First I agree that the Dems from Texas are not heroes. They are a minority trying to thwart the will of the people in Texas. However all the hyperbole needs to be turned down.

The reason for this rant is that you need to remember that Mitch McConnell raised the possibility a few months ago that the republicans could walk out of the senate and thereby stop the radical left from enacting its socialist agenda.

I almost canceled this rant because Hannity just made a reference to this but by questioning what the left that is cheering the Texas Dems would say if McConnell did the same in the senate.

Now as you know I try not to just parrot stuff from others without any new information or insights. I decided to go forward because my perspective was basically the opposite of hannity’s. My concern is the position that all the conservative talking heads have put themselves in by pillorying the Texas Dems. You need to look forward before acting. If McConnell and the republicans in the senate walk out to prevent the socialist agenda, the talking heads on the right will no doubt cheer this setting themselves up for being hypocrites.

Now one point that needs to be mentioned is that the Dems don’t have a majority in the senate. It’s 50-50! They have no mandate. They are only considered the majority because Kamala can break a tie but she can’t be counted in determining whether there is a quorum. This is different than Texas where the Dems are clearly in the minority.

I would clearly support a Republican walk out to stop a non majority from destroying the country. They need to hold strong until the 2022 elections and then take back both houses. I don’t know if McConnell can get his caucus to do it because all it would take is for one RINO like Romney or Murkowski to jump ship and murkowski might just do it as an fu to her supposed party on her way out the door because she’s not going to get re-elected.

Mark is the host this week for the seven o’clock hour on Fox News and as you know I really like him but as I have told you repeatedly I will call out either side if they don’t know what they are talking about.

Tonight he said there are 5 million people with US security clearances and all they have to do is turn on their computer and they have access to everything. Total bullshit!

Now the first reason I thought it was bs was because I thought the number was much higher because based on my experience I figured that every federal employee had to have a clearance. Then I looked it up and best as I can tell about 3 million people have federal security clearances, so that means that Steyn was wrong but not for the reason I thought. Then I remembered that my federal experience involved two agencies that were both working in areas that would naturally require clearances. While I was in engineering school in college, I co-oped at the Naval Air Rework Facility in Jacksonville which overhauled carrier based jets. I worked one quarter and went to school the next quarter for three years. Everyone had to get a confidential clearance which is the lowest level possible. I never saw any classified information while I was there.

The other job I had in the federal government required that I get a Q clearance before going to work. I have talked about this before, but a Q clearance qualifies you for access to top secret information and also access to Restricted Data. And as I have said before Restricted Data is defined in the Atomic Energy Act and for shorthand it has to do with how you build the bomb and/or enrich uranium. As an aside, I was on the UF faculty when this was going on and the FBI investigator ran into me at the law school and told me it was the first time he ever met the person he was investigating for a clearance.

So my experience led me to believe that all federal employees had at least a minimal clearance but now thinking about it, there is no reason for employees in the EEOC or NLRB or HHS etc., to have a security clearance. They will never see classified information and if it should become necessary in a given situation, then it could be investigated and granted on a need to know basis.

The reason for this rant is Mark’s claim that all these people with clearances can just turn on their computer and access all the nation’s classified information. Nothing could be further from the truth. That’s total nonsense. First even with the requisite security clearance you still need a need to know the information at issue and I have talked about this many times before.

Second there was no computer system that you could log into that gave you access to classified information. I know that back during the Hillary email scandal that it was revealed that in the State Department there was a separate, in-house computer system that was not connected to the internet for classified information but there was no such system in my agency and as I have mentioned before, for a significant part of my career I was the attorney responsible for national security matters. I had the appropriate safe but it rarely had any classified information in it and on only one occasion did it ever contain any information that was really sensitive and that was when I had to review a document for a FOIA request that actually had sensitive Restricted Data and when the powers to be found out I had it they came and took it back saying it shouldn’t have been given to me for review.

Unless the rules in the federal government have totally changed in the past 15 years, no one can just turn on their computer and access all classified information!

Is anyone surprised that she’s running an office that is oppressive and dysfunctional. As I have repeatedly pointed out, she’s a thin skinned, narcissistic bully with minimal intelligence and no ability to answer anything when she’s not in the bully position. Anytime she is faced with real questions by someone who isn’t in a position of inferiority she folds like a cheap suit.

The truly sad point is that she will undoubtedly be president in a year or so when sleepy joe goes belly up.

She’s an incompetent idiot who should never even run a lemonade stand!