THERE IS NO GREATER THREAT TO AMERICA THAN THE LAWYER CLASS. THEY ARE AS CONTEMPTUOUS OF ANY LAW AS ANY CRIMINAL. IT IS ALL TO BE GAMED TO PUT IT IN THEIR GREEDY CORRUPT POCKETS!
We must not let them cheat their way to power over the rest of us. Their ongoing vote fraud must be stopped and the Democrats need to take a look at themselves and at what they have become. It's not a pretty picture. What they have become threatens to destroy the greatest nation on the planet and they are doing it on purpose. They have nothing but contempt for the US as founded and for those of us who love this country. PATRICIA McCARTHY – AMERICAN THINKER
Democrats Versus America's Founding Documents
Considering events of the past few weeks, it seems fitting to review what the Founders had to say in America’s core documents -- the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution – and then to compare those words with the public words and actions of our federal politicians. Of course, everyone is (or should be) familiar with these words from the Declaration:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed....” (Emphasis added)
In addition to that timeless wisdom, the Founders constructed and ratified the Constitution to limit the Government’s power. They also had the wisdom to define individual citizen’s inherent rights in the Bill of Rights. Without these first ten amendments, which effectively closed potential loopholes that the founders knew from experience the government would seek to exploit, some historical commentaries opine that the Constitution might not have been ratified.
Furthermore, it’s because of the Bill of Rights that the Constitution, and the power of We the People of the United States of America, quite likely would not have continued to exist as we have for nigh on two-hundred-forty-five years.
What should be concerning to the citizenry -- “the governed;” you and me -- is how readily the words and actions of those we have elected violate the spirit of the principles set down for posterity in our founding. Even more alarming, more than a few in our elected government say or do things that violate their Oath of Office, to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States....”
Consider the following examples:
Joe Biden stated in a public address from the White House, “The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own.”
To their credit, several fact-checkers have called out Joe Biden for his obvious misrepresentations about the Second Amendment, but I have not heard him or his spokespeople retract or clarify his statements in a way that could illustrate his fealty to the Constitution, rather than an insatiable lust for ever-more power.
As the Attorney General of California, Kamala Harris once demanded a list of donors from a conservative non-profit organization. To their credit, the non-profits declined to submit to her demands because they believed to do so would be a violation of their (and their donors) First Amendment Constitutional rights. On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its decision affirming the rights of the non-profits over the government’s contrived rights.
Does it not make one curious that those in power routinely -- nearly constantly – must be told to “get back!” and must be reminded that the Constitution limits their power, not the people’s rights?
The person who most clearly defines the Democrats' dour view of the Constitution came from Barack Obama when he was still Candidate Obama, a Senator from Illinois. As a Senator, he would have already taken the Oath of Office; as a proclaimed “Constitutional Scholar,” he had had a crystal-clear understanding of the limits the Constitution imposes on the government. Obama’s problem with the constitution was that he obviously regretted its constraints on government:
“Generally, the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the federal government can’t do to you. But it doesn’t say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.”
Damn right! The Constitution of the United States of American most definitely limits what the government can and cannot do. Now, for those who have spent a great many years learning to decipher politicians’ – especially Democrat politicians’ -- carefully crafted pronouncements, the warning signals should be flashing brightly. The former President, as a candidate for the Office of the President of the United States, was expressing his regret that the Constitution would limit him.
Listening carefully, we can clearly see, hear, and understand these politicians’ disdain for the Constitution; that is, for the liberties guaranteed to the people and not to their government (or their idea of government).
Their words and actions make this clear and clearly reveal who they are. They want a “living” Constitution that can be crafted to their own political desires, that suits them and empowers them to dictate to those they intend to rule. They envision an ever-changing, never-ending list of demands that will further solidify their control.
They are, therefore, disqualified for elected office. And yet, because elections have consequences, we have the government we chose -- and deserve.
I am usually only in command of what is clearly obvious, but I honestly wonder: am I the only person who sees this? I doubt that can be true.
We, as Americans, have been given a legacy of Freedom that has done more to liberate the world’s population and lift that population out of oppressive, generational poverty than any other nation in human history. But Freedom is no longer on the march. Instead, it is under attack, both here, within our borders, and by our enemies abroad.
There was once a time when 56 men -- wealthy, white men -- pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to sign a document that would plant the seeds to establish a government founded in Freedom. They intended to – and did -- guarantee the freedom and equal opportunity of every citizen to become as successful, as wealthy, and as powerful as these men were, should citizens choose to do so in their “pursuit of happiness.”
