If you thought the California nightmare was bad enough, things are about to get much worse. It pains Cockburn to tell you that Representative Adam Schiff is running to replace Dianne Feinstein in the US Senate.
His announcement follows hot on the heels of his being booted from the House Intelligence Committee and the resulting wave of media attention.
Our democracy is at great risk. Because GOP leaders care more about power than anything else.
And because our economy isn’t working for millions of hard working Americans.
We’re in the fight of our lives—a fight I’m ready to lead as California’s next U.S. Senator. pic.twitter.com/H0Pa0EhhMu
— Adam Schiff (@AdamSchiff) January 26, 2023
In the opening lines of his video announcement, Schiff says he “always believed that what’s right matters, that the truth matters — and that decency matters.”
This is the same Adam Schiff who for years promised he had the goods on Trump’s Russia collusion, that some new conclusive evidence had been found that Trump was a Russian catspaw. Of course, nothing ever came of the collusion trope, with the matter largely put to bed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. Schiff may have always believed that the truth mattered, but he certainly did not act like it.
The California congressman also condemns GOP leaders for caring “more about power than anything else,” but his own reputation for grandstanding and headline grabbing indicates that he is little better. Schiff’s record suggests that he wants attention more than anything else — and will twist the truth if that’s what it takes to get it.
Schiff goes on to say that the “biggest job of my life” was “impeaching Donald J. Trump.” He took the lead in the first impeachment trial over his phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, which never had any chance of resulting in Trump’s conviction in the Senate. Trump’s behavior on the call was undoubtedly bad, but it was always a stretch to think it would result in his ouster.
Schiff also includes a classic partisan line that every politician blames the other party of: “gutting the middle class.” That argument may find purchase in deep blue California, but the reality is very different. Inflation has harmed the middle class more than anything else in the past decade — and that’s been exacerbated by the profligate spending called for by the progressive left quarters of the Biden administration, for which Schiff voted.
The poor people of California have a difficult year and a half ahead of them. How will they possibly choose between “Shifty” Schiff and “Boss of the Year” Katie Porter?
