George Rebane
Sen Joe Manchin has turned out to be another double dummy political hack and a major disappointment, succumbing to the predictable and obvious wiles of Sen Schumer. Ol’ Joe had us all fooled during the past year as being the staunch stalwart, along with Sen Sinema (D-AZ), against the economic ruin the Dems were cooking up with their Inflation Reduction Act bamboozle. They got Joe’s vote with the promise of including his pipeline and permit facilitation bill, which most on the Right correctly saw as Lucy’s football. Now that the bill has no chance of passing as is, Manchin’s reputation is in the mud with Republicans, moderate Democrats (vanishing breed), and, of course, his West Virginia constituents who expected more than the meadow muffins he wound up delivering. Tough to see how he’ll ever recover. (more here, here, and here)
Fire tax – Nevada County voters will have a chance to vote down the proposed ½% sales tax increase that’s supposed to fund wildfire prevention and mitigation. Actually, the collected monies will go into the general fund where the Supes promise they will be carefully watched and audited by a “citizens oversight committee”. California’s Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association warns us once more (here) how such taxes will be misused as they have been in the past.
J6 show trial postponed closer to election – Moving the century’s biggest-to-date show trial closer to the election again tells you all you need to know about this hyper-partisan kabuki theater. The Dems have no viable platform or record of achievements to present to the voters, so all they have left is to pump up the J6 hysteria of imminent attacks by Trump led ultra-right MAGA white supremacist terrorists. The real tragedy is that there are millions of muddle minded Americans who swallow this political swill. (more here)
Dems’ Big Lies – As opposed to counting Trump’s political bombast as lies, the real material lies that continue unabated from the Left need to be reviewed, revived, and reinserted into the public’s attention span. This, of course, is the job of the Republicans who have not shown much political moxie in keeping these highlighted in the public fora. Oh, to again have two viable political parties. Here is the list from a recent post -
When the dissemination of prime-time, first-rate whoppers comes up for discussion, our leftwing neighbors, both national and local, volubly maintain that both sides are at least equally guilty, with the Republicans dispensing the majority. By any comparative listing of such poetic truths (aka Big Lies), the contest is not even close, nor has it ever been. Historically socialists are the big liars, for that is the requirement for their public square bamboozles to gain any traction in governance. Today’s examples overwhelm –
‘Our southern border is secure, there is no border crisis’,
‘Crime rates are not up, there is no urban crime wave in America’,
‘Increasing taxes will not exacerbate the ongoing stagflation’,
‘Increasing taxes will grow the economy’,
‘Tax rates do not affect investment and productivity’,
'You can keep your doctor …',
'Obamacare will reduce national healthcare costs',
‘Fossil fuels are bad and unnecessary; our energy needs can be met entirely by renewables’,
'America is better off being energy-dependent on foreign suppliers,'
‘Illegal immigration and illegal aliens in the workforce are necessary for economic growth’,
‘Capitalism and minimally regulated markets are arbitrary, cruel, and don't work’,
‘Men and women are exactly the same, making sexual distinction racist and unnecessary’,
‘Christians are intolerant’,
‘Trump’s collusion with the Russians swung the 2016 election’,
‘The tenets of Critical Race Theory are not taught in our K-12 schools’,
‘Merit based education (especially in STEM subjects) is racist’,
'Western culture is intrinsically racist',
‘America is a systemically racist country’,
‘Blacks don’t overwhelmingly kill blacks, cops gratuitously kill blacks,’
‘Government enforced equity motivates better than equal opportunity,’
‘Multi-cultural factionalism serves to unite America,’
… and on and on.
[1oct22 update] Competing for the biggest of the Dems’ big lies is their ‘Republicans want to destroy the Constitution, censor free speech, do away with our freedoms, and establish a totalitarian state.’ This message to their cognitively constrained constituents is Alinsky and Lenin on steroids, each part being exactly 180 from their own daily demonstrated policies and activists on the march. Today’s fragmented conservative pro-life movement is as close as any leftist can get to some Republicans wanting to limit your freedom to kill your unborn child. Other than that, it is ONLY the Republicans who work for fewer regulations, lower taxes to support a smaller government, and a nation of constitutional laws instead of a corrupt and growing administrative neo-Marxist state. And to put a bow on it, today’s Republicans leave a lot to be desired in their efforts to keep our republic.
[2oct22 update] One of our astute readers and commenters posted a link to a recent VDH piece, ‘The Thinnest Veneer of Civilization’. In communicating the current state of western civilization, the good professor has again hit it out of the park. Definitely a must read and share. One wonders how much of such writing is comprehensible to our Left. Dark days indeed.
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