{"id":55893,"date":"2018-01-14T17:18:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T22:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=55893"},"modified":"2018-01-14T17:20:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T22:20:33","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-january-12th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=55893","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, January 12th, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, January 12th, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, writing at his <em>Morning Jolt<\/em>, Jim Geraghty offers a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/455344\/daca-deal-democratic-demands-tax-cut-armageddon-fallout?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=180111_Jolt&amp;utm_term=Jolt\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">Message to House Democrats: You Can\u2019t Alway<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">s Get What You Want<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/13438801_1119994948022462_2255553644468283273_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55813\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/13438801_1119994948022462_2255553644468283273_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/13438801_1119994948022462_2255553644468283273_n.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/13438801_1119994948022462_2255553644468283273_n-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>A\u00a0strange development: Liberal members of the U.S. House of Representatives seem to think they can get everything they want on legislation for DACA without making major concessions to Republicans and the Trump administration.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Democratic leaders are facing a potential revolt within their ranks as they edge toward a deal with Republicans that would protect Dreamers from deportation <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but also include concessions to conservatives that many Democratic lawmakers say are unacceptable<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Why, it\u2019s almost as if Democrats are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in the minority<\/em><\/span> of the House of Representatives, <em>and they won\u2019t be able to influence immigration legislation <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">without<\/span> making concessions<\/em>!<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We suggest the Dims&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/scVJL19akH0\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, as Geraghty details in the same column, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/455344\/daca-deal-democratic-demands-tax-cut-armageddon-fallout?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=180111_Jolt&amp;utm_term=Jolt\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Armageddon continues unabated<\/em><\/span><\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22jcpu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55831\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22jcpu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22jcpu.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22jcpu-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Though when you think about it, citizens of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any<\/em><\/span> income level getting to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">keep<\/span><\/em> more of the money <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they earned<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> Armageddon&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-04-ff99c3ff_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55811\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-04-ff99c3ff_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-04-ff99c3ff_large.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-04-ff99c3ff_large-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;to tax-and-spend Progressive politicians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, the <em>WSJ<\/em>&#8216;s Dan Henninger records the moment&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/trump-proves-hes-sane-1515627995\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Trump Proves H<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">e\u2019s Sane<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/trump-proves-hes-sane-1515627995\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">The president may have to invite Michael Wolff to attend the second Inaug<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">uratio<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">n<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22i5m6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55785\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22i5m6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22i5m6.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22i5m6-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;By putting it out there that the U.S. president is an \u201cidiot,\u201d a \u201cdope,\u201d \u201cdumb as sh\u2014\u201d and basically insane, Michael Wolff may have ensured the success and continuation of Donald J. Trump\u2019s improbable presidency. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>That\u2019s right, Michael Wolff, who admitted on \u201cMeet the Press\u201d that \u201cthis is 25th Amendment kind of stuff,\u201d did President Trump a favor.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p>It\u2019s impossible to know which half of Mr. Wolff\u2019s book is more-or-less true and which half is second-level hearsay (similar to many of the Russian collusion stories). So it follows that among those uncertain about what\u2019s fake is Donald Trump. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>After all, someone <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did<\/em><\/span> allow Mr. Wolff, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a well-known stab-in-the-back specialist<\/em><\/span>, <em>to hang around the White House <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for six months<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong> <\/span>A lot of White House courtiers, including the exiled Steve Bannon, seem to have spent most of their working hours the first six months speed-dialing dirt to White House reporters. We all watched the muck leak into the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>So if you are Donald Trump, and like any normal person don\u2019t want the world to think you\u2019re cuckoo, <em>what do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you<\/span> do<\/em>? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>You <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">prove<\/span> they are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">wrong<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <em>Which is what Mr. Trump did <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">twice<\/span> this week with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">conscious intent<\/span> in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">public forums<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Both events not only showed the president acting, in his word, \u201cstable,\u201d both also offered a successful model for a post-Bannon, post-Wolff presidency.