Posted on 07/28/2018 4:49:47 PM PDT by Kenny
The classic movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is the story of an idealistic local hero, Jefferson Smith, who's appointed to the U.S. Senate. Smith's chosen because he's naïve and gullible, and James Taylor, the corrupt Washington power-broker, needs someone who will "take orders."
But when Smith proposes a boy's camp on the same land as Taylor's dam-building graft scheme, Taylor vows to destroy Smith. But how? Smith's the leader of Boy Rangers, a squeaky-clean guy.
Solution: Smear Smith. Run him out of the Senate.
Now, I never believed that the Washington machine could just invent charges to smear a member of Congress and make it stick or that media would ever collectively abandon journalistic integrity and go along with the scheme.
Yet today, this very plot is unfolding before us: a new Jefferson Smith, Jim Jordan, framed by our very own Taylor machine, the establishment and media.
Jordan's in establishment crosshairs because he has the temerity to run for speaker of the House.
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So the cabal hatches a plan.
1. First, bring fake charges that 30 years ago, Jordan as assistant wrestling coach was aware that the coach sexually abused boys and did nothing to stop it.
2. The press gets the story out, asserts that the charges complicate Jordan's bid for speaker.
3. Paul Ryan says he can't defend Jordan because the charge is "serious." This is the new McCarthyism, where a person is branded, tried, and convicted on the "seriousness" of the charges.
4. Finally, Paul Ryan remains speaker until after the midterms, when the House will be safe from voter retribution. He will have two full years for the new speaker to be "normalized," for the people to accept and forget.
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Now, I never believed that the Washington machine could just invent charges to smear a member of Congress and make it stick or that media would ever collectively abandon journalistic integrity and go along with the scheme.
Remember Tom Delay? Exactly that situation was created. Delay was eventually cleared of all charges. The court found the charges were for offenses that did not even exist in law.
The slander against The Honorable Senator from Wisconsin continues.
No, I am not referring to Paul Ryan...
Jim Jordan needs all of us to help. The Deplorables need to be calling DC 24/7 and voicing our outrage over the “business as usual” garbage. Ryan, the RINO, is useless as well as spineless and gutless (on purpose?). Anyone seen him with Soros lately?
Paul Ryan needs to go NOW!!!!
Second only to Mr. Trump goes to Washington.
Now, I never believed that the Washington machine could just invent charges to smear a member of Congress and make it stick or that media would ever collectively abandon journalistic integrity and go along with the scheme.
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Incredibly naïve.
Ryan is not a Senator or honorable, so we know it wasn’t him.
Ryan, the RINO, is useless as well as spineless and gutless (on purpose?).
Of course, it is on purpose. Spineless & gutless lets him off easy.
Treacherous is the correct term.
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