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| Ukraine: Dem orthodoxy evolves. |
| 2019-11-16 |
| h/t Instapundit Inside the impeachment inquiry is a classic satire of democratic politics struggling to get out. (I would like to take up Quigley on Evidence. For the moment I will only observe that Quigley should find his place in a sequel to My Cousin Vinny.) On the substance of yesterday’s hearing in the impeachment inquiry hearing before the House Intelligence Committee, I wondered: wasn’t it only yesterday that the Obama administration refused to provide lethal military aid to the Ukraine? Obama, as I recall, didn’t want to ruffle Putin’s feathers. That sounds like an impeachable offense by itself. Now support of lethal military aide appears to have become a holy sacrament in the evolving Democratic orthodoxy, one with its own martyrs and rites and hymns. You know, like abortion and LGBTQ "rights" and detachment from biological reality (or from reality, period). I am somewhat surprised by how little the evolution of Democratic Party orthodoxy on the Ukraine has been noted. This aspect of Obama foreign policy has been deposited down the memory hole. Miranda Devine, however, draws on her knowledge of ancient history to note the evolution in her New York Post column addressing the so-called whistleblower. Digression: The identity of the "whistleblower" is apparently known by everyone in DC except House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, although the "whistleblower" consulted with Schiff’s staff before filing his "complaint." Something tells me that Chairman Schiff is not entirely on the level. End of digression. Reviewing the testimony before the House Intelligence Committee yesterday, Devine writes:
For all their concern about Ukraine’s ability to defend itself against Russia, they were remarkably sanguine about the Obama administration’s inaction after Russia annexed Crimea and began aggressing into eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko went to Washington and begged for military assistance but the Obama-Biden administration refused, out of deference to Moscow. Poroshenko complained at the time: "one cannot win a war with blankets." This was surely the low point of Ukrainian-US relations, not Trump’s phone call in July. Despite the witnesses’ dissatisfaction with President Trump’s Ukraine policy, it was President Trump who approved the supply of weapons to Ukraine. So if concern for Ukraine is not the real motivation behind the diplomatic community’s alarm about Trump, all that’s left is protecting the Bidens. Without a real whistleblower we can only think the worst. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #13 Funny how much like pajama boy he looks. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2019-11-16 18:46 |
| #12 Of course it's about protecting the Bidens. Because of the Bidens get the law enforcement attention they deserve, questions might be asked about the activities of all the other DC families, and the whole racket might be brought to an end. The Democrat party (with their GOPe enablers) is organized crime, and the sooner we recognize that and act appropriately, the sooner we can get back to teaching people how to be free. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2019-11-16 18:29 |
| #11 So who is that dork with those dopes? I know, I know... |
| Posted by: Bobby 2019-11-16 16:40 |
| #10 Mark Twain — 'If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.' |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-11-16 15:07 |
| #9 Donkeyblower |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-16 12:50 |
| #8 Whistle blower: |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-11-16 12:37 |
| #7 Hear, hear. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-11-16 12:28 |
| #6 How do we know that a "whistleblower" even exists. Perhaps the WB is just a Schiff imaginary friend. |
| Posted by: warthogswife 2019-11-16 12:26 |
| #5 Look how close Hillary came? When it comes down to putting an "I'm with Her" bumper sticker on their cars and voting for her once (or more) times, yes, they are that stupid. The pitiful viewership for the impeachment hearings shitshow shows that as soon as an attention span and ability to follow even a deeply flawed excuse for an argument is involved, they are a bit too stupid. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-11-16 09:49 |
| #4 If Trump came up with an immortality serum, the dems would demand a Logan's Run type of future. Not that they aren't doing that anyway... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-11-16 09:46 |
| #3 They think we're stupid. What a complete and utter Shitshow. F--- these morons. Lex, they think that enough of the general public is that stupid, and they may be correct. Look how close Hillary came? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-11-16 07:19 |
| #2 These people give new meaning to the term, rank hypocrisy. Not to mention incoherence, bad faith and general stupidity. It was Zero who secretly assured Medvedev and Putin in March 2012 that he would renege in our promise to provide Patriot missiles to Poland. Trump reversed that decision. It was Zero who refused lethal aid to Ukraine. Trump reversed that decision. To say Trump is "a Russian asset" is beyond mendacious. It's a despicable lie that redirects the public away from Obama-Biden's incoherence, incompetence and corruption. They think we're stupid. What a complete and utter Shitshow. F--- these morons. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-16 06:37 |
| #1 My guess: I've been thinking about folks like Soros leveraging nihilistic groups and situations for currency and corporate stock or currency shorting type chaos. He doesn't need to see positive end results in places like the Ukraine or Hong Kong to make money off of the chaos. Same with anti-fa or neo-nazis or any other nihilistic actors. Soros himself was the king of currency arbitrage . Now American politicians of any party are ideal partners as enablers of nihilistic actors that get some loot in the process. This would explain the whole shit show. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-11-16 04:24 |