November, 2019, Part 6, Political Class Insanity: More Political Corruption, No To Sanctuary Cities, and The Press Sells Its Soul and Integrity

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) While most American politicians are ineffective, greedy, and useless, many are also criminals, with many of their criminal acts having previously been pointed out in this blog. Another example of potential and alleged criminality recently popped up relative to politicians in Puerto Rico:

• The FBI recently arrested eight people in Puerto Rico on alleged corruption activities including a Puerto Rican senator.
• The senator, Abel Nazario had been previously arrested on charges that he had forced all of his workers to donate two hours of wages a day to himself.
• He ended up agreeing to reimburse his workers $577,000 in lost wages that he had confiscated.
• Puerto Rico Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz requested Nazario’s resignation shortly after his latest arrest: “It is unfortunate for him and his family, but even more so for the people of Puerto Rico who watch with anguish events that lacerate the trust in government institutions.” 
• A spokesperson for Nazario said that he is innocent of all charges.

These arrests come in the atmosphere of other corruption events including a Federal case involving people that may have charged the local government for services that were never provided. That investigation has already charged the former director of the Puerto Rico Senate Government Affairs Office with corruption crimes.

Another day, another set of corrupt American politicians.

2) Around the country, local liberal Democratic politicians have decided to break Federal law and not help the Federal government enforce existing immigration laws. Specifically, they have declared their cities so-called “sanctuary cities” where illegal immigrants can live, commit crimes, collect welfare without fear of ever being called to justice because they broke the law.

This has resulted in American citizens being more likely subjected to criminal elements within the illegal immigrant community via rapes, robberies, and murders. This increased violence against Americans is usually ignored by liberal politicians who care more about coddling illegal immigrants, including violent criminal elements, than protecting American lives.

However, one city finally and emphatically pushed back on this illegal immigrants first preference:

• Although there are far more Democrats than Republican voters in Tucson, Arizona, that did not stop law abiding Americans from expressing their extreme displeasure at local politicians for making their city a sanctuary city.
• In a recent ballot proposition for that city, a whopping 71.4% of voters rejected a motion to make their city a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants.
• While every Democrat on the Tucson ballot was elected, the 71.4% vote against becoming a sanctuary city shows that Americans of all political stripes reject this concept of protecting illegal immigrants and criminals from existing U.S. law.

Finally, a bit of sanity when it comes to protecting Americans vs. protecting illegal immigrants. And they were not the only set of voters to uphold the rule of law. Voters in Sussex County, New Jersey also voted by a two to one margin that they want their county law enforcement officers to cooperate with Federal immigration and ICE officers in the area of illegal immigrant law breaking. 

This is in line with at least three other New Jersey counties whose voters oppose sanctuary cities and a slap to the face of the state’s Attorney General who arbitrarily declared, without voter approval, that the entire state of New Jersey is a sanctuary for illegal immigrants and illegal immigrant criminals.

These voter voices are in direct opposition to the immigration views of Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders who is opposed to any form of deportation for illegal immigrants including those that commit violent crimes against American citizens. But why would an American politician care about what Americans think, this has rarely happened in the past and in Sanders case, is not happening today.

3) With all of the impeachment nonsense going on, the Jeffery Epstein murder/suicide affair has kind of disappeared form the news. But that was until it was recently reported that ABC News spiked a story a few years back that would have proven pretty conclusively that Bill Clinton was a close friend of pedophile Epstein and may himself have indulged with Epstein in the sexual abuse and rape of under aged girls:

• Project Veritas recently released video of ABC News anchor Amy Robach complaining that ABC refused to air an Epstein news story she had worked on.
• The story was not complementary to Bill Clinton and his Epstein connections.
• The clear implication is that releasing this certainly newsworthy story back in 2015-2016 would have had a serious detrimental impact on Hilary Clinton’s Presidential campaign.
• But as the biased mainstream often does, ABC decided that journalistic integrity could be ignored since airing the story would not help out their liberal political comrades.
• And to further damage their already paltry integrity, ABC pressured CBS into firing the person who broke the story of ABC’s heinous behavior, a person that had moved over to work at CBS since breaking the ABC suppression.
• According to Breitbart News: “The Huffington Post’s Yashar Ali, citing two sources familiar with the situation, said Thursday morning that CBS News has “fired the staffer in question.” This comes after ABC informed CBS that they had determined who accessed the footage of Amy Robach expressing her frustrations about the Epstein story,” noted Ali.”
• Robach also expresses her belief, based on her research for the story that Epstein was a murder victim, he was not a suicide victim: “So do I think he was killed? A hundred percent, yes I do, He made his whole living blackmailing people. There were a lot of men in those planes, a lot of men who visited that island, a lot of powerful men who came into that apartment.”

As we have said before, we now half expect an American politician to be crooked, corrupt, greedy, and caring more about themselves than the country and its citizens. But it is even more distressing when the press, an entity that is supposed to report on the misdeeds of politicians and put forth truth regardless of who it might hurt or expose, protects those in power. 

