Censure Vote Against Kyrsten Sinema Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

The Federalist

Democrats' very public reprimand of Sinema is not about addressing dissatisfaction among the electorate. It’s about shaming someone for not prioritizing uniformity over the interests of voters.

"Yesterday, Arizona Republic reported that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) “is facing a censure vote from the Arizona Democratic Party,” whose farthest left members feel Sinema has been too acquiescent toward President Trump’s policies. Dan O’Neal, the state coordinator of Progressive Democrats of America, claims Sinema has abandoned the Democratic stances she supposedly ran on.

"Sinema was elected senator of Arizona in 2018, replacing Jeff Flake and defeating Republican candidate Martha McSally. According to Arizona Republic, Sinema’s voting record indicates that, while in the House (where she served from 2013 to 2018), Sinema opposed Trump’s agenda 46% percent of the time; in the Senate, 81% percent of the time. The Democrats cite, among other things, her vote to confirm Attorney General William Barr and her unwillingness to revive “net neutrality” rules as spots of contention. 

"The censure vote against Sinema reveals the malady that plagues contemporary politics. In an age of hyperpartisanship, where party lines have taken on frustratingly tribal qualities, Sinema’s more moderate approach should be lauded, not censured." . . .

 . . . "Their very public reprimanding of Sinema is not about addressing dissatisfaction among the electorate, as can be seen from Sinema’s numbers. It’s about shaming someone for not ascribing to the party orthodoxy, which regrettably prioritizes uniformity over the interests of the voters." . . .

"Some people" almost "did something" again

"Oh, and Alani's phone also had a news story about a plane crash in Indonesia last year, with specific information about the plane's airspeed control system. The same thing he was caught tampering with." Jim Treacher

An ISIS aircraft mechanic caught trying to disable the same system that brought down two other 737s?  "They're still out there.

"And it was quite disturbing to learn that, contrary to what the press had so smarmily assured us about a supposedly disgruntled aircraft mechanic who got caught trying to disable a Boeing 737, the guy had ISIS video on his cell phone.
" 'American Airlines Mechanic Accused of Plane Sabotage May Have Ties to Terrorists, U.S. Says," the New York Times headline reported.
"Up until now, the press had been assuring us that the whole thing was a labor issue, citing officials.  According to the New York Times:" . . .
. . . 
"Doesn't everyone with labor beefs against his boss have ISIS video murders on his cell phone?
"As Jim Treacher (hat tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit) notes, "Weird Coincidence."
"It's all but certain that mechanic-from-hell Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani might just have been motivated by ISIS's brand of Islamism, not a woikin' man's desire for more overtime.
"The gullible media reported it otherwise, always eager to look the other way on Islamist 
terror." . . .

Marie Harf: terrorists need jobs

Some Guy Did Something – Judge Denies Bail for Sketchy Airline Mechanic Caught Tampering With 
GPS…  "After disclosing his prayers of death for the infidels; and after telling investigators he was acting on behalf of his “evil side”; and after finding out his brother is a member of ISIS in Iraq; and after finding pro-ISIS propaganda videos on his cell phone celebrating ISIS mass murders, which he shared with friends and family; well, U.S. justice officials and the FBI now suspect a more “disturbing” motive behind airline employee Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani who was caught tampering with the American Airline GPS system.

"Gee, ya think?"

American Airlines Mechanic Shared ‘Disturbing’ ISIS Videos, Told Agents He Had ‘Evil Side’ 

. . . "However, Alani had been fired from Alaska Airlines in 2008 over several maintenance mistakes, some that led to Federal Aviation Administration investigations, according to court documents from his unsuccessful discrimination lawsuit that Business Insider obtained.
"Alani was fired after the incident and the Federal Aviation Administration revoked his aircraft mechanic certificate.
"He is expected to enter a plea Friday on charges of willfully damaging, destroying or disabling an aircraft." . . .

