So, leftists.... wondering why Trump won? (Video - Language Warning)

Here's a take on why Trump won and an indictment of the fringe-left over why.  Six minutes plus.

Apparently, the F-word is a requirement every other sentence, but that aside, I agree with the strategic observations.

It explains a lot and stands as an indictment of the left.

The left, being intellectually dishonest, has nothing.  But these allegations are dead on.

We see it every day, everywhere.... even locally.

And as long as the left curls up in their safe space and merely attacks those they disagree with, their increasing irrelevance will continue to be the outcome.

Kommissar McCauley:"The beatings will continue until morale improves,,, and NONE of this is MY fault."

When you have a guy who's set himself up as a gauleiter of the county staff who answers to 4 clueless stooges, the result of a complete failure of leadership is frequently going to be the results we have today as indicated by county staff.

The true éminence grise of Clark County is Mark McCauley, the "Manager."

And apparently, on his watch, Clark County employee morale has plummeted.

Given how much the local cancer on our community covers for county government, you know it MUST be bad for the rag to even mention this issue.

McCauley, who got this sweet deal thanks to RINO support of my incompetent, officially-banned-by-the-PDC-from-running-his-own-campaigns brother-in-law, doesn't answer to anyone.

Remember back in the days of David Madore being on the council?  Anytime he said anything about county government, the leftists whined that such was the job of Marc Boldt, who at his best has a difficult time stringing together two coherent thoughts if Jimmy Mains isn't around to tell him what to do.

Now, of course, Boldt doesn't seem to be mentioned, let alone quoted, about why county employee morale sucks.

McCauley, BEING McCauley, naturally blames everyone and everything else but himself.  The whipping boys for current piss-poor morale are, naturally, Don Benton and David Madore.

Of course, of the two examples in the story where morale is allegedly good, those same two people were here during that time, right?  So those guys being here are somehow to blame for morale where it's poor, but not where it isn't?

Makes perfect sense.

The rag naturally doesn't dig any deeper than that, which is not surprising given that to the minds of the democratian, those two are responsible for every problem known to government.

Here's the thing: Benton hasn't been there for the better part of a year and his department was vaporized.

And while he was there the rag... and McCauley and his winged monkeys... did everything they could to hammer the perceptions of Benton.

What would they expect the outcome to be?  McCauley not only got rid of Benton, he seems to have gotten rid of anyone that didn't loathe the man as much as he, McCauley happens to loathe him.

This kind of article is what we've come to expect from the rag,  given the sloppiness that passes for journalism at the democratian.  It's not terribly surprising, then, that neither this article nor the failure of the rag to include the report itself in PDF form... you know.... so we can read it ourselves and form our own conclusions without self-serving pap by McCauley to explain it all... to pollute the conclusions?  ...would do anything different... like have the reporter actually interview county employees themselves to get their take.

After all, we mustn't do anything to screw up the meme... and imagine the fall out if the truth came out that the hideous numbers were a result of the leadership/management vacuum caused by the 4 Stooges (Boldt/Blom/Stuart/Olson) and this insidious form of government were crippled with were actually the cause.

Here's a clue: if you pillory anyone who works for you for years, it's hard to believe that such an outcome wouldn't be the result.

McCauley, for his part, refused to take any responsibility for any of this, even though he was in charge of the staff for much of that time.

Didn't the Army learn you better'n that, boy?

Here's the thing that's also missing from this article: the true indicator of "employee morale" is the vacancy rate.

Surely, vast swathes of departments have no one working in them because so many people have quit, right?

Boldt, for his part, wasn't asked to comment, even though, as we were repeatedly reminded while Madore was there, BOLDT was supposed to be the voice of the council.

And I understand why Marc wasn't asked.  Because he knows more about performing an abdominal resection than he does what's going on in his shop.

Let's remember: I worked for this guy Boldt for six years in the legislature... and management wasn't particularly his thing.  For example, he would have me fill out my own employee evaluation reports.. then he'd just sign them.  Once I literally wrote that I was the greatest employee in the history of House staff and that the only reason I didn't walk on water was that I didn't like wet shoes.

He signed it and it went in if memory serves.

Between the PDC neutering this guy and this outcome, is it any wonder much of county staff appears to be contemplating professional suicide?

"Freedom of the Press." What does it mean? What are their responsibilities for that "freedom?"

Ahhhh, yes. "Freedom of the Press."

What, exactly, does that mean?

Well, first, let's take a look at the 1st Amendment":

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Well, briefly, in order, it tells us that CONGRESS shall make no law

1.  Establishing religion.
2.  Prohibiting the free exercise of religion
3.  Abridging (curtailing or restricting) free speech
4.  Restricting the press.
5.  Restricting the right of the people to peaceably assemble
6.  Restricting the right to petition government for a redress of grievances.

Powerful stuff, that.  You'll note that the first right in the 1st Amendment is the right to practice your religion without restriction.

Yet, we have a great many restrictions on that practice.  There's a huge number of "can'ts."  There's a large number of "have too," and over the last two terms, the Obama Administration treated religious organizations as if they were no different than any other business.

The press, being the press, didn't care... except to join in with the Administration they were so vested in to pound religious organizations and businesses who did not align themselves with the gay agenda... God help you if you won't bake a cake or do a flower arrangement for a same sex marriage... Constitutional Protections notwithstanding.

Freedom of speech is a misnomer in that we do not, nor should we, have an absolute right to say or write anything we please.

I can't threaten harm to anyone here.  I can't threaten to kill someone, or injure them, or to blow up, say, the county administration building.

In short, freedom of speech does not preclude freedom of regulation.  As such, we do not have any innate ability to say whatever, whenever, we believe it to be appropriate: the yelling of "fire" in a movie theater comes to mind.

There are no known enforced restrictions on the press per se'; so they invent their own and run around screaming "freedom of the press!" as if it were some master key they can turn on whenever and however they please.

In short, our freedom of speech does not come with freedom of responsibility for what we say and when... and how... we say it.

Yet, on those occasions where the media desires to lie, to exaggerate, to twist, to misrepresent, to attack those their biases demand (Think Lefty Lou Brancaccio attacking David Madore every other word or so for the past several years) the bar to hold these scum accountable is so high that it's almost impossible to cross over it.

So, when the media and the left start whining about the President violating freedom of the press as if they're on some pedestal and making the inevitable (and mostly false) comparisons between President Trump and Hitler, remember that there are no absolutes when it comes to "freedom," particularly that variety that precludes being held responsible for what you write, or say, or present on TV.

And was it an abridgement of the freedom of the press when Obama spied on reporters to, for example, James Rosen of FoxNEWS?

I believe it's far more of such an act of restricting the press than anything President Trump has done.

And where was the "press's" actual outrage over THAT effort to restrict the press?

No where.  Because they were vested in the Obama presidency, which is part and parcel of why they were... and continue to be.... the very thing the President has defined them to be: enemies of the people.

The press has a privileged place in our society.  Academically, they perform a valuable function when they actual practice journalism instead of advocacy.

For years now, they've been expanding their envelope of replacing facts with their fiction, carefully crafted to achieve their agenda.  Again, at the local level, the political assassination of David Madore stands as an example of the kind of abuse of position... the variety of tyranny that the left professes to loath... but only when it's aimed at those they support... never when it is used as a weapon against those they oppose.

