Published on Apr 15, 2019
WHY NOT BERNIE?
IF IT WEREN’T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS, THE LEFT WOULD HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL.
NEWSDon Lemon âHot Micâ Moment Highlights How CNN Helps Democrat Politicians
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CNN host Don Lemon was caught on a hot mic congratulating Democrat presidential aspirant Cory Booker, exposing yet again how CNN actively works to help the Democrat politicians the network ostensibly is covering.
Here is the gaffe, which says all you need to know about the seriousness of Lemonâs interviewing skills. âNice job,â Lemon tells Booker:
Fox Newsâ Donna Brazile says she will âforever regretâ leaking the 2016 presidential debate questions to Hillary Clinton from her perch as a CNN contributor.
But thatâs just CNNâs modus operandi. Their motto at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, after all, was âunmatched access.â
Behold this clip of Larry King telling then-candidate Bill Clinton in 1992 â also on a hot mic during a commercial break â that CNN boss Ted Turner would âserveâ Clinton after Clintonâs election to office.
Democrats Introduce Climate Bill One Day After Green New Deal Failure. One Lawmaker Was Noticeably Absent From The Roll Out
By Chris White
Democratic lawmakers introduced a stripped-down climate bill Wednesday less than a day after Senate Republicans dinged a more ambitious plan.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described the Climate Action Now Act as one of many steps toward Democratic efforts to confront global warming. In particular, the bill aims to preventPresident Donald Trump from removing the United States from the non-binding Paris Climate accord. (RELATED: McConnell And Senate Republicans Vote To Kill Green New Deal)
The bill is a watered-down version of New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezâs Green New Deal, which called for shifting completely away from fossil fuels and toward green energy. The GND was torpedoed in the Senate on Tuesday after Republicans voted en masse against the resolution while Democrats voted present.
Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat, was not present Wednesday during the roll out of the Climate Action Act.
The GND was introduced in February and called for â10-year national mobilizationsâ toward a series of goals aimed at fighting global warming. A fact sheet posted online during the introduction claimed the plan would âmobilize every aspect of American society on a scale not seen since World War 2.â It also became an object of ridicule as a draft suggested the end of cows and drastically curbing airplane travel.
House Democrats along with most of the Democratic Partyâs quickly expanding 2020 presidential field have voiced support for the measure. Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Cory Booker of New Jersey, who both announced their bids for the 2020 nomination, for instance, signed on as Senate co-sponsors of the proposal.
Pelosiâs office has not yet responded to The Daily Caller News Foundationâs request for comment about why Ocasio-Cortez was absent.
NOT A SINGLE SENATE DEMOCRAT VOTES âFORâ GREEN NEW DEAL
Instead of voicing their support for the most ludicrous proposal in socialist history, 43 Democrats decided to take the easy way out
By Tyler Durden
How embarrassing is the green new deal?
So embarrassing that when Senate majority leader McConnell tried to force the Democratic partyâs presidential contenders into an embarrassing vote over the berserk, MMT-inducing climate-change proposal (which Republicans are confident that even sober liberal will oppose), not a single Democrat voted for it. Instead, in the vote which was blocked late on Tuesday with a vote of 0-57, 43 Democrats voted merely “present”, including the Senateâs half-dozen presidential candidates, to sidestep the GOP maneuver and, as Bloomberg put it, “buy time to build their campaign positions.”
The vote was the first of many attempts by Republicans to force (socialist, MMT) supporters of the Green New Deal to come into the spotlight and suffer the public scrutiny. The proposal – mostly a collection of goals for mitigating climate change rather than a fully formed plan of action – which according to some would cost north of $100 trillion and would require the launch of helicopter money, also known as “MMT”, has been a favorite target for criticism by McConnell and Republicans ever since freshman Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts rolled it out in February.
âI could not be more glad that the American people will have the opportunity to learn precisely where each one of their senators stand on this radical, top-down, socialist makeover of the entire U.S. economy,â McConnell said before the vote.
