Tuesday, November 22, 2016

PATRICK BUCHANAN: A Besieged Trump Presidency Ahead - Rasmussen Reports™

A Besieged Trump Presidency Ahead - Rasmussen Reports™

A Besieged Trump Presidency Ahead

A Commentary By Patrick J. Buchanan
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
After a week managing the transition, vice president-elect Mike Pence took his family out to the Broadway musical "Hamilton."   
As Pence entered the theater, a wave of boos swept over the audience. And at the play's end, the Aaron Burr character, speaking for the cast and the producers, read a statement directed at Pence:   
"(W)e are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir. But we truly hope this show has inspired you to uphold our American values."    
In March, the casting call that went out for actors for roles in this musical celebration of "American values" read:    
"Seeking NON-WHITE men and women."    
The arrogance, the assumed posture of moral superiority, the conceit of our cultural elite, on exhibit on that stage Friday night, is what Americans regurgitated when they voted for Donald Trump.   
Yet the conduct of the "Hamilton" cast puts us on notice. The left neither accepts its defeat nor the legitimacy of Trump's triumph.    
His presidency promises to be embattled from Day One.    
Already, two anti-Trump demonstrations are being ginned up in D.C., the first on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, by ANSWER, Act Now to Stop War and End Racism. A second, scheduled for Jan. 21, is a pro-Hillary "Million Woman March."   
While the pope this weekend deplored a "virus of polarization," even inside the church, on issues of nationality, race and religious beliefs, that, unfortunately, is America's reality. In a new Gallup poll, 77 percent of Americans perceived their country as "Greatly Divided on the Most Important Values," with 7 in 8 Democrats concurring.   
On the campuses, anti-Trump protests have not ceased and the "crying rooms" remain open. Since Nov. 8, mobs have blocked streets and highways across America in a way that, had the Tea Party people done it, would have brought calls for the 82nd Airborne.   
In liberal Portland, rioters trashed downtown and battled cops.   
Mayors Rahm Emanuel of Chicago and Bill de Blasio of New York have declared their cities to be "sanctuary cities," pledging noncooperation with U.S. authorities seeking to deport those who broke into our country and remain here illegally.  
Says D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, "I have asserted firmly that we are a sanctuary city." According to The Washington Post, after the meeting where this declaration had been extracted from Bowser, an activist blurted, "We're facing a fascist maniac."   
Such declarations of defiance of law have a venerable history in America. In 1956, 19 Democratic Senators from the 11 states of the Old Confederacy, in a "Southern Manifesto," rejected the Supreme Court's Brown decision ordering desegregation of the public schools.    
Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus, Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett and Alabama Gov. George Wallace all resisted court orders to integrate. U.S. marshals and troops, ordered in by Ike and JFK, insured the court orders were carried out.   
To see Rahm and de Blasio in effect invoking John C. Calhoun's doctrine of interposition and nullification is a beautiful thing to behold.   
Among the reasons the hysteria over the Trump election has not abated is that the media continue to stoke it, to seek out and quote the reactions they produce, and then to demand the president-elect give assurances to pacify what the Post says are "the millions of ... blacks and Latinos, gays and Lesbians, Muslims and Jews -- fearful of what might become of their country."   
Sunday, The New York Times ran a long op-ed by Daniel Duane who said of his fellow Californians, "(N)early everyone I know would vote yes tomorrow if we could secede" from the United States.    
The major op-ed in Monday's Post, by editorial editor Fred Hiatt, was titled, "The Fight to Defend Democracy," implying American democracy is imperiled by a Trump presidency.    
The Post's lead editorial, "An un-American Registry," compares a suggestion of Trump aides to build a registry of Muslim immigrants to "Nazi Germany's ... singling out Jews" and FDR's wartime internment of 110,000 Japanese, most of them U.S. citizens.   
The Post did not mention that the Japanese internment was a project of the beatified FDR, pushed by that California fascist, Gov. Earl Warren, and upheld in the Supreme Court's Korematsu decision, written by Roosevelt appointee and loyal Klansman, Justice Hugo Black.   
A time for truth. Despite the post-election, bring-us-together talk of unity, this country is hopelessly divided on cultural, moral and political issues, and increasingly along racial and ethnic lines.    
Many Trump voters believe Hillary Clinton belongs in a minimum-security facility, while Hillary Clinton told her LGBT supporters half of Trump's voters were racists, sexists, homophobes, xenophobes and bigots.   
Donald Trump's presidency will be a besieged presidency, and he would do well to enlist, politically speaking, a war cabinet and White House staff that relishes a fight and does not run.   
The battle of 2016 is over.   
The long war of the Trump presidency has only just begun.   


Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book "The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority." 

To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.


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A Trump Doctrine -- 'America First'

A Commentary By Patrick J. Buchanan
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
However Donald Trump came upon the foreign policy views he espoused, they were as crucial to his election as his views on trade and the border.   
Yet those views are hemlock to the GOP foreign policy elite and the liberal Democratic interventionists of the Acela Corridor.   
Trump promised an "America First" foreign policy rooted in the national interest, not in nostalgia. The neocons insist that every Cold War and post-Cold War commitment be maintained, in perpetuity.  
On Sunday's "60 Minutes," Trump said: "You know, we've been fighting this war for 15 years. ... We've spent $6 trillion in the Middle East, $6 trillion -- we could have rebuilt our country twice. And you look at our roads and our bridges and our tunnels ... and our airports are ... obsolete."   
Yet the War Party has not had enough of war, not nearly.    
They want to confront Vladimir Putin, somewhere, anywhere. They want to send U.S. troops to the eastern Baltic. They want to send weapons to Kiev to fight Russia in Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea.   
They want to establish a no-fly zone and shoot down Syrian and Russian planes that violate it, acts of war Congress never authorized.   
They want to trash the Iran nuclear deal, though all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies told us, with high confidence, in 2007 and 2011, Iran did not even have a nuclear weapons program.   
Other hardliners want to face down Beijing over its claims to the reefs and rocks of the South China Sea, though our Manila ally is talking of tightening ties to China and kicking us out of Subic Bay.   
In none of these places is there a U.S. vital interest so imperiled as to justify the kind of war the War Party would risk.   
Trump has the opportunity to be the president who, like Harry Truman, redirected U.S. foreign policy for a generation.   
After World War II, we awoke to find our wartime ally, Stalin, had emerged as a greater enemy than Germany or Japan. Stalin's empire stretched from the Elbe to the Pacific.    
In 1949, suddenly, he had the atom bomb, and China, the most populous nation on earth, had fallen to the armies of Mao Zedong.   
As our situation was new, Truman acted anew. He adopted a George Kennan policy of containment of the world Communist empire, the Truman Doctrine, and sent an army to prevent South Korea from being overrun.   
At the end of the Cold War, however, with the Soviet Empire history and the Soviet Union having disintegrated, George H.W. Bush launched his New World Order. His son, George W., invaded Iraq and preached a global crusade for democracy "to end tyranny in our world."    
A policy born of hubris.    
Result: the Mideast disaster Trump described to Lesley Stahl, and constant confrontations with Russia caused by pushing our NATO alliance right up to and inside what had been Putin's country.    
How did we expect Russian patriots to react?   
The opportunity is at hand for Trump to reconfigure U.S. foreign policy to the world we now inhabit, and to the vital interests of the United States.    
What should Trump say?  
"As our Cold War presidents from Truman to Reagan avoided World War III, I intend to avert Cold War II. We do not regard Russia or the Russian people as enemies of the United States, and we will work with President Putin to ease the tensions that have arisen between us.   
"For our part, NATO expansion is over, and U.S. forces will not be deployed in any former republic of the Soviet Union.    
"While Article 5 of NATO imposes an obligation to regard an attack upon any one of 28 nations as an attack on us all, in our Constitution, Congress, not some treaty dating back to before most Americans were even born, decides whether we go to war.   
"The compulsive interventionism of recent decades is history. How nations govern themselves is their own business. While, as JFK said, we prefer democracies and republics to autocrats and dictators, we will base our attitude toward other nations upon their attitude toward us.    
"No other nation's internal affairs are a vital interest of ours.    
"Europeans have to be awakened to reality. We are not going to be forever committed to fighting their wars. They are going to have to defend themselves, and that transition begins now.    
"In Syria and Iraq, our enemies are al-Qaida and ISIS. We have no intention of bringing down the Assad regime, as that would open the door to Islamic terrorists. We have learned from Iraq and Libya."   
Then Trump should move expeditiously to lay out and fix the broad outlines of his foreign policy, which entails rebuilding our military while beginning the cancellation of war guarantees that have no connection to U.S. vital interests. We cannot continue to bankrupt ourselves to fight other countries' wars or pay other countries' bills.    
The ideal time for such a declaration, a Trump Doctrine, is when the president-elect presents his secretaries of state and defense.   
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book "The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority." To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.
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PAUL BEDARD - BARACK OBAMA'S LEGACY: Open Borders and Poverty For Legals

OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS

You were wondering how many jobs went to illegals and how well Obama’s crony banksters have done???

