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The Patriot Post Digest 7-27-2017
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Trump withdrew27 from the Paris Climate Accord, participation in which could have cost the American economy $3 trillion dollars, 6.5 million industrial sector jobs and 3.1 million manufacturing jobs, according to NERA Consulting.
On trade, Trump withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and is renegotiating28 the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He has sped-up the permitting and approval process of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export terminals, including the Lake Charles LNG terminal in Louisiana. He has also increased U.S. oil exploration by approving the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, which has created 42,000 jobs and $2 billion in earnings. That success is despite ecofascist collusion with Russia29 to stop fracking.
Trump is restoring the Rule of Law to immigration. He ordered the hiring of 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, including 5,000 border patrol agents. Compared to this time last year, illegal border crossings have been reduced by 53%, Enforcement and Removal Operations conducted by ICE increased by nearly 40%, and arrests of criminal aliens have increased by 20%.
Under Trump’s leadership, the Department of Veterans Affairs has restored integrity30 by firing more than 500 employees, suspending 200, and demoting 33. Trump also signed legislation that allows our veterans to seek medical care outside of the VA system.
Rather than leading an apology tour, President Trump supported the opening of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology in Saudi Arabia, which helps Muslim-majority countries counter radicalized minorities. He understands that extremist ideology, not lack of “understanding,” is the root cause of radical Islamic terrorism.
President Trump has worked with our partners and allies in the Middle East to combat the Islamic State and Iraqi forces have recaptured Mosul, a huge victory. In addition, the U.S. recently sanctioned 16 entities and individuals who have supported Iran’s military in the development of military equipment.
The president has supported the dignity of human life. On the third day of his presidency, Trump reinstated31 the Mexico City policy, which prohibits non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that receive federal funds from advocating or providing abortions.
Meanwhile, he’s draining the swamp of government lobbyists through an executive order32 that bans executive branch political appointees from becoming lobbyists for at least five years after they leave their post.
Finally, the biggest win of all: President Trump fulfilled his promise to the American people by nominating Neil Gorsuch33 to the Supreme Court.
Despite — or, rather, because of — these great accomplishments, President Trump has faced needless obstructions to his appointments and nominations. Consider this: The Senate34 has confirmed just four of 135 judicial vacancies, seven of 24 nominations for the Department of Defense, three of 29 nominations for the Department of Justice, three of 13 for Health and Human Services and less than half of his nominations for the Department of Homeland Security. In total, the Senate has confirmed 23% of Trump’s nominations. At about the same time in Obama’s first term, the Senate had confirmed 69% of his nominations.
This not only highlights the aggressive obstructionism35 of the Democrats but also gives context for why the Trump administration appears to be running with less fuel. It has less fuel — by Democrat design. Democrats have purposefully attempted to slow the confirmation process so that the Trump presidency will be understaffed and thus unable to achieve his policy goals.
And yet… Despite these obstructions and the resulting understaffed administration, President Trump has been able to strengthen the economy, increase jobs, reduce crime and illegal immigration, protect human life abroad and achieve a victory over the Islamic State in the recapturing of Mosul. All of this without taking a salary, but rather donating his first six months’ salary to the National Park Service and the Department of Education. These accomplishments, in spite of the purposeful obstructions by Senate Democrats, reveal a president who has done more to achieve safety, prosperity and human flourishing than anything we saw in the previous eight years. For this, he deserves our gratitude and support.
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
The Criminal Indifference of Collective Health Care36 — Chris Gard and Connie Yates finally surrendered to the collective, effectively ending their battle to save their 11-month-old son Charlie.
No Gain for Team GOP on ObamaCare Repeal37 — Seven Republicans vote no — and six flip-flopped from two years ago — as the GOP fails again to advance the “ball.”
Dems’ Islamic IT Guy Arrested Trying to Flee Country38 — Months after other crimes were alleged, Debbie Wasserman Schultz only just fired Imran Awan.
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
Larry Elder: It’s High Noon on the GOP’s Promise to ‘Repeal and Replace’39
Ryan Anderson: Transgender Accommodations Aren’t Compatible With Military Realities40
Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Circular Firing Squad41
For more, visit Right Opinion42.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Larry Elder: “Claude Castonguay, the ‘father of Quebec Medicare,’ criticized his own invention, and said that the mistake was not encouraging more private sector participation. In the ‘60s, Castonguay chaired a Canadian government committee on health care reform. He urged Quebec, his home province, to enact government-administered health care, paid for by all tax levies on its citizens. Quebec obliged. Eventually the rest of Canada followed suit. But 40 years later Castonguay, serving as chairman of a government committee reviewing Quebec health care in 2008, said the system was in 'crisis.’ … His recommendations included contracting out services to the private sector, instating co-pays to see doctors and legalizing private health care insurance. Radical stuff. Never mind that, a year later, the newly elected president of the Canadian Medical Association said that her country’s health care system was ‘imploding’ and said, ‘We all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize.’ At the same time, the CMA’s outgoing president said, ‘A health care revolution has passed us by’ and ‘competition should be welcomed, not feared.’ Better late to Economics 101 than never. The GOP took a big step this week toward fulfilling its promise to repeal and replace Obamacare by passing a procedural vote to debate the issue in the Senate. Now comes the hard part.”
SHORT CUTS
Insight: “True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.” —Felix E. Schelling (1858-1945)
Observations: “Even if Republicans find a way to give Obamacare a haircut … it will more closely resemble past free-market corrections of liberalism’s excesses than a serious constitutional conservative challenge to liberalism. That doesn’t bode well for the Tea Party project of rolling back major liberal initiatives. The point of voting Republican will remain to make the inexorable growth of the welfare state as slow and painful as possible, a political posture that may be attractive to neither libertarian-leaning conservatives nor the populists drawn to Trump in the last presidential election. The Tea Party came to repeal and replace Obamacare. They ended up getting repealed and replaced themselves.” —Washington Examiner’s W. James Antle III
She’d fit right it: “Lisa Murkowski would be welcomed as a Moderate Democrat!! What has Trump ever done for Alaska?” —Howard Dean
Race bait: “After eight years of working really hard for this country, there are still people who won’t see me for what I am because of my skin color.” —Michelle Obama
Non Compos Mentis: “Children do not belong to their parents. … We need to remind ourselves that parents do not have rights regarding their children, they only have duties, the principal duty being to act in their children’s best interests.” —University College London professor Ian Kennedy
Good question: “Theodore Roosevelt offered Americans a ‘Square Deal.’ His fifth cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, gave us ‘The New Deal.’ Modern Democrats, who have lost election after election, are now offering the country ‘A Better Deal43.’ … The [New York] Times story called the Democrats’ announcement ‘the battle cry of a party in the wilderness.’ Question: If a Democrat speaks in the wilderness, will anyone hear?” —Cal Thomas
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