Unhinged Democrats Send Out Subpoenas For White House Documents Or Something

By William Teach October 5, 2019 – 7:20 am

Even though they’ve taken no vote to have a formal impeachment investigation, they think they can send subpoenas

House Democrats subpoena White House for Ukraine documents, escalating impeachment probe

House Democrats on Friday issued a subpoena to the White House for documents related to Ukraine, ratcheting up the Democratic impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.

The subpoena came after the three committees leading the impeachment inquiry separately sent a letter Friday seeking documents from Vice President Mike Pence as part of their investigation into Trump and his conversation with the President of Ukraine.

The subpoena from House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings to the White House includes a request for a host of documents and communications tied to the President’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the holding up of foreign aid to Ukraine and efforts by Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his associates to push the Ukrainians to investigate Vice President Joe Biden and Burisma, the company that hired Hunter Biden’s son Hunter Biden to be on its board, according to a memo Cummings sent on the subpoena earlier this week.

“We deeply regret that President Trump has put us — and the nation — in this position, but his actions have left us with no choice but to issue this subpoena,” Cummings of Maryland, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff of California and House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel of New York wrote in a letter to the White House on Friday.

Interesting. What will they do if the White House decides to tell them to go pound sand, or simply slow walks things, just as the Obama administration did in most instances? Waiting for the Obama administration to cooperate was like watch a whale’s pregnancy: it just keeps going on and on and on. And, in many cases the Obama admin just refused to cooperate at all, releasing nothing, and the media did absolutely nothing. No haranguing opinion pieces, no editorials, not blasting pieces in the straight news section, no monologues on the TV news. They mostly supported it. Heck, we still haven’t gotten to the bottom of Operation Fast and Furious, and most news outlets have zero interest in finding out exactly what happened with Joe Biden and his son in relation to China and Ukraine.

The White House downplayed the subpoena.

“This subpoena changes nothing — just more document requests, wasted time, and taxpayer dollars that will ultimately show the President did nothing wrong,” press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement. “The Do Nothing Democrats can continue with their kangaroo court while the President and his Administration will continue to work on behalf of the American people.” (snip)

The vice president’s spokesman said that the Democrats letter “does not appear to be a serious request.”

“Given the scope, it does not appear to be a serious request but just another attempt by the Do Nothing Democrats to call attention to their partisan impeachment,” Pence spokeswoman Katie Waldman said in a statement. “Despite their efforts to distract and obstruct our agenda, this Administration will stay focused on creating jobs, securing the border, rebuilding our military, negotiating better trade deals, and the issues most important to the American people.”

Fighting back is the best option. Refusing to play the Democrats game. Now, if only elected Republicans would hold strong, instead of being the usual squishes. Further, you may think Trump is playing fast and loose (but, what do you expect from a New Yorker? This is the attitude on display), but you know that Pence is an upstanding man, and wouldn’t be part of hijinx. Democrats might well regret getting documents and such from Pence.

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Nutty Portland Mayor Candidate Has Ideas On Green New Deal

By William Teach October 4, 2019 – 7:12 pm

She has big transportation ideas,as she travels around Portland in a fossil fueled vehicle. Did you ever notice that the media doesn’t like to show these climate cultists arriving and leaving?

Big transportation ideas highlight Portland mayoral candidate’s ‘Green New Deal’ plan

Portland mayoral candidate Sarah Iannarone is no stranger to bold ideas. She spent years working at Portland State University leading educational tours for visiting leaders that focused on our city’s legacy of transformative urban planning decisions.

Now, as Iannarone campaigns to unseat Mayor Ted Wheeler, she’s unveiled a “Climate Justice” policy plan that would be transformative in its own right. Iannarone’s “Green New Deal” plan (PDF) comes out just two weeks after a City of Portland report found that carbon emissions from the transportation sector are “increasing dramatically.”

Let’s take a look at a few

 The plan would align citywide policy goals with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports.

It would measure progress not by miles of roads paved or hours of congestion reduced, but by “alternative measures” such as a “Happiness Index” that “reflect our values and goals as a community”.

