We lead off the week with a quick quote from Howard Kurtz on the Snuffleupadouche kerfuffle:
“Let me be blunt: For George to give money to the Clinton Foundation, out of all possible charities, knowing full well that Hillary was gearing up to run, is a grave error in judgment. For him not to disclose this to his network or to viewers—especially when he was aggressively interviewing “Clinton Cash” author Peter Schweizer about that very foundation—is unthinkable. And for ABC to brush this off as an “honest mistake” is embarrassing.
People already distrust the media as too liberal. A late-in-life journalist who began his career as a prominent Democrat working in the White House faces a special burden to demonstrate his independence. By donating to the Clintons’ family charity and keeping it secret, Stephanopoulos has failed that test.” – Howard Kurtz
For those who question our ongoing refusal to donate a dime to the RNC, keep in mind, it was George Stephanopoulos who, having inexplicably been chosen to moderate a 2012 Republican primary debate in the first place, deliberately, and with malice of forethought, created the mythical GOP “War on Women” on behalf of Dimocrats by asking an obscure question about Griswold and birth control when not a single candidate had even mentioned birth control, let alone any limits on it.
And yet, having been bushwhacked by the blatantly biased Snuffleupadouche once, the RNC STILL had George scheduled to moderate a 2016 debate!!!
Absolutely, positively and utterly…
Except when it comes to The Gang Who Still Can’t Shoot Straight. And yes, that word means precisely what we think it means!
The SEALs get bin Laden; Obama surrenders Iraq and Afghanistan and is hell-bent on conceding Iran…
…nuclear weapons. Delta Force gets Abu Sayyaf…and his wife; ISIS gets Ramadi.
This brings to mind three questions: (1) Are we the only one left wondering whether the decision to go after Sayyaf was a desperate attempt to offset the disaster which is this White House’s foreign policy?!?; (2) As we understand the world, there’s plenty more Abu Sayyafs out there, but the Middle East is rapidly running out of Ramadis; and (3) Can anyone seriously imagine the reaction had George W. Bush’s Pentagon asked the MSM to change the stock footage of their coverage of the Iraq conflict?!?
Turning now from Dimocrats’ foreign policy failures to their domestic disasters, courtesy of NRO‘s Morning Jolt, Jim Geraghty details the unavoidable unaffordability of Progressive policies:
Pension Costs, Health Insurance Costs, Illegal Immigration: They All Hit Home
Here in Fairfax County, property taxes are up . . .
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted 7 to 3 to raise taxes on Fairfax County homeowners. This year’s $185 dollar property tax rate increase on the average homeowner results in a 16 percent tax increase over the last 3 years.
Sales-tax revenues are up . . .
Sales-tax receipts distributed to the Fairfax County government by the state government in April totaled $12.3 million, up 4.6 percent from a year before.For the first nine months of the Fairfax County fiscal year, sales-tax receipts are up 6.6 percent from a year before.
And yet the school district informs me that they’re going to be forced to reduce spending by a bunch:
Fairfax County Public Schools expects the school year 2016-17 (FY 2017) budget to be a tremendous challenge with an anticipated deficit of more than $100 million.
Without additional funding, FCPS will be forced to have some very difficult conversations with the community to determine which programs to consider for reduction. In the coming months, there will be opportunities for the community to provide feedback on the potential cuts. In order to provide parents with accurate information and help you communicate about how we can work to save FCPS, a list of frequently asked questions about FY 2017 and other information is now online.
The school district’s explanation:
The cost drivers for the school year 2016-17 (FY 2017) budget include both items outside of FCPS’ control, like retirement and enrollment increases, and providing competitive compensation for our teachers. The cost drivers include:
– a growing student population with diverse needs.
Gee, what’s got the school enrollment in Fairfax County jumping so high?Ohhhh . . .
Three counties in the Washington region have received among the highest numbers of unaccompanied minors fleeing Central America since January, according to the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Fairfax, Prince George’s and Montgomery counties have taken in more children from the recent border surge than all but five other cities and counties across the nation, largely due to their sizeable populations of Central American immigrants. Most arriving children are placed with relatives or other guardians while awaiting deportation hearings.
According to the agency, only Los Angeles, Miami, one border county in Texas and two counties near New York City have received more such children in the past seven months. Fairfax has received 1,023 children. . .
Where else is all of that surging tax revenue money going? I mean, I can see one expenditure that just shot up more than 25 percent:
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted to raise the salaries of future supervisors by $20,000 a year.The vote was 6 to 4. Each member of the next board will make $95,000 a year, up from $75,000. The chairman will make $100,000, up from $75,000.
And there’s a cost-of-living increase for county workers:
The county’s 12,000 employees will receive cost-of-living raises of 1.10 percent — which is short of the actual 1.68 percent increase in the cost of living from last year.
So, let’s review:
– Underfunded pension plans.
– Rising health-insurance costs despite all the promises of Obamacare.
– A deluge of new children who, adorable and innocent as they are, entered the country illegally and now are requiring more resources to educate.
– Tax hikes.
– Higher salaries for lawmakers.
All conservatives deserve a throw pillow embroidered with “I TOLD YOU SO” on their couches.
Just throw in the Middle East, energy prices, Baltimore, out-of-control government bureaucracies like the FCC and EPA and California’s burgeoning water-crisis, and you’ve got the inevitable fruits of Liberalism at all three levels of government: local, state and federal!
Since we’re on the subject of the inevitable “fruits” of Liberalism, in the Forest Gump Memorial “Stupid May Be As Stupid Does, But THIS Take REAL Ignorance” segment…
Funny? Sure; but not when you consider we’re assuming the crushing costs of their domestic unemployment problem and while they have cash to, quite literally…
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