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>People who have a job that requires them to make a living by doing something other than watch Donald Trump in real time most likely didn\u2019t see either of these events. The first was Mr. Trump\u2019s speech Monday to the American Farm Bureau in Nashville, Tenn. The other, which is worth a\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a class=\"icon none\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?439527-1\/president-trump-open-tackling-daca-fix-first-border-wall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">look<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0if you didn\u2019t see it, was a nearly hour-long session on immigration legislation Mr. Trump held at the White House with about 24 members of Congress, TV cameras rolling and the press taking notes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;Once you realized it wasn\u2019t a brief photo-op before the doors closed, the meeting was sort of weird, with reporters and their notebooks looming over the legislators\u2019 backs, but it was also weirdly impressive. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>They looked like politicians <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>doing real work<\/em><\/span>, and afterward the White House announced the framework of a deal on the Dreamers.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Contrast<\/em><\/span> this with how <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Barack Obama<\/em><\/span> invited congressional Republicans and Democrats to a public, televised forum on health-care reform at Blair House in early 2010, <em>listened to a series of GOP policy proposals from serious people such as Lamar Alexander and Tom Coburn, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and then smirked it all away as nothing new<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It was a setup that poisoned the well.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Or how in 2011 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Mr. Obama blew up the deficit-reduction deal Joe Biden had worked out in meetings and dinners with a bipartisan supercommittee<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Mr. Obama then descended on the group to lecture it on his demand that they raise taxes on \u201cthe wealthy\u201d and corporations.<\/span> \u201cI will not support any plan that puts all of the burden for closing our deficit on ordinary Americans,\u201d Mr. Obama magisterially intoned. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The bipartisan deal collapsed<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The Trump-Republican-Democratic DACA deal, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>if it succeeds<\/em><\/span>, <em>will be a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">major bipartisan accomplishment<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Though we&#8217;ll hold our applause pending the final form of the deal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we mentioned Progressivism&#8217;s fanciful fabricator du jour, courtesy of his\u00a0<em>Private Papers<\/em>, Victor Davis Hanson terms the incompetence&#8230;or ill-intent&#8230;which granted Michael Wolff access to the White House <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in the first place<\/em><\/span> thusly:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/its-worse-than-a-crime\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">It\u2019s Worse Than a Crime<\/span><\/a>&#8230;<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22iesc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55795\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22iesc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22iesc.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22iesc-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;I agree with most commentators that Michael Wolff\u2019s sensational mythologies in\u00a0<em>Fire and Fury<\/em>\u00a0will be largely forgotten within three weeks \u2014 with one caveat (see below).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Wolff confirmed what most already knew about the Left\u2019s abandonment of standards of journalistic integrity in order to \u201cprove\u201d that Trump is unfit (an \u201coppositional\u201d Jim Rutenberg or Jorge Ramos had already warned us that \u201cthe norms of journalistic objectivity\u201d in the case of Trump no longer necessarily entailed disinterested reporting [as opposed to the straight reporting, say, of Susan Rice\u2019s post facto explanations for Benghazi or for the echo-chamber Iran Deal]), while Wolff\u2019s most sensational charges that Trump can be gluttonous, na\u00efve, and narcissistic were long ago either rumored or detectable within Trump\u2019s own tweets.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Instead, the only point of interest in\u00a0<em>Fire and Fury<\/em>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is how someone like a Wolff in sheep\u2019s clothing ever talked his way into the West Wing<\/em><\/span> \u2014 sort of in the manner that an otherwise savvy General Stanley McChrystal once allowed the flamboyant, left-wing late Michael Hastings of\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u00a0into his inner circle to sensationalize off-the-record venting about the Obama White House.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Three explanations are plausible (and not mutually exclusive):<\/strong><\/span> Some in the Trump West Wing (perhaps worried about post-Trump careers) wanted to establish their maverick fides and undermine their own president; or some wished to sandbag their own rivals in the administration; or some were simply so na\u00efve, so egocentric, or so outright stupid to think that they could charm someone with Wolff\u2019s record and flip him into writing a book that would make them look fairly good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The first two Talleyrand-like \u201ccrimes\u201d of disloyalty are what we expect from West Wing intrigue, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but the third is unforgivable as a blunder<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of unforgivable blunders,\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>The Daily Caller<\/em>\u00a0recently featured this report on another of the Dims&#8217;&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/01\/08\/leaked-memo-dreamers-are-critical-to-dems-future-electoral-success\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">LEAKED MEMO: DREAMers Are \u2018Critical\u2019 To Dems \u2018Future Electoral<\/span><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\"> Success<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/catch.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55789\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/catch.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/catch.png 480w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/catch-300x104.