Pelosi and the Dems demonstrate the reason to be voted out
of Office and out of political existence.
(In full disclosure though – at this point, I am neither a
fan of USMCA nor The Deal of the Century. Time will
tell if I change my mind on those issues but I suspect not. BUT President Trump
represents a thumb in the nose to the Marxist Dems destroying America and that
still makes him a hero in my book)
JRH 2/5/20
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Intro from David Horowitz email
Email sent 2/5/2020 10:07 AM
John, did you watch President Trump’s State of the
Union Address last night?
It was phenomenal.
President Trump had a message that the Left just could not compete with.
While all they could do was pout and sneer, President Trump delivered a message of accomplishment, leadership and hope.
I’ve said it before: the fight for the future of our country isn’t about Democrats vs. Republicans.
It’s about who stood and applauded for America’s many wins, and who sat there [sic] arms crossed and lips pursed because they hate the man that achieved them more than they love our country or its people.
Please scroll down to read Joseph Klein’s full recap of the State of the Union.
David
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Trump Rises to the Occasion With State of the Union
Address
While Pelosi lowers herself even further into the
gutter.
By Joseph Klein
Feb 5, 2020
With Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the Democrat-controlled
House of Representatives, sitting stone-faced behind him for much of the time,
President Donald Trump delivered a stirring, upbeat State of the Union address
to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. “I say to the people of our great
country and to the members of Congress: the state of our union is stronger than
ever before,” the president declared.
President Trump followed Bill Clinton as the second
president in U.S. history to have delivered his State of the Union address
while impeachment proceedings against him were still ongoing. President Trump
delivered his State of the Union address on the eve of his expected Senate
acquittal of the two hopelessly partisan articles of impeachment that the House
had rushed through its chamber and then delayed sending over to the Senate for
weeks.
Like Bill Clinton, President Trump did not lob any
recriminations against his political adversaries during his speech. There was
no mention of the impeachment ordeal the Democrats had put him and the nation
through. Instead, the president extolled what he called “The Great American
Comeback” and projected optimism for America’s future.
“America is the place where anything can happen. America is
the place where anyone can rise. Here, on this land, on this soil, on this
continent, the most incredible dreams come true,” the president said. “The
American age, the American epic, the American adventure has only just begun.
Our spirit is still young. The sun is still rising. God's grace is still
shining. My fellow Americans, the best is yet to come.”
The contrast between President Trump’s positive and unifying
vision for America and the Democrats’ hate-Trump doomsday agenda could not be
clearer. After President Trump concluded his address with a paean to America’s
great spirit and boundless opportunities, Pelosi was seen ripping up the pages
of the speech text she had been reading behind President Trump at the podium.
Time and again, Pelosi either sat motionless or shook her
head incredulously as the president described how the strong economy under his
watch has lifted Americans up from all walks of life and encouraged Congress to
work with him to continue building an inclusive economy. “Our agenda is
relentlessly pro-worker, pro- family, pro-growth, and, most importantly,
pro-American,” President Trump said. “We are advancing with unbridled optimism
and lifting our citizens of every race, color, religion and creed very high.”
President Trump singled out the blue-collar boom in
particular, evidenced by the fact that the greatest wage gains have gone to the
lower end of the income scale. “After decades of flat and falling incomes,
wages are rising fast, and wonderfully,” the president said. “They are rising
fastest for low-income workers, who have seen a 16% pay increase since my
election.”
President Trump noted the historically low levels of
unemployment of minorities and women, as well as the overall record of job
growth nationwide under his watch. “The unemployment rate for African
Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans has reached the lowest
levels in history,” the president said. “African-American youth unemployment
has reached an all-time low. African-American poverty has declined to the
lowest rate ever recorded. The unemployment rate for women reached the lowest
level in almost 70 years, and last year, women filled 72 percent of all new
jobs added.”
In more specific terms, President Trump pointed to the
importance to the economy of two key trade deals accomplished by his
administration – the phase-one trade agreement with China and the trade
agreement with Mexico and Canada known as USMCA that replaced NAFTA. “Fairness
and reciprocity” were the president’s pithy description of his key objectives
in trade negotiations. “I say that finally, because it has been many years
since we were treated fairly on trade.”
President Trump referred to opportunity zones for distressed
communities created by the Trump administration under the 2017 Tax Cuts and
Jobs Act. “Jobs and investments are pouring into 9,000 previously neglected
neighborhoods thanks to opportunity zones,” he said. He noted that under the
plan “wealthy companies are pouring money into areas that have not seen
investments in many decades, creating jobs, energy, and excitement.” The
president singled out an army veteran in the audience, who turned his life
around after finding a construction company that had invested in opportunity
zones and became a top tradesman.
President Trump extolled America’s energy revolution that
has led to energy independence. He also highlighted his support for paid family
leave and expanding access to affordable childcare.
President Trump’s State of the Union address included a
section on health care. He focused on efforts to reduce drug prices, end
surprise medical billing and deal with the opioid epidemic. He repeated his
pledge to “always protect patients with preexisting conditions.” He also assured
Americans that “we will always protect your Medicare, and we will always
protect your Social Security.” Pelosi sat expressionless.
