I have read the memo. The sickening reality has set in. I no longer hold out hope there is an innocent explanation for the information the public has seen. I have long said it is worse than Watergate. It was #neverTrump & #alwaysHillary.
#releasethememo
-- Steve King, 10:32 PM - Jan 18, 2018 · Washington, DC
What amazes me - honestly, more than the depth of the corruption...
Based on my read of yesterday's and last night's events (which prompted my post storm above), I think we're going to be surprised - and shocked - as to the actual depth of the corruption.
There are 60M+ Americans about to be red pilled. Like the Matrix, their entire reality is about to come crashing down. Nothing they think they know to be true is. It’s all been a lie. #ReleaseTheMemo
What's going to emerge is an organized scheme involving a key group of people inside the 0bama admin, illegally using state power to spy on and target ideological & political rivals. Clinton was a key conspirator. My research indicates this was going on since at least 2010.
I just hope it's all presented PROPERLY to the sheeple...so there is no question about its validity, or the true threat it signifies.
That said...I saw a bit on the news last night about a different topic. Now that the tax bill has passed, they're talking a 25 cent per gallon gas tax??
Specifically? It gives the shaft to mainly middle-class folks - poor folks generally don't work, so they don't drive. City folk don't drive - they taxi, uber, or mass transit (or walk). And the rich-rich? Don't drive near as much as middle class folks, who have to get their own groceries; pick kids up from sports/school; etc. The "upper" class tends to use services for those as well.
Why not let the tax reform spur the growth it's expected to, and start using that revenue to fund the infrastructure?
I trust the business sense of the guy we put in office; he seems to have a pretty good grasp of things thus far and things have been going nearly exactly as he projected - market is up, GDP is up, companies are coming back to the USA, hiring is up, and corporate give-backs are unprecedented. Let things play out for more than a couple DAYS, and see if additional taxes (on, basically, the middle class) are justified!
Gas tax affects much more than rides and grocery getting. Because nearly every good is transported the costs of every thing must go up to cover the expense of moving it.
That said...I saw a bit on the news last night about a different topic. Now that the tax bill has passed, they're talking a 25 cent per gallon gas tax??
I haven't read the piece (The Hill, ugh), but I see "Chamber of Commerce" in the URL - are THEY proposing the $0.25/gal gas tax?
There has been a real attempt to undermine this President & it comes from the scariest of places. The key reason all Americans need to see this memo is that it names Names. Why don’t the Democrats want the American people to know the truth? #ReleaseTheMemo
The Dems are amateurs compared to the Russian propaganda folk.
It's already well established that Putin is happy to spray gas on the fire of American political self destruction. Using transparently Russian accounts to cheer on the Republicans is very clever pro-Democrat tactics. "See! See! The Russians are interfering in our politics! "
Or you could assume Putin is incompetent. Bunch of dead people with that view.
What would have been your limits if Hillary had won? If her civil rights elimination had gone forward? If the cops were ordered to break into your house & take your property? Your right to protest her policies, silenced?
Today, I led a group of 65 lawmakers in a letter to Chairman Nunes of the House Intelligence Committee urging the release of the FISA Memo to the public. The American people deserve to know the information it contains.
Congressman Matt Gaetz Leads 65 Lawmakers in Push for Release of Intelligence Committee’s FISA Memo January 19, 2018 | Press Release
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz (FL-01) today led a group of 65 lawmakers in a letter to Chairman Devin Nunes of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence urging the immediate release of the four-page FISA Memo document to the public, as well as any relevant ancillary information. In the letter, Rep. Gaetz states, “the audience of this document should not be limited to Members of Congress — the American people deserve to know the information it contains.”
Cosigners of the letter include: Congressmen Brian Babin (TX-36), Don Bacon (NE-02), Jim Banks (IN-03), Jack Bergman (MI-01), Andy Biggs (AZ-05), Rod Blum (IA-01), Dave Brat (VA-07), Larry Bucshon (IN-08), Ted Budd (NC-13), Michael Burgess (TX-26), Bradley Byrne (AL-01), Buddy Carter (GA-01), Steve Chabot (OH-01), Warren Davidson (OH-08), Rodney Davis (IL-13), Scott DesJarlais (TN-04), Jeff Duncan (SC-03), Blake Farenthold (TX-27), Thomas Garrett (VA-05), Bob Gibbs (OH-07), Louie Gohmert (TX-01), Paul A. Gosar (AZ-04), Morgan Griffith (VA-09), Brett S. Guthrie (KY-02), Andy Harris (MD-01), Jody Hice (GA-10), Trey Hollingsworth (IN-09), Richard Hudson (NC-08), Randy Hultgren (IL-14), Darrell Issa (CA-49), Bill Johnson (OH-06), Jim Jordan (OH-04), David Joyce (OH-14), Mike Kelly (PA-03), Steve King (IA-04), Raul R. Labrador (ID-01), Doug Lamborn (CO-05), Robert E. Latta (OH-05), Barry Loudermilk (GA-11), Tom McClintock (CA-04), Mark Meadows (NC-11), Luke Messer (IN-06), Alex Mooney (WV-02), Dan Newhouse (WA-04), Kristi Noem (SD-01), Ralph Norman (SD-05), Steven Palazzo (MI-04), Gary Palmer (AL-06), Scott Perry (PA-04), Ted Poe (TX-02), Jim Renacci (OH-16), Phil Roe (TN-01), Dana Rohrabacher (CA-48), Francis Rooney (FL-19), Mark Sanford (SC-01), James F. Sensenbrenner (WI-05), Lloyd Smucker (PA-16), Claudia Tenney (NY-22), Mimi Walters (CA-45), Randy Weber (TX-14), Bruce Westerman (AR-04), Roger Williams (TX-25), Ted Yoho (FL-03), and Lee Zeldin (NY-01).
