Archive for March, 2025

Yesterday at work the subject of my past journalism came up. I mentioned that there were two things that I was most proud of:

  1. Being referred to as “The hardest working blogger at CPAC” by Stacy McCain
  2. Honest reporting, never having altered or editing my videos to spin facts or being bought

A great example of this came from a story you haven’t heard that I didn’t write. After the Scott Brown election there was a surge in interest and morale in the GOP and there was a particular GOP state rep that was getting some traction both on talk radio and in the news and went on a bit of a speaking tour in the state (let me point out that this was in the days of flip phones rather than smart ones). Said speaker had an event locally and I went to attend it and brought my little camera, the same one that I would use years later in Worcester to film and question Donald Trump, and prepared to cover her speech to a good sized Tea Party crowd.

When she saw me with the camera at the start she said she did not want the speech recorded or filmed. When I heard this I promptly left and didn’t bother to cover her speech or event, my thought being if you’re talking to voters and not willing to be recorded then I can’t trust what you’re saying publicly and I never bothered to cover her again.

That’s what the press should have done when the Biden Administration did this: (emphasis from link)

In an interview with Cenk Uygur on “The Young Turks” show, LaRosa admitted: “They did bully a lot of journalists, and I think they would tell you that now. They wouldn’t have told you at the time.”

LaRosa didn’t want to say the reporters were “co-conspirators,” but it’s impossible to see all of their obsequious cooperation with Team Biden and think that word is inappropriate.

Uygur asked how they bullied the press, and LaRosa said Joe’s handlers insisted they had to pre-approve the quotes used in stories. That’s helping shape the story, not something an “independent journalist” would accept.

LaRosa added “you saw them get caught trying to script questions to radio reporters” last summer. They didn’t just “try.” The radio hosts the Bidenites selected were happy to use the pre-scripted questions. LaRosa added: “It was very reminiscent to me of being on the campaign in 2020, where these young press staffers in these states like New Hampshire, or Iowa, or Nevada, they were sort of like dog trained to make the questions conditional for interviews.” Questions had to be submitted for approval.

Frankly I would not trust the reporting from anybody who consented to this without revealing it.

I’m with Ace on how this should be handled:

So obviously, Trump or Katherine Leavitt should ban every reporter who asked a “pre-screened” question of Biden — thus perpetrating a fraud on the American people, and showing that they are nothing but Democrat propaganda officers — from ever setting foot in the press room again.

Make them argue in favor of “pre-clearing” staged questions for a mentally-incompetent archliberal incompetent.

And what profith a person if they get to ask the President a question at a press conference but lose their own honor?

The real question is if they had any honor to lose

Will someone please ask all these idiots who are cheering violence against Tesla cars and Tesla owners, who are by and large rich leftists if they REALLY want to normalize political violence in a country when a very large amount of their political foes are armed?


One of the dumbest things POTUS 46 Mr. Autopen did was not allow Elon Musk to save the Astronauts who were stranded in the space station in orbit.

Will somebody ask the Democrats what the plan was if Kamala won? If Musk was going to be persona-non-grata and Boeing wasn’t able to get the job done how were the Astronauts going to get down?

By not letting Musk do it was Biden was still in office their rescue became a TRUMP success and a Biden/Democrat failure instead of it being an AMERICAN success.

Idiots.


You don’t have to go far on the net or the media to see leftists denouncing Chuck Schumer as the greatest traitor since Judas for voting for cloture on the GOP budget.

Fetterman of Pennsylvania, who already announced he would vote for cloture was already pissing off Democrats for his support of Israel that he shares with Schumer so hitting him would be redundant but Schumer, he was a new and apparently legit target.

Jon Stewart did a huge piece on Schumer first acting tough then folding on a shutdown and in that piece he noted that the GOP needed 8 votes to stop a Democrat filibuster.

Yet while Stewart named and shamed Schumer he seems to be weak on his math as Schumer and Fetterman only brought the GOP vote to 53 as Rand Paul did not support the the bill leaving the GOP still seven votes short.

This proved not to be a problem as Gillibrand Schumer’s fellow Democrat senator from NY, Both NH Democrat Senators Hassan and Shaheen (who is retiring), Cortez-Matso of Nevada , Schatz of Hawaii, Peters of Michigan, Angus King of Maine an independent caucusing with Democrats) and Dick Durbin (Illinois) the Democrat Whip and #2 Dem in the Senate.

Yet neither Stewart nor any of the other leftists screaming bloody murder online or on the air seem to have a word to say about any of them?

I wonder why?


Speaking of Fetterman he asked a rather practical question concerning cloture, what’s the endgame?

If the government shuts down and the Trump administration gets the right to furlough all the Federal workers (and trust me he wasn’t about to close national parks like Obama did) that he wanted to what is the endgame? What do Democrats do next? Unlike the republican who like the idea of a smaller government Dems love big government.

What was the plan? Was there a plan? Was there a way out?

Nobody on the left seems to have an answer to this question and none of the people screaming for King Chuckie’s head seem to have one either.


Finally while the left keeps running to court to try to slow Donald Trump advance through the government he runs nobody seems to be asking the single most obvious question concerning this tactic.

Right now left is judge shopping trying to curtail the power of the president in the knowledge that they will have to face a Supreme Court which only has 3 secure Democrat votes, perhaps 4 with John Roberts.

