The LuLac Edition #3957, December 16h, 2018

GOP OVER REACH CINCHES MEDICARE FOR ALL!!!!

This past Friday 18 REPUBLICAN officials got their wish when a ruling was made to strike down the mandate that helped make the Affordable Care Act work. The Courts did the dirty work of the impotent Congress who did not replace it after repealing it.
Here’s where they went wrong. They did the typical GOP over reach. Because of this heavy handed weaponization of the law and The Constitution to intentionally screw the middle class, there will be either a Public option or Medicare for all.
In the last election Health Care was the biggest concern of all Americans. This action has lit a fire under every Democrat in the country. Republicans will pay at the polls.

BOB LEONARDI 

Bob Leonardi (Photo: Citizen's Voice)

A good guy passed away this weekend. Bob Leonardi who I saw at the gym (the old Saxon Pavilion) and around town. We’d discuss baseball, our days at the United Way, and his 1975 run for County Commissioner with Bob Warren.
He was a font of knowledge and a joy to know. Here’s his obit.
Robert J. Leonardi Sr., 90, of Kingston, passed away Friday morning, Dec. 14, 2018, at River Street Manor Nursing Home, Wilkes-Barre.
Bob was born in the Hilldale section of Plains Twp. on July 2, 1928, son of the late Spartico and Margaret Haggerty Leonardi. His love for his hometown was never ending.
Bob was a graduate of Plains Memorial High School, Class of 1945, and received certifications from Ohio State University, Penn State University and Oklahoma University in economic development. He was an Army veteran, serving with the 175th MPs. On his way to Camp Rucker, Alabama, he survived a train accident in Screven, Ga., in 1950.
Bob was a member of the Plains American Legion, Joseph E. Conlon, Post 558 and St. Ignatius Church, Kingston. At St. Ignatius, he served on John Cardinal O'Connor's Synod and the community relation committee.
As a business agent of the Boot and Shoe Workers, he had the privilege to speak before the U.S. Congress House Ways and Means.
Bob was very involved in politics, having run for Luzerne County commissioner and district magistrate. He was also chairman of the Kingston Republican Party and served as secretary/treasurer of the Greater Wilkes-Barre Labor Council. In 1972, he was appointed to the newly formed Luzerne County Transportation Authority and became their first chairman. Later, he was appointed to the position of regional representative of the Department of Commerce and promoted to regional director of the Governor's Response Team.
In 1972, Bob was general campaign chairman of the United Fund in the midst of the greatest natural disaster to hit the Wyoming Valley, the Agnes flood. He became the first labor leader in the state of Pennsylvania to lead a million-dollar campaign. While serving as chairman, he had the honor of sharing the stage with people like Johnny Cash, Merv Griffin, and Harry Reasoner of 60 Minutes.
In 1975, he was named chairman of the first King's College annual fund drive where he achieved 100 percent of its goal. As a member and president of the Hilldale ITLO Club, he was only the second president since the club's founding. Bob served on many boards and was a well-known toastmaster and humorist.
Bob was an avid New York Yankees and Green Bay Packers fan, and was the general manager of Hilldale Baseball.

GIULIANI: 'OVER MY DEAD BODY' WILL MUELLER INTERVIEW TRUMP

When I met Rudy. Before he went NUTS!!! (Photo: LuLac archives)

With a number of probes moving closer to the Oval Office, President Donald Trump and his attorney unleashed a fresh series of attacks Sunday on the investigators, questioning their integrity while categorically ruling out the possibility of a presidential interview with the special counsel.
Trump and Rudy Giuliani used Twitter and television interviews to deliver a series of broadsides against special counsel Robert Mueller and federal prosecutors in New York. Giuliani said he was "disgusted" by the tactics used by Mueller in his probe into Russian election interference, including in securing guilty pleas from the president's former national security adviser Michael Flynn on a charge of lying to federal investigators.
Trump, Giuliani said, would not submit to an interview by Mueller's team.
"They're a joke," Giuliani told "Fox News Sunday." ''Over my dead body, but, you know, I could be dead."
The special counsel, who is investigating possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, has continued to request an interview with the president. Last month, the White House sent written answers in response to the special counsel's questions about possible collusion. The White House has resisted answering questions on possible obstruction of justice. (aol.news)

TRUMP’S BULLSHIT LIES

The great prevaricator Diaper Don. (Photo: business insider)

So old Diaper Don cried and said the FBI should raid HRC and everybody else’s offices like they did his former Attorney Michael Cohen.
Well the reason why they can’t is because FBI does rids ONLY WITH A SEARCH WARRANT. The doofus in charge either didn’t know that or LIED again.
Contrary to Trump’s claims, prosecutors in New York obtained a search warrant after receiving a referral from Robert Mueller, the special counsel in the Russia probe. The search was not directly linked to the investigation into Moscow’s interference with the 2016 presidential election, but was based on specific information uncovered by Mueller’s investigators, including communications between Cohen and Trump about hush-money payments to women who claimed they had affairs with the then-candidate. Prosecutors must meet a high bar to obtain a warrant to target communications between an attorney and his or her client.