Commentary
THE GALL OF CHINA, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, slamming the Supreme Court ruling limiting Washington’s ability to regulate power sector emissions, wants President Biden to push ahead with his climate agenda,
While China continues to invest in new coal power plants, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian lectured Biden to “fulfill his duties,” and to “face up to (the U.S.’s ) historical responsibilities and show greater ambition and action.”
In other words, cough up for billions to support the Paris agreement, knowing it will cost the U.S. nearly $3 trillion in lost GDP and millions of energy jobs.
Meanwhile, speaking of gall, the unelected John Kerry, Biden’s climate czar, vowed to ram through the administration’s climate policies, despite the Court ruling. “We’re going to meet our goals, and the president is going to continue to fight for legislation from the Congress” in the wake of the decision.
Biden has pledged to cut our emissions in half by the end of the decade and to have an emissions-free power sector by 2035.
It is not only ridiculous, it’s unachievable.
A LITTLE HUMOR – President Biden tweeted @POTUS: “My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril. Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now.”
In response, Christina Pushaw tweeted @ChristinaPushaw: “My message to Hermes of Paris is simple: This is a time of war and global peril. Bring down the price you are charging for this watch. Now.”
She included a picture of an Heure H Watch, priced at $3,200.
WITH INFRASTRUCTURE PROBLEMS MOUNTING due to the rising cost of building materials and a shortage of construction labor talent, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has again surfaced his plan to reconnect cities and neighborhoods he says were racially segregated or divided by past road projects.
He plans to direct spending of $1 billion to pay for new projects, including rapid bus transit lines to link disadvantaged neighborhoods, caps over highways featuring green spaces, bike lanes and pedestrian walkways, repurposing former rail lines and removal of some highways.
It all goes back to President Biden’s first day in office, when he signed Executive Order 13985, establishing a whole-of-government approach to advancing equity and opportunity. “It’s important to note that past federal transportation investments have too often failed to address inequities, or even made them worse,” Buttigieg said.
DEMOCRAT POLLSTER John Zogby acknowledged Saturday that “The president is in real trouble,” noting the repeated whipping by the Supreme Court, the low approval polls all while facing a growing fall election disaster.
REGARDING THE JAN. 6 COMMITTEE – Though retired from anchor duties, Brit Hume, one of a handful of real journalists still around, continues to comment for Fox as its senior political analyst.
Known for taking an occasional snark at someone who says something stupid, he tweeted @birthume: “I’ve covered Washington for more than 50 years, including 11 years covering Congress specifically. I’ve never seen a committee all of whose members were chosen by one party, and where there is no cross-examination or any attempt to present both sides.”
You just knew that the left would respond. John Harris made the mistake of doing it with a weak retort @harrispolitico: “Brit Hume could have covered Washington for 240 years and not seen a president challenge the lawful transfer of power this way, nor seen members of Congress let institutional responsibilities be so eclipsed by devotion to/fear of a cult of personality.”
“What a poor justification for discarding all Congressional precedent and norms in investigating Trump’s disgraceful post-election behavior,” said Hume.
Then, in response to a foolish tweet from Steve McPartlin @thesaloonguy, who cited that “Republicans had the opportunity to be represented but chose not to be serious about representation,” Hume put McPartlin down with “Being serious about their representation is a lovely euphemism for being allowed to appoint only members acceptable to Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats.”
AND FINALLY, in the left-leaning Arizona Republic column, where it publishes tweets on current topics, Josselyn Berry, writing about two candidates for governor @joss_berry, said: “Karrin Taylor Robson is a diet Kari Lake. She shares the same fringe views as Lake, just says it in a polite way that moderate Republicans support without feeling bad about themselves.
Who is Josselyn Berry, I asked myself? After a bit of research, I learned that she’s another product of the liberal Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State. After several years of supporting progressive advocacy causes, including a stint with the Arizona State Senate Democrat Caucus, she was hired by the Arizona Democrat Party to focus on the governor’s race.
Could it be that her tweet of January 26, 2021, in which she wrote that her father told her never to trust building contractors, “who are even worse than cops,” considering that Republican gubernatorial candidate Robson is married to one?
On October 19, 2016, Berry wrote, “I’m more afraid of Donald Trump and men like him than I am of ISIS.”
“Bad boys’ bad boys watcha gonna do when they defund you?” she tweeted on June 9, 2020, and on January 26, 2021, she tweeted that her father taught her “Don’t trust the cops.”
On June 17, 2020, she tweeted: “I don’t understand why the City of Phoenix is giving nearly a billion dollars to police ($745 million) & only $242 million to housing, human services and community development. I’m asking my city councilmember to prioritize people, not police.”
With that, Berry thinks the views of Robson and Lake are “fringe views.” Why should we feel bad about ourselves?
The city fathers weren’t listening to her. They allocated $43 million in additional police funding, raising the total to $786 million. And in Mayor Kate Gallego’s State of the City address, she promised not to defund the police and referred to a nine percent pay raise for police officers and a $7,500 bonus to new hires who stay on the job.
Have a happy and safe Fourth of July, and may God continue to bless the United States of America.
