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Fanatics think of tactics as a one-way street. Lefties come up with things that Dems can do, mint a trillion dollar coin, lock up political opponents or pack the Supreme Court and act like it’s a one-way street. Occasionally saner voices remind them that the other side gets a vote, but quickly gets shouted down.
Lefties declare that anything they do is a one-side street and the other side has no right to retaliate. But the other side does get a vote and once a tactic emerges, it becomes a two-way street.
Remember this great moment from last year.
The House Ways and Means Committee released six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns on Friday, offering the most detailed account yet of his finances while in the White House.
The panel voted last week to make the returns public with redactions of sensitive information, after a lengthy legal battle.
Unlike Hunter Biden, there was nothing actually illegal there. So this was an abuse of power and a weaponized invasion of privacy. But since releasing the tax returns of your political enemies is the new normal, why not Hunter’s tax returns?
House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) has planned a special executive session for the committee on Thursday morning to potentially review documents protected by tax privacy laws related to an IRS probe of Hunter Biden.
The move could foreshadow the public release of documents related to Hunter Biden’s taxes. Smith gave notice Tuesday that he will be exercising his unique authority as chair of the House’s tax writing committee to consider documents that are otherwise barred from disclosure because they bear information related to a private citizen’s tax information.
I’m sure the media will explain to us, when the day comes, that it was right and proper to release Trump’s tax returns, but wrong to release Hunter’s. But the ‘heads I win, tails you lose” school of politics is fading away.
And the Bidens may be on the receiving end of the tactics used against Trump.
Jeff Bargholz says
Why not release Bribery Joe Biden’s tax returns? There’s no way they match his bank accounts or property wealth. Once a crook, always a crook.
Algorithmic Analyst says
They’ve got their wealth hidden somewhere in foreign bank accounts and crypto.
Jeff Bargholz says
That sounds about right. I guess the only thing that can show he’ on the take is his multiple properties, which he never earned enough to buy in politics.
Una Salus says
They’ve got their wealth in the most reliable currency, power. That would be more than readily apparent to everybody already if America didn’t have the Almighty Dollar which BTW isn’t quite where it used to be.
Jeff Bargholz says
The dollar was just fine when Trump was President instead of Resident Beijing Biden.
Kasandra says
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Kasandra says
And in expensive houses in very exclusive locations.
CowboyUp says
Ftx comes to mind, for the crypto launder. What was it, $10 billion that vanished somewhere?
Una Salus says
And while we can laugh about Bloomberg and compatriots squandering countless millions in American currency on political aspirations American currency is exactly what they want to move away from.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Yeah, reminds me of the Sulla/Marius conflict, one of the best examples of turnabout being fair play. First an unimaginably bloody proscription by one side, then an even worse one by the other side.
Una Salus says
We’ll go down to Miller’s Crossing and we’ll see who’s sane, says Eddie Dane.
Una Salus says
Dems don’t care about Hunter. Not at all comparable to the way Republicans look at Trump like some sort of father figure who showed them how to mouth off to Dems while obeying their every precept when it counts.
Hunter is completely expendable and Biden is not even really present. This won’t go any further than “lock her up” chants did at rallies because that’s the game the GOP plays over and over again. The GOP is never going to let anything disturb their bipartisan soirée in Washington because the reality is that most people don’t really want the boat rocked that much. Trump exists as a pressure release mechanism so people that are losing their country can blow off steam, That’s all. More importantly, Dems know it.
Una Salus says
They’re not fanatics they just hate the other half of the country and the GOP projects only weakness which is fear of the media. Maybe that’s why Trump has this strange mythos surrounding him. Unfortunately it really is a myth because his ego is writing cheques his charisma can’t deliver.
Una Salus says
I suppose that’s what is really. A bunch of people who fear the media inspired by someone whose ego is big enough to take on the media. But at the end of the day he’s consumed by it and probably spends hours watching his own coverage.
cedar9 says
Congressman Massie and friends will vote it down.
JAM says
The republican party has become too soft. There is no reason why democrats shouldn’t be held accountable. Maybe we republicans need to start playing by the democrats rulebook and going after everyone of them. Bottom line is, if people have nothing to hide, they have nothing to worry about.
Jeff Bargholz says
“They” who? China and Russia?