August, 2020, Part 12, Political Class Insanity: The Possible Beginning Of Obamagate, Businesses Getting Out Of Chicago, and Nancy Pelosi Is Wrong...Again

It is the beginning of another month which means it is time again to review the latest political class insanity from the American political class. Each month it takes us multiple posts to cover the wasteful spending, incompetent government organizations and employees, government programs that usually make a problem worse than resolving it, inane and idiotic politician comments, etc.

To review past posts on this insanity and idiocy, just click on the first few posts in each month listed to the right of this page. After reviewing just a handful of these insanity posts we think you will agree that we are currently being served by the worst set of American politicians ever to hold office in our entire history.

1) As many people know, the Obama administration, FBI, Justice Department and other Federal government agencies were up to no good when it became evident that Trump had a decent chance to become President and after he actually won. You see, it is my contention, that the embedded Washington political class and high ranking government bureaucrats had a sweet deal going on from a self enrichment, career advancement, and corruption perspective.

Trump, an outsider comes along, and threatens to upset this cozy status quo and many in government decided that this could not happen. So the Federal agencies set about to discredit Trump, both before and after the election, and took steps to either prevent his election or get him kicked out of office after he took the reins.

If this is true, then any clear thinking American, regardless of party or political leanings, should be appalled. The thought that the national police force, the FBI, along with elected and unelected officials would try to overturn a legal and binding election is a major threat to democracy in this country.

Fortunately, the tide seems to be changing, at least a little, and the truth is starting to trickle out how the political establishment does not care about democracy, voter rights and decisions, and the Constitution:

• FISA is a secret court that government officials can go to in matters of national defense.
• It has been used extensively, and properly, to track down and thwart terrorist attacks against the country.
• The fact that its proceedings are secret is a little disturbing in a free country since abuses of the court would be almost impossible to identify and stop.
• Which is exactly what happened because of at least one FBI employee who abused the FISA warrant process.
• Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith has pleaded guilty to abusing the FISA warrant application process for knowingly altering an email document to get a FISA search warrant to investigate Trump and people associated with him.
• Of course, the mainstream media, no unexpectedly tried to limit the damage of this guilty plea, attempting to shut down what could be more far reaching misdoings by others in the Obama administration.
• Legal expert, Alan Dershowitz, explains: “I think the big story is how the media is handling it. The New York Times has a whole front page analysis in which they say this is not the tip of the iceberg, this is the iceberg itself – that this isn’t indicative of how deep the problem went. Totally, totally false.”
• Clinesmith altered an email to say former Trump campaign worker, Carter Page, had not been a CIA source, when he actually had been a source.
• This directly led to a FISA warrant that would not have happened without the change in the email.

So the next question becomes, and the Justice Department is investigating, how many other falsehoods were illegally presented to the court and who is responsible for them. Dershowitz thinks that the involvement goes far and wide despite what the New York Times says. 

Given the following message that Clinesmith sent to someone in 2016, it seems he was not the only one in trying to undo a legal election: “I am so stressed about what I could have done differently . . . the crazies finally won; this is the Tea Party on steroids.” 

Sounds like Clinesmith may have a deeper story to tell once his lawyer looks for a deal on sentencing. Despicable, if true, that Federal agencies and officials tried to manipulate the voters’ desires because they wanted to keep their comfy Washington lives going on.

2) I will not get into the whole mess of mail in voting and the ramifications and potential for massive voter fraud today. I will only share an idiotic statement that one of our favorite political gaffe machines, Nancy Pelosi recently committed. Pelosi for some reason thinks that Trump will sabotage the postal system to stop mail in voting or some such nonsense. 

As a result of her paranoia, she issued the following statement: “The Postal Service is a pillar of our democracy, enshrined in the Constitution and essential for providing critical services: delivering prescriptions, Social Security benefits, paychecks, tax returns and absentee ballots to millions of Americans, including in our most remote communities.”

The problem is that the Federal government stopped mailing physical Social Security checks years and years ago, during the Obama administration, in an attempt to speed up delivery and save the government money. A little history from Matt Whitlock from the NRSC: “Wow. In the first sentence of her letter announcing the House will come back to vote on Postal Service legislation (not unemployment benefits) Pelosi warns of mail delays delivering social security checks. But the Obama admin ended social security cheeks by mail 10 years ago.”

