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TAKE THIS “CRYING CHUCK SCHUMER” – A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WHO DOESN’T LEGISLATE FROM THE BENCH

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Monday will be a day of infamy! President Trump will be the prime focus when he announces the new Supreme Court pick. Three are in the running, but there is a high probability that a woman (Judge Amy Coney Barrett) will be the one. Nothing would be better than having another woman joining the liberal triumvirate – a conservative one for a change. How about that in “your face” Crying Chuck?

As you recall Schumer’s old time pal, Harry “the pugilist” Reid, was the one who rolled out the “nuclear option.”

Sen. Harry Reid, remarks on Senate floor, Nov. 21, 2013

After years of threats and retreats by both parties, the Democratic Senate majority on Nov. 21, 2013, enacted a controversial rule change called the “nuclear option.”

The change eliminated the filibuster — a blockage of floor action, typically by the chamber’s minority party — for executive branch nominations as well as judicial appointments short of the Supreme Court. Under the new rule, the Senate only needs a 51-vote majority instead of a 60-vote supermajority to end a filibuster and move to a final vote on a nomination.

Schumer, in mid-2007, even suggested that because Democrats were “hoodwinked” by the confirmation testimony of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, no more nominees should be confirmed for the balance of George W. Bush’s term, even though he had 18 months left. The point was that it was the end of a presidency:

“For the rest of this President’s term and if there is another Republican elected with the same selection criteria let me say this: We should reverse the presumption of confirmation. The Supreme Court is dangerously out of balance. We cannot afford to see Justice Stevens replaced by another Roberts; or Justice Ginsburg by another Alito. Given the track record of this President and the experience of obfuscation at the hearings, with respect to the Supreme Court, at least: I will recommend to my colleagues that we should not confirm a Supreme Court nominee EXCEPT in extraordinary circumstances.”

Bottom line: it’s pretty clear the debate in 2016 revolved around nominations made in a presidential election year. Democrats are simply spinning a false narrative.

WHEN KEITH ELLISON AND LOUIS FARRAKHAN MET HASSAN ROUHANI

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Keith Ellison was put forward as the new head honcho of the DNC by none other than top Jew Charles Schumer. Who ever would believe that a pro Israel liberal progressive, remember he voted against the Iran deal, would support an anti-Semite. Well he did! But there was blowback – in the end it didn’t happen. However, new information has surfaced that ties Ellison to Farrakhan and Iran’s mullah in chief, Hassan Rouhani.

Ellison turns out to be a liar when addressing his everlasting love for anti-Semites like himself.  He previously disavowed hi anti-Semite ways during the heated DNC contest. When it came out that he met with Farrakhan and Rouhani, he did what all liberals do when accused, he called it a smear campaign. But it happened. He was an invited guest of Rouhani’s to a dinner after addressing the United Nations in 2013. Also at the dinner was Muslim brother Andre Carson of Indiana.

When asked to comment about these meetings, Mr. Schumer, Ellison and Carson had no comment. Why do Jewish members of congress keep their mouth shut when their colleagues continue to sow hatred? Time for Schumer and others in the Jewish community who supported Ellison answer why?

CAVE MAN vs HIT MAN

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The 2018 shootout at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Big guns were ablazing with one man left standing.

His bluff was called, an empty chamber resulted in this CAVE MAN shooting himself in the foot.

“Start packing” are the words of America’s toughest sheriff.

“Big win for Republicans as Democrats cave on Shutdown,” Trump tweeted, after he kept a low profile during the weekend. “Now I want a big win for everyone, including Republicans, Democrats and DACA, but especially for our Great Military and Border Security. Should be able to get there. See you at the negotiating table.”

TRUMP TO DEMOCRATS “DO YOU LIKE EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE NOW?”

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The old saying, “what goes around comes around” has suddenly bit the Democrats and their cohorts in the butt. Democrat governors and their attorney generals have gone to court over Trump’s executive order halting subsidies to insurance companies; these subsidies lower the premium cost to those who purchase health insurance through exchanges. The subsidies are illegal; the courts have ruled on that. No appropriation by congress to allow the government legally to make these payments exists. But this didn’t matter to Obama who violated the law. About 6 million Americans benefit from the subsidies.

