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Our democratic form of government is the oldest on the planet, the oldest ever seen in human history. A fundamental tenet to our government is that elected officials work for their voters, and also for the American people in general. Until maybe 25 years ago, I would never believe a member of the House of Representatives would deliberately harm America, harm our form of government, damage our institutions for generations - maybe forever - simply as a political ploy, and "gotcha, lookit me!" moment.
For three years, I have heard over and over and over and over that Trump will destroy America, ignore our history, ruin our future. How? By appointing judges that know the limits on their power? By enforcing our border? Ending China's raping of our manufacturing industry? Making the welfare-mom NATO nations pay their way for a change? HOW?
The hearing yesterday showed me that it is the current Dim members of the House are intent on destroying this nation. How? By doing this:
The hearings yesterday were to investigate why the FBI and DOJ and NSA spied on a campaign official where the supposed "basis" for the spying was KNOWN to be unreliable (Washington-speak for a lie), i.e., third-hand garbage that Christopher Steele got from a known Russian agent peddling disinformation.
The FISA warrants are known to be false, incomplete, unreliable, etc. The spying involved a candidate for President. The FBI and DOJ, contrary to all prior such events, did not inform Trump of the allegations or the purported spying and instead spied on him. Did Obama and his DOJ abuse their powers? Certainly seems possible, if not likely.
But no matter how you feel about the actions of the FBI and the DOJ, their misuse of the FISA process, their spying on a political campaign during the election, I challenge anyone to justify ignoring these issues. That is what the idiot moron (D)ims did yesterday.
If the (D)ims felt that the FBI and DOJ acted within policy and the law, despite the more than 15 abuses of the FISA process, then argue the case. Challenge Barr and let him answer. Let the information be made available to all. Don't FIGHT the declassification of clearly non-secret information about who paid Steele for the damn information, don't make the hearing the disgusting clown show it became. DO YOUR JOB.
I am just old enough to recall the Watergate hearings in 1973. Just barely. I recall very clearly that Republicans asked pointed questions of Haldemann, Erlichman, Dean, Hunt, Colson, etc. They sometimes tried to defuse claims that Nixon knew of the break-in, tried to determine what the witnesses actually knew, who was giving the orders, etc.
Not one time did they treat the hearings like political theater, or turn it into a clown show.
Also recall the recent impeachment fiasco. (D)ims once again turned it into a clown show, but Republicans did not attack, mock, interrupt, accuse (D)ims of being lying traitors (no slander there). They asked questions of the witnesses and made their arguments. If you are a liberal or (D)im leaning, would you be comforted if the Republicans behaved during the impeachment hearings like the (D)ims did yesterday? Be honest.
The (D)ims who engaged in such behavior yesterday need to be remembered, and scorned. They apparently needed to attack Barr because they seemingly realize they have no facts to answer the significant questions about the spying on Trump in 2016-2017, the endless "leaks" that turned out to be lies, the smearing of Americans for nothing whatsoever to do with Russia, or the election, or anything of the sort.
The problem is that today's media is filled with political partisan hack dolts who won't do their job. They are fine with ruining the House and its oversight responsibilities.
But not everything is about today, or this second, or even this decade. Those who stand by silently and don't e-mail the embarrassing morons who made America a worse place yesterday cannot claim immunity any more. It's time to do something. Remember these idiots and let them know that they are personally responsible for harming America:
Jerrold Nadler (D) New York
Zoe Lofgren (D) California
Sheila Jackson Lee (D) Texas
Hank Johnson (D) Georgia
Jamie Raskin (D) Maryland
David Cicilline (D) Rhode Island
Steve Cohen (D) Tennessee
Pramila Jayapal (D) Washington
Sylvia Garcia (D) Texas
Debbie Mucarsal-Powell (D) Florida
Veronica Escobar (D) Texas
For three years, I have heard over and over and over and over that Trump will destroy America, ignore our history, ruin our future. How? By appointing judges that know the limits on their power? By enforcing our border? Ending China's raping of our manufacturing industry? Making the welfare-mom NATO nations pay their way for a change? HOW?
The hearing yesterday showed me that it is the current Dim members of the House are intent on destroying this nation. How? By doing this:
- Making patently, absurdly false accusations and then refusing to give the other side a chance to answer the claim.
- Using a hearing on the rank abuse of executive power by Obama as a purely political tool.
- By corrupting the system in the hopes of permanently destroying it, for their selfish benefit and at the cost to America.
- By further lowering the public perception of the disgusting chamber, filled with some of the stupidest human beings ever to walk the planet.
- By abandoning their jobs for the most embarrassing, vile, contemptible political theater since the Soviet Union disbanded.
The hearings yesterday were to investigate why the FBI and DOJ and NSA spied on a campaign official where the supposed "basis" for the spying was KNOWN to be unreliable (Washington-speak for a lie), i.e., third-hand garbage that Christopher Steele got from a known Russian agent peddling disinformation.
The FISA warrants are known to be false, incomplete, unreliable, etc. The spying involved a candidate for President. The FBI and DOJ, contrary to all prior such events, did not inform Trump of the allegations or the purported spying and instead spied on him. Did Obama and his DOJ abuse their powers? Certainly seems possible, if not likely.
But no matter how you feel about the actions of the FBI and the DOJ, their misuse of the FISA process, their spying on a political campaign during the election, I challenge anyone to justify ignoring these issues. That is what the idiot moron (D)ims did yesterday.
If the (D)ims felt that the FBI and DOJ acted within policy and the law, despite the more than 15 abuses of the FISA process, then argue the case. Challenge Barr and let him answer. Let the information be made available to all. Don't FIGHT the declassification of clearly non-secret information about who paid Steele for the damn information, don't make the hearing the disgusting clown show it became. DO YOUR JOB.
I am just old enough to recall the Watergate hearings in 1973. Just barely. I recall very clearly that Republicans asked pointed questions of Haldemann, Erlichman, Dean, Hunt, Colson, etc. They sometimes tried to defuse claims that Nixon knew of the break-in, tried to determine what the witnesses actually knew, who was giving the orders, etc.
Not one time did they treat the hearings like political theater, or turn it into a clown show.
Also recall the recent impeachment fiasco. (D)ims once again turned it into a clown show, but Republicans did not attack, mock, interrupt, accuse (D)ims of being lying traitors (no slander there). They asked questions of the witnesses and made their arguments. If you are a liberal or (D)im leaning, would you be comforted if the Republicans behaved during the impeachment hearings like the (D)ims did yesterday? Be honest.
The (D)ims who engaged in such behavior yesterday need to be remembered, and scorned. They apparently needed to attack Barr because they seemingly realize they have no facts to answer the significant questions about the spying on Trump in 2016-2017, the endless "leaks" that turned out to be lies, the smearing of Americans for nothing whatsoever to do with Russia, or the election, or anything of the sort.
The problem is that today's media is filled with political partisan hack dolts who won't do their job. They are fine with ruining the House and its oversight responsibilities.
But not everything is about today, or this second, or even this decade. Those who stand by silently and don't e-mail the embarrassing morons who made America a worse place yesterday cannot claim immunity any more. It's time to do something. Remember these idiots and let them know that they are personally responsible for harming America:
Jerrold Nadler (D) New York
Zoe Lofgren (D) California
Sheila Jackson Lee (D) Texas
Hank Johnson (D) Georgia
Jamie Raskin (D) Maryland
David Cicilline (D) Rhode Island
Steve Cohen (D) Tennessee
Pramila Jayapal (D) Washington
Sylvia Garcia (D) Texas
Debbie Mucarsal-Powell (D) Florida
Veronica Escobar (D) Texas
