The Patriot Post Digest 10-11-2016

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Mid-Day Digest

Oct. 11, 2016

IN TODAY’S EDITION

The Supreme Court is still the most important issue in this election. Here’s what Clinton said.
ObamaCare is a disaster and Hillary promises to “fix” it — by making it worse.
As night follows day, the Leftmedia has more dirt on Trump.
Let’s take a moment and contrast the Trump and Clinton records.
And more news, policy and opinion.

THE FOUNDATION

“One single object … [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.” —Thomas Jefferson (1825)

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Hillary’s Supreme Court Vision1

With so much media focus on Donald Trump’s 11-year-old lewd comments2 it was easy to miss some of the more substantive issues discussed in Sunday night’s debate3. For example, both candidates were asked what priorities they consider as most important in selecting Supreme Court justices. The very real issue of the current vacancy4 on the Supreme Court has been perhaps the primary justification5 for supporting the admittedly flawed Trump.

Hillary Clinton made her case: “I want to appoint Supreme Court justices who understand the way the world really works, who have real-life experience, who have not just been in a big law firm … but … they actually understand what people are up against.” Hillary made no mention of wanting to select judges who would be faithful to the Constitution and Rule of Law, instead focusing on pet leftist issues such as reversing Citizens United and ensuring that the rulings on same-sex marriage and Roe v. Wade would not be overturned.

The Supreme Court is clearly an issue that Trump should continue to campaign on as it is a strength for him6. However, unless the poll numbers change, the prospect of a Trump election victory is looking slimmer by the day. In the event that Clinton wins, in all likelihood Senate Republicans would move to confirm Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland7, during a lame-duck session as a means of preventing Hillary from selecting an even more leftist judge. That is unless Obama plays a little political gamesmanship himself and withdraws his Garland nomination. In any case, with two flawed and compromised candidates campaigning for the highest office in the land, the primary outcome of this election will be the future balance of the Supreme Court.

CA Wants ObamaCare for Illegals8

Joe Wilson was right. In 2009, the South Carolina representative interrupted Barack Obama’s introduction of his nationalized health care scheme to a joint session of Congress: “You Lie! You LIE!” yelled Wilson. The Obama claim that prompted Wilson’s outburst was the ObamaCare would not be extended to cover illegal aliens. Well, ObamaCare was built on a web of lies9, so it’s not surprising to see another one. In June 2016, California Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law allowing the state to request a waiver from this prohibition. On Sept. 30, California formally requested that exemption, meaning it’s only a matter of time before 390,000 illegals in the Golden State can hop on the ObamaCare health care exchange. Those illegals would not immediately be eligible for direct subsidies, but how long does anyone think it will be before Democrats bemoan this second-class status and change that too? Furthermore, argues10 Austin Yack at National Review, “what Governor Brown and California’s majority-Democratic legislature refuse to admit is that by opening the Exchange up to those who break U.S. immigration law, they are legitimizing and in effect encouraging further illegal immigration.”

Meanwhile, in Sunday night’s second debate3, Hillary Clinton vowed to “fix” ObamaCare, despite acknowledging, “Premiums have gotten too high,” and so have “copays, deductibles [and] prescription drug costs.” But then her proposals include more of the same. “Right now, we are at 90% health insurance coverage. That’s the highest we’ve ever been in our country,” she boasted. “So I want us to get to 100%, but get costs down and keep quality up.” Those things are almost mutually exclusive. And California is about to exhibit yet another way that’s true. Even Hillary’s own husband thinks ObamaCare is “crazy11.” It may be called ObamaCare, but it’s Hillary’s brainchild. She should be held accountable for it.

The Corrupt Clinton Culture12

With USA Today’s reporting on Monday of 20 women having sued Donald Trump for either gender-based mistreatment or discrimination, the “shock” expressed by many — especially those of the media and political class — is frankly disingenuous. Trump’s indiscretions should be surprising to no one. His lack of presidential character13 is one of the primary reasons conservatives opposed his nomination. Trump is a known quantity with serious character flaws in his personal life. The Leftmedia for the most part chose to store up these issues until it proved politically expedient for Hillary Clinton to talk about them.

