One thing most of us can agree on after the election

One thing most of us can agree on after the election

PLEASE PLEASE make this guy the DNC Chair

Keith Ellison would be a bold pick for DNC chair — and a controversial one

I love it. Are they going to go from Wassermouth to this guy? 

That's a step up?

This tells you all you need to know.

One of the reasons Trump won is because the current administration (Barry) consistently coddled illegals, made excuses for Muslim terrorism (workplace violence), and supported BLM while simultaneously stabbing every PD across the country in the back. And let's not forget about the disastrous Iran Nuke deal. The white electorate had enough of Barry tearing the country apart, blundering through his presidency, living in his idealogue fantasy world.

 So the solution in their eyes is Keith Ellison?

 With this guy's track record, some of which I didn't know about, I'm sure he's going to be a big hit. 

For us that is. 

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Representative Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) with colleagues at a Dec. 9, 2015, ceremony in Washington marking the 150th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment. (Linda Davidson/The Washington Post) 

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) appears to be the early favorite to become the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He's already earned high-profile support from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), incoming Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-Nev.) and liberals across the country.

And as we wrote last week, Ellison provides perhaps an unrivaled contrast to President-elect Donald Trump — particularly as a black Muslim from the Midwest, a region that lost the election for their party last week.

But Ellison hasn't been a stranger to controversy, either.

Earlier in his career, Ellison apologized for and/or backed off a number of controversial statements and politically dicey moves, from likening George W. Bush's consolidation of power post-9/11 to the rise of Adolf Hitler, to defending the leader of the National of Islam, to labeling his 2012 reelection opponent a "lowlife scumbag." These comments have rarely been an issue for Ellison in his safe Minneapolis-based district, but now that he's competing to lead the Democratic Party, they've resurfaced.

Since his candidacy for DNC chair became official on Monday, conservative outlets have been quick to seize on the Hitler comments — often stretching them further than the words dictate. An Ellison spokesman is dismissing them as old attacks and emphasizes the congressman long ago denounced anti-Semitism within the ranks of the Nation of Islam. He also pointed to the congressman's work with Jewish groups and support from the Jewish community.

Here's what Ellison said back in 2007 during a meeting with a group of atheists: "It's almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that. After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it and it put the leader of that country in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted."

Ellison didn't say the name "Hitler," but the arson attack on the Reichstag building — the home of Germany's parliament — in Berlin in 1933 is remembered as contributing to Hitler's consolidation of power. Hitler used emergency constitutional levers to crack down on the press and opposition groups, eventually extending the crackdown to even more civil rights.

The then-freshman congressman's comparison drew criticism from the Anti-Defamation League, which combats anti-Semitism. Then-head Abe Foxman called it "odious" and said it "demeans the victims of 9/11 and the brave American men and women engaged in the war on terror. Furthermore, it demonstrates a profound lack of understanding about the horrors that Hitler and his Nazi regime perpetrated."

Ellison admitted it was a poor choice of words. "They told me they understood the point I was trying to make, but they didn't think it was the right way to use that historical example, because they thought any sort of comparison to the modern world we live in in some way diminishes the horror of the Nazi era. I told them I feel they're right." At the same time, Ellison didn't back off the underlying claim that 9/11 had allowed Bush to attain too much power.

The country's first Muslim congressman has also backed off his involvement with the Million Man March in 1995 and his comments in defense of Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan. As the AP's Patrick Condon wrote in 2006, when Ellison first campaigned for Congress:

Around 1990, Ellison — then a University of Minnesota law student known as Keith E. Hakim — wrote several columns in the student newspaper that are getting a second look.

One column defended Farrakhan against charges of anti-Semitism; a second suggested the creation of a state for black residents. In 1995, Ellison helped organize a delegation to Farrakhan's Million Man March in Washington.

Ellison, 42, said he was never an enrolled member of the Nation of Islam. He got involved to help improve the lives of black men, he said, and did not fully grasp concerns about Farrakhan's anti-Semitism until after the 1995 march.

"There are legitimate concerns in the Jewish community. That's why I'm happy to answer them," Ellison said. But, he added, "I do also think there are people out there who are fearmongering, who are trying to scare the Jewish community and manipulate this issue."

