BloggeRhythms

During the past few days, and especially right after Tuesday’s debate, I’ve mentioned this sense of Rush’s distancing himself from Trump and moving toward Cruz.

Then this morning on Facebook, Rush posted: “I thought Ted Cruz was outstanding [Tuesday] night. Ted Cruz speaks like a traditional powerful, well-versed proud -- unabashedly proud -- conservative. He is an articulate representative of conservatism and the conservative movement, and he is a happy warrior. He loves doing what he's doing. He loves mixing it up. He loves getting in there.”

So, I guess it looks like it’s over for Trump, as far as Rush is concerned. But, Trump was never really a Republican, and certainly not a conservative, to begin with.

Looks like Vladimir Putin has figured Trump out too, and wants him to be the next U.S. president. Because, obviously, he knows it’s in his best interests to have someone at the helm in the U.S. he can con, bamboozle or manipulate.   

According to yahoo.com, Putin told journalists after his annual press conference in Moscow: “[Trump] is a very outstanding man, unquestionably talented." 

"It's not up to us to judge his virtue, that is up to US voters, but he is the absolute leader of the presidential race," Putin added. 

“Putin said Russia is ready to work with the United States no matter who is elected president next year. We are ready to work with any president chosen by the American people." 

However, as Putin has learned over the past seven years, having an inexperienced American leader is a major benefit to his cause. That's how Putin’s expanded interests wherever he’s chosen across the globe, particularly in Iran, Crimea and Ukraine. While presently, defensive training efforts are taking place in Poland, Lithuania, Georgia, Estonia and the Baltic Sea in fear that any, or all, of them may be next.  

Which means that Putin’s best chances of reaching his empire-building goals is a totally unqualified American president, as Trump would be, to follow the one who’s currently helping him to expand successfully for the very same reason: incapability. Thus, it’s certainly no wonder that he’d love to see Trump elected.    

And then, after all the name-calling, demands for his departure and total dissatisfaction regarding former House Speaker, John Boehner, by conservatives,  as far as the new budget goes, nothing has changed very much, if at all, with Paul Ryan at the Republican helm in the House.

 

According to Jim Newell @slate.com: “The agreement Ryan reached with fellow congressional negotiators also looks much like one Boehner would have reached: Each side scores some points, but Republican congressional majorities again will fail to deliver a high-profile, base-pumping, ideological victory over some nefarious aspect of the “Obama agenda” on which conservatives had drawn a red line. Will this land Ryan in the same hot water that eventually cooked Boehner? He’ll get a pass, for now.”

Which means that, when all’s said and done, as far as Congress is concerned it’s still business as usual.

Which brings us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife.

As mentioned earlier in the week, When Bill’s wife was on her way to Omaha, I expected Warren Buffet to begin to display his gratitude for the administration’s protecting his oil transportation by rail from Canada. Particularly the POTUS’s continual blocking of the Keystone XL pipeline for no real reason at all. And since that unwavering presidential support gave Buffet the ability to earn $multi-millions, Bill’s wife is now beginning to get the payback.

Gabriel Debenedetti @politico.com, reported yesterday: “Clinton’s newest campaign surrogate doesn’t look a lot like the actors or sound a lot like the governors she has casing Iowa. The 85-year-old isn’t as quick with a joke, or as practiced in his “Hillary The Fighter” talking points. And the bespectacled Nebraskan sure isn’t armed with as wide an array of war stories about his years of traveling the mountains of New Hampshire.

“But that, hopes Team Clinton, is all part of Warren Buffett’s appeal as he hits the campaign trail for the Democratic front-runner and talks about the other billionaire on the trail — Donald Trump. 

“Joining Clinton for his first public event of 2016 in his frigid hometown on Wednesday afternoon, the headline-grabbing Buffett quickly warmed to his unlikely, and slightly uncomfortable, role as attack dog. He likened the previous night’s Republican debate to Vaudeville, and poked fun at the GOP poll-leader’s insistence on reminding voters of how smart he is. 

“Buffett, the grinning investor seemed to imply, is smarter than Trump. And he didn’t need to remind the auditorium of 800 that he’s richer, too.” 

Thus, for both of them, they really aren’t interested in campaign banners, posters or flyers. The only signs either cares about, are dollar signs with lot’s of zero’s after the numbers. 

And then, Fox News’ Judge Andrew Napolitano put together a very clear and informative progress report regarding the FBI investigation into Bill’s wife’s email scandal. It’s very well worth reading. Here’s a link: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/12/17/hillary-clinton-criminal-investigation-keeps-moving-forward.html

 

Which leads to the ongoing question: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys reading this?  

That’s it for today folks. 

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