Showing posts with label Mitt Romney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mitt Romney. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Op-ed:
Pack Up The Impeachment Tent...The Show's Over...Maybe 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Well it's finally over...for now anyway...as we all know the 'I' word will soon start surfacing again what with some key Democrats saying they do not accept last Wednesday's Senate vote to acquit. And if on the outside chance the 'I' word does lay low for awhile know it will rear its ugly head late on Tuesday night, November 3rd, when Donald J. Trump officially wins his second term in office...a win that will probably be the biggest landslide in decades. And as an added bonus I bet the Republicans will not only keep but increase their numbers in the Senate and take back the House as well. And the direct cause of the Democrats going “splat” lays directly at the feet of acquittal deniers Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, and of course Chuck Schumer...the Senate minority leader caught on tape during the Senate impeachment phase talking to no one as he shooed said no one out of his designated Senate chair.*

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Monday, February 10, 2020

Op-ed:
Pack Up The Impeachment Tent...The Show's Over...Maybe 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Well it's finally over...for now anyway...as we all know the 'I' word will soon start surfacing again what with some key Democrats saying they do not accept last Wednesday's Senate vote to acquit. And if on the outside chance the 'I' word does lay low for awhile know it will rear its ugly head late on Tuesday night, November 3rd, when Donald J. Trump officially wins his second term in office...a win that will probably be the biggest landslide in decades. And as an added bonus I bet the Republicans will not only keep but increase their numbers in the Senate and take back the House as well. And the direct cause of the Democrats going “splat” lays directly at the feet of acquittal deniers Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, and of course Chuck Schumer...the Senate minority leader caught on tape during the Senate impeachment phase talking to no one as he shooed said no one out of his designated Senate chair.*

Seeing imaginary vote tampering Russians I guess.

But going “splat” actually puts it mildly as the Democrats went into full meltdown mode as soon as their Senate demand to hear from those whom they considered to be key witnesses was formally voted down. Well, actually they started their meltdown even before the final gavel on the House hearings signaled the end was near for when one holds an inquiry made up solely of partisan shills masquerading as witnesses minus the promised but never delivered whistleblower who set this entire nonsense into motion..as in (shhh) Eric Ciaramella...the Democrats had to know that their case against President Trump would go nowhere in the Senate. And sometimes going nowhere comes at a very high cost...a cost “We the People” had to foot the bill for courtesy of our hard-earned taxpayer dollars.

And the cost for the Democrat-led House inquiry alone cost “We the People” over three and half million of our hard earned taxpayer dollars which when broken down was mostly used to pay the salaries of the 106 congressional staffers from the House Intelligence Committee, the Judiciary Committee, and the Oversight and Reform Committee...clerical staffers working on impeachment from the end of September to mid-December. And that dollar amount also includes having to pay the hourly fees for the Democrats six anything but unbiased supposed Constitutional attorneys who appeared during the House hearings.

Our taxpayer dollars so not well spent as the Democrats knew even before they called for President Trump's impeachment that while they could impeach him in their Democrat controlled House, they would never see him removed from office in the Republican controlled Senate. Simply, the Democrats knew from day one that in the end Trump would be acquitted, and yet revenge coupled with hatred for our president led them ever forward.

And while President Trump was rightfully acquitted in the end...rightfully acquitted as in not guilty, as in not removed from office...know that the Democrats call for impeachment was built neither upon a foundation of facts or even upon Constitutionally sound impeachable offenses but upon a foundation of hurt feelings, nonacceptance of election results, and the delusions of losers who have yet to realize that their time in the political spotlight was and remains over. The once honorable party of JFK has been hijacked by a new breed of young Democrats... Democrat-Socialists they call themselves...Democrats so far to the left that they're no longer recognizable to the Democrat party's old establishment guard.

Nevertheless, the Democrat old guard caved one by one, leaving moderation and bipartisanship behind, with their party and its legacy now laying in ruins after having cast aside the law that is the Constitution. And they did so while embracing supposition, hearsay, and lies all in an effort to negate the results of an election that took place nearly four years ago...all in an effort to try and remove a duly elected man from office who denied the “anointed one” his defacto third term in office courtesy of his pulling what would have been Hillary Clinton's presidential strings.

And that folks is the truth...the whole truth and nothing but the truth...behind what in reality remains a Democrat attempted political coup.

And that truth coalesced into one simple fact...fact...not supposition, hearsay or party infused lies...as Adam Schiff and crew presenting their case for impeachment with events so not truthfully told that at times said events were simply made up to fit their overtly anti-Trump agenda. Now add that fact into the package of what were carefully orchestrated and rehearsed discovery processes held behind closed doors; partisan witnesses spewing hyperbole, pure nonsensical innuendos, lies, and what ifs; and top it all off with a neat little partisan blue bow and “We the People” were delivered a package that helped to perpetrate Adam Schiff's fantasy vision of what he determined should be the ultimate payback for the Democrats not attaining their sought after prize...the White House.

