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"'President' Edith Bolling Galt
telling Woodrow Wilson
where to sign"
Every senior moderate Democrat in North Carolina assured us during the campaign that Joe Biden was a moderate. They said he would stand in the way of the left-wing, extreme-liberal socialists who control the Democratic Party today.
“He is no Bernie Sanders,” they all promised in unison.
Based on his first 56 days in office, it is impossible to tell the difference between President Joe Biden and socialist Bernie Sanders. There is no difference politically between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders — and Vice-President Kamala Harris, for that matter.
No moderate president would agree to a monstrosity of a waste of taxpayer money bill as President Biden did last week when he signed the massive $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus bill. No moderate would support HR 1, which would destroy all state and local control of elections. No moderate would call for unity and then sign ultra-partisan bills crammed through Congress without one vote from the opposition party.
It is as if “Moderate Joe” Biden has been kidnapped and held hostage in the White House. Or perhaps something more serious has happened.
The last medical report released about Joe Biden’s health was on Dec. 15, 2019, when he was still former-Vice-President Joe Biden, a candidate with a very slim chance to win the Democratic nomination as the moderate. Kevin O’Connor, DO, associate professor and doctor of osteopathy at George Washington University, concluded his report:
“Vice President Biden is a healthy, vigorous 77-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency, to include those of Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander-in-Chief.”
He may have been fit for the challenges of the “most important job in the world” 15 months ago. However, President Biden has exhibited neither the will nor the strength to govern as a moderate. He was either elected under false pretenses, or something has happened to him that has clouded his judgment about what his moderate political philosophy would look like once elected president.
Being president of the United States of America is not a routine job or an emeritus board position. Presidents make life-and-death decisions, including sending troops into battle. When they affix their signature to legislation, it is the final step in our constitutional process which can set policies in place for decades, not months.
Americans have seen serious medical conditions of presidents covered up by a fawning press before. President Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke in October 1919 and spent the last 16 months of his presidency essentially bedridden. His wife made most of the major policy decisions for America in the White House while his handlers and a compliant press protected Wilson from the public.
President John F. Kennedy was almost incapacitated by intense back pain while in the White House. He received daily injections of pain-killers and had to take barbiturates to sleep. JFK took anti-psychotic drugs on at least one occasion — it is a good thing it apparently wasn’t during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 when America came to the brink of nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
FDR was the most well-known invalid in the White House. He contracted polio in 1921 but with the aid of a compliant press, his struggles with the disease were well-hidden from the public for his entire 11 years in the White House.
President Biden has not held a live press conference. He hasn’t scheduled a State of the Union address. He doesn’t take random questions after making a prepared speech read from a teleprompter. He gets yanked off the stage by his handlers as if he were a vaudevillian performer who bombed.
If he had governed as a moderate to this point as promised, there would not be the same cause for concern. When there is no discernible difference between what Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders would do in the White House, that is an alarm bell that has to be addressed.
Over 81 million people voted for Joe Biden believing he was fully healthy, fully moderate and fully capable of discharging the immense duties of the presidency. They may have been deceived and misled by his campaign and a press that hated President Trump so much they would cover up anything to get him out of the White House.
It is time for an independent medical examination of the president to be conducted by a respected neurologist, psychiatrist and general physician who is not a political appointee.
(first published in North State Journal 3/17/21)
"Keep Your Hands Off Of My Government-Sponsored Medicare!" |
I don’t think I have ever seen one so loaded up with
extraneous spending that has nothing to do with dealing with the crisis at hand
as the second COVID-relief plan passed by the Democratic Congress last week,
the American Relief Plan (ARP). Not OBRA, COBRA, TEFRA, EGTRRA or PPACA,
otherwise known as Obamacare.
None of them come close.
There is $1.5 billion in this bill for AMTRAK. AMTRAK has
never been profitable since inception in 1971. COVID didn’t cause current
problems at AMTRAK; AMTRAK structure and management has always caused problems
at AMTRAK.
There is $350 billion to bailout big blue cities and states
that have been massively mismanaged for decades. There is $86 billion included
specifically to bailout blue state and city pensions, such as in Illinois where
many retired government workers receive $350,000 in annual pension payments.
COVID didn’t cause financial problems in big blue cities; big blue city
politicians have overpromised and overspent for decades, which has caused
financial problems in big blue cities.
The list of egregious pork spending in this COVID relief
bill is embarrassing. There is $200 million for museums and libraries — even
though they were shut down for an entire year; $270 million for the NEA, the
National Endowment for the Arts. There is $128 billion for K-12 public
education — except 95% of this money will not be spent until between 2022 and
2028, not in 2021.
There may be $600 billion in this bill that can reasonably
be tied to COVID relief including funding for more vaccines ($75B), PPP
($473B), aid to ailing restaurants ($26B), assistance to airlines ($15B) and
$7.2B for PPP for small businesses that have been wrecked by gubernatorial
executive shut down orders for the past year.
Had the bill stopped there, President Joe Biden might have
had his first truly bipartisan victory for “unity,” with a majority of
Republicans voting for it in the House and the Senate.
The remainder of the $1.3 trillion is pure partisan
politics. Democrats are paying off the constituencies that elect them and who
helped defeat President Trump. There is no other way to look at it.
Arizona Republican Congressman Paul Gosar offered an
amendment to take out all non-COVID-related spending in the bill and convert it
into sending $10,000 checks to these people most affected by COVID instead of
$1400.
It was defeated along party lines. Democrats want to send
more money to big blue state politicians to distribute to their supporters
instead of directly to the average American family.
Remember the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere” in Nowheresville,
Alaska, which forever tarnished the career of Sen. Ted Stevens in 2005? The
left and the media rightfully jumped on the Bridge to Nowhere to highlight how
elected officials waste federal dollars with no regard to the consequences.
There is the equivalent of 2,222 wasteful “Bridges to Nowhere”
in this solidly Democratic bill that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
“swears” is “big, bold COVID relief!” It most definitely is not all related to
COVID.
One thing that is truly “bipartisan” in Washington, sadly,
is the astounding amount of federal debt both parties in control of the White
House and Congress have amassed since 2001. Federal debt owed to the public was
$3 trillion before 9/11. If this bill becomes law, debt owed to the public will
approach $24 trillion by the end of 2021. Roughly $6 trillion in
intragovernmental debt is owed between the government and such programs as the
Social Security Trust Fund which will never be repaid.
If, or rather when, inflation is triggered again by such
fiscal malfeasance and explosive money supply growth by the Federal Reserve,
then all of us — rich, poor, black, white, young and old — will really be in
this mess together.
President Joe Biden seems to want to steer America back to
the stagflation economic doldrum days last seen under President Jimmy Carter in
1979-81. He has only been in the White House for 41 days; imagine what economic
damage he and the Democrats might do over the next four years.