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GOP's Luna unveils resolution to expel Adam Schiff from Congress​

"Schiff lied to the American people. He used his position on House Intel to push a lie that cost American taxpayers millions of dollars," she wrote in a Tweet from her official account. "He is a dishonor to the House of Representatives."

On her personal account, Luna included a different statement in a post that included the resolution.

"Knowingly using your position on House Intel to push a lie that ripped apart our country, cost taxpayers millions of dollars, and authorized spying on a US President and then proceeding to double down on the lie within days of the Durham report coming out makes you unfit for office. Ethics should investigate," she insisted.

A prominent critic of former President Donald Trump, Schiff repeatedly insisted that Trump and his campaign worked with the Russian government to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The publication of Special Counsel John Durham's report this week, however, revealed that the FBI began its investigation of the Trump campaign without any predicating evidence.

"Neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation," Durham wrote.

 

[GURPS]

The Russia collusion hoax: unpatriotic?​

The FBI received the Steele dossier, paid for by the Clinton campaign, in July 2016, used it to seek a FISA Court intelligence surveillance in October 2016, and continued to do so even though it determined in December 2016 that its primary concocter was Washington-based Russian citizen Igor Danchenko — and in January 2017 that his sources were “rumor and speculation.”

It should be — and used to be in the United States — a firm principle that law enforcement and intelligence agencies should not attempt to influence election results. But that is exactly what happened here. FBI Director James Comey, for reasons of his own, saw to it that the contents of the Steele dossier were made public and that a special counsel, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, be appointed to investigate the collusion that the FBI had found no basis to believe to have existed.

So let it be clear. There was no collusion between Donald Trump or the Trump campaign and Russia. There was no valid basis for the FBI investigation. The Steele dossier, paid for by the Clinton campaign, was a figment of the imagination of a dodgy Washington-based apparatchik.

As Fox News’s Brit Hume, a top-rank journalist for more than 50 years, tweeted: “The Durham Report should be a sobering rebuke to far too many journalists who swallowed the Steele dossier and the FBI’s improperly based investigation of its wild claims. Think of all the stories about how much of the bogus dossier had been vindicated. None of it was.”

The argument is commonly made that Donald Trump’s refusal to accept the result of the 2020 election has, for many Americans, cast a pall of illegitimacy over Joe Biden’s presidency that risks making his administration less effective than it would be if Trump would accept the truth.

 

[GURPS]

GOP hardliners revolt and derail McCarthy’s agenda in retaliation over speaker’s debt limit deal​

For now, the conservatives have settled on a strategy to scramble McCarthy’s legislative agenda until they believe he will listen to their list of demands. And they argue that McCarthy blatantly violated a deal he cut in January to assume the speakership on the 15th ballot, though all the details of that agreement were never publicly released and the speaker insists he’s lived up to those promises.

“Today we took down the rule because we’re frustrated at the way this place is operating,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, told reporters on the steps of the Capitol. “We took a stand in January to end the era of the imperial speakership. We’re concerned that the fundamental commitments that allowed Kevin McCarthy to assume the speakership have been violated as a consequence of the debt limit deal, and, you know, the answer for us is to reassert House conservatives as the appropriate coalition partner for our leadership, instead of them making common cause with Democrats.”

The procedural vote failed on a 206-220, effectively sinking legislation to ban the prohibition of gas stoves and to impose new congressional oversight on federal rules. A procedural vote – known as a House rule, which sets parameters for floor debate – typically passes with the support of the majority party. The last time a rule failed in the chamber was in 2002.

 

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Holding Back Accountability: Here are the House Republicans Who Say They Will Not Vote to Censure Serial Liar Rep. Adam Schiff – Contact Them Today | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

On Tuesday, Rep.

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[GURPS]

20 Republicans Join With Democrats To Kill Schiff Censure​

 

[GURPS]

House strikes blow against federal regulations, votes to overturn controversial Supreme Court ruling​

Republicans have argued for the last several years that the Supreme Court precedent set in the Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. case effectively told courts that they should defer to federal agencies when they interpret laws passed by Congress as they write regulations. Republicans say that since that ruling, courts have failed to do their due diligence in assessing whether those regulations can be fairly justified under the law.

The lawmaker who sponsored SOPRA, Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wis., argued on the House floor Thursday that the Supreme Court ruling has given the executive branch vast authority to regulate as it pleases, and often in ways that contradict the intent of Congress.

"Since 1984, when the Supreme Court ruled that courts must defer to an agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statute rather than what Congress intended, the executive branch has begun usurping the legislative branch to issue regulations with the force of law," Fitzgerald said. "It is certainly not what our founders intended."

 

[GURPS]

Revamped Schiff censure resolution to get vote on Wednesday​

The House is set to vote on a revamped resolution to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Wednesday after the chamber blocked a similar measure targeting the California Democrat last week.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) called the revised measure to the floor as a privileged resolution on Tuesday, which forces the House to take action on the measure. Democrats are expected to make a procedural motion to table the measure when it comes to the floor for a vote on Wednesday, which would require majority support.

