Month: November 2017

“I’m rubber and you’re glue. What you say about me bounces off me and sticks to you!”

Who is right and who is wrong is the 24/7 process of governing in the U.S. And increasingly Americans are tiring in their efforts to keep up with the truth in important political issues of the day. Making that process virtually impossible is the hypocrisy they must wade through to try and find the truth. It seems that political truth is buried deep. To get to it requires digging through the varying stories and perspectives of those stories, the lies and misrepresentations of those who tell the stories, only to when finally getting to the truth finding that it is really not the truth but something someone either made up or painted with a perspective putting some cause in a good light. The trouble is not the story — it’s dealing with the person or persons who tell the story. Enter Pocahontas.

Elizabeth Warren — Massachusetts Senator — who has donned the banner of Leftist righteousness and arbiter of all things politically correct and allowable — has become the Queen of Hypocrisy in D.C. Almost daily she climbs into some pulpit to spew her anti-Trump venom making her minions certain that the President is actually a three-headed ogre who hides under a bridge waiting for unsuspecting African American and Muslim children to cross the bridge only to devour them.

What is craziest to me is that absolutely NOTHING the President does is viewed by Warren as an accomplishment, yet alone something good for the Nation and its people. She has repeatedly called him a racist, a xenophobe, he is Islamophobic, homophobic, and evil. She is not the only Leftist to do this, but she is more visible because she is a U.S. Senator and a likely 2018 presidential candidate. And the Mainstream Media (MSM) love her. Why? Because she will daily spew the same trash that they spin. But she has Congressional “legitimacy.”

The MSM give her a pass everytime she says anything: ANYTHING! I know of not one single instance things she has said have been called into question by the Media, no matter if they were not true. The reason? She has been promoted in the Democrat Party to share the dais of political correctness with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. And when Nancy speaks, everybody listens. The pair lead all Leftists in blatant hypocrisy almost daily. They are Leftist newsies’ dream.

Warren-Pelosi Hypocrisy

Elizabeth Warren. Let’s look at the latest Warren hypocrisy. (Actually, her latest is just taking an oldie but goodie and sprinkling some “new” on it) President Trump labeled her Pocahontas because in her quest to intimidate Harvard to give her a prestigious position, she claimed she is Native American. By all counts she is not. She won the position. She has been given multiple opportunities to lay the mystery to rest by taking a simple DNA test, but she refuses. And everyone pretty much knows why. She is now using the President’s statement to raise money!:

(Warren) “You might have heard that Donald Trump likes to call me ‘Pocahontas.’ He does it on Twitter, at rallies, and even in official White House meetings,” Warren wrote in a Monday fundraising email, calling it the “very worst of gutter politics.” In an email, Warren denounced the name as a “racist slur,” saying the president did so because “he thinks that he can bully me and shut me up. He thinks he can bully and silence anybody he wants.” She continued, “We’re not going to stop standing up for middle class families. We’re not going to stop standing up for consumers.” She added in a final push for financial support, “Let’s show Donald Trump that we’re sick of his racist slurs by getting to work to fight his agenda. Donald Trump can keep attacking my family – but I’m going to keep fighting for yours.”

Let’s understand this in context: she lied to Harvard claiming to be a member of a minority to fraudulently obtain a position at one of the nation’s most prestigious universities. By lying and ultimately getting that position that is reserved for a true minority person, she stole a high-paying position from a member of a minority! When confronted multiple times, she refuses to retract her claim or prove her claim with a DNA test. Her actions were white racism against minority Americans!

Nancy Pelosi. Where to begin! “We’ve got to pass the bill to find out what’s in the bill,” the then Speaker of the House told us in the ramping up of the passage of Obamacare. She as speaker pushed through the House the most expensive social bill of our lifetime without even reading the bill first as did 99% of the 535 members of Congress who voted for it. Remember the promises: “You can keep your doctor if you want;” “You can keep your insurance if you want;” “Family insurance premiums for a family of four will go down $2500 a year,” and on and on.

