BloggeRhythms

Today’s in weeklystandard.com’s, “the blog,” Daniel Halper succinctly summed up the current status of the ongoing Iranian “deal” negotiation in Switzerland, by quoting Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as follows:

 

“In a statement today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran. 

 

"Yesterday an Iranian general brazenly declared and I quote: 'Israel's destruction is non-negotiable', but evidently giving Iran's murderous regime a clear path to the bomb is negotiable. This is unconscionable. I agree with those who have said that Iran's claim that its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes doesn't square with Iran's insistence on keeping underground nuclear facilities, advanced centrifuges and a heavy water reactor. Nor does it square with Iran's insistence on developing ICBMs and its refusal to come clean with the IAEA on its past weaponization efforts. At the same time, Iran is accelerating its campaign of terror, subjugation and conquest throughout the region, most recently in Yemen, Netanyahu's statement reads."

 

Since it seems that the Prime Minister’s assessment is absolutely correct, obviously the Obama administration is orchestrating a completely different agenda in its plans then the fabrication being presented to the world. Which means that its highly likely that Israel is now all alone again, against the rest of the Middle-East and now, even the U.S.    

 

On another totally botched administrative matter, Stephen Dinan wrote yesterday in washingtontimes.com, that IRS Commissioner “John Koskinen said Tuesday that service at his agency has gotten so bad that they are ignoring more than 60 percent of taxpayers’ phone calls during this tax season. 

 

“Speaking at the National Press Club, Mr. Koskinen pleaded for more money, saying a budget boost would help them staff their overwhelmed customer service lines.”

 

Aside from the fact that the IRS is understaffed and overwhelmed, it should not be forgotten that this is the agency now responsible for the management of the president’s health care tax. Which means that, aside from a huge probability that incompetence in the agency will botch up the administration of coverage significantly, the chances of medical problems caused by bureaucratic inefficiency have now risen exponentially.  

 

It’s also interesting to note that for quite some time now, issues such as the Iranian nuclear giveaway, disasters like the health care tax, unbridled border crossing by illegals and adjusted formulations that misrepresent and cover up significant unemployment, have been ignored, or aided and abetted by a complicit, left-leaning main-stream media. 

 

However, that charade seems to be changing because public audiences are increasingly wising up.  

 

Nielsen now reports that, “With its 53rd consecutive quarter total audience win, Fox News Channel saw a 10% primetime rise among adults 25-54 in first-quarter 2015 over last year. In fact, with 321,000 on average among the 25-54s in primetime, Fox News thrashed rivals CNN (187,000) and MSNBC (132,000) with more news demo viewers than the other two combined.

 

“Contrast that to the fate of the NBC/Universal-owned MSNBC, which  not only saw a 39% drop in the demo compared to Q1 2014 but its worst quarterly result in the category since Q2 2005.”

 

It’s gotten so bad viewer-wise that the sniveling, crying, whining host of “Hardball With Chris Matthews” had its lowest-rated quarter in the demo since 2Q 2005 with an average viewership of 126,000.”

 

So, if the slide continues, it looks like the leftist media will very soon be talking only to themselves.  

 

Perhaps that’s why Maggie Haberman in the New York Times headlined a column, “Could Another Democrat Beat Hillary Clinton? Strategists Offer a Blueprint.”

 

The details aren’t important whereas the article is all conjecture. However, the important point is that the voice of the left, the Times, is even asking the question. Which up to now would have been unthinkable in any way shape or form. 

 

As far as Bill’s wife is concerned, things may be heating up. But not in a way that he or she really wishes to contemplate. Or worse, actually have to deal with.  

 

Susan Ferrechio writes in washingtonexaminer.com, that a ”House panel Tuesday formally requested Hillary Clinton to testify about the private server and email account she used while serving as secretary of state.

 

“Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi, sent a request to Clinton's personal attorney, David E. Kendall, requesting that Clinton appear before the committee no later than May 1 for a transcribed interview about the server and email.”

 

Bill’s wife’s problems may be what’s emboldening former Gov. Martin O’Malley, written about by Haley Sweetland Edwards in time.com, as follows: “Those populist themes, which have made Warren a leader in the Democratic party, found a central place in O’Malley’s prepared remarks during a scrambled egg breakfast in the suburbs of Manchester, before a crowd about 150 business insiders, political elites, and students. Lamenting what he described as the Republican economic agenda—“concentrate wealth at the top, keep wages low, and systematically deregulate Wall Street.”

 

However, it might do O’Malley well if before he spoke he did some homework. Because it isn’t Republicans that have concentrated wealth at the top, kept wages low, and systematically deregulated Wall Street. That’s been done for the past six years by Obama himself, aided for a while by Bill Clinton’s wife and former Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner.

 

Yet, what’s even worse is what O’Malley wants to do to “fix” the economy, advocating instead for increasing the minimum wage, making it easier for unions to collectively bargain “so that wages go up,” and to “expand social security, not dismantle it.”

 

And, if that came to pass the economy would surely react, however it would be in reverse. Because when businesses have overhead increases solely due to higher costs with no revenue growth they only have two options: shrink or close.

 

However, it’s easy to grasp O’Malley’s perspective because, according to Wikipedia, after the military he became an attorney and then a politician which means he’s never spent a moment in the functioning economy in his entire life. And therefore, hasn’t an iota of understanding whatsoever about how it works or why.  

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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