Though, as the WSJ’s Kim Strassel reports, another of Biden’s first priorities, demanding the resignation, under threat of termination, of Peter Robb, general counsel to the National Labor Relations Board, truly tells you all you need to know about Groper Joe’s plans for America’s future:
“…Within minutes of Mr. Biden’s swearing-in, and as the new president told the nation it needed to “be better,” the new White House delivered Mr. Robb an ultimatum: resign by 5 p.m., or be fired.
The general-counsel position is a Senate-confirmed four-year appointment at an independent agency; Mr. Robb had 10 months left in his term.No NLRB general counsel had ever been fired, and the Biden White House provided no cause for the action. Mr. Robb pointed all this out in a return letter and respectfully declined to step down. So Mr. Biden (“we must end this uncivil war”) canned him.
For four years, the media and Democrats cast every action of the Trump administration as something law-breaking or verging on a constitutional crisis. This week’s headlines, by contrast, were a mass media celebration of the return to “normalcy.” Mr. Biden ran on, and won on, a promise to restore norms to Washington.
The Robb firing illustrates the falsehood of both those narratives. For all Mr. Trump’s bad manners, his administration’s actions were largely by the book. Mr. Trump never fired Richard Griffin, Barack Obama’s NLRB general counsel, who served nine months to the end of his term in 2017. For all the talk of Mr. Biden as the embodiment of gentlemanly politics, Democrats have no intention of playing by the rules…”
So much for unity.
Though, as Jim Freeman records at Best of the Web, there’s one aspect of the Biden presidency on which you can depend: the MSM’s total dedication to whitewashing its reality, which will rival the propaganda Pravda served up while concealing the utter failure which was the former Soviet Union.
That and the fact Chris Wallace is an even bigger horse’s ass than his dead dad.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
We lead off the end of the week courtesy of Powerline via Tom Bakke, as Paul Mirengoff asks and answers the question whether Conservatives should…
“After Barack Obama was elected in 2008, I wrote a column for the Washington Examiner (also published on Power Line) about how conservatives should respond to and cope with the Obama presidency. It was a high-minded piece that included such advice as “pray that President Obama achieves greatness in office” and “don’t assume that Obama is always wrong.” (Yours truly, and we know our columns from the time will bear this out, was never under such a misconception of who Barack Obama was or what he was about.)
The column wasn’t easy for me to write. Not after witnessing the way Democrats and media treated George W. Bush for eight years. However, I believed what I wrote and tried to follow my advice during the Obama presidency.
Twelve years later, I believe conservatives should take a very different approach to the Biden presidency. The notion of Biden achieving greatness in office is too absurd to pray for. We should hope, more modestly, that nothing terrible happens on Biden’s watch. If something terrible happens, that would be bad for our country.
We should also hope that Biden’s presidency isunsuccessful because if Biden is successful, that too would be bad for America. Biden and his team want to transform America radically. If they succeed, America will be weaker, poorer, less safe, less well-educated, less patriotic, less free, less fair, and less colorblind (and therefore more racist).
These are the stakes. They require forceful (but non-violent), relentless (but lawful) opposition to Joe Biden. In that sense, they call for something like resistance.
I also believe that conservatives should always presume that Biden is wrong. That presumption should be rebuttable. If examination of a particular Biden policy or personnel move shows it to be meritorious, we should, of course, conclude that it is.
But there are good reasons why the presumption should always run against Biden — why he should never be given the benefit of the doubt…”
Here’s the juice: We haven’t given this hypocritical corruptocrat the benefit of the doubt since we first became acquainted with his penchant for perfidy through his lead role in the character assassination of Robert Bork.
Thus our opinion of the * President is the same as that held (wholly inaccurately) by Marshall Thibido of the dying gunfighter John Bernard Books in The Shootist:
Editor’s Note: The Shootist was The Duke’s last film, and if you haven’t seen it, it’s well worth your time…and any necessary money.
