Obama Is Acting Like a Spoiled Brat, but Trump Is too Busy to Pay Much Attention

Today's breaking news probably has President-Elect Donald Trump smiling, if not outright laughing. • • • A DEMOCRAT "WAR ROOM" TO FIGHT TRUMP. The Democratic National Committee is mobilizing a "war room" comprised of former Hillary Clinton staffers to push back on Trump at every turn, according to the Washington Post. But, with the election for the new DNC chair coming in February, interim chair Donna Brazile said Democrats woudl act anyway, because they "couldn't afford to wait that long." The guerrilla political warfare-type team is expected to battle Trump on Cabinet picks, early policy decisions as well as continue to beat the drum on alleged Russian influence of the elections, the Post reported. Longtime operative John Neffinger, head of the Franklin Forum, has been hired as interim communications director and he will oversee the group's efforts, the Post said. The Franklin Forum is a newly formed communications organization that provides media training and support for liberal candidates. Neffinger will be joined by two erstwhile Clinton staffers and another DNC veteran. • They couldn't beat Trump in November, but their Progressive war against America continues -- Who cares, really. • • • THE TWITTER WAR. Donald Trump is the expert on tweeting. He took to Twitter Thursday morning to slam Democrats on Obamacare - again. It was the second consecutive day Trump focused on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, calling him "head clown" a day after labeling Democrats "Schumer clowns" : "The Democrats, lead by head clown Chuck Schumer, know how bad Obamacare is and what a mess they are in. Instead of working to fix it, they....do the typical political thing and BLAME. The fact is Obamacare was a lie from the beginning. 'Keep you doctor, keep your plan!' It is....time for Republicans & Democrats to get together and come up with a healthcare plan that really works - much less expensive & FAR BETTER!" • It wouldseem thatthe democrats have bee nbeaten up sufficiently to stop trying to best Trump on Twitter, or in any PR setting. But, like punch-drunk fighters, they keep coming back for more. Their public relations battle over Obamacare is in full swing as Democrats on Wednesday unveiled a new slogan - "Trump wants to make America sick again." That caricature of a high school newspaper headline came from Nancy Pelosi. Are we surprised ??? • • • THE DEMS CALL TRUMP'S WIN "ILLEGITIMATE." York Times columnist Paul Krugman said Monday that the presidential election was "illegitimate" and "tainted" by both Russian President Vladimir Putin and FBI Director James Comey : "So this was a tainted election," Krugman, also an economics professor at the City University of New York, wrote in his semiweekly column, "It was not, as far as we can tell, stolen in the sense that votes were counted wrong, and the result won’t be overturned. But the result was nonetheless illegitimate in important ways; the victor was rejected by the public, and won the Electoral College only thanks to foreign intervention and grotesquely inappropriate, partisan behavior on the part of domestic law enforcement." • How many times must we explain to Krugman and the Democrats that Hillary lost because more Americans in more states voted for Trump -- this is not rocket science, Professor Krugman, it is simple constitutional math. But, maybe that's the problem -- Krugman, Clinton, and the Democrats were planning to eliminate the Constitution and just didn't see how it could possible rise up and bite them before they bit it. • • • DOES ANYONE IN THE MEDIA CARE ABOUT THE NORTH KOREA STORYLINE? It seems nobody in the MSM either cares or wants ot report on the report out of the Hermit Kingdom that Kim Jong Un said North Korea is in the “last stage” of preparations to test-fire an inter-continental ballistic missile, refusing to slow his nuclear arms development as President-Elect Donald Trump prepares to take office in Washington. Kim made his remarks in a New Year televised address as he outlined his country’s military achievements for the past year, North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Sunday. North Korea has conducted three nuclear tests under Kim and launched a series of long-range rockets. Kim said : "North Korea “will continue to strengthen its ability based on nuclear might to mount a preemptive attack.” Since taking power in late 2011, the North Korean Dear Leader has concentrated on developing nuclear missiles that could reach the US. The country has refused to accept US demands to freeze its arms development before the two sides can resume international disarmament talks. The one person talking about Kim is Trump, who compared Kim to a “maniac” during his campaign while suggesting he could meet with him for nuclear talks. While Kim made no mention of Trump in his speech, his comments released Sunday signal North Korea may seek to test-fire a long-range missile around the inauguration to raise stakes ahead of potential talks with the Trump administration. Kim said he would “gladly join hands” with anyone who seeks better relations between North Korea and South Korea. North Korea is banned under UN Security Council resolutions from developing ballistic missiles and testing nuclear devices. The UNSC in late November unanimously passed sanctions that include cutting North Korea’s coal exports, one of the few sources of hard currency for the Kim regime after the country conducted its fifth test in September. • It would be easy to guess that the MSM is almost silent on the latest Kim outburst because it shows just how ineffective Barack Obama has been is defusing the North Korean nuclear threat. Obama's response to the NK nuclear program has been to lead the UN to enact the harshest sanctions short of outright civilian starvation on Norht Korea. That is Obama's approach to every crisis -- sanctions and more snactions. They are not working in Ukraine, or against Putin and his inner circle, and they are a complete failure against Kim. Trump's "maniac" attack words plus a willingness to talk could possibly lead to a better solution -- if Trump also brings China to the table. • • • ASSANGE - PROOF OF THE FAILURE OF MSM TO INFORM AMERICA. