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NJ's two senators don't exactly crown themselves with glory grilling Trump's nominees

When your two US Senators are Democrats you're bound to be repeatedly embarrassed by their antics. But sheesh, Cory Booker and Bob Menendez really outdid themselves today.

Booker broke with 228 years of tradition and became the first sitting US Senator to publicly speak out against the confirmation of his colleague Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. Why? Because he's running for president in 2020, and he's a horse's ass.

As Democrats look to regroup after their unexpected loss to Trump, Booker's name has been floated as a potential front-runner to lead the Democratic Party's presidential bid in 2020. Publicity is likely a big motivator behind Booker's commitment to thrust his own views of Sessions into the spotlight.

He's gotta appear to be more radical than Lizzie "Fauxcahontas" Warren. And face it, the libtard wing of the Democratic party eats this shit up. Too bad he's an empty suit, with little appeal outside of New Jersey and other coastal enclaves. And then there's the small matter of his entanglement with the rampant corruption in the Newark Watershed Commission, where his protege Linda Watkins-Brashear pleaded guilty to multiple felonies involving bribery and official misconduct. Not to mention his sweetheat deal with his old law firm of Trenk, DiPasquale wherein they continued to pay him a salary when he was mayor of Newark while he steered lucrative no-bid city contracts their way.

It's like the Clinton Foundation, only without the foreign "investments." (Ah, give him time, I'm sure he can rustle up a few checks from the United Arab Emirates. -- Ed.)

Cory Booker won't be president. Of that I can assure you.

Meanwhile, his partner in mendacity, Bob Menendez, was busy making a fool of himself questioning Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson. Bob wanted to know why Tillerson supported Trump's border wall with Mexico.

I also want to point out that the last time a country tried to wall itself completely from its neighbor was in Berlin in 1961, and that wall was constructed by communist East Germany.

Wow.

Just wow.

Yo Bob. The Berlin wall was created to keep East Germans in. Trump's wall is gonna keep illegal aliens out. But other than that, the two walls are like totally the same.

Try reading a book Bob. You might learn something.

Hey New Jersey. You elected this bozo? Shame on you.

Oh BTW, he's under indictment. It's gotta take a boatload of corruption for a Democratic administration to indict a US Senator of their own party. Heck, the case must be ironclad, or political hack Paul Fishman wouldn't have put his John Hancock on it, because Fishman didn't touch Jon Corzine and you'd have to be blinder than Stevie Wonder not to see his guilt.

Sorry Bob, but your credibility is shot. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.

Completely unrelated, but fun to point out, the Feds raided Orange city hall today in an ongoing fraud investigation. Is Orange, NJ run by Democrats? Is there a mustache in Mexico? Yes to both! But you already knew that.

Cory and Bob, your ineffective and unsuccessful attempts at character assassination are noted, and rejected. Sit down. Shut up. Jeff Sessions and Rex Tillerson will both be confirmed. And then the Real Fun will begin!

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A Clinton Foundation 'charitable' initiative: Paying for Chelsea's wedding

Well, now we know why Hillary had to delete those emails about Chelsea's wedding. Because the wedding was paid for by the Clinton Foundation, aka the family slush fund masquerading as a "charity."

As with many of the Doug Band email chains, the rabbit hole just got a little deeper today with Band accusing of Chelsea of "using foundation resources for her wedding and life for a decade" among other accusations. He also concludes with another veiled threat on the consequences "once we go down this road...."

But what else could we expect when their own lawyers warned that the Clinton Foundation was "more political operation than charity."

Except, considering that the Clinton Foundation's "overall mission" is to advance the political career of Hillary Clinton, I'd say Mr. Gibson was being disingenuous.

In another revelation from yesterday's email dump we learn that back in 2011 the government of Qatar wanted to wish Bill Clinton a happy 65th birthday by presenting his foundation with a check for one million dollars. No strings. Just well wishes. Or so he and Hillary would have us believe. Because everyone whose wife isn't running for president gets million dollar checks from rich Arabs, right?

Mine must have gotten lost in the mail.

I know that nothing I say here will convince die-hard Clintonistas she's really corrupt to the core. So take it from one of her own friends. Brent Budowsky was a legislative assistant to Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentson and is an "advocacy journalist" with LA Progressive who claims he is Hillary's "friend."

