Storming Back to the Impeachment Charade

Andrew C. McCarthy
Jerry Nadler claims to be conducting an impeachment inquiry, but his committee has never actually voted to have one. Here’s why.

"Elections have consequences. This was a point we tried to make many times in the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections. The Democrats won control of the House fair and square. That means they get to drive the agenda.

Their agenda, kinda sorta, is the impeachment of President Trump — which is to say, the quixotic quest to build political support for it. According to the Washington Post, that effort is about to sink deeper into farce: Hearings on Stormy Daniels and the hush-money payments to conceal trysts that Donald Trump had — allegedly, of course — a decade before he ran for president.

"Such a quest is a two-edged sword, though. If this is how the Democrats choose to spend the public’s time and money, they must be accountable for it. They must be pressured to demonstrate the courage of their anti-Trump convictions. So far, for all the bluster, they’ve gotten away with cowardice.

"Most of the impeachment quasi-action is in the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Representative Jerrold Nadler (D., N.Y.). We have to qualify the word “action” because, while Nadler claims to be conducting an impeachment inquiry, his committee has never actually voted to have one.

"This reflects the political needle Democrats cannot thread." . . .

How One Professor’s Angry Censorship Backfired

Alliance Defending Freedom

"Nothing.

"That’s what Bernadette Tasy had to show for her pro-life efforts on the Fresno State University campus, as the school year drew to a close. 

"She and a friend had launched a Students for Life group that fall, gaining only a few non-committal members – and some angry resistance from other students.

"Discouragement nagged at Bernadette as she planned one final effort for the school year.

"For her club’s last major activity, she had secured the university’s permission to create pro-life chalk messages along the main mall of the campus.

"The group had just finished the task when a professor approached. Greg Thatcher, who taught public health, made it clear he didn’t like what they were doing.

"Moments later, Bernadette saw a circle of students – enlisted by Thatcher – smearing out her club’s messages with their feet. Stunned, she pulled out her phone to record video of what was happening.

“ 'College campuses are not free speech areas,” the professor snarled. By then, Thatcher himself was working to deface and destroy the messages – claiming that he was exercising his own free speech. 

"Bernadette walked away shaken, but determined to stand up for her rights. Ultimately, she took legal action with the help of Alliance Defending Freedom.

"And what Thatcher meant for harm, God used for good.

"Her video confrontation with the professor was posted and went viral, drawing attention to both her case and her pro-life cause. Six months later, her Students for Life group won a resounding victory for free speech on her campus.

"And, in the middle of it all, they also helped save a life…

"Learn more about Bernadette’s story in the latest issue of Faith & Justice.

Biden Again Misrepresents Iraq War Stance

Free Beacon

NPR: ‘Biden told us that he opposed the war...but the reality is murky’

"Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden again misrepresented his previous stance on the Iraq war, claiming he "came out against the war" the "moment it started" despite defending his vote to authorize force in Iraq months after the war began.

"After laughing at the notion that critics question his judgement on foreign policy, Biden inaccurately defended his record on the Iraq War in an interview with the NPR Politics Podcast. While acknowledging his Senate vote to authorize the war, Biden claimed he opposed combat efforts as soon as the "shock and awe" bombing campaign and invasion began.

"President George W. Bush "said he needed the vote to be able to get inspectors in, into Iraq to determine whether or not Saddam Hussein was engaged in dealing with a nuclear program," Biden said. "He got them in, and before we know, we had ‘shock and awe.'"

" 'Immediately, the moment it started, I came out against the war at that moment," Biden claimed.

"Biden voted in favor of the 2002 Iraq invasion as a senator, saying at the time he did not believe the vote represented a "rush to war," but rather a "march to peace and security."

"Biden doubled down on his support for the war in a July 2003 Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Biden said he "voted to go into Iraq," and he'd "vote to do it again."'  . . .

Planned Parenthood Kills 247 Black Babies Every Day, But the Media Calls White Pro-Lifers Racist

Life News  "I’m black. And white. I’m “biracial.” So was Frederick Douglass, the famed abolitionist.

"I was conceived in rape. So was Frederick Douglass.

"As an adoptee and adoptive father, I fight for human dignity and for our God-given equality. So did Frederick Douglass.

"To many on the Left, I don’t exist. Black pro-lifers, apparently, don’t exist. In fact, they think I should have been aborted.

"Imagine the same if the inimitable Frederick Douglass were so easily discarded. The sin of racism—in the form of the brutal institution of slavery—would probably have continued to dehumanize and destroy for many more years.