What will we pledge to preserve the best of America? We must right the wrongs, yes, but we must also protect and defend our legacy of Freedom. Hopefully, it will become clear that those who hold elected office have violated their oath of office and have disqualified themselves from service.
I believe so, and Here I Stand.
Jeff M. Lewis is a self-employed small business owner and resides with his family in South Texas.
Obama pioneered illegal surveillances, searches, and seizures
Democrats are making a big deal about a case of phone surveillance in the case of locating leakers in Washington from the Trump administration.
They forget, or just don't care, that it was they who pioneered the surveillance state.
The Obama/Biden administration used the Justice Department to protect career criminal Hillary Clinton from prosecution and to target Trump and associates. When that happened, there was no outrage from Rep. Adam Schiff of the House Intelligence Committee, or from most of the media.
FBI honchos James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and others used a fake dossier from a foreign national, paid for by the DNC and Hillary campaign when they lied to the FISA court in order to spy on and listen in to people who were working with Trump. Schiff and Congress didn't demand hearings with the attorney general, and there was little outrage by the media, which spent most of their time campaigning for Hillary and seeking to destroy Trump.
Not once did I hear House speaker Nancy Pelosi say anything about Richard Nixon, nor did I hear Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer say this is what dictators would do.
People throughout the Obama/Biden administration's national security apparatus unmasked phone calls of people surrounding Trump, and there was little to no outrage or hearings.
The Obama Justice Department entrapped Michael Flynn and others, and there was no outrage.
The Obama/Biden intelligence agencies even illegally listened in or spied on thousands of Americans for years, and there was little to no outrage.
Report: Obama era NSA admits to years of illegal searches on Americans
A bombshell report claims that the NSA, under then President Obama, conducted years of illegal searches of American's private data. The report appears in the online publication Circa and details how once-classified documents show how the spy agency failed to disclose the abuses.
According to a previously classified report reviewed by Circa, one in 20 electronic communications by Americans were scooped up and kept by the NSA. The NSA admitted that the actions of the so-called 702 database potentially violated the fourth amendment protections of millions of Americans
I do not recall daily coverage of this massive corruption.
BLOG EDITOR: AS ATTORNEY GEN OF CALIFORNIA, KH MADE SURE THERE WERE NO LAWS THAT MIGHT HINDER A BANKSTER IF YOU COULD COME UP WITH A BRIBE.
HARRIS WAS IN DAILY TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION WITH THEN V.P. JOE BIDEN'S SON, BEAU HUNTER WHO WAS A.G. OF DELAWARE. THESE TWO WERE WATCHING TO SEE HOW OBOMB'S CROOKED A.G., ERIC HOLDER WOULD PROTECT THE BANKSTERS THAT NEARLY BROUGHT THE U.S. ECONOMY TO A HALT.
A.G. KAMALA HARRIS MADE SURE THAT CRIMINAL BANKSTERS WELLS FARGO, WHO WERE MAJOR CULPRITS IN CALIFORNIA'S AND NATIONWIDE MORTGAGE MELTDOWN, WENT OFF SCOTT FREE.
SHE ALSO, FOR A PRICE, MADE SURE THAT 'KING OF FORECLOSURES' STEVEN MNUCHEN GOT OFF SCOTT FREE. HE REPAID HER WELL!
AFTER THE BANKSTER REGIME OF LAWYER BARACK OBAMA, LAWYER JOE BIDEN, AND LAWYER ERIC HOLDER, OBOMB AND HILLARY CLINTON WENT ON TO REAP VAST FORTUNES MAKING SPEECHS TO BANKSTERS AT $500k EACH. IT PAYS TO PLAY WITH THE BANKSTERS.
She got her leg up in politics by serving as Willie Brown's mistress. After that, she got cozy with Barack Obama. She was pals with unlikeable Hillary Clinton.
Ezra Klein admits it: Kamala Harris is incompetent
Not for the first time, Ezra Klein, a youthful hipster leftist writer favored by the elites, has said more than he probably intended to.
Get a load of this from Fox News:
New York Times columnist Ezra Klein feels President Biden is making life too difficult for Vice President Kamala Harris and feels she should be given simpler tasks to enhance her reputation, but critics on both sides quickly found problems with his argument.
