History repeats.  Many people will remember what happened in Wisconsin in 2011 when control of the state legislature flipped from Democrat control to Republican control and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker began initiating a series of state budget reforms.
In 2011 the fourteen defeated Wisconsin senate democrats that remained in office fled to Illinois in a failed attempt to block legislation by not providing a quorum.
The 14 state legislators became famously known as “milk carton democrats” and/or  “fleebaggers”.
Today in Washington DC Senate Committee Democrats deployed the same childish strategy to block HHS Secretary confirmation of Tom Price, and Treasury Secretary confirmation of Steve Mnuchin:
WASHINGTON DC – Senate Democrats on Tuesday boycotted two committee votes to delay the confirmations of President Donald Trump’s picks to head the Health and Human Services and Treasury departments.
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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds Tuesday press briefing for reporters and responds to their questions on a variety of topics including acting Attorney General Sally Yates fired after refusing to enforce president Trump’s visa restrictions for 7 mid-east countries.  [Presser begins at 13:15 of video below – prompted]
https://youtu.be/kM5P9uVJBgk?t=13m15s
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Was the vast Russian conspiracy really only a week ago?  In between the current refugee crisis du-jour and the notification of the next supreme court nominee, President Trump met with a group of small business leaders to hear their concerns and outline some new policy initiatives.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday morning that he said will “dramatically reduce federal regulations” on businesses.
“We’ll be reducing [regulations] big league and their damaging effects on our small businesses, our economy and our entrepreneurial spirit,” Trump said during a meeting with small business leaders. “The American dream is back, and we’re going to create an environment for small business like we haven’t had in many, many decades.”
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President Trump talks with Christian Broadcast Network (CBN) David Brody. Topics: supreme court nominee, current events, refugee and immigration pause, Mexico tariff issues, media bias and more:

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

It’s hilarious to see the MSM (Mostly Swamp Media) and DC politicos heads’ spinning as they try to keep up with the Trump Train.  They say “impossible”, he says “great, let’s get started”… It’s a never ending stream of deliberate consciousness…  LOLOL.  Whoops.
The MSM is really bad at playing whack-a-mole.
By the time they’ve got their cameras and pundits briefed on their preferred outrage of the day ::poof:: someone drops an anvil on their head, Trump disappears and word comes out he’s reappeared with a new batch of  instructions and policy deliverables for them to be outraged about.
Look, over there… no, wait,… over there… here, huh.. wha? Has it really only been a week since it was “muh Russians”?…. sheesh.
Trump-time moves so fast, they don’t have time to roll out the traditional coordinated talking points. President Trump is one person, yet he has them surrounded.
Swamp peeps nerves are frayed, they’re desperate for President Trump to take a day off… but he never stops.  My God, he-just-never-stops.  Today, the swamp passed around the word “crisis”, but it didn’t phase him; he drove right through it.  Abandon the airports, he just fired the AG, head to the courthouse…. EPA did what?  Oh, SCOTUS?…. gotcha!
It’s the scariest thing the entire DC apparatus has ever experienced.  They’re aging on TV in front of your eyes.  TV Time is now measured in dog years. Each media day the pundits grow seven months worth of furrowed brow and wrinkles.
Even at home the media feel like they’re living out of a suitcase, and they haven’t seen a non-coworker in 11 days.  Was that table always there?… Wait, stop… Soy Milk?.. Refugees are… wait, you’re blonde?  huh?..  When did Jess get that tattoo? who?… boyfriend. Wha?  I like football… do I?  I thought… {{phone rings}} what tax plan?…
Obviously they were not paying attention for the past 18 months. This is high energy, all the time:

BREAKING:  President Donald Trump has fired Obama appointee, and acting Attorney General, Sally Yates for refusing to enforce a legal order.  Yates  has been replaced with Dana Boente, US Attorney for the Eastern District of VA who will now act as Attorney General until nominee Senator Jeff Sessions has been confirmed.

“Sally, …before you leave, ….make me a sandwich”…

President Trump Senior Policy Adviser, Stephen Miller, discusses tonight’s rather explosive events:

Following the defeat of Hillary Clinton democrat operative David Axelrod was the first to say the democrat party needed to create an opposition group as effective as the Tea Party. Within days Paul Begala, David Brock and Bernie Sanders were drum-beating a similar talking point.
Within the various regional meetings to select a DNC Chairperson an identical discussion has been repeated.
The larger progressive movement is trying to create a 2017 political oppositional force similar in scope and effectiveness as the 2009/2010 Tea Party movement.
That political goal has driven the constructed caterwauling and protestations for the past week.  However, there is one key difference which dooms any such effort: (more…)