Historically, when dictators want to cement power or rise to it, they take a much more active role in controlling... or in the alternative, silencing the press.

If reporters are spied upon the way the Obama Administration spied on them or put them on the terror watch list, then yes.... that is a problem.  Although whatever outrage the media manufactured over those despicable episodes was short-lived t non-existent to be sure...

If reporters are arrested.  If reporters are killed.  If their news organizations are shut down by the government... then we have an issue with press freedom.

But excluding lying scum from certain briefings is no more an affront to press freedom than Obama's incessant attacks against FOXNews.

So, here's a hint:

Media, if you want to be given access... just tell the truth.

Don't embellish one way or the other.  Knock off the advocacy.  Treat both sides of politics the EXACT, SAME, WAY.

Knock of even the APPEARANCE of favoritism.

Let along the actual variety routinely practiced at almost every level.

Understand that we are not stupid: we can think for ourselves and that the reality is that you people in the media are no smarter than we are.

Hillary lost the election for a variety of reasons, including the fact that she was a terrible candidate.  And understand that she lost in spite of the media's best efforts.... their corruption.

The media must gain an understanding that they are NOT the smartest people in the room.

I wish the media was believable.  I wish we, as a people, could trust them.

But we all know at some level that we can't.

The President is merely holding them accountable.  They don't like it... but who does?

That they aren't thrilled by it?  Cry me a river.

Did Carolyn Crain and her RINO's know they were supporting an incompetent for council chair?

Haven't heard much of anything... from anyone... that the PDC dropped something of a Hammer on my esteemed brother-in-law's head when they partially nailed him for screwing up his campaign paperwork:

So, what we have here is a county council chair that has been directly forbidden from keeping his own campaign records. Not only is he prohibited from serving as his own campaign treasurer, but no one in his family can, either.

Boldt, Marc - Alleged violation of RCW 42.17A.235, .240 failing to timely report contributions/expenditures for the 2015 campaign (Oct 2015), and failing to file a C-3 report and loan schedule for a 2012 loan to the campaign.

Ticket Number: 1195
Complainant: Kenny Smith
Respondent: Marc Boldt
Created Date: October 29, 2015
Status of Investigations: Violation

Description:

Kenny Smith filed a complaint against Marc Boldt, a candidate for Clark County Council Chair in 2015, alleging that he violated RCW 42.17A.235 and .240 by failing to file Monetary Contribution reports (C-3 reports) and Campaign Summary Contribution and Expenditure reports (C-4 reports) disclosing contribution and expenditure activities undertaken during the 2015 election cycle. 

On September 1, 2016, Kelly Hinton filed a complaint against the 2012 March Boldt Campaign alleging that Mr. Boldt received a $5,000 loan repayment on August 29, 2012, but that the Campaign failed to file a C-3 report and Schedule L disclosing the initial $5,000 loan from Mr. Boldt made to his campaign.

The complaint filed by Kelly Hinton against Marc Boldt has been combined with the earlier Kenny Smith complaint filed against Mr. Boldt.

An Enforcement Hearing before the Full Commission has been scheduled for Marc Boldt for the January 26, 2017 Commission meeting.  Mr. Boldt and PDC staff have completed a signed Stipulation to Facts, Violations, and Penalty.

At the January 26, 2017 Commission meeting, the Commission accepted the signed Stipulation of Facts, Violations and Penalty, which assessed a total civil penalty of $2,500 of which $1,500 is suspended on the following condition: (1) Mr. Boldt pays the $1,000 non-suspended portion of the penalty within 30 days of the date of this Order; (2) Mr. Boldt commits no further violations of RCW 42.17A or WAC 390 for four years from the date of this Order; (3) In any future campaign in which Mr. Boldt is a candidate, neither he nor one of his family members may serve as his campaign treasurer; he will use an experienced and trained treasurer in any future campaigns; and (4) In the event Mr. Boldt fails to meet any of the above terms of this order, the entire penalty of $2,500.00 which includes the suspended portion of the penalty ($1,500.00), will become immediately due without any further intervention of the Commission.  PDC staff will refer the debt to the Department of Enterprise Services (DES) for collection.

How sad is that?

He can run a county government... but isn't allowed to run his own campaign.

Unfortunately for Boldt, this complaint isn't over yet.  I filed an additional complaint that indicates that Boldt filed a false expenditure for $5000 and even though the PDC acknowledged that he hadn't paid himself the $5000 from his campaign that he certified he HAD paid himself, he has not been required to account for where the $5000 DID go.

The attachment PDF's, complaint, evidence and findings are at the bottom of this page.

So, what we've got here is a guy running the county who has been restricted from running his own campaign.

The rag says nothing.  The RINO's who hate conservatives with a passion say nothing... and hardly anyone knows that this is what we have running this county.

Considering the front page coverage of a rhetorical Madore parking ticket by the rag and these RINOs, I've got to ask...

...do they hypocrite, much?

Well, gee... it looks like the President intends to enforce federal pot law. Who knew?

Besides me, I mean?

Ever since this idiocy of "legalizing" pot started, I have stated that bogus efforts at the state level notwithstanding, pot remains illegal.

In the Constitution (yeah, I know... it's an archaic document, but it still counts) there's this little number called the "Supremacy Clause."

It says:

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

Recreational pot is illegal.  What the various states, including ours, have done to game that system makes no difference.

It was illegal.  It's STILL illegal.

And no state-passed initiative or bill changes that.

Don't believe me?

Look up AZ SB 1070.

That was the senate bill signed into law in Arizona that effectively empowered Arizona law enforcement to act as if they were federal officers on the matter of immigration and illegal aliens.

 In June 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the case Arizona v. United States, upholding the provision requiring immigration status checks during law enforcement stops but striking down three other provisions as violations of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.^[27]

 In essence, Arizona attempted to become their own immigration authority, since the Obama Administration was assaulting that state and many others by completely obliterating any effort to enforce many, if not most, of the laws governing illegal aliens in this country.

The legal aspect of this is that the federal government reserved to itself the enforcement of the laws in question.

Much like they reserve to itself the authority to declare the recreational growth, sale, possession or consumption of recreational pot to be illegal.

States such as ours didn't care.  the result was the fraud known as I-502.

Lacking any critical thinking skills, many supported I-502 and many in positions of authority who should have known better merely mouthed the outrageous promises made by the pro-side supporting this rip off... like this beauty:

The lie concerning pot revenue used by the

I-502 campaign and bought by the democratian, 

directly from the pro-pot campaign website.

The fact that we've yet to achieve 10% of that figure "ANY year," let alone EVERY year...  means the entire thing was a scam for the suckers of the voting public.

Yes, pot for recreational use is illegal.  Nothing we've done as a state changed that. 

And as I have stated REPEATEDLY, if the fed ever pulled the trigger on legality, there was and is nothing the state could do about it.

Oh, the clueless duo, Inslee, and Ferguson will make a lot of noise, but that's the extent of it.

This state has no more power to ignore federal law on pot than Arizona had to ignore federal law on illegals.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

You see? This is why I have zero difficulty with Trump and how he's dealing with the press/media.

