It’s Monday, May 16th, 2016…but before we begin, after leading the GOP to more defeats than the Italian Army, Reince-and-Repeat finally wakes up and smells the odor of the problem he’s largely helped create:
“I don’t think Donald Trump and his personal life are what people are looking at. The bigger question is: Between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, who’s going to have a more efficient government?” said Preibus, who is trying to get establishment Republicans, conservatives and other members of the party behind Trump.
“Who is going to blow up the system,” Priebus continued. “People are angry, and I think Donald Trump is the one to do it.”
But only after coming to the realization circumstances may adversely impact his power and position. Reince, you ARE the system!!! This sorry excuse for a major political party spokesman reminds us of the ferryman in The Outlaw Josey Wales:
Sensing the tide is turning, he’s more than willing to sell out the very people who put him in power in the first place for a “cure” he knows to be far worse than the disease.
Then there’s this bit of earth-shattering insight from the man obviously intent on playing 2nd fiddle on the Philandery ticket:
“He has never claimed to be [a true Conservative], but he has said that he will nominate very conservative judges,” Gingrich said.
The last time we looked, Trump has said a LOT of things, taken a LOT of positions; then, sometimes within minutes, done or said the polar opposite. So what on God’s green earth, other than personal political gain, could possibly lead Gingrich to conclude The Donald can be trusted to nominate reliably-Conservative justices to the SCOTUS?!?
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, the latest example of your hard-earned tax dollars at work, this time courtesy of the TSA at Chicago’s Midway airport:
So what was the excuse…
…six years ago?!?
Meanwhile, back at ranch in the bastion of federal government inefficiency…
“…Travelers across the country have endured lengthy lines, some snaking up and down escalators, or through food courts, and into terminal lobbies. At some airports, lines during peak hours have topped 90 minutes. (Actually much longer according to some reports.) Airlines have reported holding planes at gates to wait for passengers to clear security.
Johnson said the government has a plan to deal with the lines, although travelers should expect to wait as they travel this summer. Whatever the plan, Johnson said, TSA won’t neglect its duty to stop terrorists.
“Our job is to keep the American people safe,” Johnson told reporters at a news conference. “We’re not going to compromise aviation security in the face of this.”…”
Perhaps if, in the more than 15 years since its misguided inception by George W. Bush, the TSA had intercepted a single terrorist…foiled a just one act of Muslim mayhem…or accomplished anything of note…other than repeatedly allowing weapons through their security checkpoints and…
…patting down old women and children, we might be inclined to cut DHS and TSA some slack. But as such is demonstrably NOT the case, sorry Jeh; it’s not our duty to be patient. It’s your job to perform! And if you can’t do it, as George C. Scott portraying the demanding but effective George S. Patton once observed…
Unfortunately for America, when it comes to this Administration, politicsalways…if you’ll forgive the term…”trumps” performance. What’s more unfortunate is there’s really no hope for a change under either Hillary or The Donald.
In other evidence our politically-correct government has completely run amok, writing at the New York Post, Kyle Smith reports…
“It’s only May, but I think I’ve found the euphemism of the year: According to Team Obama, criminals should now be declared “justice-involved individuals.” The neo-Orwellianism comes to us from the bizarre flurry of last-minute diktats, regulations and bone-chilling threats collectively known to fanboys as Obama’s Gorgeous Goodbye.
In another of those smiley-faced, but deeply sinister, “Dear Colleague” letters sent to universities and college this week, Obama’s Education Secretary John King discouraged colleges from asking applicants whether they were convicted criminals. An accompanying pamphlet was called “Beyond the Box: Increasing Access to Higher Education for Justice-Involved Individuals.”…”
Republicans should bear in mind this latest bit of Newspeak comes from the same Department of Education that gave us the transgendered bathroom pronouncement cited in our last edition, and was created by the same lying psychotic who cursed us with the EPA, the Endangered Species Act, wage and price controls, etc., etc., etc…and who in reality was about as conservative…
…as Obama. So be careful what you wish…andvote…for!