Happiness Index. Wait, don’t a lot of people bike in Portland? Weren’t we told that would make them right wingers?

It would “shift power from city government and mainstream organizations to frontline communities” and convene an Intergenerational Climate Summit. Her plan would also “value local knowledge” by sending some funds directly to community organizations to create plans and projects.

So, wait, city government would lose power? And it would go to unelected special interest groups? How about the mayor’s office? Will it lose power? Not that I’m against reducing the power of government, but, this empowers people and groups that cannot be held accountable.

It would prohibit “all new fossil fuel infrastructure” including the I-5 Rose Quarter project.

So, no new roads? What about existing ones?

It’s all as nutty as you’d expect, as well as finding ways to control citizens.

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No Coup Or Something: Rashida Tlaib Looks To Arrest Trump Cabinet Members

By William Teach October 4, 2019 – 2:30 pm

Remember, this is definitely not a coup based on Democrats being upset that they lost in 2016

Rashida Tlaib: Democrats Exploring Ways to Arrest Trump Cabinet Members

(Video at the Link) Far-left “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) told constituents on Tuesday that her Democrat colleagues are looking into how to arrest White House officials who refuse to comply with subpoenas as part of an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

Speaking to her constituents at a town hall in her hometown of Detriot, Tlaib said Democrats are puzzled about how to arrest Cabinet secretaries, telling voters in a video captured by America Rising PAC that they could be taken into custody if Congress votes to hold them in contempt.

“This is the first time we’ve ever had a situation like this,” said Tlaib. “So they’re trying to figure out, no joke, is it the D.C. police that goes and gets them? We don’t know. Where do we hold them?”

House Democrats are in “uncharted territory” and “trying to tread carefully,” the Michigan Democrat went on.

“I will tell them they can hold all those people right here in Detroit,” she quipped “We’ll take care of them and make sure they show up to the committee hearings.”

Interesting. At no time did Republicans consider arresting recalcitrant Obama officials such as Eric Holder, even when held in contempt. Team Obama was literally allowed to slow walk almost everything, and even refuse to show documents and hold back witnesses.

Authoritarians like Tlaib love using the State to enforce their will.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 4, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible climate killing baby which needs to be eaten, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Diogenes’ Middle Finger, with a post on Dems needing a bigger can of turd polish.

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Hot New Gun Control Push: Require Companies To Disclose Relations With Firearms Companies

By William Teach October 4, 2019 – 7:36 am

Rep Gregory Meeks (5th NY) thinks he’s on to something with this op-ed

Op-Ed: We must act now to end gun violence

New York has strong gun control laws, this is true. But there is little stopping someone from going to state with more gun stores and fewer laws, driving up or down the “Iron Pipeline” of I-95, and using that weapon here in New York. You may recall the death of NYPD office Brian Moore who was shot by a gun acquired in Perry, Ga.

Said weapon was not acquired legally. The perp, Demetrius Blackwell, stole the .38 caliber revolver from a gun store. So, it’s not like he bought it somewhere that didn’t do a background check. Which all gun stores do.

One crucial way we can reduce gun violence in our community is my instituting federal laws that set at least a floor of necessary gun safety measures, like universal background checks and closing the gun show loophole. The House passed a package of gun safety reforms last winter, H.R. 8, as one of its first major priorities after Democrats resumed leadership.

None of that would have stopped Blackwell. Further, Meeks can only offer this one example, which occurred in 2015.

After all, despite these bills being strong measures to help keep guns out of the hands of those who shouldn’t have them, they are the floor of what Congress can do, not the ceiling. There are more measures that can help drastically reduce damage that can be inflicted by a singular mass shooter. Those measures include banning Assault style weapons like the AR-15 so commonly used in mass shootings, banning extended magazines which allow shooters to shoot longer without reloading.

Blackwell used none of those. Again, it was a .38 Taurus revolver. Here’s where his big idea comes in

I’ll soon be reintroducing my legislation from last Congress, the Investor Choice Against Gun Proliferation Act, which would require listed companies to annually disclose their financial relationships with the gun industry, allowing consumers and investors to make informed decision that aligns with their morals.