It remains to be seen whether or not Clinton Foundation corruption does indeed "bring down" Hillary's candidacy. I sure hope it does, because the stench of a Hillary Clinton presidency would forever taint our republic.

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Hillary's latest pitch: Read her lips, more new taxes!

While appearing at an event with multi-billionaire tax-avoider Warren Buffet, Hillary Clinton provided some insight on how her tax plan differs from Donald Trump's.

She'll raise taxes on the middle class.

The sycophantic sheep went wild, cheering for Hillary to raise their taxes.

There's video at the link in case your lyin' ears don't want to believe a known right-wing prevaricator like me.

Because wasn't it Joe Biden who said paying more taxes is patriotic?

Well OK then, get ready for a big dose of patriotism!

Pay up suckers, because Free Stuff ain't cheap.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about Real Money.

So listen up Hillarians. Yup, I'm talking to you, oh displayers of Hillary signs and bumper stickers. I hope you like Hamburger Helper. Because you're gonna bear the brunt of paying for your queen's quest for utopia. And those taxes won't be easy on the budget, leaving you a lot less left over for luxuries like food.

Don't come crying to me though, because I'll just say I told you so.

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The DNC booed God, and cheered when a woman announced she murdered her first child

The Democratic Party truly is the party of infanticide.

Some day one of her "incredible children" will read about his dead older sibling and wonder if Mommy will discard him too if he becomes inconvenient.

Cheering the death of a child is beyond the pale. And yet, it's just another day in Hillary Clinton's world. What's one more when you've already buried 57 million, right?

They know it's wrong, they're just not willing to admit they know. So they shout ever the louder, to drown out their consciences.

Nancy Pelosi knows. And she ridicules the pro-life movement.

Yes, Mizz Pelosi, God's not OK with murdering your unborn child. Thou Shalt Not Kill. Go ahead, look it up if you don't believe me.

Jesus is especially fond of little children; I remember the inscription over the door to Saint Catherine's School — Suffer the little children to come unto me. Surely as a "devout Catholic," Tim Kaine could explain that one to you.

Oh, right, he wants to repeal the Hyde Amendment. Sounds like he, and you, could use a refresher course in the Catechism.

Take the first step. Tell your delegates to stop booing God. Let Him into your hearts. He'll take it from there.

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Just when Hillary thought her email troubles were over...

Along comes Debbie Wasserman Schultz!

Some "resignation." Because now Debbie's working directly for Hillary. Assuming, of course, she wasn't already doing that at the DNC.

Clinton emailed supporters and said that Schultz would join the campaign as "honorary chair" of the 50-state program to ensure Democrats win elections nationwide.

Sure Debbie got booed off the stage in Philadelphia this morning, but hey, she'll be perfect as Hillary's surrogate on the campaign trail!

The weekend email dump is damaging, to say the least. And it puts paid to any notion that Hillary's home-brew email server wasn't breached. Because if the DNC can be hacked, you can bet your bottom dollar an unprotected server in a closet was compromised, more than once.

So, we now know the DNC was totally in the tank for Hillary, disparaging Bernie at every opportunity. How's that endorsement working out for you now Senator?

It should come as no surprise, but The Washington Post, Politico, and MSNBC all employ paid shills for Hillary. The media really are DNC operatives with bylines.

Speaking of paid surrogates, the leader of Black Lives Matter, DeRay McKesson was literally on Debbie's payroll. And here I'll bet you thought BLM was just a grassroots movement that sprung up spontaneously right before this election.

The hits, they just keep on coming.

We also learned that while Hillary will spend the week lamenting how money in politics in bad, at the DNC money talks. DWS perfected pay-to-play; if you don't pay, you don't get to play.

All of which again led Hillary to decry how she's held to a different standard than "everybody else." The FBI would certainly agree…

On the one hand, I'm surprised she admits to having any standards at all. But c'mon, holding politicians' feet to the fire is a time-honored tradition of democracies everywhere. Hillary has spent her life skipping from scandal to scandal, and now it's a newsflash when someone questions her credibility?