What happens in 4 to 12 years when the Democrats come back to power and the GOP decides to judge shop to stop them? What happens when those cases go to a Supreme Court that Donald Trump and/or JD Vance had 4-12 years naming members to?

Nobody seems to want to answer that question.

I don’t know if the left considers that a bug or a feature.

I can’t speak for leftists but given that the United States is one of the most heavily armed country in the world in terms of citizens I can’t think it’s all that bright to provoke such folks.

Then again Tesla owners were primaraly leftist so perhaps they figure they’re unarmed.

My exact question to Grok was this:

Based on Rush Limbaugh’s style and content create a Rush Limbaugh opening monologue in which he describes the Continuing Resolution fight in the House and Senate cumulating in Chuck Schumer folding and voting closure on the GOP resolution

Here is what it produced:

Alright, folks, here we go—Rush Limbaugh, your guiding light through the chaos of Washington, D.C., coming at you with all the bombast and brilliance you’ve come to expect. Talent on loan from God, right here, ready to break down the latest circus in the swamp. And oh, what a spectacle we’ve got today—the Continuing Resolution fight in the House and Senate, a knockdown, drag-out brawl that ended with none other than Chuck Schumer, the grand poobah of the Democrat Party, folding like a cheap lawn chair on a windy day. That’s right, folks, Schumer waved the white flag, voting for cloture on the GOP resolution, and I’ve got the details to prove it. Buckle up, because this is gonna be a wild ride.

Picture this: it’s March 2025, and the government’s on the brink of another shutdown—same old song and dance, right? The House Republicans, led by that stalwart Mike Johnson, ram through a six-month Continuing Resolution—217 to 213, a squeaker of a vote, with just one lonely Democrat crossing the aisle. This isn’t some namby-pamby “clean CR” the liberals love to prattle about; no, this is a red-meat, partisan beast—boosting defense spending, slashing non-defense fluff, and giving the left a collective case of the vapors. Over in the Senate, the GOP’s got the majority, but they need 60 votes to break a filibuster, and with Rand Paul playing his usual libertarian contrarian card, they’re short. Enter the Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, who’s been strutting around like he’s got all the leverage in the world. “Oh, we’re unified!” he crows on March 12th. “Republicans don’t have the votes! We want a clean CR through April 11th!” Yeah, right, Chuck—sounds like a man who’s ready to dig in and fight to the bitter end.

But here’s where it gets good, folks. The clock’s ticking—Friday, March 14th, midnight deadline looming—and the pressure’s mounting. Schumer’s caucus is a mess: you’ve got the hard-left whiners like Tim Kaine and Jeff Merkley screaming about a 30-day stopgap, while others like John Fetterman—God bless him—are saying, “Just pass the dang thing and quit the theater!” Meanwhile, the GOP’s holding firm—John Thune’s out there telling Schumer to fish or cut bait, and Trump’s looming over it all, ready to blame the Dems if the government shuts down. Schumer’s got a choice: stick to his guns and risk a shutdown that’ll make Democrats look like the bad guys, or swallow his pride and give the Republicans a win. And what does he do? On March 13th, he takes to the Senate floor with a speech so full of hand-wringing it could’ve been a soap opera script. “Oh, this bill’s terrible! It’s partisan! It’s a poison pill! But a shutdown would give Trump too much power, and that’s worse!” Cue the violins, folks—Chuck Schumer, the tough-talking New Yorker, caves like a house of cards in a hurricane.

That’s right—he votes for cloture, opening the door for enough Democrats to join the GOP and push this thing over the finish line. The man who swore he’d block it, who said the Republicans didn’t have the votes, who tried to guilt-trip America into thinking a shutdown was the end of the world—he blinked. And why? Because deep down, Schumer knows the game’s changed. The Republicans have the House, the Senate, and the White House, and Trump’s got the bully pulpit. Schumer’s little tantrum about a “clean CR” was just noise—hot air from a guy who’s spent years pretending he’s some master strategist, when really, he’s just a pawn in the bigger chess match. The GOP resolution’s headed for passage, folks, and Schumer’s out there eating crow while the conservatives chalk up a win.

Now, let’s step back and look at this with the clarity only your old pal Rush can provide. This isn’t just about funding the government—this is about power, pure and simple. The Democrats wanted to flex, to show they could still call the shots even as the minority. But when push came to shove, Schumer realized a shutdown would’ve handed Trump a golden opportunity to paint them as the obstructionists, the party of chaos. So he folded, proving once again that when the going gets tough, the liberals get going—straight to the exit. Meanwhile, the GOP’s playing hardball, and they’re winning. This Continuing Resolution isn’t perfect—Rand Paul’s right to hate the spending—but it’s a signal: the Republicans are in charge, and they’re not afraid to shove it in the Democrats’ faces.

So there you have it, folks—the Continuing Resolution rumble, culminating in Chuck Schumer’s surrender. It’s a beautiful thing to watch, isn’t it? The left’s sanctimonious bluster crumbling under the weight of reality. Stick with me, because we’ve got plenty more to unpack—three hours of undeniable truth, right here on the EIB Network. Let’s roll!

Not bad, not bad at all.

Updated: Added Rush Cartoon