So far 80 Congressman have come out in support of Trump’s temporary ban on some refugees from 6 countries in the middle east. Virginia Republican Congressmen supporting the ban: Dave Brat VA-7, Robert Goodlatte VA-6, Scott Taylor VA-2, Rob Wittman VA-1 and Tom Garrett VA-5. (I am unsure about Morgan Griffith VA-9).
There are 24 Congressman opposing the ban. That includes 10th district Congresswoman Barbara Comstock. From Fortune.com:
Comstock wrote that though she believes in “increased vetting based on national security concerns,” she wrote that the President’s executive order “went beyond the increased vetting actions that Congress has supported on a bipartisan basis and inexplicably applied to green card holders, people who are legally within our country who have followed the rules.”
There are 17 Congressmen whose positions are unclear.
More on which Republican Congressmen support the program, and those who do not, here.
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Why not Pakistan?
Where was Bin Laden, hiding, residing?
Was there a purchase arrangement or construction of the Pakistani home?
Probably got a text from the Koch heads.
Or how about this one in Vienna Austria. This is what we want on the DC subway system to make a morning commute a little more lively and interesting
Young Migrants Trigger Mass Panic in Vienna Subway
Incident on Monday afternoon in the Vienna Subway: A group of young migrants near the U3 station Schweglergasse started to yell “Allahu Akhbar” according to a witness — and pulled out pistols. Panic broke out among the passengers — but one courageous witness promptly intervened.
Amer Albayati, a well known terror expert for the Krone [newspaper], also witnessed the incident. Four youths with migration backgrounds were yelling in Arabic and brandishing pistols — they may have been “airsoft guns” (or maybe not). Shots were heard.
Brave witness attacked the youths
The passengers panicked, reported Albayati, and tried to get as far away from the screaming youths as possible. One passenger tried to take down the lads and apparently he succeeded in temporarily kicking the four out of the train at the stop at Schweglergasse. Finally, as the train reached the Zieglergasse heading towards Stephansplatz, the group left the subway for good.
Many witnesses took photos of the suspects — the four youths have been reported, and the search for them is underway.
Security measures for exactly these types of incidents
According to the spokesman for the police, Thomas Keiblinger, the youths were of high school age. “We have security measures in the train and at the platforms for exactly these types of incidents when passengers don’t feel safe anymore,” Daniel Amann, the spokesperson for the Vienna subway, added. With these emergency security measures which are located on the trains as well as in so-called “SOS-cubes” on the platforms, a passenger can directly reach and talk to the train engineer or the control room. In an emergency people shouldn’t be shy about using these measures (of course they might be dead first but that is just the breaks of the game).
No need to worry says the left. Why shut down immigration from terrorist countries. ———————-
On Monday a Saudi frigate was attacked and the initial thoughts were that the attack was a missile attack. Now U.S. officials are saying that the attack was a suicide bombing that was meant for an American Warship.
From Fox News:
The Iranian-backed suicide attack targeting a Saudi frigate off the coast of Yemen on Monday may have been meant for an American warship, two defense officials told Fox News…
…Two Saudi sailors were killed and three were wounded. At first the ship was thought to have been struck by a missile…
…But based on new analysis of a video showing the attack, American intelligence officials now believe this was, in fact, a suicide bomber whose small boat rammed the side of the Saudi vessel.
In the audio heard on the video, a voice narrating the attack shouts in Arabic, “Death to America, Death to Israel, Death to the Jews.”
So sorry, Barbara continues to disappoint.
I’m just wondering, at what point is Trump going to focus his wrath on Comstock? As vocally anti-Trump as she has been, after he’s done taking care of the big things, he’s going to start picking off the annoyances and I can see her clearly in his crosshairs. Will she be a party switcher?
She’s certainly behaving that way. But would they take her? (She was on Team Teddy K early on.)
But it will be fun to watch the Babs enablers if/when this happens.
Only someone who is totally ignorant to Virgina politics would need to read this article to know when Repulicrat would not support their President.
Ok before everyone gets their panties up their butt and continues the Trump is Hitler theme… The President has the power to suspend immigration written in black and white in the Immigration Act. Read INA 1182 (f).
(f) Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President
Whenever the President finds that the entry
of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be
detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by
proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend
the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or
nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may
deem to be appropriate. Whenever the Attorney General finds that a
commercial airline has failed to comply with regulations of the Attorney
General relating to requirements of airlines for the detection of
fraudulent documents used by passengers traveling to the United States
(including the training of personnel in such detection), the Attorney
General may suspend the entry of some or all aliens transported to the
United States by such airline.