Alas, that opportunity was denied because instead of voicing their support for the most ludicrous proposal in socialist history, 43 Democrats decided to take the easy way out.
Even the six Democratic presidential contenders, including Cory Booker of New Jersey, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Kamala Harris of California, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, all voted present.
At this point, the candidates for the Democratic nomination generally havenât spelled out specific proposals. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey has called the Green New Deal âbold,â and Senator Kamala Harris of California has said itâs âan investmentâ worth the cost. Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota described it somewhat less enthusiastically, as an âaspirationâ to act on climate change.
Fresh off what has been dubbed the best day in Trump’s presidency, on Tuesday Trump, no longer the subject of Russia collusion conspiracy theories, met with Senate Republicans at the Capitol, and according to Lindsey Graham the president told them regarding the Green New Deal, âmake sure you donât kill it too much because I want to run against itâ in 2020.
Well, so far so good. In an attempt to save face with progressives, Adam Green, a co-founder of the grassroots Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said McConnell was trying to force some ânoâ votes at a time when Democrats are still reviewing the plan. Voting âpresentâ shows that Democrats arenât going to hamper things with an early dissent, he said.
While the “present” votes were to be expected, what came as a surprise is that three Democrats voted with Republicans against the resolution including Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and Doug Jones of Alabama, who faces a tough re-election campaign next year in a deep-red state. Independent Angus King of Maine, a member of the Democratic caucus, also voted against the measure.
The challenge for Democrats looking ahead to next yearâs campaigns is to avoid having their support for a still-evolving climate proposal tarred by Republican efforts to portray it as an extremist agenda that would do away with hamburgers and airplane travel.
âItâs one thing to be on the campaign trail and say here is what I believe in and fill in the details,â said Democratic strategist Rodell Mollineau, who was a top aide to former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid. âItâs another thing to go on record and let other people fill in the details for you.â
As Bloomberg notes, “the Green New Deal has more than 100 congressional Democrats as co-sponsors, including the six senators running for president. While Democrats are united on the need for significant action to stem climate change, they donât agree on specific proposals.” As a result, McConnell introduced his own version, drawing on the language of the Democratic measure.
Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer tried to shield Democrats from having to expose splits between moderates and progressives on the issue. He dismissed the vote as âgotcha politicsâ intended by Republicans to distract from the fact that they donât have their own plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
âRepublicans want to force this political stunt to distract from the fact that they neither have a plan nor a sense of urgency to deal with the threat of climate change,â he said.
Following tonight’s Senate vote, Democrats plan to introduce a resolution in the House this week that calls for the U.S. to remain part of the Paris Climate Accord and requires the Trump administration to create a plan to meet its emission reduction goal, according to a senior Democratic aide. As a reminder, in 2017 Trump announced that he intends to pull out of the Paris agreement, under which the U.S. pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 26 percent from 2005 levels by 2025.
While Senate Democrats werenât under any real pressure from outside progressive groups to vote for the Green New Deal at this point, they will be in due course.
Meanwhile, capitalizing on the ultra-liberal faction within the Democratic Party, the GOPâs message focuses on the botched February rollout of the proposal, which included the release of documents from Ocasio-Cortezâs office promising economic security even for those âunwilling to work,â and suggesting the eventual elimination of air travel and âfarting cows.â
(BLACK PRIVILEGE) – Criminal charges dropped in case against Jussie Smollett, attorneys say
Chicago prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against âEmpireâ star and alleged hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett. The actor had been indicted on 16 felony counts for faking a âracist and homophobicâ attack on himself.
Smollett claimed in January that two masked men wearing red hats yelled racial slurs at him, put a noose around his neck, poured bleach on his skin and shouted âThis is MAGA countryâ – a reference to President Trumpâs âMake America Great Againâ catchphrase. Smollettâs case began to unravel, however, after it emerged that the actor allegedly paid two Nigerian brothers to stage the attack.
