"Schumer and Pelosi have for years been on
board with every silly attempt to restructure, to
transform, American society. They both jumped
on the Obama bandwagon the moment he was
elected. Along with Obama, they are
responsible for incalculable damage done to
this country over the eight years of that
administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
Obama's 'Hispanicazation' of America
Monday, 10 January 2011 08:28 AM
Siting a shadow on economic recovery
efforts in the United States is the cost of illegal immigration that consumes
U.S. taxpayer dollars for education, healthcare, social welfare benefits, and
criminal justice. Illegal aliens (or more politically correct, “undocumented
immigrants”) with ties to Mexican drug cartels are contributing to death and
destruction on U.S. lands along the southern border.
While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling “mules.”
Increasingly vicious foot soldiers of the Mexican drug cartels are taking control of U.S. lands along the border, especially since U.S. Border Patrol units have been reassigned, some to offices 60 to 80 miles inland.
The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) early last year posted signs warning citizens to avoid Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, Ariz., because of criminal activity in the area, an area that includes protected natural areas precious to the nation.
In reaction to public outrage over the signs, the BLM removed the offensive wording in October 2010, replacing it with the following: Visitor Information Update—Active Federal Law Enforcement Patrol Area.
As the liberal news media, far-left Democrats, and labor unions push for the “Hispanicazation” of U.S. culture, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the U.S. border has never been more secure.
Perhaps she is basing this on the reduced number of apprehensions, which result, of course, from reassigning Border Patrol agents inland.
In a recent New York Times article, Nicholas Kristof criticized U.S. citizens for not speaking a foreign language and suggested that “Every child in the United States should learn Spanish.” He concluded that as the United States increasingly integrates economically with Latin America, Spanish will be crucial for the United States.
For decades, the liberal left has argued that Latin America is essential for U.S. business and trade. Kristof states that Latin America “is finally getting its act together” but fails to mention the Obama administration’s $2 billion loan of U.S. taxpayer money in 2009 to Brazil’s Petrobras oil company for deep off-shore oil drilling. Obama confidant George Soros, through the Soros Fund Management LLC, until recently owned millions of dollars of Petrobras stock.
Kristof suggests that one day Spanish-speaking Americans will be part of daily life in the United States and that workmen such as mechanics will be able to communicate easily with Spanish-speaking customers.
He fails to explain why these customers will not be speaking English. After all, the ability to speak, read, and write English remains a requirement for U.S. citizenship.
While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling “mules.”
Increasingly vicious foot soldiers of the Mexican drug cartels are taking control of U.S. lands along the border, especially since U.S. Border Patrol units have been reassigned, some to offices 60 to 80 miles inland.
The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) early last year posted signs warning citizens to avoid Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, Ariz., because of criminal activity in the area, an area that includes protected natural areas precious to the nation.
In reaction to public outrage over the signs, the BLM removed the offensive wording in October 2010, replacing it with the following: Visitor Information Update—Active Federal Law Enforcement Patrol Area.
As the liberal news media, far-left Democrats, and labor unions push for the “Hispanicazation” of U.S. culture, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the U.S. border has never been more secure.
Perhaps she is basing this on the reduced number of apprehensions, which result, of course, from reassigning Border Patrol agents inland.
In a recent New York Times article, Nicholas Kristof criticized U.S. citizens for not speaking a foreign language and suggested that “Every child in the United States should learn Spanish.” He concluded that as the United States increasingly integrates economically with Latin America, Spanish will be crucial for the United States.
For decades, the liberal left has argued that Latin America is essential for U.S. business and trade. Kristof states that Latin America “is finally getting its act together” but fails to mention the Obama administration’s $2 billion loan of U.S. taxpayer money in 2009 to Brazil’s Petrobras oil company for deep off-shore oil drilling. Obama confidant George Soros, through the Soros Fund Management LLC, until recently owned millions of dollars of Petrobras stock.
Kristof suggests that one day Spanish-speaking Americans will be part of daily life in the United States and that workmen such as mechanics will be able to communicate easily with Spanish-speaking customers.
