September, 2018, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: Idiotic Statements, Lies, and Threats From Politicians Across the Country

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a Democratic candidate for Congress in a NYC Congressional district. She has been a gaffe and idiocy machine of quotes since becoming a candidate. Rather than review all of her stupid quotes and positions, just type in her name in the search box above to get a listing of past blog posts that went over her insanity.

But she is not done, she is becoming the Nancy Pelosi quote machine that makes one wonder: is she really that out of touch with reality:

• Ocasio-Cortez recently proclaimed that, “I got elected.” No, not really. You won your party’s primary nomination to be a candidate but the election is not until November in case your staff has not told you. And she may not get elected then either since the incumbent Democrat she upset in the primaries, Joe Crowley, is running as an independent candidate and currently leads her in some opinion polls. 
• Makes you wonder how someone who wants to be in Congress does not understand how the election process works.
• She recently claimed that, “ICE is sexually assaulting women,” a statement that infers that everyone working for ICE is assaulting women, a highly unlikely situation.
• But even worse, she could not provide any proof that ANYONE in ICE was sexually assaulting women, inciting hate and misinformation to the worst degree possible.
• As any reader of this blog knows, the reality of manmade global warming is a myth, we have provided hundreds of statistics, facts, research, and scientists that prove that manmade global warming is a myth but that did not stop her from claiming that “Americans are dying from global warming.”
• As we have shown any number of times that any actual global warming that occurred naturally has resulted in milder storms, fewer wildfires, higher crop yields, etc., factors that have all made humanity’s plight easier to handle.

The gaffe mouth that keeps on giving. Unfortunately, this gaffe generator might actually end up in Congress where her lack of facts, knowledge, and sanity will allow her to vote on legislation that affects all of us.

2) Speaking of lying, let’s move on to the Senate hearings on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. If you have been following the hearings you know that a handful of Democratic Senators have been absolute horse’s rear ends in their hysterics and childish posturing. According to the Conservative Daily Post, California Senator Dianne Feinstein was leading that caravan of lies:

• During the hearings, Feinstein related in a past job she had experiences sentencing women to jail for getting an abortion in California at a time when abortion was illegal in that state.
• According to Feinstein’s words she as an appointee on the governor’s “term setting and paroling authority” for women who had been convicted of felonies.
• She said that she sentenced women who had committed abortions with state prison time or approving them for parole.
• Apparently she made the same claim during the hearings to approve Jeff Sessions for attorney general: “she said that during the 1960s, she “sentenced women in California” after they were convicted of felony abortion. She even claimed that she sentenced them to a maximum of ten years.”

The problem with all of this posturing is that Feinstein has never been a lawyer or a judge. Thus, she never “sentenced” anyone to prison for having an abortion. She never even attained a law degree. She only sat on a parole board to determine if someone was eligible for parole.

The lies of Feinstein get even worse if Clarke D. Forsythe, the senior legal counsel for Americans United For Life, is to be believed. According to the article, he claims that no one was EVER prosecuted in California for having an abortion prior to it being made legal. So, she never sentenced anyone for having an abortion since no one was ever prosecuted for having an abortion. Unbelievable falsehoods.

3) The immigration enforcement people at ICE are charged with carrying out the immigration laws of the land as legislated by Congress. Apparently, though, that simple process is not well understood by a member of Congress who has set a very dangerous precedent via his latest idiotic and vindictive words:

• Unbelievably, Congressman Ruben Gallego recently threatened ICE agents for doing their jobs, as mandated by Congress.
• Specifically, he stated that those that actually do their job for ICE, deporting illegal immigrants, should fear for their safety, that they would “not be safe” if somehow Democrats took over the government.
• He implied that these brave immigration enforcement agents could not use the excuse that they were doing their jobs if Democrats in Congress decided to come after them, again, for doing their job.
• His exact words were: “If you are a US government official and you are deporting Americans be warned. When the worm turns you will not be safe because you were just following orders. You do not have to take part in illegal acts ordered by this President's administration.”

How far down the rabbit hole of insanity have we fallen when a sitting member of Congress threatens a government employee for doing the job that Congress authorized? Trump has not authorized illegal acts, he is executing the laws of the land, deporting illegal immigrants for violating Congressionally mandated laws.

Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera nailed it when he rebutted rebuked Gallego, calling his behavior “reckless and irresponsible: “Now we’re telling cops that if you enforce the law you’re going to be in trouble sometime down the road when the worm turns? I just think that that is a reckless and irresponsible statement. I back the ICE officers. I detest roundup and removal of average working undocumented immigrants. I think it’s absolutely unnecessary … but you don’t threaten the cops. You don’t threaten the thin blue line. That what separates civilization from anarchy.”

