Commentary

WELCOME NEWS – A dozen members of the 150-member Republican Study Committee met last week with former Vice President Mike Pence to hash out conservative priorities for the party with some internal division as to who will lead it, according to Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Examiner.

In discussions on the agenda going forward, they indicated it would center on the usual GOP issues – national defense, anti-abortion policies and election security – it would center on advocating and defending the Trump administration record.

“Our primary focus at the moment is building a conservative agenda that unifies Republicans,” said Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, the committee’s chairman.

While Sen. Mitch McConnell has said he would support the party’s nominee should it be Trump, Ferrechio believes he “wants him permanently exiled from the party.”

Over in the House, however, Representatives Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan are solid backers of the former president.  Rep. Liz Cheney is in the anti-Trump minority.

THE BIG LIE? – While the leftist media continues to refer to former President Trump’s statements on the “rigged” or “stolen” election as “the Big Lie,” instances of voter fraud are still surfacing.

A Mississippi judge has ordered a new runoff election for a local election in Aberdeen after more than three quarters of absentee ballots cast in the June Democrat runoff election were found to be invalid, while a notary involved in the election was arrested.

Although this fraud was not during the 2020 presidential election, it proves that voter integrity is at stake when an election is conducted.

In a 64-page order, Judge Jeff Weill noted fraud and criminal activity in how absentee ballots were handled and counted and actions by individuals at polling places.  Sixty-six of 85 absentee ballots should never have been counted.

Notary Dallas Jones was released on $500 bond after admitting she violated her notary duties and allegedly said she assisted an individual or individuals that flaunted the state’s voter fraud law.

IF YOU HAVEN’T HEARD, in HR 1, which recently passed in the House, “states would effectively be barred from mandating the use of photo-ID to establish that a person be the registered voter they claim to be. 

States would also be required to adopt same-day voter registration for national elections, so that a person could show up at a poll, sign a registration form and cast a vote without any checks to ensure the person is actually eligible to vote.

A WISE “CRAT” – Arizona’s Democrat Sen., Kyrsten Sinema voted “no” with Republicans on the progressive’s attempt to include a federal minimum wage in the $1.9 trillion so-called Covid relief bill.  In a move reminiscent of the late Sen. John McCain’s grandstanding thumbs down vote on ObamaCare, Sinema went one better, curtseying as she extended her arm with a thumbs down motion.

I will be curious to see how the Arizona Republic’s leftist columnists respond to that.

REMEMBER DAVID BROOKS, who was once stated that he could tell that Barack Obama would be an excellent president judging from the crease in his pants? 

New York Times columnist Brooks, is drawing a second salary for his work on a project with the Washington D.C. think tank Aspen Institute, and has frequently written about Facebook, but shortly after a $250,000 Facebook gift to the project, Brooks began writing about the project. 

BuzzFeedNews reports that the New York Times columnist has been “using his perch to promote the Weave project” without disclosing his potential conflict of interest to his readers.

He has since written a number of columns promoting Weave, many of which referencing Facebook and founder Mark Zuckerberg without disclosing his financial ties to the social networking giant.

THE CANCEL CULTURE needs to be stopped in its tracks.  It’s simply getting out of hand. While a recent Harvard CAPS-Harris poll found that about 64 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of the cancel culture, it should be 100 percent.

From the removal of the names of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln from schools to the recent hit on the Dr. Seuss books, supposedly because they conjure up racial overtones, has to stop.

Some have been critical of the drawings of characters in the Dr. Seuss books, depicting blacks in a bad light, however, I found the black fish in my copy of “One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish” appears as whimsical as the others.

I suppose I could object to the hairy depiction of the old fish.

I began looking at my copy of “Go dog, go,” a favorite of our children, but stopped short.  

May God continue to bless the United States of America.