Posted on 07/12/2018 5:09:29 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Hey, remember when Democrats pretended to thing “ageism” was a bad thing? Yeah, not any more. – San Fran Nan, the 78 year-old leader of the Democrat minority in the U.S. House of Representatives, finds herself increasingly under bigoted attack over her advanced age from her opposition these days. The hilarious thing about it, though, is that Ms. Pelosi’s “opposition” these days comes not from any right-wing forces, but from her fellow Democrats in the House.
Turns out the youngsters in the Democrat caucus are growing more than a tad frustrated over the lock on power exercised for more than a decade now by Pelosi and her fellow House Democrat leaders, Stenny Hoyer and James Clyburn, both of whom are also well into their late ’70s. The latest dig at the Party’s retirement home leadership came on Wednesday from 50 year-old California Rep. Linda Sanchez, who was quoted as saying she wants to be part of a transition to a new set of Party leaders.
“I think it’s time for that generational change,” Sanchez told reporters Wednesday. “I want to be part of that transition, because I don’t intend to stay in Congress until I’m in my 70s.” Yikes.
The Democrat plan had been to a) win back control of the House this fall; b) let Pelosi then serve one more 2-year stint as speaker; c) retain control of the House in 2020, allowing the then-80 year-old Pelosi to go out on top; and d) turn over the speakership to New York Rep. Joe Crowley, who would be a comparatively very young 59 years of age. But of course, the 28 year-old socialist community organizer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threw a monkey wrench into those gears a few weeks ago by defeating the hapless Crowley in the party’s primary.
So, with no clear plan of succession, a political equation that increasingly looks as if the plan to retake the House is just another fake media-fed pipe dream, and a Minority Leader who can’t remember the name of the Senate Majority Leader she’s worked with for more than 30 years, frustration among the “younger” set in the Democrat caucus is closing in on the boiling point. And there it will most likely remain following this year’s mid-term elections, since the Democrats are well along their way in the process of blowing their best chance in years to regain one lever of federal power by re-taking the House.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people.
Speaking of ineffectual members of congress, it’s not just limited to those on the Democrat side of the aisle. A group of GOP leaders in the House have now spent so many weeks whining on Twitter about the stonewalling of their various committee investigations by the FBI and DOJ that they are now in danger of being remembered as little than a collection of boys who cried wolf.
Those leading Republicans are:
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte
House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes
House Freedom Caucus co-Founder Jim Jordan
These gentlemen – all of whom are deserving of much respect from conservatives – have spent months now issuing subpoenas for documents, demanding witness appearances and setting deadlines that are never met while threatening to take punitive action, and then doing nothing when Rod Rosenstein and Christopher Wray inevitably give them the proverbial finger.
It was three weeks ago now that these guys – supposedly with the sign-off from Speaker Paul Ryan – threatened to pursue contempt and even impeachment action against Rosenstein if their document requests weren’t met in 7 days. That 7-day deadline came and went – as have a long series of such deadlines since last fall – and the House has done exactly nothing in response.
The latest kerfuffle from these guys came on Wednesday, when the ex-lover of FBI Super Duper Agent Peter Strzok, former DOJ lawyer Lisa Page, simply ignored a subpoena from Goodlatte to come before his committee to offer sworn testimony over her role in the DOJ’s efforts to fix the 2016 elections in favor of Hillary Clinton.
Chairman Goodlatte and Rep. Jordan immediately took to their Twitter accounts in response:
Bob Goodlatte ✔ @RepGoodlatte Lisa Page plans to blatantly defy a congressional subpoena by refusing to appear for her deposition. She is a key witness, and it is critical that she come before @HouseJudiciary to answer questions as part of our investigation. It appears she has something to hide.
11:03 PM - Jul 10, 2018 6,946 5,508 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy
Rep. Jim Jordan ✔ @Jim_Jordan Lisa Page ignores congressional subpoena, once again showing the double standard. One set of rules for regular Americans, a different set for the Swamp!
8:54 PM - Jul 10, 2018 45.5K 31.4K people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy Well, yes, and? What? With all due respect, gentlemen, what are you going to do? Is this it? At long last, has the majority party in the U.S. House of Representatives become so de-fanged, so timid under its milquetoast establishment leadership that its only recourse to open defiance of its authority by deep state officials is to issue petulant tweets? If it wanted to, the Judiciary Committee could hold Page in contempt and send the Capitol Police to her home to place her under arrest. Why not do that?
But given that Jordan, just a few days after going after Rosenstein in a public hearing, found himself the target of one of the most blatant deep state hit jobs in modern history, maybe this is it. After all, the most obvious intent of going after Jordan with un-provable – and un-disprovable – allegations that he ignored sexual improprieties by a long-dead wrestling team doctor while serving as an assistant coach at Ohio State University decades ago is to intimidate Jordan and anyone else thinking about going after Rosenstein and his fellow thugs at DOJ.
If that’s the strategy, it seems to be working.
Just another day the deep state isn’t going away quietly America.
That is all.
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“...and then doing nothing when Rod Rosenstein and Christopher Wray inevitably give them the proverbial finger.”
...and Sessions too.
I wonder if ALL of Congress has something to hide
One wonders if all the federal marshals are asleep, too like the politicians...or isn’t people defying congress their concern?
Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!! Granny Nan has more BALLS than Paul Ryan.
Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!!
Now that is one brilliant and totally true sentence.
Pajama boy’s brothers are RINOyan and McDorkell.
The Swamp is alive and well. Still.
“I wonder if ALL of Congress has something to hide”
I don’t. Anyone who has been in Congress more than one term has capitulated. The millions of dollars required to run a reelection campaign are beyond the means of all but the less than 1% who come to Congress independently wealthy. The rest must sell out to the corporations, labor unions, interest groups and multimillionaires who buy Congresscritters with campaign contributions, insider trading deals, lucrative speaking engagements, and outright bribes.
Thank you!
Ryan OUT, Jordan IN...ASAP
Bush League Republicans must become extinct before the Republic does.
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