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Conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter derided congressional Republicans in her latest column, asking what they've been doing for three weeks while President Donald Trump has chosen a staff, sent cabinet nominees to the Senate, and signed orders.

"More than 90 percent of congressional Republicans kept their jobs after the 2016 election, so you can cross 'staffing an entire branch of government' off the list," Coulter wrote. "Only the Senate confirms nominees, which they've been doing at a snail's pace, so they've got loads of free time and the House has no excuse at all.

"Where's the Obamacare repeal? Where are the hearings featuring middle-class Americans with no health insurance because it was made illegal by Obamacare?"

Coulter's column carries the headline, "The Silence of the Lambs Congress." She points out that during the Obama administration, House Republicans passed six bills that would repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Trump has vowed to work with Republicans to repeal and replace the healthcare law, but thus far there has not been any hint of a bill that would do just that.

"The House passed six Obamacare repeals when Obama was president and there was no chance of them being signed into law," Coulter wrote. "Back then, Republicans were full of vim and vigor! But the moment Trump became president, the repeals came to a screeching halt.

"This is the Silence of the Lambs Congress. They're utterly silent, emerging from the House gym or their three-hour lunches only to scream to the press about Trump."

Sen. Bob Corker recently admitted the Republican party has not yet begun working on a bill that would replace the controversial healthcare law first signed in 2010.

Former Texas Republican lawmaker Tom DeLay told Newsmax TV last week Obamacare needs to be repealed in the next two months in order for Republicans to keep their campaign promises to American voters.

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In the past three weeks, Trump has: staffed the White House, sent a dozen Cabinet nominees to the Senate, browbeat Boeing into cutting its price on a government contract, harangued American CEOs into keeping their plants in the United States, imposed a terrorist travel ban, met with foreign leaders and nominated a Supreme Court justice, among many other things.

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(And still our hero finds time to torment the media with his tweets.)

What have congressional Republicans been doing? Scrapbooking?

More than 90 percent of congressional Republicans kept their jobs after the 2016 election, so you can cross staffing an entire branch of government off the list. Only the Senate confirms nominees, which theyve been doing at a snails pace, so theyve got loads of free time and the House has no excuse at all.

Wheres the Obamacare repeal? Where are the hearings featuring middle-class Americans with no health insurance because it was made illegal by Obamacare?

The House passed six Obamacare repeals when Obama was president and there was no chance of them being signed into law. Back then, Republicans were full of vim and vigor! But the moment Trump became president, the repeals came to a screeching halt.

After the inauguration (gigantic!), House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put out a plan for repealing Obamacare in 200 days. They actually gave their legislative agenda this inspiring title: The Two Hundred Day Plan.

TWO HUNDRED DAYS!

What was in the last six Obamacare repeals? If we looked, would we find All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy carefully typed out 1 million times? Seriously, what does Paul Ryans day look like?

This is the Silence of the Lambs Congress. Theyre utterly silent, emerging from the House gym or their three-hour lunches only to scream to the press about Trump.

To the delight of the media, these frightened little lambs are appalled by nearly everything Trump does. Theyve been especially throaty about Trumps temporary travel ban from seven terrorist nations as designated by the Obama administration (and by everybody else who hasnt been in a deep freeze in a Finnish crevasse for the past decade).

Just like the six Obamacare repeals, a refugee ban was already written and passed by one house of Congress. Then suddenly: the Silence of the Lambs. McConnell and Ryan are hiding under their desks, as Trump is being attacked from every side.

Way, way back, 15 long months ago, congressional Republicans didnt have a problem with atotalban on Syrian and Iraqi refugees. Not for a mere three months like Trumps order but permanently, unless the director of the FBI, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and the director of national intelligence personally certified that a particular refugee posed no danger to the U.S.

That bill passed the House with an overwhelming, veto-proof majority, including 47 Democrats. Then it went to the Senate to die.

