Democrats Have ‘Lost Control of Their Base’

JD Sat, 01/20/2018 - 08:53

Democrats “have lost control” of their base and membership, said veteran pollster Pat Caddell while commenting on the day’s “government shutdown.”

Caddell’s remarks came in a Friday interview with Breitbart News’s Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.

UPDATE 1:07 A.M. Saturday Senate shut down vote

JD Sat, 01/20/2018 - 08:51

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is planning a series of votes starting tonight that are filled with measures to hammer Democrats walking into the midterm elections after their decision to vote to shut down the federal government. The Schumer Shutdown is already proving to be very politically painful for Senate Democrats.

NYT, AP, Bloomberg, And Legacy Media Blame Dems For Gov’t shutdown

JD Sat, 01/20/2018 - 08:46

Many of the country’s top media outfits blamed the Democratic Party for allowing the government to shutdown instead of bridging a budget impasse with Republicans in the Senate.

“U.S. Shutdown Starts as Senate Democrats Block GOP Funding Plan” a Bloomberg headline blared early Saturday morning, referring to the Senate’s inability to agree on a variety of budgetary issues. The New York Times and AP chimed in with similar headlines.

SHUTDOWN: WHITE HOUSE BLASTS ‘OBSTRUCTIONIST LOSER’ DEMOCRATS FOR BLOCKING SPENDING BILL

JD Sat, 01/20/2018 - 08:37

The federal government shut down at the stroke of midnight Friday - halting all but the most essential operations and marring the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's inauguration in a striking display of Washington dysfunction.

Senate Republicans fell far short of passing a procedural motion that would have kept the federal government funded, causing the fourth government shutdown in a quarter century. The final vote was 50-49.

NSA DELETED SURVEILLANCE DATA IT PLEDGED TO PRESERVE

JD Sat, 01/20/2018 - 08:35

The National Security Agency destroyed surveillance data it pledged to preserve in connection with pending lawsuits and apparently never took some of the steps it told a federal court it had taken to make sure the information wasn’t destroyed, according to recent court filings.

Rene Boucher charged with felony assault against Bowling Green neighbor Sen. Rand Paul

celeste B Sat, 01/20/2018 - 06:53

Rene Boucher, the 58-year-old Bowling Green man accused of attacking U.S. Sen. Rand Paul at his home in November, has been charged with assaulting a member of congress resulting in personal injury.

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2018/01/19/rene-boucher-harge...

Schumer Amnesty Shutdown--US Government is Shut down

JD Fri, 01/19/2018 - 19:42

UPDATE 12:00 AM SATURDAY--The government has shut down as of now. It remains unclear if any deal will keep this short, or if the shutdown will last into Saturday and the weekend; Senators are still on the floor of the U.S. Senate negotiating past this deadline.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says that the Democrats’ votes to shut down the government are because they cannot shut down Trump’s massively successful economy:

Democrats Hold Government Funding Hostage for Amnesty

JD Fri, 01/19/2018 - 19:39

In Friday’s edition of Breitbart News Tonight, Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour will take your calls and discuss the shutdown drama on Capitol Hill, as Senate Democrats hold government funding hostage in their pursuit of amnesty legislation.

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