If All You See…

By William Teach March 28, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooded from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on liberal men’s therapeutic cuddle groups.

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CBP Boss Says Immigration System Is At Breaking Point

By William Teach March 28, 2019 – 10:49 am

You can thank the Open Borders advocates for creating a situation where people from Central and South America attempt to storm our borders

CBP commissioner visits El Paso border, says immigration system at ‘breaking point’

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan said the border has hit it’s “breaking point” during a visit to El Paso.

A huge influx of Central American migrants has made the El Paso Sector the second-busiest location on the U.S.-Mexico border.

McAleenan spoke Wednesday morning along the border in the Chihuahuita neighborhood in Downtown El Paso.

The immigration system “breaking point has arrived this week,” McAleenan said.

“CBP is facing an unprecedented humanitarian and border security crisis all along our Southwest Border — and nowhere has that crisis manifested more acutely than here in El Paso,” McAleenan said.

In the past two mornings, border officers took more than 12,000 migrants into custody along the border, McAleenan said.

“A high number is 4,000 — 6,000 is crisis level,” McAleenan said. “Twelve thousand is unprecedented. On Monday, we saw the highest total of apprehensions and encounters in years, with over 4,000 in a single day.”

He continued, “We are now on pace for over 100,000 apprehensions and encounters with migrants, with 90 percent — 90,000 — crossing the border illegally between ports of entry. March will be the highest month in over a decade.”

Realistically, they should be checked for medical issues, given a hot meal, and sent back to the other side of the border. But, we can’t really even do that, because if we let them across the border to check them out and feed them then they will claim asylum and they have to be given a hearing, which means they’ll have to stay in America till then, and there are only so many detention beds. And Open Borders groups will sue to get them released, at which point the illegals will disappear and fail to appear for their hearings.

He said that 10 to 15 percent of migrants have legitimate asylum claims, but it will take years for those claims to be heard in court.

The problem there is that most of them who qualify are also the dregs of their society, and will immediately be on government support, diverting aid from legal U.S. citizens who need that help.

While 65 percent of border crossings are families and children surrendering to agents, the rest are adults trying to evade capture, including some with criminal backgrounds, McAleenan said.

This is the new method, as pushed by the Open Borders groups, which tell the migrants to show up and demand asylum. And then, when they disappear into America, the same groups say we should give them amnesty.

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After Bad Senate Vote, Dems To Move On From Green New Disaster

By William Teach March 28, 2019 – 6:48 am

Remember, the Green New Deal never even received a committee hearing, much less a floor vote, in the Democratic Party controlled House, despite all the hoopla from its release

Democrats to move on from Green New Deal

Democrats are putting the Green New Deal in the rearview mirror, but they’re not abandoning climate change legislation.

Supporters of the progressive measure are shifting their sights away from passing a comprehensive plan to create green jobs and pursue 100 percent renewable energy by 2030. They are instead looking at multiple bills in hopes of advancing elements of the broader initiative.

The change comes after a heated few months where Republicans battered the idea of the Green New Deal, damaging a brand initially promoted by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).

The Senate on Tuesday blocked legislation to advance the Green New Deal resolution on a procedural vote, with most Democrats voting present. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) set up the vote to test the Democratic Party’s unity over climate change, knowing many Senate Democrats didn’t want to publicly back the resolution’s ambitious goals. (the Hill forgot to mention that the plan received zero Dem votes, even from those who said they supported it)

Now, various supporters of the climate change measure, including Ocasio-Cortez, are focusing on new, smaller bills in an effort to get back on the offensive on climate change heading into 2020.

Dems are going to have Hearings! That should do it!

Advocacy groups that previously gave a full-throated defense of the Green New Deal are also scaling back their push for action on the resolution. Their calls for a House floor vote on the Green New Deal are nonexistent.

The Sunrise Movement, a youth activist organization that rose to prominence after holding a sit-in at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) congressional office demanding attention for climate change, downplayed the Green New Deal’s prospects in this Congress.

“It was never created with the intention of passing,” co-founder Varshini Prakash told reporters Tuesday.

Then the point of it was??????? Because if it was completely un-serious, you now have almost every Democrat running for president on record as supporting it, which will be used as a bludgeon against them during the general election.

On the legislative front, Sunrise is in a holding pattern. The group and other like-minded organizations are waiting on Ocasio-Cortez to present a promised new bill that will include aspects of the Green New Deal.

