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Tuesday, November 22, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump: Who's Laughing Now?
Election's Biggest Losers: Blacks
(Gerald Herbert/AP)
Donald Trump’s upset victory over Hillary Clinton is a
devastating blow to the Democratic Party and its allies: academia, teachers’
unions, advocates of abortion on demand, secularists, radical
environmentalists, and a biased elitist “ivory tower” liberal media
establishment.
It was a total rejection of the progressive liberal
ideology.
But the real loser was black political power throughout
the country.
With Republicans controlling the White House, Senate,
House of Representatives and an all-time high number of state legislatures,
blacks and their black Democratic representatives are even more likely to be
virtually shut out of the corridors of power
Assuming that blacks continue refusing to support black
Republicans in majority black districts, blacks’ political fate is likely
sealed for years to come.
Asian, Hispanic, LGBT, working class white and
independent voters will be in play now more than ever. They are not trapped on
the Democratic plantation and vote their economic and political interests.
When white voters feel abandoned and forgotten by the
political system, they vote against the candidate and party that they feel
abandoned them — like they did on Election Day!
When blacks feel abandoned and forgotten by the political
system, they vote for the candidates and parties that abandoned them—like they
did on election day!
For eight years, the first black president virtually
ignored his most loyal constituency in favor of other groups including the
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT), Hispanic and abortion rights
communities.
Yet, exit polls show that black support for Clinton at 93 percent
dramatically outpaced her support from LGBT (78 percent), Hispanic (65 percent)
and female (42 percent) voters whom he catered to.
One thing is clear. Now that the election is over, you
can bet that Democrats will say “so long black folks, see you in two years for
the midterms.”
They will count on Rev. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, most
black journalists, much of the black clergy, the Congressional Black Caucus and
civil rights groups to keep blacks in line. They will criticize any efforts
Trump makes to revitalize and rid inner cities of gangland warfare and bring
choice to inner city parents — they were silent when Obama did nothing for
eight years to assist those communities or parents.
If we are to believe many of the economically secure
elitist black and white liberal journalists, media pundits, Democrats, and the
Hollywood-New York entertainment industry cabal, Trump’s victory is due to his
support from undereducated racist white working class Americans.
So, what is racist about:
- Lowering
taxes?
- Wanting
to put coal miners and steel workers back to work?
- Bringing
jobs back to the United States?
- Revitalizing
inner cities?
- Providing
choice in schools for poor black and Hispanic parents?
- Ending
gang violence in our major cities?
- Building
a strong military?
- Ending
illegal immigration?
- Opposing
partial birth abortions?
The answer is, nothing. That was Trump’s message to
voters.
Hillary’s only message was that she was better than Trump
half of whose supporters she called a “basket of deplorables — racist, sexist,
homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic.”
Black, white and Hispanic journalists and media
commentators who look down their noses from their economically secure ivory
towers and defame hard working class Americans as undereducated racists forget
that many of them voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012.
Do they want America to believe that whites in formerly
blue states such as Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin supporting
Trump suddenly became racists in 2016?
Do they want us to believe that the 13 percent of black
males; 29 percent of Hispanics and Asians, 33 percent of Hispanic males, and 42
percent of women who supported Trump were racist misogynist bigots?
Until black voters start asking the same questions of
politicians that white, Asian, Hispanic and LGBT voters do — “What have you
done for me lately?” — they will be pushed further to the back of the political
bus with these groups getting the best seats.
Given the sacrifices and lives that have been lost for
blacks to have the right to vote, it is truly a sad state of affairs.
Clarence V. McKee is president of McKee
Communications, Inc., a government, political, and media relations consulting
firm in Florida. He held several positions in the Reagan administration as well
as in the Reagan presidential campaigns. He is a former co-owner of WTVT-TV in
Tampa and former president of the Florida Association of Broadcasters.
Monday, November 21, 2016
Senate Democrats Won't Be Able To Stop Sessions' Attorney General Nomination...And It's All Their Fault
By Matt Vespa
Well, as the Left goes
ballistic over the prospect of Sen. Jeff Sessions becoming our next attorney
general and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) as our new CIA director, they should know
that Democrats have very little ground to oppose them. Thanks to outgoing Sen.
Harry Reid’s (R-NV) nuking of the filibuster rules in 2013 for presidential
appointments, with the exception of Supreme Court
nominations, only a simple
majority is needed to confirm Pompeo and Sessions (via Washington Post):
Senate Democrats are not going to be able to block
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions bid to become attorney general. And they can’t do
much to stop Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo from assuming the helm of the CIA.
