Flipping channels a few moments ago, I happened to accidentally view CNN. That's something that ordinarily never occurs in my home. At the time, some talking head or other was bemoaning the fact that the POTUS told a reporter he would certainly listen to a foreign power who claimed to have information on a political opponent. The POTUS also said he'd simultaneously involve the FBI or whatever other agency might have an interest in the subject on the nation's behalf.
The CNN response apparently means that simply because information arises from nations other than ours, that input is to be avoided at all costs, regardless of the subject or its potential merits. And furthermore, any Commander in Chief of the U.S. who might even consider conversing with any non-American source rises to the level of an impeachable executive.
And that brings up the reason for posting this entry today, to ask the simple question of those who cannot see the value of viable information regardless of source, but would play politics instead: HOW MONUMENTALLY STUPID CAN YOU POSSIBLY BE?
That's it for today folks.
Adios
Thursday, June 13, 2019
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
BloggeRhythms
A primary reason for a return to blogging is the wish to record the definitive move toward disclosure of what really took place during the last presidential campaign.
In that regard, while the Mueller probe fully exonerated the POTUS of any campaign wrongdoing, there is undoubtedly plenty of guilt on the other side. And much like this writer’s being one of the very few who expected the POTUS to win the last election, despite the overwhelming poll reports favoring his competition, it is now sensed here that Democrat leadership is about to face legal retribution.
An indication comes from one of the ongoing endeavors receiving minimal media attention. That being the diligently persistent effort of Judicial Watch, helping ensure that justice will be eventually served. An example of that effort can be seen today in an article from the One America News Network newsroom, as follows:
“A new batch of FBI emails has revealed officials at the bureau were looking to give special treatment to then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“Judicial Watch obtained 218 pages of emails Monday between former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. The emails contained discussions about missing reports and about interviews, commonly referred to as 302’s, pertaining to the Clinton probe.
“The emails also showed FBI counsel James Baker speaking with Clinton’s lawyer about “expeditiously” receiving a copy of those reports.
“Those missing reports were ultimately found, and turned over to Clinton’s team before being made public. Judicial Watch has claimed this is evidence of special treatment.”
An accurate and succinct summation of the occurrence's meaning came from reader kaiju who opined: “No shiite. The Obama DOJ made a big mistake though, not taking her to trial where she could be found not guilty in an Obama kangaroo court.
She's fit to be indicted, tried, and convicted now in a real court.”
Although far more must be done before the general public’s interest starts to significantly swell, just as felt by reader kaiju, there is no doubt here that retribution for the Democrat perpetrators will certainly occur.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
In that regard, while the Mueller probe fully exonerated the POTUS of any campaign wrongdoing, there is undoubtedly plenty of guilt on the other side. And much like this writer’s being one of the very few who expected the POTUS to win the last election, despite the overwhelming poll reports favoring his competition, it is now sensed here that Democrat leadership is about to face legal retribution.
An indication comes from one of the ongoing endeavors receiving minimal media attention. That being the diligently persistent effort of Judicial Watch, helping ensure that justice will be eventually served. An example of that effort can be seen today in an article from the One America News Network newsroom, as follows:
“A new batch of FBI emails has revealed officials at the bureau were looking to give special treatment to then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“Judicial Watch obtained 218 pages of emails Monday between former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. The emails contained discussions about missing reports and about interviews, commonly referred to as 302’s, pertaining to the Clinton probe.
“The emails also showed FBI counsel James Baker speaking with Clinton’s lawyer about “expeditiously” receiving a copy of those reports.
“Those missing reports were ultimately found, and turned over to Clinton’s team before being made public. Judicial Watch has claimed this is evidence of special treatment.”
An accurate and succinct summation of the occurrence's meaning came from reader kaiju who opined: “No shiite. The Obama DOJ made a big mistake though, not taking her to trial where she could be found not guilty in an Obama kangaroo court.
She's fit to be indicted, tried, and convicted now in a real court.”
Although far more must be done before the general public’s interest starts to significantly swell, just as felt by reader kaiju, there is no doubt here that retribution for the Democrat perpetrators will certainly occur.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
BloggeRhythms
Now that blogging’s back on occasion, here’s a Facebook reader’s response to a derogatory posting regarding the POTUS back on1/26/2019:
Reader, Sharon Napier wrote: “Tell me Andrew Stiegemeier since you don't like the better economy and lower taxes and more jobs for everyone and you don’t like a president who puts Americans first before ILLEGALS just what the HELL do you want from a president anyway? You don't like him keeping campaign promises. You don't like him standing up to countries like China, NK, Iran and Russia instead of giving them millions to use against us. You didn't like him going after ISIS instead of trying to tell us they weren't really terrorists. I'm serious just what the HELL do you want from a president?”
Needless to mention, Ms Napier got no reply from Mr. Stiegemeier.
Although Ms Napier’s questions went unanswered, her query aligns with the very same thoughts this writer’s had for quite some time now. As regular readers know, the postings here for more than a year prior to the presidential election were as derogatory toward Trump as they were regarding a possible win by Bill Clinton’s wife.
Yet, despite those former fears, once elected the POTUS has proven to be perhaps the most effective executive to hold the post. Here’s a partial list of accomplishments to date:
Almost 4 million jobs created since election.
More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in the nation’s history.
More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs produced since the election, growing at the fastest rate in more than thirty years.
Economic growth last quarter hit 4.2 percent.
New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.
Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.
Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.
Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.
Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.
Veterans’ unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.
Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election.
The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans.
95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future—the highest ever.
Retail sales surged last month, up another 6 percent over last year.
Completed biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history. After tax cuts, over $300 billion poured back in to the U.S. in the first quarter alone.