Are these the people who can keep a republic? UPDATED

 Union Theological Seminary Confesses Sins & Sorrow to Potted Plants
"Today in chapel, we confessed to plants. Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor. "What do you confess to the plants in your life?"

 They also posted the following:  "Tonight, Jesus is a child torn from *their parents, weeping in a cage." *"their" is used of Jesus here as a gender- neutral pronoun. Vegan Activists Segregate Hens From Roosters ‘So The Hens Aren’t Raped’ Today Spain, tomorrow America. "Spanish Activists 'Anti-Speciesist, Transfeminist' Group Highlights Issues of Consent Among Chickens"

UPDATE: NBC Now Has A Webpage For “Climate Confessions”  "A page on the NBC News website called "Climate Confessions" invites people to tell the world how they have failed to uphold the doctrines of climate change ideology in their lives. It lists several possible misdeeds like wasting food, cranking air conditioning and routinely consuming steak."

More on this at the link above.
Student Climate Change Activist: “The world is ending? What are we studying for?” . . . "I’ll be talking to my best friend and she says, “I want to see this natural place sometime — if it’s going to be around.” “I want to study to be this, if that’s still going to be a possibility.' ” . . .

UPDATE #2

And, of course, this individual, a favorite of Democrat candidates:

Joe Biden is no Winston Churchill

Genghis Gary

The Babylon Bee reports: Biden Lands Coveted Corn Pops Endorsement Deal

. . . "Gotta have my pops!" Biden says in a new commercial before launching into a long-winded recollection of the incident. He goes on and on about CornPop and how he brought peace to the gang-ridden land of Delaware back in the 1890s with the help of President Ben Franklin and Canada. "Eating Corn Pops is all part of a balanced breakfast for a man who brings peace and harmony to the land like me."

" 'Before I set out on the rough campaign trail each and every morning, I make sure to have a bowl of Corn Pops to keep my mind sharp," Biden says before smiling and taking a bite of the Pops. "Oopsy-daisy!" he says sheepishly as his teeth fall into the cereal bowl." (Parody, you know)

Previously posted here: Is this the Joe Biden that Democrats hope will face Donald Trump in 2020?

In Biden’s ‘Corn Pop’ story, his critics see yet another stereotypical portrayal of black Americans. "The Root's Michael Harriot featured the story in a series of tweets Saturday, giving his own entertaining take on events — it’s not clear what prompted him to do so, but he dedicated 19 tweets to the endeavor" " His telling of the story, complete with editorial from the black perspective, is more entertaining than Biden’s version. In the end, you sense that the real objective here may be damaging the front-runner’s credibility.

Take it slow, Joe: Biden promises more jobs for women than there are U.S. citizens

Democratic Candidates Are Out of Touch on Gender

National Review

A run-down of the Democrats’ LGBT-rights strategy.

Sen. Kamala Harris attends the Pride Parade in San Francisco, Calif., June 30, 2019.

     "Last week’s Democratic debate was nearly three hours long, and candidates answered questions on a range of topics including health care, gun control, civil rights, and education. They did not discuss LGBT issues — which is probably just as well. So far, not a single Democratic presidential candidate has demonstrated an understanding of two basic facts.          "First: that each letter of “LGBT,” etc., and the interest group it claims to represent, is distinct. Second: that today’s tirade of alphabet activism is far removed from the historic gay-rights movement which fought for sexual minorities to have access to basic health care, the right to privacy, and equality under the law.
     "Indeed, only sheer ignorance or reckless disregard can explain why every Democratic presidential candidate has backed the Equality Act. This law, a misnomer, would force women’s spaces (such as battered-women’s shelters) and sports teams (such as the high school girls in Connecticut) to include men. It would also set a dangerous precedent for the medicalization of gender-confused youth through an Orwellian hijacking of the term “conversion therapy.”
     "It’s worth noting here that, in some states, girls as young as 13 have lost their healthy breasts to this ideology, while children as young as eight have been injected with (sterilizing) cross-sex hormones. And that this new definition of “conversion therapy,” when enshrined in law, renders non-intrusive alternatives to such interventions illegal (with or without parental consent.)" . . .

