B-Man

SCREECH !! Why is Elon Musk at a cabinet meeting ? Who elected him ? Well.

Too bad he's a "sick old man" LOL

The left 'thinks' the media is theirs alone.

Elon, Thanks for pointing out the complete transparency of the DOGE program. Mistakes are admitted and corrected. Very refreshing.

They NEVER learn. Left Flips Out Over Elon Attending Cabinet Meeting -- the Internet Has Perfect Response By Nick Arama Elon Musk was at the White House to attend a Cabinet meeting and talk about the progress of the Department of Government Efficiency. President Donald Trump outlined some of what had been done with DOGE. He spoke about the purpose of the "List what you did last week" email. Trump pointed out how it was a check to see if some of the folks were even working for the government at all. It's a common practice in Cabinet meetings to have speakers come to inform the Cabinet on important topics. In this case, Musk was speaking about DOGE. He was not "presiding" over the meeting. Trump was. He introduced Elon and discussed that subject, then moved on to other topics. But the left doesn't care about reality. This stupid tactic also got eviscerated by many who pointed out how Jill Biden also spoke at the first Cabinet meeting that Biden had in months after not having any https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/02/26/elon-speaks-at-cabinet-meeting-left-has-a-meltdown-n2186040

So not directly from Medicaid, thanks for the confirmation

Women's Health Care ?? CHRIS QUEEN: NYT Obliterates the Myth That Planned Parenthood Is About Anything Other than Abortion. Once in a while, the mainstream media does something useful — even if it’s just saying the quiet part out loud. I came across a New York Times piece from earlier this month that makes some startling revelations about one of the left’s biggest sacred cows: Planned Parenthood. Reporter Katie Benner begins her piece by telling the story of a woman who went to Planned Parenthood for an abortion. The single mother still experienced bleeding and cramps after the procedure, so she returned to Planned Parenthood, where clinicians told her that she was fine and that nothing was wrong. She later delivered a stillborn baby at 12 weeks. It’s a heartbreaking account, but it’s also a worthwhile springboard to Planned Parenthood’s failures. Benner reports: Planned Parenthood is synonymous with the fight to preserve abortion rights. But it is also the health care provider of last resort to millions of the poorest Americans. Its clinics offer cancer screenings, birth control, annual gynecological exams, and prenatal care, regardless of whether patients can afford to pay. The organization is unique in its reach, one of the few health care providers with a presence in all 50 states. But a New York Times review of clinic documents and legal filings, as well as interviews with more than 50 current and former Planned Parenthood executives, consultants, and medical staff members, found that some clinics are so short of cash that care has suffered. Many operate with aging equipment and poorly trained staff, as turnover has increased because of rock-bottom salaries. Patient counts have shrunk from a high of five million and 900 clinics in the 1990s to 2.1 million patients and 600 clinics today. Planned Parenthood has massively fundraised off the Dobbs decision in 2022, to the tune of nearly $500 million that year alone. However, the organization’s bylaws require that the vast majority of that money go toward lobbying for baby-killing. Thus, the functions of Planned Parenthood that genuinely help people go underfunded or totally unfunded. https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2025/02/26/nyt-obliterates-the-myth-that-planned-parenthood-is-about-anything-other-than-abortion-n4937343 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/us/planned-parenthood-clinics.html .

This Is How It's Done: Trump Makes Surprise Appearance at WH Tour

It sure is fooling the lesser posters here.

Probably more to be announced when Zelensky visits DC next week.

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ART OF THE DEAL: Read the whole thing.

I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service. The reality is very different, and I'm not even sure that Elon entirely understands this. For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too. Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut. The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller. Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured. No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control. This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue. All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all. The Biden years underscored the point. We didn't even need a conscious and present executive. We only needed a figurehead to pretend to be president, just like the Soviet premiers in the old days. The institutions ran everything and the people controlled nothing. MUCH, Much more at the link:

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Another day, another load of fecal matter pushed by the left to scare the older generations. No, the GOP Isn't Cutting Your Social Security and Medicare Paula Bolyard Think back to 2012 with me: the Tea Party was roaring across the country. Americans were carrying around pocket Constitutions and demanding spending cuts. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was touting the GOP "Path to Prosperity." And Democrats pounced. A left-wing group, the Agenda Project Action Fund, aired an ad showing a character representing Ryan pushing Grandma off the cliff. The Left wailed and writhed, claiming that Republicans were trying to "end Medicare as we know it" and destroy Social Security. Fast-forward 15 years, and Democrats are at it again, claiming falsely that the House's 2025 budget resolution will end entitlements. A left-wing group called Social Security Works has been at the forefront of the fear-mongering, claiming on X that the GOP budget would cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The group—created "to elect leaders who will expand Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid"—posted this nonsense over the weekend: Newsflash: Cutting waste, fraud, and abuse isn't taking money out of the pockets of senior citizens or anyone else. Nor is it slashing Medicare or Medicaid benefits. Here's what the budget reconciliation does do, according to the House Budget Committee: Provide tax relief for working families and small businesses; Reverse the Biden-Harris administration’s whole of government assault on domestic energy; Rein-in reckless spending that lit the fuse on inflation; Give the Trump-Vance administration the critical resources they need to secure our border and strengthen our national security. https://pjmedia.com/paula-bolyard/2025/02/25/no-the-house-budget-isnt-cutting-your-social-security-and-medicare-n4937286