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2026-07-21 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Democrats damn themselves with no-shows at hearing on fraud

[NY Post] "We already know all these people - they're our donors and constituents"
As Republicans expose fraud in the tens of billions in Medicaid and other welfare programs, Democrats’ response is to... duck.

They made it glaringly obvious last week as Sen. Rand Paul chaired a Senate Homeland Security Committee meeting: Nearly all the panel’s Dem members were total no-shows; only Sen. Gary Peters attended at all, and only long enough to ask a few questions before heading for the door.

The hearing actually covered two very different fraud topics:

Independent journalist Nick Shirley reviewed his welfare-fraud discoveries, including blatant abuses of Medicaid by New York adult day cares.

Undercover-video specialist James O’Keefe testified about his recordings uncovering voter bribery on LA’s Skid Row.

Strange: Dems have extremely strong views on both issues. They’ve been slamming Republican moves to trim Medicaid and other welfare outlays for years now, denouncing anti-fraud measures as “savage cuts”; Senate Dems are even now using the filibuster to prevent a floor vote that would pass the SAVE Act to counter voting fraud.

Yet they simply boycotted a hearing where they could have poked holes in GOP claims as they grilled the witnesses.

Do they think their own case is so weak that they don’t dare even try to make it?

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Posted by Skidmark 2026-07-21 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [341 views ] Top

1 The Dem strategy of disengagement on fraud and corruption appears to be largely successful. Large chunks of the electorate have no idea that there is an issue. Republican politicians have trouble truly exploiting the opportunity because of their own high levels of corruption.

Posted by Super Hose 2026-07-21 06:52|| 2026-07-21 06:52|| Front Page Top

2 It's a criminal organization that fronts as a political party. Taxes are just shake down money.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-07-21 10:12|| 2026-07-21 10:12|| Front Page Top

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