And they have only themselves to thank for it.
That’s because exactly three years ago, the Democratic
Senate majority — led by Harry Reid (Nev.) — rammed through controversial rules
fundamentally changing the way the Senate does business. They unleashed in
November 2013 what’s called the “nuclear option” allowing senators to approve
by a simple majority all presidential appointments to the executive branch and
the judiciary, with a big exception for Supreme Court justices.
Democrats took the controversial step because they were
so frustrated by what they saw as Republican foot-dragging on President Obama’s
choices for his administration and federal judgeships. Under the new rules, it
takes only a simple majority of senators to confirm such appointments instead
of the 60 typically needed to force Senate action.
[…]
In 2013, then-Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
warned the GOP could easily seize power back in the 2014 elections – which they
did, securing the majority in the Senate.
And that’s now what’s happened.
The publication added
that Senate Democrats hope the nuclear option isn’t expanded to include Supreme
Court nominations, and that Pompeo is making some people uneasy, namely Rep.
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), due to him being one of the firebrand members of the House
Committee on Benghazi.
Well, too bad—Reid screwed you over. Incoming Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he was against the 2013 nuking of the
filibuster rules. This was inevitable. There is no such thing as permanent
political majorities. Both parties have learned this brutally, Republicans
post-2004 and Democrats post-2010.
The GOP was eventually going to retake the
Senate and it would be Democrats possibly facing off against a majority that
seems bound to confirm presidential nominees that are simply driving the Left
nuts. Reid may have thought about this, but so what; he’s leaving. It’s someone
else’s mess to clean up. That person would be Schumer.
It’s quite possible that
Reid knew the dangers, but did it anyway for the few minutes of satisfaction he
would receive in sticking it to the GOP.
Now, Donald J. Trump, who is anathema
to progressives, has picked someone who is truly the anti-Holder, despite the
fact that Sessions, who is being smeared as a horrible racist, supported
Holder’s initial nomination as attorney general.
Reid is a man who
totally screwed his party and left them defenseless to stop Trump nominees
Democrats truly feel are unacceptable.
At the same time, it’s precedent, so
maybe the Trump White House and Sessions should publicly thank Harry Reid for
making these cabinet appointments super easy to confirm.
Trump can nominate
anyone.
Trump's Popularity Surges After Election
By Leah Barkoukis
It’s been nearly two
weeks since the election and Donald Trump has already become more popular.
According to a Politico/Morning
Consult poll of registered voters, Trump’s favorability has climbed 9
points since the same poll was taken right before the election, from 37 percent
to 46 percent, while his unfavorability rating dropped by double digits, from
61 percent to 46 percent—a 15-point difference.
Trump is also getting high marks for his transition
effort. Nineteen percent of those polled believe it is more organized than past
efforts and another 34 percent believe the transition is about the same,
according to the poll that Morning Consult conducted Nov. 16-18.
"Trump’s
favorability among voters has reached new highs since he became
president-elect,” said Morning Consult cofounder and Chief Research Officer
Kyle Dropp. "This honeymoon phase in common for new presidents. For
example, Obama saw about a 20 point swing in his favor following the 2008
election."
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Analysis: Pence's Reaction to Getting Booed at 'Hamilton'
Was Perfect
By Guy Benson
By Guy Benson
America's culture war flared up again on Friday night,
when Vice President-elect Mike Pence faced a hostile reception at a performance
of 'Hamilton' on Broadway. Upon entering the theater and finding his seat,
Pence heard a mixture of boos and some applause, followed by several mid-show
bouts of jeering and heckling, and capped off with a lecture delivered atcurtain call by one of the leading actors on behalf of the cast.
President-elect Donald Trump blasted the move, calling
the actors' behavior rude and out of place, and demanding an apology:
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
Our
wonderful future V.P. Mike Pence was harassed last night at the theater by the
cast of Hamilton, cameras blazing.This should not happen!
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Donald J. Trump
The Theater must always be a safe and special place. The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!
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As Matt wrote yesterday, Pence's reaction was far more
subdued. He graciously shrugged off the incident during a Fox News Sunday
conversation with Chris Wallace. Bravo!
