BloggeRhythms

Today’s one indicating upcoming significant change in political strategizing for the left, while reinforcement of the Republican focus on business growth continues flourishing.   
  
Jess Macy Yu and J.R. Wu report @reuters.com via Drudge that “Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker and a major Apple Inc supplier, plans to invest more than $10 billion in a display-making factory in the United States and will decide on the location of the plant next month.”

Locations being considered include Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, while Gou told reporters: “In the U.S., the state governors' sincerity and confidence to attract investment ... is beyond my imagination."


"This time we go to America, it's not just to build a factory, but to move our entire supply chain there," Gou told shareholders, without providing specific details.

Which is in keeping President Trump’s calling for “firms to build more products in the United States,” focusing on investments by both foreign and domestic manufacturers as promised in his campaign. 

On the Democrat side, another high-profile leader certainly senses what’s happening to his party as it evaporates around him.

According to Tony Lee @breitbart.com: “Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg believes Americans must “get behind” President Donald Trump because “he’s our president” and “the public has spoken.”

Appearing on Wednesday’s episode of The View on ABC, Bloomberg said he doesn’t want Democrats to be obstructionists just to hurt Trump politically. “You can protest. You can elect other officials. You can write letters. You make phone calls. You can carry signs. You can do all that. But in the end, we’re a democracy. The public has spoken—whether you like the results or not.”

Bloomberg added that, “You have to make it work. We have an election. Whoever wins, you got to get behind, and you can run against someone else.” He also joked that Trump got elected with “a little help from the Russians.”

However, when endorsing Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in a primetime speech, he said he was doing so because he thought Trump was a “dangerous demagogue,” who “would do great damage to our economy” and “erode our influence in the world.”

“The bottom line is: Trump is a risky, reckless, and radical choice,” he said then. “And we can’t afford to make that choice!”

But now, yesterday, Bloomberg said that Trump is “our president and we need the country to be run well.” Adding, “I didn’t vote for him.”

“Let’s just all hope that Donald Trump is a good president of the United States,” he said adding that Trump has a 55% chance to be re-elected.

Which means that although Bloomberg's opinions regarding Trump most likely haven’t changed an iota, and he probably still hates him most wholeheartedly, Bloomberg also knows that his party's going nowhere except backward if their whole platform is anti-Trump vitriol. 
   
The same conclusion was apparently reached by filmmaker and leftist activist Michael Moore, who yesterday on Twitter expressed his frustration with Ossoff’s loss in Georgia.

Moore tweeted: “If u think the party who’s won the vote in 6 o last 7 Prez votes but hold ZERO power &is now 0-4 in 2017 votes is going to win next year… get a friggin’ clue [sic],” . “The DNC&DCCC has NO idea how 2 win cause they have no message, no plan, no leaders, won’t fight &hate the resistance[.]”

Aside from Democrat politician’s inability to gain voter popularity, nationally syndicated radio show host, author and University of the Arts professor of humanities and media studies Camille Paglia railed against the current state of journalism in America on Sean Hannity’s program. 

Calling what she said the Democratic Party had done to journalism “absolutely grotesque” Paglia warned it would take decades to recover.

“It’s obscene,” she said. “It’s outrageous, OK? It shows that the Democrats are nothing now but words and fantasy and hallucination and Hollywood. There’s no journalism left. What’s happened to The New York Times? What’s happened to the major networks? It’s an outrage.”

“I’m a professor of media studies, in addition to a professor of humanities, OK?” she continued. “And I think it’s absolutely grotesque the way my party has destroyed journalism. Right now, it is going to take decades to recover from this atrocity that’s going on where the news media have turned themselves over to the most childish fraternity, kind of buffoonish behavior.”

Picking up on the theme of Democrat futility yesterday, Rush discussed “another congressional hearing. And Jeh Johnson, another vaunted Obama administration guy brought back up, and he was being asked today about what they knew about Russians tampering and hacking with the election. I just want you to hear this.”

"[Republican Congressman] Mike Conaway from Texas: “One of our purposes this morning was to reassure the American public with [regard] to the 16 election and also secondly look at what we do in future elections going forward. You said in your opening statement, in your prepared remarks that to your knowledge there was no vote tallying changes, that no one’s vote was voted one way and recorded some other way. Is that still your opinion with respect to the 16 election,” the intrusions, whatever they might have been, by whoever, the vote was not affected?”