Trump weighed in six months ago, “I’ve been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let Obamacare explode,” Trump said. “It is exploding right now.”

Experts said the ACA wasn’t “exploding,” but that it needed fixes to help incentivize insurers to stay in marketplaces.

But now, six months later, Obamacare may actually be on the road to “exploding” – catalyzed by an accelerant poured over it by President Trump.

This decision has fired up the mouths of Pelosi and Up-Chuck Schumer who are fiercely blowing smoke into the wind and some other place. It was OK for Obama to issue numerous executive orders when he felt necessary; the executive order was Obama’s prime legislative weapon. If congress didn’t pass the law, he “the anointed one” would get it done; for instance the dreamers putsch. So he went E.O.

Now the shoe is on the other foot.  The Democrats think they have a winning hand; yeah right – didn’t they think that on November 8, 2016? Please bring in the clowns.

The White House argued the subsidies are illegal, because they are not appropriated by Congress. House Republicans sued the Obama administration hoping to stop the payments. As noted above the court ruled the payments to be illegal.

That’s not all the Trump administration has done that could pull the rug out from under the ACA — it has also shortened the sign-up period for health care; closed the federal exchange on Sundays; and cut the budget for marketing efforts, including ending advertising to urge sign ups.

Don’t be fooled by biased opinions and sleazy editorials, Trump has the  winning hand, even if the Republicans balk and the Democrats look to the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip. The bottom line is this, the Democrats won’t negotiate – their feeble effort to blame Trump and the Republicans will go nowhere but up in ashes like the hundreds of homes in Santa Rosa.

If the government shuts down won’t have the slightest effect on most Americans, in fact this will be a good thing. They realize that a bloated government is not too big to fail. GO TRUMP 

 

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TRUMP TAKES THE MAIN STAGE -TONIGHT IS OUR NIGHT

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UPDATE: CLICK HERE FOR TRUMP’S ADDRESS BEFORE CONGRESS

Great speech from a Great Man.  One observation though; an independent observer most likely would have noticed that those on the left were afflicted by some extraordinary type of ailment, that being their hands were stuck together superglue preventing them from clapping. And the progressives also suffered from Super Glue action on the seat of their pants, stuck to their chairs, obviously failing to rise to this special occasion.

The august halls of Congress will be the scene tonight of the grandest spectacle on earth; to be seen by hundreds of millions. Donald J. Trump, President Trump, will address the body. Of course we have been there before, but this night will be different. Putting it on the line, no political speak, Trump will lay out his plan to “make America great again.”

We expect the Lying, Cheating, Criminal Louts, AKA Democrats, you know, the usual suspects, to go Yellow Pants. They will have their say, but most of all it will fall on deaf ears. For them to be flattened by a roller, in the horizontal position, is something they are not used to – they are not accustomed to be in the prone position. Their main man is gone and their wannabee Lying Criminal literally fell by the wayside. The defeat they suffered in November does not digest easily; they have no other way to express themselves so what do they do? go off with the mouth inciting protests. 

Schumer and Pelosi, two of the most evil sinners alive today are not only beside themselves, but can’t accept the horrific hit and run suffered at the hands of Donald J. Trump. Paving the way for the Trump Agenda was President Barry Soetoro, who obviously didn’t believe in compromise, but ruled by executive order. Trump is now taking the cue and running with it.  Democrats should be familiar with the term, “legislating from the bench.” A slippery slope was paved for the Trump landslide.

The bureaucrat bungler of Big Government will definitely feel the hand of “we the people.” The Tea Party is greatly responsible for the Trump Victory. Big government, the grotesque web of paper pushers, will suffer a bout of diarrhea. 

Largess had its day in the sun, the party is over.  The departments of Education, Energy, Commerce, Housing and Agriculture are on the cutting block. Their budgets will be cut to the bone. This possibility has sent shivers down the spine of the parasites.