Here, Pence traverses the high road by praising the show,
addressing the cast's concerns, and declining to escalate the controversy. An
impressive showing. As someone who is a fan of both Mike Pence (despite holding serious disagreements on some issues) and 'Hamilton' (regardless of the performers' apparent political views), this whole episode attracted my attention as reports of the confrontation spilled onto social media. My initial (and still overall) reaction was similar to Pence's: A virtual shrug. After all, booing is a grand New York tradition:
In other words, the pre-show boo birds and even the
players' special post-show commentary weren't especially objectionable. Even if
you're inclined to believe that both were out of place, I don't think they
crossed any bright
But audience members disrupting the performance and forcing stoppages during musical numbers in order to vent fury over an election result is appalling conduct, especially for reasons noted in the tweet embedded immediately above.
Many of the rich, liberal New Yorkers in that theater no doubt relished the opportunity to experience political catharsis and "speak truth to power," as they'd self-congratulatingly frame it. But other theatergoers were Trump/Pence supporters, or merely ambivalent observers just trying to enjoy the hottest show on the planet.
It's a shame that they had their experience marred by these selfish partisans.
Some will argue 'but Pence deserved it!' My retort to that line of thinking is here.
Others will argue that it was totally out of line for the cast to deliver a political message to Pence at the end of the production, given the circumstances and context.
How many of these same critics cheered Dr. Ben Carson's famous in-person admonishment of President Obama from the rostrum of the National Prayer Breakfast a few years back?
But audience members disrupting the performance and forcing stoppages during musical numbers in order to vent fury over an election result is appalling conduct, especially for reasons noted in the tweet embedded immediately above.
Many of the rich, liberal New Yorkers in that theater no doubt relished the opportunity to experience political catharsis and "speak truth to power," as they'd self-congratulatingly frame it. But other theatergoers were Trump/Pence supporters, or merely ambivalent observers just trying to enjoy the hottest show on the planet.
It's a shame that they had their experience marred by these selfish partisans.
Some will argue 'but Pence deserved it!' My retort to that line of thinking is here.
Others will argue that it was totally out of line for the cast to deliver a political message to Pence at the end of the production, given the circumstances and context.
How many of these same critics cheered Dr. Ben Carson's famous in-person admonishment of President Obama from the rostrum of the National Prayer Breakfast a few years back?
Finally, I've seen some conservatives calling for
boycotts of 'Hamilton' as a result of this whole kerfuffle. This is deeply misguided, in my view.
Not only do I disdain the politicized life in general, Americans who respect our nation's founding should celebrate this musical. It is both a spectacular work of artistic genius and an inspiring, moving tribute to the courageous men who launched the American experiment. It is an unabashedly pro-America show that has made a bunch of dead guys suddenly relevant and cool again.
Students are learning about the statesmanship and sacrifice of towering historical American figures. They're discovering the contours of the cabinet battles that shaped the direction of our fledgling republic from its earliest days. They're memorizing lengthy passages of Washington's farewell address, and laughing at tyranny in the form of King George III's snotty, effete character.
People are understandably riled up by what happened on Friday night (bulletin: Manhattanites and musical theater performers aren't necessarily big Republicans).
But it would be a mistake to reject this beacon of culturally-accessible gratitude for our founders because of a fleeting partisan controversy.
Not only do I disdain the politicized life in general, Americans who respect our nation's founding should celebrate this musical. It is both a spectacular work of artistic genius and an inspiring, moving tribute to the courageous men who launched the American experiment. It is an unabashedly pro-America show that has made a bunch of dead guys suddenly relevant and cool again.
Students are learning about the statesmanship and sacrifice of towering historical American figures. They're discovering the contours of the cabinet battles that shaped the direction of our fledgling republic from its earliest days. They're memorizing lengthy passages of Washington's farewell address, and laughing at tyranny in the form of King George III's snotty, effete character.
People are understandably riled up by what happened on Friday night (bulletin: Manhattanites and musical theater performers aren't necessarily big Republicans).
But it would be a mistake to reject this beacon of culturally-accessible gratitude for our founders because of a fleeting partisan controversy.
Sore Loser Liberals Turn to Attacking Trump’s Cabinet Picks
By Raynard
Jackson
Blacks voted
overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton. Republicans engaged in voter suppression
tactics nationwide. Clinton won the popular vote. Trump’s chief strategist and
senior counselor Steve Bannon is a bigot. Senator Jeff Sessions, Trump’s pick
for Attorney General, is a racist.
These are all
Democratic talking points describing all things Trump and Republican. Just as
sure as the sun rises and sets, liberal Democrats, especially Blacks, will call
anyone a racist, if they don’t agree with them on any range of issues.