It’s quite literally just as Orwell wrote:
Since we’re on the subject of The Dear Misleader, writing at Townhall.com, Matt Barber correctly diagnoses…
“President Obama’s done lost his mind. (No, it’s part of his predetermined plan to annihilate America.)He’s just flushed the civil rights of men and women, boys and girls, to pee in peace and shower without having naked, sexually confused or sexually predatory members of the opposite sex ogling them, or intentionally exposing their genitalia for a cheap thrill. (This, however is true!)
…“While the letter does not have the force of law, it does warn that schools that do not abide by the administration’s interpretation of civil rights law may face lawsuits or loss of federal aid.”
The operative phrase here is, “does not have the force of law.”This is a cynical exercise in pure propaganda on the part of the Obama administration.The directive is entirely toothless and universally at odds with long-standing and unambiguous legislative intent and judicial interpretation of both Titles VII and IX of federal law.
…Even hard-left Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has acknowledged this indisputable fact for years, writing in the Washington Post, “Separate places to disrobe, sleep, perform personal bodily functions are permitted, in some situations required, by regard for individual privacy.” When you’ve moved to the left of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there’s no left left.
…Not only is the extremist “LGBT” agenda counter-constitutional, offensive and outrageous, it’s also extremely dangerous. There have already been dozens of instances wherein sexual predators have brazenly leveraged these “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” policies for their own perverted purposes. Consider, for example, the following. If it doesn’t make your blood boil, then you just might be a liberal:
Washington state, dateline 2012: Colleen is just like the girl next door. Well, sort of.Colleen has a penis. So, I guess, unless the girl next door has a penis, Coleen really isn’t much like her at all.
But that’s beside the point. In Washington you must, by law, pretend, along with Colleen, President Obama and Loretta Lynch, that, in the face of both reality and sanity,Colleen really is like the girl next door. This includes letting Colleen, who is actually a 47-year-old dude named Clay Scott Francis, lie naked and “sprawled out in a sauna exposing himself” to girls as young as 6-years-old. This really happened in the ladies locker room at Evergreen State College…”
Are we the only one who finds it passing strange when it comes to those not a part of some special interest group dedicated to tearing apart the moral fabric of America, The Dear Misleader’s view or their “rights” is quite unambiguous:
Turning from the unambiguous to the constantly flip-flopping, the WSJ offers the latest on…
Donald Trump’s Taxes
Democrats will keep pounding him until he releases his returns.
These columns warned Republican voters that Democrats and the media would make an issue of Donald Trump’s tax returns—after he was the GOP’s presumptive nominee—and that didn’t take long. This week Hillary Clinton began what is likely to be a campaign from here to November to claim the businessman must be hiding something.
Mr. Trump is helping the Democrats with his changing answers and obfuscation. In January the candidate said “I have everything all approved and very beautiful” and he hoped to release his returns “over the next three, four months.” He later said he couldn’t release his returns until the IRS finished auditing him, though the IRS says an audit is no barrier to public disclosure.
Asked this week by the Associated Press when that day would come, Mr. Trump said he didn’t plan to release them after all.After Mrs. Clinton and Mitt Romney criticized that statement, Mr. Trump fell back on the IRS audit excuse. Then on Friday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Mr. Trump said he didn’t think voters had any right to see his tax returns and that his tax rate is “none of your business.”
Mr. Trump added: “But I do say this. I will really gladly give them—not going to learn anything but it’s under routine audit. When the audit ends I’m gonna present them. That should be before the election.I hope it’s before the election.”
Keep in mind that it has been common practice since the 1970s for the presidential nominees of both parties to release their tax returns. Tax returns provide insight into a candidate’s income, charitable giving and tax-avoidance strategies. Mr. Trump says he thinks voters don’t care, but that’s a decision for the voters to make.
As for the politics, Mr. Romney paid a price for waiting until September 2012 to release his 2011 return. Hit man Harry Reid claimed he’d heard, while offering no evidence, that Mr. Romney hadn’t paid taxes for 10 years. That was surely a lie, but the press corps still gave him headlines.
Mrs. Clinton is also less than honest on the subject.In 1992 she and her husband appeared to be forthcoming after they had released their tax returns going back to 1980. But Americans later learned, after Mr. Clinton was elected, that their 1979 returns included the windfall income from her miraculous cattle-futures trading in Arkansas.That story would have been highly damaging had it emerged before the election.
