HALF-FULL REPORT 05/05/17

Why are they smiling?

Why are these people smiling?  The House Pubs surrounded the President and Vice-President yesterday afternoon (5/04) for a “Rose Garden Victory Lap” after the “Obamacare Is Dead” bill passed 217-213.

But to paraphrase Yogi Berra, Obamacare is not dead until it’s dead – and it sure isn’t dead yet.  Further, it won’t die until and unless a specific necessary condition is met.

A necessary condition is something that, if you don’t have it you won’t get what you want.  It’s different from a sufficient condition, which is all you need to get what you want but you could get it another way.

The president signing a bill passed by Congress is sufficient for it to become law – but not necessary for it can become law through Congress overriding a veto.  It is, however, necessary for a bill to be passed by majority vote by both the House and the Senate before it can reach the president’s desk.

As his House colleagues were in the Rose Garden yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz was saying, “Getting the health care bill out of the Senate is not going to be easy.”  He is wrong.  It will be impossible without a certain necessary condition.

Cruz was talking about the difficulty of getting Rino Senators on board with only a 2-seat majority.  But he’s wrong there too, as Red State Dems like Joe Manchin (WV), Heidi Heitkamp (ND), Jon Tester (MT), and Joe Donnelly (IN) could be persuaded to vote Yes to save their electoral hides in 2018.

So what’s the necessary condition without which the Pubs’ “American Health Care Act” will never be passed by the Senate?

Eliminating the filibuster.  The House has no such thing.  You get a straight majority vote and the bill passes.  But the Senate has this insane tradition requiring 60 votes rather than 51 if Chuck Schumer doesn’t like a bill.

It’s not just that Obamacare Repeal is DOA in the Senate unless the filibuster is removed.  It is Trump’s entire agenda.  Everything is Dead on Arrival in the Senate unless the Schumer Veto of the filibuster is eliminated.

The inexcusable abomination of this $1.1 trillion Continuing Resolution Spending Pig Out was passed because of this, as Trump tweeted:

This has to be Trump’s #1 Priority for his domestic agenda.  He’s got to do whatever it takes – BAMN as the lefties say, By Any Means Necessary – cajole, schmooze, arm-twist, knee in the groin, whatever it takes to make the deal for the Pub Senators to rescind the filibuster rule.

It’s nothing more than a made-up fabricated rule that can be tossed out with a simple majority vote.  Yet any chance of Draining the Swamp depends on it being flushed.

This has been a very instructive week.  Eliminating the Senate Filibuster should be the absolute Number One goal of the entire conservative movement – and President Trump.

Unless you and the President want to see more headlines like this – lots more: Democrats Win Spending Bill Showdown with Trump.

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Another example.  Yesterday (5/04), the House Financial Services Committee sent a bill to the House floor to repeal and rollback Dodd-Frank.  This is a big deal.

HR 10 – the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 —  gets rid of an amazing amount of Dodd-Frank fascism, like the slush funds Eric Holder extorted in the billions from companies, and leaving the horrific Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) a shell of its former fascist self.

Note that not a single Dem voted for it, and they were quick to pronounce HR 10 “Dead on arrival at the Senate.”  That’s only because of the filibuster.  With no filibuster, it would be very much alive.

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OK, OK, OK – let’s get to some good news.  Can’t help but start with the London Daily Mail’s story this morning on the gala dinner Trump held for Australia’s Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull aboard the USS Intrepid last night.

John Travolta and other Hollywood celebs were there.  Trump and Turnbull had a marvelous time together.  They both gave important substantive talks to the audience and the press.  But what did the DM focus upon?  They couldn’t help it:  How First Lady Melania Trump looked stunningly fabulous.

And no doubt about it – she’s blows any Hollywood actress away.  That’s because she’s the real deal and they’re just celluloid.  As in, OMG…

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This past week, the President continued to sign cool EO’s.

There’s Implementing an America-First Offshore Energy Strategy.  The Greenies are hysterical over this, as it allows access to the incredible offshore oil & gas reserves we have off our coastlines from the Arctic to the Atlantic.  Too bad.

And there’s Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty.  Churches are now free to denounce political programs and campaigns conflicting with their beliefs, and promote the ones that do.  The LGBT crowd, the ACLU, and Marxist Atheists are up in arms.  Too bad.

