It’s Monday, July 25th, 2022…but before we begin, if you’ve ever needed confirmation there’s a two-tiered justice system in America, this is it:
BTW, questions at this point are either a demonstration of ignorance or refusal to recognize reality.
Now, since we spent most of Saturday helping our youngest with a home improvement project and Sunday was a movie night with TLJ, here’s an abbreviated edition of The Gouge!
First up, ICYMI, writing at the WSJ, Dan Henninger offers a timely account of…
“…One unavoidable detail must be mentioned about American politics from the aftermath of 2020. Aside from Mr. Trump’s complaints about a stolen election, something of real consequence occurred: the Jan. 5, 2021, runoff elections for two Georgia seats in the U.S. Senate. Amid Mr. Trump’s denunciations of the state’s Republican leadership, Democrats won both seats, producing a 50-50 Senate. That standoff is the result of millions of votes cast by Americans. Time was that such a democratic voter verdict, however frustrating, would get bipartisan respect. But not in what progressives call “our democracy.”
The central preoccupation of American politics for the succeeding 18 months has been Mr. Manchin’s denial of the vote Democrats need to enact their spending and climate policies. Arizona Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema also has opposed much of the party’s agenda. But Mr. Manchin has inspired the melodrama and party rage.
In what political galaxy would anyone expect a senator from West Virginia, a state synonymous with coal mining, to vote for his party’s intention to terminate fossil-fuel production? Yet last week the party and its climate allies went berserk when Mr. Manchin sank their agenda for the umpteenth time.
My intention is not to describe paint drying in the Senate but to draw attention to a party that since May 2020 has gradually disconnected from normal political processes.
After Mr. Manchin withdrew his support for the climate legislation, citing opposition to new taxes and inflation, former Obama White House counselor John Podesta wrote the senator had “doomed humanity.” Rhode Island’s Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to—where else?—Twitter to liberate himself from Congress: “Free at last. Let’s roll. Do it all and start it now,’’ Mr. Whitehouse tweeted. “With legislative climate options now closed, it’s now time for executive Beast Mode.’’
Under a new unchecked and unbalanced constitutional system called executive Beast Mode, Mr. Biden would declare “national emergencies” on both abortion and climate, presumably leading to an array of sweeping presidential enactments accomplished by Mr. Biden repeatedly producing his signature.
The post-2020 Democratic Party’s theory of politics appears to be: The system no longer works, so blow up the system by issuing presidential executive orders on climate, education, guns and abortion; ending the legislative filibuster; packing the Supreme Court; suppressing dissent as “misinformation”; and if necessary, redefining reality, such as the “1619 Project,” which rewrote the country’s history.
Clichés in politics exist because they’re true. Don’t promise what you can’t deliver. Politics is the art of the possible. Chuck Schumer knew these realities before he was out of sixth grade in Brooklyn. The progressive coterie to which the Senate majority leader pays obeisance now doesn’t know any of this because teachers from grade school through university have tutored them in the nonnegotiable demand.
These tactics do produce publicity—such as Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s faux handcuffed pose Tuesday—but a problem remains: It isn’t sustainable. An article in the Washington Post this week reports that college-age Democrats are pushing away from politics, including this November’s elections, done in by the endless, insistent activist wheel-spinning.
That is the familiar result of displacing the unavoidably incremental progress of real politics with an antipolitics—street demos, constant moral denunciations, or threats of ostracism from the group for imagined offenses. Whatever else, keeping the apocalypse going is exhausting.
People are reordering their post-pandemic lives. Losing one’s mind every day over Jan. 6, abortion or Joe Manchin may be what professional Democrats do for a living now. The rest of the country is still looking for that promised, but undelivered, return to normal.“
In a related item, though we’ve always enjoyed Dan Henninger’s writing, we didn’t know until now he was psychic, as, despite a majority of experts on its advisory committee being against it, the Journal informs us the…
“The World Health Organization has declared that monkeypox is a public-health emergency of international concern, despite divisions among members of the committee of experts who advise the agency, as global case numbers surpass 16,000.
This is the first time the WHO has declared a global health emergency since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in January 2020. In an unusual move, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, went against the majority view of the emergency committee in making the declaration.
Monkeypox—rarely detected outside Africa before now—has in recent weeks spread to thousands of people across dozens of countries, mainly among men who have sex with men.No deaths have been reported among the cases outside of Africa, but three people have died in Nigeria and two in the Central African Republic since the start of the year. Epidemiologists say the virus, which requires close contact to spread, is likely exploiting close-knit social and sexual networks among men who have sex with men…”
But of course they did, ’cause even the densest minds on the planet finally realize their last one was a complete scam at best…
President Joe Biden’s health is deteriorating before our eyes. Recent events have prompted the Washington Free Beacon to declare a state of DEATH WATCH 1. Here are some key numbers and other facts to keep in mind during this challenging time for our once-great nation:
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