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June 9, 2022

Made-for-TV Jan. 6 hearings won’t rescue Democrats

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Democrats think voters will be so gob-smacked by the revelations of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack that they will forget about soaring gasoline and food prices, rising crime, a 15,000-person caravan of people about to cross our southern border, the baby formula shortage and power brownouts, which are likely to hit our country this summer.

Yup, they’re convinced that Americans being force-fed (every major network will broadcast the House hearings live during prime time) scenes of yahoos waving flags and storming our Capitol will rebuild President Biden’s dismal approval ratings and put his fellow Democrats on the road to victory just in time for the midterms.

Fat chance.

Americans agree: The January 6 riots were a terrible event, and that those who broke the law should be punished.

More and more also agree: It is time to move on.

A recent NBC poll shows a dwindling number of Americans blaming Trump for the attack on the Capitol; 45 percent now say he is “solely” or “mainly” responsible, down from 52 percent the month Joe Biden took office. Moreover, 55 percent say he is “only somewhat” or “not really” to blame for the riots, up from 47 percent in January 2021.

That suggests some of the millions who voted for Joe Biden because he wasn’t Donald Trump are suffering buyer’s remorse. And who can blame them? It’s hard to find any one issue important to voters that is going better today than during Trump’s presidency.

On the contrary, people are way more pessimistic, inflation is devouring moderating wage gains, our border has collapsed, drug deaths are soaring and major crimes in our big cities are out of control.

Democrats will counter that our stature on the world stage is much improved; don’t believe it. Biden has undermined what had been improving relations with the important Gulf Arab states including the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. As a result, those countries – which uniquely could bring oil prices down – have rebuffed calls for higher output.

Meanwhile, as Biden attempts to convene a gathering of the Americas, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, president of our formerly cooperative southern neighbor, Mexico, has refused to attend, embarrassing the White House.

At the same time, Biden takes credit for having united NATO in opposing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Some might wonder: to what end? NATO countries have sent billions in aid to Ukraine and yet that valiant country is being obliterated step by grisly step.

Americans are unhappy. That same NBC poll shows only 16 percent of the country thinks we’re headed in the right direction; 75 percent says we’re on the wrong track, and only 39 percent says Biden is doing a good job. Numerous other polls show similar findings.

This level of discontent can drive “wave elections,” when the party in power suffers a shellacking, to use Barack Obama’s word to describe Democrats’ huge losses in the 2010 midterms. Indeed, many are predicting that Republicans will take back control of the House. And despite defending more seats than Democrats, the GOP may also reclaim a majority in the Senate.

To counter ominous signs like lagging voter turnout in recent primary contests and a pronounced “enthusiasm gap,” Democrats have lined up the prime time special on the Jan. 6 hearings.

To make sure it is riveting TV, they have hired a production pro — the former head of ABC News, James Goldston. To make sure it is a failure, Democrats have scheduled a “carefully choreographed rollout of revelations over the course of six hearings to remind the public of the magnitude of Mr. Trump’s effort to overturn the election, and to persuade voters that the coming midterm elections are a chance to hold Republicans accountable for it,” according to the New York Times.

Six hearings? This isn’t The Crown, or Ted Lasso; this will be, at best, a stultifying partisan show trial that follows, please remember, two impeachments and numerous Russia-gate hearings that featured Democrats undermining whatever confidence Americans still have in Congress.

Remember, too, that the supposed blockbuster TV airing of Trump’s first impeachment trial pulled in only 13 million viewers, fewer than re-runs of “Friends.”

Democrats always go too far, and so it is with the Jan. 6 hearings. From the start, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) lost half the country when she rejected representatives put forward to serve on the committee by GOP head Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and instead stacked the deck with never-Trumpers Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.).

Today, on the cusp of their big reveal, Democrats are blowing their credibility further by making it clear these hearings are all about political gain.

They will, according to the Times, use the broadcasts to tie Republicans to “violent extremists.” But Americans remember the riots and actual murders that resulted from the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020; they connect those destructive events with Democrats, whom they also blame for dumbed-down policing in our violence-prone cities.

The recall of San Francisco’s soft-on-crime district attorney is a reminder that our citizens will not tolerate a breakdown of law and order — from either side of the aisle.

Most likely, instead of convincing independent voters that Republicans should be frog-marched to political Siberia, the hearings will further divide the nation. A nation, importantly, that elected Joe Biden largely because he promised to bring the country together. He has not done that, and this bitterly partisan dog-and-pony show will surely remind voters of that failure.

