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 Do Republicans Really Work Against

Their Constituents' Interests?

by James Shott
 
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 Conspicuous Wealth and Consummate Hypocrisy 
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By Arnold Ahlert"We're not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money." —Barack liar-nObama, 2010
          As liar-nObama's post-presidential life continues to unfold, we are likely to discover one of two things: how much money is really enough — or how deep progressive hypocrisy goes.
          It's no secret one of the most enduring pillars of the American Left's political strategy is class warfare. And no one is a bigger target than wealthy Americans. Make that some wealthy Americans, like the Koch brothers. Harry dinky-Reid insisted they're un-American "shadowy billionaires" who "pour unlimited money into our democracy to rig the system." So what about billionaires like Tom Steyer, who donated $100 million to Democrats in 2016, or George Soros, whose far more shadowy political contributions dwarf those of the Koch brothers?
          Well, some "fat cats" are more equal than others. "Fat cats" is a term Barack liar-nObama used in 2009 to slam Wall Street bankers. "I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street," he said during an interview on CBS's "60 Minutes." That sentiment was certainly not misplaced, considering how many Wall Street bankers remained largely immune from the financial meltdown they precipitated in 2008.
          Or partially precipitated. It's worth remembering that Democrats played a big hand in that meltdown when they threatened banks with punitive measures if they didn't approve mortgage loans to people with questionable credit.
          It's also worth remembering that until "out-of-touch elitist" Republican candidate Mitt Romney broke his record in 2012, Barack liar-nObama took more campaign contributions from Wall Street than any other presidential candidate in the history of the republic.
          Now that he's no longer president, he's no longer taking campaign contributions from Wall Street. Instead, he's getting paid directly. "Former President Barack liar-nObama, less than 100 days out of office, has agreed to speak at a Wall Street conference run by Cantor Fitzgerald LP, senior people at the firm confirm to FOX Business," the NY Post reported in April. "His speaking fee will be $400,000, which is nearly twice as much as liar-Hillary Clinton, his secretary of state, and the 2016 Democratic Party candidate, charged private businesses for such events."
          Again, some fat cats are more equal than others. Moreover the man who railed against "an economy that's become profoundly unequal" in a 2013 speech, and chastised the top 10% of Americans for taking more than their fair share, has only just begun amassing his share of personal largesse. "With book deals, speaking engagements, and a government pension, former President Barack liar-nObama and former first lady Michelle liar-nObama stand to earn as much as $242.5 million in the next 15 years, according to data from the Kogod School of Business at American University," Business Insider reported in February.
          Part of that take was $20 million to $45 million The New York Times estimated the liar-nObamas would receive for their White House memoirs. Memoirs that would give them "more than enough to pay the estimated $22,000 monthly rent for the nine-bedroom home they will occupy in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington and foot the bill for flights on private jets," the paper stated.
          Those estimates were far too modest. According to the Financial Times, book publisher Penguin Random House will pay more than $65 million for the global rights to two books written separately by liar-noBarack and Michelle. The record-setting price for presidential memoirs, precipitated by an auction, dwarfs the $15 million paid to former president Bill liar-Clinton for his 2004 memoir "My Life," and the $10 million George W. Bush made from "Decision Points."
          In a hand-wringing column for The Washington Post, Ruth Marcus wonders if liar-nObama's "rapaciousness" is "really the image he wants to cultivate — for himself or for fellow Democrats?" Moreover, she asks, "Having left his party in such terrible condition, does he really have to offer opponents ammunition to attack him as hypocritical?"
          Apparently Ms. Marcus remains oblivious to the reality that Barack liar-nObama has always been a member in good standing of the "do as I say, not as a I do" group of progressives, all of whom are immune to accusations of hypocrisy.
          Fox News has chronicled some of liar-nObama's image-making, noting that since he left office in January, he has been on "a seemingly endless tour of millionaire and billionaire luxury retreats."
