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The Democrats’ Confession

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John Podesta, the Clinton campaign chairman, told reporters this week that the way to win is to demonstrate Mr Trump is “unfit, that he’s unprepared and that we can’t put him in the Oval Office.” He added: “That’s the core of our strategy.”

President Barack Obama (D) says the Republicans aren’t “conservative” anymore (his definition of conservative, of course).

Democratic Party Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says Trump has taken the Republican Party a long way from Reagan (her definition of Reaganism, naturally).

Yep.  The Democrats know that all they have is a continuation of the character assassination they’ve inflicted for all of these last 7+ years.  Podesta, with these remarks, is admitting that the Democrats can’t run on this administration’s record of foreign and domestic failure or on Hillary Clinton’s record in that administration’s sustained failure or her integrity.

It doesn’t get any clearer than this.

Another Out of Control Agency

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…that’s overcome with its own self-importance.  I’ve written before about how the Securities and Exchange System abuses its own system of in-house judges for SEC purposes rather than for the public’s interest.

The Federal Trade Commission is another such agency that’s showing it’s outlived its usefulness and for the same reason.  In 2008, LabMD was “found” to have inadvertently exposed a file containing personally identifiable patient information.  I write “found” because the company that “found” the exposure then tried to use their discovery to peddle its data security services to LabMD.  The FTC brought a case against LabMD over the exposure, but last year an FTC in-house judge ruled against the FTC and tossed the case.

That judge, D Michael Chapell, tossed the FTC’s case last year because the commission could not identify any consumers who’d been harmed by LabMD’s allegedly weak security practices. Because no one had been harmed in the seven years since the patient file was exposed, it was unlikely that anyone would be harmed in the future, Judge Chappell concluded.

Wrong answer, Judge.

The FTC, which has the authority to review the rulings issued by its administrative court, said Friday the judge used an incorrect legal standard that was too stringent.

The ruling, being inconvenient to the FTC’s narrative, was rejected out of hand.

Here is the usefulness of an in-house system of judges.

Because We Just Don’t Understand

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But our Betters do.  No less a light than House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D, CA) says so, so it must be so.

I think that, so many times, white—non-college-educated white males have voted Republican. They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G’s, God being the woman’s right to choose[.]

Because it’s not in our interest—not in the interest of any American, but hey: this Democrat is playing the race card—to insist on our right to keep and bear even as Democrats confirm the need with their constant attempts to disarm us.

Because it isn’t possible to disagree with gays on marriage while respecting—actively moving to protect—the freedoms of all individual Americans, including whatever group Democrats want to carve out and divide from other Americans with their identity politics.

Because God doesn’t want us to protect babies as well as women, but only those groups of human beings whom Democrats single out as appropriate for God’s protection.

Elections have consequences, and here’s one from the last election in California.

The DNC “Apologizes”

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[T]he DNC finally apologized for “inexcusable remarks made over email,” saying it “does not—and will not—tolerate disrespectful language exhibited toward our candidates.”

Sure.  But—carefully—there’s not a syllable of apology for the Party’s actual bias toward a disfavored candidate, nor is there a minim of an apologetic word about the Party’s overt behavior toward a disfavored candidate in acting on that bias.  There’s only this expression of regret for some words.

Is This How Democrats Would Govern if Given the Chance?

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Character assassination, lies, and double dealing rather than honest debate about policies and policy execution.  That’s the way this party proceeds.  Below are three Democratic National Committee emails, in a single thread, that illustrate the Democratic Party’s perfidy (heads up: the Subject Lines might not be Safe for Work).  This is how they treat their own.  Imagine how they’ll treat other Americans.

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