Posted on 11/22/2017 10:18:18 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
For years, we have been hearing that the Republican Party was on the ropes: when Bill Clinton won in 1992 and 1996; when Barack Obama won in 2008 and 2012; when the tea party launched in 2009; when Texas Senator Ted Cruz and company shut down the federal government for a few days in 2013. (Remember when we were told that voters were going to "punish" Republicans in 2014? Yeah, that was right before they handed the GOP control of the House and Senate.) When Donald Trump roared into the primaries in 2015 and knocked out his more -- shall we say -- traditional GOP rivals one by one, and even (perhaps especially) since Donald Trump's election, the media's go-to narrative has been how the Republican Party is fragmented and crumbling.
Now we know that it's the Democratic Party that's rotting from within.
This isn't about the staggering loss of seats in state governments. It's about the sex scandals that have enveloped Hollywood -- and now the media and Washington. What's even more shocking than the reprehensible conduct itself is how intimately entwined these scandals are with the Democratic Party's politics, its operatives and their tactics.
Let's start with Harvey Weinstein. One of the biggest Hollywood fundraisers for Democrats, he has become the poster boy for the most egregious sexual harassment and assault. As journalist Ronan Farrow has exposed, Weinstein's modus operandi included hiring high-powered attorneys like David Boies of Boies Schiller Flexner. Boies' law firm paid Black Cube -- an intelligence-gathering company Weinstein employed -- to dig up dirt on and silence potential accusers. According to Ronan Farrow, K2 -- another intelligence firm -- was hired by Elkin Abramowitz, also one of Weinstein's defense attorneys. K2's job was to ensure that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. -- a Democrat -- did not prosecute Weinstein after sexual assault charges were filed against him in New York. Vance was once employed by Abramowitz' firm, and has since drawn criticism for taking campaign contributions from lawyers "having dealings with his office." Weinstein's attorneys also had his victims sign iron-clad nondisclosure agreements that effectively covered up his behavior.
As I wrote last week, David Boies' name appears with some frequency in these accounts. PBS and CBS host Charlie Rose was fired this past week after eight women came forward with sordid stories of sexual harassment and abuse of power. Lo and behold, who has turned up as one of Rose's former attorneys? None other than David Boies.
New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush has also been suspended following accusations of sexual misconduct involving younger women at the Times and Politico. Remember Glenn Thrush? His was one of many emails released by Wikileaks that demonstrated how far in the tank the media was for 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Thrush sent a potentially negative story to Clinton campaign manager John Podesta for approval before publishing. Thrush's email read, in part, "Because I have become a hack I will send u the whole section that pertains to u (sic). Please don't share or tell anyone I did this."
The Wikileaks email dump also exposed that Donna Brazile -- at the time, a contributing political correspondent at CNN -- was feeding debate questions to Clinton in advance of the event. Brazile lost her position at CNN, and has now written a best-seller, "Hacks," in which she gives her take on why Clinton lost the election. Among her revelations: that the DNC was financially controlled and manipulated by the Clintons, to the political detriment of the other (and arguably more popular) Democratic candidate, Bernie Sanders.
Brazile stepped in as DNC chair after Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned in disgrace, only to be scooped by Clinton and named "honorary" campaign chair. Wasserman Schultz's handsomely paid former IT staffer Imran Awan has since been indicted, and is suspected of selling sensitive data to Pakistanis and Russians.
Charles Manson's recent death brought disturbing reminders that even the Democratic Party's golden boy, Barack Obama, has unsavory alliances in his background. After the grisly murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in July of 1969, Weather Underground founder Bernardine Dohrn said, "Offing those rich pigs with their own forks and knives, and then eating a meal in the same room. Far out! The Weathermen dig Charles Manson."
Manson and his followers were murderous lunatics. Bernardine Dohrn (along with her husband Bill Ayers) was a communist revolutionary and domestic terrorist responsible for multiple bombings. Dohrn expressed admiration for the Manson murders. And Barack Obama launched his political career in her living room.
The Democratic Party -- at least at the level of national leadership -- is riddled through and through with questionable affiliations, political scandals, sexual deviants and interconnected teams of lawyers and paid spies protecting them.
It's time for the Democrats to clean house.
New leadership needs to come from the grass roots -- mayors, city council and school board members -- fresh faces and people who step up from every walk of life to cleanse their party of the rot that has corrupted it for the past 40-plus years. No more Clintons, Podestas, Obamas, media shills, communist agitators or community organizers.
The Democratic Party is dead. Long live the Democratic Party.
The democrat party died on November 22nd, 1963 with John F. Kennedy.
