Here are my observations and opinions from my select news of the day.
OH MY, WHAT WILL WE DO, the diversity of the Democrat presidential candidate contingent has lost another woman – Marianne Williamson – and another black – Cory Booker; how are we going to appeal to liberal masses that we are inclusive?
When Kamala Harris dropped out of the race, Booker lamented the possibility of a campaign stage “with no diversity whatsoever,” seemingly telegraphing his plan to suspend his campaign.
Evidence that blacks only see race as diversity qualifiers, Booker ignores the white women, a Hindu Samoan-American woman, gay man, and the man of Taiwanese descent still in the race.
THEN THERE’S THE HE SAID, SHE SAID back and forth going on between Democrats Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. It seems as though Sanders told Warren in 2018 that a woman could not get elected president. Of course, she disagreed. It surfaced again this week with Warren accusing Sanders’ volunteers of repeating Sanders belief among Iowa voters.
IN THE LAND OF LINCOLN, far left activists, no longer satisfied with the recognition of transgender ideology, have now successfully made Illinois the 20th state to force its taxpayers to foot the bill for surgery, according to Tyler O’Neil of PJ Media. The procedures are covered by Medicaid.
SOMETHING FOR THE LEFT TO PONDER. They want to stop Russian interference, but oppose voter ID. (Creator of graphic unknown.)
WITH KNOWLEDGE OF FISA ABUSES that have surfaced as a result of the DOJ IG report, you would think considerable thought would go into any the selection of someone to oversee reforms of the FBI FISA process.
Wrong! Presiding Judge James Boasberg appointed the highly controversial David Kris to oversee reforms. So, in the words of George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, “If the court was seeking to assure the public, it has (instead) added a new controversy for those who see a ‘deep state’ response to reforms.
He comes into the position as someone who has publicly insisted that allegations of abuse were nonsense and should be rejected, and has written that Republicans had “falsely accused” the FBI of misleading the FISA Court in its wiretap applications to spy on the Trump campaign.
Kris, a frequent guest of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, has been a prominent critic of President Trump, and has tweeted that the “walls” were “closing in” on the president.
LOOKING THROUGH THE ARCHIVES, I noted that back in June 2017, Nancy Pelosi referred to herself as a “master legislator” and a “strategic politically astute leader.” And she’s often foolishly referred to as the most powerful woman in the nation.
It was the commentary by Fox’s Jeanine Pirro about Pelosi that caused me to look back. Here’s an excerpt of what she had to say about Pelosi:
“Her impeachment of the 45th president of the United States is born not of truth, facts or evidence, but rather of a historic vitriolic hatred usually reserved for an enemy of the state.
“In the end it is her animosity, frenetic, irrational and baseless actions against this president that will ultimately hoist her on her own petard. And I might add, no one deserves it more.”
HAVE YOU HEARD that a number of Democrats, even on the Senate side, have approached Pelosi to get on with it; move the articles of impeachment to the Senate? Moreover, Washington Post reporter Rachel Bade, appearing on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, called Pelosi’s decision to withhold the articles a “failed strategy.”
GRETA THUNBERG, the pouting, arrogant young climate change activist, who last month scolded leaders of the world for not taking action on climate change, saying she should be back in school, is at it again. On December 8, 2019, I suggested she “go home,” and that John Kerry now has the mantle.
Addressing an op-ed in The Guardian to world government and business leaders planning to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, she wrote “We demand that at this year’s forum, participants from all companies, banks, institutions and governments immediately halt all investments in fossil fuel exploration and extraction, immediately end all fossil fuel subsidies and immediately and completely divest from fossil fuels. We don’t want these things done by 2050, 2030 or even 2021, we want this done now, as in right now.”
SPEAKING OF JOHN KERRY, the “mastermind” who brokered the flawed nuclear deal with Iran to pad President Obama’s legacy, is campaigning for Apology Joe Biden peddling the oft-repeated claim that the Obama-Biden administration lacked scandals. “Never a whiff of scandal,” Kerry said, repeating an October 2016 claim by Obama and several members of his administration since. Thank goodness Americans know better.
While campaigning for Biden, he is telling meager audiences that President Trump is obsessed with reversing everything accomplished by Obama, and is now claiming that Trump’s pullout of the Iranian nuclear deal and his decision to kill the terrorist Soleimani has emboldened Iran.
Following up on the statements by Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the funds provided by Obama were used to purchase weapons used against the U.S., CBS’s Margaret Brennan confronted Kerry with a 2016 file video of Kerry conceding that some of the pallet of cash would likely end up in the hands of the Revolutionary Guards and Cuds Force. Kerry tried to ingratiate her by telling her, “you’re an expert,” hoping to convince her this was just business as usual. Kerry said the thought that the cash was used to purchase the missiles fired at U.S. forces in Iraq was “splitting hairs.”
Two other left-leaning journalists, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell and Fox’s Juan Williams, have been spinning the story that the pallets of cash sent to Iran was “their money,” previously frozen. Like that makes a difference. It serves to point to another flaw in the nuclear agreement.
If I were Biden, I wouldn’t want Kerry on the circuit. Criticized for negotiating an agreement that didn’t include verifiable proof of Iran’s promise to cease work on nuclear weapons, he was also quizzed on Iran’s ballistic missile project and the funding of their terrorist activities, including arms trafficking, across the Middle East.
The “all-hair and no head for negotiating” Kerry would have you believe “We were trying to take the nuclear weapon off the table first, and then negotiate Yemen, Hezbollah, threats against Israel, and the regional question of trafficking of arms.” Yeah, right. Then why did the agreement include removing Soleimani from the terrorist list?
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