That is black letter law. It doesn’t require inventing penumbras, or imagining how you want the law to be. Add to that we just got done with Liberals defending a President’s actions to as he said “protect people from deportation” where you couldn’t find that power written as exactly as you read above. Obama had the power to impose his Dream Act (not the word “Act” as if it were a law) because he has the power. A circular argument.
This is in no danger of being flawless, or even well-executed. This effort grew from Trump’s earliest campaign promises to ban Muslims, and later to ban immigrants from countries that breed terrorism…
Except that immigration from Saudi Arabia, the country that more or less brought us 911, WASN’T blocked. And the agencies responsible for law enforcement weren’t consulted. Way to go.
So what was it? Optics to please the loyal, unthinking, ignorant xenophobes.
GOP reps need to be careful. This is the same slippery slope as the rationale for invading Iraq, which only idiots still defend.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.cnbc.com/amp/2016/06/13/trump-if-elected-ill-ban-immigration-from-areas-with-terrorism-ties.html?client=ms-android-verizon
We invaded Iraq and Afghanistan because of 9/11. Your hindsight ignores the fact that Clinton undercut intelligence gathering (as reported by the MSM).
We invaded Afghanistan because Al Qaeda was operating there with the full consent of the Taliban. We invaded Iraq because senior leaders backed into a justification to invade. If you really believe Clinton caused the invasion of Iraq, you’re deluded, ignorant, stupid, or all three.
You can look up the reports about Clinton not bothering to take out bin Laden and the Gorelich restrictions on CIA field operatives.
Um Bin Laden was not in Iraq. Uou know that, right? Also Qaeda. Afghanistan. Not Iraq.
So on to your point. Armed with a lack of intelligence, a President and his cabinet embark on an invasion based on preemptive doctrine.
That’s like saying you voluntarily engaged in a grudge match at the local gym with the lights out, and blame the lack of lighting for the bloody mess. That’s dumb as dirt.
Jon Kofas rejected the claims by President Bush that there were links between Saddam Hussein and bin Laden. Randy Black comments:”Jon. Kofas may have inadvertaetly misread the report, which I will post below. Factually, the commission found “no credible evidence” of a link between Iraq and al-Qaida in attacks against the United States. This is far different than Mr. Kofas’ contention that there was no link between Hussein and bin Laden, which of course is not the case. A committee of the commission made the statement that Hussein was not connected to the 9/11 attacks. Nothing more.
We know with certainty that Iraq and bin Laden’s representatives met on numerous occasions over the years. The commission report, in fact, says: The panel said that bin Laden made overtures to Saddam Hussein for assistance, as he did with leaders in Sudan, Iran, Afghanistan and elsewhere as he sought to build an Islamic army. The report said that bin Laden explored possible cooperation with Saddam at the urging of allies in Sudan eager to protect their own ties to Iraq, even though the al-Qaida leader had previously provided support for “anti-Saddam Islamists in Iraqi Kurdistan.”
Bin Laden ceased that support in the early 1990s, opening the way for a meeting between the al-Qaida leader and a senior Iraqi intelligence officer in 1994 in Sudan, the report said. At the meeting, bin Laden is said to have requested space to establish training camps in Iraq as well as Iraqi assistance in procuring weapons, but Iraq apparently never responded, the staff report said.
Wow they talked. Good reason for an invasion.
Two reasonable groups of people supported Trump’s election: those who wanted accountability in government and those who were fed up with the administration’s ham handed foreign policy.
So now we have a president who cut out the interagency and our legislators, preventing the shaping of his policy with any of the organizations paid for by our taxes. In the process, he effectively cuts off flows of many people in danger, while leaving open the gates to Saudis, who perpetrated 911. Oh yeah, the Chairman of the JCS was put in the back seat of NSC processes to make room for Breitbart.
You obviously have at least a high school diploma. At what point do you wake up and realize you just got less transparency, worse policy, and bigger lies than ever?
Trump consulted with the justice department before he banned the seven deadly countries and you would know that if you bothered to do a bit of research on the memo from Trump.
If you bothered to understand refugee admissions you would know that the heavy lifting is performed by USCIS and much of the overseas forensics for vetting comes from DoD. And connection to citizens? You may not know, but citizens have touchpoints called congressional offices. We can call, write, and visit so the legislative branch can influence execution on our behalf. Denveloping the EO in secret and having congressional staffers sign nondisclosure agreements is an overt move to keep the people out of governance. For all those people who don’t get it, that is not transparency.
