Posted on 01/13/2017 7:00:35 AM PST by Kaslin
The Senate confirmation hearings for Sen. Jeff Sessions' attorney general nomination show that the liberal establishment learned nothing from the 2016 elections and will continue to wage war on conservatives as if they were enemies of the republic -- and humanity.
Democratic attacks on Sessions are not grounded in any concern that he is a racist or has something terrible in his ancient history. They know that Sessions is not a racist and that he is an honorable man. His disqualifying sin, in their eyes, is that he is a conservative -- and a Southern one at that, which makes it even easier to demonize him as a bigot.
For if you watched the hearings, you saw that it was not Sessions particularly who was on trial but conservatism and all subscribing to it.
Nor is the rule of law a genuine concern to Democrats, despite their gnashing of teeth over faux fears that Sessions would refuse to enforce certain progressive laws already on the books. They only care about the rule of law when invoking it benefits them politically. In fact, one of the main reasons they oppose Sessions is that he indeed is committed to the rule of law and the impartial administration of justice. They are agenda-oriented above all and willfully trample the rule of law when it interferes with their progressive ends.
When Republicans grill liberal nominees for judicial and executive positions, which is rare, they don't badger them over their political views. They don't shame them for the crime of being liberal. They press them on whether they would honor the Constitution and the rule of law and whether they would act within the legal constraints of their positions. But Democratic interrogation of Republican nominees invariably descends into a shaming of the nominee for his political beliefs -- or for his votes on measures they disagree with, even when the votes are for measures that are unarguably constitutional.
The liberal establishment in the Democratic Party and in the liberal media (and Hollywood and academia) simply cannot grasp that half the country is conservative. In fact, 11 percent more Americans identify as conservatives than as liberals.
It never occurs to most of these leftist movers and shakers that conservatives have noble and justifiable reasons for their views. They oppose Obamacare not because they have no compassion for the poor and downtrodden but because it is destroying everything in its path -- because it raises rates and reduces quality of care and medical choices. They don't oppose radical, reckless and economically smothering environmental policies because they don't care about clean air and water, because they place their selfish financial interests above the health and welfare of Americans or because they are science deniers. They reject the presumptuous, dishonest and extreme conclusions of a make-believe, highly politicized scientific consensus, and they know that the left's proposed draconian measures wouldn't materially alleviate the problems even if they exist and are man-made as the left speciously contends. They oppose the flooding of our borders with immigrants who aren't coming legally and the admission of insufficiently vetted potential terrorists not because they are bigoted toward Muslims or uncompassionate for people but because they believe in preserving the American idea and in protecting American citizens. They oppose confiscatory taxes and continued escalations of the national debt not because they are sinister engineers of ever greater income inequality (which liberal policies actually exacerbate) but because these things cripple the nation's economic engines and reduce prosperity across the board. They are not opponents but champions of voting rights because they demand that people who vote be actually legally entitled to vote. They oppose abortion not because they disrespect and undervalue women but because they value all human life, especially the most innocent. They support a strong military not because they are imperialists and want to impose American will throughout the planet but because they believe American strength is conducive to peace. The same analysis applies to almost any political issue. Conservatives' views are prudential and morally sound.
But listen to Meryl Streep -- both the content of her patronizing remarks and her condescending tone. Listen to Sen. Pat Leahy, Sen. Cory Booker and their fellow Democrats castigating Sessions for his reasonable votes on issues that happen to interfere with the sacred liberal agenda.
Americans -- at least half of us -- are tired of being maligned by the left as evil, stupid and bigoted because we won't fall in lockstep with this agenda.
One might think that after eight years of failed liberal policies, Democrats would be more inclined to eat crow than to lecture the rest of America for rejecting their manifestly destructive policy prescriptions. If so, one would be wrong and wholly ignorant of the liberal worldview and mindset.
It's bad enough that liberals can never accept accountability for their failures, but it is really unbearable to listen to their highhanded, misguided lectures. They lost for a reason, but they'll never stop fighting and trying to shame the rest of us, so kudos to President-elect Donald Trump for giving it back to them even better than they are dishing it out. How refreshing. Finally!
When is the vote on the nomination?
Schummer, Booker and the rest of the Dems are just posturing for the cameras here. They know Jeff Sessions will be confirmed, no matter what they do or say, but they’ll do what their constituents want to hear? That’s just the way it is?
