File Under "Surprising No One"

The CBO estimates that the Biden Build Back Better bill is not fully paid for. On the other hand, the key dispute is the likely revenue from enhanced IRS enforcement, and per the (totally non-partisan!) Treasury estimates used by the White House, the CBO estimate is too low. Time may tell, if this bill doesn't perish in the Senate.

Meanwhile, in what seems to have been a surprise to some, House Minority Leader McCarthy staged a one-man filibuster, speaking on the House floor for over eight hours and pushing the BBB vote to Friday.

This could have been predicted since we've seen it before, and recently. Its a quirk of House rules:

McCarthy was able to hold the floor indefinitely under the procedures of the House, which say the majority leader and the minority leader get what's called a "Magic Minute" at the end of floor debate, meaning they can speak for as long as they want. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used a similar tactic as minority leader in 2018, speaking for more than eight hours on the House floor in a speech about young undocumented immigrants, the previous record for a floor speech.

Who knew?

 

Comments

[henry]

Doxxing

[Davod]

Andrew Branca's comments:

RITTENHOUSE VERDICT: NOT GUILTY ALL COUNTS!

https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/11/rittenhouse-verdict-not-guilty-all-counts/#more-370865

[Jack Lillywhite]

I guess Court TV's Ahmed Aubrey trial just picked up an additional million viewers now that Rittenhouse trial is history:)

Wonder what the next one down the pike will be? Maybe we can get a Hispanic offing a Black Transvestite in Nova Scotia.

[Davod]

Rioters Flee In Terror As Kyle Rittenhouse Emerges From Courthouse With AR-15
U.S.

https://babylonbee.com/news/communist-rioters-scream-and-run-away-in-terror-as-rittenhouse-emerges-from-courthouse

[Narciso]

like with tucson, sheriff dufuss let the shooter out because favors for her employee

[Pinandpuller]

So let’s just forget about the utter negligence if not malevolence of government clowns in Kenosha and Washington, Mr DCSCA.

This whole chain of events was set off by a, at best, mentally unstable violent pedophile who was allowed to see daylight from outside a cell.

True vigilante justice would have been a scene from out of Breaking Bad or Casino.

I’m willing to settle for the next best thing.

[Narciso]

thats almost babylon bee worthy,

remember arbery came first,

[GUS]

Indeed Clarice.

[Narciso]

like a rancor, from under jabbas throne room,

[Jack Lillywhite]

The unsung heros in Rittenhouse trial are the defense attorney's. Great counter punchers, strategic cross exams, very logical closing. Top notch in my opinion.

[Narciso]

yes props to him,

after alexandria don't talk to me about teh horror of january 6th, after cities burned from coast to coast, pretty much every vaporous agita is fake,

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--But, like Byrd, OJ, Putin and Xi they've gotten away with killing others.--

GF

[DCSCA]

Dave- 'That pesky Bill of Rights.'

Those pesky wrongful death civil law suits. This kid's gonna be in hick to lawyers for decades. Such is the price to pay for vigilantism.

[DCSCA]

^hock

[DCSCA]

'This whole chain of events was set off by a, at best, mentally unstable violent pedophile who was allowed to see daylight from outside a cell.'

No, P&P.

It was set off by a self-appointed, unsupervised, un-deputized, unaffiliated w/any official WI law enforcement entity vigilante; a 17 year old kid who 'ran to the fire with his squirt gun' and got burned when he killed two people [who could have been undercover cops BTW]-- w/his AR-15.

And Putin smiles.

[DCSCA]

P&P- 'True vigilante justice would have been a scene from out of Breaking Bad or Casino.'

Magnum Force, Lt. Briggs.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Forgot my manners:

Shabat Shalom!

[Melinda]

Tom Fitton
@TomFitton
Like clockwork.

Jack Posobiec ✝️ @JackPosobiec
BREAKING: Kyle Rittenhouse Could Face Federal Charges As Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler Calls For Biden DOJ Review
politicususa.com/2021/11/19/kyl…

https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1461809490165215245

[Narciso]

jabba nadler, who helped spring susan rosenberg, the actual capitol hill bomber,

[Jane]

That’s ridiculous Mel. Did he say which federal charges.

