Here's your Obama press conference.
Posted on 01/18/2017 12:31:36 PM PST by yoe
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Fireworks after eight long years of taxpayer opression seems very appropriate
Is the press crying their eyes out?
Like North Korea ?
Maybe tomorrow, Obama will announce his pardons, and then resign so that Joe Biden can officially also be Mr. President for the rest of his life.
-PJ
This should get his poll numbers to 95%.
What are the odds the polls are nearly identical to the media’s view?
He learned that from W.
Watch?? Hell, I can’t stand seeing or listening to that POS
I like that plan, about “So help me God”! I’ll do the same.
Here's your Obama press conference.
Worse. They really mean it!.................
I did like how the cable slipped off the body of the statue and then wrapped around the neck, ripping the head off ...
No thank you...
Obama Just Gave Himself A MASSIVE Pay Raise… FOREVER!
The Political Insider | 3-18-16 | Charles Kosar / FR Posted by afraidfortherepublic
The Congressional Research Service reports that for requests for both 2016 and 2017 fiscal years, Obama's proposed federal budget would expand funding through the Former Presidents Act. In 2017 alone, Obama wants nearly an 18% hike in expenditures… $588,000. That means $3.865,000 in appropriations will be available to spend on former Presidents! The 2016 proposed budget includes an additional $25,000 increase.
The Former Presidents Act, enacted in 1958, provides living former presidents with a pension, office staff and support, funds for travel, Secret Service protection, and mailing privileges. It also provides benefits for presidential spouses. Currently, former presidents are awarded a pension equal to the salary of cabinet secretaries, which totaled $203,700 for the 2015 calendar year and was boosted by $2,000 for the current calendar year.
Critics of the act argue that it financially supports former presidents who are not struggling. Many of them, alternatively, have gone on to profit from writing books about their time in the White House or delivering paid speaking engagements.
Former President Bill Clinton, for example, earned $132 million for delivering paid speeches between February 2001 and March 2015, according to an analysis from CNN. Clinton received $924,000 in taxpayer dollars last year by way of the Former Presidents Act.
Republicans in the House and Senate have introduced legislation that would cap annual pensions for former presidents at $200,000. Additionally, the bills would cut each pension by a dollar for every dollar the former president earns over $400,000 in the private sector in a given year. The measure was approved by the House in January with bipartisan support.
"It's pretty simple. You want a retirement and pension, it's there. But if you're going to go out and make enormous sums of money, then you don't need taxpayer subsidies," Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah), who introduced the bill in the House, told ABC News in an interview. "The former presidents are making gobs of money speaking and writing books, more power to them, but that doesn’t mean they need more taxpayer dollars on top of that," Chaffetz added. "It's embarrassing that they take that money."
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Demand Congress vote no. No more money for ex-presidents.
No questions on Syria debcle or Iran sell-out deal. Was asked about Manning, said other leakers had short sentences, so should he (er, she). The rest was mostly about his legacy for gay-trans rights.
I love that decapitated Lenin statue video. Its as miraculous as the stone from David’s sling hitting Goliath squarely in the forehead.
Really? Did I miss it? I was trying to hurry home so I could hear it!
................BWAA HA HA Ha Ha ha haaa heeee...
Could not care less.
I’ve been boycotting French wine as of late (a killer for me) If LePen gets in I will be buying a couple cases of Domaine Ste Michelle Blanc de Blanc (champagne)
Here in upstate NY we have several domestics to choose from in the sparkling wine category.
I was out buying champagne on Monday for Friday and was whistling very loudly “Hail to the Chief” bwa ha ha ha
“Watch”??? You have to be kidding me.
And, remember, most champagne comes in green bottles, so it is probably good for the erf!
Just like real life when the noose is applied to the grossly obese. That's why they often try to dodge it, claiming it is cruel and unusual punishment. That's true, but only for the cleanup crew.
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