Democrats Eating Their Own Cartoons

Hannity: Dems abusing their power, guilty of 'presidential harassment'

Fox News' host Sean Hannity said Wednesday he has had enough of House Democrats abusing their power calling their investigations into President Trump and Russia "presidential harassment."
"There is no more ambiguity. There's no questions to ask anymore. House Democrats. They're now conducting what is the fifth and sixth investigation into collusion, so-called collusion, that didn't happen," Hannity said on his television show Wednesday.
"The only collusion that happened was Hillary Clinton's dirty dossier. That's how Democrats are spending your tax dollars. This is nothing more at this point than presidential harassment and an abuse of power by them."
Hannity blasted Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and accused them of bankrupting "innocent Americans."
"People like Nadler and the cowardly Schiff leading these brand new probes wasting the country's time and they're now having innocent American citizens that have to once again lawyer up they're going bankrupt in some cases as they're called to answer the same questions for a fourth fifth and sixth time," Hannity said.
"And by the way every time they answer they better answer it perfectly the way they did the last time or else they'll determine that that's perjury. They'll get charged with that and they'll need more lawyers."
The radio host advised those testifying before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees to plead the fifth in order to avoid legal costs and stand up to Democrats.
"My advice to all of those people that willingly testified to Congress that cooperated with the Mueller probe. You know you can plead the Fifth and you know what. It won't cost you a dime. You don't have to hire any more lawyers and you can stand up to this abuse of power," Hannity said.
Hannity also called Nadler and Schiff "content creators" for cable news channel MSNBC.
"Nadler and Schiff they're no longer lawmakers this isn't oversight. This is now them merely can content creators for [MSNBC] and 'Roswell' Rachel Maddow's nonstop anti-Trump conspiracy hours," Hannity said.

Ingraham: California a 'Democrat-induced disaster'

Fox News' Laura Ingraham spoke directly to California Governor Gavin Newsom Wednesday criticizing his response to the homeless crisis after his state gave illegal immigrants Medicaid benefits.
"Gavin, you have runaway homelessness in your state, it's a total crisis right now. Most notably in San Francisco and L.A. It's creating filthy and infectious conditions for Californians and especially those low income citizens who don't send their kids to fancy private schools," Ingraham said Wednesday on "The Ingraham Angle."
Newsom signed a bill into law Tuesday making young illegal immigrants eligible for the Medicaid program in California, making it the first state to offer such taxpayer-funded health benefits to low-income adults age 25 and younger regardless of their immigration status.
The Fox News host criticized California Democrats and warned that the rest of the country could become like California if Democrats have their way.
"My friends, it's all a Democrat-induced disaster. Instead of focusing on things like, I don't know, mental health, infectious disease problems that are plaguing this state, the politicians of California are spending $98 million more to extend health care to illegals. That's on top of the billions they already spend on them," Ingraham said.
"The whole country will soon become the next California if the Democrats get their way."
Ingraham pointed out that Democrats should prioritize Americans over other nationalities who "violate our laws."
"These California Democrats and those seeking national office need to recognize that they were elected to represent the American people in this country, not the people from elsewhere who violate our laws to enter our country," Ingraham said.
Fox News' Frank Miles contributed to this report.

McGrath now says she would've opposed Kavanaugh after left-wing backlash

Cream of the crop Democrat :-)

