Posted on 05/11/2017 10:12:19 PM PDT by pboyington
Last night, on CNN, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D., CT) told Anderson Cooper that President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, “may well produce impeachment proceedings.”
Blumenthal continued: “It may well produce another United States vs. Nixon on a subpoena that went to United States Supreme Court.”
Senator Blumenthal is simply parroting more Democratic talking points that are full of sound and fury and which signify nothing.
There was no Saturday Night Massacre II. There were no violations of the law on the President’s part. There were no dictatorial machinations.
There was nothing except an adherence to proper procedures that were followed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, appointed during the Obama administration, recommended to the President that Comey be terminated because of his blatant violations of his constitutional duties, his outright politicization of the FBI and because the men and women of the FBI had lost confidence in their director and believed he was nothing more than a corrupt, political hack.
Besides the fact that Blumenthal is just another liberal shill, his own ethical standards are anything but stainless. He has a closet stocked with enough skeletons to fill the haunted mansion at Disneyland.
In fact, the man is a complete scoundrel and a traitor to the veterans who fought, died and were wounded in the Vietnam War.
When speaking of who needs to be impeached, Blumenthal only needs to look in a mirror…
For 30 years, Senator Blumenthal had been living a lie; a virtual Homeric tale with him as the hero serving with the Marine Corps in Vietnam until he was outed by the New York Times in 2010, during his Senatorial campaign.
The lies told by Blumenthal regarding his ‘Vietnam service’ are endless.
“We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam,” Mr. Blumenthal said to the group gathered in March 2008. “And you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it — Afghanistan or Iraq — we owe our military men and women unconditional support.”
In 2003, he addressed a rally in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where about 100 military families gathered to express support for American troops overseas. “When we returned, we saw nothing like this,” Mr. Blumenthal said. “Let us do better by this generation of men and women.”
In at least eight newspaper articles published in Connecticut from 2003 to 2009, he is described as having served in Vietnam.
The New Haven Register on July 20, 2006, described him as “a veteran of the Vietnam War,” and on April 6, 2007, said that the attorney general had “served in the Marines in Vietnam.” On May 26, 2009, The Connecticut Post, a Bridgeport newspaper that is the state’s third-largest daily, described Mr. Blumenthal as “a Vietnam veteran.” The Shelton Weekly reported on May 23, 2008, that Mr. Blumenthal “was met with applause when he spoke about his experience as a Marine sergeant in Vietnam.”
And the idea that he served in Vietnam had become such an accepted part of his public biography that when a national outlet, Slate magazine, produced a profile of Mr. Blumenthal in 2000, it said he had “enlisted in the Marines rather than duck the Vietnam draft.”
In an interview, Jean Risley, the chairwoman of the Connecticut Vietnam Veterans Memorial Inc., recalled listening to an emotional Mr. Blumenthal offering remarks at the dedication of the memorial. She remembered him describing the indignities that he and other veterans faced when they returned from Vietnam.
“It was a sad moment,” she recalled. “He said, ‘When we came back, we were spat on; we couldn’t wear our uniforms.’ It looked like he was sad to me when he said it.”
Ms. Risley later telephoned the reporter to say she had checked into Mr. Blumenthal’s military background and learned that he had not, in fact, served in Vietnam.
In actuality, Blumenthal was given five, count ‘em five deferments to attend college from 1965 to 1970. The only place he ‘returned’ from was a sorority house. The only ‘coming home’ he did was when his mother picked him up at the train station during Christmas break.
When asked about the deferments, Blumenthal said, there were “no special favors, no privileges involved.”
The deferments allowed Mr. Blumenthal to complete his studies at Harvard; pursue a graduate fellowship in England; serve as a special assistant to The Washington Post’s publisher, Katharine Graham; and ultimately take a job in the Nixon White House.
No doubt, the Marines at Khe Sanh or in Hue would have loved to have had a deferment, screw off at Harvard, chew the fat with Katherine Graham or hang with Tricky Dick in the Oval.
Blumenthal was another rich kid using political connections to avoid face time with Victor Charlie.
In 1970, with his deferments evaporating, Blumenthal found a way into a Marine Corps Reserve unit in the DC area. This assignment practically insured that he would never be deployed to Southeast Asia. He would never hear the crack of AK-47 rounds as they zipped past his head at supersonic speed. He would never walk a jungle trail in search of an elusive and deadly enemy, wondering if the next step would be his last.
Others did and did it bravely.
But, he didn’t. And, to say he did is not only a crime against the Marine Corps, but against his country.
From 1970 to 1976, Senator Blumenthal wasn’t within 5,000 miles of any shot and shell. His most dangerous assignment in the service was the precarious Operation Toys for Tots in the DC area.
Not exactly Ia Drang was it?
Not exactly Tet was it?
Not exactly the truth was it?
When he was cornered with the truth in 2010, Blumenthal could have done the honorable thing, apologize for his conduct unbecoming and then drop out of the race.
