Here are my observations and opinions on my selected news of the day.
POOR MICHIGAN – While they promote tourism to the beautiful state with the slogan, “Pure Michigan,” the state continues to be an embarrassment politically.
(Graphic courtesy stepdaddyladder.com)
In the 2028 midterms, while memories of Jennifer Granholm still lingered in the political air, they elected another Democrat, Gretchen Whitmer, to be their governor, and reelected Schumer go-along Sen. Debbie Stabenow.
Democrat Rashida Tlaib, who was elected to the House in the district that includes much of Detroit, has been an embarrassment since her acceptance speech in which you used a vulgar term while referring to President Trump. Since then, she has seen as an anti-Semite, along with Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, yesterday, RINO Rep. Justin Amash, who represents a normally Republican area of the state, became the sole member of his party to support the impeachment of President Trump, while accusing Attorney General Bill Barr of misleading the public.
Like Sen. Lindsay Graham, Amash, did not support the nomination of Donald Trump, but Graham came around and is now very much in the Trump camp, while Amash parrots the talking points of the Democrats … Flake-like.
At least one individual, Jim Lower, a Michigan state representative, has said he will oppose Amash in 2020.
“HE DID IT, NOT ME!” is the headline on an insightful piece by one of my favorite columnists Victor Davis Hanson in American Greatness. He takes his readers through the infighting by key figures in the DOJ, FBI, CIA and NSC after Attorney General Bill Barr revealed his intention to get to the bottom of the skullduggery in Washington.
“Now, for the first time, they are pointing fingers at one another, because they have come to realize that their prior criminality may not be rewarded, praised, or even excused, but rather prosecuted,” he concludes.
HOW TRUE – The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway, writing @MZHemingway, said: “Trump was falsely accused of treason for years. I don’t think the media have handled or responded properly enough to the realization that was a false accusation.”
WITH 23 DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES for president, I considered a policy of not covering “no chance” candidates, at least those who haven’t cracked double digits, but on second thought it would deprive me of writing about the dumb things they say, and deprive you of a few laughs.
For instance, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to tell you about the financial wizardry of Democrat candidate Eric Swalwell, who was absolutely certain that Trump was a puppet of Putin.
Swalwell graduated from law school in 2006 with a student loan debt in excess of $50,000, which remains at nearly the same level today. After leaving his job as country prosecutor and council member to run for Congress, he cashed in his Alameda County pension fund ($15,000 – $50,000) when he first ran for Congress in 2013. Financially savvy individuals consider this ill-advised as it comes with a financial penalty.
He reportedly has credit card debt in excess of $10,000 with American Express and $15,000 with Chase Bank.
Since members are required to disclose checking and saving accounts that exceed $5,000, we can only assume that either he doesn’t have those accounts or they are less than contain less than $5,000.
He began earning $174,000 a year when he entered Congress, his annual disclosure forms show his financial situation has worsened, according to Brent Scher, writing in the Washington Free Beacon.
Sound like the guy you would want as president?
THEN THERE’S PETE BUTTIGIEG, who wants the name of Thomas Jefferson removed from traditional Democrat Party event, like the Jefferson-Jackson dinners, and from buildings. “We’re doing that in Indiana. I think it’s the right thing to do,” Buttigieg said, “He (Jefferson) knew slavery was wrong. And yet he did it.”
What a guy.
AUSTRALIA’S MEDIA GOT A BIT OF COMUPANCE – Just a few days ago, the polls pointed to a Labor victory in Australia, and the media and its pundits were predicting that Prime Minister Scott Morrison couldn’t possibly win. Sound familiar?
They insisted that Aussies wanted government to fight climate change and soak the rich. Labor leader Bill Shorten promised to raise taxes on the “wealthy” while curbing climate change, according to the Wall Street Journal. He promised to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030, while subsidizing wind and solar.
During the past few years, television and social media outlets created a climate in which it was politically incorrect to oppose identity politics, high taxes, wealth redistribution and costly climate-mitigation policies. But when they went into the voting booth they spoke loud and clear against them.
The Australian stock market soared to an 11-year high following Morrison’s victory.
Not good news for Democrat candidates in the U.S. presidential race, who have been spouting those same beliefs.
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH, the latest Scott Rasmussen.com poll found that 57 percent of voters nationwide now believe President Trump will be reelected in 2020. That’s up from 54 percent last month and 50 percent two months ago.
MEANWHILE, the University of Michigan’s surveys of consumers reported that the Index of Consumer Sentiment surged in early May to its highest level in 15 years.
A TYPICAL REACTION, dead on arrival, was signaled by Democrats when President Trump outlined his vision of a comprehensive immigration plan last week.
The usual leftist suspects began sounding off – he didn’t include this or that, or this number or that number should have been higher. The New York Times, the left’s mouthpiece, called it a “lost opportunity” because it didn’t address the Dreamers.
If they were serious about solving the immigration issue, they would be negotiating with the president, asking for consideration of the Dreamers, but they won’t because they see it as handing Trump a victory when it would be a win for America.
May God bless the United States of America.