He fails to explain why these customers will not be speaking English. After all, the ability to speak, read, and write English remains a requirement for U.S. citizenship.
President Barack Obama gives lip service to increasing border control resources with limited funding and personnel. Many officials, including the governors of Texas and Arizona, are skeptical regarding the Obama administration’s resolve. They resent that the United States is being blamed for the killing fields on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. Border.
For instance, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in March 2009, during her first official visit to Mexico, placed the blame for the Mexican drug cartels’ vicious murders on the United States.
In Mexico City, she announced that the U.S. appetite for illegal drugs and the easy acquisition of guns from the United States by Mexicans are the root causes of the Mexican crime wave. “Blame America” has become the global agenda of the Democratic Party.
The Obama administration’s plan to resolve the immigration chaos is to offer amnesty to all comers. President Obama re-affirms his support of a “pathway to citizenship” (amnesty) for illegal aliens in 2011.
The administration, however, has announced no plans to control the influx of future waves of illegal aliens or their skyrocketing costs to the nation. The administration, which condones U.S. sanctuary cities and states, has no plans to file charges against them for violations of federal immigration law. Nor does the administration seem concerned about the environmental impact that illegal aliens have on the ecology of the United States.
Many national forests, parks, monuments, wilderness areas, and wildlife refuges — once the pride of the nation — are serving today as marijuana fields for illegal alien gangs.
Former Democratic Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi reportedly said
to a
gathering of illegal aliens
in California in
2009 that U.S. immigration
laws were
“un-American,” suggesting
that they need
not be obeyed. Concerned
citizens can only trust that the new speaker of the House, John Boehner, as
part of congressional oversight of federal agencies, will demand enforcement of
existing immigration laws.
When will President Obama recognize that illegal immigration is slowing economic recovery? Can he resolve the chaos while still appeasing his Hispanic base?
To maintain his populist aura, the president is in the habit of saying one thing to one audience and the opposite to another.
One Obama apologist explained, “Campaign rhetoric is one thing,” suggesting that governing is another. The deliberate Hispanicazation of the United States to secure a block of votes is quite another.
When will President Obama recognize that illegal immigration is slowing economic recovery? Can he resolve the chaos while still appeasing his Hispanic base?
To maintain his populist aura, the president is in the habit of saying one thing to one audience and the opposite to another.
One Obama apologist explained, “Campaign rhetoric is one thing,” suggesting that governing is another. The deliberate Hispanicazation of the United States to secure a block of votes is quite another.
They Destroyed Our Country
They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted
him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him
president, to the great injury of America and the world. They understood he was
only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made him king, doing
great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)
We are talking about the Clintons, Pelosi, Reid, Schumer,
Frank, Wasserman-Schultz, Biden, Leahy, Durbin, Murray, Kennedy, Hagel, Kerry,
Dodd, Hoyer, Baucus, and many others.
They all knew Obama was an empty suit; yet for private gain
and personal advancement, they trampled on the flag, betraying the very people
they claim to serve, preferring Party to principle. During the 2008 campaign,
they said he was unqualified, ill-prepared, and unsuited for the office. Yet
when his crooked ways carved out primary victory, they jumped on board the Ship
of Fools, stoking his engine with lies, deception, and propaganda. Hillary knew
he stole victory; but like a good Party operative, she buttoned her lip and
took orders, submitting to authority and covering criminality.
The Ship of Fools also carried members of the 'progressive'
propaganda press, people who made it a full time job to promote the Democrat
agenda and the joke called the Obama Administration: Chris Matthews, Rather,
Maddow, Schultz, Olbermann, Moyers, Sullivan, Friedman, Huffington, Sharpton,
and Krugman and legions of others.
They banded together with the likes of Bill Ayers, Jeremiah
Wright, George Soros, Saul Alinsky, Khalid Al-Mansour, Rashid Khalidi, and
legions of other radical Islamists, communists, and assorted America-haters.
