[Hot Air] Get ready for a spit-take moment from an interview with former Hillary Clinton spokesperson Brian Fallon on CNN. In attempting to set the context for the discussion of funding Fusion GPS and the "dossier" effort, host Poppy Harlow assumes that Fallon will confirm that Hillary herself knew nothing about the effort. Instead, Fallon says he has no idea whether that’s true, and that "she may have known" about the efforts to get Christopher Steele to use his foreign-intelligence contacts to dig up dirt on Donald Trump.
[DAILYCALLER] The opposition research firm behind the Trump dossier says that a House Intelligence Committee subpoena seeking its bank records has a good chance of "ruining" its business, as well as of putting its clients’ safety at risk.
The firm, Fusion GPS, also argued in a late-night court filing that the subpoena, issued earlier this month for TD Bank, will have a "chilling" effect on the First Amendment and privacy rights of it and its clients.
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Fusion GPS Says Subpoena For Its Bank Records Will ‘Ruin’ Its Business, Endanger Its Clients
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Fusion GPS Says Subpoena For Its Bank Records Will ‘Ruin’ Its Business, Endanger Its Clients
Have you guys have heard of Joseph Schumpeter? The theory of 'creative destruction' and all that? With respect to you, my interest is in the 'destruction' part of it.
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Vastly different response from all the Trump people being open and totally cooperative in Muillers Russian investigation, regardless of 4am strong one armed home entry incident by Muellers thugs.
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The only "clients" in danger are the ones with knowledge of Clinton dirty dealing and a willingness to testify. So many suicides! So many deadly single car wrecks.
Bad for business as in all company officers go to gray bar inn.
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[Daily Caller] According to The Post, the Clinton campaign and DNC paid Fusion through the end of Oct. 2016, just before the election. It is not entirely clear how much Fusion was paid for the project, but Federal Election Commission records show that the Clinton campaign paid Perkins Coie a total of $5.6 million between June 2015 and Dec. 2016. The DNC has paid the firm $3.6 million since Nov. 2015.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Donald Trump opened up with both barrels Tuesday on a Republican senator who spent the morning calling his foreign policy amateurish and dangerous
'Bob Corker, who helped President O give us the bad Iran Deal & couldn't get elected dog catcher in Tennessee, is now fighting Tax Cuts,' Trump tweeted
Corker has minced no words about his disdain for Trump's foreign policy, and said Tuesday that the president should stop 'kneecapping' Rex Tillerson
He insisted Trump should abandon his scattershot approach to the North Korea nuclear crisis and leave it 'to the professionals for a while'
Responding to Trump's tweets on Tuesday, Corker wrote on Twitter: 'Same untruths from an utterly untruthful president. #AlertTheDaycareStaff'
Corker 'couldn't get re-elected in the Great State of Tennessee,' Trump tweeted, despite Corker's 2012 re-election victory with 65 per cent of the vote
Corker fired back on CNN: 'Much of what he says is untrue. ... I don't know why he lowers himself to such a low, low standard'
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[CBSNEWS] Sen. Jeff Flake ...Republican junior senator from Arizona, elected in 2012. Prior to that he was a U.S. Representative for twelve years... abruptly announced Tuesday he won't run for re-election after all in the 2018 midterm elections and will leave the Senate when his term ends in January 2019. He also delivered a blistering rebuke of President Trump's behavior.
The Arizona Republican announced on the Senate floor that he could "better serve my country and conscience" by dropping his re-election bid, "freeing myself of the political consideration that consumed far too much bandwidth," he said.
Flake issued a thinly-veiled take-down of President Trump, criticizing the "personal attacks," the "threats against principles, freedom and institutions" and "flagrant disregard for truth and decency." He argued that recklessness, outrageous and unhinged behavior have been excused as "telling it like it is, but he warned that when such behavior "emanates from the top of government," he said it's something else.
"It is dangerous to our democracy," Flake said. "Why didn't you speak up? What are we going to say?" he asked rhetorically. "Mr. President, I rise today to say, enough."
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A happy day in Arizona. He was on track for a primary humiliation, so he pulled the plug. Good riddance. The downside is he's still there for another year plus.
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...TRANSLATION: His internal polls said he was gonna get creamed.
This is, what, the second or third GOP incumbent who's decided not to run? Methinks there's polling data out there the GOP wing of the Unified Ruling Party (TM) doesn't want us to see.
Mike
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Replace him with someone whose principles align with their employment contract AKA the constitution.