In 2006, he said, "I wrongly dismissed concerns that [Farrakhan's comments] were anti-Semitic. They were and are anti-Semitic, and I should have come to that conclusion earlier than I did."

He added at the time: "I have long since distanced myself from and rejected the Nation of Islam due to its propagation of bigoted and anti-Semitic ideas and statements, as well as other issues. I have a deep and personal aversion to anti-Semitism regardless of its source, and I reject and condemn the anti-Semitic statements and actions of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, and Khalid Muhammed."

Separately, in 2001 while working as a lawyer, Ellison stood up for accused Sara Jane Olson, a member of the so-called Symbionese Liberation Army, which has been called a domestic terrorist group. Olson, formerly known as Kathleen Soliah, pleaded guilty shortly after 9/11 to attempting to murder Los Angeles police officers more than two decades prior but maintained her innocence. "I think it's dangerous to prosecute people for their political views and their political associations," Ellison said at the time. "I think you prosecute people for what they do, for their acts."

During his time in Congress, Ellison has sought to make inroads with Jewish groups and has spoken out against anti-Semitism.

Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of the liberal Jewish group J Street, told The Washington Post in an interview Tuesday that Ellison is a "friend of Israel" and a "friend of Jewish people."

Yeah...so is Louis Farrakhan.

"These kinds of attacks that have been leveled against him are symptomatic of a mood and fervor on the political right that needs to be countered," Ben-Ami said, adding that Ellison is to be commended for recognizing when he said the wrong thing.

Ellison spokesman Brett Morrow added: "These are old stories the right wing has rolled out to attack Keith for years. He's focused on moving the Democratic Party forward so all Americans can be successful — no matter their race, religion or ethnicity."

Should Democrats pick Ellison as their party leader, they'll be picking someone with a completely unique background who would provide a huge contrast to Trump. They'll also be picking someone who, like Trump, could well be a lightning rod.

PLEASE PLEASE make this guy the DNC Chair

Hillary Clinton Screaming Obscenities and Throwing Objects in Election Night Meltdown

On a tip from Ed Kilbane

As the tables turned, and Trump's MSM concocted arduous path to 270 became hers, and the walls crumbling around her, she descended into a fit of rage. Now we know why Podesta had to take the stage.

What was that about temperament?

Bitter, vindictive, irate, sorrow, contemplating what could have been...God, I love it so.

The mystery of Hillary Clinton, milk-carton missing on election night, appears solved.

A Tuesday of catharsis for Donald Trump voters turned into an evening of rage for Hillary Clinton. The Democratic presidential nominee, anticipating the postelection reaction of many of her supporters, began shouting profanities, banging tables, and turning objects not nailed down into projectiles.

“Sources have told The American Spectator that on Tuesday night, after Hillary realized she had lost, she went into a rage,” R. Emmett Tyrrell reports. “Secret Service officers told at least one source that she began yelling, screaming obscenities, and pounding furniture. She picked up objects and threw them at attendants and staff. She was in an uncontrollable rage.”

The appearance of campaign chairman John Podesta at Manhattan’s Javitz Center, and the dematerialization of his heretofore ubiquitous charge, perplexed in the first hours of Wednesday.

“They’re still counting votes, and every vote should count,” Podesta declared to a sad and stunned hall. “Several states are too close to call, so we’re not going to have anything more to say tonight.”

As Podesta recalcitrantly refused to recognize reality early Wednesday morning, Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump to offer congratulations. The juxtaposition of the campaign chairman publicly vowing to fight around the time the candidate privately conceded the election left observers scratching their heads.

Tyrrell’s reporting indicates that Mrs. Clinton’s mental state made it impossible for her to address her supporters on election night as custom requests. So, instead, Podesta gave a rah-rah speech on a boo-hoo night to cover for the absence of the first woman president, her fireworks, and her victory speech shout-outs to the mothers of the Black Lives Matter martyrs.

“She is not done yet,” Podesta claimed. Tyrrell’s reporting indicates that, indeed, Clinton remained far from done.

