Commentary
“I’ve never been more worried than I am now about the world at large,” said Sen. Lindsay Graham, referring to the situations in the Ukraine, Taiwan, Afghanistan and Iran before alluding to President Biden’s border policies. “I’m really worried about the world under the Biden administration … they’re clueless ….”
I agree with the senator.
I’ve been off my keyboard since the first week of April, when I commented on the mess at our border and those CEOs who shot off their mouths without knowing the facts, but with the foolishness going on this past week, I decided to limber up my fingers.
PACKING THE COURT – Several Democrats gathered in front of the Supreme Court to make their case for expanding the number of justices. Rep. Mondaire Jones, I thought, pushed the foolishness needle the highest with his statement, “Our democracy is hanging by a thread … and the far-right majority on the U.S. Supreme Court is cutting it.”
That was until I heard Sen. Edward J. Markey utter, “Republicans stole the Court’s majority, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation completing their crime spree.”
As if they hunger for the “Embarrassment of the Week” award, radical progressives of the party are urging Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from the bench, so Biden can nominate a lefty.
Never mind that then Sen. Joe Biden is on record as saying that packing the court was a “bonehead idea,” and that their darling of the Court, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, also opposed it.
What a waste of time. It’s going nowhere, folks.
TALK ABOUT INCITING RIOT – Where’s the outrage we heard after the breach of the nation’s capitol, charging President Trump with inciting his supporters? On Saturday, Rep. Maxine Waters, in riot-torn Brooklyn Center, said that if Derek Chauvin isn’t found guilty of murder, “we cannot go away. we got to stay on the street, get more active, and confrontational.”
IS IT ANY WONDER that Rasmussen Reports found that 40 percent of likely voters believe race relations have deteriorated under Biden? More revealing is that 41 percent of black people believe race relations have worsened.
A MAN OF CONVICTION – “It’s a problem, where, you’re telling people to get a vaccine and yet people who have been vaccinated for months are wearing two masks,” said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “It doesn’t make sense,” he added as he told people to “act immune.”
BIDEN IS REDEFINING BIPARTISANSHIP by excluding Republicans from his decision on withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, writes Jed Babbin the Washington Examiner. Babbin’s comment followed editor Hugo Gurdon’s reference to Biden’s promise of unity in his column, “Joe Biden – once a fraud, always a fraud.”
With typical Biden symbology, the 20th anniversary of 9/11 has been chosen as the withdrawal date. “We need to be focusing our energy on those threats and challenges that are more acute for the United States,” said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, mentioning China, the pandemic and the threat of terrorism, while ignoring the crisis on the border.
MEANWHILE, Vice President Harris is still missing in action on the border after being appointed by Biden to come up with a solution.
CLIMATE WHISPERER John Kerry told the Wall Street Journal that the Biden administration won’t compromise with China on economic and human rights issues to negotiate a deal to address climate change. HA!
“We need, obviously, to have China at the table in order to be able to resolve this challenge,” said Kerry as he indicated his team is committed to find ways to force China to be accountable for pledges it makes in negotiations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.”
Incredibly, Kerry hopes to negotiate climate as a free-standing issue, not tied to other issues. Good luck with that. Surely, “Mr. Greenjeans” knows that coal is the leading producer of energy in China and that the green light has been given to build hundreds more coal plants.
MOST AMERICANS, I believe, are unaware that the Green New Deal, while thought of strictly as a climate change plan, contains a full range of a social and economic provisions, with a hefty price tag of more than $50 trillion.
It proposes “repairing historic oppression of indigenous peoples, communities of color, migrant communities; guaranteeing a job with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security; strengthening and protecting the right of all workers to organize, unionize, and collectively bargain; and providing all people in the United States with high quality health care; and affordable, safe, and adequate housing.”
Examining Nancy Pelosi’s HR 1 legislation reveals pieces of the Green New Deal wish list. Take election reform, for instance, and recall the left’s plea to make it easier for the “oppressed,” the people of color, to vote. And beware of the use of words like “equity” and “diversity.”
AN ELECTION NOTE – The Republican-controlled Arizona Senate will soon begin a major audit of 2.1 million 2020 presidential election ballots with the count, “this time,” done by hand. This isn’t about overturning the election. “We are performing the full forensic audit to either dispel voter concerns or, if a problem is uncovered, we must fix them before the next election,” said Karen Fann, Senate President.
LOOKING BEYOND THE HEADLINE, “Business leaders urge Biden to set ambitious climate goal,” we learn that his proposed “green energy tax credits would enrich large corporations and billionaires. Hedge funds and tech companies are some of the biggest green energy investors.
Think about it … while those CEOs are allowing the corporate tax increase a free ride, they’ll make it up in tax credits.
AND FINALLY, during a press conference with Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga Friday, President Biden referred to 29-year-old Master’s champion Hideki Matsuyama as a “Japanese boy.” While a few Democrats, including Sen. Tammy Duckworth, saw it as “incredibly insulting,” White House adviser Jen O’Malley Dillon brushed it off.
If President Trump had used that term “boy”, the media would have considered it racist.
Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America,
