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Showing posts with label ed royce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ed royce. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Ho Ho Ho, Its Soros, Delivering The Bucks! Maybe It Explains The "Never Trump" Status They Took



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Billionaire George Soros
Billionaire George Soros
WASHINGTON – Everyone knows about the tens of millions of dollars various George Soros front groups poured into Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential efforts in 2016, but the Republicans he supported – from Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and his predecessor, John Boehner, have received less attention.
Republican presidential candidate John Kasich was also a big recipient of Soros largesse – to the tune at least $202,700. That makes Soros one of the Kasich presidential campaign’s top funders.
While the Soros Fund Management, just one of the Hungarian billionaire’s political tentacles, spent $224,300 on Democratic Party congressional campaigns in 2016, it also spent $31,400 on Republicans, including $10,800 on Ryan – the most of any member of the GOP, the same as it invested in Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, a Democrat.
Other GOP congressional recipients of Soros contributions include Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., ($2,500); Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. ($2,700); Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev. ($2,700); Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio ($2,600); Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif. ($2,500); Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla. ($1,000); Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa ($1,000); Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. ($1,000); Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash. ($1,000); and Rep. Dan Donovan, R-N.Y. ($300).
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Soros has aided hundreds of left-wing groups since 2000 under the auspices of his Open Society Foundations promoting environmental activism, gun control, immigration groups, opposition to voter ID laws and anti-police groups like Black Lives Matter. In one year, Soros funding of at least $33 million helped persuade the public that Michael Brown was murdered by a police officer in the city of Ferguson, Missouri.
“The intense anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric that has been fueled by the Republican primary is deeply offensive,” Soros said in the statement during the 2016 campaign. “There should be consequences for the outrageous statements and proposals that we’ve regularly heard from candidates (Donald) Trump and (Ted) Cruz.”
Michael Vachon, a spokesman and political adviser to Soros, said there was no single cause for the increase in spending.
“His support of Clinton is one reason,” he said. “The tone of the other candidates is the other.
Soros’ personal fortune stands at about $24 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Soros handed off day-to-day management of his hedge-fund business in the late 1980s to focus on his charitable pursuits, many of which seek to promote democracy around the world. The Open Society Foundations say they have spent some $13 billion over the past three decades.
Soros organizations have also donated between $1.5 million and $6 million to the Clinton Foundation.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/12-top-republicans-backed-by-soros-in-2016/#b255tQ0ZgE63sgCw.99

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Obama's Last Jab At Israel

Obama released $221M to Palestinians in final hours





Obama released $221M to Palestinians in final hours
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The Obama administration sent $221 million to the Palestinian Authority on Friday as President Obama prepared to leave the White House for the last time, The Associated Press reports.

The outgoing administration formally notified Congress of the decision just hours before President Trump was inaugurated.

Congress had initially approved the spending. But two House Republicans, Reps. Ed Royce (Calif.), who serves as the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Kay Granger (Texas), who is on the powerful Appropriations Committee, put holds on the aid money because the Palestinian Authority was seeking membership in international organizations.

Former Secretary of State John Kerrynotified some lawmakers about the decision to release the money on Thursday, the AP reports.

The $221 million sent to the Palestinian Authority is intended to provide humanitarian aid in ares such as Gaza and the West Bank, as well as to support political reforms there.
The Obama administration also notified lawmakers on Friday that it would release $6 million in foreign spending, with $4 million of it going to programs to fight climate change and $1.25 million to United Nations organizations.
Trump has voiced skepticism about climate change in the past and has criticized the U.N.

Thursday, December 24, 2015

This Administration Gets Worse And Worse, By The Minute

Never mind Obama, what Kerry just did smells like TREASON to me

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Ok, I have said this before and it’s almost a rhetorical question, “on whose side is President Obama and his administration?” I mean the president’s response to the Islamic terror attack in San Bernardino is stricter gun control and an executive order on background checks.
Last time I checked, the weapons in the San Bernardino jihadist attack weren’t purchased illegally — and California has some of the strictest gun laws. And we’ve shared here the countless violations of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of the Iranian nuclear deal. Yet, the Obama administration presses on and states they will not rescind the agreement.
Now we have a new and interesting development between the militant Islamists of Iran and the Obama administration.
As reported by Fox News, “Republicans on Monday blasted Secretary of State John Kerry for suggesting in a letter to his Iranian counterpart that the administration could help the country get around new visa restrictions passed by Congress.
“Instead of bending over backwards to try to placate the Iranian regime, the White House needs to be holding it accountable for its recent missile tests, its continued support for terrorism, and its wrongful imprisonment of Americans,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., said in a statement to FoxNews.com.
At issue are tightened security requirements for America’s visa waiver program, which allows citizens of 38 countries to travel to the U.S. without visas. Under changes in the newly signed spending bill, people from those countries who have traveled to Iran, Iraq, Syria and Sudan in the past five years must now obtain visas to enter the U.S.