As a result of tax relief, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.
Opened ANWR and approved Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
Record number of regulations eliminated.
Enacted regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
And while the nation’s economy was turned toward the best ever recorded, health care too was vastly improved.
There are now more affordable healthcare options for Americans through association health plans and short-term duration plans.
Last month, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history while many drug companies are freezing or reversing planned price increases.
Medicare program reforms are stopping hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.
Right-To-Try legislation was signed.
Secured $6 billion in NEW funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
Reduced high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent during administration’s first year in office.
Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
Obamacare individual mandate penalty is gone.
At the same time: Coal exports rose by 60 percent while U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high, the U. S. is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957, and:
Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord.
Cancelled the illegal, anti-coal, so-called Clean Power Plan.
Secured record $700 billion in military funding; $716 billion next year.
NATO allies are spending $69 billion more on defense since 2016.
Process has begun to make the Space Force the 6th branch of the Armed Forces.
Withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran Deal.
Moved U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
Now protect Americans from terrorists with the Travel Ban, upheld by Supreme Court.
Issued Executive Order to keep open Guantanamo Bay.
Concluded a historic U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal to replace NAFTA while negotiations with Canada continue.
Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
Imposed tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to protect national security.
Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices.
Net exports are on track to increase by $59 billion this year.
Improved vetting and screening for refugees, switching focus to overseas resettlement.
Building the wall has begun.
All of which brings us back once again to Ms Napier’s question to the cadre of vicious dissenters. “Just what the HELL do [voters] want from a president?”
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
Reader, Sharon Napier wrote: “Tell me Andrew Stiegemeier since you don't like the better economy and lower taxes and more jobs for everyone and you don’t like a president who puts Americans first before ILLEGALS just what the HELL do you want from a president anyway? You don't like him keeping campaign promises. You don't like him standing up to countries like China, NK, Iran and Russia instead of giving them millions to use against us. You didn't like him going after ISIS instead of trying to tell us they weren't really terrorists. I'm serious just what the HELL do you want from a president?”
Needless to mention, Ms Napier got no reply from Mr. Stiegemeier.
Although Ms Napier’s questions went unanswered, her query aligns with the very same thoughts this writer’s had for quite some time now. As regular readers know, the postings here for more than a year prior to the presidential election were as derogatory toward Trump as they were regarding a possible win by Bill Clinton’s wife.
Yet, despite those former fears, once elected the POTUS has proven to be perhaps the most effective executive to hold the post. Here’s a partial list of accomplishments to date:
And while the nation’s economy was turned toward the best ever recorded, health care too was vastly improved.
At the same time: Coal exports rose by 60 percent while U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high, the U. S. is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957, and:
All of which brings us back once again to Ms Napier’s question to the cadre of vicious dissenters. “Just what the HELL do [voters] want from a president?”
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
Monday, June 3, 2019
BloggeRhythms
To start the day, here’s a quick excerpt from Rush who said on
Friday: “Well! Look at this, my friends: “President Trump’s job approval
rating is the highest it’s been in two years.” This is just out from
TheHill.com. It’s actually a polling unit, the Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll
survey. “President Trump’s job approval rating is the highest it’s been
in two years, boosted by voter optimism about the economy…” Forty-eight
percent job approval. This poll normally has Trump at 43 or 44. “That’s
up from 45% approval in March.”
“The survey found 48% approve.”
At the same time, according to Politico’s Kyle Cheney and Andrew Desiderio yesterday: “In all, the ranks of pro-impeachment Democrats swelled to more than 50 through the end of May — but that’s less than a quarter of the more than 230 House Democrats. The number of Democrats who publicly backed impeachment after Mueller's statement included committee chairs — Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern among them — and another member of the House Judiciary Committee, which oversees impeachment matters.”
Which means that, despite the author’s efforts to make the numbers appear far more significant than they are, the impeachment movement seems quite minimal at present.
All of which reminds me of the years I myself spent competing in the world of financial sales. During that time primarily due to a modicum of skill coupled with incredible good fortune, I wound up working for and with several of the industry's finest product and service providers.
As a result, I often faced competition from far lesser entrants in the market. And it’s their weaknesses that stir memories of the types of competitive gibberish often confronted.
When other providers were asked by prospective customers why their offerings were superior, typical answers included responses such as “because ours are better.” Or perhaps, “because we’re the best at what we do.” Or, “you can’t find anyone superior to us.”
Yet, nowhere in any of those responses were facts, data, tangible evidence, specific comparisons or any viable proofs in support of competitor’s claims.
And that is the precise quandary faced by Democrat politicians today. While their only offering is an ongoing fruitless effort to demean, defame and replace a highly successful opponent, they haven’t an iota of substance themselves.
Which means that two likely insurmountable obstacles now confront the feeble Democrat pleas to their flailing constituents. While their own hopeless effort to pursue baseless claims against the POTUS have no viability whatsoever, performance-wise in office that very same POTUS continues performing as promised throughout.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
“The survey found 48% approve.”
At the same time, according to Politico’s Kyle Cheney and Andrew Desiderio yesterday: “In all, the ranks of pro-impeachment Democrats swelled to more than 50 through the end of May — but that’s less than a quarter of the more than 230 House Democrats. The number of Democrats who publicly backed impeachment after Mueller's statement included committee chairs — Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern among them — and another member of the House Judiciary Committee, which oversees impeachment matters.”
Which means that, despite the author’s efforts to make the numbers appear far more significant than they are, the impeachment movement seems quite minimal at present.
All of which reminds me of the years I myself spent competing in the world of financial sales. During that time primarily due to a modicum of skill coupled with incredible good fortune, I wound up working for and with several of the industry's finest product and service providers.
