It’s Wednesday, October 17th, 2018…but before we begin, our youngest son Travis forwarded a clip from South Park which perfectly captures Elizabeth Warren’s dodge:
Or, as Orrin Hatch put it:
For those interested in further analysis of Warren’s latest effort to convince America she’s a bonafide Indian, we’d recommend the following memes forwarded from George Lawlor…
…House Republicans again did nothing…though they’re talking about it! Meanwhile, Lois Lerner, John Koskinen, Peter Strzok and a host of other Liberal law breakers who flouted Congressional authority continue to laugh their lying as*es off.
Since we’re on the subject of lying Liberals (do they come any other way?!?), NRO‘s Kevin Williamson explains how, Progressive pronouncements to the contrary notwithstanding,…
“…In a healthy society, politics is a small part of life. There is a life outside politics, and there are places and situations that are outside politics. We have, for the moment, abandoned that distinction, especially for those on the leftwho insist on a totalitarian model of political life in which everything is subject to political scrutiny, in whichthe personalis truly and categorically — and horrifyingly — the political. They insist that this is necessary because of the extraordinary times in which we live, the extraordinary threats that we currently face, the emergency under which we are living.
But there is no emergency.
Those familiar with the political career of Indira Gandhi will have a special appreciation for the concept of “emergency.” The Emergency refers to a 21-month period during which Mrs. Gandhi suspended civil liberties, ruled by decree, jailed political opponents, censored newspapers, and laid the foundations for what might have been a permanent dictatorship. Dissident political parties were banned, regional governments were dissolved and their leaders incarcerated. (The Malthusians never sleep: India also set on a course of involuntary sterilization during this period, as a means of population control.) There had been political unrest and political violence (as, unhappily, there long had been in India), but the proximate cause of the Emergency was the fact that Mrs. Gandhi had lost a court case that might have resulted in her being removed from office.The Emergency was the fact that there was political opposition to her government, and that the opposition was effective.
Our situation is not quite so stark, but it is analogous. Longstanding American institutions ranging from the First Amendment to the Electoral College to the Senate have been suddenly and rashly declared “illegitimate.”Why? Because, at the moment, they are keeping the Left from getting what it wants.The Left wants to silence certain right-wing critics and dissidents, and the First Amendment stops them. The Senate and the Electoral College perform their intended constitutional role in protecting the interests of the less-populous states and their residents, ensuring the protecting of minority interests from the tyranny of the majority.This annoys the would-be tyrants. (They are, to their discredit, unable to truly appreciate that political tides turn, and that majorities are fickle things.)The ordinary political processes of the United States have produced results that the Left does not like, and, hence, those processes and the institutions that enable them must be considered illegitimate. The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is to be understood as a national emergency because…Democrats would prefer to have somebody else, and they believe they having something like a divine right to rule.
At that level, this is about something other than politics per se. I have spent about 30 years covering political protests of various kinds, and, of course, people rarely show up at a protest because they are happy about something. But many of the people one encounters at such events (from Occupy Wall Street to the tea-party rallies) are categorically unhappy, bereft and adrift in a way that is only tangentially related to politics. (though we’d dispute Williamson’s inclusion of most Tea-Partiers, particularly in light of his next assertion.)They turn to politics to provide a sense of meaning that might once have been provided by family or religion, two anchors from which many of us enlightened moderns have cut ourselves away. But politics provides a sense of meaning only when we convince ourselves that there is a great deal at stake. I do not know how many planning-and-zoning meetings I have been to, how many suburban school-board meetings and small-town municipal board meetings. Rarely does one get the sense that there is much that is urgent going on. They are boring, and, generally, free of drama. (Not always. A visit with the San Bernardino, Calif., city leadership will cause one to despair for democracy.) That isn’t very much compared to communing with God or being a father. The people who fall into politics as a source of personal meaning must believe that what’s at stake is…everything…or at least something meaningful, otherwise — well, that’s obvious enough. Political fanaticism is not rooted in ideology. It is the hollow clanging sound that social life makes when banging up against an empty soul.
The angry partisan cannot believe that life is good, because he must then ask himself: If life is good, then why am I not enjoying it? Why do I feel so alone, so frustrated, and so meaningless?…”
And the lives of most Liberals are truly meaningless…if not decidedly destructive.
In a related item forwarded by Shannon Wood, writing at his Morning Jolt, Jim Geraghty describes…
The patron saint of hopelessly hopeful Dimocrats across the country!
“The media’s treatment of Texas Democratic candidate Beto O’Rourke wasn’t the most egregiously unfair coverage of the past year — that would be the treatment of Brett Kavanaugh — but it ranks among 2018’s most annoying. The endless glowing profiles of O’Rourke in every publication from Vanity Fair to Spin to Rolling Stone to Town & Country represent the national media’s worsening challenge in differentiating between what it wants to see happen and what is actually happening.