Embarrassingly, many Republicans and so-called conservatives either helped the
farce along or were used as pawns in the promotion of the hoax. But the
greatest disgrace of all were evangelicals. Through sloth or ignorance, they
either voted for the poser or stayed at home on election day.
And what progress have the "progressives" delivered?
◾A
ruined economy.
◾Insurmountable
debt.
◾Bankruptcy.
◾Record
numbers on disability and food stamps, a dependency class mushrooming out of
control.
◾Federal
despotism.
◾Domestic
chaos, violence, and deepening divisions.
◾Systemic
demoralization.
◾Emboldened
enemies.
◾Erosion
of constitutional protections.
◾Looming
tyranny.
◾Loss
of global standing.
...AND SABOTAGED OUR BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX TO BUILD THE LA
RAZA DEM PARTY of ILLEGALS!
Now, with whistleblowers finally getting an ear on The Hill
and in the media, we are learning the truth about Benghazi. We are seeing the
end of Obama as a consequence; but, even if he exits, the disease remains.
They knew he was a catastrophe. They knew ObamaCare was a
train wreck. They knew. Yet they proceeded, and they may have destroyed our
country. For that, they can never be forgiven.
ALLAN ERICKSON
Allan Erickson enjoyed an 11-year career in radio, television
and print journalism as a reporter, talk show host, and operations manager. He
then turned to sales and marketing for a decade. Twelve years ago he started a
training and recruitment company. Allan & wife Jodi have four children and
live in California. He is the author of the book "The Cross & the
Constitution in the Age of Incoherence," Tate Publishing, 2012, and his
columns appear in www.ClashDaily.com and www.WesternJournalism.com. He is
available to speak in churches addressing the topics of faith and freedom. To
contact him, email: allanlerickson @ gmail.com
Democrats: A plague on the nation
How as Americans do we explain the intransigence of the left when
it comes to national security? 'Tis a mystery. These
people, these Democrats in Congress, are among the most privileged persons on
the planet. They have enjoyed, more than most, the blessings
bequeathed by the Founders, the authors of the Constitution. Yet
they are determined, like Obama, to transform us into something this nation was
never meant to be: a land without borders. While all of them are
on record supporting a border wall in the past, now that Donald Trump is
president, they all oppose it with every fiber of their being. They
know that it will work, and they cannot abide Trump having a win. These
people – Schumer, Pelosi, Gutiérrez, etc. – are truly
venal. Governor Brown has effectively destroyed California, now
benighted by rampant homelessness and the crime that accompanies a population
of illiterate, drug-addicted, gang-affiliated, criminally inclined persons
adrift on our streets. And now another young officer has been
killed by an illegal alien thanks to the left's obsession with protecting the
throngs of migrants crossing the border into the U.S.
It should be obvious to every American by now that our progressive
left does not have the best interest of Americans at heart. Quite
the opposite. They loathe those of us who put Trump in the White House
and are determined to punish us. They intend to raise our taxes to
pay for the $100B
illegal aliens cost us every
year. They need open borders to
import future voters; millions of illegals voted in the 2018 election thanks to
motor voter bills and states' refusal to require voter ID. The
Democrats know they cannot win without cheating. They cheated in 2016 and are still stunned that their carefully calculated
strategy did not work – thus, the cover-up, AKA the Mueller investigation, of
their many crimes committed over the Obama years, many at the direction of
Hillary Clinton with Obama's knowledge and approval. Our once most
revered institutions, the DOJ, the FBI, and the CIA, have been thoroughly
corrupted. Mueller, a willing participant in that corruption, is up
to his eyeballs in the cover-up.
Will any of these people at the DOJ, the FBI, and the CIA, ever be
held accountable? To date, they have not been. The power
they have within the Deep State is beyond formidable; it is seemingly absolute.
It appears that America has become a sort of medieval
oligarchy. Trump, as the outsider he is, is a grave threat to all of
those who believed they were in control in perpetuity. They are
ready and willing to do anything, no matter how illegal or immoral, to depose
him, to expel him from office.