Next, we offer six articles deemed worthy of your time and attention:
Could it be mere coincidence D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser just ordered indoor restaurant dining restrictions lifted as of Friday…in the midst of what we’re told is the worst COVID surge…ever?!?
Or, should we consider it simple happenstance Maryland’s RINO governor Larry Hogan suddenly decided it’s safe to open schools?
Larry Hogan: truly a profile, not of courage, but in obese political expedience and deliberate deception. Is it any wonder we wish of all Progressives…
…with righteous anger at their lies and duplicity?!?
And last, but definitely least, (6). An incredibly acidic invective from NRO‘s Kevin Williamson, who describes Trump leaving office as a Witless Ape Rides Helicopter.
The column is unbelievably vicious and insulting, particularly as the author seems completely ignorant of the choices voters of any political persuasion faced in both 2016 and 2020.
So, as Forest Gump was wont to observe…
One final thought before we move on: Now that there’s a solid strict-constructionist majority on the SCOTUS, here’s hoping we see a lawsuit against the legality of the Paris Accords and the Iran deal on the basis both constitute foreign treaties enacted without the advice and consent of the Senate.
However, we won’t hold our breath.
Moving on, NRO‘s Alexandra DeSanctis highlights how…
Sorry, but the time’s long passed when people should have given up on such pipe dreams and focused, no pun intended, on the problems at hand:
We’d say this dimwitted duo at the controls of the country is yet another example of life imitating art, but at least in Magnum Force the co-pilot could fly.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Along with this from our eldest…
…as well as two more we found:
Then there’s this from Sky News via White House Dossier, as we learn a…
“A 36-year-old man lived undetected in a secure section of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for three months because he was “too scared” to go home due to COVID-19, US prosecutors say.
…According to police, he arrived in Chicago on a flight from Los Angeles on 19 October. Mr Singh, who survived on food from other passengers, is unemployed and lives in the city of Orange, California. It was unclear why he was in Chicago.
Cook County Judge Susana Ortiz reacted with surprise when a prosecutor set out the allegations, according to the Chicago Tribune. She reportedly told the court: “So if I understand you correctly, you’re telling me that an unauthorised non-employee individual was allegedly living within a secure part of the O’Hare airport terminal from 19 October 2020 to 16 January 2021 and was not detected? I want to understand you correctly.”
Judge Ortiz added: “The court finds these facts and circumstances quite shocking for the alleged period of time that this occurred.”
On Saturday, two employees from United Airlines were said to have approached Mr Singh and asked for his identification.
…Assistant public defender Courtney Smallwood said Mr Singh does not have a criminal background and has a master’s degree in hospitality – and said the unusual allegations were not violent, reported the Tribune. The Chicago Department of Aviation said that while the incident remains under investigation, it had been able to “determine that this gentleman did not pose a security risk to the airport or to the travelling public“.“
But that’s not quite the point, is it? What about…
…this guy? After all, if Mr. Singh’s master’s in hospitality enabled him to elude and outwit O’Hare security for three months, what’s to prevent someone with a doctorate in terrorism from doing so, with infinitely deadlier results?!?
And sorry, if Mr. Singh flew to O’Hare back in October, a good seven months into the Wuhan crisis, we’re not buying the fact he was somehow too scared to go home. Also, we’re more than passing curious why anyone would have been giving him food.
Finally, we’ll wrap up a most depressing week with this inspiring item, as Condé Nast Traveler presents…
Though Kamalaa was ALWAYS ahead, since she started out on her knees.
Tales of The Darkside
Anytime Thomas Sowell speaks, one would do well to listen. All kidding aside, this man has more wisdom…not to mention common sense…in his bicuspids than the entire Biden Administration put together.
On the Lighter Side
Bernie reminds us of John Diehl’s character in Stripes: He thinks he’s The Cruiser, while everyone else considers him The Dork.
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