BloggeRhythms

It seems the nation keeps losing badly as the incumbent checks off items on his campaigning list, rather than growing into the job of POTUS. And, obviously, facts and real world circumstances are rarely considered, if ever, whereas politics always trumps reality in this administration.

 

One of the poorest decisions made concerns the facility at Guantanamo Bay, which Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) discussed last night on “The Kelly File,” regarding captured terrorist, Ahmed Abu Khattala, currently being held on the USS New York.

 

The senator said, “President Obama made this commitment when he first took over the presidency, he was going to close down Guantanamo, so now we don’t have a place to detain these high-value terrorists that we really should be doing is getting intelligence from them. We are under severe threat of Islamic terrorism, that’s a sad and unfortunate threat.”

 

Therefore, what’s happened here is that to please his voters, the incumbent’s placed pressures and constraints that are not only totally unnecessary, but severely weaken U.S. capability to obtain valuable information needed in its own defense. And, illogical decisions like this one are among the many that caused former V.P., Dick Cheney, to write in the Wall Street Journal that, “Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. Too many times to count.”

 

On anther festering matter, the majority believe that records lost involving Lois Lerner and six other IRS employees targeting conservative groups are likely a cover-up. However, what this seems to obviously indicate is that appearing as totally incompetent fools is better for them than exposing the facts. Which means that this effort to buy time will eventually crumble, and sooner or later the truth will come out, likely due to one of the culprits selling the others out for a favorable sentence.

 

Which leads right into another truth, this one involving the incumbent’s health care tax.

 

Noam N. Levey reports that, “Nearly 9 in 10 Americans who bought health coverage on the federal government’s healthcare marketplaces received government assistance to offset their premiums.

 

That assistance helped lower premiums for consumers who bought health coverage on the federal marketplaces by 76% on average, according to the new report from the Department of Health and Human Services.

 

Premiums that normally would have cost $346 a month on average instead cost consumers just $82, with the federal government picking up the balance of the bill. The report suggests that the federal government is on track to spend at least $11 billion on subsidies for consumers who bought health plans on marketplaces run by the federal government, even accounting for the fact that many consumers signed up for coverage in late March and will only receive subsidies for part of the year.”

 

So, now we know that almost all the 8 million sign-ups for the health care tax were bought and paid for by taxpayers who as always will now wind up paying for this administration’s mistakes.  

 

And on the subject of who pays for what, Bloomberg reports that “[Bill Clinton] and Hillary Clinton have long supported an estate tax to prevent the U.S. from being dominated by inherited wealth…[but to] reduce the tax pinch, the Clintons are using financial planning strategies befitting the top 1 percent of U.S. households in wealth. These moves, common among multimillionaires, will help shield some of their estate from the tax that now tops out at 40 percent of assets upon death.”

 

Consequently, here’s another example of a couple whose stock and trade is deciding what's good for everyone else while elevating themselves above it all as they continue to focus on only themselves. They are both so far beyond hypocrisy, a new word will have to be coined to describe their regal attitudes.

 

And finally, while the Incumbent ignored Iraq and went golfing in sunny southern California, Linda Lam of weather.com wrote:”Winter just won't quit, even as summer is right around the corner. Cool, huh?

 

Snow is falling over the higher elevations, as an upper-level low swirls over the Northern Rockies.  Alta, Utah reported nine inches of snow on Tuesday, which makes it their third highest one-day snowfall total in June.  Lake-effect rain and snow has also developed off the Great Salt Lake, with snow above 7,000 feet.”

 

So, whereas the incumbent doesn’t want to get involved in wars or other types of international violence, preferring to concentrate on global warming, I hope he stays away from the cold in Utah. Because you never know, some rankled citizen there might want to start a snowball fight.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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