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The Center For American Progress (CAP) Action Fund circulated a memo on Monday <em>calling illegal immigrants brought here at a young age<\/em> \u2014 so-called \u201cDreamers\u201d \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a \u201ccritical component of the Democratic Party\u2019s future electoral success<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">The<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.americanprogressaction.org\/content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/07111144\/MemoOnDreamers.pdf]\">memo<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">co-authored by former Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri, <em>was sent around to allies calling on Democrats to \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">refuse to offer any votes for Republican spending bills that do not offer a fix for Dreamers and instead appropriate funds to deport them<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">President Donald Trump\u2019s administration moved to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy in September, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>which former President Barack Obama instituted through executive order<\/em><\/span> to keep immigrants who came here as children from being deported. <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Trump called on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Congress<\/em><\/span> to find <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a legislative fix<\/em><\/span> for young immigrants, or \u201cDreamers,\u201d facing deportation.<\/span><\/strong> House lawmakers recently\u00a0put forward\u00a0a bipartisan DACA compromise bill that also claims to address worries over chain migration. However, it\u2019s unclear if the bill will pass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">CAP Action\u2019s memo says protecting DACA is not only a \u201cmoral imperative\u201d for Democrats, it also key to getting votes. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>\u201cThe fight to protect Dreamers is not only a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>moral imperative<\/em><\/span>, it is also a critical component of the Democratic Party\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>future electoral success<\/em><\/span>,\u201d reads Palmieri\u2019s memo, obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(Which of course, in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Progressive mind<\/em><\/span>, are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>synonymous<\/em><\/span>!)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cIf Democrats don\u2019t try to do everything in their power to defend Dreamers, that will jeopardize Democrats\u2019 electoral chances in 2018 and beyond,\u201d reads the memo. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>\u201cIn short, the next few weeks will tell us a lot about the Democratic Party and its long-term electoral prospects.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We particularly loved <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>these<\/em><\/span> two rather telling lines:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"a\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The current crisis could\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><span class=\"a\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">have been averted.<\/span> Instead, Trump seized an opportunity to play to the racists in his base<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span class=\"a\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>\u00a0by proactively and abruptly ending the program.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Again, it has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>nothing<\/em><\/span> to do with what The Obamao\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>admitted<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t53EBSqlLIc\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">was an act of\u00a0unconstitutional executive overreach<\/span><\/em>, nor does it have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anything<\/em><\/span> to do with the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>rule of law<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>proper legislative procedure<\/em><\/span> or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the separation of powers<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Rather, like <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>everything else<\/em><\/span> Liberals can&#8217;t refute with facts, <em>it&#8217;s all about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">racism<\/span><\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The importance of the illegal immigrant vote to future Dimocratic electoral success is exemplified by the latest example of egregious judicial activism, as detailed by <em>Townhall.com<\/em>&#8216;s Guy Benson:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2018\/01\/10\/the-court-ruling-blocking-trump-from-rescinding-daca-is-a-lawless-disgrace-n2432593\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900; text-decoration: underline;\">The Court Ruling Blocking Trump From Rescindi<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900; text-decoration: underline;\">ng DACA is a Lawles<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900; text-decoration: underline;\">s Disgrace<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/JLrtpUAXsi4X46lxIMy4gGP2yWuUBu1ZufSWyrV3AWY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55796\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/JLrtpUAXsi4X46lxIMy4gGP2yWuUBu1ZufSWyrV3AWY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/JLrtpUAXsi4X46lxIMy4gGP2yWuUBu1ZufSWyrV3AWY.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/JLrtpUAXsi4X46lxIMy4gGP2yWuUBu1ZufSWyrV3AWY-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">The\u00a0<em>only<\/em>\u00a0person who gets to decide whether DACA&#8217;s continuation is in the public interest is the President of the United States.<\/span> \u00a0<\/strong>Mind you, this is not an instance of Trump creating a new unilateral policy out of whole cloth, to which there may be legitimate constitutional objections. \u00a0It is an instance of the current president simply undoing an existing unilateral executive action undertaken by his predecessor.<strong> \u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">If Obama had the authority to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>enact<\/em><\/span> DACA through the stroke of a pen, Trump clearly has the authority to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>rescind it<\/em><\/span> using the same method.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> \u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">That is how executive orders <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>work<\/em><\/span>, <em>and it&#8217;s why lawsuits to thwart Trump&#8217;s call in this case should be dismissed out of hand as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">utterly baseless<\/span><\/em>. <\/span>\u00a0And by the way, it&#8217;s not entirely clear at all that Obama actually\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did<\/em><\/span>\u00a0possess the power to extend an executive amnesty to an entire class of people the way he did. