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JANUARY 20,  2022

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

THE TRUTH! – OVERNIGHT:  We are constantly bombarded by minor stories and overhyped reports of foreign conflicts.  But at Urgent Agenda we search constantly for stories that get to the heart and future of our civilization.  Down with trivia, we say.  Such a story has just come across our desk.  From legalinsurrection:    A substitute teacher says she was canned for not “identifying” with all of her students, including a young boy who claims to be a cat.  In a TikTok video, a woman going by the handle @crazynamebridgetmichael claims she was let go for not meowing back at a student, who then stormed out of the classroom.  “I’m a sub, and the most important thing we do is take roll, so the school gets paid,” the teacher rants. “So, I’m looking at the seating chart as I’m going up and down the rows and marking who’s here and who’s not. I get to the third row and I hear this ‘meow.‘ Uhhh, excuse me?”
The woman goes on to say that a little girl told her that the teacher needs to meow back because the boy identifies as a cat. The substitute jokingly asked if there was a litterbox in the classroom. The boy then stormed off, and the teacher barked at him.  She ends the video by stating that, when she went to the main office to check out for the day, she was told, “We no longer need your services if you can’t identify with all the children in the classroom.”  Now that's important.  Remember when they used to teach math, and English, and Abe Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan?  Now they teach us to be at one with mountain lions and gerbils.  I don't know.  Am I being too harsh?  Maybe someone who identifies as a cat is just what we need in the White House. 

January 20, 2022       Permalink

THE AUDITION BEGINS – OVERNIGHT:  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell came out bristling, responding to President Biden's marginally alive press conference.  Remember, this isn't just doing the job in Mitch's case.  He's auditioning for Donald Trump, who's been highly critical of him.  It would be bad if Trump ran for president and Mitch wasn't on his team.  I'd imagine Mitch would have to disappear, or Trump would just ignore him.  McConnell knows it would be much better if he and Trump were on good terms.  From Fox: 

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell responded Thursday to President Biden's repeated claim that Republicans cannot verbalize "what they are for" to the American people.

McConnell, R-Ky., told Fox News the GOP has been vocal about what Republicans view as the most pressing issues in the country.

During his Wednesday press conference, Biden said the "fundamental question is 'what's Mitch for?'" before claiming the Senate minority leader would do "anything to prevent Biden from being a success."

McConnell strongly disagreed with Biden's claim, telling "Special Report" anchor Bret Baier, "my good friend the president got it wrong once again."

"I helped him pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill, I supported in the Senate a bill to deal with China and the computer chip shortage," he recalled.

"If the president starts acting like a moderate like he campaigned, we can do business. The reason we've not been speaking recently this year is because he adopted the Bernie Sanders prescription for America. He did that even though he got no mandate for it, a 50-50 Senate and a couple of seats' majority in the House, and they couldn't get it through."

 McConnell added that the American people, like himself, do not want the socialistic transformation of America that people like Sanders, a Vermont senator, envision. 

COMMENT:  If Mitch is willing to fight, Trump might take him in from the cold, and we could march off together to sweep the Dems from the field, although they're doing a good job of that by themselves.

January 20, 2022       Permalink

JANUARY 19,  2022

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

A MAJOR STORY, ONE OF THE BIGGEST POLITICAL STORIES OF THE YEAR – OVERNIGHT.  We're seeing a major exodus of Hispanics from the Democratic Party.  We're also seeing a major physical movement of African-Americans.  The Times they are a-changing. From Breitbart:   Many black Americans are leaving New York and California to seek decent wages and affordable housing in southern states, according to a Washington Post article that ignores the federal policy of importing foreign people to fill jobs and homes in New York and California.  “There is a noticeable lack of black people in these cities that were once the mecca for black America, for  people fleeing the Jim Crow South,” the Post’s reporter told an interviewer.  The Post reported January 14 on the southern migration, which is now reversing the historic “Great Migration” of  black Americans from the South to northern cities during the 1900s:  "For the second census in a row, Chicago and its suburbs lost Black population, which has decreased by 130,000 since 1990. In Michigan, both the Detroit and Flint metropolitan areas lost Black population in absolute terms … Metro New York recorded its second consecutive loss in Black population, losing about 110,000 Black residents since 2000. In California, metro Los Angeles has lost 160,000 Black residents since 1990, while metro San Francisco has lost 90,000."  Many people are migrating from homes in sunny California and wealthy New York to southern states, the article shows:  We don't yet know whether these new migrations will affect the way that blacks vote.  African-Americans are the most loyal group within the Democratic Party.  Will they start to stray and explore new ideas, as they're exploring new locations?  Confident predictions of only ten years ago that blacks, Hispanics and Asians would drive the Democratic Party to permanent dominance are being quietly taken back.

January 19, 2022       Permalink

THE DEM DEBACLE, SUPERBLY PRESENTED – OVERNIGHT:  The president's news conference did nothing to improve his situation except for assuring us that he could stand and speak for a couple of bad hours.  No one bout with reporters will change the fact that Biden and his party have struck out in the first innings of the presidential game.  Issues and Insights, which draws its staff from Investor's Business Daily, has done a fine job of explaining why the Democratic Party has "Titanic" printed on its headquarters. 

For the past year, Democrats up and down the leadership ladder have been on an endless campaign to portray Republicans as delusional out-of-touch anti-science hate-mongering conspiracy-peddling vote-suppressing anti-vaxxer insurrectionist racists.

The result has been a huge shift in party preference: away from Democrats and toward Republicans.

Have voters finally wised up to the left’s cravenness and radicalism? Will this newfound awareness last?

Gallup this week released its survey on party preference, which found what it describes as “a dramatic shift” over the course of 2021. The public went from favoring Democrats by a 9-point margin at the start of the year to favoring Republicans by a 5-point margin by year’s end – a stunning 14-point shift in preference.

Gallup says “Both the 9-point Democratic advantage in the first quarter and the 5-point Republican edge in the fourth quarter are among the largest Gallup has measured for each party in any quarter since it began regularly measuring party identification and leaning in 1991.”

This follows other polls that show a similarly wild swing in favor of Republicans. A CNBC poll, for example, found that Americans support Republicans over Democrats by a 10-point margin – a record, and “a significant swing that may produce a Republican landslide victory in the 2022 House and Senate midterms.”

RealClearPolitics’ average shows Republicans have been favored in a generic congressional ballot since November.

Then there are President Joe Biden’s approval ratings, which are now lower in some polls than Donald Trump’s were at the same point in his presidency. And keep in mind that Trump’s low poll ratings came amid 24-7 wall-to-wall attacks as the press drummed up the phony Russia scandal. In contrast, the press has been busy genuflecting before Biden, only reluctantly covering the multiplying crises that he’s brought about.

Even more embarrassing for Democrats is the fact that some polls now show Trump – whom the Dems have spent countless hours calling a deranged authoritarian bent on destroying democracy – leading in a rematch against Biden.

How did Democrats blow it so badly? We can think of three main reasons (none of which involve Biden’s obvious mental decline or the Omicron variant).

COMMENT:  Do read the rest, and the three reasons.  We're reminded that decisions in politics have consequences.  Some "news" outlets often try to sweep the bad decisions under the rug, to make those decisions disappear if made by the side they favor.  But the public, usually smarter than the politicians,  increasingly is demanding, through polls, that it wants the mess exposed.   Journalists might want to listen to the public, but they usually don't.  After all, what do those peasants know?

January 19, 2022       Permalink