{"id":105392,"date":"2022-11-23T19:03:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T00:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=105392"},"modified":"2022-11-23T19:03:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T00:03:20","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-november-9th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=105392","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, November 9th, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, November 9th, 2022&#8230;but before we begin, at a time of what should and could be unrivaled plenty, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/bidens-closing-argument-higher-energy-prices-11667845918?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all Biden has to offer is sweat, toil, tears and sky-high prices<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W_Sj8UNn0wQ?start=254\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is any wonder America handed the Dimocrats an historic&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/kick-in-the-ass.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/kick-in-the-ass.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/kick-in-the-ass.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/kick-in-the-ass-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;yesterday?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BpKK2JkyZI0?start=115&amp;end=119&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Consider this from\u00a0<em>WaPo<\/em> columnist\u00a0Catherine Rampell:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"isPasted\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Democrats appear to be heading toward painful losses on Tuesday, in one if not both houses of Congress. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">What went wrong will be debated for months, perhaps years.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong>Much of the problem can be summed up in one word: <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">denial<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agreed, yet only a few paragraphs further on, Rampell displays an identical disregard of reality:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>They\u2019ve downplayed voters\u2019 concerns on crime, violent protests, school closures and rising recession risks. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">These are vulnerabilities that Republicans have exploited during the campaign (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>while offering no solutions of their own, of course<\/em><\/span>).<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;No solutions&#8221;, Ms. Rampell&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>really<\/em><\/span>?!?\u00a0 What about more police, rescinding Progressive bond policies, prosecuting and incarcerating criminals, breaking up violent protests and arresting, convicting and jailing the protesters, keeping schools open and giving parents control over their children&#8217;s curriculums, eliminating union-created supply chain bottlenecks, and drilling, <em>drilling<\/em>, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">drilling<\/span><\/em>?\u00a0 Aren&#8217;t those solutions to the Progressive-produced problems you catalogued?!?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>While we&#8217;re at it, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>are not<\/em><\/span> closing the border, deporting illegal aliens, keeping biologic men out of women&#8217;s sports and locker\/bathrooms, ending green energy subsidies and bans on internal combustion vehicles,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>eliminating wokeness from our Military and rebuilding\/reining in a politicized, weaponized federal bureaucracy <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>to be considered solutions as well<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not when even someone who correctly identifies a large part of the Progressives&#8217; problem plays the role of Cleopatra.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/calvin-denial-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105365\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/calvin-denial-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/calvin-denial-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/calvin-denial-copy-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s pre-election result installment of\u00a0<em>The Gouge<\/em>, though we have to note one would have to be an utter and complete idiot to cast a ballot for John Fetterman!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, in a must-read analysis which deserves inclusion in full,\u00a0<em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Rich Lowry records&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header article-header--full\">\n<div class=\"article-header__inner\">\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/11\/the-trump-to-desantis-swing\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202022-11-07&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">The Trump-to-DeSantis Swing<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/11\/the-trump-to-desantis-swing\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202022-11-07&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The stakes in the 2024 primary will be huge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/701v4j.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105368\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/701v4j.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/701v4j.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/701v4j-300x152.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>I<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span class=\"small_caps\">t\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0been \u201con\u201d for a while, but Donald Trump fired the first shot in his 2024 competition with Ron DeSantis by calling him \u201cRon DeSanctimonious\u201d at a Pennsylvania rally over the weekend.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Rumored to be contemplating an announcement as soon as next week, Trump is obviously the front-runner for the nomination.<\/span> Depending on his general-election opponent and the circumstances, he\u2019d probably have something like a 50\/50 shot to win the presidency again.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>So it\u2019s time to think <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>seriously<\/em><\/span> about what this would look like.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>There are huge pitfalls to Trump 3.0 that would be easily and nearly completely avoided by nominating and electing DeSantis, or any other Republican alternative. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(I don\u2019t take it as an absolute certainty, by the way, that DeSantis will run, or that if he does, it will come down at the end to the Trump\u2013DeSantis contest everyone expects.)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>difference between nominating Trump and DeSantis<\/em><\/span> \u2014 the delta in terms of Republican prospects and governing potential \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is hard to exaggerate<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If Trump wins the presidency again, it will be mayhem.<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>Caused in large part by The Donald himself!<\/em>)<\/span> The reaction of the other side will make what happened after the 2016 election seem mild in comparison. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">You don\u2019t ever want to give the opposition a veto, but how the opposition reacts affects how a president can govern.<\/span> Democrats would <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>certainly<\/em><\/span> find a reason to deny the legitimacy of a President DeSantis, but his cabinet secretaries probably wouldn\u2019t have to have bomb-sniffing dogs checking their cars every morning. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">That would matter, and it would be better than the alternative of the Left trying to convince itself, in a paroxysm of anti-Trump rage, that it needs to try to forge some sort of American color revolution.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Then there\u2019s the question of age. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Trump seems youthful and vital compared with President Biden.<\/span> He\u2019s still 76 years old, though. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In the unlikely event that Biden runs again, a Trump\u2013Biden race will be aged-on-aged violence that will be a great victory, one way or the other, for the American gerontocracy.<\/span> A DeSantis\u2013Biden race, on the other hand, would set up a simple <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">future-vs.-past<\/span><\/em> contest like Clinton vs. Dole in 1996 or Obama vs. McCain in 2008.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Although Trump looks as if he could be doing campaign rallies until he\u2019s 90, time comes for us all.<\/span> There\u2019s no guarantee that Trump won\u2019t start encountering Biden-like aging problems, either during a general election or in a prospective second term. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Why risk it, when there are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>palatable, new-generation alternatives<\/em><\/span>?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Trump is tethered to the past in a more important way than his age. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If he\u2019s the nominee, every Republican in the country would either have to endorse his delusions about the 2020 election or find a way to dodge them.<\/span> And Trump would be paying attention. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">He\u2019d presumably be happy to take shots at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anyone<\/em><\/span> in the party not showing sufficient loyalty to \u201cstop the steal,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no matter how destructive<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>DeSantis or anyone else would spare other Republicans the political pain of getting pressured this way.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Relatedly, Trump is not a party-builder.<\/span> Yes, he\u2019s a movement-builder, but he imagines that the movement is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all about himself<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">As he demonstrated in Georgia in 2020, he\u2019s happy to exercise the \u201cSamson option\u201d when crossed \u2014 differing only from Samson by bringing the temple crashing down <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only on his party, not himself<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>There\u2019s no reason to believe that DeSantis (or the other alternatives) would be anything other than a responsible leader of the national party genuinely vested in its growth and welfare.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">With regard to governing prospects, there\u2019s also a big swing.<\/span> Trump did a number of truly consequential and creative things policy-wise while in office, but his erratic nature also limited his ability to deliver. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A vendetta tour against all his real and perceived enemies would now be layered on top of this.<\/span> Assuming that Mitch McConnell is still the GOP leader in the Senate, do Republicans <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>really want<\/em><\/span> a newly elected president and a Senate majority leader who don\u2019t speak to each other and, worse, a president who has insulted that majority leader in crude and personal terms?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Trump has much more of a policy apparatus and government-in-waiting than in 2016, but he\u2019ll still have trouble hiring for top positions, and a miasma of legal controversies will continue to trail him everywhere.<\/span> Again, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>why choose that<\/em><\/span> when there are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>other alternatives<\/em><\/span> who\u2019d start with a clean slate and be able and willing to work with everyone in the party?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Lastly, Trump has already shown once before that he can take a winnable national race and lose it, in part because he couldn\u2019t conceal his personal flaws \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he didn\u2019t even try<\/em><\/span> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> made himself <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>repellent<\/em><\/span> to too many voters <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>for no good reason<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> (It\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one thing<\/em><\/span> to be hated for fighting courageous fights; it\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>another<\/em><\/span> to be hated for idiotic tweets and pointless outrages.)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Politics at the presidential level exposes everyone.<\/span> The job is so demanding and the stage so big that no one is completely suited to them. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Whatever weaknesses that DeSantis \u2014 or again, other alternatives \u2014 has will be revealed in due course.<\/span> Yet the Florida governor has never put himself in the position of getting defeated in a race that easily could have been won, and of denying his loss out of personal embarrassment. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Trump likes to divide the world into winners and losers, and DeSantis for now is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>emphatically the former<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That<\/em><\/span>, too, should count for a lot.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We can\u2019t know how a 2024 fight will play out.<\/span> We do know that the stakes will be enormous.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A lot can still happen between now and 2024, and DeSantis wouldn&#8217;t be the first candidate whose closeted skeletons inconveniently came to light and derailed their run, but all things being equal, when it comes to taking Trump over a completely-qualified candidate with all of his limited assets and none of his numerous liabilities, we&#8217;re with Remo:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ka7hSZhgplk?start=72&amp;end=81&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, one doesn&#8217;t have to be a codebreaker to decipher from the man&#8217;s own words\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-senate-republican-leadership-change-warns-potential-2024-gop-candidates-against-running\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>DeSantis scares the bejeebers out of the Donald<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><strong>I don\u2019t know if he is running. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">I think if he runs, he could hurt himself very badly.<\/span> I really believe he could hurt himself badly.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333399;\">I think he would be making a mistake, I think the base would not like it \u2014 I don\u2019t think it would be good for the party.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Any of that stuff is not good \u2014 you have other people that possibly will run, I guess.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333399;\">I don\u2019t know if he runs.<\/span> If he runs, he runs.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/but-wait.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105373\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/but-wait.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/but-wait.