Here are my observations and opinions of my selected news of the day.
APOLOGY JOE BIDEN is a good one to talk about remarks “beneath the dignity of the office.”
BIDEN DIGNITY (reidsright,blogspot.com)
On May 23, 2010, after introducing President Obama at the signing ceremony for ObamaCare in the White House, Biden turned and embraced the smiling president, while excitedly saying – “This is a big f**king deal!” – so loud that it was picked up by the microphones.
So much for Biden’s consideration of the dignity of the office.
The Biden campaign lashed out at President Trump for insulting Biden as a low-IQ individual during his trip to Japan.
WHAT WAS SHE THINKING? – On May 28, 2019, I was critical of Democrat presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar’s decision to relate her story of sitting with the late John McCain, yukking it up while he recited the names of dictators during President Trump’s inaugural address.
Apparently, the late senator’s daughter, Meghan McCain, wondered that, too, and probably wasn’t pleased with Klobuchar’s recollection of her father’s ill-advised and ill-timed attempt at humor. She tweeted: “On behalf of the entire McCain family – please be respectful to all of us and leave my father’s legacy and memory out of presidential politics.”
Rather than let the story die, Klobuchar’s communications director Tim Hogan felt the need to explain that Klobuchar “was simply sharing a memory and continues to believe that the best stories about Senator McCain are not about the views he had about President Trump; they are about McCain’s own valor and heroism.” He went on to say that the Minnesota senator “had a long-time friendship with Senator McCain and has deep respect for his family.”
A private phone call by Klobuchar to Meghan or Cindy McCain would have been my advice.
“NOBODY, INCLUDING THE PRESIDENT, is above the law Nancy Pelosi and her minions frequently repeat as they continue to remind us of their declared oversight responsibility and their intention to do a re-do because Robert Mueller and his Democrat cronies failed to give them the result they wanted.
But, when Attorney General Bill Barr expressed a dissatisfaction with what had gone on in the upper levels of the DOJ and FBI, and initiated a deep dive into what happened, the Deep State, and their water-carriers in the media, erupted.
This quote from Wolf Howling’s piece in the Bookworm Room, “Progressives collude to prevent investigation of attempted coup,” lays out clearly:
“By resisting an investigation of the apparent attempted coup against Trump, Progressives reject a core Anglo-American doctrine that no one is above the law.”
Two individuals sure to be probed for their actions – former CIA director John Brennan and former DNI James Clapper – responded to the president’s document declassification as “outrageous,” and urged DNI Dan Coats and CIA Director Gina Haspel to view it as an “unprecedented act,” as he encourages them to resist Barr.
“This is very serious and I know that my former colleagues in the intelligence community are looking upon this with great concern and worry,” Brennan said. How prescient of him.
DISGRACEFUL – It appears that British royalty can pluck an actress out of Hollywood, give her the best role she could ever hope to land, and by marriage give her the title Duchess of Sussex, but she doesn’t have the grace to put her politics behind her.
Formerly known simply as Meghan Markle, before becoming part of the royal family, Markle, who supported Hillary Clinton in 2016, described Donald Trump as “misogynistic,” and “divisive.”
Now, as Meghan Markle Duchess of Sussex, she has decided not to grace the president and First Lady Melania with her presence at a luncheon meeting to include Queen Elizabeth II, Prince William, Kate Middleton and her husband, Prince Harry. How is poor Harry going to answer for Meghan’s absence? How sad.
CONSUMER CONFIDENCE surged in May to a six-month high, spurred by a strong labor market, Jeffry Bartash writes in MarketWatch. The index climbed to 134.1 from 129.2 in April, the Conference Board said Tuesday.
In a separate survey that asks American how they view the economy in the present, rose to an 18-and-a-half-year high of 175.2. The last time the index was higher was in December 2000.
“IF THERE’S ANYTHING WE LEARNED from 2016,” writes Matt Margolis in PJ Media, “it’s that polls can’t always be trusted,” but three models looking at 2020 point to the reelection of President Trump.
May God bless the United States of America.
