We lost the champion

Rush Limbaugh has passed away

Farewell to the leading voice of conservatism

Talk radio giant Rush Limbaugh has passed away, his wife, Kathryn, announced on his show Wednesday morning. 

Limbaugh, the leading voice of the conservative movement, succumbed to his battle with lung cancer at the age of 70 after getting his Stage 4 diagnosis in January 2020.

El Rushbo was a pioneer in the radio industry, leading the way to get conservative and Republican issues and voices heard around the nation. He worked around the liberal monolith of the broadcast networks and the stranglehold Democrats had on the public airways.

Limbaugh began his nationally syndicated "Rush Limbaugh Show" in 1988, and at that moment began to reshape the Republican Party and the conservative movement. 

The launch of the show came the year after FCC repealed the Fairness Doctrine that required equal time for both sides of political arguments. The repeal gave Limbaugh the opportunity to make the conservative case on political issues without the fear of the federal government cracking down on him for being one-sided.

For more than three decades, he would take to the "golden EIB microphone" and make the case to the country for conservative principles and advocate on behalf of elected GOP officials and up-and-coming Republican politicians. 

The syndicated show began on just over 50 radio station, but spread like wildfire. It became the most listened to radio show in the U.S. and was picked up by more than 600 stations. According to his website, Limbaugh's show bragged some 27 million weekly listeners.

Limbaugh was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1993 and the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1998.

Fox News noted that on his final broadcast, Limbaugh revealed that he had outlived his prognosis.

"I wasn't expected to be alive today," he said, Fox News reported. "I wasn't expected to make it to October, and then to November, and then to December. And yet, here I am, and today, got some problems, but I'm feeling pretty good today."

His love of the United States earned him the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Donald Trump during the State of the Union Address in 2020, shortly after he received his cancer diagnosis.

"Rush Limbaugh: Thank you for your decades of tireless devotion to our country," Trump declared during the address.

We lost the champion

His father sent him a Democratic registration form

GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger's family publicly admonishes him for impeachment vote

I come to expect this from dogs like McRomney, Collins, and Murkowski, but this guy surprised me! Pretty safe to say his destiny is a bologna sandwich next Thanksgiving.

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Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., is being shunned and scorned by relatives after voting to impeach Donald Trump, according to a letter published in The New York Times this week.

Eleven members of his family signed a letter lambasting him for his vote last month to impeach the then-president, who they defended as a Christian.

“Oh my, what a disappointment you are to us and to God!” they wrote, accusing Kinzinger of going “against your Christian principles” and joining the “devil’s army.”

"It is now most embarrassing to us that we are related to you," they added.

His relatives also sent the letter to other conservative lawmakers.

“We should listen even more grievances against you, but decided you are not worth more of our time to list them,” the letter from his relatives continued. “You have embarrassed the Kinzinger family name!”

Kinzinger, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump last month, also voted this month to strip Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., of her committee posts for espousing conspiracy theories.

He’s betting his career on disavowing Trumpism, pushing for an alternative path for the GOP. He recently launched a "Country 1st" political action committee, which seeks to put some money behind the political effort confronting a party largely still aligned with the former president.

"The reality is this — this is the time to choose," Kinzinger said during an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" on Jan. 31. "Let's take a look at the last four years how far we have come in a bad way, how backward-looking we are, how much we peddle darkness and division. That's not the party I ever signed up for."

In the interview, he hinted at the letter, saying he'd received two certified letters "disowning me."

It's likely to be an uphill, lonely battle: During the impeachment vote, Kinzinger asked Democrats for more speaking time to make a bipartisan pitch for the impeachment of Trump, according to the Times, but was denied. Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming voted to impeach Trump and only narrowly held on to her leadership position in the House when her party mounted an effort to strip her of it.

His father sent him a Democratic registration form

Ah.. Nothing like waking up to some nice warm Pearl Milling Company pancakes in the morning

'You go woke and become a joke': Aunt Jemima's new name Pearl Milling Company is panned as people say it sounds like a gravel mining firm after PepsiCo scrapped the 'racist' pancake syrup icon amid BLM protests

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9243255/Aunt-Jemimas-new-Pearl-Milling-Company.html

Now with 100% more minerals than Aunt Jemima

Ah.. Nothing like waking up to some nice warm Pearl Milling Company pancakes in the morning

Senate passes resolution to advance COVID-19 relief package

The end result of losing the runoffs in Georgia.

