The Oversight Scam

Congress has oversight of the executive branch to ensure a balance of power but the executive branch uses multiple ploys to avoid accountability.  Here are three things that Congress should change to have true oversight:

1. Select members of Congress should be privy to on-going investigations.  How many times have you heard members of the Justice department say that they couldn’t answer a question from Congress because there is an open investigation? Investigations can be opened or kept open to exploit this.  If certain members of Congress have access to our country’s most important secrets, why can’t they have access to information related to an open investigation.

2. Select members of Congress should be allowed to know details of intelligence agencies’ operations. How many times have you heard members of the FBI or CIA say that they couldn’t answer a question from Congress because it would reveal sources and methods?

3. Select members of Congress should have access to unredacted documents from the executive branch.  Too often they redact information for nefarious reasons or simply because it is embarrassing to a department.

Until these things are changed congressional oversight is a scam.

Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government

There is a subcommittee to determine if the Federal Government, including the intelligence agencies, has been weaponized?  I assume weaponization means that they would go after people they don’t like.  Well, I think Senator Schumer has already weighed in on the topic when he said “you go after the intelligence community they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you so … (it’s) really dumb to do (this).” See for yourself:

                               

Check out a related post here.

Before and After

Being president of the United States is a tough job.  Presidents age visibly while in office.  Here are examples of before and after pictures of presidents who served two terms in office.

Here is what Biden will look like if he serves two terms as president.

Start Out as You Mean to Go

Juveniles are out of control across our country.  They are organizing on social media and making life impossible for law abiding citizens and business owners. The reason is simple.  Juveniles are not treated like adults when it comes to sentencing. And criminal records are often sealed when they turn 18.

So, not only do kids know they can get away with committing crimes, gangs know it as well. They recruit kids to do their dirty work because they know they will be back out on the street even if they get caught.  These kids grow up for years committing crimes and working for gangs and getting away with it.  What makes anyone think that they will magically stop their criminal behavior when they become 18 and are considered an adult? Why do we not charge these kids as adults and hopefully stop them early before they start their life of crime?

And yes, this will have a disparate effect on minorities.  Get over it.

Put Up or Shut Up

Jose Alba, the New York City bodega worker who stabbed an assailant in self-defense, just testified before a congressional committee. He lost me when he started his statement by saying that he is not supporting Republicans nor blaming Democrats.

If you vote for Democrats you should not be allowed to complain about the following:

Crime

Inflation (including high gas prices)

Ineffective schools and colleges

Men in women’s sports

Violent Protests (including the January 6^th protests)

The mess at the border

Onerous covid related restrictions

I’m tired of people complaining about these issues and then turning around and voting for democrats who are clearly perpetuating these issues.

Leftists Don’t Want to Fix Issues, They Want to Use Issues to get Elected.

Conservatives are giving Al Sharpton credit for saying that progressives need to get tough on crime.   The difference between conservatives who want to get tough on crime and progressives is that conservatives want to stop people from getting killed and/or molested.  Progressives want to start getting tough on crime because they think that high crime rates in progressive cities are hurting their chances of getting elected.

Abortion is another example.  Democrats had the Whitehouse and both houses of congress and could have passed a law making abortion legal across the country but then they couldn’t run on the issue.  Without abortion as an issue to get liberals out to the polls democrats are doomed.

The war on poverty is another issue leftists don’t want to solve.  They need to be able to promise to give people “free” things in name of fighting poverty in order to bribe them for their votes.

Fighting racism is another example.  They need to make everything about race, even promoting fake hate crimes, to keep getting a majority of the black vote.

One more example is global warming.  Leftists claim that global warming will destroy the planet killing billions of people around the globe but are against clean nuclear energy.  Whatever issues they might have with nuclear energy it has to be better than killing billions of people.  Their position only makes sense if they are not really serious about global warming.

This is not an exhaustive list.  Add your examples in the comment section.

Republicans Should Have a Conversation with Democrats about Gun Control – Under One Condition

Republicans should agree to work with Democrats on gun control under one condition; Democrats get tough on people that use a gun during the conduct of a crime or own an illegal gun.

Republicans should refuse to address any efforts to make buying guns legally more difficult until Democrats crack down on people that use guns illegally. A five-year minimum sentence for discharging a gun during the conduct of a crime is a good start.  A lesser minimum sentence should be imposed for brandishing a weapon during the conduct of a crime. Just being caught with an illegal gun should result in jail time.

Also, people that knowingly lie on a gun application should face jail time as well. That means you, Hunter.