Hillary Lost the Election and the Progressive Democrats Lost America -- Neither Will Admit It

Let's troll through the Wednesday news for the most worrisome stories. • • • HILLARY SAYS "WASN'T ME." Some news never changes -- for example, Hillary Clinton NEVER admits that she is to balme. Secret unsecured server -- Wasn't Me. Mishandling classified documents -- Wasn't Me. Lying to Congress -- Wasn't Me. Sleeping while Benghazi burned -- Wasn't Me. Selling Libyan weapons to islamic terrorists -- Wasn't Me. Selling her State Department office in Play-for-Play -- Wasn't Me. Insider trading -- Wasn't Me. Vince Foster --Wasn't Me. AND, Losing the election Wasn't Me. • Our Girl Hillary just told CNN's Christiane Amanpour : “I was on the way to winning before Jim Comey’s letter and ‘Russian’ Wikileaks...scared off late voters.” Poor Hillary. She just cannot tell the truth or come to terms with the fact that Americans simply do not trust or like her, and they would never ever have elected her President. So, Hillary -- FBI Director Comey may be an unlikeable individual, and Wikileaks may be leaking US government secrets occasionally -- but that is not why you lost. You lost because Americans saw through your family scam that ran roughshod over every lay that stood in the way of your making money out of your public office. Just say it -- many of your actions were under investigation for potential criminal intent, regardless of how Comey chose to characterize them, and Wikileaks published ‘proof’ of what Americans already knew, that your multiple mis-dealings and relationships made you unfit for the Office of the Presidency. • Actually, the Democrats are on to the practical explanation for why you lost -- you didn't get as many votes as Donald Trump did because your Democrat base didn't turn out while Trump's did. Simple, isn't it? Just say it, Hillary. • • • THE DEMOCRATS ARE SINKING. And, a lot of it has to do with their blind lemming following of Hillary Clinton down to defeat in 2016. The Clinton stranglehold on the ProgDems has been broken, but it took the thumping defeat last November to kill off the Clinton family scam. As Zero Hedge put it : "Ironically, while offering up the most ridiculous explanation possible for the outcome of the 2016 election, undoubtedly in an effort to erase all blame from Hillary herself (it wasn’t Hillary’s fault, her team just didn’t turn out the voters...they failed her), one strategist noted it’s important to “learn the right lesson from 2016” and not just the one “that makes us feel good at night." And as The Washington Post’s most recent poll shows, 67% of Americans think the Democrats are out of touch -- including nearly half of Democrats themselves. Consider that last point -- the Democratic Party is viewed as far more out of touch by Democrats than Trump or the GOP are by Republicans. Even the media Progressive Democrat lapdogs understand the problem. Journalists fired back Tuesday at Hillary Clinton after she blamed the media for not pressing Trump enough on policy details. Clinton made the comments at a Women for Women luncheon in New York City during her discussion with Amanpour. Journalists tweeted their disagreement. Mark Murray tweeted : "Come on -- that was Lester Holt's first question in the very first debate." Glenn Thrush tweeted : "Hillary takeaways 1) Loathes Trump 2) blames Comey/Putin 3) the 'real' Hillary-funny, hard-edged, unguarded 4) blames everyone but self." Chris Cillizza tweeted : "Hillary attacking the media is totally misguided: We asked Trump for specifics on his plans over and over again." • Mrs. Clinotn, here is a piece of advice -- go home, write your book, cry in your beer - oops, champagne, count your ill-gotten millions, and never show you face again in any election, because you will lose. Got it?? • • • AND HILLARY ISN'T THE ONLY PROBLEM DEMOCRATS HAVE. • • • ILLEGAL UNMASKING OF AMERICANS. Newsmax and AP reported Wednesday that an intelligence report issued Tuesday shows that "government officials requested to know the identities of more than 1,900 Americans whose information was swept up in National Security Agency surveillance programs last year." The identities of US citizens and legal permanent residents were found in 3,914 intelligence reports the NSA distributed last year, according to the annual report, whose finding comes just weeks after President Trump accused former President Obama's national security advisor of possibly committing a crime when she asked government analysts to disclose the names of Trump associates documented in intelligence reports. The AP said that most names in such intelligence reports "are masked to protect privacy, but last year government officials requested that 1,934 identities -- not initially revealed in the NSA reports -- be unmasked in order to understand the intelligence being conveyed. In 2015, government officials requested the unmasking of 2,232 identities." • Got that tidbit?? After lying to Congress for years, the Obama White House has finally been called out for illegally sweeping up and unmasking Americans' emails and calls under warrantless government surveillance programs created to collect information on foreign intelligence targets. After former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents revealing extensive government surveillance, Congress passed a law that ended bulk collection. But communications companies collect the data -- the report showed that even under the new law, the NSA still collected more than 151 million records about Americans' phone calls in 2016 -- and the NSA still can access it for national security purposes, which is what