Those paying attention are well aware that the press has abandoned any pretense of journalism much like they've abandoned the pretenses of accuracy, a lack of bias and, in fact, anything BUT advocacy.

That has been the position and the effort of the local cancer on our community for years: no lie, no exaggeration, no false flag, no jihad, no crusade is beyond them when it comes to their agenda.

Their lies about the CRC/Loot Rail scam will reverberate through any effort to replace the I-5 Bridge which, of course, does not NEED to be replaced until at least two other bridges are built, one to the west of the I-5 (North of Vancouver to Hillsboro) and one to the east of the I-205 bridge, (off of 192nd to Troutdale)

When the press lies to the people, either deliberately or through their incompetence, they become the enemy of the people, precisely like the President ha indicated.

And when they admit publicly that their JOB is to lie... as Chris Matthews admitted shortly after the nightmare of Obama began:

Journalist Chris Matthews Will Do Everything in His Power to Make Obama's Presidency Successful

Were you still debating whether Chris Matthews is in the tank for Barack Obama? Then find a new hobby, because the writing's on the stall. But then Matthews went overboard this morning, on colleague Joe Scarborough's Morning Joe, and pretty much nominated himself the new president's press secretary. 

"The worst thing you can do in journalism is try to figure out motive. 

There's no way to determine it," Matthews said. 

Not only is this statement patently false — figuring out motive is pretty important, like George Bush's motives for invading Iraq — but Matthews followed it up with this: "I want to do everything I can to make this thing work … this new presidency work." 

Yes, that is Matthews the journalist speaking. 

CM: I want to do everything I can to make this thing work … this new presidency work. 

JS: Is that your job? 

CM: Yeah that's my job. 

JS: Your job as a journalist is to make this presidency work? 

CM: To make this work successfully, because this country needs a successful presidency more than anything right now. 

[...] 

CM: How can you not route[sic] for the success of the new president? 

JS: As Americans, Chris Matthews, we're all rooting for the success of Barack Obama, But you just talked about being a journalist and your job as a journalist is not to question motives, and then two seconds later you said your job is to make this presidency a success … I just think that's curious.

And when Matthews admitted that he would be deliberately biased, he became an enemy of the people.

Likewise, now, the Matthew's style cabal are taking the exact opposite tact: they are going to do everything in their power to destroy the presidency of Donald Trump... no matter how much the country may suffer as a result.

More recently... one of the more clueless morons from MSNBC, some woman I've never heard of since more orangutans watch MSNBC than people, ADMITTED that media's JOB was to "actually control exactly what people think."

The press has freedom, of course.  But it is NOT freedom from responsibility.

And that freedom does NOT entail "controlling what people think."

This is, I believe, what the President is referring to when he calls the media "enemies of the people."  Because this, you see, is an acknowledgement by one of these talking heads that instead of their job being to provide the news in a fair an unbiased and actual manner, it is, to hear this woman tell it, "their job" to control what we think.

Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels would be proud.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

Is the money spent on the Public Disclosure Commission worth it?

I don't have a ton of experience with the actual PDC.  Like many others, I've sent deposits and expenditures in, pondered complaints when filed against candidates I'm working with and the like.

However, I've been a rabid follower of the filings of the candidates reporting to the PDC.  Where their money is coming from (when they can get it) and where it goes are typical "tells."  Those reports can be an invaluable tool when running a campaign.  And that is why so many candidates, effectively, blow off the PDC because they're well aware they seem to be a group of toothless bureaucrats who do nothing more than sending out letters and when they DO act, they typically act in such a way that the punishments rarely rise above that level required for a forgotten parking ticking in scope and impact.

Less information = fewer tips to the other side.

Recently, a sitting state senator; unfortunately, one "representing" the special interests of the state and her district to the detriment of the people of that district, allowed her fraudulent PDC reporting to go uncorrected for in excess of a year.

She had, effectively, over-reported her donations by a paltry $182,000 or so.

She had committed numerous of violations of the rules, laws, and policies of the Public Disclosure Commission.

Serious business, that.

Did the Commission... who waited more than a year after I filed my complaint against Rivers, act in such a way that this isn't likely to happen again?

Nope.  Rivers lied about "mistakes," and  that it was "unintentional on her part."

Right.  Letting the world believe she had $182,000 more on hand than she actually had... for over a year... was "unintentional."

It's as if she hadn't ever bothered to look at her OWN PDC's!

And how likely is that?

Those elected or running for election frequently look at their own PDC's.  They can't help it.

Rivers would have us believe that even though her own husband maintained the campaign checkbook, she simply had no clue that in the PDC's she was overstating her campaign account by 10's of thousands of dollars.

And this woman gets a vote on our taxes... the state budget... and, of course, screwing us sideways on the gas tax... all while being unable to handle her own campaign finances and then failing to take responsibility for her very own deliberate actions?

And what was the penalty for her violations, this experienced politician... this campaign consultant for over a decade... this veteran of dozens of PDC forms and filings?

She was fined $4000... with $3000 of that suspended.  And, of course, after the election... you know, to make sure it couldn't become a campaign issue?

Yup.  $1000 for deliberately misleading the people.  It was, she said, ALL a "mistake."

For a year. Over almost $200,000.

And that brings us to the esteemed Chair of the Clark County Council, Marc Boldt.

During the course of his campaign in 2012, where David Madore pounded him like a nail, Boldt filed an expenditure report which indicated he, Boldt, had personally removed $5000 from his campaign account... for repayment of a loan that he, Boldt, had personally made to his own campaign.

As it turns out, according to the PDC investigation, the repayment shown in Boldt's own records and reported by Boldt himself, did NOT take place... and Boldt did NOT pay himself $5000.

He provided bank statements to prove it.

But what those banks statements ALSO proved was that he, Boldt, had lied on the form when he DID report that he HAD paid himself that money.

Further, even now, there are NO records to indicate where that money DID go.

This was the PDC's response when I reminded them of all of this:

Mr. Hinton,

Your allegation was concerning the loan for the 2012 campaign and that is what I investigated. The bank statement confirmed that no loan was made by Mr. Boldt or repaid to him. 

PDC staff did not have review the 2012 campaign filings other than the loan issue, nor was there any reason to do so once the bank statements were reviewed.  In addition, Mr. Boldt acknowledged the error on the record at the Commission hearing and he realized that he did not process the transaction properly in ORCA, but stated those were the facts.

The Commission dismissed the allegation, but modified the Stipulation to require payment of the $1,000 non-suspended portion of the penalty within 30 days not 60 days.  The Commission added another condition that if Mr. Boldt seeks election to another office in the future, he is required to hire a professional or experienced Treasurer to assist him in complying with the law, and that neither he nor any family member can serve in that capacity.

This case has been adjudicated by the Commission, and I am closing this ticket.

Kurt Young
PDC Compliance Officer

So, the PDC KNOWS that Boldt lied; they have his ACKNOWLEDGMENT that he lied, and THAT he lied meant absolutely nothing in their deliberations.

He "closed the ticket."

I filed a formal complaint with the Attorney General's office alleging Boldt's misconduct and the PDC's failure to address Boldt's false reporting and refiled the PDC complaint against Boldt, THIS time laying out both that Boldt lied AND the PDC knew it AND that they have the evidence that proves it.