“Her aides could not allow her to come out in public,” he writes. “It would take her hours to calm down. So Podesta went out and gave his aimless speech. I wish we could report on Bill’s whereabouts but we cannot.”

Bill appeared the following day at Hillary’s belated concession speech wearing a purple tie but, thankfully, no purple marks about his face, suggesting experience dictated avoidance the previous evening.

“People say they’re amazed Bill’s marriage survived,” Tyrrell noted to Breitbart. “I’m amazed Bill survived his marriage.”

Tyrrell’s reporting remains a thorn in the side of the Clintons more than two decades after the American Spectator published its Troopergate stories detailing Bill Clinton’s escapades as told by his Arkansas security detail, stories that first referenced Paula Jones and pushed the president on the road to impeachment. Nearly 19 years after Hillary Clinton imagined a “vast, right-wing conspiracy” out to get her husband, the cabal’s charter member again relies on the accounts of the Clintons’ long-suffering security to unmask the public faces worn by the power couple now out of power.

“In the ’90s, we published several pieces that documented her throwing lamps and books,” Tyrrell tells Breitbart. “This happened pretty often. She has such a foul mouth that the Arkansas state troopers learned a thing or two from her. She has a foul mouth and a good throwing arm.”

Hillary Clinton Screaming Obscenities and Throwing Objects in Election Night Meltdown

Canada to build a wall and ask US to pay for it!

On a tip from Ed Kilbane

The flood of Trump-fearing American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified beginning early this morning. Trump’s victory is prompting an exodus among left-leaning Americans who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray, pay taxes, and live according to the Constitution.

Canadian border residents say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, liberal arts majors, global-warming activists, and "green" energy proponents crossing their fields at night.

"I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said southern Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota. "He was cold, exhausted and hungry, and begged me for a latte and some free-range chicken. 

In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. He then installed loudspeakers that blared Rush Limbaugh across the fields, but they just stuck their fingers in their ears and kept coming. Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals just south of the border, pack them into electric cars, and drive them across the border, where they are simply left to fend for themselves after the battery dies.

"A lot of these people are not prepared for our rugged conditions," an Alberta border patrolman said. "I found one carload without a single bottle of Perrier water, or any gemelli with shrimp and arugula. All they had was a little Napa Valley cabernet and some kale chips. 

When liberals are caught, they're sent back across the border, often wailing that they fear persecution from Trump high-hairers.

Rumors are circulating about plans being made to build re-education camps where liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer, study the Constitution, and find jobs that actually contribute to the economy.

Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic-broccoli shortage, are buying up all the Barbara Streisand CD's, and are overloading the internet while downloading jazzercise apps to their cell phones.

"I really feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can't support them," an Ottawa resident said. "After all, how many art-history majors does one country need?"

Canada to build a wall and ask US to pay for it!

Obama races to protect his achievements from Trump

The word "achievement" and Obama have no commonality. In particular, the Iran nuke deal  is more akin with the Apocalypse than an achievement.

If it remains the status quo (hope not) I can hear it now when they test fire their first Nuke.

"It's Trump's fault."

BTW...If you remember after Bush left office he said nothing and faded from the limelight. Don't expect the same from the narcissist.

The article below is from NBC. It would have to be to put Barry and achievement in the same sentence.

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They look about as comfortable together as Hillary and Julian Assange.

From the Iran nuclear deal to the Paris climate change agreement to Obamacare, President, and his team plan to spend the next two months aggressively defending and implementing these policies, despite President-Elect campaign promises to end them once he takes office. 

"To unravel a deal that is working and keeping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon would be hard to explain," President Obama said on Monday, in his first press conference since Trump's election victory.

"It becomes more difficult to undo something that is working," Obama added.

The Obama administration argues that the election results should not prevent the sitting president from governing in his final weeks in office. And this approach could help Obama further entrench these policies and complicate Trump's plans to unwind them. 

Obama, as he visits Greece, Germany and Peru this week and meets with a number of world leaders on his final foreign trip as president, is expected to encourage the international community to continue implementation of both the Paris and Iran agreements. 