The Democrats in office today, and those about to take the
majority in the House, are anti-Americans. Of that you can be
sure. They care about keeping our borders open to all comers more
than they care about keeping Americans safe. They all supported a
border wall when Clinton and Obama were in office. Now they hate the
president more than they love the country. Of this there can be no
doubt.
The Democrats hate Trump so much that they want the economy to
crash. They are hoping for recession. Is the Fed on board
with the left? It seems so since, that institution's raising the
interest rate yet again is counterproductive to our thriving
economy. It is the Fed that whipsaws Wall Street, is it not?
It appears that the entirety of the left – the media, the Deep
State, Wall Street, and the Democratic Party – is working in concert to bring
Trump down, no matter the consequences to the country. Meanwhile,
the Republicans in the Congress, most but certainly not all, are as bendy as
can be. With notable exceptions – Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows, Tom
Cotton, Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert – they hate Trump, too. He has
ruffled their feathers, their comfortable position as go-alongs-to-get-alongs
in D.C. They have no real principles, no gumption, no fuel for a
fight. They are cowards all, pajama boys. Paul Ryan is
their poster boy.
The young policeman who died in California Christmas night will
and should be a wake-up call for the Democrats. They are 100%
responsible for the presence of such criminals, protected by ridiculous
sanctuary policies in our cities. The
media and the Democrats are in an uproar over the two migrant children who died
at the hands of irresponsible parents who used them as a ticket to ride, yet
they have nothing to say about the murder of the young policeman in Newman,
Calif. He is, to them, a casualty of politics, of their grand design
to obliterate conservatives from the public realm forever. They do
not care about him, his widow, or his infant son. They were happy to
contribute to the odious Christine Blasey Ford's GoFundMe page, but not one of
them will contribute to a GoFundMe page for Ronil Singh's family. He
is law enforcement, so they feel nothing.
The Democratic Party of today is an abomination. The
assault on our constitutional republic began with Woodrow Wilson, and their
long-range plan to overhaul what the Founders built is still operational. The
left has nothing but contempt for ordinary Americans, especially those who
voted for Trump.
Leftists are dangerous when challenged, like a pack of jackals
dismembering its prey. They need to be defeated, indicted, arrested,
tried, convicted, and imprisoned. They are a scourge on the nation
as founded. They do not love this country; they seek to destroy all
that was and is good within it.
The Schumer & Pelosi show
Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the twin nutters of Congress, were
certain they could beat Trump at his own game, but have made fools of
themselves, as usual. The stand-off is not over but with each
passing day, the Democrats reveal more of their anti-American, pro-illegal
immigration agenda. Conservatives have been sounding the alarm for
years: Democrats do not care about American citizens!
We are an annoying inconvenience, especially those of us who do
not buy what they are selling. We vote against them, which makes
them angry. They lash out at us, call us names, impugn our
intelligence with fervor. All of the late-night comics, the Bill
Mahers of the comedy branch of the entertainment industry, are especially
venal. Jimmy Kimmel has decried those who have contributed to the GoFundMe page to fund the border wall as meth addicts. It was
begun by a Vet,
Brad Kolfage, who lost three limbs
and it's raised nearly $15m.
It appears that Democratic members of Congress are as snowflakey
as millennials on our university campuses. They assume that anyone who opposes
their ridiculous socialist, genderless, climate-alarmist, virtue-signaling
directives is a Neanderthal, unfit to have an opinion. It is then
thoroughly acceptable to malign such people, those of us who oppose every
aspect of their anti-America-as-founded agenda, in any and
every disgusting manner they can devise.
The left is all about identity politics. They assign
all of us to a group -- racial, class, and/or all of their fabricated gender
categories. The right is all about individuals, their
character, their talent, their contributions to society. We do not
care about skin color, economic class or sexual orientation. We do
care about good vs. evil, right vs. wrong. This makes us quite
villainous in the eyes of the left for whom everything is relative. For
example, we do not think poverty causes crime, unlearned values of Western
Civilization do. Try to steal an election? It is moral if it takes
out an opponent. We are, it appears, the left vs. the right, very
different on a neurological level.