As a result, I often faced competition from far lesser entrants in the market. And it’s their weaknesses that stir memories of the types of competitive gibberish often confronted.
When other providers were asked by prospective customers why their offerings were superior, typical answers included responses such as “because ours are better.” Or perhaps, “because we’re the best at what we do.” Or, “you can’t find anyone superior to us.”
Yet, nowhere in any of those responses were facts, data, tangible evidence, specific comparisons or any viable proofs in support of competitor’s claims.
And that is the precise quandary faced by Democrat politicians today. While their only offering is an ongoing fruitless effort to demean, defame and replace a highly successful opponent, they haven’t an iota of substance themselves.
Which means that two likely insurmountable obstacles now confront the feeble Democrat pleas to their flailing constituents. While their own hopeless effort to pursue baseless claims against the POTUS have no viability whatsoever, performance-wise in office that very same POTUS continues performing as promised throughout.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
Sunday, June 2, 2019
BloggeRhythms
The vast preponderance of grossly misleading news delivered by the mainstream media has once again caused this writer to produce a new entry, following 15 long months of abstinence. The current plan is to also post entry's on a fairly regular basis in the future.
For today, however, the subject is the item posted here on Monday, March 12, 2018 addressing the vapidity of the political left in the nation along with the fact that the leftist platform hasn't changed an iota since that date over a long year ago.
On the subject of vapidity itself, Merriam-Webster describes "vapid" as follows: common, commonplace, ordinary, tepid, unexceptional, unsurprising arid, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monochromatic, monotonous, numbing, old, pedestrian, ponderous, slow, stale, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearying aseptic, barren, blah, dullish, pleasureless, prosaic, prosy, soggy, spiritless blank, earthbound, gray (also grey), inanimate, pallid, pedantic, sterile, suspense-less, undramatic, uneventful, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspiring, unnewsworthy, unrewarding, unsensational, unspectacular lonesome palling cumbersome, lumbering, plodding, poky (or pokey), all of which precisely describes the platform, characteristics, methodology, mediocrity and ideology of today's Democrat party in total.
As for the entry posted here last March, here is a reprint: "Last Friday, the backward slippage of the Democrat party caused this writer to post an entry after seven long months of absence. The key point then was “today’s breaking news demands that something be written whereas it may mark the end of the Democrat party as a viable political entity. And that’s because they not only have nothing to offer as a true alternative to Trump, their only premise is negativism.”
Last March's entry went on to include a quote from Liz Peek who wrote @Fox News.com:
“Next week, Democrat activist Tom Steyer goes to Columbus, Ohio, to host the first of 30 “impeach Trump” town halls planned in coming months across the country. The gatherings are part of the billionaire’s $20 million campaign to unseat President Trump. His group, Need to Impeach, not only calls for Trump to be removed from office, but also pressures Democrat candidates to “take a stand” and join that effort.
“Tom Steyer was the nation’s top political donor from either party in the 2016 election cycle, giving $91 million to Democrat candidates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In the current cycle, he has pledged to spend $30 million to help Democrats take back the House of Representatives. That could buy a lot of followers.”
Thus, when all’s said and done it’s truly quite sad that an individual, Tom Steyer, is going to spend $121 million to unseat a president, yet has no platform, constructive ideas or candidate as a viable alternative.
Steyer’s nemesis, Trump, on the other hand keeps delivering for Americans just as he said he would from the very beginning.
That same morning, March 12, 2018, Michael Goodwin wrote @nypost.com:
“There he goes again. President Trump just won’t listen to those who know better.
“And there they go again. The smart money set is certain that this time, the sky really is falling.”
And as if written specifically for Steyer and the leftist political base, Goodwin went on: “Except for one thing: the critics offer no solutions for the working class Americans left behind by the bipartisan push for globalization. Their silence on the destructive impacts of the deindustrialization of America suggest they have no answers — and not much compassion for the families who pay the price of trade policies through lost jobs and hollowed-out towns.
“Moreover, their failure to focus on the plight of those families and how they factor into the president’s view of the nation shows they still don’t fully appreciate why Trump was elected. It was legions of frustrated working and middle-class voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin that helped him barrel through the supposedly solid blue wall of Democratic states.
“Those who forget the human impact of ideology would have benefited from watching the signing ceremony of the tariff proclamation.”
What’s more, Steyer’s mission to persuade voters to join him is no easy task whereas, as described by Bruce Thompson @washingtonexaminer.com back on December 20, 2017”
“For individuals, the tax cuts benefit taxpayers in every income group, not just the wealthy. The three largest tax cuts come from the across-the-board tax rate reductions for all taxpayers ($1.2 trillion), the increased standard deduction ($720 billion), and the expanded child tax credit ($573 billion), all of which will provide substantial tax relief to middle-class taxpayers. According to the House Ways and Means Committee, the typical family of four earning the median income of $73,000 will receive a tax cut of more than $2,000 a year. The claim that the bill only benefits the wealthy is wrong.
“Second, history shows that tax rate reductions and reform can and will increase economic growth, and that annual economic growth above 3 percent a year is very possible. The Reagan tax cuts and reforms unleashed seven years of economic growth averaging 4.4 percent a year. From 1983 to 2005, our economy grew an average of 3.5 percent a year. In 15 of those 23 years, economic growth was 3.5 percent or higher. The Kennedy tax cuts of 1964 resulted in five years of economic growth averaging 5.5 percent a year. From 1965 to 1979, the economy grew at an average rate of 3.7 percent a year. A return to economic growth rates above 3 percent a year is a real possibility.
