We are used to gross distortion in the reporting of anything by the main stream media.  We have gone well beyond bias to the point of total distrust.  Perhaps the best example of this has been the reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline.  If you watched the main stream media this is just a bunch of people outraged by the total disregard to the environment by the greedy oil companies, right?  The oil companies want to pollute a pristine Indian reservation just to make a couple of extra bucks.  What more do you need to know?

The reality is that this involves placing a pipeline, very near the site of an existing pipeline that has been working without problems since 1982.  This pipeline will be located 100 ft. below the Missouri River that flows into Lake Oahe.  While we should always be concerned about pollution, this is a classic example of selective outrage.  The pipeline doesn’t actually cross the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.  The Missouri River does flow into Lake Oahe, and it is important to prevent pollution of the Missouri River.  But the River itself is 2,341 miles long, before it merges with the Mississippi River.  It is the longest river in the United States. Have you ever wondered if there are any bridges over the Missouri River?  It turns out there are approximately 154 bridges over the Missouri River.  Following is a list of bridges over the Missouri River from WikiPedia, located in Montana and North Dakota, all of which are “before” Lake Oahe:

Do any of you remember the main stream media mentioning any of these bridges?  Me neither. Do you think there might be some risk of an oil spill from railroad trains hauling tanker cars on deteriorating rails or tanker trucks crossing these bridges?  The main stream media created the impression that the only risk to this pristine river has to come from this single state of the art pipeline, located 100 ft. below the bottom of the river.  That is, of course, absurd.

Sadly, there is a significant pollution risk to the river at this location.  It was created by the “environmentalists” literally crapping all over the place.  With total disregard for the environment, they left a mess that desperately needs to be cleaned up before the spring thaw.  While the Standing Rock Indian Reservation was worried about the slim possibility of pollution from a well contructed pipeline they were ignoring the all too real pollution risk from the environmental activists themselves.

This even looks bad in a San Francisco Newpaper

http://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/Cleanup-begins-at-Dakota-Access-pipeline-protest-10897198.php

Other publications present a much stronger picture:

http://meanwhileinmontana.com/cleanup-continues-north-dakota-protest-camp-video/

Note the following failed attempt to find the “bright side” of this mess:

“It’s like a shelving for pantry for people that come down from churches and other communities around here to pick up, and, you know, can be useful too,” says Patrick Mantich, Nebraska.

(I know this doesn’t make sense, that is why I quoted it exactly)

Note that the Standing Rock Tribe plans on using money from the $6 million in donations it has received to support its pipeline fight to help clean up the mess created by the protestors.  Almost everything reported about this situation in the press has been wrong.  It turns out this should have been labled “Sh*tting Bull” from the start.

TDM

When we first moved to California, we immediately noticed three things.  One was that we had to pay an outrageous fee to register our car.  California fined us big time for daring to bring in a car that wasn’t manufactured to California emissions standards.  The second was that there are a significant number of seriously unglued people living here.  Shortly after we arrived, there was the harmonic convergence.  I will let Wikipedia explain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_Convergence

Thousands of people got together on the top of Mt. Tamalpais to hum in world peace.

On August 16, 1987, a group of people tried to apply this concept (karma) with what they called the Harmonic Convergence. Thousands of people gathered at Mount Tamalpais just north of San Francisco and other designated religious hot spots around the world, such as Stonehenge, to usher in what was hoped to be a major energy shift. It was said that if enough people got together and thought positive thoughts, the global perspective would shift from one of human conflict to one of human cooperation; In other words there would be enough positive energy (karma) to usher in an era of universal peace.

The third thing we learned was that California made little or no effort to verify who was voting.  All you needed to do was show up and point out your name and address. We have lived her for over 30 years and no one has ever asked for our ID in order to vote. Thanks to Bill Clinton, you don’t even have to provide any proof of citizenship when you register to vote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Voter_Registration_Act_of_1993

The Act requires States to “accept and use” a uniform federal form to register voters for federal elections.^[10] The National Mail Voter Registration Form (commonly referred to as the “Federal Form”) was developed by the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC), and requires only that an applicant affirm, under penalty of perjury, various matters including that he or she is a citizen. (The Federal Form can be used as an alternative to any state form.)