According to
liberals, if you don’t support open borders, you are a racist; if you don’t
support homosexuality, you are a racist; if you don’t believe in global
warming, you are a racist; if you support voter ID laws, you’re a racist; if
you support separate bathrooms for men and women, then you are a racist.
And because
Trump wants Bannon in the White House, then he must be a racist.
Well, I say
that if Steve is a racist, then we need to have a lot more racists in America.
Most of the
people who are trying to tear down Bannon have never met nor had any
conversations with him. Steve is an extremely serious and insightful political
operative and I have especially enjoyed working with him in pursuing one of my
signature goals: getting more Blacks involved in the Republican Party.
Over the past
year, Steve has been very helpful to me in this regard. Steve has always been
responsive and available to me, when I needed to use him as a sounding board.
His working understanding of many of the dynamics going on within the Black
community, relative to the Republican Party and conservatism, is astonishing.
His understanding of these dynamics are more insightful than many of our
so-called media appointed “Civil Rights” leaders, who simply want to be patted
on the head by the likes of Obama and Hillary Clinton and be told “atta boy.”
Senator
Sessions is going to be a great U.S. Attorney General. I worked his first U.S.
Senate race back in 1996. Again, if Jeff is a racist, please, can we have more
racists like him?
Sessions
is labeled a racist by radical leftist groups like the NAACP, the ACLU, and the
NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, to name a few. Sessions is pro-life,
pro-traditional marriage, believes those in the country illegally should be
deported and he actually believes in the rule of law. So, what makes him a
racist?
This is
Exhibit A in how intellectually depraved liberals react to those who have a
different worldview than they do. It also shows how morally bankrupt they are
also.
How can
anyone argue that Sessions is a racist when he, as a young lawyer in the U.S.
Attorney’s office in Alabama, desegregated their school system, literally put
the KKK out of business, and then had their leader sentenced to death in a
civil rights murder case?
Liberalism
accepts nothing short of 100 percent fealty to its radical ideology or it will
use all the might of its liberal media machine to brand you a racist, a
xenophobe,homophobe, etc.
It is totally
incompatible with the liberal mind construct that a person can disagree with
them and yet still be a good person. To them, it’s a zero sum game.
As a Trump
supporter and a lifelong Republican, I will do everything within my power to
make sure Sessions is confirmed as Attorney General and has solid ties within
the mainstream of the Black community; not the radical left that groups like
the NAACP, the National Urban League, and the Congressional Black Caucus
represent.
I have
already received several phone calls from respected Blacks with Alabama roots,
who are ready to come out front in support of Sessions’ nomination. Of course
liberals conveniently ignore lifelong friends of Sessions who don’t align with
the racist narrative they are using to attempt to destroy him.
One of the
most successful Black businessmen in the state of Alabama, Don Watkins, is one
of Sessions’ friends who had nothing but glowing things to say about the
congressman. So, according to these Black liberals, I guess Watkins is a
racist and a sellout, huh?
I plan on
doing everything I can to work with Trump’s transition team to help with the
racial issues the NAACP, the National Urban League, and the Congressional Black
Caucus are going to throw at Sessions and by extension team Trump.
I strongly
implore the Trump transition team to unleash outside advocates like me and
others to work with them to vigorously defend good people like Steve Bannon and
Jeff Sessions.
I know Bannon
and Sessions feel they have no need to respond to these lies being pushed by
liberals. Trust me, as one who makes a living from communications, you do need
to respond, or at a minimum, have supporters with credibility in the Black
community to respond on your behalf.
A lie that is
oft repeated becomes the truth.
Raynard
Jackson is founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF),
a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in
the Republican Party. BAFBF focuses on the Black entrepreneur. For more
information about BAFBF, visit www.bafbf.org.
You can follow Raynard on Twitter @Raynard1223.
Saturday, November 19, 2016
In Alabama, Jeff Sessions Desegregated Schools and Got the Death Penalty for KKK Murderer
By Mark Hemingway
Now that Jeff Sessions is Donald Trump's pick for
attorney general, you're going to hear a lot of people dig up old accusations
that Sessions is a racist.
In fact, CNN did so last night.
However, between the
nature of the accusations and Sessions's actual record of desegregating schools
and taking on the Klan in Alabama, it strains credulity to believe that he is a
racist.
These accusations all center around the bruising judicial
nomination process Sessions went through in 1986.
Ronald Reagan had tapped Sessions
to serve on the federal bench and the Senate judiciary committee ultimately
rejected him after they heard testimony that he had supposedly called the ACLU
and NAACP "un-American" and "communist-inspired," as well
as made racist remarks.
