Bernie Sanders Has Benefited From Super PACs–And He Accepted Contributions From Wall Street

Townhall.com:

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the independent-turned-Democratic Senator from Vermont, proudly states pervasively that he does not have a super PAC (sorry, Supah PAC), and he’s not beholden to Wall Street ties in the same fashion as Hillary Clinton. That’s true. There is no Bernie super PAC per se, but he does benefit from the super PACs within his coalition. Moreover, he’s benefitted from indirect Wall Street contributions and regularly attended retreats hosted by their lobbyists, according to the Wall Street Journal:

Yet the Vermont senator has benefited from at least $1.5 million in backing from super PACs and from political groups that don’t have to fully disclose their donors, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. 

As a member of Congress, he regularly attended retreats with Wall Street lobbyists and other donors, and as a candidate for the Senate, he benefited from money that indirectly came from them. Last year, he directly accepted about $55,000 in Wall Street contributions for his Democratic presidential campaign, FEC filings show.
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He may not have formed one of his own, but Mr. Sanders is getting help from National Nurses United for Patient Protection, a super PAC that gets its money from the nation’s largest nurses’ union, with nearly 185,000 members.

The union doesn’t have to disclose its donors, but a spokesman said the super PAC money comes exclusively from members’ dues. Representatives from the union have frequently joined the senator at events and this week launched a bus tour across South Carolina ahead of the state’s Feb. 27 primary.
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Mr. Sanders has also regularly attended the DSCC’s retreats, either during the winter in Florida or during summer on Martha’s Vineyard, including one as recently as July. Guests at the retreats are donors who have donated the maximum amount to the party, or raised more than $100,000. Many attendees are lobbyists, lawyers and members of the financial industry.
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Several donors who have attended the retreats said Mr. Sanders fully participated in the events, including socializing, and didn’t take the opportunity to tell Wall Street lobbyists that, as he says on the stump, their industry’s business model is fraud.

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Liberal Hypocrite Barack Obama Admits To Filibustering Samuel Alito as Senator In 2006 as a 'Strategy'

Typical 'do as I say, not as I do' Democrat.

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To Liberals Delight, Donald Trump Evokes 9/11 To Make Fun of Jeb Bush

Mediaite.com:

During his presser Monday afternoon from Hanahan, South Carolina, Donald Trump moved from his open criticism of Texas Senator Ted Cruz onto the Bush family, continuing the rhetoric that was hotly-contested during this weekend’s GOP debate.

On the same day that former President George W. Bush is set to stump on behalf of his brother Jeb in South Carolina, Trump called out the frequent talking point that “George W. Bush kept us safe after 9/11”.

“What about during 9/11? I was there,” Trump told the press. “I lost a lot of friends that were killed in that building. The worst attack ever in this country — it was during his Presidency.”

Trump really sounds emotional going after the Bush's like this. To think, Jeb Bush is too wooden and too prone to fumbles to win the GOP nomination. Still, Trump just can't put aside his huge ego and utter disdain for Jeb to leave him alone and let him die a slow death on his own.

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Lesbian High School Student Shoots Girlfriend Then Kills Herself In Murder-Suicide

HollywoodLife.com:

Dorothy Dutiel and May Kieu, both 15, were killed in a murder-suicide at Independence High School in Glendale, Arizona on February 12, and it appears that Dorothy left a final message to her friends and family on her Twitter account. The two messages came just hours before the fatal shooting outside the cafeteria that left both her and girlfriend May dead. Click through to see the tweets.

Something appeared to be upsetting Dorothy on February 10, when she tweeted “rejected af” (as f–k). On February 12, just hours before her death, she tweeted “Good bye ( :” It’s haunting to see her possibly tell the world of her intentions, but especially the fact that she included a smiley face in her final tweet. What was going through her mind on that last day of her life?

May and Dorothy were found outside the school’s cafeteria before class had even started, around 8:00am local time. The two girls each suffered a single, fatal gunshot wound; a handgun and suicide note were close by. Though police wouldn’t divulge what the note said, they were certain that what they saw was a murder-suicide. It’s a tragic event that’s rocked a community beyond belief.

It was revealed on February 13, the day after the shooting, that May and Dorothy were actually in a relationship. The teens shared loving messages about each other on Instagram, which were packed with sweet pictures of the girls cuddling and looking happy. Dorothy posted an adoring message about May in December 2015:

Of course, the Godless liberal media is doing their best to play down the fact that homosexuality was at the root of this tragedy, much less their responsibility in pressuring confused, depressed and/or lost teenagers, who barely know themselves, to self-identify as a 'homosexuals'. Despite this crime and the pain these girls family and friends are feeling, Ellen DeGeneres and her Godless flock will still sleep well at night regardless.

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Barack Obama Won't Use Recess Appointment To Nominate Supreme Court Justice

NPR.org:

The White House says the president will not move to appoint a Supreme Court replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia while the Senate is in recess this week. 

In an interview with ABC News, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said Obama would would wait to announce his nominee until Congress returns from its break later this month. In an email to NPR, Schultz said the White House had ruled out a recess appointment "this week." 

