It’s Monday, March 21st, 2016…but before we begin, consider this: The Donald is, by his own assertion, THE greatest dealmaker who has ever lived…though we hold Abraham, having successfully negotiated God himself from 50 down to 10 righteous people as the threshold for saving Sodom, in a class by himself.
So let’s assume, as is likely, Trump comes to Cleveland short of the 1,237 delegates necessary to secure the Republican nomination. After the first vote, delegates would be free to vote as they will, unfettered by the results of their respective state’s primary results. If The Donald’s 1/10th the dealmaker he claims to be (having repeatedly stated in his negotiating skills lies the solutions to all America’s ills: Russia, the ChiComs, Iran, jobs fleeing overseas, poverty, volcanos, earthquakes, floods and adolescent acne, ad nauseam, ad infinitum!), would not a brokered convention play directly into his hands?!?
Surely the man who’s promised to negotiate Putin, Kim Jong-un and the Mad Mullahs into impotence, not to mention getting Mexico to pay for a border wall antithetical to its own interests, can cajole a few convention delegates into catapulting him into the Oval Office!!!
Yeah…
And Bill “didn’t have sexual relations with that woman…Miss Lewinsky!”
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, two pronouncements worth about as much as a…
…and which, if anything, are completely counterproductive:
Yo, T.I….whoever the heck HE is: that’s like Beethoven discouraging Somalians from listening to his 9th Symphony. As the immortal Peter Gibbons observed in Office Space:
Here’s the 411 for T.I.: urban dwellers, erudite or otherwise, wouldn’t vote for Trump anymore than we’d vote for Hillary. And White people anywhere outside a “City Limits” sign, no matter how angry, don’t listen to the ghetto trash you term “music”.
Moving on to the obfuscation, misdirection and deliberate prevarication surrounding the nomination and confirmation of SCOTUS justices, courtesy of Townhall.com, Jonah Goldberg suggests The Obamao’s…
Which tells anyone with half a clue all they need to know about Merrick Garland.
“…The Republican-controlled Senate, which is empowered by the Constitution to offer both advice and consent to the president’s judicial nominees, has offered the following advice: Not now and not you. Antonin Scalia’s death left a court vacancy larger than a mere one-ninth of the voters on the bench. Replacing Scalia with a reliably liberal justice would upend the court’s ideological balance, to an unacceptable degree for the GOP.
Now it should be said that this is a wholly political decision — and that’s fine. There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the Supreme Court must be evenly balanced between conservatives and liberals. It would have the same constitutional authority if it were composed of nine left-wingers or nine right-wingers. It would have the same constitutional authority if the court only had one justice.
All the Constitution says is that there has to be a Supreme Court. (Even the existence of lower federal courts is entirely optional). There’s nothing holy, never mind constitutionally sacrosanct about the number nine. Congress could decide tomorrow to make the Supreme Court a body of 72 people picked randomly from the phonebook (so long as the president was the one doing the random picking and the Congress approved them).
When the president, a former teacher of constitutional law, says, “the Constitution is pretty clear” about the need for hearings on his pick, he’s not telling the truth. He’s playing politics. The same goes for all the Republican senators who say the Constitution is clear that they don’t have to hold hearings if they don’t want to. The issue isn’t whether the Constitution is clear. The simple fact is that the Constitution is silent. And where the Constitution is silent, politics is supreme.
This means that all of the posturing, sanctimony and incessant charges of hypocrisy aren’t bugs of the nominating process, they’re features…
…Leave aside the fact that the partisan wars over judicial appointments began with the “borking” of Judge Robert Bork (led by none other than Joe Biden), the reason these fights are so ugly is because the stakes are so high. We’ve invested in the Supreme Court powers never imagined by the framers.And when I say “we” I mostly mean progressives. The growth of the administrative state and the encroachment of federal law into every nook and cranny of local life has been a century-long project of the left.
It should be no surprise that when we bequeath monarchical powers to nine — or eight — lawyers, the battle for succession to one of the nine thrones will be ugly. Indeed, it’s surprising it’s not uglier. We spend billions of dollars trying to pick a president of the United States, and in many respects the Supreme Court is now more powerful than the presidency. It’s certainly far, far, far less democratic. We appoint justices for life and many of their decisions cannot be overturned by the Congress, or the people, short of a constitutional convention.
The left, which pays a lot of lip-service to the “people power” and democratic action, has given us these black-robed kings and queens. They shouldn’t be surprised when the game of thrones gets ugly.It’s their game.“
Which means you can depend on one overriding fact: it’s rigged in their favor!
In a related item, James Taranto also highlights the hypocrisy of The Left’s selective recall:
““President Clinton has nominated Merrick Garland, the principal Associate Attorney General, to fill the vacancy created when Chief Judge Abner J. Mikva resigned 14 months ago to become the White House counsel,” the New York Times reported in 1995. Garland was eventually confirmed and is himself now chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Yesterday President Obama nominated him to the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
In 1995 the Republicans, who controlled the Senate, were hoping to defeat Mr. Clinton in the following year’s election. So even though many supported Garland’s confirmation, they vowed not to bring the nomination to a vote, in the hope that one of their own would get to fill the seat. Garland finally won confirmation, by a 76-23 vote, two months into Mr. Clinton’s second term.
