That’s All Folks

Seeing all the democrats assembled en masse for the joint assembly was truly a frightening sight to behold. The Republicans really don’t have anything to compare to that cast of remarkably abrasive cartoon characters. Sure, we have the Turtle McConnell representing the old guard, and we have MTG and Boebert to counter the “squad,” but yikes, Schumer, Pelosi, Maxine, Bernie, Liz Warren, Blumenthal, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Al Green are largely antiquities and the new guard features Hakeem “dead-eyes” Jeffries, AOC, Tlaib, Omar, Pressley, Feng-Feng Swalwell, Wasserman-Schultz, Crockett and Adam Schiff. Wow, you can’t make this stuff up. Talk about Looney Tunes. 

State Of The Union

What a disgusting display by the democrats. They find themselves on the wrong side of every issue, yet they double down and try to appeal to their tiny core constituents of left-wing progressive ideologues. Not a good look. Republicans have had their PR disasters as well… recall the “you lie” episode….and have done their share of stone-faced sitting on their hands during opposition addresses to Congress, but this was beyond the pale. The juvenile signs, the little round placards displaying FALSE, were just misplaced political theater. Sure, they didn’t choose to shout it out at a silent moment like Wilson did, instead opting for a continuous, disrespectful, distracting cacophony—same thing for children. And nobody is proposing cuts to that sacred progressive bloated cow Medicaid, just eliminating waste and abuse…..and won’t that provide more money for services for those who genuinely need it?  The “pushing granny over the cliff” narrative is just insulting the intelligence of voters. Like granny, it’s old and tired—time to retire. And Al Green’s cane-shaking diatribe was ridiculous and inappropriate, giving Mike Johnson the perfect opportunity to look composed and mature. Thank you very much, Al.  You should take your medication. Now I understand that the left is sticking with the narrative that Elon is an unelected threat to government programs, which are in place to waste trillions of taxpayer funds on DEI initiatives in Mozambique or some other third-world backwater that mercifully has never heard of RuPaul, but not even to applaud the heart-wrenching stories of the kid with brain cancer, or the families of slain police officers, or families of children murdered by immigrant gang members, or the family of the firefighter struck down by an assassins bullet meant for Trump….that is a disconnect with the emotions of the American public. And that makes you not just partisan but a bunch of mean-spirited, unpleasant people totally out of touch, not just with mainstream Americans, but with the rest of the human race. And while these touching stories unfolded, there you were: Pelosi sucking on her dentures, Bernie Sanders glowering, and AOC choosing not to attend, instead “live tweeting” her reactions…..like anyone outside of your yuppie gentrified enclave cares what you think, especially after you proved yourself a vacuous insubstantial empty pantsuit unable to answer softball questions with any gravitas in your recent NPR interview with the perennially liberal Steve Inskeep.  How embarrassing. Face it, Trump is on a roll, his policies are popular with the American electorate, and you cretins are on the wrong side of public opinion, no matter how you spin it. Your party is in desperate need of a makeover; your tactics are old and tired and appeal to an increasingly uncouth, vulgar, misaligned radical wing of your base where compromise is never an option, even on policies that are not only popular but represent American values. Eliminating waste fraud and abuse of taxpayer money, eliminating men from competing in women’s sports, seeking peace in Ukraine and the Middle East, enforcing our borders, and protecting American interests here and abroad are not Republican values or Trump policies; they are common sense American values. And the sooner the democrats realize that America First is not just a campaign slogan but should be a thought foremost in the minds of all elected officials, the sooner they can resume their place in working with republicans to make America great again and restore the public’s faith in Congress. And that’s not a bad thing. 