Regarding the recent rash of women coming out with claims of sexual misconduct against Congressman John Conyers, Roy Moore, Alabama Senatorial candidate, and former President Bill Clinton, she appeared on Meet the Press. During that interview she stood by her dogged defenses of credibly-accused rapist Bill Clinton, praised alleged sexual harasser John Conyers as an “icon,” and declined to say if he should resign, or whether she believes the three women alleging misconduct. She stopped short of damning Roy Moore saying the facts are not in yet.

When asked whether Minnesota Senator Al Franken should step down even after he apologized, she said,  “His accusers have to accept an apology,” Pelosi said. “The victims have some say in all of this, as well. And that has happened in the past. People have accepted an apology, as is coming forth now that I see in the press.”

Hypocritical? Well, here’s her PREVIOUS position on those accused in such matters: Ten years ago in an interview, Pelosi said that any woman who makes a claim against a man for any type of untoward sexual action against her MUST be believed and action against the perpetrator must be taken immediately.

Summary

Americans are confused. I could spend hours listing the specifics of hypocritical statements and actions from members of Congress and others from D.C. There are so many that happen so frequently that no one knows when to believe anything we see or hear coming out of Washington. No doubt the political position of almost all those there are determined not on a day-by-day basis, but on a minute-by-minute basis. I can imagine Pelosi or Warren licking a finger and holding it up in the air to test which way the wind is blowing at that moment regarding any political issue being discussed. They each determine their position based on all applicable circumstances as they apply politically to them at that moment. And their position at that moment is NOT determined by any previous position they held. It’s only about political expediency.

There probably is no relief in sight. So as we watch and listen the various positions they take hourly in discussions about the really important governing actions about to be undertaken — Tax Reform, Debt Limit Increase, Spending Budget, Healthcare again — don’t lock-in on any position you hear a politician take as it being their “forever position.” Tomorrow when the air direction and temperature changes, so might their position.

Remember: “We must pass the bill so we can find out what’s in the bill.”

Is the Senate tax reform bill being contemplated with or in place of the passed House bill REAL tax reform?

Let’s put this in perspective. One cannot have a serious conversation about tax reform without talking simultaneously about the Federal Budget. Basic business principles begin with an understanding of a budget — revenue and expense. Because of budget reconciliation requirements in the Senate (which I think are hogwash and simply waste coverage), this tax bill is a ten-year bill. During that time, the federal government at current revenue levels will have $43 Trillion dollars of taxes paid mostly by Americans in taxes for the federal government to operate. Keep that number in mind during this conversation.

Current estimates of varied “experts” project the House tax bill will add $1.5 Trillion dollars to the budget deficit over the decade, the Senate plan $1.3 Trillion. There are probably 300 of the 535 members of Congress screaming about the Tax Reform Bill costing the nation o $1 Trillion dollars+ over the next ten years. That is and should be a major concern for our leaders. But with our accumulated budget deficit dollars that the government has been forced to borrow money to pay at $20 Trillion, it is laughable to hear budget hawks crying about tax cuts costing any amount of money. Let’s put their cries in perspective.

I own a small company. I have clients from the medical industry for which my company provides a service and has done so for twenty-five years. For the services provided, every month each client pays a fee based on the monthly successes of my company in the services provided.

Each year for twenty-five years of providing those services, I with the assistance of managers and accountants prepare an operating budget for the next year that is a combination of projected revenues paid by clients for our services and projected expenses we must pay to various vendors and employees to be able to offer those services. Obviously the goal of implementing the budget is to successfully operate during that year paying less in expenses than the amount of fees paid by our clients for our services. The money paid to us that remains after paying all those annual expenses is our profit. Every company operates with the objective, goal, and plan to make an annual profit.

For some inexplicable reason, years ago the United States Congress made a unilateral decision that it is OK to spend more money than it collects each year in revenues. And each year it practices that principle. In doing so in recent history — specifically during the Obama Adminstration’s eight years — our government spending deficit/debt increase equalled the total deficit of every presidential administration COMBINED since that of George Washington! The lunacy of this is that American voters allow elected representatives to continue this madness year after year, after year, after year…

How did we Get Here?