Amy McGrath said late Wednesday that she would not have voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court after all -- just hours after she told a Kentucky newspaper that she "probably" would have supported Kavanaugh's contentious nomination because there was nothing to "disqualify" him.
McGrath's initial support for Kavanaugh, and her ensuing flip-flop, sparked a fierce backlash from progressive activists supporting her bid to unseat Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Because McGrath had condemned Kavanaugh last year, some observers accused her of committing a rare "double flip-flop."
The dramatic public stumble blunted McGrath's momentum on the same day she announced her campaign had raised $2.5 million in its first 24 hours. It also fueled criticisms from both Republicans and Democrats that the Marine combat aviator may not be a winner in congressional politics.
McGrath was already being widely criticized for her claim in a televised interview earlier on Tuesday that President Trump's election was similar to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and her close defeat in a House race last year disappointed national Democrats.
"You know, I think that with Judge Kavanaugh, yeah, I probably would have voted for him," McGrath told The Louisville Courier-Journal on Wednesday. She also said that it was a "good question" to ask.
"I didn't listen to all of the hearings. I don't think there was anything, and I'm not a lawyer or a senator on the Judiciary Committee, so I don't know the criteria," McGrath offered. "But I was very concerned about Judge Kavanaugh, what I felt like were the far-right stances that he had. However, there was nothing in his record that I think would disqualify him in any way. And the fact is when you have the president and the Senate, this is our system and so I don't think there was anything that would have disqualified him in my mind."

Although McGrath called Christine Blasey Ford's accusations of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh in high school "credible," she reiterated that she did not view them as "disqualifying."
"Well, I mean I think again, I think it's credible but given the amount of time that lapsed in between and from a judicial standpoint, I don't think it would really disqualify him," McGrath said.
Four hours after her remarks were published, McGrath tweeted a mea culpa that immediately drew scorn from both Democrats and Republicans.
"I was asked earlier today about Judge Brett Kavanaugh and I answered based upon his qualifications to be on the Supreme Court. But upon further reflection and further understanding of his record, I would have voted no," McGrath wrote.
She continued: "I know I disappointed many today with my initial answer on how I would have voted on Brett Kavanaugh. I will make mistakes and always own up to them. The priority is defeating Mitch McConnell."
Reaction on social media was unsparing.
"This, my friends, is what we call an unforced error," journalist Yashar Ali observed.
"Take your third position on this later, the night is young," said Jake Wilkins, the communications director for North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer.
Read the headline of an article on the left-wing blog Jezebel: "Unfortunately, the Woman Trying to Unseat Mitch McConnell Also Kind of Sucks."
McGrath narrowly lost a House race to an incumbent Republican in Kentucky last year. During that race, McGrath slammed Kavanaugh and suggested she would not support his confirmation -- leading some prominent commentators on social media to charge that McGrath's flip-flop was actually multi-layered.
"I echo so many of the concerns that others have articulated over the nomination of Judge (Brett) Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court," McGrath wrote July 2018 on Facebook. "He has shown himself to be against women’s reproductive rights, workers' rights, consumer protections and will be among the most partisan people ever considered for the court."
In a tweet on Wednesday, McGrath added: "I echo the concerns over the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh. He's been against women’s reproductive rights, workers' rights, consumer protections, and is a hard-core partisan. But we are reminded, again, that elections have consequences, and this will be with us for a generation."

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in D.C. back in January. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

And after Ford's accusation against Kavanaugh came to light, McGrath said she found her to be "compelling."
"That really stands out for me, not to mention the vast disparity in their temperaments and demeanors while testifying," McGrath wrote in a September 2018 Facebook post. "Dr. Ford's testimony was quite compelling."
McGrath's campaign launch Tuesday was aided by a breathless NBC News report hours earlier that McConnell's distant ancestors owned slaves -- a revelation blunted by McConnell pointing out that President Barack Obama's ancestors did as well.
In another striking moment, an eager MSNBC anchor also urged McGrath to tell viewers how they could easily donate to her campaign online.
For her part, despite the apparent assistance from NBC, McGrath acknowledged Tuesday she has a tough task in trying to defeat one of the most entrenched officials in Washington. But she said she sees him as vulnerable because of his lengthy tenure in Washington and his stance on health care.
Her decision to enter the race represented a rare victory for Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, who has had difficulty persuading top-tier candidates in other states to take on incumbent Republicans with control of the Senate at stake.
The contest will also test the power of incumbency against a call for generational change, and hint at Trump's popularity is transferable.
McGrath will almost certainly be able to raise enough money to mount a serious challenge to McConnell, 77, but she is still a decided underdog in a state that has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since Wendell Ford in 1992.
"I've been always somebody who stepped up to the plate when asked, when I felt like my country needed me, and this is one of those times," McGrath said in an interview.
She has said that Kentucky voters are not fans of either political party and they supported Trump in part because of his promise to "drain the swamp" in Washington, lower drug prices and deliver a more effective alternative to the Affordable Care Act.
"Those things haven't happened because of guys like Senator McConnell," she said.
McConnell struck back quickly in a Twitter message that presaged what a race between him and McGrath would look like. The tweet strung together a series of quotes from McGrath that depicts her as an out-of-touch liberal who also opposes Trump, and notably his call for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
McConnell campaign manager Kevin Golden said McGrath lost in 2018 "in a Democratic-wave election because she is an extreme liberal who is far out of touch with Kentuckians."
The Senate majority leader's tone was more sanguine. "It'll be a spirited race," he said Tuesday at the Capitol. He says unlike others, "I actually enjoy campaigns."
Fox News' Sam Dorman and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

