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Mike Pence Removes ALL Lobbyists From Trump Administration Transition Team!
Common Sense Evaluation ^

Posted on 11/16/2016 4:04:25 AM PST by gaggs

Operation Drain the Swamp has begun. Vice President-elect Mike Pence reportedly ordered the removal of all lobbyists from president-elect Donald Trump's transition team.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: draintheswamp; lobbyists; trump; trump2016; trumptransition
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To: nathanbedford

James Hoffa?


81 posted on 11/16/2016 6:04:23 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: gaggs

Wow!

Gotta admit, I was on the fence about Pence for some time.
But I absolutely LOVE this move!


82 posted on 11/16/2016 6:05:01 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: central_va

Take your punitive tariffs and shove them. Until you admit that Washington DC, by way of heavy-handed regulation and business taxes, is the greatest threat to American industry YOU are the biggest part of the problem, far bigger than the ‘globalists’ (whatever that means) that you so passionately despise.


83 posted on 11/16/2016 6:08:10 AM PST by NorthMountain (My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.)
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To: odawg
Why does the United States, supposedly a sovereign nation, agree to submit its economy to foreign courts empaneled with judges who know nothing about trade and care nothing about the best interests of the United States?

I think it's worse than that. Although this surrender of sovereignty is justified saying that otherwise no trade deal could be had, it's pretty clear that the motive for the Obama administration is precisely to deprive the nation of jurisdiction over itself and to surrender our sovereignty to a supra national court. This has the double advantage to them of not only weakening America but providing a path through which they can insinuate anti-constitutional provisions, bypassing Congress.

That is a truly diabolical aim and it's one about which I am on record in this forum before Obama was inaugurated.


84 posted on 11/16/2016 6:08:15 AM PST by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: central_va
I am for cutting all regulations and taxes to the bone

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHahahaha!!!

Really? I see zero evidence of that.

85 posted on 11/16/2016 6:10:04 AM PST by NorthMountain (My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.)
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To: redfreedom

A very BIG part of the problem, most of them are former congresscritters. John Boehner Joins Washington Law Firm, with a huge salary, and you can bet a dime he’s a figure head and lobbying for something the law firm represents.

427 former members of congress lobbyist or similar work.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/427-former-members-of-congress-moved-to-lobbying-or-similar-work/


86 posted on 11/16/2016 6:11:58 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: A politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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To: nathanbedford
We spend trillions of dollars annually much of it on entitlements and these bills simply cannot be paid apart from the income tax, capital gains and corporate income taxes.

Well, there's the problem right there. Tell me, exactly where in Article 1 of the Constitution is the Congress authorized to create all those trillions of dollars worth of 'entitlements'? After bringing the oppressive regulatory state under control, the next thing is to eliminate the unsustainable and unconstitutional welfare state.

87 posted on 11/16/2016 6:13:03 AM PST by NorthMountain (My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.)
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To: P-Marlowe; jch10
You are fully within your rights to decline to listen to Mark Levin. For his part, Levin is empowered to preach his conscience so long as he can hold the audience.

I have no data but I conservatively calculate that he must be grossing well over $12 million a year just on his television project which is about to triple in programming, he has sold over 1 million books, and he has about the number sixth rated syndicated radio program. In addition, he is editor-in-chief of Conservative Review and the leader of Landmark Legal.

I believe he is a movement conservative and quite content with his revenue stream, with the size of his audiences and the scope of his influence in many endeavors.


88 posted on 11/16/2016 6:18:07 AM PST by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: central_va

As a BS-Chem, I am curious as to your claim regarding:
1. Lead-based dog food; and,
2. Mercury-based fish

I do believe that you do not understand the concept of “based”. In your use you consider that both Hg and Pb are the ^foundation^ of the feed being served.

To consider John McEnroe...”YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!”


89 posted on 11/16/2016 6:19:21 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

There are two cans of tuna in front of you and you are hungry. One can says packed in Baltimore the other says China. Which can will you choose.


90 posted on 11/16/2016 6:22:26 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: nathanbedford

Pterosaur necessary tool of government to protect American industry from capture by foreign government-owned companies. The Red Chinese Army owns a lot of the business in China and they been eating our lunch because our government hasn’t been protecting us from THEIR government.


91 posted on 11/16/2016 6:24:20 AM PST by WMarshal (Trump 2016 - because the Democrats are criminals and the GOP is the Gang Of Pussies)
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To: NorthMountain
After bringing the oppressive regulatory state under control, the next thing is to eliminate the unsustainable and unconstitutional welfare state.

I could not agree more.

Well, there's the problem right there. Tell me, exactly where in Article 1 of the Constitution is the Congress authorized to create all those trillions of dollars worth of 'entitlements'?

I don't see it there but the Supreme Court does and the Congress of United States does and, evidently, is only too eager to increase them. In view of the fact that all of these federal institutions are bent on retaining in even expanding the entitlements, I can only assume that you are fully in support of the Article V movement which resorts to the Constitution to restore the Constitution to its original intent as the only remaining viable path to reform because it does not involve the Congress, the president, the bureaucrats, or the court?


92 posted on 11/16/2016 6:25:36 AM PST by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: NorthMountain
What is wrong with cutting taxes, regulations and raising tariffs up to historical levels? Answer, nothing.

Free Traitors™ are trying to link tariffs with taxes/regulations. Like being for one excludes being for the other. Both are different animals and have nothing to do with each other. All can be done to improved the prospects of US industry.

93 posted on 11/16/2016 6:26:46 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Too simplistic.

I can make tuna casserole from either and they will taste “in-different”.
What is your point?


94 posted on 11/16/2016 6:26:53 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: NorthMountain

Hey Trump won and Free Traitors™ lost. An in your face type if victory. So was it satisfying voting for Gary Johnson?


95 posted on 11/16/2016 6:28:31 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: WMarshal
Please see my reply #77.


96 posted on 11/16/2016 6:29:10 AM PST by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford
I can only assume that you are fully in support of the Article V movement

Correct. Since the Congress and the Courts are not merely unwilling to rein in the oppressive regulatory state, but are complicit in its growth ... the job reverts to We the People.

97 posted on 11/16/2016 6:31:07 AM PST by NorthMountain (My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.)
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To: NorthMountain

The issue was decided on November 8th. So is Trump a leftist? DID YOU VOTE FOR HIM? If so then you are a hypocrite.


98 posted on 11/16/2016 6:31:33 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
Are you capable of carrying on intelligent discussion without throwing "trademarked" insults and implying falsehoods?

If so, prove it.

If not, get bent.

99 posted on 11/16/2016 6:32:24 AM PST by NorthMountain (My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

So you are going to choose the can of Chinese packed tuna over the can of USA packed tuna? Liar. You will pick the USA made can.


100 posted on 11/16/2016 6:34:00 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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