Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Julie Kelly Wants Pubbies to Grow a Pair

Julie Kelly wants the Republicans to grow a pair.

Not much chance of that, is there?

...From now until Election Day, Republicans should do nothing but campaign on a long list of inquisitions that will begin the moment they take power. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) already promised to investigate at least seven scandals such as the deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, the southern border, and the origins of COVID.

But that’s not enough. Public hearings on FBI corruption—from FISAgate to the alleged plot to “kidnap” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to the department’s role in the events of January 6—should be at the top of the list. 

The FBI has burned the trust of the American people; Republicans need to assume  responsibility for overhauling or dismantling the agency that now acts as the enforcement arm of the Democratic Party. Witnesses should include not just current and former officials but the journalists who do their dirty work—and the victims left in their wake.

Ditto for the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health. Who is responsible for so much bad advice during the pandemic? Who profited? Who suffered? And who will pay for their destructive, essentially unscientific approach to public health?

Republican lawmakers don’t want to touch the Hunter Biden scandal, but they have no choice. The collaborative effort to quash any coverage of Biden’s laptop in the fall of 2020 amounted to election interference; there are plenty of accomplices, including former intelligence officials and social media platforms. A full-scale investigation, complete with public, sworn testimony by Hunter Biden himself, is vital.

And speaking of the 2020 election, the airing of election fraud evidence in key states that was scheduled to happen during the joint session on January 6, 2021—an intentionally overlooked detail from that day—must resume. The overwhelming majority of Republicans still believe the election was stolen, and election integrity is a top issue for Republican voters. Fear of being labeled an “insurrectionist” has cowed many congressional Republicans; time to get over it....

They will NEVER touch the FBIThe FBI has files.  Pictures.  Videos.  Names.  Addresses.  Dates.

CDC/NIHThat might require disclosure of stock holdings.  Heh.

Hunter Biden?  Don't make us laugh.  That will mean that Republicans will be under the hot-lights for their......ahhhh.........friendliness to other countries.  The ones which give gifts to relatives, just like they did for Hunter.

As to election fraud?  The Republicans will not do anything meaningful in the battleground States because those States are Too Big To Hurt.  Besides, the Republicans get their turn at "winning."  That's a long-standing arrangement.

There may be a few sacrificial lambs tossed to the wolves, of course.  They'll be the people that nobody liked anyway (probably because they were scrupulously honest in the first damn place.)  As to actual re-form?  Hah. 

Z-Man puts it this way:

...The citizens of America trust that the way they choose leaders, while never perfect, eventually gets them leaders who address the needs of the people by respecting the will of the people. It may require a few elections, but the politicians eventually figure out what they need to do to make things right. This belief rests on the additional belief that the politicians want this result.

That is not reality and people are clearly beginning to understand this. Most Americans have no genuine representation in Congress. The Democrats represent abstract identity groups that get plenty of airtime but are a tiny minority. Most people, for example, only know crossdressers through the media, not in real life. Most black people can easily describe a woman. Of course, the GOP represents no one. White voters are well outside the ideological orbit of the Republicans....

Frankly, I don't think he's wrong.

Julie Kelly is a national treasure.  I hope she doesn't hold her breath waiting for her wish-list.

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