AOC ups ante in feud with Pelosi, suggests speaker is 'singling out of newly elected women of color'

Worst thing ever happening to the Democrat Party was allowing Anti American Muslims into the US Government, Period! Love seeing them eat their own :-)

The public spat between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, got a lot nastier on Wednesday, with the freshman congresswoman suggesting that the speaker is "singling out" her and her colleagues based on their race.
Pelosi has worked to keep the Democratic caucus in line, specifically four newly-elected outspoken progressives: Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass..
However, a feud between Pelosi and the quartet escalated after Congress passed a border funding bill that the four young Democrats opposed. Pelosi discussed the bill, and those in her party who oppose it, in an interview last weekend. She told the New York Times: "All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world, but they didn’t have any following. They’re four people, and that’s how many votes they got."
Ocasio-Cortez said to The Washington Post on Wednesday that the "persistent singling out" by the Speaker may be more than "outright disrespectful."
"When these comments first started, I kind of thought that she was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm’s distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“But the persistent singling out . . . it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful . . . the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.”
In an earlier interview with The New Yorker Radio Hour, Ocasio-Cortez accused Congress of using  women and minorities as "bargaining chips."
"When it comes to women of color in Congress, particularly the freshman, it's that we both have encountered and represent communities that have been auctioned off and negotiated off for the last 20 years. And we're over it," Ocasio-Cortez said Tuesday.
"We see in these negotiations all the time--- it's like fighting for black communities or policies that help women. They're bargaining chips. And they're the first chips that are reached for in any legislative negotiations."
On Wednesday, Pelosi also delivered a stern message to her caucus, telling House Democrats: "You got a complaint? You come and talk to me about it. But do not tweet about our members and expect us to think that that is just okay."

