You Just Have To Laugh

 Periodically, when Democrats screw up bigtime and the GOP looks to capitalize on it, the media rushes out articles explaining why the course chosen by the Republicans is really a very bad thing for them.  This is now happening with the recall movement in California.  More than two plus million signatures were turned in this week to support recalling governor Newsom, the sad sack fool currently holding the office.  With that many signatures, the media is in a frenzy.  Thus, Yahoo published an analysis today "explaining" why a recall election is a bad thing for Republicans.  Remember, the Democrats hold every statewide office in California and have huge majorities in the legislature.  Yahoo, however, says that a recall vote will diminish Republican influence (I guess to less than zero.)

Newsome may survive the recall, but the anger at him and his administration is real.  Just being a Democrat is not enough for the governor to survive given the terrible job he has done. 

Biden in Chester

 President Biden made a 3 minute public appearance in Chester PA today.  Supposedly, Biden was touting the 1.9 trillion dollar stimulus bill, but the only thing he spoke about was the PPP which was passed and funded under Trump.  Of course, there's not much one can say in 3 minutes.

The trip to Chester, which is about a half hour from Biden's Delaware home was a non-event.  Since it was the kick off of Biden's tour promoting the stimulus, one has to wonder why Biden even went to Chester and what will the rest of the tour be like.  Maybe Biden will make a 60 second visit to Atlanta or fly over Columbus in Air Force One.  

Biden is a joke.

Cuomo may actually go!

 The Cuomo family has always a rough group.  I remember when Mario Cuomo ran against Ed Koch for mayor with the unofficial slogan "Vote for Cuomo, not the homo".  Koch, of course, was not married, so the Cuomo team called him a homosexual.  It was surely not the finest moment in NY politics.  Eventually, Mario was elected governor and re-elected twice.  Finally, he was ousted by George Pataki.  Probably, Mario's biggest moments came when he couldn't decide whether or not to run for president.  Thankfully, he never ran.

Then came his son Andrew Cuomo.  Andrew got his big break when President Clinton appointed him to be head of HUD.  Cuomo did a poor job, but the media praised him anyway.  After all, he was a Cuomo married to a Kennedy.   

Andrew got elected governor ten years ago.  Since then, he has managed to avoid scandal after scandal that has taken down nearly every powerful Democrat in Albany.  Andrew has done a terrible job a NY governor, however.  His worst moment came a year ago when he ordered nursing homes to accept patients diagnosed with COVID.  That move lead to thousands of deaths of nursing home residents who fell victim to the contagion that Cuomo forced into their residences.  All during the time that this wave of death swept over the state, the media treated him like a hero because he wasn't Trump.  The single most incompetent governor in the nation in preventing COVID deaths and handling the crisis was lionized when he should have been ousted from office.  Think of it.  Cuomo is the one whose administration "lost" 5000 ventilators supplied by the federal government and then complained of a shortage.  Cuomo demanded that a hospital ship from the navy come to NY harbor, and then didn't put patients in it.  Cuomo demanded that the feds turn the Javits Center in NYC into a 3000 bed hospital and then never put more than 140 patients into it.  The ship and the Javits Center alone could easily have housed all the nursing home patients sick with COVID thereby protecting something like 10,000 other nursing home residents who died from the disease.  There's more, but no matter how much Cuomo screwed up, the media treated him like a hero.

Now, seven (or is it eight) women have come forward to charge Cuomo with sexual harassment.  Cuomo denies the allegations, but in the great American tradition, he is now guilty before any hearing or trial has even been held.  All the state's Democrats are calling for their leader to resign, but he is refusing.  It's amazing to watch Cuomo go down not for undeniable misdeeds regarding COVID, but rather for unproven charges by a group of women.  Look, the charges may be true, we just don't know.  Still, it's great to watch Cuomo destroyed because he so clearly deserves to go.

Time To Help Julia

 My daughter Julia is suffering from kidney failure.  She goes to dialysis three times a week so she can stay alive.  Her kidneys were destroyed by lupus from which she has suffered for 17 years.  Her main chance not just for survival but also for a decent life is a kidney transplant from a living donor.  Needless to say, it is not easy to find such a donor.  Sadly, no one in our immediate family is able to donate due to blood type or medical complications.  That's why we're searching for someone else to donate the kidney that will give Julia back her life.

If you'd like to help, please visit www.julesneedsakidney.com where all of the details -- including how to go about donating -- are provided.  Even if you can't donate, please visit that site so that it can explain to you the best way to share this message in order to get the word out to as many people as possible.

Biden and the Dems "Rescue" America

 The Senate has passed the Dems 1.9 trillion dollar rescue stimulus.  It could have been much more targeted and much smaller.

First, there is still 1 trillion dollars unspent from the prior stimulus bills.  There is no "emergency" at the moment.

Second, the items that needed to pass such as extending unemployment benefits and supplements, money for vaccine distribution and testing, and the like total no more than half a trillion bucks.  The other one and a half trillion dollars is just items thrown in by the Dems to pay off their base.  Roughly 300 billion is going to state and local governments that don[t need the cash.  It will pay to make sure that no state employee unions have to be reasonable in their salary demands.  It will guarantee that rational spending will return to states like CA, NY or IL.

Third, all sorts of Dem wish list items are being rushed through without debate or even thought.  Americans will have to pay for these items for many years just so the Dems can reward their followers.  It will hurt, not help, the USA.

There's no surprise that the Dems and Biden have followed this course.  It's the same thing they did in 2009 under Obama.  Still, that course of action of helping their followers rather than the whole country led to the Dems' losing the House, the 'Senate, the state legislatures, the governors and the White House.  You would think the Dems would have learned, but they haven't.