Don's Tuesday Column

           THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Red Bluff Daily News   2/12/2019

Dem clown show and Trump the adult

Where to start with the cringe- or laugh-worthy moments on the Democrat left; low-hanging fruit abounds. I could see Dems befuddled and apoplectic over Trump’s 52 percent approval, slightly higher than Barack Obama at this point in his presidency (Rasmussen). Obama’s marginally favorable approval made no sense to conservative Republicans. Partisan blinders work both ways; parties unite behind their guy, but those in the middle decide.

The first clown show/adult moment was President Trump’s State of the Union address. It seemed that the high approval by viewers illustrated why Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi was reluctant to extend the invitation to Trump. She fumbled with her paper sheets of the speech—perhaps in anticipation of the need to tamp down rude Democrat stunts (which she did several times when their zeal overtook decorum). The nation witnessed the scowling, white-clothed women sitting on their hands and derrieres for just about every positive item mentioned by Trump: low minority unemployment, high jobs numbers for the handicapped, 600,000 new manufacturing jobs.

That is, until he called attention to women in the workforce. Trump even chided them that “they weren’t supposed to do that” when they stood and clapped for 58 percent of new jobs going to women, only to slyly advise them to remain standing so they could wildly cheer…their own election to Congress. Some astute viewers may know that, in addition to the Suffragette movement’s white theme for clothing, white was also the color for not only the KKK, but also “the National Socialist Women of Nazi Germany” (Toni Williams, “Dems Have Proven That Trump Is The Adult In The Room,” Victorygirlsblog.com).

CBS/YouGov poll: 76 percent approved, including 82 percent of Independents. 56 percent thought Trump’s speech “will do more to unite the country…Most viewers had a favorable opinion” of Trump’s immigration statements, while “71 percent think there is a crisis at the southern border.” 78 percent approved of Trump meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un; 74 percent approved of his Middle East comments.

Michael Goodwin: “The evidence begins with Trump’s very good State of the Union speech, where he was alternately conciliatory toward Democrats and ruthless in contrasting his policies with theirs. Reckless in the rhetoric and resistance, Dems make themselves vulnerable to charges that they support open borders, socialism and infanticide.”

Speaking of which, let the record show that my column title last week, “…baby-killing Dems” referred to abortion bills in New York and Virginia, wildly approved of by Democrats, which literally allow (as explained by their supporters) for a baby to be removed from the mother’s womb alive in the late-term period and then be killed or allowed to die. Now, perhaps Mr. Minch is uninformed of those abortion laws; perhaps Mr. Minch is confusing such late-term abortion abominations—a delivered baby, living on its own air and beating heart—with the abortion of the thumb-sized fetus unable to survive apart from its mother.

Perhaps Mr. Minch truly believes that a mother, together with her doctor, has the human and legal right to deprive that now-independent baby of the “right to life” that is bestowed on all of us in our Founding charter. Abortion law is the “no man’s land” of public policy in that particulars of science are disputed endlessly in service to the “pro-life/pro-abortion” causes. Throughout the 9-month period of pregnancy, public support for “a woman’s right to choose” declines as the fetus approaches “viability”—and is able to survive—not as a kitten, fish or mutant but as a human being.

Support for abortion as a choice, by the pregnant woman and her doctor, falls dramatically, even approaching zero, when anyone is presented with the delivered-alive-willingly-killed scenario. I don’t see that I should be intimidated by Mr. Minch when he hasn’t taken a position on the very situation I explicitly described. My answer is a resounding “No” to late-term/post birth abortion. Is Minch a “Yes”? Readers might also be curious how such a radical pro-abortion stance jives with 1) the Pope’s anti-war (anti-killing of children in war, no?) remarks, and 2) Minch’s anti-slaughter of animals for meat.

Brief mention is due for the Democrats' House Resolution 1, introduced by Speaker Pelosi immediately upon taking over. While it deserves a column alone due to its wide-ranging goals for elections, consider J. Christian Adams summation: “H.R. 1 would mark the largest transfer of power over elections from the states to the federal government in the history of the nation.” Massive Dem perfidy? You bet.

Also deserving far more than these few words, the so-called “Green New Deal” is perhaps Gaia’s gift to Trump and Republicans for the 2020 election. Trotted out in long form, the “Frequently Asked Questions” (FAQ) summary was so ludicrous and mock-worthy that it was quickly removed for editing and sanitizing of what came across as joke provisions. Leftist hacks went into damage control, spinning (i.e. lying) that its appearance/removal was a Republican trick, in spite of the captured screens of the fiasco.

“Dems go eco wild;” “Rebuild every single building in USA;” “Phase out air travel in next 10 years;” “Targets cow flatulence;” “Government-guaranteed jobs for all!” “Socialist wish list;” “2020 litmus test;” “Print money to pay for it?” These Drudge Report headlines go far in highlighting the wackos’ wishes.

The timeline until (what exactly?) the world ends or the sky falls must be a critical element of the hyped urgency, since we’ve been regaled with countdowns for literally decades by such green luminaries as Al Gore, the UN, Ralph Nader, Barack Obama, and so on. That doesn’t even include the “global cooling” scare of the 1970s, not to mention the warming scare of the 1930s. Never mind the actual “Little Ice Age” (crop failures, massive spread of diseases) or Medieval Warming Period (warmer than now).

Even Ms. Ocasio-Cortez couldn’t settle on a deadline: “We have 10 years left to plan and implement a Green New Deal before cataclysmic climate disaster (11/2018)”; “We’re like the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change” (January).