"Johnson: “Based on everything I know, that is correct. I know of no evidence that through cyber intrusions, votes were altered or suppressed in some way.

"Rush: “So what are we doing here? They are continuing to chase ghosts. They cannot win elections.”

Jeh Johnson came up again in an article by Pam Key @breitbart.com, as follows: “[T]alking to Martha Maccallum on Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) said it was concerning that while testifying before the House Intelligence Committee earlier in the day at a hearing on the alleged Russian hacking of the 2016 presidential election, former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said his department’s offer to help the Democratic National Committee was denied.

MACCALLUM: “What struck you most about your conversation with Jeh Johnson today?”

GOWDY: “He is in a unique position to answer those questions. He is looking at what Russia was doing. What was the government’s response in 2016? He was the secretary of DHS at all relevant times. I was interested in what the Obama administration knew and when and what efforts they took to thwart the Russians, or to notify potential victims. You just played a clip where we had a victim, the DNC. Not only did they not cooperate with Jeh Johnson, they didn’t turn the server over to the FBI, I think it is a little ironic to now criticize, some Democrats are, Jeh Johnson and Jim Comey and others for not giving enough in 2016, when you had a really good piece of evidence you didn’t bother to turn over.”

MACCALLUM: ”It’s really a head scratcher. When you take a look at it from that perspective—when you put yourself there, during the election, and you remember the emails that were leaked, very embarrassing for John Podesta, Neera Tanden. That was the main thing that Democrats pegged their election loss on. They said because these emails were released, they call it the Russian hacking, which is apparently where it came from. If you remember the content, it was embarrassing. At the same time, they were asked by the FBI and the DHS to give the servers up, let’s figure out who is getting into them and how. Why would they say no? Why would they not want to cooperate?”

GOWDY: “Let me hazard a wild guess. There may be something else on that server they didn’t want law enforcement to see? That is where you start. I don’t like speculating, but I have dealt in the past with victims that would not cooperate with investigations. Typically, the reason is, there is something else you don’t want law enforcement to see. There is no reason to not allow DHS to patch or fix a vulnerability in the DNC system. Heaven knows there is no reason to not give the world’s premier law enforcement agency, which is the FBI, the evidence they may need to stop another attack from hurting someone else.”

An accurate summation came from reader gordonfreeman who commented: “The Democrats are really playing with fire...

“They are not in power. Eric Holder can't cover for them. And they're just being arrogant & unwise.

“The more Democrats testify, the more likely some of these issues come to light & backfire on them.”

As far as Gowdy himself concerned  over the past few days it’s been suggested here that with 
his appointment as House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman things are about to change in the realm of Congressional investigations, with the pendulum starting to swing leftward. 

And then, while the Democrats are foundering as they chase Russian ghosts, one of their most prominent leaders performed foolishly again yesterday. 

Dr. Susan Berry @breitbart.com reports: “In a move that many Americans will no doubt view as the height of liberal hypocrisy, Senate Democrats are planning to bring their chamber to a halt Monday to protest what they view as the Republicans’ closed-door process in writing a health care proposal to repeal Obamacare.

“Democrats’ demand to see the GOP healthcare bill before it comes up for a vote reveals a decidedly different tone from one former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi adopted in 2010 when Obamacare was passed by her party.

“Pelosi – now famously – said prior to the passage of Obamacare, “We’ll have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it.”

“Democrats have also consistently refused to work with Republicans on fixing Obamacare.”

And leave it to Rush again to come up with a pertinently appropriate observation about the congressional vote in Georgia, saying yesterday: “I tell you, I wouldn’t want to be in the group of people that have to talk to Hillary Clinton today. You gotta go talk to Hillary, you gotta be careful not to tell Hillary, don’t tell Hillary that a woman can beat a man even when she’s outspent by a gazillion dollars. Trump spent a fraction of what Hillary spent and won. Ditto Georgia-6. Karen Handel spent a smidgen of what was arrayed against her, and she still won, and it wasn’t close.”

All in all not a very good day to be a Democrat. Particularly if you’re Nancy Pelosi, Jeh Johnson Michael Bloomberg, or Michael Moore. 

That’s it for today folks.

Adios