Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Asks Stefanik to Stay in House

John Sexton at Hat Hair reports Trump Asks Stefanik to Bow Out of UN Ambassador Post, to help protect the thin Republican House majority. Yashar Ali@yashar, "BREAKING The White House is officially pulling the nomination of Congresswoman Elise Stefanik to serve as US Ambassador to the United Nations. Earlier today, CBS News reported this was a possibility."  Ace, Trump Announces He's Taking the UN Ambassador Nomination from Elisa Stefanik, Because the GOP's Margin in the House Is Too Tiny to Give Up a Seat. "Yes, I thought it was a bad idea to appoint Lee Zeldin to the EPA, too. Not because he's a bad pick, but because the GOP barely has a majority." Me three.

The "Signalgate" "scandal" appears to be on the wane. Susie Moore at RedState hears Hegseth Fires Back After Atlantic Releases Full Signal Chat. Townhall.com@townhallcom, "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sets the record STRAIGHT on this mornings reporting from The Atlantic: "I noticed this morning, out came something that doesn't look like 'war plans.' They even CHANGED THE TITLE to 'attack plans,' because THEY KNOW it's not 'war plans.'" "There's no units, no locations, no routes, no flight paths, no sources, no methods, no classified information." "My job — as it said on top of that — everyone's seen it now. Team update: It's to provide updates in real time, general updates in real time, keep everybody informed. That's what I did. That's my job."" Matt Margolis at PJM, Is This What's Really Behind 'Signalgate'? Jordan Schachtel at The Dossier, says the 'Signal Gate' is a political operation intended to sow discord within the Trump White House. Of course it is. Hat Hair's Dave Strom thinks Democrats Are Actually Kinda Funny Talking About Signal Flap. Max Abrahms @MaxAbrahms, "Leading advocate of Libya intervention which fanned terrorism from the Sahel to Syria says the Signal exchange was the “biggest national security debacle that any national security professional can remember.”" Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald, "What complete bullshit. James Clapper went before the Senate and explicitly lied when he denied the NSA kept dossiers on Americans -- exactly what the Snowden docs showed they were doing -- and he was never fired. He stayed as DNI until Obama's last day, then got hired by CNN:" At Twitchy, Megyn Kelly and Glenn Greenwald Point and Laugh at Natasha Bertrand's Classified Info 'Outrage'. Driscoll at Insty asks for MUCH MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Trump official turns tables on CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in tense exchange: ‘Why don’t you answer my question?’  At Dean Berquist, Karoline Leavitt Has Had Enough of Kaitlan Collins, Shuts Her Down Again [WATCH]. Ace, VA Secretary Goes on CNN to Talk About the VA, But CNN's Mustachioed Villain Kaitlin Collins Won't Stop Trying to Make FetchGate Happen. Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter, "The best part about Signalgate is how no one rolled over like a little bitch in the face of Democrats, the regime media, and the spineless on our side." Matt Margolis at PJM, Does This Shocking Revelation Prove a Conspiracy in 'Signalgate' Controversy? Twitchy,  So, That Signal Chat 'Breach' Thing Just Got a WHOLE Lot Shadier - Check Out WHO Sits on Signal's Board, Katherine Maher, CEO of PBS on the board of Signal? Probably not, board seats are given out like candy to all the right people, regardless of whether they take an important role in the company or not. Hat Hair's Dave Strom, One Maher Is Becoming Red-Pilled, Another Is a Red. CDR Salamander has a pretty good run down on the need for an app like Signal, wondering why the US govt. hasn't written its own, The Signal I Was Waiting For "...my kingdom for a STU/STE App...."

Ace reports Seven Republican Senators Anonymously Criticize JD Vance to Leftwing Hack "Journalist" Update: JD Vance Calls the Sneaky Anonymous Critics "Cowardly". 'Becca Downs at Town Hall explains why she thinks The Vances Are Going to Greenland, and Here's Why It's Worth Getting Excited. I'm not. At Hat Hair Beege Welborn is all OO-RAH: JD Goes to Quantico and Duane Patterson wonder if Anyone has Seen What's Happening at Diego Garcia Lately? Flying in stealth bombers. Oh what will they be used for?

Sundance at CTH, Ontario Premier Doug Ford Vows to “inflict as much pain as possible on the American people” for electing Trump, and Auto Tariffs: German Carmakers Face Billions in Losses – German Auto Suppliers Have 330 Locations in Mexico. Rick Moran at PJM reports Republicans Are Inching Toward Passing Trump's 'One, Big, Beautiful Bill' Before Recess. TNP, Trump Egg Prices Down Nearly 60 Percent Since Last Month.

