Flotsam and Jetsam - Movement Afoot to Rename Key Bridge

Well, as I predicted, the Peacock starts strutting Civil rights groups push to rename Baltimore bridge because of namesake's links to slavery "They are recommending the bridge be renamed after the late U.S. Rep. Parren J. Mitchell, the first Black Marylander to be elected to the House of Representatives." Well, that would follow the Maryland tradition of naming bridges after people no one remembers. At NYPo, Civil rights groups call for collapsed Baltimore bridge to be renamed, call Francis Scott Key a racist slave owner. I'm still rooting for the Freddie Gray Memorial Bridge. At the Balmer Sun, Federal safety investigators home in on electronics of cargo ship that destroyed Baltimore’s Key Bridge, Divers, engineers plan to remove Key Bridge remnants using giant buckets, hydraulic shears (time to get out of the way and let the deplorable boys with big toys go to work), Key Bridge collapse updates: Gov. Wes Moore defends speed of federal action; services for 2 crew members set and Services for 2 crew members killed in Key Bridge collapse set for this weekend. At WaEx, Ex-Biden chief of staff caught on tape slamming president’s attention on bridges. KT at Hat Hair VIP, Ron Klain to Biden: Stop Talking about F***ing Bridges.

Steve Cortes@CortesSteve ""Elect me. I'm in the 20th Century." - Joe Biden If this was your elderly parent or grandparent, you would pull them off the stage. Not allow them to run for reelection of the most powerful country on Earth." Nick Arama at RedState sees Biden Presser Goes Awry: Loses List of Who to Call on, Tells Whoppers, Forgets What Century He's In. Hat Hair's KT notes  Univision Tosses a Softball Interview to Biden as he Panders to Hispanic Voters.  RNC Research@RNCResearch, "BIDEN: "I hope the legacy is that I kept my word that I said the reason I was running was to ... reduce the prospect of war because of Vietnam"" Hat Hair's Dave Strom, Joe Biden's Legacy: Ending the Vietnam War? At Reason, Americans Don't Want a Dictatorship, but They're Creating One Anyway. "Too many people think democracy works only if they get to dominate their opponents." Hat Hair's Jazz Shaw laughs as he reports Now Biden Could Miss the Ballot in Alabama. "The Alabama Secretary of State, a Republican, has informed the Alabama Democratic Party Chairman, letting him know that the deadline for certification of candidate names on the ballot for November falls four days before the DNC is set to begin in Chicago. The rules in Alabama appear to allow for some provisional options to avoid this issue, but Wes Allen, the Secretary of State, appears to be taking a hard line on the question for now." At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.10.24,  Da Fed, Could Democrat Hubris And Incompetence Cost Biden Ballot Access In These States?

Spencer Brown at TownHall watches Senator Kennedy Roasts Alejandro Mayorkas: 'You've Done Nothing for Four Years'. Senator Ted Cruz@SenTedCruz "DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been impeached by the House of Representatives. The Senate has a constitutional obligation to hold the trial. Chuck Schumer is threatening to throw away over 200 years of precedent and table the impeachment trial. Is there even one Democrat who cares about the institution of the Senate, Constitution, or Democracy?" At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.10.24, at LI, Chuck Schumer Suddenly Doesn’t Like Impeachment Being Used for ‘Policy Disagreements’ and This Ain’t Hell: Maryland again…sigh, "Apparently we need more legal immigrants because illegal immigrants are taking all the construction jobs and there are not enough of them? A Democrat in the race to represent Maryland in the Senate urged listeners at a recent candidate forum to “forget the border,” calling it a “Republican talking point and a distraction” as he pushed for an increase in the total number of migrants allowed to legally enter the U.S. each year."