But when President Trump imposed a comparatively mild three-month ban on immigrants from Syria, Iraq and five other terrorist nations, the same Republicans who had voted for a limitless ban on refugees whiled away their days calling reporters to denounce Trump.

A little more than a year ago, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, bragged in a press release that he had introduced the Houses refugee ban, calling it a bill that would protect Americans from ISIS.

But when it came to Trumps three-month pause, McCaul told the Post that Trumps order went too far.

I guess that ISIS problem just sort of faded away. (Or maybe we should check with Mrs. McCaul, inasmuch as its her family money that makes Rep. McCaul one of the richest members of Congress.)

Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., who voted for the Houses permanent refugee ban, demanded that Trump immediately rescind his travel ban, babbling on about the many, many nuances of immigration policy which he must have learned about on one of his congressional jaunts to a Las Vegas casino.

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., said that Trumps order overreaches and undermines our constitutional system. Evidently, he was suddenly struck by the realization that its not lawful to ban immigrants on the basis of nationality, despite having voted to ban refugees on the basis of nationality just 15 months earlier. (Im OK with this, provided the Syrians, Somalis and Yemenis are sent to live on Justins street after being told about his support for gay marriage.)

Sens. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Ben Sasse, R-Neb., both rushed to The Washington Post with this refreshingly original point: NOT ALL MUSLIMS ARE TERRORISTS!Why, thank you, senators! Where would the GOP be without you?

The Post also quoted spokesmen spokesmen! for Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Rob Portman of Ohio and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina complaining about not having been briefed on Trumps order. The senators themselves were far too busy to talk to the press because they were wait, what were they doing again? Words With Friends? Decoupage?

Since the election, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., has been mostly occupied polishing his anti-Trump quotations to get a pat on the head from an admiring media. He complained about Trumps order, saying it was poorly implemented and that he had to find out about it from reporters. (I wonder why.)

This is the moment weve been waiting for our entire lives, but Republicans in Congress refuse to do the peoples will. Their sole, driving obsession is to see Trump fail.

I am not presently calling for these useless, narcissistic, Trump-bashing Republicans to be defeated in their re-election bids, but theyre on my Watch List. To be cleared, they can start by getting off the phone with The Washington Post and passing one of those six Obamacare repeal bills.

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Monday on Sean Hannitys nationally syndicated radio program, conservative author and commentator Ann Coulter maintained President Donald Trump was within his legal authority to act as he had with his executive order placing restrictions on those coming to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

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But she also pointed out that the 2016 presidential election was a mandate from the American people for Trump to take a more aggressive approach with regards to immigration, including the admission of refugees.

I think that is the reason for this election, Coulter said. The public has been begging for less immigration overall. Forget the ones from the countries designation by Hillary Clintons State Department as terrorist countries. For decades now, if you ask Americans do you want immigration to stay the same, go up or be reduced nobody wants it to go up. And I believe its been a consistent majority saying, No, fewer, fewer, fewer immigrants. Weve taken in enough. America needs a break. We have taken, as I describe in Adios America, for the past several decades, America has taken in more refugees than the entire rest of the world combined. Our country is not a battered womans shelter. Were not here to take in all the charity cases of the world. This was the point of this election please help us, the American people, including immigrants who have come in.

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Miller is a tough and determined populist, but he is portrayed merely as a bomb-throwing email spammerin the articlebyTimes reporters Glenn Thrush and Jennifer Staunheir:

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As a top aide to Mr. Sessions, the conservative Alabama senator, Mr. Miller dispatched dozens and dozens of bombastic emails to congressional staff members and reporters in early 2013 when the Senate was considering a big bipartisan immigration overhaul. Mr. Miller slammed the evils of foreign labor and pushed around nasty news articles on proponents of compromise, like Senator Marco Rubio of Florida

The ascent of Mr. Miller from far-right gadfly with little policy experience to the presidents senior policy adviser came as a shock to many of the staff members who knew him from his seven years in the Senate. A man whose emails were, until recently, considered spam by many of his Republican peers is now shaping the Trump administrations core domestic policies with his economic nationalism and hard-line positions on immigration.

