[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The former leader was today found guilty of criminal conspiracy over efforts by close aides to procure funds for his 2007 presidential bid from Libya during the rule of late dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
[NY Post] Democratic leaders attempted to ramp up pressure on President Trump to meet with them after he gave them the cold shoulder on Tuesday and canceled prior plans to discuss their demands to avert a partial government shutdown.
So far, it doesn’t appear to be working.
Trump had abruptly canceled a planned Thursday meeting with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), shortly after discussing the shutdown fight with GOP leadership.
"It’s so easy to just sit down and talk to us, and we know we’re not going to get everything, but he’s not even doing that," Schumer complained on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" Wednesday.
"And the American people are going to say, ’WTF? Why won’t he do that?’ There’s no good reason."
Democrats have demanded an array of health care-related concessions to give the green light to a stopgap measure that will keep the government’s lights on through Nov. 21.
But Trump and Republicans have insisted Congress stick with a "clean" continuing resolution that has no strings attached.
Both Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) have said that Congress will consider one of the Dems’ key demands — an extension of the Affordable Care Act’s subsidies — after the shutdown fight.
"This is a program that needs reform, but I think everybody is willing to sit down and talk about how to make that happen in a context where it should be discussed, not as a hostage, to keep the government open," Thune told CNN’s "Inside Politics" on Wednesday.
Currently, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is deliberating over a potential way to extend the subsidies.
If Congress fails to act, the government will enter a partial shutdown after 11:59 p.m. Tuesday.
The "clean" GOP bill to forestall a partial shutdown cleared the House last week but failed in the Senate. A separate Democrat-backed stopgap also failed in the Senate.
That measure featured an extension of the Affordable Care Act subsidies, which are set to expire at the end of the year, a reversal of the Republicans’ Medicaid reform in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (now Working Families Tax Cut Act), and quashed some of Trump’s funding freezes.
Both chambers are out on recess this week, and Johnson has indicated he plans to keep the House out of session until after the deadline to fund the government passes, a tactic intended to force the hand of Senate Dems.
Seeking to minimize the blame Democrats might incur if the government’s lights go off, Jeffries gathered reporters and fumed about the process.
“Republicans have clearly demonstrated they want to shut the government down,” Jeffries chided. “They’re not even pretending as if they want to find common ground.
“Donald Trump agrees to our demand on Saturday to hold a meeting in the Oval Office to try to avert a government shutdown. The meeting is set on Monday for later on in the week. And then Donald Trump wakes up Tuesday morning and goes on an unhinged rant and cancels the meeting,” he added.
“Why? Because he doesn’t want to discuss the Republican health care crisis.”
Jeffries also noted that he hasn’t spoken with Johnson about the looming shutdown threat since last week.
Trump reposted his Truth Social message, canceling the previously planned meeting with Jeffries and Schumer because of their “unserious and ridiculous demands.”
The president noted that he’ll “be happy to meet with them” if they “become realistic.”
Schumer and Jeffries have come under intense pressure from their progressive base to leverage the government shutdown fight to extract concessions from Republicans. Schumer faced the wrath of lefty activists in March when he declined to block a GOP-backed bill to keep the government funded.
Still, the Senate Minority Leader technically hasn’t publicly ruled out the possibility of caving.
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Still, the Senate Minority Leader technically hasn’t publicly ruled out the possibility of caving.crying.
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Schumer asked for 5 ridiculous things. He’s willing to compromise and settle for 4 ridiculous things. He can suck it. I don’t care if the Department of Education gets shut down for a while. I’ll only be mad when it opens back up. I understand that vendors will have delayed payments. They all donate to Schumer. They can suck it as well.
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"But Trump and Republicans have insisted Congress stick with a "clean" continuing resolution that has no strings attached."
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The Liberal, Socialist leaning Democrat Party has screwed the pooch. Likely even literally in some cases, given its current wide-ranging acceptance of perversion.
Balancing the Federal Budget, under a MAGA focused Admin, must seriously scare them.