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/but-wait-300x134.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>&#8220;I would tell you things about him that won\u2019t be very flattering \u2014 I know more about him than anybody \u2014 other than, perhaps, his wife.<\/strong><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: There&#8217;s no way we&#8217;ll <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ever<\/em><\/span> support this complete a*sclown&#8230;except against any possible Dimocratic nominee for the presidency!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a second shot of the juice: The politician The Donald would have us believe could hurt himself badly by running against him in 2024 just carried Miami-Dade County, a feat no Republican has pulled off in the last 20 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, remember the FBI&#8217;s response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/house-republicans-release-1000-page-report-alleging-politicization-fbi-doj\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>scathing 1,000-page House Republican report on Bureau misconduct and malfeasance<\/em><\/span><\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The men and women of the FBI devote themselves to protecting the American people from terrorism, violent crime, cyber threats and other dangers.\u00a0Put quite simply: we follow the facts without regard for politics.\u00a0While\u00a0outside opinions and criticism often come with the job, we will continue to follow the facts wherever they lead, do things by the book, and speak through our work.<\/strong><\/span>\u201c<\/p>\n<p><strong>Writing at <em>AEI<\/em>, Nicholas Eberstadt wonders&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/society-and-culture\/do-the-fbis-crime-statistics-add-up\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Do the FBI\u2019s Crime Statistics Add Up<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">?<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/download.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105369\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/download.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/download.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/download-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Believe it or not, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>someone on the internet<\/em><\/span> is now claiming that violent crime in America\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fell<\/em><\/span>\u00a0last year. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Unfortunately, that \u201csomeone\u201d happens to be the FBI\u2014brandishing a new crime-count methodology, and telling the public, in effect, to ignore the evidence of its own senses.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>As more or less everyone in the United States today knows, crime is a hot button issue this election cycle\u2014and for a reason. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Next week a \u201cred wave\u201d stands to punish Democratic candidates across the country, not least because so many voters blame the Democrats for a nationwide decline in public safety since Team Blue took the White House and the Congress in 2020.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Yet you would have no inkling of this\u2014neither the problem itself, nor the public\u2019s anxiety, much less the coming electoral backlash\u2014from perusing Washington\u2019s new official numbers on national crime trends. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">These data were released last month by the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) under their new \u201cNational Incident Based Reporting System\u201d (NIBRS), which formally displaced their previous \u201cSummary Reporting System\u201d (SRS) at the beginning of 2021.<\/span> According to these numbers, America <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did not suffer a crime wave in 2021<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Quite the contrary: the FBI maintains that violent crime actually\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fell<\/em><\/span>\u00a0last year.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>True: the FBI\u2019s NIBRS <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>does<\/em><\/span> acknowledge that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>murders<\/em><\/span> rose in 2021\u2014some <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>4 percent<\/em><\/span> above 2020 levels, it says. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Nevertheless, according to the purportedly improved methodology about which Justice Department officials boast, the US enjoyed a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>1 percent overall decline<\/em><\/span> in violent crime between 2020 and 2021.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>How did<\/em><\/span> the Feds manage to get their crime assessment for America\u2014even the direction of the arrow\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so laugh-out-loud wrong<\/em><\/span>? <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A closer look reveals some of the awkward details<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item we covered preciously, courtesy of\u00a0<em>Front Page Magazine<\/em>, Lloyd Billingsley reminds us how&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fbi-hides-laptops-of-the-dead\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">FBI Hides Laptops of the Dead<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"fpm-subtitle-heading\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fbi-hides-laptops-of-the-dead\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">The bureau blocks information from the laptop computers of DNC murder victim Seth Rich and DHS whistleblower Philip Haney<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sethphil.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sethphil.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sethphil.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sethphil-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The FBI is defying a court order to hand over information from the laptop of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer murdered in July of 2016. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">As\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/fbi-asks-court-for-66-years-to-release-information-from-seth-richs-computer_4826785.html\">The Epoch Times reports<\/a><\/em><\/span>, the bureau wants the court\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23107237-order-on-seth-rich-files\">to reverse the 53-page ruling<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0of federal judge Amos Mazzant, an Obama appointee. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If the court declines, the FBI wants to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">delay<\/span><\/em> release of the data for\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">66 years<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">That would put the release in 2088, when FBI boss Christopher Wray would be 121 years old, so the 66-year figure is code for \u201cnever.\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><em><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2022\/10\/huge-fbi-now-wants-66-years-releasing-information-seth-rich-information-originally-denied\/\">journalist Jim Hoft explains<\/a><\/em><\/span>, \u201cpeople with nothing to hide don\u2019t try to hide nothing,\u201d so the people have a right to wonder what is going on<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just as with all of Paul Pelose&#8217;s various adventures, which, had they involved an average American, would have been subject to full and complete disclosure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us to <em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/diesel.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/diesel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/diesel.