December, 2018, Part 10, Political Class Insanity: Wanting To Change The Constitution, An Inane Choice For President, and More Nastiness From Ocasio-Cortez

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) Obviously, one of the great things about America and freedom is the U.S. Constitution. It is a brilliant document that has provided freedom for untold millions of Americans over the centuries. It has withstood politicians’ countless attempts to destroy it for their own benefit, desire for control, and power seeking. 

And yet, politicians continue to try to undermine it and weaken it today in order to satisfy their short term bias, greed, and desire for power, as Tim Brown pointed out in a recent article on the Freedom Outpost website:

• In a recent interview, California Democrat Ted Lieu publicly stated that he wants to restrict and regulate the bedrock of our country and our freedoms, the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech.
• Specifically, "However, I would love to be able to regulate the content of speech. The First Amendment prevents me from doing so, and that's simply a function of the First Amendment, but I think over the long run, it's better the government does not regulate the content of speech."
• He would also like to regulate Fox News, destroying freedom of the press in addition to freedom of speech.

Now, he goes onto say such regulations would not be a good thing in the long run. But why is a duly elected member of Congress, who has vowed to uphold the Constitution even thinking such stuff, fantasizing about restricting our freedom? If anything, if he was true to his oath, true to the Constitution, and true to freedom, he should be finding ways of protecting free speech and freedom of the press,not publicly wishing they would go away, at least for the short term.

Freedom usually does not die in a flash. It ebbs away slowing, eaten away by little incremental steps that politicians like Lieu take and crave for so that one morning you look back and you realize that we are not as free as we thought we were or should be because these types of people think they know best and want to the power to show us they know best. 

If the choice ever came down to the Jefferson, Madison, Washington, et al vs. Lieu when it comes to brains and the love of freedom, it is no contest. Lieu is just a small gnat in the history of freedom while the Founding Fathers were epic and legendary when it comes to freedom.

2) Readers of this blog know that we now consider soon to be Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to be both a walking, talking gaffe machine and also a very dangerous and hateful person, who has already threatened to illegally abuse Congressional power because someone simply said something negative about her online. She is an economic major who does not know the simple definition of unemployment, she is an elected Congresswoman who does not know what the three branches of government are, who does not know how to read a Pentagon accounting report, the idiocy list goes on and on.

And we recently found out what a small, disrespectful person she is relative to at least one Marine veteran:

• This twenty something, former bartender has not served a day in office but recently labeled a former four star, career marine general a coward.
• That is what she called former Trump chief of staff, John Kelly, a coward.
• Ocasio-Cortez tweeted out that Kelly should apologize to Congresswoman Frederica Wilson when he called her an “empty barrel” for disclosing the contents of Trump’s phone call with a Gold Star family.

This little twit insults a career military man for something as trivial as this. Pathetic leadership.

3) While Ted Lieu fantasizes about eliminating the First Amendment via regulation, a former Congressman is taking a different approach to dismantling the Constitution:

• Former Congressman John Dingell would like to see both the Senate and the Electoral College eliminated.
• The Senate and Electoral College were brilliant government processes that were put in place to protect the rights of all Americans and especially the rights of Americans living in smaller, less populated states from having their rights overwhelmed by larger, more populated states,
• They are both brilliant check and balance devices to keep government and the politicians that operate government under control.
• It is funny that Dingell never called for their elimination when election results went Democrats’ way and the Democrat had a Senate majority, also quite hypocritical. 
• The system of government put forth in the Constitution tried to ensure that no political party or bloc of citizens ever had total control of government 

.The Liberty Planet website summed up how un-American and hypocritical Democrats are: “Unfortunately, Democrats and their liberal activists no longer seem to care about what is best for everyone in the country. Weirdly, they didn’t seem to care about these things when they were in power, but they develop strangely anti-government feelings when they’re not. In the end, Rep. John Dingell’s calls are hardly the most surprising thing to come out of a Democrat’s mouth.”

4) Let’s finish this month’s extensive political class insanity, idiocy, and dangers with a situation that combines the gaffes and ignorance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with insanity of some nobodys wanting to change the Constitution to satisfy a short term political hissy fit. The Vox website, an extreme left wing, liberal website recently published this craziness: “The constitutional prohibition on people under the age of 35 serving as president is just one of these weird lacuna that was handed down to us from the 18th century but that nobody would seriously propose creating today if not for status quo bias. Realistically, most people that young would simply have a hard time winning an election. But if you can pull it off, you should be allowed. And I kind of think she should run for president.

One good sign that AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] should run for president is that she has a nickname — AOC.”

What a great idea! Let’s take someone whose most recent professional experience was as a bartender and who has no political, Washington, economic, foreign affairs, or business acumen and experience and give her the chance to become President because...she has a cool nickname. 

This is a woman who has an economic degree but has no idea how to compute the unemployment rate. This is a an elected official but does not know the very basic structure of government. This is an adult that cannot do simple math when it comes to a simple report on Pentagon budgeting. Yeah, she would be great as President.

That will do it for this month’s insanity. The Clintons legal problems mount, Democrats and liberals want to change the Constitution for no good reason, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to amuse and scare with her inexperience, power grabs and idiotic statements, and a whole bunch of other insanity that both amuses us and endangers our freedoms and futures. More insanity sure to ensue by next month.

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