By PAUL BEDARD 


The sputtering economic recovering under President Obama, the last to follow a major recession, has fallen way short of the average recovery and ranks as the worst since the 1930s Great Depression, according to a new report.

Had the recovery under Obama been the average of the 11 since the Depression, according to the report, family incomes would be $17,000 higher, six million fewer Americans would be in poverty, and there would be six million more jobs.



Wikileaks exposed!



BARACK OBAMA AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF CRONY BANKSTER  CAPITALISM, BAILOUTS AND CORPORATE WELFARE

“Citigroup’s recommendations came just three days after then-President George W. Bush signed into law the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which allocated $700 billion in taxpayer money to rescue the largest Wall Street banks. The single biggest beneficiary was Citigroup, which was given $45 billion in cash in the form of a government stock  purchase, plus a $306 billion government guarantee to back up its worthless mortgage-related assets.”


MUCH MORE HERE:



“As president, Obama not only funneled trillions of  dollars to the banks, he saw to it that not a single leading Wall Street executive faced prosecution for the orgy of speculation and swindling that led to the financial collapse and Great Recession, and he personally intervened to block legislation capping 
executive pay at bailed-out firms.”


“So when Clinton was hobnobbing with  Goldman Sachs CEO Blankfein in 2013, while  investigations of wrongdoing by Goldman and the other Wall Street banks were still ongoing, she was consorting with a man who belonged in prison.”


OBAMA’S OPEN BORDERS TO DESTROY THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS 


MILLIONS OF INVADING CRIMINALS NOT DEPORTED



OPEN BORDERS KEEPS WAGES FOR LEGALS DEPRESSED AND BUILDS THE LA RAZA SUPREMACY PARTY BASE FOR THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HELL BENT ON DESTROYING THE GOP WITH AN ENDLESS INVASION BY MEXICO!



 OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS:

IT WORKS!   BUT ONLY FOR THE SUPER RICH!!!

"The same period has seen a massive growth of social inequality, with income and wealth concentrated at the very top of American society to an extent not seen since the 1920s."


"He (Trump) is able to get a hearing because millions of people are being driven into economic insecurity and poverty while the rich and the super-rich continue to amass obscene levels of wealth. He is able with some success to divert mass discontent along reactionary nationalist and racialist channels precisely because what passes for the “left” in American politics, anchor by the Democratic Party, has moved ever further to the right, culminating in the Obama administration which has presided over endless war and an unprecedented redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top of the economic ladder."


THE OBAMA DOCTRINE OF OPEN BORDERS TO DESTROY AMERICA

… The first step to building a Muslim-style dictatorship



"More than 728,000 illegal immigrants have been shielded from being deported and 

 

granted work permits through President Barack Obama’s 2012 executive amnesty 

 

program, according to the Migration Policy Institute."




OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS:


THE FINAL TRANSFER OF AMERICA’ ECONOMY TO THE SUPER RICH!

 

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/09/barack-obama-and-his-crony-bankstershow.html




WAKE UP, FOOLS! It’s already here!!!


 

AMERICA’S TWISTED ROAD TO REVOLUTION:


 

Fighting back Wall Street’s Looting and Rule



http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/09/america-nation-ruled-wall-streets.html

 

 

AMERICA CRUMBLES AS OBAMA REBUILDS MUSLIM DICTATORSHIPS - Massachusetts: Public transportation infrastructure in advanced state of decay

CLINTON, BUSH, OBAMA... WE'VE HAD THREE ADMINISTRATIONS HAND MUSLIM DICTATORS BILLIONS!

AND THESE MUSLIMS STILL HATE OUR GUTS!

TIME TO REBUILD AMERICA? CLOSE OUR BORDERS AND END MEXICO'S LOOTING?


