Showing posts with label Ron DeSantis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ron DeSantis. Show all posts
Monday, July 3, 2023
Sunday, July 2, 2023
Republican group of homosexuals: Log Cabin Republicans, Richard Grenell, and the man formerly known as Bruce Jenner
It's now homophobic to point out, accurately, that Donald Trump did more than any other Republican to support pride month, say Log Cabin Republicans.
Monday, June 5, 2023
The left's campaign to make sure Trump is the GOP candidate gets more incoherent by the day
Days ago we were told Ron DeSantis is too dumb to run his own messaging and had to rely on his wife.
Now his wife is a Walmart deplorable.
I'd say they've lost their minds but they never had any to lose.
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Thomas Massie of Kentucky voted for the rule advancing the debt ceiling compromise to the House floor because the compromise contains the Penny Plan and a return to regular order
The Penny Plan would be triggered in the event 12 appropriations bills are not passed by Jan. 1 annually, automatically reducing spending 1% across the board.
Ending the present bad habit of omnibus spending bills is essential to a return to good governance and represents a good reason to vote for this bill despite its shortcomings.
Massie followed through with his statement during Tuesday evening’s vote when he supported the rule. He also told reporters that he plans to vote for the bill when it comes to the floor on Wednesday after announcing it in a closed-door GOP conference meeting minutes earlier.
“It’s because it cuts spending,” Massie told The Hill Tuesday night when discussing his intent to support the bill.
“Nothing I’ve ever voted on has ever cut spending that’s passed that’s become law; this will,” he added.
During Tuesday’s Rules Committee hearing, Massie highlighted a provision in the debt limit bill that incentivizes Congress to pass 12 appropriations bills rather than relying on omnibus measures to fund the government. The provision threatens to cut government spending by one percent across the board if the measures are not approved by Jan. 1.
“There is one way in which I think this bill got better, and it is this 1 percent cut that we’re all agreeing to if we vote for this bill, Republicans and Democrat, come Jan. 1. If we haven’t done our homework, and if the Senate hasn’t done their homework, and if the president hasn’t signed those bills — so everybody is gonna be in this, responsible for the outcome,” Massie said.
Friday, May 26, 2023
This is lol great
“On day one, I will have folks that will get together and look at all these cases, who people are victims of weaponization or political targeting and we will be aggressive at issuing pardons,” DeSantis said in his response. ...
DeSantis replied, “I would say any example of disfavored treatment based on politics or weaponization would be included in that review, no matter how small or how big.”
The Justice Department said this month more than 1,033 defendants have been arrested as part of its probe of the Capitol riot. ...
DeSantis said he planned to use the pardon power “at the front end”
instead of waiting until the end of his term in the White House.
“We’re going to find examples where the government’s been weaponized against disfavored groups, and we will apply relief as appropriate. But it will be done on a case-by-case basis,” he said.
More.
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Excellent News: Insurgent "Eight-Year Alliance" forms from 100 former Trump administration officials who now back Ron DeSantis
According to multiple sources within the group, officially known as "The Eight-Year Alliance," DeSantis is "a proven winner," a contender with a depth of policy proven by what he's accomplished at the state level, and a leader who "does what he says."
The primary motivation of the group, the sources said, is to promote a candidate they feel would be a viable contender for two presidential terms, something they see in DeSantis. They also want to prevent former President Donald Trump "immediately becoming a lame-duck president" should he win back the White House, considering the polarizing affect his persona has had on American politics.
More.
Key point: depth of proven policy in Florida sustainable nationally over two presidential terms is a better choice than another drama-plagued and by definition ineffectual presidency under the best of conditions.
Friday, May 19, 2023
From this stupid story we're supposed to believe that the man who graduated Yale and Harvard with honors doesn't have a thought in his head but for his wife
The Casey DeSantis Problem: His Greatest Asset -- and Liability...
Never trust a story which features Roger Stone and Rick Wilson as sources.
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Drudge relentlessly repeats the relentless lies of WaPo on a Tuesday in May, or any other day, that's how much the Republican victory in 2022 stung
Six months after midterm losses, election deniers mount new efforts...
