Clarifying

"If we can just keep politicians from screwing it up!"

When a politician tells you they are trying to solve your problems...

At Maggie's Farm, The Barrister brings us this quote from Thomas Sowell:

“No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems – of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.”

Lies, Lies, Lies!

Guest post
by Suzann Darnall

This will be quite short and not so sweet. I am angry. Exceedingly angry. I am fed up with the constant stream of lies that inundate me from far too many sides. If it is not another politician lying or “misspeaking”, it is the media lying about what some politician did or did not “misspeak” about.

Is it really that hard to just say the truth? I don’t think so. But, apparently too many people in the public eye find it pert near impossible. If we are to judge by the neverending story lines of falsehood after falsehood that streams across our computers, tablets, and smartphones, it is a national epidemic of fibbing that has swept across our country . . . possibly even the world.

To those who would continue to mislead us, I say, “Just step to the plate, live up to your commitments, honor your oaths, dig deep for some integrity, respect your obligations, and tell the d@mn truth!!!” I am not completely certain when so many Americans stopped valuing the truth, but I am surely sad to see that deception is now just an everyday event for far too many.

I expect honesty from my family, friends, and the companies with which I do business. I am honest in my dealings with others. Why should I not expect the same from my government and media??? Just stop with all the lies!

Unfortunately, most of these lying lowlifes will continue to be re-elected or employed, even if they tell the truth. But, at least it is some small measure of improvement if they are truthful lowlifes for a change. I know they are useless, but I’d still prefer they are not lying to me on top of being worthless pieces of crap.

And, don’t even get me started on the lying, lowlife celebrities!!!

Talking points

The Democrats are unified in sticking to their claims that the Russians influenced our election of Donald Trump, and the Republicans say that the Deep State feloniously unmasked American citizens and members of Trump's staff by leaking intelligence surveillance to people not authorized to have the information. Frankly, I have my doubts as to whether the Congressmen and women on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees have even read very much of the intel! Folks, we have no privacy!

Europe: "Suicidal elites, suicidal politicians, a suicidal media.”

Happy Acres finds this quote from a European,

“I don’t believe that the majority of the European people any more than a majority of the British or the American people are actually suicidal. It’s a great problem for us that we have suicidal elites, suicidal politicians, a suicidal media.” Douglas Murray (via konservativegedanken)

Lying

The reality is that something new and quite significant was learned at the hearing: Within hours of the attack on the U.S. facility, Clinton told the Egyptian prime minister “we know that the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack, not a protest.”

But two days later, while standing before the flag-draped coffins of the four Americans killed in the attack, grieving members of their families and millions of Americans watching on TV, Clinton attributed the tragedy to protests of “an awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with.”

I’m sorry, folks, but that circle cannot be squared. If “it was a planned attack, not a protest” and “had nothing to do with the film,” it could not have been caused by “an awful Internet video.” Yet Clinton — and President Obama, his spokesman Jay Carney, National Security Adviser Susan Rice and others in the White House — repeated the video lie over and over again for days thereafter.

Four Americans died, then Clinton, Obama, Rice, et. al. lied. And we wonder why nobody believes anything said by the government these days, and why the mainstream media has a profound credibility problem. Americans in flyover country know that liars cannot be trusted.

Before Republicans get too self-righteous, however, they better look at the beam of lies in their own eyes. For years, GOP leaders have promised they would reduce the size, costs and power of the federal government, but over and over again, once they get elected, too many of them act as if they never made that promise.

...They had hardly taken their oaths of office in January before Republican leaders were walking back their promise, saying there was no point in passing legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare because Obama would simply veto it. They knew before the election that Obama would be president after the election, so why did they make a promise they obviously didn’t intend to keep? That’s lying.

This country is in terrible shape. Our military is aging, worn-out and in the grip of debilitating political correctness. The national debt is nearly $19 trillion and much of it is owed to China. Hundreds of billions of tax dollars are redistributed every year from productive citizens to wasteful, ineffective federal programs that lock generations into a permanent cycle of poverty and dependence. Year after year, public schools graduate legions of students who can’t read, write a coherent sentence, do basic math, or explain why the American Revolution was fought.

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