Government workers, in all honesty, know that they get paid for doing little or no work; this is true in most countries. This grand theft in broad daylight is larger than the Madoff swindle plus all others combined. Violation of the honest service law are ubiquitous. Click here for the top 25 government blood sucking agencies. 

Employment by agency[edit]

Federal Government executive branch civilian employment,
except U.S. Postal Service, fiscal year 2016[20]
(Employment in thousands)
United States,
U.S. territories,
and foreign countries		 Washington, D.C. United States,
U.S. territories,
and foreign countries		 Washington, D.C.
Combined Total 2,096 173
Executive departments 1,923 132 Independent agencies 173 41
Defense, total 738 16.5 Social Security Administration 64 0.2
Army 251 2 NASA 17 1
Navy 207 12 Environmental Protection Agency 16 4
Air Force 169 0.5 Securities and Exchange Commission 5 3
Other defense 80 2 General Services Administration 12 4
Veterans Affairs 373 8 Small Business Administration 4 0.8
Homeland Security 192 24 Office of Personnel Management 5 2
Treasury 92 9
Justice 117
Agriculture 97 7 Executive departments (cont.)
Interior 71 4
Health/Human Services (HHS) 87 4 Energy 15 5
Transportation 55 8 State 13 10
Commerce 46 3 Housing/Urban Dev (HUD) 8 3
Labor 16 5 Education 4 3
SOURCE: U.S. Office of Personnel Management

STUFF SHIRTS AND THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES

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Schumer and Pelosi, both made of the same rotten cloth, will not accept reality. They went yellow pants on election eve. The news of Hillary’s defeat hit them like a BRICK exposing the bitterness that hides inside the marrow of their bones. Instead of accepting the outcome of a Trump victory, these two have gone on the warpath. Schumer, a liar first rate intends to hold Trump’s Supreme Court pick hostage. Pelosi who doesn’t have say also mouthed a thing or two concerning the pick. These Stuffed Shirts spew voluminous threats and accusations directly confronting the President. Maybe they realize the consequences , but really don’t understand what the word “LOSE’ means.

Neil Gorsuch has an impeccable record as a federal judge, winning a unanimous vote when appointed to the bench. But now, the blue blooded weasels in Congress find him unpalatable. And why? Because he will passionately defend the Constitution, Hypocrites these two; they took an oath to do the same, that is defend the Constitution, now they are rebuking their Constitutional charge. We can surmise that any candidate appointed to the Supreme Court by Trump will bring a progressive outcry; so don’t expect smooth sailing for the time being, stormy weather is ahead. However, in 2018 twenty three Democrats are up for Senate reelection, ten of those are in states that Trump won handily – most of them will be peeled off when the time comes for a vote. If not, the nuclear option is a very real possibility.

The Night of the Long Knives is about to come down hard on Big Government. Expect the Team Trump to take out sword, swishing, swashing, swinging and stabbing the Bureaucracy anyway thhe can. Trump wants things done now, not twenty years from now. His Secretaries will bring the Big Government to heel; count on it. Layoffs will be brisk. Those who work in the bureaucracy know who they are, they toil all day looking out the window, pushing paper from one desk to another, drinking cups of Starbucks all day. many with nothing to do and when they do something there really is nothing to show for it.

For a laugh, click here to watch Rachel Maddow eat crow during the night of the long knives.

Click here to watch Michelle Malkin put Joy Behar and friends in their rightful place.

Click here to watch Trey Gowdy send Elijah Cummings to the bathroom.

Hillary Clinton gets a slap in the face and calls out Obama then foams at the mouth.

Click here for Clinton’s victims through the years.

Click here for Hillary in the Big Lie

Time to TAME THE BEAST and DRAIN THE SWAMP.

 

WE WILL DEFEND THE UNITED STATES AT ALL COSTS KEEPING AMERICANS SAFE IS OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY

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“Nattering nabobs of negativism.” 

The United States has seen the infantile paralysis of the mind in full display this past week. Know it-alls have protested the election of Donald J. Trump since November 9, 2016. What has triggered the latest outbreak is his promulgation on extreme vetting of those who come into the United States from seven countries; oh BTW their citizens are mostly Muslim. This is what keeps these Nattering nabobs of negativism up at night.