First, America can no longer perpetuate the hypocritical financial operation of the federal government. Doing so is exactly the same as giving our kids a credit card with a limit, then when they exceed that limit giving them another card with a limit which they exceed, then are given a new card, and doing so again and again in perpetuity. It makes no sense.

Secondly, most Americans do not realize where our government goes to get that new credit card and how they do so: they threaten to shut down the government to get the debt limit raised. Congress has no credit card to use. They rely on the Fed to provide that American Express black card with no limit.

The Federal Reserve simply prints Treasury Bonds. Those T-Bills (as they are called) are sold at Treasury auctions to raise money for the government to spend. Keep in mind the only collateral for those bonds that are sold is the “good faith and fair dealing” of the U.S. Government! But the debt associated with and payment for the borrowed principle amounts of those bonds is REAL.

Just a thought here: how “real” is that debt? What if when it is time to pay the interest every month or quarter to those who purchased those bonds there is no money in the U.S. Treasury to pay? Default. That has never happened in the U.S. But it CAN happen. I shudder to imagine the consequences for such a default.

Here’s another example of the idiocy of Congressional spending:

“An $85 million loan for a hotel complex in Kabul, a billion dollars in missing equipment for Iraqi forces and a $30,000 grant to stage ‘Doggie Hamlet’ are just a few examples of the ‘Federal Fumbles’ a Republican senator has flagged in a new report on wasteful government spending. The 86-page report from Sen. James Lankford identified $437.6 billion in ‘wasteful and inefficient’ federal spending. ‘We’ve got every variety — from very small to very, very large areas of waste and areas where the federal government just dropped the ball,’ the Oklahoma lawmaker and fiscal hawk reported today.”

How Can we Fix This?

You know what is missing in this conversation? You and me. WE pay taxes. We pay those taxes to the government so they will have necessary resources to operate the country…..FOR US. Yet their obvious disdain and lack of concern for the consequences of their financial choices is mind-boggling. Why? THEY do not pay the price for their bad choices of spending — we pay.

Let’s digress to the part of this conversation regarding the cost of this Tax Reform. Who will pay those costs? American taxpayers. Should we be saddled with the responsibility of paying increased taxes or through reduced government services as a direct result of over-spending by the federal government? Absolutely not. But we are forced to year after year. That $20 Trillion debt is now on the back of each American living and today — approximately $62,500 owed by each American. And that does not include interest.

Have you heard anything about balancing that budget the other way: cutting government spending? Absolutely not! Their preference is for you and I to pay more so they can spend more. Let’s talk about government spending:

• Let’s implement these tax cuts — PERIOD;
• Let’s let government make up that $1 to $1.5 Trillion deficit from these cuts over ten years by CUTTING SPENDING;
• “Oh no! We cannot cut spending. What government services do Americans want to give up?” Let me answer that by saying simply: “You guys in D.C. make up that difference.”

How can they do that? Plug the hole. Let’s simply immediately kill that $437.6 Billion government waste going forward….each year….for the next ten years. STOP WASTING OUR TAX DOLLARS ON THE SAME GIVEAWAYS THAT TOTAL THAT AMOUNT FOR 2016 AND ALL OTHER SIMILAR SPENDING FOR EACH OF THE NEXT TEN YEARS.

Do the accounting: $437 Billion per year for ten years totals $4.3 Trillion. “IF” the tax cuts approved by Congress go into effect and remain in place for the next decade, there will be NO deficit increase. Even if they cost $1.5 Trillion, the government waste spending stopped altogether adds an additional $4.3 Trillion in net tax revenue. After the tax cut deficit is deducted, the U.S. will have $2.8 Trillion left to pay on our $20 Trillion debt.

Is that too simple? This process with very different and much smaller numbers works in companies of all sizes throughout the United States and elsewhere in the World. Why cannot it work in Washington?

We have NO other options. We must immediately take control of the idiotic spending juggernaut in D.C.

Government Constitutionally is to be “Of the People, By the People, and For the People.” It does not say “Of the Government, By the Government, and For the Government.”