But that's one of feminism's hypocrisies, and great paradox of Hillary's quest to be Vagina In Chief. They want to be equal to men, until they're treated just like another man, at which point they either cry, faint, or shout "misogyny." So man-up Hillary. Because the scrutiny you're getting is par for the course with Republicans, men and women. Ask Sarah Palin.

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Hillary is guilty as sin and free as a bird, Obama's Injustice Dept officially closes their investigation

To almost no one's surprise, Obama's DNC-controlled Justice Department accepted the recommendation of his puppet FBI Director and formally announced the closure of their investigation into Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified information.

To say I'm disgusted is a gross understatement.

Bill Clinton meets secretly with Loretta Lynch, and then word leaks that his wife will "consider" keeping Lynch on as AG. IE, clear the decks Loretta and your job is secure for at least 4 more years.

Then Hillary and Barry just "happen" to schedule their first joint campaign appearance on the very day the FBI director is set to announce his findings. These events don't happen on a whim, or without weeks of advance notice. So for sure everybody already knew she was going to skate.

Which means, of course, that the FBI "interview" at her house on Saturday was just for show. The investigation was already concluded. The decision to clear her had already been made.

In other words, the fix was in. The rule of law is dead. Mr. Comey's cowardly decision will go down as one of the government's worst assaults on truth.

After describing clear evidence of extensive mishandling of classified national security information, FBI Director James Comey announced that the FBI will not recommend indicting former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. This is naked crony government, ugly and exposed.

Laws are for the little people.

Hillary Clinton is Too Big To Jail.

It doesn't matter that the evidence of her guilt is plain for all to see.

But it might matter that buried in Comey's remarks is this little gem, in which he obfuscates Hillary's guilt.

To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now.

To be clear, people not named Hillary Clinton are called to account. Every. Single. Time.

If Donald Trump and the GOP are smart they'll seize on this double standard, and convict Hillary in the court of public opinion.

Paul Ryan is, to his credit, connecting those dots.

Of course Clapper will demur. He's a politician who's also looking to keep his job for four more years. But that will just give the GOP another talking point — what level of "carelessness" would lead Clapper to deny someone access to more classified information?

Move over "Crooked Hillary." Her new nickname ought to be "Careless Hillary." Because do we really want someone that reckless and negligent in the White House?

You know what? This guy is on to something.

And in the meantime I think Woodward and Bernstein owe Richard Nixon an apology.

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Senate Democrats filibuster to end Due Process for gun owners, but not for Muslims

Oh, that pesky Constitution!

That whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing? Yeah, it's so 17th century.

Liberty, it's so outdated dontcha know. And guns are scary!

So yesterday, to the applause of pretty much every liberal on my Facebook friends list, Senate Democrats waged a 15 hour filibuster to force a vote on suspending the Constitution for gun owners.

A Democratic senator who mourned the loss of 20 children in his home state of Connecticut waged a roughly 15-hour filibuster into the early hours Thursday, asserting as he yielded the floor that Republican leaders had committed to hold votes on expanded gun background checks and a ban on gun sales to suspected terrorists.

Who is a "suspected terrorist?"

Anyone on the government's secret terrorism watch list or the airlines' no-fly list. Lists that you can't find out if you're on, and can't get off of if you are.

Sounds legit, right? Because remember, guns are scary!

Meanwhile, the New York Times wants the government to go even further, by convening a secret Star Chamber to suspend the Second Amendment.

Hey remember the Good Old Days when Democrats opposed the FISA courts?

Oh, right, that was back when that evil Booosch guy was using them to spy on library records and other important stuff. This is like totally different! Because guns are scary!

But, OK, let's suppose a bunch of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats really do have everyone's best interests at heart. They're paragons of integrity and they'll never put their political enemies on a "no-buy" list out of spite, unlike say, their buddies at the IRS. Honest!

So then riddle me this Batman. Because I'm confused about something. See, a day earlier Newt Gingrich floated the idea of resurrecting the House Un-American Activities Committee. Which of course would meet in the open, in front of TV cameras.

And liberals flipped out.

When it comes to Muslims, Due Process is the only thing that matters. And their Constitutional rights are sacrosanct. And, McCarthyism!

I'm reveling in the irony. "Blacklist." "No-buy" list. Po-tay-to. Po-tah-to.

Here's an idea. Let's call the whole thing off.