"At that point, we expect the Senate to consider that nominee, consistent with their responsibilities laid out in the United States Constitution," Schultz told ABC.

Of course, it's more complicated than that. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Saturday that the vacancy "should not be filled until we have a new president." That means an Obama nominee could languish until a new president takes over in January.

With that prospect, pundits began considering the possibility of Obama bypassing the Senate and appointing a justice temporarily when Congress was out of town.

I'm pretty certain that the most divisive President in history would love to appoint another far-Left justice to carry on his Godless agenda and do his bidding. But Barry's team knows damn well that that could turn around and bite him in the ass....so it's all about strategy now.

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Mitch McConnell: Senate Will Not Vote On Scalia Replacement “Until We Have a New President”

Lifenews.com:

In excellent news for the pro-life movement, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said tonight that the Senate will not take up a vote on a replacement for deceased pro-life Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia until after the presidential election.

Such a promise prevents pro-abortion President Barack Obama from selecting a third pro-abortion Supreme Court justice to follow Sonia Sotomayor and Elana Kagan, both of whom are thoroughly committed to unlimited abortions and upholding Roe v. Wade. As the Washington Examiner reports:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday said the Senate would not hold a vote on any President Obama replacement for deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, but instead would wait until a new president takes office — setting the stage for a dramatic political showdown in Washington.

“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President,” McConnell said in a statement.

Democrats will undoubtedly push for the nomination and a confirmation vote for a new left-wing judge.

“The President can and should send the Senate a nominee right away,” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said on Twitter. “The Senate has a responsibility to fill vacancies as soon as possible.”

No way you can let the most divisive and polarizing President in history pick another Supreme Court justice without putting up a serious fight. No way.

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“On this campaign, he is saying things that are not true and he’s saying it repeatedly.”

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Donald Trump Says He’d Consider These Two Judges for U.S. Supreme Court

Mediaite.com:

During the Republican debate on Saturday night, Donald Trump floated two names as potential nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court: Judge Diane S. Sykes and Judge Bill Pryor.
 
“We could have a Diane Sykes or a Bill Pryor, we have some fantastic people,” Trump told the audience. Both judges are well-known conservatives serving on the federal level.


Who is Diane S. Sykes?
Sykes is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She was nominated by George W. Bush and confirmed in 2004. She went to Northwestern University and attended Marquette University Law School. She was dropped as a name for the U.S. Supreme Court under President George W. Bush. She was part of the 2011 panel that held a Chicago ban on firing ranges unconstitutional. Prior to being appointed on the federal court, Sykes served as Justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Who is Bill Pryor?
Pryor is a federal judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He was nominated by President George W. Bush in 2003. His nomination was filibustered so in 2004, President Bush installed the former Alabama Attorney General on the court during a congressional recess appointment. Democrats scrutinized Pryor for some of his conservative stands, including on Roe v. Wade. Pryor previously said, according to confirmation hearing testimony, that Roe was “the worst abomination in constitutional law in history.”  After a higher court ruling on a Alabama execution case, he allegedly ridiculed the Supreme Court by saying “This issue should not be decided by nine octogenarian lawyers who happen to sit on the Supreme Court.” Most recently, Pryor was nominated by President Obama to sit on the United States Sentencing Commission. 

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Conservative of the Week: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

Age: 79

Claim to Fame: stalwart of constitutionalism on the Supreme Court for 30 years, passed away in his sleep during a hunting trip in Texas, this past Friday.

Why He's the Conservative of the Week: a strict constitutionalist, a legal genius, a man who wasn't afraid to speak his mind even when he wasn't in the majority of decisions and best of all, a Supreme Court justice who pissed off a lot of liberals with his scathing dissents, there was no more principled man than Antonin Scalia.

The first Italian-American Supreme Court justice, Scalia was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, winning confirmation by a 98-0 vote. Immediately, the Jersey-born and New York-bred Scalia would prove to be an aggressive questioner from the bench who relished pointing out what he saw as the logical fallacies of arguments made by attorneys. Known for his wit, brashness and sarcasm, Scalia readily advocated an “originalist” constitutional interpretation that hewed to the words of the document and the meaning they had at the time of adoption. He disdained the concept of a “living Constitution” whose meaning could change as society evolved and different justices took the bench.

Scalia called the 2015 decision that legalized gay marriage a “threat to American democracy,” said a 1992 abortion-rights opinion “cannot be taken seriously,” and predicted a 2008 ruling favoring Guantanamo Bay inmates “will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.”
In 2002, Scalia blasted a decision that invoked the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment to bar executions of mentally disabled killers. “Seldom has an opinion of this court rested so obviously upon nothing but the personal views of its members,” Scalia said in his dissent. Scalia was a heavy influence on Justice Clarance Thomas and often sparred with Justice Ruth Ginsburg, his polar opposite on the bench.

The leading conservative on the Court, Scalia leaves behind a wife, nine children and a legacy for mainstreaming of conservative ideas about ­jurisprudence—in particular the principles of originalism ­(interpreting the Constitution as the framers intended it rather than as an evolving document) and textualism (that statutes must be ­interpreted based on their words alone).