“Ocasio-Cortez’s office is working on legislation in coming weeks and months,” Stephen O’Hanlon, communications director for Sunrise, told The Hill. “It won’t just be a resolution, it would be a bill that we’d want to pass through Congress that have the principles of the Green New Deal.”

Get your popcorn ready! This will be a hoot.

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Excitable Adam Schiff Just Won’t MoveOn From Collusion

By William Teach March 28, 2019 – 6:35 am

If the hole you’re digging has no gold in it, what do you do? Stop digging that hole. When a company is in a really bad spot, something bad has happened, what do they do? Take their lumps all at once, take the stock hit quickly, and just move on and rebuild. That’s what Target did after the massive data breach years ago, and what many other companies have done. Not Adam Schiff, though

Schiff: There Is ‘Ample Evidence of Collusion in Plain Sight’

Wednesday on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) reasserted his previous claims that there was “ample evidence of collusion” between President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Russians.

Partial transcript as follows:

CUOMO: Let’s deal with your critics. They say Republicans in the White House, actually all of them together, are saying you got it wrong and put you number two on the list second only to Senator Blumenthal as someone who shouldn’t be on TV anymore, who shouldn’t be the chair of a committee, because you were selling something not delivered by Mueller. Your response?

SCHIFF: My response is they were clearly not listening. Because what I’ve been saying now for over a year is two things. One, there’s ample evidence of collusion in plain sight, and that is true. And second, that is not the same thing as whether Bob Mueller will be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the crime of conspiracy. There’s a difference between there being evidence of collusion and proof beyond a reasonable doubt of a crime and I distinguish between the two probably dozens of times. Now, either they weren’t listening or more likely they would rather attack me than talk about how they’re trying to take health care away from millions of people. But nonetheless, I consider it a good day when Kellyanne Conway is going after me.

In other words, it’s all just part of his fever dream

CUOMO: That makes one of us. Let me ask you this. So help people understand the distinction. I know it. I’m a lawyer, I talk about the difference between collusion as a behavior and conspiracy or a crime that can be made on a regular basis. But people will hear that and they’ll say it’s a hedge. We both know that. They’ll say, ‘Oh, you’re trying to have it both ways.’ Make your case.

SCHIFF: Well, let’s look at the evidence. We know that the Russians through an intermediary offered dirt on Hillary Clinton as part of what was described as the Russian government effort to help Donald Trump. They offered that to Don Jr. and his response was not to call the FBI and say, this is what I was approached with, it was not to say, no way, under no circumstances. It was to say, I would love it. If it’s what you say it is, that is dirt on Hillary Clinton, that is highly sensitive, as part of the Russian government’s effort to help our campaign, I would love it. And then he sets up this secret meeting in Trump Tower and he invites the campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, someone very experienced in running political campaigns, who decides that it’s a good idea to take that meeting and Jared Kushner takes that meeting. And then, of course, they conceal it and they lie about it. And in fact, the president himself may have been involved in a drafting of a false statement covering up that meeting. All of that is evidence of collusion.

And the Mueller report found that there was no collusion in any of this. But, hey, if he thinks this is evidence, then he needs to put it on the record in the U.S. House of Representatives. Make an official on the record speech on the House floor. Submit documents into the record.

This is all red meat for their base, though. Whether this will play well with independents and those who could be persuaded to switch their party vote is unknown, but, it will probably hurt Democrats, as they are being shown as sore losers.

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NY Times Wants To Know Where Mitch McConnell’s Climate Plan Is Or Something

By William Teach March 27, 2019 – 4:34 pm

Democrats are pretty upset about being forced to vote on the Green New Deal resolution, because how dare lawmakers vote on proposals submitted?

AOC is still whining about the vote

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1110913863707447297

They “choose to lead”, but, don’t want to vote on it? Anyhow, here’s Excitable Michelle Cottle, a member of the NY Times editorial board going off on her own

Where’s Your Climate Plan, Mr. McConnell?

For those wondering if it was still possible for the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, to raise his cynicism game, Tuesday’s show vote on the Green New Deal supplied a resounding “yes.”

Of all the pressing business Mr. McConnell could be tackling, he devoted precious floor time to the resolution introduced last month by the Democrats Ed Markey, the junior senator from Massachusetts, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a House freshman from New York. A grand reimagining of America’s environmental and economic landscape, the Green New Deal is not a policy proposal. It is a statement of values — a nonbinding resolution that even its champions do not expect to become law. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has called it “a vision document.”

