Here are my observations and opinions on some of the items in the news.
OH, THE HUMANITY! Twitchy.com facetiously exclaimed, noting that former Obama UN ambassador Samantha Power is not taking this Iran Deal news well.
“What’s an Obama flack to do?” the blog asks; “you bring on the theatrics, and a whole lot of bullsh*t.”
Samantha Power seems to believe that war is the only alternative to the Iran deal. (moviespictures.org)
Tweeting @SamanthaJPower, she writes, “I will never forget the dark cloud that hung over the White House in the years Iran was advancing nuclear program & Obama was briefed on all the risks of using military force.”
As if war was the only alternative.
You may remember Power’s response to former CIA director John Brennan’s tweeted admonition of President Trump on the firing of former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe on March 17, 2018.
She wrote: “Not a good idea to piss off John Brennan.” As if the president needs to fear Brennan. In fact, I believe she and Brennan are not yet out of the woods with the current investigations taking place. Power, as you may recall, used her position to unmask Americans on some 200 occasions. The reasons have yet to be revealed.
THEN THERE’S JOHN “Swift Boat” KERRY, who negotiated the Iran Deal in an effort to give former President Obama his desired legacy as flawed as it was.
“John Kerry’s arrogance – Negotiating with our enemies to undermine Trump and feed his own ego,” reads the headline on a Fox News opinion piece by Robert Charles.
“When does a gross indiscretion, aimed at undermining President Trump through private negotiations with a sworn enemy of American become something bigger?’ ask Charles, commenting on Kerry’s “shadow diplomacy” with Iran over the past few months
The Logan Act bars this sort of unofficial and patently officious and offensive behavior, but it has never been enforced. “That doesn’t make Kerry’s behavior acceptable, patriotic or defensible,” suggests Charles.
Ironically, it was Kerry’s Democratic colleagues in the Deep State, who have referred to former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador as a violation of the Logan Act. It was former Obama justice department holdover Sally Yates, who couldn’t contain herself in reporting Flynn’s conversation to the White House.
Just think about Kerry’s brazen attempt to undermine a sitting president. It is inexcusable.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME! What happened to the doom and gloom? While global energy-related CO2 emissions grew 1.4 percent in 2017, the biggest decline (2 percent) came from the United States, while carbon emissions increased by 1.8 percent in the European Union, according to Ronald Bailey, a science correspondent for Reason magazine, who quoted International Energy Agency statistics.
Surely, you recall the uproar around the world when President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Accord? It didn’t mean that we were withdrawing from common sense clean air considerations.
IT’S WHAT’S IMPORTANT – On May 4th, ABC’s nightly news got all caught up on “Star Wars Day,” devoting six minutes to coverage, while they spent just 15 seconds announcing the lowest unemployment rate on record since 2000. CBS and NBC, however, each spent two minutes on the rate, referring to it as “amazing” and the economy as “booming.” (Source: Media Research Center)
ATTENTION NAYSAYING ECONOMISTS – You know who you are. You refuse to believe that tax cuts create or increase revenue; that cutting taxes will stimulate spending.
BREAKING NEWS – The federal government took in a record tax haul in April enroute to is biggest-ever monthly budget surplus, according to The Washington Times.
“All told the government collected $515 billion and spent $297 billion, for a total monthly surplus of $218 billion,” writes Stephen Dinan, commenting that it beat a monthly record of $190 billion, set in 2001.
An interesting side note: The infamous Congressional Budget Office, which can never be counted on to give Congress accurate information, was surprised with the surplus as it was some $40 billion more than they had estimated.
Lest we forget the National Review prediction: “The Tax Cut Is Highly Likely To Reduce Revenue.”
OPINION COLUMNIST Glenn Harlan Reynolds delved into the issue of black voters in a piece that questions whether blacks, who switched from Obama to vote for Trump in 2016, would persuade others to follow suit in 2020.
Reynolds writes of a black man who wanted Barack Obama to succeed, but “he ended up hurting us. He was weak,” He feels Trump is strong and does what he says he’ll do.
“The GOP will have to make black voters more welcome,” says Reynolds, who stated that President Trump offered a path for them in his inaugural speech when he said, “When you open your heart to patriotism, then there’s no room for prejudice.”
On the positive side: Black unemployment, which exceeded 16 per cent in President Obama’s last term, is now down around 6 per cent.
OOPS – Broward School District officials have now admitted that the confessed Parkland gunman, Nikolas Cruz, was in fact assigned to a controversial disciplinary program at the school. The superintendent had previously claimed that Cruz had “no connection” to the alternative program, known as PROMISE..