Speaking of the Clintons, we could credit — or better yet, blame — them for creating the culture of rationalizing the separation and compartmentalization of a political figure’s personal life from their public service record. In 1992, Bill Clinton was confronted on “60 Minutes” with accusations of his marital infidelity. He countered with this gem: “I know it’s an issue, but what does that mean? That means that 86% of the American people either don’t think it’s relevant to presidential performance or look at whether a person, looking at all the facts, is the best to serve.” In other words, Bill’s personal life doesn’t really matter and has no bearing on his public service.

So after all of Bill and Hillary’s lies, and Bill’s sexually repugnant behavior even while in office, he is still viewed favorably by most Democrats. And it can be rightly surmised that after what Bill and Hillary Clinton have gotten away with, one can hardly blame Trump for believing himself to be just as qualified for office as either of the Clintons. Bill Clinton may be right in his observation that Americans care little about the “personal life” indiscretions of their leaders so long as they like their public service. This may be the best explanation for the two candidates Americans have chosen.

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BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

Thomas Sowell: Words Versus Deeds16
Dennis Prager: Trump’s Comments: The Latest Left-Wing Hysteria17
Cal Thomas: At Stake: The Constitution18

For more, visit Right Opinion19.

TOP HEADLINES

TV Audience Falls Sharply for Second Trump-Clinton Debate20
Ryan to GOP: It’s Every Man for Himself21
DNC Chief Leaked Sanders Info to Clinton22

For more, visit Patriot Headline Report23.

FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
It Wasn’t Donald Trump Who…24

By James Shott

Almost everyone agrees that this is the most unusual election in our lifetimes. We have two major party candidates with the highest disapproval ratings that anyone can remember. And each candidate’s supporters ignore the negatives and continue to support the candidate because so much is at stake.

Democrat Hillary Clinton comes from decades in the political sphere as the wife of a governor and president, as a U.S. senator and as secretary of state. Republican Donald Trump comes from decades in the private sector as a businessman and entertainment show producer, having first entered political life for the 2015 Republican primary.

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Both have a long list of negatives their political enemies hope will disqualify them in the eyes of voters. However, there are important differences between them.

It wasn’t Donald Trump who for personal convenience as secretary of state flaunted the rules and long-established procedures, taking the unprecedented step of evading the official secure government email system in favor of a private email server25 for government business, including classified information. And it wasn’t Donald who then had the server scrubbed, destroying thousands of messages that were not only government property, but evidence, and then couldn’t provide a credible reasons for any of it.

It wasn’t Donald Trump whose possible-criminal situation caused untold irregularities in the operation of the State Department, the FBI and the Justice Department. Those included a “chance” meeting on an airport tarmac26 between the prime suspect’s husband and the attorney general of the United States, putting dozens of public servants in the position to destroy their credibility and trustworthiness to save a presidential candidate’s backside.

It wasn’t Donald Trump whose vast experience in government in the U.S. Senate and the State Department resulted in neglecting dozens of requests for increased security prior to the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. That attack resulted in the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other brave Americans. And it wasn’t Trump who then blamed an obscure Internet video for a clear terrorist attack, resulting in jailing the video’s producer.

And it wasn’t Donald Trump whose frequent profanity-laced tirades27 insulted and denigrated Secret Service agents and White House staffers.

But that was a long time ago, and since all of that was a long time ago, it probably isn’t relevant that it also wasn’t Donald Trump who worked for the congressional committee investigating the Watergate cover-up many years ago, and was fired for lying.

It was Donald Trump who took some money from his father, invested it in businesses and created hotels, casinos, golf courses and television shows. Some of his creations didn’t work out, as is not uncommon in the world of business. Luminaries such as Henry Ford, Walt Disney, F.W. Woolworth, Albert Einstein and Bill Gates also sometimes failed.

It was Donald Trump who claimed business losses of nearly a billion dollars on tax returns many years ago, probably cancelling an equal amount of income over several years, using provisions in the tax code to reduce taxable income, just as most every American who pays taxes does through deductions for such things as dependents, mortgage interest and charitable giving.