That will do it for today’s insanity: a confused Congressman telling government officials not to enforce existing laws that Congress passed, a California Senator with an over inflated opinion of her accomplishments or who is an outright liar, and the idiocy of Ocasio-Cortez’s statements keep oncoming, More insanity to follow.

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August, 2018, Part 1, Political Class Insanity: A Chinese Spy In The Senate and Idiots At The TSA

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) Democrats and liberals in Washington and across the country have been vigorously pushing the concept that somehow Trump and the Russians are colluding together to rule the country and rule the world. The concepts and theories have grown to ridiculous proportions and none of them seem to have a grain of truth to them. Special prosecutor Robert Mueller has been looking for a smoking gun for well over a year, having wasted millions and millions of dollars in a fruitless search.

Which makes the following REALITY of what actually has happened to a major Democratic Senator even more ironic. According to various news sources including the San Francisco Chronicle and the left leaning Politico:

• Apparently, California Senator Dianne Feinstein’s personal driver for about 20 years was actually a spy for the Chinese government.
• The employee/spy was not only her personal driver but did office tasks, was a liaison to the Asian-American community, and attended Chinese government consulate events on her behalf, a reality that certainly made reporting to his handlers quite easy.
• The FBI finally told her about the spy about five years ago, catching her totally off guard, with her reportedly being “mortified” this was happening.
• Jeff Harp, a former FBI agent, was interviewed about the issue by a local TV station, KPIX 5: "Think about Diane Feinstein and what she had access to. One, she had access to the Chinese community here in San Francisco; great amount of political influence. Two, correct me if I’m wrong, Dianne Feinstein still has very close ties to the intelligence committees there in Washington, D.C. They also have an interest in the economy here. How to get political influence here. What’s being developed in Silicon Valley that has dual-use technology. All of that is tied to the Bay Area."

Great, Democrats worrying about and wasting time and taxpayer wealth on something Trump probably did not do and being oblivious to a real spy scandal in their own house. Pathetic. 

It also brings into question of how effective, or ineffective, the FBI was in this whole matter. It took them 20 years to figure out there was a Chinese spying working closely with a major U.S. Senator. Also pathetic.

2) We have never been big fans of the TSA. They always seem to rank up there as one of the most corrupt, inept, and expensive government agencies that we have. Their sole purpose is to protect the traveling public and the way and how they do that is often laughable and stupid.

Which is why this next discussion just adds to their insanity:

• According to an Independent Journal Review article by Madison Summers on August 2, 2018, the TSA is considering discontinuing doing airport security screenings at some of the smaller airports across the country.
• The logic, or illogic, is that the TSA wants to focus its security efforts only on larger airports.
• About 150 smaller sized airports that serve planes with 60 seats or fewer would see their TSA security processes shut down.

Totally insane. Obviously, terrorists and other nut ball cases would immediately use these now unprotected airports for their terrorist and criminal activities. Glen Winn, an airline security expert with over 30 years industry experience told Fox News: “I find that unbelievable, totally beyond comprehension.”

Look, like I said above, we have never been a big fan of the competence of the TSA. But under no set of assumptions can I figure out why this is a good idea. Is the TSA that stupid to think that terrorists and criminals will ignore the opportunity to bring down smaller jets, killing dozens of Americans in the process? Are they that stupid to think that terrorists only want to bring down bigger planes? Insanity.

3) Let’s stay with the TSA to again confirm why the logic process and strategic thinking of this agency is defective in other areas of its domain, not just whether or not it should protect Americans traveling via smaller airports. Consider a recent article by Bob Barr, former Congressman and former Libertarian candidate for President:

