Month: March 2019

To anyone but Stanford- and Oxford-educated Chelsea Clinton, it ought to be a no-brainer to tell defenders of anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar to go (k)iss up a rope.

These jackasses decided that Chelsea Clinton’s statements decrying the massacre at two mosques in New Zealand, by some self-described fascist freak, were hypocrisy, all because Clinton criticized Omar for her multiple Jew-hating tweets and statements. The statements against what came out of Omar’s mouth, see, were what actually triggered the killings.

10,000 miles around the world, Chelsea Clinton’s criticisms were the very thing that activated Brandon Tarrant to fly to New Zealand from Australia, and then shoot up two places of worship and the people within.

Somebody got a logic meter? Because this one would knock the needle off the scale.

Chelsea, in that half-baked ‘that you feel that way’ of hers, decided to apologize. The Daily Caller reports:

“I’m so sorry that you feel that way. It was certainly never my intention. I do believe words matter. I believe we have to show solidarity,” Clinton stated when approached by students.

It would have been a no-brainer, even for her, to come up with some pablum about not liking hate of any kind, making her way through some student memorial among the privileged hipsters of Greenwich Village. 

But groveling was better. Her idiotic response was just the thing for the bullies on the extreme-far-left, and they probably knew it. It’s rather redolent of how U.C. Berkeley’s radicals jerked around avowed liberal university president Clark Kerr in the 1960s. Eric Hoffer spoke and wrote about that one. Even the children of the Democratic establishment elites are not exempt from the maelstrom of rage coming from the crazed far left, because they will always bow.

Which brings up back to Chelsea. Her apology was not only cowardly, it was also bad stuff for her supposed “brave” stance condemning anti-Semitism in the wake of Omar’s revolting statements, giving a few inches to her defenders, presumably in the interest of ‘civility.’

You never give anti-Semites so much as a millimeter of ground, and she ought to know it. It just goes to show how weak and tenuous the Democratic elites’ claims to supporting condemnation against anti-Semitism really are. Chelsea Clinton folded like a cheap suit, when she should have pulled out her inner attack dog.

Image credit: Daily Caller/Fox News screen grab

 

To anyone but Stanford- and Oxford-educated Chelsea Clinton, it ought to be a no-brainer to tell defenders of anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar to go (k)iss up a rope.

These jackasses decided that Chelsea Clinton’s statements decrying the massacre at two mosques in New Zealand, by some self-described fascist freak, were hypocrisy, all because Clinton criticized Omar for her multiple Jew-hating tweets and statements. The statements against what came out of Omar’s mouth, see, were what actually triggered the killings.

10,000 miles around the world, Chelsea Clinton’s criticisms were the very thing that activated Brandon Tarrant to fly to New Zealand from Australia, and then shoot up two places of worship and the people within.

Somebody got a logic meter? Because this one would knock the needle off the scale.

Chelsea, in that half-baked ‘that you feel that way’ of hers, decided to apologize. The Daily Caller reports:

“I’m so sorry that you feel that way. It was certainly never my intention. I do believe words matter. I believe we have to show solidarity,” Clinton stated when approached by students.

It would have been a no-brainer, even for her, to come up with some pablum about not liking hate of any kind, making her way through some student memorial among the privileged hipsters of Greenwich Village. 

But groveling was better. Her idiotic response was just the thing for the bullies on the extreme-far-left, and they probably knew it. It’s rather redolent of how U.C. Berkeley’s radicals jerked around avowed liberal university president Clark Kerr in the 1960s. Eric Hoffer spoke and wrote about that one. Even the children of the Democratic establishment elites are not exempt from the maelstrom of rage coming from the crazed far left, because they will always bow.

Which brings up back to Chelsea. Her apology was not only cowardly, it was also bad stuff for her supposed “brave” stance condemning anti-Semitism in the wake of Omar’s revolting statements, giving a few inches to her defenders, presumably in the interest of ‘civility.’

