Pelosi and Progressives Are Destroying America

THE REAL NEWS IS THAT DEMOCRAT TRUMP-HATE LED TO SCALISE BEING SHOT -- no matter how much or how loud Democrats and their mainstream media are in trying to deny it. • • • INVESTIGATION FACTS. The gunman had a list of Republican congressman when he was shot and apprehended, as confirmed by Fox News. Fox said : "The handwritten list was found in a van belonging to James Hodgkinson by the FBI, and the lawmakers named on the list are known to be conservative members associated with the Freedom Caucus: Representatives Scot DesJarlais (R-TN), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Jim Jordan (R-OH), Mo Brooks (R-AL) and Morgan Griffith (R-VA)." Congressman Franks told Fox News last Friday that he has been notified that he is involved in the investigation. • Investigators say they believe Hodgkinson, 66, did not have any outside support and acted on his own. Officials also said he had a history of run-ins with the law, including arrests for battery and drunken driving. Officials were also aware Hodgkinson was living out of a white cargo van in Alexandria for months and was seen showering and working on a computer at a nearby YMCA. Investigators are looking into why Hodgkinson came to the Washington DC area in the first place, and how much premeditation was involved. • News that the gunman had a list of names on him at the time of the shooting suggests that it wasn’t a random incident but a premeditated attempt to kill the Republican politicians. Breitbart reported that not only were the names on the list Republican, they were House members who are among the most conservative of Republicans. Life News notes that three of the Representatives are pro-life. The Daily Caller reported that of those on the list, Mo Brooks, Jeff Duncan, and Representative Trent Franks are members of the House Freedom Caucus and Duncan and Brooks were at the congressional baseball practice on Wednesday, but Duncan left before the attack occurred. As Duncan was leaving he came upon Hodgkinson in the parking lot and said Hodgkinson asked “if the players on the field were Republicans or Democrats.” Duncan told him the baseball players were Republican. • Hodgkinson was a “Bernie Sanders supporter” who was “strongly anti-Trump.” Senator Sanders has condemned that attack, but his campaign and post-campaign rhetoric has used images of deaths being caused by the Trump program. • • • THE GUNS AND THE SECOND AMNDMENT. The argument began with Virginia Governor Terry MacAuliffe at the press conference on the shooting site barely 90 minutes after Scalise was critically wounded. Roll Call reported that the Alexandria Police, the Capitol Police, the FBI, and the ATF released a joint statement, which said, “ATF has conducted traces on these weapons and has determined that both were purchased by the shooter from federal firearms licensees.” The New York Times reported that Hodgkinson was licensed to buy guns in Illinois, his state of residence. That license -- a Firearms Owners ID (FOID) card -- also requires an in-depth background check. • While Progressives will use the shooting as another reason to attack the Second Amendment right to bear arms, it seems clear that Hodgkinson is the latest proof that background checks do not and cannot stop individuals with no criminal record -- they only stop actual criminals. Citizens with no criminal history have are not prevented from purchasing a gun. This is why the NRA and others oppose the Democrat insistence on universal background checks. The checks will never be able to stop determined attackers who lack a criminal history, but they will make it harder for law-abiding citizens to get the guns they need for self-defense. Of course, this valid argument simply fuels the real Progressive agenda, which is to eliminate the Second Amendment and forbid gun ownership by Americans. • • • RNC CHAIRWOMAN CALLS FOR A GOP PUSHBACK. Just one day before the Hodgkinson shootin, Republican National Committee (RNC) chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel urged the Party “to push back” against the mainstream media’s narrative and “to hold strong” and move forward “so President Trump can accomplish his agenda.” Last Tuesday, McDaniel told Fox News's Laura Ingraham that the GOP must unite against the Democrat "playbook of the year-long media-fueled Russia collusion probe and the congressional Democrat gameplan to resist and obstruct Trump at every turn. Noting that the media threw a collective fit after Trump’s Cabinet members praised him during their first meeting Tuesday, McDaniel said the President’s opposition will grasp at any straw available to undermine his administration : “[The media] also failed to mention that the President was only able to hold his first cabinet meeting five months into his administration because Democrats obstructed every chance they got to put these cabinet members through...they went through the Democrat-Senator-obstruction gauntlet, and they got to hold their first Cabinet meeting yesterday