Let’s find a bit more about this from Meeks’ webpage

Yesterday, Congressman Gregory W. Meeks (NY-05) reintroduced the Investor Choice Against Gun Proliferation Act. In recent years, mass shootings have prompted many companies to sever ties with the National Rifle Association (NRA). This bill would require public companies to disclose their financial relationships with manufacturers, dealers and other entities in the gun industry, to increase transparency and help investors make informed decisions.

“While common sense gun reform has languished in the partisan halls of Congress, American consumers and investors have taken action into their own hands by boycotting or divesting from companies tied to the gun industry. My Investor Choice Against Gun Proliferation Act would increase transparency in order to equip investors with information so they can create a portfolio that is consistent with their morals. Tens of thousands of lives are lost every year to gun violence, and Americans have a right to know whether their financial investments are inadvertently having a negative human impact,” said Congressman Gregory W. Meeks.

It’s essentially a tattletale act, designed to make sure companies can be abused by unhinged leftists, and it pretty much violates equal protection under the law. It’s a way to force private companies to not provide any support in any way to firearms companies, driving them out of business.

BTW, if the gun companies go out of business, who makes arms for government, including police, military, and the protection for members of Congress?

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AOC’s Town Hall: Save The Planet, Eat The Children

By William Teach October 4, 2019 – 7:15 am

In a normal world, you wonder if this was some sort of plant to make the Cult of Climastrology look crazy. But, this is Cult of Climastrology World, where people are yammering about eco/climate anxiety, superglueing themselves to doors and streets and stuff, and you know the rest (via Twitchy)

And, yes, there is video. Worth the watch

Would that be considered vegan? And people wonder why I mostly stopped bothering with science years and years ago when it came to ‘climate change’? Because this is not science based. Well, political science and social science. And now we’re getting mental health issues.

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Extinction Rebellion Uses Fire Engine To Shoot Blood At British Treasury

By William Teach October 3, 2019 – 2:37 pm

And they’re very surprised that the leader and a few others are facing charges

(Fox News) British police arrested four members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion on Thursday after they used a fire engine to spray the U.K.’s Treasury building with hundreds of gallons of fake blood.

The group said it carried out the protest because it wanted to raise awareness of the “inconsistency between the U.K. government’s insistence that the U.K. is a world leader in tackling climate breakdown while pouring vast sums of money into fossil exploration and carbon-intensive projects,” according to Sky News.

But their latest stunt had some mishaps.

Organizers said they sprayed 1,800 liters of red liquid colored with food dye at the Treasury building, yet most of it appeared to have ended up on the street and sidewalk, Sky News reports. At another point, the protesters lost control of the decommissioned fire engine’s hose, it added.

The Met Police later said it arrested three men and one woman on suspicion of criminal damage and that there were no injuries stemming from the incident.

I used the Fox article because it was the most recent, most UK sources were about 5 hours ago (at the time I wrote this for posting later). But, even newer from the Met Police

The question now is “will the judiciary let them go?” They’ve let others go scott free, much like most of the folks involved in vandalizing Confederate statues have had charges dropped, how Antifa nutters involved in violence and criminal intimidation have been let go (those the police even bothered arresting), etc.

A couple tweets with photos below the fold

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 3, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible fossil fueled vehicles causing carbon pollution storms, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bookworm Room, with a post on Schiff Tales.

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A Plurality Of Americans Support Impeachment Or Something

By William Teach October 3, 2019 – 10:30 am

This is one you’re going to see/hear a lot of from the Credentialed Media. I ran across it at The Hill, and there are a bunch of other Democrat leaning news outlets yammering about. Let’s go to the source, USA Today

Perilous times for Trump: By 45%-38%, Americans support impeaching him over Ukraine allegations, poll finds

Americans by a 45%-38% plurality now support a vote by the House of Representatives to impeach President Trump, a USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll finds, as allegations continue to swirl around an embattled White House.

By a similar margin, 44%-35%, those surveyed say the Senate, which would then be charged with holding a trial of the president, should convict Trump and remove him from office.