As far as WaPo is concerned, all Republicans are election deniers and didn't win the House, dammit:
And:
Friday, April 21, 2023
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Drudge is running one negative story after another about Ron DeSantis for one simple reason
The left desperately wants and needs Donald J. Trump to be the Republican candidate because they know they can beat him.
End of story.
Thursday, March 23, 2023
Ron DeSantis missteps, tries to weasel out of his characterization of the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a "territorial dispute"
One message for Tucker Carlson viewers, another for "neocons".
But trying to thread that needle is a fool's errand.
Ron DeSantis obviously isn't ready for this yet. No one thinks any part of Ukraine is Russian territory, especially since Russia agreed to the new borders in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.
DeSantis could elevate himself by pointing out that Ukraine also pledged itself to neutrality in that agreement, and that Ukraine should return to that position instead of seeking EU and NATO membership.
Unfortunately, it appears that DeSantis, and the rest of the field, needs to let Trump become the candidate and lose again in order to cleanse the GOP of Trump once and for all.
DeSantis would be better positioned for 2028 anyway, when the Russia-Ukraine conflict enters its sixth year, at which time he can better Monday morning quarterback the whole thing. He will turn 50 in 2028. He has time. He needs time.
'Well, I think it's been mischaracterized. Obviously, Russia invaded — that was wrong. They invaded Crimea and took that in 2014 — That was wrong,' DeSantis told Piers Morgan in an interview more than a week after his initial comments. ...
'What I'm referring to is where the fighting is going on now which is that eastern border region Donbas, and then Crimea, and you have a situation where Russia has had that. I don't think legitimately but they had,' he said.
More.
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Worlds in collision: Jeb Bush and Pat Buchanan both go out of their way as 2024 looms to find things to like in Ron DeSantis
Everyone is exhausted by you know who.
Piers Morgan interviews Ron DeSantis
I asked him if he was familiar with the story of Frankenstein, and he said he’d seen the movie.
“And you’re alluding to what?” he smirked, knowing full well what I was alluding to.
“Dr. Frankenstein creates a monster, then loses control of the monster, and then the monster ends up killing him,” I reminded him. “You know the parallel I’m making …”
He chuckled. “Let’s put the country first rather than worry about any personalities or any type of individual … at the end of the day, I’m a vessel for the aspirations of the people I represent. It’s not about me — as Ronald Reagan said, ‘There’s no limit to what you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit.’ ”
“That’s true,” I replied, “but you’re up against somebody who definitely cares who gets the credit, and who’s desperate to want to win back the White House.”
More.
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
GOP candidate positions on Ukraine demonstrate nothing but groveling to the anti-war right
And the kernel there is pretending things that are not true, the mark of an unserious country.
Nikki Haley is simply incoherent. She says we have to win this war, but without more financial assistance.
“I don’t think we need to put money in Ukraine,” Haley said last week before an audience in Iowa. ... “This is not a war about Ukraine, this is a war about freedom—and it’s one that we have to win,” Haley said. “If we win this war, this will send a message to China, it will send a message to Iran, it will send a message to North Korea, it will send a message to Russia. If we lose this war… they said Poland and the Baltics are next, and you’re looking at a world war.”
Ron DeSantis pretends Russia never invaded and simply has a territorial dispute with Ukraine.
“While the U.S. has many vital national interests—securing our borders, addressing the crisis of readiness within our military, achieving energy security and independence, and checking the economic, cultural, and military power of the Chinese Communist Party—becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them,” DeSantis told Fox News host Tucker Carlson this week.
And The Daily Beast isn't wrong about Donald Trump's position, who to this day touts the myth that he is some great deal-maker who can untie the Gordian Knot:
Former President Donald Trump has said he would have let Russia “take over” parts of Ukraine if he were still in the White House.
It is also the case that there is plenty of pretending on the other side, that the West wasn't responsible for the Ukrainian revolution of 2014 which ultimately provoked the current conflict.
