Commentary

I know, that headline may be hard to swallow, but some news gives me optimism.

CONTRACT WITH AMERICA II? – I’ve learned that former President Trump has been meeting with his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, Sen. Lindsey Graham and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to begin crafting an agenda along the lines of the GOP’s 1994 Contract with America.

Twenty-seven years ago, led by Gingrich and Dick Armey, the election of November 8, 1994 was a watershed event as American voters gave the  Republican Party control of the Senate and the House, ending a 40-year Democrat lock on Congress.

Republicans dominated the House 230-197, winning 52 seats, and the Senate 53-47, winning nine seats. And not a single Republican representative, senator or governor was defeated.  All pledged to honor the Contract.

More astounding was the defeat of the Democrat Speaker of the House Tom Foley, the first time a speaker was defeated for reelection in 130 years.  In addition, two powerful committee chairmen, Dan Rostenkowski and Jack Brooks, were also defeated.

Obviously, Trump has his sights set on the 2022 midterms.  It shouldn’t be too difficult to craft a document that will meet with the approval of American voters, who recall Trump’s record of promises-kept.  Many voters, if not already disenchanted with Biden’s move to the radical left, will be ready for change in  2022.

HEY JOE … about your perceived existential threat to our nation … climate change.  While you may have bamboozled half of the voters, according to last month’s Morning Consult Poll, that climate change is a “critical threat,” Americans are unwilling to spend their own money to reduce its impact.

When the Competitive Enterprise Institute asked voters, “How much of your own money would you be willing to personally spend each month to reduce the impact of climate change,” 35 percent said, zero; 15 percent said $1 to $10, 12 percent said $41 to $50, and 14 percent said $91 to $100.

“The poll shows once again,” concluded Myron Ebell, director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment, “that Americans are unwilling to pay for the left’s anti-energy policies.”

Unfortunately, too few Americans fail to recognize the billions being spent on halting climate change – an impossible goal – is coming from them as taxpayers.

Incidentally, while 75 percent of Democrats viewed climate change as a “critical threat,” 48 percent of Independents and just 21 percent of Republicans viewed it as such.

By 2022, voters will have had their fill of the climate control scam as those good-paying green jobs will not have become a reality and costly new regulations will stymie business.

GOAL-SETTING IS EASY if you’re not going to be around to see that they’re met. Like Biden’s goal to reach 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035 and his net zero emissions economy no later than 2050.

Just a week after Biden touted the progress in electric vehicles at Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford CEO Jim Farley announced a new goal of 40 percent global sales being electric by 2030, a target that reportedly underwhelmed the market.

General Motors still has a 2035 goal of selling only zero-emission light vehicles and to make its global products carbon-neutral by 2040.

From what I have read, battery production is still in question with automakers now investing in their own battery production operations. 

And, with the $30,000 to $70,000 price ticket on the most desired electric vehicles, they continue to be the choice only a high-income family can afford.

Look for Biden to soon increase Café standards on all cars in an effort to encourage car buyers to go electric.

Biden has proposed that some 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations be installed across the country to support future purchasers of electric vehicles … at taxpayer expense.

Trump is not a climate denier. He has been pragmatic, allowing the free market to decide what the American’s want from an automaker.

IF YOU HAVEN’T HEARD, Biden has promised that the United States will be the first nation to reach net-zero agricultural emissions.  He’s been informed that agriculture accounts for 10 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., with livestock production being the largest source of methane emissions.

Rumors are that he plans to use the Clean Air Act to cut meat production and recommend lower consumer red meat consumption to reach his climate goals.

AND, FINALLY …  Fox News Channel averaged 1.3 million viewers across the entire day in March, about 250,000 and 460,000, for the Trump demeaning MSNBC and CNN, respectively.

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the Unites States