SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:54 P.M. ET: 

DISSING HILLARY – From The Politico:   "Hillary Clinton has planned a lavish campaign kickoff on New York City’s Roosevelt Island this Saturday, but one of the Big Apple’s Democratic heavyweights isn’t attending.  Mayor Bill de Blasio’s press secretary confirmed to POLITICO Wednesday that the New York Democrat would not attend the rally. 'I’m waiting to hear…her larger vision to addressing income inequality,' de Blasio said when asked about the event by Capital New York’s Azi Paybarah.  De Blasio has thus far refused to endorse Clinton, despite having managed her successful U.S. Senate campaign in 2000, and has kept his distance from the former secretary of state’s nascent campaign."  I guess Hillary just doesn't go far enough left.  De Blasio is an old Castroite, so his stand isn't that surprising.  What is surprising is his love for himself.  His mayoralty is a farce, with rising crime, yet he believes he's the conscience of the Democratic Party.

U.S. ENERGETIC – From Fox:  "The United States has overtaken Russia as the biggest oil and natural gas producer in the world, in what one economist has described as 'a changing of the guard of global energy suppliers.'  Bloomberg reported Wednesday that U.S. oil production rose to a record 1.6 million barrels a day last year, according to BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy. Natural gas output also soared, which inched America ahead of Russia as a producer of the two combined."  Obama will take credit, but our energy production increased despite his policies, not because of them.

FROM HIS OWN CROWD – Increasingly, President Obama is being criticized by members of his own party.  From The Hill:  "A House Democrat on Wednesday accused President Obama of losing touch with the real world, as his administration pushes for fast-track authority to finish a sweeping trade pact.  Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), who opposes the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership and legislation to help finalize it, said Obama lives 'in a cloister' at the White House, while Sherman and his fellow lawmakers 'are out seeing the real world'...Sherman said living in the White House for the last six years had put Obama out of touch with the common American and that he should listen to the perspective of fellow Democrats who oppose him on trade."  No chance of that.  Obama doesn't like the real world.  Fantasies are more fun.

ON THE MOVE – From Fox:  "A group supporting Carly Fiorina’s 2016 White House bid released a video Wednesday critical of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s accomplishments while secretary of state.  The three-minute ad by the super PAC Carly for America uses clips from TV networks in which Americans, including some pundits, appear pressed or fall silent when trying to recall Clinton’s accomplishments as the county’s top diplomat from 2009 to 2013.  Fiorina, a Republican candidate and former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, has made criticizing Clinton’s State Department record a major part of her candidacy, asserting that Clinton's most touted achievement appears to be her travels."  Very shrewd.  So far, Carly has run the best and most imaginative candidate of all the GOP contenders. 

June 10, 2015