The press should be a steady rock of integrity and truth. Instead, as this recent ABC news suppression story shows, it is no longer an unbiased defender of liberty and justice.

4) And finally, let’s talk about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. You know her, she was elected to Congress in 2018 and since then has bad mouthed the country, Israel, downplayed the 9-11 attacks, and called just about everyone who disagrees with her a racist. 

But behind this holier than thou facade we may have a set of criminal activities on her part:

• She is now under Federal investigation over the possible abuse of her campaign finance dollars.
• It seems that she may have, allegedly, have taken her lover on vacations that were paid for with campaign funds.
• According to the Daily Mail: “Peter Flaherty, chairman of the conservative National Legal and Policy Center last month filed an amended version of a complaint he had lodged earlier into Omar’s campaign spending, following DailyMail.com’s revelation she was having an affair with her finance chief Tim Mynett.” 
• At the time, Omar was still married to her husband, Ahmed Hirsias, as was Mynett.
• The Daily Mail reported that the Federal Election Commission is being asked to investigate whether Omar campaign’s illegally paid Mynett’s company funds for their private vacations.

More “holier than thou” nonsense from a Washington politician if true.

So, today we learned that: political corruption exists everywhere including Puerto Rico, Americans are starting to say “no” to having their city be a sanctuary city, the mainstream press continues to sell their soul, and Omar has some explaining to do.

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Retro # 12 - Newsweek Magazine - First Financial Bankruptcy and Now Moral Bankruptcy

Please note: Given the holiday and family activities this Thanksgiving week, we are rerunning some of our most popular posts from earlier this year. We will be back with fresh, new political class insanity the week after Thanksgiving. Happy Turkey Day!

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In following President Obama's reactions and words to the tragic Tuscon shootings from this weekend, I was finally impressed with his display of leadership. I can honestly say it was the first time, in my opinion, that he was a leader rather than just another Chicago politician. His words seemed sincere, his desire to finally address the venomous political climate and dialog in this country, of which he is partly responsible, also seemed sincere. The words he delivered at the gathering yesterday seemed heartfelt and appeared well received by everyone. Kudos for finally delivering some non-partisan leadership.

I can only hope that he follows through with the message of cooperation and respect he delivered this week. The only other time he came close to displaying this level of leadership was in his Cairo speech early in his Presidency where he promised hope and a different way of doing things in U.S. foreign policy. However, he was not able to deliver, resulting in crashed expectations in countries around the world. Let us hope he can deliver on the bipartisan message he has been talking about this week.

I will not be so kind when talking about Tuscon and Newsweek, specifically Newsweek writer, Jonathan Alter. As many of you may know, Newsweek has been having serious financial problems over the past few years and recently merged with another organization to try and stay afloat. Thus, the "financial bankruptcy" phrase above. However, in a January 10, 2011 Newsweek article by Jonathan Alter, "Can Obama Turn Tragedy into Triumph?" Newsweek, in my opinion, has entered the region of "moral bankruptcy" relative to the Tucson shootings.

Consider two direct quotes from Mr. Alter's article:

'"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." Rahm Emanuauel (formerly Obama's Chief of Staff) famously said in 2008. The same goes for a shooting spree that gravely wounds a beloved Congresswoman. Congress won't enact gun control, as it did in the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, but perhaps something positive (politically) can come of this.'

"Even if he (Obama) makes a good speech (State Of The Union), the President may find that the memory of the Tucson tragedy fades quickly. Sad to say, if Giffords had died, she would have been mourned and soon the conversation would have moved on. But Giffords lives, thank god, which offers other possibilities."

I have a lot of real problems with the whole article and these two quotes in particular:

1. The first problem is one of respect. Congresswoman Giffords has been shot through the head and obviously is in very critical condition, fighting for her life first and the quality of her life second. The least Alter could have done is given her a little respect in her time of need and sympathy and rather than just address her as "Giffords", maybe "Congresswoman Giffords" would have showed a little more class and sympathy for her plight. For the most part throughout the article, he refers to the Federal judge who also died in the shootings as John Roll or Judge Roll. Why couldn't he extend that same level of respect to Congresswoman Giffords?
2. Second, I find it highly disrespectful that her tragedy is even mentioned in the same sentence with the Rahm Emanuel quote, as if her suffering can be used to leverage political action on any issue. Was there not enough suffering already by those who died or were wounded and their families in Tucson? For Mr. Alter to look for opportunities to leverage their suffering for more gun control, and gains on other issues, is at the very least premature; many of these Tucson folks are still grieving or fighting for their lives.
3. Third, why would Mr. Alter even hypothetically think about what would have happened if Congresswoman Giffords had died. She did not die, she is obviously a fighter and a hero to most of us for what she has gone through. Why in the world would you ever hypothesize what would have happened if the heroes around her that day had not done the right things or if the surgeons had not been as good as they are? Despicable to even talk about or contemplate the fatal alternative, which thankfully, will not come to fruition.

