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Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee said Sunday that President Trump should make "Democrats eat the fact" they erected many of the Confederate monuments they are now saying should be removed. "Let's make the Democrats eat the fact that it was Democrats who built those statues," Huckabee told Fox News on "Sunday Morning Futures." Huckabee accused Democrats of resisting racial equality "all the way up through" the 1960s and called on them to stop hosting "Jefferson-Jackson Dinners" because they celebrate slave-owning presidents. Democratic organizations routinely hold the dinners, which honor the party's co-founders, as fundraising opportunities. "Let's make them remember their...

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) may not have achieved much since arriving in Washington, other than interrupting witnesses in official hearings. But her performances — preserved and promoted on YouTube — have made her a prospect for the presidential race in 2020 — and the Democrats’ latest fundraising weapon, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, as she lends her name to other candidates and causes. The Chronicle notes (original links):

Democrats were visibly frustrated and second-guessing themselves on Wednesday after Democrat Jon Ossoff lost Georgia's special congressional race the prior night. The election outcome has caused activists and Democratic lawmakers to regroup and try to develop a new strategy for taking back the House of Representatives in 2018. Democrats had hoped to make the special election a referendum on President Donald Trump's agenda by electing Ossoff, who had raised about $25 million. The loss hit Democrats hard, and some questioned the leadership and strategies under House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), according to the New York Times. "Our brand...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) said on Wednesday that Democrats have been "hyper-confused" on economic issues for years. Harold Ford, Jr., an MSNBC contributor and former Democratic congressman, asked Murphy on "Morning Joe" about the Democrats' future economic message going into the 2018 midterm elections. "I think we have to challenge ourselves," Murphy said. " I think we've been hyper-confused over the course of the past five years. Some of the time we are talking about economic growth. Some of the of the time we are talking about economic fairness." Murphy added that he does not know whether Democrats have...

Top party official called for 'violence, death, blood in the streets'! There is no doubt that politics in the United States now include a level of violence not seen in recent memory. It comes as factions of the Democratic Party have proven unable to accept the fact their candidate for president, now twice-failed Hillary Clinton, lost a decisive election to the GOP candidate, Donald Trump, in 2016. It means they are not able to continue pushing the nation in a far-left progressive direction, as they did over and over again under Barack Obama. Even during the campaign, Trump supporters faced...

Democrats have a blunt message for colleagues worried the party has become dangerously obsessed with Russia: Get over it. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ testimony Tuesday put Democrats in a familiar position, reacting to news about President Donald Trump and the ongoing investigation into his campaign’s alleged Russia connections. To skeptics, the story is a distraction from bread-and-butter issues that voters actually care about, like the unpopular Republican-backed health care bill, and a sign the party is already over-reaching well before the midterm congressional elections. But Democratic operatives are arguing that the party has no choice but to launch these attacks....

Man who started investigation admits no evidence and has been caught lying to Congress! Did the Democrats’ orchestrated attempt to catch the Trump administration in a major scandal with Russia just blow up? The Washington Times reported it was President Obama’s CIA director, John Brennan, who prompted the investigation into claims the Trump campaign had inappropriate contacts with the Russian government. But that’s the same John Brennan who, like other top Democrats, has stated he has seen no evidence of collusion with the Russians, and the same John Brennan who, among the other indiscretions, was caught lying to Congress. {..snip..}

The vast majority of Democrats believe Russians hacked into voting machines during the presidential election and changed vote tallies to elect Donald Trump, according to a new Economist/YouGov poll. Barack Obama, James Clapper, James Comey and Mike Rogers have all went on record saying vote tallies were not changed and voting machines were not hacked into by Russians, nonetheless endless headlines about how "Russia hacked our election" have clearly had their desired effect. I wonder how Dems got this impression? Asked whether "Russia tampered with vote tallies in order to get Donald Trump elected President," 59% of Democrats said it...

