By DEXTER DUGGAN
Every now and then one sees an impromptu street interview where passers-by don’t even know the names of powerful Washington figures influencing American life, for instance, the vice president or chief justice of the United States, much less the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
(Spoiler: Mike Pence, John Roberts, and Jerome Powell.)
If new mandates are imposed on every citizen of the nation, or the economy waxes or wanes, the reason might as well be astrological vibrations or magical crystals, for all the clueless sidewalk interviewees seem to know.
Even worse, the same pedestrians may be instantly familiar with daily details of the lives and fortunes of numerous self-entranced, ephemeral entertainment stars whom the older generation barely heard of.
However, an observer might think that the canny contestants selected to participate on a demanding national television quiz program like Jeopardy would be better informed on facts. And they usually are.
But three Jeopardy contestants recently were stumped when shown a photo of a powerful politician who, moreover, was helpfully described by host Alex Trebek as Trebek prompted for an answer: “One-fifty-third of California’s House delegation is this House Intelligence Committee chairman.”
The photo showed Golden State Democrat Cong. Adam Schiff, the bulging-eyed, disgraceful repetitive liar who has been a key Democrat player trying to destroy President Trump.
For many months Schiff had become as familiar a face as anyone else among the Washington power elite to those who follow national political intrigues.
Various stories on the Jeopardy contestants’ ignorance noted that the program typically is taped about three months in advance, but Schiff prominently had been spouting his lies far longer than that.
The Mediaite.com site commented, “This California congressman has logged roughly a zillion hours on cable news during the Mueller probe and impeachment proceedings, but is still totally unknown by three smart game-show contestants.”
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged electoral collusion by Trump with Russia lasted nearly two years but failed to demonstrate any presidential guilt — although Schiff made a habit of falsely telling reporters for cable news and any other outlet that Trump’s culpability had been uncovered.
As commentary writer Kaylee McGhee wrote at the Washington Examiner on January 21: “There is substantial evidence that Schiff used his position as House Intelligence Committee chairman to kick-start the impeachment proceedings for nakedly partisan reasons, permitting his staff to meet with the anonymous Ukraine whistleblower, concealing that meeting from his colleagues, and then lying about it repeatedly when confronted.”
McGhee added: “Schiff also spread misinformation about Trump throughout the process, making up the content of Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to make the Democrats’ accusations sound more legitimate.
“Schiff played a role in orchestrating the Ukraine scandal, leaking knowledge about the whistleblower’s complaint to the media while reportedly advising the whistleblower,” McGhee wrote. “The result, of course, was impeachment. So, it’s completely fair that Republicans would criticize Schiff for his past dishonesty and his present attempt to feign seriousness.”
It has been said that many voters pay attention to politics only as election day draws near — even though much of what affects their everyday lives bubbles away year-round in the Washington cauldron. Were the three Jeopardy contestants the same sort of American, noticing political news only as time to vote bears down on them?
Could Trump commit crimes? Of course he could, like any other politician or any other human being. Had the impeachment posse caught Trump in guilt? Only in the posse’s own blinded minds. They’re all frayed rope but no workable gallows.
Despite Schiff’s appalling record, Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), bad Catholic and conniving speaker of the U.S. House, chose him as one of the House managers to prosecute Trump in the current maladroitly contrived Senate trial.
The two impeachment articles against Trump — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — proved no crimes, but only signaled that the Orange One had incurred the displeasure of leftist radicals, as he had even before he was inaugurated president three years ago. Not a single Republican in the House joined in the utterly partisan vote to impeach.
It was all too reminiscent of how desperate left-wing Democrats tried to destroy Trump’s conservative Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a practicing Catholic, in 2018. One fantastic, false accusation after another that never would have ceased if the Dem minority in the Senate could have gotten away with it.
Lawlessness and lies are their modus operandi, always at the ready and pushed forward under the wing of their protective dominant media.
The Dems got so far as to slime Kavanaugh as a long-forgotten drunken young leader of a rape gang, and they probably would have added he was a licentious Martian printer of pornographic counterfeit money infected with plague germs if their freak show had lasted longer.