Trump introduces Judge Gorsuch, a fine jurist, to fill the spot on the Supreme Court left vacant after the untimely death of Antonin Scalia. This has aroused hubris and barbarianism in the Democrat hierarchy. Schumer intones that if the Judge can’t get 60 votes, then there is something wrong with the candidate. Wrong! Nothing is wrong with Trump’s pick, what is wrong is the threat that the Democrats want a MAINSTREAM jurist. The Constitution in their mind does not count. So here we go again, Democrats are against the Constitution while Republicans are for upholding the most sacred of documents.

Kagan and Sotomayor were not filibustered, two flaming liberals who treat the Constitution like a roll of toilet paper. Sotomayor for instances froths from the mouth on the Latina experience. What are you talking about? The Constitution sees all as equal under the law, it does not care about your experience; you as an individual create your own space, your own experience. You have no more rights than any other person. Get that? Based on their decisions and jurisprudence thus far it is easy to understand that these two are not of the mainstream, yet they were approved by the Republicans.

GO NUCLEAR McConnell.

CRY BABIES AT WORK – UPCHUCK SCHUMER’S FAKE TEARS

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 Senate minority leader reached for the Kleenex, wiping away fake tears  leaking from his scheming eyes. We bet the source of the tears derived from an onion stowed away in his lapel pocket.

“I noticed Chuck Schumer yesterday with fake tears,” Trump said during an Oval Office photo op with small-business leaders. “I’m going to ask him who is his acting coach.”

Let us ask why some of those who want to come into the United States have waited two, three, four years? How come Obama did not allow them in, after all Trump has only been here for two weeks. Why all the fuss? Because the Liberal-Progressive wing of the Democrat party has gone rouge, crying, rallying, protesting, this does not change the paradigm. Trump is here to protect us, not protect them.

The main point here is this: there are so many countries in the world, why do these refugees want to come to a country that despises them? They can go to Mexico, Venezuela, Russia and a myriad of others who will accept them with open arms, why here? The answer, for ECONOMIC REASONS.

These people come here to fleece the United States; the war in Syria is over, stay in Damascus, help rebuild Aleppo. BETTER YET GO TO IRAN, they will accept you with open arms.

Trump’s 120 day delay in accepting refugees from seven countries is not a ban on Muslims. Do you get that Democrats? Muslims from the other fifty two countries, including Saudi Arabia are not prevented from coming into the United States. This is not a Muslim ban, this is a country ban.

READ BELOW: AN OPEN LETTER TO UP-CHUCK SCHUMER.

It was quite a weekend for you. When you weren’t wallowing in your 15 minutes of self-induced fame with endless tirades against President Trump and his executive order, you flooded the airwaves with enough Crocodile Tears to fill the Hudson.

If that wasn’t enough you posed with an Islamic version of the Walton family on Sunday — they looked like nothing more than props — to show us how we can teach the world to sing in peaceful harmony.

You referred to President Trump’s executive order, which indefinitely barred Syrian refugees from entering the United States, suspended all refugee admissions for 120 days and blocked citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, refugees or otherwise, from entering the United States for 90 days: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, as mean-spirited and a moral outrage, yet they bear a resemblance to an executive order issued by President Obama in 2011 and orders issued by the Department of Homeland Security last year.

In 2011, President Obama placed a six-month ban on all refugees from Iraq after a refugee was linked to the deaths of US soldiers in Iraq.

According to a DHS press release, dated, February 18, 2016:

The Secretary of Homeland Security has determined that Libya, Somalia, and Yemen be included as countries of concern, specifically for individuals who have traveled to these countries since March 1, 2011. DHS continues to consult with the Department of State and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to develop further criteria to determine whether other countries would be added to this list. 

Last month, the United States began implementing changes under the Act. The three additional countries designated today join Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Syria as countries subject to restrictions for Visa Waiver Program travel for certain individuals.

Sure sounds like the same countries listed on President Trump’s executive order, doesn’t it, Senator?