"Mainstream media refused to tell the truth about slavery during Douglass’ time. He had to start his own newspaper, called the North Star, to do the job that so-called “journalists” refused to do. Today, I’m passionate about providing truth in my creative content and thoroughly researched articles, that—like Douglass—are fearless, factual and freeing. My columns are my North Star. 

"Mainstream media was fake news then and largely remains fake news now.

"That’s why the Washington Post can publish tripe like Marissa Brostoff’s deranged “How White Nationalists Aligned with the AntiAbortion Movement.” They make yellow journalism look legit." . . .

T’laib: Trump is “scared” of the squad. (Frankly, their voters scare me. TD)

What’s On Politics.

"Michigan Rep. Rashida T’laib is back in the news after some sort of downtime following her recent scuffle with Israel.
"And since she’s back, she had her target set once again on none other than – Donald Trump.
Trump “scared” of the squad
"From earlier lashing Trump  as “racist” for what she claims is the President’s frequent “attack of women of color lawmakers,” T’laib has a new narrative to push – Donald Trump is scared of “The Squad.”
"For those not closely watching the news, “The Squad” is a group of progressive freshmen lawmakers, who happen to all be women, and in one way or the other, have ethnicities belonging to immigrants in America. They also all happen to be Trump haters. The leader of the band is self-proclaimed Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, T’laib herself, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and lawmaker Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, whom I call the “progressive wannabe” trying to be as progressive as the three other controversial congresswomen.
"Speaking after her planned trip to West Bank was canceled, T’laib, who by the way was the one who refused to visit citing “oppressive conditions,” said Trump is obviously “threatened” by the “elite,” ultra-liberal lawmakers, thus, his frequent “attacks” on them." . . .

Anti-Trump crusader dishonestly reports anti-Semitic 'scoop' and runs young Trump appointee out of his job

Regardless of what happens, an incident like this is certain to sour the public just a little bit more on the press with all its double standards (hellooo, Ilhan Omar!) — and throw fuel to the already growing public support for the backatcha doxxing of journalists as righteous payback.

Monica Showalter  "There's nothing like the power of dishonest journalism, and don't think the mass media don't know it.

"One of the people Ben Rhodes probably meant when he spoke of 27-year-olds "who know nothing," named Ben Penn over at Bloomberg, has come up with a dishonest story claiming to prove that a young Trump official named Leif Olson at the U.S. Department of Labor is an anti-Semite.  His big scoop (Penn's word, not mine) concerned some doxx-style digging of his on (or maybe an activist tip against) the low-level staffer, followed by an irony-

Babylon Bee

challenged claim that a Facebook post the young man made was his presented evidence of anti-Semitism.  It wasn't true — it actually was the opposite of true — and wiser heads pointed it out.  But Olson nevertheless resigned.

"Philip Klein at the Washington Examiner wrote a column exposing just how disgusting the whole story was, noting:

. . . And yet Bloomberg used this to tear him down. Ted Frank, a lawyer and friend of Olson (who happens to be Jewish), has a Twitter thread on this disgrace. Frank also notes that "a good man who just moved his family from Texas to engage in public service has his life disrupted." Even liberal Jonathan Chait, no fan of the Trump administration, acknowledged this was "terribly unfair."

"Has that served to chastise Ben Rhodes's finest?

"Not in the least.  He's doubling down to defend his dishonest story because he's happy he got his scalp:" . . .

. . . Mollie Hemingway pointed out that Penn has a pattern of this kind of obsession.

After that, Penn played the victim:

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Mollie Retweeted Janet Jackson

Bloomberg's Ben Penn @benjaminpenn has a history of public bigotry against supporters of religious liberty, which he keeps framing falsely as nefarious. He also was upset that Olson supports the First Amendment's religious liberty protections. This is an interesting pattern.

. . . "Along with Klein, Mollie Hemingway wrote a piece blasting the travesty.  So did Rod Dreher, calling it "a revolting smear" and noting its resemblance to communism.  So did the Tablet's Yair Rosenberg.  Update: So did National Review's Michael Brendan Dougherty, calling it "bad faith."  So did Will Chamberlain at Human Events.  So did, hold your socks...Vox of all places.  And get ready to lose your wig: Matthew Gertz at Media Matters.

To cave on this slimy effort to slime an innocent man is very un-Trumpian behavior, raising questions about the competence of the Labor Department's bosses who caved so quickly.

Whoopi Goldberg warns Debra Messing about those 'lists' targeting Trumpers

Goldberg can be pretty impressive when she wants to be. Pity she's not leading the Democrats instead of the hydra-headed monster the Democrats and their broader left have become. She's kind of the grand lizardlike old Yoda they really need.