So, if anyone were to look at Boldt's PDC's for 2012, they would STILL find inaccurate and opaque records which do NOT accomplish the PDC's goal of either accuracy or transparency and which are, as admitted to by Marc Boldt, false.

Because of all of this, it has become clear that the Public Disclosure Commission is weak, they stall, they wait far too long to adjudicate these cases and, as we all know the axiom: "Justice delayed is Justice denied."

And it's time to get rid of them and replace them with something that assures accuracy and timeliness and has the power to properly hold those who lie to us and/or manipulate the system, accountable for their actions.

Because this... is not that.

Local leftist insanity: Seattle Times pushes "Jay Inslee for President." I kid you not.

Imagine my surprise when I read THIS insanity in the Seattle Times:

Jay Inslee for president? Governor’s profile is on the rise

Originally published February 21, 2017 at 6:30 am Updated February 21, 2017 at 6:52 am

Gov. Jay Inslee applauds as a Somali immigrant, Isahaq Ahmed Rabi, is hugged by family members on his arrival at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Because of the president’s executive order on immigration he had earlier been turned away when attempting to join his wife, a U.S. citizen. (Bettina Hansen/The Seattle Times)

Along with Attorney General Bob Ferguson, Gov. Jay Inslee has enjoyed multiple victory laps after the state’s legal wins in a lawsuit to block Trump’s executive order halting travel from seven mostly Muslim nations that have been identified as terrorist potential threats.

By

Jim Brunner Seattle Times political reporter

The turbulent early weeks of President Donald Trump’s White House have had an unexpected side effect: boosting Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s national profile.

Since the start of February, Inslee has been interviewed, sometimes repeatedly, by CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, the BBC, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, POLITICO and Bloomberg TV, among others.

More:

In the interest of full disclosure, I am from Seattle.  And Seattle is a great place.... to be from.

That anyone would seriously consider Jay Inslee to be president of anything outside a kennel club is  mystery to me.

His tenure as governor has been marked by a complete absence of accomplishment and a series of lies, particularly concerning taxes, that have marred his campaigns from the getgo.

Further, he's showing signs of early Parkinson's and dementia.

The shaking of his hands and so forth has been hidden by the media, but elected sources have mentioned it repeatedly to me.

Further, I refer you back to that rambling, incoherent, idiotic speech that moron gave at SeaTac as he was refusing to allow a good crisis to go to waste:

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Seems like Inslee's brain is disassembling.

As expected, the fringe leftists around here... our worthless fake congresswoman Herrera, our two state cows Murray and Cantwell, and the unmitigated disaster of our latest worthless senate candidate/RINO/incompetent former GOP chair Chris Vance have been implementing Rham Emanuel's dictate  to never let a good crisis go to waste.

But few have screwed it up worse than our whack-job governor, Jay Inslee.

He did a little speech, about six minutes long, that I urge you to watch... but through a different eye.



Don't look at it for content: he was just mouthing the usual verbiage of fringe-left slime who would shoot their own children before supporting ANYTHING Trump would do.  Think in terms of Lyin' Lefty Lou Brancaccio and David Madore: Lefty Lou would shoot himself before he acknowledged that Madore had done ANYTHING right.

Ignore the title of this video.  Like most of what Inslee spews here, the title is a lie and in this video, Inslee didn't declare Trump an Enemy of the United States.  Instead, look below the surface.  Look at how he says what he says.  Look at how disjointed he is... how he repeats things... how he seems to struggle to find ways to express himself.

The content, of course, is worthless.  But that's not the issue here.  The issue here is the mechanics of how he goes about it.  Inslee is a very physically sick man, politics aside.

I've been hearing for years that Inslee manifests symptoms of Parkinson's Disease.  Shaking hands... mood swings... disjointed thinking.

Clearly, Inslee's brain is becoming increasingly impacted by that malady... or that man was drunk, or stoned or both when he spouted this babble.

Watch how he does what he does. Draw your own conclusion.

That the Seattle Times would shill this guy for anything but in-home care is astounding and yet another sign that the leftist-media just thinks we're stupid.

Inslee has been a waste of skin as governor: paralyzed intellectually, unable to make anything happen: he couldn't lead his way out of a wet paper sack.

And the Times wants HIM to be PRESIDENT?

President Trump makes his first policy mistake... and it's YUUUUUGE: Allowing "Dreamers" to stay.

Yeah, I know, he had hinted at that stupidity.  But allowing illegals to use their foreign-born kids as anchor babies to stay here will typically mean allowing their parents and other siblings to stay.

And if the goal is to reduce/eliminate illegal aliens from invading our country... how does giving them this way to stay here accomplish that?  And how does this policy prevent future infants from being used as an anchor to stay here... much like anchor babies themselves are used as a tool to stay here?

Yeah, I've heard all of the arguments.  I've heard all the bogus "tearing families apart" crap.

But life is a series of decisions.  And that this country should allow these criminal decisions to be made and implemented by those scheming to wiz on our laws... to manipulate the system to their advantage and to insult the millions around the world who stand in line and follow the law.

One does not provide a cure for drug addiction by allowing the addict to keep and use the drugs they smuggled into the country years ago because they, the smuggler, managed to get them over the border.

Now, I am well aware that "drugs" and "people" are not the same.  But the PRINCIPLE is.

As a nation, it is not OUR fault that the PARENTS of these illegals (And face it, no matter how you dress it up, a "dreamer" is just as illegal as the parent(s) who brought them here.) made this decision and by implementing this as a policy, what possible incentive has the President provided to end this practice?


None.

And now?

We all will suffer for it.

Is this harsh?

Of course it is.  But frequently, so is reality.

And this.... is that.

Memo for light rail shilling idiots: KGW reports- having wasted hundreds of millions on loot rail, Portland is the 12th most congested city in the country.

This speaks for itself.  Every fringe-left clown who sees loot rail as a cure for ANYTHING needs a frontal lobotomy for the obvious reason that they're brain-damaged idiots.

Having blown the better part of at least two billion, the city of Portland ranks 12th in the country for congestion and 40th on the entire world for that particular achievement.

http://www.kgw.com/news/study-ranks-portland-as-12th-clogged-city-in-the-country/410055845

Seattle, which stupidly just agreed to waste $54 BILLION on this failed technology... and which has wasted even more billions on the system they have now, ranks 10th in the country and 23rd worst on the entire PLANET.

THIS is what the leftists and the RINOs want here in Clark County.  Screwing us for $700 million for Seattle's horrific traffic problem isn't nearly enough.  NOW, these same clowns, the Rivers, Wilsons, Harris's and Vicks want to screw us even MORE.

12th most congested in the country.  An no additional amount of wasted billions is going to change that if you don't address the roads.

Choke on it, you simple morons.

Are the media the "Enemy of the American people?"

And if they are, what makes people believe that?

Of course, they are our enemy.

Both locally and nationally, most media believe the people to be stupid.

Far too often Media believes that our judgment and mentality are FAR inferior to theirs.

There's no proof that such a conclusion is true, naturally.  In fact, there's a great deal of evidence to the contrary.

I get it, however.  The times have changed a great deal faster than the mindset of those producing the media product: those old school news types like the clown recently departed from running the local carbuncle on Clark County was brought up in a time when Walter Cronkite and his ilk along with William Randolph Hearst and HIS ilk were the ONLY sources of "real news."  They were privileged icons on American media and, well, their veracity was rarely questioned at the time and neither was the content of what they reported.