“Over the last 10 years, the economy has averaged only 2 percent growth a year, the slowest 10-year growth rate in our nation's history. CBO forecasts another 10 years of stagnant 2 percent growth under current policy. The Republican tax reform plan provides substantial tax relief to millions of taxpayers, and will benefit all Americans by getting us out of our slow-growth rut and increasing economic growth in the years ahead.”
Thus, for Steyer’s and the leftist objective to be met there are several significant obstacles to be overcome. First he has to convince the majority of working Americans that substantially more take-home pay is bad for both them and the nation.
Then he has to downplay the huge turnaround in the nation’s economic growth and performance overall.
After which he must take on the very reasonable probability that North Korea may actually cease their nuclear activities, primarily caused by Trump’s firm stand on crippling sanctions.
And while Trump’s list of accomplishment grows steadily, poor Tom Steyer has no list at all.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
Monday, March 12, 2018
BloggeRhythms
Last Friday, the backward slippage of the Democrat party caused this writer to post an entry after seven long months of absence. The key point then was “today’s breaking news demands that something be written whereas it may mark the end of the Democrat party as a viable political entity. And that’s because they not only have nothing to offer as a true alternative to Trump, their only premise is negativism.”
And now today, proving the total evaporation of valid benefits offered by Democrat ideology we have this confirmation from Liz Peek who writes @Fox News.com:
“Next week, Democrat activist Tom Steyer goes to Columbus, Ohio, to host the first of 30 “impeach Trump” town halls planned in coming months across the country. The gatherings are part of the billionaire’s $20 million campaign to unseat President Trump. His group, Need to Impeach, not only calls for Trump to be removed from office, but also pressures Democrat candidates to “take a stand” and join that effort.
“Tom Steyer was the nation’s top political donor from either party in the 2016 election cycle, giving $91 million to Democrat candidates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In the current cycle, he has pledged to spend $30 million to help Democrats take back the House of Representatives. That could buy a lot of followers.”
Thus, when all’s said and done it’s truly quite sad that an individual, Tom Steyer, is going to spend $121 million to unseat a president, yet has no platform, constructive ideas or candidate as a viable alternative.
Steyer’s nemesis, Trump, on the other hand keeps delivering for Americans just as he said he would from the very beginning.
This morning Michael Goodwin writes @nypost.com:
“There he goes again. President Trump just won’t listen to those who know better.
“And there they go again. The smart money set is certain that this time, the sky really is falling.”
And as if written specifically for Steyer, Goodwin goes on: “Except for one thing: the critics offer no solutions for the working class Americans left behind by the bipartisan push for globalization. Their silence on the destructive impacts of the deindustrialization of America suggest they have no answers — and not much compassion for the families who pay the price of trade policies through lost jobs and hollowed-out towns.
“Moreover, their failure to focus on the plight of those families and how they factor into the president’s view of the nation shows they still don’t fully appreciate why Trump was elected. It was legions of frustrated working and middle-class voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin that helped him barrel through the supposedly solid blue wall of Democratic states.
“Those who forget the human impact of ideology would have benefited from watching the signing ceremony of the tariff proclamation.”
What’s more, Steyer’s mission to persuade voters to join him is no easy task whereas, as described by Bruce Thompson @washingtonexaminer.com back on December 20, 2017”
“For individuals, the tax cuts benefit taxpayers in every income group, not just the wealthy. The three largest tax cuts come from the across-the-board tax rate reductions for all taxpayers ($1.2 trillion), the increased standard deduction ($720 billion), and the expanded child tax credit ($573 billion), all of which will provide substantial tax relief to middle-class taxpayers. According to the House Ways and Means Committee, the typical family of four earning the median income of $73,000 will receive a tax cut of more than $2,000 a year. The claim that the bill only benefits the wealthy is wrong.
“Second, history shows that tax rate reductions and reform can and will increase economic growth, and that annual economic growth above 3 percent a year is very possible. The Reagan tax cuts and reforms unleashed seven years of economic growth averaging 4.4 percent a year. From 1983 to 2005, our economy grew an average of 3.5 percent a year. In 15 of those 23 years, economic growth was 3.5 percent or higher. The Kennedy tax cuts of 1964 resulted in five years of economic growth averaging 5.5 percent a year. From 1965 to 1979, the economy grew at an average rate of 3.7 percent a year. A return to economic growth rates above 3 percent a year is a real possibility.
“Over the last 10 years, the economy has averaged only 2 percent growth a year, the slowest 10-year growth rate in our nation's history. CBO forecasts another 10 years of stagnant 2 percent growth under current policy. The Republican tax reform plan provides substantial tax relief to millions of taxpayers, and will benefit all Americans by getting us out of our slow-growth rut and increasing economic growth in the years ahead.”
Thus, for Steyer’s objective to be met there are several significant obstacles to be overcome. First he has to convince the majority of working Americans that substantially more take-home pay is bad for both them and the nation.
Then he has to downplay the huge turnaround in the nation’s economic growth and performance overall.
After which he must take on the very reasonable probability that North Korea may actually cease their nuclear activities, primarily caused by Trump’s firm stand on crippling sanctions.
And while Trump’s list of accomplishment grows steadily, poor Tom Steyer has no list at all.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
And now today, proving the total evaporation of valid benefits offered by Democrat ideology we have this confirmation from Liz Peek who writes @Fox News.com:
“Next week, Democrat activist Tom Steyer goes to Columbus, Ohio, to host the first of 30 “impeach Trump” town halls planned in coming months across the country. The gatherings are part of the billionaire’s $20 million campaign to unseat President Trump. His group, Need to Impeach, not only calls for Trump to be removed from office, but also pressures Democrat candidates to “take a stand” and join that effort.
