Here are my observations and opinions on my selected news of the day.
THE NEW PARTY OF THE RICH – The Republican Party was always considered the party of the rich and big business, but the midterm election changed that. The reality is that the Democrat Party has become the party of the rich, while the Republican Party is the party of forgotten and increasingly disempowered middle class, according to Jeremy Carl, writing in The Hill.
When the results were tallied after the midterms, Democrats controlled all 20 of the wealthiest congressional districts in the country, winning the top 10 by an average vote of 65-34 percent.
Remember how the Democrats charged the GOP with favoring the rich with its Tax Cut and Jobs Act, claiming that the top one percent were the biggest winners? “Data suggests these affluent voters pocketed the tax cut and went out and voted for Democrats,” reports Carl.
It seems that while the GOP was in touch with the middle class, it is out of touch with the elite. While the GOP lost almost 40 seats in the House, it maintained an advantage in middle income congressional districts 135-116.
With little support from elites, Republicans must now work to gain their support while maintaining support of the middle class, a tall order.
INSULTING WHITE WOMEN FOR VOTES – Leave it to those crazy liberal Democrats to insult and badger white women while seeking to gain their support.
Women remember how Hillary Clinton insulted their intelligence when she criticized them for voting for Donald Trump just because their husband, their boss or their son told them to do so. It was in response to the 52 percent of women who voted for Trump in 2016.
Last Friday, appearing on CNN (where else?) Kirsten Powers remarked that because President Trump does and says racist things, all who support him are racist as well. How ludicrous!
She related that when she talks to women about their vote, “They’ll say, ‘well I’m not a racist. I just voted for him because, you know, I didn’t like Hillary Clinton.’
“If you support somebody who does racist things, that make you a racist. So, I just want to establish that.”
Powers went on to say, “we would hope that we would get better behavior from white women because white women are themselves oppressed and that they would, therefore, be able to be aligned with other oppressed people.”
White women. Did you know that you are oppressed?
Also appearing on the program, Berkeley professor Stephanie Jones-Rogers discussed her research on white women’s economic role in slavery and tied their longtime “deep investment in white supremacy” to their overwhelming support for Trump. What?
Alice Stewart, who worked on Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign, shot down Jones-Rogers’ notion that all women were oppressed and thus should vote in consort with other oppressed groups. Responding to Powers’ racist view of Trump, Stewart stated that she voted for him because of his policies, and “I resent the fact that she says I’m racist because Donald Trump says racist things.”
THERE’S MORE – “The open assault on white women from the progressive left seem to have begun in earnest,” writes Lori Flaherty in her piece, “A Cold Winter for White Women in American Thinker.
“The progressive left uses minority Hollywood stars to buttress racist arguments of the type we are all too familiar with,” she writes, “white women are racial bigots bent on voting against their own interests and empowering the male patriarchy. Yeah, that one.”
One of their cheerleaders, Chelsea Handler, tweeted her disappointment in the 59 percent of white women who voted for Sen. Ted Cruz, asking “I don’t know what it’s going to take for us to be sisters to other women, but we have to do better than this.”
You can read Flaherty’s column in its entirety online at the American Thinker.
JUST WHEN YOU THINK you have heard the last of the 2016 FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails, still another development surfaces to make you wonder when it will all end.
The latest edition of Verdict, news from Judicial Watch, reveals that the fired FBI Agent Peter Strzok created the initial draft of the October 16, 2016 letter then FBI Director James Comey sent to Congress notifying lawmakers of the discovery of Hillary Clinton e-mails on the laptop of disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner.
Another e-mail suggest that the FBI had not yet completed its review of Clinton’s e-mails by the time Comey sent a second letter to Congress, on November 6, 2016, reconfirming his belief that Hillary shouldn’t be charged with a crime.
You may recall that Hillary’s close aide Huma Abedin routinely copied e-mails to an account shared with Weiner, her husband at the time.
Americans are fortunate that Judicial Watch hasn’t given up on the Hillary case, filing Freedom of Information Act lawsuits when the DOJ fails to respond to FOIA requests.
Separately, RealClear reporter Paul Sperry discovered that just 3,077 of the 694,000 (less than one half of one percent) e-mails found on the Weiner laptop were directly reviewed for classified or incriminating information, providing further details of the corrupt and dishonest FBI investigation of the incredible revelation that Clinton’s e-mails were found on Weiner’s laptop.
Clearly, the Democrat-controlled House next year will not pursue the Clinton probe, but word is that the GOP Senate might continue it.
JUDICIAL WATCH also revealed that a FOIA lawsuit forced the DOJ to admit in a court filing that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) held no hearings on the spy warrant applications targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign volunteer, even though he was the subject of four controversial FISA warrants.
“It is disturbing that the FISA Court rubber-stamped the Carter Page spy warrants and held not one hearing on these extraordinary requests to spy on the Trump team,” said Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch President.
May God bless the United States of America.