The national media desperately want a Democrat who can win statewide races in the South and someday end up ona presidential ticket. That yearning drove the brief and otherwise unremarkable career of disgraced former senator John Edwards of North Carolina. Democratic statewide winners exist here and there, such as North Carolina governor Roy Cooper and Louisiana governor Jon Bel Edwards. Doug Jones won his Senate race in Alabama, though it helps to run against Roy Moore.
…The profile pieces of the Great Southern Democratic Hopes always include the same ingredients. “This Democrat owns a gun and hunts!” (Never mind that they usually support some form of gun control that is anathema to many gun owners and the NRA.) “They can quote a Bible verse!” (Yet they almost inevitably pay tribute in one form or another to Planned Parenthood.) “This Democrat wears cowboy boots!” (As if apparel indicated anything meaningful about their governing philosophy.)
…But what the national media really yearn to see is a Democrat who can win Texas. A Democrat who could win Texas in a presidential race would end the competition before it began; a Republican candidate isup a creek with no paddle without the Lone Star State’s 38 electoral votes, and a Democrat charismatic and appealing enough to win Texas would probably put other red states in play.
…The stage was set for a torrid media love affair the moment O’Rourke decided to run for Senate.
Give O’Rourke credit for his strengths. He’s handsome and good on the stump, and uses social media in creative ways. He won his past Democratic primaries by outhustling comfortable incumbents. He genuinely doesn’t consult with pollsters when shaping his positions, which is how you end up with a Texas statewide candidate who is running on banning AR-15s, abolishing ICE, and impeaching President Trump.
But what’s fascinating is how the media looked at O’Rourke’s fairly mundane life and standard-issue national Democratic positions and convinced themselves they had found a transformational political talent…”
When all they really had was a man of privileged birth with a bad driving record whose lack of any discernible talents led him into politics…but enough about Teddy Kennedy!
Speaking of someone with standard-issue national Democratic positions the MSM tried to turn into a transformational political talent, also writing atNRO, Rich Lowry opines on…
“Hillary Clinton won the political battle over Bill Clinton’s sexual misadventures in the 1990s, at the cost of having to litigate them forevermore.
In the era of #MeToo, her defenses and rationalizations for Bill are especially tinny and embarrassing.But she can’t show any weakness — any more than she could in 1998, when she helped rally the White House — lest she implicitly admit that providing cover for her husband’s misconduct for years was a mistake, or at least a significant compromise of her feminism.
…It doesn’t take a fourth-wave feminist to realize that a president of the United States having an intern he barely knows perform oral sex on him while he talks on the phone in the Oval Office is grossly exploitative. If this had been a movie director or a media executive, everyone would recognize it as an appalling abuse of power, even Hillary Clinton…”
The Clintons are a cancer to America; but George H.W. Bush and John Sununu are responsible for allowing them into the body politic.
Moving on, this next item from the WSJ‘s Editorial Board really gravels our butt…as it should yours:
“Hurricane Michael did terrible damage in Florida last week, and that may include some of the world’s most capable military aircraft left in its path. But why can’t Air Force F-22 jet fighters, of all things, escape a storm? Answer: They lack the parts to be operational and so were stuck in hangars to take a beating.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said Sunday that the damage to an unspecified number of F-22s on Tyndall Air Force Base was “less than we feared.”(Considering per unit costs exceeded $138M…and we don’t make them anymore…that’s scant comfort!) But maintenance professionals will have to conduct a detailed assessment before the Air Force can say with certainty that the planes will fly again. Press reports estimate that at least a dozen planes were left on the base due to maintenance and safety issues.
Welcome to a fighting force damaged by bad political decisions and misguided priorities…”
They couldn’t get invaluable tactical assets out of the path of a hurricane they had ample notice was coming…but you can bet your sweet, politically-correct ass every single member of the Air Farce is up to date on their LGBTQ sensitivity training!!!
And in the Environmental Moment, courtesy today of Steve Boss, just when you thought the claims of the Climate Scammers couldn’t get any more outlandish, The Guardian reports there’s…
“…The researchers said that compared with life-threatening impacts of global warming such as the floods and storms faced by millions, a beer shortage may seem relatively unimportant. But they said it would affect the quality of life of many people.
“There is little doubt that for millions of people around the world, the climate impacts on beer availability and price will add insult to injury,” said Prof Dabo Guan at the University of East Anglia, one of the research team. “There is something fundamental in the cross-cultural appreciation of beer.”
“If you still want to still have a couple of pints of beer while you watch the football, then climate change [action] is the only way out.”“…
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