“Tom Steyer was the nation’s top political donor from either party in the 2016 election cycle, giving $91 million to Democrat candidates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In the current cycle, he has pledged to spend $30 million to help Democrats take back the House of Representatives. That could buy a lot of followers.”
Thus, when all’s said and done it’s truly quite sad that an individual, Tom Steyer, is going to spend $121 million to unseat a president, yet has no platform, constructive ideas or candidate as a viable alternative.
Steyer’s nemesis, Trump, on the other hand keeps delivering for Americans just as he said he would from the very beginning.
This morning Michael Goodwin writes @nypost.com:
“There he goes again. President Trump just won’t listen to those who know better.
“And there they go again. The smart money set is certain that this time, the sky really is falling.”
And as if written specifically for Steyer, Goodwin goes on: “Except for one thing: the critics offer no solutions for the working class Americans left behind by the bipartisan push for globalization. Their silence on the destructive impacts of the deindustrialization of America suggest they have no answers — and not much compassion for the families who pay the price of trade policies through lost jobs and hollowed-out towns.
“Moreover, their failure to focus on the plight of those families and how they factor into the president’s view of the nation shows they still don’t fully appreciate why Trump was elected. It was legions of frustrated working and middle-class voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin that helped him barrel through the supposedly solid blue wall of Democratic states.
“Those who forget the human impact of ideology would have benefited from watching the signing ceremony of the tariff proclamation.”
What’s more, Steyer’s mission to persuade voters to join him is no easy task whereas, as described by Bruce Thompson @washingtonexaminer.com back on December 20, 2017”
“For individuals, the tax cuts benefit taxpayers in every income group, not just the wealthy. The three largest tax cuts come from the across-the-board tax rate reductions for all taxpayers ($1.2 trillion), the increased standard deduction ($720 billion), and the expanded child tax credit ($573 billion), all of which will provide substantial tax relief to middle-class taxpayers. According to the House Ways and Means Committee, the typical family of four earning the median income of $73,000 will receive a tax cut of more than $2,000 a year. The claim that the bill only benefits the wealthy is wrong.
“Second, history shows that tax rate reductions and reform can and will increase economic growth, and that annual economic growth above 3 percent a year is very possible. The Reagan tax cuts and reforms unleashed seven years of economic growth averaging 4.4 percent a year. From 1983 to 2005, our economy grew an average of 3.5 percent a year. In 15 of those 23 years, economic growth was 3.5 percent or higher. The Kennedy tax cuts of 1964 resulted in five years of economic growth averaging 5.5 percent a year. From 1965 to 1979, the economy grew at an average rate of 3.7 percent a year. A return to economic growth rates above 3 percent a year is a real possibility.
“Over the last 10 years, the economy has averaged only 2 percent growth a year, the slowest 10-year growth rate in our nation's history. CBO forecasts another 10 years of stagnant 2 percent growth under current policy. The Republican tax reform plan provides substantial tax relief to millions of taxpayers, and will benefit all Americans by getting us out of our slow-growth rut and increasing economic growth in the years ahead.”
Thus, for Steyer’s objective to be met there are several significant obstacles to be overcome. First he has to convince the majority of working Americans that substantially more take-home pay is bad for both them and the nation.
Then he has to downplay the huge turnaround in the nation’s economic growth and performance overall.
After which he must take on the very reasonable probability that North Korea may actually cease their nuclear activities, primarily caused by Trump’s firm stand on crippling sanctions.
And while Trump’s list of accomplishment grows steadily, poor Tom Steyer has no list at all.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
Friday, March 9, 2018
BloggeRhythms
It’s been almost exactly seven months since these posts were ceased due to personal time constraints caused by illness. However today’s breaking news demands that something be written whereas it may mark the end of the Democrat party as a viable political entity. And that’s because they not only have nothing to offer as a true alternative to Trump, their only premise is negativism.
Setting the premise, according to Rasmussen on Friday, December 29, 2017: “Looking back on President Donald Trump’s first year in office, he has compiled a shockingly strong record and long list of accomplishments. As was also the case with his rise to the presidency, President Trump has broken several records.
He “signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act before Christmas, ensuring U.S. business commitments for bonus payouts to at least hundreds of thousands of Americans workers. Within hours, numerous businesses announced wage increases and billions of dollars in various industry investments.”
The tax overhaul also repealed the individual mandate in ObamaCare.
Regarding the overall economy, “In February, Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris said that the Trump Administration is “probably the most pro-business administration since the founding fathers.” His remarks came after attending a meeting with President Trump, who hosted manufacturing leaders at the White House almost one month exactly after his inauguration.”
And then, according to CNBC at year end: “In the year since President Donald Trump has been in office, the economy has done something it has been unable to do since 2005: maintain 3 percent growth for three quarters in a row.”
Conversely “Under Mr. Obama, “experts” told us we just had to live with the new normal — 2% annual economic growth.”
Rasmussen goes on to say: “The Dow Jones Industrial Average has hit record highs nearly 70 times in 2017 and U.S. markets have created roughly 6.3 trillion in new wealth. In 2017, Americans’ 401Ks appreciated by 25% to 33% and Bank of America is forecasting the S&P 500 and NASDAQ Composite to rise at least another 12% and 16%, respectively, in 2018.”
“What the economists and market strategists have totally underestimated in their GDP forecasting is the positive effect from the multi-agency regulatory roll back from the Trump Administration,” TJM Investments analyst Tim Anderson said. “This has led to a record high level of business confidence indicators and most recently the highest level of industrial production in 3 years.”
