Posted on 06/02/2019 4:22:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
It never ceases to amaze me how left-wingers love to rewrite rules as they go along. When innocent until proven guilty doesnt help their cause, they flip it on its head and pretend the old reality never existed. Since Republicans are largely timid children when it comes to a fight, Democrats are able to get away with it. But what if they werent?
Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) loves to moralize about President Trump, particularly about his finances. Theres nothing he would like more than to gain access to Trumps tax returns, which, if he got them, would undoubtedly have select portions mysteriously find their way to the press.
Cummings is a proponent of the idea that Donald Trump is either compromised by his past business dealings, or could be bought by foreign governments booking rooms at his hotels.
The absurdity of a billionaire being bought off by a few thousand dollars spent in a hotel is only a smokescreen to stir up the Democratic base. What isnt absurd is a Congressman with a history of financial problems suddenly becoming flush thanks to his wifes business coming into millions from companies his committee oversees.
Cummings had a history of financial problems missed mortgage payments and tax debt stemming, in part, from child support payments he owed to his ex-wife and two other women who were not his wife. Curiously, his new wife brought financial security.
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, Elijahs second wife, is the Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party. She also has a couple of side organizations that are doing extremely well thanks to businesses with business before Cummings committee. Shes taken in millions, in fact. Good work, if you can get it.
Whats even more weird, one of those organizations the non-profit has a legal obligation to provide financial records to anyone who requests them. These records would show how much money came in and, more interestingly, how much went out and to whom. But the groups, called the Center for Global Policy Solutions, is refusing to turn over those records.
Three organizations, the Daily Caller News Foundation, the Washington Examiner, and the National Legal and Policy Center, all requested the forms and were either ignored or refused. Thats against the law.
My first job out of college in 2001 was at the Heritage Foundation, in the book store. I was told, unambiguously, that when anyone called and requested our 990 form I was to send it to them immediately because that was the law. Yet Cummings is able to deny their release? What is she hiding?
Just imagine if she and her husband were held to the standards her husband is applying to President Trump, by anyone. The media would be all over this. Hell, the Washington Post or New York Times would have been on this story for the simple reason they were doing their jobs.
Instead, the Post ran a piece on the controversy entitled, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings calls IRS complaint against her politically motivated. Its not a story about the sketchy intertwining of a Democratic Party official, her Congressman husband, and the millions and millions in donations from companies her husband hold sway over, its about how conservatives are targeting her for political reasons.
Donald Trump is presumed guilty, Democrats arent only presumed innocent, theyre presumed victim.
Robert Mueller was unable to clear the President of any wrongdoing, which is decidedly not how the justice system works how every story is framed. CNN ran a long blog posted disguised as a fact check because the former Special Counsel publicly refused to exonerate the President. Using that standard, I have no proof everyone at CNN is not either a child abuser, necrophiliac, or both. Ive looked, but I cant exonerate them the allegations because I have yet to find proof they dont do it.
While were at it, I cant find any proof the employees of MSNBC arent cheating on their spouses. If I were married to any of them, especially the on-air talent, Id be worried because I cant prove otherwise. And dont even get me started about what I cant prove they dont do to farm animals and small woodland creature.
No one, rightly, would accept the idea they were guilty of something simply because they couldnt prove themselves innocent. I suspect most of us have no alibi for what we were doing when Malaysian flight 370 disappeared, does that make us suspects? Are we now a Kafka novel?
We arent, but Donald Trump is. He is guilty of something, perhaps lots of things, Democrats insist, they just have to find it. Until they do, theyre going to act like they have. And their minions in the media are content to go along with it. Maybe they should be treated the same way.
Rather, they have an endless list of demands.
At each concession, the demands increase.
I am angry that Democrats believe they dont have to follow the law.
There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil
If you have no concept of right and wrong because they change as you, your own god decides it is hard to use hypocrisy against them. Reason doesnt work, and try and use emotion on one of these estrogen ridden fools, it doesnt work. Ridicule and mocking, their own tactics tamps them down but like a drug addicted whore they have to hit rock bottom and have that oh crap what have I done moment.
One word that is not often used to describe Liberals: Greedy
Nor power-hungry, mean or unfair. But they are all these.
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