I used to think I was losing my hair because of genetics. Now I believe the hair loss stems from the hours spent scratching my head over the behavior of our political leaders.
Let’s run through a couple examples from this week.
Thom Tillis: Preferring J6 Vengeance to Safer Streets in Washington?
On Monday, Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., announced he would not support Ed Martin’s nomination to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, effectively killing the crime fighter’s bid. Why? Because Martin, the interim U.S. attorney, has shown support for Jan. 6 defendants while Tillis believes anyone who entered the Capitol that day should be locked up.
Yep, even the peaceful folks who were ushered inside by Capitol Police, took a couple selfies, marveled at the beauty of the Rotunda, and left.
Tillis’ “nada” on Martin forced President Donald Trump to pull his nomination Thursday.
Here’s the head-scratcher: Martin’s 120-day interim appointment runs out May 20. If no one else had been nominated then, as The Federalist lays out, radical Trump-hating Judge James Boasberg may well have appointed the next U.S. district attorney. That means another leftist like the J6-obsessed U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves, who let the streets of the Nation’s Capital run red with blood while vigorously pursuing anyone within shouting distance of the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Was Tillis happy to let average citizens in D.C. face all manner of criminal horrors because Martin defended the grannies and patriots caught up in politically motivated persecutions?
Because his place of business suffered J6, Washington businesses will have to suffer? Because he was put out on J6, the people would have had to put up with increased crime?
Does that make the slightest sense?
Meanwhile, there was some vexing in MAGA world when Trump seemed nonchalant about Martin’s fate. That itself was a head-scratcher. But now we know why. He’s turned around and named Martin the director of Justice Department’s “Weaponization Working Group,” plus associate deputy attorney general and pardon attorney.
Slick move. Trump’s saying, “Don’t like Martin fighting the DOJ’s weaponization against Trump supporters? We’ll put him in charge of fighting DOJ’s weaponization!”
Democrat Protests Powers Being Taken From Trump?
From the moment Trump reassumed office, Democrats and their judicial allies have been working night and day to steal power away from the presidency. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., has been one of the loudest voices, offering full-throated rants against Trump’s efforts to combat the judges usurping the president’s Article II powers.
So imagine my surprise to hear the same Durbin complain about an element of House “big beautiful bill” that would take authority away Trump.
The bill would require Congressional approval for any proposed regulation that would cost taxpayers over $100 million. The idea is to curtail the deep state’s ability to do an end-run around Congress and create regulations that subvert the will of the people.
“Nay, nay,” says Durbin!
“It would be a war on regulations,” Durbin told Politico. “To take that authority away from the executive branch would be a serious mistake.” In other words, take authority away from Trump. Suddenly that’s a bad thing.
So it’s perfectly fine for some little district judge to order military planes to turn around, the military to take soldiers it doesn’t want, and the president to free a wife-beating El Salvadoran gangbanger, but Congress having more say over the regulatory monolith at Trump’s expense is bad?
Of course, Durbin’s real motivation is to keep power in the hands of faceless deep state bureaucrats, rather than those elected by the people. But still his defense of Trump’s executive branch made for a head-scratching moment.
Crockett and Sanders: Fly-by-Night Hypocrisy
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, has nearly perfected her shtick as a foulmouthed sister from the streets fighting “thug” Trump’s “abuse of power.” (Never mind her posh education and upbringing.) Perhaps she should do a commercial. “I’m not a woman of the people. I just play one on TV,” because last weekend Crockett demonstrated her bona fides as a privileged elite happy to abuse her power.
Crockett was caught cutting in line in front of wheelchair-bound passengers while catching a flight to Atlanta.
At least Crockett flew commercial.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has been flying around the country with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for a series of “Fighting Oligarchy” rallies. To the cheer of tens of thousands, Sanders rails against the rich and elites, and bellows about climate change.
Then they board a sleek, carbon-coughing private jet to their next gig like they’re Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift.
When challenged by Fox News over flying private, Sanders was non-apologetic.
“You run a campaign, and you do three or four or five rallies in a week,” he said. You think I’m gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United … while 30, 000 people are waiting? That’s the only way you can get around, no apologies for that.”
Translation: “I’m too important to follow my own rhetoric.”
Well, That Should Make for Interesting Pillow Talk
Did you see Rep. Ilhan Omar’s, D-Minn., 2018 rant against white men? It’s popped up again and gone viral.
“Our country should be more fearful of White men because they are causing most of the deaths within this country”—Omar.
Also Omar: “I do” to the question “Do you take this white man to be your lawfully wedded husband?”
Yes, a year after this comment, Omar married a white man, Tim Wynett. Would the not-so-gentlelady from Minnesota like to revise and extend her remarks?
Then again, perhaps Wynett identifies as a Somalian.
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