Because even with all their lists, the Democrats still wouldn't have stopped the Orlando shooter. He deliberately wasn't put on any watch lists.

If you're asking yourself "why not?," that's easy.

The answer is, because under this Administration, accusations of "Islamophobia" are career-ending, whereas letting people be killed by the dozens is just an unfortunate bit of government work.

It's almost as if they're just using this shooting as pretext for advancing their totalitarian ideology. Never let a crisis go to waste. And disarming the population is Step One toward controlling the population.

Molon Labe!

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NYC Democrats: We're from the government and we're here to irritate you

New York City councilman Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn) is largely responsible for the plastic bag fee about to hit the Big Apple. And why is he so gung-ho about it? Because he wants the government to "irritate" you.

This is the Progressive Democrats' raison d'etra, to irritate you.

And of course to signal how virtuous they are.

Do they care if their irritants cause real hardships for real people?

Don't make me laugh.

Hey, they bankrupted an entire industry (coal), putting millions of people out of work, devolving vast swaths of West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Ohio into soul-crushing poverty. Do you really think they care about some old lady in Queens living on Social Security? Her electricity rates have already "necessarily skyrocketed." What's another 50 cents?

Think of how many Democratic party policies have at their core the propensity to irritate us. Which they always manage to say is for our own good, of course.

It's dictatorship of the nanny state.

Progressives always know what's good for us better than we do. Just ask them. It's necessary for them to control us, because then we're busy complying with their mandates and we don't have time to get our own ideas. Once in a while they throw us a bone and we lap it up like good little automatons, because making choices is hard and making good choices is harder still.

Several years ago I actually had a person tell me in response to some new bureaucratic diktat or another, "why should I worry about that when the government has already decided the best way to handle it?"

Then in the next breath she complained about the Iraq war, but the disconnect in those two statements was completely lost on her. The government is only omnipotent when it's doing things Progressives believe in, I guess.

Oh, by the way, those reusable cloth bags come with their own problems. So get ready for an "unexpected" jump in e. coli infections, disproportionally affecting the elderly and the poor, that all the progressive media outlets will dutifully report on but dare not connect with Councilman Lander's plastic bag ban.

And then the progressive virtue signalers will mandate cloth bag testing stations, manned by unionized government workers, who'll issue Certificates Of Cleanliness that must be exchanged for your groceries. Sure that'll cost a lot, but it'll save lives and you didn't think the government wasn't going to protect you, right?

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Donald Trump joins the Democrats' new culture war, endorses coed bathrooms

Seven years of Obama and now nobody knows what bathroom to use…

One day after Target announced men could use women's facilities in their stores, Donald Trump joined his fellow Democrats in endorsing coed bathrooms for all.

New York Values!

I'm hoping all his faux-conservative supporters are jumping with joy this morning. Phyllis Schlafly, try to spin this as "pro-family,", OK?

Because when you open bathrooms to any man who says he's a woman, that's when you get "a lot of problems." Like perverts. Lots and lots and lots of perverts. Especially in Target.

Only now the perverts are protected by liberals pandering to the LGBT bullies. Your pre-teen daughters? Yeah, not protected. Not one bit.

And if you object? You're the hater. You have to change your ways. You need to go find an alternative restroom, and shame on you for judging the Max Klingers of this Brave New World.

Democrats and their media allies are determined to make coed bathrooms the next bastion of "tolerance." Hillary Clinton is enthusiastically on board. And ESPN just fired baseball great Curt Schilling for the unpardonable crime of stating the obvious. Because apparently women are totally vulnerable to sexual assault on college campuses nationwide, except when they walk into a coed restroom or locker room. Then they're completely safe! Honest!

So who's the one candidate willing to stand up for our moms' and daughters' restroom privacy?

Ted Cruz.

Of course it's perfectly reasonable. So naturally Democrats, and Donald Trump, are opposed to it. They won't be satisfied until every societal more is ripped to shreds, sacrificed on the alter of "tolerance." Except the one thing they refuse to tolerate is dissent from their totalitarian worldview.

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Chuck Schumer: Hey, stop using my words against me!

Ole Chuck doesn't like it when people take him at his word.

Uh, that's not what you said Chuck. Let me refresh your memory.

