January, 2020, Part 7, Political Class Insanity: More California Fiscal Insanity, More Elizabeth Warren Lies, More Obama Spying, and More Democrats' Hate

It political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of  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) Elizabeth Warren wants to be President of the United States. She also may be a serial liar. She lied about her Native American ancestry, she lied about being fired because she was pregnant, she lied about her son not going to a private school. And now she may have lied again, this time relative to Trump’s ambassador nominations:

• When recently asked about Gordon Sondland’s nomination to be the U.S. ambassador to the EU, Warren stated that, "when he (Sondland) came through – I think most of these guys came through on consent – I objected to all of them"
• His ambassador appointment was approved by a Senate voice vote on June 28, 2018.
• The vote was taken on his appointment when Senator Mitch McConnell was the only Senator in the Senate chamber.
• Thus, Warren could not have objected via a voice vote since she was not there.
• In fact, Fox News investigated and found that Warren did not object to any of the 11 ambassadors Trump put forward.

Another day, another lie from Ms. Warren, it is getting tiresome.

2) Sharyl Attkisson is a long time, respected and award winning journalist, probably one of the few in the industry these days with any degree of integrity and honesty. She believes that Obama and his cohorts illegally spied on her because of her honest reporting on the Obama scandals, Fast and Furious and the Benghazi massacre.

She has now sued people within the Obama administration since new, alleged information has been found:

• This new information allegedly identifies the people involved in spying on her computers and phones from 2011 to 2014.
• Specifically, "The plaintiffs first acquired the details regarding key individuals involved in the surveillance in August 2019 from a person involved in the wrongdoing who has come forward to provide information," Attkisson said in a complaint filed on behalf of herself and her family in Federal court in Maryland.
• The prime defendant in the suit is Rod Rosenstein, a long time U.S. Attorney that Trump dismissed and who was allegedly in the center of all the illegal spying that was done on the Trump campaign.

Hopefully, Ms. Atkinsson gets some justice for these alleged transgressions and the free press gets some protection the future from illegal activities of government and political operatives whose actions undermine a free press and a free nation.

3) The Iranian people have been living under an Islamic and despotic dictatorship for decades. The regime has been more interested in spreading terrorism across the Middle East and suppressing freedom and rights in Iran than helping its citizens. However, recently the Iranian people have been getting restless and have been publicly protesting the government leaders that rule over them. 

Public protests several months got over 1,000 Iranians killed by the government’s violent response. Public demonstrations started up again recently when the Iranian military shot down a passenger airliner taking off from the capital city of Iran, killing over 100 passengers and crew, many of whom were Iranian citizens. Again, the Iranian government has reacted violently to suppress these protests over the shooting.

A Republican Congressman put forth a House of Representatives resolution condemning the killing and harassing of Iranian citizens. Nice gesture, show some solidarity for ordinary people expressing their opinion and yearning for justice and freedom. Keep in mind that the Democratic controlled House recently passed a resolution condemning the killing of an Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani, someone who no one is disputing was one of the leading terrorists in the world. 

This general was directly responsible for the deaths and wounding of hundreds of American soldiers and contract workers. He helped plan and spread terrorism throughout the world. He was planning attacks on four American embassies when Trump ordered the military to take him out, which was done with precision and no civilian casualties. 

And yet Democrats passed a resolution condemning this attack, an attack that took out the world’s leading terrorist without civilian casualties. But when it comes to putting out a resolution condemning the Iranian government for shooting down its own plane and killing untold numbers of its own citizens and which also violently suppresses freedom of its citizens, Democrats in the House refused to pass a resolution for refuting those actions.

Needless to say the House Democrats’ actions are puzzling. Condemning Trump’s killing of a terrorist but not condemning the Iranian government’s heinous acts on their own people: “What a disappointment —Democrats just blocked a vote on a resolution supporting the Iranian protesters. This is not the time for partisan politics. This should be a time for the US Congress to speak with one voice to condemn an Iranian regime that kills its own people,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in a tweet.

Another case of Trump Derangement Syndrome? The killing of a world leading terrorist is bad, the killing and suppression of innocent Iranian citizens is good? No other explanation is possible...or acceptable. Pure insanity and derangement.