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said there's an "obvious" reason the Obama administration has focused on Russia's alleged role in Democratic hacks leading up to Donald Trump's electoral win : “They’re trying to delegitimize the Trump administration as it goes into the White House,” Assange said during an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity that aired Tuesday night. Assange told Hannity : “They are trying to say that President-Elect Trump is not a legitimate President. Our publications had wide uptake by the American people, they’re all true. But that’s not the allegation that’s being presented by the Obama White House.” [In fact, nobody, from Obama to Podests to Hillary to her hacks has said any of the emails were fake or contained false info.] Assange reiterated the group's denial that Russia was the source of the Democratic documents released over the summer : “Our source is not a state party, so the answer for our interactions is no.” In December, Assange told Hannity that the documents the anti-secrecy group received looked “very much like they’re from the Russians” but said his source was not them. When asked by Hannity if he thought WikiLeaks influenced the 2016 election, Assange pointed to private comments from members of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign in documents published by the group, Assange answered : “Did [WikiLeaks] change the outcome of the election? Who knows, it’s impossible to tell. But if it did, the accusation is that the true statements of Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager, John Podesta, and the DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz, their true statements is what changed the election.” • If the mainstream madia hqd done its job and reported about what was really going on in the DNC and Hillary campaign -- instead of fawning over them as if they were gods -- WikiLeaks would have had no influence at all. But, in the total absence of real news coming from the MSM, Americans took their news wherever they could get it. The shame rests on the shoulders of the MSM, not Assange, becasue it was the MSM that tried to hoodwink America into voting for Hillary. • • • OBAMA STONEWALLS CONGRESS OVER THE RUSSIA HACKING ISSUE. So, we may well qsk, what is new about that -- Obama has been stonewalling Congress for 8 years. But, it may be different this time. The GOP-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee will dig into the Obama administration's response to Russian hacking. The Senate Committee under Senator Bob Corker's leadership held a closed-door briefing with administration officials on Thursday. Victoria Nuland, an assistant secretary of State, Gentry Smith, the director of the State Department's foreign missions office, and Danny Toler, a deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security briefed lawmakers, according to the committee. Corker and congressional aides said late last year that the committee would probe allegations of Russian hacking, as well as a broader review of the US-Moscow relationship. Corker told CNN : "We are going to systematically walk through the entire Russia issue and fully understand what has transpired." According to the committee, the administration has so far refused to provide witnesses for a public hearing. In addition to the Foreign Relations Committee, the Armed Services and Intelligence committees are expected to investigate allegations that Russia meddled in the White House race. • What could be different this time is htat the GOP has resisted Democrat calls for a special committee investigation with equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats, keeping the probe firmly in the hands of GOP-led Senate committees. And, there is now a Republican President Trump in the White House to encourage Corker and the Senate. • • • IS TRUMP PROPOSING TO RE-ARRANGE US THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that President-Elect Donald Trump plans to restructure and scale back the nation's intelligence agencies -- amid concerns that they have become politicized and bloated -- and that includes cutting CIA staff and moving more agents into field offices worldwide. A source on the transition team told the WSJ : "The view from the Trump team is the intelligence world [is] becoming completely politicized. They all need to be slimmed down.The focus will be on restructuring the agencies and how they interact." The CIA declined to comment, according ot the WSJ. The CIA falls under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which was established in 2004, primarily to increase coordination after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Trump has criticized the nation's intelligence agencies since the November election, particularly challenging findings that Russia has hacked into the Democratic National Committee and other party operatives and leaked its findings to WikiLeaks for publishing on its website. Trump is scheduled to be briefed by intelligence officials in New York on Friday after slamming a meeting delay Tuesday as an effort for them to "build a case" against the Kremlin. Meanwhile, President Obama has ordered a report into the breaches that is expected to be due on Thursday, the WSJ said. • But, Sean Spice, Trump's press secretary, said in his daily call with the media on Thursday that the WSJ report about President-Elect Donald Trump planning to revamp two US intelligence agencies is “100 percent false." Spicer pushed back on the WSJ report, arguing that all talks are “tentative” and saying that Trump’s main commitment is keeping Americans safe : “These reports are false. All transition activities are for information gathering purposes and all discussions are tentative. There is no truth to this idea of restructuring the intelligence community infrastructure. It