Wednesday, Maryland Representative Kweisi Mfume used his time at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability featuring IRS whistleblowers (WATCH LIVE: IRS Whistleblowers Testify Before House Oversight Committee Regarding Biden Criminal Investigation) testifying about the efforts of the Justice Department to stymie the criminal investigation of the Biden Crime family to provide a revealing insight into how the Democrats view our republican system of government; see IRS Whistleblower Joseph Ziegler Details DOJ Protection of the Bidens in CBS News Interview.
In a seamless segue from the subject of the hearing to complaining about Donald Trump, who, unlike Hunter, James, and Joe Biden, is in legal jeopardy for his real and imagined shenanigans, Mfume, who resigned his position as president of the NAACP due to sexual harassment, let loose with this broadside.
Rep Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) just said one of the most disturbing and insane things a member of Congress has ever said:
“The DOJ, FBI, and IRS keep this democracy in check [and] provide the checks and the balances."
pic.twitter.com/gTBHLvSmaV— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 19, 2023
Here’s what galls me. I don’t like these attacks on the Department of Justice, the FBI, the IRS, as if they are somehow anti-US agencies. Those agencies keep this democracy in check and keep moving forward [he lapses into gibberish for a moment, so my transcript might be wrong about “forward’}. They provide the checks and they provide the balances.
Once you get past the point of being shocked and appalled that a member of the House of Representatives, the part of the federal government closest to the people, could claim that the DOJ, FBI, and IRS are part of our system of checks and balances and their role is to “keep this democracy in check;” you can actually be thankful to the guy.
On Tuesday, I posted on the confusion and disarray at the New York Times because of Trump’s public plan to bring the federal bureaucracy to heel; see Trump’s Plan to Destroy the Deep State Causes Panic at the New York Times. As my friend and RedState OG “Thomas Crown” noted on Twitter, “Our administrative state, at the federal level, is premised on two weirdly unconstitutional but broadly-accepted (and therefore sort of constitutional?) premises: That the Legislature can cede its power to the President’s branch, which he cannot and must not fully control.”
Granting any federal agency, much less those agencies who can take your possessions and kill you if you rile them up (just ask Vicki Weaver…oh, that’s right, you can’t ask her), status as our checks and balances looks, smells, and tastes very much like the Soviet Union referring to the KGB as the “sword and shield of the Communist Party.” Placing any federal agency, particularly those with the power to deprive you of life, liberty, and property, above criticism is something we sort of suspected the Democrats believed but never expected to hear them say out loud.
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