November, 2017, Political Class Insanity, The Scandal That Is Hillary Clinton, Part 2

It is the beginning of 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.

We are going to dedicate a couple of days to the latest insanity that has been coming out regarding the corrupt and unethical behavior of leaders in the Democratic Party, specifically Hillary Clinton, her staff, and their shenanigans.

1) Over the past two posts we have been discussing the insanity that was Hillary Clinton's 2016 Presidential campaign run. A lot of the material we have gone over already and will go over today is driven by statements that former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile has been making in the news lately as she began promoting her book about the 2016 campaign.

Peter Kasperowicz, writing for the Washington Examiner on November 8, 2017, picks up some of the commentary and stories that Brazil has been sharing:

• Brazile called the Clinton campaign a “cult,” that was impossible to penetrate: “It was a cult. I felt like it was a cult. You could not penetrate them.”
• As the campaign was coming up to election day, Brazile could not convince Clinton staff to work harder in some states that she knew were vulnerable to a Trump victory but her pleas were ignored.
• She wanted a stronger reachout effort to voters in specific states, mostly in the mid west, but the Clinton campaign decided not to expend the resources to do so: "I cannot help a candidate... if I don't have the resources, if I cannot spend the resources that the party is raising."
• The Clinton campaign ultimately dismissed those efforts and her recommendations and lost those states on election day.
• Not only did the staff not take her advice, told her that they had the situation under control and to basically go away: "It was so condescending." 

Hubris, conceit, overconfidence and condescending, thank goodness Hillary lost the election, that is no way to treat other human beings who are trying to help you or to run a country, thinking you know everything.

2) Seth Rich was a young Clinton staffer based in Washington DC that worked on the campaign’s computer systems. Although not proven, there are many people who believe that Rich was the source of the materials that Wikileaks made public in the lead up to the election on the inner workings of the Clinton campaign and how corrupt and unethical it was. 

Possibly a coincidence, or possibly not, after Wikileaks started publishing the materials, Seth Rich was murdered on a DC street, a murder that left his wallet, phone, and other valuables intact but which the DC police have so far called a simple mugging gone bad. The conspiracy theory is that he was murdered by the Clintons in an obvious payback for stealing the data and making their corruption public via Wikileaks.

According to a recent article on the Constitution website:

• After Wikileaks started publishing the stolen emails that were taken from the Democrats’ computers, Brazile says she became more and more paranoid about possible Russian efforts to sway the election.
• But according to the article: “But even more than the Russians, Brazile says she feared possible retribution from shadowy elements within the campaign and the Democratic Party who might blame her for the leak. Her fears only intensified, she says, after the mysterious shooting of former campaign staffer Seth Rich, who the authorities said was killed during a robbery, though many so-called conspiracy theorists have speculated about a possible Democratic plot to kill Rick for his role in leaking the stash of DNC emails to Wikileaks.”
• Brazile’s fears got so bad that she eventually feared that she might “disappear” while serving as the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
• As a result of the Rich murder that she began shutting the blinds in her office to make her a harder target for snipers in addition to installing surveillance cameras in her home.

Scary stuff when even Clinton political allies and friends, remember that Brazile committed the highly unethical act of getting Clinton and advance copy of debate questions when she worked for CNN at the time, start worrying about their own safety relative to the Clintons.

3) Getting away from Brazile’s experiences for a while, let’s talk about former FBI Director James Comey and how we now know that he was definitely in Hillary Clinton's corner when it came to investigating her illegal and unethical use of a computer server outside the guidelines in place for national security protocols.