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">I&#8217;ll let a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>noted legal scholar<\/em><\/span> explain the\u00a0constitutional hurdles involved:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p>\u201c<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations [of immigrants brought here illegally as children] through executive order, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that\u2019s just not the case<\/span>, because there are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">laws on the books<\/span> that Congress has passed<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>That was Obama in 2011 explaining why he\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>couldn&#8217;t<\/em><\/span>\u00a0do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>precisely what he ended up doing<\/em><\/span> the very next year, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in an act that went beyond mere &#8220;enforcement discretion<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span> It also involved the issuance of work permits, an affirmative act. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>He took his\u00a0overreach a step further during his second term, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>expanding the amnesty-by-fiat to millions of illegal immigrants to entered the United States unlawfully as adults<\/em><\/span>. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The latter move was struck down by the courts<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0<strong>So if <em>anything<\/em>, Trump may be wiping away an\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">illegal<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>executive order, <em>appropriately asking <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Congress to do its job<\/span> to rectify a situation that\u00a0most Americans\u00a0see as unjust<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0What&#8217;s striking here, though, is that the\u00a0underlying proposition\u00a0from which Judge Alsup proceeds is that the existing executive order was implemented legally. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>He&#8217;s decided, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>entirely unjustifiably<\/em><\/span>, that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Obama<\/em><\/span> was permitted to implement this policy as he saw fit under his executive authority &#8212; but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Trump<\/em><\/span> cannot end the same policy as he sees fit, under the exact same executive authority<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thus a federal judge draws upon <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>tweets<\/em><\/span> to ascertain Trump&#8217;s motivation, but conveniently <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ignores<\/em><\/span> The Manchurian Candidate&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>own words<\/em><\/span> as set forth in the video above.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s all part of a purposeful Progressive process the great Victor Davis Hanson quizzically characterizes as going&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/from-resistance-to-nullification-to-what-next\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">From Resistance to Nu<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">llification to What Next<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800080;\">?<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gmc15511020180111063400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55807\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gmc15511020180111063400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gmc15511020180111063400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gmc15511020180111063400-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Denial eventually leads to desperation&#8230;which inevitably breeds stupidity.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>we have never quite seen <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">anything<\/span> like the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">opposition of the so-called Resistance<\/span> to the elected presidency that followed the Obama tenure<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There were the initial false charges that pro-Trump Russians had shut down power grids in Vermont. There were frivolous suits claiming that voting machines in three states were rigged. There was an organized, anti-constitutional effort to subvert the Electoral College so that it would not reflect the vote tallies of individual states. On Inauguration Day, there were congressional boycotts of the swearing-in ceremony. There were demonstrations at which, to take one example, Madonna envisioned blowing up the Trump White House.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>An entire genre of assassination chic followed. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Politicians, celebrities, actors, academics, and wannabees variously reenacted beheading Donald Trump, stabbing him to death, shooting him, torching him, hanging him, or, in the words of Robert DeNiro, dreaming of punching Trump in the face.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Few in the media were bothered by the imagery or threats<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <em>Yet <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sometimes<\/span> the hysteria became <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">real violence<\/span><\/em> \u2014 as when Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson\u2019s shot prominent Republican politicians practicing for a charity baseball game, gravely wounding Republican House whip Steven Scalise, or when libertarian senator Rand Paul (present at the Scalise shooting) was attacked and injured by a disturbed neighbor and proponent of socialized medicine.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Formal efforts followed to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>impeach<\/em><\/span> Trump in his first months of governance.<\/strong><\/span> Some evoked the emoluments clause of the Constitution, claiming that Trump had sought the presidency only to profit. Others sought recourse in the 25th Amendment, hoping that he could be removed because of senility, insanity, or debility. <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">A Yale psychiatrist, <em>who has never <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">met<\/span> Trump<\/em>, <em>was brought before Congress <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to confirm that the president was psychologically unfit to continue his office<\/span><\/em> \u2014 and then wondered whether he might be physically restrained and forced to undergo examination (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>apparently unaware that she was getting quite close to advocating a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat and also channeling the old Soviet remedy to political undesirables<\/em><\/span>).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Deep-state bureaucrats and holdover Obama appointees refused to carry out presidential orders and became causes c\u00e9l\u00e8bres for violating their oaths of office. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Justices were cherry-picked for stays of presidential directives <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(such as the subject of our item immediately above.)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">on the basis on their liberal fides \u2014 <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">until higher courts overturned their rulings<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> The Democratic congressional minority made wholescale effort to slow down confirmation of almost every presidential appointment.