But unfortunately, Adam Schiff was and still is not alone in his continuing to wear on his sleeve his all-consuming hatred for President Trump for again entering into the political fray...not that she ever really left it...is House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi...the very woman who first was against impeachment unless it was bipartisan before she was for it...bipartisanship now be damned. That is she was for it only after the likes of “the squad”...and maybe even aforementioned wannabe third-term denied defacto president Barack HUSSEIN Obama...got to her.



Got to her indeed for Nancy Pelosi not only shared Adam Schiff's thoughts about President Trump but also shared his delusions regarding the House impeachment process itself. In fact, Pelosi had been spewing all over the bought and paid for liberal media that, "Once a president is impeached, he's impeached for life," always forgetting that once a president is acquitted in the Senate that he is acquitted...as in found not guilty...for life as well...and that said acquittal is historically more important than the accusations made.

And know that Adam Schiff saw himself as being the Democrats knight in shining armor who would right the 2016 election's wrongs forgetting, just like Pelosi did, the fact that he never would be the decider of Trump's fate. But while Schiff thankfully failed in his quest some heroes did emerge during the Senate phase one being Sen. Rand Paul. After his question was denied by Chief Justice John Roberts during the Q and A portion of the Senate trial because it mentioned the whistleblower's name, Rand Paul cleverly used the period reserved for senators impeachment speeches to read aloud the name Eric Ciaramella...the Obama planted little weasel who first brought President Trump's supposedly unlawful conduct regarding Ukraine to the public's attention.

But to the Democrats chagrin most Republicans did not care that Rand Paul said whisttleblower's Eric Ciaramella's name because Paul also made it clear that while he supports protections against reprisal for whistleblowers he said that whistleblowers do not necessarily deserve anonymity. And I agree with Rand Paul as seeking anonymity means one does not have the courage to stand by their convictions let alone stand by their accusations made. Anonymity also means denying the accused the right to face their accuser and besides, Constitutional law itself does not “preserve anonymity.” Kudos to Rand Paul on this one.

So while in the end the House impeached President Trump...impeached him in a mostly party line vote after a partisan rigged denial of “due process”...Republicans in the Senate again stood strong with President Trump... except for Mitt Romney that is.

Now a pariah within his own party and rightfully so, Romney threw the law of the Constitution aside and actually admitted he cast his vote to convict President Trump of abuse of power based solely upon his faith and conscience instead of on Constitutional law. But let's be honest here, religion and conscience has nothing to do with it for Mitt Romney cast said vote because he remains an angry and vindictive man...angry that he will never be president... vindictive against President Trump for some long ago tweets and his being passed over for Secretary of State. Now becoming the first U.S. Senator to vote to convict a president of his own party in an impeachment trial...especially doing so knowing of the unfair House events leading up to said trial...what Romney did with that vote was not just join the so-called “resistance” but for all intents and purposes put a 'D' next to his name.

So when the Senate vote was finally taken it too fell along party lines, save for Mitt Romney on charge one. And with that vote Mitt Romney has to know that any political relevance he once had is now gone, 

President Donald Trump not only remains in office but is now seeing his approval numbers climbing while Adam Schiff still bloviates about Trump selling Alaska and that any Senator who voted not to impeach “must be held accountable” for said vote...which sounds like a veiled threat to me.

And as expected the Democrats totally came unglued after the acquittal. Chuck Schumer called said acquittal “virtually valueless” and that “there's a giant asterisk next to the president's acquittal...because he was acquitted without a fair trial"...thus implying the House hearings were fair...while Nancy Pelosi accused both President Trump and Senate Republicans of having “normalized lawlessness and rejected the system of checks and balances." 

But what they say pales in comparison to the fallout the Democrat party itself is now facing with it having to pay the political price come November for not only wasting our taxpayer dollars on something they knew all along would never come to fruition, but who now see their party being truly divided. Too many establishment Democrats...especially those in red states...are more that a bit peeved with both Pelosi and Schiff for they know it's Democrats who will pay the price in the upcoming election simply because their party leaders would not stop this attempted political coup from going forward.

But thankfully, at least for now, impeachment is behind us...President Donald J. Trump remains president...Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Nadler, and Chuck Schumer have been exposed as the Constitutional anarchists that they really are, and Mitt Romney has sealed his political fate...what a sad end for a once honorable man. But why do I again say for now...because on the positive end if the Republicans do win back the House they will surely push for expungement of the books putting this impeachment nonsense to rest once and for all...while on the negative end House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler has stated that he will try to subpoena John Bolton to appear before the House.

These four Democrats refuse to let go as their hatred for this president knows no end leaving me to wonder just what did Hillary promise them if she had become president. But no matter for Donald Trump is and will remain our president until January 2025, meaning those in Congress need to get back to work and do the people's business otherwise get the hell out...it is as simple as that.
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* See Senate Minotity Leader Chuck Schumer talking to no one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWkCzRjdSSU

Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved. 

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For more political commentary please visit my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner Craig Andresen's blog The National Patriot to read his latest article, The Real Reason Impeachment Failed.
 