In whiplash moment, Democrats are now backing away from Kavanaugh allegations

Washington Post  "In a head-spinning few days, Republicans have moved into a full offensive posture over the latest allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, leaving congressional Democrats in a defensive crouch as they try to change the subject.
"Tuesday’s dueling news conferences, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), perfectly captured the new dynamic.
"After their respective policy lunches, McConnell devoted his entire opening remarks, more than three minutes, to the Kavanaugh issue, highlighting a clarification the New York Times added to an article about how an alleged victim did not recall an alleged incident of sexual misconduct during the justice’s college days.
"“I think it is truly outrageous. We had this investigation a year ago; we had this vote a year ago,” McConnell told reporters.
"That came after McConnell, opening the Senate floor Monday, devoted his entire remarks, more than five minutes, to the Kavanaugh issue with just as much indignation.
"Schumer never mentioned the latest Kavanaugh imbroglio in Tuesday’s opening comments and appeared exhausted when the topic came up as the very first question." . . .

The Architect of the Latest Kavanaugh Smear Just Gave a Self-Damning Radio Interview  "There is no substantiated evidence of any sexual misbehavior by Brett Kavanaugh at any point in his entire life. Several shaky claims have been made along these lines, but all of them are badly undercut by available evidence. None of them is more likely than not to be true.
"Yet in a casual radio interview this morning, New York Times reporter Robin Pogrebin, a classmate of Kavanaugh’s at Yale, gave an unintentionally revealing report about her approach to the story. Following Christine Blasey Ford’s hard-to-believe testimony, which was undercut by all witnesses she placed at the party in question, including a lifelong friend of hers, and following Deborah Ramirez’s hard-to-believe story, which she herself admitted being uncertain about, Pogrebin obviously became subjected to confirmation bias. She had a narrative in mind and she pushed and pulled her writing to fit it.
"Pogrebin is at the center of a discussion of gross journalistic malpractice after publishing a story Saturday night with colleague Kate Kelly that failed to mention that a woman who, according to a man named Max Stier, had Kavanaugh’s penis pressed into her hand at a campus party by multiple friends of his has said she recalls no such incident. That woman has also declined to talk about the matter with reporters or officials. Why even publish Stier’s claim, which was discounted by Washington Post reporters who heard about it a year ago, that he witnessed such an incident during a Yale party in the 1980s? Because of the narrative, Pogrebin says. “We decided to go with it because obviously it is of a piece with a kind of behavior,” she said on WMAL. Pure confirmation bias."  

. . . So the standard here is not whether something is true, it’s whether it’s “conceivable.” If a story is “of a piece with a kind of behavior,” even if such behavior is itself not established, and if a story is “conceivable” when filtered through that confirmation bias, and even if it’s undercut by the person the story supposedly happened to, and even if the person telling the story was “incredibly drunk,” you just go with it anyway. Let’s hear it for the New York Times, home of All the News That Fits the Narrative.

So what is confirmation bias?

Doesn't Jerry Nadler have anything else to do?

“I think they hate this president more than they love their country.”

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Democrats Complain Nadler’s Investigations Into Trump Are ‘All Hammer, No Finesse’
. . . "Since the Mueller report was released over seven weeks ago Nadler's committee has failed to produce any notable victories against the President or his administration. He has tried to get former Special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify before the committee but has yet to receive a concrete response from Mueller on appearing before the committee." . . .

Rep. Matt Gaetz Mocks Nadler’s “Seinfeld” Impeachment Hearing  . . . “ 'Instead of delivering on their campaign promises House Democrats have spent every week in the majority pushing this disastrous vanity project,” NRCC Spokesman Michael McAdams said in a statement.

