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The Patriot Post Digest 1-13-2017
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Mid-Day Digest
Jan. 13, 2017
IN TODAY’S EDITION
FBI under investigation for pre-election Clinton probe, but Comey helped her.
Police view their jobs as much harder and more dangerous after Obama years.
Given Trump’s election win, leftists suddenly rediscover the Constitution. Don’t buy it.
And more news, policy and opinion.
THE FOUNDATION
“It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just estimate of their real tendency to advance or obstruct the public good; and that this spirit is more apt to be diminished than prompted, by those occasions which require an unusual exercise of it.” —James Madison (1788.)
TOP RIGHT HOOKS
No, Comey Helped Clinton1
The soul searching over the election loss has yet to begin for Democrats and the Left. They’re still in that angry “it’s everyone else’s fault” stage — whether it’s the FBI, the Russians or voter ID laws. So, one week before the inauguration, it’s apparently time to “firm up” the case against the FBI. Thursday, the Justice Department announced that its inspector general will investigate allegations of misconduct involving FBI Director James Comey and his handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe, among other allegations. This is truly ironic given the fact that, as Mark Alexander wrote before the election, Comey’s actions2 to exonerate Clinton days before the election were designed to aid her. Comey went out of his way to protect Clinton, but since the tactic didn’t work it’s time to pull out the long knives.
Democrats' biggest problem is the fact that they’re unwilling to face the true reasons why they lost the election. They don’t want to own the fact that Hillary was a terrible candidate with a compromised record, and who is still under FBI investigation3, by the way. But that’s not the only reason, or even the main reason Americans rejected Hillary. Her victory would have meant a continuation of the past eight years: a stagnant economy, eroding of individual liberty all in the name of “social progress,” skyrocketing health care costs, the continued flow of illegal immigrants across our borders and the unending blaming of America for the world’s ills.
Americans wanted change and quite simply Hillary Clinton offered only more of the same. Americans saw in Donald Trump an outsider who clearly believes in and is proud of this country and wants to truly change things up in DC.
So, go ahead, Democrats — blame Comey and back it up with investigative findings. But the reality is self-deception eventually leads only to self-delusion and eventually self-destruction.
Don’t Violate My Liberal Bubble — A Case Study4
I have a type-Hollywood friend on the Left Coast, who posted derogatory remarks about AG nominee Jeff Sessions on her social media page. After I challenged her views, and those of her likeminded friends who responded, she removed the post. No doubt she took it down because she did not want her leftist colleagues to know she associated with someone outside their bubble — especially a conservative with constitutionally constructionist views.
Consequently, I sent her a message suggesting she must have missed Barack Obama’s farewell remarks. Unfortunately, I had to slog through his self-congratulatory sycophant fest5, and one thing he stated emphatically pertained to social media echo chambers: “For too many of us, it’s become safer to retreat into our own bubbles … especially our social media feeds, surrounded by people who look like us and share the same political outlook and never challenge our assumptions. … And increasingly, we become so secure in our bubbles that we start accepting only information, whether it’s true or not, that fits our opinions.”
While it is my friend’s prerogative to post liberal copy/paste political diatribes, and then remove that post when challenged, this was a case study in how liberals — even intelligent liberals like my friend, protect their social media bubbles from the threat of opposing views. I know, you’re thinking that “intelligent liberal” is an oxymoron, but many liberals have plenty of education — it’s just that, in the inimitable words of Ronald Reagan6, “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
At The Patriot Post, we exercise a policy regarding emotive rants: “Don’t swap spit with a jackass.” But we never miss an opportunity to engage the alternative views of those who articulate them well. By necessity, we cover a very wide range of media and policy sources every day — even the daily policy statements from the American Communist Party. We all have friends who hold a wide range of opinion and perspective, and those whose convictions are more than “feelings,” offer great debate opportunities. But my Left Coast friend demonstrated that she, like most liberals, avoids opposing views like the plague, preferring to be “secure in their bubbles.”
Top Headlines7
Obama launches post-presidency campaign to redistrict nation for Democrats. (Business Insider8.)
New legislation puts consumers in control of health care funds. (The Daily Signal9)
House panel confirms administration cooked U.S. intel books on ISIL10 to bolster Obama’s re-election campaign. (The Daily Beast11)
Millennials falling behind their parents, earning 20% less at same stage in life. (CNBC12)
Armed citizen kills highway sniper who ambushed trooper in Arizona. (Bearing Arms13)
Justice report finds systemic failures by Chicago police. (Chicago Tribune14)
Democrats repeatedly grill Trump nominees on same-sex marriage. (Washington Examiner15)
More adults identifying as “LGBT” — 4.1% total, and 7.3% of Millennials, as fatherlessness rate rises16. (Gallup17)
Obama helps Castro on his way out, ending visa-free path for Cubans who make it to U.S. soil. (Yahoo18.)
Biden receives participation medal19 from Obama. (The Washington Post20)
StemExpress drops its lawsuit over undercover fetal-parts video. (National Review21)
Policy: Taxing imports should not be part of tax reform. (Real Clear Policy22)
Policy: Addressing the problems surrounding nuclear waste policy. (American Action Forum23)
FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
In Age of Trump, Leftists Rediscover Constitution24
By Louis DeBroux
It’s nothing short of amazing to witness how the progressive Left has suddenly rediscovered a “love” for the Constitution now that they’ve lost the White House. For decades, leftist Democrats have shown utter contempt for our Founding Documents — a contempt that became gleeful frenzy in support of Barack Obama’s all-too-frequent usurpations.
In 2012, progressive icon Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in an interview on Egyptian television, declared, “I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.” Obama, of course, famously called the Constitution “deeply flawed,” and in his farewell address5 dismissed it as “just a piece of parchment” — without life from progressive dreams, his implication was.
Rejecting constitutional limits on his power, Obama repeatedly rewrote the disastrous ObamaCare law by executive fiat, issuing waivers to the politically connected, extending deadlines, subsidizing payments, etc. He launched a war against Libya without congressional authorization, and he gutted the work requirement for welfare benefits. He violated decades-old bankruptcy law to pay off labor unions before secured creditors in the auto bailout, he spied on the press, and engaged in illegally collecting the digital communications of every American. Even this just scratches the surface.
This week, as Senate Democrats attempted to smear and defame their colleague and attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions25, it was Sen. Ted Cruz who exposed the blatant hypocrisy26 of their claims that Sessions would not enforce the law fairly. As Cruz noted, the Senate Democrats who now praise Rule of Law were silent when the Eric Holder Justice Department sold guns to Mexican drug cartels that were then used to murder U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and hundreds of Mexican citizens. They were silent when Obama allowed the IRS to illegally target and harass conservative non-profits, and when he refused to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate that outrage. |
