. . . of what’s happened in the last eight years. (from a libertarian)

The new minority leader is likely to go 0 for 8 in opposing Trump nominees.

Perhaps the warning sign was that actual sign—the poster board that stood beside Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi Jan. 4. “Make America Sick Again,” it blared. Democrats had intended to mock Donald Trump. Instead, some neglectful aide had made the incriminating text about Republicans on the sign too small for the cameras.

Twitter had a field day, circulating a photo of the nation’s top two Democrats trumpeting their wish of ill health on the nation.It was an inauspicious start for Mr. Schumer, and things haven’t improved. Looking to step grandly into Harry Reid’s hobnailed boots, the new Senate minority leader publicly set for himself as a first task the takedown of eight of Mr. Trump’s nominees. These “troublesome” picks, suggested Mr. Schumer, would have a hard road to office.

Two embarrassing weeks later, as Mr. Trump stands to take the oath, he instead looks set to become the first president in decades to pull off a perfect nomination performance.

Read the rest here.

He hit the ground running.

Source: Full Text of Inaugural:Trump, in Radical Speech, Vows To Transfer Power To the Forgotten Man – The New York Sun

Barack “turned the other way” about Iran’s aggressiveness. Trump won’t, says Sen. Cotton.

Sen. Tom Cotton said he expects President-elect Trump step up enforcement of the Iran nuclear deal but stop short of pulling the U.S. out of the agreement. But that won’t save the deal. The Arkansas Republican, a vocal opponent of President Obama’s deal with Iran to limit the rogue regime’s nuclear weapons program, said Tehran is likely to react to stricter policing by the incoming Trump administration by crying foul and refusing to comply going forward.

I believe the Iran deal is dead, Cotton said, during an interview with the Washington Examiner’s Examining Politics podcast. Congressional Republicans are broadly opposed to the Iran deal. The outgoing administration, in negotiation with other world powers, signed an executive agreement, meaning it is not a treaty, giving Trump the power to end U.S. participation in the accord. However, the U.S. re-imposing sanctions on Iran for, in Washington’s view, continuing to develop a nuclear weapons program, would not affect the other nations involved, and they would be free to continue with the deal and granting Tehran sanctions relief.

Source: Tom Cotton: The Iran deal is dead | Washington Examiner

Really? Same polls that blew the election? Oh.

Source: trump down in polls – Google Search

Phony baloney from professional Muslims.

As Trump’s inauguration approaches, the fake hate crime industry has kicked into high gear. A rash of widely reported “anti-Muslim hate crimes” have turned out to be hoaxes perpetrated by Muslims.

Hate crimes are political capital in our petulant, victimhood-idolizing society: when real incidents don’t exist, there is incentive to invent them. The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Muslims have on many occasions not hesitated to fabricate hate crimes, including attacks on mosques.

For CAIR and its allies, this is part of a larger agenda. They wish to deflect attention away from jihad terror attacks and plots, and to end law enforcement scrutiny of what is supposedly an unjustly despised and harassed group.

And they are regularly called out by major media? By whom?

Source: Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Five New Fake ‘Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes’

For a man cannot have publick spirit, who is void of private benevolence.

Source: Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, 3

Mrs. Conway vs. our most prominent social disease:

Kellyanne Conway has just upended another Washington convention. She did so when she agreed to speak at the annual March for Life, one week after Donald Trump is sworn in as president.

With this one gesture, Mrs. Conway steals some thunder from the celebrity-heavy Women’s March on Washington, scheduled for the day after Mr. Trump’s inauguration. She focuses attention on big changes ahead for abortion policy. She challenges the feminist trope that to be a woman is to be pro-choice.

Above all, she guarantees coverage of a march the press would prefer to ignore, and gets the New York Times to report that, having “made history” as “the first woman to manage a successful presidential campaign,” Mrs. Conway will now make history again as “the first sitting White House official to address the annual march in person.”

Well I never! What next?

Source: Kellyanne Conway and the Life of Her Party – WSJ

The report is based on nothing . . . 

The most important statement in the Justice Department’s damning report on the Chicago Police Department has nothing to do with police behavior.

Released on Friday, the report found the Chicago police guilty of a “pattern or practice” of unconstitutional force.

But it turns out that the Justice Department has no standard for what constitutes a “pattern or practice” (the phrase comes from a 1994 federal statute) of unconstitutional police conduct.

“Statistical evidence is not required” for a “pattern or practice” finding, the DOJ lawyers announce, citing unrelated court precedent.

Nor is there “a specific number of incidents” required to constitute a “pattern or practice,” they proclaim.

You might say the AG Lynch report is a DOJ lynching.

Read on: “Statistical Evidence Not Required” | City Journal