BloggeRhythms

As Brussels scrambles to deal with the ramifications of Tuesday's bombings while the POTUS enjoys his last tango in Argentina, there really isn’t very much news in today’s news.

On the political front, there's never been any real substance to Trump’s presidential campaign at all. Just a lot of noise about how he’d handle the nation’s top hot button issues. But ask him for detail, he dodges and delays and says, 'Well, we're working on it.” 

On the other hand, however, he’s taken campaigning itself down to the gutter. Apparently concerned about Cruz’s growing poll numbers, Trump took the approach of a cornered weasel and insulted Cruz’s wife.   

To Cruz’s credit, he reacted like any real guy would, as reported by Andrew Rafferty @nbcnews.com/politics, who wrote: 

“Ted Cruz called Donald Trump a "sniveling coward" and told him to leave his wife "the hell alone" on Thursday after Trump retweeted an unflattering photo of his spouse, Heidi Cruz. 

"It's not easy to tick me off. I don't get angry often," Cruz told reporters while campaigning in Wisconsin. "But you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that'll do it every time. Donald you are a sniveling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone." 

"Our spouses and our children are off bounds," Cruz warned. "It is not acceptable for a big loud New York bully to attack my wife." 

“The Texas senator said Trump is scared by "strong women" and that "real men don't try to bully women." 

In response, “Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski called Cruz's comments an "effort to gain attention to try and stay relevant in a race that he has lost." 

"Mr. Trump, over the last 40 years in business, has had women in significant positions in his corporation that have done amazing work," Lewandowski said. "A number of women run his companies right now. He has excellent relationships with women." 

Now, whether or not Mr. Lewandowski’s comments about Trump’s female employees are true or not, I’ve absolutely no idea. But, regardless, women in significant positions in any organization today generally harmonize, or don’t remain there. However, that has nothing whatsoever to do with a two-bit, phony, panicking gutter-mouth insulting a competitor’s wife. 

And the next time Cruz sees Trump, I hope Cruz clips him quick and lays that mealy-mouthed pansy out. I know I would.     

On another issue, it took quite a long time, but it looks like there’s some real attention finally being paid to the still-brewing IRS abuses of the Tea Party. 

Barnini Chakraborty @FoxNews.com, writes: “In a blistering rebuke of the IRS, a Cincinnati-based federal appeals court has ordered the tax-collecting agency to quit stalling and produce the names of organizations it targeted based on their political leanings. 

The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6^th Circuit gave the IRS two weeks to turn over the documents sought as part of a class-action lawsuit brought by the NorCal Tea Party Patriots.  

“The lawyers in the Department of Justice have a long and storied tradition of defending the nation’s interests and enforcing its laws … The conduct of the IRS’s attorneys in the district court falls outside that tradition,” the opinion said.  

“The NorCal Tea Party Patriots sued the IRS in 2013 after a Treasury inspector general concluded the IRS had unfairly singled out for extra scrutiny conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.” 

Thus, what the court decision illustrates, is that although the media, and almost certainly the general public, may forget issues no longer making headlines, doesn’t mean that those issues go away. And in this case, the timing of any negative actions against the administration may coincide with the upcoming elections. Meaning, once again, that Democrats will have to deal with negativity they so richly deserve from their own doings.   

Here's today’s Ronald Reagan quote, sent by a friend: “The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.” 

Bringing us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife. 

While Bill’s wife still regularly emphasizes that, "before it was called Obamacare, it was called Hillarycare, as some of you might remember," Shoshana Weissmann @weeklystandard.com, reports about another sign of waffling in Bill's Mrs. presidential campaign.  

According to Ms. Weissmann, there’s a video showing daughter Chelsea blasting the "crushing costs" of Obama's signature legislation. In the video, she tells a crowd that her mother, “is open to using executive action to reduce "crushing costs" of Obamacare.” 

Chelsea explains: “...cap on out of pocket expenses. This was part of my mom's original plan back in '93 and '94, as well as premium costs. We can either do that directly or through tax credits. And, kind of figuring out whether she could do that through executive action, or she would need to do that through tax credits working with Congress. She thinks either of those will help solve the challenge of kind of the crushing costs that still exist for too many people, who even are part of the Affordable Care Act and buying insurance..." 

So, the wavering continues as usual. When the wind blows good they’re for it. If the wind blows bad, they’re against it. And if the wind changes direction, so do they, in a New York minute. 

And then, according to Julian Hattem @thehill.com: “Conservative legal watchdogs have discovered new emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email server dating back to the first days of her tenure as secretary of state. 

“The previously undisclosed February 2009 emails between Clinton from her then-chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, raise new questions about the scope of emails from Clinton’s early days in office that were not handed over to the State Department for recordkeeping and may have been lost entirely.”

Bill’s wife’s campaign has previously claimed that she did not use her personal "clintonemail.com" account before March 2009, weeks after she was sworn in as secretary of State. But on Thursday, “Judicial Watch released one message from Feb. 13, 2009, in which Mills communicated with Clinton on the account to discuss the National Security Agency’s (NSA) efforts to produce a secure BlackBerry device for her to use as secretary of State.”   

“The discovery is likely to renew questions about Clinton’s narrative about her use of the private email server, which has come under scrutiny. 

“Last year, news organizations reported that Obama administration officials had discovered an email chain between Clinton and retired Gen. David Petraeus that began before Clinton entered office and continued through to Feb. 1. The chain of emails began on an earlier email system that Clinton used while serving in the Senate, but was reportedly transferred on to the clintonemail.com server.” 

So, with eight months still remaining until election day, the wheels keep grinding away. And unless you’re broke, an illegal alien, or one who doesn’t ever want a job or a better future, what in the world can this woman possibly offer to any voter?    

Bringing up the ongoing question again: 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