In 2004 the citizens of Arizona voted for a proposition requiring voters to present proof of citizenship when registering to vote and identification when they vote. Democrats were outraged. How dare anyone limit voting to U.S. citizens!  The Arizona proposition was shot down by the Supreme Court because of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

It seems obvious that Democrats don’t see any evidence of voter fraud because they are just fine with illegal aliens voting in our elections as long as they continue to vote for democrats.

http://www.capradio.org/articles/2017/01/27/still-burning-trumps-claim-of-serious-voter-fraud-in-calif-remains-pants-on-fire/

 PolitiFact California previously examined Trump’s voter fraud claim, speaking with elections experts and officials across the state, and, as expected, found no evidence.

PolitiFact California previously examined Trump’s voter fraud claim, speaking with elections experts and officials across the state, and found no evidence.

The California Secretary of State, Alex Padilla, was outraged:

“By repeating false and unsubstantiated voter fraud allegations as the cause for losing the popular vote, President Trump is dangerously attacking the legitimacy of free and fair elections and taking a jackhammer to the foundation of our democracy. These are not “alternative facts.” They are corrosive lies without any evidence. Even leaders in the President’s own party agree there is no evidence to support his claims.”

Sadly, in California, there is zero attempt reconcile our voting records with any federal database to verify citizenship.  But, things are changing.  We no longer are limited to input from the wishfully ignorant main stream media and Democratic apologists:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/01/experts-california-voter-registration-system-highly-susceptible-to-fraud.html

The problem with California is there is no separate verification of citizenship on voter registration, said Charles Bell, Jr., a partner with California-based Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, LLP, a law firm that specializes in election law. Applicants can check a box affirming they are citizens, and this is not checked against any other government database such as federal immigration records

California issues driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, allowing them to automatically be registered to vote under the federal “motor-voter” laws. Since the AB60 law went into effect in 2015, 806,000 illegal immigrants have received a license.

In California Democratic officials routinely tell illegal immigrants they are entitled to all the benefits of citizenship.  For example California enthusiastically issued over 806,000 driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.  We just went from a state with sanctuary cities to a sanctuary state.  Seriously folks, if you live in a state that won’t allow the federal government to arrest an illegal alien with a violent criminal record do you really think an illegal alien voting illegally has any risk of getting arrested?  Please!

Claude Arnold, who served as the former Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations in Southern California, Nevada, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, said he has witnessed voter fraud firsthand.

“Throughout my 27-year career with [Immigration and Naturalization Service] and ICE, I arrested hundreds of illegal criminal aliens who had voter registration cards,” Arnold said. “They would often admit they voted, but they were rarely prosecuted for illegally voting.”

Incredibly RINO Republicans also cannot see any evidence of widespread voter fraud. That is, to quote Hillary Clinton, the “willful suspension of disbelief. “  Anyone want to bet on the results if someone compares voting records in California with the federal databases used to verify citizenship?  The good news is that thanks to electronic records this is no longer hard to do. All that is necessary is someone ready, willing and able to do the obvious.  His name is Donald J. Trump.

The Darwin Awards are granted to people who managed to kill themselves by doing something really stupid. “Honoring those who improve the species…. by accidentally removing themselves from it.”

http://www.darwinawards.com/old/index200910.html

While there have definitely been a lot of people who qualified for a Darwin award, never before have so many people been duped into mass suicide because they stupidly believed clearly incompetent people.

Rex Tillerson will be confirmed as Secretary of State Wednesday. His biggest challenge was going to be draining the State Department swamp of entrenched bureaucrats who consider themselves the true State Department. Secretaries of State and Presidents come and go, but the bureaucracy remains. This is true in every department of government, but none more so than the State Department. Up until now, it was nearly impossible for a Secretary of State to really change much. It is nearly impossible to fire a bureaucrat. But there is an important exception. Really stupid people can eliminate themselves.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-tillerson-idUSKBN15G45B

Incredibly, 900 idiots at the state department just signed their name to a memo disagreeing with a direct order by the President of the United States. Tillerson would have spent a lot of time just trying to identify these people and it would have been difficult if not impossible to get rid of them. With one memo, they have not only identified themselves they have given him clear legal grounds to fire them.

It is really quite simple. There are numerous Supreme Court decisions giving President Trump the authority to take this action. Even the New York Times admits this. They don’t like it, but they admit it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/opinion/trumps-anti-muslim-plan-is-awful-and-constitutional.html?_r=0

The New York Times, as expected, ignored the obvious and proposed the ridiculous. The Supreme Court has ruled very clearly that people in other countries do not enjoy the equal protection granted U.S. citizens under our constitution. Liberals cannot seem to grasp the concept. If everyone in the world automatically has the same rights as citizens under our constitution, we cease to exist as a sovereign nation. Duh!

