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power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams

Thursday, February 16, 2017

The Silence of the Lambs Congress (Ann Counter)



"This is the Silence of the Lambs Congress. They're utterly silent, emerging from the House gym or their three-hour lunches only to scream to the press about Trump."
Ann Coulter


By Ann Coulter

Where's the Obamacare repeal? Where are the hearings featuring middle-class Americans with no health insurance because it was made illegal by Obamacare? 

The House passed six Obamacare repeals when Obama was president and there was no chance of them being signed into law. Back then, Republicans were full of vim and vigor! But the moment Trump became president, the repeals came to a screeching halt. 

After the inauguration (gigantic!), House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put out a plan for repealing Obamacare ... in 200 days. They actually gave their legislative agenda this inspiring title: "The Two Hundred Day Plan.” 

What was in the last six Obamacare repeals? If we looked, would we find "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" carefully typed out 1 million times? Seriously, what does Paul Ryan's day look like? 

This is the Silence of the Lambs Congress. They're utterly silent, emerging from the House gym or their three-hour lunches only to scream to the press about Trump.

To the delight of the media, these frightened little lambs are appalled by nearly everything Trump does. They've been especially throaty about Trump's temporary travel ban from seven terrorist nations -- as designated by the Obama administration (and by everybody else who hasn't been in a deep freeze in a Finnish crevasse for the past decade). 


Just like the six Obamacare repeals, a refugee ban was already written and passed by one house of Congress. Then suddenly: the Silence of the Lambs. McConnell and Ryan are hiding under their desks, as Trump is being attacked from every side. 

Way, way back, 15 long months ago, congressional Republicans didn't have a problem with a total ban on Syrian and Iraqi refugees. Not for a mere three months like Trump's order -- but permanently, unless the director of the FBI, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and the director of national intelligence personally certified that a particular refugee posed no danger to the U.S. 

That bill passed the House with an overwhelming, veto-proof majority, including 47 Democrats. Then it went to the Senate to die. 

But when President Trump imposed a comparatively mild three-month ban on immigrants from Syria, Iraq and five other terrorist nations, the same Republicans who had voted for a limitless ban on refugees whiled away their days calling reporters to denounce Trump. 

A little more than a year ago, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, bragged in a press release that he had introduced the House's refugee ban, calling it a bill that would "protect Americans from ISIS.” 

But when it came to Trump's three-month pause, McCaul told the Post that Trump's order "went too far.” 

I guess that ISIS problem just sort of faded away. (Or maybe we should check with Mrs. McCaul, inasmuch as it's her family money that makes Rep. McCaul one of the richest members of Congress.) 

Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., who voted for the House's permanent refugee ban, demanded that Trump immediately rescind his travel ban, babbling on about the "many, many nuances of immigration policy" -- which he must have learned about on one of his congressional jaunts to a Las Vegas casino. 

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., said that Trump's order "overreaches and undermines our constitutional system." Evidently, he was suddenly struck by the realization that it's "not lawful to ban immigrants on the basis of nationality," despite having voted to ban refugees on the basis of nationality just 15 months earlier. (I'm OK with this, provided the Syrians, Somalis and Yemenis are sent to live on Justin's street after being told about his support for gay marriage.) 

Read more at AnnCoulter.com




The corrupt GOP Oligarchs spend their days beating the living shit out of President Trump on live TV.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Trump a traitor , as it mend to be from the start . A well planed conspiracy , self evident for cleaver over the horizon people .
A sleeze one plot , with lots of acting figures .Nation wide , and out of it too.
He do stupid things , led people around do dangerous things , them he cut then down ... to clear the path for an empeachment on him ( as he got more pocket Money for his private affairs with Money grabing on people dictators around this world ) ... and then a surogate Pence presidency till 2020 ( as Ford did ) ... and then Michelle " Beyoncé " Car Kareoke Obama ... will rise up as the healer of America , and the " pussy ears hat " peace maker of the world .
International bunch of traitors syndicate runs America and world affairs .As we all look down on thw world as if democracy deally works .
Only power , and Money , are running this show .

Anonymous said...

traitors

Anonymous said...

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