Posse Incitatus

Score One More For the Swamp

Just as I suspected, a hyper-partisan liberal jury acquitted Hillary Clinton attorney Michael Sussmann of lying to the FBI in the shenanigans leading up to the Russian collusion hoax that swamped the Trump administration for years.

This despite overwhelming evidence that Sussmann misled the FBI when he provided the agency with now debunked data linking Trump Tower to Russia's Alfa Bank. When Sussmann set up a meeting with FBI counsel James Baker, he texted Baker that "I'm coming on my own - not on behalf of a client or company." Sussmann lied again in person when he met with Baker in order to get the agency to open an investigation.

But this is D.C., where 92 percent of those voting for president chose Biden. Several jurors acknowledged their animus for Trump and /or that they had contributed to the Hillary Clinton campaign. By comparison, when political consultant Roger Stone was convicted by a D.C. jury in 2019, let's recall that the judge allowed one person onto the jury despite the fact she clearly lied during jury selection. 

Those of us who appreciate how entrenched the swamp is, and how thoroughly the deep state creatures cover for each other, did not hold high hopes Durham would obtain a conviction here. But there are still other fish to fry. For instance, the indictment of Igor Denchenko, charged with five counts of making false statements to FBI officials about the sources of the information he helped compile for Christopher Steele's bogus dossier.

More indictments will follow, and it's possible there may be some convictions or plea bargains if defendants fear for their futures and decide to "sing like a canary" regarding the massive fraud foisted upon the American public by the Clinton campaign and deep state. It's possible (although I'm not getting my hopes up) that the sheer enormity of the lies, deception and duplicity will build momentum for accountability.

The Russian collusion hoax was apparently concocted by the Hillary campaign to divert attention away from her home server, compromised classified emails, 33,000 email deletions and destruction of government devices to wipe out data. The Comey FBI also wanted to give what in football or basketball is referred to as a "makeup call" (a referee's gift call to benefit one team to make up for a bad call that went against that team few minutes earlier) to the Hillary campaign. Comey felt guilty that he was being blamed for reopening the Hillary email probe just a few days before the 2016 election, and may well have cost her the election. So piling on against Trump was a way to demonstrate his supposed even-handed intentions.

It's tough to get accountability inside the D.C. cesspool when swamp creatures are in a massive incestuous relationship with each other, the garbage media and the Democrat Party. But at least Durham will help shed some light on the stinkin' rot, and maybe a few gullible and ignorant people will see the light. It's a start.

Remembering Our Fallen and Recognizing Freedom's Cost

Many serious problems confront our nation on this Memorial Day 2022, and some may wonder if we are living in the last days of the United States. Today, let's pause to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedom and help this nation survive for so many years. We're down, but as long as we have freedom and the will to make things better, we're definitely not out.

In the midst of all of our difficulties, let us never forget our tremendous resilience as a people; our strength, boundless opportunities, and vast potential. Let us remember that freedom is the vital component makes it all possible -- freedom to be entrepreneurial, to learn, invent, build, worship, express ourselves, collaborate and be productive -- in short, to live up to our God-given potential. 

Contingent upon recognizing freedom's crucial role is appreciating the high price paid for that freedom since our nation was founded 246 years ago.  Also, to realize that our freedom is, in the history of the world, something of a rare entity.  Totalitarian rule, oppression and aristocracies have been far  more commonplace through the ages. Indeed, the more one studies history and learns of the suffering and calamities that have been widespread for millennia, the greater will be that person's appreciation for how blessed we Americans are.

Hundreds of thousands of brave men and women in our armed forces have made the ultimate sacrifice so that you and I could remain free.  As I type and as you read, others are on duty now in godforsaken outposts across the globe. There are also many thousands of vets whose lives have been shattered by debilitating injuries and/or psychological trauma.  If you're a believer, keep please them in your prayers.

On this Memorial Day, let us at least take a few moments to contemplate the suffering and sacrifice so many have endured for our freedom, and resolve not to squander our hard-won liberty and opportunity.

More Unanswered Questions in Texas

Your humble correspondent has tested positive for COVID-19 -- the first time since the pandemic began in March 2020. Earlier this week, I noticed a low level sore throat and occasional dry cough, plus some sniffles and sneezes. I thought the high pollen count resulting from recent heavy rains had aggravated my sinuses.

