POLITICAL PRIVILEGE

Hillary Clinton has been hiding in plain sight as a corrupt law breaking politician that has confounded the public's sense of legal fairness for years. Cynicism over the myth that " no one is above the law" begins with the utterance of the name Hillary Clinton. 


The public is rightfully appalled at her many illegal dealings that never end in justice being served, but rather justice has been averted, skirted and flaunted.  

The perception of Washington's political class along with its minions of bureaucrats, is not a healthy and respectful view of government, in fact trust in government is at an all time low.

The average American feels that our government officials operate more as an organized criminal cabal undermining our nation's foundation and the rule of law, that appears only to be aimed at the average citizen. Hillary Clinton is the embodiment of evidence that a such double standard exists, and it infuriates Americans to watch our nation's identity mocked by selfish politicos.

Thousands of morally honest Americans have been snared in the government regulatory nets and charged with violations, causing them to lose their life savings in fines and penalties while politicians engaged in the same activities, skate free. The late Leona Helmsley once suggested "only the little people pay taxes" and we could add, or get fined for not following regulations, and sadly it seems she was correct.

Thousands of Americans, perhaps less ethical, have been caught by our government ranging from evading taxes to insider trading end up serving jail time, while insiders like the Clinton's are allowed to use a charity foundation to pocket millions and pay for their jet setting. Where is the IRS audit of the Clinton Foundation? Where is the criminal probe? Where is Lady Justice's blindfold?

How does a Secretary of State utilize a private server without anyone in governments knowledge? How is it possible that no one realized that Hillary's e-mails were without an official government address? How is it legal for a government official to solicit donations of money from foreign companies and officials for a so-called charity (Clinton Foundation) while conducting the country's high level foreign policy? Why at the moment of discovery of this illegal and dangerous personal withholding of public records, if one assumes no one knew prior, didn't government officials swoop in and subpoena Hillary and her server? 

The truth appears to the American people to be that our government officials allowed Hillary to have a private server. The Obama administration allowed Clinton to use an unsecured private e-mail account for official business as Secretary of State. 

The Obama administration seemed to be unconcerned that one morally unscrupulous woman was allowed to compromise the nation's security by using an unsecured e-mail account where classified information was handled with criminal disregard for the safety and security of our country.

The Obama administration allowed Clinton after she left office, (now aware of her illegal control of public records) to have 20 months of unfettered access to this unsecured sever. The Obama administration had no reaction when she and her lawyers waded through the thousands of e-mails and made the ghastly arrogant statement that she turned over all the public material, that she and she alone deemed to belong to the public.

The Obama administration did not blink when thousands of e-mails were deleted under the Clinton claim that those unrevealed e-mails were private correspondence between her daughter Chelsea about her wedding or yoga appointments. 

Meanwhile the State Department had dragged its feet, ignoring Freedom of Information requests by multiple parities during Clinton's reign as Secretary of State, and not one government official raised a flag of protest or inquiry to protect the American public's property. 

Hillary yes is the sinister player but considering all the duplicity that had to accompany this theft and deception that was done brazenly in front of many bureaucrats, leads most Americans to conclude that our government is no longer operated by honorable unpartisan officials sworn to our Constitution.   

The Obama administration allowed Hillary and her lawyers to destroy, tamper, delete, delay, stall and design an alibi to avoid accountability. Does this sound like swift justice? Does this sound like something a prosecutor would allow any other citizen to get away with doing? Does this sound like equal justice under the law or special exemption?

Why did the House committee on Benghazi allow her to avoid the penalty of perjury? Why wasn't she made to swear under oath, as all others were required? To quote Hillary's testimony "What difference does it make?" the answer is always in the legal details and technicalities.
Her testimony before the committee was chock full of lies and half truths, such as her denial of any knowledge of our government arming Syrian fighters with the help of Turkey, but she was not put under oath, and so perjury cannot be claimed, and so once again Hillary Clinton lives above the law. 

Americans are angry, disgusted and deeply distrustful at what appears to be our Justice Department's prosecutorial "distinction" rather than discretion, in which only the average Jane and Joe American is nailed to the wall, while the powerful hold a lifetime privilege pass. 