While I know a lot of very bright people who are liberals, the people leading the progressive movement in this country are the opposite of brilliant. Those who follow these self-absorbed, self-righteous, arrogant, incompetent clowns off the cliff to oblivion have earned special recognition. I hereby nominate the 900 people at the State Department who signed this memo to the Lifetime Achievement edition of the Darwin awards.

TDM

Chuck Schumer put on quite a show with his tearful outrage at the new Trump immigration policy.  Unfortunately, in his haste to do the job, Schumer forgot that people keep copies of his twitter account.  The result is that Schumer has been exposed as a shameless political hack and a world class hypocrite.

Townhall exposed this bigtime:

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2017/01/30/twitter-is-reminding-schumer-about-a-tweet-he-sent-in-2015-n2278870

@SenSchumer November 19, 2015:

“We must tighten loopholes in the Visa Waiver prgm, ensure passports can’t be faked and stop terrorists who want to exploit the system.”

At the same time Schumer was telling congress that a pause of refugee settlement in the U.S. may be necessary.

Hillary Clinton also forgot what she said on December 5, 2015.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/hillary-clinton-calls-hard-look-visa-waiver-program-after-san-n474856

“Visas are a problem and we have to look at that and see what we need to do to tighten up requirements,” Clinton told reporters at a campaign stop in Fort Dodge, making comparisons to the 9/11 hijackers who also came to the country on visas.

Clinton urged Congress to take a “very thorough and comprehensive look” at the visa program and stressed the importance of information sharing between countries.

“It’s a calculated balance between wanting to keep our country open for people coming and going and reciprocity with other countries and being sure that we are being vigilant in protecting ourselves,” she said. “I think we have to make sure we do more to get the balance right.”

This is the problem for liberals.  They ignore facts, including inconvenient facts such as their previous position on the same issues.  The difference between Trump and his liberal opponents really boils down to one thing.  Trump does what he said he would do and he doesn’t really care what liberals think about it.  While he will fight back on twitter, he never allows unjust and irrational criticism to deter him from his mission.  His mission, incredibly, is to do exactly what he said he would do.

In the ultimate irony, while liberals are dazed, outraged and confused, the American people seem to understand this pretty well.  One would think that a President savaged by the MSM, Hollywood and grandstanding Democrats including FORMER President Obama would be shredding public support.  Instead the opposite is happening.  When anyone bothers to ask people outside of the class of clowns they are shocked to discover that most people agree with Trump.  Yes, we have sympathy for the 12 year old girl trying to get out of Yemen, but we also have sympathy for the people killed in Orlando and San Bernardino by Muslim terrorists.  It is insanely stupid to believe that there is no threat from Muslim terrorist trying to sneak into the country as refugees. They have literally promised to do exactly that and they have been far too successful in Europe.  It is even more stupid to believe that the Obama administration had thoroughly vetted those thousands of refugees.

The MSM is brilliant at finding the showcase immigrant obviously above suspicion.  They are willfully blind to the threat of terrorists willing to pay any price to inflict damage on us.  Are they really too stupid to realize that people who will film their children wearing suicide vests and cutting the heads off Christians can look a lot like a normal family to the uninformed?  Are they really too naïve to understand that the real threat does not come from those look like role models for Terrorist GQ.  It is the ones who do not look like a threat that is most dangerous?  Sadly, they are exactly that stupid.

Watch the performance by those Hollywood liberals, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.  It soon becomes obvious that these are the tears of a clown, but nothing about this is funny.  By the way, the circus is rapidly becoming an outdated relic of history.

TDM

The state of California is one of the few states left that is totally dominated by the Democratic Party.  Many Republicans have given up and assumed that this will never change.  They are wrong.  This is going to change sooner than you think.  The sad fact is that gross mismanagement by Democrats, with assistance from too many Republicans has set up a perfect financial storm that is going to have a devastating impact on California. Those of us who live here know that the entire state government is dominated by the public sector unions.  All those public sector employees are dreaming of a lovely retirement with free medical for life.  The problem is that Democrats have been writing checks they can’t possibly cash.  The following article explains:

http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/03/30/golden-state-pension-deficit-1-2-trillion/

Note this is over a year old.  That means the problem is even worse.

