{"id":33162,"date":"2015-09-10T21:35:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T01:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=33162"},"modified":"2015-09-10T21:35:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T01:35:30","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-september-9th-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=33162","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, September 9th, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Wednesday, September 9th, 2015…but before we begin, one brief observation: as Dick Cheney observed yesterday, “any legislator who supports this “shameful deal” should not be serving”. \u00a0At the risk of seeming overly reactionary, we’d go one step further and suggest they be shot.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And while those who supported The Dear Misleader in his act of anti-Americanism prior to Babs Mikulski’s sycophantic sell-out<\/a><\/em><\/span> are bad enough, Progressives such as Ben Cardin and Joe Manchin, who came out in opposition only after their positions were moot, are particularly<\/em><\/span> deserving of complete and utter contempt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, here’s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n

First up, courtesy of Commentary Magazine<\/em>, Noah Rothmann offers an opinion, absolutely accurate<\/em><\/span> in our<\/em><\/span> assessment, as to why…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Liberalism Doesn\u2019t Deserve the Benefit of the Doubt<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

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“Sure, their approach to governance may be of dubious efficacy, but their hearts are in the right place. Judging the left by their intentions and not whether their policy prescriptions succeed on their own terms is how liberalism has managed to avoid critical introspection and soul-searching for much of the modern era \u2013 even when it is cast into the political wilderness by the electorate.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> As the Obama era comes to a close and liberalism faces another time out of the public\u2019s favor, its contemporary leaders seem fit to ignore the lessons of its period in ascendance. Liberalism is utterly undeserving of the benefit of the doubt from which it has so unduly profited<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> That was always the case, but this summer has so plainly demonstrated this reality that it would be pathologically self-deceptive for the left to continue to ignore it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Carey Gabay, a Harvard-educated lawyer and aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was walking with his brother down a Brooklyn street near a well-traveled parade route when he was shot over the weekend. Gabay was caught in the crossfire that erupted between two rival gangs in Brooklyn. It is a spate of violence that had already taken the life of a 24-year-old man who was fatally stabbed in that same part of Brooklyn just hours earlier. Gabay remains in critical condition as of this writing. No arrests have been made in either his shooting or the deadly stabbing incident.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Hopefully, Gabay\u2019s family was not watching MSNBC on Tuesday morning. If they were, they would have seen the city\u2019s callous and indifferent Mayor Bill de Blasio affirming the tranquility of his city. \u201cCrime is down almost five percent over last year,\u201d a smiling de Blasio averred. \u201cWe have had the safest summer in over 20 years.\u201d<\/span> While overall crime<\/em> is<\/span><\/em> lower than in previous years, the murder<\/span> rate is not<\/span><\/em>. By mid-August, killings had risen<\/em><\/span> by almost 10 percent<\/em><\/span> over last year.<\/span> De Blasio\u2019s New York is not alone in experiencing a substantial increase in the homicide rate. In America\u2019s Democrat-led<\/span> metropolises, the murder rate is almost uniformly up from last year<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Chicago is up 20 percent; New Orleans is up 22 percent; Washington D.C. is up 56 percent. Baltimore and St. Louis \u2013 two cities that were rocked by racial violence over the course of the last year \u2013 are up 56 and 60 percent respectively. Milwaukee has experienced a staggering 76 percent increase in the murder rate<\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n

