Posted on 04/21/2018 5:27:42 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Todays Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Hey, lets do that with Obamacare, too! Chuckie Schumer announced on Friday that hes introducing a bill that would essentially rescind federal marijuana laws because, he claims, he is such a huge believer in the concept of federalism that he thinks we should just let the states decide on whether pot should be legal or not. This marks the first issue in his long political career on which the old collectivist expressed a fealty to federalism.
Talking Points Parrot for Senate! Just minutes after Schumer had held his press conference, Texas senate candidate Irish Beto ORourke took to his Twitter feed to join in the fun:
Beto O'Rourke ✔ @BetoORourke We must end the federal prohibition on marijuana in this country.
So, there you go, Texans you have a choice of re-electing Ted Cruz or replacing him with a guy who will loyally do or say whatever Chuck Schumer wants him to do or say for the next six years. This really shouldnt be hard.
Your Fake News Media In Action! At mid-day Friday, the Justice Department announced the bombshell story that Inspector General Michael Horowitz is investigating drama queen ex-FBI Director James Comey for potential violations of the Espionage Act. So I thought Id go to Politico.com to see what that political news outlet of record for the Inside-the-Beltway set had to say about this huge story.
The answer, as of 6:43 a.m. Central Time this morning is nothing. Wait, can that be right? Let me go through all the stories on the landing page there are dozens of them again. Hold on .
Ok, yeah, thats right. Not a word. Politico does have front page headlines about EPA Administrator Scott Pruitts apartment, one about a half-century-ago affair between Fidel Castro and some ABC reporter, a typically slanted analysis of a bunch of fake conflicts Rudy Giuliani brings to his new role on the Trump defense team, and an ultra-critical story about what some liberal fake journalist hack thinks Melania Trump can learn from the late Barbara Bush.
But not a peep about the stood-up homecoming queen ex-FBI Director being investigated for violations of the nations Espionage Act.
Holy cow.
Your Fake News Media in Action! Part II CNNs Chief Political Analyst, Gloria Borger, is no doubt on thin ice at the fakest of all the fake news outlets this morning after she made the enormous error of actually speaking truthfully about the absurd lawsuit filed by the DNC on Friday. When asked how she would classify the suit by fake host Brooke Baldwin, Borger called it a 100 percent stunt. Heres the exchange:
How much of this do you think is just a stunt versus a pretty smart ploy for the court of public opinion? Brooke Baldwin asked political analyst Gloria Borger.
A 100 percent stunt, 100 percent, Borger responded. They want to get in the act, obviously. They want to keep the story moving. This is nothing new.
Note how Baldwin attempted to get Borger to the right answer in the view of CNNs management and the Democrat Party with her pretty smart ploy lead-in. But Borger slipped up, and now CNN which is no doubt intent upon focusing on this fake story for the entire weekend in order to avoid having to report on all the bad-for-Democrats stories related to Comey, Andrew McCabe and the flailing Mueller investigation is stuck trying to find a way to rationalize the moment of inadvertent honesty by its vaunted el jefe Political Analyst. Good luck with that, guys and gals.
Your Fake News Media in Action! Part III Oh, hey, the Crazy Little Fat Guy in North Korea announced on Friday that he is suspending his missile testing program and completely closing down his main missile test site in advance of his anticipated meeting with President Trump next month. CNN, MSNBC, the WaPo and the NYTimes will spend all weekend twisting themselves into pretzels trying to rationalize how to deny Mr. Trump any credit for this happy turn of events. Good luck with that one, too.
Your Fake News Media in Action! Part IV Finally, since no one at any of the fake news media outlets is honest enough to report it, President Donald Trump (I never tire of typing those three words) took to his Twitter feed late Friday night to point out a key fact related to the Comey memos that were released this week, 8 of 15 pages of which contained redactions marked classified:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump James Comey illegally leaked classified documents to the press in order to generate a Special Council? Therefore, the Special Council was established based on an illegal act? Really, does everybody know what that means?
Yes, some of us know what it means. But youll never get anyone in the fake news media to acknowledge that reality. Nice try, though.
Just another day in fake news media America.
That is all.
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Does fruut of poison tree apply to all subsequent crimes discovered?
Only to non-Democrats.
Oh, Chuck is the rankest of opportunists ... no news there. He's even worse - though not by all that much - than those who make constitutional arguments against 0bamacare etc. but rabidly support federal laws against intrastate marijuana commerce.
Thanks EyesOfTX.
So, now it’s ‘states rights for me, but not for thee.’
What utter hypocrites.
The practical danger is that such a change will be deemed by left as invalidating marijuana laws nationwide. And this will be pushed by many leftist judges.
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