A self-administered antigen test I took several days ago turned out negative, but this morning, suffering those symptoms plus body aches and chills, I decided to take another test, and it resulted in a positive reading. I also have a fever, and slept for several hours this afternoon. So there will be no church Sunday, nor will there be a visit with my son, daughter-in-law and new grandson. Fortunately, my wife makes excellent chicken soup and has been stepping up to tend to my needs. A good nurse is invaluable.

I'll need to keep this post short; just wanted to address some recent developments in the horrendous Robb Elementary School killings in Uvalde, Texas.

An investigation has revealed that it was over 40 minutes after officers arrived on the scene before police actually engaged the shooter. The head police officer for the school district, Pete Arredondo, believed the situation had changed into a hostage / barricaded gunman scenario, and ordered responding police not to confront him. Eventually, federal officers disobeyed Arredondo's order, got a janitor's key to unlock the classroom door and shot the perpetrator dead. No one knows for sure, but several of the seriously injured students may have survived had they received rapid medical attention. Instead, they bled out, a devastating conclusion.

During a Friday news conference, Steven McCraw, head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, called out Arredondo. “It was the wrong decision,” McCraw said.

We've also learned that, although the school doors are normally locked, a teacher had propped open the rear door just minutes before the shooter entered the building through that door. Why? I am just speculating, but I wonder if someone inside the building had to haul garbage out to the dumpster and didn't want the inconvenience of repeatedly unlocking the door to re-enter the building?

Many of us have illegally propped open a work or hotel door for our convenience or to help out someone else. But rest assured, we never pondered the thought of a crazed gunman walking in and slaughtering people. How would you like to have that on your conscience?

Another crucial question -- something I haven't heard the media address -- is how does a loser 18-year-old with little or no money afford two AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, which can cost over $1,000 apiece? Somebody needs to dig into this.

As a side note, the NRA is holding a convention in Houston this weekend, and rabid protesters have been raising a ruckus outside the convention center. Other anti- Second Amendment, anti-NRA demonstrations are scheduled from coast to coast.

I watched some of Donald Trump's keynote address to the convention Friday night, and it was excellent. He was measured and disciplined rather than bombastic, as he's been so often during his rallies. He definitely sounded the right tone, first by giving a tribute to the deceased and injured, and offering condolence to their families. Then he ran down the many flaws in our system that allow sick and crazed gunmen to engage in their unspeakable carnage, and reiterated the importance of law abiding citizens having the right to defend themselves and their families.. He touched on factors like missed red flags by those in contact with alienated, angry young males who post threatening messages on social media; the breakdown in the family structure; the toxic effects of troubled youth marinating in violent video games and on chat forums populated by similarly dysfunctional and troubled youth.

Many lawsuits will undoubtedly be filed, but governmental immunity laws in Texas may make it difficult for families of victims to be compensated for their devastating losses.

One last thought, and I'm going to sip some Thera-Flu and conk out on the couch: How thoroughly do police agencies, local and state governments include social media postings in their background checks? I honestly do not know the answer. But it sure wouldn't hurt. The Uvalde shooter had an appalling digital track record that should have shaken acquaintances, family members the the entire Uvalde school system to the core.

I will continue to pray for the victims and their families. There's not much else I can do while this catastrophe gets sorted out.

Ugly Uvalde Fallout; Chaos in Michigan

At the time I wrote Tuesday's blog. the total death count had not been tallied up in the horrendous Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting. Turns out, it was 19 students and two teachers killed. The resulting media shit-storm and cheap political shots being launched by Democrats were entirely predictable.

Second guessing abounds, especially about the time it took for law enforcement agencies to enter the school and engage the shooter in a confrontation. I am not even going to publish the time estimates I've heard so far, because the information, anecdotes and eyewitness accounts are all over the map. It may take months to unravel. But one thing I do believe will stand out like a sore thumb is the severity of mental illness in our society (especially among the young) and how social media and alienation exacerbate its dangerous and tragic effects.

The shamelessness of Democrats will also be on full display. Sure as clockwork, progressive Democrats are already acting like two-year-olds. Current Texas gubernatorial candidate Robert Francis O'Rourke, (the failed 2018 Senate and  2020 presidential candidate), made an ass out of himself at a news conference Wednesday.

Gov. Greg Abbott and Uvalde officials were updating local residents about the tragedy when O'Rourke decided to step up front from his seat in the crowd and begin badgering the governor, blaming his policies for the bloodshed. "This is on you!" said the fraudulent grandstander, who was eventually ushered out of the building by security officials.