This report is from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. California is underfunded by about $1.2 trillion (yes trillion) necessary to fund the retirement tab for state and local employees.  Since the total revenue for the state is about $123 billion per year, this means there is zero chance the state can pay these benefits.  Even if they took every dime the state collects for the next 10 years, it would not be enough to cover the deficit.  They can’t even hope to pay the deficit they admit is there, let alone the actual deficit revealed in this report.  What could make this worse?  Easy!  Imagine these vital funds managed by political appointees, notoriously corrupt, with a mandate to invest in poor performing global warming ventures.  In other words, just when the state desperately needs to be really smart about investing the limited assets available to deal with this, we have the worst possible people in charge.  Does anyone really think this is going to work?

By the way, even without this unfunded deficit, the state is already running out of money.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/18/1-9b-accounting-error-adds-to-california-deficit-projection.html

Democrats have been ignoring this storm for decades. Every year the decision is made to kick the can a little farther down the road.  California, unlike the United States Government, cannot ignore the problem by just printing money.  This means sooner, rather than later, the California budget is going to look a lot like Puerto-Rico or Greece and they are going to come to Washington, D.C. with hat in hand begging for a bail out.  Don’t expect President Donald Trump or the Republican congress to feel all that warm and fuzzy about this. How do you think the rest of the country is going to feel about bailing out California so that public sector employees can have their luxury retirement?

The inevitable result is going to be massive cuts to retirement benefits promised to public sector employees, accompanied by massive tax increases on everyone else. This is not going to play well in Peoria or anyplace else.  The blame for this is going to fall primarily on Democrats because the price for absolute power is absolute blame.  Margaret Thatcher once said that liberalism always fails because eventually they run out of other people’s money.  That will happen in California faster than you can blink.

The end of never is just around the corner.

TDM

This last election taught us an important lesson.  Barry Goldwater tried to warn us back in 1964, but we did not listen.

“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies.

Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.”

Sound familiar? Look back at the way liberals tried to shove political correctness down our collective throats over the past eight years.  Reflect on how they have responded to this election. How would you describe this better than: “demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth?”

How better than to describe this than “conformity” which leads to “despotism.” Combine with a MSM ready, willing and able to ignore the obvious and embrace the ridiculous.  Add in possibly the most corrupt candidate for President in the history of the U.S.; a candidate who openly said that she would appoint a Supreme Court Justice who would focus more on her version of “heaven on earth” than the outdated Constitution.

We dodged a bullet here.  But this victory will be short lived if we fail to recognize the threat.  Liberals are not going to leave quietly.  We have not been at war with them, but they have most definitely been at war with us.  If we do not defeat them, they will never stop until they have replaced our democracy with tyranny.  They have no interest in compromising with us or even tolerating us.  This may be our last chance to restore the rule of law, separation of power and true liberty for all.

But that is only possible if we come to grips with a cold hard truth.  Liberals can never again be trusted with power.  We cannot compromise with those who simply do not accept our most basic values.  We dare not even attempt to negotiate with those who are only interested in destroying us. We must defeat them.  We must defeat them by appointing judges, at all levels, who will honor the constitution.  We must defeat them by putting in fair election reforms that guarantee free elections where every eligible citizen has an equal chance to vote and every vote has equal value. Those who do not believe in voter fraud are simply not paying attention to places like New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Are we really naïve enough to believe that 81% of the people in New York City voted for Barack Obama and 79% voted for Hillary Clinton?  The only place(s) on this earth where one candidate gets that kind of majority vote is a dictatorship and a metropolitan area run by a Democratic machine.

The only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing.  You’ve been warned.

TDM

The DOJ Inspector General has been given the assignment of investigatiing broad allegations of misconduct involving the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/01/12/justice-department-inspector-general-to-investigate-pre-election-actions-by-department-and-fbi/?utm_term=.056bb33dd8f9

This is an obvious effort by the Obama administration to sweep the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal under the rug and throw James Comey under the bus. The marching orders are obviously designed to do exactly that:

“The review will not substitute the OIG’s judgment for the judgments made by the FBI or the Department regarding the substantive merits of investigative or prosecutive decisions,”

My best guess is that this is the strategy developed by the Obama administration to protect Hillary without having to explain a pardon.

Unless someone or something intervenes, the fix is in:

“Horowitz wrote that he will explore “allegations that Department or FBI policies or procedures were not followed” in connection with both letters, but his probe will extend beyond that. He wrote that he also will explore “allegations that Department and FBI employees improperly disclosed non-public information” — which is perhaps a reference to Giuliani, who seemed to claim at one point he had insider FBI knowledge. And Horowitz wrote that his inquiry will extend back to Comey’s July announcement that he was recommending the Clinton base be closed without charges.”