At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.10.24,  The Federalist: Biden Is Only ‘Adding’ Jobs Because Americans Need Extra Side Hustles To Make Ends Meet, From Reason, Inflation Is So Back, "Consumer prices rose 0.4 percent in March and the annual inflation rate ticked up to 3.5 percent, the highest rate seen since September." John Sexton at Hat Hair, Inflation Continues to Climb (Paul Krugman Hardest Hit). Ace,  Inflation Came In "Hotter" Than the Always-Surprised "Experts" Expected. 

Let's quote CNN to see how they're coping.

Stubbornly high US inflation grew stronger than expected in March

Surging gas prices and sky-high mortgages and rent sent inflation rising more than expected in March, adding to Americans' prolonged and painful battle with high costs. That could force the Federal Reserve to keep its punishing rates higher for longer.

Yup. As I've mentioned, the Fed wants to save Biden by cutting rates in time for the election, thus flooding more newly-printed dollars into the economy, but they can't as long as inflation keeps coming in "hotter than expected."

At Fox, Senate strikes down Biden administration's climate regulations targeting car emissions. "'Few things are more frustrating in government than unelected bureaucrats asserting authority they don’t have,' says GOP Sen Kevin Cramer."

PJM's Kevin Downey sees the Trumphobic Loons' Panic Knob Goes to 11. It's been there a while. Jacob Sullum at Reason asserts Trump's Abortion Stance Is Convenient, but That Does Not Mean He's Wrong. "His embrace of federalism is one of those rare instances when political expedience coincides with constitutional principles." Also at Reason, Liz Wolfe, Kari Lake Doesn't Know What To Do about abortion. At Da Fed, Dave Harsanyi thinks Democrats Don’t Want You To Know How Moderate Trump’s Abortion Stance Is. Capt. Ed adds "What's interesting about this, though, is how each man perceives 'convenience,' so to speak. To the extent Trump adjusted at all, he moved to the middle. Biden has spent the last few decades moving to the extreme Left on abortion (and Israel, for that matter, although that's much more recent). What does that tell us about the GOP and Democrat coalitions?"

The Liberal Patriot thinks about Battleground Montana. "GOP control of the Senate likely hinges on Jon Tester's ability to defy the odds." And maybe Hogan in Maryland. Capt. Ed, "I'd never count Tester out entirely, but Moore's right. Especially with a deeply unpopular Biden at the top of the ticket, Tester would need to be a political Usain Bolt to outrun the Biden drag in a deep-red state like Montana." PJM's Matt Margolis asserts Everything We Thought We Knew About Elections Is Changing "Have you noticed lately that we can't rely on the past to guide us through this election? Changes are definitely happening. For one thing, we appear to be in the process of a major racial realignment, in which black and Latino voters are shifting to the Republican Party. Joe Biden's 2020 advantage among black voters has declined by over 20% in various polls. We're also seeing younger people undergoing the same shift.."

At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.10.24, The Federalist Arabella Sheds Light On The Dark-Money Groups Remaking America Millions Of Dollars At A Time, After Promising Not To, The IRS Army Democrats Expanded Is Targeting The Middle Class, Attention Hogg Blows Nearly Half His PAC’s Donor Dollars On Nonsense Like DoorDash And Marc Elias, and GOP County Prepares To Sue New York Over Law Hitching Local Elections To State Dems’ Coattails. Tom Knighton at TAT thinks Biden effort to use tax dollars to benefit Democrats heading toward a smackdown at the Supreme Court.

Chris Queen at PJM, When You Thought Fani Willis’ Office Couldn’t Get Any Worse, Here Comes a Sleazy Investigator. Ace, DOJ: Fani Willis May Have Conspired With Her Nasty Snizzbiscuit to Misuse Federal Grant Money, "But she seemed to be as ethical as any Democrat alive!" NYPo reports Nathan Wade pleading poverty, trying to cut alimony payments to ex-wife after losing Trump prosecution job: court docs. Capt. Ed calls him "Lame. Wade may not have this gig, but he still has his law license and his practice. This saga has revolved in significant part around Wade's attempts to evade financial responsibility in his divorce." At the Gateway, Nathan Wade Pleads Poverty to Get Out of Alimony and Child Support Payments to His Ex-Wife After Resigning as Trump Prosecutor Over Improper Relationship With Fani Willis. 