Totalitarianism on steroids!

[Jack Lillywhite]

Jerry Nadler, that fat fuck, should worry more about his waist size then a criminal case decided by citizens and not politicians. Always the default position with these creeps.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Going to club soon for dinner: Prime rib or a fancy fish dish?

Really? That is no choice:)

[Narciso]

then he swallowed a sand crawler,

red snapper is good, after that,

[Dave (in MA)]

Jack,

Once I sign off and go down to the family room, my parrot will ask "Whattaya want for supper?" within 5 minutes, tops.

[Narciso]

surf and turf works well,

[Dave (in MA)]

Robert J. O'Neill@mchooyah·

I’m going to go get a drink. It’s called a “Rittenhouse”. A chaser, followed by many, well-deserved shots.

[DCSCA]

'The CBO estimates that the Biden Build Back Better bill is not fully paid for. On the other hand, the key dispute is the likely revenue from enhanced IRS enforcement, and per the (totally non-partisan!)'

Just another lie... a new way to phrase the ever elusive 'waste, fraud and abuse' tallies. Which never adds up.

$3.5 trillion of spending won't cost anything; 100% is 90%; $2000 is $1400; abandons $85 billion in military equipment to the enemy; sells two multi-billion aircraft carriers [the JFK & Kitty Hawk] literally for a penny a piece for scrap, which given the largess of the Pentagon budget, could have been refitted as hurricane/quake relief vessels on the E & W coasts for perhaps another 20 years of service.

He kills 13 service people; has no secure borders, no Covid tests for illegals; mandatory shots for citizens; lies about driving 18 wheelers; can't walk up stairs nor remember the names of world leaders and views KR verdict w/'anger and concern'-- inflation is "transitory" [so is life, Joe] and we're all to stupid to understand the 'supply train' except for a giy who has been working in government for 50 years-- not the private sector. Which is why a can of Ocean Spray carnberries is $3.29 this year, not $1 like last year and oil companies are to blame for $5.15/gas, not Joe; and $10 London Broil is nothing to beef about.

Nothing is ever their fault; nothing ever adds up... which is why both the Ds & Rs are wholly unqualified to be spending 'other people's money.'

[Dave (in MA)]

Howie Carr Chump Line Caller: (the calls come in during the day and get played in the 1st 5PM segment)

"Hey MSNBC, the Rittenhouse verdict is about to be announced. Might wanna turn on Fox News."

[Pinandpuller]

No Albatrosses were killed during the 2020 Kenosha riots.

[Pinandpuller]

DCSCA

There’s a reason JoJo stayed outta Fort Smith and the Indian Territories.

[Jane]

Dave,

What do you reply?

[clarice]

Kenosha crowds happy with verdict:https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2021/11/19/kenosha-crowd-reacts-to-rittenhouse-verdict-and-its-not-what-the-lying-media-told-you-would-happen-n1534562

I think it's hunting season the commies would be well advised to stay home in Chicago or wherever hell hole they come from.

[Dave (in MA)]

Jane,
Depends what we're having.

[Marlene]

Good afternoon! We went to the Italian market for lunch and listened to the verdict announcement on the car radio while driving home. Thank goodness.

The other news of the day was Biden's colonoscopy. Did they find his brain? Inquiring minds want to know.

[sbwaters]

The @AP buries the lede, waiting until paragraph 32 before reporting:

Going in, many legal experts said they believed the defense had the advantage because of provisions favorable to Rittenhouse in Wisconsin self-defense law and video showing him being chased at key moments. Testimony from some of the prosecution’s own witnesses also seemed to buttress his claim of self-defense.

They "report" Jesse Jackson’s bloviations in paragraph 5.

You would think that any decent news gathering organization would report in the first paragraphs that the video clearly showed he was being pursued aggressively by someone he could reasonably assume wanted to do him bodily harm.

Reporting like this is a disservice to readers, newspapers, the country, and all the principles the country stands for.

[anonamom]

sbw, why in God's name do you pay those people money?

[sbwaters]

anon, there is no alternative. Yet. Others are NYTimes, WaPo, Reuters. UPI hardly qualifies.

With no competition, they don’t have to care. Besides, they earn the most from large corporate news chains [Think Gannett, networks, and large city newspapers].

