An Election Too Important to Be Left to Voters

With every day that passes, the Democrats risk creating the perception that they themselves are a threat to the 2020 election.  Rich Lowry, NR

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So Obama knew all along about the FBI bid to spy on his rival  "Up until now, President Obama has said he knew nothing about the FBI bid to destroy his political rival, Donald J.Trump, as evidenced in the newly released and mighty critical Inspector General, report.

"Back in August 2016, Obama said:

 "I do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations. I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations," he insisted.

"I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI -- not just in this case, but in any case. FULL STOP. PERIOD. Guaranteed. Nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department," he said.

"Today, Obama's claim is in tatters. Julie Kelly of the Federalist, found references within the new IG report that Obama was briefed on the gamy investigation, and knew all about it all along." . . .

It's all about 2020

An Election Too Important to Be Left to Voters  . . . "The Democrats believe that the 2020 election is too important to be left to the voters.
"It’s obvious that President Donald Trump withheld defense aid to Ukraine to pressure its president to commit to the investigations that he wanted, an improper use of his power that should rightly be the focus of congressional investigation and hearings.
"Where the Democrats have gotten tangled up is trying to find a justification that supports the enormous weight of impeaching and removing a president for the first time in our history.
"They’ve cycled through different arguments. First, Trump’s offense was said to be a quid pro quo, a phrase cast aside for supposedly being too Latin for the public to understand; then it was bribery, which has lost ground lately, presumably because of the inherent implausibility of the charge; now, the emphasis is on Trump’s invitation to the Ukrainians to “meddle” and “interfere” in our elections." . . .

Biden embraces the position Hillary called her ’biggest mistake’ in 2016 campaign

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Thomas Lifson "Nobody ever accused Joe Biden of being a genius. But it takes a special kind of stupid to eagerly embrace the issue that his party’s 2016 nominee called her “biggest mistake. ” 'Yet here he is, on video, announcing that when he is president, “No one is going to build another coal plant in America.”

"This is the same Joe Biden who pretends that his birth in Scranton (in coal country) gives him an advantage in the key swing state of Pennsylvania. Yep, they’ll really appreciate his roots when he drives the remaining miners out of their jobs.

"It’s not as if Hillary hasn’t warned him:

In her new book, "What Happened" — officially out next Tuesday — Hillary Clinton wrote that her biggest regret from the campaign trail last year was saying she would put coal miners out of business.

CNN, which obtained a copy of the book this week, reported that the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee said that comment was the one "I regret the most."

Clinton made the remark during a town hall in Columbus, Ohio, in March 2016 when she touted her plan to replace fossil-fuel-based energy production with renewable systems.

"Joe would rather cave in to the Green New Deal totalitarians than protect his erstwhile neighbors in Scranton.

"They seem to be noticing."

House Democrats Announce Two Articles Of Impeachment

Analyzing America

"House Democrats gathered to announce two articles of impeachment against President Trump.  "Adam Schiff explained the impeachable acts as abuse of power and obstruction of Congress."  Video here

Democrats unveil articles of impeachment alleging abuse of power, obstruction

"House Democrats on Tuesday announced articles of impeachment against President Trump alleging abuse of power and obstruction of Congress regarding his interactions with Ukraine, touching off a rapid-fire sequence that could result in a momentous floor vote in a matter of days.

“ 'The framers of the Constitution prescribed a clear remedy for presidents who so violate their oath of office,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y. "No one, not even the president, is above the law.”

 'The White House swiftly hit back, accusing Democrats of using the Ukraine issue as an excuse for "this partisan, gratuitous, and pathetic attempt to overthrow the Trump Administration and the results of the 2016 election."

"The key Democratic committee leaders, along with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., outlined their plans in a brief and pointed statement to the media, and left without taking questions." . . .

Standing behind Schiff in the above scene is Maxine Waters:

Tony Branco

The left is indignant because Donald Trump was not supposed to be there  Even Chris Matthews cracked a smile at this idea.  Hat tip to Marc Brooks 

Democrats’ Cannibalistic Ideology

Victor Davis Hanson

By their own logic, they are racist, sexist, elitist … and convicted of counterrevolutionary crimes.

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks as Sen. Elizabeth Warren looks on during the Democratic presidential candidates debate in Westerville, Ohio October 15, 2019

"Once liberalism and progressivism give way to Jacobinism — and they often do, as we have seen in revolutionary France, China, and Russia — no leftist is safe from the downward spiral to ideological cannibalism. Yesterday’s true believer is today’s counterrevolutionary and tomorrow’s enemy of the people.