Instead, he stated that he may have misspoken about his military service on several occasions and offered a terse apology. His dishonorable conduct had almost no influence on his candidacy in liberal Connecticut.
Blumenthal defeated Linda McMahon, 55 to 43 percent. Unfortunately, the 58,000 young men and women who died in Vietnam never had a chance to vote against him.
The Stolen Valor Act of 2013 states that is again the law to falsely claim military honors for “money, property or other tangible benefit.”
Although, Blumenthal was not claiming that he received any valorous awards, he was using his contrived Vietnam service to be elected to the Senate, which certainly entitled him to monetary gain and other federal benefits.
Prosecuting Blumenthal for violating the Stolen Valor Act of 2013 is only the beginning.
Per Article II, Section 4, of the Constitution, Senator Blumenthal should be impeached by the House of Representatives.
As Article II clearly states, ‘The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.’
Blumenthal should be impeached for committing high crimes and misdemeanors which includes: violating the Stolen Valor Act of 2013, for continued false statements about his military service that betrayed the public trust while serving in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1984 to 1988, in the Connecticut Senate from 1988 to 1990 and as Attorney General of the State of Connecticut from 1990 to 2010.
Alexander Hamilton once said, “…those offences which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated political, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.”
Senator Blumenthal is a disgrace to the US Senate and this nation. His continued service in Congress is a blatant insult to the brave men and women who served in Vietnam and who, ‘drained deep the chalice of courage,’ while he supervised Toys for Tots.
Leave a woman to down in a car? Have an escort service run out of your home? Lie about your ethnic origin to get a plum position at an Ivy League school? Lie about your military service?
I guess not.
They won't. If they did then every senator would be afraid of someone uncovering the lies they have been living.
How? We have our own rinos working with the deep state and against Trump. You think McCain et. all are not going to join in with the democrats?
We used to call people like that punk pictured above “PX Rangers”, the guys who would go to the PX, buy badges, tabs and ribbons and add them to their uniform. An Air Force E-7 with three CIBs? C’mon!
There was a young guy (19 y.o.) in my basic training company who decided to promote himself to Command Sergeant Major and added all manor of ribbons and badges to his class A uniform immediately after graduation from basic. He didn’t even make it out of the airport before he was apprehended by MPs, put in the stockade and court-martialed. He got time in Leavenworth, which would make a good home for a POS like Blumenthal.
We used to call people like that punk pictured above “PX Rangers”, the guys who would go to the PX, buy badges, tabs and ribbons and add them to their uniform. An Air Force E-7 with three CIBs? C’mon!
There was a young guy (19 y.o.) in my basic training company who decided to promote himself to Command Sergeant Major and added all manor of ribbons and badges to his class A uniform immediately after graduation from basic. He didn’t even make it out of the airport before he was apprehended by MPs, put in the stockade and court-martialed. He got time in Leavenworth, which would make a good home for a POS like Blumenthal.
If this were a Republican thief of valor attacking a Democrat president, the Republican would be torn apart in a day.
But since this guy is a Leftist, lying traitorous bastard his is allowed to lead what he thinks will be a lynching.
Where are our battlers in the Congress? Oh yes...they are aligned with the Leftists.
Manor should be manner. (sorry)
For 30 years, Senator Blumenthal had been living a lie; a virtual Homeric tale with him as the hero serving with the Marine Corps in Vietnam until he was outed by the New York Times in 2010,
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Blumenthal should be impeached for committing high crimes and misdemeanors which includes: violating the Stolen Valor Act of 2013,
I can't be the only one that sees the problem here.
I’m a Vietnam vet. I spent a very short time in Saigon just passing through. I never will understand why there are Vietnam vets and Vietnam ERA vets. I certainly understand the difference between combat vets and RE guys. But they all served during a time of war and all got the national defense medal.
I knew lots of WWII guys who never left the states. They were all WWII vets as far as I was concerned.
During the Vietnam era I went through Basic and AIT on active duty and then served six years in the Army Guard and Army Reserve principally in an Infantry Support Battalion. I was a Mess Sergeant and rose to Staff Sergeant.
I considered those that had served in combat areas as having bona fide credentials I did not have. I look at my son’s six years in active duty Army from 2002 to 2008 with service in Korea, Afghanistan, Qatar, and other sand-box areas. His uniform looks a lot more interesting than mine and I respect its merit and his.
Thanks for your service.
He was in violation of the first Stolen Valor Act of 2005, but that was thrown out by the Supreme Court in 2012. You probably can’t get him on anything, sadly. They could say the first law he violated was thrown out and the second one would be considered retroactive. Looks like the scumbag is going to have a long stay in Congress unless the people of CT toss him out and they elected him knowing he was a lying sack of you know what.
I’ve always held those who served in combat as a notch above.
Except those WW II guys. I never asked where they served. I just knew they helped save the world.
We’re good. Normally, I’m the grammar Nazi...
The first person ever impeached by the House was a Senator.
The Senate told to them to eff off, but then went ahead and expelled him.
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