Strangely, you, nor your colleagues in dishonesty and deception from the liberal media ever uttered so much as a peep about those orders signed by Mr. Obama and authorized by the DHS.

As you well know, Senator Schumer, the president’s first constitutional duty is to protect the nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic. It is not his duty to bow to the neurotic, loony whims of women on “The View,” naïve, airhead actors at an awards ceremony or the anarchists your party has unleashed once again in big cities across the country.

The examples of terrorists who have infiltrated into the US under the guise of the refugee or visa programs are numerous. Here are just a few examples out of many:

On November 18, 2013, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Issa Doreh was sentenced to ten years in prison for “conspiracy to provide material support to terrorist, conspiracy to provide material support to foreign terrorist organization, conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, and providing material support to foreign terrorist organization.” Doreh was admitted to the United States as a refugee from Somalia .

On January 31, 2014, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud was sentenced to six years in prison for conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Mohamud was admitted to the United States as a refugee from Somalia.

On April 20, 2015, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, Abdurahman Yasin Daud, a Somalian refugee was charged (along with six others) with conspiracy and attempt to provide material support to ISIS. 

On February 18, 2015, Al-Hazmah Mohammed Jawad was arrested as he attempted to boarda flight to Jordan to join and fight with ISIS in Iraq. Jawad was admitted to the United States in 2013 as an Iraqi refugee and he subsequently obtained a green card. 

On January 29, 2013, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, Mohanad Shareef Hammadi was sentenced to life in prison for a number of offenses related to terrorism. Hammadi is a native of Iraq who was admitted to the United States as a refugee in 2009. 

In 2009, Ramadan Alwan, an al Qaeda-Iraq terrorist living as a refugee in Bowling Green, Kentucky — later admitted in court that they’d attacked U.S. soldiers in Iraq. An ABC News investigation of the flawed U.S. refugee screening system, which was overhauled two years ago, showed that the men were mistakenly allowed into the U.S. and resettled in the leafy southern town of Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Sudan was designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1993 due to concerns about support to international terrorist groups. Elements of al-Qa’ida-inspired terrorist groups remain in Sudan. Groups continue to operate in Sudan and there are frequent reports of Sudanese nationals participating in terrorist organizations.

Iran has been a financier and supporter of international terrorism since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, financing such groups as Hezbollah. Iran was implicated in the 2011 plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the US, Adel al-Jubeir. Iran consistently taunts and threatens the US military in the Persian Gulf.

Libya is a failed state that has become a training ground and recruitment center for ISIS and especially for ISIS members infiltrating into Western Europe under the cover of the EU refugee programs.

The war torn country of Syria is not only a haven for ISIS, but a training ground for future terrorists and ISIS operatives in North America and Western Europe. In a recent interviewwith the UK Express, an ISIS operative boasted that the group has infiltrated 4,000 people into Western Europe under the guise of posing as refugees.

In fact, one of the gunmen during the Paris attacks in 2015 had a Syrian passport on him when he was killed during the terrorist operation.

In July 2016 Mohammad Daleel, 27, blew himself up outside a wine bar in Ansbach, Germany. Fifteen people were injured. Daleel was a refugee from Syria who had arrived in Germany in 2014 seeking asylum. 

You don’t know who these people are, or where they’re going, or what their motivations are, do you Senator Schumer? How is the government supposed to scrutinize the backgrounds of refugees, when laws prohibit officials from examining the social media pages of those who wish to settle in the USA?

You do know one thing though, Senator Schumer; they will eventually vote Democrat and that’s all that counts, national security be damned.

Liberals claim that the US refugee program is as solid as steel. It’s more than obvious that the US refugee program is another inept federal government operation, a house of cards ready to collapse on the nation.

Mean spirited and a moral outrage Senator?

Mean spirited is a Jihadi firing a couple hundred rounds into innocent men and women in a crowded Paris theater.

Moral outrage is an Al Qaeda operative roaming freely around the US, with a shiny new green card and a carload of C4.

