Saturday, December 21, 2024

Flotsam and Jetsam - Our Long Dark Days are Done

Well, it is the Winter Solstice, so the days will start getting longer, albeit very slowly at first, but what I was referring to was the threat of a government shut down, in which some government employees might stop getting paid, and therefore, stop harassing us until we start paying them again. The Congress sort of got its act together late yesterday, and passed a new CR which puts off the problem to around the Spring Equinox! Althouse has a "Quick story about govt. shutdowns and the theatrics behind them. One year when I was reporting at CBS News during a govt. shutdown..." "... we were sincerely searching for real life impact. When we couldn't find any, *that* should have been part of the story. Instead, we kept trying to create the appearance of an impact. It wasn't really trying to be dishonest. It was, in my retrospective view, because the general editorial idea for the story was to show how bad the 'Republican' shutdown was for ordinary Americans, and the answer simply couldn't be that it wasn't...." Tweets Sharyl Attkisson." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, Johnson: We Have ... a Plan (Update), In Desperation, GOP Leadership Turns to ... Regular Order? and Reporters Wonder: Why Haven't We Heard From the President As Shutdown Nears?. Elon Musk@elonmusk, "This is great", Quote Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal "THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM? CONGRESS TRIES (AGAIN) TO AVOID A SHUTDOWN Speaker Mike Johnson is rolling out his third plan to keep the government’s lights on, featuring: • A funding extension until March (a.k.a. kicking the can down the road). • $110 billion for disaster relief. Show more" Geiger Capital@Geiger_Capital, "All Elon did was read a bill, post on a public platform that the reckless spending in it was unacceptable, ask others to contact their representatives if they agreed, and made clear that he will help primary Ds + Rs who support it…This is called representative government." John Ringo SF Author@Jringo1508 "From a friend of mine: 'AI holding Congressmen and Senators accountable to the voters for pork spending & stealth legislating in real time, before the vote, by READING THE <BLEEPING> 1000 PAGE BILL was not on my 2024 bingo card, but here we are.'" At Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, Musk Forcing Republicans To Act Like Republicans. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 12.20.24, American Greatness: The Uniparty Panics, Claims That Elon Musk Is Our ‘Unelected President’. Sundance at CTH, Another Debt Ceiling Debate, Another Govt Funding Charade, Another Looming Govt Shutdown and Short-Term Funding Mechanism for Govt Spending Passes House. Nice Deb at Am Great, Senate Dems Throw Cold Water on Third GOP Spending Bill; Trump Says Potential Government Shutdown a ‘Biden Problem to Solve’ [UPDATE: Bill Passes House, Is Expected to Pass Senate]. Nick Sortor@nicksortor, "JUST IN: Speaker Johnson says he was in “constantly contact” with President Trump throughout the day, and believes Trump is “happy.” Johnson also said he spoke with@elonmusk,who acknowledged this may just be the hardest job in the world. The House has now adjourned." Insty, IT’S GOOD TO SEE OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES GET THE RESPECT THEY DESERVE: Chris Murphy@ChrisMurphyCT, "We had a deal to avert a shutdown. Musk et al blew it up because it didn't help billionaires enough. They wrote a new bill to cut cancer treatment for kids and grease a new tax cut for the rich. That failed too - and now they're panicking because everyone is seeing the grift." Quote, Physics Geek@physicsgeek, "You had a deal to give yourselves a huge pay raise that was crammed full of pork and you put in a handful of lines for necessary expenditures. A guy not in office merely pointed out all of the glaring flaws in the POS and the voters blew up the bill, you petulant, grifting turd."