President Obama claims to have no knowledge of Hillary's e-mail scandal as he has claimed ignorance of the multiple scandals in his administration (IRS, Benghazi, Rosengate, Fast and Furious) and he has used the Justice Department as though it was his private Stasi force, to go after political opponents only. 

Instead of the Democrats and Republicans standing up for our Constitution they cynically have use the scandals for political election talking points while Americans watch with anguished revulsion at the degrading leprosy of political cronyism destroying our American Republic.

Equally some Americans are wondering aloud, whether China, Russia and or a host of other bad actor hackers have our State Department e-mails and classified documents captured via Hillary's criminally negligent and treasonous actions with public records. 

If she were president, our nation would be run and controlled by foreign interests via blackmail to an empty soul, wearing a pantsuit while occupying the oval office. Still wondering why Trump gains in the polls?

If Hillary Clinton is allowed to both avoid prosecution and continue to run for President of the United States of America, then no prosecutor anywhere in America can utter the words "no one is above the law" and be believed by any righteous citizen. Too many of us currently believe that the "law is only applied to the little people" and this perception is growing while trust in government is declining.  

Elite privilege should not exist in America under any name, regardless of wealth, power or connection to power, for basic human equity under the law is our firewall against tryanny.

DEBATING THE DEBATE

Americans were once naive about media and assumed it was a medium that tried to be as neutral and objective as possible when both reporting news, staging political roundtable discussions and or airing debates, but that innocence is long over.

The first question asked by Bret Baier was right out of the Carl Rove playbook of political hoaxing when he asked who would raise their hand if they would not pledge to run as independent, if they lost the primary. The audience was not fooled and conservatives throughout the country knew it was a trap question directed at Trump, designed to both shame him, if he raised his hand and tie his hands in the future, if he did not. 

It was so obvious a contrived question for Trump and Trump alone that the conservative onlookers readied for the wrestling match event "Dump Trump" rather than an issue orientated fair debate. They were not wrong, everything cried out the wrestling metaphor of a  body being muscled to the mat, except it was the referees (Kelly, Baier and Wallace) doing the pinning.  

 There was nothing subtle about that opening punch to the frontrunner and it raised the ire and suspicions of conservatives soured and tired of being hustled by Washington's political power brokers.   

Last night's 2016 primary debate was tainted with staging manipulation even before it started when Fox news announced months earlier that it would not include all the candidates in one forum. It claimed that with so many GOP candidates in the race, a single inclusive forum was undoable. However, Fox failed the fairness factor in the main debate when they promised equal time to candidates but instead distributed the minutes in favor of Trump and Bush.

The debates were directed more like a reality show than a forum to showcase the views and opinions of candidates vying for the highest office in the land. In fact there were three areas in which the engineering of the debates seemed to reveal a collusion of undue GOP establishment influence and Fox News lust for ratings, the time allotted candidates, the bash first, then ask questions and the post debate commentary.

As already alluded to, Trump and Bush received the most talking time but not because they sucked the oxygen from the stage and bullied for it, but rather because they were asked more questions by the panel. Why? Well simply the GOP wants to embarrass Trump and his supporters and of course promote their guy (puppet) Jeb Bush. Yes, it is just that simple. 

As for the nature of the questions, Trump was attacked in almost every question posed to him. Attacked by Megan Kelly's (are you still a misogynist) question that listed choice words Trump used when angered by female critics, and Chris Wallace's question about Trump's bankruptcies. I guess the audience was suppose to believe that Trump is a 10 billion dollar failure that is disrespectful of women. 

Sorry GOP, and sorry Fox News it may have given Hillary Clinton fodder against Trump but just as the candidates onstage have found out on many occasions, that when they bash Trump, the effect is that their polling slips down not up. Americans are tired of being steered and roped by media.

Even beyond the Trump bashing and the Bush softball questioning that made the audience wish Bret, Megan and Chris would just be honest by holding up poster placards with the face of Carl Rove in front of their faces, the questions were, in a word, lame.

