We are the drain the swamp people

• It makes people nervous and irritates the horses
• Senator, your horses are hard charges, why aren’t you when it comes to going after DEMOCRATS
• Walking back comments or the option of revising and extending your remarks is not something the press affords you, so why not be a little more thoughtful before responding to loaded questions

– “Asked if she thought Trump’s comments were specifically racist, Ernst acknowledged, “Yeah, I do.”
– “She reiterated that view when asked on another occasion by a CNN reporter if she found Trump’s comments racist.” (No doubt the CNN reporter was delighted; a little ‘something extra’ in the paycheck for finding a Republican to pile on Trump?)

Does Iowa Now Have a “JONI Romney”?

Maybe Republicans, conservatives, libertarians should all be concerned about exactly who (or what) they sent, with their votes, to Washington.

Is Joni Ernst an ‘anti-Trumper’? A “never-Trumper”? A “moderate”/”liberal”/”closet-Democrat”? Or is she just a somewhat ill-informed, opportunistic politician?

We hope none of these things.

Senator Ernst, by several appearances, appears at times to be NOT totally committed to the full agenda of the Republican Party and the voters who support it! There may be serious question about to what extent she even supports the President and leader of her party.

When Ernst meets with a CNN reporter and is asked if she “found Trump’s comments ‘racist” and replies, “Yeah, I do”, she delivers a strong message and heightens these concerns:

.- it is apparent that either ‘Joni’ did not thoughtfully read and correctly interpret Trump’s comments or, she is blithely unaware of his personal history and of the economic and social progress for minorities and “people of color” he has fostered in his 21/2 years as the nation’s Chief Executive. Instead she seems to have rather blindly accepted the predictable interpretation that the liberal, biased media, and Democrats, usually attach to any Trump comment…”RACIST !”, they scream.

– And, more importantly, Ernst apparently chose to give CNN their desired headline … “GOP Senate leadership member critical of Trump ‘s ‘racist’ comments!” She did not, however, take the opportunity to give her assessment of the anti-semitic, anti-America sentiments, vulgar remarks and ugly behavior of the radical Democrat congressional ‘freshpersons’ who call themselves the “squad”!

Maybe, alarmingly, Joni’s just not too quick on her feet when confronted by a CNN operative? One almost hopes that was the case.

– Ms. Ernst also seems to be committed to seeking approval from ‘independent’ and some liberal voters. She has appeared rather eager to join the “Me too” chorus. When she was working with Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand to craft a bill to remove sexual assault cases from the military chain of command she used her personal ‘history’.

Ernst revealed that during her 20 years service in the National Guard, she was sexually ‘harassed’.

According to Ernst, in an interview with TIME, she endured “comments, passes, things like that”…that she was “able to say ‘stop!’ and ‘it simply stopped’. (Perhaps a strategy built on such a response to a problem of such dimensions would be simpler and more effective than legislation which would take responsibility for handling serious cases of sexual assault and actual molestation occurring in their commands out of the hands of military commanders…seldom a good idea unless one is convinced that military commanders (mostly ‘male’) are hopelessly and irrevocably ‘sexist’!, insensitive, cruel, and irresponsible. Hopefully, former “Lt. Colonel” Ernst doesn’t hold that view.)

While her very tragic personal experience which ended in January in divorce after 26 years of marriage may have had an understandably hurtful and lasting effect on Ms. Ernst, (the public record reveals that Ernst was the victim of “verbal and mental abuse and even a ‘physical assault” throughout much of her marriage), we must hope that it has not distorted a perspective on critical issues as she executes the duties of a US Senator.

In fairness, it must be noted that Joni Ernst has not been a major liability in the GOP caucus during her first term in the US Senate. She has not, however, exhibited the kind of commitment that is likely to enable her Party to retain control of the presidency and the Senate and regain control of the House in 2020. It is critical to the health and future of America that she and all of her colleagues in the Republican congressional conference be on board with returning fire as they face a determined, aggressive, and destructive 2020 election campaign.!

DLH

We note this was not the Senator’s first time down the path of feeling obligated to separate herself from Trump when it is an obvious game the press is playing. Rather than revising and extending remarks, how about not being sucked into that game?

Despite her criticism of Trump, Joni Ernst ‘still on board’ with president 

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• If these don’t inspire Americans to get out and vote for Trump in 2020……
• Two classics from the classicist Victor Davis Hanson, both this week

The War Over America’s Past Is Really About Its Future  (excerpt) (photo not part of article)

The summer season has ripped off the thin scab that covered an American wound, revealing a festering disagreement about the nature and origins of the United States.