Schumer told the American Constitution Society in 2007 that Democrats "should reverse the presumption of confirmation," because the court was "dangerously out of balance." At the time, George W. Bush was president.

Guess what Chuck? We're gonna "reverse the presumption of confirmation."

Thanks for the idea!

Oh, but now Chuck is saying he'd only oppose an "extreme" nominee.

Left unsaid is that Chuck's idea of "extreme" is anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders.

Also left unsaid is how Democrats have been playing outrageous games with the appointment process for a quarter century.

When Robert Bork was defenestrated by Joe Biden, despite Biden's having said he would have no choice but to vote for someone so well-qualified, he was setting the table for payback. When Harry Reid pulled the trigger on the nuclear option (on lower court appointments) he was warned that this would come back to haunt him. When Democrats disgustingly blocked Miguel Estrada from the bench solely because he was a Hispanic, they set the table to be turned. When Barack Obama voted to filibuster Alito, he set the table to be turned.

Your team made the rules Chuck. Don't come crying to me when we start playing by them.

From where I sit it's about damn time we stood up and shouted "no!"

And if you don't like that? Well, in the immortal words of Dick Cheney, Go fuck yourself.

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At least they're consistent: Black Dems say Bernie Sanders is a racist for criticizing Obama

For 8 years we've heard how Republicans are racist for daring to criticize Barack Obama. It's every Democrat's favorite retort, especially when she's losing an argument.

Yesterday, the Congressional Black Caucus leveled the same charge against Socialist upstart Bernie Sanders, because he's aligned himself with Democrats who criticize Obama.

Yowza! This is starting to get good!

See, it's not enough to promise everyone Free Stuff. Nope. You have to promise Black Americans more Free Stuff than anyone else in order to garner the CBC's endorsement.

Then there's Rep. John Lewis, attacking Bernie for claiming to have fought for civil rights in the 1960s.

Sorry Bernie, it's all about what you've done for them lately. And sucking up to Al Sharpton when you should have been pandering to the CBC, well, that's not how the game is played.

Nevermind that according to Larry Elder writing at Real Clear Politics Blacks are worse off under Obama. In most cases far worse off. And nevermind that the former Chairman of the CBC has this to say about Obama in 2011:

The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., in 2011, complained about the economic plight of Black America. He said, "If (former President) Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House." He repeated the statement 12 months later, when black unemployment stood at 14.1 percent: "As the chair of the Black Caucus, I've got to tell you, we are always hesitant to criticize the President. With 14 percent (black) unemployment, if we had a white president we'd be marching around the White House."

Instead they've sold their souls to Hillary Clinton, who has promised to be the realization of Obama's 3rd term. Whether or not that's good news for Black America, or for that matter America in general, is very much in doubt.

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Bernie Sanders rails against corporate greed while pushing the politics of greed and envy

Bernie Sanders' New Hampshire victory speech in a nutshell: We want what you've got.

For the life of me I can't understand how any red-blooded American can sit there and stomach such nonsense.

The guy's never worked a Real Job in his life. Or rather, he failed miserably at every job, except politics. Yet he believes he's entitled to take from those of us who didn't fail and live large off our efforts.

You can call it Socialism. You can dress it up as "fairness," except it really isn't all that "fair" to the guy forking over his hard-earned money.

What it really is, is Theft.

And what is theft but greed by another name? The Bible calls it "coveting." And that's the essense of Bernie's socialism. He covets his neighbor's goods. He envies your and my success. And his goal is to take what we have, by force.

How that is somehow better than the system we have now is left unanswered. Hipsters don't do irony, right?

So, riddle me this. Why should Bernie stop at Free College and Free Health Care and Free Housing and Free Drugs and Free Love? Why not Free Flat Screen TVs? Or Free Cars?

Bernie's vision of government is to meet everyone's "needs" without regard for their efforts or abilities. Marxism 101. Go ahead, look it up.

That's not "fairness." It's never been about "fairness." It's always, and I mean always resulted in abject misery, except for the Chosen Few.

Look at North Korea. Or Cuba, Venezuela, China, and of course Bernie's favorite dictatorship, Soviet Russia. Because that's Democratic Socialism in action.

I want to take every one of these deluded kids lining up to kiss Bernie's ring, the kids that swear they want to be "just like Sweden" and get them to sit down and read about the Holodomor.