The country faces multiple serious issues such as the debt crises but instead of asking a straight forward question (such as what specific plan do you have to reduce the deficit and pay down the debt?) we heard a litany of snipe hunting prior to an inquiry. The records of the Governors running for president were all slammed in one way or another, Walker, Christie, Kasich and even Huckabee's Arkansas past before they were asked about the debt.

I would say all the governors on stage were criticized but that would include Jeb Bush of Florida, but no, Jeb was spared the stabs and jabs before the question. Why? Again because he is the establishment GOP candidate or their next in line, puppet for D.C. politics as usual.

After the debates the moderators slap themselves on the back, bashed Trump a bit more by suggesting that Megan Kelly was attacked by Trump (hardly think saying he might not be nice, is an attack) and then insulted conservatives by inviting Debbie Wasserman Schultz to comment on the (cough) rampant misogyny among the candidates.

Moreover. their use of a Frank Luntz focus group, that nobody believed was not coached, regardless of protestations to the contrary, that also ended up being, (what do you know) anti-Trump.

Lastly. their unscrupulous opinions intended to sway voters as to who were the winners and losers, with of course the theme remaining constant, that all agreed, (like a chorus) that Trump lost.

Like Trump or not, even detractors would agree it was a GOP, and Fox News political gang tackle of the Donald last night, and we are still waiting to see who will be holding the ice to their face in the days ahead. What is clear to Americans however, is that the media and Washington politicians are as cozy under the sheets of mutual pleasure hugging and kissing their mistress lover, corporate money and sponsorship, as unblushingly sycophantic as ever.  

So to sum up the grade for the hosts (Fox) of the first debate, I will give it the following:

A= for its effort to diminish Trump's popularity and trying to raise Jeb's curb appeal.

F= for completing the task.

F= for disguising the deceitful task.

F= for being "Fair and Balanced".

Age of A- Quisling

The definition of quisling is a person who helps an enemy that has taken control of their country. In this case America's political enemy has been the social progressive Democrats and corporate lobbyist both eagerly trashing our Constitution, free enterprise and Judeo-Christian values. While the so-called opposition party of Republicans are being led by quislings in the House and Senate name Boehner and McConnell.

In fact, it might even be wrong to call them quislings for it assumes that they are turncoat conservatives when in fact they are the "SPOILS" (Selfish politicians only interested in legislating for special-interest).

Either way the American people are being treated as cattle while the corporate raiders use our representatives as paid ranch hands and rodeo performers (politicians in Washington) that rope, brand and fatten us up on promises, pledges and platitudes.   

Worse, than the quisling leaders are the silent following members in the House and Senate, that refuse to stand up against the Chamber of Commerce, lobbyist's bought, and insider trading establishment politicians.   

Senator Ted Cruz recently, confronted Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell on the floor of the chamber calling him a liar, because he had stated emphatically to the Senate that he made no deal with the Democrats on reviving the Export/Import Bank Bill in exchange for their support of the GOP Transportation Bill.

McConnell's lie became obvious when the only amendment allowed on the Transportation Bill was the Bank Bill, and all other amendments were rejected by the leadership as being  unrelated to transportation. (Hard to argue why the Export/Import Bank has any correlation to America's roads and bridges.) 

McConnell claimed "when there is overwhelming bipartisan support for an idea, even if I oppose it, it doesn't require some 'special deal' to see a vote occur on that measure. This is the United States Senate, after all, where we debate and vote on all kinds of different issues,..." but this poor excuse for self defense fails the sincerity test.

 Why? Because most Republicans oppose the bank and it was McConnell that used the "amendment tree" which is a procedural tactic, he had criticized Harry Reid for using when he was majority leader, and then he filed cloture on the Bill, to end debate.

If it looks like a lying duck, walks like a lying duck, quacks like a lying duck and has left scat all over the Senate floor like a lying duck,  then it must be a lying duck. 

More than ever before Americans are finally seeing the curtains fall down around the corrupt dealers in Washington, exposing their hollow souls and greedy egos, because of new forthright blood sent to Congress by grassroots American activism.

