Here are my observations and opinions on my selected news of the day.
REMEMBER WHEN Hillary Clinton told voters in the coal mining region that she was going to essentially take away their jobs? That didn’t go over very well, and Joe Biden didn’t get the message.
When asked if he would be willing to sacrifice some growth, even knowing potentially that it could displace thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers in the interest of transitioning to a greener economy, Biden never hesitated as he said, “The answer is yes.”
“You’ve got to hand it to Democrats,” writes Michael Van Der Galien in PJ Media, “they freely admit they do not care one bit about blue-collar workers. They’re the party by and for leftist academics, illegal immigrants and social justice whackjobs.”
SPEAKING OF BIDEN – Apology Joe claimed that he would be younger at the end of his first term than Winston Churchill when he left office as prime minister. Wrong. Churchill was 81 when he left office. Biden would be 82 in 2024 and 86 in 2028. If President Trump had said something like that, he would be called a liar, but with Joe, well …
THEN THERE’S THE PATHETIC Elizabeth Warren, who ridiculed candidate Pete Buttigieg for holding a lavish fundraiser “in a wine cave full of crystals and served $900-a-bottle wine.”
Actress Jane Lynch snapped back with a Tweet @janemarielynch: “Hello everyone. Billionaires in wine caves have as much right to say who gets to be president as waitresses in diners and plumbers in my bathroom. Class warfare is ugly. Thanks for listening everyone.”
BY THE WAY, the last Democrat presidential debate, hosted by PBS NewsHour and Politico and simulcast on CNN, had the lowest rating of any of this year’s debates.
IT MUST HAVE TROUBLED CNN to report that their poll, conducted by SSRS, reported that as 2019 comes to a close, the U.S economy earned its highest ratings in almost two decades.
Overall, 76 percent rated economic conditions in the U.S. today as very or somewhat good. Almost all Republicans (97 percent) saw economic conditions as good right now, as did 75 percent of Independents and 62 percent of Democrats.
MEANWHILE AT THE NEW YORK TIMES, they reported that few people around the country seemed to pay much attention to the House passing articles of impeachment on President Trump.
The Times reported on people across the country focused on their day-to-day lives over the circus act in Washington … not obsessing about politics, especially when they are as nefarious as the Democrats’ efforts to reverse the results of the 2016 election, according to a review by Tristan Justice in The Federalist.
CROSSOVER SIMILARITY (Courtesy Washington Examiner)
THOSE CROSSOVER VEHICLES are partly responsible for sucking the fun out of the open road, says Nicholas Clairmont in the Washington Examiner magazine, adding that “The road to conformist car hell is paved with bad regulations.”
Regular readers will recall that I am opposed to mandatory café standards and frequently attack auto manufacturers for caving on proposed government regulations that result in design alterations. He refers to the regulations as Byzantine.
I agree with Clairmont, who says it “says something sad about our car culture, as well as our culture at large.”
Reading Clairmont’s piece, I was reminded of my teenage years when I could identify each car model and looked forward to the new model introductions, spotting decorative port holes, tail fins and grill designs.
Writing about how it was fifty years ago, Clairmont wrote, “It had a hood, a cabin, and then a deck or trunk. Of the crossover designs, of which he says “can’t be styled to truly look good,” as he writes about “the basic, floor-doored egg-shape and adding whatever brand-familiar trim to do it.” Frankly, they’re boring.
I never thought I would see a Porsche or Jaguar crossover. It’s kind of sacrilegious, isn’t it?
MY LAUGH-OF-THE-DAY – During an appearance at the National Press Club in Washington, Jane Fonda said, “You know, I lie in bed at night searching for the right words that will galvanize people to action around the climate emergency and show them it’s too late for moderation.” The Lid reported. “I get so worked up I can’t sleep, the overwrought actress admitted.”
“You know, I lie in bed at night, thankful that Jane Fonda isn’t lying in bed next to me,” commented Lid authors Warner Todd Houston and Jeff Dunetz.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