five months into his administration -- two months later than President Obama was able to hold his first cabinet meeting.” McDaniel said : "The Democrats -- they have their playbook. It's out there for all of us to see. Draw out the clock, throw as much doubt on this administration as possible. Resist. Obstruct. We have to push back. The RNC is in lockstep with the White House. We have to push back, and it's going to take leadership in the House and the Senate to do that," McDaniel added. If the Republicans hope to perform well in the 2018 midterms and combat unilateral Democratic obstruction, McDaniel said they must unite and pass legislation to put points on the board : "We're going to have to have some accomplishments to run on in 2018. I think it will be the most expensive midterm in history. I will say the RNC is in great financial shape. We've got to hold strong and keep these majorities so President Trump can accomplish his agenda." • • • SOME SURPRISING VOICES ON THE LEFT SUPPORT TRUMP. Last Thursday, filmmaker Oliver Stone ripped former CIA Director John Brennan for his and the intelligence community's hostility toward Donald Trump during the presidential transition. Stone accused Brennan of "creating a fear and paranoia without evidence in a time during the transition that we trust our leaders." His comments were made to Tucker Carlson on Fox News : "Trump was, in a sense, slapped in the face." Stone added that Brennan was calling Trump "essentially a Manchurian Candidate. That's as hostile as it's ever been during a transition." Stone also bashed the spy agencies, telling Carlson they should be investigated because "the Deep State" has its own views. I'm shocked at what the CIA did and what Brennan did," he said. "It seems like he was very hostile to Trump." That is a pretty good Trump endorsement, coming as it does from Oliver Stone. • THEN, in a huge surprise, lawyer and CNN host Michael Smerconish, not at all a Trump supporter, on Friday said the obstruction of justice probe into President Donald Trump "absolutely is a witch hunt," and that the President "deserves better than this." In a 6-minute video posted on his Facebook page, Smerconish ran through the sequence of key events of the reported investigation into Trump, making the case that there is no obstruction of justice. Smerconish began with the "pledge of loyalty" conversation between Trump and then FBI Director James Comey in January : "President Trump had the audacity to say to Jim Comey, 'I need your loyalty.' As if that's a criminal offense. There is nothing at all wrong with that. As a matter of fact, President Trump would be derelict in his duty if he had a disloyal head of the FBI." Next, Smerconish pushed back at allegations that Trump directed Comey to drop the FBI's investigation into former national security advisor General Michael Flynn : "What's the big deal with him saying, 'Can you let this go? I hope you can let it go?' Trump didn't direct him to let it go...'If you can see your way to getting beyond this, that'd be great.' And that's all he said." Then, and coming as a great surprise since he has often joined in on the CNN Trump-bashing, Smerconish attacked the "bastards in the mainstream media" for abetting the distractions and the cloud that had been preventing Trump from accomplishing his goals of "making America great again." Concerning Comey's firing, Smerconish said : "You're damn right he fired him. President Trump didn't like Hillary Clinton...but Comey did her wrong. And that bothers Donald Trump....Donald Trump got rid of an FBI director who had lost the trust of the bureau, and he did all the rest of us a favor in the process." Finally, Smerconish dismissed the "nut job" and "relieve pressure" comments Trump made to the Russians during their Oval Office visit : "He was being honest with the Russians. And you know why he said that? He meant that he had done it to relieve pressure that he was fearing, facing, that was preventing him from achieving his agenda. Look, the whole thing -- it absolutely is a witch hunt, and Donald Trump deserves better than this." • • • THE VIOLENCE AGAINST REPUBLICANS. Sadly, after the shooting of Congressman Scalise, the Democrat Party's barrage of violent words and its condoning of violent protests against Republican officeholders was not often criticized by the few Progressives who defended Trump. • But, the Daily Caller called the shooting of Scalise "just the latest in an escalating pattern of violence and intimidation against Republicans." • Hodgkinson’s social media profile revealed that the 66-year-old was a left-wing Bernie Sanders supporter who believed President Trump is a “traitor.” In one foreboding Facebook post in March, Hodgkinson wrote, “It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.” New York Representative Claudia Tenney received an email shortly after the shooting that read, “One down, 216 to go,” TheHill reported, adding that the emailer said : “Did you NOT expect this? When you take away ordinary peoples very lives