Ever since the young Team Obama and the fully corrupt leaders of each chamber on the Legislative side performed a months long contortionist routine around good faith governance in order to ram Obamacare down the throats of We the People it seems it has become quite fashionable among our beltway class to see how much bad faith they can openly rub our noses in without getting even a peep out of that reliably incurious and willfully compliant whore that is the major media. (For now I will ignore the assists they received from Senator “When history calls, history calls” Snowe (Intellectual Midget-ME) and the *spit* non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.) On many occasions since then I have returned to a favorite document and passage from an earlier time when a bullied people were finally beginning to bow up like a cheap two-by-four:
Hence also, the origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be liable to such limitations, as are necessary for the security of the absolute rights of the latter; for what original title can any man or set of men have, to govern others, except their own consent? To usurp dominion over a people, in their own despite, or to grasp at a more extensive power than they are willing to entrust, is to violate that law of nature, which gives every man a right to his personal liberty; and can, therefore, confer no obligation of obedience. – Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted (1775)
Allow me to put the unique spin on that to fit today’s rant: It is the responsibility of our elected officials and those hired by our elected officials to execute the duties of government not only within the law but in ways so as to not even give the appearance of anything other than perfectly good faith efforts towards that end. If they fail at that in any way, We the People are free to exercise the universal option to tell them to pound sand.
For the record, clearly we are not obligated to tell them to pound sand…but it is our responsibility to Never Give An Inch. Both sides of this bargain are failing miserably…let me count the ways.
But before I dive into the first item of interest in the week that was, allow me once more to set the stage. It is important to remember that Corrupt Speaker Pelosi (FNP) went forward with an unauthorized impeachment inquiry that resulted in the first Trump impeachment. (All funds associated with that farce were stolen from the people’s purse and were effectively an in-kind campaign contribution to the DNC. Where is the outrage?) The lack of even a peep from that reliably incurious and willfully compliant whore that is the major media on that matter only encouraged FNP to repeat her oft-abuse powers. Given yet another opportunity, she choreographed another DNC campaign financed by We the People through an illegitimate House select committee set-up to selectively edit the narrative to maximize the exploitation of J6 for the Progressive agenda. Did anyone really think that “good faith” would at any point enter into her strategery. Don’t worry, it didn’t:
January 6th committee didn’t turn over its records to the House
“OBSTRUCTION of JUSTICE: The Democrat-controlled January 6th Committee destroyed evidence that might have exonerated the protesters and the president as well as evidence that implicated Speaker Pelosi and the FBI/DOJ in criminal activity.”
The self-righteous and arrogant January 6th Committee collected documents, depositions, and videotapes over a 2-year period while conducting what amounted to a Star Chamber kangaroo court. …
Fox News reports that the House Committee that was supposed to inherit the files from the January 6th Committee was handed a jumbled mess of unorganized files and computer records, and as they have been sorting through them they discovered that about 1/2 the records are missing.
This is illegal for a number of reasons, both due to laws demanding the preservation of records, and by the rules by which the committee was established. Many January 6th defendants have been requesting some of these records for their defense, claiming that they contain exculpatory evidence, and the House simply cannot provide them due to their absence.
That is obstruction of justice and violates the rights of defendants. …
Last I checked, Congressional investigations into supposedly vital matters aren’t less organized than the research for a 7th grader’s term paper. …
We are so far beyond going through the looking glass that I no longer expect anybody to make a peep about things like this. The MSM will take any leak from a partisan Democrat and blow it up into a world-class scandal, no matter how ridiculous.
But Democrats can make a bonfire to destroy crucial documents in order to obstruct justice and hide information from the American people and the MSM will cheer them on.
Of course, it is wise to remember that there were and are enablers of all of this within our perimeter. Those faces of disgrace are worth remembering too:
Not to be outdone, our Executive branch (as if cross-branch collusion among Progressive pols and operatives hadn’t already bastardized this system into irrelevancy) – already on record for less-than-good-faith governance with respect to granted authorities regarding mortgage moratoriums, student loan debt, and vaccination mandates – wasn’t going to be outdone this week by the the ghost of FNP and her irrelevant troll (Liz). To wit:
Attorney General Merrick Garland announcement the appointment of United States Attorney David Weiss as special counsel in the investigation of Hunter Biden yesterday. …
Why Weiss? That is a difficult question to answer honestly in public. Indeed, Garland took no questions — ignoring a reporter who asked why Weiss had been elevated to special counsel if he had “ultimate authority” to prosecute, as Garland claimed in sworn congressional testimony earlier this year. …
Weiss is special. On that we can agree:
• Weiss is the “prosecutor” whose plea deal with Hunter Biden failed to pass muster with Judge Maryellen Noreika, the federal judge presiding over the case. …
• Weiss is the “prosecutor” whom IRS whistleblowers have just called out for abetting the suppression of of the investigation and lying about his authority to Congress, among other things.
• Weiss is the “prosecutor” who has spent five years on the investigation and never gotten around to seeking an indictment of Hunter Biden as the clock has ticked to bar the most serious tax felonies Biden’s has committed.
• Weiss is a United States Attorney and therefore ineligible for special counsel appointment under the applicable regulations.
• Given his disqualifications, one might reasonably infer that Weiss’s appointment is a pretext to assure that the cover-up continues — that minimal harm befalls Hunter Biden and that no roads lead to Joe Biden.
• It’s good to know we have a law-abiding administration to restore regular order.
Those first five bullets scream bad faith on the job regarding Weiss and/or his boss. The final one only hints at the mockery that the entire FJB administration deserves to be poked with at every opportunity.
Garland’s appointment of Weiss is one of the slimier things that’s occurred during his tenure, and that’s saying a lot. Weiss has intentionally ignored evidence, cut investigators out of briefings, and then took them off the case. And we don’t know for sure yet, but it sure seems like Weiss was calling the shots to not bring criminal charges against Hunter Biden (at least until the IRS whistleblowers forced his hand) and to keep investigators away from Joe Biden, while claiming that it was “Main DOJ” telling him what he had to do. It seems like we’re all involved in a real-life “Who’s on First” scam being perpetrated by Merrick Garland and David Weiss, designed to keep responsibility shifting and accountability from occurring until the clock has completely run down.
Garland’s Past Claims Come Back to Bite Him After Appointment of Special Counsel
In what was obviously meant to be a Friday news dump, AG Merrick Garland appointed David Weiss as special counsel over the Hunter Biden probe. …
It tells you that Garland was not telling the truth, or at the very least, he was misleading people in an equally dishonest way.
The fact that impeachment proceeding for this Garland schmuck aren’t already into the advanced stages should make the informed citizen suspicious about the good faith of Republican office holders regarding their oath of office. The fact that this appointment was eviscerated nine ways to Sunday before CNN even completed the first semi-straight-faced on-air reading of the Friday Afternoon News Dump script tells all how little the players even care to hide their bad faith activity anymore. The fact that this will be another in a long list of “non-stories that destroyed the Republic” by 8 AM on Monday is what drives me to drinking on nights like this. So very sad.
As I said above, it is the responsibility of our elected officials and those hired by our elected officials to execute the duties of government not only within the law but in ways so as to not even give the appearance of anything other than perfectly good faith efforts towards that end and it is our responsibility to Never Give An Inch. Both sides of this bargain are failing miserably. Weeks like this reinforce the “Never Give An Inch” fire in my belly…I sure wish that fire was much more contagious than is seems to be these days.
As always, 2024 looms large. Deeper into the abyss we march…
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