[henry]

Clarice, gun deer season starts sunrise tomorrow. My neighbor’s backhoe about ten minute before sunrise. (I kid…. until BLM shows up disguised as a backhoe).

[Jack Lillywhite]

sbw, sounds like an opportunity for an enterprising yuong journalist with a business mindset to set up a rival to AP/UPI.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

John Hinderaker - "Uh, who wants to tell this guy?" [looks like a gal] Right click for whole ignorant thing;

[Jack Lillywhite]

Iggy, no can get even right clicking. Can you down size it?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

If I downsize it cuts the sides off and you can read even less.

Here's a link to the the story.

[Dave (in MA)]

Jack, some numb-nuts wants the PROSECUTION to appeal.

[Davod]

I am listening to the audio version of Lady Death, the biography of Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, and have reached the part where she talks about the trip to the USA. It took two weeks to get from Moscow to Miami by air, and then rail to Washington. The war probably had a lot to do with the time taken.

[Dave (in MA)]

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Learn more, indeed.

[henry]

The left isn’t very smart.. even by Fredo definitions of smart.

[Pinandpuller]

Nadler is a religious extremist:

If a person pursues another to kill him, and the one being pursued can save himself by injuring one of the limbs of the pursuer, but he does not save himself in this manner and instead kills the pursuer, he is executed for killing him even though he acted in self-defense, and a descendant of Noah is also killed for this.—Sanhedrin 56b

[Narciso]

the suicide pill, mislabeled infrastructure bill, pays each reporter 50 k, of course what they said about fleet street applies here,

[henry]

Pin, Nadler is an extreme pants pooper. Religion doesn’t enter into it.

[Narciso]

that does seem like a long trip, if the flight was from moscow to ny,

[Narciso]

festivus possibly or whatever pertinent phoenician ceremony,

[Dave (in MA)]

Rep. Gerry Nadler (D-iarrhea on TV)

[Davod]

Jane. Re. curling. I was being a little facetious with my response to Jack advising the time of when curling would be broadcast.

[Davod]

‘Censorship on behalf of a genocidal regime’: YouTube punishes Saagar Enjeti and Krystal Ball for video on vanished Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai

Posted at 12:15 pm on November 19, 2021 by Sarah D.

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/11/19/censorship-on-behalf-of-a-genocidal-regime-youtube-punishes-saagar-enjeti-and-krystal-ball-for-video-on-vanished-chinese-tennis-star-peng-shuai/

[Davod]

Re. Rittenhouse suing people and companies for defamation. Any settlement should include showing the video of Rittenhouse being pursued and retreating.

[clarice]

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/486370/

[Narciso]

in other news

https://t.me/The_Library_II/62810

[Jane]

Shit Davod < I forgot to watch it!

[Davod]

Jane. Damn.

[Pinandpuller]

Speaking of Nicholas II, is this where you’re supposed to say “and Putin smiled”:

“On 9th May 2016, Natalya Poklonskaya took part in the Immortal Regiment March[1], during which she carried an icon of Tsar Martyr Nicholas II. Earlier this week, she opened up for the first time about the retributions that followed.

“For the fact that I carried the image of Nicholas II, which is revered as a Saint in the Russian Orthodox Church, I was punished. I even received a letter from the General Prosecutor’s Office. On 22nd June 2016, the First Deputy Prosecutor General wrote: “You have committed an inappropriate act, contrary to the charter of the Immortal Regiment movement, prompting criticisms from the Russian media. As an employee of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation, you have committed a violation of the code of ethics”. So, I was punished, but I am very happy with this punishment – because that means I did something right.”

https://russian-faith.com/people-saints/popular-russian-politician-punished-carrying-icon-tsar-martyr-nicholas-ii-n6220

[Davod]

PP. "The Immortal Regiment is a massive civil event staged annually on 9th May in major cities in Russia during the Victory Day celebrations."

She takes a picture of Tsar Nicholas to the Great Patriotic War (WWII) victory celebrations. That's the victory of the U.S.S.R. over the Axis forces (which probably included 'Russian Royalists').