[Think Progress] Tuesday night, as many Americans were preparing to go to bed, an evenly divided Senate voted to give broad lawsuit immunity to credit card companies, auto lenders, credit reporting companies like Equifax, and many other financial firms. The 50-50 tie in the Senate was broken by Vice President Mike Pence (R), and the House approved the lawsuit immunity measure. President Trump is expected to sign it.
The resolution passed by the Senate overrides a rule created by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which prevents many financial firms from engaging in two abusive practices. The rule prohibited much of the financial industry from using "forced arbitration" agreements ‐ a common tactic where a company refuses to do business with consumers who will not sign away their right to sue the company in a real court.
Consumers who sign away their right to sue must resolve any disputes with the company in a privatized arbitration system that favors corporate parties.
Additionally, the CFPB rule prohibited credit card companies and many other financial firms from requiring consumers to sign away their right to bring class action lawsuits, a form of litigation that ensures that companies that charge certain illegal fees to consumers face a consequence for their actions.
The vote is a major victory for the banking industry. Every Senate Democrat voted to preserve the CFPB rule, as did Republican Sens. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and John Kennedy (R-LA). All other Republicans voted to reverse the CFPB rule.
Tuesday evening’s vote also effectively strips the CFPB of much of its authority to rein in abusive arbitration clauses. Under the Congressional Review Act, CFPB cannot issue a rule "in substantially the same form" to one that is approved by Congress.
It’s worth noting that the 50 senators who supported the CFPB rule represent well over 30 million more people than the 50 senators who voted to rescind it. But, in the Devil’s arithmetic that governs the United States Senate, the will of the people plays only a minor role in determining who controls the Senate.
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This is one of those rare instances where I have a problem both with a rule implemented by Lizzie Warren's wet dream creation (CFPB) and with the law designed to nullify it. Equifax, led by a broad whose major in college was a fucking music degree, allowed by one means or another the hacking of millions of our credit histories. This law may very well mean Equifax broad and her subordinates have just been granted immunity.
Not fucking good enough - this government, since somewhere in Bush II to now, has completely abandoned the concept of accountability. Federal workers at all levels can spy on us, audit us and harass us with impunity and not a fucking thing happens to any of them, and now major financial businesses have been granted immunity, probably a full two days after the ink has dried on the last round of major campaign donations to both sides of the aisle.
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The 50-50 tie in the Senate was broken by Vice President Mike Pence (R), and the House approved the lawsuit immunity measure. President Trump is expected to sign it.
???
Hard to believe that Trump and Pence would sell us out. I'm (ignorantly) guessing the CFPB is bad, but had what at first glance appear to be two reasonable rules. Is there something in the works to put these two rules back in play?
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Why would you not want to exercise some control over what you own? Banking, big pharma, insurance, agriculture, medical care, defense contracting, solar, coal, and the petroleum industry... all owned or controlled by the government. Manufacturing and industry were bequeathed to the Chinese years ago. Poor margins in manufacturing, very poor. With little or no notice, people can voluntarily cut back on what they buy.
Defense contracting is a very good investment. 'Endless Wars' will see to that.
Oh BTW, if you're planning on visiting Yellowstone next year, park admissions will soon be going up.
Budget deficits? Not a problem. Big government owns the company store. They have to buy from us regardless. They'll still get a pound of sugar, it will just cost a bit more due to taxes.
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There are three branches of government. This bill blocks citizens from addressing grievances against banks via the Judicial branch of the government. Unconstitutional. Must be challenged and struck down by the Courts.
ThinkProgress is an American news website. It is a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAP Action), a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization.
How likely is it that what they write about a Republican project is both true and unslanted?
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PENCE BREAKS TIE: Trial lawyers everywhere are crying into their copies of the New York Times today because, last night, the Senate voted 51-50, with the Veep casting the deciding vote, to disapprove of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Arbitration Rule. Dressed up as “protection” for the average joe, the rule was actually a disguised wealth transfer from average joes to those trial lawyers, who make millions from class action lawsuits where the class victim gets a few dollars or a worthless coupon. More on this, including my statement, here.
For the record, the GOP Senators defecting were Senator Kennedy of Louisiana and…well, I think you can guess the other one.
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[Hot Air] Get ready for a spit-take moment from an interview with former Hillary Clinton spokesperson Brian Fallon on CNN. In attempting to set the context for the discussion of funding Fusion GPS and the "dossier" effort, host Poppy Harlow assumes that Fallon will confirm that Hillary herself knew nothing about the effort. Instead, Fallon says he has no idea whether that’s true, and that "she may have known" about the efforts to get Christopher Steele to use his foreign-intelligence contacts to dig up dirt on Donald Trump.
[CBSNEWS] Sen. 
