There are several stories going on lately that have caught my attention and
I wanted to share with my dear readers. Enjoy looking down the rabbit hole with me!
Federal Debt Ceiling
Most Americans oppose raising the federal debt ceiling without accompanying
cuts to federal spending, or even with spending cuts according to a
new RMG Research poll.
Of the 1000 registered voters surveyed, 45% said congress should raise the
debt ceiling only with corresponding spending cuts. 16% said congress should refuse to raise the
ceiling at all. 24% said that the debt ceiling
should be raised without spending cuts, and 15% were “not sure”.
The U.S. national debt stands at $31.5 trillion which is approximately 120%
of the nation’s GDP. Profligate spending
by both parties cannot continue or economic collapse will ensue.
Informed Patriotism
Only 16% of Gen Zers are “proud” to live in the United States.
That finding comes from a recent
Morning Consult poll, which assessed generational attitudes about the
United States. The poll shows that there has been roughly a 20-percentage-point
drop of pride in country every generation since the Baby Boomers, 73% of whom
express pride in the country.
Many on social media noted with exasperation that those who say they have no
pride in country are in no hurry to move somewhere else. What do we expect when we teach ONLY
revisionist history about how the United States is founded on slavery, oppression,
and still embraces racism and other “-isms” today? We are reaping what our "education system" has sown as parents have negligently stood by and let it happen.
Further Biden Incompetence in the Judiciary
Biden’s nomination of Charnelle Bjelkengren for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington
sat before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week.
Having served in multiple high-level judicial roles, including as an
administrative law judge, a superior court judge, and as an assistant attorney
general for Washington State, one would assume that Bjelkengren would have a
solid grasp of the U.S. Constitution.
In the hearing, Senator John Kennedy R-LA asked Biden’s nominee a few softball questions
that a person of her background should have easily been able to answer. Starting off, Sen. Kennedy called on
Bjelkengren to describe what Article V of the U.S. Constitution does.
“Article V is not coming to mind at the moment,” Bjelkengren replied.
As virtually anyone who took middle or high school civics
class would know, Article V describes the procedures to make amendments to
the Constitution. How someone of Bjelkengren’s legal background could not
answer such a shockingly easy question is concerning, to say the least.
Kennedy continued. “How about Article
II?” Kennedy asked.
With a blank stare and awkward smile, Bjelkengren responded, “Neither is
Article II.”
The confirmation hearing probably should have been stopped at this point,
as an experienced judge who doesn’t know that Article II of the Constitution describes the Executive
Branch of government should not be allowed to sit in a powerful federal
judgeship that could have massive implications on future policies concerning
Executive Branch decisions.
I think her incompetence is typical of many of Biden’s appointees and
staff.
Unfit Democrats Removed from House Committees
New House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made clear on Wednesday, that Democrat congressmen Adam Schiff
and Eric Swalwell were removed from the intelligence committee because their
presence in a sensitive position posed a particular hazard to the American
people. Schiff lied repeatedly in the
run-up to the first impeachment of Donald Trump that he had incontrovertible
evidence of Trump’s collusion with Russia.
He did not. Swalwell was found to
have been sleeping with Chinese spy Fang Fang while sitting on the intelligence
committee, and even had a Chinese intern working for him that was recommended
by her.
Ilhan Omar was also removed from the House Foreign Affairs
committee for her numerous anti-Semitic remarks over the years. Of course the anti-Muslim and race cards were
played in her defense.
Schiff went on the Chinese spy-ware platform of Tik-Tok to
denounce his removal from the intelligence committee. It reads like a bad SNL skit actually.
Many House Democrats Refuse to Denounce Socialism
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning
socialism on Thursday, with nearly all Republicans and half of the Democrats
supporting it. However, only somewhat amazingly, 86 Democrats
voted against it.
H. Con. Res. 9, a resolution “Denouncing the horrors of socialism,” passed
328 to 86, with 14 Democrats voting present, and six members (three Republicans
and three Democrats) not voting.
Rep Maria Elvira Salazar, R-FL, who is the daughter of Cuban exiles, was the
sponsor of the resolution. “As the representative of the city of Miami, and
daughter of Cuban exiles, I say that this resolution hits close to home
for us all,” she added. “We know that socialism only brings misery,
oppression, and exile, wherever it is tried.”
The resolution states “That Congress denounces socialism in all its forms,
and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States of
America.”
The resolution also attributes the deaths of “over
100,000,000 people worldwide” to socialism, including 10 million people sent to
the gulags in the Soviet Union; between 15 million and 55 million starving in
the wake of the famine caused by the Great Leap Forward in China; 1 million
people dead in the killing fields of Cambodia; and up to 3.5 million people
starving to death in North Korea. It also notes that socialism devastated the
once-thriving economies of Cuba and Venezuela.
Many prominent Democrats voted against the resolution, including
Reps. Julian Castro and Al Green of Texas, Jerry Connolly of Virginia, Rosa
DeLauro of Connecticut, Pramila Jayapal of Washington, Summer Lee of
Pennsylvania, Jerry Nadler and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar
of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, and
Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
I guess my only surprise is that only 86 of the House Democrats voted against it. I guess most of the others still wanted to maintain plausible deniability.
Chinese Surveillance Balloon
Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Patrick Ryder said Thursday, according
to Reuters, “The United States government has detected and is tracking a
high-altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States
right now. The balloon is currently traveling at an altitude well above
commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to
people on the ground.”
Joe Biden agreed with supposed advice from military leaders not to
shoot down the balloon. The leaders had cautioned that the debris could be a
safety threat. China says they are looking into it but respect the United
States' air space.
In a letter sent Thursday to Defense Secretary Lloyd
Austin, Republican Senator Steve Daines of Montana wrote, “The fact that this
balloon was occupying Montana airspace creates significant concern that
Malmstrom Air Force Base and the United States’ intercontinental ballistic
missile fields are the target of this intelligence gathering mission.”
I wonder if we do decide to shoot it down if
the “Big Guy” will still get his 10% from China with Hunter’s business deals?
Sleep well, and keep voting Democrat if you like what you read here.
