SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET: 

I LOVE IT! – FROM CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE:  Failed presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and women’s rights advocate Kara Swisher sat down for a live podcast and taping in New York City. The media has focused on Mrs. Clinton remarks: “I want to be president”, which can be seen in the interview at 00:33:40.  However, there’s also an alarming joke told by Clinton that reflects her tone-deaf racial perspective. At the 01:04:30 moment of the interview Ms. Swisher mistakes Corey Booker for Eric Holder and Mrs. Clinton replies: “I know they all look alike."   I don't believe it.  I just don't believe it.  Not one word of condemnation from the usual suspects. 

YOU CAN'T MAKE IT UP – FROM GATEWAY PUNDIT:   Back in July 2013 Rep. Bobby “Beto” O’Rourke tried to join the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in the House of Representatives.  But the Hispanic Caucus refused to let him join saying he lacked Hispanic heritage.   I'm sure Beto thought it was so unfair to be turned down for such a trivial reason.  Maybe he and Elizabeth Warren can form a new ethnic group and become charter members.  They can call themselves the Fraudulents.

GM FADES AWAY – FROM IBD:   General Motors has given up on the free market. It now wants the federal government to force electric cars on the market and taxpayers to heavily subsidize them. GM  should focus more on improving reliability than pleasing environmentalists.  In an op-ed published by USA Today, CEO Mary Barra says the federal government should impose a "National Zero Emissions Vehicle" program that will "move our country faster to an all-electric zero emissions future."  The program, as envisioned by GM, would basically take California's electric car mandate nationwide. It would require 7% of new cars sold to be electric in 2021 — less than three years from now. GM wants the mandate to increase each year, until it hits 25% by 2030.  As in California, carmakers would get credits for each EV car sold, and could buy and sell them with other automakers.  Barra also wants Congress to renew and expand the $7,500 refundable tax credit given to electric car buyers. Taxpayers have already forked over nearly $5 billion to subsidize the (mostly wealthy) electric car buyers. The credit is supposed to phase out once a carmaker sells 200,000 plug ins.  Barra says stopping the taxpayer subsidies "will stifle growth."  In other words, Barra is flat out admitting that without federal mandates and massive tax subsidies, electric cars don't have much of a future. Environmentalists might love them, but consumers clearly don't.  What a comedown.  Chevy used to symbolize the American car industry.  For tens of millions of Americans, it was their first car.  Now the company is a mouthpiece for creeping socialism.  I'm ready to destroy all photos of my Chevy Nova, circa 1962.

October 29, 2018