There is something in the wind whistling through Washington D.C. that will very shortly set the World on fire at its revelation. It will make the election of Donald Trump as insignificant as a foul ball hit in a t-ball game in Fordyce, Arkansas. And it will change the landscape of America’s political system forever. I will on Monday morning give all our readers the inside skinny on it all. Until then we will not post anything as we finalize details of this bizarre tsunami about to flood our world.

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I trust that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and spent time with those you love and who love you. Thanksgiving ushers in the holiday season every year which is the perfect 30-days to count all our blessings.

When I was a young buck and was often prone to gripe out loud when things did not go my way, one of my life mentors in the midst of one of those outbursts asked me this: “Who’s coming to your funeral?” I thought about it for a moment and replied, “My friends and my family.” He drove his point home when he said, “Then you need to spend your life investing in their lives instead of worrying about the things you cannot control.”

Let’s invest in our friends and families this holiday season. Let me be the first to wish you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! (Don’t wait until December 25th — let’s celebrate the true meaning of Christmas each day starting right now!)

Talk to you Monday morning.

Dan

Want to ascertain who and what is the REAL Republican Party?

Here’s what/who the GOP is NOT, at least today: it is NOT the Party of working class Americans. It is NOT the Party of big business, in spite of what Democrats say. It is NOT the Party of immigrants who are looking for a home with a government “by and for the People.” It is NOT a Party that answers to its nationwide constituents nor represents their interests. And it is NOT an honest Party — at least most of the time. So who/what is it?

Unfortunately for Republican Party members, it is a Party run by a group of old white guys that have since Reagan/Bush 41 maintained a choke-hold on the term “Conservative.” It is as if they have trademarked the name and are ready to litigate against anyone who claims to be a Conservative without their approval. THEY define its rules and regulations. THEY determine who is in leadership, who can and who cannot speak on the Party’s behalf, who can run for office wearing their banner, and what Conservatives MUST hold as the Party’s purpose and message. There is zero individuality in the current Grand Old Party.

Is The GOP Gone?

The Party of Reagan died shortly after his second term. Bush 41 — a true RINO — ushered in an era in D.C. that was created for one purpose and one purpose only: to quietly and stealthily nudge America toward a “Socialism Lite” political structure. After the amazing foreign policy victories throughout the 80’s coupled with a complete American economic revival, Americans were easily lulled to sleep. Complacency took control.

You may ask why Bush the Elder would lean to the left after co-piloting the eight years of the Reagan Revolution. Simple: Reagan’s philosophy of smaller government, more input from American citizens in governing, fewer regulations coupled with economic victories flew in the face of the former CIA Director and Reagan’s Vice President. Bush secretly wanted to quietly rebuild the D.C. ruling class that called themselves Republicans but were not conservative at all, but “Moderates.” His reasoning was driven by a pursuit for power, not money or status. He knew with government power, money, status, and everything else he wanted was a by-product of the political power he could accumulate.  He knew in light of the Reagan successes and the historic economic accomplishments, Americans would not even notice. And he was right.

Bush 41 orchestrated tax increases in spite of his famous statement at the GOP Convention: “Read my lips — NO MORE TAXES!” He broke that campaign promise that may have cost him his re-election bid against Bill Clinton. Americans should have realized with that broken promise he was the first “post-Reagan RINO.” He quietly initiated the “Socialism Lite” movement and Clinton in his eight years pushed that agenda harder and further left. Enter Bush 43.

Bush 43 did exactly what Republican presidential candidates must always do to get elected: run as slight right-of-center conservatives. Then when elected, move to the left to govern. It worked for him just as it had for his Dad. He governed (at least in his first term) more conservatively than his father — especially on economic issues. The Republican base adored him; the Left hated him. Iraq’s second war with the U.S. put him in a bad place with liberals, but he was able to use it to pander to the real conservatives in his party. His orchestration of the surge in Iraq pretty much saved what would have probably been a huge defeat at the hands of al Qaeda, and Republicans loved him for it. But for true conservatives, he did little else.