"Kamala Harris will probably be the Democratic nominee in 24 or 28. Biden's team should be giving her portfolios that make it likelier she'll win. Instead they're giving her impossible problems that will likely become liabilities," Klein tweeted.
Which is exactly the same as saying she should be put at the little table. She should be given training wheels. She should be praised for her finger-paint pictures.
She's not up to the job.
Which is an amazingly idiotic thing to say since he wants to make her president anyway. Why should someone who can't achieve presidential tasks be president at all? Someone who can't solve the border crisis and isn't even trying, is, in his book, somehow meant for bigger things.
His idea though, is to give her smaller tasks? The way it's done when some incompetent is demoted? Wow.
Harris is a textbook case of someone in C. Northcote Parkinson's observation who's reached her "level of incompetence," a level she reached long ago actually. She's been promoted and promoted, and now she's unable to do her job with any leadership, so she's set to stay just where she is under normal conditions. Achievers get bigger tasks. Underperformers get lesser ones, that's human behavior in any organization. Even bin Laden only promoted the best, from his point of view. China and Russia, whose leaders rule by holding onto power, wouldn't dream of anything as stupid as this.
Ezra, though,would. By his statement, he seems to be seeking a kakistocracy, rule by the worst instead of the best with his call to give Harris little tasks more suited to her limited ability.
After all, Klein seems to think the border surge is intractable. Never mind that President Trump solved it with one hand tied behind his back as leftists gummed up his every effort to fix it with their junk lawsuits and obstructions. Trump fixed it anyway, with great determination, in a model of competent crisis management.
It was only Joe and his idiocies undoing all that Trump achieved that brought the mess we are in. Latin American presidents, in Mexico, Guatemala and elsewhere have repeatedly pointed out this very fact.
Solving the crisis can be done very easily by restoring Trump's achievements. But Harris, who is a cog in the administration that created the problem, somehow can't do it. So now the problem is claimed by Klein and others to be "impossible" which is beyond Harris's capabilities.
Harris actually has no capabilities and the reason for that is clear enough: Every step up the rung of her political ladder was based on sucking up to some older man, not performing well in some job or another.
She got her leg up in politics by serving as Willie Brown's mistress. After that, she got cozy with Barack Obama. She was pals with unlikeable Hillary Clinton. She was always looking for her next job, as those in her circle have told the press. Now that there's just Joe, with his vindictive wife Jill probably leaking on her (as Andrea Widburg in this terrific post noted), those tactics don't work anymore. She's out of tricks now, but holds the strategic high ground. She's now Biden's apparent chosen successor, so there's no getting rid of her. She's just waiting now for the passage of time to have the presidency handed to her, which explains her lack of interest in accomplishing anything serious.
So she doesn't have a single success to her name. Her successes are in charming older men to get better jobs, not in governing well with a track record to show for it.
So now Klein wants her to have some little tasks, in order to claim some kind of record of achievement. He knows there's a problem. yet he's convinced she must be president anyway, perhaps to make him feel virtuous for electing a "historic first."
He can't bring himself to admit that maybe Kamala herself is the problem. And now it's getting embarrassing.
Report: Kamala Harris is an awful boss
Vice President Mike Pence may be in the doghouse with conservatives but no one can say there were stories that he was a bad boss or that his office was chaotic, mismanaged, or incompetent. Things are different with Kamala Harris. According to an article in Politico, Harris’s office sounds like the real-life version of Veep, the HBO political satire that focused on the stupid, self-centered, and vicious Selina Meyer, a Vice President whose office was filled with slavish gatekeepers and self-centered staff, all of whom were incompetent. The story rings true. What's more interesting is contemplating why Democrats are going after Harris.
Here are a few of the most biting paragraphs from the Politico article, which begins by discussing how Harris’s staff felt completely blindsided by her sudden announcement that she was heading for El Paso:
The handling of the border visit was the latest chaotic moment for a staff that’s quickly become mired in them. Harris’ team is experiencing low morale, porous lines of communication and diminished trust among aides and senior officials. Much of the frustration internally is directed at Tina Flournoy, Harris’ chief of staff, a veteran of Democratic politics who began working for her earlier this year.
In interviews, 22 current and former vice presidential aides, administration officials and associates of Harris and Biden described a tense and at times dour office atmosphere. Aides and allies said Flournoy, in an apparent effort to protect Harris, has instead created an insular environment where ideas are ignored or met with harsh dismissals and decisions are dragged out. Often, they said, she refuses to take responsibility for delicate issues and blames staffers for the negative results that ensue.