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/diesel-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sk110622dAPR-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sk110622dAPR-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sk110622dAPR-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sk110622dAPR-800x0-300x249.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/afb110822dAPR-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105381\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/afb110822dAPR-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/afb110822dAPR-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/afb110822dAPR-800x0-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/biden-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105382\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/biden-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/biden-2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/biden-2-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cb110722dAPR-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105383\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cb110722dAPR-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cb110722dAPR-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cb110722dAPR-800x0-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cb110822dAPR-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105384\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cb110822dAPR-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cb110822dAPR-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cb110822dAPR-800x0-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/mc_messages_web-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/mc_messages_web-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/mc_messages_web-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/mc_messages_web-800x0-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fauxchi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105386\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fauxchi.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fauxchi.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fauxchi-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vote.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105387\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vote.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vote.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vote-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image-11-7-22-at-9.20-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105356\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image-11-7-22-at-9.20-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image-11-7-22-at-9.20-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image-11-7-22-at-9.20-AM-300x222.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image-11-8-22-at-8.08-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105377\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image-11-8-22-at-8.08-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image-11-8-22-at-8.08-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image-11-8-22-at-8.08-AM-300x239.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these from Speed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Speed.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105379\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Speed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Speed.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Speed-270x300.png 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;the lovely Shannon&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/shannon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105378\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/shannon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/shannon.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/shannon-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Balls Cotton:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Balls.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105397\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Balls.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Balls.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Balls-246x300.png 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image0000000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image0000000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image0000000.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image0000000-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image0000000-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, and this head-scratcher of a tale from the Volunteer State, as a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/nashville-porsche-driver-gets-probation-shooting-homeless-man-asked-her-lower-music-move-car\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nashville Porsche driver gets probation for shooting homeless man who asked her to lower music, move car<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-headline speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/nashville-porsche-driver-gets-probation-shooting-homeless-man-asked-her-lower-music-move-car\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nashville woman allegedly claimed homeless man threatened to kill her before shooting<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DJe_yHZXUAIK0WM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DJe_yHZXUAIK0WM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Katie Quackenbush was ordered on Thursday to serve 11 months and 29 days probation for the Aug. 26, 2017, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>shooting death<\/em><\/span> of Gerald Melton, 54,\u00a0on Nashville\u2019s famed Music Row, police and FOX 17 Nashville reported.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Quackenbush had originally been charged with attempted murder for the early morning shooting, but was instead found guilty of misdemeanor reckless endangerment, the outlet reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Melton was initially critically wounded, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>survived his injuries<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Shooting death&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;survived his injuries&#8221;: somewhere there&#8217;s an editor as unworthy of their title as the current occupant of the Oval Office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Video of the Day<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>At the time this is published we won&#8217;t have known the results of the election. But if it&#8217;s a red wave, Jesse Watters explains why.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oYfAAfTwVjU\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Tales of The Darkside<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brit Hume weighs in on what&#8217;s next for America&#8217;s premier prevaricating gaffe machine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rxWO1la2uyI?start=22&amp;end=157&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>On the Lighter Side<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Will Cain puts Oprah&#8217;s endorsement of the manifestly incapable John Fetterman into proper perspective.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GhJROZeE7bM?start=88&amp;end=133&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, November 9th, 2022&#8230;but before we begin, at a time of what should and could be unrivaled plenty, all Biden has to offer is sweat, toil, tears and sky-high prices. \ufeff Is any wonder America handed the Dimocrats an historic&#8230; &#8230;yesterday?!? \ufeff Consider this from\u00a0WaPo columnist\u00a0Catherine Rampell: &#8220;Democrats appear to be heading toward painful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105421,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105392\/revisions\/105421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}