Here are my observations and opinions on my selected news of the day.
DEMS PUT TRUMP HATRED BEFORE COUNTRY – I have written extensively, almost exhaustively, how Democrats, in their effort to prevent a win situation for President Trump, are hurting the country.
During an e-mail exchange with one of my golf buddies yesterday, he conveyed his disgust and embarrassment with Democrats who are ignoring the president’s repeated pleas for border security and funding for asylum processing just to make him look bad.
While committed to reporting on conservative issues, Kramerontheright endeavors to keep progressives honest by bringing to your attention their outright lies and deceit.
Apology Joe Biden, in an op-ed he wrote for the Miami Herald, slammed the Trump administration for “morally bankrupt” policies regarding Latin America, and the “horrifying scenes at the border of kids being kept in cages, tear-gassing asylum seekers, ripping children from their mother’s arms.”
Could it be that Biden is actually recalling the border conditions under the Obama-Biden administration? It was in 2014 and 2015 that photos of kids in cages and immigrants sleeping on concrete floors were first published. Yet the leftist media and its Democrat guests continue to blame President Trump for these conditions.
“The Obama administration used tear gas against immigrants 126 times,” according to FactCheck.org,” writes Tyler O’Neil in PJ Media. “(They) also separated families at the border, refusing to place children in detention centers with their parents.”
So, while the left demonizes Trump policies, they conveniently forget that the Obama administration also used them.
MIDDLE-CLASS JOE – Apology Joe Biden wants you to believe he understands the middle-class. Touting his beginnings in Scranton, Pennsylvania, long supportive of unions, he insists he will draw votes from President Trump in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and even South Carolina. He was the average guy who regularly rode the Amtrak train.
While he talks about ordinary people doing extraordinary things, Biden wants you to believe middle-class is a state of mind, something in his DNA, according to a recent Politico account. It has nothing to do with financial status. This is his position because he knows other members of his party have raises income inequality as an issue.
Middle-class Joe, who has been in politics for more than four decades, bought a $2.7 million, 4,800 square-foot vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, to go along with his 7,000-foot lakeside home in Wilmington Beach valued at $1.9 million. He demands six-figure speaking fees and reportedly signed a seven-figure book deal along with his wife.
Unlike outsider Donald Trump, who ran as a billionaire funding his own campaign with a promise not to forget the middle-class, Biden has an uphill climb to sell his middle-class bona fides based on “it’s who I am.”
While Biden leads the pack of Democrats seeking the nomination, that could easily change, maybe sooner than one would expect.
CNN’s NICK VALENCIA apparently got a little carried away when he tweeted, “I have never seen this kind of cooperation from Mexico before in terms of immigration.”
That was quickly taken down and modified to the simple reporting of Mexico deploying troops to the border. Was it his public remark on the amazing level of cooperation that was considered a tacit admission that President Trump’s threat of tariffs just may have produced results?, asked Jazz Shaw in HotAir. Wouldn’t want to give him credit for anything.
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THOSE EVERLOVING POLLS – I regularly pass along polls, but with my proviso that they cannot be fully trusted. In “The Polling Industry Is in Crisis,” a piece written by Walter Shapiro in The New Republic, he reviews the polls of 2016 and says, “Everyone know the numbers are as unreliable as ever, and yet the political press still hypes every little rise and fall.”
Surely, Apology Joe Biden isn’t really leading President Trump by double digits, however, it fits in the media’s agenda of painting a doom and gloom picture of the president. Similarly, talking heads refer to the president’s below 50 percent approval ranking as severely damaging his chances of reelection.
Shapiro writes that the press has created an artificial narrative with poll reporting. But, in truth, “a dwindling number of Americans answer phone calls from strangers, making it difficult for pollsters to get responses from an accurate sample.”
I might add, that some people purposely give dishonest responses.
SANDERS’ STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS – In yesterday’s post, I commented on Bernie Sanders’ statement that Wall Street would pay for his plan to forgive student loans. Wall Street is not some monolithic money tree that can be picked. We taxpayers, with our 401K’s and other equity investments, are Wall Street. So, you and I will be paying for the forgiveness of student loans.
Hopefully, voters are smart enough to realize that his plan, and that of a similar scheme by fellow Democrat Elizabeth Warren, would end up benefiting the rich more than the poor.
“Sanders’ plan doesn’t have caps or limits,” writes Chris Quintana in USA Today. “It would offer loan forgiveness no matter how much people earn or how much debt they have. Put another way, his plan would forgive the big college and graduate-school debts of high-earning professionals such as doctors and lawyers.”
Of course, Sanders insists it would overwhelmingly benefit the working class.
TIME FOR FLASHBACK – It was President Obama who assumed the government takeover of the student loan program in 2010, because banks weren’t lending generously enough for his tastes and were profiting – heaven forbid – off government guarantees.
The Direct Loan Program had a budget of $500 million in FY2008. In February 2015 the program was $22 billion in the hole. That’s larger than the annual budget for NASA, the EPA and Interior Department combined, according to Ed Morrissey writing in HotAir.
The current student loan debt is some $1.5 trillion. Obama’s decision to takeover student loans tells you something about the liberal mind when it comes to government programs. “Lending programs work best when the stakeholders can’t just print their own money,” remarks Morrissey.
So, along comes and other Democrats, who want to chalk it up as a mistake and ask taxpayers to come to the rescue with an even wackier plan.
May God bless the United States of America.