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 12.20.24, at Twitchy, Mike Johnson Criticized As the CR Heads to the Senate: Brit Hume Asks, Is Anyone Blaming Chuck Schumer, Power Line: House Passes Spending Bill, Better Than the Original, Brianna Lyman at Da Fed, Dems Refused To Pass Kids Cancer Research Bill Until They Could Use It To Push 1,500 Pages Of Pork. Sarah Arnold at TownHall says Republicans Celebrate 'Huge Win' for Trump In Congress After Third Spending Bill Passes. 'Becca Downs at TownHall thinks A Major Democratic Narrative on the Spending Bill Just Got Busted. Mike Solana@micsolana, "how are we all just learning this person exists? feels like a reverse mandela kind of." Quote Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber "This crazy lady screaming about "President Musk!" is the most powerful Democrat in Congress on all things US federal budget. She was Chair of the House Appropriations Committee for the first 2 years of Biden & has been the #1 Democrat there since the GOP won the 2022 midterms."Nick Arama at RedState, Elon Hilariously Decimates Rosa DeLauro and Dems' Juvenile Tactics Over Funding Battle. Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok, "Turns out the cancer research funding that Democrats are all blaming on @elonmusk, was a stand alone bill that passed in the Republican controlled House but got held up in the Democrat controlled Senate. Democrats k*lled a funding bill for child cancer research." CNN, Congress averts shutdown after House GOP drops Trump’s debt limit demand "The House voted Friday evening and the Senate voted shortly after midnight to pass a bill that extends government funding into March and provides disaster relief and farm aid, but does not include a suspension of the debt limit, which Trump had called on Republicans to address. President Joe Biden must still sign the stopgap bill into law."

Matt Martgolis at PJM and Twitchy, Puzzling Presidency: Scott Jennings Easily Flips ‘Who’s Running The Country?’ Question on CNN

Western Lensman@WesternLensman "VDH just unleashed on legacy media, the Obamas and the Democrat hierarchy for lying abut Joe Biden’s cognitive state for four years: "This was the greatest presidential fraud and deception since Woodrow Wilson had a stroke in 1919, and Edith Wilson kept that from the American people for 16 months." John Sexton at Hat Hair, Chris Cillizza: 'People Around Biden Worked to Make You Feel Bad' for Asking About His Decline. VodkaPundit at PJM, Chris Cillizza Absolutely Deserves to Get 'Beat Up' for This. Sister Toldja at RedState, WATCH: Cringe Claims From Brian Stelter, Nicolle Wallace Revisted After Fresh Reporting on Biden Decline. Dint know nuffin. Mary Katharine Ham@mkhammer, "Breaking: That guy from the WSJ story who hasn’t been able to do the job since 2021 is currently the president." Sundance, Why Admit Now? – Wall Street Journal Interviews 50 Biden Staff and Officials Who Outline Cognitive Decline. Dave Strom at Hat Hair, The Media Admits Trump Is Current President. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 12.20.24, First Street Journal, Journolism: Even now, the credentialed media try to blame their laziness on Joe Biden’s staffers, Legal Insurrection: The Lie that Will Define Biden’s Legacy,

Twitchy, WTAF Is Going ON?! X FILLED with Rumors As Kamala Harris Cancels Trip and RACES to WH with Sirens Blaring.

John Sexton at Hat Hair, DOGE vs DEI (and the ACLU). "How much does the federal government spend on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts each year? Apparently no one knows because there's no requirement to collect or report such information. We do know it adds up to tens of millions of dollars." At Althouse, "Mr. Romney didn’t accomplish everything he had hoped. He says his biggest regret is failing to stabilize the national debt..." ""... which grew from $22.7 trillion when he took office to $36.1 trillion. He blames 'the scourge of partisan politics' and warned in his farewell address that 'our national credit card is almost maxed out, and America risks becoming debt poor.'" From "'What would Mitt Romney do?' His fight is still worth waging. Mitt Romney took courageous stands on principle, but he also passed a lot into law" by The Editorial Board of The Washington Post."


The Great Victor Davis Hanson at RCP looks at What Was So Different This Time About Trump’s Election? "One, Trump is seen now as a welcome relief." Andy Fowler at Am Mind looks forward to Trump’s New Jacksonian Era. 

Becky Noble at RedState, More Tales From the Swamp - Here's Where a Missing Congresswoman Was Found "The missing Congresswoman in question is Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX), who represents Texas' 12th Congressional District, which includes the Fort Worth area west of Dallas in Tarrant County. Granger's last known vote in the House appears to be in July when she voted "no" on HR8998, a bill that would reduce the salary of Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticides Program Ya-Wei (Jake) Lee to $1. Since then, she has no recorded votes. . . . The newspaper discovered that Rep. Granger was now the resident of a local memory care and assisted living home and had been for some time after she was found confused and wandering around her neighborhood."

