Why do Democrats value the American experiment so little?

Biden Claims No Option Suspend Filibuster | National Review  . . ."While Republicans have decried Democrats’ voting legislation as a federal takeover of elections procedures, Biden compared opponents of the legislation to southern segregationists.

“ 'Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?” Biden said. “This is the moment to decide, to defend our elections, to defend our democracy.' ”. . .

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Top Democrat Calls for Feds to Seize Control of Elections: States 'Cannot' Be Trusted | Neon Nettle   "One of the most powerful members of the Democratic Party is calling on Joe Biden's federal government to seize control of America's elections.

"Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), the number three Democrat in the House of Representatives, issued a warning that states "cannot" and "should not" be trusted to run their own elections.

"House Majority Whip Clyburn invoked Founding Father Alexander Hamilton in demanding a more robust federal role in elections.

"Clyburn echoed Hamilton by insisting that presidential elections “should not be left up to the states.' ”. . .

Why are not more people sick of seeing the scowling faces of angry Democrats? TD

Don Surber: Filibuster splits Democrats   "A civil war is taking place. It is Democrats versus Democrats. The party senses doom in the midterms.

"Democrats hold the House now and have only half of the Senate. They must rely on the Mattress Girl vice president to cast any tie-breaking vote.

"This has divided Democrats into two camps. 

"You have heard of the blue dog Democrats and the yellow dog Democrats. Today, Pelosi leads the rabid dog Democrats who want to get everything they can get now, no matter what damage it does to Congress and the Constitution.

"They are secure in the knowledge that Republicans cannot undo the damage for at least 3 -- maybe 7 -- years. FDR, LBJ and Obama knew they could pass laws that Republicans refused to repeal when they took over Congress and the White House." , , ,

Omar And Tlaib Spark Outrage For Laughing During Speech About US Casualties In Iraq

 Omar And Tlaib Spark Outrage For Laughing During Speech About US Casualties In Iraq - Opposing Views

. . ."Many called this a disgraceful display of Rep. Omar’s continued unpatriotic behavior despite taking an oath to represent Americans on matters vital to the Republic.

"Lee had stated, “I’m very glad to say that I was part of the 132 and also the vote for Barbara Lee’s amendment, but I think that the point of that is that that is the same war that we’re dealing with today. We never solved any problems with AUMF, we left 4,000-plus, maybe even 4400 dead, and over 60,000 who came back injured in some form and the war never ended.”

"At this, Rep. Omar burst out laughing out loud, and turned to Rep. Tlaib, who was also laughing. This led to an outcry by the public on social media, with many rallying against Rep. Omar.

"Kayleigh McEnany tweeted; “How low will Ilhan Omar go? Watch her giggle and joke as Rep. Lee talks about American troops who lost their lives in Iraq. Omar has a history of documented anti-Semitism and now this? Nancy???”

"Heather Wolf tweeted; “Anti-Semitic Rep Omar doesn’t care about Americans. It’s very clear by her disgusting laughs at Sheila Jacksons mention of US casualties in the Iraq war. It’s shocking that we have an enemy of the ppl in Congress. Omar should be Expelled & stripped of her Security Clearance.' ”. . .

Biden’s Big Elections Lie; this man cannot be believed

The president pronounced the Senate a “shell of its former self,” lamenting that the GOP had used the filibuster over 100 times in the past year, skipping the inconvenient fact that Democrats had done so over 300 times the preceding four years. 

 Joe Biden Lying about Elections | National Review   "These were little more than the mendacious ravings of a demagogue. President Joe Biden delivered his “voting rights” speech in Atlanta today, telling a crowd: 

The next few days, when these bills come to a vote, will mark a turning point in this nation. Will we choose democracy over autocracy, light over shadow, justice over injustice? I know where I stand. I will not yield. I will not flinch. I will defend your right to vote and our democracy against all enemies foreign and domestic. And so the question is where will the institution of the United States Senate stand?

"Biden’s argument is predicated on the idea that anyone who continues to support the legislative filibuster — a Senate rule the president defended for nearly 50 years — or voter-ID laws, or time restrictions on mail-in ballots, or consistent hours for early voting, or bans on ballot harvesting is no better than Bull Connor. “Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?” was the false choice offered by a man who repeatedly praised Wallace, and other segregationists, early in his career.". . .

