Representative Scalise (R-LA1) is the House Majority Whip. The Republicans just ran up their biggest House majority in eighty-six years, and ran the table in the Senate to seize a 54-46 in the upper chamber. The congressional wing of the Democrat Party lies in ruins, Barack Obama's approval numbers are in Bush43 territory, and the 2016 candidate "benches" for the respective parties, with Republicans' filled with dynamic, rising-star governors led by two-term and thrice-elected Wisconsin Chief Executive Scott Walker, and the Democrats' filled with Elizabeth Warren's teepee and Hillary Clinton's thighs, prohibitively favor the GOP. "Da Pendulum" that I warned y'all about back in 2009 has cut down the Left spectacularly and is hurtling in the opposite ideological direction, and everybody, including the Democrats, know it.
So the Left, via its media arm, is doing what it always does when they're losing: scandalmonger.
Enter Congressman Scalise, and a bit of "oppo research" that claimed he delivered a speech at an event held by the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO) - in 2002. Is, or was, EURO a pro-European Union welfare state group, speaking to which could get Scalise in hot water with the GOP's Tea Party base? That's actually not a bad guess, but in fact EURO was a group affiliated with the infamous white supremacist David Duke, and thus appearing before them a dozen years ago is supposed to have instantly combusted Scalise's political career. He now, so the template goes, must immediately resign in disgrace, tar and feather himself, undergo "social justice re-education," and wear a yellow swastika on this lapel for the rest of his exiled life. The new Republican majorities, meanwhile, will be clubbed back onto the defensive, bullied into a cowering, whimpering corner from which they'll give the Black Klan anything and everything they want, up to and including slavery "reparations," by (unconstitutional) law reducing white Americans to de facto Jim Crow status, and so on.
Of course, how EURO is any fundamentally different from the NAACP, or David Duke is any fundamentally different from Al Sharpton, who is a close White House advisor to President I've-Improved-Race-Relations, aside from racial affiliation, is anybody's guess. But I digress.
I haven't written about this because (1) I didn't want to dignify the day-glo obvious smear distraction by drawing any additional attention to it, and (2) I was waiting for the other shoe to drop.
In the words of Loki and Nick Fury, "Ant.....boot":
A high-ranking House Republican under fire after he admitted to speaking at a racist event in 2002 as a state legislator might have confessed to a sin he didn't commit, Slate reports.
Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana-1 actually addressed a local civic association that was allowed to use the same hotel conference room on the same day, but had no connection other than location to the controversial gathering, according to two self-described eyewitnesses interviewed by Slate....
Scalise spoke to the Jefferson Heights Civic Association, a citizens group, before the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO) conference had even started, according to Kenny Knight, who told Slate he booked EURO into the Landmark Best Western Hotel in Metairie, near New Orleans.
Knight, an associate of well-known white supremacist and former Louisiana gubernatorial candidate David Duke, said he loaned the room to the civic association and to local officials including Scalise — who he knew from state politics — as a courtesy.
"He spoke early in the day to a contingent of people, prior to the conference kicking off," Knight told Slate. "He was not there as a guest speaker at the conference."
So much for this scandalmongering gambit. Or so I conclude from the fact that it was Slate - not exactly, well, Political Pistachio - that filled in the blanks the Dems wanted ignored.
And really, folks, if Steve Scalise had addressed a white supremacist organization in 2002, don't you think that would have come to light when he first ran for the House in 2008, or before he rose to the third-ranking post in the House of Representatives?
But remember: This is just the first salvo, and probably the smallest. The next year is going to be a Democrat-driven hyper-mega-sh*tstorm the sound and fury of which this country has never witnessed. Because whatever the docility of Pachyderms, the Left will never "go gentle into that good night." They will always, to their last, gasping, dying breath, "rage, rage against the dying of the....
....er, "light".
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