He perpetrated with the assistance of Congress a massive wave of spending (led by the obvious huge weight of debt to fund the War) that began the deep spiral into what is now $20+ Trillion. He opened the door and Obama took the cue and took America to another level of debt that has brought the nation to the most perilous economic point in U.S. history. None of this was based on conservatism other than the “Bush tax cuts.” That action was the only real conservative legislation spearheaded by Bush the Younger.

Let’s be fair: George W. Bush did push for some very good conservative causes starting with his decision in 2001 to jettison the Kyoto global warming treaty so loved by Al Gore, the environmental lobby, elite opinion, and Europeans. He instituted enhanced interrogation of terrorists which saved numerous American lives. He reinforced America’s degrading relationship with Israel, which was badly needed.

His next success was No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the education reform bill cosponsored by America’s most prominent liberal Democratic senator Edward Kennedy. Though it came with mixed results, he instituted a new benefit for seniors with the Medicare prescription drug benefit, enacted in 2003. He did receive a large volume of backlash from some conservatives for the drug program signaling a move toward socialized medicine. But the bulk of what could be called governmental achievements during the Bush 43 Administration were remarkably slim.

To be honest, the most conservative action by the U.S. government in post-Reagan D.C. was the Contract with America orchestrated during the Clinton Administration by Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich. It was the first piece of such legislation passed since Reagan (and since for that matter) that drew Americans into the belief there was possible hope for Conservative America. Remember the Contract?

Does Conservatism Have a Chance in This Congress?

Not under the direction of current House and Senate leadership. You gotta like Speaker Paul Ryan. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, on the other hand, tries hard to NOT be liked by Americans. If you drew a picture of a what an average American Republican voter imagines a typical GOP leader in Congress looks like, it would be of McConnell. He is the epitome of current Republicanism that most Republicans rejected in the presidential primaries. GOP voters feel strongly that status quo Republican leaders have in large part thrown in with House and Senate members from across the aisle to maintain the status quo in every way. Voters feel rejected, lied to, and without conservative leadership.

GOP voters also feel that their representatives in Congress are refusing to support the President that voters elected to get the things done the voters wanted:

• tax reform,
• repeal and replace Obamacare,
• stop illegal immigration,
• build the southern border wall,
• roll back abusive government regulations,
• stop the rampant exodus of American jobs to foreign countries,
• incentivize companies to remain in the U.S. saving jobs,
• getting economic growth in the nation to 3%.

In one year, Republican members of Congress have failed to achieve what President Trump and many members of Congress promised voters during campaigns would be achieved if they and Trump were elected. They were elected — they’ve done nothing.

Conclusion

The Tea Party was a breath of fresh air. It looked like beginning with the 2012 election conservatism had new life. And indeed Tea Party candidates who represented real conservative change upset many status quo Republicans in primaries and several were elected. Alas, politics took over, and Tea Party infighting ruined its effectiveness going forward. It simply disappeared.

Conservatism needed an outsider — someone who would never be beholding to anyone in any political party, who was successful, strong minded, non-political (or at least non-political thinking) and who could resonate with Middle Americans that the GOP as well as the Democrat Party had left behind. Seventeen candidates through their hats in the ring to chase the GOP presidential nomination. Only one espoused those elements that grass roots Republicans recognized was necessary to resurrect true conservative ideals in D.C.: Donald Trump.

As the World has watched his individualism, his understanding of battles experienced by everyday Americans, the World began to understand he was the only one of the 17 that could do it. Americans elected him.

In spite of the hearts of Americans, the establishment Republicans in D.C. would not relinquish their choke hold on maintaining political mediocrity. They tried everything to defeat him in his election and even today continue their efforts to defeat him with roadblock after roadblock in passing legislation promised in the campaign. Fortunately for Americans in the middle class, their actions are obvious and easy to identify. Those renegade “conservatives” in the GOP establishment have been exposed. And many will face the “voters knife” in the 2018 mid-terms.