Schumer and Pelosi have armed guards whenever they are amongst
the public. But they are both fervent in their quest to deny us the
right to bear arms and to prevent a wall on the southern border to protect us
from the flood of lethal drugs that flow into the US. They are
impervious to the crimes of the barbaric gangs like MS13, no matter how many innocent
Americans they kill. They do not give a thought to the many illegals
from terrorist nations that also seek to enter the country on a daily
basis. Schumer, Pelosi and their willing subjects in Congress ignore
completely the horrific hazards that cross the border every
day. They want cheap labor, no matter how many Americans are left
jobless, and they want, more than anything, a dependent underclass whom they
mean to give the right to vote. They already vote anyway, thanks to
the Left's rejection of Common-sense voter ID.
If there were a television program based on Schumer and Pelosi, it
would have to be a comedy; the two of them are so inept, so childish. They
would be Dumb and Dumber redux. Each of them seems to believe they run the
country and can dictate to the president how he will govern. They demand that
Trump abandon the wall. They have no intention of compromising; they
only want to deny Trump and his supporters what they want -- border security
that works. So enraged, so benighted, by Trump's presidency,
they would rather see us overrun by migrants from third-world nations, like
those who have destroyed the UK, Germany, Sweden, and the rest of Europe, than
protect America as a sovereign nation.
The "government shutdown" is just a ploy, many times
overused by now, relatively meaningless to the lives of most Americans. The
Schumer & Pelosi show will do everything they can to hype it as a disaster,
but we all know it is nothing of the kind. Trump must hold out for
funding of the wall.
While there have been some bad actors in our government in the
past, Schumer and Pelosi are the worst of the worst. They are
equally arrogant, each thoroughly ignorant of reality beyond the bubble of wealth
and privilege they inhabit. They both believe themselves to be
smarter than the rest of us, when in fact they are both really dim bulbs, long
past their sell-by date. Yes, Pelosi is good at raising money; how
and why is a mystery. That each of them is
repeatedly re-elected does not say much for their constituents'
familiarity with the Constitution, the law, American history or the facts in
their own communities.
San Francisco, Pelosi's district is now a hell-hole but for her
walled compound. New York too, like California, is a state that residents are
fleeing as fast as they can. Both
states have been destroyed by moonbatty leftists; high taxes, dumbing down of
education for political purposes, and the sacrifice of common sense to global
warming alarmists. Schumer and
Pelosi have for years been on
board with every
silly attempt to restructure, to transform,
American society. They
both jumped on the
Obama bandwagon the moment he was
elected. Along
with Obama, they are
responsible for incalculable damage done to
this country
over the eight years of that
administration. While their
constant appearances on television are so often humorous (Pelosi's silly,
practiced hand gestures and Schumer's relentless badgering of
Trump), they are not one bit funny. They are just
loathsome.
The Alinsky-ization of Brett Kavanaugh
Republicans and conservatives are fond of referencing Chicago
community organizer Saul Alinsky, but how many have read his body of
work? I've always referred to Alinsky's secular agitator
bible, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals,
as the sequel to The Communist Manifesto. Published in
1972, shortly before Alinsky's death, Rules was a
significant part of President Obama's and Hillary Clinton's political
upbringings – although he more influenced Obama, who followed in Alinsky's
community organizing footsteps in Chicago in the '80s.
Alinsky's thirteen rules are effective. The first step
to challenging them is actually recognizing them.
Here's how Democrats and the DMIC (Democrat Media Industrial Complex)
Alinsky-ized Brett Kavanaugh, in the lead up to, during, and after his U.S.
Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
1: "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy
thinks you have."
Outnumbered 51-49, Senate Democrats know that the arithmetic isn't
on their side. If the Democrats and Republicans each hold court
along party lines, Kavanaugh is our next justice, thanks to the nuclear option employed
by Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell last year to get Justice Neil Gorsuch
confirmed.
