Amid the ongoing partial government shutdown; and with the unwillingness of Democrats to negotiate on border security funding; and coming on the heels of a massive Puerto Rico junket funded by K-Street lobbyists; it may have been a bridge-too-far for Democrats to start another eleven day vacation on Thursday….. So they cancelled it, sort of.
House Leader Steny Hoyer technically cancelled (in writing only) the recess (to keep the talking points out of the hands of the opposition), while factually telling membership to go ahead and take the vacation but be prepared to return if needed.
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Everything you need to know about political Democrats is in that interview. •Kate Bourdain never interrupts the talking points. •Hoyer focuses on the optics of politics and maximum political value, not actual policy. •Hoyer frames the narrative without pushback.
Hardly expect anything more from the left (msm) or the Democrats. One and the same
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HBD, and the oldies think they own their own party so I see a future real fight. The oldies think they can bambooza Trump with their dictating garbage. Pelosi all on her own is denying positions to those who opposed her winning again as Speaker. Yep, they even eat their own children!
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Playing right into Trumps trap.
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I hope so. Want to see them ending up looking not only like the fools they are, but the crooked rats ruining the country.
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Think about this: One woman, 3rd in line for the Presidency, has the entire country hogtied with her stubborn resistance to what the majority of the people want.
Then, she plans a trip to a country where we are at war (or so it has been reported) to usurp the Commander in Chief of the Military.
Do the words coup, sedition, treason, traitor, dictator not flash into one’s brain as we watch this evil woman go about her business, and I mean her business of taking out a sitting president.
Just think about how this appears to the Chinese, North Korea, and even Japan. Not only have they created a partial shutdown of US government, they have interfered with foreign policy that is important to all of us. She is one ignorant and dishonest witch.
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I’ve nothing to add to your comprehensive description of Pelosi, other than the line of succession to the presidency should be changed. Unfortunately, it would take a Constitutional Amendment, and we’ll never get that with the country having moved so far Left.
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Doofus.
Is Steny backpedaling as fast as he can, heading towards the cliff? Ooops.
These Dems are too funny to watch, blabbering about ugly-nothings.
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I don’t know how these news anchors can sit there day after day lie and promote others lies. They know it is crap. It must wear you down. They are going to have some endurance built for their eternal destinations.
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It’s a dirty, well paying job, but somebody’s gotta do it. Right?
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Right.
Maybe time for Mike Rowe to do a Dirty Jobs show on the Hill?
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Leftist ideologues never get tired of lying, cognitive dissonance, or being divorced from reality. Being an ideologue means never having to feel shame.
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“divorced from reality” I REALLY THINK THIS SUMS IT UP TO A TEE. LIBERALISM IS A SOCIALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE.
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Unfortunately for them and for us they believe in “the ends justify the means” ; needless to say this goes against Biblical teachings.
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So she doesn’t yell over him, making accusatory statements like Acosta does to the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES??!! CNN is a swamp rat.
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Of course, Kate Bourdain never interrupts Steny Hoyer’s bullcrap. He is a Democrat. She sure jumped out of her chair, and tied to attack Jeffrey Lord, a Republican contributor.
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You do realize that congressional staffers print up the talking points every evening and distribute them daily to to Enemedia hacks.
Why do they parrot each other WORD4WORD?
Of course the TDS comes naturally after 2 yrs of 90% negative coverage.They don’t need cue cards or prompters for that.🎥🎤
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The Journolist never died at all – it re-grouped and improved its security after being exposed but do not doubt for a moment that a small group of insiders controls over 95% of what is disseminated and reported in the media every day in this country.
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They continue to do it until they go one step too far. But mostly because there is no downside. They are Democrats thus are expected to lie, cheat, swindle, blackmail and try to destroy the Constitution.
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It doesn’t wear you down when you have no soul.
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It’s all about the paycheck. When they’ve been brought up without a moral compass, it’s easy to do the job. They actually don’t lose any sleep over it like you and I would.
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Drugs, meds, and booze !
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Mutt & Jeff Show.
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Speaking of Mutt & Jeff, is Jeff Session still alive?
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She really should stay at home that day behind her walls to stay safe and secure! No loss to the rest of us if we don’t need to see her sitting behind him ruining the picture. FINE. Cancel your self, Nan!
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Nancy hast been showing up for anything else.
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You KNOW every single Democrat will sit glued to their seat during the SOTUA. That’s what they did last year, right?
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Robert Herring, along with millions of real Americans to help them!
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“Optics” and appearances are always what matter to the Dems. Reality and truth are foreign concepts to them. Their priority is always how things LOOK–especially because below the superficial layer there is no there there for them. (I guess there may be exceptions, please let me know of any :))
This is why there is a lack of authenticity among the Dems.
