Featuring Right thinking from a left brain, doing the job the American Media Maggots won’t, embracing ubiquitous, sagacious perspicacity and broadcasting behind enemy lines in Occupied Fornicalia from the veritable Belly of the Beast, the Bill Mill in Sacramento, Fornicalia, I continue to proffer my thanks to the SHR Media Network for allowing me to utilize their studio and hijack their air twice weekly, Tuesdays and Thursdays, thanks to my shameless contract, as well as appear on the Sack Heads Radio Show each Wednesday evening.
Dan Butcher, as he is wont to do, jumped into the Saloon with both feet for both hours and I was happy to have him. Tuesdays with Dan are something I enjoy remarkably.
Our topics included:
It’s Weather Chat with Dan and BZ;
Snow in Texas? Are you kidding me?
Wildfire burns in Ventura County, 50,000 acres burned, I-5 closed at Santa Clarita;
Millennials, 18-to-29, now the biggest voting group in US — are 2-to-1 Demorat;
Millennials more inclined to give away personal freedoms than GenZ’rs;
Disney to purchase Fox company;
Dan Butcher: Breitbart news to snap up Fox News if Disney takes the movie side?
Mercury Arts and Mark Levin?
Officer Ken Copeland of the San Marcos PD, Texas, killed during warrant service;
The Ferguson Effect, and the impact on law enforcement by Barack Obama;
The “not guilty of murder” verdict on Kate Steinle’s murder trial;
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Just when you thought there might be some justice in terms of genuine sexual harassment, rape and assault incidents in DC — well, have I got a story for you.
Congress owes taxpayers answers about its harassment ‘shush’ fund
by Jenny Beth Martin
Since when are members of Congress and their staffs accused of sexual harassment allowed to hush up and pay off their accusers from a secret “shush” fund full of taxpayer dollars? Since 1995, it turns out.
Congress, we all know, chooses to exempt itself from many of the same laws it foists on the rest of us. It’s a grievance I hear regularly during my travels around the country, as grassroots activists complain about this law or that regulation. “If only Congress had to live under the same laws we do, they’d get it, and they’d change it” is a common refrain.
For years, for instance, I’ve been speaking out about the illegal special exemption of Congress from ObamaCare, which allows members and staff to avoid the financial burdens they imposed on us when they passed that terrible law. If only they had to live under the law the same way the rest of us do, without benefit of taxpayer dollars to subsidize their premiums purchased fraudulently on the D.C. small business exchange, they might be more incentivized to repeal that law.
But until recently, I did not know about the “shush fund” of Congress, a fund managed by the “Office of Compliance,” which itself was created following the 1995 enactment of the Congressional Accountability Act (CAA), the first law enacted by the first Republican House in four decades.
Haven’t you ever asked yourself: just why do people spend thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars for a House or Senate seat?
Are they so devoted that they would place themselves into what normally would be considered as absolutely inextricable debt potentially in perpetuity?
The lowliest of Congressmen make $174,000 per year. Leaders make $200,000 per year or more, due to figures not up to date.
Did you ever think quid pro quo? Or ROI? You should have.
“It’s not the money, it’s the power.” — Frank Underwood
What happened to transparency?
We, the taxpayers who have been paying for more than two decades to quietly settle literally hundreds of sexual harassment claims against members of Congress and their staffs, have a right to know which members and staffers have made use of the hush money over the years. Going forward, taxpayers should have knowledge about how that fund is used.
If Congress wants to get serious about its apparent culture of abuse, it will need to address its cover-up culture. Shush funds may serve the immediate purpose of getting alleged victims to go away, but they do little to stem the tide of sexual harassment. What Congress needs — and American taxpayers deserve — is more transparency.
SHOCK: $15 Million in TAXPAYER MONEY Has Been Paid Out to Settle Congressional Sexual Harassment Lawsuits
by Cristina Laila
As previously reported, Congress has a rampant sexual harassment problem. In fact the problem is so bad that female lawmakers and aides keep a ‘creep list’ of men who are notorious for lewd behavior.
As if this couldn’t get any worse, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd Tuesday that taxpayers have paid over $15 million to settle sexual harassment lawsuits against members of Congress!
Levin: GOP leaders must resign over sexual harassment in Congress
by Chris Pandolfo
Tuesday on the radio, LevinTV host Mark Levin discussed the day’s reports and testimonies concerning the subject of sexual harassment in Congress.
He played a clip of Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., who testified there are at least two sitting members of Congress — one Republican, one Democrat —who have engaged in sexual harassment of their own staff members.
Levin wants these sitting Congress members to be identified. He wants names named.
He also wants Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to resign for their failure in leadership — keeping silent on known creeps and a known widespread problem in the institutions they lead.