But a two-senator lead means the tie-breaking voter, Vice
President Mike Pence, had better be on call when the roll call vote to confirm
Kavanaugh is held. Democrats undoubtedly consider Republican
senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, of Maine and Alaska, respectively,
to be free agents, particularly over Roe v. Wade. Kavanaugh
was relentlessly questioned by Democrats over abortion; the goal was to create doubt
that Collins and Murkowski would vote to confirm him. If uncertainty
exists, it's unlikely that Democrats from states President Trump won in 2016
will cross the aisle. If Democrats somehow secure 51 nays, we'll
have the modern-day version of Borked: Kavanaughed.
2. "Never go outside the expertise of your people."
Alinsky wrote in Rules that "the issue is
never the issue." The reason the Democrats were obsessed with
the documents withheld by the president has nothing to do with the documents;
it has to do with the fact that the Democrats on the Committee on the Judiciary
were unwilling to have substantive legal
discussions. Why? Simple: because Kavanaugh would have
made the Democrats – several of whom are trained attorneys – look like
first-day law school students. Having authored 307 opinions, from 2,700 cases,
during his 12 years as a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, along with
dozens of speeches to law schools and legal groups, Kavanaugh's jurisprudence
bona fides are not only rock solid, but also very public. There is
zero we don't know about Kavanaugh's interpretive approach and acumen.
3. "Whenever possible go outside the expertise of the enemy."
I suspect that this rule guided The New York Times' and Associated
Press's show-me-the-woman-and-I'll-show-you-the-crime expedition two months ago
for the work emails of Kavanaugh's wife, Ashley, who was hired earlier this
year as town manager of Chevy Chase, Md. The Times requested any
emails that contained the words "gun," "abortion,"
"federalist" or "gay." Perhaps the Times
believed that Mrs. Kavanaugh was fond of attending The Federalist Society
lectures about concealed carrying lesbians who believe that abortion is
creepy. The Times' request was a big dud; 85 pages of emails later, and, I'm sure,
much to the newspaper's chagrin, nothing incriminating, and nothing about guns,
abortion, gays, or federalists was discovered. The AP requested all
of her work emails but hasn't yet reported on its findings.
4. "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
Though there weren't explicit questions about Kavanaugh's Catholic
faith, he noted his work with Catholic Charities. This rule was the
basis for California senator Cuckoo Kamala Harris's lie that Kavanaugh called birth control
abortion-inducing drugs (have you noticed how often I've already written about
abortion?). And here's the ACLU's predictable fear-mongering that Kavanaugh would
usher in a theocratic oligarchy. In fairness, I'm not angry at the
ACLU, because voting is a lot like any decision or purchase: it's done based on
fear or greed.
5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon."
Kavanaugh has been in Washington for decades; he's what many of us
would call an "establishment" figure. This has provided an
opportunity for the DMIC toattack his establishment
"elitism," which President Trump swore to reject by draining the
swamp. The median household income of Kavanugh's ZIP code is $12,000
a month, his house cost $1.2 million to purchase, and Kavanaugh racked up tens
of thousands of dollars in credit debt to buy Washington Nationals season
tickets. As coach of one of his daughters' basketball teams, his
moniker is "Coach K." If the nickname Coach K doesn't
smack of elitism, I don't know what does. The DMIC showed no qualms in portraying Kavanaugh as an
out-of-touch Beltway insider. Oh, yeah, and people will die if he's confirmed.
6. "A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
Democrats know that most of their voters are out for blood, and a
"good tactic" was to inextricably link Kavanaugh to President Trump,
an "unindicted co-conspirator," according to Harris and Connecticut senator
Richard Blumenthal, due to the plea deal of Trump's former personal attorney,
Michael Cohen.
In the old days, Democrats weren't quite as politically loony as
they currently are and were definitely more likable. Unlikability is
a good tactic for the Democrats; the temperament of a justice is important, and
the more unlikeable Democrats were in their questioning, the better the chances
Kavanaugh would lose his cool. But alas, he kept his cool,
especially during Harris's entrapping questionsabout
possible conversations he had with Trump's lawyer's firm regarding the Mueller
investigation. The Democrats tried to force Kavanaugh into the role
of de facto spokesman for the president, but he was ready for them.
