Finally: Jeff Sessions Confirmed As Attorney General (Liberal Tears Flow Again)

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

Sen. Jeff Sessions’ (R-AL) attorney general nomination has been fraught with partisan politics and gimmicks. Senate Democrats pulled every procedural maneuver in the book to delay a committee vote on his nomination. On February 1, Sessions was finally approved by an 11-9 party line vote to move his nomination to the Senate for a vote. Yesterday, a cloture motion on his nomination passed in a 52-47 vote.

See video of confirmation vote here: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/02/08/sessions-vote-n2283286

Now, after weeks in limbo, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III has been confirmed the 84^th Attorney General of the United States in a 52-47 vote. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) broke with Democrats to vote for Sessions.

Sessions' nomination was to be voted on first after getting the nod by the Senate Judiciary Committee, but Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins (R-ME) decided to break ranks from the GOP on Betsy DeVos’ nomination to be education secretary.Her nomination also passed the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on a 12-11 party line vote. That forced her nomination to be pushed up on the docket.

The Senate GOP needed Sessions’ vote, as the vote on DeVos was 50-50. Vice President Mike Pence who cast the deciding vote, a first in U.S. history, eventually broke the tie.

Sessions and DeVos were seen as some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial nominees. A larger fight would have occurred if it weren’t for former Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) nuking the filibuster rules for non-Supreme Court presidential nominees, which allowed cloture to be invoked and nominees confirmed by a simple majority. No doubt that both of these nominees would have been filibustered by Senate Democrats. Given how the :Eft reacted to DeVos' confirmation, expect the liberal tears to flow again with Sessions.

So, I guess we should say thank you, Harry Reid.

Trump's Executive Orders To-Date
 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor

As per a just released Politico Survey...guess where the dispprovals come from...as if we didn't know.

Flynn: “If we can’t tackle enemy doctrines that call for our domination or extinction, we aren’t going to destroy their jihadis”
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

It is so refreshing to see this realism and common sense after eight years of Obama’s denial and willful ignorance. “Flynn’s plan to beat radical Islam starts with schools and social media,” by Paul Sperry, New York Post, February 4, 2017: President Trump’s national security adviser wants to fight not just Islamic terrorists but the […]
 
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Muslim Mastermind Behind Muhammad Art Exhibit Massacre in Garland, Texas Gets 30 Years

By Pamela Geller / THE GELLER REPORT

The American Muslim convert who plotted to assassinate me and slaughter everyone who attended our free speech event in Garland, Texas got 30 years today at his sentencing hearing in Texas. We were targeted for death in the first ISIS attack on American soil because we violated the free speech prohibitions under Islamic law.

This attack was a declaration of war in the homeland. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem should have gotten a life sentence at Gitmo.

Freedom of speech is the foundation of a free society. Without it, a tyrant can wreak havoc unopposed, while his opponents are silenced.

Islamic law forbids criticism of Islam, Quran, Muhammad. If they cannot be criticized in the US, we are in effect accepting Islamic law as overriding the freedom of speech. This would establish Muslims as a protected class and prevent honest discussion of how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism.

The Muhammad cartoons are a flash point in the discussion about free speech because according to Islamic law they are blasphemy, punishable by death. Many have been killed over them. At issue is whether we will protect those who draw them and exhibit them, and thereby protect free speech and free society, or censor ourselves and others over them, thereby in effect adopting Sharia.

Read entire article here: http://pamelageller.com/2017/02/texas-jihad-muhammad-cartoon-30-years.html/

Just a Thought...
BLM...Terrorists Personified
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor

Now that we know that President Trump is considering adding the Muslim Brotherhood to the U.S. Terrorist List here's an idea I'd like him to consider while he's at it...can he please add Black Lives Matter to the list as well for all the incidents of terror they've orchestrated against our police...just saying.

Just a Thought...
How Quickly Some Forget
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor

So some interesting figures as per a brand new CBS poll have been released that show just how clueless those on the left really are when it concerns islam for while 63% of Republicans see islam as aggressive and violent, only one in seven Democrats see islam as more violent than Christianity or Judaism. And some wonder why we are in the trouble we're in...sigh. It should be 100% across the board if one does a reality check...sad how quickly people forget 9/11, beheadings, stonings, torture, etc. all committed in the name of allah and islam.

Abbas: Israeli 'colonization' could force us to end security cooperation

By REUTERS / The Jerusalem Post

PARIS - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday he could be forced to suspend security cooperation with Israel if the ramp-up of Israeli settlements continued.

"If the colonization continues, I would have no other choice, it would not be my fault," Abbas told France's Senate during a visit to Paris.

On Tuesday, he met President Francois Hollande, who voiced concern over a law retroactively legalizing about 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the West Bank.

The Settlements Law, which was passed by the Knesset this Monday, comes a mere few weeks after the Israeli government announced its intention to allow the construction of some 5,000 new housing units in the West Bank. 

 

Read entire article and see the video here: http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Abbas-PA-could-end-security-cooperation-with-Israel-if-colonization-continues-480941