Can you imagine, folks, a job where you are treated like a king or a queen, provided with armed protection, chauffeured in cars and SUVs, provided an expense account, shown deference wherever you go and can decide which laws to obey or not because, after all, you make the law? Wouldn’t you like a job like that? One where internal review and investigations into your conduct are mostly toothless?
Wouldn’t you enjoy a job like that?
And finally: just how long must we slit our own wrists for the power mongers in DC before we rise up in righteous umbrage?
Featuring Right thinking from a left brain, doing the job the American Media Maggots won’t, embracing ubiquitous, sagacious perspicacity and broadcasting behind enemy lines in Occupied Fornicalia from the veritable Belly of the Beast, the Bill Mill in Sacramento, Fornicalia, I continue to proffer my thanks to the SHR Media Network for allowing me to utilize their studio and hijack their air twice weekly, Tuesdays and Thursdays, thanks to my shameless contract, as well as appear on the Sack Heads Radio Show each Wednesday evening.
Tuesday night we had the special pleasure of having Dan Butcher of High Plains Pundit Media on the show, jam ge-packed with an arseload of buttery hurricane and political goodness. (By the way Dan, I very much like the new website formatting.)
My thanks to Dan for devoting a full two hours of his time to the Saloon — and every minutes was remarkably enjoyable.
Tonight in the Saloon:
Dan Butcher talks about the impact of Hurricane Harvey on the Houston, Texas area and its surroundings;
Hurricane Irma is coming towards the state of Florida;
Dan addresses the Houston evacuation issue;
Harvey vs Katrina: it’s all about pre-planning and mindset;
Coordination between the city and the state and the federal governments;
After Hurricane Harvey, Dan Butcher and I speak about North Korea and its terrible implactions; what to do and how to handle?
Spreaker and Blogtalk Radio and merging; is this a good or bad thing?
DACA and the hypocrisy of the Demorats and Leftists.
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Are those legs or are those pier pilings to which eastern cod trawlers should tie up?
It is clear that the Demorats are working in concert with embedded deep state undermining civilian operators along with GOP EstabliHacks in order to create a cavernous and extensive coalition crossing aisles whose goal is to ultimately impeach and remove President Donald Trump.
You know. The person lawfully elected by the people of the United States of America. The guy with the dead orange cat on his head.
For the GOP, you have to ask yourselves why.
Perhaps Judge Pirro knows why.
Good points, all. Where are they indeed? Hiding, hoarding their gold on the table, their collective arms around it, ensuring their money and — mostly — their inherent power is not disturbed in the slightest. Oval office holders may come and go but Entrenched Power prevails. It must not be disturbed or distressed on either side of the aisle. Verboten.
Where were they in re James Comey? Conspicuously silent?
Former FBI Director James Comey testified just last week, Thursday, June 8th — how far and long ago that now seems — that Loretta Lynch compromised him. And you. And me. And the investigation into Hillary Clinton. Let us refresh.
We know now, because of this testimony, that Loretta Lynch herself in the Barack Obama administration attempted to obstruct justice and deflect or remove the serious status of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Minimization. Further, James Comey went along with it.
Let’s go back, shall we, to a certain tete-a-tete between Loretta Lynch and Jason Chaffetz in which Lorette Lynch decided to
“You refused to answer 74 times.”
“Your refusal to answer.”
Perhaps a wee bit-o-history of refusal and obfuscation? No, nothing like that.
Then let us away with Trey Gowdy.
Warte mal.
Are you starting to witness something of a trend here?
A trend completely ignored, and purposely so, by the Demorats and the American Media Maggots and, to an extent, the EstabliHacks of the GOP, with a select few exceptions?
I have set my background. Now it is time to reveal more from Circa.com.
Comey got ‘steely silence’ after confronting Loretta Lynch about Clinton’s email probe
by John Solomon and Sara A. Carter
Ex-FBI Director James Comey has privately told members of Congress that he had a frosty exchange with Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch last year when he confronted her about possible political interference in the Hillary Clinton email investigation after showing Lynch a sensitive document she was unaware the FBI possessed, according to sources who were directly briefed on the matter.
During his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee last Thursday, Comey alluded to the exchange after publicly discussing an encounter with Lynch, where she ordered him not to refer to the criminal probe of Clinton’ handling of classified emails not as an “investigation” but rather as a “matter.” He suggested it smacked of political spin rather than the way professional law enforcement officers talk.
Buttery goodness? But wait, there’s more.
In multiple private sessions over the last few months, Comey has told lawmakers about a second, later confrontation with Lynch shortly before the email probe was shut down.
Really? That hadn’t been plastered near and far by the American Media Maggots. Why might that be?
