It’s Friday, January 7th, 2022…but before we begin, ICYMI, FOX reports both the WuFlu and the hypocrisy of The Left regarding it continue unabated, as…
“…The large crowd at the drag bar, most of whom were also without a mask, applauded the congresswoman as she waved to them. “For those of you with zero sense of humor: the whole point of this post is to expose hypocrisy. We don’t actually care she’s maskless. We care she fear mongers about Florida but then has the audacity to vacation here,” wrote Brendon Leslie, the reporter who first tweeted the video…”
“If Republicans are mad they can’t date me they can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend’s feet,” fumed Ms. Ocasio-Cortez in a Friday tweet. “Ya creepy weirdos.”
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, a little dose of reality as the Morning Jolt reminds us…
“…I also think that declaring every day to be January 6, as the New York Times‘ editorial board did, is stirring fear, suspicion, and paranoia in a country that already has more than enough of all three. The Times’ editorial board contends that “The Capitol riot continues in statehouses across the country, in a bloodless, legalized form that no police officer can arrest and that no prosecutor can try in court.” There is no such thing as a bloodless, legalized riot.
You can hate the laws that these elected officials are trying to pass, but those lawmakers are attempting to pass them under the legal constitutional order, and they’ll be subject to judicial review to ensure they don’t violate the Constitution, just like every other law. That’s not a riot. Calling it a riot is a metaphor thatobscures more than it illuminates. If we want there to be a universal condemnation of political violence, we cannot argue that attempting to pass laws we oppose is just as bad as violence.
Declaring every day to be January 6 is a bit like the familiar refrain that some particular problem, spurred by the actions of a few people, is “everyone’s fault.” It’s a cop-out, a blurring of the lines, an attempt to spread the emotional horror stirred by specific actions, sights, and outrages in a place and time and spread it across a much broader area…”
Lest Liberals forget, were every day January 6, every 24 hours would cost the life of an unarmed innocent, however misguided they might be.
“…Committee members have so far met with some 300 witnesses, received thousands of documents, and subpoenaed some 50 individuals, as well as phone and bank records. The committee’s leaks, and releases of White House text messages, have provided color, while its litigation and contempt citations have kept the press in gravy.
Yet the body’s near-manic focus on Donald Trump’s culpability (the facts of which have been known for a year) has also meant it has produced little that’s new. On “Face the Nation” this week, the committee’s Vice Chairman Elizabeth Cheney waxed about the committee’s “tremendous progress,” yet cited as her only example that it now had “firsthand testimony” that “President Trump was sitting in the dining room next to the Oval Office, watching on television as the Capitol was assaulted.” “Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump’s failure to act after a mob stormed the Capitol,” was a headline from a Jan. 11, 2021, story in the Washington Post, which reported the president “was too busy watching fiery TV images of the crisis unfolding” to listen to pleas from family and colleagues to intervene. Thanks to the committee we now know whereMr. Trump lounged, and how many people he ignored.
More notable is what the committee has failed to find. Members made no secret they hoped to prove a coup plot run from the White House. Yet in all its 725 prosecutions, the Justice Department hasn’t presented a scintilla of evidence supporting the hypothesis. Neither has the committee—even after 300 witnesses, or texts of the former White House chief of staff.
Twisting in the wind are the urgent issues the committee won’t explore. In a memo this week to colleagues, Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis—the ranking Republican on the House Administration Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Capitol complex—noted that the select committee, a year after the riot, is “no closer to finding out what led to the catastrophic security failure,” even as the security situation has arguably deteriorated because of Capitol Police resignations and poor morale.
What makes this failure uglier is that it looks to be political. Former Capitol Police chief Steven Sund has attested that before Jan. 6 he approached House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving about obtaining the assistance of National Guard troops on the day the electoral votes were to be counted, but Mr. Irving said he was concerned about “optics.” Mr. Sund says that during the violence he again urgently asked for troops, but help was delayed because Mr. Irving said he “needed to run it up the chain of command.” Mr. Irving disputes this version of events. One obvious way to settle it is to examine documents, and the Capitol Police have produced theirs to Republicans.
