With the Iowa debacle behind us the candidates are in New Hampshire for the first in the nation primary where Joe Biden is hoping to resurrect his quickly dying candidacy. Some New Hampshire polls show the former Vice-President in fifth place and the pressure must be getting to him because Joe Biden, who has been showing signs on the campaign trail of rapidly deteriorating mental stability, decided to verbally abuse a female voter who asked him how he could rebound from the Iowa disaster.
Here is how it went down at a rally in front of tens of people:
the voter asked Biden, “How do you explain the performance in Iowa and why should the voters believe that you can win a national election?”
“You ever been to a caucus?” Biden replied.
After the voter said she indeed had attended a caucus, Biden shot back: “No you haven’t. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier.”
“You gotta be honest,” he continued. “I’m gonna be honest with you. It was a little bit confusing in Iowa. But let’s assume it was all exactly right.”
I guess I have to give him an A+ for originality for the insult but, wow, was that an inappropriate response to a legitimate question! You can watch the video at the link I provided above and you can clearly hear that the girl asking the question was very nervous so even if she did answer his question incorrectly (which is just an assumption on Biden in the first place) it is quite understandable.
The question certainly did not warrant a misogynistic attack on the young woman’s physical appearance and Joe Biden owes her an apology. Assuming of course that he actually remembers the exchange when he wakes up tomorrow…
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February 9th open thread: ‘Blind Leading the Blind’
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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Here is Mumford and Sons performing “Blind Leading the Blind” from late last year:
When Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate earlier this week the Democrats promised they would continue to investigate him, this defeat was only the beginning. They had hoped the next phase of the plan would begin today with a court decision on a lawsuit filed by the Democrats accusing Donald Trump of violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution but alas that was not the case because the DC Court of Appeals threw the case out. Here is more:
A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit from Congressional Democrats who accused President Donald Trump of violating the Constitution by receiving profits from foreign governments’ spending at his luxury Washington hotel and other businesses.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision did not address the legality of Trump’s business dealings, but held that the more than 200 Democratic senators and House members who banded together in 2017 to bring the suit against the president lacked legal standing to do so.
The unanimous ruling from an ideologically diverse three-judge panel suggested that if the House or Senate had formally authorized the suit, it may have been allowed to proceed, but the lawmakers acting as plaintiffs in the case did not have standing to pursue it on their own.
“Only an institution can assert an institutional injury,” the court wrote in its brief, 12-page decision.
As you can see the court only ruled that the Congress did not have standing to sue the President so we can rest assured that this is not the end and we can fully expect some institution to step up and try this again. Even so the fact this came from the DC Court of Appeals is a good sign that Donald Trump is having success at remaking the lower courts.
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Senate requests Hunter Biden’s travel records
There has been some speculation that some establishment politicians would rue the day they opened up an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump’s Ukraine call because there was a chance it could open up a can of worms they would rather leave unopened.
Since the inquiry began we have learned that Ukraine has funneled millions of dollars to John Kerry’s family, Adam Schiff has connections to a Ukrainian arms dealer, and Nancy Pelosi and Mitt Romney have ties to Ukraine as well. (Is it any wonder why Mitt Romney decided to vote to find Donald Trump guilty? Or why Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi want so desperately to get him out of power?)
And of course there is the man without whom there never would have been an impeachment inquiry in the first place because there would have been no potential crime which needed investigation.
Of course I am talking about Hunter Biden and now it looks as if the chickens might eventually come home to roost now that the Senate is no longer distracted with the impeachment. According to this story the Senate is investigating Hunter Biden for possible conflicts of interest and has requested the former Vice-President’s son’s travel records.
These two Senators chair the Finance Committee and the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee respectively so hopefully we will someday get to the bottom of just how corrupt the Biden family was, and still hopes to be if Joe Biden can win in November.
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Well, if this story is true you can add another Biden name to the list of people who benefited from good ole Uncle Joe being in the White House. This time her name is Ashley and she just happens to be Joe Biden’s daughter.
Joe Biden’s soon to be son-in-law decided to start a healthcare company (interestingly enough on its own considering what Barack Obama’s signature legislation was) and Joe Biden helped him to get a White House meeting. Here is more:
Former Vice President Joe Biden went to great lengths to boost his son-in-law’s health care company while in the White House, briefing investors on the firm’s merits and even arranging access to the Oval Office.
In June 2011, Biden arranged a private meeting for two StartUp Health executives with then-President Barack Obama in the Oval Office. At the time of the meeting, the company had been around for only a few weeks. It had yet to finalize its business plan, let alone develop a website.
The meeting was all the more surprising since StartUp Health was not proposing any new or radical ideas for health care, at least not to the degree of warranting a meeting with the nation’s commander-in-chief.
“Their status as a health care incubator was hardly unique,” Schweizer writes in Profiles in Corruption. “In fact, there were thirty-one similar companies operating in the state of California alone, and another eleven in the state of New York.”
As Schweizer outlines, the only significant factor that set StartUp Health apart from others in its field was that its chief medical officer, Howard Krein, was engaged to Biden’s daughter, Ashley.