Profound comment MM. “S” does a really good job providing opposition and “choice” for all God’s chillin. It seems today that the choices are expanding exponentially compared to yesteryear. The difficulty is remaining obedient and loyal to the one true God and his son Jesus, when “S” is there offering “the world”.
Apologies then, I’m with you there regarding Levin. You’re damn right it’s important where things are made. Get into a little shoving match with China, which cuts off trade for a bit, and this country will be ON ITS KNEES within a month, and literally starving to death in a year. I’d consider that quite important. I’ll stick to fighting you regarding labor unions, though.
It isn’t dead - it just refuses to use its real name: the Communist Party.
And the fix to this has exactly nothing to do with China, but involves forcing the political elites' power to tax and regulate business here in the USA back to within Constitutional limits. When those elites blame China for things like manufacturing job losses and trade deficits, they are trying to keep everybody's attention off of just how much of America's productive capacity they have been looting.
If it is dead, new leadership won’t help. BTW, those elections a few weeks ago? Death throes.
Satan keeps a list of aliases for his followers. They're interchangeable.
Truth is, the Democrats do believe in democracy, which at the end of the day is nothing more than mob rule. What they don't believe in is the Republic, the American Republic. They want to see it gone.
“And the fix to this has exactly nothing to do with China, but involves forcing the political elites’ power to tax and regulate business here in the USA back to within Constitutional limits. When those elites blame China for things like manufacturing job losses and trade deficits, they are trying to keep everybody’s attention off of just how much of America’s productive capacity they have been looting.”
ABSOLUTELY - handing off production to Mexico and China was elites way of dealing with the labor unions in this country - instead of taking them head-on and shutting them down for treason. Also the same for the insane environmental and labor regulations. Instead of taking that crap head-on, they let Mexico/China dump all their pollution.
Another way to look at it is that no company actually WANTS to locate plants in Mexico/China, but when our government gives them no other reasonable option...they will do just that.
Even buzzards won’t eat a Democrat they are passed the point of rotten.
Anyone who doesn’t understand the breadth and depth of the left wing should just look at the list of amicus briefs filed at the 4th Circuit in the challenge to President Trump’s revised order on vetting refugees from certain 3rd world countries in and around the Middle East. Every left wing organization: law professors, states’ AGs, ACLU, activists of various ethnic groups, etc., etc. Oh, and Cato Institute.
I listened to the streaming of the en banc hearing at this court for the first suit brought against President Trump’s EO to vet these refugees (now dismissed). The attorney for the challengers couldn’t answer well-placed questions from the two R-appointed judges but it didn’t matter because everyone in that courtroom and listening online knew damned well what the outcome of that hearing would be. It’s become a kangaroo court. Disgraceful.
So long as the left controls academia, media and the courts, the Democrat party is not dead. There is a brief opening of the window to change that and we can only pray that the R Congress gets on board before it’s too late. Shame on McCain/Collins/Flake/Corker, et al whose goal is to thwart President Trump instead of saving the USA as we’ve known it.
“So long as the left controls academia, media and the courts, the Democrat party is not dead”
Good post. The demoncrat party ‘brand’ maybe dead but the left are in full control.
The leftist controlled courts are especially worrisome. They no longer need to change the Constitution through the amendment process. The leftist echo chamber amongst lawyers and judges is so egregious that all they have to do is agree on a different meaning of “is”. Scary to contemplate.
Democrats need to reorganize—They need a new Jackson—to reform the party and pull it towards the center and dump the minority focus—can’t win as a black party or a Brown Party—must be an American Party. Clean house and reform. Dump the old Clintoons and there borish tricks and go for new faces. A new deal—a fair deal or what ever. America will not go Commie (maybe a few brainwashed kids like think its cool—but once they see it—they will dump it fast).
Don’t dismiss the danger of Bernie Sanders and the democrat fools who vote for his kind. The Far Left will continue to thrive as long as there is human greed. Their lust for other people’s wealth overrides any thoughts about sex scandals.
“The issue of immigration is not a partisan issue,” she said at the United We Stand America National Convention in 1995. “Immigration is not a right, guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution to everyone anywhere in the world who thinks they want to come to the United States. Immigration is a privilege. It is a privilege granted by the people of the United States to those we choose to admit.
“We must control illegal immigration before it erodes legal immigration. ... The commission defines credibility in immigration policy by a simple yardstick: Those who should get in, get in. Those who should be kept out, are kept out. And those who should not be here, are required to leave.
“As a commission we denounce hostility toward immigrants. … But we are a country of laws. For our immigration policy to make sense it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law and those who violate it. Therefore, we disagree with those who would label any effort to control immigration as somehow anti-immigrant. Unlawful immigration is not acceptable.”
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