April, 2019, Part 1, Political Class Insanity: More and More Washington Corruption and Joe Biden Gets Creepy

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) Congressional Democrats and liberals went nuts during the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings, desperately wanting to believe that he was a sexual predator from long ago and was not fit to serve on the Supreme Court. They wanted to believe this based only on vague accusations that were all eventually proven to be lies or in a small set of accusation, were never proven.

It should be interesting to see how these same quick to act liberals will react as their leading candidate for President in 2020, Joe Biden, increasingly appears to be a serial fondler of not only woman but young girls, as reported by a recent Freedom Outpost article by Michael Snyder:

• Lucy Flores, a Democratic state politician started the Joe Biden sexual fondler rumors when she recounted an encounter with him years ago when he smelled her hair, touched her without permission, and did other nasty things to her body.
• Now Christian Science Monitor reported Linda Feldman has come forward with another accusation of sexual deviance.
• She was on site in Connecticut doing a story when, “We were at an outdoor event in Glastonbury, the sun blazing overhead, and I noticed the senators standing around chatting. I walked over and introduced myself. Senator Biden greeted me warmly – and then threw a sweaty arm over my shoulder, and gave me a squeeze. I cringed a little internally; I had never met Mr. Biden before. But I chalked the overly friendly gesture up to his personal style, and maybe a generational difference. I proceeded to interview the senators, but the thing I remember most vividly is Mr. Biden’s sweaty arm.”
• Gail Russell Chaddock a Congressional reporter, has come out and said, “Anybody who’s ever been around Joe Biden has been touched by him – literally.”
• Former Congressional aide, Amy Lappos, had a much more disturbing story about Biden as she related to the Hartford Courant: “It wasn’t sexual, but he did grab me by the head. He put his hand around my neck and pulled me in to rub noses with me. When he was pulling me in, I thought he was going to kiss me on the mouth. I never filed a complaint, to be honest, because he was the vice president. I was a nobody. There’s absolutely a line of decency. There’s a line of respect. Crossing that line is not grandfatherly. It’s not cultural. It’s not affection. It’s sexism or misogyny.”
• Even Vox, the severe left leaning Internet news website recently described Biden’s perverted behavior around women: “Biden’s been caught on camera embracing a female reporter from behind and gripping her above her waist, just below her bust. At a swearing-in ceremony for Defense Secretary Ash Carter, Biden put his hands on the shoulders of Stephanie Carter, Carter’s wife, and then leaned in and whispered into her ear. (He’s whispered into many women’s ears.) He’s also touched women’s faces and necks during other photo ops. Once at a swearing-in ceremony for a US senator, he held the upper arm of the senator’s preteen daughter, leaned down and whispered into her ear, as she became visibly uncomfortable. Then he kissed the side of her forehead, a gesture that made the girl flinch.”
• Democrat and liberal loving CNN, via Jake Tapper, also had a severe problem with Biden’s behavior: “I have to say, if any of the men around this table behaved this way at our places of work, we would get reprimanded, we would get potentially even fired. You are not allowed to touch women inappropriately. Again, it doesn’t matter if your intention is sexual or just friendly — you can’t massage a woman’s shoulders and sniff her hair and kiss the back of her head. That’s not appropriate.”

Come on folks, if even Vox and CNN are down on a famous liberal politician you know it must be really bad. These are not rumors like it was for Kavanaugh, there are plenty of video clips to prove that he actually is a nasty sexual fondler. Any other person in America would have either had his face slapped, reprimanded by his business, or arrested by the police. And yet, a career politician has gotten away with this disgusting behavior for decades and there are many on the left side of the political spectrum that actually think he would be a good President.

2) Ilhan Omar is a Muslim Congresswoman from Minnesota. She has made quite a name for herself and her anti-Semite, anti-Israel, anti-American statements over the years. This is obviously her First Amendment right, repugnant as they are to people like myself.

