Friday, March 14, 2014

BloggeRhythms

Several items today, all indicating growing underlying unhappiness with the Dem party, its supporters and members, building toward the mid-term elections this November.
 
Chris Stirewalt noted on Fox News on-line that, “The first foray into local politics by Ready for Hillary, the shadow campaign for 2016 Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, did not spell success for Democratic New Hampshire Executive Council candidate Mike Cryans. Cryans conceded the race to Republican Joe Kenney Wednesday. According to reports, the Pro-Hillary PAC dispatched 20 volunteers to boost Democrat support in Tuesday’s special election, focusing its efforts on Dartmouth college students.”
 
What this demonstrates is, it’s not the campaigning effort put out by Dem’s that count. Voters are fed up with what they've done when they’re elected. So, until Dem’s performance and platform change, to give people back the economy and international power they’ve lost, all the talk in the world doesn’t mean anything.  
 
Then the Fox BuzzFeed column included this illustration of typical leftist hypocrisy: “The New York Times published an editorial on Sunday praising New York University and Columbia for moving away from unpaid internships… as they ‘mostly functioned as a fig leaf for employers, who could pretend that the credit somehow justified not paying for a student’s work.’ … it was a little striking then to see the Times’ March 3 job listing for an unpaid spring semester video intern.  The ideal candidate will work between 10 and 20 hours a week ‘for school credit’ and must be ‘enrolled in a greater NYC-area college pursuing a full-time degree in a related creative field.”
 
Next, adding to the growing list of administration incorrect decision-making now being criticized by its own members, Fox News on-line reports that “President Obama's former national security adviser says he should approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline as a matter of national security.
 
Retired Gen. James Jones tells the Senate Foreign Relations that approving the pipeline would send a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin and other "international bullies" that they cannot use energy security as a weapon. Jones says rejection of the Canada-to-Texas pipeline would "make Mr. Putin's day and strengthen his hand."
 
Another voice was heard on the same subject, according to the Wall Street Journal as follows: “Sen. Mary Landrieu [Democrat] of Louisiana intensified the pressure on Secretary of State John Kerry, a former Senate colleague, to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Ms. Landrieu, the new chairwoman of the Senate Energy Committee, said, “Canada is our closest, strongest trading partner,” and “a majority of American people” support Keystone. “It is hard for me to understand why there are still questions about whether building this pipeline is in our national interest,” she said.
 
What these comments illustrate is the magnitude of error when decision-making is purely political. Because, as often mentioned here, in the case of the Keystone pipeline, the delay’s greatly harmed the nation economically, employment-wise, and now, also in foreign policy by aiding our enemies. You can’t get much more wrong then that.
 
And now we come to some more news about one of the biggest political hacks on the planet, Senator Harry Reed again. 
 
This morning, www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014 says that “FBI agents working alongside Utah state prosecutors in a wide-ranging corruption investigation have uncovered accusations of wrongdoing by two of the U.S. Senate’s most prominent figures — Majority Leader Harry Reid and rising Republican Sen. Mike Lee — but the Justice Department has thwarted their bid to launch a full federal investigation.
 
The probe, conducted by one Republican and one Democratic state prosecutor in Utah, has received accusations from an indicted businessman and political donor, interviewed other witnesses and gathered preliminary evidence such as financial records, Congressional Record statements and photographs that corroborate some aspects of the accusations, officials have told The Washington Times and ABC News.”
 
Now, I don’t want to get my hopes up, because the investigation’s just begun and right now is only suspicion. But that doesn’t mean my wish won't come true someday, of seeing Harry Reed impeached, and led out of the Senate on TV in leg irons and handcuffs.
 
That's it for today folks
 
Adios

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