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wisdom- “lack of authenticity” = lying sack of s**t
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She’s WORRIED about security at SOTU but not at our border. Go figure… 🧐
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Excellent point, lotbusyexec!
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Can’t make up how ridiculous ALL their arguments are. PDJT is an amazing disinfectant – he is bringing all their dirt to the surface – better than any Clearasal Pad could do 😉
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All the Democrats are pimples and blackheads then ? That’s a lot of Clearasil.
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wisdom, and how about when protesters invaded Pelosi’s large yard by going over the fence so she could get a taste of illegals coming into and wanted by the democrat party? She called the police to remove them. They even suggested she should home the MS 13 and that, too, did not go over well.
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Tell that to Steve King.
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The Democrats are making fools of themselves, that’s the optics.
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Yes, like Rush used to say about Bill Clinton, symbolism over substance. I’ll never forget when Bill pretendedto find sticks on the Normandy Beach in the sign of a cross, and his on demand tears whenever needed.
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The Secret Service’s security plan for the SOTU will not change due to the partial shutdown. Pelosi knows this and yet she decided to fabricate a story in order to hurt Trump. Pathetic.
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Yes, Nancy’s fabrications insult our intelligence.
And they play to her supporter’s.
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This from DHS!
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msm is just preaching to the choir. You can stack up all the cable news outlets including fox and they do not reach Rush Limbaugh’s numbers.
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My suggestion is for VSGPOTUS to tell the Dhimms to continue copulating with themselves, and hold a mega rally instead at a strategic location deep in the heart of Marxist territory to broadcast the state of the union…He can then call them out while the base goes wild.
Optics ya’ll…optics.
No more of this non-clapping nonsense on TeeVee.
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I nominate the Javits Convention Center in New York where ol’ Hildebag would’ve given her concession speech in 2016 if she were sober enough to come out after her loss.
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One of the disappointments in my life is that there isn’t video of Hillary when she was informed she had lost.
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I bet someone took a video of that. If someone offered up a couple of million dollars for it, it would surface.
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Crooked Hillary could predecease Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg.
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Steny still fighting the asthma that kept him out of the Vietnam draft !
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beaujest, and one of my brothers with severe asthma signed up and wound up in the Korean “conflict”, was wounded and flew rapidly for replacing FOUR parts of the heart area with pig valves (which are 100% safety and better than any stent) and he lived and thrived until death at 75. Flimsy excuses for cowards for sure. Would he tried to enter and was declared unfit for whatever reason, fine. Obviously, he never even tried hard to fight for the country he is now degrading.
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Criminy. How many vacations do they get?
So do I have this straight? Lazy lawmakers who are getting paid, have another vacation already. LEO, SS, BP, Our Soldiers aren’t getting paid but are working for us?
Can’t make this sh$t up. Really.
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It’s kind of hard to negotiate if people don’t stick around to negotiate. Another 3 days or so, and some of our less than sterling government employees who are not in the Homeland Security Department, Secret Service, Coast Guards, etc., and are really non-essential can be terminated.
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There’s nothing to “negotiate”. Build the effin wall !
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This is such hilarious theater!
It’s a great time to be alive.
God Bless POTUS.
These people are STUPID.
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Speaking of “optics”
Mr. Hoyer looks very rattled.
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He is one of the traitors, you would wish that Trump had the goods on. He is one sleezy piece of SH-T.
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I know. The sleaze just oozes off of them.
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only strategy is UNIPARTY…cant see it happen so soon after 2018 Election…45 is most popular Republican in history!
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Death by a thousand cuts! More popcorn!
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Article II, sec. 3 provides that “in Case of Disagreement between them [the houses of Congress], with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he [the President] may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper.”…
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Steven, do not forget these are petty regulations that don’t phase our hired non-working 2 in 1 party in Congress. Time to release them from their severe job and hours and salary and close down the Congress and start over but not in DC.
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Why does Lindsey want to open the Government for three weeks? The Dems aren’t present.
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Stock market is doing great, keep the government shut down.
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Not a single word about the wall from either Kate or Steny.
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Maybe they think if they don’t talk about the wall, Americans will forget about it.
These people truly are stupid. Either that, or we’ve got a bunch of sociopaths representing us.
Either way, they should be very, very nervous. America is watching them closely.
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It’s fine, he can just dissolve Congress…
Article II, sec. 3 provides that “in Case of Disagreement between them [the houses of Congress], with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he [the President] may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper.”