Today, many pundits compare the impact of the phrase it’s “the economy stupid” used by Bill Clinton in his successful 1992 presidential campaign against George H. W. Bush as the primary, if not the only, allure Trump has to offer voters. Particularly because business was his lifelong endeavor. However, Trump’s performance in office is proving those pundits wrong.
For example, alongside the nation's outstanding economic performance, at the same time in the Middle-East, “In October, the U.S. Pentagon confirmed to People’s Pundit Daily (PPD) that Raqqa, the “capital of terrorism” in Syria, had fallen. Secretary Rex Tillerson said the fall of the Islamic State (ISIS) capital was accelerated by “critical decisions” made by President Trump.
“In January, ISIS was actively plotting terrorist attacks against our allies and our homeland in Raqqa,” Secretary Tillerson noted. “Nine short months later, it is out of ISIS’s control due to critical decisions President Trump made to accelerate the campaign.”
Rasmussen then notes that: “For nearly 40 years, Republicans have tried and failed to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for oil drilling. Since the 1980s, the effort always failed in the face of intense opposition because weak congressional Republicans were too afraid of the Democrat-Big Media coalition.
“They repeatedly abandoned the decades-old campaign promise.
“Yet, a provision for drilling in ANWR was included in the President’s signature tax bill with minimal backlash.”
Then there was Trump’s nominating and the U.S. Senate confirming Justice Neil Gorsuch, “despite unprecedented opposition and obstruction by Senate Democrats. Many of those same Democratic senators, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., unanimously confirmed Justice Gorsuch to his prior role in a voice vote back in 2006.”
Another achievement concerned illegal immigration where “President Trump made cracking down on illegal immigration the centerpiece of his campaign and end-of-year statistics from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) show historic success during the first year of his administration.“
“The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in FY 2017 reported a 23.7% decline over the previous year. Illegal migration along the Southwest border declined sharply from January 21 to April, which was the lowest month of border enforcement activity on record. In FY 2017, CBP reported the lowest level of illegal cross-border migration ever on record.
“The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Removal Operations (ERO) conducted 143,470 arrests and removed 226,119 illegal aliens, an increase of 40% from the previous fiscal year. From the start of the Trump Administration on January 20, 2017 through the end of the fiscal year, ERO made 110,568 arrests juxtaposed to 77,806 in FY 2016, also an increase of 40%.
“Worth noting, 92%, or 101,722 illegal aliens arrested by ICE during the Trump Administration, either had a criminal conviction or a pending criminal charge, were an ICE fugitive, or were an illegal re-entrant. In other words, he isn’t ripping babies out of their mother’s arms and dreamers out of their homes en masse as the hysterical media portray.”
While these major accomplishments were proceeding, several others were also taking place including the declaring of Jerusalem the capital of Israel, pulling out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership which Trump called a “potential disaster for our country,” overseeing moves to expand oil drilling in the Arctic and Gulf of Mexico and granting permits to the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines while pulling out of the Paris climate accords.
General satisfaction with Trump’s performance and future expectations can be seen in employer's reactions such as today’s news that “nonfarm payrolls rose by 313,000 in February while the unemployment rate remained at 4.1 percent, the lowest since December 2000,” as reported by Jeff Cox @cnbc. “The total counted as "employed" in the household survey surged by 785,000 to a record 155.2 million.”
Although these accomplishments seem quite significant, and they certainly are, another one may soon overshadow many of them whereas as reported by Joe Tacopino of the New York Post yesterday: “President Trump has agreed to sit down with his North Korean nemesis Kim Jong Un sometime in the next two months to discuss stripping the hermit nation of its nuclear arsenal.”
Many attribute the sudden change in North Korea’s hostile attitude to its realization that Trump is quite different than those proceeding him in office whereas he most often truly means what he says. Such as his warning in January that his "Nuclear Button" is "much bigger & more powerful" than the one controlled by North Korea's Kim Jong Un."
While any outcome, good or bad, certainly remains to be seen, its undeniable that unprecedented progress has been made by an American president.
The best summation I’ve seen to date as to the underpinning of Trump’s successes comes from Charles Krauthammer's interesting perspective on him.
Krauthammer writes: “To my friends "of a different persuasion" I'm not trying to sell anything or anyone but I do feel this is an interesting take on our very controversial president who I truly believe is not Republican or Democrat.
“I said that I neither view nor do I believe Trump views himself as a conservative. I stated it was my opinion that Trump is a pragmatist. He sees a problem and understands it must be fixed. He doesn't see the problem as liberal or conservative, he sees it only as a problem. That is a quality that should be admired and applauded, not condemned.
“The impending collapse of the economy wasn't a Liberal or Conservative problem, it is an American problem. That said, until it is viewed as a problem that demands a common sense approach to resolution, it will never be fixed because the Democrats and Republicans know only one way to fix things and the longevity of their impracticality has proven to have no lasting effect.
“Successful businessmen like Donald Trump find ways to make things work, they do not promise to accommodate.
"[S]uccessful businessmen like Trump who have weathered the changing tides of economic reality understand what is necessary to make business work, and they, unlike both sides of the political aisle, know that if something doesn't work, you don't continue trying to make it work hoping that at some point it will.
“As a pragmatist, Donald Trump hasn't made wild pie-in-the-sky promises of a cell phone in every pocket, free college tuition, and a $15 hour minimum wage for working the drive-through at Carl's Hamburgers.
“I argue that America needs pragmatists because pragmatists see a problem and find ways to fix them. They do not see a problem and compound it by creating more problems.
