It’s Monday, April 15th, Tax Day 2019…but before we begin, Dimocratic lawmakers in New York have just shown Empire State veterans and their families what they really think of them:
“Democrats set aside $27 million in tuition assistance for the children of undocumented immigrants in the new state budget — but wouldn’t add hundreds of thousands of dollars to expand a similar program for kids of deceased and disabled veterans.
…Such a program already exists and serves 145 students at a cost of $2.7 million — but only for relatives and dependents of vets who served in combat zones.
…Assemblywoman Deborah Glick (D-Manhattan), who chairs the committee, said budget constraints weighed against the program expansion, which she estimated would have cost several hundred thousand dollars…”
Never have Progressives highlighted who they actually represent more emphatically!
The green insertion in the headline is ours: sorry, but like the fabricated term “Palestinian”, we refuse to recognize Progressives’ attempt to conflate criminals flooding our southern border with law-abiding “immigrants” waiting their turn in line.
Then there’s yet another instant classic from the brilliant Stilton Jarlsberg, a man who regularly guides us on…
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, writing at the WSJ, Kimberly Strassel details why…
“The most inadvertently honest reaction to Attorney General William Barr’s congressional testimony this week came from former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Mr. Barr had bluntly called out the Federal Bureau of Investigation for “spying” on the Trump campaign in 2016. Mr. Clapper said that was both “stunning and scary.”Indeed.
No doubt a lot of former Obama administration and Hillary Clinton campaign officials, opposition guns for hire, and media members are stunned and scared that the Justice Department finally has a leader willing to address the FBI’s behavior in 2016.They worked very hard to make sure such an accounting never happened.Only in that context can we understand the frantic new Democratic-media campaign to tar the attorney general. Mr. Barr told the Senate Wednesday that one question he wants answered is why nobody at the FBI briefed the Trump campaign about concerns that low-level aides might have had inappropriate contacts with Russians. That’s “normally” what happens, Mr. Barr said, and the Trump campaign had two obvious people to brief—Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie, both former federal prosecutors.
It wasn’t only the Trump campaign that the FBI kept in the dark. The bureau routinely briefs Congress on sensitive counterintelligence operations. Yet former Director James Comey admits he deliberately hid his work from both the House and the Senate.And the FBI kept information from yet another overseer, the judicial branch, failing to tell the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee had paid for the dossier it presented as a basis for a surveillance warrant against Carter Page, a U.S. citizen.
Why the secrecy? Mr. Comey testified that the Trump probe was simply too sensitive for members of congressional intelligence committees to know about—an unbelievable statement given the heavy publicity he gave the investigation of Mrs. Clinton’s improper handling of classified information. Here’s a more plausible explanation: Mr. Comey and his crew have also testified that they were all convinced Mrs. Clinton would win the election. That would have meant that no politician other than the incoming Democratic president would have known the FBI had spied on the Trump team. Nor would the public. A Clinton presidency would have ensured no accountability.
Mr. Trump’s victory destroyed that scenario, and it became clear that the new Republican president would soon know that the former Democratic administration had surveilled his campaign on the basis of information from his rival. At that point two things happened.Neither was accidental, and both were aimed, again, at forestalling accountability.
…Mr. Barr didn’t merelyrefuse to recuse; he’s made clear he plans to plumb the FBI’s actions thoroughly. That makes him Threat No. 1 to everyone who participated in these abuses, and it’s why the liberal media establishment is now disparaging his integrity. They are stunned and scared—that accountability has returned to the Justice Department.“
There’s none more worried about what Barr brings than Jim Comey, who rivals Hillary Clinton not only in the breadth of his dishonesty, but his singular lack of talent for peddling his prevarications to the public:
Let’s be clear on the definition of what even Geraldo sees as clearly as the ears on Obama’s head:
In other words, Comey…like Brennan, Clapper, Rodenstein, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Lerner, Koskinen, Holder, Lynch, Schiff, Nadler, Pelosi, Schumer, both Clintons, most of the MSM and The Great Prevaricator himself…lies like a rug!!!
As importantly, to borrow a phrase from the Father of the U.S. Navy, they’ve not yet begun to lie!
Which reminds us, particularly when contrasted with Bill Barr’s performance to date, as we’ve noted repeatedly in the past, in the role of Attorney General, Jeff Sessions was as useless as…
When one considers his ineptitude also cost Republicans what should have been a safe Senate seat, Sessions wasn’t just useless, he was downright harmful to the nation’s political health.
Speaking of Progressive ploys harmful to the nation’s political health:
For more on the subject of those who would take down the entire country to save their own miserable, lying hides, we turn to Townhall.com and John Kass, who records how…
“Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx played the race card in an effort to salvage what remains of her career after she inexplicably protected TV personality Jussie Smollett for, wait for it…playing the race card.
Because it was Smollett who — according to the mayor and the police superintendent and just about everyone else with a brain — played to the worst impulses of racial identity politics in making up a fantastical story in which he was the hero.
…At least Smollett got to keep his tuna fish sandwich after his fake fight, and the fake noose.
What does Foxx keep after playing the race card? Her fake integrity?
…“I have been asking myself for the last two weeks what is this really about,” she said. “As someone who has lived in this city, who came up in the projects of this city to serve as the first African-American woman in this role, it is disheartening to me…that when we get in these positions somehow the goal posts change.”
The goal posts change?…”
Foxx’s pitiful ploy brings to mind a classic scene from Blazing Saddles, with Foxx in the role of Sheriff Bart, and the people of Chicago as the good citizens of Rock Ridge:
Like every other urban enclave in America, Chicago gets the government it deserves.
Next up, also courtesy of the WSJ, Dan Henninger opines on anotherRINO-aided victory for judicial activism over the Constitution and the rule of law:
“Did the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court contribute to the deluge of migrants at the nation’s southern border? In December, John Roberts voted with the four liberal justices to sustain yet another national injunction that a district court judge imposed against the Trump administration’s revision of the asylum laws.
In retrospect, the chief justice’s decision to vote against the court’s four conservatives was a major event in the border drama. The legal blockade against immigration policy likely led to an enraged president firing Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. In turn, this policy collapse is going to poison the U.S. immigration debate for years.
The justices got one chance to issue a yellow flag on the border mayhem.Instead, they let it rip…”
Need we remind you who, immediately on the heels of his near-disastrous nomination of Harriet Miers, appointed John Roberts to the Supreme Court?
Here’s the juice: along with the rest of his family, George W. Bush has proved the…
Provided, of course, you’re a Progressive!
Which brings us to The Lighter Side:
Finally, we’ll call it a day with this keeper from Ket Troxell…
…along with two more from a friend who’ll remain monogamous…er,…anonymous; well, actually, both:
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