Just when you think the Obama administration could not possibly do more damage to the country, they do this. Sadly, no one in the MSM will even notice. It will be very interesting to see how Donald Trump responds. Next Friday cannot get here soon enough.   The mosting important thing to remember at this point is that in 7 days and 7 hours, Barack Obama will be permanently out of office, totally incapable of this kind of nonsense.

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20170120T00&p0=263&msg=Time+left+until+Obama+leaves+office&csz=1

TDM

The Obama administration is so convinced that Russia intervened in our election that he kicked out 35 diplomats and announced new sanctions. The story was always suspicious. Even the Rolling Stone noticed:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/something-about-this-russia-story-stinks-w458439

All of the U.S. intelligence agencies agreed that it was Russia. Then we started to hear from private industry official, like John McAfee in an interview with Larry King:

https://www.rt.com/usa/372219-larry-king-mcafee-cybersecurity/

There were more. They not only disagreed with our intelligence services, they literally laughed at them. Then Sean Hannity secured and interview with Julianne Assange, who runs WikiLeaks. Assange, who actually released the e-mails, said they weren’t from Russia. And then he said that John Podesta’s password was “password.”

Notice that the MSM has totally moved on from the Russia hacked the election mode. They never admitted the entire story was a hoax, they just moved on to the next anti-Trump story. The latest is that Trump won’t be able to handle tough questions at a news conference. This, of course, was on a show anchored by Don Lemon. That would be the same Don Lemon who got drunk on the air New Year’s eve, got his ear pierced live on national television, screamed about getting blood on his shirt and then had his mic cut off by CNN when he started going on a drunken rant.

Just when you though it could not possibly get any worse, it got worse. The liberal left is literally melting down life on TV. CNN, the most trusted name in NEWS, got beat in the ratings last year by HGTV. Liberal Democrats, led by Senator Chuck Schumer are threatening to delay hearings on eight cabinet appointments until March and to block ANY Supreme Court nominee by Trump. This is a huge mistake and it is another reminder that Democrats are incapable to accepting election results they don’t like. They are missing something really important. Republicans didn’t just win the Presidency, the House and the Senate last November. They have been decimating Democrats across the country. The following two graphs tell the tale.

The first is a map showing who controlled state governments in 2009:

Here is a map showing how it looks after the 2016 election:

If you look at the map of counties won by Republicans it is even more obvious what has happened:

This actually explains why Democrats believe the Russians are coming. The entire country is turning deep red and Democrats have been pushed out to the extreme left coast and the ever isolated and out of touch North East.

TDM

Obama is famous for lecturing anyone who dares disagree with him.  He is also famous for doing actually nothing to back up his threats.  Up until now the world has just ignored him and giggled privately.  However, with this idiotic hissy fit throwing out some Russian diplomats and proposing sanctions he can’t possibly enforce, he has violated an important rule.  “It is better to stay silent, and be thought a fool, then to open your mouth and prove it.”  Russia is literally laughing in his face and saying they will wait until he is replaced by an adult.

We should all be concerned that Obama will do something drastic to try and remain somewhat relevant.  He is clearly frustrated that in less than three weeks he will be totally out of power.  He is desperately trying to influence things after he walks out the door.  He is flailing madly and just embarrassing himself.  This is like a really bad act on America’s Got Talent that tries to keep on performing long after all four judges have pushed their buzzers.  If Democrats are not embarrassed by this, they aren’t paying attention.

Obama is accusing Russia of interfering in our election by releasing private e-mails from the DNC.  No one disputes that these are real e-mails, Democrats are just pissed that the attempted Obama cover-up failed to work.  In effect, Russia apparently interfered in our election by exposing the truth about Hillary Clinton.  This is like the guy who is caught robbing a bank on video filing a protest against the surveillance company for invasion of privacy.  Good luck trying to get a judge or jury to buy that nonsense.

One would note that hacking the DNC computer system is not actually a threat to national security.  Does anyone seriously think that the U.S. is not trying to hack Russian communications?  Come on!  The U.S. literally sent a submarine into the Black Sea to put a wiretap on Russian communication cables.  We tapped everything they said for years.  We can be certain every country capable of spying on other nations is doing exactly that.  The Russians, sadly, may be doing a better job than us, but it is silly to pretend we aren’t playing the same game. Hillary personally tried to interfere in Russia’s election when she publicly questioned the integrity of Russian parliamentary elections in 2011.