And I'm sure more to come.

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By Yaron Steinbuch

The Senate early Friday narrowly approved a budget resolution for President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package — allowing Democrats to push the legislation through Congress without Republican support.

The upper chamber ended the “vote-a-rama,” which began at about 2:30 p.m. Thursday, by adopting the resolution in a 51-50 vote, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaker.

It marked the first time Harris — in her capacity as president of the Senate — cast a tie-breaking vote after becoming veep on Jan. 20.

The adoption allows the Senate to proceed toward a final bill under the budget reconciliation rules, which would let the Dems pass a coronavirus stimulus plan by circumventing a GOP filibuster if their caucus remains united.

“I am so thankful that our caucus stayed together in unity. We had no choice given the problems facing America and the desire to move forward. And we have moved forward,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). “Many bipartisan amendments were adopted, so this was a bipartisan activity.”

Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to approve a budget resolution for President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package.Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg via Getty Images

He added: “We cannot underscore enough how much help America needs during this awful crisis and we cannot miss the point that we still have a long way to go. This was a giant first step … to bring America back, to overcome this horrible crisis and then move America forward.”

Sens. Bill Cassidy (from left), John Barrasso, Cory Booker and Pat Toomey make their way to a series of Senate votes known as a “vote-a-rama.”Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Democrats had flexed their muscle by offering an amendment reversing some earlier votes about the future of the Keystone XL pipeline and coronavirus aid to immigrants living illegally in the US.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) indicated earlier that Republicans would try to extract concessions from Democrats in uncomfortable votes.

“We’re going to put senators on the record,” he said Thursday, according to Fox News. “Expect votes to stop Washington from actively killing jobs during a recovery — like terminating the Keystone pipeline; that job-killing, one-size-fits-all minimum wage hike; and whether to bar tax hikes on small businesses for the duration of this emergency.”Mitch McConnell indicated that Republicans would try to extract concessions from Democrats in uncomfortable votes.

On Thursday, Schumer slammed Republicans for planning to introduce “messaging amendments” to “score political points.”

“What amendments our friends in the minority propose is entirely up to them,” Schumer said. He added that he hopes Republicans don’t use “the debate over pandemic relief to sharpen … partisan talking points.”

Senate passes resolution to advance COVID-19 relief package

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Hunter Biden Writing Memoir Based On Drug Abuse – Gets A Cool $2 Million In Advance

Check out the tweets below.

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The Biden White House recently put out a statement saying that members of Joe Biden’s family would not cash in on his presidency.

Days later, we learn that Hunter Biden is writing a book, for which he has already been paid an advance of $2 million.

It must be nice.

Hunter Biden ‘nets $2m advance’ for his upcoming memoir Beautiful Things about his battle with drugs – despite Joe saying his family would NOT cash in on presidency

Drugs, prostitutes, shady dealings, a quickie marriage — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter is too easily depicted as sleaze in human form.

Who else would have left his wife and jumped into bed with his recently departed brother’s widow only for her to end the affair when he got a stripper pregnant?

Is it only Hunter who could have received two special waivers to join the military and be commissioned at a special ceremony in the White House, but then blow his chance on his very first day when a blood test came back positive for cocaine?

Who but Hunter who could receive a diamond from a would-be Chinese business partner whose existence would come to light in divorce papers?

Now the president’s son is getting to tell his side of his unsavory life — warts and all — in a book that could embarrass his father even further, less than three months into his term in the Oval Office.

Beautiful Things — the as yet unexplained title of Biden’s tome — promises to center on his well-publicized struggles with substance abuse according to Gallery Books, an imprint of publishers Simon & Schuster.

And get this. The company publishing Hunter Biden’s book is the same one that dropped Josh Hawley’s book.

🤔

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 4, 2021

Simon & Schuster wouldn't publish Josh Hawley's book... but they're ok with deadbeat dad, crackhead Hunter Biden... GTFO.

 

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) February 4, 2021

Hunter Biden Clinches Deal With Simon & Schuster After It Nuked Sen. Josh Hawley’s Bookhttps://t.co/cK9T1Sw4UU

 

— The Federalist (@FDRLST) February 4, 2021

It’s like there’s a different set of rules for Democrats. 

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