Character assassination, lies, and double dealing rather than honest debate about policies and policy execution. That’s the way this party proceeds. Below are three Democratic National Committee emails, in a single thread, that illustrate the Democratic Party’s perfidy (heads up: the Subject Lines might not be Safe for Work). This is how they treat their own. Imagine how they’ll treat other Americans.
…triggered by a Wall Street Journal article about Michelle Obama’s expected commentary at the Democratic Party Convention.
Democrats have drafted a platform that makes race a key issue, calling for a “societal transformation to make it clear that black lives matter” and saying racial income and wealth gaps “are the result of policies that discriminate against people of color.”
But not all lives, as the Black Lives Matter movement has made clear.
Never mind that those discriminatory policies—minimum wage law positions, for instance—target people of color in particular and that they’re universally and long-standing Democrat policies.
Never mind, either, that the welfare cliff that traps people of color, along with all of America’s poor, in poverty and government dependence are the result of long-standing Democrat policies.
Never mind, either, that the Democratic Party still can’t say “blacks” or “black Americans,” much less “Americans who happen to be black or brown;” they continue to hide behind arch euphemisms.
Mrs Obama could also nod to the subject of gender. Mrs Clinton in her 2008 concession speech called capturing the White House the highest “glass ceiling” for women, but she also said that thanks to the number of primary voters who had backed her, the ceiling had “about 18 million cracks in it.”
And, eight years later, Clinton has, not no record, but an active record of failure and deceit. All she’s got to favorably recommend her is her gender card.
…will correct the failures of that same.
[T]he International Monetary Fund on Thursday issued an “urgent” call for the world’s largest economies to roll out more growth-boosting policies.
Those growth-boosting policies already in place these last eight years since the Panic of 2008 have worked so well. The easy money from the various central banks have done so well to spur growth. Regulation from the center has done so well to spark national economies.
Yeah, that’s why there’s this “urgent need” for more.
With experts like these, who needs the amateurs of free markets?
Bill Baer, Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division, on the proposed mergers between Anthem Inc and Cigna Corp and between Aetna Inc and Humana Inc, called them “game-changers” and added that it was necessary for Government to interfere with the mergers
to make sure we aren’t making a mistake in which shareholders benefit and the consumers pay the cost.
It’s certainly true that consumers should be protected from fraudulent behaviors and from price gouging. However, it is those consumers who, as customers, pay for the goods and services companies provide—which ultimately pays those shareholders, too—else the companies don’t survive, and the consumer/customer has no good or service available to buy.
And that’s true whether consumers operate in a free market or in a corporate fascist or any other socialist market. Consumers either pay directly, based on their own choice (including their choice not to buy at all), or every consumer pays (with no choice at all) for the one, in the form of taxes which government uses to prop up the companies it’s found suitable to exist.
In a free market, too, the company’s owners should be the ones who benefit; indeed, our laws recognize that: a company’s managers owe their fiduciary duty to their employers—those shareholders.
But with this administration, Government Knows Better.
…via Watts Up With That?
On the matter of Earth suffering the fate of Venus [boldface emphasis in the original, italics emphasis added]:
On the matter of Earth’s own history. From our Eocene period (56 million to 34 million years ago, the age when mammals began taking over from the dinosaurs):
That last, especially, would seem to be a period beyond the useful timeframe of even the most hubristic climatista’s policy demands.