But now we're in a position to get an almost continuous flow of information from a huge number of sources.  In everything from other networks to the blogosphere, there are a thousand different ways to check these people and how they've allowed their agenda to obliterate their responsibility: the reporting of facts unsullied by the pollution of their opinion.

For example, the clown who was recently running the local cancer on our community believes himself, wrongly, to be the smartest guy in the room.  He knows absolutely everything about everything, and the possibility he could be wrong about anything is simply beyond his comprehension.

If he spews it from his word processor, it must be true, accurate and correct.

That he is so very wrong on so many things, that he used that wart on a pig's butt he ran as a cudgel to attack his multiple political enemies... long demolishing the tattered remnants of what little integrity he may have had... to mobilize his fellow leftist sheep into a froth of hatred while he incessantly attacked those who politically opposed him... at least those he didn't beat into shape like Wilson, Boger and can we ever forget his multiple attacks on Peter VanNortwick?

Well, as they turned hard left, the attacks stopped.  They even became drinking buddies.  Right, Brent?  Can't beat 'em, join 'em and all that?

The institutional double standard this moron breathed in and out every day he was at the rag was an infected lesion on our county.  He lied about people, manipulated people, exaggerated about people and, as a matter of policy, demanded that his winged monkeys do the same so HE could shape the agenda of this county.

He has left the role of editor.  He will be missed precisely as much as the clueless idiot he replaced, even if he was a bigger-drinking clone of Tom Koenninger who absolutely NOBODY talks about today.

Even in what is likely to be his last falsity fest known as his column as editor, he had to lie on the way out.  

Sharon Wylie. I have a number of both liberal and conservative friends who are elected officials. But many of them get a little antsy if it gets around that I’m talking to or hanging out with them.

A part of the local RINO cabal drinking it up at Lou's 

This lie is obvious.  Lefty Lou despises any conservative. Further, if they are "friends," why would they lie about their relationship with you, Lefty?  "Antsy?"  Now, why on earth would ANYONE get "antsy" hanging out with someone who molested the science of journalism as much as Lou did?

Thus, Lefty has zero "conservative friends who are elected officials."  But he kept up that façade all the way to the end of his tenure.  And that lie is as much a lie as his years-long lie that he isn't a fringe-left cracker.

My critics. I wanted to give a special shout-out to my critics. I’ve got plenty of them. I don’t always agree with them, but it’s important to me to listen to them and respect them. So thank you for being concerned enough to engage with me..

As arguably this moron's biggest critic over the years, I watched as he would full-on attack those who didn't see it his way... on anything. He abused his position on a regular basis, routinely calling out a particular class of people who directly gave back to him as good as we got (bloggers) and then watched as some critics... or some he THOUGHT were critics, stood up to smack him in the face in ways he typically deserved.

Not only does he NOT respect his critics, he literally hates us with a passion.

In fact, many times, he would use his position to attempt to destroy us.  When he came after me and I refused to play his game, he insisted on emailing me every day in an attempt to goad me into responding.  I ignored him.

Now, does his efforts towards myself and others speak to any "respect" he had towards us?

That the man is a liar is obvious: his claim here that he "listened" to us is a flat out joke.  He never listened to ANYONE... in fact, he hung on to the CRC/Loot Rail scam, even after he KNEW that the people were excluded from consideration in any meaningful way BY POLICY as if it were the last available lifeboat on the Titanic.

Some of the local RINO crew benefited from kissing Lefty Lou's ass.  Lynda Wilson benefited from those huge checks Tracy wrote that bought both Lefty Lou's endorsement AND those full page ads for her recent Senate race.  Her signing on to the "Resurrection of the CRC/Loot Rail Scam" bill is a sign that she's got the same level of care and conservatism for her district as say, Marc "Tax Increase" Boldt does for this county.

(Both of the Wilsons, for example, absolutely HAD to make it to the "Nobody but a RINO/Leftist gives a crap, get lost Brancaccio party" what... Friday?  Boldt and his keeper, Jimmy Mains were there as well... because, gee, Lefty has just done so MUCH for them!)

As I've pointed out before, the democratian completely protects those they view as political allies: Boldt made sure to end Brancaccio's humiliation at losing the official county newspaper designation as he helped Lying Lefty rape the taxpayers by charging us twice as much or more to print official notices... a job the Reflector had been doing equally well for half the money.

Has anyone read anything in the rag about the PDC determining that Boldt was incompetent to administer his own political campaigns... his next, presuming he runs again, being his NINTH.... only to have the Columbian print NOTHING about this political humiliation?

(3) In any future campaign in which Mr. Boldt is a candidate, neither he nor one of his family members may serve as his campaign treasurer; he will use an experienced and trained treasurer in any future campaigns;

How can someone so clueless run a county?  And I'd ask why the rag isn't writing this story, but we already know why, don't we?

Now, I've spent time here in this post, with the most obvious LOCAL enemy of the people, Lyin' Lefty Lou Brancaccio.  But that's just here at the local level.

NATIONALLY, the corrupt nature of the national media was exposed REPEATEDLY when CNN made sure, for example, that Hillary was provided with debate questions in advance or the New York Times or Politico reporters who sent the Hillary Campaign stories for their approval.

Univision, CNBC, TV-One, CNN, The Boston Globe and others outed by the WikiLeaks effort, show how corrupt the media is.  Added to the huge number of media types who donated to Hillary's campaign... and, yeah, the bias is obvious and their damage caused by lies and misrepresentation?

Of course these people are enemies.  Enemies of the truth.  Enemies of the people.

As a conclusion of all the information available, it is easy to see where the media failed us.  It's equally astounding that the people managed to cast off their blinders and ignore the efforts to program them into little leftist robots.

Locally, we weren't that lucky.  Locally, the leftists banded together with the RINOs and tore our government to pieces, lying every step of the way, from the false claim that the charter was "more democratic" (Yeah, like voting for all 3 commissioners is somehow less democratic than voting for 2 out of 5 councilors) to the despicable claim of Greg Kimsey that once the people voted for this governmental HIV, we could cure it by voting to get rid of it... which is absolutely untrue.

I am, oddly enough, a complete believer in the First Amendment.  I prepaid my right to use it by devoting 14+ years of service to my country by wearing her uniform.  I surf it every day on this blog.

I ALSO believe in freedom of the press.  But those freaking out because the President won't allow them to walk all over him while he bends over and screams, "thank you, Sir, may I have another?" confuse the decisions he's made to exclude the lying scum who don't report "news" as much as they report "agenda," from getting access to him as "suppression of the press."

I subscribe to the thought that these are freedoms listed in our Constitution that do NOT take place without responsibility.

I am responsible for every word I write.  When I discover I'm wrong, I correct that wrong.

For the most part, media at all levels report their errors with the frequency of a Haley's comet fly-by.  Shoddy journalism is the rule with the local rag, and it is ALWAYS to benefit those FOL's...(Friends of Lou) who do not want the entire truth out there.

So, when the leftist/RINO cabal claim that Trump is "suppressing the press" they're lying through their tooth.

