Commentary
I recently criticized former President Obama on the occasion of his latest emergence to lecture us … again. That’s why an e-mail from the Mike Pence campaign caught my eye.
“During Obama’s failed presidency,” the e-mail states, “minority and middle-class wealth PLUMMETED. The average income of the bottom 99% dropped while the top 1% became richer than ever before. And under Obama-Biden, black Americans suffered under high unemployment, lack of opportunity, and diminished expectations.
“During the Trump-Pence Administration, minorities experienced the best economy they had ever seen. Unemployment was down, wages were up for the first time in decades. Tax cuts and continued economic growth provided opportunity to all and confidence in our economy was sky-high.”
More on Earnings
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, commented on Bidenomics noting a 3.16 percent decline in real earnings for the average worker across the 29 months of the Biden presidency.
Quoting from Biden’s Chicago speech … “Look, pay for low-wage workers has grown at the fastest pace in over two decades” – the board mused on how his economists cherry-picked the data to justify that statement, concluding with Groucho Marx’s line from Duck Soup – “Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes.”
It Applies Here, too.
The Groucho Marx quote also seems to fit the situation in which IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley refuted Attorney General Garland’s statement that casts doubt on the ability of U.S. Attorney David Weiss to continue his investigation and to make a decision to prosecute any way in which he wanted.
You may recall my commentary on how it’s permissible for those in our top law enforcement branch of government – the DOJ and FBI – to lie with impunity while we would be indicted for lying.
While IRS agent Shapley was highly credible in his lengthy interview with Bret Baier, the Wall Street Journal editorial board says, “The credibility of the AG and his department is on the line.
Has Garland gone too far in his revenge over his nomination to the Supreme Court being blocked?
Is it Trump in 2024?
I’ve written that I want to be objective when it comes to the 2024 race for the presidency among the passel of Republican hopefuls. The first debate is still a couple months off, and we don’t know how many of them will qualify to be on the stage. We don’t know if former President Trump will agree to be there.
In “The Lesson of 2020,” fellow blogger Don Surber writes, “President Trump was our last hope and now is our only hope of restoring a republic that protects individuals from the ravages of as government so powerful and ubiquitous that the communists in Red China now envy our totalitarianism. And it will get worse.”
Surber notes that Trump supporters are loyal “because there is no alternative. He’s the person who delivered more policy victories for voters than any other president.”
Surber states his case, suggesting that “DeSantis and Vivek cannot show the world we mean business … the only way to end the madness is to reelect President Trump.”
Think hard about that. Can you see Asa Hutchinson, Doug Burgum, Francis Suarez, Steve Laffey and Perry Johnson facing off against Xi Jinping and Putin? Why are they wasting our time?
I like Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and Tim Scott, but the jury is still out.
Finally, ponder this … President Biden, who exercises his own form of racism while accusing the rest of us being racist, by naming a black to be his vice president and selecting individuals for his cabinet by race or gender rather than by merit or the best person for the job, scolded the Supreme Court for its decision that eliminates affirmative action.
“What’s next? Women will not be allowed to go to college?” – Joy Behar, The View, commenting on the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action.
May God continue to bless the United States of America, where – hopefully – individuals are not judged by the color of your skin.