"The president suggested that anyone opposing the Democrats’ voting-rights bill was not only a bigot but a seditious “domestic” enemy of the United States — a designation that now probably includes six Democratic senators, if not more. The president pronounced the Senate a “shell of its former self,” lamenting that the GOP had used the filibuster over 100 times in the past year, skipping the inconvenient fact that Democrats had done so over 300 times the preceding four years. Biden, “the institutionalist,” then unloaded a litany of completely misleading contentions about voting laws to justify his abandonment of principle.

" And the reason Biden is compelled to lie about virtually every aspect of the Georgia voting law is that the specifics are actually quite popular and do not inhibit a citizen from casting a ballot." . . .

More signs of the corruption among the left and their press

 

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Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan step forward to fight Pelosi's Jan. 6 witch hunt - American Thinker  

Two days after Meadows filled his amicus brief with the Supreme Court, Rep. Jim Jordan sent a letter to January 6 Select Committee chair Bennie Thompson, rejecting the chair's request that Jordan appear before the panel that the Ohio congressman saw in the context of "Democrats' nonstop investigations and partisan witch hunts."

 Ashli Babbitt's murderer exonerated in disgraceful official investigation - American Thinker  "American cities burned when a career criminal named George Floyd died in police custody while on a lethal dose of fentanyl.  But Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt was shot to death by a senior Capitol Police officer — a lieutenant — with a troubling history and was exonerated by an official investigation without even being interviewed.". . . 

Real Enemy, Real Freedom

  Ricochet   "Why is America eroding? Why does it seem like we can’t get “unstuck” from the inevitable cycle of decline? I believe it has to do with what we might not yet identify as the real enemy of our Republic. The truth might be uncomfortable. And what we might fail to remember is real freedom.

"Os Guinness’s 2012 book, A Free People’s Suicide, takes St. Augustine’s basis for politics as the starting point for freedom. Augustine suggested “loved things held in common” are the basis of freedom. Guinness goes one step more with the saint. We may use loved things held in common to diagnose the health of our nation.

"What do we hold in common? Is it enough to sustain our freedom? Or is our freedom eroding because our loved things held in common have been debased—or are vanishing?

"When a free people “love things held in common,” they gain enriched, unified identity." . . .

Kevin McCarthy, January 6, and Willfully Ignorant Republicans -

When Trump surprised the world and won the first election against the inevitable Hillary Clinton, the power structures in the United States and around the world never recovered. The power brokers running these institutions would do anything, did do anything, to get rid of Trump.

Globalist News  . . ."The only purpose a committee such as this serves is to write better legislation for the future. Nancy Pelosi’s select committee is not interested in Capitol security or, apparently, legislating. She’s interested in proving a criminal conspiracy to form an insurrection. The idea itself is absurd. But more than that, it’s unconstitutional for Congress to be used in this way. It’s not their job. Democrats don’t care, though. By any means necessary. They proved their corruption with the Russia-collusion hoax. Hoaxes work and if Democrats and Never Trumpers can create another hoax narrative, they will.

"Hopefully, Leader McCarthy now knows that up close and personal. Maybe he’ll get it in gear and stop the machinations of this political trial in search of witches to burn.

"Sunday, Leader McCarthy wrote a letter to kick off the new year. In it he says this:

On a separate note, this week will mark one year from the riots at the Capitol. As we have said from the start, the actions of that day were lawless and as wrong as wrong can be. Our Capitol should never be compromised and those who broke the law deserve to face legal repercussions and full accountability.

Unfortunately, one year later, the majority party seems no closer to answering the central question of how the Capitol was left so unprepared and what must be done to ensure it never happens again. Instead, they are using it as a partisan political weapon to further divide our country." . . .

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Biden’s Judicial Nominations to Get Trickier in Second Year

 

Bloomberg Law  . . ."Biden’s first year of judicial nominees were historically diverse in terms of demographics and professional background, making good on priorities White House counsel Dana Remus outlined before Biden even took office.

"“He’s delivered on his diversity promise. The numbers are quite remarkable,” Ed Whelan, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center who follows judicial nominations, said. “I think he’s set a bar so high, I’d be surprised if he’s able to maintain it.”

"Of Biden’s nominees, 75% are women, nearly 65% are people of color, and nearly 30% have experience as public defenders, according to the Alliance for Justice.

"Prior to Biden’s appointments, judicial nominees commonly had experience as federal prosecutors or Big Law partners. Just 1% of circuit court judges spent the majority of their careers as public defenders or within a legal aid setting, according to a 2020 Center for American Progress report." . . .

