Here are my observations and opinions on selected news of the day.
Senator Collins announces her decision to confirm Judge Kavanaugh. (ScreenGrab)
I’VE NEVER ADMIRED Maine’s Sen. Susan Collins. She’s just too moderate for me. She has wavered on important Republican issues. Until Friday, when she confirmed that she would vote “yes” to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court following a thoughtful speech on the Senate Floor.
I wasn’t able to view her near hour-long speech “live,” but I did see a number of news clips that enabled me to determine the thought that she put into her decision. Since then, I read the transcript of her speech. I was impressed.
Referencing the confirmation process as “a gutter-level political campaign,” she recalled – as I did in an earlier blog post – how the radical groups “raced to be the first to oppose him, including one organization that didn’t even bother to fill in the judge’s name on its prewritten press release. They simply wrote that they opposed President Trump’s nomination of “XX” to the Supreme Court of the United States.
“But they were beaten to the punch by one of our colleagues (Senator Schumer) who actually announced opposition before the nominee’s identity was even known,“ she added.
“Her (Collins) seriousness and thoroughness on the floor of the Senate notably contrasted with the superficial analysis of so many other Senators of both political parties.” –The Wall Street Journal, October 5, 2018
THANK YOU, SENATOR COLLINS for stepping up and doing the right thing.
SCHUMER AND THE RADICAL LEFT “woke the sleeping giant” with their disgraceful attempt to torpedo Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation, according to Ben Shapiro, writing in the Daily Wire.
Reminding readers how Republicans, fearing the prospect of a President Hillary Clinton, took to the polls in 2016 to vote for Donald Trump. Since the July 7, 2018 nomination of Kavanaugh, “Republicans have been treated to a front row seat in a display of Democrat willingness to do anything to damage conservatives. Anything.
“What they saw scared the bejeezus out of them; a militant left willing to ruin a man’s life based on unverifiable and uncorroborated allegations, for purely partisan purposes.
“I have never seen the Republican Party so united. I have never seen conservatives of all stripes so united,” Shapiro concluded.
LOOKING TO THE MIDTERMS – Listening to the likes of Democrat Senators Blumenthal, Booker, Durbin and Coons, the confirmation of Kavanaugh will sway Republican women to vote for Democrats. Minority Leader Schumer said voters will respond to the confirmation of Kavanaugh at the ballot box.
I have to believe that the big rise in voter enthusiasm by Republican women reported here yesterday will reflect their disgust with the attack on Kavanaugh and his family.
A LAST GASP ATTACK on the judge came on Friday after people read his op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, in which he defended his family, his good name and his lifetime of public service, calling it outrageous, proof of his unfitness for the Supreme Court.
“Once again, though, the liberals have misjudged the American public,” wrote Margot Cleveland in The Federalist.
NOTICE TO EARLY AND ABSENTEE BALLOT VOTERS – Ignore media reports that the Kavanaugh victory will ensure Republican victories at the polls on November 6, 2018. Don’t get complacent. Vote. Don’t believe what you hear about the party in leadership always loses in the off years. We need to return Republicans to office in the House and Senate.
If you reside in a red state where Democrats are on the ballot, I’m counting on you to see that they do not return to office.
REMEMBER that Democrats have pledged to repeal the Republican tax cut and vow to impeach the president and Judge Kavanaugh. How out of touch.
SOME PEOPLE RIDICULED candidate Trump when he used to say, “You’re going to say, Mr. President, we’re tired of winning, we can’t take it anymore, we’ve got to stop winning.” Sure, it was a boastful remark by a man confident in his ability make America great again, and he continues to remind us of his statement from rally to rally.
It doesn’t take much to tweak the media and the resistance crowd who refuse to admit that he has a stunning record of successes.
FOR EXAMPLE – “It doesn’t get much better than this,“ wrote Matthew Continetti of the Washington Free Beacon, in his column, “Trump’s Remarkable Week.”
The agreement with Mexico and Canada fulfills his pledge to replace NAFTA; positive economic news with the lowest unemployment since 1969, improved data in the manufacturing and service sectors, and consumer confidence high; and another Supreme Court victory highlighted Continetti’s column.
In foreign policy, “he is frenetic and polarizing, a showboat and a salesman,” writes Continetti, while noting that “where others mindlessly repeat politically correct clichés, Trump unequivocally challenges them. He is a president of a country that is wilder, zanier, and more unpredictable than before. It is also stronger.
GETTING LITTLE ATTENTION was the announcement that a record 37 percent of small business reported raising overall compensation in September.
May God bless the United States of America.