in order to pay off the wealthiest among us, your own lives are forfeit. Certainly, your souls and morality were lost long before. Good riddance.” • Even before Wednesday’s shooting, Republicans were used to being on the receiving end of violence and intimidation in a hostile political climate where Progressives and their Soros-paid street hoodlums make all Republicans and their elected representatives out to be fascists and homophobic racists. Examples : (1) Virginia Representative Tom Garrett’s police protection at town halls after Garrett and his family received repeated death threats. “This is how we’re going to kill your wife,” read one message, Garrett told Politico. “I don’t want to die anytime soon. I got stuff left to do, I hope. But when you pull wives and children in, that’s not cool.” (2) FBI agents arrested a Tucson Unified School District employee for making violent threats against Arizona Representative Martha McSally by leaving voicemails for McSally, telling the Republican congresswoman that her days were “numbered.” (3) Last month, police in Tennessee charged a 35-year-old woman with felony reckless endangerment for allegedly trying to run Republican Congressman David Kustoff off the road after his town hall about the GOP health care bill. (4) The same day the woman was charged, police in North Dakota removed a man from a town hall with Representative Kevin Cramer after the man became physical with the Republican congressman and shoved a fistful of money into Cramer’s collar. CNN’s Poppy Harlow downplayed the incident, saying the man was “showing his disgust” with Cramer. (5) The day before that, a Huffington Post article that showed “how to really turn up the heat on elected officials” went viral. Author Michaelangelo Signorile called on protesters to harass Republicans at dinner, when they’re out shopping and even at home. Societal norms for the basic levels of decency, Signorile argued, should no longer apply : “It’s time to move beyond polite protests within specified boundaries. It’s time to escalate the expression of our outrage and our anger in a massive way. Starting today and from here on, no elected official - certainly those in the GOP defending and supporting Trump on a variety of issues, for example - should be able to sit down for a nice, quiet lunch or dinner in a Washington, DC eatery or even in their own homes. They should be hounded by protestors everywhere, especially in public - in restaurants, in shopping centers, in their districts, and yes, on the public property outside their homes and apartments, in Washington and back in their home states." Signorile’s article has already been shared more than 29,000 times. (6) In February, a 71-year-old female staffer for California Representative Dana Rohrbacher was knocked unconscious during an angry protest activists staged outside Rohrbacher’s office. (7) Pro-Trump commentator and former Greek cabinet minister Milo Yiannopoulos had his speech at the University of California-Berkeley cancelled after rioters set the campus ablaze in order to keep him from speaking. Ditto Ann Coulter’s UC Berkeley speech when the protesters promised a repeat performance of the Milo riots. (8) Conservative high school students are telling about being harassed or physically attacked because they are Trump supporters. In one case, police in Florida arrested a 17-year-old high school student after he punched a classmate for carrying a Trump sign at school. “It definitely had a political motivation,” Lt. Mike Bandish of the Palm Bay Police Department told news organizations. “The boy was carrying a Trump sign and walked into the gym. The other boy punched him in the face.” • • • MSM TRIES TO BACKPEDDLE ITS TRUMP HATE CAMPAIGN. After Representative Scalise was shot, Progressive MSM who vociferously support the hate campaign against President Trump and his supporters are trying to tone it down, but it took the Huffington Post awhile to get the message. The Daily Caller reported that on the day Scalise was shot a Huffington Post writer appeared to criticize the baseball shooter for poor planning, saying “violent resistance” has to be more organized to “work." Writer Jesse Benn said : "For violent resistance to work it’d need to be organized. Individual acts can be understandable, but likely counterproductive/ineffective.” His tweet appears to be a comment on the attempted mass shooting at a GOP baseball practice early Wednesday morning. Benn identifies himself as a “member of the intolerant left” on his Twitter profile, and links to his author page on the Huffington Post, where he was published as recently as December, 2016. One user called the tweet an incitement of violence and tagged the FBI in a reply to Benn. Apparently unfazed, Benn replied: “I keep saying this -- you have to take the time to call in to the secret service/FBI et al.” • Later, the Daily Caller reported on the Huffington Post pulling a piece calling for the “execution” of President Donald Trump published Saturday by contributor Jason Fuller. Daily