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The Fifth Edition of Webster\u2019s Collegiate Dictionary<\/em>\ndefines \u201chypocrisy\u201d as the \u201cAct or practice of feigning to be what one is\nnot, or to feel what one does not feel; esp., the false assumption of an appearance\nof virtue or religion\u2026 \u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Democratic Party\u2026 the party of slavery, secession, and segregation\u2026\nis the embodiment of hypocrisy.  That has\nnever been more evident than in the age of \u201cGet Trump!!\u201d  From the day he entered the Republican\npresidential primaries on June 16, 2015, he has been the target of every\npolitical dirty trick known to man\u2026and the Democrats know them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After more than two years of intense effort by a team of\nhighly partisan Democrat lawyers, at a cost of more than $25 million to U.S.\ntaxpayer, it is clear that there was no \u201ccollusion\u201d between the Trump campaign\nand Russian apparatchiks,<\/em> aimed at electing Donald Trump and defeating\nHillary Clinton.  To the contrary, what\nwe have learned in the past four years is that there have been multiple\ninstances of collusion between the Obama White House, the Clinton campaign, the\nDemocratic National Committee, and the most senior officials of the U.S.\nDepartment of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA, with a number of foreign\ninterests, including Russia, Ukraine, and others.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout this shameful period in American history,\nDemocrats have concentrated on following the instructions contained in Chapter\nOne of their party playbook.  That\ninstruction tells them, \u201cWhatever you do that is either unethical, immoral, or\nillegal, always blame Republicans for doing the same thing.\u201d  To cite just a few examples of Democrat\nduplicity:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the early \u201890s, a 1983 memorandum was discovered in\nthe declassified archives of the Soviet Union. \nAccording to the memorandum, written by Viktor Chebrikov, Chairman of\nthe Committee on State Security of the USSR (KGB), and addressed to Yuri\nAndropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, he was visited\nby former U.S. Senator John Tunney (D-CA) on May 9-10, 1983.  Tunney was on a highly sensitive mission for\nhis former University of Virginia law school roommate, and former senate\ncolleague, Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy, (D-MA).  The purpose of his mission was to enlist the\nKremlin leadership in a grand scheme to defeat Ronald Reagan and other\nRepublicans in the 1984 U.S. elections.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Chebrikov memorandum, Kennedy was convinced\nthat the chilly relations between the U.S.\nand the Soviet Union were due to Reagan\u2019s unwillingness to modify his strategic\nplan to win a final Cold War victory over the Soviet Union.  As Tunney described Kennedy\u2019s view, the only\npossible political threat to Reagan was rooted in issues related to war and\npeace and Soviet-American relations.  Kennedy\nfelt that, with the active assistance of the Soviet leadership, these issues\nwould become the most important of the election campaign; hence, the basis for\nTunney\u2019s mission to Moscow.  As Chebrikov\nreported, \u201cKennedy believes that, given the current state of affairs\u2026, it would\nbe prudent and timely to undertake the following steps\u201d to counter the\nmilitaristic Reagan policies: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, Kennedy asked Andropov to consider inviting him\n(Kennedy) to Moscow for a personal meeting in July 1983.  The primary purpose of the meeting would be\nto provide Soviet officials with \u201ctalking points\u201d related to problems of\nnuclear disarmament so that they\u2019d be \u201cbetter prepared and more convincing\nduring appearances in the USA.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, Kennedy felt that, in order to influence the American\npeople, it would be helpful to have Chairman Andropov submit to a series of\ntelevision interviews by major American TV networks.  He felt that a direct appeal by the General\nSecretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to the American people\nwould \u201cattract a great deal of attention and interest in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tunney assured Chebrikov that, \u201cif the proposal is\nrecognized as worthy,\u201d then Kennedy and his political allies would take the\nnecessary steps to have representatives of the major U.S. networks contact\nAndropov to schedule interviews. \nSpecifically, he suggested that the head of ABC, Elton Raul, and\ntelevision personalities Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters, could visit\nMoscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kennedy also recommended a series of televised U.S. interviews\nin which members of the Soviet military could convince the American people of\nthe \u201cpeaceful intentions of the USSR.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tunney left Moscow and returned to the U.S., Chebrikov\nprepared a memorandum and sent it to Chairman Andropov; and the memorandum\nfound its way into the KGB archives.  If\nadditional negotiations took place between Kennedy and the Soviets is not\nknown, but one thing is certain:  Ted\nKennedy did not expect that Reagan would ultimately win<\/em> the Cold War, that the Soviet Union would disintegrate, and\nthat Americans would one day find themselves reading of his treachery in\ndocuments taken from the archives of the KGB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the mid 1980s, in an effort to reverse the spread of\ncommunism in Central America and the Caribbean, the Reagan Administration\nproposed a $14 million humanitarian aid package for the anti-communist Contra\nguerillas in Nicaragua.  