Commentary

DEMOCRAT MISINFORMATION, aka Dirty Tricks, is alive and well, and Laurie Roberts, the bleeding-heart liberal columnist of the Arizona Republic, proves she’s ready, willing and able to assist the party.

She still has the long-knife out for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema for her position on the filibuster and for not falling in line with the party on the massive human infrastructure bill.  In the process, she’s doing her best to turn voters against Sinema, even though she doesn’t come up for election until 2024.

With the headline, “Would Sinema really block prescription drug reform?” over her latest column, Roberts wants voters to believe she opposes it, while 94 percent of Arizona voters (including 92 percent of Republicans) favor it.

But it isn’t until you get to paragraph six that Roberts informs her readers that the reason Sinema opposes it is because it’s contained in the $3.5 trillion package of welfare and climate spending.

Roberts writes of the campaign contributions Sinema received from pharmaceutical firms, assuming that makes her committed to them. 

“Her refusal to bow to the left’s price tag and timeline has incensed colleagues and activists alike.  So the party member has now officially been declared an enemy of the party cause – fair game for the tactics the left long ago honed for use against the right.” – Kimberley A. Strassel, Wall Street Journal

From my enemies list …

PETE BUTTIGIEG, the transportation secretary, who has been on two-month paternity leave to assist his husband, Chastsen, with their two newborn babies while the nation experiences a supply chain crisis, appeared on CNN Sunday to deliver a blunt warning to West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and other Democrats that their resistance to the climate crisis is “going to cost lives.”

I have to believe that Manchin, who opposes the $150 billion energy piece of the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better bill, views Buttigieg for what he is, a Biden diversity appointment, who we are to believe comes to the administration from the mayoralty of South Bend, Indiana with the intellectual knowledge to resolve our climate change and national transportation issues.

Incidentally, Buttigieg will be among 13 members of Biden’s cabinet who will be attending the UN climate summit in Glasgow later this month, including seven other members of my enemies list – Kerry, McCarthy, Granholm, Blinken, Yellen, Haaland, and Biden, of course.  Samantha Power, formerly Obama’s UN ambassador, now Biden’s USAID administrator, is also on list along with five little-known bureaucrats.

The large contingent is supposed to show the United States’ whole-of-government approach to addressing climate change.

Without the passage of the $3.5 reconciliation bill prior to the summit, however, Biden will be there as an empty suit, noted Robert Darwall of the RealClear Foundation. “Failure to enact climate legislation might well lead foreign observers to conclude the United States is constitutionally incapable of delivering the climate commitment Biden made under the Paris accord,” said Darwall.

That’s not all, after relinquishing our energy independence, and all of his big talk about the U.S. transitioning away from fossil fuels, Biden’s going to have to fess up that he he’s talking to U.S. oil and gas producers about helping to bring down rising fuel costs. Regardless, by now the world leaders have his number.

Reporting on the outlook produced by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Francis Menton writes what they could be saying that rather than being on a path to oblivion, “all major fossil fuel categories (petroleum, natural gas and coal) will continue to see increased usage right on through 2050, with no indication that any decline will have begun.”  He adds that after 30 years, so-called renewables will provide about 25 percent of primary energy consumption “which is less than petroleum alone, and barely a third of the combined contribution of petroleum, natural gas and coal.”

Meanwhile, the State of Tennessee, a right-to-work state, appears to be the place battery manufacturers and electric car makers want to locate as they have announced billions in investments there where they have been offered $500 million in incentives and the TVA has offered at least $100 million in power upgrades.

Enemy Deb Haaland, who as interior secretary fills another diversity slot on Biden’s cabinet as the first native American to serve on a president’s cabinet, announced that the administration will fund up to seven offshore wind farms with the capacity to generate enough energy to power 10 million homes.

You may recall that Haaland recently announced the administration decision to reverse President Trump’s directive to reduce the size of Utah’s Bears Ear and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, and restore them to the original form, despite opposition from the entire Utah congressional representation, even RINO Sen. Mitt Romney.  Sixty-six percent of Utah land is federal government-owned.

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