Posted on 10/13/2018 9:40:14 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Michael Kelly, the legendary journalist who died covering the invasion of Iraq in 2003, once wrote that the “animating impulse” of modern liberalism was to “marginalize itself and then enjoy its own company. And to make itself as unattractive to as many as possible.”
“If it were a person,” he added, “it would pierce its tongue.”
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t pierced its tongue on CNN this week, when Hillary Clinton told Christiane Amanpour that “you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about.” And when former Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday, “When they go low, we kick ’em.”
It pierced its tongue last week when New York’s Representative Jerrold Nadler pledged to use a Democratic House majority to open an investigation into Kavanaugh’s alleged perjury and the “whitewash” investigation by the F.B.I. A party that can’t change its mind and won’t change the subject meets the classic definition of a fanatic.
It pierced its tongue last month when Cory Booker and Kamala Harris turned Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing into audition tapes for their presidential bids, complete with “I am Spartacus” histrionics and bald misrepresentations about Kavanaugh’s views on racial profiling and contraception.
It pierced its tongue when Minority Leader Chuck Schumer chose to make Kavanaugh’s confirmation the year’s decisive political test, rather than run a broad referendum on Trump’s inglorious tenure. As I wrote in July, the political strategy was guaranteed to hurt red-state Democrats, as they were put “to the choice of looking like political sellouts if they vote for Kavanaugh, or moral cowards if they don’t.”
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Never interfere with your enemy while they are busy making stupid mistakes.
Also for this very same reason, the Allied Generals strictly prohibited all assassination attempts on Hitler's life as he was doing a very good job of screwing up his generals. Remember how everyone feared to wake him on D-day as he had strict orders not to be disturbed, and he assumed personal command of the Panzer tank divisions stationed in Paris.
Booker was so obvious----his 17 minute sililoquy sounded like an ad for his vainglorious political ambitions.
Grassley should have stopped him cold.
It's nice when a dumb-headed Democrat plan goes kerflooey.
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