According to a recent article on the Conservative Zone website:

• Congressional members and their committees have come across FBI documents that show that Comey was writing up his recommendation to dismiss Clinton’s illegal and unethical use of her email computer server in her home before the investigation his agents were operating was even close to being done.
• His exoneration of Clinton began back in April or May 2016 which was well before his agents were done with their investigation.
• Not only was he already working on the exoneration speech but he callously circulated the drafts of the exoneration among high ranking FBI officials, again, long before the agents’ work was done.
• At this time, the FBI had not even interviewed Clinton herself never mind 16 other key witnesses and high ranking officials on her campaign staff.
• Many of these witnesses to be questioned actually had direct experience with building and using the non-government computer server.
• Comey was part of a conspiracy involving Obama, the Justice Department and Clinton to make it look like Clinton had made an unintentional mistake by using her own computer server and exposing national secrets to foreign hackers, that it was a simple mistake, she had not intended to expose the national secrets or intended to harm the nation via this rogue computer server.
• However, as the article points out that the laws governing such misuse of government secrets and documents does not differentiate between intent and accidents, in either case the law says such behavior is illegal, i.e. ignorance of the law is no excuse.
• According to the article, this strategy laid out by the White House and Clinton which culminated on July 5, 2016 when, “Comey had a news conference in which he stated that Secretary Clinton was “extremely careless” in handling classified information through a private email server, but that she had not intentions of endangering national security. Again, the criminal statute relevant to her email scandal does not require intent.”
• Since Obama and Clinton had communicated national security issues and secrets over the rogue computer server, prosecuting Clinton would have also meant possibly prosecuting Obama since he was aware how they were communicating and how illegal it was.

Thus, the fix was in since Obama would never had allowed the Justice Department to prosecute Clinton and expose Obama, and Conmey became the stooge that made sure nothing happened.

Unbelievable corruption at the highest levels of the Federal government. Total lack of integrity and hypocrisy to the highest degree, i.e. laws do not apply to us, the political elite of the country. Again, thank goodness this travesty of justice did not get elected to the Presidency, the corruption that would have ensued would have been unimaginable.

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November, 2017, Political Class Insanity: The Scandal That Is Hillary Clinton, Part 1

It is the beginning of 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.

We are going to dedicate a couple of days to the latest insanity that has been coming out regarding the corrupt and unethical behavior of leaders in the Democratic Party, specifically Hillary Clinton, her staff, and their shenanigans.

1) Let’s start out with a quick summary we put forth in our last post regarding the latest revelations by Donna Brazile who became the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in the midst of the Presidential race in 2016:

• Brazile thought that Obama was a leech to the Democratic Party, that he only used the Party for his own ego and personal causes which helped drive the DNC into near bankruptcy.
• According to Brazile: “We had three Democratic parties: The party of Barack Obama, the party of Hillary Clinton, and this weak little vestige of a party led by (Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz) that was doing a very poor job getting people who were not president elected.”
• Furthermore: “This was not working to strengthen the party. He [Obama] left it in debt. Hillary bailed it out so that she could control it, and Debbie went along with all of this because she liked the power and perks of being a chair but not the responsibilities.”

Let’s move from these basics to more detailed insanity from Hillary and her minions last year.

2) Ben Shapiro, writing for the Daily Wire website on November 2, 2017, filled in some details on what Brazile has revealed about the unethical workings of the Clinton campaign:

• After reading what Brazile has released from her forthcoming book, Shapiro summarizes her conclusions that Hillary was the villainess, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was incompetent and lazy, and Obama was “the unnamed cancer that ate away at the center of the party.”
• Brazile realized the Hillary had indeed rigged the nomination process of the Democratic Party and she regretted having to be the one to tell Bernie Sanders that he had been short circuited in his plan to become President.
• Wasserman-Schultz, the predecessor to Brazile as head of the Democratic National Committee, was inept and a disaster: “My predecessor, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had not been the most active chair in fundraising at a time when President Barack Obama’s neglect had left the party in significant debt. As Hillary’s campaign gained momentum, she [Clinton]resolved the party’s debt and put it on a starvation diet. It had become dependent on her campaign for survival, for which she expected to wield control of its operations.”
• Brazile claims that Wasserman-Schultz turned the operations of the Democratic Party over to the Clinton camp before the primaries started which allowed Clinton to control all party functions to her advantage.
• Brazile claims that Obama help lead the party to being broke with a $24 million debt on the books when Brazile took over the DNC.
• This debt hole allowed Clinton to step in and eliminate the debt but only by assuming control of all Democratic Party operations.
• According to Brazile, the CFO of the Hillary campaign, Gary Gensler, “described the party as fully under the control of Hillary’s campaign, which seemed to confirm the suspicions of the Bernie camp. The campaign had the DNC on life support, giving it money every month to meet its basic expenses, while the campaign was using the party as a fund-raising clearing house.”
• Shapiro described the Hillary takeover of the Democratic Party as a money laundering operation since while she raised a bunch of campaign money, almost all of that money went to her campaign and she only allocated less than one half of 1 percent of all money raised to the states,” as described by Brazile: “When the Politico story described this arrangement as “essentially … money laundering” for the Clinton campaign, Hillary’s people were outraged at being accused of doing something shady. Bernie’s people were angry for their own reasons, saying this was part of a calculated strategy to throw the nomination to Hillary.”
• Shapiro and others conclude that Bernie Sanders campaign got robbed of a fair fight for the nominations which Brazile describes the reality: “The funding arrangement with HFA and the victory fund agreement was not illegal, but it sure looked unethical. If the fight had been fair, one campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead.”