One day after StartUp Health’s executives met with Obama in the Oval Office, the company got a bigger boost from the administration when it was featured at a health care tech conference put on by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). How the company managed to score HHS attention, while still in the stages of infancy, remains unclear, but it is likely Biden played a role.
Regardless, the back-to-back events gave StartUp Health a launch trajectory unavailable to other companies in the health care field, let alone other industries. Biden’s influence ensured that StartUp Health set out with “the winds to our backs,” as one of the company’s co-founders succinctly put it.
So Barack Obama signs Obamacare into law, Joe Biden’s son-in-law starts a healthcare company and gets access to the White House before the company really is a company, this gets the company featured in a tech conference the very next day, and the company is off and running while others without this advantage are left in the dust. ANd according to the article that was not it because StartUp continued to enjoy “unparalleled access to the White House during the Obama presidency.” It’s good to know the king…
I guess we now know why Joe Biden thought Obamacare was a big F’n deal…
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Is John Kerry going to jump in the 2020 race?
If the recent polls are accurate Bernie Sanders could be poised to win the Iowa caucus tonight and this has the Democratic establishment very worried. As we have been discussing here, the Democratic leadership is very worried the voters might actually chose the Vermont socialist because they do not believe he has any chance of winning the general election.
The concern runs so deep that the Democratic National Committee is discussing a change to the superdelegate rules in order to screw Bernie Sanders over once again. The Democratic National Committee has also changed the debate requirements for qualification so that Michael Bloomberg will make the stage because the committee is not enthralled with the “big three.”
And then yesterday a rumor started circulating that John Kerry might actually throw his hat in the ring in order to stop Bernie Sanders from getting the nomination. The former Massachusetts Senator and failed Presidential candidate is denying the report. Here is more:
Kerry told the outlet that he was “absolutely not” considering a last-minute entry into the race, calling the situation a “complete and total misinterpretation based on overhearing only one side of a phone conversation.”
“A friend who watches too much cable called me wondering whether I’d ever jump into the race late in the game if Democrats were choosing an unelectable nominee,” he told NBC News.
“I listed all the reasons I could not possibly do that and would not — and will not under any circumstances — do that,” he added.
He also immediately denied the report on Twitter.
“As I told the reporter, I am absolutely not running for President. Any report otherwise is fucking (or categorically) false),” he originally tweeted before deleting the tweet and reposting another version without the expletive.
John Kerry sounds pretty adamant about not throwing his hat in the ring and I actually believe him but I wanted to write about this story because I find one aspect of his denial very interesting.
Nowhere in his denial when he was explaining the conversation he had with a friend about the possibility of the Democratic voters nominating an unelectable candidate did John Kerry actually come to Bernie Sanders’s defense.
You would think he would have told his friend he did not need to jump in the race because Bernie Sanders is a good candidate if he thought it was true but he did not. I think this is yet another example of how the establishment actually feels about Bernie Sanders.
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Ilhan Omar’s campaign paid over $500,000 to her lover’s firm
Back in August we found out that there was an FEC violation complaint filed against Ilhan Omar for allegedly funneling campaign money to a firm the man she was having an affair with worked for.
A complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Wednesday alleges freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) illegally used campaign money to help carry on an extramarital affair with a Democrat consultant whose firm she paid tens of thousands of dollars.
Federal campaign finance records show that Omar’s campaign has paid nearly $230,000 since 2018 to the E. Street Group, a political strategy firm of which the lawmaker’s alleged married lover, Tim Mynett, is a partner of.
But that was then and this is now, since that story broke her campaign has doubled that amount. Here is more:
The Washington Free Beacon reported Saturday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)’s congressional campaign paid over $500,000 in 2019 to a firm run by her alleged boyfriend, political consultant Timothy Mynett.
The Free Beacon, citing FEC campaign filings, noted that Omar’s campaign apparently paid the E Street Group $215,000 in the fourth quarter of 2019, bringing the total paid to the firm to $525,000 last year.
The expenses cover services such as “Digital Communications Consulting” and “Digital Advertising.”
I guess she is not going to let a little thing like a campaign finance complaint stand in the way of making sure her lover is well taken care of.
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Elizabeth Warren is upset at DNC debate rule change that benefits Michael Bloomberg
There were only three candidates who met the criteria to make it onto the next debate stage until the Democratic National Committee changed the individual donor rule in order to get Michael Bloomberg onto the stage.
Joe Biden is still wondering around aimlessly wondering what is happening around him, but the other two candidates are not happy about this development. We have already discussed Bernie Sanders, and the Democratic National Committee’s latest attempt at stealing the nomination out from under him, and now Elizabeth Warren is speaking out against the rule change. Here is what the Senator from Massachusetts had to say:
“The DNC didn’t change the rules to ensure good, diverse candidates could remain on the debate stage. They shouldn’t change the rules to let a billionaire on,” she said on Friday.
“Billionaires shouldn’t be allowed to play by different rules—on the debate stage, in our democracy, or in our government,”
So says the millionaire who does not have to play by the same rules we do…
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Sunday, February 2nd open thread: ‘A View To a Kill’
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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Here is Duran Duran performing “A View To a Kill” from Live Aid back in 1985. I am not sure he meant to hit the note he does at the 2:54 mark.
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