The survey of 1,006 adults, taken Tuesday and Wednesday, underscores the perilous situation the president finds himself in as House committees subpoena documents and prepare to hear testimony into accusations that he pressured the leader of Ukraine to investigate a political rival, then tried to hide the account of their phone conversation.

You can dig into the poll, from the topline to the full details, at the survey link. Let’s take a look at the topline page 5

While it’s interesting that 45% want the House to impeach Trump (with 38% saying no and 17% unsure), they aren’t really getting the Independents, with 64% saying no or don’t know. More interesting is that first question with only 39% saying there’s enough evidence to actually impeach, with 61% saying not or don’t know. Even 22% of Democrats don’t know. And those are not good numbers for Independents supporting the Democrats.

The survey includes some cautionary notes as well for Biden, the Democratic frontrunner for the presidential nomination to challenge Trump next year. By 2-1, 42%-21%, those polled say there are valid reasons to look at the behavior of Joe and Hunter Biden in Ukraine. Even one in four Democrats say an investigation would be legitimate; two-thirds of Republicans agree. Joe Biden was the Obama administration’s point person on Ukraine; his son pursued lucrative business arrangements there.

There has been no evidence of wrongdoing by either Biden, though Trump on Wednesday accused them both of being corrupt.

Watch those last two: people are going to want to know more about Joe Biden’s dealings on behalf of his son, and there is more than enough to think it was corrupt (here’s one link, you can find plenty out there, and some claim illegal actions, not just corruption). And as more information comes out, the witch hunt belief will rise.

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Sunrise Warmists Building An Army To Vote To Pass A Green New Deal Which No One Is Talking About

By William Teach October 3, 2019 – 8:35 am

While it’s important to keep mentioning the Green New Deal push due to its true goal of instituting an authoritarian style government in control of everything, including your life, which will take lots of your money, there isn’t actually much news on the Green New Deal, and what news there is often tends to be not the primary issue of the article. Because it’s not something anyone is really concerned with. But, hey, it might get the kiddies out to vote!

The Sunrise Movement Is Building An Army In The Early 2020 States

The Sunrise Movement is scaling up operations in Iowa and New Hampshire to mobilize young people demanding climate action to the polls in the early presidential primary states, organizers told BuzzFeed News.

“Our top priority is to build an army of young people to elect a candidate in the caucuses who will be a champion of the Green New Deal,” Kaleb Van Fosson, a Sunrise organizer based in Iowa, told BuzzFeed News.

Van Fossen is one of eight people working full time, along with 45 volunteers, on the Iowa campaign. Since early September, 1,425 people in Iowa have signed cards pledging to vote for candidates backing a Green New Deal, a 10-year plan to transition the US off fossil fuels in order to cut the nation’s climate pollution, create jobs, and tackle economic inequality. About 150 people have also registered to vote through the campaign, according to Sunrise. The group’s end goal is to get 15,000 students to pledge to caucus, and to register 1,200 students to vote before the Feb. 3 caucus.

In New Hampshire, the climate group has joined forces with the New Hampshire Youth Movement, which is dedicated to pushing the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and free college. It has 13 full-time staffers and 122 volunteers combined. Unlike in Iowa, a third party cannot register people to vote in the state. So the campaign has instead gathered 2,789 pledges to vote. Its target is to get 14,000 people to pledge to vote before the Feb. 11 primary.

Interesting. This is starting to look like it’s really about hardcore Modern Socialist politics, rather than any real concern over a tiny increase in the Earth’s temperature. But, good luck getting all the kids to vote. They might come out for the primaries in a few states, but, they continuously fail to materialize during the General election. Further, do they actually think they will help the Democrat candidate win the general when their message is all about domineering centralized government?

Seriously, these kiddies have zero knowledge of the real world, and would most likely be shocked if the GND was implemented and they couldn’t do things like travel around a few states in fossil fueled vehicles while surfing the Internet on imported smartphones, taking selfies all over the place and eating meat. Heck, the government would take too much money to do travel.

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