Its curious the Times would claim Miller had little policy experience, given how many prominent conservative writers credit his back-room efforts with Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions for derailing wage-slashing globalist trade deals and immigration-expanding legislation.

At age 22, Miller was one of youngest (if not the youngest) press secretaries on the Hill for then-Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann. At age 24, Miller became the press secretary for the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he first worked with Sessions. As CNN reports, it was with Sessions where Miller came to be known as a skilled operator and true believer in conservative immigration policy. Miller helped his boss become the most outspoken critic of the 2013 bipartisan Gang of Eight immigration reform bill, penning a handbook filled with talking points on the issue and helping him lead the charge behind the scene to kill the measure.

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Sessions credited Miller, then his communications director, for quickly and thoroughly compiling critical facts about the Gang of Eightbill that stopped it from passing through the House and landing on President Barack Obamas desk. We had been working on the ideas in it for months, and Stephen put it in the handbook in a very quick time in a very cogent fashion. It was very timely and it impacted the outcome of the vote, Sessions told Politico in June. Miller captured Sessions voice, as another Sessions staffer said, was able to anticipate what he needed for an interview or a speech.

Millers reach extended far. A combination wonk and flack who not only formulates policy but also writes speeches, press releases, and op-eds and assists reporters with scoops and story pegs and telling details, Miller is the populist counterpart to liberal wunderkinds Ezra Klein and Ben Rhodes, wroteWashington Free Beacon editor-in-chief Matthew Continetti in December. Hes one of the most effective aides in Washingtondespite having lived here for less than a decade.

National Review editor Rich Lowry attributed the Gang of Eight bills failure to Sessions and Miller.He did more than anyone perhaps except Jeff Sessions himself to bring down the Gang of Eight bill, Lowry wrote on Feb. 2. Its easy to see how he climbed so high in the Trump world, and in the area of immigration policy, few are as committed or as fluent on the details.

Radio host Laura Ingraham also credited Miller for his role in halting the Gang of Eight bill. Stephen was very important from an inside policy angle in the effort to stop and expose the Gang of Eightbill and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Ingraham said. He knew their vulnerabilities, and understood the substantive argument that led to their defeat.

The gadflies are those who spouted mindless generalities to support the doomed initiatives, she added.

Millers arrival in the White House thrilled conservatives who recognize his tireless work on behalf of a nationalist, populist agenda on immigration and trade.

Ive known Stephen Miller for many years, and he is a principled conservative, who played a pivotal role for the president during the campaign as a key speechwriter and advisor, Fox News host Sean Hannity told Breitbart News. I also know he is exactly the type of person any administration needs. He is smart, he works long hours, rolls up his sleeves, and serves the president and the country, and never looks for credit.

What theAlt-Left Radical media is doing is systematically trying to vilify and demonize any and all people who support and serve the president, Hannity added. The media, generally speaking, has lost any credibility they may have had left after the Wikileaks revelations. As I have said many times, Journalism is dead, and they have devolved into the propaganda arm for the Democratic Party.

From left, Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, policy adviser Stephen Miller, and chief strategist Steve Bannon watches as President Donald Trump signs an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact agreed to under the Obama administration, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Best-selling conservative author Ann Coulter called the Times article shockingly honest.

I THOUGHT IT WAS A FANTASTIC ARTICLE, Coulter told Breitbart News. I never knew Miller used to be a chain-smoker, which makes me love him even more! (No wonder hes so smart.) Gadfly is just one word in an otherwise SHOCKINGLY honest NYT article.

It was more like the old NYT, with reporters who may have been lefties, but were at least serious reporters, she continued. Most of the drivel from the NYT these days reads like something from Salon. This article got the facts right and threw in this one snippy worda word that was belied by the rest of the article. Good reporting. Good article.

