While the U.S. and Israeli militaries spread havoc across the Middle East in a war against Iran that serves no useful purpose, American citizens are blinded to the kind of perfidy that has become routine in the nation's capital.
On Wednesday, Senate Republicans blocked a war powers resolution designed to withdraw U.S. forces from hostilities in Iran, as the Trump administration accelerates its military campaign in a conflict that has killed hundreds, including at least six American service members (almost assuredly many more).
The motion failed in a vote of 47-53. Thus, the Senate has failed to withhold its constitutional duty as the proper branch of government tasked with the authority to declare war. The vote itself was a complete sham, as it should have taken place well before Israel and the United State attacked Iran without a clearly stated purpose.
The House of (non)Representatives Wednesday batted down an effort from Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) to publicly release all reports on file with the House Ethics Committee on investigations into members of Congress regarding allegations of sexual harassment of staff or of a sexual relationship with a member of their staff.
In a 357-65-1 vote, the chamber moved to refer the matter to the House Ethics Committee — essentially killing the effort. Thirty-eight Republicans and 27 Democrats voted against referring the resolution to the panel.
The legislation is H.Res.1072 - Directing the Committee on Ethics to preserve and publicly release records of the Committee's review of violations or alleged violations of clause 9 (as it pertains to acts of sexual harassment) and clause 18 of rule XXIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives.
“The American people are held to one standard and Congress is held wholly to another,” Mace told reporters before the vote. “And you’re going to watch men in Congress, Republicans and Democrats, this afternoon, hide behind the veil of ‘let the process play out,’ and it’s going to get referred to committee.”
“It will not see the light of day,” she predicted, “because the process is broken.”
Representative Brad Knott (R, NC), who sits on the Ethics Committee, was the sole rep. to vote "present." 27 Democrats and 38 Republicans votes against the measure. Five Democrats and four Republicans did not vote on the measure.
How each Representative voted. Download as CSV
Just as in the case of the Epstein Files, wrongdoings by members of congress will go unpunished, all the while paid for by American citizens through their taxes and higher prices because of the government's unwillingness to balance the budget. This year's deficit is likely to surpass $2 trillion and te cumulative national debt is $38.8 trillion and will surpass $39 trillion before the month is out. Interest on the debt has ballooned to over $1 trillion a year, a single expense category exceeded only by Social Security, Medicare, and the Department of War.
The American public, and most of the Western nations have been led astray by their elected officials in a myriad of ways. Voting - when it is not already rigged - is always between two equally corrupt candidates who, when elected, will not represent the interests of their constituency, but rather those of their donors, usually, wealthy corporations and their lobbyists who write bills designed to benefit their interests above and beyond those of the American public.
The United States engages in perpetual war around the world, illegal and undeclared. The general public shielded from the harsh realties by an entrenched press corp obedient to the government's dictates of what gets published and what doesn't.
Americans pay extremely high taxes for a government that does not represent their best interests. That is plain to see, yet they do nothing about it for fear of reprisal from that same useless government.
By any reasonable measure, the United States and Israel are losing the war against Iran.
While pig-headed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth brags about sinking the Iranian Navy, proposing to have complete control of Iran's airspace within days, while bombing mostly civilian targets, especially Iran's capital, Tehran, he fails to mention that Iran has destroyed or severely disabled American bases throughout the region, including American anti-missile defenses in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, Iran has closed to Strait of Hormuz and there's nothing the U.S. or Israel can do to reopen it to commercial shipping, the USS Abraham Lincoln has departed from the theater of war, retreating far away into the Indian Ocean, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and other Israeli cities are virtually defenseless as the "Iron Dome" has failed and Iranian missile and drones have devastated much of the urban areas and continue to do so, the U.S. and Israel are running out of anti-aircraft and anti-missile defenses, and the air force has many fewer places in the region from which to launch and land, as the two aircraft carriers in the region are far away and the bases from which they usually are deployed have been rendered unusable by Iranian missile and drone assaults.
America is very likely to lose this war, as it has lost wars and military conflicts against the Houthis in Yemen, had to abruptly negotiate an end to the 12-day war in June, 2025 as Irael was being decimated, spent 20 years losing in Afghanistan and Iraq, and has lost wars in Vietnam and elsewhere.
The U.S. government has squandered its nation's treasure on needless, senseless wars that it cannot win. Ukraine and Iran are just the latest in the series of failures and abrogation of duty by America's corrupt leadership.
Money Daily and publisher Rick Gagliano stand fully opposed to the War in Iran and any support or funding for Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Wall Street and the riggers of markets continued Wednesday to promote the "winning" narrative by sending stocks higher for no apparent reason other than they have fiat money - fast becoming completely worthless - to burn. Gold and silver - the actual real forms of money - continue to be suppressed in spot markets and on the COMEX. The same pattern of short-selling the metals down to ridiculous levels continues day after day after day.
As the opening bell approaches for yet another journey into Fantasyland, Asian stocks recovered overnight, European stocks are marginally lower and U.S. stock futres are falling. Dow futures are off 300 points, NASDAQ futures are down 108, and S7P futures are lower by 28. WTI crude oil is trading just above $77/barrel.
Current events and engagements are likely to have a happy ending, but not for U.S. interests and certainly not for Israel.
At the Close, Wednesday, March 4, 2026:
Dow: 48,739.41, +238.14 (+0.49%)
NASDAQ: 22,807.48, +290.79 (+1.29%)
S&P 500: 6,869.50, +52.87 (+0.78%)
NYSE Composite: 23,086.28, +88.04 (+0.38%)
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