LOOK WHAT WAS JUST FOUND! WILL THE FAKE NEWS REPORT IT?

Donald Trump Truth Social 10:48 AM EST 04/10/24 pic.twitter.com/ZFQNBvPcSy

— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) April 10, 2024

WaPoo whines Some Jan. 6 rioters win early release, even before key Supreme Court ruling. "The Supreme Court’s pending review of a key federal charge levied against Jan. 6 defendants — and Donald Trump — is already triggering early releases of some high-profile defendants." 

From the Free Bacon, Biden DOJ Slow-Walks 'Slam Dunk' Case Against Man Who Allegedly Tried To Kill Justice Kavanaugh, Baffling Experts "Nicholas Roske is accused of trying to murder the conservative Supreme Court justice over his position on abortion." Ace, Of Course: The Criminal Gang Running the DOJ Is Slow-Walking the Would-Be Supreme Court Assassin, Because He's a Transgender and They Don't Want the Public to Rise Up In Disgust When They Give Him a Sweetheart Plea Deal. "By the way, I never heard the Supreme Court Assassin was a transgender before. They really covered up that aspect, huh?" Hat Hair has the video of AOC Desperately Trying to Resurrect Debunked Russian Collusion Hoax "Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is doing her best (along with Nancy Pelosi) to make "Russian collusion" a thing again. Unfortunately for them, pretty much everybody sees through the nonsense."

At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.10.24, EBL,  House Conservatives Sink FISA, and The Federalist , 19 Republicans Resist Deep-State Efforts To Keep Spying On Americans Without A Warrant. 

Stacy McCain tells What CNN Didn’t Tell Its Audience About the Police Shooting of Dexter Reed Jr. "Nobody on CNN is going to make these facts clear. We do not yet have any confirmed explanation of how this “tactical unit” zeroed in on Reed, but I’m not buying that alibi about a seat belt violation. What we do know is that Reed already had pending weapons charges, and was not legally permitted to have a gun, which was the proximate cause of his death."

At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.10.24, at Am Con, Is Censorship the Biden Era’s Torture Issue? and Hollywood In Toto, Censorship Run Wild? Two Docs Attacked by Big Tech.

At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.10.24 from LI Former Cornell Student Patrick Dai Pleads Guilty To Online Threats Against Jewish Students, Greg Gutfeld on ‘Death to America’ Chant in Michigan: ‘We Are on a Slow Roll Toward Our Own Little Gazas’ “It’s not illegal, I guess. But why are we respecting it and why are we encouraging it?”

Luke Rosiak and Chris Rufo at Da Wire finds Trouble At The Fed: Investigation Into Lisa Cook’s Academic Record Raises Questions. Another DEI hire with a stink of academic dishonesty. From the College Fix has a poll, No, red states are not scaring away college students. Lower costs, higher quality. NYPo reports Scrabble makes historic change to game with ‘less competitive,’ ‘inclusive’ version to appeal to Gen Z. Less fun, too. 

At Hat Hair, Beege Wellborn is scandalized by the European Court of Human Rights: People Can Sue Their Government to Force Climate Action Cuz #Feelz, Jazz Shaw finds New York's New 'Fair Housing' Law Is Anything But and John Sexton extolls In Praise of Culture Warriors. 

At Hat Hair, Women, Don’t You Love Having Periods Explained to You by a Biological Male?

KT at Hat Hair, Idaho Governor: No, We Aren't Playing the Pronoun Game Here. At Ace's Planet Fitness Founder and Former CEO Says the Trans Gym is "Basically Destroyed" by Boycotts, "The Bud Light Effect." At NotTheBee, “Puberty is not a disease": New longterm studies show kids grow out of gender confusion, suicide is unrelated to gender issues.