The WSJ Wavers

The WSJ is becoming alarmingly critical of all things Trump. Noonan, whose rants suggest she’s in the never-Trump camp, offered a perfect example in her weekend editorial. All these old dinosaurs seem to long for the status quo of years gone by, seemingly placid, only because we weren’t aware of what went on behind the curtain. In the digital age of instant reporting and transparency, by we are free to armchair quarterback every move, second-guessing motives behind every quip….and granted, Trump supplies those in abundance, every program cut and every appointee. He is moving with lightning speed because he knows the Democrats will delay, destroy, and obfuscate in an attempt to stall the momentum to reach the midterms, where they hope to win back Congress and turn Trump into a lame duck. The pessimist in me suspects that they would be willing to tank the economy to destroy Trump's chances of retaining a majority in the midterms. The left criticizes Trump’s cabinet picks when they say “nothing is off the table” in negotiations, when in fact, that has been the Democrat mantra for decades, with a more sinister playbook one that never considers the effect on the American people. 

The Brash Donald

He knows his way around a P&L and Balance Sheet and understands the challenges of meeting a payroll and. dealing with financial nuance; he has resolved employee issues and dealt with Unions firsthand. No shrinking violet, our Donald; he has made tactical concessions  when required, as he knows when he has the advantage and is skilled in their negotiation application—the demonstrated demeanor of an accomplished busiessman.  Most impressive, he has been a quick study on how to be the most effective politician of our era with a work ethic that puts the Energizer Bunny to shame. Let's hear it for our president, who is living up to his campaign promises. Long live The Donald!

I Must Vent

Please, this hostage exchange display by Hamas is apprehensible. These hostage escorts dressed up in their toy soldier suits they bought on Amazon, posing with their assault rifles while they push around emaciated Jewish captives and display coffins containing children before adoring crowds, turns my stomach. I am incensed! And here I am to believe the left is against displays of machismo, child abuse, and racism, yet here it is on full display…..and not a peep out of them.  Enough of this genocide propaganda; war is awful, a war they started, get the hostages home, then turn that Hamas-infested Gasa Strip into glass. And to drive the point home, assured by the most stringent of means, its residents in reoccupation to be Hamas-free. Hamas, the barbarians, are to be extinguished, never their antisemitic atrocities to be witnessed again.

So Infuriating

Medicaid expenditure increased 51% from 2019 to 2023 and is predicted to increase by the same amount over the next ten years. Really?  How is that sustainable? Republicans are proposing reinstating work requirements that were removed by the Obama Administration and propose eliminating the Biden Administration mandates that allowed illegal aliens to become eligible. Naturally, there isn’t a single Democrat supporting these measures in the House, just as there isn’t a single Democrat supporter for DOGE efforts to eliminate wasteful spending and fraud. And now we see the left howling that Musk is asking federal workers to tell us exactly what they have accomplished in five bullet points. This comes after new Trump appointees have toured government offices, finding scores of empty cubicles with no sign of having ever been inhabited. In what world do workers not answer to a higher authority and are not subjected to performance reviews?  It is apparent that the federal government is out of control, a safe space hiding deep-state leftists who obey no authority, peddle their leftist agendas without oversight, and believe that your hard-earned tax dollars are theirs to spend. Enough.

Wrath Of The Democrats

It is more than interesting to hear the Democrats railing against Trump appointing Elon Musk to a position to expose graft, corruption, and government waste of taxpayer dollars on the premise that he has no authority and is merely a government appointee. They’ve gone so far as to propose legislation that will prevent anyone other than a “civil servant” from having access to Treasury records. As the Wall Street Journal pointed out, this would mean that the Treasury Secretary himself, a political appointee, would not have access to the records in a department he leads. Preposterous. And yet, in typically hypocritical fashion, the democrats are allowing rogue judges in blue states to issue orders that block the president and his appointee from implementing cost-cutting measures in response to the wasteful spending they’ve uncovered. But aren’t these judges also political appointees?  So, is this a case where our political appointees have more power than yours?  And why would the left be marching in lockstep to prevent the Trump administration from implementing measures to eliminate wasteful spending and dismantle the entrenched bureaucracies that have grown so powerful on taxpayer dollars?  Perhaps it’s because of their bureaucracies, waste, fraud, and corruption.