Here are my observations and opinions from my select news of the day.
(Courtesy Steve Breen/San Diego Union-Tribune)
SANDERS, BLOOMBERG AND WARREN were trounced by Apology Joe Biden among the Super Tuesday states, causing Mike Bloomberg to call it quits and throw his support behind Biden. Elizabeth Warren came in third in her home state of Massachusetts, but remains committed. Bernie Sanders, with wins in Vermont, Colorado, Utah and California, said he was on his way to Michigan to continue his campaign. Tulsi Gabbard, for some reason, as decided to stay in the race.
It appears that Amy Klobuchar’s exit proved timely for Biden as he won her home state of Minnesota on Tuesday. She is said to be a possible running mate for Biden.
Biden foolishly accepted the support of Beto O’Rourke in Texas, saying that Beto would be his “gun czar.” Not a smart move in the Lone Star State, where the Second Amendment is protected.
Super Tuesday was big for Biden, but it doesn’t mean he’ll win the nomination. Sanders has already introduced negative ads linking Biden to the mistakes of Obama, of whom Biden often boasts.
As I was preparing to publish this blog, there was word that Sanders and Warren were huddling to map their futures. Remember that Warren accused Sanders of calling her a liar on national TV. Politics forms strange bedfellows.
SPEAKING OF GUNS – The FBI has reported that gun background checks were up 30 percent as consumers began gun and ammo purchases in view of the gun control threats of the Democrat candidates. January and February 2020 background checks were the highest ever seen for that period.
I WONDERED IF FOX WOULD SUSPEND their Democrat spokesperson Donna Brazile for telling the RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on air – twice – to “go to hell?”
I guess not. When Bret Baier brought her on to comment during Fox’s Super Tuesday coverage, he simply referred to her being overly excited during the day. It would have been an opportunity for her to apologize, but she didn’t.
The network has suspended others for less, including Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, David Bossie, Jeanine Pirro and Tucker Carlson, but I expect they’ll choose to keep her on board as an election season commentator.
PRESIDENT TRUMP serves as our president free of charge, as Victoria Taft of PJ Media reminds her readers.
However, he is required to get a paycheck, and he always donates his $100,000 quarterly salary to a needy cause. The latest quarterly salary went to Health and Human Services to help fight the outbreak of the Coronavirus.
Previous donations went to OASH, the Surgeon General, USDA, DHS, NIH, SBA, VA, Transportation, HHS, Department of Education, and the Department of Interior.
You realize, of course, the president cannot win, whatever he does. “This is a meaningless gimmick,” tweeted Robert Maguire, research director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
CAN PRAYER HURT? – It began when President Trump asked for prayers for families of shooting victims or those suffering from natural disasters. The media mocked prayer as if to say that it was the president’s only response and gave them false hope.
Can it hurt? You would think so as the media has been criticizing President Trump praying with a group of black Americans during Black History Month and most recently their mocking of Vice President Pence praying with the Coronavirus task force group.
“Mike Pence and his coronavirus emergency team praying for a solution. We are screwed,“ Thomas Chatterton Williams, a contributing writer for the leftist New York Times Magazine, shamefully tweeted @thomaschattwill.
GENERAL BROWN (dessous-traemumie.com)
FIRST BLACK AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF – President Trump has nominated Gen. Charles Brown Jr. to be the next Air Force chief of staff. If confirmed by the Senate, he will be the Air Force’s first black service chief.
Currently the commander of Pacific Air Forces, a position he has held since 2018, he will replace Gen. David Goldfein, who is expected to retire after holding that position since 2016.
I found this an interesting nomination in view of the left’s frequent references of the president as a white nationalist and racist; the same president who helped bring black unemployment down to a record low; who helped establish funding for black colleges and universities, who signed the First Step Act, that largely benefits minorities, and who signed on the opportunity zone legislation of Sen. Tim Scott of S. Carolina.
PERHAPS YOU’VE HEARD that U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth issued an order in connection with a five-year-old Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Judicial Watch, filed seeking Hillary Clinton’s e-mails on the deadly attack on our compound in Benghazi.
While she will be required to sit for an in-person sworn deposition for the first time in connection with her use of a private e-mail account during her State Department tenure, Kramerontheright isn’t holding his breath.
LAUGH-OF-THE-DAY comes from The Babylon Bee, that likes to poke fun of goings-on in the political world. “I am the only candidate who can unite the party to defeat Reagan,” the Bee quoted Joe Biden at an appearance in Houston. “When super Thursday hits here in a few weeks, we can rally the 150 million Democrats here in the great country of Texas to vote for me so we get Reagan and his crony Dick Cheney off the Iron Throne here in the imperial Senate.”
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
