USA Today, December 23, 2020 11th-hour COVID-19 relief deal proves again that Congress is unfit to govern by James Bovard “In politics, stupidity is not a handicap,” Napoleon reputedly said more than two centuries ago. Boundless ignorance is also not a handicap, as Congress demonstrated Monday night by approving a 5,593-page bill with no time […]
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So it’s verboten?’: Fox News panelist STOPS Newt Gingrich from discussing ‘Soros-elected’ district attorneys
https://www.rt.com/usa/500892-gingrich-soros-fox-news/
Newt Gingrich, once House speaker, was driven out of Congress in 1997 by his fellow-Republicans who joined the Democrats in voting for one of the 84 ethics charges against him. He was formally reprimanded and forced to reimburse the House for the $300,000 he had embezzled. Only 28 Republicans voted no, the reprimand passing 395-28. He was the first-ever speaker to be reprimanded on an ethics charge.
This morning when I woke up I found an email from my old friend Toon in Amsterdam. He had heard about the fires ravaging L.A. and he wanted to make sure I was ok. Then he started going on about how Trump and Boris Johnson are ruining the world. That led him in two directions-- were Bernie and Elizabeth too old to get the job done-- I assured him they weren't and that either could-- and then he started writing about how during World War II, "A lot of Dutchmen were completely indifferent about German occupation.
The Hill headline yesterday, Biden World Shell-Shocked Amid Hyde Furor, exposes the giant crack in the Biden dam, as we mentioned, happily, on Thursday. Biden's being beaten up on the right, on the left and in the center.
This past week the never ending political drama which is Russiagate appeared to have reached somewhat of a climax, with sentencing recommendations being submitted for General Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort, and the melodramatic plea bargaining saga of Trump’s shady turncoat lawyer Michael Cohen. In all cases, there has been no evidence of the elusive ‘Trump-Russia Collusion’ narrative which the mainstream media have been obsessively parroting for the last 24 months straight.
In looking for a definition of “deep state”, one comes up with this:
A body of people, typically influential members of government agencies or the military, believed to be involved in the secret manipulation or control of government policy.”
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Wherever they go the Clinton’s have a strange habit of leaving a very large body count behind them.
By Pat Buchanan • Unz Review • July 21, 2017 “Iran must be free. The dictatorship must be destroyed. Containment is appeasement and appeasement is surrender.” Thus does our Churchill, Newt Gingrich, dismiss, in dealing with Iran, the policy of containment crafted by George Kennan and pursued by nine U.S. presidents to bloodless victory in […]
