Biden The Destroyer

First, it is important to know that Joe Biden has always considered himself modeled after FDR. He likes the image of being a rich, elite, liberal socialist imposing rules on people "for their own good." We've seen much of this-COVID mandates, masking, lockdowns, shutdowns, fines are just the top of this particularly nasty iceberg. We also have demands for "green" measures that cost more, trigger inflation and in general hurt average Americans so that the rich liberals can feel good about themselves.

We've seen this Biden administration misstep on so many fronts. They've bungled COVID. They've abandoned Americans and allies in Afghanistan. They've made our military so woke that we're the laughingstock of the world. And none of this seems to bother this president. They allowed untold numbers of foreign nationals to enter our country without so much as a COVID test. Along with those people are cartels agents delivering deadly drugs to their networks across the nation. How many Fentanyl deaths do we need to make this real?

There's homelessness, rising crime, inflation. There are houses no middle class couple can afford and cars they cannot buy. And none of this matters to the Biden administration. They have a Secretary of Transportation that was MIA for MONTHS before announcing he was on family leave. That same goober, Pete Buttigieg, gave his donors $33,000,000 in contracts-a crime that would get most politicians removed, but Democrats can do anything with impunity. We hear this story over and over again.

Hunter Biden's paintings, Nancy Pelosi's stocks, all the children of Romney's, Kerry's, Schumer's and on and on who get six figure jobs with no experience or background knowledge in the industry-are all part of the type of patronage that supposedly went out of fashion when the feudal system ended. Think back if you would to 2009, when Nancy Pelosi rounded up JUST DEMOCRATS to meet behind closed doors with Big Pharma. Who got paid and who made deals? These people are mandating "free" shots that are not free at all. They are paid for with tax dollars, just like those checks that we now have to include as income for the IRS.

This debacle with Ukraine is a symptom of a much larger problem. Ukraine has been corrupt for a long time. Biden knows that. It's the center of lots of organized crime and in that regard Putin, playing global Al Capone, is taking over another gang's territory to run his games through the Ukraine. Make no mistake, this is about having a better posture to influence Syria, Iran and Iraq as well as controlling the crime schemes that flow through that country. On Biden's part there's probably the hope that war will so confuse things that the evidence and witnesses of whatever scam he and Hunter ran via Burisma will disappear.

We have rich despots playing Risk with real lives. And if we don't man our borders, return to a law and order footing, I'm not so sure that terrorists entering via our sieve-like borders will wait patiently. If there was ever a time when Americans needed the Second Amendment, this is it.

Vetting Joe, Vetting Paul

Much has been made of the vetting process for political office. Obama was largely given a free pass  based on the media's perceptions that his ethnicity and his party affiliation exonerated him from blame. The press is now feeling the fallout as newspapers and the most strident Obama supporting networks are struggling financially.

But what of the VP picks, the guys "a heartbeat away" from the presidency. While the Democrats are trying to characterize Paul Ryan as a demon, in reality he is a well educated family man, whose interest in economics goes back to college. He is married to his first wife, has three nice kids and has regular, middle class backgrounds to rely on. Bill Bennett said the following about Ryan:
"...Over time this young budget guru, who once told me he relaxes by kicking back with actuarial tables, began to master the U.S. budget in a way that few ever have. He was appointed to be a member of the president's Bowles-Simpson Commission, but, not yielding to political pressure, voted against its recommendations because it failed to adequately reform Medicare. So, together with Alice Rivlin (Bill Clinton's former OMB director), Ryan co-authored the Ryan-Rivlin plan to seriously reform Medicare (although she didn't support the version of it he included in his all-encompassing budget).




Their plan fell largely on deaf ears, but just because Washington wasn't listening, Ryan didn't stop leading. He joined forces with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, to co-author a bipartisan plan to reform Medicare. Their plan leaves Medicare intact for existing recipients and those approaching eligibility and offers future enrollees a chance to enroll in the traditional Medicare government option or enroll in a premium support plan, where seniors can choose from a variety of competitive plans that work best for them..."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/13/opinion/bennett-paul-ryan/index.html

But what of Joe Biden? Joe, along with Obama, got largely a free pass. He likes to characterize himself as a blue collar guy, but he attended a prestigious prep school where his academic career was lackluster at best. He went to college where he graduated in the lower half of the class and his law school years, which he considered a bore, demonstrated him as a lower quality of student graduating near the bottom. To be fair, he's got a loud mouth. And he's got the same type of football player rah-rah appeal that attracts people who are either ideologues or are largely uninformed.  But while the hoopla over Ryan's accepting the VP nod from Romney seems to be a position for media scorn and scrutiny, I have to wonder if and when the media will dare to investigate the background of Biden-who seems far more dubious a pick to be a "heartbeat away."