Caller wrote : "Fuller’s piece contained rhetoric and imagery that seems tasteless, particularly after Wednesday’s events. Fuller boldly declares in the title that 'Trump must be prosecuted -- if convicted in a court of law -- executed.' Fuller doesn’t stop there. He insists that 'impeachment isn’t enough' to 'drain the swamp,' and to do so means doling out the 'ultimate punishment [execution]' in order to fully restore the moral compass of the US." Fuller called for the "ultimate punishment" for “everyone assisting in his agenda,” including Republican congressional leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan and White House strategist Steve Bannon. Fuller claims that “all must face justice” by being tried, convicted and ultimately executed for treason. BUT, HuffPost pulled the piece ONLY AFTER the shooting of Majority Whip Steve Scalise, two Capitol Hill police officers, a congressional staffer and a lobbyist. • NOW, the MSM is pleading for calm -- probably sensing its future at stake. Chuck Todd, for example, tweeted : "Hope most folks realize we have a toxic political culture and that attempting to exploit today for political gain will only poison us more." The MSM may be urging restraint, but it undoubtedly is not because they worry about the country’s "toxic political climate." The real reason is that they have been pushing the narratives that likely shaped the shooter’s worldview and share responsibility with the Democrat Party leadership for pushing the ideas that Trump somehow sold the nation to Vladimir Putin, that the President is a fascist, and that Republican lawmakers are Nazi collaborators. MSM has repeated over and over again that there’s a wave of hate crimes engulfing the country, but they routinely place the blame on Trump. Progressive pro-Democrat journalists cheered aggressive townhall demonstrators who screamed at Republican lawmakers. Prominent MSM voices legitimized political violence against supposed “Nazis,” which invited everyone to define anyone on the Right as a descendant of Hitler. • Judging by his social media, shooter Hodgkinson totally believed these and other narratives about Republicans, probably influencing his decision to pick up a gun and take aim at congressmen on a baseball field. • The MSM will not discuss this aspect of the shooting -- relying on the ambivalent mantra "toxic political climate" -- because they led the public Trump-hate discourse but will not accept any blame for their role. • Insteaad, the MSM demands that no one politicize an obviously political attack, without regard for their own lack of truth or fairness in reporting. They want to bring down Trump and install the Progressive agenda. An anti-Republican shooting may slow them for a few days but not much longer. • In fact, the New York Times editorial board just after the Scalise shooting referred to the discredited theory that the shooter of former congresswoman Gabby Giffords was inspired by a Facebook post of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. In an editorial entitled "America's Lethal Politics," the Times wrote : "In 2011, when Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a supermarket parking lot...the link to political incitement was clear. Before the shooting, Sarah Palin's political action committee circulated a map of targeted electoral districts that put Ms. Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs." The NYT board added, "Though there's no sign of incitement as direct as in the Giffords attack, liberals should of course hold themselves to the same standard of decency that they ask of the right." The NYT has now removed this paragraph, but not before the Washington Free Beacon and many on social media took notice and Sarah Palin threatened to sue them. The NYT issued a 'correction,' : "An earlier version of this editorial incorrectly stated that a link existed between political incitement and the 2011 shooting of Representative Gabby Giffords. In fact, no such link was established." • • • POLITICAL DISCOURSE AND DEBATE. American Thinker's John Sobieski wrote on Saturday : "There is a reason we have two parties. The two parties present two very different visions of the future. The Democrats want to deconstruct America and replace it with a globalist socialist utopia of government control. That they were denied this last November is the reason for the Democrat’s venomous rhetoric. Surely Paul Ryan remembers the commercial in which a look-alike pushes granny off a cliff in her wheelchair. So when Democrats say we should dial down the rhetoric, one may be forgiven for being a little skeptical. In one sense, Pelosi, Sanders and Jerry Brown are right that people will die because of GOP policies. Last Wednesday a group of Republican Congressmen almost did thanks to the hatred Democrats inspire." • And, the after-thoughts of Representative Chris Collins, who told CNN on Thursday he should not have blamed Democrats for the congressional baseball practice shooting were surprising : "I will admit that early yesterday, right