There’s so much going on in the world, especially in an election year, and I can’t write about everything that interests me. So, sometimes I just do a paragraph or three on a subject and combine a few in one post.
Kamala’s First Interview
Kamala has run from any attempt to get her to actually answer a question about the many radical policies she’s advocated for in her radical past, and even in the past 3 ½ years. People have been trying to pin her down on dozens of topics that she had aggressively supported, UNTIL the day she was anointed by the Democrat power-brokers. But now, she and her “emotional support animal,” Tim Walz, are going to sit down with the friendliest of friendly media, CNN and Dana Bash, in an edited interview.
That isn’t what the American public had in mind or what they deserve. Without the mainstream media covering her tracks on abolishing private insurance, open borders, shutting down oil leases on federal land, mandating EVs and electric stoves, raising taxes, cashless bail, watching cities burn, stealing corporate patents, wage and price controls, handing out $25,000 down payments to otherwise unqualified homebuyers, and on and on, she’d be polling 30 points behind!
I just can’t wrap that up any better than Bill Clinton advisor, Mark Penn. Commenting on Harris’ avoiding the media and doing only one debate, Penn said, “In my book, there should be three presidential debates, not one. There should be position papers, not a donate page on your website. And you should be before the press every two or three days because if voters are not informed, then it’s not a democracy with real votes.” [emphasis added]
Is It Just Me?
In a democracy, there is nothing more important than a qualified voter’s ability to cast their vote and have it count and be counted. Without that most fundamental freedom, everything else fails.
A decision of a judge in Washington County, Pennsylvania this week reminded me of that fact. That judge struck a decision by the County Election Board not to notify voters of errors they made on and in their mail-in ballots or giving the voter an opportunity to challenge and/or cure their error. I don’t have a major quarrel with that judge’s decision, but I do have a couple of observations.
As a body politic, we can and should write reasonable rules governing our electoral system. Most election rules are written at lower levels of government – state, county and city – even for federal elections. The FEC administers the federal campaign finance laws, but it has no jurisdiction over much else having to do with election law. And court involvement should be extremely rare, and even LESS should they tip the scales.
Mostly, if an election law or rule doesn’t butt up against a state or federal constitutional provision, is equally applied and easily understood, those local governments can write their own rules. A local judge shouldn’t be able to interfere. After all, there are no “mulligans” if you vote at the polls on election day. Why, then, if you vote by mail, should you get special treatment?
So, if you do what the founders actually intended for elections, you had better, by God, do it right!
Few of these city/county/state governments or lower courts said a frickin’ word about their laws and rules being violated, again and again, so that the Democrats could commit voter fraud in the 2020 election. Now they care about upholding their rules and making all votes count? This is not rocket science! If a person needs that kind of handholding, they need to vote at the polls, plenty of help there.
The individual voter’s “convenience” doesn’t trump my right to a straightforward, trustworthy and workable election system, at a reasonable cost.
And Bringing Up the Rear . . . A Nasty Surprise in Surprise and No Bubbles For You, Kiddo!
We’ve all watched Democrats go absolutely bonkers with Trump Derangement Syndrome, and then, it spread like wildfire with DEI, wokeism, men in women’s sports and a $150,000 housing allowance for illegals, but the following two items really caught my eye this week.
In Surprise, Arizona, a lady came to her local city council to make a complaint about the city attorney. Unfortunately, she mentioned the guy’s name. In Surprise, Arizona, it’s against the law to call out a city official by name. So, they arrested her!!
And not to be outdone in the “stupid department,” a homeless veteran was cited at a public park in San Diego, California for “liquid littering.” This man is famous as the “Bubble Pirate” for entertaining children in the park with bubble blowing. The kids love it, the parents don’t mind, but, by God, the bubble police in San Diego won’t have it!
