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Obsessed Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) Embarrasses His State

October 14, 2020 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island at the Providence Parks Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnership designation. May 5, 2014. Photo courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Northeast Region.

During the hearings on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court of the United States, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse delved deep into a conspiracy theory, embarrassing not only himself, but the state of Rhode Island for having elected him. The Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal reports:

Viewers of cable TV might recall when Glenn Beck would get out the chalkboard after the financial panic and lay out in astonishing detail the multiple and supposedly nefarious connections among Goldman Sachs, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and various others in the vast Wall Street conspiracy. Mr. Beck has retreated to the internet as far as we know, but American politics has found his spiritual doppleganger in Sheldon Whitehouse.

The Rhode Island Senator had 30 minutes to question Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday, but he failed to ask anything. He devoted his time instead to a Glenn Beck-style tutorial on the vast right-wing conspiracy that is supposedly buying the federal courts.

Sheldon the Vampire Slayer had names and props and numbers and arrows—all in the service of his theory that Leonard Leo, formerly of the Federalist Society, and a financial network have secretly schemed for decades to nominate Judge Barrett. This followed Mr. Leo’s dastardly and heretofore unknown manipulative success in getting Chief Justice John Roberts, as well as Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh on the High Court. Congrats, Mr. Leo.

Like all obsessives, Mr. Whitehouse has a single theory that explains everything: “dark money.” Thus the supposed connections between Mr. Leo and this group or that group, all flowing inevitably back somehow to, wait for it, the Koch brothers. “Something is not right around the Court, and dark money has a lot to do with it,” he said.

You have to love that use of the vague “something.” We haven’t seen such a weird performance since Mr. Whitehouse attempted to find the hidden messages in Justice Kavanaugh’s high-school yearbook at his confirmation hearing.

Mr. Whitehouse had the bad luck to be followed by Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who related Mr. Whitehouse’s ties to such Democratic dark-money operations as Demand Justice and Arabella Advisors. Demand Justice is among the progressive outfits demanding that Democrats pack the Supreme Court with new Justices if they win the Senate. Arabella funds a variety of left-wing political groups that in turn fund Democrats. But Arabella doesn’t disclose its financial donors.

Mr. Cruz’s rebuttal won’t stop Mr. Whitehouse, whose goal is to delegitimize the current Supreme Court in the eyes of the public. Recall how he and other Democrats threatened to restructure the Supreme Court if the Justices ruled the wrong way in a gun-rights case. He wants to intimidate the Justices into voting his way or, failing that, prepare the political ground for Court-packing. We’re not sure what Judge Barrett made of the political antics, but we trust she’ll ignore it all after she’s confirmed as soon as the Senate can hold a vote.

Read more here.

Originally posted on Your Survival Guy. 

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E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998.

E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH, NH, where he completed course-work in Practical and Defensive Handgun, Conceal Carry Pistol, Shotguns, Precision Scope Rifle and Kidnapping Prevention.

E.J. plays a Yamaha Recording Custom drum set with Zilldjian cymbals. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris.

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