"We saw something like that during both the Trump impeachment frenzy and the current trajectory of the Democratic debates and looming primaries.

"The fury over Trump’s election led to a graduated and escalating series of efforts to remove him by suing three states for supposedly fraudulent voting machines. Then articles of impeachment were introduced. Suits followed citing the Constitution’s emoluments clause. The Logan Act was raised, as was the 25th Amendment. At each juncture, the zeal to remove the president accelerated in direct proportion to the failure of the previous effort. A lack of success was always explained as a result of insufficient revolutionary zeal, not an absence of evidence.

"The escalation culminated in the appointment of Robert Mueller and his “dream team” of partisan anti-Trump attorneys. After their failure to find actionable obstruction and any evidence of collusion, Mueller confirmed in congressional testimony that he was largely a tired administrative-state figurehead, a shill for the anti-Trump zealotry of progressive prosecutor Andrew Weissmann.

"After the collapse of each of these agendas, all that was left was impeachment itself. The criminal was still Trump; but what was needed was a new and better “crime” — and far more passion and hate. And both were found with Ukraine, as first defined as quid pro quo, later replaced by “bribery,” and finally recalibrated as “abuse of power.”

"The weekly Jacobin rhetoric made the prior progressive talk seem counterrevolutionary — until we finally reached the crux of the matter with admissions by various Democrats such as Representatives Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Al Green, and Nancy Pelosi that impeachment was likely the only means to stop Trump in 2020." . . .

Historian Victor Davis Hanson on why he supports Trump

Who is Victor Davis Hanson?  . . . "Hanson is a supporter of Donald Trump, authoring a 2019 book The Case for Trump. Trump praised the book. In the book, Hanson defends Trump's insults and vile language as "uncouth authenticity", and praises Trump for "an uncanny ability to troll and create hysteria among his media and political critics." According to Washington Post book critic Carlos Lozada, the book "focuses less on the case for Trump than on the case against everyone else," in particular attacking Hillary Clinton. According to Lozada, Hanson indulges "in casual sexism, criticizing Clinton’s “shrill” voice and her “signature off-putting laugh,” and inexplicably suggesting that while “Trump’s bulk fueled a monstrous energy; Hillary’s girth sapped her strength.”" Hanson praises the Trump administration for its "inspired" and "impressive" Cabinet members. In the book, Hanson blamed Barack Obama for "deliberately [whipping up]" "much of the current division in the country", while ignoring Trump's birtherism or attacks on Muslims. The book likens Trump to a hero of ancient literature, sacrificing himself for the greater good. Hanson expressed support for Trump's proposed border wall on the Southern border, saying that walls around houses deter criminals." . . .  (Wikipedia)

. . . "Hanson was a critic of Obama. Hanson criticized the Obama administration for engaging in "appeasement" of Iran, and "appeasement" of Russia. Hanson blamed Obama for the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in 2014. Hanson has argued Obama failed to maintain a credible threat of deterrence, and put the world on the precipice of another war comparable to the Second World War." . . .

More articles by Mr. Hanson

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13 Things To Look For In The Inspector General FISA Abuse Report

Margot Cleveland  . . . Horowitz’s investigation was limited in scope and thus will leave unanswered many of the questions surrounding the FBI’s targeting of the Trump campaign in the spring and summer of 2016—concerns hopefully addressed soon by Attorney General William Barr and the federal prosecutor he assigned to investigate those matters, Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham. But, given the breadth of the already released details indicating substantial abuse of the FISA process, the IG’s report should address a plethora of problems, some identified by then-House Intelligence Committee chairman, Devin Nunes, and many more discovered as additional facts became known while the Russia collusion hoax unraveled over the last two years.

1. Concerns about Federal Surveillance of Carter Page 

2. What Criminal Allegations Existed Against Page?

3. Did the FBI Follow the Woods Procedures?

4. Why Did Page’s Application Not Follow the Usual Path?

5. Was Any Application Info False or Misleading?

6. Hiding the Steele Dossier Commissioners From the Court

7. Why the FBI Lied about Steele’s Press Contacts

8. Other Information Questioning Steele’s Reliability

9. The Bruce Ohr Problems

10. Then There’s Nellie Ohr

11. What the FBI Withheld about Page’s Help Prosecuting Spies

12. The Real Origin of Crossfire Hurricane

13. What Role Did Joseph Mifsud Play?

US Attorney Durham OBJECTS To IG Findings On Russia Probe ORIGINS In STUNNING Statement

Socio-Political-Journal...