The accusations came from Thomas Figures, a black
assistant U.S. attorney who worked for Sessions who said Sessions called him
"boy" and had made a joke about how he thought the KKK was "O.K.
until [he] found out they smoked pot." Another prosecutor, J. Gerald
Hebert, said Sessions had called a white lawyer "a disgrace to his
race" for representing black clients.
There is no concrete reason to doubt Figures or Herbert.
Sessions vehemently denied calling Figures "boy," but he didn't rebut
the substance of some of the claims—though he asserted they were taken out of
context.
It's not exactly inaccurate to point out that the NAACP and ACLU were
"communist-inspired."
Sessions said he thought it absurd to think he would
make a pro-KKK joke considering he was prosecuting the Klan at the time he made
the remark.
And for what it's worth, Figures also directed accusations at a
another assistant U.S. Attorney who worked with Figures. That assistant U.S.
Attorney also said Figures wasn't telling the truth and defended Sessions's
integrity. Ultimately, the charges were no more than hearsay.
However, it's worth noting that Senator Ted Kennedy, on
the Senate judiciary committee at the time, seemed heavily invested in tanking
Sessions nomination. The next year, Kennedy's crusade was to sink Robert Bork's
nomination to the Supreme Court, which has generally been regarded as a
shameful smear campaign ever since.
The episode upended the comity that had
previously existed between the Senate and the White House on Supreme Court
nominations—Antonin Scalia was approved to the court 98-0 the year before, the
same year that Sessions was filleted by Kennedy and Democrats on the judiciary
committee. Perhaps Sessions was a trial run for "Borking."
In 2009, Sessions himself told me that "When I got
to Washington, there had been an orchestrated campaign to smear my record, and
it was executed with great care. And I, frankly, was a babe in the woods and
wasn't sufficiently prepared for it."
For that reason, when Sessions got
to the Senate he has always been more deferential toward nominations than most
of his GOP colleagues. For instance, he was one of the only Republican senators
to support Eric Holder's nomination for attorney general.
Sessions's actual track record certainly doesn't suggest
he's a racist. Quite the opposite, in fact.
As a U.S. Attorney Sessions filed several
cases to desegregate schools in Alabama. And he also prosecuted Klansman Henry
Francis Hays, son of Alabama Klan leader Bennie Hays, for abducting and killing
Michael Donald, a black teenager selected at random. Sessions insisted on the
death penalty for Hays.
When he was later elected the state Attorney General,
Sessions followed through and made sure Hays was executed. The successful
prosecution of Hays also led to a $7 million civil judgment against the Klan,
effectively breaking the back of the KKK in Alabama.
As a U.S. attorney, he also prosecuted a group of civil
rights activists, which included a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., for
voter fraud in Perry County, Alabama. The case fell apart, and Sessions bluntly
told me he "failed to make the case." This incident has also been
used to claim that Sessions is racist—but it shouldn't be. The county has been
dogged with accusations of voter fraud for decades.
In 2008, state and federal
officials investigated voter fraud in Perry County after "a local citizens
group gathered affidavits detailing several cases in which at least one
Democratic county official paid citizens for their votes, or encouraged them to
vote multiple times."
A detailed story in the Tuscaloosa News reported
that voting patterns in one Perry County town were also mighty suspicious in
2012: "Uniontown has a population of 1,775, according to the 2010 census
but, according to the Perry County board of registrars, has 2,587 registered
voters. The total votes cast there Tuesday—1,431—represented a turnout of 55
percent of the number of registered voters and a whopping 80.6 percent of the
town's population."
Perhaps there are a lot of ideological reasons for
liberals to be upset about Sessions becoming attorney general. But I don't
think the character attacks on the man can be taken seriously.
Correction: A previous version of this post identified
Henry Francis Hays as an Alabama KKK head. He was actually the son of one: Bennie
Hays, who, per his obituary, was accused of "instigating" the murder
for which Henry Hays was executed. The story has been updated.
Friday, November 18, 2016
The Trump Doctrine: America First!
For the latest news and views visit: The
Drudge Report at:
http://www.drudgereport.com/
Not in office of Presidency yet and Trumps making jobs in
America!
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House Republicans vote to back Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.,
for a second term as Speaker of the House, sending his nomination to the full
House for a vote in January.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/15/internal-house-leadership-battle-shifts-from-ryan-to-pelosi-dems-delay-vote.html
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