The San Francisco Board of Education recently voted to paint over, and thus destroy, a 1,600-square-foot mural of George Washington’s life in San Francisco’s George Washington High School.

Victor Arnautoff, a communist Russian-American artist and Stanford University art professor, had painted “Life of Washington” in 1936, commissioned by the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration. A community task force appointed by the school district had recommended that the board address student and parent objections to the 83-year-old mural, which some viewed as racist for its depiction of black slaves and Native Americans.

Nike pitchman and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick recently objected to the company’s release of a special Fourth of July sneaker emblazoned with a 13-star Betsy Ross flag. The terrified Nike immediately pulled the shoe off the market.

The New York Times opinion team issued a Fourth of July video about “the myth of America as the greatest nation on earth.” The Times’ journalists conceded that the United States is “just OK.”

During a recent speech to students at a Minnesota high school, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) offered a scathing appraisal of her adopted country, which she depicted as a disappointment whose racism and inequality did not meet her expectations as an idealistic refugee. Omar’s family had fled worn-torn Somalia and spent four-years in a Kenyan refugee camp before reaching Minnesota, where Omar received a subsidized education and ended up a congresswoman.

The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team won the World Cup earlier this month. Team stalwart Megan Rapinoe refused to put her hand over heart during the playing of the national anthem, boasted that she would never visit the “f—ing White House” and, with others, nonchalantly let the American flag fall to the ground during the victory celebration.

The city council in St. Louis Park, a suburb of Minneapolis, voted to stop reciting the Pledge of Allegiance before its meeting on the rationale that it wished not to offend a “diverse community.”

The list of these public pushbacks at traditional American patriotic customs and rituals could be multiplied. They follow the recent frequent toppling of statues of 19th-century American figures, many of them from the South, and the renaming of streets and buildings to blot out mention of famous men and women from the past now deemed illiberal enemies of the people.

Such theater is the street version of what candidates in the Democratic presidential primary have been saying for months. They want to disband border enforcement, issue blanket amnesties, demand reparations for descendants of slaves, issue formal apologies to groups perceived to be the subjects of discrimination, and rail against American unfairness, inequality, and a racist and sexist past.

In their radical progressive view—shared by billionaires from Silicon Valley, recent immigrants and the new Democratic Party—America was flawed, perhaps fatally, at its origins. Things have not gotten much better in the country’s subsequent 243 years, nor will they get any better—at least not until America as we know it is dismantled and replaced by a new nation predicated on race, class and gender identity-politics agendas.

In this view, an “OK” America is no better than other countries. As Barack Obama once bluntly put it, America is only exceptional in relative terms, given that citizens of Greece and the United Kingdom believe their own countries are just as exceptional. In other words, there is no absolute standard to judge a nation’s excellence.

About half the country disagrees. It insists that America’s sins, past and present, are those of mankind. But only in America were human failings constantly critiqued and addressed.

America does not have be perfect to be good. As the world’s wealthiest democracy, it certainly has given people from all over the world greater security and affluence than any other nation in history—with the largest economy, largest military, greatest energy production and most top-ranked universities in the world.

America alone kept the postwar peace and still preserves free and safe global communications, travel and commerce.

The traditionalists see American history as a unique effort to overcome human weakness, bias and sin. That effort is unmatched by other cultures and nations, and explains why millions of foreign nationals swarm into the United States, both legally and illegally.

These arguments over our past are really over the present—and especially the future.

If progressives and socialists can at last convince the American public that their country was always hopelessly flawed, they can gain power to remake it based on their own interests. These elites see Americans not as unique individuals but as race, class and gender collectives, with shared grievances from the past that must be paid out in the present and the future.

We’ve seen something like this fight before, in 1861—and it didn’t end well.

And about the virtue shaming that the illegal immigrant enablers like to engage in:

The Selfish Actors of Illegal Immigration

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We much appreciate Kurt Schlichter’s use of insightful invective and pithy commentary at Townhall 

The Nightmare Of An America Ruled By AOC And Her Socialist Pals  

What can be denied about his characterizations of Dem libs – they don’t even mean well.

DLH recently quipped on another topic:

‘The British ‘ambassador’ whose extremely disparaging memos describing the “dysfunctional” Trump White House, recently ‘leaked’, has now resigned.

Our observation: Again, we doubt the “hardworking” ambassador had to work very hard to compose his ‘memos’. Our guess is, he just bought a few hundred copies of Michael Wolfffff’s scurrilous book and mailed it to friends at Whitehall.