Those making such a complaint have zero clue as to what "suppression of the press" even begins to mean.

Who, for example, has been executed?  Who has been arrested?   What newspapers or other media has been shut down?

Obama attacked FOXNews on a routine basis.  Where was the leftist outrage from that?

Obama even put a FoxNEWS contributor Steven Hayes on the terrorist watch list.  Where was John McCain's outrage then?  Where was the left's faux concern?

Nowhere.

So, yeah... the media generally has forgotten their responsibility to the American people... their responsibility to be completely truthful; to leave their opinion, which is no better than anyone else's, out of it; and to take no advocacy position either for or against a person, an issue, a project or anything else the people are fully capable of determining on our own without their biases and corruption.

Freedom does not come without responsibility.  And those who insist on lying about the president in the guise of news are not beyond being held accountable for their actions.

After all, what's the point of allowing access to swindle sheets like the Washington Post, the NYT, or, for that matter, our local democratian when you know the story they print is something more likely to have been pulled out of the reporter's ass than instead, bearing even a passing resemblance to the truth?

There's a reason polling indicates the people trust the Trump Administration more than the media.  And all of that.... ALL of that... is on those most responsible: those in charge of the words they print or broadcast.

Twenty years ago, there was an article written by, surprisingly enough, a reporter at the Columbian who had figured it out.  I'll leave you with it... (Sadly, this is the only snippet I could find...)

NEWSPAPERS TRY TO REGAIN CREDIBILITY WITH READERS 

From: The Columbian Date: July 28, 1997 Author: MIKE FEINSILBER

The Columbian 07-28-1997

WASHINGTON -- Would you believe this?

A lot of editors worry that you wouldn't -- that people are less willing these days to believe what they read in the newspapers.

They fear that, for a variety of reasons, newspapers are suffering a crisis in credibility, losing the irreplaceable asset of believability. The press has a lot to worry about these days: stagnant circulation, too few young readers, the Internet's threat to the lucrative classified advertising business. Still, many industry executives put the decline in newspaper credibility they see at the top of their list of woes. "When you have national poll numbers that say half the public believes your reports are unfactual, then I view it as a serious problem," said Sandra Mims Rowe, editor of The Oregonian in Portland and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. …

Twenty years on... and neither the rag nor the national media have yet to get there. 

Get your blood pressure checked: 12 years ago today I unplugged my older brother...

I was working in the Yacolt Food Bank today (Lewis River Mobile Food Bank) when the thought occurred to me that 12 years ago today, I unplugged my brother from life-support at Harborview Hospital in Seattle.

The middle brother of three (I'm the youngest) he died from a massive stroke that had made him incapable of speech, movement or feeling in 3 limbs and absolutely incapable of communication or anything beyond a vegetative state.

And it was a total waste.

My brother's name is Mike, he's resting in the Willamette National Cemetery.  Our oldest brother, Roy, had suffered a massive but not fatal stroke in 2000.  He can barely speak and is paralyzed on one side.  The irony is that he walked into the hospital emergency room and that's how he ended up.

Both of my brothers suffered from strokes: my mother also died from a stroke, and yes, there is a genetic component.

Of the 4 of us, I am the only one who had high blood pressure diagnosed and the only one undergoing treatment.

Mike had no excuse.  As a veteran, he was eligible for free-reduced cost medical care: he had opened u a VA account but had never once used it to get checked out.

Had he done so, he likely would still be alive.

Don't be like Mike.

All of the other 3 smoked like trains.  For whatever the reason, I never did.

But the thing is, for the most part, high blood pressure can be treated.  But only if it's discovered.

If you haven't had your blood pressure checked recently, go make that happen.

It's an absurd reason to die or suffer the other damage high blood pressure can cause (kidney, heart, lungs, and so forth) when it's painlessly detected and painlessly treated.

Do yourself and your loved ones a favor.  Go get checked, even if it's one of those free BP checking stations at Fred Meyer.  And if it's high, then get off your ass and go get treatment.

You're likely to regret it if you don't.

How worthless is the PDC? An interesting story concerning local media bias and Marc Boldt/David Madore - if Lefty Lou likes you, he likes you.

Regular readers know that to my shame, the chair of the Clark County Council is my fringe-left brother-in-law, Marc Boldt.

There is zero difference in his governance than there was that of former commissioner Steve Stuart, who programed Boldt to ignore the people he would govern and to just do what he wants, regardless of what's best for us or what we want.  That's why, for example, he was such a rabid CRC scammer and why he steadfastly refused to put the issue to a vote when he was polluting the county commission with his presence.

Along comes David Madore, who played a huge role in gathering up the ammo needed to drop the CRC, temporarily, into the river. (Our local RINO contingent of Rivers, Wilson, Vick and Harris are doing their best to resurrect that zombie.)

Because Madore helped so much to kill the CRC/Loot Rail scam that Lyin' Lefty Lou and his sidekick, Johnny "Cockroach" Laird, proceeded to beat the hell out of him; lying, exaggerating and, well, just generally making it up about him.

So, if anyone even THOUGHT about filing a PDC complaint against Madore, it got ink.  Usually, front page.

Boldt, on the other hand?

He could be arrested for axe murder and you wouldn't hear about it in the cancer on our community.

Is it any wonder the media is so despised?  Both locally and nationally?

Off and on for years, now, I've been writing about my brother-in-law's effort to cover the removal of $5000 from his 2012 campaign, where he claimed he paid himself $5000 to repay a loan that, as it turns out, he'd never made to his own campaign.

The APPEARANCE of that $5000 payment he made to himself, claiming a loan repayment, is one of flatout theft, using a loan repayment to cover it.

Note the amount showing under (Loans.  it's $0.00

As you can see from this screen capture from Boldt's PDC's he had not received ANY loan dollars from anyone... including himself.

Yet here is a screen capture that shows he paid himself $5000 from his campaign to repay himself a loan.

That he had clearly never made.

Screen capture of Boldt's expenditures that shows he had paid himself $5000.

Last September, after writing about it MANY times on this blog, I filed a formal complaint with the PDC alleging that Boldt had stolen $5000 from his own campaign fund for his own personal use.

For whatever the reason, my complaint was combined (without my knowledge or approval) with a complaint which had been filed by Kenny Smith as Chair of the Clark County GOP.

The outcome of Smith's complaint was that his (Smith's) complaint was founded; and that as a result,

At the January 26, 2017 Commission meeting, the Commission accepted the signed Stipulation of Facts, Violations and Penalty, which assessed a total civil penalty of $2,500 of which $1,500 is suspended on the following condition: (1) Mr. Boldt pays the $1,000 non-suspended portion of the penalty within 30 days of the date of this Order; (2) Mr. Boldt commits no further violations of RCW 42.17A or WAC 390 for four years from the date of this Order; (3) In any future campaign in which Mr. Boldt is a candidate, neither he nor one of his family members may serve as his campaign treasurer; he will use an experienced and trained treasurer in any future campaigns; and (4) In the event Mr. Boldt fails to meet any of the above terms of this order, the entire penalty of $2,500.00 which includes the suspended portion of the penalty ($1,500.00), will become immediately due without any further intervention of the Commission.  PDC staff will refer the debt to the Department of Enterprise Services (DES) for collection.

Did that make it into the newspaper?

No?