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Monday, October 28, 2019

Op-ed:
Two Losers and the Ghost of John McCain 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

While the current news cycle is all about impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, and Syria, Syria, Syria... there are a few other news worthy items that are both comical and maddening at the same time while receiving but cursory attention at best. So along those lines let's start with the fact that Bernie Sanders...2016 's Mr. “Feel the Bern” himself...has not a snowball's chance in hell of getting the 2020 Democrat nomination let alone winning the presidency...both his heart attack and his far left politics have sealed that fate.

The now shadow of the man he once was...Bernie Sanders remains the man who continues to espouse the supposed virtues of socialism no matter its many proven foibles while still enjoying living large off the millions of dollars capitalism has afforded him, doing so while refusing to follow doctor's orders to slowdown. Instead, Bernie has upped his anti-American vitriol to such a degree while out on the campaign trail, during the Democrat debates, as well as in the media, that it's quite possible Bernie won't be around come nomination time...after all the heart can only take so much...but know I don't wish him harm and neither should you.

The simple fact is that Bernie Sanders cannot win as he's even a bit too far left for some progressives lurking within the now Democrat-Socialist party...progressives who while championing Bernie's “free stuff” mantra along with a growing number of millennials currently in his corner... have started to...albeit to a small degree...come to the realization that nothing in this life is actually free. And when you now add in that the leader of the infamous “Squad”...one Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...has just formally endorsed him...Bernie's Sanders chances of winning anything have gone down from slim to none.

Why so...for starters how about Bernie's adding AOC to his campaign team. Remember, this is the woman who is not well liked even in her own 14th Congressional district as she is the one who almost single-handily killed the Amazon deal...a deal where Amazon was going to open up a new headquarters in New York City...a deal that would have created 25,000 new jobs and added about $30 billion in revenue to not only the very city deep in debt but to New York State itself. Even the infamous Mayor Bill DeBlasio called AOC to task for her job-killing stance. In fact, DeBlasio went so far as to say that, “[I have] progressive roots [and will] take on any progressive – anywhere – that thinks it’s a good idea to lose jobs and revenue.” And AOC then had the gall to say that fixing the subways instead of creating jobs would have been money better spent.
 
And so this delusional ex-bartender...and not a very good one so I've been told...is who Bernie Sanders is welcoming with open arms to his official team of campaign endorsing supporters...not the greatest idea I would think.

But to make matters worse, Bernie Sanders recently stated that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will have an “important position” in his administration “when”...yes he said “when”...he becomes president. Seems like Bernie's heart attack caused a serious momentary lack of oxygen to his brain.

And so the woman whose sole claim to political fame is that she has 5.6 million Twitter followers is also the woman who introduced the cost prohibited, bat-loon crazy Green New Deal to the American public...a deal that would see all buildings in this country being torn down and rebuilt to stringent new EPA standards; would see "planes, trains, and automobiles" becoming but a thing of the past; and would have cows either wearing diapers or with a cork up their butt, And AOC claims it's all in the name of protected the world from what was originally Al Gore's “global cooling” nonsense morphed into “global warming” nonsense now morphed into “climate change” nonsense... as in what's simply the “weather”...and that's not nonsense at all. 

And Bernie seems to have no problem with the cost of AOC's Green New Deal...nonsense he supports no matter that it's implementation cost on the low end would be $52 trillion over the next ten years up to $92 trillion on the high end, also spread out over the next ten years. But when you add in Bernie's Medicare for All proposal...now estimated to cost at least $34 trillion over the same ten years...with that being more than the total current cost of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid combined...you cannot ignore the fact that these two socialists obviously care nothing about adding to our already staggering national debt...a debt currently standing at $22.03 trillion and growing. Nor do they care that the American taxpayer would again be forced to foot the bill...via drastically higher taxes...for both new proposals and more, including a single-payer healthcare system, student loan forgiveness, free public college, a wealth tax on the super-rich, universal childcare, and early childhood education...which would add to the percentage we taxpayers already pay to help bring down the national debt. 
 
And the bottom line here is that all the “free stuff” proposed by Bernie Sanders and seconded by AOC, sees only the “gimme-gimme folks”...folks now generationally with their hands out...not understanding that while these are promises made they're simply promises that cannot be kept, but they're promises that will help Bernie “buy” their votes come the primary elections. 
 
So if Bernie Sanders thinks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's endorsement will help him garner the much needed mainstream Democrat vote he is sorrily mistaken for the only ones AOC really appeals to are young clueless millennial sorts who talk a good talk but who are just too lazy to get off their parent's couch and actually go out and vote...as in the newest generation of young people who've been indoctrinated into believing that it's better to receive than to go get a job and be responsible for one's own self.



