We are the drain the swamp people

• Cavuto Knows Who the New Paymasters are
• Leads Show With Criticism of Trump Over Attack on “Hero McCain”

Neil Cavuto could hardly contain his glee over what he considers to be a major stumble by Trump.

Since the public revelation of how aggressively the late senator spread around the media, and Washington, the now discredited “Steele Dossier”, by which the Hillary campaign and the Deep State hoped to destroy Trump, the media has been salivating over what they expected Trump’s reaction would be.

They weren’t disappointed this week.

When asked by a reporter about his criticism of McCain from earlier in the week, Trump reiterated his lack of fondness for the senator.

“Whoopee!”, Cavuto undoubtedly cried. “Trump’s tweets have done it this time! And now his confirmation of his dislike for “a great American” has at last, done him in”. That can be reasonably assumed to be Cavuto’s reaction, judging from his on air behavior.

He followed up on his rather unrestrained report by having three guests on to discuss this latest ‘presidential outrage’…two liberals and a pro-McCain “Republican”.

As expected they all agreed: a) John McCain was one of America’s greatest war heroes ever, b) Everybody in America, and the world, thought so, and revere him, and Donald Trump is the ‘worst person’ to have ever occupied the Oval Office.

Like Sara Lee, ‘Nobody don’t like John McCain’.

Well, not exactly every one considers the late senator our nation’s greatest ‘war hero’.

We’ve noted in previous posts that, however McCain’s behavior in captivity in North Vietnam will, perhaps eventually be fully known, there are various aspects of his life both before and after Vietnam that would not be considered ‘honorable’ or so praiseworthy. An undistinguished academic record as a Naval Academy midshipman; a “hot dog’ pilot whose antics may have had very tragic consequences, a very unseemly marital record following his return from North Vietnam; embarrassing opportunism throughout his political career; an extraordinarily poor performance as a presidential candidate and a campaign that was as damaging, or moreso to his own party’s ‘downticket’ candidates than toward his and his party’s opposition.

So intent is preserving a media-loving image as a “maverick’ within his own party, McCain often disappointed even his own Arizona constituency (other than his moneyed donors) , with perhaps his most dishonest action, for which Trump is properly most critical… his decisive vote to repudiate his party’s, and his own, definitive campaign promise…to repeal Obamacare!

In many ways, and with some regret that a putative “American Hero’ is, in our view, petty, disloyal to the people who supported him, and, a man who even as he left the public stage…and this world forever, could not restrain from trying to discredit and undermine, the elected leader of the United States of America, the nation he claimed to love.

Oh…and to Neil Cavuto, it looks like you’re going to be fine under the leadership of “The New Fox”…featuring Paul Ryan, and the liberal Murdoch boys!      DLH

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Related reading: Young People’s Embrace of Socialism Shows Why We Shouldn’t Lower the Voting Age

Via Intellectual Froglegs thanks to SF

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You are already “woke” so this stuff does not need a whole lot of explanation:

From SF:

How Can Iowa Control Property Tax Increases?

One way is to support SSB1229 which limits ability of government to use taxpayer dollars to pay lobbyists (counties and municipalities using your money to lobby for more taxes)

There is an easy link to email your legislators

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From GM

This massacre in New Zealand seems almost too perfect. AR 15, White-supremacist Manifesto, reference to Trump, racist writing on weapon, immigrant victims, religious venue, immediate ISIS response… All the proper ingredients to create a backlash against conservatives. Something doesn’t add up. Am I hearing black helicopters?

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Via DK

The lobotomy incision was way bigger than necessary

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DLH:

In order to soothe the feelings of Ilhan Omar’s “fans”, the “resolution to condemn “all bad stuff” Speaker Pelosi cobbled together to initially censure Ilhan Omar even included condemnation of the “Dreyfus Affair”!

Now I can understand why she may feel some animus toward Richard Dreyfus for his dreadful movie, “Mr. Holland’s Opus”, but gosh! I didn’t think it was on a par with blatant anti-semitism!

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Daily Caller

Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she has “zero” sympathy for anyone who lied or cheated in order to get into a college, in a Wednesday interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”  . . .