I want them to understand what forced redistribution of wealth really looks like, up close and personal.

Alas, they won't believe it, will they. Not these kids. They're smarter than me; their professors told them so.

They won't believe that Sweden is no paradise either. Or that Sweden is backing away from Bernie-style socialism as fast as it can.

To them, Bernie Sanders is Santa Claus, albeit with armed reindeer and a naughty list a mile long. They're gonna ride Santa's sleigh to the promised land, because it's easier than getting up and going to work every morning.

But then, by the time Bernie gets around to screwing them over too, it'll be too late.

Too late for them. Too late for Freedom. And too late for America.

Which of course they'll characterize as "bad luck."

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Cory Booker and Bob Menendez block attempt to stop rapefugees from coming to America

The Star-Ledger thinks they're heroes, and their coverage spins the vote as a "win" for The Good Guys, but face it, Cory Booker and Bob Menendez want to bring more rapists into America.

Because the vetting Obama's guys do is so thorough, and no terrorists can slip in through the cracks.

Oh, wait.

And the Tsnarnaev brothers were such fine, upstanding people, right?

Hey Bob and Cory I've got a really great idea. Pick some women you care about. Tell them to bunk with your Syrian buddies. I'm sure everything will be A-OK.

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Salomon Melgen kept "a ledger of prostitution activities," and it features Bob Menendez

Bob Menendez repeatedly said he didn't have sex with prostitutes. He even labeled the accusations a right wing smear campaign instigated by conservative media outlets.

But as it turns out, where there was smoke, there was indeed fire.

Now why do you suppose Bob's good buddy, a guy who Bob did so many favors for, would keep records of Bob's dalliances with ladies of the evening?

Can you say "insurance?"

Sure, I knew you could.

Bob Menendez was bought and paid for, and Dr. Melgen wanted to ensure that Bob stayed bought and paid for. Quid pro ho, to coin a phrase.

And, according to the New York Daily News, some of Bob's sexual partners were under the age of 18.

Bob Menendez, the Jared Fogle of the US Senate.

Which might explain why Tom Moran and the Star-Ledger are so gung-ho to rehabilitate the reputation of Bob Torricelli. Their editorial reads like a love letter to an old flame.

If indeed Menendez goes down, it's a safe bet that Torricelli will throw himself back in the game. And if there is a smarter politician in this state, on politics or policy, then we have yet to meet.

Sheesh, get a room.

But hey, if there's one thing NJ Democrats are good at, it's replacing one corrupt politician with another. After all, they have an endless supply.

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According to Hillary everyone should make at least $15 per hour, except her campaign staff

Hillary's hordes are expected to work for free. (h/t The Lonely Conservative)

That's Hillary. Talking the talk, but not walking the walk.

Now, on the one hand, if you're stupid enough to donate your time to Hillary, you deserve to be poor. And of course there's always welfare and food stamps and Section 8 (or a nearby couch) and Medicaid to see you through. Or family money if you're part of the limousine liberal crowd she seems to attract so easily.

On the other hand, isn't this exactly what she accuses employers like Walmart of doing to their employees — paying next to nothing and then asking the taxpayers to foot the bill for their supposed reluctance to honor a "living wage?"

Why yes, yes it is.

Because "hypocrisy" and "Democrat" go hand-in-hand.

So try not to laugh too hard the next time Bill or Hill charges two or three hundred grand to bloviate about how Americans need a $15 per hour minimum wage.

At Team Clinton the minimum wage is zero. And the lemmings like it just tine.

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The Cory Booker / Ras Baraka two-step: Newark, NJ debt downgraded to junk status

Cory Booker got out of Dodge before the full effect of his incompetence hit. Which left Ras Baraka to finish the job his Marxist anti-Semite father started in 1967. Amiri Baraka (nee LeRoi Jones) lit Newark on fire. His son has succeeded in burning Newark's finances.

What do Newark and those 5 other towns have in common?

Decades and decades of Democratic Party rule.

Yeah, I'm wearing my shocked face too.

Where Democrats reign, despair, decay, disinvestment, and now downgraded debt inevitably follow.

For his part, Mayor Baraka disclaimed any responsibility, and threw his predecessor under the bus.