          Luxury travel agency owner Kendra Thornton illuminates the level of lavishness. "These are some of the most luxurious travel destinations in the world," she explains. "Many of our clients spend tens of thousands of dollars or more to stay at these resorts, which cater to the most discriminating and demanding guests. For example, Necker Island has a nightly price tag of $80,000. Anyone who stays at these properties does so because they want the best of the best."
          Pat Caddell, who was President Jimmy Carter's adviser, is less than enthused. "I think every time liar-nObama opens his mouth, the fair question is: Which billionaire's paradise island did he do it from? When is he going to do anything to help people other than enrich himself?" he wondered.
          In our capitalist system, achieving a luxurious lifestyle is in some ways the pinnacle of the American Dream for anyone with drive, the willingness to take risks, the entrepreneurial skills, and the ambition to go as far as their abilities take them.
          What is not okay is the rank hypocrisy of liar-nObama presenting himself as the arbiter of sufficient wealth — and the definer of "fairness" in achieving it — when there's no end in sight to his own appetite for luxury, or his highly conspicuous consumption of wealth.
          In other words, the class warfare rhetoric that was liar-nObama's political stock in trade now rings exceedingly hollow. "I'm not sure he's ever been more out of touch than he is right now," stated HBO host John Oliver last month.
          Not out of touch, John. Out of office, and no longer feeling constrained by political expediency — all the images of "rapaciousness" in the world notwithstanding. Even those political constraints weren't much, though, as he lived rich and famous while in the White House too. It's just who liar-nObama is — the consummatehypocrite. ~The Patriot Post

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COMEY Leaked Govt Docs – Should
Be IN PRISON Like Reality Winner
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Jason Chaffetz says if Comey typed out his memos on a government computer, they’re government records... If Comey leaked those memos, which he admitted in Senate testimony, he leaked government records. If he leaked government records, just as with Reality Winner, Comey should be sitting in a prison cell. In an appearance on the Fox program Outnumbered, the former Congressman, who just retired from the House at the end of June, stated there are several issues at play, one of them being executive privilege. He says, “You would think that the conversations between a President and the FBI Director are probably, most likely classified.”...http://rickwells.us/chaffetz-comey-leaked-govt-docs-should-prison-like-reality-winner/
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China’s Intelligence Networks
in United States Include 25,000 Spies
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by Bill Gertz
{freebeacon.com} ~ Beijing's spy networks in the United States include up to 25,000 Chinese intelligence officers and more than 15,000 recruited agents who have stepped up offensive spying activities since 2012... according to a Chinese dissident with close ties to Beijing's military and intelligence establishment. Guo Wengui, a billionaire businessman who broke with the regime several months ago, said in an interview that he has close ties to the Ministry of State Security (MSS), the civilian intelligence service, and the military spy service of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). "I know the Chinese spy system very, very well," Guo said, speaking through an interpreter, in his first American interview. "I have information about very minute details about how it operates."... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinas-spy-network-united-states-includes-25000-intelligence-officers/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=51f26f1e67-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-51f26f1e67-45611665
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 Comey Memo Leaks Are Felonies,
Undermine Special Witch Hunter
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Arrogant former FBI Director James Comey may have really sealed his fate with the admissions he made on June 8th that, among other things... he leaked classified government documents to Daniel Richman, his friend at the time, to be leaked by him to the media. It’s likely Richman is a former friend at this point having placed himself in legal jeopardy by conspiring with James Comey to leak classified US Government documents. Comey’s act of childish vengeance is coming back to haunt him. It turns out that, according to the computations of Elizabeth MacDonald’s guest, Jordan Sekulow, at least one of those documents was marked classified and regardless, all of them contained secret government information of conversations with the President...http://rickwells.us/sekulow-comey-memo-leaks-felonies-undermine-special-witch-hunter/
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 Do Republicans Really Work Against Their 
 Constituents' Interests? 
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By James Shott:  It's not news — not even fake news — that the political Right and the political Left don't see things the same way; they are different. The Left frequently sees things as problems that the Right doesn't regard as problems, and vice versa. And even when the two sides agree that something is a problem, they have vastly different ways of addressing it. The gulf between the two factions is arguably wider today than ever before.