Debra Messing

Dianny of Patriot Retort

Monica Showalter  "Making herself the left's voice of reason, and not for the first time, Whoopi Goldberg has stepped in once more to try to end another leftist meltdown. The academy award-winning actress on Tuesday warned Hollywood T.V. star Debra Messing that her call to create Joe McCarthy-style lists of campaign donors was bound to backfire. Messing, as I noted here, was out crazy-tweeting a few days ago about the need to doxx Republicans who support Trump in a bid to target President Trump as he gets ready to attend a fundraiser in Beverly Hills on Sept. 17.

"Goldberg had a response to that, according to a report in Mediaite:

“This is not a good idea, okay?” Goldberg said. “Your idea of who you don’t want to work with is your personal business. Do not encourage people to print out lists because the next list that comes out, your name will be on, and then people will be coming after you!”

"No sheet Sherlock, to speak the Whoopi-ese. She continued:

“We had something called a blacklist, and a lot of really good people were accused of stuff. Nobody cared whether it was true or not. They were accused. And they lost their right to work. … In this country, people can vote for who they want to. That is one of the great rights of this country. You don’t have to like it, but we don’t go after people because we don’t like who they voted for. We don’t go after them that way. We can talk about issues and stuff, but we don’t print out lists. I’m sure you guys misspoke when you said that because it sounded like a good idea. Think about it. Read about it. Remember what the blacklist actually meant to people and don’t encourage anyone, anyone, to do it.” 

. . . Full article

Seinfeld Star Rips ‘Will & Grace’ Actors for ‘Embarrassing’ Actions Against Trump Supporters  As Mr. Peterman would have said, "That would be grounds for dismissal".

Biden Claims He Was There 3,000 Years Ago When Isildur Took The Ring And The Strength Of Men Failed

Babylon Bee (You did catch that this is from the Bee, didn't you? The Babylon Bee; BABYLON BEE. The conservative CNN you know)

"HANOVER, NH—At a New Hampshire campaign stop, presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed he was at Mount Doom 3,000 years ago when Isildur decided to take the Ring instead of destroying it.

" 'I was there," he said, his voice trailing off as some long-forgotten memory flashed before his eyes. "I was there 3,000 years ago... when Isildur took the Ring. I was there the day the strength of men failed." Biden said that "the time of white men is over" and that "the time for us to listen to minority voices instead has come," though he was quick to clarify that he should still be the one to wield the Ring of Power.

"Biden seemed not to have a very strong recollection of the events, however, claiming that Harry Potter then flew in on a broom and took the ring in order to drop it in an exhaust port on the Death Star to stop the Borg.

" 'I remember it like it was last summer," he said wistfully. "The summer of '69.' "

Would a spineless beta president be what we need in dealing with forces that hate our country?

Do we really need another national leader like this?

The former mayor Mike Bloomberg says he decided not to run for president, in part, because he would have had to apologize for “being male, over 50, white.”  . . . “ 'It’s just not going to happen on a national level for somebody like me, starting where I am, unless I was willing to change all my views and go on what CNN called ‘an apology tour,’” he said, referencing some of his would-be opponents. “Joe Biden went out and apologized for being male, over 50, white. He apologized for the one piece of legislation which is actually a pretty good anti-crime bill, which if the liberals ever read it, most of the things they like is in that bill,” he said. “They should have loved that. But they didn’t even bother to read it. You’re anti-crime, you must be anti-populist.”

"The trend, he added, is not confined to Biden. “Beto, whatever his name is, he’s apologized for being born,” Bloomberg said to laughter from the audience." . . .

Beto Apologizes For Being White & Male After The Woke Trash Him Over A Joke About His Wife  . . . "The woke are watching, and they’re in a mood. Just ask Debra Messing: She recently rankled their ranks by claiming women have vaginas (here). They’re a freight train of justice, and don’t mess with their toot toot.

"Subsequently, Beto’s far too cool to be cool with his coffee house cut-up of gross misogyny and…racism(?).

"On the Political Party LIVE podcast just two days after announcing his 2020 presidential candidacy, he got right with it, apologizing for his masculine shame and systemically racist white disposition:

“Not only will I not say that again, but I’ll be more thoughtful going forward in the way that I talk about our marriage.”

"Additionally, he promised to be more mindful in the way…let’s see…what was it again?

“…the way in which I acknowledge the truth of the criticism that I have enjoyed white privilege.”

"Oh yeah. That." . . .