And while AOC is now being called to task by some leading Democrats for not endorsing a “woman of color” or at least another minority candidate, her support for Bernie Sanders was actually a pre-ordained given as AOC got into politics as an organizer for Bernie's 2016 presidential campaign, as well as it being Bernie's staffers who recruited her to run for Congress. And dare we forget two important commonalities shared between these two, with the first being that both want to literally “overthrow” our capitalistic economy and replace it with socialism...that is until they run out of other people's money...and second, both are card carrying members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the very anti-capitalist group working within yet standing apart from the Democrat party. Translation: both Bernie Sanders and AOC are hypocritical sorts who enjoy reaping the benefits of what the more mainstream Democrat party and our country has to offer while at the same time relishing in destroying the once honorable party of JFK from within.

So while some still believe that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's endorsement will at least bring enough “energy” into Bernie's campaign to see him make it to the primaries, the fact remains that AOC may do little to nothing to bring much needed minority votes...especially black votes...over to Bernie. And besides, Bernie Sanders campaign is already faltering what with major polls now showing “Pocahontas” Warren kicking him out of second place and even overtaking “Uncle Joe” in a few of those polls. Bye-bye Bernie, it's time to accept your moniker as “socialism's grandfather” and just fade away for you will never be president nor will America ever become a socialist nation...President Trump will surely see to that.

And then there's Utah's now junior Senator Mitt Romney, the man I supported for president back in 2012 who has now sadly morphed into the ghost of John McCain. So filled with hate for President Trump this once honorable man has made taking down Trump his 24/7 agenda, basically picking up where McCain left off. But don't think that doesn't come with consequences because it does.

But before I get into those consequences let's take a brief look at the latest in the ongoing Romney/Trump feud...a feud that started on the day Mitt Romney lost to Obama and Donald Trump...whose support he had garnered... publicly stated that Romney was not strong or assertive enough during the campaign...which was one hundred percent correct. Making amends of sorts when now President Trump considered Romney for his Secretary of State, things got even more unsettling when Rex Tillerson was chosen instead.

And so the tensions kept building and reached a culmination of sorts when on January 1, 2019, newly elected Utah Senator Mitt Romney arrived in Washington D.C. with a vehemently anti-Trump op-ed in hand. Printed in The Washington Post and titled, The President Shapes the Public Character of the Nation. Trump’s Character Falls Short, this op-ed was nothing but a hit piece against the man who won the office Romney coveted but could never attain with its bottom line for Romney being that Trump “has not risen to the mantle of the office.” But what makes this even more grievous is that Mitt Romney sought and accepting President Trump's endorsement during his Senate campaign.

And from this point on now Senator Mitt Romney has continued to channel his inner John McCain by painting himself as a true conservative...as McCain tried to do and failed...with Trump being the founder of what Romney calls “Trumpism.” But the fact is that half the nation voted for Trump because of his conservative values, especially on key moral issues, as well as for his known business savvy. Translation: All of Mitt Romney's venom spewed has allowed him to pick-up where John McCain left off, thus affording him the designation of RINO as well, and that comes replete with a healthy dose of Jeff Flake's animosity thrown in for good, or should I say bad measure.

Now fast forward to this past October 5th when Mitt Romney called President Trump's supposed appeals to Ukraine and China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter "wrong and appalling." The only thing “wrong and appalling” was Romney drawing this conclusion before the phone transcript of the call had even been released...before Ukraine President Zelensky himself said nothing improper had taken place...as in no appeal was made. And President Trump's response came via a tweet in which he called Romney “a pompous ass who has been fighting me from the beginning" adding that Romney could have won the 2012 election if he "worked this hard on Obama."

How right President Trump is as shades of Hillary Clinton sees Mitt Romney also blaming everybody but himself for his loss as well as his seeking revenge for something solely of his own doing.



And dare we forget Mitt Romney's recently taking to the Senate floor after President Trump announced our troop withdrawal from northern Syria to call Trump's supposed abandonment of the Kurds “a bloodstain in the annals of American history.” Nothing like Romney's spouting off without knowing all the facts to add to an already overheated political impeachment fire. 
 
And yet no matter how Trump counters Mitt Romney's accusations, Romney's now over inflated ego and quest for revenge unfortunately sees him remaining steadfast in his threats to see President Trump removed from office. And this can be witnessed by his recent interviews with Axios where he alluded to musings that he might head up what he now calls a “breakaway group of Republican senators” in turning against Trump if he does happen to get impeached in the House. But Mitt Romney can bloviate all he wants as he needs a minimum of twenty Republican senators to pull that off and those numbers are thankfully just not there.

Now as for the consequences of his actions, Mitt Romney has both personal and political egg on his face for it was recently discovered that Romney has a secret Twitter account where he uses the moniker “Pierre Delecto,” and has had said account for eight years, ever since his presidential run against Obama. But even though he only used said account 10 times since 2011...used it to either offer “mild criticism” of President Trump while tweeting “polite defenses” of himself...what's troubling about this is that now Senator Mitt Romney...a man so vocal against President Trump in Congress and while playing to the cameras...did not have the courage to stand by his online convictions needing instead a phony virtual identity by which to do his dirty work. Makes one wonder about the true character of the man who dares to question President Trump's moral fortitude.