the Obama White House did. Obama's national security advisor, Susan Rice, has said neither she nor other Obama officials used secret intelligence reports to spy on Trump associates for political purposes. But, Rice's official role would have given her the ability to request that names be revealed for national security purposes, and, indeed, in interviews, Rice acknowledged that she sometimes asked for the names of Americans referenced in reports. She refused to say whether she saw intelligence related to Trump associates or whether she asked for their identities. Democrat Senator Ron Wyden told Newsmax/AP : "This report provides a small window into the government's surveillance activities, but it leaves vital questions unanswered. At the top of the list is how many Americans' communications are being swept up." • • • PLANNED PARENTHOOD NEGOTIATES HARVESTED BABY PART PRICES. Infowars reported last week, in news the mainstream media ignored, that Center for Medical Progress founder claims Planned Parenthood is guilty of “criminal trafficking and profiteering in fetal body parts.” Here's the Infowars report : "A Planned Parenthood (PP) senior executive, who in 2015 admitted she wanted to make enough money off of harvested fetal parts to buy a “Lamborghini,” has again been caught haggling over baby body part prices. In a new undercover video released Wednesday by The Center for Medical Progress (CMP), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Medical Directors’ Council President Dr. Mary Gatter explicitly discusses pricing for aborted baby body parts. 'I did it in L.A., I’m committed to it, I think it’s a great idea,' Gatter tells undercover operatives posing as buyers. 'What kind of volume do you need and what gestational ages?' Gatter informs the buyers they must 'pay a little money to use the space,' to which the buyer replies that most clinics charge 'per specimen.' Negotiating a per specimen price, Gatter hovers over a $75 figure, asking, 'Per specimen. Like $75 a specimen? $75 a specimen, or $50 a specimen?' Gatter again asks. The buyer responds, 'What we’ve been quoting is $50 per specimen. I think some people are doing more, some slightly less.' Claiming it is 'on the low end,' Gatter asserts the $50 per specimen price 'was like 12 years ago.' The buyer continues stating, 'What we like about per-specimen is that way we’re not paying for [fetal] material that we can’t use, you know?' to which Gatter nods and says, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah.' The buyer also emphasizes they want intact fetal parts, saying, 'If we can get a liver, a lung, and you know, a brain–' Gatter interrupts, asking 'But you would show up to do this? You would send somebody,' to which the buyer answers they would send a tech. 'Yeah I’d be willing, give me a call,' Gatter ends the conversation. During the exchange Gatter says the Pasadena PP clinic harvests tissue and organs from gestated fetuses up to 16 weeks old, but that other clinics she’d worked at had harvested at 24 weeks and later. While federal law allows reimbursement for costs related to fetal organ or tissue donation, it does not allow the sale and purchase of specific organs and tissues, according to CMP. In congressional testimony last year, Planned Parenthood (PP) claimed it hadn’t kept financial records of federal reimbursements, however contracts and invoices acquired by CMP showed tissue procurement agencies such as Novogenix, StemExpress and Advanced Bioscience Resources 'all made monthly payments to Planned Parenthood based on the number of resalable fetal specimens the wholesalers’ workers could harvest inside the abortion clinics,' CMP notes in a press release. In the case of PP Los Angeles, which carries out some 15k abortions per year, Novogenix was contracted out at $45 'per donated specimen.' PP however did not reveal to congressional investigators the total amount they were awarded under the contract. This case is still being investigated for criminal wrongdoing by Justice Department and FBI officials." • This is the Planned Parenthood and its fetal tissue harvesters that the Progressive Democrats are protecting from federal budget cuts. Disgusting,even for ProgDems. Operation Rescue President Troy Newman has requested US Attorney General Jeff Sessions bring to justice the offending Planned Parenthood locations : “We urge Attorney General Sessions to take immediate action to bring those responsible for breaking the law at Planned Parenthood to justice. We are a nation of laws, and if the laws are not enforced, they become meaningless.” • If we think the ProgDems in power do not protect Planned Parenthood fetal tissue harvesting and sales, consider this -- In 2016, Center for Medical Progress head David Daleiden was indicted by a grand jury in Harris County, Texas, for the felony charge of using a fake ID and a misdemeanor charge for e-mailing an offer to buy fetal tissue. The charges were dropped in 2016. The California Department of Justice raided Daleiden’s home in 2016 to seize his laptop and hard drives, which held information pertaining to CMP’s 30-month investigation into Planned Parenthood. In 2017, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed 15 felony charges against Daleiden and associate Sandra Susan Merritt for posing as employees of a medical research company and secretly recording confidential conversations, and these charges still stand. • How much longer can the ProgDems protect fetal tissue harvesting by PP??? • • • Another unreported news tidbit is provided by Free Beacon, which published an article saying that the private internet company hired