Hells bells; we’d sooner walk the streets of an ISIS-controlled city in Syria wearing a crucifix than the streets of Chicago under any<\/em><\/span> conditions!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since we’re on the subject of Liberals undeserving of anything<\/em><\/span>, be it the benefit of the doubt or the highest office in the land, NRO<\/em>‘s Shannen Coffin highlights the utter absurdity of Hillary’s latest excuses:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton Spent Lots of Time \u2018Not Thinking\u2019 about Her Secret E-mail Server<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Hillary Clinton told NBC\u2019s Andrea Mitchell in an interview last week that she just didn\u2019t think about things when she set up her private server to use exclusively as her official e-mail while secretary of state. She \u201cwas not thinking a lot when [she] got in. There was so much work to be done.<\/span> We had so many problems around the world.\u201d\u00a0Understandably, she \u201cdidn\u2019t really stop and think what kind of e-mail system will there be.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So she didn\u2019t think when she paid a former campaign staffer to build the server and set up \u201cClinton.com\u201d e-mail addresses for herself and close State Department aides, including her deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t think when she hired that campaign staffer at the State Department, but continued to pay him off the federal books for his services in maintaining her secret server<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t think when she neglected to report her server to the Department of Homeland Security, as required by law<\/span><\/em>, so DHS could audit the security of her system as part of its mission to protect the government\u2019s Internet security.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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She didn\u2019t think, when she instructed all overseas State Department officials not to use private e-mail to conduct official business, that the same rule applied to her<\/span><\/em>. Nor did she think too hard before firing an ambassador, in part, for using private e-mail to conduct official business<\/span>.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t think when she operated that server and her e-mail addresses for several months without a security certificate, so that her communications were entirely unencrypted for even the least skilled<\/span> of Chinese, Russian, and Romanian hackers to find<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t think when she gave her e-mail address to foreign diplomats, such as Tony Blair, who communicated with her in confidence about sensitive international matters over unsecure systems<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t think when her own diplomats and staff shared similar foreign communications and even satellite intelligence<\/span> over unsecure e-mail systems<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t think to classify any of that information under the classification authority granted her by law.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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She just didn\u2019t think that President Obama\u2019s executive order on classification and her own State Department\u2019s foreign-affairs manual \u2014 which presume that the disclosure of confidential \u201cforeign government information\u201d will harm the national security \u2014 applied to those e-mails<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

She certainly didn\u2019t think to handle any such classified information \u2014 approaching 200 e-mails now classified by the State Department (and still counting) \u2014 under the security procedures required by law<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So she definitely didn\u2019t think when she told a staffer, \u201cJust e-mail it,\u201d when he informed her that a particular document was classified<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t think to search any of her e-mails in response to countless Freedom of Information Act requests<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And she surely didn\u2019t think that congressional committees wanted her secret e-mails when they demanded State Department records in the days and months after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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She didn\u2019t think, when she resigned from the State Department, to return all of her federal records, like every other employee of the department is required to do<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0As busy as she was, she couldn\u2019t be bothered with attesting to the completeness of those records, again like every other employee is required to do<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t think to report a security breach to the State Department when her communications with Sidney Blumenthal \u2014 a secret adviser rejected from official State Department service by the Obama White House, but nonetheless paid on the side by Clinton\u2019s foundation \u2014 were hacked<\/span> by Romanian hacker Guccifer in 2013 and published online by Gawker.com<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t think about her obligations to protect the classified information on her server when she turned it over wholesale to Platte River Networks, a private Internet company that lacked proper security clearances<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t think when she continued to keep the existence of her server \u2014 and thousands of official e-mails \u2014 from the State Department and the public<\/em> for almost two years after leaving office<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t think when she let her lawyers<\/em> decide<\/em><\/span> which of nearly 60,000 e-mails were federal records required to be preserved by law<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

She surely didn\u2019t think when she directed her lawyers and aides to delete permanently half of those e-mails (more than 30,000) \u2014 so that no one would ever know what was in them<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And she also didn\u2019t think to tell the truth<\/em><\/span> in response to the public outcry.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

You can hardly blame her.<\/span> It was a lot not to think about<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The truly scary part…other than the fact she seriously thinks she deserves<\/em><\/span> the presidency?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As Jim Geraghty notes in his Morning Jolt<\/em>…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“The New York Times<\/i><\/span> lets us know that everything is fine in Hillary-land: \u201cThere will be new efforts to bring spontaneity to a candidacy that sometimes seems wooden and overly cautious.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Got that?<\/span> They\u2019re <\/span><\/strong>planning<\/span> spontaneity<\/strong><\/span>…”<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

“Planning spontaneity<\/em><\/span>“; yeah…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…THAT oughta work! \u00a0So, at least according the The Old Grey Nag, Dimocrats should just…<\/strong><\/p>\n