But her First Amendment rights do not protect her if she breaks the laws of the land that she may have actually done according to a Freedom Outpost article Daniel Greenfield on April 2, 2019:

• A criminal investigation is wrapping up back in her home state of Minnesota.
• It involves the misuse of campaign funds and the investigation came at the behest of another Minnesota politician, Steven Drazkowski.
• It is alleged that she improperly or unlawfully spent almost $6,000 of campaign funds for her own personal use, specifically she made payments to her divorce attorney and for her to travel to Boston and Estonia.
• She has previously violated state government ethics rules when she wrongfully took $2,500 in payment for speeches she gave at colleges that get state funding.
• According to the article: “A formal CFB investigation into the Omar committee’s use of campaign money to pay legal fees to her divorce attorney also remains ongoing. According to statements made to the CFB by attorney Carla Kjellberg, Omar's payment to Kjellberg’s law office was reimbursed for services that the Kjellberg firm initially paid for on behalf of the Omar Committee, which would be a violation of state law. Additionally, it appears that the reimbursed expenses may have been related to tax preparation and legal expenses related to immigration.”
• This alleged illegal behavior comes on top of some alleged family hanky panky: “Last year, Alpha News investigated the interesting background of Omar after Powerline Blog writer Scott Johnson indicated Omar may have engaged in marriage fraud. Omar, who publicly identified Ahmed Hirsi to be her husband, is currently married to Elmi – who through extensive investigation appears to be Omar’s brother.”

Anti-Semite, anti-Israel, hateful towards America, alleged campaign fund activities, and marrying your brother to get around immigration laws and rules. She is turning out to be the entire package of despicable political behavior.

3) We have previously talked about some of the insanity and despicable behavior of Congress people but a recent article from the Daily Caller reviewed how politicians in D.C. rigged the system and ethics processes to protect their despicable and corrupt behavior:

• According to the theme of the article: “Congress has designed its bureaucracy to protect incumbents, shielding them from punishment for misconduct and cloaking the institution’s dirty laundry in secrecy. Even members of opposite parties do not go after each other for ethics issues, part of a truce to avoid mutually assured destruction.”
• In 2018 we found out that the House of Representatives maintained a taxpayer funded slush fund to conceal sexual misconduct and bad behavior by Congressional members and their staff.
• Long term Detroit Congressman John Dingell was forced to resign from Congress in 2017 when his sexual misconduct became known but only after decades of such behavior.
• On 2015 he had fired a staffer for not succumbing to his sexual advances but after she filed a complaint, the House Office of Compliance paid her $27,000 in hush money to go away.
• Over the past 20 years the Office Of Compliance has paid out $1 million in taxpayer funds to cover up Congressional sexual misconduct.
• These payments always had to be approved by sitting members of Congress.
• The Office paid out a whopping $220,000 to end allegations of sexual harassment against Congressman Alcee Hastings.
• But the $1 million is probably an underestimate since in some cases Congressional members to pay off people without going through the Office of Compliance.
• They would have an employee who threatened to fire a complaint resign but still kept them secretly on the payroll so that they were still drawing a salary without having to do the job they had.
• They actually had a Congressional lawyer advice members on how to do this: “In fact, the statistics were missing a massive portion of the settlements because Congress’s own human resources lawyer was helping members seemingly break the House’s rules to pay settlements in a way that avoided a paper trail. The lawyer, the House Employment Counsel, advised members that they could pay off would-be whistleblowers by having them resign but continue to sign paychecks for nonexistent work, rather than having the Office of Compliance make a one-time payment from the special settlement fund.”
• For example, a formal report came out that alleged that Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty allowed her chief of staff to resign but still draw his salary after he allegedly punched and threatened a female staff member.
• She admitted to the fraud but said a House lawyer said she could do it.
• According to Daniel Schuman of the Demand Progress group: “Democrats don’t file ethics complaints against Republicans and vice versa because you don’t want the tables turned. They used to call it a Cold War detente: You don’t nuke the Russians and they don’t nuke you.”
• And when the House Ethics Committee investigates itself, it usually takes years and years to complete an investigation in the hope that the Congressional member leaves Congress.
• Even when Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz accepted a $56,000 personal cash gift from a company in 2017, a clear House ethics violation, nothing was done about it.

It’s the foxes guarding the hen house. Unbelievable corruption that is rarely rooted out and only when sunlight is accidentally shined on the offenders. Be it long established, long serving Congress people like Dingell and Wasserman Schultz or newbies like Omar, we continue to be under served by greedy, shallow, and deceptive folks in Washington and elsewhere and the insanity shows no signs of receding.

More insanity to follow.

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