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NOVEMBER 25,  2021

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

DOPEY NOMINEE IS SUNK – FROM AXIOS:   Five Democratic senators have told the White House they won't support Saule Omarova to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, effectively killing her nomination for the powerful bank-regulator position.  The defiant opposition from a broad coalition of senators reflects the real policy concerns they had with Omarova, a Cornell University law professor who's attracted controversy for her academic writings about hemming in big banks.  Their opposition also hints at a willingness of some Democratic senators to buck the White House on an important nomination, even if it hands Republicans a political — and symbolic — victory.  Republicans have attacked the Kazakh-born scholar in remarkably personal terms, and turned her nomination into a proxy battle over how banks should be regulated.  Driving the news: In phone call on Wednesday, Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), all members of the Senate Banking Committee, told Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) — the panel's chairman — of their opposition.  They're joined in opposing her by Sens. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.).  She's a far-left ideologist, probably a Marxist, and Soviet-trained.  I have no idea how she got picked for the job.  I doubt if Biden even knows her.  Who's really running this administration?

November 25, 2021       Permalink

THE DEM PANIC EVEN EXISTS ON THANKSGIVING – OVERNIGHT:  The reality is even worse than previously believed.  From dailywire.com: 

New surveys from Democrat Party strategists reportedly show that the party’s brand is in shambles nationwide as the Biden administration deals with skyrocketing inflation, rising fuel costs, a continued disaster on the U.S. Southern Border, fallout from the disaster in Afghanistan, and numerous other problems.

“What they discovered, largely through focus groups and polling, was even worse than expected,” Politico reported. “The problems cut far deeper than the failings of their gubernatorial nominee, Terry McAuliffe, or President Joe Biden’s flagging approval ratings. Rather, the Democratic Party’s entire brand was a wreck.”

People who voted for Democrat President Joe Biden could not name anything that Democrats had done “except a few” who pointed to the infrastructure bill, which was bipartisan. The voters could not say what the Democrat Party stood for or what they were doing on the national level.

“Less than a year ahead of midterm elections, in which even Democrats widely expect they will lose the House and, possibly, the Senate, the party is confronting an identity crisis,” the report added. “It isn’t just Biden’s cratering public approval ratings, inflation, or the precedent that the party in power typically loses seats in a president’s first midterm.”

Politico noted that a Democrat strategist who advises the party’s major donors said after the House passed Biden’s massive far-left social spending bill that it was “[t]oo late. We’re f—ed.”

The report said that skyrocketing inflation, a lack of workers at stores, and supply chain disruptions were having a significant negative impact on the people’s view of the economy.

The most devastating part of the report was the finding that everything the Democrats have been banking their future on — the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the far-left social spending bill — “show few signs of helping them at the ballot box.”

The focus groups found that “2020 Biden voters had little positive to say about him right now” and that “many described disappointment or a sense that he is not doing well.”

COMMENT:  Confirmation of what we see every day – a once-great political party with almost no connection to the American people.  The voters are smarter, and better informed, than the political professionals think they are.  They see a Democratic Party that has rejected and buried its own history, and most of its great alumni.  Jack Kennedy couldn't get into today's party, and probably wouldn't want to join.  Read his inaugural address and imagine a modern Democratic, group-identity candidate speaking those words. 

I'm surprised there isn't yet a movement for a new, center-left party.  But that could come after next year's election.

November 25, 2021       Permalink

NOVEMBER 24,  2021

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

OUR CURRENT MORALITY – FROM COLLEGE FIX:    Thirty-four percent of white college student applicants have lied about their race to admissions officials to better their chances of getting accepted into their desired university or receive better financial aid, according to a survey from Intelligent.  The survey of 1,250 white college applicants ages 16 and older found that the most popular racial claim was Native American. Out of the 34 percent of white college applicants who lied about their race, 77 percent were accepted.  “It’s the easiest lie to tell because you can’t get caught in it,” said Vijay Jojo Chokal-Ingam, an admissions consultant at SOSAdmissions.com and author of “Almost Black: The True Story of How I Got Into Medical School By Pretending to Be Black.”  “A lot of people, based on very flimsy reasons, claim to be either African-American, Hispanic or Native American because they know it’s going to improve their chances,” Chokal-Ingam said in an interview with The College Fix.  Though lying on college applications is frowned upon, universities typically do not push back on students about their race. Instead, they accept it regardless of what they look like, he said.  Ah, universities are such sacred, ethical places.  Why, aren't they training tomorrow's leaders?  Tomorrow doesn't look so good.

November 24, 2021       Permalink

SHE HAS RETURNED – OVERNIGHT:  Hillary Clinton, that is.  She's been going around the country with her hair combed, dresses cleaned and pressed, and plaster smile in place.  She is a woman on a mission.  Can you guess what that mission is?  From Fox: 

Failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday praised the legislative accomplishments of President Biden while appearing to claim that everyday Americans didn't understand or "appreciate" them.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," Clinton complained about the successful "exploiting" of social media misinformation by Republicans, blaming the lack of "gatekeepers" and "people with a historic perspective" to help Americans understand what they were seeing.

"You know, democracy is messy. You know, a lot of people got, oh I think, kind of frustrated looking at the messy process of legislation. And they didn’t really appreciate that, within a year, the Biden administration has passed two major pieces of legislation through both the House and the Senate," Clinton said, referencing the coronavirus relief bill and the infrastructure bill that were both signed into law this year.

She also mentioned the massive Democrat-backed social spending bill that passed the House last week but has almost no chance of passing in its current form in the Senate.

"By any measure those are extraordinary accomplishments … But because of the way we are getting our information today, and because of the lack of gatekeepers and people who have a historic perspective who can help us understand what we are seeing, there is a real vulnerability in the electorate to the kind of demagoguery and disinformation that, unfortunately, the other side is really good at exploiting," she added.

Clinton's comments join what appears to be a growing trend by Democrats questioning the perception of Americans when it comes to the economic issues that affect their everyday lives. Democrats are facing a potentially difficult midterm cycle next year following a crushing loss in Virginia's gubernatorial election.

COMMENT:   That pompous, corrupt fool.  She's criticizing us? She blew her own election campaign, then went around the country whining that the election had been stolen.  Now she's whining that Americans don't understand what's actually happening.  Why, most of them didn't even go to Wellesley College. 

And what is her mission?  Well, she's one of the few people praising Joe Biden, and I really do believe that she's campaigning to replace Kamala Harris.  If Kammy can be forced out of the vice presidency, Clinton would be an obvious "unifying" candidate to replace her, putting her a heartbeat away from her only goal in life, the presidency.  It's the kind of scheme she would relish.

Watch Clinton carefully.   If Kammy's numbers continue to fall, the vice president may have to walk the plank, or at least be dropped from the 2024 ticket.   That, in my view, is why Hillary is combing her hair these days, and speaking out more and more, even though her sense of superiority reminds us of the hollow creature that has always been inside.

November 24, 2021        Permalink