Crazy AOC Cartoons

AOC and the Rising Rhetoric of Revolution

I grew up in the 1960s and saw first-hand how easy it was to dehumanize soldiers returning from Vietnam as racist killers. Nowadays it is politically correct to decry that horrific treatment and talk about it as an aberration of American decency, but it was much more than that.
It was part of a well-planned campaign by the antiwar left to destroy confidence in our government and our institutions for the purpose of overthrowing our “imperialistic” overlords. Sadly, that campaign continues, only today it is not an underground movement but one led by members of Congress.
Indeed, the revolutionary theater of Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calling out the Border Patrol as dangerous jack-booted thugs goes a long way toward accomplishing in one afternoon what it took years for the antiwar movement to do to Vietnam-era GIs.
The freshman congresswoman visited two border facilities managed by U.S.Customs and Border Enforcement on July 1, including the one at Clint, Texas.
“In that last facility, I was not safe from the officers,” Ocasio-Cortez lamented to the reporters who were trailing her like hyenas waiting for a lioness to corner its prey.
They didn’t have to wait long. AOC had her bloody claws fully extended and in an interview with Yahoo News later that night she went in for the kill.
“Are we headed for fascism? Yes. I don’t think there’s a question. If you actually take the time to study, and to look at the steps, and to see how government transforms under authoritarian regimes, and look at the political decisions and patterns of this president, the answer is yes.”
Such is the rhetoric of a true believer. Whether you are talking about Che or Mao or Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground, the absolute moral certainty of the revolutionary left is what allows them to spit in the face of soldiers returning from Vietnam or to call ICE agents Nazis or to vote against funding for border camps so that they can complain about lack of funding for border camps.
But make no mistake. The socialist-communist attack on the Border Patrol or on Immigration and Customs Enforcement as fascist is no accident or mere theater. It is part of a long-range plan to delegitimize the government of the United States as a whole. Here’s what Ayers and his co-authors wrote in their 1974 manifesto for the revolutionary Weather Underground:
“Fascism in this country is not a challenge to those in power by some more reactionary gang on the outside. Fascism is perpetrated on Third World people from the seats of power: the Pentagon, the Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court. In these places liberal and fascist tendencies compete, but they also connive and conspire. Our strategy must be unity against existing fascism for the liberation of all oppressed people.”
It is the institutions of power in the United States that Democrats like Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders want to destroy, and they will take any opening to do it. It was the United States Army in 1969. It is the Border Patrol in 2019.
But it isn’t just the target that has changed in the last 50 years. Ayers and his cohort dreamed while living underground in the 1970s of seeing their generation of revolutionaries put on coats and ties and infiltrate the seats of power to effect change from within. One measure of their success is that coats and ties are now largely passé. Another is that Congress is now full of members who have adopted the revolutionary rhetoric of the 1960s as their own. Thus, the Democratic leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer of New York, did not chasten his colleague from the House for her outrageous attack on uniformed Americans, but rather threw gasoline on her anti-American rhetoric. He tweeted the following:
“Acting @CBP Commissioner Morgan and other top leadership at U.S. Customs and Border Protection should be fired. A new, untainted team must be brought in to begin reining in the toxic culture at the border patrol. … Internal investigations aren’t enough. The leadership at @CBP, particularly Acting Commissioner Morgan, are too callous about the way children & their families are treated. That's why we need untainted professionals to be brought in from outside the @CBP structure immediately.”
Did you get that? Mark Morgan, who at the time Schumer tweeted had not even taken over at Customs and Border Protection, is “tainted.” The Border Patrol itself is “toxic.” This is all highly reminiscent of the rhetoric of the antiwar movement when soldiers were called “baby killers” and street marchers chanted, “Hey! Hey! LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?" But Ocasio-Cortez has a flair for the dramatic that surpasses anything we have seen in Congress for many years.
She was able to leverage her power as a member of Congress into a cudgel to attack the Border Patrol, claiming not just that the illegal immigrants in the detention center were being mistreated, but that somehow even the mighty AOC herself had been in danger just by entering the facility. Remember, she had already compared border detention facilities to “concentration camps,” thus escalating the rhetoric to the point where U.S. law officers were likened to Nazis.
“I see why CBP officers were being so physically and sexually threatening towards me,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. “Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets. ... This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress.”
Forced to drink water out of toilets? Well, no; actually, that was just one more convenient lie told by AOC. From what anyone can tell, the cells in the immigration detention facility utilize standard-issue jail plumbing in which a toilet and sink are both incorporated in one stainless-steel fixture. If you had a toilet, you also had a sink. The idea that the cell had “no water” is therefore ridiculous, and just one more rhetorical flourish from a woman who will say anything to get attention.
What matters to the socialist left is creating discontent and isolating an enemy. During the Vietnam War, that meant the soldiers fighting overseas and the police maintaining order at home. Today it is the Border Patrol and ICE. Bill Ayers described the importance of creating the enemy as a “pig” in the 1969 manifesto “You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows”:
“[T]he pigs are ultimately the glue — the necessity — that holds the ... movement together; all of our concrete needs lead to pushing the pigs to the fore as a political focus.”
The Democratic left likes to call Trump “the divider in chief,” but the rhetoric of Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, Schumer and Nancy Pelosi shows who truly wants to divide the country. For the socialist left, a demonized Border Patrol is “the glue — the necessity — which holds the … movement together” as the Democratic Party pursues its globalist, open-borders, anti-American agenda.
AOC knows exactly what she is doing, and anyone who isn’t afraid of her and her fellow revolutionaries in Congress doesn’t know which way the wind is blowing.
Frank Miele, the retired editor of the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell Mont., is a columnist for RealClearPolitics. His new book — “The Media Matrix: What If Everything You Know Is Fake” — is available at Amazon. Visit him at HeartlandDiaryUSA.com to read his daily commentary or follow him on Facebook @HeartlandDiaryUSA or on Twitter @HeartlandDiary.