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“People are thrown under the bus from the very top, there are short fuses and it’s an abusive environment,” said another person with direct knowledge of how Harris’ office is run. “It’s not a healthy environment and people often feel mistreated. It’s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like s---.”
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But for some of the people who know Harris best, it’s become an all-too-familiar pattern for a politician who has churned through several iterations of staff on her rise and took office with a team almost entirely new to her.
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Harris’ staff struggles are nothing new. People who have worked for her in the past describe days as “managed chaos.” “The boss’ expectations won’t always be predictable,” said one former Harris Senate aide.
Her presidential campaign operation imploded in a painful maze of finger-pointing and leaks.
The article offers the usual excuses, everything from jealously to misperceptions to people’s inability to work with strong women or strong Black women (Flournoy is Black).
I have no doubt that the accusations are true. Thanks to good advice from her former paramour, Willie Brown, and to her being a female minority, Harris’s career has seen her consistently land in roles that exceed her abilities – and there is no boss worse than an insecure one.
What’s more interesting than Kamala’s obvious leadership failures, including within her own office, is why Democrats are attacking her. The article makes plain that many of the attacks are from the Biden side of the White House:
The dysfunction in the VP’s ranks threatens to complicate the White House’s carefully crafted image as a place staffed by a close-knit group of professionals working in concert to advance the president’s agenda. It’s pronounced enough that members of the president’s own team have taken notice and are concerned about the way Harris’ staffers are treated.
Perhaps Biden’s team is protecting him against a 25th Amendment ouster by making the point that Kamala would be even worse in the Oval Office than Joe. This could also be coming from Jill Biden, who not only despises Kamala but is apparently trying to slot herself into an administrative role that leaves no room for Kamala.
In the Vogue cover story about the frumpy Mrs. Joe Biden (aka Jill the Adulteress), we get this interesting statement:
The role she’s fulfilling on these visits is, in many ways, neither first lady nor professor but a key player n her husband’s administration, a West Wing surrogate and policy advocate.
With Mrs. Biden playing at being Veep, it’s important to her to sideline the actual Veep. It helps that Jill, who isn’t the brightest bulb in the box, is still sharper, and apparently even more vicious, than Kamala. I would almost feel sorry for Kamala if I didn't dislike and disrespect her and her politics as much as I do.
This is the stuff of great soap operas (and funny satiric comedies), but it’s a helluva way to run a country.
IMAGE: Kamala Harris. YouTube screen grab.
Report: Kamala Harris Staffers ‘Thrown Under the Bus’ and ‘Treated Like S**t’
A report reveals dysfunction and dissatisfaction within Vice President Kamala Harris’ office, as anonymous complaints detail what it’s really like to work for her.
“People are thrown under the bus from the very top, there are short fuses and it’s an abusive environment,” a person with “direct knowledge” of the activities in the office told Politico.
The outlet spoke with 22 current and former vice presidential aides, administration officials. Associates of Harris and Biden spoke about the climate within the vice president’s office.
“It’s not a healthy environment and people often feel mistreated,” Politico’s source added. “It’s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like shit.”
Harris’ spokesperson Symone Sanders defended the climate in the office in a series of on the record statements.
“We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day. What I hear is that people have hard jobs and I’m like ‘welcome to the club,’” Sanders said.
Two top advance staffers, Karly Satkowiak and Gabrielle DeFranceschi left the office after just six months, the outlet noted, unusually early departures for staffers working at the White House.
They left the team the day before Harris visited the Southern border, after the vice president received a flood of criticism for downplaying the importance of such a visit.
Another staffer on Harris’ digital team also left recently.
Several critics of Harris’ office environment blame Tina Flournoy, a black operative from the Clinton-era of Washington for the dysfunction.
Sanders called Politico’s disgruntled anonymous sources as “cowards,” and defended Flournoy’s reputation for helping people of color.
“Black women like me would not have the opportunity to work in politics without Tina,” she said.
One source told Politico that it was impossible Harris was not aware of the problems.
“She is the most perceptive person on the planet,” the person said. “She might not have first-hand knowledge, but it’s hard to imagine she doesn’t have a sense of what’s going on.”
Sanders dismissed the complaints and the recent controversies that threatened Harris.
“Vice President Harris is focused on the work, not the chatter at the water cooler,” Sanders said.
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