President Trump contrasted his vision for improving the
nation’s health care system, including by offering more affordable choices to
Americans, with radical socialist proposals. “132 lawmakers in this room have
endorsed legislation to impose a socialist takeover of our health care system,”
the president warned, “wiping out the health insurance plans of 180 million
very happy Americans. “To those watching at home tonight, I want you to know:
We will never let socialism destroy American health care.”
In looking ahead, President Trump did not offer a detailed
legislative wish list. However, he did make a few significant requests for
Congressional action, which (except for his request for more spending on
infrastructure and perhaps for more action to dramatically lower the prices of
prescription drugs) did not receive much of a positive reception from the
Democrat side of the aisle. The president, for example, asked Congress to pass
legislation to empower parents with school choice – not exactly what the
Democrats beholden to the public teachers’ unions would dare support. “Pass the
Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunities Act,” the president urged,
“because no parent should be forced to send their child to a failing government
school.” When President Trump asked Congress for additional money to fund high
quality childcare, Pelosi neither stood up nor applauded even though that
should be something dear to her heart (if she has one).
President Trump did not shy away from the controversial
issue of immigration. He sharply criticized the endorsement by over 100
legislators in Congress of legislation “providing free taxpayer-funded health
care to millions of illegal aliens, forcing taxpayers to subsidize free care
for anyone in the world who unlawfully crosses our borders.” He added, “If
forcing American taxpayers to provide free health care to illegal immigrants
sounds fair to you, stand with the radical left. If you think we should defend
patients and seniors, stand with me to pass legislation to prohibit free health
care for illegal aliens.”
President Trump discussed the progress his administration
has made in securing the southern border through a multi-pronged approach to
the problem that has included more wall construction. “Early next year, we will
have substantially more than 500 miles completed,” he predicted after noting
that over 100 miles have already been completed.
The president took head-on Congress’s failure to deal
effectively with the current loopholes in the immigration system as well as the
grave threat to public safety posed by sanctuary cities. He gave specific
examples of illegal aliens with prior criminal records who were released into
the sanctuary community despite ICE’s detainer requests and went on to commit
more horrific crimes. The president mentioned legislation being introduced that
will allow families of victims “to sue sanctuary cities and states when a loved
one is hurt or killed as a result of these deadly practices.” He added, “The
United States of America should be a sanctuary for law-abiding Americans, not
criminal aliens.”
President Trump devoted a relatively short portion of his
speech to foreign policy, although emphasizing the buildup of America’s
military strength.
President Trump acknowledged the presence in the House
chamber of Juan Guaido, the man recognized by the United States and other
countries as the legitimate interim president of Venezuela. “Please take this
message back, that all Americans are united with the Venezuelan people in their
righteous struggle for freedom,” President Trump said in addressing Mr. Guaido.
President Trump also focused on the fight against radical
Islamic terrorism. “Our message to terrorists is clear: You will never escape
American justice,” the president warned. “If you attack our citizens, you
forfeit your life.” He also reiterated his maximum pressure policy against the
Iranian regime.
President Trump noted his administration’s successes in
destroying the ISIS territorial caliphate and killing its blood-thirsty leader,
al-Baghdadi. The president also pointed to the killing of the Iranian regime’s
leading terrorist, Qasem Soleimani, who had the blood of Americans on his hands
and orchestrated the deaths of countless other individuals. “The U.S. military
executed a flawless precision strike that killed Soleimani and terminated his
evil reign of terror forever,” the president said. President Trump illustrated
the human cost of the evil acts committed by al-Baghdadi and Soleimani when he
told the stories of two of their victims whose immediate family members were in
the House chamber.
Finally, President Trump repeated his call to end American
wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan. He praised America’s warriors who, he
said, “either want to fight to win or not fight at all.” In a very touching
moment that appeared to be a complete surprise to the wife and children of a
soldier, Sgt. 1st Class Townsend Williams, who has been in Afghanistan on his
fourth deployment, President Trump announced to them as they stood up in the
audience that he “is back from deployment. He is here with us tonight.”
There were other emotional moments during the president’s
address. Conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh, who disclosed that he has
been diagnosed with an advanced case of lung cancer, was awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in person. Charles McGee, one of the last
surviving Tuskegee Airmen, the first black fighter pilots, was also present as
President Trump noted that he had signed a bill promoting Charles McGee to
brigadier general and pinned the stars on his shoulders in the Oval Office.
President Trump commanded the House chamber with one of the
greatest speeches of his presidency. Nancy Pelosi, whose impeachment gambit has
backfired, looked petty behind him by comparison. She told reporters that
tearing up the speech at its conclusion was “the courteous thing to do
considering the alternative." What would have been her “alternative”?
Handing the president another set of impeachment articles after the first set
is about to go down in flames? Pelosi’s disrespectful act says all one needs to
know about the depths to which she and her Democrat partisan cohorts like the Schiff-Nadler
duo are willing to take the country.
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Posted by The Hill
252K subscribers - Feb 5, 2020
President Donald Trump delivers his 2020 State of the Union
Address to a Joint Session of Congress.
President Trump declined to shake the hand of House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi before his speech.
The speaker then did not include the customary introduction
of: “I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the
president of the United States.” Instead, she just said, “Members of Congress,
the president of the United States.”
After his address, Pelosi ripped up her copy of his speech.
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