But I’m sure you’ve got a narrative to blame it on Clinton.
Actually, the heavy lifting is done by religious refugee support organizations that are mostly Christian in nature. The vetting is virtually impossible when it comes to Christians because any found in camps will be either killed or enslaved. Thus, the refugees that make it into the USA are over 95% muslim at a minimum. Since most “refugees” are from muslim majority war zones where there is no documentation, word of mouth becomes the vetting system.
As far as Clinton is concerned, he has little to do with the current situation unless, as I pointed out, he failed to get bin Laden on a number of occasions. I blame this entire mess on Bush 2 and Obama – and I don’t know who is worse. Trump was left with an horrific situation and he has acted on it. The result is mostly good but with a couple of easily resolved kinks. Had he given people like you advanced notice, the situation would have been far worse and ISIS and al queda would have been tipped off.
The relief organizations do the bulk of vetting??? Oh my gosh better call the Sitaution Room — the federal government doesn’t screen refugees, charities do! Whew! We have no reason to stop admissions! Unless of course the President also called Catholic Relief Services and told them to stop taking people in…
And there it is. You hated the governance of Bush and Obama so much that you’ll applaud circumvention of the checks and balances that protect us.
We don’t NEED ISIS when we have idiots who are so ruled by fear they would throw away the Constitution all on their own. You have met the enemy, Warmac, in the mirror.
What was wrong with the roll out? The left and media are going to dump on Trump no matter the lack of reason. Comstock appears to be partially informed and the green card holders that did not go through extreme vetting will be looked at again. Pandering? Promote our mistake and hope she runs for the senate If Comstock had surgery maybe she could get a lefty looloolooner to sue the doctor, they inverted her eyes
The roll out was great. It caught the Dems and their anti-American buddies by surprise and stopped them from telling ISIS what was coming.
it also stopped a 5-year old terrorist from entering the country, a Harvard medical researcher from working on treatments for diabetes, a movie director from attending the academy awards – big wins for goldenboy Trump
Apparently, you haven’t seen the pictures of an ISIS inspired five year old beheading an adult. No surprise there as you don’t want to know. Of course it is terrible that some terrorists were inconvenienced, but the scientist and movie guy you mention were quickly vetted and moved on. Some day you will gain a bit of geopolitical wisdom but today is not the day.
Or. The administration screwed up and did not actually think through the plan. They are supposed to be professionals but are acting like this is there first trip to the circus. Stop defending the swamp
I’m happy with the President and the plan.
That is completely untrue. Democrats and the MSM made much ado about nothing. Across the country 109 people were detained, for two hours. All but two were released and those two were deported. Big deal. Many people are held up in customs that long everyday!
But for how long??? It’s only 120 days.
Dear Tom Garrett: You are my Rep. Our family settled in portions of your 5th District nearly 300 years ago. We came to America – still colonies under a demented King George III – because the Lutheran princes and the Roman Catholic bishops were having genocidal wars against our faith community. When Geo Wash came to us – frontier settlers who knew how to defend out ‘homeland’ – to ask if we would join the Revolutionary Army we said, might be, if you guarantee absolutely our religious liberty including no religious tests. We got that promise in the Constitution. But now we see that a Czar-pretender (Trump) (perhaps demented) and a Leninist Bomb Thrower (Bannon) (likely not very interested in America or Americans and more interested in some other international game) – indeed an odd couple – are in power. Shame on you Tom Garrett.
Dear Tom Garrett: You are my Rep. Thank you very much for supporting the temporary ban from those 7 countries (which Obama designated!) which breed all those terrorists. You and President Trump are helping #MAGA and I am so proud of the two of you.
When is the Republican Party of Virginia going to find the gumption to speak out too in supoort of our President?!
Traitorous Barbara Comstock needs to be primaried out in two years period.
It won’t happen. She’ll never have a primary. And if she did, she’d win easily. The 10th district isn’t the 7th district.
Was there anyone who read that headline and didn’t immediately know it was Comstock?
Easily one of the WORST Republican reps in the country.
Who was unopposed, and who was given primary by 10th CD Rep Chair Thoburn — equally unopposed. The 10th is all in for Team Babs!
Yes, it is Comstock’s committee. She makes sure they do whatever she wants. She got a primary for life because she made sure Thoburn would deliver it.
Too bad the temporary ban was so poorly executed, thus giving the left (and media) a chance to dump all over Trump. An egregious unforced error on Trump’s part.