by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to maintain her private email server has been obstructing a congressional investigation into its actions for more than a year, prompting a leading lawmakers to refer the case to the Trump administration Department of Justice for criminal prosecution. Representative Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, has asked the DOJ to prosecute Platte River Networks CEO Treve Suazo for obstructing a congressional investigation into his company’s role in providing security for Clinton’s home brewed email server, which became the subject of widespread debate following revelations that it had multiple security vulnerabilities. Smith, whose committee has jurisdiction over the investigation, said the Congress would not tolerate Platte River's failure to comply with the investigation : "The Committee is referring Mr. Treve Suazo, CEO of Platte River Networks, to the Department of Justice for prosecution under federal laws pertaining to failing to produce subpoenaed documents, making false statements to Congress regarding possession of documents, and obstructing Congress. Platte River Networks, a company hired by former Secretary Hillary Clinton, has deliberately withheld requested materials from the Committee and refused to comply with lawfully issued subpoenas. With a new administration in place, I am hopeful that the Department of Justice will appropriately respond to the referral. We cannot allow companies with valuable information to stonewall us in our oversight efforts. "Free Beacon sqys that senior congressional aides said their investigation shows there is mounting evidence there were "pretty serious cyber security concerns" with Clinton’s server. At least two subpoenas and letters from the congressional investigation team were unanswered by Platte River, prompting Smith to refer the case to the DOJ for criminal prosecution. Congressional investigators allege that the company is guilty of failing to produce key documents, making false statements to Congress, and of obstructing the investigation into Clinton’s server. Two other companies that were subpoenaed and investigated by the committee complied with requests for information. According to a committee staff member : "This is atypical. There were absolutely zero negotiations, there was no willingness on their part to discuss whether any information they would provide would satisfy the committee's request. It was just the company, with council, refusing to discuss" the matter. • Hillary Clinton’s secret unsecured server had many security vulnerabilities and was subjected to multiple hack attacks, according to committee staff. There were "serious concerns about the vulnerability of information stored on the server because that information was not encrypted," one aide told Free Beacon, adding "Those security alerts detailed numerous attempts to hack Clinton’s server" from North Korea, Germany, the United States, and elsewhere. • But, Hillary would have us believe, "Wasn't Me." • • • OBAMA'S WALL STREET SPEAKING FEE. It seems the ProgDems simply cannot keep their leaders from consorting with "the enemy"...especially when gigantic speaking fees are involved. bama remains enormously popular with Progressives, but he has come under considerable fire from ProgDems who are angered by his decision to accept $400,000 from financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald for a speech at a healthcare conference in September. The issue has renewed tensions between leftist Progressives and mainstream Democrats that emerged during the bitter 2016 primary contest between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders, who campaigned hard against the influence of money in politics. Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren have both registered their disappointment with Obama, proving that not even the most revered Democrat can escape the wrath of the Sanders wing of the party. Mainstream Democrats are frustrated by the criticism, arguing that Obama is now a private citizen who should be free to pursue new opportunities. They say the left is increasingly holding liberal politicians to an unreasonable standard that divides the party and distracts from the work of opposing President Trump’s agenda. Progressives say that Democrats are again missing the lessons they should have learned in 2016. • The speaking fee has even called into question Obama's "legacy" -- Nina Turner, a former Sanders surrogate, said that it’s time Democrats wrestle with Obama’s legacy, which includes Wall Street executives in top advisory roles and a sharp rise in income inequality. Turner said that money in politics will be a bellwether issue for candidates in 2018 and beyond as emboldened Progressives hope to build on Sanders’s 2016 campaign successes. Turner said : “President Obama may not be in politics anymore, but he’s very much a symbol of what Democrats stand for, and so people are disappointed by this. It’s not the right synergy for the former Democratic president to be taking money from the enemy. Americans believe that the more money you have, the more access you get, and now our beloved president is proving them right. Progressives want something to be done about this, about Citizens United, and we will absolutely judge our candidates on these issues.” • The criticism apparently bothered Obama, whose office put out a lengthy statement last week noting that the speech is at a healthcare forum and that his insights are particularly valuable as someone who signed a historic healthcare reform law. Senior advisor Eric Schultz said Obama raised more money from Wall Street than any candidate in history, but “still went on to successfully pass and implement the toughest reforms on Wall Street since [President Franklin D. Roosevelt].” Obama defenders say that Clinton -- who together with husband Bill Clinton was paid tens of millions of dollars for private speeches -- should have known better because she was preparing to run for the White House. Obama, they say, has no such responsibility. Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons said Progressives are wasting energy holding liberals to purity tests when they should be uniting against the shared enemy in the White House : “The outrage aimed at Obama is going in the wrong direction,” Simmons said. “It’s a purity test, and sometimes our friends on the left hold people to a purity test that’s too strict for our own good. Figuring out how best to oppose Donald Trump and coming up with a positive Democratic message should be enough of a to-do list for Progressives. We don’t need to worry about what former politicians are doing.” That argument is not going down well. Obama has been pilloried in the liberal press, with media outlet Vox’s Matthew Yglesias declaring that the payday “will undermine everything he believes in” and should be rejected as part of the fight against “populist demagogues” such as Trump. Others say that the last thing Democrats need right now is to be viewed as the party of Wall Street, or to lose credibility on an issue that would open the door for Republicans to brand them as faux-populists. Progressive activist Jonathan Tasini said : “This is not a purity test, this is what the country is in rebellion against. It’s not about Obama’s personal probity or ethics, it’s about the influence-peddling that the nation is rebelling against, and Democrats are utterly tone deaf if they can’t see that.” Winnie Wong, a grassroots organizer for Sanders, said : “[Obama] is showing his stripes and, in my opinion, exercising extremely bad political judgment. Accepting 400K from the very same corporate healthcare lobbyists who wrote the [Affordable Care Act] during a time when a plurality of American voters are in favor of Medicare for all is about as stupid as it gets.” • Stupid -- doesn't really need a comment, does it??? • • • DEAR READERS, we who are faithful to Lincoln and his constitutional principles are often labeled "the Party of the rich." Whenever a Democrat cannot find any other way to sell his or her bag of tricks, they always fall back on that fake "trusim." Yet, even today, 7 of the 10 richest members of Congress are Democrats. But, the Grand Old Party ignores that, refusing to call Democrats "the Party of the rich." • What does it mean -- to be the Party of the rich? Does it mean selling your office to foreign interests to benefit yourself personally. Does it mean using insider trading as a ruse to escape a charge of gubernatorial bribery. Does it mean entering Congress as a 30-something foot soldier of the Democrat elite to amass a fortune by making a career out of politics and its ever-present money-for-influence marketplace. Does it mean buying two houses at Chappaqua and building a 10-foot wall around them to avoid the distasteful gaze of ordinary people -- or doing the same thing with one house in Washington DC. Does it mean taking outrageous speaking fees that can only be justified by the payor as indirect bribery to get something from Congress that could not be gotten honestly. • We know the answers to those questions, and we know that the party that routinely approves or tolerates such behavior is not the Republican Party, but the Democrat Party and its pious elite enforcers who squeeze America for every dollar available. Treating America as a private kingdom is a characteristic of the Third World. It is the reason Third World countries don't advance. Their wealth, resources -- and foreign aid dollars -- are drained off by their political leadership, aided eventually by a crony military. If Hillary-ism and Obama-ism ever become the customary standard for American public servants, America will be destroyed. • Last August, in the midst of the presidential campaign, American Thinker published an article titled "To Die for Chappaqua" by Frank Johnson. Here is the cite -- it should be required reading, every month, for every American < http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/08/to_die_for_chappaqua.html > Johnson ends his essay with these words : "For soldiers, belief in the mission is critical. If it should become standard practice for the leadership in Washington to sell our policy for payoffs, then belief in the mission will collapse. A soldier commanded to take the hill will wonder whether that mission is for the nation or for Chappaqua. This is why third-world militaries are so weak. Should belief in the mission ever be lost, it will be virtually impossible to get it back. This danger -- wiping out the Republic -- is what Hillary's actions mean....Nobody in Washington seems upset by the Clintons' selling out the country to foreigners to create their personal fortune....What about us, the public? If we let ourselves be sold out, we are going to get more of it. It is going to become chronic, ubiquitous. The United States is a great nation. There is much here to sell. What is each piece, each policy worth? Markets are so complex these days that one cannot be precise. But each amount, each transaction ultimately turns out to be equal to thirty pieces of silver." • And in Johnson's bone-chilling summary is the modern twin of Thomas Jefferson's immortal reminder that we would forget at our peril : "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."