For taking legal tax deductions Trump has attracted mountains of criticism from his betters, who somehow twist this into meaning he doesn’t care about the country, or the military and dozens of other things. But the thousands of people who work in his businesses do pay taxes, and that is significant.

And, yes, it was Donald Trump who managed to anger his primary opponents and many Americans with his petulant personal attacks against those who opposed and challenged him. His crass manner leaves much to be desired, and his locker room vulgarity2, spoken in private 11 years ago, justifiably repulsed anyone not blinded by partisanship. But if some rapper had used those same words as lyrics, it’d be #1 on Billboard.

Apparently, it’s a more serious offense to say things that offend someone than to put national interests at risk, to lose $6 billion of State Department funds and generally fail to competently run the agency you’ve been entrusted to run, and then go on to make millions giving $250,000 secret-content speeches to Wall Street banks that you publicly criticize. By virtue of merely having been elected a U.S. senator and appointed as a cabinet secretary, you are thus qualified to be president, even if the “best” you did in those positions was inconsequential or, too often, harmful.

Strangely, people are more offended by Trump’s words than Hillary’s vicious attacks on her hubby’s numerous sexual victims and conquests28, her position on coal mining and the Supreme Court, and her comments supporting open borders, spoken in a private $250,000 speech.

Trump is a crass bully with an authoritarian streak. Clinton’s hubris already put national security at risk, and she will continue Obama’s dangerous, destructive, and unconstitutional policies. Thus is our choice.

MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST

Obama’s Politically Convenient Shift on Russia29 — U.S. intelligence says Russia hacked DNC and Clinton emails. That helps Clinton.

OPINION IN BRIEF

Thomas Sowell: “Women have a right to be offended by Trump’s words. But women have suffered a far worse fate from Secretary Clinton’s and President Obama’s actions. Pulling American troops out of Iraq, despite military advice to the contrary, led to the sudden rise of ISIS and their seizing of many women and young girls as sex slaves. A message from one of these women urged the bombing of ISIS. She said she would rather be dead than live the life of a sex slave. Some women who tried to commit suicide and failed have been tortured for trying. Meanwhile, President Obama tried to downplay ISIS with flippant words, by calling them the junior varsity. His half-hearted, foot-dragging military response has allowed ISIS to parade before the world as triumphant conquerors, appealing to disgruntled people in Western countries to carry out terrorist attacks in support of their cause. That is a lot worse than some stupid and gross words by Donald Trump, which even he has had to repudiate. Make no mistake about it. Neither party has a good candidate for President. The choice is between bad and disastrous.”

SHORT CUTS

Insight: “There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.” —George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906)

Observations: “Now why might it be that men regard women as sex objects? Surely the ravenous purchase by females of stiletto heels, push-up bras, butt-hugging mini-skirts, plunging necklines, false eyelashes, hair extensions, breast implants, butt implants, lip implants, and mascara, rouge, and lipstick to the tune of billions a year has nothing to do with it. Females would never ever exploit their sexuality to seek attention from men.” —Heather Mac Donald

Warnings: “That Trump would become a poisonous wedge issue within the GOP was always a plausible worst-case scenario. Now, it is upon us. Trump supporters in the primaries wanted to ‘burn it down.’ They may well be able to point to the wreckage of the post-November GOP as an indicator of their smashing success.” —Rich Lowry

The BIG Lie: “I’m the only candidate from the very beginning of this campaign who had a plan to help us revitalize coal country.” —Hillary Clinton Sunday night (“We’re gonna put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” —Hillary Clinton in March)

In the weeds: “When I was a teenager I used drugs, I drank, I pretty much tried whatever was out there. But I was in Hawaii and it was a pretty relaxed place.” —Barack Obama

A blind squirrel finds a nut: “I think it’s really dumb of them. Would I arrest them for doing it? No. I think it’s dumb and disrespectful. I would have the same answer if you asked me about flag burning. I think it’s a terrible thing to do, but I wouldn’t lock a person up for doing it.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg on national anthem protests

And last… “Avoiding her own record, Hillary attacked Trump personally all night, stopping only long enough to point out she’s taking the high road.” —Twitter satirist @weknowwhatsbest

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson

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