And then there's this political consequence few politicians want to see, as in falling poll numbers. In fact, as I write this, Mitt Romney actually has a lower approval rating than a disapproval rating, and it's all because of his very public sour grapes feud with President Trump. The man who in 2018 was elected as Utah's next senator with 62% of the vote now sees himself, as per a Utah Policy and Y2 Analytics survey, with only 46% of Utahans approving of his time on the Hill with 51% disapproving, and with those numbers more than likely continuing to fall.

Not good for the man who not that long ago aspired to our nation's highest office, but like they say “you reap what you sow.” And for Mitt Romney, just like with Hillary Clinton, and like it should have been for John McCain, it would have better served them to let their animosity against President Trump go.

News stories buried by the media now come to light as there's more going on than impeachment and Syria...just wanted you to know.

Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved. 

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For more political commentary please visit my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner Craig Andresen's blog The National Patriot to read his latest article, The Great Impeachment Debacle - Part 2.
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Friday, June 14, 2019

Op-ed:
Impeaching Trump...I Don't Think So
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

“I’ve heard enough of Mueller...The point is, the Senate’s not going to take it up, so, what does it accomplish?”
- Democrat Representative Collin Peterson (MN)

Thomas Jefferson incorporated into the Declaration of Independence three “unalienable” rights we all possess at birth...rights no one should be able to deny us...as in the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” But sadly, due to today's political climate those very rights are being denied to some while those we elected to do the “people's business” continue to make a mockery of Jefferson's words.

A mockery for sure as right now we are a divided nation with much needed unity not even a pipe dream. And while we technically are “free” if the three rights are taken at face value, that freedom comes at a great price for how can “We the American People” enjoy said freedom when our freedom is but a bought and paid for commodity sold to the highest bidder...in this case that bidder is without question the ballot box. And with everything for the Democrats revolving around the ballot box, morality, common sense, and simple decency gets pushed aside in their ongoing clamor for the illegals vote...millions of votes courtesy of our taxpayer dollars footing the bill for vote buying “free stuff.”

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Op-ed:
Impeaching Trump...I Don't Think So
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

“I’ve heard enough of Mueller...The point is, the Senate’s not going to take it up, so, what does it accomplish?”
- Democrat Representative Collin Peterson (MN)

Thomas Jefferson incorporated into the Declaration of Independence three “unalienable” rights we all possess at birth...rights no one should be able to deny us...as in the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” But sadly, due to today's political climate those very rights are being denied to some while those we elected to do the “people's business” continue to make a mockery of Jefferson's words.

A mockery for sure as right now we are a divided nation with much needed unity not even a pipe dream. And while we technically are “free” if the three rights are taken at face value, that freedom comes at a great price for how can “We the American People” enjoy said freedom when our freedom is but a bought and paid for commodity sold to the highest bidder...in this case that bidder is without question the ballot box. And with everything for the Democrats revolving around the ballot box, morality, common sense, and simple decency gets pushed aside in their ongoing clamor for the illegals vote...millions of votes courtesy of our taxpayer dollars footing the bill for vote buying “free stuff.”

And while it's the Democrats alone doing said clamoring, Republicans are the ones ignoring the obvious even before those votes are cast. And what is the obvious? While President Trump is trying his best to derail the Democrats anti-American agenda...an agenda whose core principal upon which everything else revolves is the buying, one way or another, of votes...it truly is hard for one man alone to stand against a party of immoral miscreants, liars, and thieves, most especially when his own party can't see that the call for his impeachment is but another "divert and deflect" action to keep our focus away from the southern border and all those incoming 2020 Democrat votes. Remember, for the next year and a half it will be all about votes, why else would Democrats have deliberately set out to not accomplish a thing since President Trump took office.

Remember, during Thomas Jefferson's time we united together to fight against both tyranny and a tyrant...a tyrant in the guise of England's King George...and we won. And yet today it seems too many Republicans are giving up the battle instead of uniting together to fight against the enemy within...as in today's Democrat party...the very party whose media allies don't even try to hide their disdain and loathing for our president, his family, and his ever so successful economic policies.

Ignoring the fact that it's these very policies that have made...as per Trump's campaign promise...“America great again” both economically and militarily at home and abroad, and that it's these same policies that have now reignited a sense of cautious optimism and pride we on the right have regarding our country's future...the media instead chooses to herald the anything but benefits of socialism as well as the new Democrat-Socialist party itself along with its new breed of leaders who do not have America's best interests at heart. And even sadder is that Republicans on “the Hill” remain eerily silent regarding the lefts all-consuming call for the impeachment of a duly elected president already proven by one of the Democrats own to have done nothing wrong,

So questions must be answered as to why certain Republican leaders remain silent while ignoring Trump's stellar track record, and why one in said party is now siding with the Democrats in their call for Trump's impeachment...we'll get to that in a bit. First let's look at that track record...as in the fact that under President Trump's leadership and because of his policies the unemployment rate is at a 50-year low; companies here in America are adding a record number of jobs and American companies based overseas are now returning home; the gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 3.2 percent in the first quarter of this year; the stock market is soaring with analysts predicting it to go even higher; the Trump tax cuts allowed everyday Americans to pocket more of their hard earned monies; recession is not on the economic horizon; our country has regained the world's respect we lost under the presidency of Barack HUSSEIN Obama; etc., etc., etc...the list is one our president, our country, the Republican party, and "We the People" can be proud of...unless one is a Democrat of course.