Smollettâs initial story captivated outrage-hungry politicians and media figures. 2020 presidential candidates Sen. Kamala Harris (D-California) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) called the supposed attack a âmodern day lynching,â Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California) called it an âact of hatred and bigotry,â and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) called it âan affront to our humanity.â
All of these Democrat leaders deleted their tweets when Smollett himself was arrested and charged in February.
After the charges against him were dropped on Tuesday, Smollettâs attorneys said that their client âwas a victim who was vilified and made to appear as a perpetrator as a result of false and inappropriate remarks made to the public causing an inappropriate rush to judgement.â
Prosecutors dropped the case after âreviewing all of the facts and circumstances,â and taking into account Smollettâs volunteer service in the community. His lawyers, without a trace of irony, called the case âa reminder that there should never be an attempt to prove a case in the court of public opinion.â
The prosecutorsâ decision shocked conservatives, some of whom viewed Smollettâs easy ride as a form of âleftist privilege,â and District Attorney Kimberly Foxxâs membership of the Democratic party as instrumental in her decision to let Smollett off the hook.
TRUMP STOPS TAXPAYER-BACKED MORTGAGES FOR ILLEGALS
Democrats taking economy hostage to protect illegal aliens
MARCH 26, 2019
When Barack Obama implemented his unilateral amnesty for illegal aliens who claimed to have entered this country before the age of sixteen, the illegally amnestied illegals qualified for many benefits.
One of these were FHA loans.
FHA loans are government-backed mortgages meant for poorer Americans unable to qualify for normal mortgages. Democrat abuse of the FHA helped lead to the Great Recession and in the years afterward, FHA insured loans hit losses of $70 billion. By 2012, the FHA was $16 billion in the hole and had to be bailed out. The delinquency rate for FHA loans is still more than three times higher than normal loans, and depending on the period, have hovered between 8% and 14%. Time to bring in the illegal aliens.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism
When Barack Obama implemented his unilateral amnesty for illegal aliens who claimed to have entered this country before the age of sixteen, the illegally amnestied illegals qualified for many benefits.
One of these were FHA loans.
FHA loans are government-backed mortgages meant for poorer Americans unable to qualify for normal mortgages. Democrat abuse of the FHA helped lead to the Great Recession and in the years afterward, FHA insured loans hit losses of $70 billion. By 2012, the FHA was $16 billion in the hole and had to be bailed out. The delinquency rate for FHA loans is still more than three times higher than normal loans, and depending on the period, have hovered between 8% and 14%. Time to bring in the illegal aliens.
When Obama illegally implemented DACA, a program exempting certain illegal aliens from government action, they were also allowed to apply for FHA loans. How many illegal aliens obtained FHA loans?
In December, a letter from three Senate Democrats claimed that HUD barred âapproximately 800,000 individuals approved for DACA from FHA-insured mortgage loansâ. This refers to the total number of DACA illegal aliens and itâs unknown how many of them have obtained FHA loans in past years.
Ellie Maeâs millennial tracker estimated that the average size of an FHA loan to millennials is $186,454. Potential exposure to illegal alien mortgages could then climb as improbably high as $150 billion.
Itâs unknown how many illegal aliens have taken out FHA loans, but some media stories have cited loan officers for whom illegal alien FHA loans represent a significant percentage of their business.
The Trump administration has applied the brakes to this avalanche of taxpayer-insured mortgages to illegal aliens. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) had begun notifying lenders that the FHA was no longer in the illegal alien mortgage business. The reasons were common sense. DACA illegal aliens, or in media spin, DREAMERs, were not legal residents and werenât being legalized.
Under Obama, FHA rules had been bent so far backward that people who were not only non-citizens, not only non-permanent residents, but werenât even legally here, were having taxpayers guarantee their mortgages. Not only hadnât the Democrats learned anything from the Great Recession, they were determined to make the irresponsible behavior of the FHA a decade ago seem sober and sensible.
And they arenât giving up.
