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I always hesitate to write about our two freshmen Muslim Congresswomen and Israel because the first reaction of those who will not agree with me is that I’m Jewish and I just don’t understand their attitudes.

You would be half right.  I did grow up in a reform Jewish family, my parents were educators, I went to Sunday School every year from Kindergarten to 10th grade, was Bar Mitzvahed at age 13 and am pretty conversant in comparative religion.  But I also understand Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, maybe better than they understand themselves.

How do people like these get elected to Congress?

The same way Donald Trump became President.  By playing to their base.

Only their base is a group of people who simply don’t want to come to America and assimilate.  They want to come here and make us into Somalia.  Or, any number of other failed states in the Middle East.  I know, I know…Tlaib was born in Detroit.  Have you been to Detroit lately?  It bears a strong resemblance to certain cities in the Middle East.  So do a lot of cities run by Democrats these days.  

Omar and Tlaib in their tender freshman term have a bad case of hubris.

Hubris is a noun which is defined as “excessive pride or self-confidence”—something many politicians are afflicted with but usually as they climb further up the ladder.

To repeat a story I’ve told many times, when we had a radio station in Tulsa, we had a regular caller named Jack Jackson.  He used to say that when someone gets elected to the school board, the city council or the county commission, they get down to the school headquarters, city hall or the county courthouse, they see the receptionist and that 10 button phone, they take a whiff of that pink gas and they’re never the same.

You can imagine what happened to these women when they got elected to Congress.

They took that pink gas out of a mask hooked to a tank they had delivered to their offices.

They became the “us” in “us versus them”.  And, of course, we—you and I—are the “them.”

It’s an occupational hazard for politicians of all stripes but it is especially contagious among those who are being egged on every day by the fake news media.

So what these two clowns have done is to take on Israel.

There was a bi-partisan House delegation which went to the Middle East and talked to all sides from August 5th to the 15th.  These women could have easily been part of that group.  But noooooo.  That’s would not have shined a big enough spotlight on them, so they announced they would make a separate trip to Israel to talk with…wait for it…the Palestinians—whoever they actually are.

Israel did what any sovereign nation has the right to do.  It said NO.  Then, Tlaib said she wanted to see her Grandmother—who she had never met—living on the West Bank.  Israel immediately said yes to that on humanitarian grounds.

Was that good enough for Ms. Tlaib?

Ummmm.  No.  “Silencing me & treating me like a criminal is not what she wants for me,” she said of her grandmother.  “It would kill a piece of me. I have decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in.”

Right.

Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri summed it up neatly.  “Last night, she sent me a letter asking her to allow her to visit her 90-year-old grandmother ‘because this could be my last chance to meet her’.  I approved it on humanitarian grounds, but it turns out that it was a provocation to embarrass Israel. Her hatred for Israel overcomes her love for her grandmother.”

Hubris is a tough taskmaster.

Worse are the American Jews who are—for almost inexplicable reasons—so hard core Democrats that they’ll overlook this and blame Israel.

But I have a suspicion that if the Omars and the Tlaibs become the face of today’s Democrat party, you may see what my friend Wayne Allyn Root calls a JEXIT.

We are almost 75 years away from the end of the Holocaust which made the need for a Jewish state apparent.  It’s easy for people who have no connection to World War Two to have no passion for this never to happen again.

Perhaps it is necessary for everyone to study some history so that it can never repeat itself.

And maybe some Democrat elders should explain to Omar and Tlaib that—in the total scheme of things—they are not past grade school and their hubris may well stop them from getting to high school.

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Assuming you are reading this on the day this electronic newspaper is officially dated, this is the 243rd anniversary of some very brave men telling a king, 3,539 miles away, to stuff it and that they were going to chart their own destiny, create their own nation.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Back in those days, we had whatever government was installed by that king, 3,539 miles away.  And he enforced his dictates by military “persuasion.”

This was the Continental Congressional response:

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.”

That was then.

Today, we no longer have a Continental Congress.  We have a congress in which the House of Representatives is dominated by clowns like Adam Schiff, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.  We have a Senate dominated by Republicans, some of who have higher political ambitions and some who just want to hold the nation together.  

And we have a President who many believe was the instrument that many citizens voted for to fix that government which they believe had become “destructive of these ends.”

We also have a Supreme Court which recently held that it is not unconstitutional to ask a census question about citizenship BUT they didn’t like the attitude of the Secretary of Commerce so they sent it back to a lower court to try and run out the clock.  How judicial of them.

In 2020, we are going to have a referendum on what the citizens actually think of the dysfunction we find in our elected government.

The President will stand for re-election, so will most of the various clowns in Congress, as you and I get our official say.

My guess is that in the 244th year since those men appended their names to the document in the National Archives, you and I will make it clear what we decided in 2016, which is to say that we had enough.  That our government was becoming oppressive and was beginning—actually well past beginning—to take away from those unalienable Rights.  That is why we sent Donald Trump to Washington.

The opposition to the President wants open borders, state sponsored and controlled healthcare, the right to kill unborn babies with their hearts beating, the repeal of the right to keep and bear arms, taxing at obscene rates job creators and a host of other stupid ideas which would cripple the very reasons that those guys in Philadelphia wrote and signed that document.

They disguise their desires by couching the unacceptable with misleading words.

Gun confiscation becomes gun safety.  Killing babies with detectable heartbeats becomes reproductive health rights.  State sponsored and controlled healthcare becomes Medicare for All.  Open borders becomes sanctuary cities and sanctuary states.

These folks use their tongues prettier than the hookers who service some of the men in Congress.

Frankly, if we don’t put a stop to this nonsense in 2020, we’ll deserve everything we get.

I’ve never blamed the Democrats for Barack Obama.  I blamed the Republicans.  2008 and 2012 were winnable elections.  But you cannot beat somebody with nobody.  And John McCain was Obama light.  Mitt Romney invented Obamacare in Massachusetts when he was governor.  Why elect the diet drink when you can have the real thing?

That said, Trump’s opposition has done us a huge favor.  They have shown us who they really are.  It’s our job to vote NO!