Bad news, friends -- it looks like Germany is succumbing once again to the siren song of Marxism. It appears that the country's next government will be led by the socialists in the SPD. Drat! That's another pillar of Western Civilization toppled by the Bolshies.
https://www.newsmax.com/john-gizzi/germany-scholz-merkel-bundestag/2021/09/26/id/1037993/
Politico is sounding the alarm over the Biden Administration's distressingly "harsh" immigration policies. You heard that right! The progressives and migrant activists are applying strong pressure on Biden to let everyone in this country and to open that border as wide as it will go. Biden is in a no-win situation here, to be sure, and that's well-deserved, but the scary part is that he might bow to leftist demands and open the illegal immigration spigot EVEN WIDER! Yikes.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/25/immigration-drives-cracks-in-democratic-coalition-514298
Liz Cheney -- bless her heart! -- is back on 60 Minutes, fuming at DJT and portraying her own run for reelection to the House as a battle for the soul of the Republican Party. The sad part is that she probably thinks, and CBS probably agrees, that she's helping herself politically by appearing on 60 Minutes and trashing Trump. Man, she really doesn't know her own party very well, does she? Oh, and she's also backtracking from her original opposition to gay marriage. What a shock! I'd say her migration into the Democratic Party is "progressing" nicely.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/liz-cheney-gay-marriage/2021/09/26/id/1037996/
Did you know that there's currently a gas shortage in the U.K.? Pretty wild. It's that pesky supply chain again. It keeps acting up.
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/britain-shortages/2021/09/26/id/1037975/
Is Biden losing popularity? Duh. We all know the answer to that. If the 2020 election were re-run today, 5% of the electorate would abandon Biden. That's a big deal! Whether they would migrate to Trump is another matter.
The coming week will feature a lot of high stakes votes in the House of Representatives. Moderates may cave to the whims of Nancy Pelosi, but progressives are proving harder to corral. And remember -- getting these awful bills through the House is the easy part!
Dr.Waddy from Jack: I wonder what survivors of East German Socialist tyranny think of this development. Does this guy threaten "fundamental transformation"? I wonder if German Jews are alarmed?
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Cheney would just be a face in the crowd in the Dem horde. Her conviction that President Trump is bad for the GOP and the real America it represents has no hope of prevailing among our voters. Even the aid and comfort she affords the enemy does that enemy little service. They are practiced Trump haters because he has dared to poke a thumb in their basilisk politically correct eye.
ReplyDeleteJack, I doubt anyone is too alarmed, since the SPD has been a mainstay of German politics since the 1870s...but the fact that socialism has been mainstreamed is itself a depressing commentary on the state of German politics!
ReplyDeleteJack, I agree that Liz Cheney's siren song isn't seducing anyone on our side, and for Dems/progressives the only place it's leading them is where they already want to go. She's a waste of space, BUT it's true that a significant number of Republicans are turned off by Trump. Of course, that was true in 2016 and 2020 too, and we won both elections, regardless of what the history books say.