The only way true Conservatism can possibly survive is if Donald Trump is successful. To be successful he must not only push through Establishment Republican resistance at every turn in the road, he must defeat Democrats AND the Media, who have sworn to run Donald Trump out of the White House. Fortunately he is not beholding to any “big guys” who funded his campaign — there aren’t any. He not only understands working class Americans, he is committed to them. Even better: they understand his commitment to them and have embraced him as the answer to Middle America’s woes.

For Americanism to not just survive this decade but flourish, it will take literally draining the swamp. That means the graft and corruption, the power and dollar plays for total control, the favoritism and elitism must each be removed from the D.C. landscape. America as we have known it will look just like the utopia Obama envisioned — a top-heavy, government regulated socialist state — in just a few years unless President Trump can drain the swamp (beginning with Congress), and allow American voters to replace the uncooperative swamp creatures with real working legislators who will implement legislation as promised in the campaign. That is the only way to restore conservatism to the Republican Party and put REAL Republicans in Congress.

America needs a Leader. And we need for all those who sold-out to the power hunger of the past to fade away, and to do so quickly. Every day new horrors about those currently serving in Congress and some from the past are being exposed. There’s been too much narcissism, too much quid pro quo, too many hand-outs and sweetheart deals. John Q. Public from Middle America needs 535 members of Congress to begin again to make every decision about legislation based solely on what is best for John Q.

Give this President a chance, give him the legislation he needs to accomplish what American voters put him in the White House to do, and let’s see what happens. After all, if we don’t like his results we can simply vote him out in 3 years now.

After all: Hillary will certainly still be around!

It is virtually impossible to believe anything we hear from the Left.

Why is that? The answer is simple: the truth is seldom an element of what we hear. One thing that is certain is everything that those on the Left say or write supports a Leftist political agenda. And everything and everyone are secondary to the importance of the fulfillment of that agenda.

In addition to this objective always just below the surface of what we see and hear, there is the ever-present double standard about everything they are part of. Take the current state of “political” affairs — that special Senate election in Alabama next month. Certainly the horrendous details of Judge Roy Moore’s sexual philandering as many as 40 years ago with underage women have not been lost on you. The chargers and the charges are daily piling up new allegations like Canadians are piling up firewood to get ahead of the winter weather. Women of all ages, from all backgrounds, and from everywhere in the nation are stepping forward to cast a cloud of evil over the Alabama GOP candidate running to fill the empty seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. With every new allegation or salacious story about Moore comes new charges against the former Alabama Supreme Court Justice. Please know that ANY sexual harassment by anyone is evil and unacceptable. This in no way is an effort to legitimize anything Moore has allegedly done. It is simply to show by comparison how politicians on the Left do not receive the same treatment for the same sins as those on the Right. (Please see the story posted here “Judge Roy Moore: Bulletpoints”)

Is What’s “Good for the goose, good for the gander?”

Not so much if you’re a Democrat. When it comes to the sexual misconduct of Dems, the ever-present double standard pops up every time. Let’s look at a few:

Former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer and Congressman Anthony Weiner

Spitzer was disgraced and ultimately resigned his post as NY Governor when his involvement in a high-end prostitution ring was made public. Weiner — the estranged husband of Hillary Clinton confidant Huma Abedin — was “exposed” (pun intended) when he was caught posting pictures of his own various body parts in internet communications with underage girls. Even though both ended up relinquishing highly visible political posts in their scandals’ aftermaths, Democrat leadership locally and in Washington failed to step forward to publicly register their horror for the NY Governor or the former Congressman.

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford

Sanford disappeared for almost a week without notifying his staff or his wife. With South Carolina’s capital, Columbia, buzzing with talk of impeachment, Sanford, 49, held a press conference to explain himself: he’d gone to visit an Argentinian woman with whom he’d been having an affair. Apologizing to his wife and four sons and choking up repeatedly, Sanford said he’d spent “the last five days of my life crying in Argentina” and had ended the yearlong dalliance. Sanford now serves in Congress.

Congressman Barney Frank

The powerful Massachusetts Congressman almost undid his D.C. career in 1989 after having an affair with Steve Gobie, a male prostitute. Although Frank was single at the time — thus not committing adultery — he did pay someone for sex (with personal funds), which is illegal in his state of Massachusetts. Congressional leaders never even talked about Frank and certainly never took any negative action for his illegal activities. He served in Congress until he was ready to retire and never lost any prestige or power.

