November, 2017, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: A Tome Deaf Congresswoman, Foreign Troops Wandering Our Cities, and Constitutional Ignorance

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.

Note: we realize that November, 2017 has not started yet but trust me, we have so much political class insanity to get to this month that we are going to start a few days early in order to get it all in:

1) As most of the world knows, Harvey Weinstein, a major Hollywood film producer, has been found out to be a potential sexual predator on young actresses. His alleged perverted behavior was sexist to the ultimate degree. In these days of supposed enlightenment, one would not have expected the following inane behavior from an African American Congresswoman, according to a recent article on the Independent Journal Review website by Virginia Kruta:

• Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnston, a Texas Congresswoman, recently condemned the alleged behavior of Harvey Weinstein.
• But she could not keep from making a fool of herself when she continued on to suggest that women bear a certain “responsibility” when it comes to sexual harassment.
• Adding on to her stupidity, she said that some women’s clothing can be “inviting.”
• In her own words: “I grew up in a time when it was as much the woman’s responsibility as it was a man’s – how you were dressed, what your behavior was. I’m from the old school that you can have behaviors that appear inviting. It can be interpreted as such. That’s the responsibility, I think, of the female.”

How insensitive are these comments from a woman and a member of Congress? Pathetic. But even worse, can you imagine the uproar that would have happened if a white Congressman had said the same thing? There would have been a deluge of condemnation. But since a liberal said it, no big deal from other liberals.

That is the main reason for why our country is so divided, politicians are only upset when their political opponents say something insensitive and stupid.

The Congresswoman offered a half ass apology after she got roasted on social media: “Sexual assault and harassment has no place in our society. This is something I believe deeply. And at each turn of my professional life, I have made it my mission to fight for women’s rights. I do not blame victims of sexual assault for the actions of their assailants.

I do acknowledge that my comments regarding behavior and attire come from an old school perspective that has shaped how some of us understand the issue, but that does not detract from the fact that criminals need to be held accountable for their actions.”

As always with politicians, too little too late.

2) John Sopko has been the Inspector General for Afghanistan for years. We have reported on his fine work many times in past posts. He often was a lone voice in the woods in pointing out the massive corruption, ineptness, and wasting of billions of taxpayer dollars during the entire Afghanistan occupation. 

Unfortunately, he recently brought more bad news to Americans:

• Apparently 152 foreign soldiers from Afghanistan, training in the U.S., have walked away from their bases and have disappeared into the country.They were brought here outside of normal immigration processes to train next to American soldiers and were to bring that training back to their home country.
• So now we have trained military personnel wandering around the countryside and the Federal government has no idea where they are.
• These wandering foreign troops started leaving American military bases in 2005, the majority of them walking off of the Lackland Air Force base in San Antonio, Texas and the majority of them disappearing between 2015 and 2016.
• According to the report: “It is clear that Afghan trainees go AWOL while in the United States at a far higher rate than do trainees from any other country, and we believe that the State Department (as well as other government agencies) should use all the tools at their disposal to reduce these occurrences and ensure that Afghan trainees return to Afghanistan and make use of the substantial U.S. taxpayer investment in training.”

While there is no evidence that these walkaways have or will be involved in terrorism within our borders, it is quite distressing that trained foreign military troops are wandering around our towns and cities. And it is not so far fetched to think that their families back home in Afghanistan might be held hostage in exchange for committing acts of terrorism here. Insane incompetence of both the Obama administration and the Pentagon.

3) Many times people in Washington say something that is just so stupid or so devious that you cannot believe your ears. One such case if either extreme stupidity or massive deception recently arose, according to a report from Melissa Quinn, writing for the Washington Examiner on October 26, 2017:

• Tom Perez is the head of the Democratic National Committee, making him a very powerful person in our national politics.
• Thus, you would expect him to be very well versed in our laws including the Constitution.
• He was recently a speaker at the Indiana University Law School’s Annual Birch Bayh Lecture series where he made the following totally inane comment: "The Electoral College is not a creation of the Constitution. It doesn't have to be there. There's a national popular vote compact in which a number of states have passed a bill that says we will allocate our vote, our electoral votes, to the person who wins the national popular vote once other states totaling 270 electoral votes do the same."
• Obviously, Mr. Perez did not read the Constitution or somehow does not understand it since Article II of the Constitution states: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.”

Is he that ignorant of the Constitution, in which case why is he in such an important position? Or is he being that deceptive and is still ticked off that Hillary won the most popular votes for President in 2016 but lost the Presidency because of Article II. Ignorant or deceptive, not untypical but still undesirable qualities to have in our political arena.

Enough insanity for today: a leading political figure who is so ignorant or dismissive of the Constitution, foreign troops walking around the country’s streets and cities, and a tone deaf Congresswoman when it comes to sexual harassment. More insanity to follow.

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