BloggeRhythms

Today’s items create perplexity as to where to begin whereas they combine to highlight the differences between the choices offered to the voting public in the presidential election. Particularly because it seems one candidate had a viable platform and the other didn’t.

A place to start is an appearance by Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel on "Fox & Friends" yesterday where she said “Hillary Clinton's latest interview shows she doesn't understand why she lost last year's presidential election.

"She seems to be totally unaware. She has no self-awareness. Maybe she needs a class or something," McDaniel said 

"There's no accountability," she said. "And it reinforces every time why she lost when she goes out and does these interviews." 

Ms McDaniel was referring to a public interview Wednesday, where “Clinton brought up a number of reasons why she believes she lost last year, including the Democratic National Committee, the media and then-FBI Director James Comey.”

Jacqueline Thomsen, however, offered a different perspective @thehill.com yesterday, referencing former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg who told New York Times columnist Frank Bruni “that he thought Democrats didn't have an effective message to win the 2016 election and could repeat that mistake in 2020.” 

“Hillary said, ‘Vote for me because I’m a woman and the other guy’s bad,’” Bloomberg said about 2016. 

“[Bloomberg] said Democrats are still looking for issues and messages. And he worries that too many Democrats are eager to jump into the 2020 race. They’ll step on each other and re-elect Donald Trump,” 

And, as a result, Bloomberg now “thinks there's a "55 percent chance" Trump will be reelected in 2020. 

Readers too offered their thoughts, such as richard who commented: “I don't know about the rest of you, but I take great pleasure in watching the left self destruct.”

844 others “liked” richard’s comment 

JDinMariettaGA wrote: “Ditto. They are imploding but you would never know listening to the main stream media 

393 agreed

AR-15 wrote: “But...but...but Russia! lol....”

326 liked this one. 

AmericanKim wrote: “Any sane person who watched the trainwreck that was Hillary's Q & A today wouldn't elect a democrat to be a crossing guard.”

272 liked the thought. 

hazmat-Latina wrote: “OMG, the woman should be in some corner basket weaving

137 more liked this one. 

And then, on the other side of the coin, Jeff Cox finance editor for CNBC.com posted some results taking place since Trump’s election.

“Job creation surged in May thanks to a jump in construction positions and a boom in professional and business services, according to a report Thursday from ADP and Moody's Analytics.

“Private payrolls increased by 253,000, well ahead of expectations. Economists surveyed by Reuters expected the report to show that private payrolls grew by 185,000 in May from 174,000 in April.”

Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody's Analytics, told CNBC: “The growth "is three times the rate of the growth in the underlying labor force. So that means the unemployment rate, which is 4.4 percent, is quickly headed to 4 percent. This labor market is rip-roaring and getting really tight."

“Services broadly led the way with 205,000 new jobs, with professional and business services contributing 88,000 — its best month in about three years — and education and health services adding 54,000.”

While evidence continues to  mount that Trump’s administration is solidly turning the nation’s economy around, he’s not sitting still while the left continues its efforts at trying to tie him to some kind of Russian connection. In fact, he’s becoming aggressive.

According to FoxNews.com today: “President Trump on Thursday directly accused the Obama Administration of improperly surveilling the American people, a day after Congressional subpoenas were issued seeking records from U.S. spy agencies about Obama officials’ requests.

“The CIA, NSA and FBI were served with subpoenas Wednesday afternoon for documents relating to former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice, ex-CIA director John Brennan and former U.N. ambassador Samantha Power. The subpoenas, signed by House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Ca., explicitly referenced the “unmasking” of U.S. citizens.

“The big story is the ‘unmasking and surveillance’ of people that took place during the Obama Administration,” Trump tweeted.”

While Nunes stepped aside from the House's investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election after he was hit with ethics charges involving the handling of classified information, he apparently “was still deeply involved in the Intelligence Committee's probe related to Obama-era spying.”

Nunes said in remarks reported by The L.A. Times: “I went and looked at what I knew existed on the unmaskings, but what I found was a treasure trove of stuff that’s really bad in terms of surveillance on Americans and that is critical to the job that I have as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. It’s really horrible because it endangers America, because the work that our intelligence professionals do is so critical to our safety, to have an administration, a past administration, abuse these powers and put our country in jeopardy, there’s nothing, there’s no words that can explain the damage they’ve done and the damage that they’ve created."

At the same time, as reported in the The Washington Post on Saturday: “President Trump and his top advisers are reportedly considering creating a White House "war room" and a staff shake-up to combat current and future revelations related to the Russia controversy."

“The primary goal of the "war room" will be to more aggressively fire back at fallout in the wake of Trump's abrupt firing of FBI director James Comey on May 9.”

All of which adds up to the very strong possibility that by the continual harping on the yet to be established Trump/Russian connection the left is evoking a similar reaction from Trump as that of Colonel Jessup in “A Few Good Men,” who told Lieutenant Kaffee “I'm gonna rip the eyes out of your head and puke into your dead skull, you messed with the wrong marine!”

That’s it for today folks.

Adios