Mr. Trump may think all of this means he can resist this law of political gravity, and maybe he’s right. But neither Democrats nor the media will give up the tax-return issue now that he’s the Republican contender, and every time he’s asked about it will distract from the other messages he’s trying to deliver.The GOP voters who are nominating Mr. Trump can’t say they didn’t understand the Trumpian uncertainty they were buying.
Let alone falling for The Donald’s political remake of The Music Man.
In a related item also brought to us by the WSJ, Kimberly Strassel examines…
Trump’s Money Games
First he was going to self-fund. Now he isn’t. Meanwhile, Clinton raises $213 million.
“…Mr. Trump is brilliant at identifying issues that resonate with voters, and he early-on sniffed the benefit of claiming that he was “self-funding” his primary campaign. In hindsight, it was a foolish move. It also wasn’t true. Of the $47 million Mr. Trump spent through March, $11 million came through outside donations. Small donations or not, this was other people’s money.
The other $36 million came in the form of a “loan” by Mr. Trump to his campaign. That’s key. People who lend money do so in the expectation of getting it back. And with his announcement that he will now openly solicit donations, we can expect that the fundraising will pay back the loan. The self-funding candidate was a mirage.
The bigger liability of the self-funding pose was its shortsightedness. Mr. Trump has presumably long known that even bargain-basement general-election presidential campaigns these days run at least $1 billion. It was ludicrous to think he ever intended to cover such a phenomenal number—even if he could have afforded it.
Yes, Mr. Trump is rich. But there is clearly a reason he is refusing to release his tax returns. (His explanation, that some of them are being audited by the IRS, is laughable.) One guess is that his returns show tax-lowering deductions and accounting vehicles that aren’t available to the average Joe and risk making Mr. Trump look tax-dodgerish.
A likelier possibility: Mr. Trump may be rich, he isn’t liquid-rich. His wealth could be tied up in real estate or investments. Mr. Trump in 2006 sued Timothy O’Brien for defamation, claiming that the book author had understated his personal wealth. In the course of a deposition, Mr. Trump admitted that his “net worth fluctuates, and it goes up and down with markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings.”
Before the suit was dismissed in 2009, Mr. Trump had to turn over his tax returns. They are under seal, and the reporter hasn’t provided details, but in a recent interview he speculated that Mr. Trump isn’t releasing his IRS documents because “you see what his income actually is in those returns.”Mr. Trump might never have had enough cash to fund a White House run.
If that’s the case, and yet he stuck to his self-funding line, it was sheer political malpractice…”
In other words, particularly if this late-breaking report from the Journal is accurate, an outright and deliberate lie. But what does the truth matter to Trumpeteers committed to supporting not a loose cannon, but a completely malfunctioning piece of artillery, no matter how off-target his rounds may fall?!?
In a related item, as Matt Vespa reports at Townhall.com…
“There will be a torrent of stories by The Washington Post about Donald Trump, where they promise that everything will be revealed about the billionaire real estate and hotel magnate. The publication has mobilized an army of reporters on directive by its owner, Jeff Bezos, to uncover all aspects about Trump. In other words, the Post will finish the job that the rest of the GOP field should’ve done during the primary (via Washington Examiner)…”
And if you don’t think Hillary has a literal army of dogged, devoted investigators digging up enough dirt on The Donald to fill Trump Tower, you got another think coming.
On The Lighter Side…
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with this intriguing item from the Health Section:
“Men who ejaculate often may have a lower risk of prostate cancer than their peers who don’t do it as frequently, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers followed about 32,000 men starting in 1992 when they were in their 20s and continuing through 2010. During this period, almost 4,000 of the men were diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Men who ejaculated at least 21 times a month were 19 percent less likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their 20s than men who ejaculated no more than seven times a month, the study found. By their 40s, men who ejaculated more often were 22 percent less likely to get a prostate cancer diagnosis.
…One limitation of the study is that it relied on men to accurately recall and report how often they ejaculated, the authors note. The study also included mostly white men, and it’s possible the results might look different in a more diverse population…”
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