The move from Luna comes after the House blocked her initial Schiff censure resolution last week. Twenty Republicans joined Democrats in supporting a motion to table the measure which was enough to block the resolution from coming to the floor for a vote, effectively killing it.

Luna, however, made a number of changes to the resolution from last week to this week, and she said she now has enough votes for the measure to be approved.

 

[GURPS]

Jim Jordan Trolls Democrat for Absurd Questions

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee gets TRIGGERED by Jim Jordan when he mocks her line of questioning of Special Counsel John Durham.

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[GURPS]

Justice Alito Leaves Progressive Smear Merchants Crying as He Scoops Them on Their Own Story​

Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed by Justice Samuel Alito titled Justice Samuel Alito: ProPublica Misleads Its Readers. Justice Alito was responding to an innuendo-filled screed that appeared in ProPublica called Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court (sorry, no links given to slander mongers). What made the story and op-ed so interesting was that it was not a conservative jurist responding to another stupid “gotcha” story. Justice Alito’s response to ProPublica was published five hours before ProPublica ran the story containing its contrived allegations.

This is the Editor’s Note from the Wall Street Journal:

Editor’s note: Justin Elliott and Josh Kaplan of ProPublica, which styles itself “an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force,” emailed Justice Alito Friday with a series of questions and asked him to respond by noon EDT Tuesday. They informed the justice that “we do serious, fair, accurate reporting in the public interest and have won six Pulitzer Prizes.” Here is Justice Alito’s response:

In best Alito style, he eviscerates the scurrilous string of faux facts that ProPublica had strung together in a hit piece in a way that only ProPublica can do.

Washington Post reporters Paul Farhi and Robert Barnes got their knickers all in a twist as they saw a scoop, like the nothingburger ProPublica ran on Clarence Thomas (Pro Publica Seems Put out That Clarence Thomas Looks Like a Champ After Their ‘Ethics Scandal’ Hit Job), strangled in its crib…sorry, we’re not supposed to use violent metaphors these days…made irrelevant.

Alito’s Journal column, bluntly headlined “ProPublica Misleads Its Readers,” was an unusual public venture by a Supreme Court justice into the highly opinionated realm of a newspaper editorial page. And it drew criticism late Tuesday for effectively leaking elements of ProPublica’s still-in-progress journalism — with the assistance of the Journal’s editorial page editors.

 

[GURPS]

Here are the specific charges against Representative Schiff, from the Censure Resolution:



Don’t feel bad for Representative Schiff. He says he’s perfectly content with being censured. “To my Republican colleagues who introduced this resolution, I thank you. You honor me with your enmity, you flatter me with this falsehood,” Schiff uttered defiantly, as he assumed his required spot in the well. “And I stand proudly before you. Your words tell me that I have been effective in the defense of our democracy, and I am grateful,” he remorselessly blabbered.

Because of his censure, Adam Schiff has now been referred to the House Ethics Committee for investigation. The investigation could potentially result in his expulsion from Congress. One can only hope.

The resolution was introduced (twice) by knockout new Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna. Nice work, Representative.

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[Hijinx]

Everything I read there was true, and Schiff was guilty of those acts.

Then the fool has the gall to stand and say "you flatter me with this falsehood,”
The shame is that the people who voted for this POS will vote for him again, and perhaps make him a Senator.

Well: They made Fetterman a Senator why not this bubble eyed fool.?
Does anyone wonder why America is dying?

 

[SamSpade]

You know, I can't find much about his book - except its name and that it exists - but the title utterly baffles me -

The left is convinced that "We Almost Lost Our Democracy" on Jan 6. That's the title.

How does ANYONE believe a bunch of unarmed doofuses - who via camera and video, by and large MOST of them just walked around the Capitol -

And our *democracy* was in danger?

I mean, DAMN, if that's all it takes, why hasn't every enemy of ours pulled such a stunt? They flew planes into the Pentagon and the WTC - and we didn't "lose our democracy".

 

[Kyle]

You know, I can't find much about his book - except its name and that it exists - but the title utterly baffles me -

The left is convinced that "We Almost Lost Our Democracy" on Jan 6. That's the title.

How does ANYONE believe a bunch of unarmed doofuses - who via camera and video, by and large MOST of them just walked around the Capitol -

And our *democracy* was in danger?

I mean, DAMN, if that's all it takes, why hasn't every enemy of ours pulled such a stunt? They flew planes into the Pentagon and the WTC - and we didn't "lose our democracy".

They dont' think critically.

I take that back.... They just dont' think.

 

[Ken King]

You know, I can't find much about his book - except its name and that it exists - but the title utterly baffles me -

The left is convinced that "We Almost Lost Our Democracy" on Jan 6. That's the title.

