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MARCH 2,  2022

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT: 

ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY – OVERNIGHT:  Vice President and Grand Admiral Kamala Harris has done it again.  I personally believe that hearing aids and electro-shock therapy may be required to salvage her.  It's gotten that bad.  Exhibit 435, from Fox:  Vice President Kamala Harris was dragged by critics on Tuesday for an eyebrow-raising response during a radio interview, where she was asked to explain the Ukraine crisis to listeners.  Harris joined the "The Morning Hustle" to discuss the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, President Biden's nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court, and Biden's upcoming State of the Union address.  Asked at one point to explain the crisis overseas in "layman's terms" for concerned listeners, Harris responded slowly, "Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine, so basically that’s wrong."  Critics pounced on Harris for her elementary explanation of a war that has already claimed thousands of casualties, with some questioning her understanding of the conflict and others mocking her curious choice of words.  "OH… MY… GOD," GOP strategist Greg Price tweeted alongside a clip of the exchange.  She treated the audience members like children, and got away with it.  Can you imagine her as president?  And yet, look at Biden's physical condition.  We're in trouble.

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THE PHONIES – OVERNIGHT:  At a time when we are so inspired by the Ukrainian resistance, some people proudly step forward to show us how cowardly and hypocritical they are.  We thank them for their non-sacrifice.  From bizpacreview: 

President Joe Biden drew ire from Democrats and Republicans alike during his first State of the Union address, and it was surprisingly on the same issue.

Pivoting off the topic of COVID-19, Biden attempted to transition into a plan for the future that would unite Americans. He brought up the deaths of New York Police Department officers Jason Rivera, 22, and Wilbert Mora, 27, who were killed in the line of duty after being ambushed on a domestic disturbance call.

Biden left out the ambush stating, “They were responding to a 911 call when a man shot and killed them with a stolen gun.” He then discussed measures he believed achieve both “safety and equal justice” like holding “law enforcement accountable” and banning chokeholds.

Touting $350 billion from the American Rescue Plan meant to break “the cycle of violence and trauma,” Biden struck a nerve when he stated, “We should all agree: The answer is not to defund the police. The answer is to fund the police with the resources and training they need to protect our communities.”

Republicans reacted with annoyance to this because it states an obvious reality they have promoted all along. Clay Travis sarcastically welcomed Biden for his revelation.

“Joe Biden just said the answer isn’t to defund the police, it’s to fund the police,” Travis wrote. “But his party spent the past two years arguing to defund the police. Welcome to the party, pal.”

Others suggested that Biden’s words, both past and present, should speak for themselves.

COMMENT:   Reaction to the president's speech generally split along party lines, but there is no evidence that he made any converts.  It is his hypocrisy and cowardice that finally gets him, and his party.  Few Democrats are willing to run on a "defund the police" platform, not because they don't believe in that pathetic cause, but because it will cost them votes, and possibly elections.  But just wait until they get into office.

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MARCH 1,  2022

THE SPEECH – OVERNIGHT:  The president has delivered his State of the Union speech. The State of the Union is usually long, dull, boring, and egotistical, and Biden met those standards.  However, this year, because of the horror of Ukraine, the address did have a certain urgency.  What would the president say about Putin?  About our attempts to help the Ukranians? About our ultimate objective?  Would there be a nuclear war?

Despite all the "get tough" talk from the president, he actually said nothing much.  We have imposed sanctions.  There'll be others.  We're tough.  We'll get some weapons into Ukraine if we can.  We're tough.  We'll criticize Putin in public.  Tougher still.

But the fact is that the president did not predict success for our side, nor commit ourselves to that outcome.  He seemed at times to suggest that Ukraine is this week's fashion, with no real prospect of victory.  I was not exactly inspired to sign up.

The electric words were missing, words that would have instantly made Ukraine into a winning cause – words announcing that the president would reverse earlier decisions, and open up American oil and gas production.  We would instantly be transformed from an oil importing nation into what we were at the end of Donald Trump's administration –  energy independent, and ready to suck the wind out of Putin's greatest weapon, the fact that countries in Europe are dependent on Russian oil.   But not a word of it was mentioned.  The opportunity has been missed, no doubt to satisfy the environmental extremists who have the Democratic Party in a lock grip.  From Michael Goodwin in the New York Post:

It takes a special sort of political cynicism to publicly thank the Ukrainian ambassador for her nation’s bravery — and stress in the next moment that we will do nothing to defend her country with our military.

But then President Biden’s State of the Union speech was nothing but bumbling hypocrisy.

Start with the fact that the mask mandate Nancy Pelosi lorded over her members for years was suddenly lifted the day before the speech, showing that “follow the science” was a bald-faced lie. Next up, Biden begging for unity, then accusing Republicans of only helping the rich.

It was quite the performance. After years of bashing Donald Trump, Biden stole his stump speech. He rebranded Build Back Better as Build a Better America, and got cheap applause for claiming he was going to get businesses to stay in the US. This after Democratic administrations have signed trade deal after trade deal that have taken industries to China and Mexico.

But you think companies will be happy to stay after Biden blamed them for inflation, claiming that rising costs in stores were because of gouging, not supply issues and his own reckless government spending? Or that he’s instituting a “crackdown” on prices?

Corporations will long for the friendlier shores of, we don’t know, Venezuela.

Turns out “buy American” was just a stalking horse for Biden’s real agenda — trying to get the massive social spending of Build Back Better passed. He’s nothing if not consistent in his futility. Even though Joe Manchin has shot him down again and again and again.

COMMENT:  Joe and those around him just can't break through their mediocre leftism.  There were no advances made during the State of the Union.  He could have skipped it.

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