Why not?

And what's my beef?

Here is the particular finding concerning MY allegation:

"Staff reviewed the bank statements provided by Mr. Boldt "which confirmed that the Campaign did not make a $5,000 bank deposit on July 19, 2012, as listed on the Schedule L to C-4 report.  In addition, the bank statements confirmed that the Campaign did not make a $5,000 loan repayment to Mr. Boldt on August 29, 2012."

OK.  Swell.

That, of course, led to the following:

1.  That $5000 went SOMEWHERE.  if Boldt didn't get it... who did and under what circumstances and for what?

2.  Boldt obviously filed a false expenditure report.  How come the PDC did not punish him for this obvious lie?

3.  And Boldt, to this day, has failed to file an amended C4 to explain where that money DID go.

Here's the thing: when you send in one of these forms concerning money, one of the more interesting things you're doing is certifying that what you send in is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.

CERTIFICATION: I certify that the information herein and on accompanying schedules and attachments is true and correct to the best of my knowledge,”  and he signed that on September 10, 2012.

Boldt OBVIOUSLY knew he was lying.  This wasn't a simple "mistake," this was his EIGHTH election where he had to file PDC's and it's not like he didn't know PRECISELY what he was doing.... yet the PDC referred to that as an "error." The PDC would have us believe that a false... OBVIOUSLY false... expenditure filing is relegated to the status of an ERROR?

PDC staff did not have[sic] review the 2012 campaign filings other than the loan issue, nor was there any reason to do so once the bank statements were reviewed.  In addition, Mr. Boldt acknowledged the error on the record at the Commission hearing and he realized that he did not process the transaction properly in ORCA, but stated those were the facts.

Yes, there WAS other reasons to "do so:"  BOLDT LIED.

He ADMITTED he lied.  No further review of his 2012 campaign filing was required: the evidence was RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM

So, OK.  He provided bank records to indicate that HE had not received the money.  Why wasn't he required to provide bank records to show who DID?

And you see, this goes to the worthlessness of the cancer on our community known as the Columbian. and the somewhat more than questionable value of the Public Disclosure Commission.

Can you even BEGIN to imagine the hack jobs Lefty Lou and his winged monkeys would be doing on David Madore if this had been him instead of Boldt?

As a result, on the 15th of this month, I filed a separate PDC complaint alleging Boldt lied (and the evidence is overwhelming) and a complaint with the Attorney General's office alleging both that Boldt lied and that the Public Disclosure Commission had failed to do anything about it.

Don't hold your breath that the rag will print anything about any of it that even begins to approach how they handled the multiple filings of even unfounded cases against Madore, where they would typically make a big splash about such complaints being filed... but then typically say next to nothing... or nothing at all... when they were thrown out.

Because that's how these leftist scum roll.

Boldt should be forced to resign over this.  And if it were any conservative generally or David Madore particularly, don't think for one minute that the carbuncle on a donkey's butt known as our democrat daily wouldn't be screaming for his scalp... just like they did when he was a new state representative and the rag used to enjoy telling us how "stupid" he was and how he should "resign" before the voters threw him out.

Tom Koenninger demanding Boldt's resignation.

Did you know yesterday was a "day without illegal aliens?"

Actually, the fringe-left stupidly called it a "Day without immigrants" because they refuse to differentiate between the two.

For the intellectually challenged, let me help with that:

An "immigrant" is someone who came here legally.  They did the paperwork.  They waited in line.  They respected our laws.

An illegal alien is a criminal.  They could care less about our laws; they crossed the border illegally and they've committed multiple crimes since their arrival.

To conflate the word "immigrant" with the words "illegal alien" is an insult to immigrants everywhere.

That, however, is neither here not there.

As I expected, the effort was an abysmal failure.  It made precisely zero noticeable difference except to cost those illegals who actually didn't come to work... and the working innocent bystanders of the neo-communist businesses that closed down in "sympathy"... a day's pay.

So, what did yesterday prove?

The exact, precise opposite of what the leftist haters wanted it to prove.

It proved that as a nation, we could do very well without the illegal aliens plaguing us.

That's definitely NOT what the leftists were hoping for: they wanted some sort of paralysis to take place.  The grinding of the economic wheels of this country to a halt.

Well, those who foolishly believed that was going to happen need to climb aboard the

I appreciate the effort, however, since it confirmed what everyone already knew: we can do quite well without depending on the illegal aliens taking jobs away from those here legally or those who are citizens of this great country.

Updated list on the senators selling us out on the CRC Scam.

In laying out the list of local pols who'd sold us out on the senate bill resurrecting the CRC zombie, I left a name off.

I apologize.  Identifying the fake Republicans selling us out is certainly something I would never intentionally screw up, but in this instance, I absolutely did by not giving her the credit where due.

The complete list of senators who sold us out on SB 5806 is as follows:

Cleveland, Rivers, Wilson, Hobbs, Chase, Nelson

Now, we know Cleveland would sell her own mother to get loot rail into Vancouver: she's owned by the special interests/downtown mafia like the 13th Amendment was, in fact, the 13th Suggestion.

"Gas Tax/Sasquatch" Rivers is well versed in the art of betrayal in a variety of ways and under a great many circumstances, some that might.... MIGHT.... surprise people like it did me... but, of course, once the act of betrayal is established, every new act becomes easier.

This betrayal is no exception.  After screwing this county out of $700 million, screwing us out of additional billions is mere child's play.

The newest add-on to the list, the one I'd overlooked... is also a RINO... one Sen. Lynda Willson.

Wilson, who wasn't around for the CRC battle in the Senate last time, will do precisely and absolutely what she's told by those who have a chain around her neck.

Follow the money, kids.  After the last county election, where Wilson abandoned Rep. Liz Pike like the other local RINOs because Tracy Wilson wanted Boldt siting in the commission chair; Wilson... who had fooled everyone (including me) into actually BELIEVING she was a conservative, showed her true colors when she ignored the woman who had done the most to get her elected to the House... has now joined with the other RINOs to start the process of replacing a bridge that doesn't NEED to be replaced while ignoring the options available that actually would make a difference in the issue of traffic congestion; the number one problem facing us in our cross-river transportation universe.

Imagine, if you will, what the Senate representation of this county would look like if these two fake Republicans had ran on a platform of ramming this ripoff down our throats?

But then, Rivers doesn't care that she lied directly to become a senator, and Wilson will certainly be the puppet of Tracy and the others who own her like she's a commodity.  So, maybe it wouldn't have made any difference if they had the guts needed to tell us the truth when it would have mattered and before additional billions were yoked around the commuting public's neck.

Maybe.

And when these two run for election to anything... I'll be here to remind them and the rest of the world how what happened with the rape of our wallets was planned and executed by these fake Republicans.

For years, local RINOs told us to "just wait until the GOP controls _____ to get rid of Obamacare."

At first, the RINO faction around here, particularly that led by Brent Boger, told us to "just wait."

"Just wait until we get the House back."  Well, we've waited 6 years and nothing.

"Just wait until we get the Senate back."  Well, we've waited 2 years and nothing.

"Just wait until we get the White House."  Well, we've GOT the damned White House, and what are the same RINO's who've been siting on their thumbs doing... the same RINOs who RAN on getting rid of Obamacare?