"The U.S. attorney who is conducting a wide-ranging investigation of the origins of the Trump-Russia probe released a rare statement Monday saying he disagrees with conclusions of the so-called FISA report -- after DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz found in that review that the probe's launch largely complied with DOJ and FBI policies.
“Based on the evidence collected to date, and while our investigation is ongoing, last month we advised the Inspector General that we do not agree with some of the report’s conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened,” U.S. Attorney John Durham said in a statement.
"Horowitz released his report Monday saying his investigators found no intentional misconduct or political bias surrounding efforts to launch that 2016 probe and to seek a highly controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in the early months of the investigation. Still, it found that there were "significant concerns with how certain aspects of the investigation were conducted and supervised."
“I have the utmost respect for the mission of the Office of Inspector General and the comprehensive work that went into the report prepared by Mr. Horowitz and his staff,” Durham said. “However, our investigation is not limited to developing information from within component parts of the Justice Department. Our investigation has included developing information from other persons and entities, both in the U.S. and outside of the U.S.”

"As Horowitz has conducted his review of DOJ actions during the Russia probe, Durham, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, has also been conducting a wider inquiry into alleged misconduct and alleged improper government surveillance on the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election." . . .

John Durham’s Investigators ‘Do Not Agree’ with DOJ IG’s Findings on Origin of Russia Probe

While in that same vein: Dershowitz: Some Democrats Channeling SOVIET Minister's 'Show Me The Man, I'll Show You The Crime' Maxim 

. . . First, they came up with abuse of power -- not a crime -- it's not in the Constitution. So now they're saying 'bribery,' but they're making it up," he said. "There is no case for bribery based on, even if all the allegations against the president were to be proved, which they haven't been."Dershowitz said that former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton also famously warned against impeaching a president for partisan ends."Alexander Hamilton said in Federalist Paper Number 65: The greatest danger would be if impeachment turned on the number of people each party had," he said.Impeaching Trump, Dershowitz said, would be a "complete abuse" of the Founding Fathers' intentions.For that reason, Dershowitz said he opposed former President Bill Clinton's impeachment just as he does that of Trump. Clinton's affair with intern Monica Lewinsky and the ensuing perjury charge did not amount to a "high crime," the professor claimed."What Bill Clinton committed was a low crime, a crime to protect his personal life," he said, adding that, at the time, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. -- who is helping lead the Trump impeachment proceedings -- made the exact case in defense of the 42nd president." . . .

Rep. Gutierrez: We're Going To "ELIMINATE" Trump

Blast from the past: Biden swims nude (2014)

Biden Swims Naked, Upsetting Female Secret Service Agents, Book Claims

Not sure if this has to do with Joe's state of undress.

. . . "Agents say that, whether at the vice president’s residence or at his home in Delaware, Biden has a habit of swimming in his pool nude,” Kessler writes in the book – due for release Aug. 5.
“ 'Female Secret Service agents find that offensive,” he writes.
“ 'Biden likes to be revered as everyday Joe," an unnamed agent told Kessler. "But the reality is no agents want to go on his detail because Biden makes agents’ lives so tough.”
"In addition to the alleged skinny-dipping, agents are reportedly irritated by frequent last-minute trips to Delaware.
"A Biden spokeswoman would not address the claims on the record. A spokesperson for the Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment." . . .
[Then there was Biden's Shotgun Advice ]

The Atlantic comes through for a Democrat: In Defense of Naked Joe Biden

Anthony Hopkins on Why He Avoids Talking About Politics: ‘Actors Are Pretty Stupid’

Breitbart

"Actor Anthony Hopkins said he avoids talking publicly about politics because he believes “actors are pretty stupid.”

"The Oscar-winning star of The Silence of the Lambs and the upcoming Netflix movie The Two Popes spoke in a conversation with fellow actor Brad Pitt for the latest issue of Interview magazine.

“ 'People ask me questions about present situations in life, ” Hopkins said.

“ 'I say, ‘I don’t know, I’m just an actor. I don’t have any opinions. Actors are pretty stupid. My opinion is not worth anything. There’s no controversy for me, so don’t engage me in it, because I’m not going to participate.'”  . . .

Try denying that:

Caitlyn Jenner Honored as a Glamour Woman of the Year

A Man Returned His Wife's "Woman Of The Year" Award After Caitlyn Jenner Received One  "A man whose NYPD officer wife was killed on 9/11 has returned her posthumous "Woman Of The Year" Award from Glamour magazine after the publication gave the same award to Caitlyn Jenner."  . . . 

"In the letter, Smith wrote that he was "shocked and saddened" that Glamour gave the same award to Jenner, a former Olympian who publicly transitioned.