Warren allegedly indicated that she was a Native American in her official documents while she was a law professor at Harvard University, although a September report revealed that the University said they didn’t consider her status in their hiring decision.

In a continuation of the scandal, It was revealed that Warren did, in fact,
indicate she was a Native American in her registration to the Texas Bar — a poor judgment call she quickly apologized for.

“I can’t go back,” Warren said in an interview with the Washington Post. “But I am sorry for furthering confusion on tribal sovereignty and tribal citizenship and harm that resulted.”

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About the same subject from GM

Today, my dad and I were conversing when he asked, “Why would those stars pay that kind of money to get their kids into college?”

I responded, “Those aren’t just any colleges. A diploma, along with the classmates you rub shoulders with at those elite schools, are tickets into the good-old-boys network. Almost a guarantee of a gravy job for top-dollar.”

He then asked, “Won’t their employer soon learn they aren’t very smart?”
I said, “Half the people running the world aren’t very smart.”

As a kid, I watched the Wizard of Oz a dozen times. The scarecrow had no brain. Then the wizard gave him a diploma. “Nuf said.”

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Via DLH

‘HANDS OFF VENEZUELA’ PROTESTERS SAY THEY WOULD TRADE TRUMP FOR SOCIALIST DICTATOR MADURO

That’s OK. I’d Trade Them (Including AOC) For The People of Venezuela!

In fact I would trade them for a herd of goats!

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From DK:

An interesting bit of history that’s not politically correct

Whites were slaves in North Africa before Blacks were slaves 

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• Kansas Moran’s response to a constituent
• Moran’s letter is a good example of the hobgoblined minds of some ersatz constitutionalists

“I try never to let anyone down”   

(Except maybe my Party’s president)

Here is how my Republican senator responded to a constituent who expressed his disappointment in the senator’s disgraceful sellout of his constituents and the American people in voting to oppose his Party’s president’s effort to secure our border in the face of a clear national emergency.

Senator Moran has always distinguished himself as a wholly-owned ‘asset’ of the Washington establishment and of a weak Republican state committee (Kansas).

I would urge readers to consider “Jerry’s” first four points in his response to constituents defending his vote for the Democrat-inspired resolution:

•”President Trump is correct, there is a need for better border security.”

•”Our borders are a matter of national sovereignty and control over who enters our country is vital in our fight against terrorism and battle against drugs and human trafficking.”

•“The President has not been fairly treated by Democrats in Congress – a wall is not immoral and democrats have previously supported funding border barriers.”

AND SO, HE VOTED AGAINST THE PRESIDENT AND TO OPPOSE HIS EFFORTS!

AND, THUS, THIS IS HOW “JERRY” CONCLUDES HIS MESSAGE:

•“This country is filled with people who care, who are patriots, who served in our military. I try never to let anyone down. On my watch I always want to do right as I see it”.
— JERRY

The full text of his communication is set forth below, our additional response follows that.       DLH

Voting to Uphold the Constitution

I share President Trump’s goal of securing our borders – as such, I have introduced legislation and voted many times for greater funding for border security, including President Trump’s border wall – but expanding the powers of the presidency beyond its constitutional limits is something I cannot support.

Upon my election to public office, I take one oath: an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. I believe the use of emergency powers in this circumstance violates the Constitution. Allowing the use of such power establishes a precedent for future presidents to further act against laws and appropriations approved by Congress. This continues our country down the path of all powerful executive – something those who wrote the Constitution were fearful of.

On Thursday, I voted to support the Emergency Declaration Resolution of Disapproval. Before casting my vote, I wrote out my thoughts on how I came to this decision.  Click here  to see my hand-written thoughts, or read the transcript below.

1. President Trump is correct, there is a need for better border security.

2.  Our borders are a matter of national sovereignty and control over who enters our country is vital in our fight against terrorism and battle against drugs and human trafficking.

3.  Many Americans and most Kansans agree with the President that this is an important issue and must be dealt with.

4.  The President has not been fairly treated by Democrats in Congress – a wall is not immoral and democrats have previously supported funding border barriers.

5.  I have introduced legislation and voted many times for greater funding for border security, including President Trump’s border wall.