Nothing.  Absolutely nothing.

During the Obama regime, the House passed Obamacare repeal SIX TIMES.

Now?

NOTHING.

This goes to the heart of the issue with the GOP: they have shown on many occasions that they have a basic knowledge of how to GET power... but that they have zero clue on how to keep it.

You know... like, say.... by KEEPING YOUR FRICKING WORD?

It's almost like it's a disease spreading through the GOP.

Here, locally, the most egregious example was the absolute betrayal of her district and this county by Ann "Gas Tax"Rivers, who GAVE HER WORD TO GET ELECTED that she would oppose gas tax and tab fee increases:

Screen capture from Rivers' campaign website - 2012

As we all know by now, she was lying, of course, and because we were foolish enough to believe her (and God Knows, I blame myself for that since I wrote this for her) we are going to be $700 million dollars poorer as a result.

Like Rivers, most of the entirety of the GOP controlling Congress (save for our own gutless, do-nothing congresswomen) ran on repealing Obamacare.  And, at first, we were told to "just wait."

Wait until the GOP controlled the House.  Wait until the GOP controlled the Senate.

Of course, the GOP has controlled BOTH of those organizations for years... and what have the RINOs done?

Nothing.  Because, like Rivers, they lied to get elected.

How bizarre is it that after all of this... after all of the lies from the GOP... it turns out that it doesn't matter WHO controls what in Congress or the Legislature.

NONE of them give a damn about us; all of them just do whatever the hell they want and WE are to blame.

WE send these cowards and liars back.  US.  This is even more OUR fault then it is theirs:  they COUNT on our stupidity and short attention span and willful self-ignorance... where we are lied to time after time after time... and then when the election campaigns roll around, as a group, we simply bend over and yell, "thank you, Sir, may I have another?"

With these crooks in charge, if the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor TODAY, instead of a declaration of war, these clowns would apologize to the Japanese for the costs of their bombs and ask them how we could better line up our ships as targets in the future.

Meanwhile, NOTHING gets done.

And the Establishment RINOs wouldn't have it any other way.

IRS dictate: no requirement to answer Obamacare question on tax returns.

I'm covered by the VA so I'm exempted from this, even though I'm shifting to non-governmental health care... but in case you were wondering, the era of fines for failing to have Obamacare coverage appears to be over.

Major Blow to Obamacare Mandate: IRS Won't Reject Tax Returns That Don't Answer Health Insurance Question

The tax agency has stopped requiring individual filers to indicate whether they maintained health coverage or paid the mandate penalty as required under the law

Peter Suderman|Feb. 14, 2017 9:44 pm

Credit - Olivier Douliery/UPI/Newscom

How much difference does a single line on a tax form make? For Obamacare's individual mandate, the answer might be quite a lot. 

Following President Donald Trump's executive order instructing agencies to provide relief from the health law, the Internal Revenue Service appears to be taking a more lax approach to the coverage requirement. 

The health law's individual mandate requires everyone to either maintain qualifying health coverage or pay a tax penalty, known as a "shared responsibility payment." The IRS was set to require filers to indicate whether they had maintained coverage in 2016 or paid the penalty by filling out line 61 on their form 1040s. Alternatively, they could claim exemption from the mandate by filing a form 8965. 

For most filers, filling out line 61 would be mandatory. The IRS would not accept 1040s unless the coverage box was checked, or the shared responsibility payment noted, or the exemption form included. Otherwise they would be labeled "silent returns" and rejected.

Instead, however, filling out that line will be optional.

More:

Seriously: isn't it time to do something about the illegal alien vote?

As I brought up below, there is a massive voter fraud being perpetrated by illegal aliens and the democrats.

From the Washington Post article entitled: Could non-citizens decide the November election? (dated October 24, 2014)

Our data comes from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES). Its large number of observations (32,800 in 2008 and 55,400 in 2010) provide sufficient samples of the non-immigrant sub-population, with 339 non-citizen respondents in 2008 and 489 in 2010. For the 2008 CCES, we also attempted to match respondents to voter files so that we could verify whether they actually voted.

How many non-citizens participate in U.S. elections? More than 14 percent of non-citizens in both the 2008 and 2010 samples indicated that they were registered to vote. Furthermore, some of these non-citizens voted. Our best guess, based upon extrapolations from the portion of the sample with a verified vote, is that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent of non-citizens voted in 2010.

Estimated Voter Turnout by Non-Citizens
	2008	2010
Self reported and/or verified	38 (11.3%)	13 (3.5%)
Self reported and verified	5 (1.5%)	N.A.
Adjusted estimate	21 (6.4%)	8 (2.2%)

Because non-citizens tended to favor Democrats (Obama won more than 80 percent of the votes of non-citizens in the 2008 CCES sample), we find that this participation was large enough to plausibly account for Democratic victories in a few close elections. Non-citizen votes could have given Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health-care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) won election in 2008 with a victory margin of 312 votes. Votes cast by just 0.65 percent of Minnesota non-citizens could account for this margin. It is also possible that non-citizen votes were responsible for Obama’s 2008 victory in North Carolina. Obama won the state by 14,177 votes, so a turnout by 5.1 percent of North Carolina’s adult non-citizens would have provided this victory margin.

From the study itself

Highlights
•First use of representative sample to measure non-citizen voting in USA.
•Some non-citizens cast votes in U.S. elections despite legal bans.
•Non-citizens favor Democratic candidates over Republican candidates.
•Non-citizen voting likely changed 2008 outcomes including Electoral College votes and the composition of Congress.
•Voter photo-identification rules have limited effect on non-citizen participation.

Of course, whenever there's a system that begs to be abused, it will be abused. Our bizarre and arcane system that does not require absolute proof of citizenship to register results in millions of illegals registering to vote.

Why?

Because there's no legal reason they shouldn't do so: that is, there are no negative consequences if they do register, which dovetails with the lack of negative consequences for even being an illegal alien.

The solution is simple.

Congress picks a date where every registered voter must reregister showing proof of citizenship.

Effective that date, you have 90 days to reregister providing proof of citizenship.

We end on-line voter registration and add a proof of citizenship requirement to motor voter.

At the end of that time period, if you have not provided proof of citizenship, you are disqualified from voting.

Any idiotic laws such as that promulgated in California that allows illegals to vote would simply be ignored.

Now, the democrats would flip at such a requirement.  After all, your attention is brought to these bullet points from the study:

•Non-citizens favor Democratic candidates over Republican candidates.
•Non-citizen voting likely changed 2008 outcomes including Electoral College votes and the composition of Congress.

These are the ONLY reasons that democrats concern themselves about illegals and why they do all they can to keep them in this country while they wiz on our immigration laws.

But this idea would result in a scrub of the current voter roles, to eliminate many of the dead, many of the illegal, and many of the fraudulent.

And then from that point forward, no one may register to vote without proof of citizenship being presented at the time.

The alternative is to do nothing.  And while the GOP has been painfully afraid of the obligatory name-calling that would follow; primarily, the old democrat standby of claiming "racism," so they can keep their illegal alien vote, I defer to Dr. King on the subject:

“Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.”

At some point, the cowardly GOP has to stand up and grow a pair.  This issue NEEDS to be addressed or pretty soon there won't BE a GOP.