Headlines

‘Should have happened yesterday’: Republicans press Trump to restart economy

Homebuilder confidence index takes the biggest monthly dive ever as coronavirus slams economy

So much unknown about pandemic because gov’t keeps a lid on it ...

Coronavirus lockdown: UK economy should shrink 35% this quarter

CDC Director: WHO remains ‘a great partner for us’ despite Trump’s funding cuts

US clinical trials for hydroxychlorquine hit ‘warp speed,’ could show results in weeks

UV light might protect ...

Schumer: Attacking W.H.O. Isn’t making America better

Commerce locks up and retail sales plunge an unprecedented 8.7%

Abbott announces new coronavirus antibody test that could do up to 20 million screenings in June

Bill would give Americans $2,000 a month during pandemic ...

Germany arrests 4 Islamic State suspects planning sack on U.S. bases

Upchuck Schumer

I have callouses on my political expectations after eight years of Obama and over five months of Chuck Schumer leading the Democrats in the Senate. Yet, after former FBI Director Comey testified that he had told the Gang of Eight in Congress (including Schumer) months ago that Trump was not a subject of the Russian collusion investigation. Schumer continued to insist publically the exact opposite ... see: Trump's Lies.

Now, as reported by Paul Mirengoff in the Powerline Blog, Senator Grassley has pointed out this same Schumer demagoguery ... unfortunately without calling Schumer what he often is ... a liar ... see: Powerline Blog.

There are a lot of despicable politicians, but Upchuck Schumer is right up there near the top of the list.

The Enforcer

Senator Schumer

Upchuck Schumer has just issued a Putin-like threat ... if Congress doesn't pass immigration reform by the end of July, then President Obama will act unilaterally to implement his own reform package ... see: The Hill Story. I suspect (and hope) that this bit of Gestapo-like extortion may be just New York bluster.

But what if it isn't?

If it isn't, then the Democrats will have trashed our 240-year old Republic for the sake of perpetual Democrat governance.  I sincerely doubt that this would be tolerated by the American voters.

 But then again ...  this slime-ball enforcer's calculus might be that this outrage could well be, alas, too late to be rectified.

Afterward: Despite the fact that he was once a college lecturer on the Constitution, he apparently has even more problems with our great document than its separation of powers language. He now avers that Congress was ill-constructed by our founding fathers ... see: Washington Times article.