• The TSA maintains a list of suspicious actions that could indicate that you are a terrorist when you travel, which on the surface seems like a good thing to have.
• But if your Adam’s apple bobs too much, if you sweat too much, if you glance out the window too much, or if you visit the bathroom more than once, you are now considered a terrorist suspect by the TSA.
• These innocent actions are part of the TSA’s “Quiet Skies” program and the list of suspicious activities is not limited to the above examples.
• So if you have a medical condition that causes you to sweat excessively or need to go to the bathroom more than normal, or if, heaven forbid, your Adam’s apple bobbles, the TSA is watching you. 
• Mr. Barr provided no evidence that any of these actions are based on any science or experience or if they have captured a sweaty terrorist, probably because no evidence exists. Keep in mind that before anyone gets to an airport gate, their luggage and their carryons, their body, their personal history has been already checked for terrorism tendencies and realities. 
• Checking bodily fluids at this point in time is likely useless and dangerous from a Fourth Amendment perspective as Mr. Barr lays out: “When passengers are “watched” surreptitiously by government agents, or by airline employees at the behest of those agents, what information is noted, in what form is it collected, where is it maintained, and for how long? Might a law-abiding, but excessively nervous passenger find himself unwittingly on a watch list; a list that becomes part of a vast database of information subject to algorithmic manipulation that might show up in the future as a flag identifying the individual as untrustworthy, or perhaps even unfit to purchase a firearm or engage in other endeavors? These are not crazy, hypothetical questions; and citizens have a right to know whether, how, why and to what extent, their movements are being surveilled and cataloged by government agents simply because they have decided to travel by air.”

So very well said. A high risk of privacy and Fourth Amendment right violations with little upside from a security perspective. Insane.

That will do it for today’s political class insanity update: a Chinese spy in the Senate and idiots at the TSA, sounds about right. More insanity to come.

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December, 2016, Part 1, Politicians Say The Darndest Things: Obama, Pelosi, and More

Ever so often we run a series of posts under the theme,“Politicians say the darndest things.” It is a parody of an old television show, “House Party,” where host Art Linkletter would ask simple questions of young kids and wait for their often funny responses. This segment of his show was called “Kids Say The Darndest Things.”

Unfortunately when kids say silly or dumb things, it is funny. When politicians say silly or dumb things, there are usually serious ramifications across the land that often involve stupid laws, wasteful spending, self delusion of a politician’s intelligence or abilities, or a continued lack of faith that today’s politicians are smart enough to get anything right.

So let’s take a look at the latest darndest things that American politicians are saying today:

1) Barack Obama: “My suggestion to the president-elect is, you know, going through the legislative process is always better, in part because it’s harder to undo.” 

Comment: This advice to Donald Trump from Obama is particularly inane given Obama’s excessive use of executive orders that were far reaching, often illegal (as subsequent court cases proved out), and freedom depriving. After the disastrous 2014 elections for the Democrats, Obama basically snubbed his nose at Americans and the Constitution when he stated he had “a pen and a phone,” clearly implying that he would govern as a dictator via executive actions since 1) he no longer controlled at least one house of Congress and 2) he deigned it below him to deal with, negotiate with, and compromise with Republicans. And then to give Trump the exact opposite advice, precious.

Also, I am sure that the Founding Fathers set up the Constitution so that the legislative process was the ONLY way to govern. Nowhere in the Constitution do the words and powers of “executive orders” exist. Obama acts this is an either/or process, either use the executive order or the legislative process when in reality and in the Constitution, the legislative process is the only process.

2) Nancy Pelosi: “The [United States] intelligence community never said that [that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction]. There is no intelligence to support that claim. That threat was made by the Bush-Cheney administration.”

Comment: Just another of dozens, if not hundreds, of times when Pelosi stated something as fact that could not be further from the truth. The “National Intelligence Estimate of 2002” was an extensive Federal government report and analysis that concluded that Iraq was continuing to develop and build weapons of mass destruction, the exact opposite of what Pelosi recently stated on TV. Now whether or not that report is accurate, is a different story. The fact that it exists shows that Pelosi was either talking out of ignorance or just plain lying, which is par for the course with her. So scary to think that at one time she was just two heartbeats away from being President.

Note: before uttering such an ignorant and incorrect statement regarding Iraq, Pelosi might have wanted to check some historical comments from leaders of her own party:

“Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. A deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.” — Democrat Sen. John F. Kerry, Oct. 9, 2002

“We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.” — Democrat and former Vice President Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

“The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists.” — Democrat and former President Bill Clinton, 1998

Think before you talk Nancy, makes you look much smarter.

3) Bill Clinton: Donald Trump “doesn’t know much” but “one thing he does know is how to get angry white men to vote for him.”

Comment: Cannot get much more racist and sexist than this statement. Well over 60 million people voted for Trump, it is not demographically possible for all of them to be angry white men. I have friends, a female sibling, relatives, and co-workers who voted for Trump and none of them are angry white men. To make generalizations like this is so bigoted, so petty and childish, so divisive to the rest of the country.

And even if over 60 million angry white men did vote for Trump, so what? Angry white male Americans have the same amount of rights as any other type of American voter. To condescendingly look down on them like Clinton shows what a small, pathetic angry old white man Bill Clinton has himself become.