"We obviously believe in the importance of the Iran deal, which had significantly rolled back Iran's nuclear program and averts yet another conflict in the Middle East. We believe in the importance of the Paris agreement, which encompasses almost every country in the world and offers an opportunity to fight climate change. So these are issues where our views are well known. We will run through the tape with the implementation of those policies," Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser for Obama told reporters in a press call. 

Obamacare enrollment started on Nov. 1 and will end on Jan. 31, about 11 days after Obama leaves office. The president's team wants to get 13.8 million people to enroll or re-enroll over the next few months. 

"We're all in," said Marjorie Connolly, a spokesman at the Department of Health and Human Services, referring to Affordable Care Act enrollment.

More than 1.5 million people have selected Obamacare plans this month, including more than 100,000 on Nov. 9, the day after the election. 

"There was a day or two last week where I was as despondent over the election results as anyone, and I was deeply concerned that Trump being elected—combined with his promise to join the GOP in wiping out the ACA — would cause people to abandon the currently ongoing 2017 Open Enrollment Period," said Charles Gaba, a Democrat and ACA supporter who has closely tracked enrollment under the law since its inception. 

He added, "Instead, the exact opposite appears to be happening...or, at the very least, the election results don't seem to be keeping anyone from signing up." 

Cementing the ACA

Trump has softened some his anti-ACA rhetoric in the days since his victory, and a higher enrollment in the law could make it more politically challenging for Republicans to repeal it.

But for now, Obama the administration must enroll people in an environment in which congressional Republicans and Trump are suggesting they will repeal Obamacare as soon as possible after Trump assumes office. 

Clinton aides likely would have used the last 11 days (Jan. 20 to Jan. 31) of the Obamacare enrollment period to make a big push for sign-ups. Trump's administration is unlikely to do that.

On the Iran agreement and climate change, Obama and his team are also trying to campaign for these ideas, both publicly and privately with the president-elect. Trump, in interviews, has suggested that Obama urged him to leave in place parts of Obamacare during the pair's one-on-one meeting on Thursday. 

In a speech on Monday, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell argued that Obamacare is "now woven into the fabric of our nation."

Keeping in tact international agreements

Obama aides are aware they have to convince Trump to essentially backtrack from what he promised during the campaign. 

"We certainly know the positions that were taken throughout the course of the campaign," Rhodes said. "We will, of course, fully continue to implement our commitments under the Iran deal and under the Paris agreement. We will fully brief the incoming team on those agreements. And you all have heard us repeatedly discuss the benefits of those agreements on American national security." 

But he added, "We recognize that the incoming administration will make their own determinations about those policies. " 

Trying to protect their policies, Obama and his aides are at times projecting onto Trump views that there is little sign that he holds.

"The president will offer his reassurance to our allies that... historically, the United States of America, even across political parties, has been committed to not just upholding but also seeking to strengthen the alliances that we have with countries around the world," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters in previewing Obama's international trip. 

"The view of Democratic and Republican presidents has been that the robust health of those alliances makes America safer. And presidents in both parties have been committed to investing in those alliances, and that certainly is what's happened in the past," he added. 

Trump, during his campaign, sharply questioned many international agreements and alliances, calling NATO "obsolete." 

Obama aides say another goal is the continued battle to retake control of the city of Mosul, Iraq and more broadly fight ISIS. Trump is likely to continue the Obama's administration policy of fighting ISIS.

Trump's victory permanently ends some of Obama's hopes

To be sure, Obama will have fewer achievements in his final two months than if Hillary Clinton had won. Some Senate Republicans had suggested Obama nominee Merrick Garland could be confirmed for the Supreme Court in the post-election session of Congress, an idea which was premised on the expectation Clinton would win the election. Obama's team had some hopes of getting congressional approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. 

The TPP and the Garland nomination are now effectively dead. 

"President Trump will make a selection, and the Senate will act on it expeditiously," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said of the seat on the U.S. Supreme Court that has been vacant since Antonia Scalia died in February. 

Funding for the federal agencies expires on Dec. 9. Republicans are expected to seek a budget deal with Obama that only extends that funding for a few months, allowing the Republican majority and Trump to shape a more conservative fiscal plan.

Obama races to protect his achievements from Trump