Krauthammer: Skip the Investigations and win the election

Charles Krauthammer 
"At a certain point, you have to realize you can’t hit a fastball.

"House Republicans don’t quite get that they are hopeless at oversight hearings. They keep losing — and now the chairman of the House Oversight Committee has just introduced articles of impeachment against IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.

"I’m sympathetic to the GOP motive, given how the Obama IRS has consistently obstructed and misled Congress in the tax-exemption scandal. But impeachment is no ordinary move. No agency chief or Cabinet officer has been impeached since 1876. And even proponents admit there is no chance of Koskinen being removed from office because the Senate will never convict.

"Instead, says Chairman Jason Chaffetz, the purpose is public education, “to demonstrate to the American people” that the IRS “will be held accountable” for violating the public trust.

"I’m all for demonstrating malfeasance. But the GOP House has given a five-year display of its inability to demonstrate anything. From Benghazi all the way back to Operation Fast and Furious, its hearings’ impact on public perception has been either zero or negative." . . .

Every day teachers in many schools must face "gentle giants"

The Horrors Teachers Face in Many Schools: What The MSM Doesn’t Want You To See

"The liberal mainstream media has repeatedly tried this year to depict black kids as innocent angels — “gentle giants,” if you will — who allegedly face a nonstop barrage of racism, discrimination and abuse at the hands of teachers, security guards and police officers."

"Today, I dare to call B-------- on this false narrative and expose the truth about black kids by sharing the types of videos you would typically find on Colin Flaherty’s YouTube page, which I highly recommend you bookmark, by the way:"

""Here’s the thing. These sorts of attacks occur all the time at schools, universities, malls, fairgrounds, etc., and while many bad kids exist, race notwithstanding, only one race of people continually goes out of its way to excuse the surly conduct of its worst-behaving tykes.

. . . And so the cycle of black kids acting out and then sometimes getting justifiably punished for their behavior continues indefinitely, with every iteration pushing liberals to argue even harder that the alleged “gentle giants” known as black kids deserve a break from rightful discipline.  . . .

Many more videos of this type at the link.

Channel 9 News reports: "A Zellwood Elementary School student was arrested for attacking her teacher, according to Orange County investigators. Miesha Bryant is 10 years old, but she's already charged with felony battery for what happened at her school. WFTV spoke with Bryant and her mother, Sebrina Bryant. "Did she need to be arrested?" WFTV reporter Daralene Jones asked Sebrina Bryant. "No. No. No," she said. "I was shocked, devastated." Sebrina Bryant said she was furious. She said her fifth-grade daughter was just as innocent as she looked in her mug shot. But Bryant was arrested and charged with a felony for allegedly hitting a teacher."

Perhaps CNBC will be nominated for next week's Weasel of the Week*

* Watcher of Weasels

comicallyincorrect.com

Liberal Hacks BOMBED GOP Debate, But Look What Happened To Them After  

" . . .means more people than ever watched the cringe-worthy performance. Sources said the moderators knew they had the opportunity to challenge GOP contenders and potentially change the course of the entire race, but after the dust settled, everyone at the network apparently wanted a “do-over” because they knew they took things too far.

“ 'Everyone feels pretty embarrassed,” one veteran staffer said.

The Walking Brain Dead

. . . "Not that they fooled anyone. With hilariously biased, condescending, and argumentative questions the three moderators accomplished the impressive feat of largely unifying the candidates, the studio audience, and the viewing public - all of whom agree that transparent liberal bias has made a mockery of what used to be an honorable profession." . . .
. . .  "Democrat front runner Hillary Clinton had the appalling lack of taste to tweet an animated GIF taken from the Benghazi hearings as her reaction.  It shows her smugly brushing imaginary crumbs from her shoulder, as if to say that dealing with any GOP opponent will be as easy for her as ducking responsibility for four American deaths." . . .

Uniting against the common enemy  . . . "There comes a time in the life of a collection of people when they become a group, even if only temporarily—even a group of people that’s pitted against each other in competition, like the candidates last night. If you give them a common enemy against which to unite, they sometimes become a group, and that’s what happened Wednesday evening." . . .

John Kasich alone said the moderators did a good job  Since he doesn't see himself being the GOP candidate, maybe he hopes for a job with CNBC. John Fund writes:

This year, it’s no secret who the media likes. A CNBC profile of Kasich in September wasn’t subtle. Its headline was “Is John Kasich the GOP Media Darling Who Could Finally Win?” CNBC noted that the three candidates — McCain, Huntsman, and Kasich — all had the same consultant for their White House bids. He’s John Weaver, a moderate Republican who has described his party as “a bunch of cranks.” Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin told CBS last month that Kasich is “the media’s favorite candidate, and that is a dirty little secret.” As Kasich proved after the CNBC debate, the admiration is mutual.