The full text of the letter can be found below.
LETTER TEXT
The Honorable Devin Nunes Chairman Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence HVC-304, The Capitol Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Chairman Nunes:
Thank you for your hard work as Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), and for making the recent four-page memo from HPSCI available to Members of Congress. After reading the document, we were shocked and frustrated, but it has deepened our belief in the vital importance of transparency.
This important memo will be of interest to anyone who cares about America and our democratic system of government. We are writing to request the immediate release of this document to the public, as well as any relevant ancillary information. The audience of this document should not be limited to Members of Congress — the American people deserve to know the information it contains.
Thank you for your service and for your prompt attention to this request.
Representative Matt Gaetz Discusses #ReleaseTheMemo : “Laws Were Broken” CTH, Jan. 19, 2018
Representative Matt Gaetz appears on Fox News mid-day to discuss the House Intelligence Committee memo on the DOJ/FBI FISA abuse and surrounding issues:
The reason for the Intelligence Committee memo by Chairman Devin Nunes is simple. The underlying documentary evidence is extremely classified. By presenting a ‘less classified’ summary of content Nunes is setting the stage for political opposition to question the memo validity. If Democrats attack the four-page memo, Chairman Nunes then requests the House Speaker to declassify all of the underlying evidence.
This approach breaks out of the Compartmented Intelligence box that Chairman Nunes was in back in March 2017 –SEE HERE. It is a smart and well thought-out strategy. If Democrats are going to dismiss the summary memo, then they should certainly support exposing the underlying evidence the memo was built upon. See how that works?
Batting Order:
- First-up: Devin Nunes (Chairman Intel Committee, Full I/C Oversight)
The Democrats are more concerned with giving my money to illegal aliens than serving me. They "shut down" the government.
Normally, any other time, I wouldn't care much about these political stunts. I'd go to work, get paid, and mock Barack Obama as the mean, vindictive, lying sack of left hand eating son of a crazy woman and communist revolutionary he is.
But this time it's going to cost me money. I'm not going to go into my personal tale of woe. That's boring. I'm not alone.
Trump, unlike Obama, won't shut down the war memorials. Donald, unlike Obama, won't issue orders to make it painful for Americans out of spite and hatred for me. That's nice. But my Senator will still make it his business to screw me and millions of my fellow taxpayers over.
So he can give my money to criminals. Criminals who presumably will give him more power.
And the dirty little secret CNN will never mention is this is because my Senators, & the rest of our employees, have now completed eight years where they screwed me by not doing their jobs. Obama never signed a legal, fiscal year, budget. The Senate, under the thumb of Dingy Harry, never allowed a budget to be voted on.
They did pass a series of emergency spending bills. The kind you'd need if D.C. was radioactive gas and decisions had to be made to keep things going as the Soviet and Chicom armies were converging on Colorado Springs where the remaining Congress huddled in bunkers against the fallout of a still burning Los Angeles and listening to the cheerful propaganda of the willing collaborators in Seattle who welcomed the container ships packed with Chinese People's Republic Army troops and declared themselves the new Capitol in the name of Mao and Sustainable Organic Tofu.
However. That wasn't what happened. The Democrats, & far too many Republicans, realized that with no budget they wouldn't have to answer any questions about how they spent money they didn't have, raise more tax money than ever, & still double the national debt and MY obligation to pay for it.
In any other job, eight years of blowing off responsibility and stealing from the company.... you'd get fired. Even IRS Union employees who commit felonies go on paid leave. Where they at least aren't flying to work on my dime in luxury 757s with an open bar like Nancy Pelosi.
I don't know how long this charade of political theater is going to last. I'm pretty sure the Democrats and Republicans who are with them are going to milk this travesty as long as they can.
My contempt is at an all time high. And I was in the draft when LBJ was sending my classmates to die in Vietnam while refusing to allow them to shoot at the enemy unless they observed the enemy actually shooting at them. My contempt was pretty damn high then.