Commentary

Alright, Monday, June 14, 2021 may seem a bit early to begin the battle to retake the House, Senate and White House, but if that’s the way the foolishly cocky Democrats want to play, let’s begin.

It was on Monday that President Biden fired a shot across our bow. During a post-NATO meeting press conference, he said, “I think it’s appropriate to say that the Republican Party is vastly diminished in numbers; the leadership of the Republican Party is fractured; and the Trump wing of the party is the bulk of the party, but it makes up a significant minority of the American people,” referring to Trump’s “phony populism.”

Why do you suppose Biden said he “didn’t want to get into the statistics?”

His remarks were in response to one of his pre-determined selections of who will be called on to ask a question.  Who better to set-up Biden than the leftist Washington Post’s Anne Gearan, who worried about our allies’ concern about the “continued hold that Donald Trump has over the Republican Party and the rise of nationalist figures like him around the world.”

Later, while stumbling through comments on the vaccine, the economy and infrastructure, Biden contended that he was making progress, saying “the proof will be in where it is, you know, six months from now … where … we are.  I think you’re going to see that there’s … that, God willing, we’re going to be making progress, and there’s going to be a coalescing of a lot of Republicans, particularly younger Republicans who are coming up in the party.”

It’s obvious he hasn’t heard of the rapidly growing Young Republicans National Federation.

June 14, 2021 was also the day the Democrat’s lightweight political analyst Juan Williams, in an op-ed published by The Hill, outlined a scenario in a make-believe drama – How to Get Away with Murdering Democracy – in which Republicans steal the 2024 election.

By brushing aside concerns about the Capitol riot, by refusing to vote in favor of a commission to dig into the planning and events leading up to January 6, 2021, the Republican Party is “just beginning in laying out the ground work to steal the 2024 election,” Williams asserts.

He also writes of Republicans changing voting rules in states to suppress voting by minorities, college-educated whites, working women, and union members with no explanation how this could be done.

“Republicans focus solely on regaining political power,” writes Williams, “they have no agenda for helping the country.”  He seems to have forgotten what the party did to make American great again during the Trump presidency.

And he obviously hasn’t heard about the Republican plan to present a new contract with America.

“It is stunningly sad that a Yahoo News-YouGov poll released last week found that 64 percent of Republicans continue to believe that the 2020 election was rigged or stolen from Trump,” Williams said, revealing how out of touch he is with America.

MEANWHILE, the Democrat Party has already provided us with a great deal of material to use in the 2022 midterms.

While I have long been an admirer of Wall Street Journal columnist William McGurn’s writing, I must I disagree with his Tuesday column, “Stop Blaming Kamala Harris.”

While he admits that Harris is a politician who willingly signed up for the job, and that its fair game to mock her, he allows that in doing so Biden is getting a pass.

“Shouldn’t the same people badgering her about a border visit be pressing the president as well?” McGurn asks. “If Ms. Harris has no good answer for the chaos at the border, that’s because the administration she serves hasn’t given her any good answers.  And that’s on her boss.”

It may well be that the crisis at the border is of Biden’s own making, as McGurn states.  And the fact that the administration still has no comprehensive policy to address the problem, is not material.  If it had one, there wouldn’t have been a need to appoint Harris.

McGurn has seemingly forgotten that Biden appointed her to lead the diplomatic effort to slow the migrant surge at the U.S.- Mexico border.  And when he did, he said, “I think the best thing to do is put someone who, when he or she speaks, they don’t have to wonder about, ‘is that where the president is?’”

“When she speaks, she speaks for me, doesn’t have to check with me. She knows what she’s doing,” Biden said in March.  And Biden, the man we’re told has a wealth of foreign policy experience, surely knew what he was doing putting her in charge.

Surely, if Harris was qualified to be second in command, she should be capable of  developing an immigration plan for the administration.

She, along with members of her staff, should have gone to the border within a few days of her appointment, and after talking with people who live along the border, members of the Border Patrol, congressional representatives, and some of the illegals themselves, returned to Washington to draft a plan.

Had she done that instead of taking that fruitless trip to Guatemala, the Biden administration wouldn’t appear as inept as it looks today.

You can blame Biden for appointing her, but Harris is clearly to be blamed for not taking it seriously.

ONE MAY ASK, whatever happened to the desire for a seamless transition of power?  Yes, Trump was being Trump, but we all know that the crisis on the border could have been averted if the Trump policy, including the completion of the fence, had been kept intact until the administration’s own plan was ready for rollout and execution.

And, was it necessary to exacerbate the expected job situation by putting thousands of Keystone Pipeline employees out of work on the first day?

The November 8, 2022 midterm elections may be some time off, but let the revolution resume.

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