          The idea that Republican voters sometimes/often vote against their own interests is a Democrat talking point, and this myth was the subject of a recent New York Times podcast. The podcast host, Times managing editor Michael Barbaro, interviewed domestic-affairs correspondent Sheryl Gay Stolberg, who cited the situation in Kentucky, one of the states that suffered mightily when the war on coal put enough people out of work to run Kentucky's coal jobs to the lowest level in 118 years.
          The out-of-work miners, forced onto Medicaid by the war on coal, benefited greatly from liar-nObamaCare's Medicaid expansion, Stolberg said, "yet, its Republican senators are leading the charge for liar-nObamaCare repeal, including for Medicaid reform. How can that be?"
          The answer to that question comes from the different ways of looking at the world and at life from opposite sides of the political spectrum. Which of the following sets of ideas do you most closely observe?
  1. The nuclear family is an antiquated idea, traditional ideas of morality and culture are oppressive, sexual autonomy is a virtue, and we just can't get by without government "help."
  2. We graduate from high school and possibly college, find a job to sustain ourselves, marry, and then have children and raise a family.
If you chose 1, you almost certainly lean toward the political Left; if you chose 2, you likely lean toward the political Right. These different views of how to live our lives define why Republicans vote against what seem to be their "interests."
          "Now, between the two parties, which one has centered its appeal around married parents with kids and which party has doubled down on single moms?" National Review's David French asks. "Even worse, the Democrats' far-left base has intentionally attacked the nuclear family as archaic and patriarchal. It has celebrated sexual autonomy as a cardinal virtue. Then, when faced with the fractured families that result, it says, 'Here, let the government help.'"
          How does this relate to Kentucky's Republican senators? They're voting on their ideas of what makes America great, and according to French, those interests "depend on the complex interplay between our faith, our families, and our communities." It's all about core values.
          New York Times columnist David Brooks traces these values back to American frontier towns, where life was "fragile, perilous, lonely and remorseless," and where a "single slip could produce disaster." As a result, the frontier folk learned to practice "self-restraint, temperance, self-control and strictness of conscience."
          Those values are at the heart of the American experience of carving a powerful and free republic out of a wilderness, a nation that has as a result led the world for decades. They reflect the Biblical values brought here and cultivated during America's first turbulent and troubled decades, and which formed the basis of the government created following the "Colexit" of the Colonies from Mother England's repressive grasp.
          Republicans, or at least those who are true conservatives, honor the ideals of Liberty, personal responsibility, self-reliance, and limited government, and to a less-than-perfect degree — but a far greater degree than those who call themselves liberals, progressives, or socialists — try to live by these values.
          Kentucky's Republican senators dislike the government's solution to the problem that the government itself created when it over-regulated nearly everything, and so they see a vote against maintaining this absurdity as a virtuous one. They prefer a system freeing Americans to make their own decisions about health care and health insurance without the one-size-fits-nobody concept Democrats created that we commonly call liar-nObamaCare.
          Their vote seemingly punishes those they should most want to help: their constituents and supporters. But the bigger picture shows instead the desire to free their constituents from the damaging big government policies that put them on the government dole. They want to create an environment where they can find another job that can sustain them above the poverty line, and off of Medicaid.
          Republicans want to do away with this Democrat-created problem. Their fundamental goal is to free Americans from this horrible, failed big government mechanism. Democrats' aim is to ultimately create a single-payer, totally government-controlled health care system that would mirror the British system. You know the one: It recently took control of decisions on seriously ill infant Charlie Gard's care away from his parents, and effectively ordered Charlie's death.
          That case demonstrates precisely how government-run health care will degenerate into death panels — a system where government makes decisions about who lives and dies based on numbers on a spreadsheet. And that explains why Republicans seem to vote against their constituents' interests. They're not voting against them at all, but for their Liberty. 
~The Patriot Post
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