The tax bill has passed, and the Democrats are still telling America that it will only help the rich. Then today, within an hour or so of the passage of the bill, four large companies including names like AT&T and Comcast announced that they would be giving their employee bonuses or raising wages due to the passage of the tax bill. Something like 860,000 employees are getting bonuses that average in the area of $1000 each. There was also announced more than a billion dollars of new business investment in just the first hour after the bill passed. So we have nearly a million workers getting nearly a billion dollars in bonuses. And what was the media/Democrat response?
The basic response has been to call these bonuses an "empty" gesture. Think about that. How would you feel if your employer gave you a one thousand dollar bonus tomorrow? Is it an "empty" gesture? I don't think so. For most people, if they got $1000 bonus and then heard one of the Democrats call it an empty gesture, they would just write off that person as a total fool.
Another big event today in the annals of craziness is the lawsuit brought by Democrats in Texas to keep congressman Blake Farenthold on the ballot as a Republican candidate for Congress. Farenthold got caught up in the sexual misconduct scandals because he settled a claim against his office with that slush fund that the House set up. Farenthold's response to the mess was to announce that he would not seek re-election in 2018. He had already filed papers to appear on the ballot in the 2018 Texas primary, however. Now he wants to be off the ballot. Since it's many months until the primary and almost a year until the election, one would think that this would present no problem. That would be wrong. The Democrats have gone to court to insist that Farenthold has to stay on the ballot for the primary. They're trying to use the court to guarantee the maximum confusion in the Republican primary. To say the least, this is an idiotic move. It is just a blatant attempt to gain politically even though there is no other purpose for the move.
Both of these are amazing stories to me. I guess I shouldn't be so surprised, though. It's just more of the same.
The basic response has been to call these bonuses an "empty" gesture. Think about that. How would you feel if your employer gave you a one thousand dollar bonus tomorrow? Is it an "empty" gesture? I don't think so. For most people, if they got $1000 bonus and then heard one of the Democrats call it an empty gesture, they would just write off that person as a total fool.
Another big event today in the annals of craziness is the lawsuit brought by Democrats in Texas to keep congressman Blake Farenthold on the ballot as a Republican candidate for Congress. Farenthold got caught up in the sexual misconduct scandals because he settled a claim against his office with that slush fund that the House set up. Farenthold's response to the mess was to announce that he would not seek re-election in 2018. He had already filed papers to appear on the ballot in the 2018 Texas primary, however. Now he wants to be off the ballot. Since it's many months until the primary and almost a year until the election, one would think that this would present no problem. That would be wrong. The Democrats have gone to court to insist that Farenthold has to stay on the ballot for the primary. They're trying to use the court to guarantee the maximum confusion in the Republican primary. To say the least, this is an idiotic move. It is just a blatant attempt to gain politically even though there is no other purpose for the move.
Both of these are amazing stories to me. I guess I shouldn't be so surprised, though. It's just more of the same.
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