Since this past Saturday, I have made a vow to myself to not even waste my time, my breath, my eyes, and moments of my life with people that rant and rave and are obviously biased, whether they are politicians, bloggers, or Newsweek writers. Mr. Alter will be my first test to see if I can ignore him and others like Beck, Olberman, Hannity, Maddow, etc. who it has become clear contribute nothing to the world except possibly their TV ratings or magazine readership. I have too much respect for people like Congresswoman Giffords to think that her situation should be exploited for political good or to even think about what could have happened in the worst case.

In other words, I pledge to no longer have any patience with moral bankruptcy wherever and whenever I come across it.






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Newsweek Magazine - First Financial Bankruptcy and Now Moral Bankruptcy

In following President Obama's reactions and words to the tragic Tuscon shootings from this weekend, I was finally impressed with his display of leadership. I can honestly say it was the first time, in my opinion, that he was a leader rather than just another Chicago politician. His words seemed sincere, his desire to finally address the venomous political climate and dialog in this country, of which he is partly responsible, also seemed sincere. The words he delivered at the gathering yesterday seemed heartfelt and appeared well received  by everyone. Kudos for finally delivering some non-partisan leadership.

I can only hope that he follows through with the message of cooperation and respect he delivered this week. The only other time he came close to displaying this level of leadership was in his Cairo speech early in his Presidency where he promised hope and a different way of doing things in U.S. foreign policy. However, he was not able to deliver, resulting in crashed expectations in countries around the world. Let us hope he can deliver on the bipartisan message he has been talking about this week.

I will not be so kind when talking about Tuscon and Newsweek, specifically Newsweek writer, Jonathan Alter. As many of you may know, Newsweek has been having serious financial problems over the past few years and recently merged with another organization to try and stay afloat. Thus, the "financial bankruptcy" phrase above. However, in a January 10, 2011 Newsweek article by Jonathan Alter, "Can Obama Turn Tragedy into Triumph?" Newsweek, in my opinion, has entered the region of "moral bankruptcy" relative to the Tucson shootings.

Consider two direct quotes from Mr. Alter's article:

'"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." Rahm Emanuauel (formerly Obama's Chief of Staff) famously said in 2008. The same goes for a shooting spree that gravely wounds a beloved Congresswoman. Congress won't enact gun control, as it did in the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, but perhaps something positive (politically) can come of this.'

"Even if he (Obama) makes a good speech (State Of The Union), the President may find that the memory of the Tucson tragedy fades quickly. Sad to say, if Giffords had died, she would have been mourned and soon the conversation would have moved on. But Giffords lives, thank god, which offers other possibilities."

I have a lot of real problems with the whole article and these two quotes in particular:

1. The first problem is one of respect. Congresswoman Giffords has been shot through the head and obviously is in very critical condition, fighting for her life first and the quality of her life second. The least Alter could have done is given her a little respect in her time of need and sympathy and rather than just address her as "Giffords", maybe  "Congresswoman Giffords" would have showed a little more class and sympathy for her plight. For the most part throughout the article, he refers to the Federal judge who also died in the shootings as John Roll or Judge Roll. Why couldn't he extend that same level of respect to Congresswoman Giffords?
2. Second, I find it highly disrespectful that her tragedy is even mentioned in the same sentence with the Rahm Emanuel quote, as if her suffering can be used to leverage political action on any issue. Was there not enough suffering already by those who died or were wounded and their families in Tucson? For Mr. Alter to look for opportunities to leverage their suffering for more gun control, and gains on other issues, is at the very least premature; many of these Tucson folks are still grieving or fighting for their lives.
3. Third, why would Mr. Alter even hypothetically think about what would have happened if Congresswoman Giffords had died. She did not die, she is obviously a fighter and a hero to most of us for what she has gone through. Why in the world would you ever hypothesize what would have happened if the heroes around her that day had not done the right things or if the surgeons had not been as good as they are? Despicable to even talk about or contemplate the fatal alternative, which thankfully, will not come to fruition.

Since this past Saturday, I have made a vow to myself to not even waste my time, my breath, my eyes, and moments of my life with people that rant and rave and are obviously biased, whether they are politicians, bloggers, or Newsweek writers. Mr. Alter will be my first test to see if I can ignore him and others like Beck, Olberman, Hannity, Maddow, etc. who it has become clear contribute nothing to the world except possibly their TV ratings or magazine readership. I have too much respect for people like Congresswoman Giffords to think that her situation should be exploited for political good or to even think about what could have happened in the worst case.

In other words, I pledge to no longer have any patience with moral bankruptcy wherever and whenever I come across it.



Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at www.loathemygovernment.com. 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.


Please visit the following sites for freedom:

http://www.cato.org/
http://www.robertringer.com
http://realpolichick.blogspot.com
http://www.flipcongress2010.com/
http://www.reason.com/
http://www.repealamendment