6.  The President can advance the building of a wall with the funding just approved by Congress and can increase the funds available by reprogramming other accounts.

7.  Therefore, the declaration of an emergency is not necessary.

8.  The declaration of an emergency under these circumstances is a violation of the U.S. Constitution. The laws passed by Congress years ago allowing the president emergency powers is flawed and needs to be repealed or amended.

9.  In high school government class we all learned about our Founding Fathers and the three separate, but equal branches of government. This concept is one of the most significant in protecting America as a republic and maintaining citizen freedoms & liberties. Both government structure and the Bill of Rights matter.

10.  Upon my election to public office, I take one oath – to uphold the Constitution of the United States. I believe the use of emergency powers in this circumstance violates the Constitution.

11.  Allowing the use of such power establishes a precedent for future presidents to further act against laws and appropriations approved by Congress. This continues our country down the path of all powerful executive – something those who wrote the Constitution were fearful of.

12.  Kansans have criticized President Obama for abuse of executive orders, ignoring the laws and avoiding the requirements of negotiating a treaty when dealing with foreign powers. I agree and fought it.

13.  I aggressively opposed the overreach of past presidents and believe that I can not pick and choose to now look the other way.

14.  If the Constitution means one thing in the Obama administration and another in the Trump administration, the enduring value of the Constitution disappears and another generation of Americans will be less free.

15.  The number one responsibility we have as American citizens is to pass to the next generation of Americans our constitutionally guaranteed liberties. There are days where it seems clear we are failing greatly.

16.  How we do things – even good things – matters. We were raised that the ends don’t justify the means.

17.  To find a loop hole on this issue and to vote another way might be an easier course. But my gut, my intellect, my understanding of history, tells me use of emergency powers is wrong. It can’t be an option to support something I believe wrong.

18.  This country is filled with people who care, who are patriots, who served in our military. I try never to let anyone down. On my watch I always want to do right as I see it.
 
-Jerry

Sovereignty at risk, national defense is not a loop hole

We note that several of the Sewernator’s, Swampator’s, Senator’s points are regurgitations of the theme “letting Trump issue an executive order on the matter would be a bad precedent that Democrats would adopt and run with to the detriment of so many issues important to conservatives”

That horse was long-ago saddled, mounted, and spurred out of the barn by Democrats. They need no precedent, indeed abide by none they find inconvenient. There is no moral or higher ground or principled argument that cannot properly be driven home other than by making your opponent live by the rules they decided to make since they disregarded your arguments. But even that is an aside in this case as protecting national borders is a crucial job for a President, one he is Constitutionally sworn to faithfully do.  Would that Obama would have done so.

Competent authorities have defended the use of executive authority in this case as lawful (in terms of such an executive order being consistent with existent statutory authority granted by Congress) and Constitutional.   See our posts and references here, here and here, among others.

As to consistency with existing statutory grants of such authority that seems undebatable. However if Congress wants to limit the authority it granted to presidents then do so by accumulating sufficient support, enough to overcome a likely and appropriate veto if it encompasses hamstringing a Trump from performing his sworn duty.

The Constitutional authority and obligation of a President is clear.  Article II Section 2: The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; 

Further the President takes an oath prescribed by the Constitution in Article II  Section 1: Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—”I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” 

Does Senator Moran seriously contend that protecting the border is not a national defense matter, indeed a fair summation of the concept, under which the President as commander in chief may direct the armed forces to prioritize including to redirect funds and manpower to accomplish?  (One also wonders if the good Senator believes that NORAD exists for no purpose other than to confirm Santa Clause is on the way once a year and that the Coast Guard and Border Patrol are not executive agencies, human barriers of a sort. Or perhaps he thinks borders are merely soft civil matters of no consequence to remaining a free country)

Senator Moran contends that “The President can advance the building of a wall with the funding just approved by Congress and can increase the funds available by reprogramming other accounts.” Senator Moron Moran that is essentially what Trump is doing — trying to do so citing authority and imparting a solid legal basis to best avoid the malcontents of the left who would say THOSE funds are not authorized for such purposes.  He is invoking unambiguous legal and Constitutional authority.   Moron Moran would rather put Trump and the nation hostage to Democrats using the  “homie Court” advantage to tie the effort up as millions more illegals transit the border.

