He’s a Chamber of Commerce Republican, so that’s No Surprise

Karl Rove Backs Democrats' Amnesty for Foreign-Born 'Dreamers' (breitbart.com)

Rove, a GOP strategist and longtime adviser to former President George W. Bush, joined in the coalition’s launch Tuesday. He said he recognized that “there are a lot of people in my party who don’t share my views.” But he said a permanent solution is still the “right thing to do.”

“It would be a blot on our country’s soul if we were to take hundreds of thousands of people who’ve known no country but America and tell them to get lost,” he said, adding that it would be “politically smart for both parties” to secure permanent legal status for Dreamers.

This was why I left the GOP. They clearly are not interested in defending the rights of American citizens. They just want cheap labor.

Now, I will admit that I have modified my opinion on amnesty over the years. I now look at it this way: we have laws in the United States and we have penalties for breaking them.

So, you speed on the interstate and get caught. You pay a fine.

You walk into a school and shoot up the place and murder 100 people, you’re going to prison for the rest of your life. Which will hopefully be quite short.

Entering the country illegally and staying here is a crime. One that’s probably a lot closer on the crime scale to speeding than it is to murdering 100 people.

So, we’ll allow you to correct your illegal status, but you have to pay the penalty first. What’s the penalty? I don’t know, but we can make it fair and reasonable. You have to pay any back taxes you missed out on because of your illegal status. You have to pay a fine. You have to continue to pay a fine as long as you remain in the country illegally. You don’t commit any other major crimes or violent crimes while you’re here.

You do all those things, and you get a chance to make yourself right.

If we had an amnesty rule like that, I could probably get on board with it. Of course, we never will have a rule like that, because a rule like that might actually make sense. And I’m sure someone would complain that it puts an undue financial burden on the illegal alien. Well, first, we can structure it so it doesn’t have to, but if it does, so what? Remember, these people have committed a crime. There must be penalties for doing so. If you can’t afford the penalties, then you have to take the other options, which are imprisonment or deportation.

Democrats Once Again Vote in Favor of Infanticide

Senate Democrats Defeat Legislation Protecting Abortion Survivors (freebeacon.com)

Senate Democrats defeated legislation Wednesday that would have protected infants who survive abortions.

The Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act failed because nearly every Senate Democrat voted against the measure, which requires doctors to provide medical care for newborns who survive abortion attempts. The act received 52 votes, falling 8 short of the 60-vote threshold necessary to break the filibuster. Democratic senators Joe Manchin (W. Va.) and Bob Casey (Pa.) crossed the aisle to vote for the legislation.

There just aren’t words to describe how offensive and horrendous this is.

A few years ago, this position was so extreme that then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama (D) had to hide his support for it by voting “present”. It is now mainstream in the Democrat party.

I am physically ill.

80 million of you voted for this.

#IToldYouSo

97-3

That was the vote tally on keeping America’s Embassy to Israel in Jerusalem.

Voting against were Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Tom Carper (D-DE).

When President Donald Trump (R-USA) made the move 2017, we were told that this would be a disaster, that it would seriously inflame tensions in the Middle East.

Instead of a disaster, we got the Abraham Accords, and are closer to peace in the Middle East than at any point in my lifetime.

This is another example of how wrong the Democrats were about Trump. At least they admitted it this time.

I Really Miss Kayleigh McEnany

MUST SEE: Jen Psaki has no idea that Joe Biden signed an executive order to resume dangerous Catch and Release!

This administration is out of control!

JOIN THE FIGHT FOR STRONG BORDERS: https://t.co/rtEENW8vt2 pic.twitter.com/zRmZVMJ33j

— ACTforAmerica (@ACTforAmerica) February 5, 2021

Well, now you see why she wanted the questions in advance. She’s not even prepared for easy ones like this. Say what you want about McEnany, she was always prepared. She had that binder with her and could quickly get to whatever she needed. And she was dealing with a much more hostile press.

185!

I’ve tried to avoid the self-congratulatory posts on this blog now that I’m blogging again.

Up until this year, my most prolific month ever was September, 2011. I made 77 posts that month. That included my 9/11 Remembrance posts. In January of this year, I posted 141 times. And my first post was on January 8th, or it would have been substantially higher.

But this is a milestone that can’t be ignored.

My most prolific year was also 2011. I posted 411 times that year. My second most prolific year (until now) was 2012, when I posted 184 times.

This is my 185th post this year. It’s still the first week in February, and I’ve exceed my totals for 2020 (8), 2019 (0), 2018 (2), 2017 (0), 2016 (0), 2015 (0), 2014 (0), 2013 (0), 2012 (184), 2010 (156), 2009 (84), and 2008 (157).

And remember, my first post was on January 8th, so I got to 185 in slightly less than a month.

I am looking forward to the rest of this year.

And Now You Can’t Even Make Coffee Great Again

Pro-Trump Covfefe Coffee Cancelled By Chase Bank (pjmedia.com)

Covfefe Coffee, founded in 2018, brands itself as “Coffee For Deplorables By Deplorables.” The company, which says their goal is to “provide proud to Americans access to world-class coffee without having to fund your political and cultural opponents,” was informed via email on Wednesday that they would no longer be able to use their payment processing service because payments were “for one or more of the activities prohibited by” their terms of service.