is 100 percent false.” • As if to drive that home to the MSM, Trump will name former Indiana Senqtor Dan Coats to direct the nation’s sprawling intelligence community. Coats, a no-nonsense Republican, who did not seek reelection in November, was a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. He is also a former ambassador to Germany under George W. Bush, and he served in the Senate twice -- from 1989 to 1999, and again from 2011 until this year. Interestingly, in 2014, Coats was banned from Russia in retaliation for his support for a series of sanctions levied against Moscow after it annexed the Crimea region of Ukraine. Coats had said : “Putin’s recent aggression is unacceptable, and America must join with our European allies to isolate and punish Russa. I will continue to lead efforts on Capitol Hill to bring [Russian President Vladimir Putin] to his senses." This seems like a non-tweet response from Trump, saying that Russia and Putin may be receiving unfqir treqtment from Obama, but they need watching, all the same. • The Obama administration, Democrat partisans and the MSM have severely attacked Trump for what they call his "resistance to intelligence information." But, the WSJ reported in the 'restructuring' article that that Trump has published nearly 250 Twitter posts since the election -- 11 of which have focused on Russia or the cyberattacks....Those tweets have either praised Russian President Vladimir Putin -- calling him "very smart" last month -- or ridiculed the intelligence investigation into the hacks. By comparison, Trump's other tweets concerned such issues as North Korea or China -- and his views mirrored those of US spy agencies, according to the Journal. So, while Trump may reject the political summaries of intelligence about the suspected Russian hacking into the DNC and any effect that may have had on the election, he has otherwise agreed with intelligence reports. • A very telling element in this story is that the FBI didn't look over the Democratic National Committee's servers before issuing a report that Russia had hacked the organization, according to a report published Wednesday evening. Other than the FBI, no federal agency has conducted an investigation into the DNC's email server since the incident was uncovered six months ago. Eric Walker, DNC deputy communications director, said : "The DNC had several meetings with representatives of the FBI's Cyber Division and its Washington (DC) Field Office, the Department of Justice's National Security Division, and US Attorney's Offices, and it responded to a variety of requests for cooperation, but the FBI never requested access to the DNC's computer servers." Instead, Director James Comey's agency has relied on third-party tech security company Crowdstrike to confirm that the DNC's servers were hacked, a US official said. Walker said : "Beginning at the time the intrusion was discovered by the DNC, the DNC cooperated fully with the FBI and its investigation, providing access to all of the information uncovered by CrowdStrike - without any limits." The FBI decision not to directly investigate the DNC hack is an odd move for the agency. Cybersecurity experts told Buzzfeed, which broke the story, it was "par for the course" for the FBI to do its own investigation into the hacks, rather than outsourcing the work to a non-government organization. When Sony Corporation was hacked by North Korea in 2014, the FBI personally looked into the private company's server even though it was not a government entity that had been compromised. This news comes a week after President Obama imposed sanctions against Russia, presumably because an intelligence report concluded that Russia was the bad actor behind the hacks. • It again raises the question -- what are Obama and the Democrats hiding about the Russian hacking affair??? • • • And, DEAR READERS, while the US and the world is transitioning to the Age of Trump, what is narcissistic Obama up to? On Wednesday, Obama added another prestigious medal to his Nobel Prize collection when he had Defense Secretary Ash Carter award him with the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service. Secretary Carter awarded his boss with the medal on January 4 during the Armed Forces Full Honor Farewell Review for the President held at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia. Carter insisted that the medal was a token of appreciation for Obama’s service as Commander-in-Chief, the Associated Press reported. Along with the AP, CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller also marked the ceremony with a tweet to his followers : "Defense Secy Carter presents Pres Obama with Dept of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service." Many commenters on Knoller’s Twitter feed were incredulous at the award. Some likened it a “participation medal” and others were skeptical of Obama’s underling giving his own boss a medal. Just another proof that Obama's ego knows no bounds. • Finally, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said a few days ago that America can't afford a Twitter presidency. The Washington Post and the New York Times agreed with Schumer. Of course they did -- why would the MSM want anything approaching the truth to get into the hands of real Americans led by a real American President Trump??? • So far, Trump has saved 10,000 jobs, stopped a Ford plant from going to Mexico, bolstered US capital investment by Carrier and GM, put Lockheed and Boeing on notice that he is watching their profit profiles on government work, tried to save Israel from Obama and the UN and told the world that the UN will be in his sites after January 20, loosened China's death grip on Taiwan, warned North Korea about its nuclear hooliganism, started to repair Obama's Russia relations, and sent a team into Homeland Security to dig up the existing files on building a wall. And, he has done it all while keeping America informed by Twitter -- yes, Senator Schumer -- Twitter. Not bad for a guy who won't even be sworn in for another 15 days.