite-bible-quote/?

 

When politicians quote "god" as their crutch for "their" policies, they are dead meat, in Gus' book. Pelosi or Trump are such, except that, most likely, Trump does not believe an ounce of religious pocus, but he lets people think he believes in the hocus to get votes... Pelosi is a more religiously-minded nut.

 

God DID NOT MAKE US. We are one of the resultant of the evolution of life, still in evolution... 

 

 

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nothing unusual...

... as the Times put it: “Americans have lost track of how unusual his [Trump's] behavior is.”

 

Stephen Colbert...

 

Stephen? Yes?... NO! Trump's behavior is right on song for people who have been raised by (or laughed at) the US/Canadian comedy crappy shows, including Sesame Street.

Trump is a targeted mix of the Garbage Muppet, South Park's Kenny and Homer Simpson whom we forgive his trespass for being a dork while trying to be a monkey. Nothing unusual... not even for a President — most of whom since the inception of the USA, have acted like bandits, thieves and conjurors...

make up your mind, women...

"Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there's something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don't think we should go down that path, because it divides the country," she said. 

"He's just not worth it."

It wasn't Ms Pelosi's first comment on impeaching Mr Trump, but it was her most direct comment.

She's dealt with the topic cautiously in the past as it carries the potential to sharply split Democrats and the public ahead of next year's presidential and congressional elections.

Look no further than Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, one of the new wave of progressive Democrats that were swept into power at the 2018 midterms, who left no doubt where the priorities of her wing of the party lie.

"We're going to impeach the motherf*****," she told a crowd just hours after she was sworn into office in November.

Something that might deliver the overwhelming and bipartisan reason Ms Pelosi wants is Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference at the 2016 presidential election.

Mr Mueller is also investigating whether there was any collusion between Mr Trump's campaign and the Russian Government and whether Mr Trump has attempted to obstruct the investigation.

 

Read more:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-12/nancy-pelosi-says-she-wont-impeac...

 

 

 

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Let's say once more: NOT ONE RUSSIAN IN SIGHT... BUT PLENTY OF MURDOCHORAMA on the horizon of electing Trump the unelectable...

sleeping with donald...

For most Democrats, the take is that Donald Trump is a racist. For Woke Democrats, the take is that Nancy Pelosi is Trump’s patsy.

It might not have seemed like Pelosi was a Trump dupe when she pointed her snarky clap at him during the State of the Union, or when she dusted him during the partial government shutdown, or when she said that he belonged in prison. And yet in politics, the caravan is always moving on.

These days, Woke opinion holds that Pelosi has been so soft on Trump as to virtually be his friend. The speaker did, after all, oppose the Woke left in last week’s impeachment vote. Wokesters believe that Pelosi, desirous of keeping her majority in the House—and her own personal control of that majority—has been too tough on the Squad, that being the hip moniker for that noisy quartet of left-wing freshwomen.

The Squad has plenty of friends in high places. One such is Karen Attiah, global opinions editor of The Washington Post. On July 14, taking note of Trump’s most recent anti-Squad animadversion—the instantly notorious “go back” tweet—Attiah volleyed her own strong tweeting: “Make no mistake: Nancy Pelosi’s dogwhistling snipes at @AOC, Ilhan Omar, @RashidaTlaib and @RepPressley helped pave the way for this vicious, racist attack from the president.”

 

Read more:

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-left-burns-a-hereti...

 

 

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choosing her flying broom...

The House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, has flatly rejected a question from a reporter who asked her whether she “hates” Donald Trump, saying: “Don’t mess with me.”

Pelosi, the top Democrat in Congress, was walking away from her podium to end her weekly press conference on Thursday when a reporter shouted a question about whether she hated the president.

“Do you hate the president, Madam Speaker?” the reporter asked.

Pelosi quickly turned on her heel to address the reporter directly, angrily telling him that she did not hate the president and that she resented being asked such a question.

“I don’t hate anyone,” Pelosi said, jabbing her finger at him and citing her Catholic upbringing. “I still pray for the president,” she added.

Pelosi threw a number of insults Trump’s way, calling the president a “coward” on gun violence, “cruel” on immigration and “in denial” about climate change. But she emphasized those were issues for the 2020 election, and she did not hate the president.

“This is about the constitution of the United States and the facts that lead to the president’s violation of the oath of office. And as a Catholic I resent your using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me.

“So don’t mess with me when it comes to words like that,” Pelosi told the reporter. And with that, she walked out.

The incident came two hours after she said Trump’s conduct and the constitution left the House no choice but to move forward with the impeachment process. Moments later, Trump and House Republicans lashed out in heated personal tones.

Trump tweeted that Pelosi “just had a nervous fit” and added: “She says she ‘prays for the President.’ I don’t believe her, not even close.” The House Republican leader, Kevin McCarthy, tweeted “Pelosi and the Democrats are clearly are blinded by their hate for the President.”

Pelosi has generally dominated confrontations with Trump all year in her second turn as House speaker. Now, she is leading an impeachment inquiry over Trump’s political pressure campaign on Ukraine – only the fourth presidential impeachment proceedings in history.

“The president’s actions have seriously violated the constitution,” Pelosi said earlier from the speaker’s office at the Capitol. “He is trying to corrupt, once again, the election for his own benefit. The president has engaged in abuse of power, undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections.”

“Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our founders and a heart full of love for America, today I am asking our chairmen to proceed with articles of impeachment,” Pelosi said.

 

Read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/05/dont-mess-with-me-nancy-pelosi-rejects-question-hates-trump

 

 

Pelosi: Bill Clinton was impeached for "being stupid"

 

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was asked why she's supporting impeachment now when she didn't in the past.

She said she opposed impeaching President George W. Bush despite repeated calls to remove him. Pelosi then moved on to President Bill Clinton, who she said was impeached because of "personal indiscretion and misrepresenting about it."

"Some of these same people are saying, oh, this doesn't rise to impeachment. Right there, impeaching Bill Clinton for being stupid in terms of something like that. I mean, I love him, I think he was a great president, but being stupid in terms of that, what would somebody do, not to embarrass their family, but in any event, so they did Bill Clinton, now they want me to do George Bush, I didn't want it to be a way of life in our country," she said.

Read more:

https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/nancy-pelosi-town-hall-2019/

 

 

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