(L to R) House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. Eric Swalwell, Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY), and Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) hold a news conference in the House Visitors Center in March 2017. Getty Images Eric Swalwell was Nancy Pelosi’s made man, the golden child of San Francisco’s rotten machine politics.
Today he’s roadkill, his name erased from the sign outside his congressional office, vultures feasting on his remains.
Swalwell’s clinical political eradication this week tells you everything about the Democratic Party and how ruthlessly and efficiently they will move to keep to power in the state they have controlled for 15 years and run into the ground.
California, our most populous and richest state, is the engine of their vast patronage system, fueled in part by illegal migration and social services fraud that has ripped tens, perhaps hundreds, of billions of dollars off the taxpayer and recycled it through unions and “grassroots” donations back into the party.
That’s why Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, calls California the “kingdom of fraud” as he confronts massive organized ripoffs of Medicaid, home health services and hospice care.
California Democrats, like presidential aspirant and Gov. Gavin Newsom, another Pelosi protégé, turn a blind eye to the fraud as the price of prospering in the machine.
Illegal migration, turbocharged under Joe Biden by his Homeland Security secretary, California hit man Alejandro Mayorkas, also served the machine well, by artificially inflating the state’s census counts and enabling voter fraud.
The census inflation led to extra House seats for California and more electoral votes, and thus more power in presidential elections.
In return, the machine sponsors and protects useful buffoons like Swalwell, who was one of “Pelosi’s boys” from the minute he threw his hat into national politics as a 31-year-old San Francisco councilman with a mischievous grin and a lackluster legal career behind him.
She most likely sponsored Swalwell’s 2012 upset primary defeat of Democratic incumbent Rep. Pete Stark, a 40-year party veteran she couldn’t control.
From then on, Swalwell was her slavering puppy dog, ready to do her bidding.
His sexual proclivities were an open secret in Washington, but that was by design.
The machine wants its protégés to be blackmailable, so they remain on the leash.
Pelosi installed him on the most important committees, including House intelligence, where he was privy to the nation’s classified secrets.
She protected him when he was caught having an affair with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang.
She chose him as her lead attack dog against Donald Trump, whose impeachment committee he sat on.
Swalwell was one of the most shamelessly dishonest peddlers of the Russia hoax.
He had no ideas of his own, but the son of a cop knew how to lie and cheat.
He could pose as a paragon of virtue while character assassinating his party’s enemies.
Now in the space of four days Swalwell has been forced to drop out of the California governor’s race where he was the Democratic front-runner, has resigned from Congress after 13 years as a made man, and is under criminal investigation after at least five women came forward to accuse him of drugging, sexually assaulting, and/or harassing them.
One woman said he choked and raped her while she was so incapacitated she couldn’t raise her arms, to the point where she thought she was going to die.
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Another woman said he sent her unsolicited photos of his penis.
Shades of Hunter Biden, whose sugar brother Kevin Morris was also a Swalwell donor.
The California billionaire whose house Swalwell holed up in when the allegations began has thrown him out, renounced the Democratic Party and now says “Eric who?” when reporters doorstop him.
Pelosi now claims with a straight face that she had no idea about Swalwell’s sins.
His DC roommate and “best friend in the whole world” Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego claims he knew nothing: “This man lived a double life.”
Gallego claims all he heard was rumors that Swalwell was a little “flirty.”
That’s another way of describing a sleazy adulterer and serial harasser (at least) of young women.
Swalwell convinced himself he was untouchable, but when you get in its way, the party machine will ruthlessly dispatch you.
Look at Biden, who stupidly thought being president made him powerful.
The final humiliating coup de grâce was delivered on live TV by the woman he thought was his dear friend, Swalwell’s godmother Pelosi.
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In California’s weird primary system, too many Democrats in the field threatened to split the vote in favor of formidable Republican Steve Hilton.
Taking out Swalwell has given hedge funder billionaire-turned soft-on-crime climate zealot Tom Steyer the edge, with one poll showing his odds of winning have jumped from 51 percent to 56.
Behind Steyer is Katie “mashed potato” Porter — famous for terrorizing her staff in leaked temper tantrums, and for allegedly attacking her hapless ex-husband by tipping a bowl of steaming mashed potatoes on his head and coming at him with a broken coffee pot.
She has more than tripled her vote since Swalwell dropped out on Sunday.
Swalwell got in the way so the machine dispatched him.
He’s now whining about being denied “due process,” but what due process did he ever give Brett Kavanaugh or Trump?
“Believe all women,” he said about the farcically uncorroborated allegations of sexual assault Democrats concocted against Kavanaugh.
Yet, according to one of Swalwell’s accusers, he had just done to her, only months before, what he was accusing the blameless Kavanaugh of doing.