Liberals are making it clear that they are prepared to do whatever it takes. When the mission is at hand, no act is off limits.
Boy, will they be surprised when this approach comes right back at them!
What a headline. The last few years have been liberalism on trial and Americans have reached a verdict.
Liberals know attack not change.
Lord knows how many are caught up in the Clinton Foundation as well. For some out there (maybe John McCain included), everything could be a desperate attempt to not see any Foundation investigation continue. That one probably could take down over half the Democrat politicians, including Obama after he is out.
Only reason Obama has not pardoned Hillary would be what a huge admission of guilt that would be acknowledged by him regarding his Administration’s activities. Kind of shoots his whole made up legacy to hell for the Democrat history books.
Cory Booker is the epitome of race-baiting and pimp, a pay to play politician, just a younger Al Sharpton and Jackson. The Democrats have learned nothing from this last election....they lost for a reason!
I think Obama wants to stay around DC and pontificate for a couple of years before going off to write diatribes. A pardon for Hillary will cut into that podium, that’s for sure.
Additionally, David Limbaugh, while mentioning the media, does not give proper emphasis to media and academia being the Leftist cesspools that drive and allow the grandstanding by the leftist politicians, small fish in their own right.
Without the type of credence and coverage provided by these two festering and boiling pots of leftist drivel, the pols could not continue their grandstanding.
Kammal or whatever that latest slime-ball Senator from California is named actually asks a CIA nominee about his beliefs in Climate Change. Let’s call it what it is, a Constitutionally prohibited religious test. She should be the subject of derision in every newspaper this morning, but she won’t be as she is just the stalking horse — the media are the assassins.
Liberals are enemies of the republic — and humanity.
It’s what they live for.
Challenging Conservatism comes way before serving the United States.
Serving the United States in on the very bottom of the list for them.
It’s not at the bottom of the list for them. It’s not even ON the list.
Let the Trump nominees have a “clear case” to make for conservative (or at least not-lefty) policy. They will. They’re independently wealthy and have no financial axe to grind which will move them to weasel word what they fundamentally believe in. America will more and more be like, “Ah! These are the brains that we lost behind the Democrat sofa!”
Don’t interrupt your enemy when he is inadvertently being your friend.
and this comes as a shock to who?
As I am so fond of saying, faux-liberals. The term was stolen much as our modern term “gay” was. The liberals of a saner age believed in freedom of the quest to find truth and beauty — rather than that the stewardship of what was truth and beauty had been bequeathed to them alone. They liked it when conservatives also joined the discussion, even if they left it believing similar things, because it meant that the conservatives were ceasing to be merely dogmatic.
This is one misconception that we would do well to try to purge. Donald Trump, among other things, will be attempting to revive the classic liberal. The one who will give an explanation for what he hopes in, rather than screaming at you because you don’t happen to hope in it too.
The left’s view of the KKK when it’s one of their own who was an actual member-
“Clinton was speaking at Byrd’s funeral in Charleston when he slammed newspapers for focusing on Byrd’s history with the KKK. He said:
They mention that he once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan, and what does that mean? I’ll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollows of West Virginia. He was trying to get elected. And maybe he did something he shouldn’t have done, and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that’s what a good person does. There are no perfect people. There certainly are no perfect politicians.”
Sessions was never even remotely a member of the KKK.
Cloaking cults as science is the excuse for sure that media uses to ignore.
How about the other day where black pastors were praising God and Blessing Planned Parenthood clinics in DC for aborting tons of black babies to death? The world and even some in religion are messed up in the head.
Mr. Limbaugh should also note that all of their stupid posturing is not making one bit of difference: indeed, most folks see them for the idiots they are. They should actually be encouraged to continue to look like their party’s symbol: jackasses.
Yep and we will continue to treat them like the petulant children they are.
I suggest we actively support them looking for their next savior, while we continue to work on state and local candidate.
We don’t need to worry about Trump for the next 8 years and when Ivanka gets done, that will be 16 straight years and we will have extraordinary numbers of reps in most states, except Assachusets, and KawLeePornia....
By then I will have property in Northern Nevada, Idaho and Oklahoma as my escapes from Kommies...
These guys can pretend to Bork everyone but, as of now, who is going to win?
I’ll take Trump for $1,000 Alex
Booker was simply auditioning for the 2020 Democrat nomination slot.
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