Commentary

A NEW CNN/SSRS poll reports that President Biden’s numbers are worse than Jimmy Carter’s at the same period of his presidency.  That shouldn’t surprise you.

IN THE LATEST MARIST poll, two thirds of independent voters disapprove of Biden, including half, who strongly disapprove.  Just 29 percent of independents approve of his performance.

DONCHA JUST LOVE the way the progressive Democrats eat their own?

FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP announced plans to hold a news conference on the January 6, anniversary of the breach of the U.S. Capitol from Mar-a-Lago. Nancy Pelosi says she will hold a “prayer vigil” on that day. Look for Biden to schedule another divisive speech.

Revisiting the passing of Bob Dole … 

You may recall my epitaph on Sen. Bob Dole, in which I suggested that for voters who wanted someone who worked across the aisle to get things done, he was the perfect candidate for president.  Yet he was unsuccessful three times.

Because of my view of Dole, the headline, “Bob Dole was good, and capable, and wrong,” over Hugo Gurdon’s Washington Examiner column, naturally caught my eye.

Gurdon recounted Dole’s final commentary for USA Today on December 5, 2021, claiming that “meaningful change comes to the country when everyone puts aside their party label and works for the good of the country.”

“But the idea that two sides should come together today, putting part allegiance aside and working hand in hand,” noted Gurdon, “is wishful thinking at best and arguable culpably delusional.”

Speaking of Senator Dole …

… the left couldn’t have been more kind in remembering Bob Dole.  I was reminded of how they gushed over the late Sen. John McCain when he passed away.

“It’s not just that he was a war hero, or that he reminds us of an era in which two parties were willing to work together in the national interest,” wrote New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. 

“His life story also reminds us of a time when public figures were supposed to show some sense of responsibility – to possess basic decency ….”

In his column, “For the Left, the only good Republican is a dead Republican,” Washington Examiner columnist Tim Carney notes, however, that “Krugman never once said a single positive thing about Bob Dole in his lifetime, as far as I can find.”

And finally … sorry folks, if you’re tired of reading about the need for voting reform.  No more than I am feeling the need to debunk all of the misinformation out there.

This opening paragraph of a letter to the editor of the Arizona Republic from Joyce Grossman of San Tan Valley, addressed to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is a prime example:

“Senator Sinema.  Why are you a racist?  Why don’t you want people of color to have the right to vote?  Why don’t you want free and fair elections?

All lies. 

Addressing graduates of historically black South Carolina State University last week, President Biden vowed to keep pushing to protect what he called “the sacred right to vote.”

Who doesn’t support that?  But unfortunately, Biden is against voter ID, rollbacks of early and mail-in voting and the purging of inactive voters from state rolls.

It’s all part of a Democrat political power grab to federalize elections.  They oppose the right of states to regulate voting in their states.

Republicans are accused of voter suppression because they generally oppose mail-in voting, automatic registration – like during a visit to the DMV, same day registration, and Sunday voting. 

As I was growing up, my Mother and Father voted on one day – Election Day. They were Democrats, and I don’t recall anyone complaining that either party was suppressing the vote.

I’LL BE TAKING A SHORT HOLIDAY BREAK WITH FAMILY

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