Dems said Trump had to be impeached as fast as possible, regardless of facts, proper procedure, or due process, because he was such a dire threat to the nation. But, having impeached him before Christmas, they put on the brakes and waited leisurely into the New Year.
Still, shameless Pelosi gloated that Trump was “impeached forever. No matter what the Senate does, it can never be erased.”
Does radical pro-abortionist Pelosi think she has nothing needing to be erased from her own record, nothing that she’d wish could be forgiven and forgotten? Does she think fault should be indelible, like the ink in her ridiculous impeachment-signing pens?
Feigning sorrow at having to do her duty, Pelosi signed the impeachment articles bit by bit in January with a supply of golden pens embossed with her signature that she lifted off silver trays, then she distributed these souvenirs.
Pelosi had informed us that the impeachment head-chopping was such a prayerful time.
Perhaps like all the spirit of prayer that bad Catholic Pelosi invoked when she spoke at the fiftieth anniversary dinner of the radical pro-abortion organization NARAL in 2019? A September 26 news release from Pelosi’s office quoted her telling the abortionists of her “great sorrow and prayerfulness” about confronting Trump’s evils, adding, “Prayerfully, we want God to bless America” and its inheritance.
This embroidered her dinner comments about the blessedness of permissive abortion — which is never about slaughtering defenseless babies, according to Pelosi, but only about providing “basic morality” and “respect.”
Mandatory Catholic teaching never gets in Pelosi’s way of priming the suction tubes for oceans of blood in abortion, but her distant Catholic upbringing repeatedly has sprung to her lips as a pitiful defense when she’s backed into a corner.
That various allegedly Catholic Democrats so casually have shrugged off teachings from their youth about grave, deadly sin raises the question of how deficient catechetics had been in their upbringing.
As Pelosi was leaving a news conference in December, a reporter asked if she hated Trump. Gesticulating, an agitated Pelosi replied, “I don’t hate anybody. I was raised in a Catholic house. We don’t hate anybody.”
She added: “And as a Catholic, I resent your using the word ‘hate’ in a sentence that addresses me. I pray for the president all the time. So don’t mess with me when it comes to words like that.”
Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Christine Flowers posted in reply that Pelosi’s statement angered her.
“No one should try to hide behind a religion when they have spent most of their professional lives misrepresenting, as Pelosi has done through her passionate commitment to supporting abortion,” Flowers wrote, adding, “. . . For Pelosi to use her supposed Catholicism as a shield is unacceptable. As Matt. 7:16 notes, ‘Ye shall know them by their fruits’.”
No Shame
The Wanderer asked conservative Republican political consultant Constantin Querard about proclaimed Catholic Pelosi’s statement that Trump never will be able to erase the mark of his impeachment.
“The whole reason the Democrats pursued it was to stain the president’s record,” Querard replied. “They know it won’t result in his removal. They hate that he is the president and they want to leave their mark on his permanent record. Unsurprisingly, the same woman who led the shameful impeachment hearings has no such shame for her own record.
“I pray she will figure it all out before time runs out for her, but I highly doubt she will,” Querard said.
This newspaper also asked Querard about figures like Pelosi quick to cite their Catholicism while defying its core teachings.
“I don’t really have a short answer to any of that,” he said. “Some of these people are addicted to their position and are prepared to stay in front of the parade they are leading, no matter what direction it goes. They likely wake up 20 years later wondering how they ended up where they were, considering where they started from, so it is really tough to tell if she is sincere about any of her beliefs.
“She might be sincere about being a Catholic while emphasizing the charity aspects, where she has the government trying to solve all of the problems and taking care of those in need,” Querard said. “There is very little difference between her position on open borders and the Church’s position on open borders, as one example.
“On the other hand, she is clearly nowhere near the Church’s teachings when it comes to issues like life and marriage, so it does seem unlikely that she is devout by any normally acceptable definition,” he said.
The Wanderer replied that Pelosi’s open-borders stand actually isn’t mere deference to the catechism.
Querard responded: “I’ve read some really good stuff on illegal immigration from a Church point of view, I just never really hear it enunciated publicly by Church leaders themselves. The focus is on compassion at the expense of everything else, which is a fairly Christian attitude, I suppose.”
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