“SQUISHES” is the term Kurt Schlichter used to appropriately describe the Republican senators who have decided not to run for office again, in his Townhall piece, “The GOP Squishes Retire.” 

Perhaps your children or grandchildren have a Squish or more that they play with; they are spongy toys that come in shapes, including odd characters and animals. I imagine some of them will soon be victims of the cancel culture.

I normally refer to those senators as “weak-kneed” or “RINO’s.”

Being a senator used to be fun, notes Schlichter, “Then this whole populist thing started and people insisted you get off your withered old duff and actually defend the interests of the people who elected you and, well, that makes “Senating” a lot less fun.”  Thanks to President Trump.

“We’re done with the weak hearts, and the weak heats know it.  We’re no longer willing to give these pests a pass on fighting for us. For too long the saps in Washington were able to ignore it and prioritize enjoying being poohbahs over actually performing for the people.  It’s a lot less fun to fight. – Kurt Schlichter

Schlichter writes of Senators Hawley and Cruz, who have taken a lot of grief for taking hard stands, and the media made them feel the pain.

Those GOP senators who have announced that they will not be running in 2022 are Roy Blunt, Richard Burr, Rob Portman, Richard Shelby and Pat Toomey.  Burr and Toomey could be considered Squishes.  Let’s hope there are strong Republicans prepared to run for their seats.

Incidentally, there are 14 Democrat senators up for reelection in 2022.

Of the 20 Republican senators still up for reelection in 2022, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski must be defeated.  Others who have been weak supporters, Senators Romney and Collins, are not up for reelection.

“It’s just easier to quit.  Losing the guys who always lose is no loss,” says Schlichter.  I agree.

FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP has indicated he doesn’t want to see campaign funds going to RINOs, but Sen. John Barrasso, recently appearing on CNN, brushed aside talk of a lack of unity in the GOP. “We’re going to be united in 2022.  It’s going to be very good year for Republicans. The thing that’s really uniting the Republican Party right now is the Biden administration and Biden policies.”

Reportedly, a group of South Dakota Trump supporters are considering “primarying” Sen. John Thune, who voted to acquit Trump, but made statements regarding his “inexcusable” comments made after the election.  It’s hard to see the Party throwing Thune under the bus.

IT’S NO WONDER that the Biden administration isn’t concerned about the nation’s kids getting back to school for in-person learning, where interfacing with other students is so critical in the learning process.

A number of White House staffers still haven’t moved to Washington, working remotely from Sacramento, Austin and Puerto Rico, some without even having met their bosses and colleagues, according to a piece by Annie Karni in the Wall Street Journal.

Having worked in the corporate environment for more than 30 years, I have given considerable thought to the work-at-home trend brought on by the pandemic.  My daily face-to-face association with colleagues was so important to me professionally and to my company, who benefited greatly from it.

As I read about the Biden staffers, however, I began to think that their dysfunctional operations might just delay Biden’s plans to transform government. There’s “no immediate plans” to bring the whole staff to Washington, writes Karni.

For instance, Maggie Thomas, who was named chief of staff of the domestic climate policy office in January has yet to meet her boss, Gina McCarthy, the White House national climate advisor, in person, communicating via a video monitor, from Sacramento.

Emma Ruiz, Biden’s director of political strategy and outreach, works remotely from Austin, where she resides with her wife.  Erin Pelton, a senior advisor on the Domestic Policy Council, works from Puerto Rico, where she also home-schools her seven and five-year old children.

RESPONSES TO RASMUSSEN’S survey seeking opinion on President Biden’s ability to do his job are mixed, so far.  Thirty-seven percent were “very concerned,” 24 percent “not very concerned,” and 22 percent “not at all.” Fifty-two percent, however, registered concern over his lack of access to the media.

“DEPRESSINGLY BLEAK” are the words PJ Media’s Tyler O’Neil chose to describe President Biden’s address to the nation on Thursday.  You may recall I called it “pathetic.”

“After meandering and dead boring remarks about the toll of Covid-19, the existence of drive-in vaccine centers, and the progress (his) administration has made in the past 50 days, the president got to the part of his speech that was clearly intended to be uplifting,” wrote O’Neil.

Suggesting that it would instead “likely hit Americans like a ton of bricks,” O’Neil wrote of Biden’s attempt to hold out a great promise, a goal to strive for that would make all the struggle worth it – a possible Fourth of July barbeque with family and friends … “mind you, not a large one.”

Biden couldn’t leave it there, noted O’Neil, he had to add that we may have to reinstate restrictions.

SHAME ON SCHUMER – “Just let me say this, Joe Biden inherited a huge mess on immigration, and it’s not going to be cleaned up in a month,” Sen. Chuck Schumer told Meghan McCain on ABC’s The View Thursday, in response to her question, “why haven’t you been as critical of President Biden as you were of President Trump?’

Referring to Trump’s border actions as “nasty, negative and horrible to immigrants,” Schumer whined and blamed the former president for the current border crisis.

There was no recognition of illegal border crossings plummeting under Trump as a result of his zero-tolerance policy, and the construction of the border wall.

While the Biden administration refuses to call the current situation a crisis, illegal crossings now are six times higher than was deemed crisis-level during the Obama-Biden era.

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.