Truly you don’t think a flawless execution would have made a difference to the Lame Stream Media or to a very predictable Comstock? Comstock and her ilk in the GOP will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to follow through on President Trump’s agenda. You know, like repealing Obumblercare, cutting taxes, making America great again, etc, etc!
It wouldn’t matter when or how he did this ban, the left was hair triggered to go nuts. I am glad he caught them off guard because ISIS couldn’t be forewarned by their American allies. Probably saved some American lives.
I saw her on the news this evening. How much plastic surgery has she had?
I see her often and have never thought she had any work done on her face. I don’t know why she would.
Why do you see her often? She looks like she has had serious work to me, Pelosi like. Could have been the cameras.
I see her because she’s my Congresswoman and we both go to a lot of political events. Pelosi doesn’t look like she’s had anything done either. If she did, wouldn’t she have gotten rid of some of her wrinkles? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0faf3d7bec111191eed54b249bd840d221c7a9138d8aba7aa0093c7a28935eed.jpg
Not seeing any work done. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/382f320a9b7dcd2316408bd126da29058e9eb697a7bc67f41dbf0b045300d9a2.jpg
Hillary probably gave her a couple of Haitian orphans for her spirit cooking.
She earned those wrinkles dealing with the wacky Republicans in the 10th — it’s not like we make it easy for her.
I saw her two weeks ago, up close, and she looked like she always has. Comstock is 57 and not exactly falling apart.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6c47fa9be4330704b9fd80e6f276f0c609bd5340923ccd9a234090c017d80632.jpg
She looks fake to me, she has the shiny stretched look especially in the eyes and forehead in comparison to the neck lines. She looks like she has been Pelosi’d, all she needs is a stand of big beads. Why do you see her “often”?
In this district, she has to be Elastigirl to stretch her positions.
Christ, this is what matters? What the hell difference does it make if she’s had plastic surgery or if/why J sees her often?
Fricken creepy
It says who they both are. Yeah, I am creepy so you better run and hide or I will give you the cooties.
The only thing it says is that you’re a sophomoric dipshit.
Yes, so Foxtrot Oscar
Or, continue to call out sophomoric dipshittery because it becomes white noise while the adults are speaking. You’re in the way, go to the kiddie table and blow your snotwads there.
The secret alliance between TBE, Rep. Comstock, and Denver Riggleman exposed!
SSSHHHH……you promised you wouldn’t blab that!
Thank you! (Bet you didn’t think I’d ever say that to you.)
Great focus on conservative issues. Way to avoid superficial issues and petty value judgements.
Don’t think any – if so, I want the name of her sawbone!
Check the neck to the face, and the hands are usually a tell too. If she hasn’t had surgery, she has had the tox.
I don’t think she’s had anything done. But if she has, so what? She looks good. Heck, I bet she wears makeup too and I’m ok with that too.
She is a hag from hell, and it is no surprise you defend her.
Huh? Look around, I’m hardly defending her actions. I’m just telling the truth. She looks good and there’s no evidence she’s had any work done, and most people, me included, wouldn’t care if she had. I do not like her opposition to the President but I don’t care if she has a smooth forehead or wears makeup. Both are acceptable. It’s her positions I care about. I hate it women’s appearance is picked apart. It rarely happens to men and it doesn’t matter at all. Just callin’ it like I see it. It’s fine too if you disagree.
Women that have “work” done are insecure, and I add that to the list of all the things I don’t like about her. She needs to go ahead and switch parties.
Bullcrap. Women have work done because they want their outsides to match their insides. It makes them feel better about the image they project to the world. Same reason they wear makeup and get their hair done. I suppose you have problems with those things too.
You can scream about it all you want, but Comstock has had no work done on her face. And no one in the 10th would care if she did. We deal with bigger issues than forehead wrinkles and lipstick.
LMAO. Triggered much?
Ok, ‘hag from hell’ makes me laugh, but doesn’t reflect political realities.
The 10th is gerrymandered in such a way that requires a RINO to fill the seat.
If we put Will Estrada or Dave LaRock in that seat, they would morph into a Red Lectroid the first month in office.
Barbara is going to be the best we can get until we fix the party.
Sad. I am not sure the VA GOP can be fixed.
Maybe not fixed, how about ‘repealed and replaced?’
Be wary, there’r whole bunch of twisted bodies that unsuccessfully tried to cross paths with Whitbeck, Findlay, or Estrada.
Old School.
I would get rid of all of them, and their groupies.
Good luck scraping the bottom of the VAGOP shoe, some of them are worse than barnacles on a boat!
Some of them I despise more than the Democrats, and that is hard to achieve.
The enemy within, hotter circle of Hell.