“You may not like Donald Trump, but I suspect that the reason some people do not like him is because:
(1) he is antithetical to the "good old boy" method of brokering backroom deals that fatten the coffers of politicians;
(2) they are unaccustomed to hearing a president speak who is unencumbered by the financial shackles of those who he owes vis-a-vis donations;
(3) he is someone who is free of idiomatic political ideology;
(4) he says what he is thinking, is unapologetic for his outspoken thoughts, speaks very straightforward using everyday language that can be understood by all (and is offensive to some who dislike him anyway) making him a great communicator, for the most part, does what he says he will do and;
(5) he is someone who understands that it takes more than hollow promises and political correctness to make America great again.
“Listening to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders talk about fixing America is like listening to two lunatics trying to "out crazy" one another. Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Marco Rubio are owned lock, stock, and barrel by the bankers, corporations, and big dollar donors funding their campaigns. Bush can deny it, but common sense tells anyone willing to face facts is that people don't give tens of millions without expecting something in return
“We have had Democrats and Republican ideologues and what has it brought us? Are we better off today or worse off? Has it happened overnight or has it been a steady decline brought on by both parties?
“I submit that a pragmatist is just what America needs right now. People are quick to confuse and despise confidence as arrogance, but that is common among those who have never accomplished anything in their lives (or politicians who never really solved a problem, because it's better to still have an "issue(s) to be solved," so re-elect me to solve it, (which never happens) and those who have always played it safe (again, all politicians) not willing to risk failure, to try and achieve success).
“Donald Trump put his total financial empire at risk in running for president and certainly did not need or possibly even want the job; that says it all. He wants success for the U.S. and her citizens because he loves his country!”
Now, while Krauthammer’s adeptly described the circumstance regarding Trump’s accomplishments he’s simultaneously presented evidence of the Democrats probable extinction. Primarily because there is not an accomplished managerial “pragmatist” among them.
What’s also interesting is that the same foreboding of doom surely applies to Republican politicians and their party as well. However, they’ll most likely survive and do quite well in the future because for whatever reason, when his time came they were the one's Trump decided to join.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
Setting the premise, according to Rasmussen on Friday, December 29, 2017: “Looking back on President Donald Trump’s first year in office, he has compiled a shockingly strong record and long list of accomplishments. As was also the case with his rise to the presidency, President Trump has broken several records.
He “signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act before Christmas, ensuring U.S. business commitments for bonus payouts to at least hundreds of thousands of Americans workers. Within hours, numerous businesses announced wage increases and billions of dollars in various industry investments.”
The tax overhaul also repealed the individual mandate in ObamaCare.
Regarding the overall economy, “In February, Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris said that the Trump Administration is “probably the most pro-business administration since the founding fathers.” His remarks came after attending a meeting with President Trump, who hosted manufacturing leaders at the White House almost one month exactly after his inauguration.”
And then, according to CNBC at year end: “In the year since President Donald Trump has been in office, the economy has done something it has been unable to do since 2005: maintain 3 percent growth for three quarters in a row.”
Conversely “Under Mr. Obama, “experts” told us we just had to live with the new normal — 2% annual economic growth.”
Rasmussen goes on to say: “The Dow Jones Industrial Average has hit record highs nearly 70 times in 2017 and U.S. markets have created roughly 6.3 trillion in new wealth. In 2017, Americans’ 401Ks appreciated by 25% to 33% and Bank of America is forecasting the S&P 500 and NASDAQ Composite to rise at least another 12% and 16%, respectively, in 2018.”
“What the economists and market strategists have totally underestimated in their GDP forecasting is the positive effect from the multi-agency regulatory roll back from the Trump Administration,” TJM Investments analyst Tim Anderson said. “This has led to a record high level of business confidence indicators and most recently the highest level of industrial production in 3 years.”
Today, many pundits compare the impact of the phrase it’s “the economy stupid” used by Bill Clinton in his successful 1992 presidential campaign against George H. W. Bush as the primary, if not the only, allure Trump has to offer voters. Particularly because business was his lifelong endeavor. However, Trump’s performance in office is proving those pundits wrong.
For example, alongside the nation's outstanding economic performance, at the same time in the Middle-East, “In October, the U.S. Pentagon confirmed to People’s Pundit Daily (PPD) that Raqqa, the “capital of terrorism” in Syria, had fallen. Secretary Rex Tillerson said the fall of the Islamic State (ISIS) capital was accelerated by “critical decisions” made by President Trump.
“In January, ISIS was actively plotting terrorist attacks against our allies and our homeland in Raqqa,” Secretary Tillerson noted. “Nine short months later, it is out of ISIS’s control due to critical decisions President Trump made to accelerate the campaign.”
Rasmussen then notes that: “For nearly 40 years, Republicans have tried and failed to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for oil drilling. Since the 1980s, the effort always failed in the face of intense opposition because weak congressional Republicans were too afraid of the Democrat-Big Media coalition.
“They repeatedly abandoned the decades-old campaign promise.
“Yet, a provision for drilling in ANWR was included in the President’s signature tax bill with minimal backlash.”
Then there was Trump’s nominating and the U.S. Senate confirming Justice Neil Gorsuch, “despite unprecedented opposition and obstruction by Senate Democrats. Many of those same Democratic senators, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., unanimously confirmed Justice Gorsuch to his prior role in a voice vote back in 2006.”
Another achievement concerned illegal immigration where “President Trump made cracking down on illegal immigration the centerpiece of his campaign and end-of-year statistics from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) show historic success during the first year of his administration.“
“The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in FY 2017 reported a 23.7% decline over the previous year. Illegal migration along the Southwest border declined sharply from January 21 to April, which was the lowest month of border enforcement activity on record. In FY 2017, CBP reported the lowest level of illegal cross-border migration ever on record.