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Sorry for the double post, I didn’t see the first one posted
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Steven, and now is a great time during the shutdown to do it. Then lock the doors and keep the keys until further needed. They are lousy overpaid, sanctimonious employees and time to show them we the people are the government. Even Hamilton way back then said the people are the power and our employees paid to represent us and not get rich by not doing for us but for others. Their time in PR was to make sure they keep firm democrats just as evil as they. Meanwhile, why do we not revoke PR people as citizens as they don’t want to really work, speak English, and we send billions every year to them. Even FL doesn’t want them!
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Cut Puerto Loose. It’s a giant leech that is perennially bankrupt.
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No, he cannot unless he convened them in the first place. You are deliberately quoting one phrase out of context.
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What is this “Pelosi cites security fears..” and wants to change the State of the Union address date. Maybe she could get some of her disciples to guard her cage.
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This cracks me up!
Imagine she is worried about “security”
Isn’t that the whole reason Americans support a wall?
Really, our representatives are insane.
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Ellie, she also didn’t like real Americans invading her property but called on the police to remove them. But she thought the MS 13 were good guys. Wait until they murder her or any of her family in San Francisco.
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Nah…Pelosi has such a black soul that she would cannonize any family member as collateral damage and that they died still believing the cause for illegals to enter freely….blah blah blah.
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The government shutdown is horrifyingly bad for Democrats. But if they were to agree to border security, their constituents will be livid.
Hey Democrats – you wanted the Bull – now you get the horns!
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President Trump helps these duplicitous bastards to expose their hypocrisy and disingenuousness.
Watching Stainy Hoyer and reading Perfidious Peloosi’s letter makes it hilariously obvious that PDJT doesn’t need to put forth much effort – they stupidly do it for him.
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Media pencils-in the same vacation schedule — take two weeks off and come back rested.
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I’m a sinner. I’m forgiven. I therefore cannot endorse being so creatively wicked as this man.
I hope his/their nackedness continues to be exposed.
GOD! Please keep blessing us!
How embarrassing that this man can be a public “servant”.
DRAIN IT
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Question to all: When was the last time Nancy has been seen in public or around the Capital speaking? I don’t think I’ve seen her since that 30 minute meeting where the President got up and left (pictures above?). If anyone has any idea, thanks…
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Steny would have to hold up a dollar and tell her to speak.
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Sigh…. once again i feel obligated to apologize to the fine commenters here at the Treehouse for yet another swamp turd flushed from my state. He’s from PG county that’s one third of the state triumvirate of votes that matter
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I feel your pain. I used to be a PG Co. resident. Had to move to get away from him. That was 38 yeas ago.
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I don’t blame you, betseyross. We kind of chose to ‘stay and fight’ , as it were.
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Well…..I was knocked over with a feather last week hearing Jeff Merkly D-Moron from Oregon saying that some barriers would be very helpful. He’s actually spent some time down there lately so maybe he learned something.
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So she’s concerned about the security of the State of the Union and all the big wigs there, but NOT about the border/security of the citizens of the US?
Does she see how odd that looks? Would someone ask her about that?
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This was CN & N? Why not use the clip from FOX News, with Brett Baeir on Special Report? The description is identical, Baeir was no different than the CN & N chick, other than Baeir putting Hoyer as the lead at primetime..
Fox has gone full Democrat. Chris Coons is on Martha Whatsits now.
Why bother posting CN & N clips when we get it all from Fox?
We have all we need of Democrat talking points from Fox.
phooey on all of ’em
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It’s pathetic and we need a non globalist owned News network so disparately. I’m beginning to think they will succeed in turning this country into a Marxist State, slowly but surely brainwashing the public from shaving, to news, to social media to TV and movies and their favorite, our schools..
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It’s just SD often says (paraphrasing): in order to be liberal, one has to pretend to not know a lot of things.
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Noticed that CNN has a government shutdown clock running on the screen.
If they didn’t no one would probably even realize there was a shutdown going on.
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President Trump has just blown up the deep state with this shutdown..
The SES (Senior executive service ) locations only in the states Hillary won because SES rig it for her. Long story about the SES but they are the Deep State and they are shutdown . Impossible to fire any of them but after 30 days furlough they can be fired and most are furloughed..
These traitors cannot communicate without being in their secured office space this is why the uniparty is freaking out they don’t know what to do without instructions
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Let’s hope they received a 60 day notice.
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I keep looking at the back of her legs and think Menendez hasn’t seen the backs of them yet or he wouldn’t be talking to her.
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He’s had to lower his standards a bit since his ophthalmologist buddy is no longer picking up the bills …just sayin’
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Both are under consideration for The Ana Navarro Trophy.
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