Comey told lawmakers in the closed door session that he raised his concern with the attorney general that she had created a conflict of interest by meeting with Clinton’s husband, the former President Bill Clinton, on an airport tarmac while the investigation was ongoing.
During the conversation, Comey told lawmakers he confronted Lynch with a highly sensitive piece of evidence, a communication between two political figures that suggested Lynch had agreed to put the kibosh on any prosecution of Clinton.
At minimum a conflict of interest — the likes of which, truly, Comey had no interest considering his approval of Assistant FBI Director McCabe’s direct involvement with Demorat partisan politics on behalf of McCabe’s clearly partisan Demorat wife, Jill. Comey ruled the conflict wasn’t just regular cool, but that it was extra crispy cool. Nothing to see here. Move on. Dot org.
Comey said “the attorney general looked at the document then looked up with a steely silence that lasted for some time, then asked him if he had any other business with her and if not that he should leave her office,” said one source who was briefed.
Bing. Done. Gone. Leave. Vacate.
Comey “took that interaction and the fact she had met with Bill Clinton as enough reason to decide he would not allow the Justice Department to decide the fate of the case and instead would go public” with his own assessment that the FBI could not prove Mrs. Clinton intended to violate the law when she transmitted classified information through her private email and therefore should not be criminally charged. Another source said the “tarmac meeting was the public excuse for not going to Lynch when all along there was other evidence that was more concerning to Comey.”
In other words, politics trumped the truth and the need for Comey to insert himself as something of a Knight In Shining Armor. A fantasy that had been brewing in his fetid, knurled, convoluted and twisted mind for years.
Senate Republicans Hope to Question Loretta Lynch on Conduct in Clinton Email Case
by Aaron Klein
NEW YORK — Senate Republicans are eying the possibility of seeking testimony from former Attorney General Loretta Lynch over possible wrongdoing with regard to the FBI’s criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.
On Wednesday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, formally requesting that the committee probe any attempts to influence the FBI’s investigations under the Trump and Obama administrations.
There are three important issues that should logically require the testimony of Lynch.
One is Lynch’s infamous tarmac meeting last June at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in which former President Bill Clinton, the husband of the FBI’s main subject in a criminal probe — Hillary’s email case — boarded the attorney general’s plane and reportedly stayed there for about thirty minutes for a private chat.
The second concern is Lynch’s reported directive for then-FBI Director James Comey to publically refer to the FBI’s criminal investigation into Clinton’s email as a “matter” instead of an investigation or a criminal probe. The language matched the specific rhetoric used at the time by Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, which referred to the criminal investigation as a “matter.”
The third issue relates to testimony and questions surrounding reports claiming that Comey was in possession of a document purportedly indicating that Lynch would ensure the Clinton email probe didn’t go too far.
Even the politically-biased James Comey — ex FBI Director, thank God — said the “Justice Department leadership could not credibly complete the investigation and declined prosecution without grievous damage to the American people’s confidence in the — in the justice system.”
Judge Andrew Napolitano rightly asks: where are we now?
The Demorats are making these times all about process, as I say, and not about governing. Republicans are buying into it. Republicans appear to willingly be ceding the power they truly possess.
My thanks to the SHR Media Network for allowing me to broadcast in their studio and over their air twice weekly, Tuesdays and Thursdays, as well as appear on the Sack Heads Radio Show™ each Wednesday evening.
Tonight in the Saloon:
The GOP wants to be loved;
The GOP has no idea how to handle power when they have it;
I read “A Letter to My Father From His,” a post from Memorial Day;
US conducts a successful missile strike on an ICBM target: message sent?
This is not unlike trying to hit a bullet with another bullet, except at 16,000 mph;
America is split on a special counsel for the Russia investigation;
Mike Flynn decides to provide necessary documents to Senate Intel Committee;
Dennis Prager’s advice to insistent “anti-Trumpers;” time to get on the bus, Gus;
Is there a new American civil war coming? Do you even care?
America’s Urban Rat Cages will be Ground Zero for any US cataclysm;
History will prove that Angela Merkel was responsible for eradicating Europe;
Leftists push back; my job is to push back equally if not more so, Deep State;
McCain continues to purposely undermine our president and the United States;
It is the GOP who are stopping themselves from getting anything done in DC;
BZ goes off on cowardly campus police departments;
And oh so much more buttery BZ political goodness.
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As ever, thank you so kindly for listening, commenting, and interacting in the chat room or listening via podcast. My personal thanks to Mary Brockman who continues to bring new converts into the Saloon and in chat!
Don’t forget: Kel Fritzi will be on The Aftermath this Thursday — and do you suspect we may just discuss a bit of Islam? An excellent chance.
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