[clarice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMdIAK59GYA
Probably Tucker's finest show

[Davod]

Ball tries to play catch, and dog doesn't like it.

https://twitter.com/Yoda4ever/status/1460080118848573444

[Davod]

26 seconds of Tucker:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1461873806415380483

[Davod]

Clarice. I agree with you about Tucker's comments.

[clarice]

go fund me caught with its pants around its ankles:https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/11/gofundme-finally-will-allow-kyle-rittenhouse-to-raise-money-for-his-defense-now-that-he-no-longer-needs-a-defense/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

A white guy shoots three white guys and the progs STILL try to make it about race.
This is really pissing me off, because it's interfering with my constitutional right to shoot communists.
In America millions marched to make it possible for us to shoot communists based on the lack of content of their character, not the color of their skin.
And now the Dems are tearing all that good work down.

[Davod]

Clarice. He's trying to get back some of the customers who left when he rejected Rittenhouse's fundraising.

[Len]

Good morning!

Week in Pictures with some good ones, too.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/the-week-in-pictures-well-acquitted-edition.php

[clarice]

Press Releases Gov. Evers: Releases statement regarding Rittenhouse verdict
Gov. Evers: Releases statement regarding Rittenhouse verdict
MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today released the following statement regarding the verdict in the Rittenhouse case:

“No verdict will be able to bring back the lives of Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum, or heal Gaige Grosskreutz’s injuries, just as no verdict can heal the wounds or trauma experienced by Jacob Blake and his family. No ruling today changes our reality in Wisconsin that we have work to do toward equity, accountability, and justice that communities across our state are demanding and deserve.

“Kenoshans are strong, resilient, and have spent the last year working every day together toward healing. This case and the resulting national spotlight on the Kenosha community and our state have undoubtedly reopened wounds that have not yet fully healed. I echo the calls of local Kenosha community leaders and join them in asking everyone who might choose to assemble and exercise their First Amendment rights in any community to please only do so safely and peacefully. We must have peace in Kenosha and our communities, and any efforts or actions aimed at sowing division are unwelcome in our state as they will only hinder that healing.

“I’ve seen the pain and the frustration of so many, and we must remain steadfast in our commitment to ending violence in our communities, supporting victims and survivors as they heal from trauma, and rooting out the disparities that are so often inextricably linked to that violence and trauma. We must be unwavering in our promise to build a state where every kid, person, and family can live their life free of violence and have every chance to be successful.

“We must move forward, together, more united and more motivated to build the sort of future we want for our state—one that is just, one that is equitable, and one where every person has the resources and opportunity to thrive—and I will not stop working to achieve that vision.”

A more mealy mouthed statement from the guy who is largely responsible for the riot in the first place would be hard to imagine.

[Narciso]

news from 1947

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3b65d774-47f1-11ec-9969-911e63457092?shareToken=a11dfd1e893bfb2e8e10b82278750492

[Narciso]

big eared twit gets into a scrape

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/inquiry-launched-into-claims-money-for-prince-charles-e2-80-99-foundation-went-to-saudi-billionaire-e2-80-99s-charity/ar-AAQS2qz?ocid=BingNewsSearch

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Michael Smith
56m ·
Reading through several examples of leftist mythology about the Rittenhouse trial this morning, I thought about the bad kids from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory":
Veruca Salt was an ill behaved, spoiled child who went insane when she didn't get everything she wanted.
Mike Teavee was a complete know-it-all who actually knew nothing and doesn’t know when to keep his mouth shut and his opinions to himself.
Violet Beauregarde was a self-centered child, a hyper-aggressive and vicious competitor only focused on winning.
Augustus Gloop was an extremely greedy child, a glutton obsessed with food and facilitated by his parents, he never stops eating.
It is as if Roald Dahl was describing the contemporary American left when he wrote "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".

[clarice]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-thieves-target-neiman-marcus-gamestop-amid-rittenhouse-protests

[Len]

N E W

[Jim Eagle]

Another early rise. Seems I can't sleep past 0300hrs.

Have a CatScan tomorrow then I will ask my Medico what she and I can do to reset my sleep clock. What happens is that I keep nodding off for a few seconds at a time until sun comes up, I feed the dogs and then go outside into the sunshine and fresh ocean breeze.