As far as I can tell, their only crime is being a conservative company.

It’s going to get worse, much worse, before it gets better.

February 6, 1952

“Eisenhower, Vaccine, England’s got a new queen” –Billy Joel, We Didn’t Start the Fire

Queen Elizabeth II succeeds King George VI to the British throne and proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms including Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Her coronation (pictured above) will take place on June 3.

This isn’t an Accident

Rabbis: Democrats Cheapened Anti-Semitism Endangering Jews (pjmedia.com)

“Had the House operated by a fair and neutral standard,” Rabbi Yaakov Menken, Managing Director of the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) said in a statement, “Rep. Greene would not be the only Member of Congress losing her committee assignments. Let there be no mistake: the American Jewish community is at greater risk today, because partisans chose to ‘virtue signal’ instead of taking real action to fight Antisemitism and hatred.”

CJV sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), urging the House to adopt a “neutral standard” on anti-Semitism that would involve condemning statements from Democrats that came in the past few weeks as well as statements that Greene made two years ago.

The letter noted that Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Minn.), Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), Marie Newman (D-Ill.), and Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) falsely accused the Jewish State of Israel of refusing to vaccinate Palestinians when the Palestinian government has vociferously refused the Israeli vaccine and even repeatedly refused COVID-19 medical aid from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) because the UAE had been working toward normalization with Israel. Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan condemned Tlaib’s accusation as a “modern-day blood libel.”

The Left doesn’t care whether Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA-14) is anti-Semitic or not. In fact, they likely applaud that if anything, at least privately. But it’s something they can use to bludgeon her and the Republican party with. They’ve been attacking the Right as anti-Semitic for decades. But the truth, as the Rabbi notes above, is that it is far more prevalent on the Left. In fact, in some places on the left, anti-Semitism is a prerequisite for career advancement.

So, I applaud Rabbi Menken for sending this letter to the House Democrats, but he’s naïve if he thinks anything is going to change. Jews have always voted heavily Democratic, and I’ve been hoping that they would wake up to the hatred of them within their own party for quite a while. Maybe Rabbi Menken’s letter means it’s finally going to happen.

But I won’t hold my breath.

Kevin McCarthy on House Democrats Abuse of Power

McCarthy On Democrats Stripping Greene Of Committees: ‘You May Regret This A Lot Sooner Than You Think’ | The Daily Wire

There’s just so much in this speech worth quoting. As they say, read the whole thing.

But here are some key bits.

“Now, we’ve reviewed this with the parliamentarian,” McCarthy said. “Never before in the history of this House, has the majority abused its power in this way. Never in the entire history of this House have you ever abused the power in this way.”

It truly is an abuse of power. Frankly, it’s so abusive, I’m surprised that it’s even allowed under House rules. One party stripped committee assignments from a member of the other party.

If we start doing this, it will become difficult to actually fill committees with minority members.

Or, let’s forget the attacks on specific members for a moment and think about something else.

Let’s say you’re the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. You know that the Ranking Member on the opposing side is a real attack dog. You don’t want your President to have to go through years of merciless attacks, so you just have the attack dog removed.

Is that fair?

What about the Finance Committee? Remove people that are less likely to compromise on tax and funding bills.

This is a monstrous abuse of power by the majority. It should not stand. It cannot stand.

More from Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-23):

“When another Democrat was compromised by a Chinese spy, that it was so serious that the FBI had to brief the congressional leaders, did Speaker Pelosi remove him from the House Intelligence or Homeland Security Committees after the briefing?” McCarthy went on. “I’m the only other person that had that same briefing. Just recently, I was in the room with the speaker. I heard what was said. I’ll be very clear, I would never have that member on either of those committees. Or did she reward him by making him the head of the subcommittee overseeing the CIA? I guess there’s different standards.”

The double standard here is disgusting.

And McCarthy mentions several other examples, just as egregious.

Finally, he concludes with this:

“When Democrats democrats attack Congresswoman Greene, they not only in ignore the infractions within their own party, they reward these members with prestige and influence,” McCarthy added.

McCarthy also fired a warning shot at Democrats by quoting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), saying, “‘You’ll regret this and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.”

This has been a fault of the Democrats for most of this century. They keep changing the rules and never look to the future. They never think about how these precedents might come back to bite them.

February 5, 2020

One year ago today, the New York Times ran an op-ed claiming that it's "safe" for Americans to travel to Communist China. https://t.co/sSspDlmAxH pic.twitter.com/CEXOBHpMme

— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) February 5, 2021

Remember, this was after President Donald Trump (R-USA) had initiated a travel ban to China. It was after Trump had formed his task force to take on the China Virus.

Three weeks later, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA-12), would go to Chinatown to celebrate the Chinese New Year and encourage public gatherings there and elsewhere, deliberately creating the impression the impact of the China Virus is minimal.

But Trump is the one accused of moving slowly. If it weren’t for the fact that so many people believe it’s true, it’s so absurd to be laughable.

I will have more posts on this subject in the coming weeks as other anniversaries arrive.