Mean-spirited is a Jihadi driving over people with a semi-truck in downtown Nice.

Moral outrage is a Somali refugee stabbing a dozen people at Ohio State University.

Mean spirited are the constant threats by Iran against the United States.

Moral outrage is a series of ISIS suicide bombs detonating in the Brussels airport, killing 32 innocent civilians.

NO ONE has a constitutional right to be here who is not an American citizen. Those who come here do so at the discretion of the president and the Congress, which represents we the people. You might want to explain that to your shrieking, naïve, delusional fellow Democrats, Senator Schumer.

The president of the United States is the leader of this nation. Like all leaders, he must make decisions that are sometimes unpopular among certain groups, for the greater good of America. Strength is a trait that has all but vanished among liberals and national security is anathema to the left’s obscene world view. It is more than obvious that Democrats are willing to gamble with the lives of the American people in order to be politically correct.

Your actions this past weekend, Senator Schumer, have clearly demonstrated once again that the simplest equation in the world is LIBERALISM = ABSOLUTE WEAKNESS.

Sincerely,

Ray Starmann

Ray Starmann is the founder of US Defense Watch. He is a former U.S. Army Intelligence officer and veteran of the Gulf War, where he served with the 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry, 3rd Armored Division “Spearhead!” Mr. Starmann was a contributing writer for several years at SFTT.org, founded by the late Colonel David Hackworth.

 

NO WAY JOSE – EAT YOUR WORDS DEMOCRATS

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The Republican lap dogs are once again putting the dagger into the American people. Mind you that the People’s House is controlled by the Elephant party. The Elephant in the Room: Republican National Convention Open Forum 8 ...The appointment of the next Supreme Court Justice must wait until after a new President is sworn into office.  Time for the American people to decide.  We warn McConnell in no uncertain terms that No hearings, No vote is to take place. Look at the decisions during the past four years, the liberals never broke rank. Questions arise why; and the answer is that their agenda is to not follow the Constitution. Breyer, speaking at Yale last week, said “I’ve seen change, The change, I think one of the changes and perhaps the most remarkable change, is the change in the number of cases that require a judge to know something beyond our shores in order to make a sensible decision on the case.”  Pardon us, making a decision on the laws, behaviors and attitudes of foreigners. How did he ever pass the nomination process? Give us a break.

The Democrats are clamoring for a vote, hollering, screaming, spitting, doing anything they can to denigrate the Republicans. These blowhards think that by doing this the Republicans will suffer a backlash in November. The Democrats will call the Republicans obstructionists. Let us set the record straight. Obama and his cadre of criminals are on record, including Biden and Chuck Schumer, to filibuster previous Supreme Court nominees.

President Obama, who is demanding that Republicans vote on his nominee to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, “regrets” his 2006 filibuster of a conservative nominee to the court, his spokesman said Wednesday.

To set the record straight read below to see the outing of the Democrat liars.

The media have taken to acting as if this move is unprecedented, and that a senator has never publicly stated he would intentionally block a presidential nomination. Not true. Not only have there been several lengthy Supreme Court vacancies, but there are plenty of past instances when senators refused to confirm a president’s nominations.

Here are 10 other times Democrats vowed to block Republican court nominees.

1. Sen Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in 2007 that President George W. Bush shouldn’t get to pick any more Supreme Court justices because Schumer was afraid the bench leaned too far Right. Schumer made this remark a whole 19 months before the next president was inaugurated.

“We should not confirm any Bush nominee to the Supreme Court, except in extraordinary circumstances,” Schumer said in a speech to the liberal American Constitution Society. “They must prove by actions, not words, that they are in the mainstream rather than we have to prove that they are not.”

2. His remarks in 2007 weren’t the only time Schumer vowed to stop a Republican nominee. In 2004, he said he would do everything in his power to stop Bush from elevating Charles Pickering to a federal appeals court in 2004.

“I’m prepared to do everything I can to stop the nomination of Justice Pickering,” Schumer said. “We can do a lot better.”

3. Schumer again promised to make the nomination process difficult for President Bush amid a confirmation battle over Carolyn Kuhl, who was nominated as a judge to the Ninth Circuit Court.

