Jan Schakowsky (D, IL): SEALs are criminals!
Rep. Schakowsky, attempting to explain why photos of the military operation that killed Osama bin Laden would not be released, had this to say:
“These are pictures of a violent crime scene. This is a dead person. A dead Osama bin Laden,” she said.
Now, I will readily grant that normally a statement like this should be subject to Occam’s Razor. The simplest way to explain the problems with the first sentence* would be to simply postulate that the person who uttered it is a semi-literate buffoon who is so unthinkingly programmed to parrot outworn and exploded progressive agitprop that she is truly unaware that even suggesting that Navy SEALs are criminals for killing Osama bin Laden is offensive. Or that she has not contemplated that her aforementioned parroting handily confirms every not-nice said about the average progressive antiwar politician’s judgement, character, and native mother-wit. Or that (by extension) Schakowsky is accusing fellow-Democrat President Barack Obama of war crimes, given that he gave the order. Yes, really, if this had just been uttered by some nobody then you could simply chalk the comment up to pig-ignorance, coupled with thee utterer being a natural-born d*mned fool.
However… Jan Schakowsky is a powerful Democrat:
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), who led efforts in 2009 to support would-be dictator Manuel Zelaya of Honduras, is continuing her campaign against the democratically elected government that replaced him.
Schakowsky has circulated a letter among Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives (a similar letter exists in the Senate) that asks the state department to suspend aid to the Honduran military and police because of alleged human rights abuses.
While genuine human rights abuses might warrant such a suspension, Schakowsky and her colleagues continue to ignore human rights abuses by Zelaya, who aligned with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez in 2009 in an attempt to rig a constitutional referendum, and who was removed from power in accordance with the Honduran constitution. The Democrats' letter repeats the false claim--refuted by the Congressional Research Service, no less--that Zelaya had been ousted in a "coup."
In the wake of his removal, Zelaya incited a wave of anti-Jewish violence in Honduras by claiming that “Israeli mercenaries” had been trying to poison him. Schakowsky visited and embraced Zelaya as he hid in the Brazilian embassy. Her congressional office notes that she "raised serious concerns about the widespread human rights abuses," yet she failed to say anything about Zelaya's own abuses or his anti-Semitism. She also co-sponsored of H. Res. 630, calling for Zelaya's reinstatement as president of Honduras.
As noted by Mary Anastasia O'Grady at the Wall Street Journal, the Obama administration played a similarly nefarious role at the time, trampling Honduran democracy in an attempt to appease Chavez and improve relationships with his radical left-wing government.
Long after Honduras has left the events of 2009 behind, Congressional Democrats and the administration are continuing to meddle, sacrificing both democracy and goodwill in the name of their radical left-wing agenda in foreign affairs.
Schakowsky serves in the House Democratic Leadership as Chief Deputy Whip and is a member of the Steering and Policy Committee. She is a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, where she serves on the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade, the Subcommittee on Health and the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Democratic Leader Pelosi appointed her to serve on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where she is ranking Democrat on the Oversight Subcommittee.
Which means that, if she’s an idiot, she’s not the only one; the bigger ones are the Democrats who let her onto all those committees where everybody else uses all those big words all the time. And so, if she’s not an idiot… well, when are you going to introduce articles of impeachment against President Obama, Representative Schakowsky? I’m sure that we’re all agog to hear that particular bit of news.
