March 14, 2017
Silence is the New Americanism
Jack Kemp
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Disagreeing With Democrats Is Now Considered Un-American
Patriotism: Democrats have become so fond of attacking Republicans and their policies as "un-American" that we wouldn't be surprised if they call for a congressional committee to investigate them. It wouldn't be the first time Democrats have done so.
Although wrongly attached to Republican Sen. Joe McCarthy, the House Committee on Un-American Activities (also known as HUAC) was entirely a Democratic creation.
The committee got its start in 1938, when Democrats outnumbered Republicans in the House by a margin of 334 to 88. And over the course of HUAC's entire 37-year existence, Republicans controlled the House — and chaired the committee — for all of four years. Whatever sins HUAC allegedly committed were done so almost entirely under the committee's Democratic leadership.
Of course, "un-American" for the purposes of that committee's investigations meant actually doing things in service of the nation's enemies, whether it was the Nazis in World War II or the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
These days, however, all that's required to be called un-American by a Democrat is to disagree with their liberal world view.
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http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/disagreeing-with-democrats-is-now-considered-un-american/
Disagreeing With Democrats Is Now Considered Un-American
Patriotism: Democrats have become so fond of attacking Republicans and their policies as "un-American" that we wouldn't be surprised if they call for a congressional committee to investigate them. It wouldn't be the first time Democrats have done so.
Although wrongly attached to Republican Sen. Joe McCarthy, the House Committee on Un-American Activities (also known as HUAC) was entirely a Democratic creation.
The committee got its start in 1938, when Democrats outnumbered Republicans in the House by a margin of 334 to 88. And over the course of HUAC's entire 37-year existence, Republicans controlled the House — and chaired the committee — for all of four years. Whatever sins HUAC allegedly committed were done so almost entirely under the committee's Democratic leadership.
Of course, "un-American" for the purposes of that committee's investigations meant actually doing things in service of the nation's enemies, whether it was the Nazis in World War II or the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
These days, however, all that's required to be called un-American by a Democrat is to disagree with their liberal world view.
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This is fun -- especially the part about HUAC being a Democratic Party initiative.
Now, we're all aware that way too many people these days confuse HUAC and Sen. Joe McCarthy's efforts to get to the heart of Communist infiltration in the U.S. Government, specifically the military (yes, it was there). Those people don't seem to understand that Senate committees and House committees don't work together even though their objectives might be similar.
So this really tickles me, especially when I consider that batcake liberal actor Sean Penn likes to bemoan how much pain and suffering Sen. McCarthy caused his (Penn's) father, who worked in Hollywood, back in the day when HUAC was pestering the heck out of Hollywood -- and, it must be acknowledged, collecting some scalps, most likely Penn Sr's as well.
Now, we're all aware that way too many people these days confuse HUAC and Sen. Joe McCarthy's efforts to get to the heart of Communist infiltration in the U.S. Government, specifically the military (yes, it was there). Those people don't seem to understand that Senate committees and House committees don't work together even though their objectives might be similar.
So this really tickles me, especially when I consider that batcake liberal actor Sean Penn likes to bemoan how much pain and suffering Sen. McCarthy caused his (Penn's) father, who worked in Hollywood, back in the day when HUAC was pestering the heck out of Hollywood -- and, it must be acknowledged, collecting some scalps, most likely Penn Sr's as well.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at March 14, 2017 02:19 PM (L2iAj)
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