May, 2019, Part 9, Political Class Insanity: Kelsey Grammer Gets It Right, Democrats Love South American Despot, and A Democrat Gets Rich Via His Job and Wife

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) Most of Hollywood is out of touch reality and thus, are extremely condescending when it comes to Trump and his supporters. These celebrities and actors/actresses live behind walls in their mansions and hang out with people of their same ilk with their same shallow and views of ordinary Americans. They cannot accept the reality that some common folks have a different opinion or view of life than them and dare to have a difference of opinion than theirs.

Thus, it is always quite refreshing when a Hollywood type actually gets it, that it is not liberals vs. conservatives, it is not Democrats vs. Republicans, it is the political class in total that is the enemy of the people and our freedoms. Such a person was written about on the Newbusters website by Kristine Marsh on May 15, 2019:

• On a recent PBS show, Amanpour and Company, Kelsey Grammer was being interviewed.
• Amanpour asked Grammer what it was like being a conservative in Hollywood when everyone else in Hollywood was a devout and often radical liberal.
• Amanpour tried to bait Grammer into saying something, anything negative about Trump.
• Instead, he correctly laid out why every Washington political has been at fault for the mess that that Washington has put the country into: “Oh yeah. I don’t think Washington didn't do us any favors for the last 50, 60 years, I think they’ve all been sort of the same party, the same bunch of clowns, the same bunch of really unpleasant people….And I don't think they've been helping anybody but themselves."

Yes, it is not just Democrats’ fault, it is not just Republicans’ fault, Grammer correctly points out that it is the Washington political class that is the root cause of our nation’s problems, politicians who are greedy, shallow, and incapable of identifying solutions to the major issues of our times.

2) Frank Vernuccio, writing for the Affluent Advisor website on May 14m 2019, laid out the insanity that some members of Congress actually support the current socialistic dictator in Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro. Much like his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, Maduro nationalized industries, rounded up and killed political opponents, and hollowed out the country’s democratic institutions. He used food as a devastating political weapon to starve those that did not agree with him and destroyed a once robust economy so badly that citizens could not even get their hands on toilet paper.

Starvation, destruction of wealth, citizens fleeing the country, lack of medical care, and a whole lot of other atrocities and yet some Democrats in Congress actually find this all acceptable:

• Forty nine countries across the world, including most of those in South and Central America, do not recognize Maduro as the lawful leader of the country so it is not just Trump and the U.S. that find Maduro’s conduct disgusting.
• But Trump and his State Department are definitely not big fans of Maduro: “Nicolas Maduro…has consistently violated the human rights and dignity of its citizens, plundered the country’s natural resources, and driven a once prosperous nation into economic ruin with his authoritarian rule and socialist economic policies. Maduro’s thugs have engaged in extra-judicial killings and torture, taken political prisoners, and severely restricted freedom of speech, all in a brutal effort to retain power.”
• And yet some Democrats in Congress actually support these types of oppression: Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Ro Khanna, are all supportive of Maduro and his antics that kill, starve, and deprive his residents of toilet paper.

Venezuela is a perfect example of how socialism almost always devolves into a dictatorship and hardships and loss of freedom for citizens. And yet sitting members of Congress actually support this dictatorship and the hardships it imposes on Venezuelans. 

3) We have often concluded and proven that the American political class consists of people that are greedy, shallow, ineffective, and incapable of developing real solutions to real problems. But in my opinion, worst of all, is that these same people are almost always so hypocritical. This negative trait was recently reinforced by a recent such case that has come to light about the hypocrisy of a sitting member of Congress, Elijah Cummings:

• Cummings has been one of the noisiest and most ardent critics of Trump.
• He has also been a leader in Congress insisting that Trump turn over his tax returns in a vain attempt to try and find a reason, any reason, to impeach Trump.
• The theory is that if there are tax irregularities then Trump is toast.
• But Cummings is not the fountain of integrity when it comes to financial shenanigans.
• A recent complaint with the IRS alleges that Cyumings’ wife and her legal entities have illegally benefitted as a result of her husband’s position on the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform committee.
• Cummings, who was not close to be wealthy just a few years ago, got a great increase in his family’s wealth when his wife’s businesses suddenly started getting started getting millions of taxpayer dollars in Federal government grants and contracts.
• According to the Washington Examiner: “A charity run by the wife of Rep. Elijah Cummings received millions from special interest groups and corporations that had business before her husband’s committee and could have been used illegally, according to an IRS complaint filed by an ethics watchdog group. His wife, Maya Rockeymoore, 48, is the chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party and briefly ran in the state’s gubernatorial race last year. The couple married in 2008. Cummings was once heavily in debt — in part due to hefty child support payments to his first wife and two other women he had children with — but his financial situation has improved considerably over the past decade. Rockeymoore runs two entities, a nonprofit group called the Center for Global Policy Solutions and a for-profit consulting firm called Global Policy Solutions, LLC, whose operations appear to have overlapped, according to the IRS complaint filed by watchdog group the National Legal and Policy Center on Monday. The complaint states that the arrangement may have been used to derive “illegal private benefit.” Global Policy Solutions received more than $6.2 million in grants between 2013 and 2016, according to tax records. Several of the nonprofit group’s financial backers — which included Google, J.P Morgan, and Prudential — have business interests before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The largest contributor to the nonprofit organization was the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a company that is regulated by Cummings’ committee. The foundation, which gave a total of $5.5 million to Rockeymoore’s consulting firm and $5.2 million to her nonprofit group, ceased supporting her groups in 2017."
• The Examiner article goes on and on in detail about the shenanigans about Cummings’ wife and the self enrichment of the Cummings family.
• Hypocrisy of the highest degree and another example of how those in Washington are only in it for themselves, the country be damned.

Again, Grammer says it best when it comes to political class insanity: “Oh yeah. I don’t think Washington didn't do us any favors for the last 50, 60 years, I think they’ve all been sort of the same party, the same bunch of clowns, the same bunch of really unpleasant people….And I don't think they've been helping anybody but themselves.”

The insanity, and greed, never ends.

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