In 2004, his office released a statement saying Senate Democrats planned to “hold nominations until the White House commits to stop abusing the advise and consent process.”

The statement was part of Democratic coalition to stop Bush from using his recess appointing powers. The president eventually conceded and promised he would stop appointing judges while Congress was on vacation in exchange for them stopping filibustering.

4. Then-Senator Barack Obama said in 2006 that he supported the Democratic-led filibuster to stop Justice Samuel Alito from making it to the Supreme Court.

There are some who believe that the president, having won the election, should have complete authority to appoint his nominee…that once you get beyond intellect and personal character, there should be no further question as to whether the judge should be confirmed. I disagree with this view.

Obama wasn’t the only Democratic senator to oppose Alito’s nomination. The late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) led an opposition coalition, which attempted to filibuster to block the confirmation process. Kennedy was joined by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.), and Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), who publicly stated they opposed Alito’s confirmation.

“The record demonstrates that we cannot count on Judge Alito to blow the whistle when the president is out of bounds,” Kennedy said.

5. In 1960, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed a resolution to block President Eisenhower from being able to make any more recess appointments to the Supreme Court. The resolution stated:

Expressing the sense of the Senate that the president should not make recess appointments to the Supreme Court, except to prevent or end a breakdown in the administration of the Court’s business.

6. Kennedy led a gang of eight senators in 2003 to block Bush nominee Miguel Estrada from rising to the Court of Appeals.

“Instead of looking for candidates who are extreme ideologues, the president should work with the Senate in nominating individuals who have the highest qualifications,” Kennedy said, while taking a victory lap after the Bush administration withdrew Estrada’s nomination.

7. The AFL-CIO union vowed to block then-President Ronald Reagan’s nominee Robert Bork by soiling his public reputation so badly that any Democratic senator who voted in favor of confirming him would have to explain it to his constituents. Kennedy continued this line of rhetoric in a well-known floor speech. He infamously said:

Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government.

8. Joe Biden wrote the playbook for how to “bork” a Supreme Court nominee, a descriptive verb that now means to publicly pillory a nominee’s reputation to make it politically difficult for senators to vote for them. It’s named, of course, after what Democrats did to Robert Bork.

Then-Senator Biden was the chair of the judiciary committee, and he put together what’s now been deemed a “Biden report,” a document detailing Bork’s judicial history and personal background. The judiciary committee voted against Bork’s confirmation by a vote of 9-5.

9. Democratic groups vowed to “bork” Justice Clarence Thomas, George H.W. Bush’s nominee to the Supreme Court. They failed, but the personal attacks on Thomas were brutal.

“We’re going to bork him,” said National Organization for Women’s Flo Kennedy. “We need to kill him politically.”

10. In 2008, Democrats banded together to filibuster Bush’s decision to nominate Priscilla Owen to a federal circuit court.

Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, urged Senate Democrats to “stand up and fight as they have been doing with Miguel Estrada.”

“At this time of global turmoil, we don’t need extremists in the courts willing to make a Dred Scott decision in the area of women’s fundamental rights,” she said.

SCHUMER’S CHOICE – DO WHAT IS RIGHT

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We will hazard a guess that the majority of Jewish Americans are not high fiving the Iranian deal with the words shalom (peace); most Americans are against the deal too. However Obama and Kerry knelt down on the Iranian prayer rugs blessing the Koran. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait shook to their very bones as POTUS blew them away; they are now part of the Israeli axis. If the time comes to defend themselves against a nuclear weapon, the Sunni Arab states will most likely depend on Israel to protect them.

Since mounting the throne Obama has thrown Israel under the bus. There is no doubt about it. But the time of truth has come for Charles Schumer and the rest of the Jewish Senators – Blumenthal, Schumer, Feinstein, Boxer, Benett, Cardin, Franken, Schatz, Sanders and Wyden to stand up to POTUS.  Their only choice, defy Obama a pyrrhic victory. By doing so they will put themselves in political purgatory.  The only question remains; do they have the courage to do what is right?