Weasel of the Week; the obvious choice

Nice Deb

"Yes, once again, It’s time to present this week’s statuette of shame, The Golden Weasel!!

"Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the statuette of shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week’s nominees were particularly slimy and despicable, but the votes are in and we have our winner…the envelope please…

Democrat Front Runner Hillary Clinton!

"Indeed, how could you beat Mrs. Clinton’s performance last week? It does indeed take a special kind of human being to knowingly lie to the entire country and to the grieving families of four dead Americans literally over their coffins. And all just to cover for Barack Obama and get him re-elected.

"A number of Mrs. Clinton’s friends and minions in the media referred to her performance as a ‘triumph’ and a ‘win.’ In actuality, the fact that she’s unlikely to face any cost or punishment for her behavior or her illegal server and destruction of documents that were by law all supposed to be turned over when she left office is a major defeat..for the country. It always is, whenever a nation’s standard of justice, integrity and trust in public officials is compromised.

"That includes the partisan Democrats on the Benghazi committee as well as the media.When ranking members of an investigating committee set up by congress contemptuously break House rules and openly leak what was supposed to be closed door testimony to the media in order to undermine it, there’s not much more to be said." . . .

Watch Jeb Bush take a swing at Rubio and miss badly. How's that working out now?

RedState  "Many, maybe most, of those who watched last night’s GOP presidential debate say Sen. Marco Rubio won. I say Sen. Rubio and Sen. Ted Cruz were both the winners. Everyone agrees that the losers were Jeb Bush and the CNBC so-called moderators. I say so-called because they made it abundantly clear that their sole purpose was to try and take down all of the Republican presidential candidates. They failed in that wrong-headed effort, and did so miserably. What the “moderators” did accomplish was to reveal their membership in the biased media-wing of the Democrats’ Party.

"The self-outing of the CNBC “moderators” began with a “question” asked by Carl Quintanilla:

QUINTANILLA:  This one is for Sen. Marco Rubio . You’ve been a young man in a hurry ever since you won your first election in your 20s. You’ve had a big accomplishment in the Senate, an immigration bill providing a path to citizenship the conservatives in your party hate, and even you don’t support anymore. Now, you’re skipping more votes than any senator to run for president. Why not slow down, get a few more things done first or least finish what you start?

"As you can see in the following the video clip, it wasn’t just a question. Quintanilla badgered Rubio three times during the Senator’s response. Before another question can be asked, at the 2:20 mark, Jeb Bush jumps in and picks his fight."

Read more at the above link.

Jeb Bush's Campaign Blueprint " A 112-page internal document provided to U.S. News includes more dirt on Marco Rubio, Iowa vote goals and a January advertising plan."
Doing Hillary's work for her.

The verdict is in: Republican insiders tell Jeb to quit now after debate disaster
. . . " 'Bush was the clear loser,' added Matt Lewis, a senior contributor for The Daily Caller. 'Bush has now moved from the point where he was merely floundering, and entered territory where he might do long-term damage to his legacy.'" . . .

"Indeed, the Democratic National Committee sent out a fundraising email today asking supporters to sign a petition demanding that Rubio resign."
. . . "Politfact found that in 2008 Obama missed 64 percent of votes and in 2004 Kerry missed nearly 90 percent of votes." . . .

Jeb: Obama-Era Republican  . . . "Jeb might then be fairly described as an Obama-Era Republican, having embraced Common Core and showing no real fire to undo even the worst of Obama’s excesses, or any indication that he’d dig the rot out of the vast executive branch. Candidates without fire aren’t intimidating, no matter how many big donors they have — especially given the ease of small-donor internet fundraising.
"The second flaw is that Bush seems to have underestimated both Marco Rubio and Donald Trump. There might not be any way to get around Trump’s ability to dominate the news media, and if there is a way, Jeb just isn’t the man to find it." . . .

Another Climate Alarmist Lets it Slip: Why They Want to Scare You

Investors.com   . . . "Klein says she "spent six years wandering through the wreckage caused by the carbon in the air and the economic system that put it there." Clearly, it is her goal to shatter the free-market system. The climate? It's just a vehicle, a pretext for uprooting the only economic system in history that has brought prosperity and good health.