Judicial experience be damned; what matters is how they look! TD

Sotomayer even made the parody sites; Study Finds Supreme Court Has Now Shared More COVID Misinformation Than Your Crazy Facebook Aunt | The Babylon Bee  

. . ."This is very startling," said Dr. Holson Bogtruggles, who conducted the study. "Because your Facebook Aunt is insane. Facebook has an entire department dedicated to monitoring the sheer volume of misinformation she shares, and the Supreme Court topped her in one day." 

"Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor dismissed the study, saying: "With more than 32 trillion people and 12 billion malfunctioning toaster ovens dying of COVID every three seconds, I think we have more important things to worry about here.' ". . . 

Dirty Harry Reid And John Brennan – The Origin Of The Collusion Hoax

  NoisyRoom

What happened after  Brennan’s trip to Moscow is fascinating. Brennan would “brief” Reid and the rest, as they say, is history. Brennan’s briefing of Sen. Harry Reid, which included information from the Steele dossier, certainly is a key indicator of his participation in the campaign to keep and/or kick Donald Trump out of the White House:

"The nickname “Dirty” was well-earned by the late Sen. Harry Reid. He was a masterfully corrupt and manipulative politician who would lie through his devilish smile to achieve his political ends. Case in point was the lie he admitted telling, as the Washington Post reported in 2012 concerning Mitt Romney in an attempt to influence the presidential election results:

"One of the strangest incidents of the 2012 presidential campaign was when then-Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid accused then-Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney of having not paid any taxes over the past decade. That Reid made that allegation from the floor of the Senate made it even odder.

"The problem with Reid’s allegation? It’s just not true. We know that, at least in 2011 and 2010, Romney did pay taxes. How do we know that? Because Romney released his tax returns for those years. In 2011, Romney paid $1.9 million in taxes; in 2010, he paid slightly more than $3 million in taxes.

"Our own Fact Checker gave Reid Four Pinocchios for his “no taxes” claim. PolitiFact gave the claim a “Pants on Fire” rating.

"Yet Reid (D-Nev.) not only refuse[d] to retract the allegation but also seems to take great pride in it. When pressed by CNN’s Dana Bash last year about continuing to defend a statement that is not true, Reid responded, “Romney didn’t win, did he?”" . . . 

This column was written before the departure of "Dingy Harry"  Our home uses a flag with a black mourning ribbon for the death of honored citizens; this time our flag will not have that black ribbon. TD

Stop Gigi Sohn Now: The Dangerous Radical Trying to Undo Free Speech for All Americans

 Revolver 

Republicans ignore this danger at their peril. Sohn’s nomination should be opposed with all possible force, or they have only themselves to blame when Big Tech sends the rest of their accounts to the ban pile.

"The failure of Joe Biden’s Build Back Better legislative agenda on account of Joe Manchin’s doubts proves that, even though they control neither house of Congress, Republicans can still win victories against President Biden’s agenda. Not every Democratic senator is maximally left-wing, and if Republicans can pick the right battles, they can delay and even prevent the worst excesses of a far-left administration.

"One of those worthy battles should be taking place right now. Very soon, the Senate will vote on whether to confirm Gigi Sohn, Joe Biden’s nominee to fill the decisive fifth spot on the Federal Communications Commission. And with a 50-50 split in the Senate, that confirmation is only a sure thing if Republicans decide to take it easy. They shouldn’t. Gigi Sohn is a dangerous extremist whom Republicans should fight ferociously to keep away from any sort of regulatory power. 

"By tradition, the chairman of the FCC steps down when the presidency switches parties, so that that the new president can choose a replacement. In October, after an unusually-lengthy 10-month delay, Biden elevated sitting commissioner Jennifer Rosenworcel to be FCC chairwoman, and chose Gigi Sohn to fill the vacant fifth seat.

"Sohn, a longtime telecom lawyer and activist, is an alumnus of the far-left Ford Foundation and a fellow with the Open Society Foundations, the grantmaking network funded by George Soros. For those of you living under a rock, Soros is best known as the billionaire paying to make every American city into a criminal disaster area." . . . (All emphases in the original)

Biden's pick of Gigi Sohn to lead the FCC is utterly inappropriate - Washington Times

This new reality makes the Biden administration’s nomination of Gigi Sohn to the FCC all the more troubling given her track record of disregard for our sensitive secrets and outright hostility to intellectual property, which could dangerously empower America’s enemies namely Russia and China, if she is confirmed.  She is an utterly inappropriate choice, and the administration should withdraw her nomination straight away.