Wow, talk about cutthroat and unethical behavior. Step in and take over a bankrupt political party and then use the machinery of that party for her benefit to the detriment of all others in the party. 

2) Let’s review some other quotes from Brazile regarding Hillary, Barack, and the 2016 Presidential campaign:

• “We had three Democratic parties: The party of Barack Obama, the party of Hillary Clinton, and this weak little vestige of a party led by (Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz) that was doing a very poor job getting people who were not president elected.”
• “This [Obama’s actions and/or inaction] was not working to strengthen the party. He left it in debt. Hillary bailed it out so that she could control it, and Debbie went along with all of this because she liked the power and perks of being a chair but not the responsibilities.”

Bernie never had a chance, the embedded political class politicians in charge of the Democratic Party nominating process either weakened it or took charge of it for their own selfish and greedy purposes.

Wow, enough scandal and unethical behavior for one day. But certainly not a surprise, given the Clinton Crime Syndicate’s behavior we have talked about previously, what the Clintons want the Clintons go for in any way possible, be it personal wealth or the Presidency of the United States.

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November,2017, Part 9, Political Class Insanity: A $6 TRILLION Foreign Affairs Mistake and The Nonsense Of the Democratic Party

It is the beginning of 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.

1) One of the biggest spenders, and wasters, of taxpayer wealth has almost always been the Pentagon. Although it varies year to year, recent Pentagon budgets have usually been between $600 and $700 billion a year. A tremendous amount of money to be spent to defend the country.

And one reason why the budget may be so high is that the Washington political class has used and abused the Pentagon’s fighting resources to stick its nose into the business of countries around the world. And the success rate of these intrusions to other countries affairs has usually made a bad situation worse:

• After 9-11, Bush invaded both Afghanistan and Iraq in search of Bin Laden and to destroy terrorist nations and havens.
• This resulted in basically destroying two nations and two societies and helping spread terrorism even further throughout the Middle East.
• Obama took over and promised to have us militarily out of Afghanistan by 2014, another in a long list of busted promises.
• Not only are we still militarily in Afghanistan but Obama’s military strategies have allowed the Taliban to become almost as strong as they were when our intrusion began.
• In Iraq, against the advice of his military and diplomatic advisors, Obama withdrew all significant U.S. military personnel from the country in order to have a talking point in the 2012 Presidential election.
• Although he promised at the time that Iraq was secure, safe and democratic, with the withdrawal of U.S. troops, ISIS, the most heinous terrorist group of all time took root and shredded not only Iraq but Syria also.
• Obama poohed poohed ISIS, calling them the JV of terror groups, an assessment that could not have been further from the truth.
• Obama then began meddling in the Syrian civil war, looking like a fool when he drew “a red line” relative to chemical weapon use by the Syrian military and then did nothing when the Syrian military actually used chemical weapons.
• Obama also got us militarily involved in the Libyan civil war which went very badly, creating another terrorist haven in the Middle East.
• In addition, Obama dropped bombs and missiles on six different Middle Eastern countries in 2016 and probably earlier at the rate of over 20,000 a year.