Now think about this...the Democrats have accomplished nothing of substance legislative wise in the past two and a half years since President Trump, the man they call “lawless” and “a threat to democracy,” took office...except to point accusatory fingers at him while filing baseless lawsuits against him while Obama appointed activist judges stall anything pertaining to the implementation of his rightful immigration plan. Using that time to push forward their agenda of baby killing and garnering by any means possible the aforementioned illegal vote, Democrats have blatantly ignored the job they were elected to do...as in the “people's business”...to focus instead on their newest call for Trump's impeachment based solely upon the alluded to words of a bought-and-paid-for Special Council who himself...I cannot repeat it enough... found that President Trump did nothing wrong.

And to add fuel to the smoldering impeachment fire we now see Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schummer having the unmitigated gall to earlier this week post on twitter these very words and I quote, “ President @realDonaldTrump ought to stop acting like a showman and start working with Democrats on our serious proposals to address the nation's most pressing needs.”

This from the man who helped lead the charge to block, ban or simply ignore each and every idea, proposal, bill or call for discussion initiated either by Trump himself or by anyone on the right side of the aisle. And Democrats are reveling in the fact that debate over whether or not to impeach President Trump has now totally dominated the entirety of discussion within the House Democratic Caucus and on Capitol Hill itself, thus allowing this to be their excuse for why they can't get any real work done.

And so the party without morals has now decided it's their moral duty to hold this president accountable no matter that they themselves have no interest in doing their jobs, choosing instead to waste more time and more of our taxpayer dollars on a call for impeachment that in the end even they know will go nowhere. And why...because while such a call might pass in the Democrat controlled House it will most definitely not pass in the Republican controlled Senate as the numbers simply are not there...and all America will have to show for the time wasted and dollars spent is shades of Billy-Boy Clinton all over again.

Translation: America's so-called “inheritance” is willfully and wrongly being spent on yet another wild “divert and deflect” political goose chase that Democrats hope will serve them well at the ballot box come 2020, as again it's all about votes.

So what are Republican leaders doing to stop or at least slow down the Democrats call for President Trump's impeachment...not enough for some it seems...while many Republicans hold out hope that this misguided and malicious attempt at payback for Hillary's loss will die of its own accord. And who knows maybe they're right, because many on the left are also getting tired of hearing the “Impeach Trump” mantra being spouted ad-nauseum over and over again.

And while the majority of the American people do want to put the 2016 election to rest...we unfortunately now see clamoring for his fifteen minutes of impeachment infamy one lone Republican...actually a libertarian masquerading as a Republican...Rep. Justin Amash from Michigan...now not only speaking out in support of the Democrats call for Trump's impeachment, but resigning from the House Freedom Caucus, which he was a founding member of, simply because of their support for President Trump. And Amash, an Orthodox Christian Palestinian-American, is the very man who has previously spoken out against Trump's policies regarding the war in Yemen, funding for the border wall, the proposed temporary muslim immigration ban, and was the only Republican to vote against New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith's (R), bill that would have enhanced the role of the anti-Semitism monitor (this failed bill preceded H.Res.183, the Democrat passed watered down version), as well as voting against additional funding for Israel’s anti-missile system.

Also, Justin Amash is rumored to be considering running as a libertarian against President Trump in 2020.

Now saying that President Trump’s actions and behavior, as per his take away from Robert Mueller’s report, do “meet the threshold” for high crimes and misdemeanors, but what Rep. Amash doesn't get is that it was deemed by Mueller himself that no crime was ever committed by Trump. So, I ask Rep. Amash this question...how then can President Trump's actions and behavior "meet the threshold” of crimes being committed...simply...they cannot. And even 'Never Trumper' Utah Sen. Mitt Romney stated that while he thought Amash's words were a “courageous statement” on the Congressman's part...which I say they were anything but...Romney nevertheless made it clear to Amash that impeachment is not warranted based on the Special Counsel’s report. Even a Trump backstabber gets it right on occasion I guess.

But with everything for the Democrats remaining all about votes...illegal votes...dead votes...muslim votes...votes they'll do or say anything to get so long as those votes go straight down the D-column...it might surprise some to hear yet another truth the media will not say...as in not all Democrats are on board for impeachment as a few key Democrats realize that such a move might actually backfire on them and cause them to lose votes come the 2020 election. In fact, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently again stated that, “I don’t want to see him impeached, I want to see him in prison”...as in wanting to see Trump defeated at the ballot box and then be prosecuted as a private citizen for his “alleged crimes.” Thankfully, neither scenario is likely to happen.



