Musings on the Week
Musings on the Week
January 20, 2018
Change – “Do you want to know who you
are? Don’t ask, act! Action will delineate and define you.” Thomas
Jefferson.
Politics – Considering all the damage
done to the U.S. over the last 100 years, Donald Trump can
only expect to deliver a down payment on repair
to Make America Great Again!
Politics – Republicans feel
that market-based, individually oriented solutions work, while Democrats focus on
winning political battles first and governing effectively second.
Politics – Democrats still
haven’t figured Trump out as his rhetoric is a just a
distraction from policies that are more orthodox
than his opponents feared and his supporters expected.
Politics – The Right is using outrage-mobs to force the Left to live by their own
rules (Saul Alinsky Rule #4) and using ridicule as a weapon on the Left (Saul Alinsky Rule #5).
Politics – The first time that Obama was in a job long enough to be graded on results was
the presidency, and Congress passed many bad liberal
ideas that under-delivered results.
Politics – The Democrat “#Resistance”
are unable to stop the Trump administration but rather erected speed bumps to slow everything down to make the
administration look impotent.
Politics – Democrats claim to have a
deep bench of strong talent, but their latest is Chelsea
Manning joining the clown cavalcade filing to run for a seat in the Maryland
Senate.
Politics – Until Hillary Clinton is indicted and convicted on her multiple felonies, the American people will doubt whether the swamp can ever be
drained of the effete ruling class.
Politics – Polls tell us that Trump
has the worst ratings of any President, but they
still sample the same polling audience they used to predict the 2016 election
results, despite the actual voters who elected Trump being very happy with progress to
date and look forward to more.
Media – American belief in
the credibility of their news media is now at about 32%, the lowest
ever polled, and an 8% drop from the lowest point of the 2008-2015 period.
Media – Donald Trump “owns” the mainstream
media
distracting them time and time again chasing “shiny
pennies,” while he calmly moves his political agenda forward.
Media – It is ironic that the mainstream media is so upset by Trump’s
coarse language that CNN felt the need to say
the offending word 200 separate times while reporting the story.
Media – Liberal anti-Trump controversy is faux rage, faux anger, faux
outrage made up
purely for the cameras, for the microphones, for its audience of low
information voters.
Media – Trump released his First Annual FAKE NEWS Awards: CNN
was the clear “winner” with four of the ten top awards
followed by New York Times with two awards.
Change – If you want to make enemies, try to change something." Woodrow Wilson.
Economy –
California
is the home to the Hollywood entertainment complex and the Silicon Valley
innovation hub, meanwhile
liberal policies created the poverty capital of America.
Budget – Congress has not successfully
passed 12 spending bills and a budget since 1994 and must be held accountable -
no recesses or pay until budget and spending bills
passed?
Finance –
The
Trump administration must abolish
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,
not reform it, as a failure especially for small and
midsize banks and payday lenders.
Energy – Ethanol fuel
standards began
with good intentions to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and reduce carbon
gases, but ethanol produces higher greenhouse gas
emissions.
Healthcare – So far, Arizona, Arkansas,
Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Utah and
Wisconsin are planning to impose work-related
conditions on Medicaid, as part of a national movement to dignify work, not
dependence.
Immigration – Immigration without assimilation is another word for invasion, as new arrivals seek to
import the failed conditions they left behind: culture, governance, and
morality.
Immigration – The average
age of DACA participants is now 24; most are not in school; fewer than
5% have graduated from college; those employed earn a median hourly wage of
$15.34; and only a tenth of 1% of DACA youth serve in the military, fewer than
900 total.
Immigration – Democrats in
Congress have
been so busy wordsmithing Trump’s choice of words on immigration that
they will be unable to focus on resolving DACA.
Immigration – Both political
parties demand a “clean” immigration bill, which both define as
without concessions on any of the underlying issues, so no compromises – no bill!
Labor – If monopolies are bad because
they cooperate to restrict competition, then why are
government monopolies that eliminate competition such as public sector
unions, good?
Judiciary – How many times must
a judge be over-turned by higher courts before
their partisanship is proven and grounds for
impeachment and/or disbarment are accumulated?
Judiciary – If we are serious about term
limits for Congress, we should also consider term limits for federal judges
– 12 year appointments are long enough for any
judge.
Energy – Germany has rediscovered that
engineering excellence and green totalitarianism are
incompatible as reality has shown that wind and solar cannot meet their
current needs.
Environment – Conservationists
view man as a natural, invested partner to preserve the environment, but environmentalists view man as destructive interloper and nature's enemy.
Feminism – The unintended
consequence of the feminist “War on
Men” is that women are unhappy about the state of romance and
sex, feeling pressured and disrespected as they punish
awkward and clumsy men in social interactions as they misinterpret mixed
signals.
Abortion – About 92% of Republicans, 78%
of Independents, and 61% of Democrats said they want
significant restrictions on abortion, according to a new Marist poll.
Security – “If you want total security, go to
prison. There you’re fed,
clothed, given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking… is freedom.” Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Defense- Trump has made progress reforming the Department of Veterans Affairs, firing 1,298 employees,
suspending another 425, and demoting another 73 – finally accountability!
Korea – The
Korean conflict of the 1950s never formally ended, but rather concluded with an
armistice that saw six decades of relative calm with sporadic outbreaks
of violence.
David Coughlin
Hawthorne, NY
http://www.returntocnnbbommonsensesite.com/