Given our activity in all of these Middle East regions in the name of fighting terrorism, we are probably no better off from a safety perspective then we were when the first troops invaded Afghanistan under Bush. As we said above, the Taliban are resurgent in Afghanistan. Iran, our arch enemy, is vying for control in Iraq. The Syrian civil war continues unabated, creating ISIS terrorists everyday. Libya is a mess and Yemen, a country often bombed by U.S. forces under Obama, is being influenced by Iran and creating tensions with Saudi Arabia.

What a frigging and expensive mess. How expensive? Consider some research and analysis that was completed by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs:

• According to their estimates, the U.S. will have spent nearly $6 TRILLION between 2001 and 2018 to pay for our military intrusions into Middle East affairs and wars.
• This $6 TRILLION comes out to over $23,000 for every individual American taxpayer or over $1,200 per every American taxpayer every year for 18 years.
• While a Pentagon study, the “Estimated Cost to Each Taxpayer for the Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria,” put the total at only $1.5 TRILLION, that is only for military costs.
• The Brown University study also looked at related costs not directly tied to Pentagon combat including Homeland security, State Department,and Veterans Affairs.
• Despite being more comprehensive, the Brown study thinks their $6 TRILLION might be too low: “This report has not included here state and local government expenses related to medical care of veterans and homeland security. Nor does this report calculate the macroeconomic costs of war for the US economy. And while this report discusses some of the ways that families bear the burden of caring for seriously veterans [sic], I have not added a value for the costs of their uncompensated care.”
• The $6 TRILLION is a whopping 30% of the entire Federal Government's debt burden.
• Besides the hard military costs, there are human suffering costs also since nearly 7,000 American servicemen have died and over 52,500 have been injured in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East.

Incredible costs expended by the country by the Washington political class and what do we have to show for it? Not much. We have been attacked multiple times within our borders by Islamic terrorists, from the Boston Marathon to a bike path in Manhattan to an office party in San Bernardino, to dozens of places in between. Islamic terrorism is spreading around the world, from Africa to China. So for $6 TRILLION and 7,000 lost lives, the political class has delivered basically nothing, a foreign affairs failure unprecedented in American history.

2) Donna Brazile used to work for CNN. When things got dicy for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Democratic Party in 2016, she replaced then current DNC chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and as a result she had an insider view of what went down behind the scenes during the 2016 Presidential campaign.

She has been in the news lately, talking about what actually happened back in those campaign days via her new book, “Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House.” And what happened apparently is not pretty. We are going to discuss what her accusations and claims are in the next few days but as a teaser of how juicy her book is likely to be, we now know that she had the following opinions of major Democratic politicians from the past few years:

• She thought that Obama was a leech to the Democratic Party, that he only used the Party for his own ego and personal causes which helped drive the DNC into near bankruptcy.
• According to Brazile: “We had three Democratic parties: The party of Barack Obama, the party of Hillary Clinton, and this weak little vestige of a party led by (Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz) that was doing a very poor job getting people who were not president elected.”
• Furthermore: “This was not working to strengthen the party. He [Obama] left it in debt. Hillary bailed it out so that she could control it, and Debbie went along with all of this because she liked the power and perks of being a chair but not the responsibilities.”

Fascinating and depressing stuff, assuming Brazile is telling the truth. Remember, Brazile is the CNN employee that compromised the integrity of a Trump/Clinton debate by giving Clinton the debate questions ahead of time. 

But if she is telling the truth, which is more than likely given what we know from other sources about the giant ego of Obama, the tyrannical ethos of Hillary Clinton, and the ineptness of Wasserman-Schultz, then this stuff is political gold. A leech, a controller, and an incompetent, these are the types of people inhabiting the American political class today. Scary insanity.

That will do it for this month’s standard political class insanity. In the next few posts we'll dive further into the insanity of Hillary Clinton’s world and her Presidential campaign.

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