Corrupt Democratic Congresswomen: Katie Hill
With the increase in the number of women in Congress we’re getting an increase in revelations about corrupt women in Congress. And if the allegations against Ilhan Omar and Katie Hill were mounted against a Republican man, we would never hear the end of it. But with Democratic women, not so much.
I’ve written about Omar before, so I won’t go into all that again in this post. As for Hill, to me the salient point is that the woman with whom Hill was allegedly involved was a staffer, which is a no-no. Here’s how Hill is approaching her defense (she is being investigated by the House on possible ethics violations):
Hill sent a letter to her constituents Wednesday night admitting to a relationship “despite my better judgment” with a campaign staffer and apologized.
“I am saddened that the deeply personal matter of my divorce has been brought into public view, even the false allegations of a relationship with my congressional staffer, which I have publicly denied, and I am fully and proactively cooperating with the Ethics Committee,” Hill wrote. “This smear campaign will not get in the way of the work I am doing every day to move our district and our country forward. I am truly grateful for the outpouring of support I have received from colleagues and constituents alike, and I know we will get through this together.”
In a statement, the Ethics Committee said the fact that it was investigating the allegations “does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred, or reflect any judgment on behalf of the Committee,” said Reps. Ted Deutch and Kenny Marchant in a statement Wednesday evening. Deutch and Marchant are the chairman and ranking member of the committee respectively.
So she erred, but it was against her “better judgment.” See, she’s got good judgment; she just went against it for a moment. But let’s emphasize her good judgment even as she admits to transgressions.
And even though one of the allegations is absolutely true and she has admitted to it, it’s a “smear campaign” that she will “get through.” A victim, that’s what Katie Hill is.
And I will go out on a limb and predict that the Ethics Committee will only give her the mildest slap on the wrist, almost a love tap.
Personally, I don’t care about Katie Hill’s sex life or her messy divorce. I’ll leave that between Hill and her soon-to-be ex-huband. I do care that her dalliance was with a staffer. I do care about her weaselly apology. And that would be true for me about a man or woman of either party.
Don’t care about her sex life either but that doesn’t stop sex involved gossip being the most attentively watched gossip. For sport, if nothing else. British tabloids exist for little else, from the looks of them.
So who is releasing the nudies of Katie to the British press? Well wait, who took the nudies? Soon-to-be-ex-hubby? Most likely.
So presumptively finky s-t-b-ex-h isn’t risking jail time on revenge porn charges (despite no porn involved as yet)?
But perhaps s-t-b-ex-h has other photos, say, pics of Katie desporting with other members of Congress’ members. Glory be! A new industry is born.
I am sick of women being classed as saints and victims. Women can be just as nasty as men and they certainly do try to sleep their way to the top–see Laid back Kammy as an example. And then there is Hillary. I wouldn’t have either of them over for an afternoon coffee.
I only care in that it exposes her to serious leverage by those with matters of interest before congress. She’s compromised in the worst way, and her anti-Kavanaugh grandstanding looks ridiculous by comparison.
Now that we’ve all seen her naked & high and her husband has made an issue of her uncontrollable drinking…let’s let the Ethics Committee and her constituents do their thing.
Attractive woman. Married 9 years but w/o issue. Self-declared bisexual for a dozen years or so. Husband an ‘artist’. Evidently liked threesomes with the young staffer but his wife’s affair with that other chap crossed a line. It would be socially optimal for them to stay married and limit their capacity to irritate others.
It’s difficult to sympathize with these people. They’re decadent. And there’s not much indication they’re all that skilled or accomplished (NGO office plankton, the both of them).
By the way, her background is pretty salt-of-the-suburbs middle-middle class (from Texas). My sympathies to her mother and father.
expat,
YES!
Corrupt Democratic Congresswomen: Katie Hill
isn’t that title very redundant?
like dishonest crook…
It’s difficult to sympathize with these people. They’re decadent.
We can be grateful that Ms. Hill didn’t include Beto and his furry friends in her sex romps.
Art Deco: ” My sympathies to her mother and father.”
Yes! Sex addiction and alcoholism is a bad combo. This decadent young woman has undoubtedly embarrassed her parents. I would certainly be loathe to admit I was the parent of such an troubled young woman.
“Self-declared bisexual for a dozen years or so. Husband an ‘artist’. Evidently liked threesomes with the young staffer but his wife’s affair with that other chap crossed a line.”
I simply don’t understand why people with opinions like this decide to marry in the first place. Maybe if they children…but they don’t even have that excuse. So…why marry? What’s the point?
Clinton was impeached for the perjury, but the underlying offense was sex with a (much younger) staffer. If my corporate executive husband had been caught playing with a subordinate in the copy room, he’d have been fired. So I agree with Neo — it’s the sex with the staffer which is really an issue here. Hill is a Democrat; she’ll get a pass for that.
She admitted having an affair with a campaign staffer. That is not illegal and would not warrant a censure. It might be hypocritical but that then is up to the voters to decide. The more serious one is the allegations that she had an affair with a congressional staff. If true, THAT is an ethical violation. But she has denied this affair. So the smear is that she is corrupt because of an allegation. Best not to judge until we have the facts. But an affair with a campaign staffer? That’s not as serious.
