March 29, 2021 at 12:47 p.m.
Pelosi exposes Democrats' hypocrisy ... again
Pelosi exposes Democrats' hypocrisy ... again
Talk about a nail-biter. Miller-Meeks survived a recount, Hart decided not to challenge the results in state court, and the state of Iowa certified the election results. Miller-Meeks was sworn in, complete with a letter of welcome from House speaker Nancy Pelosi.
But Hart wasn't happy. Along the way, she dug up 22 ballots that were disqualified by election officials on various grounds but that Hart said should have been counted. Had they been, she asserted, she would have won.
Instead of heading to court, however, she complained to the House of Representatives itself, conveniently controlled by Democrats, and this past week Pelosi gave the green light to the House administration committee to investigate and decide the matter.
The plan is to steal the election and pad the Democrats' razor-thin margin in the House. It probably won't work because there are a number of more moderate Democrats who won't support the effort once it hits the full House floor, for one thing because it's wrong and for another because they are in competitive districts where they could face a backlash for overturning a state-certified election.
One of those Democrats is moderate Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, who tweeted: "Losing a House election by six votes is painful for Democrats. But overturning it in the House would be even more painful for America. Just because a majority can, does not mean a majority should."
It should be said that having the House overturn the election is not without precedent. The House has done it before, three times to be exact.
In 1985, for example, in Indiana's 8th congressional district, Democrats handed the seat to Democrat Frank McCloskey, though Republican Richard McIntyre was certified as the winner by 34 votes. Democrats controlled the House, of course.
So Democrats are very good at stealing elections when they control the majority, and that's the first problem with the Democrats' power play: It's a power play.
It invites the majority party to overturn and steal close elections despite state certification. The constitution gives electoral power to the states for a reason, and the reason is that you can't trust the federal government to meddle in local and state elections.
This whole situation is not exactly analogous to the challenges to the electoral college count in January, but it's close. In the presidential election, for example, Sen Ted Cruz of Texas proposed objecting to the state-certified election results and then setting up a commission to investigate election fraud, after which state legislatures (mostly controlled by Republicans) could change their electoral votes.
Of course, unlike the Democratic proposal now, Cruz's plan had no chance of succeeding, but, if it had, it would have resulted in the same kind of power play, though it at least would have been on the state level. But that's why a boatload of conservatives did not join the effort. They opposed the federal government's meddling in state-certified election results.
On the most important point, though, the two challenges are fundamentally the same. They were both alleging election fraud: that illegal votes were counted in the presidential election, and that legal votes weren't counted in the congressional election.
At the time, though, the Democrats went much further in their rhetoric in opposing any challenge to the electoral count. Democrats accused Republicans of bringing dishonor upon the House. Many said actions to oppose state-certified results were nothing short of treason.
What a difference a few weeks make. If alleging fraud is treasonous, then the Democrats are being treasonous.
But there she is, Nancy Pelosi, after writing a letter of welcome to Miller-Meeks, trying to do the very same thing the Democrats accused the Republicans of doing. It is rank and obvious hypocrisy.
It's all very simple. Hart lost the initial count. Hart then lost a recount. Hart refused to take her challenge to the state courts. Then the Legislature certified the election, and that should be that.
Of course, we know the Democrats are no strangers to hypocrisy, even on the matter of overturning elections. While they decried efforts to object to electoral college certification this year, for example, many Democrats supported Barbara Boxer's effort in 2005 to object to Ohio's 2004 electoral votes.
Here's liberal Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, who denounced the 2021 challenge, in 2005: "Some may criticize our colleague from California for bringing us here for this brief debate. I thank her for doing that because it gives members an opportunity once again on a bipartisan basis to look at a challenge that we face not just in the last election in one state but in many states."
Democratic hypocrisy doesn't stop there. Now in the majority, the Democrats want to get rid of the filibuster. But that's not what they have wanted to do in the past when they were in the minority.
Former president Barack Obama now says the filibuster is but a relic of the Jim Crow era, but as a senator back in 2005, he labeled it a valuable tool to prevent minority oppression by a tyranny of the majority.
Obama objected to "changing the rules in the middle of the game so that they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet. If the majority chooses to end the filibuster, if they choose to change the rules and put an end to Democratic debate, then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse."
There's immigration. During Trump's tenure there were sensationalized stories about kids in cages at the border, but now that Biden is president and kids are in cages at the border, Democrats defend this hypocritically by saying the conditions aren't the same, but they have banned the press from the area and have told visiting U.S. senators to delete any photos they took.
The photos they did release show inhumane conditions.
And let's don't forget about foreign policy. The Democrats have always been better than Republicans at conducting Forever Wars and bombing innocent people abroad, to support monied interests and dictators, and the Biden administration has rehabilitated the military-industrial complex.
Upon taking office, Biden proudly proclaimed that "diplomacy is back." Then he bombed Syria. He also named Anthony Blinken, one of the Democratic Party's most reliable militarists, as secretary of state.
One comic recently joked, what's the difference between a Trump missile and a Biden missile? Why, of course, the Biden missile has "social justice" painted on the side.
Little wonder that the Bush-Cheney neoconservatives led by the NeverTrumper Bill Kristol have migrated back to the Democratic Party. This should tell everybody where the path to peace does not lie, no matter what hypocritical "peace Democrats" tell you.
From electoral integrity to the filibuster to immigration policy to foreign policy, the Democrats are hypocrites in a liberal world vision that merges a philosophy of government dependence with unbridled multinational corporate power, and they will do anything, from stealing elections to bombing innocents to censorship, to attain and sustain it.
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