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The Swamp’s Swingline Stapler
We are to believe that crying EPA employees, out-of-the-loop ambassadors, holier-than-thou law enforcement chiefs, and jobless assistant deputy undersecretaries for blah-blah affairs are the victims of a rogue president who must be removed from office for hurting their feelings and challenging their authority. Julie Kelly. November 18th, 2019 AMERICAN GREATNESS In December 2008, Barack Obama summarily fired every ambassador appointed by George W Bush. The media did not care for four reasons. First, it was Barack Obama. Second, they recognized that the president controls the executive branch. Third, it was a parting shiv to Bush. Finally, it was Barack Obama. Whether any of the ousted diplomats cried is unknown. But now in the Trump era, as Obama-era somnambulists awake every day to a new outrage that heretofore had been considered standard operating procedure inside the Beltway, a dismissed ambassador is given hours to vent her thoughts and feelz in front of one of Capitol Hill’s most powerful committees. If you weren’t moved by the sad tale of former Ukrainian Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch—an Obama appointee—getting the ax by Donald Trump, according to Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, you don’t have a pulse. Perhaps Wallace has a point. After becoming accustomed to heads of state referring to you as “Madame Ambassador” and “Your Excellency,” being addressed as “Ms. Y” by a dozen or so Georgetown University whippersnappers would bruise anyone’s ego. (Yovanovitch admitted that she still retains a position at the State Department at the same salary with no daily responsibilities but also is allowed to moonlight as a Georgetown fellow. Sweet gig.) Further, being forced to move out of a mansion in Kyiv tended to by a doting staff that helps you host important receptions for important people would sting, too. In one telling moment, Yovanovitch explained that the night she learned of her pending dismissal, she was hosting a party for a Ukrainian anti-corruption activist. “I was at my house,” she told one Democratic lawmaker. But it wasn’t Yovanovitch’s house. The place she called “my house” is the ambassador’s residence in Kyiv, owned by the federal government and paid for by U.S. taxpayers. By all accounts, it is a lovely compound with a courtyard garden, two dining rooms, Ukrainian artifacts, and original artwork. Still, it never belonged to Yovanovitch. She simply was a temporary occupant serving at the pleasure of the president until he no longer was pleased. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s (D-Calif.) impeachment tribunal is backfiring in all sorts of ways, not the least of which is producing a drumbeat of bad news about the former vice president’s son, Hunter Biden, and his shady business deals in one of the most notoriously corrupt nations on the planet. But the testimony from lifetime federal bureaucrats once again showcases the hubris of the unelected ruling class who inhabits massive buildings on every city block in Washington, D.C.—or as Trump calls them, the swamp. read more
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Tom Del Beccaro: Adam Schiff’s impeachment inquiry is most one-sided in history – A political attack on GOP
By Tom Del Beccaro | Fox News House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is basking in the spotlight. He has gone from a small town upbringing to become the inquisitor in chief for the Democrats’ effort to impeach President Trump. While his home state of California can’t keep the lights on and while fires burn, Schiff could be found in front of every available camera since Trump took office, claiming to have evidence that the president had colluded with Russia in order to get elected. Despite Schiff’s constant promises to that effect, not even Special Counsel Robert Mueller could bail Schiff out of his false statements. Russian conspiracies have now turned to Ukrainian stories – and once again Schiff is at the center of it all. After the abject media failures of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and the unfortunate death of Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., Schiff finds himself right where he wants to be – in the spotlight on impeachment. The glare of the lights, however, has not convinced Schiff that he should run his impeachment inquiry in a just way with due process. Never in our history has there been such a one-sided inquiry in which only the chairman – and Schiff alone – decides what witnesses shall appear before his committee. In the past, both parties had subpoena rights. Now, however, Republicans have been effectively denied the ability to counter the made-for-television story Schiff wants the country to believe about this president. Moreover, Schiff and his partisan counsel felt free to ask their early witnesses questions about the activities of the former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter – apparently believing the Bidens would be exonerated. Those witnesses indicated concerns about the actions of Hunter Biden and exposed the fact that there was an ongoing investigation into the Ukrainian natural gas company that was paying Hunter Biden to serve on its board at the time Joe Biden got the prosecutor in charge of the investigation fired. But Schiff is refusing to allow Republicans to call witnesses to delve deeper into that story. This is politics folks – not justice. read more |
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