Will the Senate Censure Crazy Mazie Hirono?

Hawaii’s Joe McCarthy loses it.

By Jeffrey Lord

In 1954, the United States Senate famously censured its most notorious member — Wisconsin Republican Joe McCarthy.

McCarthy had been on the trail of Communists in government — and there were, indeed, some of those — but had finally overstepped his bounds. Angry at McCarthy’s conduct — which included increasingly wild allegations against Senate colleagues and the U.S. Army — Ohio Republican Congressman George Bender said of McCarthy.....To Read More.....'

My Take - The one thing that's left out of this article is McCarthy was right in his overall argument that the federal government had become badly infested with communists, socialists and fellow travelers.  McCarthy was a troubled man, and he said, did things and made accusations that undermined his efforts, but in the overall picture -  in the thrust of his investigation - he was right, and we know that to be true because of the release of the VENONA intercepts.  

I don't know if this "lad" was part of that cabal of traitors or not, and if he wasn't it was disgraceful of McCarthy and Roy Cohn, who was fairly disgusting himself, to say so.  But in the overall picture - he was right, the federal government under the FDR administration was filled with traitors, and it's clear now with the release of the VENONA intercepts and release of so much of the Soviet Union's archives, FDR had to know about it and allowed it, making him the traitor. 

All of which since both Truman and Eisenhower had access to this intelligence, so they had to know it was true, and yet they both came out attacking McCarthy's claims.

In this case, Mazie is just an idiot, but the Democrats will never censure anyone who does anything disreputable, just so long as it supports their disreputable narrative about Trump, Christians, whites, anti-abortionists, gun advocates, straights, the rich, conservatives or Republicans.

Here is a list of Americans in the Venona papers, and remember, this is only a partial list becuase so many of the intercepts weren't translated.  You will notice the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) , was infested with Soviet agents during WWII and when the OSS became the CIA they migrated into the CIA.