Commentary
Before I cover the latest news along the campaign trails, I would be remiss if I didn’t wish my subscribers on the distaff side a Happy Valentine’s Day. Your regular reading of my blog is appreciated.
FIRST, A LITTLE HUMOR – Fox’s Greg Gutfeld, now the king of late night, calling attention to the national poll revealing 86 percent of Americans think Biden is too old to serve another term in his monologue: “Think about it … 86 percent of Americans agree … Joe Biden’s promise to unify us finally came true … he brought us together.”
“THE BLOOM IS OFF the Biden presidency,” begins Glenn Harlan Reynolds’ Substack column, “Time for Consequences.”
“In 2020, we were told he would bring about a return to normalcy. Bring America respect abroad. Calm down our chaotic domestic political scene. And make government respectable again,” Reynolds writes. “How’s he doing?”
After reviewing the special counsel report on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents – “clear violation of the law” – he wrote of the lefties who are now putting Biden down – James Carville, Maureen Dowd, “and Hillary Clinton even twisted the knife, calling age “a legitimate issue.”
Getting down to the issue of “consequences,” Reynolds wrote how “Biden was propped up and protected through the 2020 election process by the media and tech moguls and “deep state” operatives who were desperate to get rid of Trump.” Adding, “They were even bragging about what that did.”
Recalling the mail-in voting, the blocking of election fraud suits brought by Trump and his supporters, and the censorship by social media, “the consequences in terms of lost faith in democracy was severe.”
‘Now we have that president in office, and he’s manifestly unfit.”
Whatever the Democrats do in 2024, Reynolds “would like to see some accountability for the election of 2020 – the cabal of insiders who colluded to control the outcome, through all sorts of underhanded tactics.”
REMEMBER ECONOMIST PAUL KRUGMAN, who opened his New York Times column the day after the November 8, 2016 election with “It really does look like President Donald J. Trump, and markets are plunging. When might we expect them to recover?
“Frankly, I find it hard to care much, even though this is my specialty. The disaster for America and the world has so many aspects that the economic ramifications are way down my list of things to fear.
“Still, I guess people want an answer: If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”
Even though he Dow closed up 250 points as financials surged after Trump’s election upset, a week later, Krugman wrote how “Installing Donald Trump in the White House is an epic mistake. In the long run, its consequences may well be apocalyptic.”
FAST FORWARD TO THIS WEEK – Krugman’s Monday column “lies somewhere between delusional and hallucinatory” according to Mike Miller, writing in Red State.
Ever the pessimist, Krugman wrote, “It now seems entirely possible that within the next year, America democracy could be irretrievably altered.”
With the race between Biden and Trump, Krugman writes that “somehow the lucid, well-informed candidate is getting more heat over his age than the ranting, factually- challenged opponent. I’m deeply troubled about our nation’s future.”
A VOTE FOR PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS was the headline over the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board column on Monday. “I am ready to serve. There’s no question about that,” she told the Journal.
“Ms. Harris has provided political security to Mr. Biden because so many Democrats believe she would be a disaster as their presidential nominee if Mr. Biden chose not to run. That’s a false sense of political security.”
Despite the identity politics complications of opposing a minority woman, the board stated, “Our guess is that Ms. Harris’ polling would be bad enough that Democratic pros would rally behind someone else.”
May God continue to bless the United States of America
