Climbing Calvary

• Beltway Republicans don’t get it. Statehouse Republicans don’t get it. The game has changed. Politician weasel words aren’t going to work anymore — action is action, inaction is inaction. Trump has changed the equation. It is not enough anymore to offer excuses as to why something can’t be accomplished. The electorate expects so much more and won’t tolerate less.
• What does that mean in relation to the Election 2020? It means that Trump supporters demand their quid pro quo. If Mitch McConnell et al. expect Trump supporters to step up and assure a victory in Georgia on January 5th, then DC Republicans and Georgia State Senators and Representatives need to step up and vocally support Trump’s efforts to examine the November 3 vote.
• If DC Republicans and Georgia State Senators and Representatives fail to meet these demands, get ready to meet Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on January 6th. Get ready for the Senate filibuster to go away. Get ready for court packing. Get ready for a socialist agenda. Get ready for Democrat majorities for the foreseeable future. It’s over. So really, Mitch, this is in your court — your play.
• Do not think for a second that DC liberals and Never Trumpers are anywhere near as confident about the outcome of Trump’s challenge to the November 3 election as they portray. They know that 70 to 80% of Republicans think this election was stolen, but more alarming to them are the 30% of Democrats who agree. And, they wouldn’t be engaged in their coordinated criticism of Trump’s efforts if they weren’t fearful that lightning could strike and Biden’s victory vanishes overnight. After all, Biden’s victory appeared overnight.
• It’s easy to get discouraged among all the naysayers who have declared this election over. Trump supporters need to keep in mind that the DC media and the national MSM are ‘gaslighting’ them. The non-stop berating and labeling people as ‘crazy’ is unseemly, but not unexpected from the DC crowd, who are already so invested in the Biden presidency that they can’t contemplate anything but. No one is better at this game playing than the queen of gaslighting, Amanda Carpenter — of course, the irony is lost on no one who had the misfortune to read her book on Trump’s alleged gaslighting the American public. On CNN, just a few days ago, Dr. Carpenter had the audacity to offer some barstool psychology as to why no one in the Trump inner circle has intervened with him over his outlandish claims of election fraud — she opines it’s because “no one in his family loves him.” This self-indulgent, red headed siren of nonsense is just this side of outright evil.
• It’s equally disgusting to see how some in the conservative media are joining Carpenter’s chorus — none more conspicuously than Jonah Goldberg and Erick Erickson. These two charlatans continuously offer their purported high-brow criticism of anyone who could possibly find a shred of validity in any of Trump’s claims. In a fit of arrogance, Goldberg labels Sidney Powell a ‘fraud’ without a scintilla of analysis regarding what she claims to support her allegations of widespread irregularities. Goldberg’s pompous indignation doesn’t stop there — no, he goes on to chastise conservative radio personalities, like Eric Metaxas, for their failure to see ‘his’ light on the issue of election fraud — after all, how could these rubes be so stupid? For his part, Erickson chastises those who allow their faith to bleed into their politics and their politics into their faith as some sort of gnostic ritual, while himself challenging the breadth of the evidence for election fraud by comparing it to the seeming lack of evidence for Christ’s death and resurrection. Talk about hypocrisy. Of course, after an avalanche of criticism, Erickson tried to walk it back by saying his comparative analysis was implying that there was an abundance of evidence for Christ’s death and resurrection — which, of course, was and is a bald faced lie. That’s not what he was doing at all. Shameless, the self-declared arbiter of Georgia and national politics marches on in his never ending quest to be a jack of all trades, always content to be a master of none.
• Just a few of my opinions from the cheap seats. Carry on.

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Senator Ed McBroom (R-Vulcan) is the Chair of the Michigan Senate Committee on Oversight. In this role, he has been approached by the Donald Trump for President Campaign about conducting a hearing into the campaign’s voter fraud allegations in the State of Michigan. This hearing hasn’t been an easy get for the Trump campaign and, while some delay is understandable with the past week’s Thanksgiving holiday, it is becoming increasingly apparent that a full and comprehensive hearing is not high on Senator McBroom’s “to do” list.

As we have seen from the legislative hearings arranged with both the Pennsylvania and Arizona legislatures over the past week — in fact, the Arizona hearings continue as I write — there is a wide range of testimony offered by the Trump campaign to address its allegations of systemic fraud and then site specific allegations relevant to the particular state in question. Certainly, there has been much ado raised about the certification process in Wayne County, Michigan since the November 3 election. Starting but not ending with that certification process, we could expect no less comprehensive review of the campaign’s allegations in Michigan.

Such testimony would include detailed first hand testimony from on site witnesses, but also include probative testimony from experts who have studied the publicly available voter data and note strange anomalies in the vote patterns and spikes in vote processing – all of which suggest voting irregularities. The president’s chief counsel for these hearings, Rudy Giuliani, is also able to provide summary information that helps weave this testimony into an obvious pattern of election theft.