"Democrats own internal polling shows “just 10% said investigating Trump should be a top priority for Congress,” while a recent Monmouth Poll found the vast majority of Americans oppose impeachment. Yet, they’re doing it anyway." . . .

Matt Gaetz and Corey Lewandowski skewer Nadler and the Democrat Party, but don’t look for it in the mainstream media  "Matt Gaetz is a patriot. Despite multiple death threats from crazed liberals, he marches on in his personal crusade to save America from the demonic Democrat Party.  

"By all means, watch the entire video, below, but especially the beginning. Listen closely to Gaetz’s words as he calls out Jerry Nadler and the Democrats for what they are, anti-American, seditious scumbags who would put anyone they can find on the hot seat of a congressional hearing in an attempt to use anything they might say as a seed to generate public support from the American people to throw their duly elected president out of office."

. . . "So, Mr. Lewandowski, do you have a thought as to why we continue to engage in a charade that is overwhelmingly opposed by the American people and fundamentally misunderstood by my Democrat colleagues?”
"Lewandowski hits it out of the park…. “I think they hate this president more than they love their country.”
"BOOM! The Democrats do in fact hate this president for reversing their agenda to destroy America, which they despise above all else.
"Gaetz ends his questioning with a scathing condemnation of the Democrats and James Comey who Gaetz claims “should be sitting in that chair. He should be answering questions about why he did so much damage to the FBI and our country.' ” . . .

Mainstream media savaged Nadler’s impeachment hearing questioning of Corey Lewandowski (with an assist from Nancy Pelosi)

"The mainstream media chorus turned on their Democrat allies over the questioning of Corey Lewandowski by Chairman Nadler’s House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. The breadth and depth of the rare media attack on Democrats needs explanation. We are well accustomed to the mainstream media following nearly identical talking points, so the question becomes: who sent the signal that beating up the impeachment hearings was the order of the day?

"The most obvious candidate is Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking elected Democrat, who understands that an impeachment circus could lose many of the seats Democrats turned over in 2018 and cost the Democrats their House majority and her speakership." . . . 

"Of course, Nadler is just going through the motions with an empty charade that won’t result in an actual House vote to impeach and set up a Senate trial of President Trump. His goal to short circuit a successful primary challenge of the sort that catapulted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez into the House. But the noise he generates to sate the appetites of his Trump-hating constituents also reaches voters in swing districts." . . .

MSNBC’s Joy Reid Trashes White Christians As Wanting To Create Apartheid In U.S.

The Lid

. . . "This isn’t the first time Reid has attacked people of Christian faith she complained there were too many Catholics on the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the Hobby Lobby case, and she’s compared “Christian beliefs to ‘Something out of a novel.

"Reid is a bigot. In 2018   posts displaying her hatred of Gay people were discovered. She also photoshopped a picture of Sen. John McCain suggesting he was responsible for the Virginia Tech massacre and was revealed as a 9/11 “truther.”  ]Joy Reid is not a fan of Mexican immigrants, believes the anti-Semitic canard that Jews and Israel control American foreign policy, spewed the modern version of the anti-Semitic blood libel and much more. Because it is essential for the present discussions about Ms. Reid, her bigoted blog posts are presented and expanded upon below, and similar comments made on her MSNBC program are included." . . .Advisory: racist dog whistle:

Videos of the Day: Corey Lewandowski frustrates Democrats’ attempted coup against Trump

Conservative Firing Line  "On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee conducted its first impeachment hearing with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who refused to answer many of their questions.
"According to Fox News:

After five hours of testimony before lawmakers, the top Democrat on the committee, Rep. Jerry Nadler, told Lewandowski his “behavior in this hearing room has been completely unacceptable,” and said holding him “in contempt” is “certainly under consideration.” . . .

