Thursday, August 17, 2023

Karine Jean-Pierre: Simply the Worst
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There is one universal truth in politics in the United States of America: Liberals fail up.

It doesn’t matter how awful they are, either as people or in their jobs (or both), liberals will always fail upward to a better position, more money or whatever else is a step-up in their careers. Talent and ability have zero role in this, no place whatsoever.

Exhibit A in this new and decidedly political phenomenon is Karine Jean-Pierre, the fumbling, stumbling former public face of the rabid left-wing Move On group created to excuse Bill Clinton’s every sin, moral or criminal, imploring the country to just “move on” from them. It’s funny how someone who used to make their living telling people to “move on” spends most of her day blaming the previous administration for her current boss’s failures.

But that’s how the left works – the administration of Barack Obama was nothing more than celebrating him for his skin color while scrambling to blame the George W. Bush administration for every one of his failings. Somehow, after eight years, Barack Obama wasn’t responsible for never having achieved three percent growth in any given year, but under President Donald Trump, when the economy finally kicked into gear after his economic policies were implemented, that was because of Obama…or something.

House, Senate Republicans team up to crack down on FTC for destroying documents related to congressional probe
'Congress and the public deserve an explanation of why the FTC improperly destroyed records': Cruz
 
Top Republicans on Capitol Hill are vowing a crackdown on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for allegedly destroying documents related to a congressional probe.

"By deleting documents, the FTC likely violated federal law. It also impeded Congressional oversight of the FTC’s recent, unprecedented actions, including its proposed rule banning non-compete clauses," Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican and ranking member on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, wrote in a letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan, which was dated for Thursday and shown to Fox Digital ahead of its release.

"Congress and the public deserve an explanation of why the FTC improperly destroyed records, what records it improperly destroyed, and what steps will be taken to ensure it never happens again," Cruz wrote, joined by Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Republican and the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. Read more and see video here.