Massachusetts: Public transportation infrastructure in advanced state of decay

Massachusetts: Public transportation infrastructure in advanced state of decay

By John Marion 

22 November 2016

In eastern Massachusetts, where the total investment needed to bring the public transportation system back to a “state of good repair” is still more than $7 billion, recent incidents have demonstrated again the consequences of years of budgetary negligence. While riders on the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, the “T”) are confronted by daily delays and regular safety risks, Republican Governor Charlie Baker continues to blame workers for the problems.
It has been nearly two years since a series of February 2015 snowstorms shut down the MBTA multiple times. But while raising fares and privatizing jobs since that crisis, the Baker administration has not provided adequate resources to assure basic safety for subway riders.
While the jobs and benefits of MBTA workers are under attack, upper management is clamoring for large raises. According to the Boston Globe, the new project manager for an extension of the Green Line will be paid $280,000 in salary, $57,000 “in lieu of benefits” and $45,000 in bonuses. Seven other “key leaders” for the project would each be paid more than $175,000, according to hiring plans. MBTA CEO Stephanie Pollack makes $210,000 per year.
On October 26 the motor on an Orange Line subway train overheated at Back Bay Station in Boston, filling the train and the platform with smoke. Riders had to break train windows to get out, and three people were hospitalized. A Twitter video posted afterward by a rider showed dozens of people coughing as they climbed smoke-filled stairwells. Northbound service at the station did not resume for more than an hour after the incident began, leaving hundreds of people stranded during rush hour. The Boston Globe reported that the train doors did not have emergency exit handles.
Baker sought to blame the October 26 panic on the driver, whom he claimed did not “make an announcement about it and explain to people what’s going to happen next.” The governor, whose main aim is to privative the public transportation system by means of a Fiscal and Management Control Board which he appointed, has a history of blaming MBTA workers for such incidents.
In December 2015, a Red Line train left Braintree Station with no driver, a dangerous incident that could have been prevented with newer equipment or more operators on board. Baker went on the radio within hours and made an unfounded and provocative allegation of sabotage. The accusation was disproven by that evening.
The crisis has become so bad that T management is staging drills to practice evacuating riders from smoking trains. The Saturday after the Orange Line fire such a drill was held at Alewife Station, which was already scheduled to be closed for track maintenance. The mock incident involved the resources of the MBTA and the Cambridge, Somerville and Arlington fire departments.
On November 15 a “small trash fire” on the tracks of the Red Line caused delays around 5 p.m., leaving station platforms full of commuters. Riders complained on Twitter of exorbitant rates being charged by Uber because of high demand. One, whose commute would ordinarily consist of a subway ride and then a bus to Belmont, was quoted a price of more than $92 for the 8-mile trip. The following morning, a disabled Orange Line train at Haymarket Station in Boston caused delays during the morning commute.
In October, the Globe reported on the high number of canceled trains on the Fairmount commuter rail line, which is only about nine miles long but is relied on by students and low-income workers. The cancellations occurred because Keolis, which runs the MBTA’s commuter rail service, does not have enough coaches for all its trains. Nineteen trains on the line had been cancelled in September, and 17 in the first three weeks of October.
On the night of October 3, a Green Line trolley derailed at Copley Station, with no explanation given other than that the wheels “slipped off the rail.” While no one was injured in the accident, normal service was not restored until the following morning.
The MBTA has a deferred maintenance spending backlog of more than $7 billion. According to its current plans, $3.7 billion will be spent over the next five years on maintenance and the purchase of new equipment, giving the appearance of substantial progress. But because of inflation and the aging of existing equipment, spending at this rate (approximately $740 million per year) would need to continue for 25 years to completely eliminate the backlog. In the fiscal year ending June 30 of this year, the agency spent only $502 million on maintenance and equipment replacement.
A major infrastructure purchase scheduled over the next six years involves the manufacture of 152 new Orange Line cars and 132 new Red Line cars. The China Railroad Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) is building a factory for this purpose in Springfield, Massachusetts. This enterprise could be threatened by geopolitical tensions, which could be exacerbated by the incoming Trump administration. Months before the election, 55 US congressmen were already accusing CRRC of undercutting other bids because of subsidies from the Chinese government.
The contract between the MBTA and CRRC was arranged by Baker’s predecessor, Democratic Governor Deval Patrick. Baker, who sought to distance himself from Trump by not attending the Republican National Convention this summer, is nonetheless a Republican and will be under pressure to toe the administration’s line.
According to the Springfield Republican, CRRC is promising to pay production workers no more than $60,000 per year. Springfield, located about two hours west of Boston, has more than 16,200 unemployed workers.