“The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Removal Operations (ERO) conducted 143,470 arrests and removed 226,119 illegal aliens, an increase of 40% from the previous fiscal year. From the start of the Trump Administration on January 20, 2017 through the end of the fiscal year, ERO made 110,568 arrests juxtaposed to 77,806 in FY 2016, also an increase of 40%.
“Worth noting, 92%, or 101,722 illegal aliens arrested by ICE during the Trump Administration, either had a criminal conviction or a pending criminal charge, were an ICE fugitive, or were an illegal re-entrant. In other words, he isn’t ripping babies out of their mother’s arms and dreamers out of their homes en masse as the hysterical media portray.”
While these major accomplishments were proceeding, several others were also taking place including the declaring of Jerusalem the capital of Israel, pulling out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership which Trump called a “potential disaster for our country,” overseeing moves to expand oil drilling in the Arctic and Gulf of Mexico and granting permits to the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines while pulling out of the Paris climate accords.
General satisfaction with Trump’s performance and future expectations can be seen in employer's reactions such as today’s news that “nonfarm payrolls rose by 313,000 in February while the unemployment rate remained at 4.1 percent, the lowest since December 2000,” as reported by Jeff Cox @cnbc. “The total counted as "employed" in the household survey surged by 785,000 to a record 155.2 million.”
Although these accomplishments seem quite significant, and they certainly are, another one may soon overshadow many of them whereas as reported by Joe Tacopino of the New York Post yesterday: “President Trump has agreed to sit down with his North Korean nemesis Kim Jong Un sometime in the next two months to discuss stripping the hermit nation of its nuclear arsenal.”
Many attribute the sudden change in North Korea’s hostile attitude to its realization that Trump is quite different than those proceeding him in office whereas he most often truly means what he says. Such as his warning in January that his "Nuclear Button" is "much bigger & more powerful" than the one controlled by North Korea's Kim Jong Un."
While any outcome, good or bad, certainly remains to be seen, its undeniable that unprecedented progress has been made by an American president.
The best summation I’ve seen to date as to the underpinning of Trump’s successes comes from Charles Krauthammer's interesting perspective on him.
Krauthammer writes: “To my friends "of a different persuasion" I'm not trying to sell anything or anyone but I do feel this is an interesting take on our very controversial president who I truly believe is not Republican or Democrat.
“I said that I neither view nor do I believe Trump views himself as a conservative. I stated it was my opinion that Trump is a pragmatist. He sees a problem and understands it must be fixed. He doesn't see the problem as liberal or conservative, he sees it only as a problem. That is a quality that should be admired and applauded, not condemned.
“The impending collapse of the economy wasn't a Liberal or Conservative problem, it is an American problem. That said, until it is viewed as a problem that demands a common sense approach to resolution, it will never be fixed because the Democrats and Republicans know only one way to fix things and the longevity of their impracticality has proven to have no lasting effect.
“Successful businessmen like Donald Trump find ways to make things work, they do not promise to accommodate.
"[S]uccessful businessmen like Trump who have weathered the changing tides of economic reality understand what is necessary to make business work, and they, unlike both sides of the political aisle, know that if something doesn't work, you don't continue trying to make it work hoping that at some point it will.
“As a pragmatist, Donald Trump hasn't made wild pie-in-the-sky promises of a cell phone in every pocket, free college tuition, and a $15 hour minimum wage for working the drive-through at Carl's Hamburgers.
“I argue that America needs pragmatists because pragmatists see a problem and find ways to fix them. They do not see a problem and compound it by creating more problems.
“You may not like Donald Trump, but I suspect that the reason some people do not like him is because:
(1) he is antithetical to the "good old boy" method of brokering backroom deals that fatten the coffers of politicians;
(2) they are unaccustomed to hearing a president speak who is unencumbered by the financial shackles of those who he owes vis-a-vis donations;
(3) he is someone who is free of idiomatic political ideology;
(4) he says what he is thinking, is unapologetic for his outspoken thoughts, speaks very straightforward using everyday language that can be understood by all (and is offensive to some who dislike him anyway) making him a great communicator, for the most part, does what he says he will do and;
(5) he is someone who understands that it takes more than hollow promises and political correctness to make America great again.
“Listening to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders talk about fixing America is like listening to two lunatics trying to "out crazy" one another. Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Marco Rubio are owned lock, stock, and barrel by the bankers, corporations, and big dollar donors funding their campaigns. Bush can deny it, but common sense tells anyone willing to face facts is that people don't give tens of millions without expecting something in return
“We have had Democrats and Republican ideologues and what has it brought us? Are we better off today or worse off? Has it happened overnight or has it been a steady decline brought on by both parties?
“I submit that a pragmatist is just what America needs right now. People are quick to confuse and despise confidence as arrogance, but that is common among those who have never accomplished anything in their lives (or politicians who never really solved a problem, because it's better to still have an "issue(s) to be solved," so re-elect me to solve it, (which never happens) and those who have always played it safe (again, all politicians) not willing to risk failure, to try and achieve success).
“Donald Trump put his total financial empire at risk in running for president and certainly did not need or possibly even want the job; that says it all. He wants success for the U.S. and her citizens because he loves his country!”
Now, while Krauthammer’s adeptly described the circumstance regarding Trump’s accomplishments he’s simultaneously presented evidence of the Democrats probable extinction. Primarily because there is not an accomplished managerial “pragmatist” among them.
What’s also interesting is that the same foreboding of doom surely applies to Republican politicians and their party as well. However, they’ll most likely survive and do quite well in the future because for whatever reason, when his time came they were the one's Trump decided to join.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
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