Even House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer along with House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) and Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) are against impeaching Trump at this current stage of the game. In fact, Chairmans Schiff and Neal have both stated that if Democrats are going to open an inquiry into impeachment they best be ready to actually impeach, which the Democratic Caucus itself has said that is something they are not yet ready and might never be ready to do,

And while Hoyer himself recently stating that, “Going forward on impeachment is not worthwhile at this point,” several members of the House Judiciary Committee feel just the opposite and see impeachment proceedings as the only recourse the Democrats have left to right what they consider the Hillary wrong. Truly, the Democrats are a House divided amongst themselves, and it's this very division that just might be the Republicans saving grace for as the old adage goes, “A house divided amongst itself cannot stand.” 
 
I think Thomas Jefferson himself would agree, and I think even he would say to the Democrats, “Get back to the job you were elected to do, you've stonewalled the call to liberty and prevented a duly-elected president from doing all he can do long enough.” And I say wait until the Democrats see just how poorly they do at the 2020 ballot box...their bought-and-paid for votes sure aren't going to help them then...and no party deserves to go down in flames more than the obstructionist Democrats who still can't get over their 2016 presidential loss.

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Thursday, April 25, 2019

Op-ed: 
Filling the Mainstream Media Void 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

As we were all focused on Passover and Easter preparations and celebrations, and as the fire at the Cathedral of Notre Dame dominated the 24/7 news cycle, three other key news stories slowly started making the rounds including last Friday's political bombshell concerning former presidential candidate and now Utah Senator Mitt Romney.

So let me start by saying that I volunteered and campaigned for Romney twice...when he ran for the nomination against John McCain and when he ran for the presidency against Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Romney's message and platform were strong as well as his having political experience as the Republican governor of a blue state. He was business savvy and ever so handsome...the epitome of a loving husband and family man. I worked hard as a campaign volunteer and even got to watch Romney debate Obama at a special “invite only” debate watching party. And while I felt he was not forceful enough against Obama at certain points in that particular debate, I held out hope that he'd pull off a presidential win...he truly was the better candidate...the better man...for the job after all.

Never did I think Americans would be so misguided or foolish enough to elect a community organizer, let alone an islamic condoner, to the presidency of these United States. But then I never thought the liberal media would be so successful in anointing a seemingly politically inexperienced half-black man as America's supposed “saviour-in-chief.”

And sadly, I too was fooled for the man I thought Mitt Romney was back then has now morphed into nothing but the late RINO John McCain's Senate replacement. And Romney is worse than McCain for McCain's disdain for Donald Trump could be called a somewhat “righteous stand” against Trump's uncalled for POW comments. But Romney...an early critic of candidate Trump...put on a grand show of pretending to mend fences when he was asked by now President Trump to interview for the position of Secretary of State...which fortunately he did not get.

Fool me once...shame on you. Fool me twice...shame on me. Fool me three times...and it's time for me to set right a grievous wrong as my head hangs in shame for ever having supported this man. And why...because Romney never moved on from his anti-Trump stance...it grew and festered as he became just another RINO come home to the Senate to roost.

A RINO indeed for Mitt Romney could not keep his mouth shut or his tweeting finger still after reading the redacted version of the Mueller report. Choosing to criticize President Trump, his administration, and the report itself, Romney, last Friday, tweeted that he was “sickened” by the “dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land including the President.”

Sickened” by what...that no evidence of “collusion” either by Trump or his campaign was found...“sickened” that no chargeable “obstruction of justice” was found...“sickened” to such a degree that even proverbial “nice guy” former AR Gov. Mike Huckabee felt he had to jump to Trump's defense by saying that what made him “sick” was the thought that, “Mitt Romney might have become president in 2016.” 
 
But Mike Huckabee is right...for what Mitt Romney did was give the Democrats fodder to keep the “collusion” now morphing into “impeachment” nonsense going...but maybe that was RINO Romney's intention all along...payback for Trump's publicly criticizing him after losing to Obama most likely. Any thing's possible in today's heated political climate with Romney likely continuing to spew his anti-Trump rhetoric.

Next up and coming on the heels of the Notre Dame fire, the Indian Ocean island nation of Sri Lanka saw a wave of eight early Sunday morning explosions rocking three Catholic churches holding Easter services as well as three upscale tourist hotels. At least 359 people were killed (as per the latest count) with 500+ more injured, including at least two Americans (one being 40-year old Dieter Kowalski from Denver CO) and eight British citizens among those listed as killed.

Now believed to be in response to last month's Christchurch, New Zealand mosque massacre, the well coordinated attacks, as per Sri Lanka’s Defence Minister Ruwan Wijewardene, were carried out by Sri Lankan “muslim extremists” from "National Thowheed Jama'ath" (NTJ)... a local group that is both the fairly new islamist faction of the two decades old less extremist group Thableekh Jamaat, the group previously known for vandalizing Buddhist statues, and who in 2016 saw one of its leaders being arrested for “inciting racism.”



