Draining The Swamp

A regular theme of these daily reports is the desperate need to drain the Swamp. That’s not just partisan rhetoric or talking points. Accountability and transparency in government is essential to preventing corruption, and the rule of law is the essential difference between our constitutional Republic and authoritarian regimes.

But as we have repeatedly noted, the left is increasingly intolerant and authoritarian. Thus, it feels justified in bending the rules and or even breaking them in pursuit of the leftist agenda. 

It’s bad enough when leftist teachers try to evade laws that ban critical race theory and other divisive topics. But it is totally unacceptable for elements of the government to engage in a “soft coup” against the duly elected administration, as the FBI did against the Trump/Pence Administration.

So, kudos to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and other members of the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The work of this select subcommittee may be the most significant thing the new House majority accomplishes in the next two years.

Chairman Jordan recently released a 1,000-page report full of whistleblower testimony and interviews with FBI agents who told members of Congress what they experienced at the Bureau.

In contrast to many politicians who go out of their way to praise the FBI before condemning the “few bad apples,” these whistleblowers described an agency that is “rotten to its core” and that regularly intimidates and harasses conservative agents.

I urge every conservative presidential candidate, including some who are my friends, to rethink their constant praise of the FBI. If the FBI was a fine organization, agents would not be following the orders of the “bad apples” in leadership.  They would be exposing them!

Exposing government corruption shouldn’t be a partisan issue. History has demonstrated over and over that corruption at the highest levels of government has always been an existential threat to human liberty.

As the old adage goes, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”