So, this resolution about our planetary emergency, as in, if we don’t do something now we’re doomed in 12 years, wasn’t worth the time to vote? Strange.

The Senate majority leader, like so much of his party, has zero interest in climate change — or rather, he has no interest in pursuing policies to address what many regard as the defining crisis of our time. Mr. McConnell is, however, passionate about making life politically awkward for the opposition. With their base voters fired up about climate change, dozens of Democratic lawmakers have embraced the Green New Deal, including at least half a dozen 2020 presidential contenders. Even so, the resolution’s sweeping ambitions — built around a huge infrastructure investment and a shift to carbon-free energy — strike more than a few Democrats, especially moderates, as unrealistic and politically perilous.

So, wait, ‘climate change’ is the defining crisis of our time, the resolution was offered, and it was a Bad Thing that McConnell held a vote on it?

The Green New Deal is by no means a fully baked proposal for combating climate change. But for all its flaws, it is a more promising first step than the Republican leaders’ chosen strategy of inaction and sneering denial.

So, a first step that shouldn’t be voted on?

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 27, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon train track allowing people to view nature from the safety of a train, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on a Michelle Obama aid intervening in the Jussie Smollett issue.

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Graham, Durbin Introduce Amnesty For Dreamers Act

By William Teach March 27, 2019 – 10:30 am

Lindsay Graham has done some good things in the era of Trump, but, this is not one of them. He’s still on the amnesty bandwagon

(Washington Post) Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) reintroduced long-stalled legislation Tuesday to create a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.

The legal status of “dreamers,” as those immigrants are commonly known, has been a major flash point in the immigration policy debate since President Trump rolled back an Obama-era protection from deportation. He was later blocked by a federal appeals court, but dreamers still live with uncertainty. (snip)

“This is a matter of simple American fairness and justice,” Durbin said in a statement.

The Dream Act would allow young adults to stay in the United States if they came to the country as children, graduated high school or obtained a GED, and pursued college, military service or at least three years of employment.

More than 2 million people could be eligible.

In reality, it would end up with more than 2 million, and it would allow those who illegally brought the kids to stay. It also applies to people who are in Temporary Protected Status and Deferred Enforced Departure status to stay, and will have few enforcement and border control methods included. It rewards illegal behavior and entices people to do this in the future.

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Bummer: ‘Climate Change’ Cold Causes Glacier To Start Growing

By William Teach March 27, 2019 – 7:47 am

It’s so hot it’s cold

From the link

A major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is growing again, a new NASA study finds.

The Jakobshavn glacier around 2012 was retreating about 1.8 miles and thinning nearly 130 feet annually. But it started growing again at about the same rate in the past two years, according to a study in Monday’s Nature Geoscience.

Of course, there has to be naysaying

Study authors and outside scientists think this is temporary.

“That was kind of a surprise. We kind of got used to a runaway system,” said Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland ice and climate scientist Jason Box. “The good news is that it’s a reminder that it’s not necessarily going that fast. But it is going.”

Why is it happening?

A natural cyclical cooling of North Atlantic waters likely caused the glacier to reverse course, said study lead author Ala Khazendar, a NASA glaciologist on the Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) project. Khazendar and colleagues say this coincides with a flip of the North Atlantic Oscillation — a natural and temporary cooling and warming of parts of the ocean that is like a distant cousin to El Nino in the Pacific.

The water in Disko Bay, where Jakobshavn hits the ocean, is about 3.6 degrees cooler than a few years ago, study authors said.

While this is “good news” on a temporary basis, this is bad news on the long term because it tells scientists that ocean temperature is a bigger player in glacier retreats and advances than previously thought, said NASA climate scientist Josh Willis, a study co-author.

Over the decades the water has been and will be warming from man-made climate change, he said, noting that about 90 percent of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases goes into the oceans.

See? Growing is natural, shrinking is strictly your fault for driving a fossil fueled vehicle instead of taking the train and eating burgers instead of insects.

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Now That They Lost On Collusion, Democrats Will Pretend It Never Happened (Or Something)

By William Teach March 27, 2019 – 7:39 am

Democrats have been openly saying that Trump and his team colluded with Russia, that he’s a Russian asset of Putin, that Russia is running the White House since the day he was elected. They’ve been yammering about impeaching him, about investigating him and everyone associated with him since day 1. Now that they’ve lost

Democrats seize on ‘pocketbook issues’ after Mueller report ends impeachment talk

Democrats pivoted Tuesday from investigation and impeachment to “kitchen table pocketbook issues,” acknowledging that the special counsel’s report took from them a line of attack but saying President Trump gave them a new opening this week to go back to talking about Obamacare.

