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Misty » 04 Oct 2017 11:19 am » wrote: So are you saying that every EO on this list was issued to cancel one of Obama's EO'S?
Because if not, according to you, they would be wrong.

List of executive actions by Donald Trump

Misty » 04 Oct 2017 6:00 pm » wrote: Aside from all the golf trips the POTUS you defend watches TV and Tweets all day on the public dime.
But you're good with that.:

Misty » 04 Oct 2017 5:01 pm » wrote: Must be a NY thing.

So, I see that after that fiasco in Puerto Rico yesterday they put 45 on the teleprompter today.

crimsongulf » 04 Oct 2017 6:18 pm » wrote: It was not a fiasco, he called a spade a spade.

PostmodernProphet » 04 Oct 2017 6:04 pm » wrote:I would prefer him to be kicking the **** out of lib'ruls, but at least he wasn't gladhanding in a truck provided by the federal government while complaining the federal government wasn't doing what everyone knows they already did.......

Misty » 04 Oct 2017 7:57 pm » wrote: What they already did?
You think the job is finished?

Misty » 04 Oct 2017 7:57 pm » wrote:
I guess you believe the **** that he tells you and not what you can see with your own eyes, if you were willing to open them.

Misty » 04 Oct 2017 7:57 pm » wrote: What they already did?
You think the job is finished?

I guess you believe the **** that he tells you and not what you can see with your own eyes, if you were willing to open them.

Although I can't figure out why you would believe one word out of that proven liar's mouth.

There have been reporters on the ground since the storm who are telling and showing the real story.
There are still areas that have gotten little or no aid.
People are still dying.
They more than doubled the number of deaths yesterday.
Oh, I know......FAKE News. It's all staged.

You Trump Fluffers don't give a **** about the fact that he's totally unfit for the job, as long as he kicks the **** out of Liberals. **** what's good for the country.

PostmodernProphet » 04 Oct 2017 8:36 pm » wrote:unlike lib'ruls and demmycrats I don't pretend it hasn't started......

PostmodernProphet » 04 Oct 2017 8:37 pm » wrote:you mean like the pallets of food I saw behind the woman claiming they weren't there?......

"We are dying, and you are killing us with the inefficiency and the bureaucracy," San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz said Friday at a news conference.

She highlighted donations from companies and others, including 200,000 pounds of food donated by Goya, as a contrast to federal help.

"This is what we got last night: four pallets of water, three pallets of meals and 12 pallets of infant food — which I gave them to the people of Comerio, where people are drinking off a creek," she said."

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/puert ... us-n806116

Misty » 04 Oct 2017 7:57 pm » wrote: What they already did?
You think the job is finished?

I guess you believe the **** that he tells you and not what you can see with your own eyes, if you were willing to open them.

Although I can't figure out why you would believe one word out of that proven liar's mouth.

There have been reporters on the ground since the storm who are telling and showing the real story.
There are still areas that have gotten little or no aid.
People are still dying.
They more than doubled the number of deaths yesterday.
Oh, I know......FAKE News. It's all staged.

You Trump Fluffers don't give a **** about the fact that he's totally unfit for the job, as long as he kicks the **** out of Liberals. **** what's good for the country.

Sgt Bilko » 04 Oct 2017 10:31 pm » wrote:It is obvious you have no understanding of the enormous amount of destruction they had. You don't just wave a hand and it's immediately fixed. It will take months to get everything done. Your Trump Derangement Syndrome is showing!!!

Misty » 04 Oct 2017 7:57 pm » wrote: You think the job is finished?

Hurricane Betsy came ashore at Grand Isle, Louisiana, on the evening of Sept. 9, 1965.

Like Hurricane Katrina would do 40 years later, the surge devastated New Orleans, flooding parts of the city, including the Lower Ninth Ward, for days.

One striking difference between Betsy and Katrina was the response of the president and the federal government.

Less than 24 hours after Betsy hit and New Orleans was flooded, Pres. Lyndon Johnson was in the city, making surprise visits to shelters, offering encouragements to the city’s newly homeless residents.