Pelosi was certainly around back then and may have actually been Speaker of the House when Obama got rid of physical paper checks for Social Security. And yet she has no clue that happened on her watch during a Democratic administration and goes off on another fake Trump conspiracy theory. As always with Pelosi, you can never take anything she says seriously because so many, many times it is pure fiction, just like her latest rant.

3) Unfortunately, for years we have been discussing the failure of Chicago politicians to provide a basic, basic government service to its residents, the protection of lives and property. Unfortunately, the violence, the carnage and crime that has pervaded a lot of the city has not only intensified recently but has moved into other parts of the city, resulting in more deaths, more violence , more crime, and more looting.

The last point there, more looting, has certainly gotten the attention of Chicago business owners:

• One of the highly likely reasons for the upswing in crime in the city is that State Attorney, Kim Foxx, has dropped thousands of felony cases against alleged perps.
• This in all likelihood has emboldened criminals since the chances they will ever get prosecuted is getting smaller and smaller at least from Foxx’s priorities.
• As a result, Chicago business owners have told the city’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, that if she and the rest of the city’s politicans do not get the crime and violence under control, they are leaving and taking their businesses with them.
• Which should not be a surprise since a single recent episode of looting caused $60 million in damages.

No business owner is going to invest in a local city business when at the drop of a hat or rumor, which caused the latest episode of looting, an owner's investment can be destroyed and their employees lives endangered. This is a warning shot across Lightfoot’s and Foxx’s bow, do something or we are out of here.

But given her inability to do anything effective, I think it is a pretty good bet that pretty soon there is going to be a lot of boarded up business locations in Chicago and the city’s residents are going to be far worse off because of it. Another example of how American politicians cannot provide a basic government service, protection of lives and property.

That will do it for today’s insanity: leaving town in Chicago, Pelosi has no idea what she is talking about, and the first unraveling string in the plot to unseat a duly elected President by American citizens may have just happened ("Obamagate").

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Note: we have done a lot reporting on the dire and ever worsening situation in Chicago. The crime, the violence, and the shootings have resulted in more wounded citizens, more fatalities and a more dangerous place to be. In those discussions we have always pointed out that the mayor and those in public office in Chicago have no idea how to fix this deteriorating situation. While the vast majority of people cannot help fix what the local political class has broken, may I suggest that a donation be made to the Boys and Girls Club of Chicago to at least give the kids of the city a chance, a safe place to go and just be kids. The address for donating to this fine organization is:

Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago Club Support Center
2102 W. Monroe Street 
Chicago, IL 60612

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April, 2019, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: American Democrats Continue To Care Little For American Citizens

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) I have come to the conclusion that most Democrats across the country value illegal immigrants more than they value the needs of Americans. Nowhere do I find Democrats advocating for more help to aid homeless, hungry, drug addicted, and other needy Americans but I see a steady focus on illegal immigrant needs. This point was severely driven home by a recent article by Warner Todd Huston, writing for the Godfather Politics website on April 12, 2019:

• Democrats in the New York state legislature recent killed a proposal to provide tuition assistance for the children of veterans killed in battle defending our freedom and country.
• But they did approve legislation that would give free public college tuition to the children of illegal immigrants.
• The New York state Republican party properly scolded the Democrats for such heartless behavior: “Democrats just rejected tuition assistance for Gold Star families but approved it for illegal immigrants. Would these Democrats dare to look into the eyes of the children of fallen servicemen and women and say they matter less than those here illegally?”
• Democrats approved $27 million for tuition for illegal immigrant kids.
• This also followed legislation that gave the governor and the state politicians hefty raises in salary.
• Republican Assemblyman Gary Finch: “It’s disgraceful. Soldiers who lay down their lives and make the ultimate sacrifice represent the best of us. The children they love so dearly deserve access to the opportunity and promise that is the hallmark of this country. I can’t imagine what’s in your heart when you vote ‘no’ on a bill like this.”
• And Democrats cannot claim this would be too expensive since according to those quoted in the article the number of kids that would have qualified under Gold Star families is tiny compared to the number of illegal immigrants who will be getting tuition assistance.
• Democrats refused to comment on their atrocious behavior.

This is how screwed up the political class has become in this country: helping out those who committed crimes and who are not citizens and likely not taxpayers while ignoring those whose family members died defending the country. Insanity.