And about this utter self-serving crap:

Moran:

15.  The number one responsibility we have as American citizens is to pass to the next generation of Americans our constitutionally guaranteed liberties. There are days where it seems clear we are failing greatly.

Millions of illegals have and are continuing to cross the border with no grounding in or even cursory appreciation of our constitutional republic, respect for national sovereignty or even in the concept of a nation state.  Many of them are violent criminals, some terrorists and all of them frauds and Moran issues such utter self-righteous bs about protecting the next generation?

Current generations are in the process of having their financial security, their freedoms compromised, their nation invaded as a result of Moran’s (and the others) poor grounding in concepts, and wool-gathering if not subservience to special interests. The next generation under such pathetic irresponsibility will have their liberties subject to grinding burdens if not ended by the “necessity” of what has been wrought by such lack of seriousness.

Veritas PAC

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• This isn’t talking ill of the dead, it is responding to what “the dead” with ill will started in motion
• The dead do not get the last word
• It is correcting the ridiculous hagiography and exposing the perfidious and spiteful nature of John McCain

WHATEVER HIS TRUE HISTORY AS A “WAR HERO” WAS, JOHN McCAIN, AS A US SENATOR, BETRAYED HIS VOTERS MORE THAN ONCE

President Trump attacked the late Sen. John McCain Saturday over recently revealed evidence that the Arizona lawmaker helped push Russia-collusion rumors in the weeks after Trump’s election. (NY Post)

“Spreading the fake and totally discredited Dossier ‘is unfortunately a very dark stain against John McCain,’” Trump tweeted, quoting former independent counsel Ken Starr.
Trump continued that McCain “had far worse ‘stains’ than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace [Obamacare] after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!”

David Kramer, a former State Department official and close McCain associate, testified in a 2017 deposition that McCain sent him to London in 2016 to obtain a copy of the dossier that British ex-spy Christopher Steele had produced as opposition research for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

The dossier contained damning – and still unproven – allegations that Trump or his aides had colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election.

Kramer testified that he then gave the dossier to McCain, several Obama Administration officials, and multiple media outlets – including Buzzfeed, which published it weeks later.
His testimony was unsealed Thursday and reported in the Daily Caller.

McCain and Trump were frequent antagonists during the 2016 election and after Trump won the White House. Their antipathy ran so deep that McCain, who died of brain cancer in August, refused to allow the president to attend his funeral

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• The GOP 12 are one load short of MS-13
• But doing more to bring in MS-13 recruits than they can
• Breitbart must be rolling over in his grave
• Wait, Paul Ryan should be given honor of “13”

Listening to Breitbart News this morning and caught part of a substitute host discussing the GOP Senate’s rebuke of Trump’s Emergency Declaration”. Did not learn who the ‘sub’ for regular host Alex Marlowe was, but how Breitbart ever let this guy on is amazing. He couldn’t be as naive and unaware as he pretended, as he vigorously defended the despicable action by the 12 GOP senators who voted against their president on Thursday. I’ll be surprised if he is ever on again!

From his commentary:

a) Trump ‘mishandled’ the border issue. He should have gotten the funding for the wall the first thing after his election. He had both houses of congress and should have used the momentum from his upset victory to make it the first thing on his agenda.

b) He should not have tried to use ’emergency action’ to get funding that Congress didn’t give him. “Sets a precedent’ that a future Democrat president will use to get leftist objectives…eg., suspend the “Second Amendment” for example (though says just an example, not necessarily most likely). GOP should not ‘give’ the president such powers so that the future Democrat will use.

c) “Not to worry”…Trump can get the wall funding…though he was unclear as to how that would be ‘easy’.

d) Went on to mention Obama’s ‘executive action’ on Obamacare and DACA…as “abuses’ that were used in past and that the president ‘should not be given more powers’ that future Democrat congresses would fully support…because “Democrat Reps and Senators always support their president’. He seemed to ‘proudly note that GOP congresses don’t just give their full support in giving powers to theirs’.