Coulter has frequently heaped praise on Miller and on Trump for hiring him:

Miller himself said he is carrying out the same agenda that propelled Trump to the White House. My driving passion throughout my professional career has been to fight for social and economic justice for working families who are not paid enough, respected enough, or protected enough because of a system that tilts unfairly towards the largest and powerful special interests, Miller told Breitbart News.

I am now privileged beyond words to work for a president who is a tireless voice and unyielding champion for every working person in this country who deserves a brighter future.

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The Big Sean/Eminem collaboration No Favors has been getting some hysterical attention for Marshall Mathers seeming to suggest hed like to engage in sexual relations with right-wing pundit and human scarecrow Ann Coulter. The objections have centred around the tools that the megastar-MC would like to use in the encounter.

Slim Shady raps as follows: And fuck Ann Coulter with a Klan poster/a lamp post, door handle and a damn bolt cutter/A sandal, a can opener, a candle, rubber piano/A flannel, sucker, some hand soap, butter/A banjo and manhole cover. How you can fuck anyone with a "flannel" is a question for the ages, but good on Eminem for giving us all something to think about.

Making one think it was a slow news days across the pond last week, those lyrics prompted the NME to post a story quoting a representative from the Ontario-based group Rape Is No Joke Foundation, whose Twitter account has just over 5,000 followers.

An RINJ Facebook post then accused No Favors of continuing Eminem's "long history of promoting misogyny" and for "including lyrics about raping American authorAnn Coulter."

On that front OBrien deserves credit for standing up for the alt-right poster girl.

After all, if Coulters September 2016 appearanceand subsequent fucking public savagingat Rob Lowes Comedy Central Roast proved, shes completely incapable of defending herself from personal attacks. Unless, that is, your idea of standing up for oneself consists of sitting there grinning like a nervous Skeletor while fellow attendees make jokes like Why is Ann Coulter here tonight? Answer: because the right-to-lifers wanted everyone to see what an abortion looks like up close.

But back to No Favors. The real story isnt that Eminem took an off-side shot at a subhuman who last month Tweeted many men have no choice but to rape because they have no opportunities to date attractive women.

No the real storysorry Big Sean, seeing as its your song and allis that Eminem has come out swinging at the man currently destroying many of the things that decent Americans hold sacred. Slim Shady used No Favors to declare war on the 45th president of the United States with Trumps a bitch/Ill make his whole brand go under.

What makes that astonishing is how little time Eminem took to weigh in on Mr. Orange. He waited years before finally taking aim at George W. Bush.

Thanks to 9/11, Dubya was largely immune to criticism during his first term in Oval Office, a time when he was launching wars with Iraq, bringing in the Patriot Act, and setting up the torture facility known as Guantanamo Bay.

Unless you happened to live on Cobalt-brand punk rock from 2000-2004, no one with a microphone in their hand said much of anything. Eminem certainly didnt, waiting four years until just before the 2004 election to finally take a high-profile shot at George Jr. with the single Mosh and its lyrics Stomp, push, shove, mush/Fuck Bush until they bring our troops home.

With No Favors, it took a matter of weeks until one of biggest non-boomer names in American pop music decided to charge up the anti-Trump troops. Hopefully, thats just the first of many shots across Mr. Oranges bow.

In an era where record sales arent what they used to be, and artists live or die by the number of people who show up for concerts, theres a lot to lose by announcing you arent going to rally round the flag. So most artists are keeping their mouth shut, which isn't going unnoticed.

Ask the Dixie Chickswhat's at stake. The Texaas trio went from the biggest act in country music to being blackballed across the industry when they announced the following to a London, England audience in 2003: Just so you know, were on the good side with yall. We do not want this war, this violence, and were ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.

The real favour Eminem has done here is stepped up where many in the music industry continue to take the Fifth. So fuck Ann Coulter. But only metaphoricallywhich is more than what Trump is currently doing to international refugees, hard-working Mexicans, and progressive Americans who puke every time they see a red baseball cap.

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