Here is a transcript of LBJ’s remarks upon landing at the New Orleans airport at 3 p.m. that day, via John Edwards ’08 Blog:
And then there is this:

In the Ninth Ward, Johnson visited the George Washington Elementary School, on St. Claude Avenue, which was being used as a shelter.

“Most of the people inside and outside of the building were Negro,” the diary reads.

“At first, they did not believe that it was actually the President.” Johnson entered the crowded shelter in near-total darkness; there were only a couple of flashlights to lead the way.

“This is your President!” Johnson announced. “I’m here to help you!”


LBJ in the shelter.

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/08/30 ... ane-betsy/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bLmfhWGOzQ0

Liberal groups got IRS scrutiny, too, inspector general finds.

A federal watchdog has identified as many as 146 cases in which the Internal Revenue Service may have targeted liberal-leaning groups for extra scrutiny based on their names or political leanings, a finding that could undermine claims that conservatives were unfairly targeted under President Barack Obama.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) reviewed cases between May 2010 and May 2012, around the same period TIGTA previously examined in a 2013 report that faulted the IRS for using inappropriate political criteria to select groups for heightened scrutiny.

That earlier report found that 96 groups with names referencing "Tea Party," "Patriot" or "9/12" were selected for intensive review, and the House Ways and Means Committee later identified another 152 right-leaning groups that were subjected to scrutiny.

Those findings fueled accusations by Republican lawmakers that the Obama administration engaged in politically motivated targeting of conservatives.

But Democrats have long challenged those claims, arguing that liberal-leaning groups were given close scrutiny alongside the conservative groups.

The 2013 TIGTA report, they argued, was based on selective criteria that omitted numerous nonconservative groups that were also subjected to close IRS review.

The new TIGTA report examines a broader range of criteria used by the IRS at the time, including groups affiliated with the now-defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), as well as others referencing "Progressive," "Green Energy," "Medical Marijuana" and "Occupy."

Together, the watchdog identified 146 cases in which the IRS examined left-leaning groups for suspicion of engaging in disallowed political activity.

Eighty-three of those were definitively chosen for scrutiny because of the selection criteria, the inspector general found; the report could not definitively determine how the other cases were chosen.

The Washington Post reviewed a version of the TIGTA report dated Sept. 28 that has been circulated to various lawmakers and committees on Capitol Hill.

The full report is set to be released to the public Thursday.

The new report reiterates the inspector general's earlier criticism of the IRS review process at the time, calling it "inappropriate" to target groups for scrutiny based on their names rather than on actual evidence of illicit political activity that would leave them ineligible for tax exemptions.

Senator Bob Corker: Tillerson, Mattis and Kelly ‘help separate our country from chaos’

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R) offered a blunt assessment of the Trump administration on Wednesday, saying his top advisers “help separate the country from chaos."

Corker, addressing an NBC News report that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson considered resigning in frustration over his role, painted the former ExxonMobil executive — along with Chief of Staff John Kelly and Secretary of Defense James Mattis — as having a calming influence in the administration.

"I think Secretary Tillerson, Secretary Mattis and Chief of Staff Kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos," Corker told reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday afternoon.

The Tennessee senator expressed sympathy for Tillerson, who he said is in an “incredibly frustrating place."

Corker added that Tillerson “ends up not being supported in the way I would hope a secretary of state would be supported.”

The stark assessment comes after Corker announced last week that he would not seek reelection in 2018, a move that affords him more freedom in his current role.

Misty » 04 Oct 2017 11:23 pm » wrote:Wow! Another right wing narrative bites the dust.
Looks like the IRS did not only target Conservative groups for extra scrutiny.
That sound you don’t hear is a million corrections on conservative news and opinion sites not being written.

Misty » 05 Oct 2017 12:32 am » wrote: Seems like they only tell the truth when they're out of office or on their way out of office.

Misty » 04 Oct 2017 10:04 pm » wrote: You are a veritable font of misinformation.