"Klein's statement is perfectly in line with Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of United Nation's Framework Convention on Climate Change, and in fact is almost an echo. Figueres acknowledged earlier this year that the environmental activists' goal is not to spare the world an ecological disaster, but to destroy capitalism." 
Read More At Investor's Business Daily:

Another "Hillary supporters asked to name her accomplishments" episode

Florida GOP Trolls Hillary Clinton at Her Own Event, Using Her Own Supporters
"When Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton had an event in South Florida earlier this month, he Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) sent a staffer armed with a video camera and a devastatingly damaging question: “Can you name her accomplishments?”

"On Wednesday, RPOF released a YouTube video showing Hillary supporters enthusiastically voicing their loyalty to her, but then stumbling when asked to name her top two accomplishments as either Secretary of State or when she represented New York in the Senate."

. . . "This isn’t the first time that this particular gimmick has been tried — PJ Media’s Michelle Fields did a similar, viciously effective video back in May 2014 — but there is still something incredibly fun about trolling Hillary Clinton using her own supporters at her own event.

"With Vice President Joe Biden deciding to sit out the 2016 contest, and Bernie Sanders refusing to directly attack Clinton at the last Democratic debate, Clinton is solidifying her grasp on her party’s presidential nomination, and this RPOF video will most certainly not be the last attack of this type against her. In a statement released by RPOF Chairman Blaise Ingoglia with the video, he criticized her political record as “abundant in flip-flops, personal conveniences, and political expediency.' ”

Pumpkins have more to fear from the Obama administration than do Muslim terrorists

Oooh scary! Fed bureaucrats warn pumpkins cause global warming
"The Onion is getting serious competition from the bureaucrats at the Department of Energy, who obviously have too much time on their hands.  Jennifer Pompi of the Washington Times reports:

How scary are your jack-o’-lanterns? Scarier than you think, according to the Energy Department, which claims the holiday squash is responsible for unleashing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

. . .

 

. . . "It is true that every living thing on planet earth eventually decomposes and releases methane. The ultimate solution would be to sterilize the planet, making sure that no life exists. Maybe coat the planet in Roundup? If you are against methane, you are against life itself." . . .

Analysis: CNBC, Jeb Bush lose unruly GOP debate

Townhall

"[Wednesday's]Republican candidate forum will primarily be remembered for two things, I suspect: (1) CNBC's truly awful moderation, and (2) the beginning of the end of Jeb Bush's presidential campaign.


"CNBC: Between the parade of gotcha questions, sloppy moderating, and factual errors, this was an evening to forget for the host network. Almost every single candidate on stage directly called out the slanted nature of the coverage in real time, punctuated by memorable slap-downs from Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. Co-host John Harwood, whose inclusion on the panel irked conservatives from the moment it was announced, was especially tendentious and argumentative -- repeatedly interrupting candidates and flat-out blowing a fact-check about Rubio's tax plan. Harwood admitted his mistake on Twitter, but not on the air. The entire enterprise, from the production values, to the overall focus, to the flow of inquiries, was embarrassing. Incidentally, why was there no conservative media partner for this broadcast? Was that not a requirement this cycle?  (Update: An RNC source tells me CNBC's Rick Santelli constituted the "conservative element" of the forum)." . . .

Keep reading.

CNBC’s John Harwood Is Still Refusing To Admit He Was Wrong . . . "This is why Rubio jumped on him. Marco Rubio knew that Harwood’s facts were wrong. This is why the Tax Foundation president jumped on him. As the actual publisher of the study in question, he knew that Harwood’s facts were wrong.

"Proving once again why he had no business whatsoever moderating the GOP presidential primary debate, John Harwood is apparently the only person in America who doesn’t understand he was wrong. It’s bad enough to aggressively argue with a presidential candidate after being repeatedly corrected on live television. But doubling down and refusing to admit error 12 hours later, after you’ve been repeatedly pantsed by everyone with a basic grasp of the facts?

"That’s just sad. It’s also vintage John Harwood."

Left wing pressure from places like Media Matters hoped to make CNBC as biased as they were last night:  " Let's Hope CNBC Debate Moderators Hold GOP Candidates Accountable For Their Fantasy Tax Plans "

Republicans finally win one against the media. Icing on the cake that it was an NBC station

Does it not seem to you that someone in the mainstream media would realize there is a great story behind the media's anti-conservative bias?

The debate was a major debacle for CNBC, another black eye for NBC News, and permanently tarnished whatever legacy moderator John Harwood thought he might have.