after I got the news ... I think in that emotion, I did lash out. And you know, it would certainly appear this individual, the anger was certainly tied to the rhetoric going on. And so, I did say what I said, that I was putting the blame on the Democrats' doorstep." After that emotional afterthought that any Christian can understand as the effort to be peaceful and "love thy neighbor," Collins also said he would start carrying a gun with him, after previously saying he kept one in the glove compartment of his car : "I've had a carry permit for 30 years, and I would say off and on in different instances where I have, you know, felt it was appropriate, I would carry the weapon on myself." End of story -- US members of Congress should not have to resort to carrying firearms in order to feel safe. The outpouring of Collins on Wednesday had everything to do with the abuse he and other Republicans take every day in Washington DC. • AND, as a comparison between the GOP rhetoric and the Progressive Democrat leadership's rhetoric, consider what Democrat House Minority Leader Pelosi said a few days before Congressman Scalise was shot : "As far as the Republicans, the people that voted, it’s almost like any mammal will do. They were just voting a certain way.” ANY MAMMAL WILL DO. • Pelosi, in her mean and hate-filled fog, got one thing right -- Republicans who supported Trump did vote "a certain way." They were sick of how drastically the last eight years of Obama changed America -- a gutted military, race relations reverting to pre-civil rights days, law enforcement professionals ridiculed for doing their job, a doubling of the national debt, using the IRS and FBI as political weapons against conservative citizens, Fast and Furious guns handed over to Mexican cartels with no remorse for the death of American Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry or the Mexican lives lost to the cartels with those guns, the Benghazi attack and murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens covered to get Obama re-elected. The list is never-ending. As Patricia McCarthy, a Christian writer, put it for American Thinker : "Despite the warnings against it from every military expert consulted, Obama created ISIS by vacating the Middle East, removing all peace-keeping forces. It is almost as if he wanted the genocide of Christians that resulted throughout the region; every scholar of the Middle East and Islam told him what would happen and it did....So, intent on their crusade to take Trump down, they completely miss the rising tide of disgust much of the population feels for them. Those Trump supporters are not falling for their campaign of vitriol, made-up stories, accusations or their certainty that he will be impeached....They do not read the NY Times or the Washington Post, watch CNN or MSNBC, pay any attention to the pompous, partisan Sunday News programs....They do not speak for us. Their feeble attempts to convince us Trump is some kind of criminal or traitor are ridiculous." • And, we can be sure that Nancy Pelosi will not change her stripes -- even as Congressman Collins feels remorse for telling the bald and disturbing truth. Pelosi, within 24 hours, was blaming Republicans and their "politics of personal destruction," while Democrat supporters on social media cheered the shooter. McCarthy said of them : "so full of hate are many on the left that they behave like the Palestinians who cheer every Israeli death by terror and pass out candy to celebrate." • • • DEAR READERS, tell me how we Republicans, Independents, conservatives reply to unrepentent hate spewing forth while a member of our Congress was bleeding on a baseball field in Alexandria. How do we build unity with the Progressive hatemongers?? Peaceful, non-violent and generally polite Republicans seem always to let Democrats steamroller them. But, the Republic will disappear if we don't fight back. We cannot afford to wait and hope that Trump survives. • McCarthy reminds us that Ben Franklin, at the signing of the Constitution, was asked, "Well, doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it." Keeping the Republic will require more than Republican apologies for being filled with righteous anger at the Democrat war on Trump and anyone who stands with him. To quote Patricia McCarthy : "Senator McConnell, Paul Ryan, et. al. need to get off their high horses and do our Founders proud. Step up to the plate and stop all this anti-Trump nonsense. Go after the criminals on the left, beginning with the Clintons, Comey, Lynch, Brennan, Clapper, etc. Fight like the Democrats do. We are depending on you. Earn and deserve your places in office." • Nancy Pelosi is wrong -- we are not just mammals. We are serious, thinking, angry Americans determined to save our Republic from the serfdom that she and all Progressive Democrat elites are trying to foist on us through a seditious program to bring down our elected President. We will not be fooled. We will not be frightened. We will not give up. We Will Succeed.