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Ingraham: Pelosi has no one to blame but herself for AOC beef

Is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responsible for her conflict with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and her cohorts?

According to Fox News' Laura Ingraham, she is.

"While attempting to take Pelosi's aside against the AOC allergens, she has no one to blame but herself. Now, why do I say this?" Ingraham said on "The Ingraham Angle" Tuesday.
Ingraham chastised Pelosi for accusing the president of racism Monday before mocking Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez's battles.
"While these young Turks are kind of fun to watch as they scrounge for any morsel of attention, they have gone so far left, so fast, they sent Speaker Pelosi reaching for her heart pills," Ingraham said.
Ingraham pointed out that the Democrats arguing against President Trump's economic impact was futile.
"Let's face it, what else are they going to try to argue?" Ingraham said. "That Trump's economy isn't in terrific shape? Good luck."

AOC says she’s open to getting rid of entire DHS in interview

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., last week suggested she was open to getting rid of the Department of Homeland Security in order to undo "a lot of the egregious mistakes that the Bush administration did."
Ocasio-Cortez made during a Friday appearance on the New Yorker Radio with host David Remnick.
“ICE is not under the (Department of Justice),” Ocasio-Cortez says. “It’s under the Department of Homeland Security. And so we have now—”
“Would you get rid of the Department of Homeland Security, too?” Remnick asks.
“I think so,” she says. “I think we need to undo a lot of the egregious, umm, a lot of the egregious mistakes that the Bush administration did.”
She added: "I feel like we are, at a very, it’s a very qualified and supported position, at least in terms of evidence, and in terms of being able to make the argument that we never should of created DHS in the early 2000s.”
Later asked what a "sane immigration policy" looks like, Ocasio-Cortez said "we should not be using detention for people who have harmed no one."
Last month, the freshman lawmaker courted controversy for comparing border detention facilities to concentration camps.
"The fact that concentrations camps are now an institutionalized practice in the Home of the Free is extraordinarily disturbing and we need to do something about it," she said in a live stream.

Ross Perot donated to Trump’s re-election campaign before death: report

In his last documented political act, self-made billionaire and two-time presidential candidate Ross Perot wrote out two checks to President Trump’s re-election campaign before succumbing to his battle with leukemia at the age of 89, according to a report.
Perot, who ran for president as a third-party candidate in 1992 and 1996, is largely credited with providing a road map for Trump's presidential campaign.

FILE: Ross Perot is shown on a screen in a paid 30-minute television commercial, during a media preview in Dallas.  (AP)

Like Trump, Perot ran as a billionaire populist against the Republican establishment. His focus on the North American Free Trade Agreement – rather than the national debt – and his use of cable news for laying out his agenda were both familiar elements of Trump’s campaign.
As Democratic strategist James Carville put it in a 2016 podcast: “If Donald Trump is the of Jesus of the disenchanted, displaced non-college white voter, then Perot was the John the Baptist of that sort of movement.”
ROSS PEROT ECHOED POPULIST SENTIMENTS 25 YEARS BEFORE RISE OF TRUMP, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN SAYS
In 2000, Trump briefly considered running for president in Perot’s Reform Party before scrapping the idea. Perot’s model, of running as a third-party candidate in a two-party political system, taught Trump that he needed to run as a Republican in 2016 – a lesson that ultimately led to his victory.
In March, Perot wrote two checks of the maximum legal limit to Trump’s reelection campaign, including next year’s general election, the Boston Globe reported.