But then, just\ndays before the Senate was to vote on the proposal, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and\nTom Harkin (D-IA) flew to Managua for an impromptu meeting with Nicaragua\u2019s communist\ndictator, Daniel Ortega.  Their purpose\nwas to find a political rationale for voting against the Reagan aid package,\nand to find positive things to say about Nicaragua\u2019s communist regime.        <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kerry and Harkin returned to Washington with stars in their\neyes.  The amateur diplomats had\nextracted a \u201cpromise\u201d from Presidente Ortega that he would \u201cmoderate his\npolicies.\u201d  Kerry boasted, \u201cWe believe\nthis is a wonderful opening for a peaceful settlement without having to\nmilitarize the region.\u201d  Unfortunately\nfor Kerry, while he worked in Washington to deny<\/em> aid to freedom-loving\nNicaraguans, his new friend, Daniel Ortega, was in Moscow negotiating a $200\nmillion loan with which to oppress<\/em> freedom-loving Nicaraguans.  When the Reagan aid proposal was voted on it\nwas defeated on a straight party line vote. \nDemocrats were solidly opposed to humanitarian aid for the\nanti-communist Contras.  Utter hypocrisy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having failed to damage Donald Trump with their bogus\ncharges of \u201cRussian collusion,\u201d Democrats have quickly moved on to an equally\nsinister charge that the president has committed an impeachable offense by\nengaging in a relatively innocuous conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr\nZelenski.  According to an October 15,\n2019, expos\u00e9 by former Investor\u2019s Business Daily<\/em> writer, Daniel John\nSobieski, \u201cWhile Democrats are pushing the bogus Trump-Ukraine quid pro quo\nstory invented by that great storyteller, House Intelligence Committee Chairman\nAdam Schiff, two groups of Democratic senators have been colluding with\nUkrainian interests to advance their own agenda and political careers.\u201d   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sobieski reminds us that, in the October 13 edition of the Fox\nNews<\/em> show The Next Revolution<\/em>, host Steve Hilton reported that a\ngroup of Democratic senators had taken cash from a Ukrainian lobbyist in return\nfor their support of Ukrainian gas interests. \nThis occurred contemporaneously with the Democrats\u2019 promotion of the\nbogus Trump-Ukraine quid pro quo. \nUtilizing Hunter Biden\u2019s business partner, Devon Archer; Senator John\nKerry\u2019s former chief of staff, David Leiter; and a Washington lobbying firm\ncalled ML Strategies as conduits, Ukrainian gas producer Burisma Holdings\nfunneled some $90,000 to a group of Democratic senators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He made four contributions to\nSenator Ed Markey (D-MA) and three contributions to Senator Jeanne Shaheen\n(D-NH).  However, Hilton reported that,\njust one month after the last of those contributions, senators Markey and\nShaheen were among four senators who wrote to Barack Obama, saying, \u201cWe should\nleverage the full resources and expertise of the U.S. government to assist\nUkraine in improving its energy efficiency, increasing its energy production,\nand reforming its  energy markets.\u201d  All of this took place at a time when\nDemocrats were waging full-scale war on U.S. fossil fuels, opposing fracking,\nand attempting to damage U.S. energy interests in every way possible.  It turns normal, bold-faced hypocrisy into an\nart form. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while Democrats conduct 24\/7\nassaults on Donald Trump, falsely accusing him of \u201cbribing\u201d President Zelensky\nto \u201cdig up dirt\u201d on former vice president Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, we\nfind that, in May 2018, another group of Democratic senators formally requested\nthe Ukrainian government to assist Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his \u201cwitch\nhunt\u201d investigation of Trump-Russian \u201ccollusion.\u201d  CNN reported that three senators, Robert\nMenendez (D-NJ), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and,  Patrick Leahy (D-VT), wrote a letter to the\nUkrainian prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, expressing their displeasure with\nthe closing of four investigations which they felt were critical to the\nfindings of the Mueller investigation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then came the \u201chammer.\u201d  Implying that their support for U.S. aid to\nUkraine was at stake, the senators wrote, \u201cWe have supported (the)\ncapacity-building process and are disappointed that some in Kyiv appear to have\ncast aside (democratic) principles to avoid the ire of President Trump.  They then proceeded to demand that prosecutor\ngeneral Lutsenko \u201creverse course\u201d so as not to impede cooperation with Robert\nMueller\u2019s \u201cRussian collusion\u201d investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sobieski concludes by saying,\n\u201cDemocratic senators took campaign cash from Ukrainian interests while begging\nfor help in removing a duly elected President from office.  And these are the people who would participate\nin a Senate impeachment trial.  The\ninmates are indeed running the asylum.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Donald Trump wins a second\nterm in 2020 and Republicans win even larger governing majorities in both\nhouses of Congress, the schadenfreude <\/em>will last for at least five years\nand I will vow to live until age ninety-one just to enjoy their misery.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul R. Hollrah is a\nretired government relations executive and a two-time member of the U.S.\nElectoral College.  He currently lives\nand writes among the hills and lakes of northeast Oklahoma\u2019s Green Country.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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