Can't resist it; we gotta feel good about the last couple of days!
In some downstate NY lala land Congressional district one Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an ardent and reckless young socialist, got herself nominated in the Democrat primary and probably elected to Congress. She defeated 10 term Dem. Rep. Joe Crowley, a Trump trasher for sure but that's not good enough anymore for the radicals enveloping the "Democrat" party. And by gosh she is a sure enough socialist too. She is for completely open borders, "free" college and "free" health care and a guaranteed income for all (at least all who are politically correct). Oh and she's apparently an open member of Democratic Socialists of America (love that name - its like saying Vegetarian Wolves of America). OOPS! Saul Alinsky warned the left about being frank but they think they are on a tear and when "progressives" think that they always overrreach. Dems continue their slow commission of political suicide and in that we may draw much encouragement.
What makes this even sweeter is that Rep. Crowley was very critical of Nancy Pelosi and bade fair to replace her. May Nancy reign forever; I'd miss her hilarious expectorations and I'm counting on her motivating Republican voters every day. The prospect of her being 2 steps away from the Presidency again should be enough to get the real America out to the polls in November.
The Supreme Court delivered three decisions this week sure to cause the left myriad Maalox moments. It is possible to get honest news so I won't go into detail on them except to say this on the decision to prevent public employee unions from collecting dues from workers who do not want their money used by the union to support political causes they do not embrace: I was in such a union. They say dues were not used for partisan politics - Baloney sausage! Even if they were not used directly they freed up other funds for that purpose. Public employee unions go overwhelmingly for Democrats so gee, if you're Republican, you just had to suck it up didn't ya? And it wasn't as if their politicking was confined to workplace issues. A resolution was considered at our eastern U.S. union convention to support preservation of Hawaiian volcanoes (?!) and that's just an example of this kind of dreck. Of course, leftist hijacking of unions for purposes sometimes contrary to their origins is an old story isn't it. They are going to have a very much harder time of it now with this cutoff of funding and since the Democrat party inclines ever further toward radical ruination we must needs celebrate. While we are at it lets thank our President and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell(whose gutsy decision to deny Obama a critical third SCOTUS appointment was key) for preserving the common sense majority on the High Court which made these decisions, all victories for our "resistance". I see there is breaking news about Justice Kennedy retiring; fasten your seatbelts. Depending on when he goes and the election results, this could get pretty stinky. The Dems are going to be beside themselves with dread of the permanent loss of the most dictatorial of the three branches. And they surely do like to dictate.
Lastly: this "get in the face of a Trump supporter today" stuff looks like this year's version of the anti Southern heritage hooey which petered out at Gettysburg last November (we reenactors marched and they scampered). Despite the genuine concerns expressed by Charles and Nancy for the prospect of this hurting Dems' chances in November (not a whit, mind you, for the vulgar offenses done the objects of these delinquencies) they continue apace and" Rep" Maxine Waters "triples" down on encouraging them. This can only help us and those so confronted may take some comfort from that perhaps. It will go the way of the "recount" we may be sure. Jack
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To all who may read this: Forgive me for commenting on my own post but I have just learned that Justice Kennedy will retire as of July 31 and that is joyful news, because of the timing, not for any overall disfavor of the Justice. Kennedy was perhaps the most consequential decision maker in the Federal Government for the last 20 years; he is a noted advocate of judicial restraint and integrity. As his successor, President Trump will nominate an accomplished and respected jurist who would give the Constitution the deference it deserves. The Dems will of course go to the "streets" in a probably hopeless effort to "Bork" the candidate. They can do no other until at least 1/1/19. They don't have the votes! Thanks to their very selves they can't filibuster. They tried to block Gorsuch and the result was Justice Gorsuch. Their frenzied efforts to block the President's nominee will be duly noted by the voters in November. I do not admire them their discomfiture but how richly they deserve it.
Jack, the Janus decision may have very direct relevance to me. Will my union dues now become voluntary? Or perhaps only a part of them? It will be interesting to find out. I'm of two minds, because I like having a union in most respects, but I sorely wish it would stick to its core competency of representing the interests of its members. Instead it, like all unions these days, pontificates on every issue, and always in the most "progressive" fashion imaginable. Given the choice, I think I'll have to withdraw my contribution to the abolish-America fund...
I agree that the rudeness and harassment that are now flowering in the Democratic Party are a huge gift to Republicans. I said as much in my latest radio interview. Keep it up, lefties!
The Kennedy retirement is huge. Not as huge as if RBG was retired by the hand of God, say, but still mighty important. Kennedy was an OKAY judge, in my view, but he cast the deciding vote to keep a lot of nasty liberal policies in place. I remember he kept affirmative action alive, for instance. Replacing him with a TRUE conservative would be a big step forward. I trust implicitly that Trump will do exactly that -- and the Dems may fume but I seriously doubt they can do more.
Dr. Waddy: I know I very much benefit from union membership; I served as a steward due to my interest in local issues. But my unions thorough devotion to the left was very frustrating. I expressed it but to no avail.
I've often thought of Kennedy as part of a conservative bloc on SCOTUS but he wasn't really was he. For sure he was with us on stopping Al Gore's shameful and shameless bid to steal the 2000 election and was also on the two monumental 2nd Amendment decisions; a reliable conservative would be an improvement, I can see, as a counter to the four "Critical Legal Studies" "innovators" on the other side. With very possibly 6 more years of President Trump, the prospects are bright for a return of the Court to construction, not legislation.
Dr. Waddy: One other comment: It always fries me to see how unions continue to believe that the Dems give a fig for them other than for their votes. Coming from an old industrial union family in a factory town I understand where it came from. But don't they know now that the Dems deserted them in 1972? The word "labor" surely encompasses "production" and the left is devoted to the complete discrediting of the role of production as a necessary prerequisite for the reception of benefits. They are devoted to taking from the productive, forcefully if possible and giving to the unproductive. This is in keeping with their world view that the productive are simply privileged and the unproductive are simply oppressed. What do you (or any other reader) think of this?
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