Top Tehran officials, however, complained the changes violate the terms of the nuclear deal, which says the U.S. and other world powers will refrain from any policy intended to adversely affect normalization of trade and economic relations with Iran.”
So folks, let me explain, the Iranians are complaining that our tightening of our visa waiver program is in violation of the Iranian nuclear agreement. Now, ain’t that a daisy! Actually, it shows the abject disrespect the clerics and ayatollahs have for President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry. And to think that John Kerry would issue a letter to a representative of the country that is the number one state sponsor of Islamic terrorism saying that he would assist them in undermining our Congress — unbelievable. Folks, I could give a rat’s behind about the normalization of trade and economic relations with Iran — and what idiot wrote that into the Iranian agreement in the first place?
We have a global security issue and the last thing we need are folks able to exploit our visa programs and gain entry into America. Think about it, how did Tashfeen Malik gain entry into America? Yes, a fiancé visa program. Mohammad Atta and several of the 9-11jihadists were in the U.S. on student visas.
So I ask again, on whose side is John Kerry and President Obama? Do they truly believe an agreement with the Iranians is such a grand achievement — an agreement than Iranian leaders have used as less than toilet paper?
Again, understand that Kerry is issuing a letter to an Iranian official stating that he will assist them in circumventing our legislative process. Has John Kerry truly lost his mind and forgotten the concept of checks and balances? Does he really believe he can just tell the enemy — and that’s what Iran is — that he will aid and abet them?
Actually, one could consider Kerry’s letter as violating U.S. statute and providing material support and comfort to the enemy. That, ladies and gents, is not a stretch to prove. And why is Kerry is so concerned about Iran, yet we still have some five Americans unjustly held by the Iranians?
To me, that would have been reason number one not to enter into any agreement with Iran. Then again, I’m not President Barack Obama who can stand with the parents of Bowe Bergdahl in the Rose Garden and speak of not leaving Americans behind — while hypocritically doing just that in Iran.
Apparently the five Americans held in Iran interfere with Obama’s agenda – they’re just an obstacle, or as he referred to the losses in Benghazi, a “bump in the road.”
In Obamaworld, nothing matters unless it enables his objectives and designs.
“Kerry responded to these concerns in a Dec. 19 letter to his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif — and suggested the administration could simply bypass the rules for Iran. “I am also confident that the recent changes in visa requirements passed in Congress, which the Administration has the authority to waive, will not in any way prevent us from meeting our [nuclear deal] commitments, and that we will implement them so as not to interfere with legitimate business interests of Iran,” he said.
Kerry’s letter to Zarif assured that the U.S. would “adhere to the full measure of our commitments.” As for changes to the visa program, Kerry floated several alternative options for easing any impact on Iran – including waiving the new requirements. “To this end, we have a number of potential tools available to us, including multiple entry ten-year business visas, programs for expediting business visas, and the waiver authority provided under the new legislation,” he wrote.”
If John Kerry and Barack Obama, believe they can just waive a Congressional measure relating to our security, my response would be simple — cut back funding to the State Department directorate that would be issuing visas. There has to come a point in time when Congress realizes that the Obama administration does not respond to words and strenuous rebukes.
After this last Omnibus spending bill, it’s clear Obama and Kerry have little respect or regard for the GOP-led Congress. Clearly Obama views them as the Rodney Dangerfield Congress.
I want some liberal progressive to explain how they can support such a letter by Kerry. If you do, then it’s apparent this nation can never allow another liberal progressive socialist to EVER occupy the White House.
If appeasing the Iranians is more important, if having a document to tout as a faux political achievement, regardless of the incessant violations, is more vital, if these things weigh heavier than five Americans being held hostage and the security of our nation — then this entity we now know as the modern Democrat Party is not in keeping with the principles and values of this Constitutional Republic, America.
The only deduction is that the Democrat Party is not on the side of America.

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Bombing ISIS Only Works If You Bomb Them!

Wow: US Military Pilots Make Bombshell Revelation About Obama And ISIS That Looks BAD

“I don’t understand this strategy at all..."
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U.S. military pilots are reporting that they are being blocked from dropping 75 percent of their ordinance because they could not get clearance, according a leading House Republican.
Rep. Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Washington Beacon, “You went 12 full months while ISIS was on the march without the U.S. using that air power and now as the pilots come back to talk to us they say three-quarters of our ordnance we can’t drop, we can’t get clearance even when we have a clear target in front of us,” Royce said. “I don’t understand this strategy at all because this is what has allowed ISIS the advantage and ability to recruit.”

The Pentagon told the Beacon that the reason bombs are not being dropped is mainly because of the goal of minimizing civilian casualties. “The bottom line is that we will not stoop to the level of our enemy and put civilians more in harm’s way than absolutely necessary,” a military official said. 
“The fact that aircraft go on missions and don’t strike anything is not out of the norm,” the official added. “Despite U.S. strikes being the most precise in the history of warfare, conducting strike operations in the heavily populated areas where ISIL hides certainly presents challenges. We are fighting an enemy who goes out of their way to put civilians at risk. However, our pilots understand the need for the tactical patience in this environment. This fight against ISIL is not the kind of fight from previous decades.”
Retired four-star Gen. Jack Keane shares Royce’s assessment that the strategy is flawed, adding it is being driven from the top down.
“When we agreed we were going to do airpower and the military said, this is how it would work, he [Obama] said, ‘No, I do not want any civilian casualties,'” Keane explained. “And the response was, ‘But there’s always some civilian casualties. We have the best capability in the world to protect from civilians casualties.'” Obama reiterated “no casualties,” according to the retired general.  
“Believe me,” Keane added, “the French are in there not using the restrictions we have imposed on our pilots.”
And the same goes for Russians. “They don’t care at all about civilians,” he said. 
The Pentagon stated that the air campaign has been effective, with attacks focused on the Islamic State’s “staging areas, fighting position, and key leaders,” as well as its “oil distribution chain.”
Royce believes that victory must ultimately come on the ground and advocates arming the Kurds, whose forces he says are 180,000 strong.  
“When it is perceived that ISIS is losing territory, that’s when it is harder for them to recruit on the internet and tell people they’re invincible,” Royce said.