The Maryland Democrat got emotional while discussing the conditions of detention facilities for migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border are being held in. Reading from a court document in which a federal judge found that Homeland Security “did a better job of tracking immigrants’ personal property than their children,” House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings repeatedly shut down McAleenan’s attempts to speak.

“I’m talking about human beings,” Cummings said. “I’m not talking about people that come from, as the president said, shitholes. These are human beings. Human beings. Just trying to live a better life.”
— Politico, 7/18/19

We won’t even get into Cummings’ party and their blatant disregard for children still in the womb.

But Democrats have now declared any criticism of an elected “person of color” racist in their ongoing practice of shutting down opposition instead of engaging in civil debate; usually debates they know they’ll lose and now pointing out the reality that is the City of Baltimore is also “racist”.

So what is that reality that is Baltimore? You just have to be able to count, look at what’s been going on there for years and the subsequent political blame has merit.

Fact: The last Republican city council member in Baltimore City left office in 1942. That is 73 years of solid Democrat city councils.

Fact: The last Republican mayor of Baltimore City left office in 1967. That is 48 years of unbroken Democrat control of the mayor’s office.
— Newt Gingrich, 5/18/15

What really seems to have the Democrats and their media crazed is the president’s pointing out their consistent homicide and rat-infestation problems; issues that would be intolerable in a white district controlled by any party. Problems that have been documented LONG before President Trump’s recent Tweets….

What’s emblematic of the hypocrisy of the left and their biased media which depends on the ignorance of those they’re supposed to be keeping informed, the very Baltimore Sun that’s been documenting their city’s morass for years is now attacking the president (and defending a congressmen who’s taken his constituents for granted and while leaving the district to fend for itself) for pointing out the reality in a few hundred characters and again… making it all about race.

It’s not hard to see what’s going on here. The congressman has been a thorn in this president’s side, and Mr. Trump sees attacking African American members of Congress as good politics, as it both warms the cockles of the white supremacists who love him and causes so many of the thoughtful people who don’t to scream. President Trump bad-mouthed Baltimore in order to make a point that the border camps are “clean, efficient & well run,” which, of course, they are not — unless you are fine with all the overcrowding, squalor, cages and deprivation to be found in what the Department of Homeland Security’s own inspector-general recently called “a ticking time bomb.”
— Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, 7/27/19

Baltimore’s problems are not unique, seem to appear in almost every black community in the United States and all have been controlled by Democrats for decades. Black politicians have promised much every election cycle and have delivered nothing; blaming the lack of progress on socio-economics, racism, Republicans… everything except for their lack of leadership.

And whatever you do, request input from the locals at your own peril….

Pointing out systemic Democrat failures will accomplish nothing as the current strategy illustrates. Blame President Trump for the crime, rats and make it all about race. That way, Elijah Cummings and dozens of black Democrats (who represent the very districts they refuse to live in) can continue to do for their constituents what they’ve been doing for years.

Absolutely nothing.

It’s even worse when local news leaves one slightly embarrassing tidbit off their coverage: that you’re a Democrat.

You have to go out-of-state to get more professional coverage.

She’s running.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has skipped town, following Thursday’s FBI and IRS raid on her home, according to a report.

No one has seen the Democrat, who is being investigated over sales of a children’s book she authored, since the raid and even her spokesman James Bentley said he has no idea where she is.

The Baltimore City Council has asked her to step down as mayor, but it’s still unclear whether she’ll resign.
— New York Post, 4/25/19

The dollar figures involved are too impressive for Mayor Pugh to easily skate on this one and normally stubborn Democrats have thrown her under the bus.

It’s appreciated that as the mayor of a major metropolitan city these things have to be handled delicately, but if the feds raided our offices, our lawyer’s office and our homes, chances are they wouldn’t ask us to drop by when we got a few minutes to spare.

The fact she’s black and her last name isn’t Clinton is more of the obvious detriment.

UPDATE

Is this just the tip of the Pugh iceberg?

“She’s in a terrible spot,” said Arnold M. Weiner, the lawyer who defended a previous mayor, Sheila Dixon, against charges of theft, perjury and misconduct in office. “There aren’t any moves she can make at this point,” he said.

“The books might just be a shiny object,” he said. “My guess is there’s something bigger.”

Lawyers said federal agencies likely are looking for possible tax violations, such as whether she reported income from the books. And indeed, among the agents who descended on seven locations in Baltimore associated with Pugh — including her former campaign treasurer’s office, an aide’s apartment and a nonprofit job training center that she once led — were some wearing Internal Revenue Service jackets.

“When money is involved, there is potential for tax crimes,” said David Jaros, a University of Baltimore Law School professor. “And they’re easier to prove.”

“It’s easier to make a deal with state than federal prosecutors,” Weiner said. And Pugh might not have much to bargain with at this point, he said.
— Baltimore Sun, 4/26/19

Yeah, the IRS was grabbing stuff. That’s never a good sign.

Following FBI and IRS raids on her two homes, City Hall and the offices of some of her allies Thursday, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is said to be in poor health and not “lucid” enough to make a decision as to whether or not she will resign from office amid a financial scandal and controversy surrounding her self-published children’s books.
— The Root, 4/26/19

An “indefinite leave of absence” and now this.

Obviously, a Democrat doesn’t need to be “lucid” to run Baltimore.

Reaching 200 homicides is a benchmark no one in Baltimore wanted. But as the city continues to track toward a record number of killings, police are noting two drastic changes already quelling violence in Charm City.
— Baltimore Sun, 7/27/17

Democrats are the first to complain when any negative event is politicized but politics IS the problem in Baltimore.

Like many failed cities besieged recently by rioting, Democrats and their union pals have had carte blanche to inflict their ideas and policies on Baltimore since 1967, the last time there was a Republican Mayor. Democrats run the city of Baltimore, the unions, the schools, and yes, the police force. Every single member of the Baltimore city council is a Democrat.

Liberalism and all the toxic government dependence and cronyism and union corruption and failed schools that comes along with it, has run amok in Baltimore for a half-century, and that is Baltimore’s problem.
— Breitbart, 4/28/15

Not much has changed since 2015, and like most Democrat-run localities, things have only gotten worse.

Gun violence is a cruel symptom of the Democrat indifference that ails Baltimore and that is only one of many urban areas nationwide with the same political sickness that’s been in control for more than a couple of generations. Democrats run everything, those who are connected are the activist spokespersons we see and hear everyday, and the misery that persists in the “community” keeps those in the party’s good graces well housed and fed.

Everyone else is on their own.