Bo Loudon@BoLoudon, "BREAKING: An employee of the far-left "New PA Project" was just charged for REGISTERING DEAD PEOPLE TO VOTE! Voter fraud is REAL. I bet President Trump won by an EVEN BIGGER landslide than he did." From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 12.20.24, Twitchy, Shocker: The 'Impossible' Thing Dems Said Would Never Happen, Totally Happened Again. DavidGiglio@DavidGiglioCA, "Another “far-right conspiracy theory” becomes reality."

Capt. Ed, End the Tyranny of the Left, Says  James Carville. Ace, Democrat Strategist Ruy Texiera: The Public Gave the Democrats a Clear Message About Their Rejection of Identity Marxism, But the Democrats Don't Want to Listen, "They're doubling down."  Breitbart, Appellate Court Allows Joe Biden to Open Obamacare to DACA Illegal Aliens. John Sexton is sort of pleased Biden Administration New Regulation on Trans Athletes Which Can't Be Completed in Time. Brian Lonergan at Chronicles is upset with Biden’s Final Act of Border Sabotage. Twitchy, Here's the Pardon/Commutation Count for the Last Few Presidents (and Biden's Not Done Yet). RNC Research@RNCResearch, "Biden Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder says he "recently learned" there are actually 2,000+ U.S. troops deployed in Syria — far more than the 900 they had previously announced." From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 12.20.24,   American Conservative: Pentagon Suddenly Discovers 2,000 U.S. Troops in Syria. At WUWT, Biden’s Last-Gasp Paris Climate Push: Virtue Signaling Before Trump Changes the Game. Rueters, US sets new Paris climate target that Trump is expected to ignore. 


From Fox, House Weaponization panel releases 17,000-page report exposing 'two-tiered system of government' "The subcommittee says it took 'important steps to ensure that the federal government no longer works against the American people'" Mia Cathell at TownHall hears a Pro-Life Leader Targeted by Biden's DOJ Delivers Shocking Testimony Before Congress.

Stacy McCain claims 2024 was The Year the Media Lost. At Althouse, "What was the Lie of the Year?", "Meade asked me just now, referring to the annual designation that appears in PolitiFact. I thought for a moment, then said: "Joe Biden is sharp as a tack." Meade said he thought PolitiFact would pick "They're eating the pets." She is insufficiently cynical. Scott Pinsker at PJM says Democracy Really Did Die in Darkness. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 12.20.24, Breccan Theis at Da Fed notes George Stephanopoulos Has Always Been A Propagandist. Matt Vespa at TownHall is amused that 60 Minutes Reporter Who Told Trump Hunter's Laptop Can't Be Verified Afraid Her Industry Might Be Dead. The Martin Center reports on Censorship at Georgetown, "A departmental journal editor says the quiet part out loud, and the professors applaud."

Althouse, "A decade ago, cultural norms in elite American institutions took a sharply illiberal turn." "Writes Jonathan Chait, in "How Liberal America Came to Its Senses/The period of left-wing illiberalism that began about a decade ago seems to have drawn to a close. The final cause of death was the reelection of Donald Trump" (The Alantic). I'm not agreeing with the tale Chait tells. In fact, I find some of it hilarious. I'm presenting it for critical discussion. So let's continue. How did America "come to its senses"?" Dricoll at Insty, with another of his DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Joel Kotkin: The American university is rotting from within. "Ideologically homogenous universities have become something akin to indoctrination camps, where traditional Western values are trashed while woke ideology is promoted. Not surprisingly, the graduates of today’s universities are inclined to maintain rigid positions on various issues, confident of their own superior intelligence and perspicuity while being intolerant of other views. They also tend to be not particularly proud to be American. The kind of support professors gave to the war effort in the Second World War would be hard to imagine today." Beege Welborn, Worth Every Dime of Those Student Loans: Such Schweet Kids on College Campuses These Days. At the Boston Herald, Stunned Massachusetts educators, ADL call for MassCUE apology after ‘hateful’ anti-Israel and Holocaust rhetoric at conference ‘Jarring, unexpected, and unprofessional.’
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