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Nonpartisan media research organizations found that 90 percent of all news stories concerning President Trump portrayed him negatively \u2014 <em>an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">unprecedented<\/span> negative rating<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong> Late-night television morphed into 24\/7 anti-Trump diatribes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Journalists as diverse as the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u2019 Jim Rutenberg and Univision\u2019s Jorge Ramos insisted that reporters could no longer be professionally disinterested in the age of Trump but must become activists to oppose the president and his agendas.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Indeed, the WikiLeaks trove revealed that marquee journalists such as the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u2019 Glenn Thrush and the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u2019s Dana Milbank <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>had actively colluded with the Clinton campaign to massage their news accounts and commentaries<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em>The genre of \u201cfake news\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">was born<\/span><\/em> \u2014 ranging from the trivial of claiming in racist fashion that Trump had removed a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. from the West Wing to the mythologies of a purported Trump plan to invade Mexico.<\/span> <em>CNN\u2019s journalists and employees <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">were sometimes fired for inventing anti-Trump narratives<\/span>, or caught on a hot mic wishing for the president\u2019s jet to crash, or reduced to using scatology to express their hatred<\/em>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">The network achieved a 93 percent negative treatment of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> Trump news.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Obama political appointments had sought FISA court orders to surveille Trump associates, then unmasked the names and leaked them to friendly journalists, first, to hamper the Trump campaign, later to subvert the Trump transition. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">A Clinton opposition dossier, based on paid and unnamed Russian sources, peddled false stories to the FBI and Obama-administration Justice Department officials.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It may well have been used to obtain the FISA orders<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Career FBI officers used government communications to express their hatred for the new president. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Such bias <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>may<\/em><\/span> have <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>undoubtedly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">did<\/span><\/em>!)<\/span> <em>fueled their efforts <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to warp their investigations<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <em>The director of the FBI <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">knowingly leaked confidential notes of his meetings with the president<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">He <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>probably<\/em><\/span> passed <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>again<\/em><\/span>, <em>undoubtedly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">did<\/span><\/em>!)<\/span> on <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">at least one classified document<\/span><\/em> to a friend, with the instruction that it then be passed to a friendly journalist.<\/span> James Comey\u2019s hope was to ensure an investigation of the president by a special counsel \u2014 a position soon to be filled by his close associate and friend.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">The deep-state resistance of bureaucrats ranged from the petty and trivial of refusing to hang the picture of the current president in their offices to the more substantial move of slowing down or refusing outright to carry out presidential directives.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>America had not seen such opposition to an incoming president since 1861<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>If any such resistance had faced an incoming Barack Obama, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the cries of outrage, media fury, and legal recourse would have proved overwhelming and been framed as a constitutional crisis<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> But no such pushback occurred. Instead, in 2009, power was transferred peacefully if not amicably.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Yet, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so far<\/em><\/span>, the Resistance, despite helping to drive down presidential approval ratings to the low 40 percent range, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has not stopped the Trump agenda<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> <\/span>The Mueller investigation will likely settle for face-saving charges against a few Trump officials for crimes not envisioned under its original directives. Its own biases and the FBI\u2019s involvement with the discredited Steele dossier may result in a number of successful appeals of those who confessed or acquittals of those charged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>The frustrated Resistance is starting to morph into a more serious crisis of nullification, <em>if not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">insurrection<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Fortunately<\/em><\/span> for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>us<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unfortunately<\/em><\/span> for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>them<\/em><\/span>, those loyal to the Constitution and the Founder&#8217;s Republic possess the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>VAST<\/em><\/span> majority of the weapons&#8230;which is why the evisceration of the 2nd Amendment <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>remains so high<\/em><\/span> on the list of Progressive priorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, we offer a question: What&#8217;s the inevitable result of more than 50 years of one-party rule?\u00a0 As the <em>WaPo<\/em> relates, it&#8217;s&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u2018<a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/kids-are-freezing-amid-bitter-cold-baltimore-schools-students-struggle\/2018\/01\/05\/8c213eec-f183-11e7-b390-a36dc3fa2842_story.html?utm_term=.5e8339c9d31e\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kids are freezing\u2019: Amid bitter cold, Baltimore schools, students struggle<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/baltimore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55791\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/baltimore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/baltimore.