SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET: 

WHO NEEDS INTEGRITY?  The Dems are already working to convince America that Hillary Clinton may be a crook, but she's a competent crook.  From IBD:   Lawyer Lanny Davis, the longtime professional on-air surrogate for the Clintons, has reached so far down into the barrel to excuse Hillary's low trustworthiness ratings, he may end up with a charley horse.  On MSNBC, interviewer Ed Schultz asked Davis about Quinnipiac poll numbers that show trust of Hillary Clinton is between 33% and 39% in important swing states. And these numbers came before the latest revelation that the former secretary of state, contrary to her claims, did indeed send classified emails on her personal Freedom of Information Act-proof computer server. So expect those numbers to drop lower.  Davis conceded, "It's certainly a worry," but added, "All of the polls show that she has strong leadership numbers."  Who cares if we lost the war, Mein Fuhrer.  You haven't lost your leadership qualities.

SICKENING – A further example of how low liberalism is sinking.  From the Sacramento Bee:   California Attorney General Kamala Harris will review whether the nonprofit organization behind controversial Planned Parenthood videos violated state law, her office said in a letter Friday.  Four Democratic congresswomen on Thursday asked Harris and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to determine if officials from the Irvine-based Center for Medical Progress broke any laws when they posed as workers for a biotech company while recording Planned Parenthood physicians without their consent.  Reps. Jan Schakowsky, Zoe Lofgren, Jerry Nadler and Yvette Clarke cited reports that founder David Daleiden filed paperwork to create a phony entity. They also asked the state’s top law enforcement official to look into possible violations of the Invasion of Privacy Act, which bars recording people without their permission.  “We will carefully review the allegations raised in your letter to determine whether there were any violations of California law,” Harris, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, wrote in a reply Friday.  “This office will also review any materials filed by the Center for Medical Progress with the Attorney General’s Registry of Charitable Trusts to determine whether the organization violated laws including, but not limited to, our registration and reporting requirements.”  Harris will probably be the next senator from California, succeeding the retiring Barbara Boxer.  This episode tells us what we have to know about Harris.  She's another doctrinaire leftist, more concerned about the propriety of the video than with what it revealed about the selling of fetal body parts.  It's also hilarious that the story identifies "four Democratic congresswomen."  Last time I looked, Jerry Nadler was a male, but I'm not up on the latest sex-change announcements.

LOWER STILL – John Kerry is starting to make threats to get his Iran nuclear deal accepted.  From The Times of Israel:   WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Friday that should Congress vote against the Iranian nuclear deal signed last week in Vienna, Israel could find itself more isolated in the international arena and “more blamed.”  “I fear that what could happen is that, if Congress were to overturn it, our friends in Israel could actually wind up being more isolated. And more blamed. And we would lose Europe and China and Russia with respect to whatever military action we might have to take. Because we will have turned our backs on a very legitimate program that allows us to put their program to the test over the next few years,” Kerry told an audience at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York on Friday.  It's an implied threat against Israel, and it is based in part on the fantasy that Europe, China, or Russia would ever join us in military action.  Our foreign policy is in the hands of people who have a certain contempt for their own country.

July 24, 2015