They put hard partisans in the senior career levels at those institutions, and they now view themselves as the jackbooted thugs for the DNC. And that’s not what the Department of Justice is supposed to be. That’s not what the FBI is supposed to be.
Ted Cruz (on Obama and Biden)
54% of all voters and 91% of Republicans disapprove of Biden; the former because of his handling of the economy, and the latter because he looks more crooked than Bill Clinton and vindictive than Dick Nixon. No joke, because the grift set forth on son Hunter’s laptop and vindictive acts by papa Joe’s DOJ will be investigated by a GOP Congress, where the evidence could easily trigger impeachment proceedings.
I was in college when Watergate went down, taking Politics 101 from a professor who’d been part of Nixon’s first term in office. Poor fellow; in discussions on Nixon’s “enemies list” with a bunch of long-haired teens, who were outraged (outraged, I tell ya). Fifty years later, I know an enemies list and abuse of power when I see it – and Joe Biden’s sins trump Nixon’s by a country mile. If you’re skeptical, compare and contrast the histories.
In October 1973, White House counsel John Dean confirmed Nixon’s enemies list, admitted intelligence officer E. Howard Hunt received payments related to the Watergate break-in, and copped a guilty plea for obstructing justice. Two years earlier, he’d told Lawrence Higby (assistant to White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman) the enemies list was part of Nixon’s scheme to “use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies.” Democrats have ever after insisted their partisan abuses of power fail to meet the threshold of Watergate. It’s their Big Lie.
Forgotten by Democrats and their media cronies are the Republicans who defied Nixon; Solicitor General Robert Bork, AG Elliot Richardson and deputy AG William Ruckelshaus, who resigned in the Saturday Night Massacre rather than fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Good men all, and that was lost upon the Senate Democrats who borked the former out of a Supreme Court seat. Not lost – upon Barack Obama and Joe Biden – was the Weaponization of Law Enforcement Agencies playbook.
On Sunday’s Life, Liberty & Levin, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) claimed Obama and Biden “turned the Department of Justice, the FBI [and] the intelligence community into political enforcers in a way that has never happened in 230 years of our nation’s history. We’ve never seen the Department of Justice raid the home of a former president. It’s being done by a successor of the opposing political party.” Cruz may be a sourpuss, but he knows US history.
You can hate Trump, but the raid upon a Republican president’s home by his Democrat successor is a greater threat to American democracy than the acts on January 6, 2021, of deranged partisans; orchestrated out of sight and signaling that no political rival to Present Biden is safe. You can hate Trump, but he was targeted as a candidate by Crossfire Hurricane and as an ex-president by the Mar-a-Lago raid. You should care, because your favorite Republican could be next (Nikki Haley’s PAC donor list was leaked by the IRS this fall).
Obama’s abuse of power included three doozies: (1) his 2010 BOLO – be on the lookout – memo to the IRS to harass political enemies like the Tea Party, (2) the 2011 “We Can’t Wait” initiative that skirted GOP-controlled Congress, and (3) allowing his acolytes to spy on candidate (and president-elect) Trump in 2016. That’s worse than Watergate because nobody defied the President’s orders – and nothing’s changed under Biden.
Fault Republicans for January 6, but it was all in the open. Millions had long voiced their doubts about the integrity of the election. The pre-riot protest had assembly permits and was on TV. Most of its attendees did not riot; captured by realtime video feeds that also showed the Capitol riot forming and raging. Most, if not all, of the rioters were arrested, indicted, and imprisoned.
If any voter missed that TV coverage, there’s been special congressional hearings – on top of another impeachment vote. Justice has, in fact, been served for all to see. And, just in case there are still a few GOP voters out there, Joe Biden has attacked and blamed Republicans for a host of evils – and that’s where he’s trumped Nixon.
He has an “enemies list” that he demonizes non stop; 2020 election skeptics are “election deniers” and support for Trump is “semi-fascism.” GOP election-integrity supporters are “racists.” Without FOIA lawsuits, we’d not know his DOJ used “domestic terrorist threat” to justify surveillance on moms confronting school boards. Most Republicans and Independents think he’s allowed the Trump purge to go on too long. The lower he polls, the nastier Joe Biden’s tone becomes in public. One can imagine what’s happening out of sight.
I’d argue Biden is worse than Nixon, who did NOT target Lyndon Johnson or Hubert Humphrey (possible because of the Pentagon Papers), and reckless to target Trump like he’s Al Capone, who did NOT win 74 million citizens’ votes. Why make your case, Mr. President, and lose we the people? Republicans feel under attack, and Independents are tired of the pay-back tour – after you promised (promised, I tell ya) to restore normalcy and unite Americans.
Biden’s ignored the electorate, which the post-Watergate presidents did not do. Ford (R-MI) and Carter (D-GA) knew every Nixon abuse and crime, but they also knew he’d won 49 states, 520 electoral votes, and 60.7% of the popular vote. Thus, Ford pardoned and Carter rarely mentioned Richard Nixon. In fact, Carter put citizens first, creating the FISA court to prevent the partisan weaponization of law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Don’t forget it was the Obama-Biden White House that duped the FISA judges.
Maybe we should stop comparing Biden to Mr. Carter – and start comparing him to Nixon – because Jimmy is a saint compared to Joe. Carter screwed up the economy, but Biden is screwing Republicans.