BloggeRhythms

Coming back from his taxpayer paid vacation, to his taxpayer paid luxury home the POTUS told reporters he’s “ fired up” for 2016. That probably means even more golf than the numerous rounds played for the past seven years.

He also said he’s looking forward to meeting with the Attorney General tomorrow, to consider ways to control guns in the hands of the public. In that regard, it might do him well to stop demonizing police officers efforts to use weapons against criminals. So that citizens won’t feel the need to protect themselves now that lawmen can’t, thanks to him.

As far as the public’s feel for the need of self-protection, a FB friend posted the following interesting example today, which speaks for itself.  

Then yesterday, on FoxNews, Journal Editorial Report James Freeman, Assistant Editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page, discussed the POTUS’s use of his now famous phone and pen to skirt Congressional review and approval of legislation he knows won’t pass.

The moderator and other panelists agreed that this method of bypassing lawmakers would continue, and perhaps accelerate in 2016. To which Mr. Freeman responded that although the major media highlights, extols and supports the president’s actions, the actual results are quite different. 

Because, from his goal’s of admitting millions of illegal aliens, to rescuing Syrian refugees, to curing disease with the help of the human genome, regulating the Internet, to banning ammunition for AR-15’s, each and every effort is bogged down in various courts around the nation. And, as a result, despite all the publicity, he’s actually accomplished next to nothing. 

On another issue, newly arriving House Speaker Ryan’s questionable compliance in passage of the budget bill at the end of the year may now becoming clearer. Because, in what appeared to be his fear of being blamed for a government shutdown if Republicans took a firm stand against passage, many in Ryan’s party felt abandoned and unsupported.

But it now appears that the Speaker’s acquiescence was merely meant to get past the end of 2015. 

FoxNews.com reports today that Ryan and “Congressional Republicans are vowing that the first action upon returning to Capitol Hill will be to send a bill to President Obama that repeals his health care law and defunds Planned Parenthood.”

This establishes a clear choice facing voters in the November  election. Because while all Democrats running for president would keep ObamaCare in place, the bill also places a moratorium on taxpayer funding to abortion providers and redirects the money to community health centers, which serve eight times more women patients than Planned Parenthood and provide more comprehensive care.

And then, in the returning Senate, “early action will include a vote on a proposal by Sen. Rand Paul, for an "audit" of the Federal Reserve. Democrats are likely to block it. But like the health repeal bill in the House, the vote will answer conservative demands in an election year.” 

“Also expected early in the Senate's year is legislation dealing with Syrian refugees, following House passage of a bill clamping down on the refugee program. Conservatives were angry when the year ended without the bill advancing. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky promised a vote, though without specifying whether it would be the House bill or something else.” 

Furthermore, the House Benghazi committee will continue its investigation of the attacks, with an interview of former CIA Director David Petraeus on Jan. 6. 

Thus, there now seems to be no doubt that Republican leadership is not only drawing clear bold lines between itself and its political rivals in the coming elections, but certainly has chosen issues where their solutions make the most sense for returning the nation to it’s former safe, secure and successful status. 

And then, Jaclyn Schiff  @wattsupwiththat.com via Drudge reports that there’s now just 24 days left to Al Gore’s ’10 years to save the planet’ and ‘point of no return’ planetary emergency deadline.

“On January 25th, 2006, while at the Sundance film festival, screening “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore said this as chronicled in an article by CBS News: 

The former vice president came to town for the premiere of “An Inconvenient Truth,” a documentary chronicling what has become his crusade since losing the 2000 presidential election: Educating the masses that global warming is about to toast our ecology and our way of life.

 

Gore has been saying it for decades, since a college class in the 1960s convinced him that greenhouse gases from oil, coal and other carbon emissions were trapping the sun’s heat in the atmosphere, resulting in a glacial meltdown that could flood much of the planet.

 

Americans have been hearing it for decades, wavering between belief and skepticism that it all may just be a natural part of Earth’s cyclical warming and cooling phases.

 

And politicians and corporations have been ignoring the issue for decades, to the point that unless drastic measures to reduce greenhouse gases are taken within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return, Gore said.

 

He sees the situation as “a true planetary emergency.”

 

“If you accept the truth of that, then nothing else really matters that much,” Gore said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We have to organize quickly to come up with a coherent and really strong response, and that’s what I’m devoting myself to.”

 

“Well, the 10 years are about up, by now, warming should have reached “planetary emergency levels” Let’s look at the data: 

“Satellite data since 1979: little has changed since 2006. [Other than] the spike in 1998, in the 18 years since the great El Niño of 97/98, that hasn’t been matched, and the current one we are in isn’t stronger, and looks to be on the way to decaying. So much for the “monster” El Niño.” 

However, although the facts may indicate that AlGore’s predications were totally erroneous and unfounded, we still don’t know what will happen in the remaining 24 days on his countdown clock. Although, to fulfill his prediction of a “meltdown,’” temperatures for the next three and a half weeks will probably have to reach about two thousand Fahrenheit. 

Which brings us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife. 

Although Trump may not have the experience, sophistication, knowledge or capability required of a POTUS, his unbridled employment of schoolyard-bullying tactics helps to expose both Clinton’s. By broaching subjects other candidates won’t. 

According to thehill.com, this came from him on Saturday: “I hope Bill Clinton starts talking about women’s issues so that voters can see what a hypocrite he is and how Hillary abused those women,” Trump said in a tweet Saturday, referring to sexual allegations made against the 42nd president.” 

So, just like a football lineman, Trump’s out there ahead of those who know how to carry the ball. Knocking down opponents, helping to clear the field and easing the way to the goal for them. Be it Bush, Cruz, Kasich, Christie or Rubio. 

And if the Republican candidates simply stay the course without harming themselves, by next November between Trump, the FBI investigators and the Benghazi committee, there won’t be much , if any, Clinton opposition left to worry about. 

Bringing up the ongoing question: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys reading this?  

That’s it for today folks. 

Adios