Here are my observations and opinions of my selected news of the day.
President and Mrs. Trump pay their respects to former President George H. W. Bush in the capitol rotunda Monday. (shawn thew/picturealliance/apimages)
HERE WE GO AGAIN – As the memorials for former President George H. W. Bush began Monday, I watched “old Washington” pols standing in the capitol rotunda as the casket was brought in and remarks of his legacy flowed from the lips of Republicans Vice President Pence, Senate Majority Leader McConnell and House Speaker Ryan; and there were Democrats Sen. Minority Leader Schumer and House Minority Leader Pelosi who joined in the placing of wreaths near the bier.
All so solemn and proper. But I was reminded of the USA Today headline in early September, “Sen. John McCain’s funeral put Washington’s vicious political hypocrisy fully on display.” I wrote, “Democrats and Republicans alike feigned admiration for this war hero (McCain) turned RINO and bitter old man.”
So, here we go again. It wasn’t that long ago that some of those men and women standing there made some not-so-kind comments about the elder Bush, and for that matter, his son. You can be sure that the Bush family sitting there remember it well.
“While pretending to revere him (H.W.),” writes Kurt Schlicter in Townhall, “they shed crock – adile tears, because it is a crock. If only the Republican Party were dominated by a Republican like (H.W.) instead of that awful, awful Trump.”
Schlicter believes Bush 41 was an establishment Republican – “too bought into the establishment” – and he was therefore deeply suspicious of conservatism.”
The media, too, wasn’t at all kind to H.W. – remember the reference to him as a “wimp” on the cover of Newsweek? They shifted into high gear Monday, using his “kinder, gentler” wish to continue their attack on President Trump’s persona. The talking heads on CNN and MSNBC ridiculously wondered aloud if the stories of the former president’s demeaner will change the current president.
YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP – Criticizing migration could become a criminal offense under a new plan that surfaced at the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration which seeks to make immigration a universal human right. Media outlets that permit criticism of migration can be shut down.
And criticizing Angela Merkel’s migration policy could result in arrest for hate speech
The participating countries, 193 minus the U.S., are set to sign this agreement and although it not binding it is still meant to be the legal framework on which those countries commit themselves to build the new legislation.
FRENCH PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron, who criticized President Trump for pulling out of the flawed climate agreement known as the Paris Accord, and continued to pressure him at the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires, got a wake-up call when more than 100,000 protestors took to the street to oppose the French gas tax designed to fight global warming.
HYPOCRICY AMOING THE CLIMATE WACKOS – This year’s UN climate summit scheduled for Poland will have a carbon footprint equivalent to the yearly electricity usage of more than 8,200 American households, according to figures examined by The Daily Caller.
The summit, called COP24, will emit 55,000- metric tons of carbon dioxide, the very greenhouse gas US officials are trying to keep from accumulating in the atmosphere. That’s the equivalent of more than 11,700 cars driving one year or 728 tanker trucks worth of gasoline, according to the EPA
SUPPORTING TRUMP’S CONCERN about the cost of immigrants to our nation, a new analysis of the latest numbers from the 2014 Census, reveals that 63 percent of non-citizens are using welfare, a number that grows to 70 percent for those here 10 years or more, confirming that once they tap into welfare, they don’t get off it.
MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN VOTERS are learning that elections have consequences that they may not have thought of when they decided to put a Democrat in as governor. With legislation to restrict their powers by GOP-dominated legislatures, newly-elected Wisconsin governor Tony Evers and Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer, will have little to say.
QUESTION – George Papadopoulos, the wannabe Trump advisor, who played no significant role in the president’s campaign, was sent to a medium security federal facility in Oxford, Wisconsin to serve his two-week sentence. Why? As far as I know, no member of the media has asked the question.
May God bless the United States of America.