" 'I find it insulting to Moira Smith's memory, and the memory of other heroic women who have earned this award," he wrote."

. . . "I can only guess that this was a publicity stunt meant to resuscitate a dying medium," he finished. "After discussing this slap in the face to the memory of our Hero with my family, I have decided to return Moira's award to Glamour magazine." . . .

        

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More on the Pensacola murderer

All emphases in the original.
What Really Happened at NAS Pensacola, and Why   "Per Navy policy, none had weapons to defend themselves with.

"The first responders that confronted the shooter were from the local sheriff’s department. Two were wounded in the gun battle, and the terrorist was killed. Three active duty Americans were dead, 8 more wounded, 2 deputies wounded. Many of the wounded were shot through the doors of classrooms on multiple floors of building 633. Most of the base remained on lockdown well into the afternoon as the base was systematically searched for the missing Saudi terrorists officers. By day’s end, 6 additional Saudi Arabian officers were in FBI custody, and several were at large in the community and a man-hunt is still underway.
"So, over a 5 day span, the terrorist checked in, acquired a handgun with 4 extended magazines and ammunition, posted a manifesto online condemning the US as a “nation of evil” along Islamist and anti-Semitic lines, planned and executed his attack with at least 3 accomplices. At least 10 Saudi Military Officers knew of the plan, and either participated or did nothing to stop it. Each one of these individuals had passed the screening process to come train in the United States. That brief recount of the chain of events begs a series of questions, some of which are easier to answer than others.
"Here are some of the most obvious questions, and my best effort to answer them." . . .  

Authorities searching for unaccounted Saudi nationals following Pensacola shooting
. . . "The FBI was already questioning six Saudi nationals who were connected to Alshamrani after two were caught filming the attack. According to a press conference on Saturday, authorities had contacted four more Saudi nationals, bringing the total to 10. Three of the men detained were guests at Alshamrani’s dinner party where he aired videos of other mass shootings." . . .

Bill Clinton and all those candy stripers...

The Gateway Pundit

Monica Showalter

Almost every time Clinton’s name is on the pilot log, there are underage girls.

. . . "Hillary Clinton apparently thinks she can ride this out just as shamelessly as she's ridden out every other scandal without consequences. But perverts are pretty powerful in taking the powerful down. A look at what's happened to the Catholic Church, or Prince Andrew pretty well suggest that even an anything-goes society such as ours has maybe just this limit. Epstein, who died in mysterious circumstances in jail, almost as if someone wanted him dead so as to ensure he could make no plea deal by giving away the rich and powerful, was just that kind of guy, and worse still, he specialized in blackmail.

"A guy as toxic as this, and a Bubba with as uncontrolled of appetite as Bill Clinton, surely would be trouble together if the pair were ever to meet. Bill Clinton couldn't even control himself around Monica Lewinsky, how would he stand up against an airplane full of underaged candy stripers? It just goes to show the sheer problematic scale of events that deserve to have some questions asked and answered as Hillary prepares to run for president."

More 'crumbs': Nancy Pelosi delivers sour curdled response to blowout jobs report

Democrats really do have a low estimate of our intelligence, don't they?

Tony Branco

Pelosi: again with the "crumbs"?  " House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who's trying to impeach President Trump and doesn't want to be interrupted, knows better than anyone that Friday's blowout jobs report was crazy good news for President Trump.

"RealClearPolitics is running headlines like these:

CNBC's Jim Cramer: Best Jobs Numbers I've Seen In My Life, We Can Win China Trade War With These Numbers

Jobs Report Takeaway: It's Morning in America

Trump’s Unexpected Jobs Boom Leaves Dems Incoherent

"Not a good look for someone who's trying to overthrow a president.

"So ... Pelosi reacted the same way to this jobs bonanza party-hearty it's-raining-jobs fest the same way she reacted to the news that American workers were starting to walk off with $1,000 bonuses, as a direct result of President Trump's tax cuts.

"Crumbs.

"Remember how bitter Pelosi sounded when she called those worker bonuses 'crumbs'?

"Now that's she's impeachment queen, the jobs blowout make her bitterer still, so she put out this just-like-last-time reaction:

“Despite some encouraging numbers, the November jobs report offers little solace to the farmers and hard-working families who are struggling to stay above water with the costs of living rising and uncertainty surging.

“We must take action to strengthen the health and financial security of America’s seniors and families.  Next week, the House will pass our transformational Lower Drug Costs Now Act to finally stop Americans from having to pay more for their medicines than what Big Pharma charges for the same drugs in other countries.  

"Stupid woman. We all know she's tried the crumbs thing before. " . . .