Legitimate political discourse.
What is wrong with Republican lawmakers? They just censured two of their rank who are working on the House select committee to find out who was involved with the insurrection at the Capitol. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said, “We’ve had two members engage in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse. This has gone beyond their original intent. They are not sticking up for hard-working Republicans.” Then her uncle, Senator Mitt Romney, said, “Shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience, who seek truth in the face of vitriol. Honor attaches to Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for seeking truth even when doing so comes at great personal cost.” McDaniel amended her statement to say that she was not referring to the “rioters”. And the “hard-working Republicans” that they are investigating? It wouldn’t be the people that encouraged the insurrection, would it?
When President Biden nominated a Black woman to the Federal Reserve, Republican lawmakers said she wasn’t qualified. Everyone they talked to told them this. Many well-known economists said she was well qualified, but I suppose that some persons are not worth talking to. Especially the one who said she was more qualified than half the white men currently in the Federal Reserve.
Biden hasn’t even nominated a Supreme Court Justice but some Republican Senators are stating that she will be a beneficiary of racial quotas. They are not racist because it is obvious that no Black female could possibly be the best choice. It should be someone like Bret Kavanaugh who lied to the senators during his confirmation (according to over 80 of his fellow college students). But the Republican controlled Senate was more concerned with court packing, which they abhor, than in getting the best candidate possible.
Republican Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis tweeted, “Without a shred of clinical data to support its decision, the Biden Administration has revoked the emergency use authorization for lifesaving monoclonal antibody treatments.” Citing studies showing a lack of efficacy, the FDA said it was no longer “reasonable to believe that the known and potential benefits of these products outweigh their known and potential risks.” The makers of these monoclonal antibodies agreed with the results of the study. But, of course, this lie by DeSantis is OK because it is ‘legitimate political discourse’.
Donald Trump recently issued a statement that started with, “So pathetic to watch the Unselect Committee of political hacks, liars, and traitors work so feverishly to alter the Electoral College Act so that a Vice President cannot ensure the honest results of the election…” The letterhead has a box with ‘Save America’ and below ‘President Donald J. Trump’. Ex Vice President Pence, in a speech to the Federalist Society, stated that “President Trump is wrong” when he called for Pence to overturn the election. But, as ex-President (stop the steal) Trump stated, everyone who rejects his assertions are “political hacks, liars and traitors”. This is what is being investigated by the censured House members. Legitimate political discourse.
—Kevin Bracken, Kelseyville
Biden isn’t dragging down the Democrats.
Byron York, the extreme right wing conservative correspondent for the “Washington Examiner,” has a column published every Thursday in the Record-Bee’s opinion page. It seems, at first glance, that writing for the “Examiner” would be a prestigious position. One would imagine that the “Washington Examiner” is a mainstream newspaper with a very respectable circulation in Washington D. C. But it isn’t a newspaper; it’s just a website. Oil and gas tycoon, Phillip Anshutz, purchased the San Francisco Examiner in 2004 so that he could use the copyrighted name of the “Examiner” for publishing his own conservative viewpoint, which mainly is to strip away taxes for the rich. Anshutz was once named by “Fortune Magazine” to be America’s “Greediest Executive” (2002).
The “Washington Examiner” began operating in Washington D.C. in 2005, not as a news source, but as a right wing political ‘rag’ (underground newspaper) handed out for free to passengers exiting or entering the “Metro” subway system in D.C. For the billionaire, Anshutz, this was a nice megaphone for his beliefs. When he visited D.C. occasionally, he’d also go down to the “Metro” to hand out the “Examiner” to interested passengers. If you’ve ever been to D.C. and ridden the “Metro,” you’d have seen many political fanatics or radicals, of various opinions, trying to hand off these free ‘political rags’ to you.
In 2013, the “Examiner” scrapped their “rag,’ and then just became a website.
Byron York’s latest article in the Record-Bee, titled, “Biden drags Democrats down,” covers in detail, poor approval ratings for President Biden, and its ramifications, as we head into the midterm elections in November of this year. To York, this is good news because he’d prefer someone who would keep taxes low for his boss, Anshutz.
In Biden’s first year as President, 6.6 million new jobs have been created. That’s more than any other year in history. Also, the unemployment rate has dropped from 6.2% to 3.9% since he’s taken office, the biggest single drop in American history.
Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee just declared that the Jan. 6 attack on our nation’s capital, in which nine people died, 150 law enforcement officers were injured, offices ransacked, and rioters spread feces, was “legitimate political discourse.”
Biden isn’t dragging down the Democrats. He’s lifting our nation up with his fine example of how a politician should lead with expertise and exemplary character. Whatever ratings Biden has, any possible Republican presidential candidate’s ratings are lower yet! Americans know what side their bread is buttered on.
—Dennis Purcell, Kelseyville