And with said attacks being highly suspected of having help from an “international terror network”...to that affect ISIS' news agency Amaq announced earlier this week on Telegram (via the NAshir News Agency) that the attacks in Sri Lanka were carried out by ISIS fighters. Also of note is that "National Thowheed Jama'ath” has on numerous occasions not only threatened to kill Sri Lankan nonbelievers but to bring islamic fundamentalism to the country as well.

And to date over 40 arrests have already been made, and two of the seven suicide bombers...including Mohamed Azzam Mohamed, who blew himself up at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel's Taprobane Restaurant as people were eating breakfast and Zahran Hashim, a well-known muslim “preacher” who claimed, “Allah created this land for Muslims”...have been identified as members of said goup. But to make matters worse, local intelligence had received warnings a full ten days prior to the attacks that “prominent churches” could be the target of suicide bombers. In fact, "National Thowheed Jama’ath" was specifically named in a police advisory to local security services as one they believed posed a threat to Catholic churches.

However, due to what he called “friction” within opposing factions of the government leadership, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe issued a statement saying that neither he nor his cabinet ministers had been notified about those warnings so little to nothing was done to keep the churches safe...safe from what Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera called “a well-coordinated attempt to create murder, mayhem and anarchy.”

Mission accomplished I'd say...mission accomplished because like within the different sects of Christianity who are constantly at odds with each other over just whose version of Christianity is the version Jesus intended...Sri Lanka has also seen religious issues arising from its own 1983-2009 civil war...a war between Hindu separatists from the minority Tamil ethnic group vs. the Sinhalese ethnic Buddhist majority. And as long as religious odds exist within a given country, islam will continue making inroads into that country whether or not they had significant numbers population wise, as now witnessed in Sri Lanka, a nation of 23 million people that currently is less than ten percent muslim...less than ten percent now but whose numbers are rapidly growing.

And as Sri Lanka starts to bury its dead, more bombs were discovered...bombs that thankfully did not go off. Found by Sri Lankan police were 87 bomb detonators at the capital of Colombo's main bus station, and on Monday a large bomb was defused on an access road leading to the country's international airport.

So as the scale of the intent to do as much carnage as possible becomes reality, Sri Lanka is being held hostage in fear of those who truly are out to kill us all.

And lastly, a big news item this week saw President Trump again standing strong not just against Iran herself but against Japan, South Korea, Turkey, China, and India saying that they will no longer be exempt from U.S. economic sanctions and could face economic penalties themselves if they continue to import oil from Iran.

Announced in a televised news conference this past Monday by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the decision not to reissue those country's waivers when they expire this May 2nd, was made after already having granted those countries extra time...as in eight waivers...to find other oil suppliers. Being done to “bring Iranian oil exports to zero” by “squeezing Tehran’s government” of even more much needed revenue...revenue that had been $50 billion a year before the sanctions ...while at the same time trying to both force political change in the islamic nation as well as trying to get Iran to “rein in” its military actions across the Middle East, most especially in Syria.

However, while U.S. officials say they don't expect to see any significant reduction in the actual “supply of oil” given production increases by other countries including Saudi Arabia and the UAE...and with Saudi Energy Minister Khalid a-Falih saying that his country "will coordinate with fellow oil producers to ensure adequate supplies are available to consumers while ensuring the global oil market does not go out of balance"...I still must play “devil's advocate” for a bit as we must be forewarned that this move could...and I only say could...still lead to higher oil and gas prices at the pump...at least temporarily...as sometimes prices have nothing to do with “supply” but have everything to do with simple “demand.”

 

And that “demand” was reflected by Monday's global crude prices rising three percent in Asia to more than $74 a barrel, the highest they've been since October, as soon as word of what Trump was doing leaked out. And let's not forget that this move...as rightful as we feel it may be...will indeed draw the ire of some of our allies while at the same time seeing a White House shuffling of some policy priorities, including maybe putting the all-important, ongoing trade talks with China and the garnering of China's assistance in helping to contain Kim Jung-un's nuclear ambitions, on the back burner for a bit.

So while Italy, Greece, and Taiwan, three other countries also originally waivered in, have stopped importing oil from Iran, the a fore mentioned five “big boys” have not. In fact, those five have actually begun lobbying for said waivers to be extended yet again no matter that Trump said “time's up.” And as for our NATO (supposed) ally Turkey, they continue to claim that Iranian oil is critical to meeting Turkey's energy needs and that as Iran's neighbors they cannot completely cut economic ties or close its economy to Iranian goods nor can Iran's economy be closed to Turkish goods.

Well obviously they can be or else President Trump would not be doing what he is doing...as in cutting off the head of the snake while its body withers and dies on the ground. A hoped for fitting end to the mother of all snakes...Iran.

So there you have it...three of this week's top stories as we move away from Notre Dame a bit...confident that it will be rebuilt...and back we go to stories that do have a greater and more direct impact on our country than does 850-year old Notre Dame.
 
Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

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