4) Senator Dianne Feinstein: “The name-calling, the email intrusion, the misinterpretation of what she had done with the emails, 11 hours in front of a committee while she [Hillary Clinton] was a candidate, and she stood up to it all.” 

Comment: Obviously, Dianne Feinstein has a lot of respect and admiration for Hillary Clinton, which is certainly her right and privilege in America. But I find it pretty hypocritical that she feels sorry for Clinton because of the names Clinton was called during the campaign but Ms. Feinstein seems to forget that either Hillary or top members of her campaign also did a lot of name calling of their own:

• African-Americans are “professional never do-wells.”
• Muslims are also “professional never do-wells.”
• Every type of Hispanic voter would be approached via a “taco bowl” strategy,” an attitude and strategy that reduced every variation of Hispanic voter to a single culinary option.
• Hispanic voters are “needy.”
• Millions of Americans are "deplorable."
• Millennial voters are “f...king stupid.”

Yep, maybe Hillary was called some bad names during the campaign but she and her staff were just as gross, just as bigoted, something that Feinstein failed to mention in the interview where she made the above quote.

5) Nancy Pelosi: “They won’t be able to go to their own doctor if you take this away.”

Comment: A little context for this quote from the inane quote machine that is Pelosi. Medicaid, along with Medicare and Social Security, are heading for a fiscal cliff of insolvency as they eat up more and more of the Federal budget and taxpayer dollars. The unfunded liabilities of these programs run into the tens of TRILLIONS of dollars. If something is not done and done soon to corral the runaway costs of these programs, the Federal government and the country will go bankrupt.

Under the past eight years of the Obama administration, a time when Democrats sometimes controlled both houses of Congress and Pelosi was actually in charge of one of those Houses, Democrats and Pelosi did not nothing to address or fix the problem. Now that some adults in Congress, namely some Republicans, are actually trying to find a way to fix this runaway cost problem, Pelosi is worried that whatever changes they propose for Medicaid will result in some Americans not being able to “go to their own doctor.”

Which is so precious and hypocritical when you recall that Pelosi was a main driver of Obama Care, a lousy piece of legislation that resulted in tens of millions of Americans losing access to either their current insurance policy, their current doctors, or their preferred hospitals or all three. All of a sudden now Pelosi is worried that the potential Medicaid changes might prevent some people from seeing their own doctors, talk about being a hypocrite.

6) Barack Obama: “Almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago. In other words, by so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we started. It’s a situation that I’m proud to leave for my successor.” 

Comment: Where to start with this delusional statement? So many different examples of the exact opposite:

• When Obama tried to play nice with the Castros and Cuba they took to their newspapers to mock and belittle him.
• When Obama tried to interfere with how the Philippines President was handling that country’s drug problem, that President called him some unspeakable names and turned to Russia and China for support.
• When Obama threatened Syria with a “red line” relative to chemical weapons, that country’s President ignored him and Obama did nothing.
• When Obama threatened Russia with sanctions if they did not leave the Ukraine, Russia ignored him and did nothing.
• When Obama protested when China started building man made islands in the South China Sea that will serve as military bases, in violation of every international law and rule, the Chinese ignored him and continued on their construction plans.
• When Obama gave the Iranians a sweetheart deal for nuclear weapons, the US Arab allies looked to Russia for military armaments.
• When Obama and his NSA were caught spying on foreign leaders, the President of Brazil took the unprecedented move of refusing a formal state dinner at the White House.
• When Obama continually chastised Israel, he incurred by far the lowest Presidential favorability ratings among Israelis of all time.
• Despite spending close to half a trillion dollars on the Pentagon over his eight years in office, our military readiness has never been weaker with vast amounts of our military forces not combat ready, making us hardly stronger than we were eight years ago.
• And while we may be more prosperous than we were eight years ago as a country, this has been the weakest economic recovery since the Great Depression, leaving us particularly vulnerable when the next economic downturn occurs since Obama had doubled our national debt by $10 trillion, 94 million American adults are not in the workforce, an all time high, the true unemployment rate is just under 10%, wages and income levels are stagnant, leaving about 30% of US households with virtually no savings and almost 50% of American households unable to handle an unexpected expense of $500.

Delusional is the only word to describe this President’s higher than merited opinion of himself, a typical narcissistic trait.

That will do it for today’s inane and silly political quotes. If they were not so vital in making decisions in our lives, they would be insignificant parts of our lives. More stupidity, pettiness, and quotes tomorrow.

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