Posted on 07/25/2018 4:49:32 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
For those who missed it – I compiled one of my rare Evening Campaign Updates last night, and it’s worth checking out.
It’s still the 9th Circuit, folks, and it always will be. – Twitter and cable news came all abuzz Tuesday afternoon when reports began circulating that the notoriously anti-constitutional 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had issued a decision overruling a California ban on certain rifle magazines. Conservatives were all over Twitter and Facebook proclaiming a major victory, and that the 9th Circuit had finally seen the light!
Well, no, not exactly. This decision was issued by a 3-judge panel subset of the Circuit Court’s huge membership, and California now has the right – which it will certainly exercise – to request the case to be heard en banc, i.e., by the Court’s full leftist-friendly membership. The judges for these 3-judge panels are picked at random, and this particular panel just happened to draw 2 of the rare 9th Circuit judges who have actually read the 2nd Amendment.
So this decision will be reversed soon, and the 9th Circuit will regain its shoddy reputation after experiencing a rare moment of constitutional clarity. Too bad.
Fake Indian Senator want heap big wampum. – In case anyone still maintained illusions otherwise, lifelong fraud Senator Elizabeth Warren made her and her fellow Democrats’ money-grabbing intentions crystal clear in a CNBC interview yesterday. She told the preening fake host John Harwood that Democrats intend to immediately reverse the Trump tax cuts if they gain congressional majorities this November, and suggested the top marginal income tax rate should be raised to “well above 50%.”
Hey, maybe that’s why the very wealthy (how did he become that way on a government salary?) ex-FBI Director and Current Teenage Drama Queen James Comey is having second thoughts about encouraging everyone to vote Democrat this fall. Go figure.
California values in action! – The Democrat-dominated California state government recently de-criminalized the act of intentionally giving another person AIDS, but the City of Santa Barbara just passed an ordinance mandating jail time for any food service employee caught in the heinous act of….wait for it….oh, you gotta wait for this one…PASSING OUT PLASTIC STRAWS TO CUSTOMERS! I swear I do not make this stuff up.
The amiable dunce issues a subtle warning. – This is one I forgot to include in yesterday’s Evening Campaign Update, in which I laid out some of the ways in which it feels like the tide is finally turning on the whole Democrat/Media invented Russia Collusion fantasy play. My bad.
Former Obama Administration Director of National Intelligence James Clapper seems for all appearances like sort of an amiable dunce. His interviews on TV and dishonest congressional testimonies are often amusing to watch as he fumbles around for words and contorts his very malleable face into all sorts of odd configurations as he seemingly searches for exactly the right way to mislead.
But Clapper is a spy, a longtime intelligence operative, and as such it is important to remember that a lot of that fumbling around and contorting is done for effect. This is a very clever man who knows how to subtly – or not so subtly – engage in a CYA operation on national television.
Well, ok, it was on CNN, which counts as “national television” these days only in the sense that it seems to be on the public TVs in every airport in America 24 hours a day, but still. In an interview Monday evening with the terminally boring and petulant Anderson Cooper, Clapper, seeing the walls beginning to close in around him with the release of the documentation for the fraudulent FISA warrants, apparently decided it was time for Operation CYA to engage in earnest.
And engage he did, in the process tossing a very recognizable individual under the proverbial bus:
“If it weren’t for President Obama we might not have done the intelligence community assessment that we did that set up a whole sequence of events which are still unfolding today, notably Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation. President Obama is responsible for that. It was he who tasked us to do that intelligence community assessment in the first place.”
Man, this guy doesn’t fool around. Other, less bold people in his circumstances might have tried sloughing responsibility off onto, say, ex-CIA Director John Brennan or the aforementioned Teen Drama Queen, but not Clapper – Clapper goes right to the main guy, the Capo de Tutti Capi, the Big Kahuna, Barack “The One” Hussein Obama his own self.
In doing so, Clapper perhaps appropriately assumes the posture taken by all those Nazi Generals back in 1945 who told their captors “hey, we were just following orders.”
I’m not sure it’s going to work, but you almost have to admire the chutzpah.
Just another day in the truth will all come out in the end America.
That is all.
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My exact reaction when I heard that Clapper named Obama as the Prime Mover.
ML/NJ
You radical near brain dead right wingers better realize Hussein Barack Obama is untouchable. Hussein was re-doing AmeriKa for the better.
Clapper realizes he can name Hussein as the one behind the criminal FISA surveillance but Hussein ain't going to pay, and Clapper has the best excuse ever.
Let me repeat: Hussein will NOT be held accountable.
/sarc
Clapper is moving the focus to the most untouchable person in the coven. Everyone else gets cover and any real investigation or reporting steps dead. No one will go after Obongo no one.
I PRAY that this signals that the TRAITORS of the 0bama regime are about to rounded up and brought to justice!
Obama IS untouchable......the blacks would BURN DOWN CITIES and KILL WHITEY!
I like it. More please.
I thought the open carry case was about Hawaii.
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