Vincent J. Curtis
25 Nov 2016
Senator Elizabeth Fauxcahontas (D-MA) and Representative
Elijah (Herring Oil) Cummings (D-MD) learned nothing from the results of the
Nov 8th election. This odd
couple co-signed a letter together requesting the Comptroller General of the
Government Accountability Office to conduct a review of the presidential
transition. And given how short a time
frame in which the transition will be completed, they want the CG to move with un-governmental haste. The point of
this is to try to disrupt the transition by embroiling it in an audit before it
is complete. The further purpose is to
cause pain to President-Elect Trump for the crime of winning the election and
exposing how weak the belief in progressivism really is in America.
This letter is founded upon “false news.” News that the transition is in “disarray,” “chaotic,”
and Trump involved in “conflicts of interest,” are claimed as the basis of the
need for the investigation, and all claims are footnoted to stories from Trump-hating
journalists in the MSM. Fauxcahontas and
Herring Oil go so far as to say, “Mr. Trump’s apparent conflicts of interest – and his behavior during the campaign and
after his election – raise questions about the use of taxpayer funds during
the transition, and about the decisions
made during the transition that will affect federal government policies under
the Trump Administration.
The Senator and the Congressman demand that a bureaucrat
intervene in the political transition of the constitutional republic on the grounds of Mr. Trump’s behavior in order to
change the direction of the policies he will pursue as President. In the immediate aftermath of the election. Who said, “Let every
vote count?” What is the point of voting
at all if the decision can be marred or overturned by the actions of an obscure
bureaucrat acting beyond his authority?
(Since the expenditure is not complete, and at this point has not
exceeded its budgeted limit, there is no cause for a review.)
Senator Fauxcahontas is a harridan of the first order. Her standard speaking style is
high-castigation. Like most extreme
progressives, her cause is her shield from sin and, consequently, she knows no
shame of hypocrisy. The Senator is known
as Fauxcahontas because she deceived Harvard University about her ancestry –
she claimed to be 1/32 Cherokee Indian – and on the basis of being a “native
American” Harvard hired her as faculty.
She is suspected of practicing law without a licence in the state of Massachusetts
to supplement her faculty pay, and somehow managed to become a 1 percenter in
income during the years she stoutly defended the illegal sit-in of Wall
Street. Her deception only came to light
as a result of her running for public office.
Representative Herring Oil gained a great deal of moral
authority during the Civil Rights battles of the 1960s. Since then, he has expended that moral
capital defending the indefensible in the cause of partisan Democrat
politics. In his position as ranking
member of the House Oversight Committee and the House Select Committee on Benghazi , he
spent his time and remaining moral capital defending Hillary Clinton,
undermining the legitimacy of the investigations, and stopping justice from
being done. It eventually got done, but
at the hands of the electorate, not the Congress. The Congressman got the nickname “Herring Oil”
during the campaign when, at an opportune moment, he was covered in Red Herring
Oil and tossed under the campaign bus in order to distract the press hounds from
following the trail of Hillary’s latest scandal.
What makes this pairing odd is that Representative Oil is
not famous for being progressive. He is
an extreme partisan Democrat party man and civil rights totem, but bathroom
etiquette is not high on his list of priorities. Fauxcahontas, on the other hand, is an
extreme adherent of the cause – whatever it happens to be – and is only
incidentally Democrat. They seem to have
little in common. I can see Fauxcahontas
doing anything to harass Donald Trump, but I see no reason for Herring Oil to
degrade his reputation any further by signing on to this loser of a letter. Fauxcahontas is a hater, and causing pain to
those she hates gives her pleasure. I
don’t see what Herring Oil gets out of this.
Most of America is in the mood for conciliation. I sense that most Americans are glad the
campaign is over, they like the overtures the President-Elect is making to
those who opposed him during the campaign, and they want President Trump to be
successful. This letter proves that
there are corners of the Democrat Party that want more conflict and will resort
to underhandedness in order to cause Trump to fail.
Even now, progressives are harassing Trump electors in the
Electoral College to get them to be faithless in their votes. Green Party candidate Jill Stein raised more money to
hold a recount in Wisconsin than she raised during the campaign. She was not close in Wisconsin, and neither
was Hillary, and Michigan just declared for Trump, enlarging his unconquerable
majority even more. What is the point of
these pointless challenges, when they cause nothing but pain and fail to
advance the cause of national conciliation?
The response to war is war.
The new Congress is going to have its hands full with Trump’s
legislative agenda and new appointments.
Not only are all the cabinet officers in need of Senate confirmation,
but so will be the new Supreme Court justice.
There is will be legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare, to start
building the wall, to fix immigration, to pass a sensible infrastructure bill, and
to reform the tax code, just to mention a few. The chances to obstruct the new Administration
while its political capital is great are highest during this period.
The House has the rules of procedure that will enable the
majority to drive the new President’s legislative agenda forward quickly. The problem lies in the Senate, and the
filibuster is the name of the problem.
When it was convenient, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) used the so-called
nuclear option to defeat the filibuster and gain appointments for Barack Obama,
and he then went on to declare the nuclear option legitimate only for those
occasions when he used it. The current
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is a traditionalist, and it would
cause him a lot of pain to widen the breach in Senate protocol caused by
Reid. Nevertheless, McConnell needs to
steel himself for the inevitable. It
would gain him no satisfaction to realize the pain he would cause in the
Democrats to see their obstructionism turned against them by a means they employed
first. But war can only be beaten down
by war, and war against fanatics will not end until the life is beaten out of
them.
We will see whether Senator
Charles Schumer (D-NY) is as concerned with Senate protocol as McConnell is – I
doubt it- but the devastation in his caucus may bother him more than it would
Fauxcahontas. Fauxcahontas has no
investment in the party as Schumer does, and I’m quite certain that she would
be as grimly satisfied at the devastation of the Senate Democrats in the wake
of widespread nuclear warfare as Hitler was at the devastation of the Germany
that failed him. It will be up the
Schumer to bring her to heel.
There are still Democrats who want war. I understand the desire and the need for
reconciliation, and those two aims might be met if an example were made of
those who still pursue war.
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