At NewsMax, Trump Order on Smithsonian Targets Funds to Programs With 'Improper Ideology'. Althouse picks up on this bigly with Trump seeks to excise "divisive" ideology from the Smithsonian Institution, "Read the text of his "Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Truth and Sanity to American History." Excerpts:" and What if it were your job to infuse the zoo with Critical Race Theory, radical feminism, and LGBTQ+ instruction and insight? "As noted in the previous post, President Trump signed an executive order that "directs the Vice President, who is a member of the Smithsonian Board of Regents, to work to eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian and its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.""

John Sexton at Hat Hair VIP reports Police Arrest Left-Wing Filmmaker for Arson at Las Vegas Tesla Center. Las Vegas Review-Journal, ‘Exhaustive’ search leads to man’s arrest in Las Vegas Tesla fire. Vicky Taft at PJM, Rich Karen Is Caught Keying Tesla in Seattle, yet Cops Seem Oddly Confused Over Motive, seem to imply it was road rage, not DOGE rage. At Hat Hair Michele Tafoya dives into Anti-American Sentiment in Washington & Elon Musk Backlash and Dave Strom,  Lying Liars and the Lies They Tell MAZE @mazemoore, "Rachel Maddow actually said that Trump threatened people with terrorism charges for not supporting Elon Musk's car company. Many shows on MSNBC are making this claim daily while showing videos of peaceful protests instead of videos of the vandalism and destruction. Lies and slander all day, just trying to make people enraged."   Jonathon Turley hears Rep. Goldman: The FBI Investigation of Tesla Attacks is “Political Weaponization.” "There are have widespread attacks on Tesla charging stations, vehicles, and dealerships, including multiple arson attacks. It is clearly political violence orchestrated against an American company and American property owners, including individual citizens, to push consumers away from buying Musk products and associations. That sounds a lot like the definition of terrorism. The Justice Department defines domestic terrorism as “Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.” I have long criticized the expansion of terrorism definitions. However, this fits even the narrowest definitions. It is political violence designed to intimidate and harm those with opposing political views."

Political Neutrality Of PBS Questioned After New Footage Of Elmo Keying Cybertruck https://t.co/hBcV2CK5VA pic.twitter.com/oftvx8cJsZ

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 27, 2025

NewMax cites Musk: Can Cut $1T Without Impacting Crucial Govt Services and HHS Secretary Kennedy Plans to Cut 10,000 Jobs. At Althouse, "We will eliminate an entire alphabet soup of departments, while preserving their core functions by merging them into a new organization called the Administration for a Healthy America...." Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy "We are streamlining HHS to make our agency more efficient and more effective. We will eliminate an entire alphabet soup of departments, while preserving their core functions by merging them into a new organization called the Administration for a Healthy America or AHA. This overhaul will improve the health of the entire nation — to Make America Healthy Again." Shapiro's Gavel has been DOGE-ing It Up from Texas to Tallahassee to Tucuman. 

Atop Da Hill, Democrats, lacking popular support, resort to judge-shopping and more lawfare. Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal, ‘DEMOCRACY AT RISK’: Pressure Groups Suing Trump Lose Their Minds After Facing One Ounce of the Left’s Own Medicine. "It’s particularly rich coming from the side that got lawyers disbarred and prosecuted for merely representing their clients in challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election. (Oh, did you think we’d just forget about John Eastman?)" Don Surber, Trump unleashes the crossfire hurricane.

Rusty Weiss at RedState hears White House Aides Had a ‘Death Pool’ Plan for Biden, Led Him Around With Neon Tape on the Floor: Book. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, Now It Can Be Told: Dems' Secret 2023 Joe Biden 'Dead Pool' Judicial Roster. Dave Strom, Confirmed: Biden Was Given the Press Questions In Advance. At LifeZette, Jill Biden’s Former Press Secretary Drops Bombshell About Scripted Media Interviews. WH planted questions, and the press repeated them, but we knew that. At NewsBusters a Column: Team Biden's Mistreatment of a Pliant Press Corps. 

 Althouse, "Democrats have struggled to craft any sort of effective message of opposition to the second Trump Administration." ""One recent round of video clips featuring the speeches of Democratic senators was roundly mocked for repeating tired talking points. In the absence of anything more galvanizing, the formula 'Trump Take _____'—fill in the blank with 'egg,' 'cancer research,' or 'Social Security'—is, as [video editor Michael] Sweeney put it, 'sort of self-consciously stupid but at least feels like you’re landing a punch.'" John Halpin at The Liberal Patriot on The Sociology of Party Decline, "Democrats are having trouble with working-class voters because many of them don't come from these communities or occupational backgrounds." Beege Welborn, Movin' On Up: Student Loan Delinquencies, and the bill is coming due.