Liberal pressure groups said Mr. Trump should still face legal consequences, but most Democratic representatives on Capitol Hill said Robert Mueller’s finding of no conspiracy to subvert the 2016 presidential election gives their party an opportunity to talk about issues voters care about.

“The conversation has now shifted already, in a day, to health care, and Republicans know they’re in trouble,” said Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat.

Democrats hurtled into their new era by taunting the Trump administration’s refusal late Monday to defend any part of the 2010 health care law.

The Justice Department took the stance that if the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate penalty is gone, then the rest of the law must fall.

Uh huh

Those are the issues that carried the party to victory in November, said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem S. Jeffries, and they are what Democrats need to focus on now.

“We didn’t run on impeachment, we didn’t win the House of Representatives on impeachment, we’re not focused on impeachment,” the New York Democrat said. “We’re going to continue to focus on the issues that are of importance to the American people.” (big snip)

“Nowhere in the ‘For the People’ agenda does it talk about Russia,” said Mr. Jeffries, name-checking the Democrats’ 2018 platform. “Nowhere in the ‘For the People’ agenda does it talk about collusion. Nowhere in the ‘For the People’ agenda does it talk about obstruction of justice.”

In fairness, most of the rank and file Democrats, the ones you almost never hear mentioned, do not yammer about impeachment and investigation and stuff. But, other than Schumer and Pelosi, most of the vocal ones are talking about it, and

Democrats are still fishing for investigations. The House Judiciary Committee requested documents from more than 80 people and entities in Mr. Trump’s orbit, and investigations have been opened into matters such as immigration policy and negotiations with Russia.

There are dozens of investigations by Democrats in the House, who want everything, even Trump’s taxes from when he was a private citizen. Unhinged Democrats in NY are further investigating his business in a pure fishing expedition. The unhinged moonbat base wants them to keep investigating. They do not care about pocketbook issues in the least. So, the Mueller report won’t end anything for them.

And, by pocketbook issues, Democrats mean taking more money out of your pocket.

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Senator Mike Lee Uses Hilarious Posters In Green New Deal Debate, AOC Melts Down

By William Teach March 26, 2019 – 4:32 pm

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was already mad that the U.S. Senate was going to be debating and voting on her Green New Deal resolution, because how dare lawmakers do that! Notice that co-sponsor, Sen. Ed Markey, is mostly quiet about this, because he’s a pro and understands how the political game is played. AOC was also ticked that they’d dare do this in the Senate because it was a House resolution! Totally forgetting that Markey is a Senator, and submitted it to the Senate. Anyhow

A bit of text to go with that

(Salt Lake Tribune) To poke fun at a liberal plan to tackle climate change, Sen. Mike Lee on Tuesday took to the Senate floor with a poster of President Ronald Reagan riding a dinosaur while firing a machine gun.

No joke.

The Utah Republican, a serious conservative not generally known for prop-supported political stunts, said his point was that the Democrats’ Green New Deal was as absurd as the poster he was showing.

“I rise today to consider the green new deal with the seriousness it deserves,” Lee said.

Wait, it gets better

“I’m not immediately afraid of what the Green New Deal would do to our economy and our government,” Lee said. “After all, this isn’t going to pass, not today, not any time soon certainly. Rather, after reading the Green New Deal, I’m mostly afraid of not being able to get through this speech with a straight face.”

“The aspirations of the proposal have been called radical. They have been called extreme,” Lee added. “But mostly they’re ridiculous. There isn’t a single serious idea here. Not one.”

So, Rep Thin Skin had a fit

She then went and played the Female Victim Card

Like many other women + working people, I occasionally suffer from impostor syndrome: those small moments, especially on hard days, where you wonder if the haters are right.

But then they do things like this to clear it right up.

If this guy can be Senator, you can do anything.

She’s really not ready to swim in the deep end with the big kids with this kind of whining.

The Daily Caller has the video of Lee’s speech, well worth the watch.

The vote was 0-57 for moving it forward, with 43 Democrats voting present, and Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Doug Jones (D-Ala.) and Angus King (I-Maine) voting with Republicans against the measure.

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