On each of these points, it sounded like Don Lemon on MSNBC (under if Lemon got his ‘education’ on a “Crew” scholarship from Yale):

a) “Should have gotten the wall funding first thing”. Where was this guy? 1) the first thing the GOP majority did, following the election was to go out of its way to deny funding, thanks to Paul Ryan and no help from McConnell’s Senate. 2) that “momentum’ Trump had following his ‘upset’ win. What momentum? Trump has been opposed by his own treacherous party (recall s. Collins, Flake, et al? Recall the “Russia collusion’ fantasy that occupied every news cycle from Day one?Recall the 90% negative media coverage since even before the Inauguration? Recall the lying assurances Trump was given by Ryan and McConnell that he can relax…he’ll get his wall funding in the ‘next’ budget, right now isn’t the time”?)

b) Again, that tired old “mustn’t set a ‘precedent” that a future Democrat president will use to do all kinds of “bad things”!

This is irrefutable proof that this guy isn’t serious at all.

Since when do the Democrats need a ‘precedent’ to do anything they wish? The “precedent” crap was the excuse for not using the “nuclear option” to confirm judges, thanks to John McCain (God rest his soul). Lack of precedent didn’t bother Harry Reid… the first action he took when he became Senator Majority Leader…the “Nuclear Option” went BOOM!!

And Obamacare…the Democrats set many of their own “precedents” to get the Obamacare monstrosity rammed through. And, then there was DACA!

Those “precedents in all those cases, however, seemed for some reason not to be available when Republicans reclaimed power (i.e.. “couldn’t use ‘reconciliation’ to get rid of Obamacare even though the Democrats used it to get it…setting a ‘precedent’, by the way; DACA, although clearly an UnConstitutional “executive” action could not be rescinded in the same way it was created; Obama’s “Emergency Declarations” were never challenged by either party).

c) And, then the substitute host’s assurance that “Trump will get his wall funding…not to worry”;

Really? How? As Obama would say.. “he have a magic wand or something?” Apparently this ‘host’ doesn’t know, doesn’t care, or doesn’t mind just lying…many in the GOP Congress don’t want the wall!!! The US Chamber of Commerce doesn’t; most of the big money supporters of Republican Representatives and senators don’t want a wall!!! None of the GOP establishment leadership wants a wall!!!! And, did we mention? The liberal media doesn’t want the wall.

d) Finally, The ‘GOP 12’ were wise in not giving the presidency such ‘powers’ as ’emergency declarations’ that can be used in the future by Democratic presidents to do bad stuff.

WHAT?! Congress gave the presidency ‘those powers’ in the 70’s! How many such declarations in the past have there been…and how many are even still in effect???

I wonder if that “guest host”lasted the full show he was on? I hope not!     DLH

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They are all wondering when they get their tattoos

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Hey ‘Twiggy’…about that “national emergency”??!! It appears the “emergency” are these 12 Idiots! Trump is working to do the right thing. But screeching about Susan Collins or Mitt Romney won’t get you the coveted MSNBC gigs.  (You might include yourself and make it 13)     DLH

Here are the GOP senators who voted to block the emergency declaration:
• Lamar Alexander of Tennessee
• Roy Blunt of Missouri
• Susan Collins of Maine
• Mike Lee of Utah
• Jerry Moran of Kansas
• Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
• Rand Paul of Kentucky
• Rob Portman of Ohio
• Mitt Romney of Utah
• Marco Rubio of Florida
• Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania
• Roger Wicker of Mississippi

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The first, if let stand by SCOTUS, could put an end to Planned Parenthood’s money train. A court opinion so true, so plain, so lucid. The second is what should result in criminal indictments of high elements of the Obama Administration, including Obama.

Both from Gary Bauer at American Values.

Victory For Life

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business, suffered a big legal defeat yesterday in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

In 2016, Ohio passed legislation that cut off taxpayer funding to organizations that promote or perform abortions. Predictably, Planned Parenthood sued the state, arguing it had a constitutional right to perform abortions with taxpayer dollars. Planned Parenthood prevailed in lower federal courts.

But yesterday 11 of court’s 17 judges came down squarely on the side of life, on the side of common sense and on the side of taxpayers in upholding the Ohio law. The majority opinion declared that while women may have a right to obtain abortions, Planned Parenthood does not have a constitutional right to perform them with taxpayer dollars.

