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Much is being made today of what might very well be the end of Cruz's career as a Republican. Because in his totally selfish attempt to promote himself while refusing to help his party unite behind Trump, he was literally booed off the stage in Cleveland by a very displeased audience of conventioneers.

Oliver Darcy @businessinsider.com, summed the appearance up this way: "Cruz condemned to Republican hell," conservative-news mogul Matt Drudge tweeted before placing a "HELL'S A-BURNIN'" banner on his popular website. 

"I think it was awful," Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, a Trump-supporter, echoed after Cruz's speech. "And quite frankly, I think it was selfish." 

"For the life of me, I don't know why he is doing this," Fox News Channel and conservative talk-radio host Sean Hannity said. "I think there is going to be long-term damage for the party and for him." 

"Trump trusted Ted and was rewarded with a betrayal," former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas piled on.” 

Trump himself took advantage of Cruz’s huge error during an appearance on Fox News by saying, “The best unity I saw was everyone booing him off the stage.” 

While Cruz faced hostility due to his self-serving divisiveness, radio host Laura Ingraham took the opposite approach, and according to CNN’s Tal Kopan, “brought the house down Wednesday night with an attack on the Donald Trump hold-outs during her speech at the Republican National Convention.

"We should all -- even you boys with wounded feelings and bruised egos -- we love you, but you must honor your pledge to support Donald Trump now," she said. 

As the crowd roared on its feet, she added: "Tonight." 

Ingraham also took on the media suggesting that Trump won the nomination because of his confrontations with them and saying: "To all my friends up there in the press, you all know why in your heart Donald Trump won the Republican nomination. You know it. You know why he won it? Because he dared to call out the phonies, the frauds and the corruption that has gone unexposed and uncovered for too long." 

"Do your job," Ingraham challenged the media. "Doing your job is a novel concept."

On another recurring subject, global-warming, an item today by Craig Boudreau @dailycaller.com, should have been headed: “It doesn't get better than this.”    

 

Mr. Boudreau writes: “A group of adventurers, sailors, pilots and climate scientists that recently started a journey around the North Pole in an effort to show the lack of ice, has been blocked from further travels by ice. 

“The Polar Ocean Challenge is taking a two month journey that will see them go from Bristol, Alaska, to Norway, then to Russia through the North East passage, back to Alaska through the North West passage, to Greenland and then ultimately back to Bristol. Their objective, as laid out by their website, was to demonstrate “that the Arctic sea ice coverage shrinks back so far now in the summer months that sea that was permanently locked up now can allow passage through.” 

However: “There has been one small hiccup thus-far though: they are currently stuck in Murmansk, Russia because there is too much ice blocking the North East passage the team said didn’t exist in summer months, according to Real Climate Science. 

“Real Climate Science also provides a graph showing that current Arctic temperatures — despite alarmist claims of the Arctic being hotter than ever — is actually below normal.” 

Aside from the global-warming fraud, the administration also would have people believe that the economy is doing far better than the results evidenced by real-world statistics.   

In that regard, Terence P. Jeffrey @cnsnews.com via Drudge, notes that: “The federal debt moved above $19,400,000,000,000 for the first time as of the close of business on Tuesday, according to the data released today by the U.S. Treasury.” 

Thus, while the nation is buried in overwhelming debt due to the strangling of business by over-regulation and an anti-growth mentality, the administration continues to borrow to offset the shrinkage its purposefully caused. Which means the overriding question has to be that, if this type of socialist thinking continues, how long will it be before the U.S. looks just like Venezuela today? 

And then, a friend sent this one:

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

C.P. Baker at a website called hillarydaily.com, poses the premise that the POTUS doesn't really want her taking over the Oval Office. 

To make his point, Mr. Baker quotes Rush, as follows: 

“Limbaugh believes Obama could halt Hillary’s slide. So why isn’t he? 

“The outspoken commentator theorizes that Obama doesn’t want Hillary to be president, but also doesn’t want to be seen as sabotaging her campaign or going against her. So rather than openly opposing her, he is stepping back and allowing the scandals and controversies to rack up.

“There is something to Limbaugh’s argument. After all, Obama has been extremely quiet in his support of Clinton and also hasn’t used his influence to silence or even expedite the investigations into Clinton. 

“Both the email server scandal and Benghazi continue to hurt Clinton. Could Obama do something to help her? Probably, but he doesn’t seem interested in getting his hands dirty.” 

So, perhaps the POTUS is setting the stage for his appearance at the Democrat convention next week in Philadelphia for a Cuz-like speech. One in which he promotes himself and refuses to verbalize an endorsement of Bill’s wife in his remarks. 

Raising the ongoing question once more: Joe Biden, Jerry Brown, and Starbucks chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz; are  you guys reading this?    

That’s it for today folks.    

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