The terrible little secret that both Fox News and Megyn Kelly are hiding with their pseudo-bravado is that if Donald Trump’s considerable fan base decides to skip the GOP debate as well, that will strike a ratings death blow they may never recover from. Could it happen? Absolutely.

“When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.” Donald Trump

Like him or hate him, Donald Trump does not simply own the political narrative. He is the political narrative of the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump is hated by the Liberals, he is hated by the GOP, and he is hated by the main stream media as well. His demise has been predicted more times than you can count, and yet his following and popularity continue a mega climb upwards. Now he is taking on Fox News in an epic pissing contest, and if current trends hold, Fox News may just get their heads handed to them in royal fashion.

Donald Trump to Skip Fox News Debate:

FOX NEWS LOSES ALL CREDIBILITY AS CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE DONALD TRUMP IS REVEALED

We reported on how, back during the first Fox-televised GOP debates, that Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace and Bret Baier had purposely tried to provoke Donald Trump into giving “over the top” answers so it would make for “better television”. And in fact, Megyn Kelly took numerous cheap shots at Trump in an effort to create and explosion. When all was said and done, though, the end results of the Fox attempt to sabotage Donald Trump only served to send his start soaring into the political atmosphere. Megyn Kelly was told to “take a 10 day vacation” until things cooled off. Trump was the clear and obvious winner of that encounter. He said after that he would not do another debate with Megyn Kelly.

“Donald Trump knows that by not showing up, he’s owning the entire event,” Rush Limbaugh

“Deja Vu all over again”

On January 28, Fox will again hold another GOP Debate, but it will be without Donald Trump. Roger Ailes has been pumping up the “yellow journalism” war machine to a fever pitch, declaring to anyone who will listen that “Trump is afraid of Megyn Kelly” when nothing could be further from the truth. Trump is disgusted with the “got’cha” journalism of Kelly, doesn’t want to do it again and guess what? Trump doesn’t need to do it again. This time around Fox News needs Donald Trump far more than he needs them. Trump doesn’t need Fox News, he is much bigger than that now. If you think that is mere hyperbole, just ask Donald how much he hasn’t had to spend on advertising so far. Some $35 million so far.

The terrible little secret that both Fox News and Megyn Kelly are hiding with their pseudo-bravado is that if Donald Trump’s considerable fan base decides to skip the GOP debate as well, that will strike a ratings death blow they may never recover from. Could it happen? Absolutely.

And if it does, many more people than just Megyn Kelly will be taking another “10 day vacation”.

During a congressional committee hearing about the constitutional limits imposed on the presidency and the implications of President Barack Obama’s disregard for implementing the Affordable Care Act as written, one expert testified that the consequences of the president’s behavior were potentially grave. He said that the precedent set by Obama could eventually lead to an armed revolt against the federal government.

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On Tuesday, Michael Cannon, Cato Institute’s Director of Health Policy Studies, testified before a congressional committee about the dangers of the president’s legal behavior.

“There is one last thing to which the people can resort if the government does not respect the restrains that the constitution places on the government,” Cannon said. “Abraham Lincoln talked about our right to alter our government or our revolutionary right to overthrow it.” source – Mediaite

People are puzzled: Why would Barack Obama have lied about how wonderfully everything was going to go with ObamaCare when officials in his administration knew perfectly well that disaster was going to strike?

In one sense, the answer is simple: At the time, just before Oct. 1, Republicans were insisting ObamaCare be delayed or defunded. The president and his team weren’t going to give the enemy the satisfaction of agreeing — or the potent ammunition that would have come from a rueful admission the system wasn’t ready.

Today, a bipartisan agreement to delay ObamaCare seems like it would have been a pretty good deal. It didn’t look that way at all in the last two weeks of September.

But there’s a deeper reason he and his people lied: They did it because they could. They did it because nearly five years in the White House had given Obama and his team confidence they would not face the music and they could finesse the problems until they got fixed.

Consider the events that would have been unprecedented scandals in a Republican administration — with teams of reporters digging and scratching daily at every nook and cranny in every bureaucratic corridor — that have instead been covered dutifully but with relatively little passion and almost no follow-up. Why? Because it would have hurt Obama, that’s why.

First, the Obama Justice Department.

Attorney General Eric Holder has survived three scandals that would have felled a Republican. His department attempted to soft-pedal its responsibility for the so-called “gunwalking” policy called Fast and Furious — which led to the murders of US border agents by Mexican drug-cartel members with guns effectively provided to the killers by the Justice Department.

He approved the secret surveillance of Fox News Channel reporter James Rosen in a leak investigation on the outrageous grounds that Rosen was a possible “co-conspirator” in an act of espionage. And he approved similar tactics against reporters at the Associated Press in another leak investigation.

Holder’s still there. Obama defends him. When was the last time you heard Rosen’s name mentioned, or the AP story referenced, or Fast and Furious come up?

Second, the Internal Revenue Service.

The IRS’s own acknowledgement that it had targeted conservative groups with anti-liberal agendas has led to shamed retirements, hasty changes at the top of the agency and officials pleading the Fifth Amendment. These efforts were clearly undertaken to find means by which to aid Democratic efforts in the 2010 and 2012 election. One can only wonder at what would have been done to George W. Bush by the media had similar outrages been perpetated on leftist groups in 2003 and 2004. Obama suffered . . . a little. A very little.

Third, the State Department.

The unconscionable behavior of State Department and White House officials during and after the killing of four Americans in Benghazi at the height of the 2012 race — during which the American people were deliberately and consciously misled — has had no lasting consequences whatsoever. Obama felt free to select the chief liar, Susan Rice, as his national-security adviser without experiencing a moment’s fear about how her appointment might become a scandal.

Fourth, making law from the White House.

In 2011, the president said that owing to Republican recalcitrance in the House of Representatives, he would use his executive authority to get things done. And he has. As Tara Helfman writes in the December issue of Commentary, the magazine I edit, “Notwithstanding President Obama’s constitutional duty to enforce the law of the Untied States, where federal laws conflict with his policy preferences on gay marriage, illegal immigration and drug policy, the president has simply opted not to enforce or defend them.”

Moreover, to strengthen his hand with Hispanic voters in 2012, he ordered the Justice Department to follow certain provisions of a law governing illegal immigrants that has yet to be approved by the Congress. That is unprecedented.

So, if you want to understand the blindness and arrogance of the Obama White House in failing to appreciate the wave of rage and disappointment and disgusted wonderment that would hit them in the wake of the ObamaCare rollout, you need only consider these factors.

He has always had the protection of his liberal base.

He has always had the protection of Senate Democrats, who have not acted in any way to trouble him regarding these scandals and who have impeded aggressive investigations into them.

And he has always had the protection of the mainstream media.

As a result, Barack Obama and his administration have said what they felt they needed to say and done what they felt they needed to do for immediate political gain. They did so this time. But this time was different, because this time he was mishandling and discrediting the great liberal desideratum of our time — a national health-care system.

This time he hasn’t gotten away with it. Yet. source – NY Post