[JustatheNews] The portrait gallery, which is located along the White House's West Wing Colonnade, portrays images of former presidents in golden frames. However, in Biden's place is a portrait of an autopen signing the former leader's name.
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Other than Andrew Jackson no other president would have
done that. In the first term Trump would not have done. A bullet and a bunch of indictments will do that to a man. Assassinating one of his friends was another provocation. Schumer just tried to extort him again. The UN decided to inconvenience Trump. Seems ill-advised.
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Sounds like a guy in full self destruct mode.
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The Fremont plant and Toyota trained management were available uniquely because of GM’s exit from NUMMI. That happened right as Tesla was looking to manufacture out of their own facility. If CA regulations were so beneficial why did the company build its next facility in Texas? Full stop.
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"Businesses are flocking to California to take advantage of its regulatory structure" said no one.
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Anyone saying Full Stop is trying to sell you something, and about 8 years past cultural trendiness.
Then again, it appears his PR team is a bunch of early 20s retards only able to ape the work of others, so this may be Maximum Effort. (I bet they get that one)
[FoxBusiness] State fast-tracks approval for 2,000 new wells annually as companies flee the state
Following 25 years of what oil and gas executives categorize as hostility to the industry, the state is now making a play to keep those companies from leaving.
Concerned with the exodus of oil and gas companies, refinery closures and the expensive price of gasoline in the state, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation last week that fast tracks the approval of 2,000 new wells per year over the next 10 years in Kern County, a significant oil-producing region.
Andy Walz, Chevron's president of Americas products, said during an appearance on FOX Business, "I think it's been a tyranny of about 25 years to get the refining business to leave California."
Walz told reporters last summer about Chevron's move from California to Texas, saying the company has "been doing that because California is a tough place to do business."
"It's a tough place to recruit people," he said. "It's a tough place to move employees – a lot of our employees move up through the company, they gain experience in different geographies, different locations, and we have a lot of people who will not move to California. That makes it difficult."
FOX Business Network's Lauren Simonetti said Chevron is "not overly optimistic about California's recent charm offensive."
Californians are paying $4.65 for a gallon of regular gasoline while the national average is $3.17 per gallon, according to AAA.
There are 13 refineries currently in operation in the state. When Valero and Phillips 66 shut down theirs, that number will be down to 11. The state had 40 refineries in 1983.
"Millions of Californians will soon start saving billions on their energy costs," Newsom said in a press release. "We’re stabilizing the state’s gasoline supply to avert severe price spikes at the pump and we’re making it easier to build the abundant clean energy we need to keep bills lower."
Due to the exodus, California has had to rely on foreign sources for three quarters of its oil.
Gavin Newsom said of the legislation that it "mitigates against future gasoline spikes by stabilizing the production of in-state petroleum and refinery supply and diversifying the state's transportation fuel supply."
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Desperation.
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Ah, come on Gavin, do what you really want to do. Seize the means of production and operate in the name of the people!
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Gavin is but one of a collection of bad leaders that the state has had in the past 30 years.
The state in attracting oddities has lost the idea of Basic Concept of Government. Protect the Public, keep the lights on, and do it in the background cheaply.
It's current SOP of giving groups of whiners what they want for votes has increased TAXES, COSTS, created massive homelessness and has been a big part of it's downfall.
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I've heard of concerns that if not enough refineries are pumping oil into the pipelines there won't be enough pressure to keep any oil at all moving through the pipelines. Then there will be no oil except what the state is able to import from other countries who do not suffer from the same environment regulations that California has in place. Not only that but it will be far more expensive, not just financially but environmentally, to ship that foreign oil to California. Those tanker ships burn a helluva lotta diesel and cost a helluva lotta money. Gas prices at the pump will skyrocket. The state also has new taxes on gasoline that have yet to take effect. Some predict the price of gas in California could go as high as $8 per gallon. When that happens, it will become impossible for Newsom to ever get to the White House.
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Only 13 Refineries can mix the gasoline blend that is needed to satisfy CA law. And you better believe only Democrats run these refineries too.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