On July 24, when Ted Cruz of Texas stood up and called out the Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over his lies and capitulation to the Democrat Party in favor of renewing the Export/import Bank Bill better known as the crony capital corporate welfare program, the silence in the Senate was notable. 

A few days later on July 26,  Orin Hatch of Utah, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and John Cornyn of Texas stood up on the Senate floor and condemned someone for their lack of civility.

Was that someone the liar or the messenger? Were they upset with the someone that lied in leadership, or the someone that exposed the truth? Did they stand up for the American taxpayer and the Senator representing middle class constituents over corporate lobby interests or did they support the someone that sold out the 2014 voters?

Sadly and cynically these RINO SPOILS herded up to the Senate floor microphones and proclaimed support for the corrupt leadership, by calling for the messenger (Cruz) to be admonished. Perhaps voters in all states should be asking their Senators, if they stand with Cruz or corruption.

Coming into an election year that will have profound significance on the country's future and some might say, our last opportunity, to face a fork in the road, that either moves us further into decline or circles us back to common and familiar ground, we desperately need leadership with integrity.

We need principled representation. We need honorable public service. We need trust in office holders we hired. We need to bite the hands of all those political quislings, that are leading us to the corporate slaughter house. We need to ram our heads against the party pens and stampede Washington's K street congressional cartel until the voice of the people is heard loud, louder and loudest as our Republic intended.

The People's oval office is broken. The People's Senate is broken. The People's House of Representatives is broken. The People's judicial branch is broken. Yet, there is always hope, for WE THE PEOPLE are not broken.

Yes, our trust is damaged, yes, our cynicism grows stronger and yes our anger mounts with each election. But the American spirit, this intangible God given virtue that promotes a fiercely free foundation of righteous justice and individual liberty is not dead, not waning just quietly pondering when to arouse in fury.

 

Political and corporate thieves can pass legislation today, but they will always have to face the American people tomorrow. There will always be more believers of liberty than the controlling statists. There will always be re-ignition, even if we must restart in the ashes, because America is not a form for government it is a formula for freedom, and the recipe resides within each lawful citizen of our exceptional nation.

    

REAL PART OF THE DEAL!

Over and over again we read the political pundits and writers on both sides trying to define and re-define the Tea Party Movement and getting it wrong more often than not. Whether their erroneous characterizations are born from innate political prejudices (Democrats) or because of vainglorious jealousy, (Establishment GOP) the disinformation is flourishing once again amid a critical election.

The Democrats slam this patriotic movement as racist and bigoted, using media in their attempt to steer away independent voters, from identifying with these unwashed agitators. Meanwhile the establishment GOP paints the patriotic movement as a bunch of cynical naive conservative purists, that need to moderate their views. Now both political parties have another punching bag.

His name is Trump. He is not a Tea Party candidate, he is not a Tea Party favorite and he is not an extreme right wing conservative, yet he is gaining popular momentum. Why? 

He is bold, brash, blunt and most importantly unapologetic, standing up against the politically correct, gotcha-gaffe press. Unlike the over coached candidates that are taught to fall on their sword and bend over like a repentant child and take a whipping while begging for forgiveness. "The Donald" and his ego, does not play the submissive party mistress game very well, in fact, not at all.

Trump's plain talk popularity is growing, while the candidates that have disparaged his comments and claim him to be a flash-in-the-pan showman, are seeing their lunch be eaten by his campaign.

He is proud of his reputation as a successful business man, and even if there are those who would argue his prowess in that regard, (given his bankruptcies) he unabashedly defines his accomplishments by the undisputed thickness of his wallet. One might even suggest that his hubris, is twice the size of his real estate holdings. Yet given the current state of America's standing in the world, born from our apologist's in chief, it seems more than appropriate, indeed necessary, to have a president in Washington that brings back our nation's self-confidence. Trump certainly possesses the pomposity required.  

     

The problem with some of the other GOP candidates is that they are career politicians and panicky panderers. Their political advisors direct these politicians to act on the election stage to produce a conservative performance that we voters are expected to applaud and believe is genuine. But that choreographed and scripted dance of pretend is fooling less and less of a more savvy political audience.