O'Rourke, a man of Irish descent who gave himself the nickname "Beto" to appeal to Hispanics, is as phony as they come. He knows he's way behind Abbott, and probably felt like he had to be machismo and go for broke to light a fire under his campaign.

His stunt is bound to be featured on O'Rourke campaign commercials, but I do believe it will backfire big-time. People are still grieving, and to crassly politicize this sad moment for personal gain is just plain gauche, something the Democrats are good at. 

Also on the classless front, Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona tweeted to Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, "F*** your prayers!" Twitter, which the late Rush Limbaugh referred to as a "sewer," has certainly not failed to live down to its wretched "standards."

Unfortunately for the National Rifle Association, the organization's convention is scheduled for Friday through Sunday in Houston. Expect plenty of social justice warriors ranting out on the streets, and possibly even riots.

MICHIGAN FOLLIES -- Those of us who are fed up with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and hoping a Republican can unseat her come November have been underwhelmed by the huge collection of so-so or even bad GOP candidates.

For many months, approximately 10 people have been running for the GOP nomination. As of Monday, five of them have been disqualified due to improper or fraudulent petition signatures. Among the disqualified, former Detroit Police Chief James Craig, who was the frontrunner. 

The State Board of Canvassers is preparing a recommendation for Attorney General Dana Nessel to prosecute the 36 petition circulators suspected of providing fraudulent signatures and charging money for them (petition seekers were paid $15 per hour, but multiplied times hundreds of people and hours, the money really adds up).

The AG also promises to prosecute the firm blamed for the fraudulent signatures, First Choice Consulting, and its owner, Shawn Wilmoth. Wilmouth already was convicted of election fraud a decade ago in Virginia. The Democrats have probably played an active role in multiplying the number of false signatures out there (it wouldn't be the first time), but getting to the bottom of this is going to be challenging -- especially with partisans in charge of the Michigan AG's Office and Secretary of State's office.

Meanwhile, the billionaire DeVos family has come out in support of heretofore long shot gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon. Dixon is a businesswoman, TV host and cancer survivor with no previous political experience. A staunch conservative, she is the married mother of four and quite well-spoken. We shall see where this leads; there's still a long way to go, and  some of the disqualified candidates may not go down without a fierce fight.

Another Horrible Shooting -- This One Involving Children

An 18-year-old male shot and killed 14 children and one teacher at a Texas elementary school today. All mass shootings are terrible, but those involving children are particularly heartbreaking. Our prayers and heartfelt sympathy go out to the families of those killed.

Police shot and killed the perpetrator, who was a student at nearby Uvalde High School, and the shooter is believed to have shot dead his grandmother prior to opening fire at the school. A domestic dispute may have preceded the school shooting, authorities have stated. The community is just southwest of San Antonio, near the Mexican border. The shooter has a Hispanic name, which I am sure is a major disappointment to our garbage media.

I started a post Monday, but didn't have time to finish it, regarding the ideological ramblings of recent mass murderers, including the 18-year-old Buffalo, N.Y. shooter a couple weeks ago. My premise was that the media invariably portray these shooters as right wing, white racists when often the screeds these sick people have written and posted online include elements of environmental fanaticism and other left-wing beliefs.

But clearly the more significant common thread among mass murderers is mental illness. Going back several decades, the "experts" have opposed institutionalizing mentally ill people in favor of halfway houses and/or a combination of counseling and psychotropic medications. How's that working out? Indeed, it can be accurately said that the explosion of homelessness in many cities (as well as the spike in crime that results) is a direct consequence of not institutionalizing mentally ill people.

There are literally millions of mentally unstable people walking around in our nation. The stresses of the pandemic and how it has warped our way of life have exacerbated an already serious situation. Many of these people may die of drug overdoses, commit suicide, or physically abuse a spouse or other family member. Many others will not be able to hold down a job or function normally in society. Alas, a few will take their rage and confusion out on innocent people.

Just as security at airports and on aircraft were hardened significantly after 9/11, maybe it's time to beef up school security and allow some teachers to carry concealed weapons. But the mental health aspect is perhaps more urgent. Better policies must be put in place to keep close tabs on the mentally ill -- especially those who have threatened others and/or threatened to commit suicide.

The Buffalo shooter had threatened classmates a year ago, and although he underwent a psychiatric examination, he was not institutionalized and still managed to purchase a gun in a state with supposedly strict gun control laws. We must not miss warning signs, and must emphasize the seriousness of making threats against others.

