USA 2020 Elections: Thread

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sat May 28 20:13:15 PDT 2022


A Cabinency Of Dunces

https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2022/05/26/untitled-n2607821

As the nation sinks inexplicably into self-created crisis after
crisis, debate rages whether President Joe Biden is incompetent,
mean-spirited, or an ideologue who feels the country's mess is his
success...

A second national discussion revolves around who actually is
overseeing the current national catastrophe, given Biden's frequent
bewilderment and cognitive challenges.

But one area of agreement is the sheer craziness of Biden's cabinet
appointments, who have translated his incoherent ideology into
catastrophic governance.

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas has essentially
nullified federal immigration law. Over 2 million foreign nationals
have illegally crossed the southern border without audit -- and
without COVID vaccinations and tests during a pandemic.

Mayorkas either cannot or will not follow federal law.

But he did create a new Disinformation Governance Board. To head his
new Orwellian Ministry of Truth, he appointed Nina Jankowicz -- an
arch disinformationist who helped peddle the Russian collusion, Steele
dossier, and Alfa Bank hoaxes.

While Jankowicz's adolescent videos and past tweets finally forced her
resignation, Mayorkas promises his board will carry on.

In the days before the recent Virginia election, grassroots parent
groups challenged critical race theory taught in the schools.

In reaction and under prompts from teachers' unions, Attorney General
Merrick Garland directed both the FBI and the Justice Department to
establish a special task force apparently to "investigate threats"
from parents against school board members.

The FBI recently has been knee-deep in political controversies. It
illegally doctored a FISA application to entrap an American citizen.
Its former directors, under oath before Congress, either claimed
faulty memory or admitted lying to federal investigators.

The last thing a scandal-plagued FBI needed was to go undercover at
school board meetings to investigate parents worried over their
children's education.

We are in a fuel price spiral that is destroying the middle class.

Yet when Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was asked about plans to
lower gas prices, she laughed off the idea as "hilarious."

Later Granholm preposterously claimed, "It is not the administration
policies that have affected supply and demand."

Apparently haranguing those who finance fossil fuel production,
canceling the Keystone Pipeline, suspending new federal oil and gas
leases, and stopping production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
all had nothing to do with high fuel prices.

Currently, supply chain disruptions are paralyzing the U.S. economy.

The huge Port of Los Angeles has been a mess for over a year. Since
last fall dozens of cargo ships have been backed up to the horizon.
Thousands of trucks are bottlenecked at the port.

During the mess, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was not at
work. Instead at the height of the crisis, he took a two-month
paternity leave to help out his husband and two newborn babies.

Such paternal concern is a noble thing. But Buttigieg is supposed to
ensure that life-or-death supplies reach millions of strapped
Americans.

This winter, trains entering and leaving Los Angeles were routinely
looted in the Old-West style of train robbing -- without much of a
response from Buttigieg's transportation bureau.

In Senate testimony Secretary of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland
refused to explain why her department is slow walking federal oil and
gas leases at a time when Americans are paying between $5 and $6 a
gallon for gas.

Haaland was unable to provide simple answers about when new leases
will result in more supplies of oil and gas. Her panicked aides slid
talking points to her -- given that in deer-in-the-headlights fashion,
she seemed incapable of providing senators with basic information
about U.S. energy production on federal lands.

The United States is sending many billions of dollars worth of
sophisticated weapons to Ukraine to combat Russian aggression. We
rightly claim it is not a proxy war against Russia but instead an
effort to help stop a brutal Russian invasion.

Why then did Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin tell the world the very
opposite in a fashion that could only convince Russians that our real
aim in Ukraine is to destroy Russia as a superpower?

As Austin put it publicly, "We want to see Russia weakened to the
degree that it can't do the kinds of things that it has done in
invading Ukraine."

Even if that description of the agenda is true, why broadcast it --
given Russia has over 6,000 nuclear weapons and its President Vladimir
Putin is increasingly erratic and paranoid?

The common denominator to these Biden appointees is ideological
rigidity, nonchalance, and sheer incompetence.

They seem indifferent to the current border, inflation, energy, and
crime disasters. When confronted, they are unable to answer simple
questions from Congress, or they mock anyone asking for answers on
behalf of the strapped American people.

We don't know why or how such an unimpressive cadre ended up running
the government, only that they are here and the American people are
suffering from their presence.


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