Hypocrite, hypocrite.
It should be pretty tough for Christians to be voting for the Dem hypocrite party; even more tough than to vote for Trump.
I’d guess there will be a Dem primary for Hill, but that will be interesting, yes or no.
Before #MeToo, after #MeToo, before #MeToo, back again, and so female and male Feminists progress. Women don’t matter. Men don’t matter. Selective-child is a sociopolitical, quasi-religious (“ethical”) imperative. The established quasi-religion is notoriously Pro-Choice, selective, opportunistic, and politically congruent (“=”).
Saw the nude pictures of Katie with her employee in The Daily Mail. They were doing it.
That she has a vote over how the district of criminals decides how to suppress my liberty is digusting. The time of wrath approaches.
Link from Instapundit: Just WOW: Katie Hill tweeted SOOO much trash about Kavanaugh last year and gosh, was she PROJECTING or what.
Katie Hill collection on Instapundit.
She is a grade A hypocrite. She needs to be have this hypocrisy shoved at her 24/7, until she is afraid to show her face in public. Judge, and you will be judged.
Artftul Dodger, in answer to your question:Yes. She should be given the Dickens. 🙂
But she has denied this affair. So the smear is
Maybe it’s just a coincidence that her husband has filed for divorce. Or whatever.
I recently watched a newly seated mucky muck for t6he International Monitary fun bang on about (para) “We need more women in charge of fiduciary blah blah blah…”
The I recalled how many “town clerks”, municipal “cashieres”, CEOs, and college presidents tied up in piss poor “theories’, and outright embezzlement, are women.
And of course, for betrayal of such public trust, gross incompetence, and outright theft, its “love taps” all around. Occasionally with a golden “reserve” parachute.
Maybe we should start addressing her as Congresswoman Bang-Bong-Bang.
I am with Neo on this. I really don’t care about her sex life. But involving an employee is unethical.
If a white male Republican Congressman had done the same thing, we all know that he would be excoriated for it and the MSM would never let go of the scandal.
Actually, I’m astonished that the MSM hasn’t identified her as a GOP member of the House. (It’s happened before.)
Actually, I’m astonished that the MSM hasn’t identified her as GOP member of the House.
It’s happened before:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cnn-misidentifies-virginia-gov-ralph-northam-as-a-republican-during-his-apology-for-racist-yearbook-photo
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/recent-weeks-media-outlets-have-misidentified-democrats-several-republicans-facing-scandal?redirect_source=/research/2006/10/13/in-recent-weeks-media-outlets-have-misidentifie/136941
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-ocasio-cortez-tweet-house-democrat-male-republican-20190425-nryb2mljznccjoqhxn777fesra-story.html
The shoulder-shrug response to Hill’s immorality diminishes all of us. She is a lying, posturing selfish randy bitch who holds a seat in Congress. That she had a sexual relationship with a staffer is immaterial. It is the disgusting nature of her conduct, sexual and otherwise, which is harmful, not that it involved a staffer in her office or campaign.
As Dems should be called the lying party, here’s another reminder of a Big Lie from Obama:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/10/were-number-one.php
his frequent assertion that the U.S. used 25% of the world’s energy, but had only 3% of the world’s petroleum reserves.
Fracking, done mostly without Federal help and, under Obama, against Fed opposition, has helped the US have the biggest decline in greenhouse gasses.
I understand that the US continues to use the most energy per capita, which isn’t talked about by this powerline post. China is building dozens of new coal fired plants – much more CO2 polluting than gas plants.
The Dems have long been lying about the climate change crisis. It might well be that the world will heat by 6 degrees in the next two or three hundred years, but that’s not the kind of crisis as the world heating up 6 degrees (F) by 2100.
Even then, the main increasing problems are more floods & droughts, so what governments should all be doing, anyway, is reducing the problems from floods & droughts by better, and more tax-payer costly, water management. Including priorities that are publicly known and tracked.
Politico: Rep. Katie Hill to resign amid allegations of inappropriate relationships with staffers
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/27/rep-katie-hill-to-resign-amid-allegations-of-inappropriate-relationships-with-staffers-000301
h/t Insty’s Stephen Green
“Bye Felicia…I mean Katie.”
Increasingly, the phrase ”living your best life,” supposedly originated by Oprah, is appearing seemingly everywhere, and I’m already tired of it.
From how it is being used, it appears that—keeping it real— “living your best life” really means selfishly doing whatever you want to do, and the hell with propriety, with morality, with consequences, or the effects your actions might have on anyone else.
For instance, in the last couple of days, a commenter on MSNBC, discussing the actions of Katie Hill, (D-CA)—the freshman Democrat House member who just resigned over the weekend past because of her sexual relationships and reckless behavior—saw no reason for people to think ill of Hill because, after all, “she was just trying to “live her best life.””
If you wanted an indicator of social disintegration, and increasing decadence, here—in the appearance of this phrase, and its increasing popularity—it is.