President Biden is scheduled to address the nation regarding today's shooting at 8:15 p.m. EST. I know what he will do: Reiterate his concocted narrative that the United States is teeming with violent white racists armed to the teeth, and awash in "assault weapons" (a vague term tossed about by ignorant reporters who don't know the difference between a machine gun and a semi-automatic rifle).

Biden will call for sweeping gun control legislation, and is bound to be divisive as he usually is. For this reason, as well as because of my utter distaste for the man, I will not watch his speech.

This is a sad, critical juncture in our country. I fear for the future, but will continue to pray as if my life depended on it. 

 

Obama Judge, Swamp Jury Challenge Durham's Mettle

Most of us are familiar with the "To Kill a Mockingbird" jury scenario, in which an all-white southern jury would wrongfully convict an innocent black, or acquit a white who was guilty of murdering a black.

Racism and skin color used to be the bugaboo with regard to jury trials, but those days are mostly in the past. Today, ideology, power, wealth, and connections to Deep State elitists often taint the jury pool -- especially with regard to federal trials.

Extensive media reporting has made it clear that, despite having an overwhelming amount of evidence to convict former Perkins Coie partner Michael Sussman of lying to the FBI in his role as part of Hillary Clinton's Russian collusion conspiracy, Special Counsel John Durham may be unable to convict.

Former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook testified the other day that Hillary approved of providing the news media with unsubstantiated information about Donald Trump colluding with Alfa Bank and others in Russia. In so doing, she wanted to generate a media-driven narrative to smear Trump and his campaign.

After that, the Clintonistas used coverage from so-called "respected" organs like the New York Times to persuade the FBI to grant FISA warrants and otherwise ramp up its investigation of the Trump campaign.

Obama-appointed Judge Christopher Cooper approved of several questionable jury members who admitted they disliked Donald Trump and/or had contributed money to Democrat candidates including Hillary Clinton. As an aside, Judge Cooper's wife represented disgraced ex-FBI agent Lisa Page, whose romance with fellow agent Peter Strzok and their animus toward Trump are well documented.

Contrast this left-wing bias with the trial of former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn, which attorney Jonathan Turley discussed in a recent column.

So where does it all lead? It's quite possible that, although Sussman may not be acquitted, one or more jurors may not agree to convict. A hung jury would result in a mistrial, and then Durham might consider retrying Sussman.

The question of double jeopardy arises, but the U.S. Supreme Court did rule in 2019 on the concept of "dual sovereignty," which would allow for the same charge to be pressed in a different court system -- e.g., a state rather than federal court.

There are many other players in the rotten Russian collusion morass, including Strzok, Page, James Comey and others. But this trial being held in a city that voted 92 percent for Joe Biden in 2020 illustrates just how difficult it is to hold swamp creatures accountable.

These oily critters look after one another, and are part of a massively corrupt system that seeks to perpetuate the status quo. Whether we like it or not, we're all engaged in a real uphill struggle, and things don't look to be getting any better despite what happens in November.

 

Bye Bye Miss American Lie

Well that didn't take long!

The ill-advised "Disinformation Board" announced by the Biden administration a few weeks ago will not happen. And its chief propagandist, the inane Nina Jankowicz, will not have the opportunity to persecute all who dispute the left-wing narrative.

Less than a month ago, the Biden administration announced creation of this Orwellian panel, which would have been part of the Department of Homeland Security. It was a bad idea from the start, and poorly implemented. Jankowicz herself trafficked in conspiracy theories -- including the Russian collusion hoax -- and was a big supporter of suppressing information on Hunter Biden's laptop just a few days before the 2020 election.

Appointing her to lead a disinformation board is tantamount to naming David Duke to head up an NAACP panel on diversity and inclusion. There was no clear mission statement; no game plan for how the board would operate and what it would do with its findings. But based on past weaponization of the federal government to go after conservatives, it's not hard to imagine the types of persecution that could have resulted. IRS harassment, penalties for banks that do business with conservative organizations; censorship efforts; maybe even heavy fines and jail time.

Former Fox News reporter Carl Cameron has gone off the deep end as a far left kook who spoon feeds his nonsense to the talking heads at MSNBC. He told Nicolle Wallace that "maybe it's time to start taking names and putting people in jail for misinformation." These people are not just batshit crazy; they're a menace to our constitutional liberty.