A comprehensive hearing would permit Senator McBroom’s Oversight Committee to receive and consider specific and credible testimony providing: 1) analysis of the absentee and mail in voter procedure in Michigan; 2) analysis of the numbers and types of ballot requests; 3) the inability of poll watchers to complete their statutory duties due to third party concerted obstruction and interference; 4) the imbalance or lack of reconciliation between poll books of voters and actual votes tallied in over 70% of the precincts in the City of Detroit; 5) the processing and tally of absentee ballots that erased a 10:00 p.m. statewide lead for President Trump and produced an incredible 150,000+ vote victory for Mr. Biden; 6) the delivery of thousands of pristine ballots marked for Joseph R. Biden under the cover of night to the TCF Center in downtown Detroit; and, then 7) information regarding the vile and coercive certification hearing of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers where Republican canvassers were harassed and targeted by the public for the audacity to do their job.

But Senator McBroom doesn’t want to hear much of that.

According to the Jonathan Oosting, Michigan politics reporter for @BridgeMichigan, in two 11/30/2020 tweets, he quotes McBroom as saying “he would not allow [Giuliani] to testify. The hearing is ‘for folks with first-hand knowledge’ of the Detroit counting board.'” “If the Trump campaign has ‘somebody with first-hand knowledge who wants to come in, they can put in a card and wait in line with everybody else for their three minutes,'” said McBroom, R-Vulcan.

Last week when I heard that McBroom was waffling on a full scale hearing looking into Michigan election irregularities, I wrote to Senator McBroom, as follows:

Dear Senator McBroom,

The people of Michigan deserve a hearing regarding voting irregularities in Wayne County. It is time to make this happen in your Committee. Excuses why it can’t be done are weak sauce, Senator.

A hearing is held or these irregularities get swept under the rug. American liberty and freedom are girded at their core by free and fair elections. If we do not have such elections, or worse yet the citizens perceive we don’t have such elections, our liberty is endangered. Perhaps needlessly.

Is it really going to be so taxing on your committee to spend a day looking at this presidential election? One day. American independence has withstood nine wars or conflicts. Millions have shed blood to support our freedom.  Are you really going to tell us that your government oversight committee can’t spend one day to do the same?

C’mon, Senator. Hiding in the shadows isn’t what you were elected to do.

My forefathers stepped up and did their job when our country was imperiled in the Civil War – and three gave their lives, including twenty-three year old, Lt. George A. Woodruff, West Point Class of 1861, of Marshall, Michigan. He died on July 4, 1863, a day after leading his troops defending against Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Lieutenant Woodruff gave his life as his last full measure of devotion to this country. He didn’t shrink from his responsibility. You’re not going to shrink from your responsibility either, Senator. It is time to step up and do your job.

Make it happen and hold the hearing.

George T. Perrett
Kalamazoo, Michigan

P.S. I have copied this note to my father, Lieutenant Woodruff’s namesake, [Name Omitted], of [City Omitted]. He would echo my sentiments in this letter, undoubtedly.

Regrettably, it’s apparent that Senator McBroom didn’t heed my advice.

Like many Establishment Republicans, Senator McBroom doesn’t have the courage to hear information that might compel him to do the “unthinkable.” He’d rather play Sergeant Schultz – “I know nothing. Nothing. Nothing.” He doesn’t have the guts to hear information that would direct the conscience of any American Patriot to stand up for Michigan residents and American citizens throughout the country. He’s content with the status quo and doesn’t want to lead the charge, refusing to send electors from Michigan to the Electoral College where Biden’s victory was procured by fraud.

It isn’t that Giuliani and third party witnesses don’t have anything to say. They have plenty to say. Rather, it’s that McBroom simply doesn’t want to hear.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Senator McBroom is willing to let this election slip by — to let massive fraud corrode our democracy and divest every American citizen of that which Lieutenant Woodruff, his brother, William, and their cousin, Frank, all died to preserve – our right of self-determination, our right to vote in a free and lasting republic.

No, Senator McBroom is tolerating destruction of our way of life. Nothing typifies America more than our right to vote. Now, undoubtedly, McBroom will use the hearing to launch into some soliloquy, defending his committee’s actions and claiming falsely that they take the allegations of election fraud seriously. Don’t be fooled, Michiganders. Senator McBroom takes nothing seriously except what he views to be his best path to re-election or to higher office. Unfortunately, he has grossly miscalculated — he’s not alone among Establishment Republicans. Rather than stand up for us, he’s choosing to “stand down” for himself.

St. Peter is named for petra — Latin, for rock — indeed, the rock upon which Christ built his church. Who knew that McBroom was Latin for sweeping America under the rug?

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