Thursday, March 7, 2019

The New York Times' Paul Krugman: No anti-Semitic enemies to the left, only to the right!

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

What a douche bag, writing for a douche rag.




Nancy Pelosi is making excuses for Ilhan Omar, Rahm Emanuel is not


Contra Dan Henninger of the WSJ, this is hardly the hottest job market in half a century when Obama's was actually better, which ain't sayin' much


This past weekend, The Wall Street Journal published a series of stories titled “Inside the Hottest Job Market in Half a Century.” As far as I’m concerned, this jobs record is the story of the year. The Journal’s articles transformed a year of economic data into the new daily reality of getting paid to work in America. ... It requires a remarkable degree of obtuseness to stare at the policy success of the past two years and pretend it hasn’t happened. Democrats are doing exactly that. Conservatives should pocket the Trump presidency’s Reaganesque policies for massively matching job producers with job seekers.

There's nothing obtuse about the facts, which show that the current job recovery is nothing out of the ordinary and simply continues the recovery which began despite Obama. The fact is that since the election of Trump in 2016 there's actually been a slow down in the rate of job growth compared with the immediately preceding, more robust period from 2013-2016.

Reaganesque policy under Trump hasn't produced a better outcome for job growth compared with that period, which was the immediate result of the John Boehner-Barack Obama deal to make the Bush tax cuts permanent starting in 2013.

For all the bluster by Trump-aligned organs in the media, especially at The Wall Street Journal, Fox and on talk radio, Trump's results so far also haven't come close to matching the pre-2000 era of job creation.

The economy shrank after the end of the 20th century, and we're still trying to recover to the former glory, nineteen years later.

So far, no one has a solution. Short of a giant spending cut and an actual structural commitment to onshoring instead of offshoring, there will not be one.




Repeal the 22nd Amendment, 2019 edition

Limiting the president to two terms when House and Senate members are not so limited increases the political power of the legislative over the executive, contrary to the founders' vision of separated and balanced powers. The executive is automatically lame on reelection as a consequence, and the Congress knows it and exploits it.

The growth of the so-called "imperial presidency" in the post-war has been simply a response to this infringement on the executive. To be sure the individual responses of the executive often become offenses in and of themselves, but nothing has been more offensive in the history of the Republic than Congress' sorry record of unimpeded theft of the American people's money and its headlong leap into the spending abyss. 

Like guilty dogs caught peeing on the carpet of the Constitution, the Congress occasionally bows its head and cedes a little power back to the executive in one form or another, the latest example on display being the National Emergencies Act of 1976. With that the Congress is quite content to let the executive take all the political heat for making the difficult decisions in extremis while posturing as defenders of the Constitution. They win both ways, and the president loses. Congress' incumbents know they'll be back for the long run, but the president won't.

Repealing the 22nd Amendment would actually put more of the onus on Congress these poseurs to do their damn job for a change instead of dumping it all on one person while crying "Tyranny!" after he acts to clean up their puddle. And that's why it won't happen.

But it still should.


Why Twitter is better than Facebook

Facebook makes you go to all the trouble of unfriending people for what they believe whereas Twitter saves you a step by automatically unfriending you for that. Much more efficient.

Never did like 'Nam


I just hate committing suicide with alcohol

I always wake up the next morning with the worst headache.

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Democrat Ron Wyden is tired of James Clappers' lies, which were like what, in 2013 . . . 6 light years ago

Expect Ron Wyden to make a statement on the 2019 capture of the Democrat Party by the anti-Semites in . . . 2025.

128 years after Wounded Knee and we're still beating the Indians


Correct, but it's "minorities" who are taking all the new jobs, 78% of the jobs to be exact

Trump has left whites behind.

Clearly there's not enough global warming in Minneapolis to assuage the savage Somali heart in February

Minneapolis, US: Somali Youth Gangs Locked in Bitter Feud Trouble Community:

On Friday alone, five men of Somali descent were shot in separate attacks, one fatally.

 

Kamala Harris: Putting the spotlight on Democrat anti-Semites puts them at risk! Stop it!

You mean like the Southern Poverty Law Center puts the spotlight on anti-Semites of the right puts them at risk?






The Trump-caused problem at the border is now literally off-the-charts


Trump is Angela Merkel, making the problem worse at the border with irresponsible statements at SOTU address, border deal signing and CPAC encouraging people to come here


Rep. Tim Burchett (TN-2) is a hoot: "Oyster Stroganoff"

If you can't kill it with a Glock or your car, forget it.

Illegal immigrants have figured out Trump's just a pushover

Too bad his voters haven't figured it out yet. What was that again about dumb immigrants?

The illusion of accomplishment: Trump's had just 3 quarters out of 8 with real GDP at 3% or higher, and no new wall


President Trump, now in the third year of his term, is struggling to maintain the illusion of accomplishment as some of his biggest promises remain unfulfilled. ... Trump wrote in his book “The Art of the Deal” that he “plays to people’s fantasies.” He still does. ... “He kind of talked himself into a corner in promoting the wall all the time and gave Democrats an opportunity to stymie him just by refusing to pay for a wall,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies. Krikorian, whose group supports more restrictive immigration policies and thus is allied with Trump on some issues, disagrees with the president’s portrayal of a wall as critical to border security. The president felt he had to declare a national emergency “because he has made the wall such a high-profile objective,” Krikorian said. “It's important, but it’s not job one and it’s certainly not the reason we have a crisis at the border.”





Democrat Governor of MI Gretchen Whitmer lied to the voters in October 2016 when she denied she'd raise gasoline taxes by 20 cents a gallon

Yeah, she REALLY meant 45 cents, but couldn't win on that!

This weasel, similar to Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992, now says Gas tax hike 'not always my plan':

Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called Tuesday for nearly tripling Michigan's per-gallon gas tax — and making the state home to the country's highest fuel taxes — in order to improve aging roads that she warned would only get worse without a major influx of new spending.
Whitmer's plan would increase the current 26-cents-per-gallon tax by 45 cents — going against what she said in a WOOD TV8 gubernatorial debate in October. When then-Republican nominee Bill Schuette said Whtimer wanted to increase the gas tax by 20 cents, she said that was "ridiculous" and "nonsense."

Tuesday, March 5, 2019