How does ANYONE believe a bunch of unarmed doofuses - who via camera and video, by and large MOST of them just walked around the Capitol -

And our *democracy* was in danger?

I mean, DAMN, if that's all it takes, why hasn't every enemy of ours pulled such a stunt? They flew planes into the Pentagon and the WTC - and we didn't "lose our democracy".

The title is "Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could".

Maybe one needs to know what Schiff means by "democracy". From what I have seen of him and his ilk is that democracy is nothing more than mob rule, the majority dictates for all. And that is something that should be lost.

Anyway, I won't waste $20 for his fictional account.

 

[GURPS]

From what I have seen of him and his ilk is that democracy is nothing more than mob rule, the majority dictates for all. And that is something that should be lost.

GIVE US WHAT WE WANT

You are too stupid or selfish to make the ' proper ' decision as WE See Fit

 

[SamSpade]

GIVE US WHAT WE WANT

You are too stupid or selfish to make the ' proper ' decision as WE See Fit

I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard a leftie say something that CLEARLY violates what I get as fundamental American rights --

E.G. "Freedom of speech/press/expression is hugely overrated"
"We can't trust the people to make these decisions for themselves"
"The voters don't know what they want" - and similar remarks saying that "smart" people should replace what we typically vote on.

There's a line in "The American President" where Andrew Shepherd is saying he considers guns a national threat and he has to go door to door, he's going to "convince them I'm right" and "I'm gonna get the guns". It's not JUST that he's rolling right over the second amendment - in a speech where he criticizes his opponent for having qualms about freedom of expression - but that he typefies leftie sentiment that the rabble be damned, *I* am going to decide what is best for you.

And losing democracy? The left is trying to pad the Supreme Court - to squelch opposing views (a maneuver Biden himself said was a "boneheaded idea") - and they want to stifle "misinformation" and "conspiracy theories" which as often as not - turn out to be the ugly TRUTH. They're STILL working on the misinformation crap.

 

[GURPS]

The ‘New Breed of Republicans’ Is Nothing of the Sort​

David Leonhardt would like us all to meet the “new breed of Republicans,” who, in a break with the Reaganite tradition, are apparently “against inequality,” “more skeptical of the free market and more comfortable using government power to regulate the economy than the party has traditionally been.” For my part, I’d like that new breed to spend a couple of hours drinking beers aboard Senator Joe Manchin’s yacht.

I do not expect to convince Senator J. D. Vance that he is wrong about executive pay, or to persuade Senator Marco Rubio that he should not desire the “reinvigoration of collective bargaining,” or to impress upon Oren Cass that capitalism is, in fact, working just fine. But, as a realist, I do think that these figures ought to think a little harder about the real world. In his paean, Leonhardt insists that the members of this “new” group are the real deal: They are not “disaffected right-wingers who have become moderates without admitting it”; they “really are conservative.” This being so, they will presumably be able to stop for a moment and ask themselves whether their desire to grow the size of the government in the exquisitely tailored fashion they recommend can possibly be compatible with their broad-based hostility toward the federal bureaucracy.

Last week, Vance asked whether power in the United States lay within the “permanent unelected bureaucracy” or within the people, and then proposed that the federal indictment of Donald Trump suggested that, instead of “a real republican form of government, we have an oligarchy controlled by the deep state.” Last year, Rubio was among a bunch of Republican senators who “showed openness” to a Trump-era plan to remove any civil servant who displeases the president “and told Axios they think more needs to be done to hold career officials and federal agencies accountable.” Cass, meanwhile, has been honest about the threat that the vanguard of the American Left poses to his project when, as seems inevitable, it “co‐opts bipartisan action on national priorities for unpopular progressive ends.” Is this really the moment at which to further empower Washington, D.C.? I would argue that it is not.

 

[GURPS]

Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt Proposes Making July ‘American Pride Month’​

 

[GURPS]

Libs Demanded Sarah Huckabee Sanders Remove a Cross Drawn by Her Kids. Here's Her Response.​

Gov. Sanders had shared a photo of her kids and their artwork to social media, which naturally upset the usual suspects.

Quickly, the hall monitors at Americans United for the Separation of Church and State issued a demand letter: remove the chalk rendering of a cross.

The group claimed that its presence at the official home of Arkansas' executive was a violation of the Constitution.

Americans United wrote:

The religious display at the entrance to the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion violates the Establishment Clause because it sends a message that the Governor’s office—and by extension, the state of Arkansas—favors one religion over others. Such favoritism is unconstitutional. You and your family are free to display and create religious images and art in private areas of your residence, but a public-facing display in front of an entrance intended “to welcome people into the Governor’s mansion” is plainly on the wrong side of the constitutional line.

Never mind, apparently, that "separation of church and state" is not found in the Constitution, nor does having a kids' chalk depiction of a rather universal religious symbol rise to the level of establishing a state religion.