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/baltimore-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Earlier in the week, some students returned from their winter holiday break to chilled classrooms and older buildings crippled by facilities woes. <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Pictures circulating online showed\u00a0students in coats\u00a0and a classroom\u00a0thermometer with temperatures in the 40s.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u201cAs of now, I have on four shirts, two hoodies and a jacket,\u201d high school senior Dennis Morgan\u00a0told NPR. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of hard to get comfortable when you\u2019ve got so many layers on and you\u2019re not used to it and you\u2019re still cold.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Baltimore City Public Schools\u00a0were closed Thursday, both because of the snow and building conditions. <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Schools\u00a0remained closed Friday.<\/span><\/span> The decision came after the Baltimore Teachers Union\u00a0on Wednesday sent a letter\u00a0that asked the school system\u2019s chief executive, Sonja Santelises, to close the buildings until officials could assess the situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Santelises said in a phone interview 60 schools had registered a complaint or issue by the end of the school day Wednesday, about a third of the system<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We don&#8217;t know which is sadder: the fact this occurred in a city whose bureaucracy not only has been controlled by Dimocrats for over five decades, but has been cited not just <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/08\/audit-baltimore-city-public-schools-play\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>once<\/em><\/span><\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/readersrespond\/bs-ed-school-money-letter-20150520-story.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>twice<\/em><\/span><\/a> for fiscal malfeasance&#8230;or that <a href=\"https:\/\/blackyouthproject.com\/kids-freezing-baltimore-schools-black-children-viewed-disposable\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>anyone could seriously suggest such ineptitude was the result of black children being viewed as disposable<\/em><\/span><\/a> without recognizing Baltimore&#8217;s been in the hands of Black &#8220;leaders&#8221; for some ten years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We should <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>also<\/em><\/span> note the city&#8217;s first Black female mayor, Sheila Dixon, was convicted of embezzlement for stealing gift cards intended for the less fortunate residents of the grossly misnamed Charm City, while the city&#8217;s second Black female mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, was effectively hounded from office following her infamous &#8220;<em>we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well<\/em>&#8221; in the wake of the 2015 riots.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Physician, heal <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>yoself<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, finally and ironically, to\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gmc15504120180108121200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55798\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gmc15504120180108121200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gmc15504120180108121200.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gmc15504120180108121200-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cb010918dAPR20180109114534.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55799\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cb010918dAPR20180109114534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cb010918dAPR20180109114534.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cb010918dAPR20180109114534-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Image-1-11-18-at-8.31-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55805\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Image-1-11-18-at-8.31-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Image-1-11-18-at-8.31-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Image-1-11-18-at-8.31-AM-300x186.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bg011018dAPR20180110044509.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55804\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bg011018dAPR20180110044509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bg011018dAPR20180110044509.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bg011018dAPR20180110044509-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/payn_c15507720180110120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/payn_c15507720180110120100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/payn_c15507720180110120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/payn_c15507720180110120100-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gv011018dAPR20180110064510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55801\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gv011018dAPR20180110064510.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gv011018dAPR20180110064510.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gv011018dAPR20180110064510-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mle180109c20180108101052.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55802\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mle180109c20180108101052.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mle180109c20180108101052.jpg 462w, 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src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/download-1-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/download-1-3.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/download-1-3-300x168.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/download-2-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55772\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/download-2-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/download-2-2.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/download-2-2-300x239.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/download-7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55773\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/download-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/download-7.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/download-7-236x300.jpeg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/download.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55774\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/download.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/download.png 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/download-300x265.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bis Montag!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, January 12th, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, writing at his Morning Jolt, Jim Geraghty offers a&#8230; Message to House Democrats: You Can\u2019t Always Get What You Want &nbsp; &#8220;A\u00a0strange development: Liberal members of the U.S. House of Representatives seem to think they can get everything they want on legislation for DACA without making major 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