Later, we’re guessing he celebrated with other Trump-haters at his embassy toasting his own brilliance with a tasty white wine.
Good riddance, ‘Kimmy’.

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• He was born with a clown shoe in his mouth
• Biden at Des Moines Register Redstar/ AARP USSR forum
• From PJ Media and Stilton’s Place

ROFL: Biden Promises ‘If You Like Your Health Care Plan, You Can Keep It’ Under His Proposal

As part of a series of five forums hosted by AARP and the Des Moines Register, nineteen Democratic presidential candidates were invited to discuss their views on a variety of topics including healthcare, Social Security, and prescription drug costs. Monday’s forum featured Joe Biden, Cory Booker, John Hickenlooper, and Amy Klobuchar.

During Monday’s event, Joe Biden made a very interesting claim about his health care proposal. “If you like your health care plan, your employer-based plan, you can keep it,” Biden claimed. “If you like your private insurance, you can keep it.” New York Times reporter Reid Epstein reported the claim on Twitter:

Joe Biden, at an AARP event in Des Moines, describing his health care proposal: “If you like your health care plan, your employer-based plan, you can keep it. If you like your private insurance, you can keep it.”
— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) July 15, 2019

Correct me if I’m wrong, but we’ve heard this kind of claim before, haven’t we? That’s right! We have!

Does Joe Biden think we have such short memories that we can’t recall that Barack Obama repeatedly claimed that under Obamacare if we liked our existing health care plan we could keep it, and if we liked our doctor we could keep our doctor? Obama repeatedly and unequivocally made this claim so often that the left-wing fact-checking site PolitiFact named it the Lie of the Year for 2013.

Sorry, Joe. We didn’t fall for it then, and we certainly won’t fall for it now.

Stilton Jarlsberg at Stilton’s Place (excerpt)

This is almost word for word what Obama said just before making it illegal for millions of Americans to keep their health care plans and, in some cases, quadrupling their insurance costs. Obama’s oft-repeated promise is widely regarded as the lyingest lie told in eight solid years of lying. It probably has its own entry in the Guinness World Record Book of Lies and will likely never be bested.

Although it’s entirely possible that Slidin’ Biden (whose poll numbers keep dropping) is tone deaf enough not to realize his choice of words was salting a national wound, we prefer to think that Obama himself is secretly giving Biden hilariously bad advice on running for President and wondering when Joe will finally catch on to the joke.

We’re guessing it may be when Barry arranges for Bill Ayers to drive Uncle Joe to the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church for the annual 9/11 “Chickens Come Home to Roost” sermon.

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• Senator Ernst — its not all about you
• Why go about painting yourself as another pathetic politician with Washington fever 
• We get  it, we are just supposed to shut up and vote for you while you unreasonably and uncharitably undercut Trump
  
• There was nothing else you could say but repeat a true cheap shot of the left?
• You criticize Trump – but how are your “communications” so careful and different?

Lt Col Ernst says putting Trump in the middle will help our chances

Please tell us Senator, how is your calling President Trump’s statement “racist” — to use your alleged guide-star for pronouncements — “constructive” and “helpful” when you adopt a shibboleth of the enemy to characterize a statement offering or admitting no context to a Trump “tweet” that on its face has no racial component but was a not untenable  admonishment to politicians who disparage America as if it were the worst country on earth?*         DLH and R Mall

From The Hill

Senate Republican Conference Vice Chairwoman Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said Monday that she thinks President Trump’s tweets suggesting that minority Democratic lawmakers “go back” to the countries they came from was racist.
Ernst was pressed by reporters about Trump’s tweets from the weekend when she walked into a weekly leadership meeting in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) office.

Asked if she thought Trump’s comments were specifically racist, Ernst acknowledged, “Yeah, I do.”

She reiterated that view when asked on another occasion by a CNN reporter if she found Trump’s comments racist.

“Uh, yeah. They’re American citizens,” she said, referring to Trump’s suggestion that Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), who all identify as racial minorities, go back to the counties they’re from.

Of that group, only Omar, a native of Somalia, was born outside the United States.

Ernst also called the comments “not constructive” and “not helpful.”

Like other Republicans, she said Trump should focus on policies instead of personal attacks.

“Let’s focus on policies and we can debate those policies because I personally think the GOP has a stronger platform to talk about. That’s what we should be focusing on,” she said.

Ernst, a first-term member of the Senate, is up for reelection next year and Democrats think they have a shot of defeating her if Trump underperforms expectations.

She has distanced herself from Trump on other occasions, such as earlier this year when she warned Trump not to trust North Korean leader Kim Jong Un or when she has criticized his tariff policy.

