CNN Morphs Into ‘Clown News Network’

Now that we no longer have a Clinton to kick around anymore, CNN, once known as the Clinton News Network, has changed identities.  Never to be behind the MainStream Media curve, and always a leader in juggling digital fishwrap, behold the new, and unimproved, ‘Clown News Network’.

**Clown car not included

‘You’re Fired’ – Trump Give Assistant AG the Boot

From the National Review, “Why Yates Had to Go“.

It is a very simple proposition. Our Constitution vests all executive power — not some of it, all of it — in the president of the United States. Executive-branch officials do not have their own power. They are delegated by the president to execute his power. If they object to the president’s policies, their choice is clear: salute and enforce the president’s directives, or honorably resign. There is no third way.

No one knows this better than high-ranking officials of the Department of Justice. That is why President Trump was right to fire Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.

Steve Bannon to Media – “Just Shut Up”

From the NYTimes, “Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’“.  Now that’s an idea worth considering.

Just days after President Trump spoke of a “running war’’ with the media, his chief White House strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, ratcheted up the attacks, arguing that news organizations had been “humiliated” by the election outcome and repeatedly describing the media as “the opposition party” of the current administration.

“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while,” Mr. Bannon said in an interview on Wednesday.

 

Obama’s Leftovers Scurry For the Exits

The Atlantic reports that “Abrupt departures of top officials Wednesday, under disputed circumstances, leave Foggy Bottom without a confirmed secretary or nominees for several top leadership jobs.”  The departures, to my eye, look as though the President called his local Orkin Pest Control man.

Border Wall Construction Kit

From ABC News, “President Trump says Construction of Border Wall Will Begin in ‘Months’“.

During the interview, which took place at the White House this morning, Trump said that Mexico would pay the U.S. back “100 percent.”

He confirmed that U.S. taxpayer dollars would be used to start the construction but said reimbursement would follow.

“All it is, is we’ll be reimbursed at a later date from whatever transaction we make from Mexico,” he said. “I’m just telling you there will be a payment. It will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form. What I’m doing is good for the United States. It’s also going to be good for Mexico. We want to have a very stable, very solid Mexico.”

When asked about the start of construction, Trump said it would happen in “months.”