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The coolest guy in Trump’s cabinet has got to be T-Rex.  This week he announced an almost 10% cut in the entire workforce of the State Department – “the cornerstone of Deep State operations… a massively bloated institution filled with some of the most entrenched political globalists and ideologues.”

Fox yesterday (5/04) came up with the funniest tongue-in-cheek headline on this: Tillerson’s Leadership Style Angers State Dept. Employees.  Hahahahaha.

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It’s been a long time coming.  Twelve years ago in June of 2005, I exposed the fear-mongering false threat of EMP in The EMP Annoyance.

Now at last, scientists are explaining – using the same data and even photos I used – Fears North Korea is planning a ‘space nuke’ to knock out America’s power with an electromagnetic pulse slammed as ‘silly’.  It is silly.  But you knew that years ago.

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Our HFR Hero of the Week would be British television personality Saira Khan.  She recently posed for a bikini photoshoot about as tame as you could get.  Yet because she’s Moslem, she got all this hate mail by Moslem men saying how “disgraced” they were, etc.

Saira proceeded to unload on them on the Internet:

“I feel so sorry for people like this who are so threatened by a woman’s body – it’s my choice to do this and if Allah doesn’t like it let him deal with me – W(hat) does it have to do with (you), you narrow minded, misogynistic, brainwashed, backward, idiots. If a woman in a bikini offends your version of Islam – then seriously you should not be looking in the first place.”

Women like Saira are the salvation of Islam.  We just need a few million more like her.

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Loser of the Week has to be Moochelle, Mrs. Zero.  The headline (4/29): USDA to make school lunches edible again. Michelle Obama hardest hit.

Finally, under Trump, we are seeing the come-uppance for the Nanny State Fascism Moochelle embodied.  We discussed this back in February 2012:  School Lunch Nazis Must Die.  Now they are.

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On October 4, 1986,  CBS News anchor Dan Rather was walking down Park Avenue in New York when he was accosted by a psycho named William Tager, who was convinced CBS was beaming signals into his brain.  Tager proceeded to beat the living crap out of Rather while repeatedly demanding, “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” (Tager was actually using the Yiddish word for “thief” – goniff – which Rather heard as Kenneth).

The HFR Wish for the Week is that some New York crazy would do the very same thing to CBS Late Night putrescent putz Stephen Colbert.

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The Wacko Story of the Week is from Italy, where Man Kills Neighbor Who Trained Parrot to Insult Him.  A sad criminal tragedy, which nonetheless reminds me of an old Soviet joke that is still whispered in Putin’s Russia.

This guy walks into the KGB (today FSB) office in his town and says, “I want to report my parrot is missing.”  The KGB officer is annoyed – “Why tell us?  That’s not our affair.”  The guy explains, “Yes, but I want you to know that if he’s caught, I completely disagree with his political opinions.”

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This just in from The Worst Trump Joke You’ve Ever Heard Department.

Did you hear that Trump signed an Executive Order banning the sale of shredded cheese anywhere in the country?

(Here it comes, brace yourself, you’ve been warned….)

The President said he was keeping his promise to Make America Grate Again.

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We’ll close with the Question of France.

On Sunday (5/07), the French choose their president.  Marine Le Pen is the candidate of who the French pretend they are but don’t have the guts to be.  Emmanuel Macron is the candidate of who the French actually are – spineless jellyfish.  So Macron will win on Sunday.

Note a “macron” in both French and English is a diacritical mark, a bar over a letter, normally a vowel like ā, giving it a “long” sound.  So his name has no meaning, it’s not a word, not even a letter, it’s only a punctuation.   The perfect symbol of what France has become.

The British had the guts to vote for Brexit.  Americans had the guts to vote for Trump.  But not the French.  In cities like Montpellier, Marseille, and many others, over half the schoolchildren are Moslem.  They are taking over the culture of France and the French have lost their will to preserve it.

Will Macron be France’s Zero, so bad and disastrous that the French will finally become themselves again to elect a French Trump?  Maybe someday, but not this Sunday.

The French once had the courage to fight the Nazis with La Résistance.  Now they can’t even resist Moslem demographic imperialism.

The most famous scene in the most beloved movie ever made still can bring tears to your eyes.  Will the French ever be like this again?