. . . "In short, it wasn’t a good day for Nadler and his fellow Democrats…  No doubt there will be more to come.
"Related:

• Nadler Pursues Formal Impeachment…Still
• Flashback: In 1999, Nadler Said Perjury And Obstruction Of Justice Not Impeachable Offenses
• Hypocrisy: Nadler Didn’t Want Starr Report Released Until Redacted in 1998, Has Different View Now (Video)
• How far will Nadler, Dems go in coup d’etat against Trump?
• Dem Rep. Jerrold Nadler threatens to arrest, fine Trump officials who refuse subpoenas

Here’s Jerry Nadler’s interrogation:
Here’s more of the best from the hearing:
Here’s the questioning from Eric “Nuke ‘Em” Swalwell:
More videos at this site.

Lewandowski fired back later in the day:

Kavanaugh Claim Collapses in Flaccid Hearsay

Ann Coulter  . . . "If someone from Bob Jones University said that her dreams of marital purity were “ripped away” because she saw a man’s penis in college, liberals would never stop laughing. 
“ '(Kavanaugh) was ... known to attend an annual teenage bacchanal called ‘Beach Week,’ where the hookups and drinking were more important than the sand and swimming.”
"It wasn’t much of a “beach party” -- if you want to call it that. Instead of wholesome fun, the young people consumed alcoholic beverages and engaged in inappropriate flirting. "Everyone said it was inappropriate -- not just us.
"Most shocking, from a “Little House on the Prairie” perspective, was this:
“People ... would start to say ‘Debbie does …’ playing on the 1978 porn movie ‘Debbie Does Dallas.’ "But Ms. Ramirez didn’t understand the reference.”
"Remind me: Aren't these the same people demanding that we teach kindergartners about “fisting”?
"But the “Debbie Does Defamation” authors weren’t finished." . . . 

Victor Davis Hanson writes in American Greatness, 
 The Stalinist mantra “to accuse is to be believed”   . . . "In the end, Ford was perhaps fortunate that the entire circus ceased when it did. Had investigators probed any more deeply the recent accusations of her once long-term boyfriend, the strange but multifaceted role of her lifelong but apparently conniving friend Monica McClean in the Kavanaugh allegations, the passages of the therapist tapes, the exact circumstances surrounding the lie-detector test, the long odyssey of Ford’s original accusation through Feinstein’s staff to Democratic committee members and the media, and the sources of Ford’s judicial support, there might well have been more incompatibility with the ever growing number of Ford’s narratives.
"In the end, we were left only with the Stalinist mantra “to accuse is to be believed”—but, of course, not even the current accusers in the future would be exempt from the very nightmare they now would create for others."

Tony Branco

Mayor Pete Can Explain about Pro-Abortion Jesus

"But somehow the very religious Buttegieg can't make out any moral problem with aborting an unborn baby up to the moment of birth, despite how it harms God's creation and harms people — in fact, it destroys people created by God in His own image.  The Federalist's Ericka Andersen spotted Mayor Pete's hypocrisy, agonizing over air quality and sea levels but "convinced that's God's creation inside the womb is unworthy of that same care and protection.' "

Pat Cross

American Thinker "Democrat Pete Buttigieg's recent defense of unrestricted abortion, suggesting that "a lot" of the scriptures says "life begins with breath," came in for some well deserved ridicule from people who actually own Bibles.  Mayor Pete was willing to admit that others may interpret these verses differently, because his real argument was that the only person's opinion that matters "is the woman making the decision."

"This idea that "the woman" alone (or, more accurately, the mother alone) gets to decide her baby's life or death is the atheist Left's default position: because there's no God to decree what's good or evil, there's no appeal outside the individual's arbitrary will.  (And because an unborn baby is too small to assert his will, who cares about him?)

"Liberal Christians, compromised by their higher loyalty to the progressive cause, have been stuck for decades improvising biblical rationalizations as best they can for the Left's morally indefensible positions.  When they see they can't make the case, as Buttigieg can never make his, their fallback position is that the scriptures are ambiguous and the mind of God unknowable." . . .

Buttigieg Draws On Bible, Suggests Unborn Babies Can Be Aborted Up Until Their First Breath

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