The December letter by Senator Menendez, who had recently been on trial for corruption charges, Senator Booker, on whose watch the $100 million poured into Newark public schools dissipated, and Senator Cortez-Mastro, who had been accused of taking dirty money, claimed to be, âappalled that the Trump Administration would exploit a federal government program to deny Dreamers an opportunity of owning their own home.â But it was the Democrats who had exploited a federal government program meant for poor Americans to benefit not only foreigners, but illegal aliens with no right to be here.
The letter by the three Senator Democrats falsely claimed that President Trump was targeting a âportion of the American publicâ, when in fact illegal aliens are not part of the American public. They demanded, âsound and unambiguous legal reasoningâ for the move. The sound and unambiguous reasoning would be that illegal aliens are not legally resident in the United States and therefore do not qualify for loans.
Much of the furor over FHA loans for illegal aliens was stirred up by Dani Hernandez, an underwriter for NewCastle Home Loans. NewCastle in Chicago markets aggressively to DACA illegal aliens, declaring, âDonât let the political climate worry you. DACA recipients are eligible to buy a home.â It also assures the illegal aliens that they can qualify for FHA loans and it âspecializes in working with DACA recipients.â
Prospective FHA borrowers are also informed that they can get a loan with a credit score as low as 500 and a 50% debt-to-income ratio.
The illegal alien mortgage business, built on the backs of American taxpayers, is obviously profitable. But itâs also a silent nuclear weapon threatening mass destruction of the economy in case of deportations.
The more illegal aliens end up with FHA loans, and as those FHA loans are turned into Ginnie Mae Mortgage Backed Securities, deporting DACA illegal aliens would risk mass defaults on FHA loans which are backed by American taxpayers. Quite a few Ginnie Mae bonds are being held by Japan and China.
Thatâs why HUDâs move of stopping the flow of FHA loans to illegal aliens is so vital and important.
Not only do FHA loans endanger our economic security, they also endanger our national security. Their very existence serves as political leverage to prevent the government from enforcing the law. Every illegal alien mortgage not only robs American taxpayers, but puts them at risk of even worse losses.
And considering the role of mortgage backed securities in the Great Recession, the threat is real.
However, HUD has carefully avoided taking a clear position to prevent the inevitable lawsuits and overrides by Obama and Clinton judges embedded in the federal judiciary. Instead HUD officials have successfully warned off many lenders by creating ambiguity about the status of DACA FHA loans.
The riskier illegal alien FHA loans appear, the more irresponsible taking them on will seem. And lenders will be aware of the shadow of the âFalse Claims Actâ hanging overhead if they bite on illegal loans.
This is far from an ideal solution. But itâs an understandable response by a crippled executive branch that has had its legal powers stripped from it by Democrat activists operating under the guise of judges.
But taxpayer-backed mortgages for illegal aliens are only the tip of the tottering FHA iceberg that President Trump needs to begin shutting down to avoid another recession caused by bad loans.
FHA loans to non-citizens are also extended to non-permanent residents and even to ârefugeesâ. The Office of Refugee Resettlement had even been promoting Freddie Macâs Islamic Sharia-compliant mortgages for Muslim ârefugeesâ. Foreigners here under Temporary Protected Status, a category that the Trump administration has begun winding down, are also potentially eligible for FHA loans.
The FHA is deeply dangerous and troubled. It is in desperate need of reform.
American taxpayers have long been exploited by the FHA as a piggy bank to pay off Democrat voters. But DACA FHA loans have taken this a step further by taking the economy hostage for illegal aliens.
The FHA loan was created to serve Americans. If it is to continue to exist, it should only serve Americans.
There has never been any reason given why the United States government should be extending its credit on behalf of foreigners, whether they are residents, temporary workers or, let alone, illegal aliens.
The risk of such loans has been rolled into the overall risk for Americans. And the buck was passed.
The artificial stimulation of the housing market isnât reason enough for the government to be putting the economy at risk and taxpayers on the hook for the illegal aliens whom Democrats hope to turn into voters. DACA was an illegal policy. FHA loans for DACA recipients piles illegality on illegality.
American taxpayers should be let off the hook for illegal alien mortgages before the cost grows too high.
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