Of course, even without Cameron's moronic statement, Jankowicz and the Disinformation Board were bound to self-destruct due to the breathtaking hypocrisy that was obvious to all, not to mention her ridiculous singing videos (Credit to Mary Poppins). She really takes awful to another level.

There's even been mocking from other Democrats. One of the most amusing developments was when billionaire uber-progressive Jeff Bezos scathingly mocked Joe Biden with a pithy tweet. The kerfuffle had to do with Bezos rightfully objecting to Biden's asinine belief that raising corporate taxes would help tame inflation. 

Bezos tweeted:

The newly created Disinformation Board should review this tweet, or maybe they need to form a new Non Sequitur Board instead. Raising corp taxes is fine to discuss. Taming inflation is critical to discuss. Mushing them together is just misdirection.

Touché.

The Biden administration is so pathetically incompetent, it at least provides a few good laughs while it destroys our country. As the expression goes, if I don't laugh, I'll cry.

Rampant Media Mendacity Following Buffalo Shooting

The Democrat Party and media (redundancy alert) have piled on in the wake of Saturday's heinous killing of 10 black people in Buffalo by a deranged white teen. Now they're labeling all Republicans and conservatives racist white nationalists and pointing the finger at Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson as the evil instigator.

It didn't take long for the sensationalism to begin. Left-wing Rolling Stone magazine ran this headline: "The Buffalo Shooter Isn't a Lone Wolf; he's a Mainstream Republican." Really?

CNN blowhard Jim Acosta accused Carlson of "peddling white nationalist talking points." Yawn.

Sleepy Joe Biden neglected to visit Waukesha, Wisconsin last November after a black nationalist with a long rap sheet drove his vehicle through a Christmas parade and killed six people including an eight-year-old boy while injuring 62. But Biden jumped at the chance to visit Buffalo today, resurrecting his bullshit narrative that white supremacists proliferate and are as menacing a threat to America as the Ku Klux Klan was back in the 1920s. 

"White supremacy is a poison," Biden said. "It's a poison ... running through our body politic," he said, adding that silence is "complicity."

So I guess by being silent about other types of racial and/or religious bigotry, Sleepy Joe is complicit.

The great Glenn Greenwald lays out the double standards in his Substack column, "The Demented -- and Selective -- Game of Instantly Blaming Political Opponents for Mass Shootings."   

Greenwald mentions the Waukesha case and other examples of the media giving less coverage and often not mentioning the perpetrator's race or political leanings if it was a black or leftist Democrat doing the shooting. He discusses the black man who shot and killed five Dallas police officers in 2016. He also mentions the late James Hodgkinson, an avid Bernie Sanders and Rachel Maddow fan who shot up a Republican baseball practice in June 2017 in Alexandria, Va. I certainly don't recall Fox News or any Republicans blaming Rachel Maddow or MSNBC for Hodgkinson's rampage.

But to hear today's left describe the Buffalo shootings, Fox News and Tucker Carlson had been urging such killings all along. These leftist hypocrites are absolutely full of it.

I don't want to stir up white vs. black racial animosities -- the bigotry goes both ways, along with tensions involving Asians, Hispanics and other racial/ethnic groups. Hatred, mental illness and scapegoating affect all races, and it is disgusting as well as shameful that one major political party -- the one with a horrendous track record these past couple of years; the one that is wrecking our country with its insane policies -- is promoting a one-sided, race-baiting narrative to try ginning up votes in the 2022 midterms.

Obama started it during his time in office, and Biden is continuing it, being the demagogue he is. Like so much of what the Demagogue Party does, this too, will go down in flames. The mother of all schadenfreude parties is coming in November.

A Despicable Attack -- Warning Signs Ignored?

My prayers and condolences go out to the victims and families of the 10 people murdered in cold blood Saturday in a despicable, cowardly attack upon a Buffalo, N.Y. supermarket.

The 18-year-old shooter is in custody, and there's no doubt he is a racist with hatred in his heart for blacks, Jews and other minorities. Like many other mass murderers, he had a ridiculous, false machismo, purchasing a surplus Army helmet and wearing body armor as if he were going into battle. A brave security guard -- Aaron Salter Jr., a retired police officer -- fired several shots that failed to penetrate the perpetrator's body armor before the scumbag gunned him down. Mr. Salter undoubtedly saved some lives through his heroism.

