Commentary
While I prefer to devote my commentaries to a single subject, today I have gone to my stack of stuff for material I have been saving to share with you.
LEAVE IT TO TOM FRIEDMAN, the tired New York Times columnist, to come up with an idea for 2024 that perhaps only he alone could concoct. His January 11, 2022 column – “Biden-Cheney 2024?” – hasn’t stirred much interest, because his plan is not plausible.
Friedman, with his background covering the middle-east, would have you believe that we could form a national unity government in America similar to what took place in Israel. “Key Israeli politicians swallowed their pride, softened policy edges and came together for a four-year unity government,” he writes while slamming former prime minister Bibi Netanyahu as he has Donald Trump.
“There is only one overriding goal right now – that is saving our democratic system,” says Friedman, who obviously received the Democrat Party talking points on losing our democracy.
“Saving a democratic system requires huge political sacrifice,” writes Friedman, quoting political scientist Steven Levitsky. “It means A.O.C campaigning for Liz Cheney and Liz Cheney putting on the shelf many policy goals she and other Republicans cherish.”
Friedman dreams of Trump supporters deserting him to accomplish this unity party, but concedes that America does not have the flexibility of a parliamentary, proportional-representation system like Israel’s, and there is no modern precedent for such a cross-party ticket.
Why Liz Cheney? Like Cheney, Friedman says “this Trump-cult version of the G.O.P. must never be able to retake the White House.”
HOW DESPERATE CAN DEMOCRATS BE to seriously think about running Hillary Clinton in 2024? That’s really desperate, but when you think of the 2020 losers – Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Steyer – you can kinda understand what they’re thinking.
The suggestion of calling on Hillary came from long-time Democrat pollster Doug Schoen, who, along with Andrew Stein, a former New York pol, wrote an op-ed that appeared in the January 12, 2022 Wall Street Journal.
The pair refer to a “perfect storm that is making a once-unfathomable scenario plausible for her comeback,” including Biden’s low approval ratings, doubts over his capacity to run for reelection at 82, the unpopularity of Kamala Harris, and the absence of a leader, have created a leadership vacuum, which “Mrs. Clinton viably could fill.”
“The more time she spends in the spotlight, the more unpopular she becomes,” comments Matt Vespa in Townhall. “It will happen again if Democrats try to pull a Hillary 2024 move. The lady is not liked.”
“You know Biden-Harris is a disaster of epic proportions when it only takes a year for Democrats to call for Hillary 2024.” Sarah Huckabee Sanders Tweeted @SarahHuckabee.
SEN. LINDSAY GRAHAM says that he would only vote for Sen. Mitch McConnell to lead the Republican Party if he proves he can work with former President Trump, calling for him to make amends with the former president. I agree that this has to happen, but Trump must bury the hatchet, too.
Calling Trump the “most consequential Republican since Ronald Reagan,” Graham knows that the former president continues to have a huge base of support, and the party cannot afford to be divided by personal differences.
IN THE LATEST EDITION of Verdict, the monthly publication of Judicial Watch, published material on the January 6, 2021 shooting of Ashli Babbitt it obtained via its filing of Freedom of Information lawsuits.
The coverage in Verdict was developed from 532 pages of documents Judicial Watch obtained in its filing, and supports earlier reports that Babbitt, who was unarmed, and killed by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, who was not charged.
Included was a letter from U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips stating that his office “has considered the facts and circumstances surrounding the alleged use of excessive force. We decided to decline criminal prosecution.”
“Previously secret records show there was no good reason to shoot and kill Ashli Babbitt,” notes Judicial Watch’s President Tom Fitton. “The Biden-Garland Justice Department and the Pelosi Congress have much to answer for over the mishandling and cover-up of this scandalous killing of an American citizen by the U.S. Capitol Police.”
The Washington-based organization, which I have supported for six years regularly seeks information on issues that various government agencies would prefer to keep under wraps.
It’s inconceivable that Americans need to depend on a private group like Judicial Watch to perform the basic oversight, investigative and educational work that Congress and the corrupted media refuse to do.
NOT SURPRISING – The rating of TV reporters’ ethics has fallen nine points to 14 percent in Gallup’s annual rating of honesty and ethics of various professionals, a poll the firm has been conducting since 1976.
Just four other professions hit new lows, including grade-school teachers (64 percent), military officers (61 percent), judges (38 percent), and clergy (36 percent).
At the bottom of the ratings with TV reporters are newspaper reporters (17 percent) and members of Congress (9 percent), while nurses (81 percent) and medical doctors (67 percent) enjoy the top positions.
Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.