Kurtz: Debate ‘Absolute Trainwreck for CNBC,’ ‘Disaster For All Of Us In the News Business’  . . . "I’m totally in favor of tough and provocative questions. … But a lot of these questions were not drilling down on facts, or record, or policy."


Debate 3: Ted Cruz Changes the Game  . . . "Everything changed when Ted Cruz dressed down Carl Quintenilla and John Harwood – two of CNBC's far-left commentators – and literally mocked their absurd line of questioning.
"Cruz did not just criticize the questions; he made sport of them.  He demonstrated just how infantile most of the CNBC crew was (Tea Party originator Rick Santelli not included).  Cruz  flat-out embarrassed them, and they knew it." . . .

You knew this next story would come out of MSNBC, didn't you?

Chris Matthews calls GOP candidates 'revolting' for protesting CNBC moderator bias

. . . "This morning, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, a similar line was pursued, with even nominal Republican Joe Scarborough hewing to the party line that the GOP field was pathetic." . . .

Dan Youra

Proof: NBC Debate Moderator John Harwood Lied About Rubio’s Tax Plan

. . . "Here’s the false gotcha Harwood launched at Rubio:

The Tax Foundation, which was alluded to earlier, scored your tax plan and concluded that you give nearly twice as much of a gain in after-tax income to the top one-percent as to people in the middle of the income scale. Since you’re a champion of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, don’t you have that backward?

"Rubio immediately hit Harwood back: “No, you wrote a story on it, you had to go back and correct it.' ” . .  .

Ed Meese: Condemn RNC officials who set up disgraceful CNBC debate

. . . "After 15 minutes it was clear that this was not a debate, but a verbal shooting gallery set up by CNBC, with the targets the Republican candidates and the shooters their biased antagonists from the press,” said Meese. " . . .

In this same vein: What Was RNC Thinking in Selecting CNBC to host Debate?

. . . "The moderators were so far left and openly combative that it was like watching a Republican debate moderated by the Democratic Party. CNBC’s moderators succeeded in making CNN’s Candy Crowley look fair and balanced.
"Everyone who’s familiar with John Harwood and CNBC had some idea it was going to go this way. Everyone except Republican Party chairman, Reince Priebus." . . .

From NRO: Cruz Eviscerates CNBC Moderators: Questions Illustrate Why Americans Distrust Media   "Asked tonight about the debt ceiling, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) instead used the question as an opportunity to provide a blistering critique of CNBC’s debate moderators, earning rousing applause from the audience. Here’s the exchange:" . . .

The Clinton Magic still works

The Clintons survive multiple scandals such as sexual harassment charges, corruption and rape charges, along with the deaths of four of Hillary's people, yet thanks to Democrats they remain high and lifted up. TD

HopeN'Change  ". . . And what a victory it is! No one in the State Department demoted or disciplined, and none of the not-so-spontaneous terrorists "brought to justice" by the Obama administration.' "

Candidates take on media

Daily Mail  "Republican debate turns into all-out war as Donald Trump bashes John Kasich, Jeb Bush hits his protege Marco Rubio, and EVERYONE hammers CNBC's moderators

CNBC hosts progressively lost control of the event

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz turned openly hostile, accusing them all of being Democrats intent on damaging the GOP field.    
. . .

'Nobody watching at home believes that any of the moderators have any intention of voting in a Republican primary!' he charged.

'The questions asked so far illustrate why the American people don't trust the media. This is not a cage match,' Cruz said 

'Look at the questions: "Donald Trump, are you a comic-book villain?" "Ben Carson, can you do math?" "John Kasich, will you insult two people over here?" "Marco Rubio, why don't you resign?" "Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?"' 

'How about talking about the substantive issues that people care about?'

"Cruz earned the night's loudest single wave of applause for that outburst." 

Ben Carson: The Plot Against the Doctor Is About to Begin

• "As Ben Carson continues to rise in the polls, ahead not just in Iowa but now nationally, there is one thing you can bank on.  A round of attacks on Dr.  Carson are about to begin and they will be vicious, not to the extent of Stalin’s famous plot against the doctors perhaps, but the plot against this particular doctor will be pretty bad.  And as with Stalin’s plot, it will be filled with lies and innuendo aimed at destroying the subject.
  
  
• "Donald Trump has already given us a hint with his cheesy, supposedly innocent, question about Carson’s religion. But that’s only the beginning. The media will have a field day.  They have already shown an eagerness to quote Carson out of context, thereby skewing what he is really saying (i.e. his comments about guns and the Holocaust and the presidency and Sharia law) in an obvious  attempt to “get him.' ” . . .