But Mr. Davis reports the House sergeant-at-arms and chief administrative officer—both of whom report to Mrs. Pelosi—have steadfastly refused to produce anything to him. Likewise, the House general counsel has stonewalled requests. The speaker’s office wields obvious control over Capitol security decisions—as evidenced by Mrs. Pelosi’s decrees on fencing or magnetometers or National Guard troops—and any legitimate investigation would start by looking at her office’s briefings and involvement in Jan. 6 security—as the top of that “chain of command.” Yet when Chairman Bennie Thompson was asked in July if the committee would investigate this, he said, “I don’t see the speaker being part and parcel” of the committee’s remit. And the committee’s given no indication it is going there.
The committee risks going down in history not as the body that brought truth to Jan. 6, but the one that—in its political zeal—closed its eyes to vital issues and left the Capitol just as vulnerable…”
“…as a former Speaker, I know well that it is the Speaker’s responsibility to oversee the protection and defense of the Capitol. It is clear that Speaker Pelosi failed to do so…”
“Recently, Democrats have been despondent over Joe Biden’s sinking polls. His policies on the economy, energy, foreign policy, the border, and COVID-19 all have lost majority support.
As a result, the Left now variously alleges that either in 2022, when they expect to lose the Congress, or in 2024, when they fear losing the presidency, Republicans will “destroy democracy” or stage a coup.
A cynic might suggest that they praise democracywhen they get elected—only to claim it is broken when they lose. Or they hope to avoid their defeat by trying to terrify the electorate. Or they mask their own revolutionary propensities by projecting them onto their opponents.
…We are in a dangerous revolutionary cycle. But the threat is not so much from loud, buffoonish one-day rioters on January 6. Such clownish characters did not for 120 days loot, burn, attack courthouses and police precincts, cause over 30 deaths, injure 2,000 policemen, and destroy at least $2 billion in property—all under the banner of revolutionary justice. Even more ominously, stone-cold sober elites are systematically waging an insidious revolution in the shadows that seeks to dismantle America’s institutions and the rule of law as we have known them.“
Here’s the juice: They’ve already made themselves the animals more equal than others; NOW their purpose is to codify their positions so as to preserve them in perpetuity.
Next, we offer a quintet of specially selected items certain to stimulate inquiring Conservative minds:
(2). FOX reports the CDC has sparked outrage with its confusing updated COVID isolation guidance, with critics “jokingly” suggesting…
…is now in charge of the once-esteemed, now-mistrusted organization. Oh, what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive…the public in the cause of partisan politics.
(4). Best of the Web‘s Jim Freeman questions whether Windy City students are suffering WITH or FROM Chicago’s teachers unions? We’re going with the latter.
(5). Regardless, as the Morning Jolt accurately assesses, in a Winter of Irresponsibility, the teachers unions are essentially telling those its member are employed to instruct, “Drop dead!”
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from Ed Hickey…
…and the lovely Shannon:
Finally, we’ll call it a week courtesy of K-Bo, and the New York Post‘s account of what we assume to be a rather unusual occurrence in Argentina, as a…
That being said, if such occurrences aren’t unusual in Argentina, we may have just settled on our retirement destination.
Magoo
Video of the Day
Courtesy of Scott Morefield, Tucker demolishes Biden’s “pandemic of the unvaccinated” canard.
Tales of The Darkside
ABC revisionist “historian” Mark Updegrove compares 46*’s incredibly inaccurate Capital riot remembrance to…hang onto your hat and hold down your lunch…Lincoln’s Gettysburg address.
On the Lighter Side
We remember the one and only Betty White. TLJ and we had the pleasure of making Betty’s acquaintance upon the occasion of Wink Martindale’s induction into the Game Show Hall of Fame, and she was every bit as sweet and charming in person as her television persona.
Loading ...
You must be logged in to post a comment.