You never give anti-Semites so much as a millimeter of ground, and she ought to know it. It just goes to show how weak and tenuous the Democratic elites’ claims to supporting condemnation against anti-Semitism really are. Chelsea Clinton folded like a cheap suit, when she should have pulled out her inner attack dog.

Image credit: Daily Caller/Fox News screen grab

 

With the press largely focused on the college cheating scandal and cooking up with new ways to Blame Trump for the mosque massacre in New Zealand, some real news is going largely unnoticed:

US Job Opening[s] Soar To All Time High: 1.3 Million More Than Unemployed Workers

According to Zerohedge’s Tyler Durden:

After a modest slowdown in job openings which started in September and continued through November, today’s JOLTS report – Janet Yellen’s favorite labor market indicator – for the month of January  showed an unprecedented surge in job openings across most categories at the start of 2019, with the total number soaring from an upward revised 7.479 million (from 7.335 million), to an all time high 7.581 million, smashing expectations of a 7.225 million print.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders pointed out what that amounted to:

 

The @realDonaldTrump economic miracle is lifting up millions of Americans with better jobs and higher wages https://t.co/2XWMzfv3kr

— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) March 15, 2019

 

Imagine a jobs report like that coming out during the Obama years. Imagine such a report coming out during a hypothetical Hillary Clinton administration…

Imagine it coming under the administration of one of the 15 lockstep socialists running for president on the Democratic Party ticket.

It just wouldn’t happen, if God forbid, one of them should win.

The job creation is so high under President Trump’s tax-cut and deregulatory regimen, there are more jobs than workers to fill them – there’s a jobs surplus, of a million jobs, from employers. All that pent up energy in the economy is now coming forward with President Trump’s tax cuts and deregulation. Among workers, the quitting rate is higher, too, and that means workers are finding higher-paid jobs, not just the one they have now, which means it’s a worker’s market now. President Trump took some flak for advising would-be illegal migrants to come here legally on the grounds that Americans should get first dibs on jobs, but given this labor shortage, it was obvious he knew what the reality out there was. And yes, illegal immigration is surging. Many are coming here for jobs.

When was the last time workers can ever remember having not just a job, but their choice of jobs?

Something like this, assuming it’s remembered by workers, ought to be good for Trump’s reelection in 2020. The Fed places employment as its number one indicator for the economic health of the country – and it’s quite likely many workers do, too. There’s no telling what voters are going to do, but given the importance of jobs to workers, this is as solid an indicator as any about what’s going to drive the coming election. The Democrats are going to have to count on voters imagining that the jobs have nothing to do with Trump if they are to have any chance at all.

 

With the press largely focused on the college cheating scandal and cooking up with new ways to Blame Trump for the mosque massacre in New Zealand, some real news is going largely unnoticed:

US Job Opening[s] Soar To All Time High: 1.3 Million More Than Unemployed Workers

According to Zerohedge’s Tyler Durden:

After a modest slowdown in job openings which started in September and continued through November, today’s JOLTS report – Janet Yellen’s favorite labor market indicator – for the month of January  showed an unprecedented surge in job openings across most categories at the start of 2019, with the total number soaring from an upward revised 7.479 million (from 7.335 million), to an all time high 7.581 million, smashing expectations of a 7.225 million print.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders pointed out what that amounted to:

 

The @realDonaldTrump economic miracle is lifting up millions of Americans with better jobs and higher wages https://t.co/2XWMzfv3kr

— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) March 15, 2019

 

Imagine a jobs report like that coming out during the Obama years. Imagine such a report coming out during a hypothetical Hillary Clinton administration…

Imagine it coming under the administration of one of the 15 lockstep socialists running for president on the Democratic Party ticket.

It just wouldn’t happen, if God forbid, one of them should win.

