Ending the Democrats' Bad Behavior
It is long past time for the American people to give the government a good ole fashioned ass whuppin'.
We are all creatures who are designed to test limits. Anyone who has experience with children of their own knows that kids test limits all the time to see where those limits are and which limits are hard and fast and which are not. When children – or adults for that matter - are allowed to get away with bad behavior for long enough, a new limit is established and their baseline for behavior resets to that level.
The Democrats have been allowed to get by with ethical lapses and lawlessness for so long they no longer recognize any of that behavior as inappropriate or illegal.
Think about it.
While what Bill Clinton did with Monica Lewinsky in the White House was not illegal, it most certainly was unethical. Lying about it skated the law, but was certainly right on the line, and due to Democrats wanting to stay in power and Hillary's naked ambition, his behavior, while holding the office of the leader of the free world, was excused away.
A "private matter", they said. "Leaders in Europe have mistresses all the time," the apologists chimed in. “None of our business”, they said. “Personal behavior is not important as long as he is doing the job.” The result was a paradigm shift in the expectations for personal presidential behavior, a new low.
But as it turned out, that level only applied to a Democrat because, as we found out during the Bush Administration, people like Scooter Libby, who arguably did nothing, would be destroyed for one hell of a lot less than that which Clinton era officials got away.
Fast forward to 2008, when a do-nothing Illinois representative turned do nothing US Senator named Barack Obama rode to the presidency on the white guilt of liberals across the country. In short order, it became clear that now President Obama’s approach to constitutionality was going to be “I’m going to do this, you can try to stop me if you think you can” as he pledged (threatened?) to “fundamentally transform” the country. This tactic led to historic numbers of defeats in the Supreme Court, making him the most overturned president in modern times.
But the damage was done. Adopting the tactic of “preemptive activism”, he began to change the fabric of the nation in between Supreme Court defeats. He even got alleged conservative John Roberts to redefine the term “tax” in order to save Obamacare, Obama’s signature “achievement”.
And yet because he was the nation’s first multi-racial president, he was allowed to skate. Any opposition was called “racist”, and the fear of being called a racist caused behaviors by the Democrats that never would be allowed to Republicans to become the order of the day. Obama’s behavior set the level for presidential behavior down a few levels.
Obama’s first cabinet gave us Secretary of State Hillary, who failed with her Russia “reset”, instigated the Benghazi disaster by deposing Qaddafi, after which she was “investigated” by a Republican Congress without enough backbone to bring any charges or seek any reprimands, even for negligence or for failure to carry out her oath. Having escaped any sort of checks on her behavior for decades, Mrs. Clinton proceeded to transact federal business on a private server housed at her home, sending and receiving classified information through this unsecure server, having her minions strip classified designations from the documents. When it came to light that Secretary Clinton had mishandled classified materials, she had over 30,000 emails Bleach Bit-ed, destroying them, and had phones and Blackberry devices physically smashed and discarded even though those items were under subpoena.
While a candidate for President in 2015 and 2016, Mrs. Clinton was investigated by James Comey’s FBI, only to be let off once again after Comey determined that everything of which she was accused, she did, but it was not criminal, she was just “careless”. Once again, Hillary got a pass and the level of what was acceptable was ratcheted down again.
The Obama era produced perhaps the most brazen and ethically challenged Vice President since Hannibal Hamlin was Lincoln’s first term VP. Hamlin was a notorious do-nothing politician, Hamlin preferring to use his office to grant favors and have fun on the government’s dime. Like Biden, he was a career politician, remaining in politics after Lincoln replaced him before running for a second term. Hamlin spent his time cavorting around Europe with his wife as a diplomat to Spain until the age of 75.
Setting aside the fact that Biden was part of a cabal of officials that included Obama himself, that sought to boost Hillary Clinton to the presidency using the DOJ and the intel community to make up dirt on Donald Trump, and once Trump won, to find a way to destroy his presidency, Biden and his family, his son Hunter and brother James in particular, have been credibly accused of peddling influence.
They hit the big time back in 2014 using an Obama State Department induced revolution in Ukraine and lucrative contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan to siphon off federal aid and to solicit kickbacks from some pretty unsavory characters in Ukraine. The Biden family was particularly aggressive during Obama’s final term because, due to the Democrats’ backing of Hillary in 2016, he never expected to be president and Ukraine was his last chance to get rich.
In a way, Biden became an accidental president when the Democrat bench proved to be as strong as wet white bread and powerful Democrats could see another loss to Trump coming. Resuscitating a flagging Biden in the South Carolina primary led to the Democrats nominating an ethically challenged, money hungry, corrupt, career politician they could control from behind the curtain.
And so, for the past three years, we have seen the level of acceptable behavior for a president – and a government – be debased to perhaps the lowest level in modern history, leading to “fortified” elections, the weaponization of government agencies, disastrous economic policies, the most irrational governmental and social policies in history, up to and including the legal persecution of a former president and his supporters.
Literal third-world behavior.
But the Democrats have a right to expect nothing will happen to them, largely because for three decades, nothing has.
Richard Nixon and Watergate were once the low bar for presidential malfeasance, but Tricky Dick had nothing on Joe Biden. Nixon had the White House Plumbers; Biden has an entire construction company.
A real reset is coming.
Like poorly behaved children, bad behavior can only go so far until it must be corrected.
It is long past time the American people gave their government a good ass whuppin.
Really good again. And we have seen even within the Biden presidency how lack of response to each crime allows and encourages the next one-they had the nerve to set up the Reichstag Fire coup on Jan 6th because of those previous crimes they had gotten away with, then because of that success they had the nerve lock up the J6thers without trial forever, then go after proud boys who hadn’t even entered the building, then go after Trump more directly, then go after Trumps lawyers, now the electors. Again and again DOJ and FBI and Dems not punished for their weaponisation of agencies and their own crimes in pursuit of Trump supporters or Trump himself. It’s especially true with the DAs and the special counsels-Mueller being allowed means Smith would come along, and Smith has years of prior form for baseless and corrupt prosecutions, none of which ever lost him his job or his status or his freedom.