Here are some excerpts from the majority opinion:

“Private organizations do not have a constitutional right to obtain governmental funding to support their activities. The State also may choose not to subsidize constitutionally protected activities.

“Just as it has no obligation to provide a platform for an individual’s free speech . . . it has no obligation to pay for a woman’s abortion. Case after case establishes that a government may refuse to subsidize abortion services. . .

“[Planned Parenthood does] not have a Fourteenth Amendment right to perform abortions. The Supreme Court has never identified a freestanding right to perform abortions.”

In related news, the Senate’s confirmation yesterday of President Trump’s 35th circuit court nominee transformed the Third Circuit Court of Appeals from a liberal majority to a conservative majority.

In addition, Senate Republicans are preparing to change the rules to end the unprecedented obstruction of President Trump’s nominees, accelerating the process of restoring balance to the courts.

Obama’s Obstruction Of Justice

House liberals have made no secret of their desire to impeach the president for obstruction of justice. But newly released transcripts of testimony from former FBI officials suggest lawmakers may be looking to impeach the wrong president.

During an exchange with Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), former FBI lawyer Lisa Page makes it crystal clear that the Obama Justice Department effectively handcuffed and shutdown the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information.

Page said the FBI and the Justice Department had “multiple conversations . . . about charging [Clinton with] gross negligence,” but that Justice officials ordered the FBI not to recommend such charges.

Page also told lawmakers that the FBI was not truly in charge of the investigation, saying:

“Everybody talks about this as if this was the FBI investigation, and the truth of the matter is there . . . was not a single investigative step that we did not do in consultation with or at the direction of the Justice Department.”

Lisa Page also makes it clear that many FBI decisions were driven by political considerations, made under the assumption that Hillary Clinton would win the election, thus becoming president, and that Donald Trump would lose.

We have also learned in recent days that the FBI’s top lawyer, James Baker, found Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information “alarming” and “appalling,” and that Baker wanted to prosecute Clinton. But the Justice Department was obviously meddling in the investigation and would not allow it.

These revelations cast serious doubt on the claims of Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who insisted that she was a neutral party in the investigation and would accept whatever the FBI recommended.

We now know that four days after her declaration of neutrality, James Comey cleared Hillary Clinton because Lynch, who ran the Justice Department, had essentially ordered him to do so.

It was clear from the beginning that Hillary Clinton deliberately evaded security protocols and procedures. She did exactly what she ordered State Department staff not to do. An ambassador was fired in part because he violated that policy.

There’s the “intent” to mishandle classified information that James Comey said he could not find.

Now it is also clear that the Obama Justice Department obstructed justice in the Clinton investigation while it set out to pervert justice in the Trump/Russia investigation.

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With the elite of our society “buying” a college degree for their ‘less gifted’ children  from prestigious colleges and universities, all of the consequences that have afflicted well-intended “Affirmative Action ” programs seem now to be affecting, or infecting, many of our most honored institutions and, even more tragically, penalizing the “best and brightest” among us.

In recent months, everyday Americans have been astonished to see and hear the abject ignorance of some of our most prominent and widely publicized members of Congress.

The news of the College Admissions Cheating scandal, in which some of the very rich and  “famous” among us have been caught bribing  administrators of some of the country’s most  prestigious universities to get their often less qualified offspring admitted, is raising new questions.

Not the least among them, and  one on which many Americans have now intuitively arrived at an answer, is… “how is it that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the wildly celebrated newly elected Congressperson from New York, is so grotesquely ignorant of the very discipline in which she claims a degree in from one the nation’s elite universities?”

As many have concluded upon hearing of the college cheating scandal, ‘she must have been a beneficiary of just that kind of chicanery…somebody, in effect, ‘bought’ the young phenom a degree in economics from Boston University.

Now that may not be the case. ‘AOC’ may have earned her ignorance the ‘old-fashioned way’, by lacking good judgement, being supremely, and mistakenly, confident that whatever modest skills she might have are superior to anyone else’s, and absorbing four years of misleading information from corrupt and/or leftist instructors.

