At the same time, they’ve made it an obsessive objective to discredit and demean Republicans in general, while personally deriding the new president in particular although having had no success in the effort at all to date.
What’s quite interesting about the left’s persistent efforts to belittle their opponents is that they not only failed, but on several occasions those same efforts have made their rivals look far better than before. Such as proving that not only did Trump pay taxes in the year Democrats exposed, 2005, but also paid a higher rate than did key Democrat politicians, including then president Obama and socialist icon Bernie Sanders.
And now, today, another barrel of the gun aimed at Republicans has shot two more Democrats.
Kristina Wong reported @breitbart.com: “Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch on Friday called for a preliminary investigation into two top Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee for potentially disclosing classified information to the public in violation of House ethics rules.”
While left-wing groups have targeted the committee's Republican chairman, Devin Nunes (R-CA): “Judicial Watch has requested the Office of Congressional Ethics to look into whether Vice Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) broke House ethics rules for disclosing classified information to the public.”
Last month, progressive groups MoveOn.org and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) requested an investigation into Nunes. And now, Judicial Watch noted this double-standard in its request:
“If the standard for filing a complaint or opening an ethics investigation is that a member has commented publicly on matters that touch on classified information, but the member does not reveal the source of his or her information, then the complaints against Chairman Nunes are incomplete insofar as they target only Nunes.
“At least two other members of the House Intelligence Committee have made comments about classified material that raise more directly the very same concerns raised against Chairman Nunes because they appear to confirm classified information contained in leaked intelligence community intercepts.”“The left-wing groups filed their complaint against Nunes after he told reporters on March 22 that he had seen evidence that the intelligence community had incidentally collected information about Trump transition team members, and that the information was widely disseminated and their names unmasked.
“Judicial Watch noted that Schiff had spoken to an audience at the Brookings Institution the day before, on March 21, appearing to confirm a leaked December 29 conversation between incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.”
At the time, Schiff had said. “And then you have leaks that expose malfeasance or illegality. Now, I put that kind of leak, I put the Flynn leak in that category.”
“Judicial Watch also cites an April 3 Daily Caller story in which Speier, a committee member, appeared to confirm the contents of that call.
“Ambassador Kislyak and General Flynn were freelancing sanctions relief at the end of December, when he had no portfolio in which to make any kind of negotiations with Ambassador Kislyak,” the Daily Caller reported she said.
“Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in a statement, “At least two leading Democrats, Reps. Schiff and Speier, on the House Intelligence Committee, seem to have improperly disclosed classified information.”
“While the Ethics Committee examines Rep. Nunes’s innocuous statements on Obama’s surveillance on the Trump team, it ought to expand its investigation to include the other members of the Intelligence Committee who seem to have flagrantly violated the rules.”
And then, in a similar situation where self-proclaimed pristine
Democrats eagerly pursue every iota of potentially harmful detail attributable to Republicans, another leftist candidate was exposed for ignoring election rules today.
Democrat, Jon Ossoff, doesn't live in the Georgia congressional district in which he's running for a House seat.
According to Max Greenwood @thehill.com: “Jon Ossoff currently lives just outside Georgia's 6th Congressional District with his girlfriend, while she is attending medical school. He said that he has been transparent about the fact that he doesn't live in the district and pledged to move back to the district as soon as his girlfriend finishes school.
"I'm a mile and a half down the street to support Alicia while she finishes medical school. It's something I've been very transparent about," he said. "In fact, I'm proud to be supporting her career."
"As soon as she finishes her medical training, I'll be 10 minutes back up the road into the district where I grew up," he continued.
As most often happens, readers deftly summarized the duplicity involved.
PainesGHOST wrote: “Oh, so the LAWS don't apply because he's ALMOST living inside the district? And he's GOING to be living inside the district?
“Hypocrites! You KNOW that if this was a Republican you would all be howling about the RULES!”
And then, PhonecardMike expanded the premise by adding: “I really enjoyed living in South and North Carolina during my military career. Democrats don't care if you live in the district - Hillary and RFK in New York and Obama for President.
“The only reason this guy is even close is that there are so many Republicans running.”
Summarizing the mounting Democrat gaffes cited today and during the past 6 months in particular, brought recollections of Steve Coats premise in his book: “Ready, Fire, Aim.”
“Advocates of ready, fire, aim cite how it promotes a bias for action. They make the case that many organizations get too bogged down by over-analyzing every little detail. They continue to say that since people can never have all of the information needed to make totally risk-free decisions, they need to act quickly, learn from those actions, and then be ready to implement course corrections as problems arise. These advocates would rather “do something, even if it is wrong,” than get trapped in analysis paralysis, that tendency to study something to death.
“Others will say ready, fire, aim is the reason organizations get into trouble. Rather than taking the appropriate time to think something through, their people take immediate actions that are too often based on wrong assumptions or previous experiences that may not apply to the circumstances at hand. Opponents of ready, fire, aim will also contend that sometimes the decision not to act in the moment is the best thing to do.”
Dissecting Mr. Coats explanation of how his theory is supposed to function suggests that Democrats currently apply only particular aspects of his approach. While it’s apparent they always “do something, even if it is wrong,” they've never grasped the concept of “ learn[ing] from those actions, [to be] ready to implement course corrections as problems arise “ Instead they just repeat the same mistakes over and over, ad infinitum.
And another certainty is that they’re completely unfamiliar with the critically important advice at the end of Mr. Coats second paragraph: “sometimes the decision not to act in the moment is the best thing to do.”
That’s it for today folks.
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