Commentary

When I heard Greg Gutfeld refer to the Inflation Reduction Act as the Bend Over Act, I thought … well, it’s a bit crude … but at least its an honest title for the legislation.  The only reduction will come in the household budgets of middle-class Americans who are already underwater.

The Act is also referred to as the climate change bill, because it’s loaded with billions of dollars of “investments” with the promise to alter climate change.

In previous posts here, I have touched on the list of so-called “clean energy” plans designed to combat climate change. Of course, anyone with an ounce of common sense, knows this is fantasy.

Did you hear Vice President Harris’s outrageous claim in Miami Friday? 

“For years,” she said, “Our nation and many of us have discussed, have lamented, have talked about the threat of climate change.  We debated the potential impact that climate change could have on our communities, on our country, and the world.

“And today we know the impact … climate change has become a climate crisis.  The threat has now become a reality.”

She then proceeded to talk of the flooding in Missouri and Kentucky … the wildfires in California … more powerful hurricanes and tropical storms in Florida … and the record-setting heat waves, remarking that “The impact is real … and we are witnessing it in real-time.”

Commenting that we need to “address the cause of the climate crisis,” she spoke of the administration’s goal of net-zero emissions, by promoting electric cars and school buses. 

“From a wind farm in Iowa or a suburb of Chicago … a solar farm in Nevada to family farm in Missouri,” she gushed. “How exciting is that?”

And by “investing” nearly $400 billion in energy and climate projects, we are going to stop climate change.  How many people believe this propaganda?

Senator Sinema Emerges

You just knew Sen. Kyrsten Sinema couldn’t bear staying out of the biggest spending bill negotiation to come along in decades.  While the ink is far from dry as they vote on amendments, Sinema sought tax provisions to aid manufacturers from a poorly constructed tax that would harm business investment.

While Sen. Chuck Schumer is trying to rush his tax and spending bill through before Americans discover its consequences … as if we have a say … the Wall Street Journal editorial board suggests she “could do a public service for her state and the country by killing it.” She didn’t. It now goes to the House.

PONDER THIS:  Little has been written about the effect of the Democrat’s “savings” they tout on health care and prescription drugs in the Inflation Reduction Act. 

“Over the next 17 years, the bill would reduce drug industry research and development by about $683 billion,” reports University of Chicago economist Tomas J. Philipson, “resulting in 135 fewer new medicines.”

“Losses could include cures for Alzheimer’s, cancer, and so much more,” he states, noting that “nearly 50- percent of today’s FDA pipeline is for new cancer medicines, and the bill would cut the amount spent on cancer research by more than nine times as much as Biden’s “Cancer Moonshot” initiative raises it.”

The Left’s Newest Hero?

Usually, to the left, the only good Republican is a dead Republican as evidenced by their words after the passing of John McCain, George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole and even Ronald Reagan.

Not so far for former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, who was excoriated by the media during his tenure in the White House.

When his campaign commercial for daughter Liz Cheney hit the air waves, the New York Times referred to him kindly as “as one of the most influential Republicans … who wielded uncommon power.”

The Washington Post once referred to him as Darth Vader, and the trigger-happy, torture loving puppet master who called the shots in the George W. Bush White House.

“Remembering Why Americans Loathe Dick Cheney,” was the headline over a lengthy piece in The Atlantic that thoroughly reviewed the man whose approval rating “stood at a staggering low 13 percent when he left office,” noting that “few political figures in history have been so reviled.”

So, here’s Liz Cheney, asking her father, the man The Atlantic said, “so few were willing to endorse his performance in office,” to endorse her.  Go figure.

In the commercial, the former vice president, wearing a western hat, sternly tells viewers “There has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” referring to him as a “coward.”

“Liz is fearless,” he says, “she never backs down to a fight,” speaking of her effort to make sure Trump is never again near the White House.

At least one left-leaning publication recalled Dick Cheney, the greater threat of the Bush era.  Newsweek magazine … yes, it still exists … wrote of the hypocrisy in Cheney’s remarks noted by critics.

Meanwhile, George Washington law school professor Jonathan Turley, a Democrat, said, “after nine hearings they (the January 6, committee) has not produced evidence to support criminal charges” against the former president.

Some view this as a Democrat effort to produce an “October surprise,” that will surely dim the chances of Republican victory in the midterms.  But Cheney herself trails in her bid to stay in the Senate.

There were more victories for Trump-endorsed candidates, highlighted by the primary wins for Kari Lake and Blake Masters for governor and senator, respectively in Arizona.

In Michigan, Tudor Dixon won and will challenge Gretchen Whitmer the Democrat incumbent governor.  John Gibbs defeated Rep. Peter Meijer, who supported Trump’s impeachment.

In Missouri, Trump supported Eric Schmitt who will seek to replaced retiring Sen., Roy Blunt.

Finally … its difficult to believe that if the vote were today, 46 percent of likely voters would vote Republican and 43 percent would vote Democrat when 88 percent of all voters believe the country is on the wrong track. (Rasmussen Reports)           

  May God continue to bless the United States of America.