Commentary

THERE ARE RUMBLINGS in Washington about Joe Biden starting up talks with Iran.  Perhaps it’s because Wendy Sherman, who led Obama negotiators leading to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, will become deputy secretary of state under Antony Blinken, earlier announced to be his secretary of state.

“For some reason, Uncle Joe has tapped former Deputy Secretary of State William Burns to take charge at the CIA,” noted Jazz Shaw in hotair.com.  That, too, might have stirred the Swamp, as it was revealed that Burns had earlier led a secretive back channel negotiation with the Iranian regime.  A career diplomat, Burns has no intelligence community experience.

Sherman was nominated as one of 10 former Obama-Biden administration career State Department diplomats to make up his foreign policy team.

As might be expected, five of the 11 nominees are either people of color or LGBTQ individuals, all advocates of multilateralism.  They reflect Biden’s intention to reverse the Trump “America First’ approach to international relations.

DON’T EXPECT THE MEDIA to remind Biden of his campaign false accusations of President Trump of “betrayal” for allegedly ignoring intelligence that Russia put a bounty on the heads of American soldiers in Afghanistan, because they won’t do the math.

You see, Biden knew that the Defense Department had already conclusively found by July 9, 2015 that Iran had directly murdered a minimum 500 U.S. soldiers with IEDs in Iraq over the past seven years. It was confirmed by Gen. Joseph S. Dunford, Jr. in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, who said, in addition, that it was reasonable to assume that the $150 billion would be used to feed Iran’s terrorist network.

Just five days later, on July 14, 2015, Biden was the cheerleader of the Iran Nuclear deal that handed Iran $150 billion, according to Mark Langfan, writing in israelinternatinalnews.com.

For the benefit of math devoid media, that means Biden paid Iran $300 million for each murdered U.S. warrior.

YOU MAY NOT HAVE HEARD that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a newly elected Republican representative in Georgia, has announced her intention to introduce articles of impeachment on Joe Biden for abuse of power on January 21, 2021, accusing him of withholding foreign aid to Ukraine and pressuring them to complete a deal with his son, Hunter.

Referencing Nancy Pelosi’s lowering of the bar for impeachment, Greene said, “We cannot have a man in office in the most powerful seat of our country and arguably the world, who is willing to sell out America, sell out his position just so that his son can get a paycheck,” she said.

While Greene’s effort will most likely not be successful, in doing so, she reveals how the Democrats have trivialized the impeachment process.

IN SPITE OF JOHN KERRY – Add another Middle East plaudit to the foreign policy legacy of President Trump.  With nominations lining up for him to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in brokering peace between Israel, the UAE, Bahrain. Sudan and Morocco, comes another honor.

In a private Oval Office ceremony Friday, Princess Lalla Joumala Alaoui, Morocco’s ambassador to the United States, presented President Trump with the Order of Muhammad, Morocco’s highest award, on behalf of King Mohammed VI.

Other awards were presented to White House senior advisor Jared Kushner and Middle East envoy Avi Berkowitz, who have negotiated the peace agreements.

FLASHBACK: “There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world. I want to make that very clear to all of you.” – John Kerry, December 2016

AS YOU MIGHT HAVE EXPECTED, the Wall Street Journal’s elite leftist columnist, Peggy Noonan, wrote of RINO Rep. Liz Cheney as the hero in the group of ten Republicans who sided with the Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat Party in the impeachment of President Trump, referring to it as “a moment of real stature.”  Noonan called those Republicans who didn’t follow her lead, “stupid and cowardly.”

Noonan, always quick with a dig in opposition to the GOP, was quick to point out that Cheney was the only woman in the House Republican leadership.  She failed to acknowledge, however, that another woman, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers held that same position over the previous six years.

Interestingly, Noonan didn’t mention the Republican women in the House and Senate who demonstrated the courage to object to the Electoral Vote Count.

Now, with Pelosi holding the cards for a Senate impeachment trial, Noonan offers Senators a thought: “It’s time to demystify Donald Trump.”

It’s obvious that the Washington establishment, some Republicans included, is concerned with Trump weighing in on the 2022 midterms.  They know they can’t win without Trump’s base, and are trying everything to make us forget him.

OUR WORK IS CUT OUT FOR US when you realize there are Americans out there (a neighbor or colleague) who say, “We don’t heal until the GOP apologizes for their conspiracies,” as did a recent writer to the editor of the Arizona Republic. 

After the Russia, Russia, Russia conspiracy, and the other one tied to President Trump’s letter to Ukraine president Zelensky, both orchestrated by Democrat Representatives Schiff, Swalwell, and Nadler, the latter resulting in weak impeachment, the writer wrote:

“If Republicans are serious about healing the country, they have to come out and admit to the bogus conspiracy theories they have been pushing for the last four years.”

Of course, we recall the conspiracy built around Schiff’s statement that there was “ample evidence of collusion in plain sight,” and Swalwell’s claim that Trump “is a Russian asset,” both debunked by the Mueller probe.

And Rep Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez wants to rein-in misinformation in the media.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S APPROVAL RATING took an expected dip in the past week.  The USA Today/Suffolk Poll showed him at 41 percent.  Former presidents Obama, Reagan, both Bushes were all rated at 42.6 when they left office, while Carter was rated at 33.7 percent when he left office.

In another survey, in which respondents were asked how they felt about Joe Biden at this point, whether they voted for him or not, just twenty-six percent said “excellent,” 24 percent “good,” 36 percent “worried,” and six percent “angry.”  Not exactly glowing numbers.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.