7. "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag."
I didn't watch every second of the hearings, but I watched more
than 75 percent, and Democrats said Trump's name dozens of
times. New Jersey senator Cory Booker handled Trump fatigue by
putting on a theatrical production worthy of Broadway: Booker, whose claim
to fame was interrogating Mike Pompeo about
sodomy during his secretary of state confirmation hearings, dared his Republican colleagues to expel
him from the Senate. As was expected, President George W. Bush's
name popped up. Kavanaugh worked for Bush, and the implication is
that Kavanaugh has always been associated with illegitimate presidents.
8. "Keep the pressure on."
This is one of the easier rules to follow, because specifics
aren't necessary. Attorneys who litigate before the Supreme Court
know to expect random barrages of questions, and the Democrats kept up the
pressure by interrupting Kavanaugh dozens of times, not including the
interruptions from protesters. The interruptions failed in knocking
Kavanaugh off his game – same for the objections to the hearings, coordinated by Democrats.
9. "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing
itself."
If I had to pick one rule sold the hardest by Democrats, it's this
one. The "threats" posed by Kavanaugh sound a lot like the
threats posed by Robert Bork, nominated by President Reagan in
1982. Said Massachusetts senator Edward Kennedy:
Bork's America is a land in which women
would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch
counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids,
schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution[.]
Of course, had Bork been confirmed, none of those things would
have occurred. But that wasn't important; it was the "what
if?" threat of those things. In Kavanaugh's case, workers will
have zero rights, felons will own machine guns, and women will be forced into
back-alley abortions and die.
10. "The major premise for tactics is the development of
operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition."
If Kavanaugh is confirmed, the Democrats will have lost the
battle, but they will consider the larger war still winnable – especially
considering that he's expected to be confirmed a month before the midterm
elections. It was quite apparent which Democrats were thinking about
running for president in 2020 (Harris and Booker) and which weren't (Partrick
Leahy of Vermont). Those positioning themselves for a White House
run will incorporate their self-aggrandizing "resistance" to
Kavanaugh into their campaigns.
11. "If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will
break through into its counterside."
In the case of Kavanaugh, this is a slight overlap of Rule
1. Trump has gotten 60 federal judges confirmed, is reforming the
Supreme Court to how the Founders envisioned it, and has 100 pending federal
judicial appointments. These realities are red-meat selling points
to Democrat voters: "Look at the havoc Trump has wrought! We
must prevent him from further destruction!" Just how deep it
will break into the counterside remains to be seen, but desperation is all
Democrats have left (although projected demographics, if not engaged, don't
bode well for America First).
12. "The price of a successful attack is a constructive
alternative."
To have a chance of winning long-term political battles, there
must be self-immolation and sacrificial lambs within the Democratic Party
ranks. Adaptation is key. This is already underway, as
evidenced by the rise of "democratic socialist" primary winners
nationwide. In America, Leninism has always been implemented in
creeping doses, until one day, it's mainstream. The constructive
alternative will continue to be the message that overt, out-in-the-open
socialism is necessary to prevent future Brett Kavanaughs.
13. "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and
polarize it."
In Clintonian fashion, the Democrats will
persist. Remember: Kavanaugh can't prove he's not racist, or that he won't vote to
send abortion battles back to the states, where they belonged in the first
place. The Democrats will continue to color Kavanaugh identically to
how we describe Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor: as an
untrustworthy judge who legislates from the bench.
My prediction: Kavanaugh will receive 54 votes to confirm, with
Collins and Murkowski unlikely to defect.
Rich Logis is host of The Rich Logis Show at TheRichLogisShow.com and author of the upcoming
book 10
Warning Signs Your Child Is Becoming a Democrat. He can be found
on Twitter at @RichLogis.