Derogatory comment made during discussion of rural broadband access! A Democratic lawmaker from California referred to Middle America as "Podunk, USA," during a committee meeting last week, several sources inside the meeting told the Washington Free Beacon. Remarks by Rep. Anna Eshoo (D., Calif.) during a closed-door Energy and Commerce Committee meeting with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai raised eyebrows from those present. {..snip..}

I have blogged about this issue before. I have made it the subject of countless tweets. In bars and at Christmas parties I have shouted till I was blue in the face trying to explain it. I have even written a play—actually, two plays—in an attempt to draw out the seemingly latent connection between the liberal obsession with genitals—gay marriage, abortion, and so on—and their view of economic prosperity. Sooner or later my work is going to start taking a toll on my health and sanity. Thank goodness our paper of record is here to come to the rescue and...

"This would be a fireable offense in better times. Worst thing about many Trump critics is they use him as an excuse to act as awful or worse https://t.co/7kIsJYHVnn" — T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) May 2, 2017 Pretend for one second if a conservative comic has said this about Barack Obama: "Stephen Colbert to Trump: “The only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s c%$k holster.” https://t.co/d5K2k2nH4x pic.twitter.com/3lPliSceTH" — The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 2, 2017 The joke came at the end of Colbert’s monologue Monday night in a bit where he responded to President Trump’s insult...

'There's a huge disconnect here'! Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez says all Democrats should line up in favor of abortion, and he calls the position “not negotiable,” a clarification for which pro-life groups are exceedingly grateful. The issue arose after Perez publicly backed the pro-life Democratic Party nominee in the race for mayor of Omaha, Nebraska. After criticism from pro-choice forces, Perez released a statement insisting he and the party were not straying from their stance on abortion. “Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman’s right to make her own choices about her body and her health,”...

The 28 percent of Democrats who oppose abortion have no place in the Democratic party, according to two of the party’s leading figures. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin echoed party chair Tom Perez Sunday in saying that there is no room in the party for dissent on the abortion issue. “I am committed to women’s rights under the law, reproductive rights certainly, and our party is [committed],” Durbin said in an appearance on CNN. “We’ve made that part of our platform and position for a long, long time. I know within the ranks of the Democratic Party there are those who...

On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” White House budget director Mick Mulvaney accused Democrats of “stunning” obstructionism by not agreeing to a deal for funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall in exchange for Affordable Care Act subsidies in the spending bill that would keep the government from shutting down. Mulvaney said, “Actually, what I would say is they’re holding hostage national security. Again, something they supported in the recent past when President Obama was in the Senate. So we don’t understand why this is breaking down like this. We’re worried that this is sending a message that this...

The next escalation in the great judicial war is upon us. As Senate Democrats gird themselves to filibuster President Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Republicans may just take a page from Democrats’ 2013 playbook and invoke what’s known as the nuclear option — a change to Senate rules that would effectively block a filibuster of Trump's Supreme Court nominees, Neil Gorsuch included. {..snip..}

Tom, Andrew, sorry. But your party has gone completely insane. I don't think there are words for how insane. If men crowding into the Ladies Room doesn't show Trump... I don't know what will. {..snip..}

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill, on Saturday blasted President Trump as a leader who has failed to keep his promises four weeks into office. "Let's be honest, this is not the Presidency we were promised. Americans deserve a President whose word they can trust, but the number of broken promises are adding up quickly," Duckworth said in the Democratic Party's weekly address. ""This President has certainly made a lot of promises, but so far he has an abysmal record of keeping them." {..snip..}

President Donald Trump’s White House staff may be longing for the random acts of vandalism committed against the early George W. Bush team by the Clinton White House staff in 2001, including taking the Ws off many White House computer keyboards. Instead, today, a subversive alt-government is emerging, in line with the alt-left’s growing resistance to use any means necessary to slow, stop and obstruct Trump’s agenda, from inside the government, to make America ungovernable. .. He says it’s a tactic used to scare and conjure up horrors against their enemies. Adams says that use of such labels, is an...

Maeve Reston writes at CNN: ... "But as Democrats throw every procedural hurdle they can think of at Trump, they’re facing a bleak reality: they have virtually no power in Washington." ...

Two Senate Democrats want President Trump to release the membership list for his Palm Beach golf club Mar-a-Lago to find out "who is getting access to the president." Trump is slated to spend the weekend at his Florida mansion, which includes both a private residence that he occupies as well as a resort and spa for members. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Tom Udall, D-N.M., said in a scathing letter to Trump that his expensive club, where the initiation fee has been raised to $200,000, "is financially out of reach for all but the wealthiest Americans and international elites." {..snip..}