That was nothing unusual, as the Times noted in that 1995 news story. Four years earlier, “the Democrats stopped consideration of President George Bush’s nomination of John Roberts to the same court for which Mr. Garland has been nominated.” Roberts, of whom you might have heard, didn’t make it to the D.C. Circuit until 2003. As the Times summed the matter up:
Senators from the party that does not control the White House have historically tried to slow the confirmation process, in hopes that the election could give their party’s candidate the possibility of filling those vacancies if elected.
For the Times editorial board, however, history began sometime after 2008. “Under normal, even routinely partisan, circumstances, Judge Garland would sail through confirmation hearings and be confirmed by the Senate in a matter of months, if not weeks,” today’s editorial declares. The brazen partisan hackery would be funny if it weren’t so . . . nah, never mind. It’s funny…”
Given the self-proclaimed heroine of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s total unfamiliarity with the truth…
…we honestly can’t say which concerns us most: The Left’s ignorance of their candidate’s undeniable nature…or the fact they appear simply not to care!
Since we’re on the subject of the most manifestly unsuitable candidate for President since Jimmy Carter ran for reelection, courtesy of John Berry, we present the next must-see movie from Dinesh D’Souza:
Next up, in the Coming Soon to a Country Close to YOU! segment, FOX News Latino previews what’s in store if either Hillary or The Donald ultimately occupies the Oval Office:
“As the opposition makes arrangements to call a referendum on President Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan government has launched a preemptive strike that looks to reinforce the ailing Chavismo by rewarding loyalty. Focused on securing power, the socialist ruling party will start issuing so-called “Bolivarian cards” – with not yet disclosed privileges – to its followers, as well as “socialist cards” loaded with a monthly allowance of approximately $70; that’s 10 times the minimum wage in Venezuela.
…The Bolivarian cards will be handed out to self-proclaimed Chavistas during a national house-to-house survey to take place in early April, Maduro announced last weekend. While party officials haven’t detailed the functions of the card, Maduro said they help provide instructions in real time during rallies or during the campaign season…”
“The Islamic State’s Cyber Army used an online cellphone app to post a “kill list” of names, addresses, phone numbers and other personal information on 36 police officers in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The FBI said this week it is investigating the case but analysts say it’s obvious why ISIS chose to target the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
The area is home to America’s largest Somali refugee community and has been a hotbed of Islamic terrorist recruitment dating back to at least 2007. Since then more than 34 young Somalis have left Minnesota to join the ranks of foreign terror groups, including the Islamic State in Syria and al-Shabab in Somalia. Others have been convicted of sending material support to overseas terrorist organizations.
It’s not as though Congress hasn’t been warned about the festering radicalism of Somali youth. Back in March 2009 the Senate Homeland Security Committee heard testimony that Somali youth were being radicalized in Minnesota.
…The problem has only gotten worse since 2009. Andrew Luger, the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, admitted last spring, after six more Somalis were arrested for trying to board planes bound for Turkey with plans to join ISIS, that his state has “a terror-recruitment problem.”
Yet, the Obama administration has kept the pipeline of new Somali “refugees” well-oiled. They continue to come at a rate of 700 per month, most of them coming from United Nations’ camps in Kenya – camps that the Kenyan president has threatened to shut down because of their suspected ties to terrorist attacks inside his country.
The problem of terror recruitment in Minnesota has become so palpable that the federal government is now issuing grants to nonprofits for the purpose of teaching young Somalis not to succumb to the temptation of joining “extremists” like ISIS and al-Shabab…”
Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe…the odor of C-4 immediately prior to detonating a suicide vest which will…hopefully…result in the deaths of untold numbers of innocents around the globe.
Look, we’ve nothing against Somalis; but why on earth are we resettling them in America rather than somewhere else in Africa or the Middle East, preferably in a UN-run refugee camp in their own neck of the woods?!? Same with the Syrians.
Such policies aren’t only contrary to common sense, they’re completely and utterly…
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
“Two teenagers were able to walk away from a rented airplane that one of them was piloting when it crashed onto a Kansas golf course, narrowly missing nearby homes. A 17-year-old boy was flying the 1966 single-engine Mooney on Friday afternoon when it came down on the 14th hole at the Tallgrass Country Club, Wichita police said. An 18-year-old woman also was aboard.
Nikki Womack, who lives near the golf course, said she and her daughter saw the plane fly very low over their neighbor’s home before crashing on the golf course, The Wichita Eagle reported. “I thought maybe it would flip, but it just hit real softly, pretty much,” Womack said. “It kind of bounced up” as it scraped through a sand trap and came to rest just short of the green…”
Sounds less like an approach to a runway…and fare more like one of our approach shots!
FYI, we’re going to be exercising our 2nd Amendment rights the next two days, so we may not be back in contact before Friday. So until then…
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