Gigi Sohn’s Time At A Shuttered Streaming Service Could Sink Her Nomination | CDN (conservativedailynews.com)

Biden nominates an out LGBTQ person to be a FCC Commissioner - Out In Jersey

Pelosi "wants to go out on top of her game. Nothing more, nothing less" UPDATED

 

Pelosi to Run in 2022? (thepeoplescube.com)

Leftists have a cow over Tucker Carlson's observations about Nancy Pelosi's strange new appearance - American Thinker   "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently has had some plastic surgery.  It didn't go well." . . .

Washington Post: Nancy Pelosi ‘Expected’ to Retire After 2022 Midterms - [your]NEWS (yournews.com)  

“Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) is the early favorite to become the next Democratic leader, but the maneuvering for power has just begun,” the publication reported, also mentioning as potential candidates Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), and Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC).

Is there anyone among Democrats who appears contented and loves this nation? 

“She wants to go out on top of her game. Nothing more, nothing less,” Manley said. “She’s not going to be driven out of the House on a note of failure. She only will go out on her own terms, and for her, that’s always winning.”

UPDATE:

Those Who Brutalized Children To Grab Power Aren’t Experts, They’re Evil

The people who brutalized children to grab ‘emergency’ powers are not ‘experts,’ they’re evil - Conservative Review

 

Did any of these people tell the truth back when it could have saved the generation that comprises the world’s future? Nope.

"Americans are starting to feel the increasing collateral damage from our unprecedented, ineffective, and ill-advised Covid lockdowns. It was known before March 2020 that lockdowns would cause lifelong and avoidable damage to billions, yet the world’s ruling classes who claim to have earned their place atop a “meritocracy” strenuously demanded such damage be inflicted especially on children and other vulnerable people.

"This ruling class used all their massive financial, communications, and government powers to ensure these tragic outcomes, even though anyone who was an actual expert—or, like me, just someone who reads and has common sense—predicted this false “cure” would hurt worse than the disease.Now that people are beginning to more deeply feel the foreseeable evil consequences of ruling class responses to a novel virus, that ruling class is pulling what propaganda experts call a “limited hangout.” That’s admitting to bits of the truth in order to re-establish yourself as a credible authority while attempting to keep the whole truth hidden.

"Now that people are beginning to more deeply feel the foreseeable evil consequences of ruling class responses to a novel virus, that ruling class is pulling what propaganda experts call a “limited hangout.” That’s admitting to bits of the truth in order to re-establish yourself as a credible authority while attempting to keep the whole truth hidden." . . . 

The Mandate Madness of King Joe

 Vaccine mandates are not constitutional because they force citizens to do something they do not want to do.  DonSurber

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Will SCOTUS stop the vax mandates? What if it doesn't? - American Thinker

. . ."Waiting until the 2022 elections are over in the hopes that Republicans win is not the best solution.  First, we might not win.  If we do, the majority might not be robust enough.  In any case, we can never be sure Republicans in the majority will vote as a unified party.  Even if they present a solid bloc, after their repeated failures in repealing Obamacare and providing alternatives that they had over eight years to prepare for, how can we ever trust Republicans to follow through on any legislation to combat vaccine mandates?". . .

. . ."The people we should model ourselves after are the police officers, health care workers, and members of the military who have stood up to their superiors for what they know is wrong and didn't forget about the little guy. 

"If the Supreme Court lets us down, remember Obama's mantra: "We are the ones we've been waiting for."

"If we don't do our part to stop the madness, government will be unrestrained in doing just about anything in the interest of public health, and free will, as we know it, will cease to exist.  No joke." 

Don Surber: The vax opinion I want  . . ."No. How about just plain no?

"The mandates are so fundamentally wrong that the Court must dispense with the legal niceties and just say no.

"Hell no.

"Nothing in the Constitution gives the president or Congress or this court the power to force a grown-ass man to be vaccinated. The word health does not appear in the Constitution, nor should it because the government was not set up to protect our health. The Constitution created a government to protect our God-given rights.

"The Declaration of Independence set down the foundation on which our Constitution stands." . . .

Pfizer CEO: Our Vaccines Offer ‘Limited, If Any Protection’ (townhall.com)

Pfizer CEO: “Two doses of the vaccine offers very limited protection, if any. 3 doses with a booster offer reasonable protection against hospitalization and deaths. Less protection against infection.”