Commentary
IMPRESSED? DON’T BE – The president has no idea of the content in each of these executive orders and memorandums stacked up for his signature. Did you notice that the few members of the media allowed to watch the initials signings, were not permitted to ask for details?
Remember how President Trump would review each order, generally in the presence of individuals who benefit from them, before signing? Not President Biden. He merely refers to a note on his desk that tells him what he’s signing, and seemingly couldn’t care less if you understand what it is he’s signing.
The stack of executive orders and memorandums, many of which reverse those of President Trump, are the product of those 48 lawmakers, activists, union leaders and academics who made up his six joint policy task forces in May 2020. You may recall that Biden permitted Bernie Sanders to name three of the eight members of each task force.
IN HIS FIRST DAYS, President Biden cut the jobs from under some 11,000 workers by canceling the Keystone XL pipeline and pausing oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. An all-out assault on workers in the middle class and our coveted energy independence position.
In another move to appease the environmentalists, he restored the U.S. membership in the costly and ineffective Paris Accord.
He also reversed Trump’s Muslim travel ban, halting deportations, and pausing construction of the fence along our southern border, an assault on our national security effort.
Not only did he reverse the transgender military ban, his dabbling in gender identity issues adversely affects women’s sports.
He issued a phalanx of orders and memorandums designed to appear as if he is improving the nation’s effort to defeat COVID 19.
There’s more to come, including a major push for racial equity. He trotted out Susan Rice to outline his administration-wide effort to address the phony charge that systemic racism exists in this country.
Of course, there are the old Democrat standbys – the $15 minimum wage, pausing student load payments, strengthening DACA, and expanding food assistance programs.
“I WILL FOLLOW THE SCIENCE“– On Wednesday, Biden is expected to sign a memorandum on scientific integrity, whatever that means. He has already ignored the science that moving oil by pipeline is safer and environmentally cleaner than moving it by rail or truck.
Biden’s America
ANTI-TRUMP BLACKLISTING – I’m sure you have heard about the blacklisting of anyone who worked for or supported President Trump. They are to be denied jobs in the government and should they want to write books about their experiences, forget it, publishers will block them.
Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, known for being a spokesman on his television commercials, recently revealed that Bed, Bath & Beyond and Kohl’s have notified him that they would no longer carry his products.
Lindell doesn’t blame them, understanding their concern about store boycotts because he has been a vocal supporter of President Trump.
Lindell was also suspended from Twitter.
BIG TIME ADVERTISERS, including Coca Cola, Ford and Budweiser, are skipping the Super Bowl this year for fear of not striking the right tone amid America’s contentious political atmosphere. Political correctness and the cancel culture gone too far.
INAUGURATION FLASHBACK – British journalist Katie Hopkins, writing about her disappointing trip to the U.S. to experience Biden’s inauguration, wrote of meeting a woman on the street while walking back to her hotel. She had traveled from Texas because of her love for Biden. She was in Washington for the big march four years ago had “such a fantastic time.” “She couldn’t believe she was all alone, the only one that showed up.” ‘We will be heard’ was the cry in 2017.
“You did not see the expressed will of the people on display. They weren’t there. They weren’t allowed there. There was no emotion because of it,“ wrote Hopkins, questing why she made the trip from the UK.
DID YOU SEE THE HOUSE MANAGERS MARCH to the Senate to deliver the article of impeachment with all of the pomp of British Parliament, led by the clerk of the House and the acting sergeant at arms? How pathetic. To borrow a phrase from Stephen Kruiser at PJ Media, President Trump is still getting free space in their heads.
“Democrats can’t let go of Donald Trump, even as a former president,” wrote the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, “so on Monday House managers walked their article of impeachment to the Senate for trial. Their goal is to banish Mr. Trump from running for office again. The result may instead be his acquittal and political revival. He could emerge politically strengthened.”
“This emphasis on punishing Trump and his supporters will only reinforce the idea that not only are they not represented by our political systems, they are oppressed by it,” writes Jan Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian blog, “and if our political system becomes one of that oppresses and silences those who aren’t in power, what’s to stop a real insurrection from happening next time?”
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