 

 

Made-for-TV Jan. 6 hearings won’t rescue Democrats

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Are you better off than you were 2 years ago?
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Inflation already hurting Americans, and Biden's Build Back Better will make things even worse

Are you better off than you were two years ago? That’s what Republicans will ask voters a year from now.

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Inflation is worldwide and COVID induced.

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Swamp Think

Peek's article posted today on the Fox News website did not mention one word about President Trump's accomplishment of not only leading the way to American Energy Independence but for the country to become net exporters of the energy we and our allies could really use now.

Under President Trump, oil was in the low 40s (while on the same page, oil traders are now predicting as high as $200/barrel this month!), gas in our tanks cost below two bucks, inflation was under two percent and gas station attendant Putin with an economy about the size of Italy's and who is totally dependent on the price of energy was placed in an economic cage… by President Trump.

Instead Peek gives credit to media Saint Obama for his "all the above" strategy which consistent with how he operated was all campaign talk with ZERO follow through.

Does Peek not remember that Saint Obama's response to Putin invading Crimea was to send blankets.

If you want a quick read on Swamp Think, check in with Fox News.

From the Murdoch boys and Paul Ryan on down, no one is pushing the self-serving, elite globalists agenda of running the world as their personal piggy bank harder than Fox News.

And how are the globalists doing at managing world affairs?

No Trump, No Trump Doctrine

There's a growing rumble, by the minute, from people all over the planet who are suddenly missing Trump's policies, not necessarily Trump.

First, Trump's policies, domestic and foreign, were clear and common-sense driven which is anathema to the Swamp control freaks who thrive on complication and confusion to mask their real agendas and who they're really working for.

Second, the hypocrites who are now lamenting Trump's policies are the same, domestic and foreign, who fought Trump every inch of the way to prevent the implementation of policies that clearly worked.

Third, without Trump the fighter, no Trump policies would have ever seen the light of day.

And without what is now collectively the Trump Doctrine, what clear metric would we have to truly understand the depth and devastation of the Biden/Swamp debacle?

Don't you know that the global supply chain story is done on purpose for there to be empty shelves at the grocery stores and what not to screw with the public. This is done by the world economic Forum with the likes of Klaus Schwab Bill Gates and George Soros and their ilk

YOU are the delusional personality, dear. Sticking it against the US to please 🖕trump and putin. Disgusting anti American.

Maybe Liz you would support some immigration reform , you bitch about not having enough servers in your entitled selfish world , oh and you are against mask wearing too , how trumpian of you, the pandemic is all a hoax to you , just dont get sick out there might not be any hospital beds for you . The drs and nurses are sick and tired of taking care of anti mask anti vax selfish repubs Go claim your Darwin Award .

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Progressives got hammered on Election Day- but that was only the latest big defeat. What does this mean for Dems? Can Joe pivot? (spoiler-probably not)
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They may not know it yet, but the ultra-liberal cabal that has choked Democrat politics and humiliated spineless party leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has lost its mojo.

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Liz have you not heard latest on the “russia collusion” “steele dossier” Fiona Hill???
Or are you a typical msm reporter?

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8 months ago

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Joe Biden wanted to be an historic president- and he has done that. Worst ratings slide of any president since WWII.
He (or whoever is running WH) doesn’t care about voters’ top issues – instead Team Biden obsessing about climate change, gender and race.
No wonder he’s in trouble!
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Voters are worried about inflation, jobs, crime, education and our open border, while the Biden White House is laser-focused on climate change, transgender rights, racism and reducing inequality.

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The great days turned to very bad days in less than a year.
Congress needs a flip to GOP next year to stop the craziness

Climate change is important.
The GOP may not care about it now, but their children will.
He is trying to get an infrastructure bill through.
He has had issues with Afghanistan, but what else could he do
The people who are taking over Afghanistan were released by the previous administration.
I am sure that Biden is not perfect but he is better than Trump.

Your bias is ridiculous. Makes you a bad writer. Btw avg teacher pay is way above 31000. Sensationalize much?

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worst ratings only from a side thats ignorant to the truth. the effects of coming off a pandemic with oil companies profitting off the pumps in order to pay their shareholders back from profits lost. inflation effects the entire world but of course your base doesnt pull their heads out their asses for one second to look around and use common sense. keep spreading bullshit and weakening our country til it no longer functions as a democracy….bc i see through your fake Christian patriotic pow wows. you are the opposite of ehat you claim and you are the definition of what you claim your rivals are. deflection, projection, hypocrisy. 3 words that sum you up

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