Ernst said Monday that she had not spoken to Trump about his tweets.

*70 word sentence, part of German heritage

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• Without firing a shot?
• Women have always been the arbiter of society . . .
• How much have they fallen for the earthly prince of darkness — Karl Marx?
• Oh men are just as guilty, what is right is written on the hearts of both sexes. 
• At key times one must counterbalance/ reinforce the other
• Has momentum swung irretrievably?

Thanks to TN for reminding us in this cultural epoch exemplified by AOC and Liz Warren and Hillary and so many more , now trans-generational, of the so-called women’s movement’s roots and the corrupting incubator of the universities. The article is by Mallory Millet, sister to Kate Millet in the spirit of Svetlana Stalin or Juanita Castro; “coming out to speak plainly about a particularly harmful member of their family“.

Read the entire article, as it provides deep revelations — Marxist Feminism’s Ruined Lives.  An astounding quote:

We’re all so busy congratulating each other because Ronald Reagan “won the Cold War without firing a shot” entirely missing the bare truth which is that Mao, with his Little Red Book and the Soviets, won the Cold War without firing a shot by taking over our women, our young and the minds of everyone tutored by Noam Chomsky and the textbooks of Howard Zinn. Post-graduate Junior is Peter Pan trapped in the Never Neverland of Mom’s (she’s divorced now) basement. Christina Hoff Sommers says, “Moms and dads, be afraid for your sons. There’s a ‘war on men’ that started a long time ago in gender studies classes and in women’s advocacy groups eager to believe that men are toxic… Many ‘educated women’ in the U.S. have drunk from the gender feminist Kool Aid.  Girls at Yale, Haverford and Swarthmore see themselves as oppressed.  This is madness.”

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• Always have a cover story is their moto

NEWS FOR CONGRESSMAN NUNES…Who Trusts the FBI Now? With Chris Wray in Charge, That Agency Remains a Charter Member of the “Deep State”

There’s a lot of mid-level and low-level employees in the FBI who were promoted or hired by the corrupt Obama-Holder-Lynch-Comey regime!

…and Democrats hailed the appointment of Wray as FBI Director (How many Trump appointments received all but 5 confirmation votes in the US Senate?; and that was also with such GOP anti-Trumpers in the Senate, such as Corker, Flake, et al !

The excerpts below are from an extraordinary piece of work which includes some pretty damning documentation. (https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/nunes-on-doj-and-fbi.jpg)

It’s long. It took me about 20-30 minutes to read rather carefully.

It is explosive, however, and it reads like a novel of intrigue and treason.

I urge you to read it… it appears to me to be believable, but very scary about how far along this country is down the road to totalitarianism. The revelations there are compounded by information at Zero Hedge.  We urge you to read that as well.        DLH

First excerpts regarding Nunes:

By Sundance at Conservative Treehouse:

Devin Nunes Has a Warning for AG Bill Barr: Without Prosecutions None “will trust the FBI or DOJ for generations”…

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• What makes this unique as a matter of law is beyond us
• Apparently gay sex now comes with a get out of jail free card

Teacher, 27, who had sex with a female student, 17, AVOIDS jail and will serve probation after court hears how the youngster is still in love with her and their relationship with ‘probably continue’

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DLH sends this bizpac article about Paul Ryan in a recent book . In forwarding it our Illustrious Senior editor comments that  “Paul Ryan is a faithless, arrogant, untrustworthy incompetent who wants the world to think he’s the opposite of those traits. He is hopeful that this book is what does Trump in in ’20.”   DLH will have more to offer but to steal a little thunder (he has much to give) :

They are so wrong about him

Liberals don’t realize HOW good they had it with Paul Ryan. He was an impediment to serious conservatism.  No revelation to us or our readers on that score. Helped them on budgets and spending, and protecting illegal immigration. Push come to shove he never stood up to Planned Parenthood.  He was as weak hitter a Speaker as they come. All of which went a long way to protect and inculcate liberalism in the nation’s fabric.

Certainly Ryan’s announced resignation, in a way to help pad Nancy’s takeover in 2018, should be seen for what it was, a pathetic revelation about him.  Oh liberals wanted him gone so they could control the House but they did not want him to be a lame duck in the mean time. As the article reveals they wanted him to stand up to Trump to the end. Oh in their more sober moments they may realize he was the best they could expect. Actually he hung in with them to the last  –  slow walking and impeding by inaction or lack of clout — much of the early Trump agenda.  More on Paul Ryan later from DLH.

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