Victory Girls wonder Will Jasmine Crockett Rise Above Or Burn Out? At BA, Larry says Trump Ends Jasmine Crockett's Career. Kind of an exaggeration. RedState's Sister Toldja sees a 'Power Move': Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Turns the Jasmine Crockett News Cycle Around With Best Suggestion. Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt "I hope normies realize that Maher is NOT an outlier. She is representative of the left that runs the Democrats now. She is a mainstream Democrats. That’s who they are. There are some center-right Ds left, but not many." Quote Collin Rugg @CollinRugg "NPR CEO Katherine Maher was completely caught off guard today after Rep. Brandon Gill started reading her past tweets to her one by one. Absolutely brutal." At Althouse, Katherine Maher — NPR CEO — was caught in a trap of her own design. Jarvis@jarvis_best, "I listen to a lot of NPR and my favorite tic of theirs is what I like to call Two Good Facts/Two Bad Facts. Once you hear it you can’t unhear it. If it’s a Dem policy or politician, they get Two Good Facts. “Kamala Harris, who is (1) gaining in the polls, has a new proposal to (2) do a good thing.” One is too few and three is too many, so they have to get exactly two. GOP stuff gets Two Bad Facts. “Legislation x, which has (1) been criticized by the National association of sympathetic figures, is (2) losing support among key members of the committee to do things.”" 

At The Wombat's In The Mailbox: 3.26.25 (Evening Edition), EBL: Vindmans: Separated at Birth, Kamala Harris on Election Night 2024, Jasmine, Jasmine Crockett, Queen of the Wild Frontier, Twitchy: Rep. Gill Posts Video Of “Most Vitriolic Hate Imaginable” Aired On PBS, Louder With Crowder: Even the Irish are blasting Rosie O’Donnell, MTG goes BANANAS on NPR CEO, shuts her down for her partisan hackery, Democrat party leader Jasmine Crockett mocking a handicapped GOP governor was bad enough, but then came her excuse, American Greatness: IT Exec Caught on Camera Keying Tesla Cybertruck in New Hampshire, NPR’s Katherine Maher Fails to Justify Her Pro-Censorship Views and Woke Social Media Posts During Fiery DOGE Hearing, and much more!

John Sexton, 75 Days After the Palisades Fire, Only Four Building Permits Have Been Issued.

Rick Moran at PJM, Trump Issues Executive Order Requiring Proof of Citizenship on Voter Registration Forms. At Da Wire, Trump Signs Historic Executive Order To Help Secure U.S. Elections, "The order also undid some of Biden's executive actions that "turned Federal agencies into Democratic voter turnout centers."" Ace, Trump Signs Executive Order Requiring Proof of Citizenship When Voting in Federal Elections, "I don't think he can do this, or else Biden would have done the opposite before 2024, mandating that states accept any votes from anyone, no ID required. I appreciate the sentiment here but I don't think this one will survive." At Pop Times, Black People Clash with White Liberals over Voter ID Laws, Decry Racist Comments. Dave Strom, Are The Democrats Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud? TaraBull @TaraBull808, "BREAKING: Voting rights advocates say Trump's executive order requiring proof of citizenship 'could block millions from voting' Isn't that the point?" Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee, "Millions of non-citizens? If so, that’s good!" NOTUS, Republicans Are Shrinking the Voter Registration Gap in New Jersey. "Democrats still have more registered voters in the state, but the GOP is making gains." Rasmussen Reports @Rasmussen_Poll, "Good Morning ! "more mail-in votes for the Democrat candidate than Democrat voters who requested them." It's a thing of beauty, right? ShapiroLand." ThePersistence @ScottPresler, "BREAKING: Democrats FLIPPED a State Senate seat in Lancaster County, PA, from red to blue. This is a heavily Republican district. Democrats won early voting handily, while Republicans waited to vote on ONE day. Republicans lost by 482 votes. I hope they learn from this." ThePersistence @ScottPresler, "I’m going to be honest with you, even if you don’t want to hear it: Republicans have been losing special elections all over the country — even red districts in Iowa & Pennsylvania. Democrats are fired up. Unless we begin focusing on ground game, we will lose 2025 & 2026."

Sundance announces AG Pam Bondi Announces Senior Leader of MS-13 Arrested in Virginia. Ace, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel Announce Arrest of Leader of MS-13 Gangs. "It's almost as if these criminals were always findable, but Biden refused to arrest them because he didn't want illegal aliens to have any reason to stop invading our country." Cathy Salgado at PJM, Mayor Defies ICE, ICE Rounds Up Illegal Alien Criminals Anyway in Boston. Bart Marcois at Am Great asks and answers Is Tren de Aragua a Military Incursion? You Bet! "Judge Boasberg blocks Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua, despite intelligence linking the gang to Venezuela’s government and acts of sabotage in the U.S." Capt. Ed reads Axios: Trump May End Foreign Student Visas At Pro-Hamas Colleges. Atop Da Hill, Rubio says at least 300 foreign students’ visas have been revoked.