A Trump Doctrine -- 'America First'

A Commentary By Patrick J. Buchanan
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
However Donald Trump came upon the foreign policy views he espoused, they were as crucial to his election as his views on trade and the border.   
Yet those views are hemlock to the GOP foreign policy elite and the liberal Democratic interventionists of the Acela Corridor.   
Trump promised an "America First" foreign policy rooted in the national interest, not in nostalgia. The neocons insist that every Cold War and post-Cold War commitment be maintained, in perpetuity.  
On Sunday's "60 Minutes," Trump said: "You 

know, we've been fighting this war for 15 years. .

We've spent $6 trillion in the Middle East, $6 

trillion -- we could have rebuilt our country twice.

And you look at our roads and our bridges and our

tunnels ... and our airports are ... obsolete."   


Yet the War Party has not had enough of war, not nearly.    
They want to confront Vladimir Putin, somewhere, anywhere. They want to send U.S. troops to the eastern Baltic. They want to send weapons to Kiev to fight Russia in Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea.   
They want to establish a no-fly zone and shoot down Syrian and Russian planes that violate it, acts of war Congress never authorized.   
They want to trash the Iran nuclear deal, though all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies told us, with high confidence, in 2007 and 2011, Iran did not even have a nuclear weapons program.   
Other hardliners want to face down Beijing over its claims to the reefs and rocks of the South China Sea, though our Manila ally is talking of tightening ties to China and kicking us out of Subic Bay.   
In none of these places is there a U.S. vital interest so imperiled as to justify the kind of war the War Party would risk.   
Trump has the opportunity to be the president who, like Harry Truman, redirected U.S. foreign policy for a generation.   
After World War II, we awoke to find our wartime ally, Stalin, had emerged as a greater enemy than Germany or Japan. Stalin's empire stretched from the Elbe to the Pacific.    
In 1949, suddenly, he had the atom bomb, and China, the most populous nation on earth, had fallen to the armies of Mao Zedong.   
As our situation was new, Truman acted anew. He adopted a George Kennan policy of containment of the world Communist empire, the Truman Doctrine, and sent an army to prevent South Korea from being overrun.   
At the end of the Cold War, however, with the Soviet Empire history and the Soviet Union having disintegrated, George H.W. Bush launched his New World Order. His son, George W., invaded Iraq and preached a global crusade for democracy "to end tyranny in our world."    
A policy born of hubris.    
Result: the Mideast disaster Trump described to Lesley Stahl, and constant confrontations with Russia caused by pushing our NATO alliance right up to and inside what had been Putin's country.    
How did we expect Russian patriots to react?   
The opportunity is at hand for Trump to reconfigure U.S. foreign policy to the world we now inhabit, and to the vital interests of the United States.    
What should Trump say?  
"As our Cold War presidents from Truman to Reagan avoided World War III, I intend to avert Cold War II. We do not regard Russia or the Russian people as enemies of the United States, and we will work with President Putin to ease the tensions that have arisen between us.   
"For our part, NATO expansion is over, and U.S. forces will not be deployed in any former republic of the Soviet Union.    
"While Article 5 of NATO imposes an obligation to regard an attack upon any one of 28 nations as an attack on us all, in our Constitution, Congress, not some treaty dating back to before most Americans were even born, decides whether we go to war.   
"The compulsive interventionism of recent decades is history. How nations govern themselves is their own business. While, as JFK said, we prefer democracies and republics to autocrats and dictators, we will base our attitude toward other nations upon their attitude toward us.    
"No other nation's internal affairs are a vital interest of ours.    
"Europeans have to be awakened to reality. We are not going to be forever committed to fighting their wars. They are going to have to defend themselves, and that transition begins now.    
"In Syria and Iraq, our enemies are al-Qaida and ISIS. We have no intention of bringing down the Assad regime, as that would open the door to Islamic terrorists. We have learned from Iraq and Libya."   
Then Trump should move expeditiously to lay out and fix the broad outlines of his foreign policy, which entails rebuilding our military while beginning the cancellation of war guarantees that have no connection to U.S. vital interests. We cannot continue to bankrupt ourselves to fight other countries' wars or pay other countries' bills.    
The ideal time for such a declaration, a Trump Doctrine, is when the president-elect presents his secretaries of state and defense.   


Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book "The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority." 

To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.

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