4) What would a political insanity post be without reviewing the latest insanity from California’s wacky and inept political class? So many times we have discussed the crazy and dangerous situations throughout the state:

• Homelessness continues to grow rapidly in the state while decreasing around the rest of the country, despite a strong national economy.
• The state has hundreds of billions of dollars in unfunded state government liabilities.
• The state has horrible public schools, horrible infrastructure conditions, and horrible forestry management skills, resulting in massive wildfires.
• The state has seen the rise of Medieval diseases such a typhus because of the growing homelessness.
• The state failed miserably in building a high speed rail line, wasting untold millions of dollars in the process.
• The state has some of the highest taxes in the country.
• The state’s crazy and likely useless environmental laws results in some state residents paying over $5 for a gallon of gas, about double what the rest of the country pays.

We could go on but you get the idea: the state is a mess with horrible priorities. 

A little while ago the state decided that it would fund Medicaid healthcare coverage for illegal immigrants that were under the age of 25. Think about that: state taxpayers are now required to pay for the health care of people who are here illegally, breaking our existing laws, and who in all probability are contributing very little or nothing to the tax base funding this health care.

Now, according to the Daily Caller website: “[The latest state government] proposed budget now aims to extend free health care coverage to illegal immigrants 65 years old and older as a part of the state’s Medi-Cal program. This would add $80.5 million to the budget this year and $350 million annually once fully implemented.”

Again, we are talking about law breaking illegal immigrants who are over 65 years old which means that they too are highly unlikely viable taxpaying residents who would help fund this annual $350 million cost. Let’s do a little math:

• There are about 125,000 homeless Americans living on the streets of California.
• We have previously discussed the fact that on average it costs a homeless shelter about $2.94 to feed a homeless person a decent meal.
• Which means that the $350 million devoted to illegal immigrants, who have broken our laws and who for the most part, being over 65 years old, are unlikely to be paying taxes, could have been used, on average, to provide about 1.192 MILLION meals of the state’s homeless population.
• Which means each of the 125,000 homeless Americans in California could have received about 953 meals a year or almost three meals a day despite being homeless.

Instead, 125,000 Americans who are homeless in the state will go hungry and illegal immigrants will get free healthcare. Sounds like a very, very sad case of very, very bad priorities. Law breaking, non-citizens get rewarded while Americans suffer on. 

No wonder over a million Americans have left the state since 2006, a topic for the start of our next political class insanity post. At some point, the insanity, neglect and abuse of those that pay taxes, obey our laws, and are in need are secondary to coddling illegal law breakers and inept state politicians.

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February, 2018, Political Class Insanity, Part 4: The Continued Failures of the Obama Presidency

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.

Let's get started:

1) We are not fans of very many politicians and one of the worst of all time in our opinion was Barack Obama. We have made the case that he came into the office as a community organizer and left the office eight years later as a ...community organizer, showing no growth in leadership or effectiveness in those eight years. 

He almost doubled the national debt by adding almost ten TRILLION to the national debt and provided no strategic plans at any time to fix a whole slew of issue facing Americans from failing public schools to a failed foreign policy to fiscally distressed government programs like Social Security.

But he was also one of the most lawless President of all time. We documented his lawlessness in the following blog post:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/10/part-2-obama-presidency-end-of-error.html

This post laid out dozens of situations where his Presidency broke current laws, broke international treaties, violated the Constitution and deprived ordinary Americans of their rights. And although he has been out of office for over a year, it appears that his law breaking ways may have included previously unknown violations including:

• According to a Daily Wire article by Ryan Saavedra on January 11, 2018, a former Obama administration official has implied that the Obama administration had warned a known, identified Iranian terrorist that the Israelis were about to assassinate him.
• The article summarizes the findings of an article that appeared in a Kuwaiti newspaper.
• A reporter for the New York Times, Bret Stephens, tweeted out the article that showed the newspaper claiming that the Obama administration had warned the Iranian government that Israel was going to kill Iranian general Qassem Soleimani who is the leader of the Quds Force, an officially designated sponsor of terrorism.
• The Daily Wire asserts that this general was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers killed while fighting in Iraq.
• Stephens then got into a Twitter war with a former member of Obama’s national security staff, Tommy Vietor, who more or less denied that the incident happened.
• However, as a result of the back and forth Twitter exchanges Stephens seemed to get Vietor in a corner that makes it appear that the Obama administration MAY have actually warned the Iranians in order to keep relations good with this terroristic country.