The job creation is so high under President Trump’s tax-cut and deregulatory regimen, there are more jobs than workers to fill them – there’s a jobs surplus, of a million jobs, from employers. All that pent up energy in the economy is now coming forward with President Trump’s tax cuts and deregulation. Among workers, the quitting rate is higher, too, and that means workers are finding higher-paid jobs, not just the one they have now, which means it’s a worker’s market now. President Trump took some flak for advising would-be illegal migrants to come here legally on the grounds that Americans should get first dibs on jobs, but given this labor shortage, it was obvious he knew what the reality out there was. And yes, illegal immigration is surging. Many are coming here for jobs.

When was the last time workers can ever remember having not just a job, but their choice of jobs?

Something like this, assuming it’s remembered by workers, ought to be good for Trump’s reelection in 2020. The Fed places employment as its number one indicator for the economic health of the country – and it’s quite likely many workers do, too. There’s no telling what voters are going to do, but given the importance of jobs to workers, this is as solid an indicator as any about what’s going to drive the coming election. The Democrats are going to have to count on voters imagining that the jobs have nothing to do with Trump if they are to have any chance at all.

 

Given the fact that the Republicans have controlled at least one house of Congress since he’s taken office, President Donald Trump hasn’t had to use his veto pen. That changed Friday after both houses passed legislation that sought to overturn his emergency declaration to fund a portion of the wall along the southern border.

“Today, I am vetoing this resolution,” Trump said from the Oval Office, according to The New York Times.

“Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution, and I have the duty to veto it.”

While the bill had unsurprisingly passed the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, but when it reached the GOP-controlled Senate, 12 Republicans defected and voted for the legislation — not enough to override a veto, mind you, but a 59-41 loss in a Senate with 53 Republicans isn’t exactly a minor story.

And while some of the Republican votes for the bill were the usual irritants for the Trump administration — Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine and Mitt Romney of Utah — there were other more surprising defections, including Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Roger Wicker of Mississippi.

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Given the circumstances, then, Friday was an important chance for the president to make the case that there was indeed a border crisis that necessitated invoking emergency measures.

To do so, Trump decided to invite a woman who lost her son to a drunken driver who was in the country illegally into the Oval Office while he issued the veto.

According to Arizona PBS, Mary Ann Mendoza is the founder of Angel Families, a group of survivors whose loved ones were killed by illegal immigrants.

“I knew this day would come, you know, that he would do something that proves to all of us that he is doing exactly what he promised the American people during his campaign,” Mendoza said Friday.

She also shared what happened to her son during the Oval Office session:

An angel mother thanks @realDonaldTrump for his hard stance on illegal immigration.

“We want to show the American people, and let you know, what is happening on our door steps. There is a way to prevent this. It is a national emergency.” pic.twitter.com/p7rR8j8VL3

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 15, 2019

“My son was killed in 2014 by a repeat illegal alien criminal who was allowed to stay in this country,” she said. “He was a police officer in Mesa, Arizona.

“Angel families come forward to tell their stories not because we’ve created a manufactured crisis, but because we want to tell the American people and share with you our heartache so that you know what is happening on our doorsteps, what’s happening to your neighbors, what’s happening to your fellow Americans. …

“And there is a way to prevent this, and it’s not by continually lying to you and telling you there isn’t a problem. There is a problem and it is a national emergency.”

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It’s certainly an unconventional approach as these things go, and one that’s clearly meant to put pressure on recalcitrant Republicans.

It’s easy enough to cite precedent, to say that the national emergency clause can be used by a Democratic president to make changes to gun laws or on environmental issues, as a reason to vote against the national emergency.

However, the message that Mendoza’s presence in the Oval Office sent was clear: The border crisis is sui generis, a problem that’s festered for decades without political action.

Given the circumstances, Trump seems to be arguing, a national emergency is called for.

Whether or not that convinces Republicans — or Americans — is something that remains to be seen, but you can’t argue he didn’t make the case forcefully.

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