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JOSEPH FARAH: HOW BIG IS THE SWAMP, AND WHO'S BLOCKING THE DRAIN?
WORLD NET DAILY ^ | MAY 12, 2017 | JOSEPH FARAH

Posted on 05/11/2017 10:28:58 PM PDT by vannrox

BETWEEN THE LINES

How big is the swamp, and who's blocking the drain?

Exclusive: Joseph Farah directs 37 questions about project to Trump, Bannon

Published: 5 hours ago .icx-toolbar{padding: 0 0 5px 0;}

Columnist’s note: Please consider this an open letter to President Donald Trump and Steve Bannon, his intrepid special adviser.

May 20 will mark the four-month period for the still new Trump administration, which should provide the team with the time necessary to have performed the proper “environmental impact study” necessary to achieving the goal of draining the swamp by 2020.

So here are some honest and forthright questions to consider (if anyone from the administration cares to address them – publicly or privately). First, here are the two big over-arching questions, followed by more specific and narrow followups:

The rest of the questions are designed to get down to the important details:


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrat; drain; swamp; trump
Yes. Treat the "swamp" as a full-on project worthy of milestones, funding, and target goals.
1 posted on 05/11/2017 10:28:58 PM PDT by vannrox
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To: vannrox

Here we have one of the best presidents in my lifetime, just crushing the opposition and getting us back on track.

I look back to Bush and I don’t remember 1/20th of these sorts of early suggestions to him.

Here’s Trump just kicking it, and the tweakers and back seat drivers aren’t just coming out of of the woodwork, they’re absolutely swarming.

Trump has come out of the shoot running issuing E.O.s on many things, signing legislation on others, and pushing still other bills to achieve what we want.

I’ve never seen such a flurry of activity.

Still, it just isn’t enough. Every arm chair quarterback professing roots on the right, has a proposal of exactly what Trump needs to do.

Where are these assholes when it’s time to run for president? if they’re so damned smart, why don’t they run.


2 posted on 05/11/2017 10:38:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: vannrox; ExTexasRedhead

You can talk about “draining the swamp” only in general terms, because Trump can’t actually “name” all the “swampees” lest he tip his hand as to who all he’s after. Likewise, he can only refer to the “swampors” by their code names , like Attorney General, National Security Advisor, etc. because if they are “outed” as “swampors,” the “swampees” will be in Federal Court tomorrow morning filing lawsuits to slow down or even stop the swamp draining process.


3 posted on 05/11/2017 10:42:52 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: vannrox

A pretty good test is to look for those who say, “Unseal and release Obama’s records? What kind of racist are you?”
Then in their next breath they demand that Trump disclose his private tax records.
Even though he already did for one year in which he paid more taxes than the entire Congressional Black Caucus.
Leading to the questions: why is there a CBC? Why isn’t Juan McCain still vertical? And, when do we open the “re-education camps”?


4 posted on 05/11/2017 11:07:32 PM PDT by tumblindice ("Fight for your country." Hector)
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To: vannrox

Tillerson signed that Fairbanks climate change document. Noted Scientist ivanka will not pull us out of that paris climate change Nonsense.


5 posted on 05/12/2017 1:07:59 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: RummyChick

Thanks for that bit of real news.


6 posted on 05/12/2017 1:52:54 AM PDT by piasa
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To: vannrox

This swamp is more like a toilet bowl and there are a lot of turds that need to be flushed.


7 posted on 05/12/2017 3:19:32 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: vette6387

Specifically,
What is Trom Price/Seema Verma doing to drain the Health Regulation swamp?
What is Ben Carson doing to drain the HUD swamp?
What is Gen Mattis doing to drain the DOD swamp?
What is each department head doing to drain their section of the swamp?


8 posted on 05/12/2017 5:01:13 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: vannrox

Alexander, Corker, Flake, Graham, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, Murkowsky, McCain, Rubio, Burr, Tillis, Portman, McConnell, Thune, Cornyn, Cochran, Isackson, Blunt, Johnson, Gardner, Toomey, Capito, Fischer, Collins, Wicker are all Cheap Labor Express Republicans.

Start removing them before they give away the country.


9 posted on 05/12/2017 6:59:09 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: spintreebob

The underlying problem with all of these “mini swamps” is the private businesses that are connected to them. We need to go after the military contractors, the health care “providers,” the “housing specialists,” builders and lenders along with the agencies themselves. And the process should include permanently disposing of government office space as employment is reduced. That gets rid of overhead as well as making it difficult to rebuild in the future by a RAT President or even a RINO, because unless Trump is successful in transferring his genes to Pence and others, when he’s finally gone, we will, in all probability, get a government that wants to “rebuild the swamp.”


10 posted on 05/12/2017 8:53:53 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: vette6387

Agreed. We need to put pressure on specific committee members to cut out the picking of winners and losers.

One problem is the priorities of FReepers and other conservatives and libertarians are divided. For some the wall is a priority. But the wall will inevitably create a swamp of contractors who become skilled in getting government contracts and no skill in the private sector. In short, the wall is a perfect example of how the swamp is built.

Those who don’t see the wall see the need for health insurance which means favoritism to that industry. Others see the need for road and bridge infrastructure which means favoritism to the industry. Others see needs in defense, or in banking or in foreign alliances.

The swamp exists because we want free stuff and an easy path in life. ... And we think the government can give it.


11 posted on 05/12/2017 4:18:36 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: vannrox
"Who's blocking the drain"?

That would be the one and only John McPain... There is little doubt that Juan is truly one of Trump's biggest adversaries In DC....

All this week the left has been squealing like stuck pigs.... So Trump must be doing something right.... THAT A BOY TRUMP..!! Keep twisting the knife....

12 posted on 05/12/2017 4:36:13 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: spintreebob; ExTexasRedhead

“The swamp exists because we want free stuff and an easy path in life. ... And we think the government can give it.”

Yes, and that’s why Obamacare is such a problem. Every time we launch another entitlement, we enslave a bunch of people who become dependent on it and want it not to be withdrawn, even if the whole of it is a negative to the bulk of the citizens. It’s also why we continue to see worthless turds re-elected. The turds “constituents” see them as “good,” and everyone else’s as problematic. George Carlin said it best: “When you’re looking for a “place” to store your “stuff,” you often find someone else’s “$hit” taking up what you thought was “your place.”


13 posted on 05/12/2017 9:18:58 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: spintreebob; ExTexasRedhead

“The swamp exists because we want free stuff and an easy path in life. ... And we think the government can give it.”

Yes, and that’s why Obamacare is such a problem. Every time we launch another entitlement, we enslave a bunch of people who become dependent on it and want it not to be withdrawn, even if the whole of it is a negative to the bulk of the citizens. It’s also why we continue to see worthless turds re-elected. The turds “constituents” see them as “good,” and everyone else’s as problematic. George Carlin said it best: “When you’re looking for a “place” to store your “stuff,” you often find someone else’s “$hit” taking up what you thought was “your place.”


14 posted on 05/12/2017 9:19:00 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: unread

McCain and his mouse in the pocket Lindsay. Then you have the supposed “conservative media hacks” like Bill Kristol. Lowest of the low. Kristol isn’t a conservative nor a Republican. He wanted HRC elected. He is DC establishment all the way.

I heard Rush say something interesting yesterday. He said Trump was changing the country back with stroke by stroke of his EO and the media is ignoring it.

I pray it can continue. Go Trump!


15 posted on 05/12/2017 9:30:01 PM PDT by Shortstop7
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