After just a couple of minutes, police converged upon the scene. The perpetrator reportedly pointed his gun at his own neck, threatening to kill himself, before surrendering. It is remarkable that police were able to arrest him without killing or injuring him, but it's inevitable that some claim if the shooter had been black, police would have gunned him down immediately. A racist attack will undoubtedly be expanded into a full-blown analysis of policing techniques and tendencies with racial formulations incorporated into the equation.

This heinous attack could have been prevented if police and the perpetrator's parents had intervened more strongly.

In June 2021, this teen had made threatening statements to classmates about plans to shoot up his school in Conklin, N.Y., about 200 miles from Buffalo. He also had exhibited bizarre behavior, such as showing up at school wearing a hazmat suit.

New York State Police took the teen to a hospital for a mental health evaluation after he made his threats.

How was this mentally ill person still allowed to purchase firearms and ammunition? This reminds me of the troubled teen who killed four people at Oxford High School north of Detroit last November. That teen had also made threatening statements  on social media and written suicidal sounding messages. Incredibly, his parents bought him a handgun as a Christmas present.

Perhaps specific threats made against individuals or a business or institution should disqualify a person from purchasing any firearms. Sound heavy-handed and too much like Big Brother lording it over us? Perhaps, and Lord knows we already have plenty of surveillance going on.

But look at this this way: If you're in the security line at an airport and you make a joke about having a bomb or that the plane might come down, you can be arrested and end up doing jail time plus pay a big fine.

Granted, monitoring speech is, to use the hackneyed phrase, a slippery slope. Satire, sarcasm or drunken stupidity can be uttered or typed without the author or speaker genuinely intending to harm anyone. But in the case of the Buffalo and Oxford shooters, it was apparent months in advance that something was seriously wrong.

There are Second Amendment absolutists who would disagree with me, and let me emphasize I am not advocating for broad red flag laws that would amount to a backdoor version of gun control. But I do think that when mentally ill loners and losers make threats like we've seen time and time again, selective restrictions may need to apply.

And even if it sounds naive, I'll say it: We should, to some extent, be our brother's keeper. If we know someone and know he is unstable and likely to harm himself and/or other people, it's not a bad thing to seek professional intervention. Especially if that person is a family member. This isn't something government policy or new laws can bring about. This comes from the heart and concern for other human beings.

Chuck Schumer Just Doesn't Know When to Quit

Sen. Chuck Schumer doesn't worry about embarrassing himself, as long as he can appease far-left progressives who are pressuring the Democrat Party to move way left.

Earlier this year, Schumer called two Senate votes that he must have known would fail. He wanted to change the filibuster rule and failed. He also took a vote on legislation to federalize elections, the so-called "For the People Act." This disastrous legislation, which would have stretched out elections for many weeks and opened the floodgates to fraudulent activities such as ballot harvesting, was defeated, 52-48. Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona voted against the bill.

The other day, Schumer -- ever the glutton for punishment -- went to the Senate floor again for a vote on a draconian abortion bill that the Democrats claim would "codify" Roe V. Wade. What the so-called Women's Health Protection Act would have done was ride roughshod over state abortion laws, thus disenfranchising millions of voters who are guaranteed a say in their states' laws by the Tenth Amendment. This amendment codifies the philosophy of federalism -- i.e., powers and rights not delegated to the federal government become the purview of the states and their citizens.

Although the Democrats tried to spin this bill as something that would allow late term abortion only in extreme cases such as when the mother's physical or mental health were fragile and she was in danger of death or incapacitation, this was not true. The language was broad enough to allow many late term abortions -- i.e., infanticide. The final margin was 51-49, because Manchin voted no. Even pro-choice Republicans Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted against this barbaric bill.

Schumer doesn't mind another failure. He just needs to demonstrate his progressive bona fides to ensure the far left voters and party leadership don't lose their enthusiasm for him in what is sure to be a red wave come November. He may well be in the minority beginning next year.

A side note: Several major media outlets, including the New York Times, Associated Press, Public Broadcasting System, and many others, grossly misreported the vote against the abortion-on-demand bill, stating that the GOP succeeded in filibustering to ensure its failure. Duh!?!? The filibuster is a freakin' MOOT POINT when the majority votes AGAINST a bill! This is bizarro world. Are the media stooges ignorant? Stupid? Or just plain in-your-face mendacious? Possibly all of the above.

Words cannot express how much contempt I have for the garbage media and the jackals who are part of it. It's hard to think of a physical analogy, but grubs crawling underneath rocks come to mind.