Here are my observations and opinions on my selected news of the day.
DEMOCRATS AND THE PARTY OF HATE – The latest squabble over Rep. Ilhan Omar’s hate of Israel has caused those in her own party to speak up against her anti-Semitism, and they’re not only Jewish members.
This from the party that constantly preaches tolerance, love and inclusion. The party that hold’s an individual’s religion over their heads when being considered for a judgeship. The party that considers a cap bearing the patriotic slogan Make America Great Again a racist dog whistle.
“But Ilhan Omar posed a problem,” notes John Hinderaker in PowerLine, “Her hate was different because it was directed toward a group that mostly supports (and votes for) Democrats. If Omar had trained her line of fire on the right, or groups associated with the right, like whites or rural Americans, no Democrat would have minded.”
The House resolution, originally intended to condemn anti-Semitism, should have included the name of Omar, but those in the House who share her bigotry were successful in getting it watered down without mentioning her by name.
While Hinderaker believes “the problem is inherent (and) goes to the essence of the modern Democrat Party, I see this as a failure of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership. She caved to the radical left. Omar should have been removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
THE OUT-OF-TOUCH DEMOCRATS – Those Democrat presidential candidates touting Medicare-for-all are allowing the applause from the crowds to cloud how voters really believe.
They’ve all been bitten by the socialist bug and know how their base loves “free stuff.” However, in truth they don’t want to pay for it.
Typical are the recent words of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who prefaced her belief in the need of Medicare-for-all with the statement that “I actually feel strongly about this.”
When questioned about being a co-sponsor of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ bill that would eliminate private insurance, CNN’s Joe Tapper asked her about the people who like their insurance … “they don’t get to keep it?” Harris gave it one of her typical flippant responses – “Let’s eliminate all of that. Let’s move on.”
Never mind that a study by the libertarian Mercatus Center that the Sanders’ plan would increase government health care spending by $32.6 trillion over ten years, and would require enormous tax increases to replace what employers and consumers now pay for health care, according to Jeffrey Cimmino of the Washington Free Beacon.
The Kaiser Family Foundation reports that 56 per cent oppose a plan that would eliminate private health care plans, and a whopping 76 percent of those surveyed expressed opposition to Medicare-for-all that would lead to delays and increased taxes.
Now get this. A radical new health care proposal that, if implemented, would ban private insurance coverage, was endorsed by 100 of the 235 Democrat majority. The bill would require everyone, regardless of existing coverage to enroll in Medicare within two years of passage, according to Haris Alic at the Free Beacon.
Wouldn’t you say they were out of touch with their constituents?
Introduced by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who co-chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the usual suspects – Ocasio-Cortez, Omar and Tlaib – were among the 100 who supported it.
And that’s just how voters feel about Medicare-for-all. The Dem crazies are also supporting the cost-prohibitive, ill-conceived Green New Plan and tuition-free college.
TWO DEMS BOW OUT of the race to oppose President Trump in 2020. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg have decided against a run.
I never thought Bloomberg was serious, but Brown was being touted as the guy who had the appeal of grassroots Democrats. Earlier this year, The Nation, a leftist magazine, headlined a feature, “Sherrod Brown Is the Real Deal.”
Perhaps they are beginning to recognize the success of the Trump economy.
ATTENTION DEM CANDIDATES – “The past nine quarters have seen record optimism, with an average of 91.8 per cent of manufacturers positive about their own firm, compared to an average of 68.6 per cent during the last two years of the Obama administration,” writes Paul Bedard in the Washington Examiner.
“As far as I’m concerned,” opines Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal, “this jobs record is the story of the year. “All sorts of people who have previously had trouble landing a job are now finding work. Racial minorities, those with less education and people working in the lowest-paying jobs are getting bigger pay raises and, in many cases, experiencing the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for their groups.
“They are joining manufacturing workers, women in their prime working years, Americans with disabilities and those with criminal records, among others, in finding improved job prospects after years of disappointment.”
With that optimism, along with the lowest unemployment figures in history, 7.5 millions jobs available, and wages increasing, your Democrat Party is talking about punishing those creating those jobs with a 70 per cent personal tax rate and a higher corporate tax rate.
Couple that with your hate campaign against President Trump, who made this economic turnaround possible, and let me be among the first to tell you that you have no chance of convincing voters to change horses in the middle of the stream.
AND FINALLY … this from Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley:
“To the dismay of his political opponents, Mr. Trump continues to rack up solid accomplishments as president. Corporate tax cuts and regulatory relief were opposed by most Democrats in Congress but are paying solid dividends.”
May God bless the United States of America.
