Posted on 06/21/2017 1:35:36 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Democrats' decisive Tuesday night loss in Georgia's special election -- a race into which they poured tens of millions of dollars to make it the most expensive House race in U.S. history -- is leaving Democrats to strategize a path forward for the 2018 midterm elections.
But Handel's win only buys some breathing room, as Russia investigations, White House intrigue and policy disagreements on Capitol Hill continue to stall the GOP agenda in Washington.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
“breathing room”
"I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents." --Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799. ME 10:78
"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions." --Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804. ME 11:33
For President Trump: "[I have seen] repeated instances of the publication of what has not been intended for the public eye, and the malignity with which political enemies torture every sentence from me into meanings imagined by their own wickedness only... Not fearing these political bull-dogs, I yet avoid putting myself in the way of being baited by them, and do not wish to volunteer away that portion of tranquillity, which a firm execution of my duties will permit me to enjoy." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:226
"Conscious that there was not a truth on earth which I feared should be known, I have lent myself willingly as the subject of a great experiment, which was to prove that an administration, conducting itself with integrity and common understanding, cannot be battered down even by the falsehoods of a licentious press, and consequently still less by the press as restrained within the legal and wholesome limits of truth. This experiment was wanting for the world to demonstrate the falsehood of the pretext that freedom of the press is incompatible with orderly government. I have never, therefore, even contradicted the thousands of calumnies so industriously propagated against myself. But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807. ME 11:155
Defiant Sanctuary cities. Another reason Democrats lost 4 in a row.
meh
Fake News always sounds the same
Quite the opposite, Obamacare repeal is coming, jobs are growing, regulations are falling, etc. It's like a magic show, the media and dems focus on the "hand" (the distraction, such as RUssia)while the trick/progress is made.
Huge photos of him on every leftist rag, and VP talk for 2020, as the infotanment rags cast him as a new JFK or some BS.
“...White House intrigue...”
Amazing spin density in that short article. The Nazis and the USSR in their prime couldn’t have produced propaganda like that.
AMERICA IS #1!!!
Huge photos of him on every leftist rag, and VP talk for 2020, as the infotanment rags cast him as a new JFK or some BS.
They were calling him Trump Slayer.
The loser, Ossoff?
LOL.
LIBERAL SPIN
Monday:
Wednesday:
Handel beat his Ossoff.
I’m starting to think that even the Russians could beat the democrats.
A loss ... a little, tiny, itsy-bitsy loss ... But ... RUSSIA!!!
VP for 2020? Do a bait-and-switch at the vp debate. Substitute Trump for Pence. Take no prisoners!
Fake news
The democrats should just promise to end illegal immigration,cut taxes,build up the military,appoint America first judges,then when elected do the opposite,just like the rest. Of course they lied,so what who cares,what’s new
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