House Democrats Conference Call Is Leaked Following Election Losses

US Elections 2020Rusty Weiss – A wild conference call amongst House Democrats, details of which leaked on Twitter Thursday, shows emotional lawmakers are distraught with Nancy Pelosi and the “Squad” over their party’s disastrous election performance.

Democrats had expected to pick up 10-15 seats on election day and have instead seen Republicans gain six net seats while being on track to net 10 seats overall.

Several members of the caucus “angrily confronted” Pelosi over the losses and blasted radical progressives for tying the party to efforts to “defund the police” and “socialism.” Continue reading

Get Ready For ‘It’ To Hit The Fan

trumpSusan Duclos – Many times we at ANP have warned that if we thought liberals went crazy after the election of President Trump, then became downright unhinged during the confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, just to go into a freefall of depression when special counsel Robert Mueller could not establish any “collusion” with Russia on the part of the Trump campaign of 2016, we have seen nothing that will compare to the outright insanity we will observe by crazed liberals should President Trump win reelection.

While that prospect is yet more than a year away, watching the events over the past months, when we step back and look at the entirety and timing of said events, a picture emerges that tells us we may see that insanity long before the 2020 elections even get here. Continue reading

GOP Can Retake the House of Representatives in 2020

democratsLiberty Planet – If you gauged political security by the barrage of news coverage, everyday Americans might believe that the Democrats are a lock to maintain control of the U.S. House following the 2020 elections. Nothing could be further from the truth. The political reality of the 2020 election is that Republicans only need to flip a handful seats to send the do-nothing liberals packing.

“There are 31 seats that Democrats sit in today that President Trump carried,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said. “Of those 31, 13 of them President Trump carried by more than six points. So, here you have the socialist wing of the party trying to take them further left, when the only way they have the majority is actually winning in Republican areas — areas that would be swing districts.” Continue reading

Reason Dems Are Terrified of A.G. William Barr

BarrLiberty Planet – Impartial and conservative news reports warned Democrats who called for a Russian meddling investigation targeting Pres. Donald J. Trump — “be careful what you wish for.”

Democrats now find themselves frantic that the president has been exonerated of any and all wrongdoing. But far worse than watching President Donald Trump smile, tweet and enjoy robust approval ratings, now they are faced with the unexpected appointment of U.S. Attorney General William Barr.

The career prosecutor, who also led the Justice Department under President George H.W. Bush, is a no-nonsense civil servant willing to prosecute anyone who breaks the law. Yes, the keyword here is “anyone,” and that has Washington liberals losing sleep. These are three reasons Democrats are terrified of what A.G. Barr will do next. Continue reading

Federal Court To Hear Historic Challenge Over Separation Of Powers

houseJonathan Turley – At 10 a.m. [May 28 2015]  Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will hear argument on the motion to dismiss filed by the defendants in U.S. House of Representatives v. Burwell, et al., No. 1:14-cv-01967 (D.D.C.). The defendants are the Departments of Health and Human Services and Treasury, and the secretaries of those two executive branch agencies. The Administration is seeking to prevent the Court from reaching the merits of this historic case, which was authorized by an affirmative vote of the entire House of Representatives on July 30, 2014, and which the House filed for the purpose of protecting our constitutional structure.

The House’s underlying complaint asserts two sets of claims, both of which concern the Affordable Care Act, and both of which allege that the defendants have violated the Constitution. These violations run to the very foundation of the separation of powers doctrine that underpins our entire system of government because they usurp Congress’s powers to appropriate public funds and to legislate. The first five counts concern defendants’ ongoing payment of billions of dollars to insurance companies. These payments were ordered by the Administration despite the fact that Congress, which has the exclusive constitutional power to appropriate public funds for expenditure, (i) rebuffed the Administration’s specific request for an annual appropriation of $4 billion in FY 2014, and (ii) has never at any other time appropriated any funds for such payments. (Such payments to insurance companies currently run at approximately $300 million per month, and are estimated by the Congressional Budget Office to total $175 billion over the next ten fiscal years.) Continue reading