BloggeRhythms

Several individual items today indicate serious problems for Democrats who seem to be plagued with the results of mistakes they committed themselves and are going to keep haunting them right up until the general election in 2016. 

 

To begin, Fox News reports that: “A U.S. security team in Benghazi was held back from immediately responding to the attack on the American diplomatic mission on orders of the top CIA officer there, three of those involved told Fox News’ Bret Baier.

 

According to the security operators, they were delayed from responding to the attack by the top CIA officer in Benghazi, whom they refer to only as ‘Bob’… Now, looking back, the security team said they believed that if they had not been delayed for nearly half an hour, or if the air support had come, things might have turned out differently.”

 

In this case, while the details offered by the operators involved will surely be analyzed further to determine their validity, what’s most important is that regardless of how hard Democrats try to put the Benghazi attack behind them, they cannot. And therefore, the issue will keep festering and ultimately, be a huge hurdle for Bill Clinton's wife in her run for the presidency.

 

At the same time, the Associated Press reports that “U.S. employers added just 142,000 jobs in August, snapping a six-month streak of hiring above 200,000 and posting the smallest gain in eight months.

 

The unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent from 6.2 percent, the Labor Department said Friday. But the rate dropped because more people without jobs stopped looking for one and were no longer counted as unemployed.”

 

Furthermore, employers added 28,000 fewer jobs in June and July than the government had previously estimated, while wage gains have been sluggish since the Great Recession ended in 2009. As consumers remain cautious, consumer spending dipped in July, the first decline since January.

 

Therefore, this is another case where the incumbent can spew all he wants to about how well he claims the economy’s doing, but that can’t over come the fact that, according to CNSNews.com, “A record 92,269,000 Americans 16 and older did not participate in the labor force in August, as the labor force participation rate matched a 36-year low of 62.8 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”

 

Not surprisingly, 36 years ago, 1978, Jimmy Carter was president. Another ideologue who never let facts or statistics deter from pursuing his theory about socializing the nation. And in his particular case, he also strangled the nation’s economy bringing the USA to almost a complete financial standstill.  

 

However, when it comes to ignoring reality for political purposes, there are other Democrats performing quite similarly.

 

I’ve mentioned Debbie Wasserman Schultz -chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee- before although not too often. Because while she talks a lot, not very much of what she says is worth typing about. However, she made some comments during a discussion on women’s issues in Milwaukee on Wednesday, about Wisconsin’s Republican Governor, Scott Walker, as follows:

 

"Scott Walker has given women the back of his hand. I know that is stark. I know that is direct. I know that is reality,” she said, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

 

She didn’t stop there. According to the Journal Sentinel, she added: “What Republican Tea Party extremists like Scott Walker are doing is they are grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back. It is not going to happen on our watch."

 

Reading her words is interesting because, as happens quite frequently in her case, the invective was there but the truth wasn’t present. Because, while condemning the Tea Party as extremist and obstructionist toward women, she seems to have overlooked or forgotten, Tea Party leaders Sarah Palin Michele Bachmann, among many others. 

 

Back in March 2010, Kenneth P. Vogel wrote in Politico, that “Many of the tea party’s most influential grass-roots and national leaders are women, and a new poll released this week by Quinnipiac University suggests that women might make up a majority of the movement as well.” 

 

Which means that once again, if you want the truth about almost anything, the last person to ask is Debbie Wasserman Schultz, as usual.  

 

And that brings us to today’s item about Bill Clinton’s wife who seems to be running out of real issues to talk about. Probably because she’s on the wrong side of most of them and has now been reduced to promoting global-warming which less than 1% of the nation cares about at all.

 

National Journal quotes Bill’s wife as saying, “The U.S. can become the ‘clean energy superpower of the 21st Century,’ Hillary Clinton said Thursday, urging businesses and the government to build up the renewable sector. ‘Climate change is the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face,’ the former secretary of state and likely 2016 Democratic frontrunner said Thursday at Harry Reid's annual energy conference in Las Vegas. ‘The threat is real and so is the opportunity … if we make the hard choices.’

 

Reading her words, ”Cllimate change is the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face,” made me feel much better. Because, apparently, I’ve been under a delusion. I’ve felt for quite some time that things like terrorism, the national debt, health care taxation, illegal immigration, exorbitant fuel costs, a shrinking military, the nation’s loss of worldwide stature, half the country on welfare and 92,269,000 Americans 16 and older not participating in the labor force were serious problems to be considered significantly. 

 

But now, thanks to Bill’s wife, all I really have to be concerned about is whether I need to take a sweater with me or not, which really takes a huge load off my chest.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

Adios