And that’s the world Democrats live in…

…not letting a jihadist sleep during interrogation is bad…

…putting jihadists (and anyone else in close proximity) to sleep permanently is good.

…‘Forgive us beheaders, for we know not what we do…’?)

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Democrat Senators released a rehash of mistruths and flatout lies Tuesday, attacking America’s intelligence service as having violated accepted interrogation protocol…

…yet never interviewed any intel senior leaders involved in the so-called violations.

But it seems those same Democrat Senators had themselves been under scrutiny, and their anger at being investigated for security leaks probably motivated this retaliation.

(Unhhh, shouldn’t security leaks by U.S. Senators normally be considered ‘news’?)

Timing of the report release is key, done on the same day Obamacare architect Gruber was grilled by the House of Representatives, thus receiving little media attention.

The report itself can ONLY stoke up already hot Middle East tempers, placing American diplomats and servicemen overseas in even more jeopardy than they already faced.

Partisan Democrats write an obvious hatchet job, using it to divert attention from their own transgressions, and mute real news of Obamacare dishonesty…again – choosing to insulate themselves and their lies at the cost of endangering Americans overseas.

(But, hey, it served the Democrats’ purpose, so no big deal from their point of view.)

Real torture is watching the GOP let Democrats get away with this, time after time.

For all the GOP budget talk about working together, there’s a fly in that soup…

…if they wanted ‘agenda cooperation’, voters could have just voted Democrat.

That Senate Democrat torture report could have come out anytime…it’s old news.

The only reason they released it today is to suck all the media air out of Obamacare architect Gruber’s remarks about how Democrats pulled a fast one to get it passed.

Congressional Republicans who are asked to comment on Feinstein’s ‘throw America under the bus’ highly partisan intelligence report should wave it off as political dirt…

…and turn the conversation to the House grilling of Gruber today.

Pretending the October 2013 shutdown hurt Republicans in the face of the recent election victories that wiped out a Democrat Senate majority is simply ludicrous.

Suggesting Romney wouldn’t have won in 2012, even if Republicans who stayed home did turn out to vote (but wouldn’t have voted Republican), is a laugher as well.

Referring to a poll that 53% of respondents ‘blamed’ the GOP for the 2013 shutdown, but fails to consider part of that percentage may have been Americans who gave credit to the Republicans for doing what was right, is short-sighted at best.

Elections, by definition, represent the FINAL poll on pressing issues.

Still in doubt? Ask the 9 Democrat Senators who just lost their jobs.

(Updated: changed month of 2013 shutdown to October)

Senate Democrats are planning to release a partisan report condemning interrogation techniques conducted by our intelligence community during questioning of terrorists.

Never mind that the report was produced by the STAFF of Democrat Senators, not the Senators themselves. Never mind that not a single Republican Senator participated.

Just know this: Former CIA directors and deputy directors…

• were forced to sign nondisclosure agreements just to see the accusations against them…
• were severely restricted on what they could say to defend themselves…

…despite the fact that the ‘report’ has been declassified for release! 

If the report is declassified, why restrict those accused from defending themselves?

Democrats will lose their Senate majority in January – the release of this report is all about damaging the incoming Republican majority, and forcing them to play defense.

At the expense, we might add, of our global image, our overseas intelligence efforts will suffer, our American forces and diplomats will face greater risk. All for partisan spite.

Because – somehow – we’re to feel sympathy for terrorist evil that beheads Americans?

Talk about Un-American.

Enhanced techniques work. If they protect our sons and daughters, we must use them.

Besides, at the end of an enhanced CIA interrogation, and despite all the faux angst and hand-wringing of politically contriving, advantage-seeking Democrats…

…the terrorist still has his head on his shoulders.

The REAL torture here? Knowing Senate Democrats are still in power until January.

If government shutdowns give us results like November, we need more of them.

Congressional Republicans and conservative analysts are doing a lot of handwringing over how to deal with funding the government while NOT funding Obama’s executive actions that will provide amnesty to (potentially 5 million) illegal aliens.

Democrats and their media lapdogs invoke the terrible consequences Republicans will face if a government funding impasse occurs, and Obama refuses to sign GOP bills.

Rush Limbaugh leads critical conservative voices that point out Republicans just won huge in an election less than a year after the last ‘shutdown’ occurred. Consequences?

So, how is it, if polling indicates Republicans always get blamed when a government shutdown occurs, November midterm election results benefited them so significantly?

We suggest misinterpretation of the polling data is a factor, combined with another phenomenon pointed out by Jay Cost of The Weekly Standard…GOP honesty.

First, for those polled as ‘disapproving’ of how issues are being handled between Parties, pollsters invariably consider ‘disapprove’ as a negative consequence.

But, what if that answer includes those who think their Party isn’t going far enough? In such an instance, ‘disapprove’ numbers don’t necessarily correlate to lost votes.

Which brings us to Jay Cost’s article: he noted that polled Republicans have a hugely disproportionate degree of negatively self-critiquing their own GOP political leaders.

Which could indicate voter disgust (for not going the extra mile), or dismay…that not having the power to go the extra mile motivates higher GOP voter turnout.

(We think Mr. Cost made the same mistake though, confusing a high ‘disapproval’ rate of GOP as voters disliking their Party…rather than frustration of not doing enough).

Once again, just because polled GOPers disapprove, it doesn’t mean lost votes.

Democrats, especially Obama, do things for 2 reasons: vote-pandering or money.

In off-years, votes don’t mean squat…so, you can bet Obama’s ploy is about money.

Republicans control the House of Representatives, where budgets are created…and as it happens, the current budget deal expires in a couple of days. Many were suggesting that a short-term budget should be sent to the Senate, funding the government for only a month or so until the GOP takes Senate control this coming January.

Obama and cohort want a budget resolution that takes them to the end of September, but don’t want to be seen as causing the inevitable shutdown if vetoing a short-term bill.

An executive action amnesty threat creates sound-&-fury amongst the Republicans, and their typical threat of defunding certain aspects of any budget that covers the amnesty.

Cue the media, who predict the knee-jerk ‘government shutdown’ mania and doom for Republicans who will be held responsible by the voting public…and GOP panic ensues.

Result: the GOP-led House is buffaloed into giving Obama what he wants…a Democrat cash-stuffed budget through September 2015, not a GOP-budget created in January.

Sadly, it sounds like Republicans are going to fall for it again.

“He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union…”

(U. S. Constitution, Article II, section 3.)

The new Congress convening in January shouldn’t continue to give Obama the stage he’s had in the past to spew his perception of what he considers the state of the union.

Without fail, he has used past S-O-T-U addresses to vilify Republicans and sow seeds of discontent. If there’s one guarantee in life, that is he’ll do it again if given the chance.

Republicans should not give him that chance. They should not convene a joint session of Congress, and certainly need not worry that they will be labeled racist by that act…

…they’re already being tarred with that brush.

He’s shown no civility or respect for Republicans, and deserves none himself. Lest we forget…he used a S-O-T-U soapbox to push his huge lie on Americans – Obamacare.

The first thing Republicans should do when the new Congress convenes…

…take off the gloves.