2) Speaking of Democratic politicians who do not care about Americans, consider the words from sitting Congresswoman and anti-Semite Ilhan Omar:

• Speaking to a Muslim organization, Omar referred to the horrific attacks on 9-11 as simply “some people did something.”
• Yes, some people did do something, something that resulted in almost 3,000 Americans being killed and thousands being injured, hardly as simple as “some people did something.”\
• Fortunately, people’s reactions were swift and direct beginning with the New York Post which ran an infamous picture of the Twin Towers exploding with her disgusting quote superimposed on top of the photo, “some people did something.”
• Shortly after that photo was taken back in 2001, the article correctly points out that thousands of people were then killed, burned, maimed, or suffocated.
• Also on the Post cover were the following words: “Here’s your something: 2,977 people dead by terrorism. Omar outraged the families of 9/11 victims by referring dismissively to the terrorist attacks while speaking to a Muslim lobbying group.”
• Congressman and former Navy Seal Dan Crenshaw also ripped her a new one: “First Member of Congress to ever describe terrorists who killed thousands of Americans on 9/11 as ‘some people who did something’. Unbelievable.”
• Retired NYC Fire Chief JIm Riches, whose firefighter son died on 9-11, had the following words of rebuttal to Omar’s insensitivity: “What Congresswoman Ilhan Omar said about Sept. 11 was disgraceful. She dismissed thousands of people being murdered like it was an everyday occurrence when she said ‘some people did something. We picked up the bodies and saw how gruesome it was. Those people died a horrible death. We were there for 9 months picking up body parts, pieces. I think Omar owes an apology to America. She owes an apology to the families. She came here from Somalia. She was educated here. We took care of her. And now she’s saying 9/11 was nothing? Until the time that you realize the importance of 9/11 as the worst day in American history, I call for your removal from Congress.”

So far I am not aware of any Democrat in Washington who condemned this repugnant quote, again verifying for me that Democrats do not care what Americans think, feel, or are in need of help.

3) Okay, it is looking like today is turning into a “why Democrats suck” day so let’s finish today’s political class insanity off along this theme. In Chicago, the district attorney, Ms. Kim Foxx, has gotten some grief from, well, just about everyone, when she allowed actor Jussie Smollet to get out from under 16 grand jury indictments for faking his own hate attack. 

His fake attack escapade caused the city and its police department countless hours and over $100,000 worth of overtime police work trying to track down the supposedly hateful Trump supporters who attacked him. However, this effort was all for naught since Smollet faked everything. 

The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) has called for Foxx’s resignation in the face of such blatant disrespect for the justice system and the effort put forth by the Chicago police to do the right thing. In this country, this ability and right to call for her resignation is a right guaranteed by the First Amendment.

But rather than have an adult conversation about the whole mess, Democratic Congressman Bobby Rush came out with both guns blazing in attacking the Chicago police: “The FOP is the sworn enemy of black people, the sworn enemy of black people. The FOP has always taken the position that black people can be shot down in the street by members of the Chicago Police Department, and suffer no consequences. Let’s be clear: Kim Foxx, her battle, is with the FOP and all of their cohorts.”

My lord, so many problems with his statement and attitude:

• First of all, nobody in this case “was shot down in the street by members of the Chicago Police Department,” relative to Smollet, absolutely no one.
• Kim Foxx’s battle is with everyone who values the rule of law and the punishment of those guilty of breaking the law - police investigated the incident, they provided evidence of Smollet’s fakery to the district attorney, the district attorney went through the grand jury process based on evidence, the district attorney got 16 indictments against Smollet and then, after a phone call from a close Michelle Obama confidant, Foxx dropped everything with minimal impact on Smollet.
• Congressman, Foxx’s battle is with a whole lot more entities than the FOP and “their cohorts.”
• Oh, by the way Congressman, what are you doing about the constant murdering and wounding of black people in south Chicago, carnage that has been going on for years and thus, you must be part of that “black people being shot down in the streets” since you are certainly not part of the solution.

Another case where a Democratic politician cares less about his constituents and more about grandstanding in front of the press, much like Omar cares nothing about American history and the suffering of American families as a result of 9-11, and much like Democrats care more about illegal immigrants than they care about Gold Star family kids. More insanity to follow.

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