We may never find out if the Obama administration sold out the Israelis and this country when it came to eliminating a terrorist leader. But given Obama’s history of lying and the fact that he would have done anything to get a nuclear arms deal with the Iranians, no matter how bad the deal turned out to be, my betting would be that he did sell out the Israelis attempt to eliminate a known terrorist leader. Insanity.

2) But the above piece of political class/Obama insanity takes on a more realistic possibility when you consider this next piece of insanity. It appears that Obama may have unethically or criminally disrupted an important investigation by his own administration, an investigation that may have disrupted his obsessive need to reach a deal, any deal with the Iranians on their nuclear arms program. 

Let’s allow Cris Erickson, writing for the Opslens website tell us what may have happened, “Five Facts You Need to Know About ‘Project Cassandra’”:

• The general accusation is that: “The Obama administration allowed Hezbollah terrorists to freely traffic drugs and launder money in order to broker the Iranian Nuclear Deal.”
• The terrorists were being investigated under the codename Project Cassandra which was led by the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency and whose purpose was to reduce the amount of money the Iranian-supported Hezbollah terrorists were raising via drug trafficking and money laundering.
• These efforts were estimated to give the terrorist organization $1 billion a year.
• Hezbollah has long been classified by the State Department as a terrorist organization.
• Hezbollah was formed in 1982 and is an arm of the Iranian government's armed forces to carry out terrorist and Iranian backed military efforts throughout the Middle East.
• Congressional testimony showed that Hezbollah had extensive connections with South American drug cartels.
• Former DEA operations chief Michael Braun called the Hezbollah drug running operation “the most sophisticated money laundering scheme or schemes that we have ever witnessed.”
• According to those involved in the Project Cassandra efforts, the Obama administration constantly blocked the DEA’s efforts to arrest and prosecute Hezbollah operatives or impose financial sanctions to cut back Hezbollah’s drug running operations.
• In addition, “In order to protect the nuclear deal, the Obama administration went so far as to allow a senior member of Hezbollah to return back to Lebanon, rather than pressuring the Czech government to have him extradited to the US after he was indicted for planning the murders of US government employees. Ali Fayed is reportedly back in the arms dealing business, supplying fighters in Syria with heavy weapons.”
• But all of this effort was for naught since a Politico article by Josh Meyers cites former Obama Treasury official, Katherine Bauer stating: “under the Obama administration … these [Hezbollah-related] investigations were tamped down for fear of rocking the boat with Iran and jeopardizing the nuclear deal.” The success of Project Cassandra in targeting and eliminating Hezbollah operations became “problematic” for the negotiations leading up to the nuclear deal; out of fear of the deal being sabotaged by DEA operations, the Obama White House took on a policy that would result in a deal, regardless of cost.”
• Once the incredibly bad, one sided Iranian nuclear arms deal was signed, the Project Cassandra leaders were immediately moved to other assignments.

As we all know, the final nuclear deal with Iran, while it may have slightly delayed the Iranian development of nuclear arms, was on the whole an utter failure. Which should surprise no one since all of Obama’s agreements were horribly one sided and not in the favor of America. 

And for this poor agreement, we have allowed a known terrorist organization continue to spread illegal drugs in exchange for billions of dollars and to continue to kill innocent people around the world. Insanity.

3) If Obama did not do any of the above treasonous acts, we do know something atrocious that he really did do. We have previously discussed the stupidity and grossness relative to the fact that Obama was aiming to spend $1.5 BILLION to build his Presidential library. I always thought that George Bush was obscene for spending half a billion dollars on his library but Obama has tripled my disgust with his plans.

But in a small sense of satisfaction, the preliminary view of the Obama library was not well received:

• According to Joe Crowe, writing for NewsMax on January 10, 2018, reviewed some of the earliest reviews of Obama’s library plans.
• Alex Griswold of the Washington Free Beacon newspaper called the plans a “giant toenail.”
• A group of University of Chicago professors also gave a bad review: "This is a socially regressive plan . . . We also note that the Obama Center has abandoned its original plans to be a presidential library. It will be a private entity with no official connection to the National Archives." 
• Ron Grossman of the Chicago Tribune said: "To me, it evokes a soft-boiled egg in a teacup."

Either in office or at out of office, the Obama Presidency still stinks. And is still lawless and expensive with no noticeable value in return. More insanity to follow.

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It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

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