Irrespective of what your opinion is of Trump and his bombastic vanity, you know he believes in himself, and that is as real as it gets. There is nothing phony about his bigheaded pride, and he has owned and worn it, out front and center, for many years.

The race is still early and the candidates are still germinating their appeal to the casual public not yet invested in watching the garden grow. Trump is peaking, trending and some might say shooting sprouts that won't bear fruit at harvest time. Perhaps he is just an early spring lettuce that might sour when the discussions turn from immigration and free trade deals to dealing with debt and federal government bloat, or maybe he will surprise everyone and flourish. No one knows what will happen with his campaign and no one should underestimate that he currently is sucking most of political oxygen away from the rest of the field.

There are three elements to the Trump appeal.  One, his larger than life self-assurance. Two, is his immunity to media, GOP rivals and corporation (Macy's) smear tactics. Three, and less talked about is his skill set as a mogul. 

His self-confident temerity would send the necessary and proper signal to leery allies and dangerous foes in the world that our American swagger was back. 

His retaliatory responses to a domestic press interested in defining conservatives by maligning them, is already raising his stock value. Recently when Trump was asked by NBC's reporter Katy Tur whether he uses his gun at a gun range, his response was refreshingly succinct. "That's none of your business. It is really none of your business."

When have conservatives seen or heard any GOP candidates handle the press with such dismissive candor? Reagan knew how to make the press laugh at their foolishness, and Trump just makes them look foolish. 

But his last set of skills, might be his most important set of prerequisites for a job that demands such a wide variety of abilities. No president can be a master of all the disciplines needed to command the oval office given the many responsibilities the position requires. We certainly have seen that a community organizer without any real business experience, be overwhelmed and inept at leading our country. 

Considering the complexities of what is entailed in managing and building multiple high priced projects, Trump comes to the job application with a far superior resume than the current White House occupant. Indeed, any good president needs to excel in the area of delegation. Trump is fond of saying "I know good people, I know the smart people." If we take him on his word, then we trust he will employ effective people which is key to managing a smart and competent executive branch. 

However, some past presidents have delegated too much and allowed personal loyalty to overtake their better judgment on the competency of some of their cabinet office holders and advisors. This is where Trump's "you're fired" reputation fills people with more confidence over his skill sets. We seem relatively assured that if he were POTUS, and if he did not initially pick the right person for a position in his administration, he would correct that error without batting an eye.

So according to the critics of Trump, his joke of a candidacy, his self-promoting wanna-be president style and his comb over, blonde haired embarrassment campaign, should be following the elephant dung trail of Jeb Bush and others and be bringing up the rear in the polls? But, instead he is leading the pack.

Bash and lambast all you want but if Trump is a thorn in the establishment's side, then he is popular. If Trump continues to make reporters look like gossiping schoolgirls, then his popularity will rise further. If Trump continues to be bluntly honest about the state of our government expressing the truth we already think , such as ("we are being led by stupid people") then he will grow his followers.

It is really simple and not complicated at all. The American people are tired of imposters and imposers. The imposters talk, but then never walk for the people, they only have loyalty to their corporate financiers. The imposers claim that they follow the Constitution when in fact they have allegiance not to its words and meaning but instead to the liberal statists lawyer's viewpoint only. Most of the GOP think that the Obergefell v. Hodges court ruling codifies it as law, while most conservatives know that unconstitutional rulings nullifies our obedience to law, especially when it infringes upon our Judeo-Christian morality.

Trump may be an "Apprentice" at the political table but so far his inadequacies or his exaggerated image of self has yet to scare off support from voters. That is no surprise given the political realm that has been rife with false promises, fake pronouncements and faux conservative chest beating by the pledge breaking Republican party. 

Trump may be a caricature candidate scoffed at by elite snobbish politicos but as boorish as he might come across, no one is arguing that he is a disingenuous sniveling poser. Like him or not, he is iconic. Like it or not he is currently trumping and towering over the other candidates. Like it or not, American voters are famished and thirsty for an American president that loves the country, protects its citizenry and keeps it real.