Morning Joe To Beto O’Rourke: Stop Apologizing For Being White — And For Everything Else  . . . "I made the same point as Scarborough last night about the sorry spectacle of O’Rourke’s apology tour. Which voters are supposedly being won over by endless professions of regret about his white, male, cishet, rich-guy “privilege”? To anyone who views that privilege as a major problem, Beto’s contrition won’t be enough to appease them." . . .

Rosanna Arquette shouldn't apologize for being white  . . . "Does a privileged background make a person guilty of anything? If so, then all Americans are guilty, when compared to the other 6 billion people on this planet. But this too is silly nonsense. Our background is our background. It carries no moral stigma nor does it carry a badge of honor." . . . 

As expected, the UK Daily Mail offers much on this same subject.

. . . " 'Do not apologize for being on Vanity Fair. Own it. Do not apologize for having a very rich father-in-law. Own it,' Scarborough continued. 'Do not apologize for being white, do not apologize for being privileged, do not apologize for being a man. And also, Beto, do not apologize for getting great press coverage, because what you want is great press coverage.'

"The Democratic candidate appeared on The View Tuesday and told the roundtable that he regretted launching his campaign in April on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine." . . .

Beto Complains About His ‘Privilege,’ Agrees Vanity Fair Cover was ‘Elitist’

"Oh for the love of everything in this world. Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Robert O’Rourke put his tail between his legs and became a beta male on the set of The View as a way to relaunch his campaign.

"How? Just that horrible white male guilt that every white male has to feel because feelings. Instead of giving credit to hard work for where he is now, he “acknowledged that his background and position of white male privilege has helped him advance in his career.”

. . . "Leftist co-host Joy Behar asked O’Rourke if his Vanity Fair cover came off as “elitist,” even though I’m pretty sure President Barack Obama had his face plastered all over magazines in 2008 and 2012."
. . . "Something tells me this will not help O’Rourke “relaunch” his campaign. I do not know about you, but I do not want a spineless male or female to lead this country."

You left WHAT in San Francisco?

Trey Gowdy is Responding to James Comey's Demands For an Apology

Katie Pavlich  "Last week Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz released an 83-page long report confirming fired FBI Director James Comey repeatedly violated FBI rules, protocol and the law by leaking official memos to the media. The memos contained details about his conversations with President Trump. 

" 'In a country built on the rule of law, it is of utmost importance that all FBI employees adhere to Department and FBI policies, particularly when confronted by what appear to be extraordinary circumstances or compelling personal convictions. Comey had several other lawful options available to him to advocate for the appointment of a Special Counsel, which he told us was his goal in making the disclosure. What was not permitted was the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigative information, obtained during the course of FBI employment, in order to achieve a personally desired outcome," the IG report states. 

"Despite these facts, Comey demanded an apology from those who accused him of being a leaker.
. . .

 "Now, former House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy is responding to Comey's demands and isn't mincing words. "I never said Comey would or should go to jail. I'm certainly not going to apologize to anyone who violated FBI and Department of Justice policy, who violated an employment agreement, who shared sensitive information about an ongoing investigation, who sent classified information to an unauthorized person and then had amnesia when the FBI came to his home to try to retrieve government property. I'm not going to apologize," Gowdy said during an interview on Fox News. "What temperature is it in hell right now? Is it snowing? When it snows in hell, you let me know." . . .

Memo to Joe Walsh: Primary Challengers Never Win, And Neither Does Their Party

Issues & Insights "Any Republican supporting a primary challenge against President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020, if it is successful or even if it just hampers the primary process, is virtually guaranteeing the next president will be a Democrat.

Joe Walsh, friend of the Democrats

"And with it, Democrats will once again have all the trappings of the presidency, including nominating the next Supreme Court justices, signing laws and conducting foreign relations.

"In modern U.S. history of presidential elections since the nation’s first political primaries in 1912, no sitting president has ever been denied his party’s nomination at a nominating convention whilst standing for reelection. 2020 will be no different, wherein the Republican nominee for president will almost certainly be Donald Trump once again.

"Here’s another feature of those contests: Every single one of the one-term presidents of the 20th Century — William Howard Taft in 1912, Herbert Hoover in 1932, Gerald Ford in 1976, Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush in 1992 — all faced strong primary challenges.

"Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson both withdrew their candidacies from the elections of 1952 and 1968 respectively in the face of a strong primary challengers. Truman lostthe 1952 New Hampshire primary and Johnson barely won the 1968 New Hampshire primary. One can quibble about whether these count as being ousted or not but they were not on the ballots at the conventions because they were not contesting the conventions at that point. They forfeited. Both conventions ended up being brokered, with none of the prime vote getters in the primaries obtaining the nomination.