Here are my observations and opinions on some of the news of the day.
FROM THE RUMOR MILL – You may recall hearing President Trump recently hint that House Ways and Means Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady was working on Phase Two of the Tax Cut. We learned later that there is a plan to make the personal income tax cut permanent.
I understand that a number of Republicans are opposed to bringing this to floor for a vote before the midterms, believing Democrats would vote for it and take away the GOP’s planned campaign line that not a single Democrat voted for the initial tax bill. I hope this is but a rumor.
Are Republicans so bereft of creativity and common sense that they cannot see how they can convey to voters that it if it wasn’t for their initial passage of the tax cut bill, there simply wouldn’t be the effort to make it permanent? They could even credit the Democrats for seeing the light.
Nancy Pelosi’s snarky references that the tax cut only provided “crumbs” to the middle class, and her announced plan to repeal the tax cut if the Democrat return to lead the House will give Republican candidates sufficient fodder.
ON THE SUBJECT OF THE MIDTERMS – Democrats are doing everything possible to resist President Trump at every turn. They intend to keep beating the drum of impeachment, collusion with Russia, and continue to label him as unfit while hyping guilt of obstruction of justice in the firing of James Comey.
On Friday, the Democrat National Committee filed an obvious frivolous suit against defendants from the Russian Federation and the general staff of the Russian armed forces to WikiLeaks, the Trump campaign and a number of individuals tied to the president, charging “Significant harm inflected upon the plaintiff,” including an “illegal conspiracy inflicted profound damage upon the DNC.” Of course, this is another attempt to gain favorable coverage from a complicit media in the approach to the midterms.
With all that is going against Democrats and the Obama Deep State – the FBI scandal, the FISA court mess, the unmaskings of American citizens, the miscarriage of justice in the Hillary e-mail investigation – “You would think the DNC would have the brains to lay low,” writes Roger L. Simon in PJMedia, “Much of this may be done to gin up their base, or for fundraising purposes, but they will regret it. Impeachment doesn’t play well with the public and neither will sorehead lawsuits, especially when juxtaposed with the IG’s facts.”
Democrat stalwart David Axelrod tweeted, “All of these sideshows – Comey’s flamboyant rollout, this lawsuit – seem spectacularly ill-timed and abet strategy of portraying a sober and essential probe as a partisan vendetta. Everyone should chill out and let Mueller do his job.”
AMGREATNESS.COM, in a piece entitled, A Very Bad Week for The Resistance,” suggested, after reviewing all that went well for the president during the week, “if you see anyone from The Resistance – a Democrat politician, or a CNN host, or a never-Trumper – drowning their sorrows at DC watering hole this weekend, buy him a pinot grigio or a daiquiri.
A NEW HILLARY ADMISSION – Just when you think you’ve heard it all about Hillary Clinton’s election loss, we learn from Ed Morrissey’s PJMedia review of Amy Chozick’s book, “Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling,” that she knew she wasn’t going to win.
“Robby (Mook) drained and deflated, watching the results with his team in a room down the hall from Hillary’s suite, labored in the hallway of the Peninsula to break the news. Hillary didn’t seem all that surprised. ‘I knew it. I knew this was going to happen to me …” Then, Chozick reports of Hillary positioning herself within a couple inches of Mook’s face saying, “They were never going to let me be president.”
Later, writes Chozick, “Bill (Clinton) would spread a more absurd Times conspiracy,” and spoke of a deal the New York Times had made with Trump.
Will we ever here the last of her campaign?