Well, Cory Booker was busy running for Senate, so getting Newark's budget in order probably wasn't on his to-do list. Meanwhile, his designated seat-filler, Luis Quintana, didn't even really try to get anything done.

Of course Booker sang the same song as Baraka when he tweeted into town — all this stuff is Sharpe James' fault!

And, if you're old enough to remember when James took over, he blamed Ken Gibson, who I recall "inherited a mess" from Hugh Addonizio.

Excuses, Newark's always got 'em, in a never-ending supply.

How's that song go? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

What amazes me is that the people of Newark keep falling for it. They got the government they apparently wanted, and it's failure is their failure.

Because I assure you, they'll definitely get fooled again.

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Hey New Jersey, US Senator Cory Booker says hard work is "not right"

We know Democrats believe in voting for a living. But I never expected one to actually come out and say it so succinctly.

O.M.G.

Hard work is what exactly? Overrated? Too hard? Not worth it?

Only somebody who's never held a Real Job in his life could believe such nonsense.

When I started out, I worked a helluva lot more than 40 hours per week.

As a matter of fact, I still do.

No wonder I'm not a Democrat.

Take it away James Franco!

And the rest, as they say, is history. From humble beginnings, great things can be accomplished.

"Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work."
— Booker T. Washington

I doubt Cory Booker has ever set foot in a McDonald's, let alone worked the late shift at the drive-thru. What the hell does he know about "not right?"

"Not right" is counting on McDonald's as a career. Not that it isn't honest work, and if you can live off the salary, great. But entry-level jobs are just that, entry-level and the goal isn't to spend the rest of your life flipping burgers.

Hard work is the stepping stone to success.

Unless, of course, you're an affirmative action hire at a guilty white liberal law firm. Then you're just an out-of-touch putz pretending to stand up for The Little Guy. Except he's probably working his butt off right now and he isn't actually interested in what senators playing pundit on Twitter have to say.

Oh, who am I kidding? That preening senator and his cronies are going to promise their gullible suckers voters a quick path to Easy Street. No work required. Just vote Democrat, and sit back while the wealth redistribution rolls in.

It's unsustainable in the long run of course. But they don't care. By the time "the long run" hits they'll be rich and retired. All the suckers who bought their bullshit? Not so much.

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Bill Clinton defends his foundation's spending "in way that helps the poor"

It just depends on what his meaning of "the poor" is, I guess.

Because devoting a mere 6½% of its budget to charitable work is the very model of altruism, or something.

Gee, I wonder how anyone could get that impression?

The Clintons are just Plain Folks. And they're "broke," remember?

It's tough being a Clinton. No wonder Hillary is running for president, she needs the paycheck, to help, uh, "the poor."

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Jon Corzine is starting a new hedge fund! What could go wrong?

Is there a sucker born every minute?

You tell me.

You remenber Jon Corzine, right?

He's the financial genius who took over MF Global, ran it into the ground, vaporized more than a billion dollars of his clients' money, and then tried to weasel his way out of any responsibility for the debacle.

You know, just the kind of guy you'd want looking out for your life savings!

So, what's his sales pitch this time?

Because I'm pretty sure that "Give me all your money, never see it again!" isn't going to win him very many customers.

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Bob Menendez's best buddy Salomon Melgen indicted in $190 million Medicare fraud scheme

Wherever Bob Menendez goes, corruption isn't far behind. And it looks like that buying himself a pet U.S. Senator isn't going to help Salomon Melgen avoid prison.

New federal charges of Medicare fraud involving tens of millions of dollars were filed late Tuesday against Salomon Melgen, the Florida eye specialist who was indicted earlier this month with U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez for allegedly bribing the senator in exchange for help with financial and personal matters, including a Medicare billing dispute.

Bob says "billing dispute," the Justice Department says "fraud." With a capital "F."

And coincidentally, some of those millions found their way into Bob Menendez's pocket, as well as into the coffers of the DNC.

Reached late Tuesday, Tricia Enright, a spokeswoman for Menendez, said of Melgen's new indictment: "The senator knows nothing about this. It has nothing to do with the senator's case."

Dr. Melgen should've bought a dog instead of a Senator. At least then he'd still have a friend.

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