Statesmen tell hard truths to their people. But none of ours seem capable of telling even the simple ones, including Joe Biden.
Friday, March 10, 2023
Stuff that's been in the news since March 6th
Xi Jinpingpong blamed the US for the first time for his domestic failures, according to the Wall Street Journal. He's a commie reactionary with Chinese characteristics. Not a good sign of what's to come.
Some cracker Republican in Florida wants bloggers to register like lobbyists, and Ron DeSantis finally came out against that, thankfully. A little late, though. Newt beat him to it.
Vivek Ramaswamy says CPAC shook him down for $$$$ in exchange for which they'd see to it he did better in the straw poll. There's no report that Matt Schlapp also asked for a reach-around.
LIBOR surpassed 5% for the first time in 15 years on Monday.
Georgia fired up a nuclear power reactor this week. The country now has 93 operating. 67 were never finished after Three Mile Island.
A dog and her pups were rescued alive and well from a basement in Turkey more than a month after the Feb 6 earthquake. The death toll is up to 52k.
Thousands of Iranian schoolgirls are being systematically poisoned in Iran. There was a similar incident in Afghanistan during the first Obama administration. Rag-headed heathen bastards.
South Africa is going the way of Rhodesia.
The UST yield curve aggregate made a new high 4.674% Wednesday v Fed Funds Effective Rate 4.57.
The Obama of Big Oil said peak production from 2019 will never be surpassed.
Pundits who predict inflation won't spiral like the 1970s fail to understand that the price of energy inputs is determinative. Unless energy costs come down big, we're in for it.
Cumulative deaths per million from C-19 in the US are 3,285. In Africa just 181. Follow the science.
The tide is turning on the Wuhan Lab Leak Theory of the origin of C-19 in the press.
Anthony Fauci has authored a paper in CELL which calls for better vaccines than the ones we've got, whether experimental or not. No kidding.
Silicon Valley Bank failed today, the first failure since 2020 when there were four. There was a huge flight to safety. Stocks sold off and longer dated Treasuries rallied 3.45%. The yield curve aggregate plunged 230bp, 3.82%.
Full time employment rose a little in Feb to 49.66% of civilian population. The average last year was 50.1%.
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Salena Zito is obviously channeling Peggy Noonan: The women recommend just giving up on secure chain of custody voting
The weaker sex recommends you give in. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
That right there is the whole history of conservatism, from the advent of the Progressive Era 130 years ago until now.
Currently, Democrats are miles ahead of Republicans at targeting specific races and voters. Through mail balloting, they put those voters in the bank early. ... Republicans can complain about the current rules all they want, but what they need to do is wake up and start competing with the Democrats where they are. Otherwise, they're just leaving winnable races on the table.
Florida Republicans certainly have figured it out. In 2018 and 2020, the Democrats went into Election Day with more ballots cast than Republicans in early voting. This year, Florida Republicans flipped that on its head. Republicans in other states should take note.
-- Salena Zito, in her conclusion here
It is rude of Arizona and Nevada to keep the country waiting to know the composition of its Senate. Why, days after the election, don’t we know which party controls the House? Why can’t the late-reporting states get their act together on vote counting? It’s the increase in mail-in ballots? So what? You roll with life and adapt. Florida, which spans two time zones, reports its tallies with professionalism and dispatch.
-- Peggy Noonan, from her lede here
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Trump failed to deliver in 2018 and 2020, now his party fails to deliver in 2022
This should have been a massive wave election. Given the low job approval ratings of the sitting president in his first midterm election, and given the favorable generic congressional ballot numbers, this should have been a plus-five wave in the Senate and a plus-30 wave, or bigger, in the House. It also should have resounded down to statehouses, and yet the GOP turns out, apparently, not to have been able to beat abysmal Democrat gubernatorial candidates like Katie Hobbs, Kathy Hochul, and Gretchen Whitmer. ... Trump didn’t play the net positive role he should have, and that might be the real takeaway. ... Objectively, it’s clear that DeSantis is the future of the GOP.
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