In either case, Boston University should be re-examining its approach to their delivery of education. Out of self-preservation, so should their alumni demand it!

But, the larger point is that the bribing of officials by rich elites to get their less gifted children into “top” schools and be ‘given’ a degree which will be an unquestionably accepted gateway to a lucrative future, is damaging to society at large and, immorally shortchanges very deserving children of the less-connected, non-wealthy, and honest.

This very closely resembles the glaring failure of a well-intended, but misguided program implemented during the last century to eliminate racial and class injustice  in education and employment…Affirmative Action.

Among the unintended consequences of “AA’ was the eventual loosening of qualification standards…qualifications for entry into good schools and into the most desirable occupations and professions.

But, perhaps the greatest unfairness resulting from Affirmative Action programs, as they became more and more distorted and corrupted was that virtually every minority entering an elite school or a coveted profession became viewed with a bit or a lot of suspicion…’was he or she really qualified’, or did they gain entry through special ‘considerations’ unrelated to ability and/or proven skills? While many were ‘really’ qualified, enough were not, which resulted in all being viewed negatively to some extent or another…a genuine tragedy for the best, brightest, and deserving  among them.

When considering the bizarre case of Ocasio-Cortez, such questions come front and center.

How many of the people who are in crucial positions of authority and responsibility which impact our nation’s future are in their positions because someone “bought” the “credentials’ which got them there? And, how many of those with the true potential to assure America’s greatness in the future are not in those positions because their parents couldn’t or didn’t ‘buy somebody off’?

DLH

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• Time spent with Bill Maher certainly makes people crazy
  
• And malnourishment eventually gets around to sacrificing the brain

“Coulter publicly dismissed Trump’s plan (to declare a national emergency in an attempt to get money for the ‘border wall’) as overreach, and said in a radio interview that the president was “fooling the rubes with a national emergency.”

“Forget the fact that he’s digging his own grave,” Coulter said at the time. “The only national emergency is that our president is an idiot.”

“Conservative commentator Ann Coulter had criticism of a historic nature for President Trump on Friday after he announced a deal to reopen the government for three weeks without funding for the border wall.

“Good news for George Herbert Walker Bush: As of today, he is no longer the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States,” Coulter tweeted.”
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The original Twiggy at least didn’t sacrifice protein to hair

So-called “conservative” Anne Coulter is a “lightweight” in every sense of the word.
‘Weighing in’ at probably about 30 lbs, with a ‘figure’ like a cardboard cutout’, Coulter is Jenny Craig’s worst nightmare. Nobody asks Jenny if her weight loss program will produce a figure like Coulter’s.

Apparently Anne realizes that her “sell by” date has expired so she’s obviously after a gig on CNN. Coulter has ‘jumped the shark’ in recent days attacking Trump in her shrillest, nastiest Coulteresque style because he hasn’t achieved his promised goal of a border wall on her timetable.

The “partial government shutdown” was stupid…the ‘national emergency declaration’ was “overreach”. Trump is “an idiot”!

“Twiggy” was apparently too busy noticing that sanctimonious  Rand Paul, the dishonest Paul Ryan and the usual gang of establishment Republicans have not only refused to help the president in his ‘wall’ venture, but have actually done about everything possible to block him.

Actually, I am not perturbed by Coulter jumping to the side of Pelosi/Schumer, et al. Even when she was hurling her special brand of invective against liberals, I found her rancid style embarrassing.

I understand she’ll be soon releasing a new series of books:

“Anne’s Lies About the American Right”
“How to Get a Great Gig From a Liberal Media”
“How I Became a Shill For the DC Establishment (I Always Was, Dumbass ‘Rubes’)”

 Can’t wait for her book tour.       DLH

• (To see Anne at her ‘signature worst’ , watch the video from her performance in 2016 at  the “Rob Lowe Roast”; her critics were delighted at the ‘worst performance at a roast’ by Coulter. Conservatives were equally critical. Even then, when she was a Trump supporter, she managed to embarrass Republicans and conservatives. Watch: https://dailycaller.com/2016/09/05/she-absolutely-bombed-ann-coulter-gets-eviscerated-for-awful-jokes-at-rob-lowe-roast/ )

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