Bill Clinton

In the early days of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, the most damning evidence was presented by Linda Tripp. A close friend and confidante of Monica Lewinsky, Tripp recorded her conversations with the White House intern — conversations that revealed intimate details of what Lewinsky said was a sexual affair with the President. It was these tapes that, when handed over to special prosecutor Kenneth Starr in 1998, led to the expansion of the investigation into Clinton and Lewinsky’s supposed relationship, paving the way for an eventual impeachment vote by the House of Representatives. Of course the President survived the impeachment proceedings and until this day is held in the highest political regard by millions. And he was never attacked in the media or by Democrats on the Hill. The women who stepped forward detailing sexual harassment by the former Arkansas governor and President were Juanita Broaddrick,     Paula Jones, Kathleen Willy, Arkansas news reporter Leslie Millwee, former fundraiser Sandra Allen James,

Senator Al Franken

The former SNL comedy star was exposed for sexual harassment today — so far by two women. Also released today were the audios of appearances Franken has made in front of live audiences where he makes comic remarks about sexual harassment. In one of the cases a picture showing his attempt at sex comedy with one of the women who was asleep at the time has been released.

“Rocky Balboa”

Almost simultaneously with the release of the Franken information was a verified story of Sylvester Stallone and an associate having simultaneous sex with a 16-year-old girl in a Las Vegas hotel room. And a police report was filed by the girl. Details of the report and the incident are pretty graphic. Of course a spokesman for Stallone has denied any of the details in the report. Reportedly Stallone threatened the girl if she went public because “both men were married.” Las Vegas police decided to not move forward with any legal actions against the Hollywood star even though because she was a minor they could have. Their reason? The girl who was obviously petrified declined to file charges.

Summary

There’s a disparity in the way Leftists treat the allegations against Clinton and those of other powerful men. President Trump, Harvey Weinstein, Bill O’Reilly and now Judge Roy Moore and the rest are unequivocally denounced as sexual predators, and their alleged victims are believed. But when Leftist pundits even bother to comment on Bill Clinton’s wrongdoings, the former president is merely accused of crimes; he has alleged misdeeds on his record; his actions require us to uncomfortably re-evaluate his legacy; his accusers are untrustworthy, or they’re simply promiscuous; and besides, it doesn’t matter, because he’s not running for president anymore. Most of the others detailed above received the exact same treatment. But maybe things are changing.

Geraldo Rivera today evaluated the apparent change in the way America globally is viewing sexual harassment from its view of harassment during the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. It seems that society may have stopped totally turning its back to such shenanigans. As an example, one writer for a well known New York daily reached out to about a dozen individuals who had years ago publicly stood by then President Clinton during the volley of sexual harassment (and even rape) allegations against him. Today, NONE would reaffirm their support of the former Harasser in Chief.

The “case” against Roy Moore may best illustrate this change in attitude. How? Every accuser has shared horror stories about their treatment by the Senatorial candidate that were mostly from incidents from 30-40 years ago. NONE has provided any evidence. Yet many in the public automatically believed the allegations and immediately turned against Moore.

Franken and Moore may be the sacrificial lambs in this process. It seems Americans may have gone from one extreme — ignoring claims of sexual harassment unless proven — to the other — believing all claims of sexual harassment even without evidence. Historically, when circumstances like these unfold that influence such drastic and immediate changes, eventually at resolution the process evolves into a solution in between. In those cases, for a period of time there will be those caught-up in one extreme or the other. We may be at that stage now.

Regardless of how the process plays out, it absolutely MUST play out fairly. The standard of sexual harassment must be equally meted out to any offenders regardless of political or economic status. After all, aren’t we all promised “equal justice under the law?” That Constitutional promise should be universal and apply here as well, even outside criminal circumstances. Americans deserve no less than that from other Americans.

In these cases, “What’s good for the goose MUST be good for the gander.”