Political Junkie

Good news!   After returning from a luxurious, two-week vacation, it looked like members of Congress might have finally developed a desire to do their job: legislating.   So far, the 116 th Congress has accomplished little in actual legislative accomplishment; besides virtue-signaling measures such as the condemnation of bigotry that failed to call out the anti-Semitic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar directly and the attempt to override President Trump’s national emergency declaration.   While it should not come as a surprise that the Democratic-controlled House has failed to pass meaningful legislation into law, even the Republican Senate has seemed unable to do its job: confirming people.   Four Republican Senators came out against the nomination of Herman Cain to the Federal Reserve board, including his formal rival Mitt Romney. Cain ultimately withdrew his nomination after left-wing heroine and fair-weather feminist Gloria Allred threatened to humiliate Ca...

As 2017 comes to a close, now seems like a good time to acknowledge the lowlights that this year could have done without.     Dianne Feinstein’s Religious Bigotry : While questioning Amy Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to serve on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, Senator Dianne Feinstein seemed to suggest that her Catholic faith disqualified her from serving on the bench.   Feinstein complained that “When we read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you.   And that’s of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for – for years in this country.”   I find Feinstein’s behavior quite strange considering the fact that the Democrats always whine about “religious tests” when it comes to our immigration policy.     They don’t seem to mind “religious tests” when it comes to judges.   The United States Senate confirmed Barrett 55-43 at the end of October.   Not...

In many ways, this week proved quite a disappointment for the so-called “Resistance”, especially when you consider that they thought they had a very good week last week; when President Trump’s Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn plead guilty to lying to the FBI and indicated that he would “cooperate” with the Special Counsel investigation.   Yet their fortunes began to change when a producer handed The View’s Joy Behar a note that suggested that President Trump directed Flynn to make contact with the Russians.   Behar reacted with glee , thinking that this news proved the left’s theory that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians in order to win the elections.   However, ABC News’s Brian Ross, who wrote that report, initially neglected to mention that President Trump directed Flynn to contact the Russians after he had already won the election.   ABC News, in an effort to ensure that they did not win the President’s promised “fake news trophy”, s...

The 72 nd General Assembly of the United Nations has officially begun as leaders from all over the globe convene at the organization’s headquarters in the Big Apple.   The United Nations is one of the many supra-national organizations created after World War II with the intention of preventing the breakout of World War III.   Will more accomplishments come out of the 72 nd UN General Assembly than the 115 th United States Congress?   At this point, it would not surprise me if the answer to that question turned out to be yes.                 On Tuesday, President Trump gave his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City .   His speech managed to win some praise from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one of our closest allies on the world stage; as well as some of his Republican critics, including Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney.   In his speech, he promised to put America...