What really happened here is that the DNC was embarrassed in the worst possible way.  They were caught red handed (pun intended) stealing the primary election from Bernie Sanders.  They were exposed as being incredibly stupid. The Russians didn’t exactly pull this off with some sophisticated electronic hack.  They sent fishing e-mails that should have been recognized by eight year old.  Senior Democrats, like John Podesta, took the bait; hook, line and sinker and gave away their user ids and passwords.  Brilliant!

A lot of people are expressing fear that Putin will dominate Trump.  The evidence is clear that the opposite is happening.  Putin made some noise about racketing up his nuclear arsenal.  Trump shut him down with the following twitter:

Translation, for liberal Democrats, who don’t understand this stuff:  “Have at it Vlad. You are in for an arms race you can’t possibly win.” It wasn’t Trump who backed down, it was Putin:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vladimir-putin-responds-to-trumps-nukes-tweet-jabs-at-democrats/

Even with regard to this childish stunt by Obama, Putin did not retaliate.  That wasn’t because he is intimidated by Obama, he laughed at Obama.  It is because he didn’t want to risk a confrontation with the new sheriff in town.

The good news is that whether he wants to admit it or not, time has run out for Barack Obama and he is headed toward the scrap heap of history.  It can’t happen soon enough for me.

TDM

John Kerry burst on the political scene by lying under oath, before congress, falsely accusing his fellow Vietnam Veterans of routinely committing war crimes.   This was after he committed treason by trying to negotiate a personal peace treaty with representatives of the Viet Cong.  He was just getting started. For decades he has brilliantly combined all the worst possible elements in one shallow, arrogant, incompetent soulless politician.

Seldom, in the history of this country, has one man accumulated so much wealth and power to so little effect. I would pause, in fairness, to list his accomplishments, if any were to be found.

The liberal left praises John Kerry for the Iran Contra investigation. They leave out something really important. Senators John Kerry and Tom Harkin visited Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega in 1985.  Neither noticed or cared that the Sandinistas were communists, with close ties to Cuba.  They were not concerned that Russia was supplying the Sandinistas with no cost armaments including the MI-24 attack helicopters (Hinds) and MI-17 transport helicopters.  They didn’t care that the Contras were seeking free elections and Democracy.  Democrats were determined to prevent the United States from providing any assistance to the Contras.  The result was the Boland Amendment designed to guarantee that the Contras went down to defeat with no help from the U.S.  How dare this country stand up against communism!

”No funds available to the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense or any other agency or entity of the United States involved in intelligence activities may be obligated or expended for the purpose or which would have the effect of supporting, directly or indirectly, military or paramilitary operations in Nicaragua by any nation, group, organization, movement or individual.”

In the 1986 fiscal year, Congress approved $27 million in aid for the contras but stipulated that none of it could be spent on weapons. The Administration was explicitly permitted to solicit contra aid from other nations, but only if that aid was not used to buy weapons. In November of that year, Congress also said the C.I.A. could share intelligence with the contras.

President Ronald Reagan, who believed our national security was at stake, told National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane:  “I want you to do whatever you have to do to help these people keep body and soul together.”

The result was the Iran Contra fiasco where the CIA, in a desperate attempt to help the Contras with zero assistance from congress, turned to highly unethical and irresponsible choices.  Democrats never considered the possibility that the most unethical thing Ronald Reagan could have done was to abandon the Contras and let the Sandinistas win.

Democrats, led by John Kerry, rejoiced at the opportunity to investigate those who were fighting the war against communism. They never considered the reality that the only reason the Iran Contra scandal was necessary was because Democrats were willing to sacrifice national security on the altar of partisan politics. In the end, to the shock and horror of the liberal left, the Contras won in spite of the best efforts of liberal Democrats like John Kerry and the Sandinistas were defeated in free elections.

Today, John Kerry gave what is probably the dumbest and most irresponsible speech ever by a Secretary of State.  He not only stabbed the nation of Israel in the back, he arrogantly explained exactly why liberal Democrats can never be trusted with national security.  The Palestinian Liberation Organization has zero interest in peace, it won’t even acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. If you ask the PLO what they want the answer is always the same; they want Israel to be annihilated.  There is none so blind as he who will not see.

The good news here is that the John Kerry era will be over January 20, 2016. I wonder how long before CNN notices.