The Patriot Post Digest 11-4-2019

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The Patriot Post Digest 11-4-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest

Nov. 4, 2019

https://patriotpost.us/digests/66562-mid-day-digest-2019-11-04

THE FOUNDATION

“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.” —James Madison (1788)

https://patriotpost.us/fqd/66549-founders-quote-daily-2019-11-04

IN TODAY’S EDITION

Pelosi hypocritically warns Democrats not to go too far left.1
Beto’s campaign flames out as he blames media.2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.

IN BRIEF

Pelosi’s Empty Warning to Her Party10

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a message for Democrats: Rein in the unbridled run to the left. However, much like Barack Obama’s hypocritical lecture11 on “cancel culture,” Pelosi’s message rings hollow because of her sizable role in Democrats’ dramatic leftward shift.

“What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan,” the San Francisco Democrat said. Pelosi offered a rebuttal to “progressives” like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren hawking socialist policies, saying, “As a left-wing San Francisco liberal I can say to these people: ‘What are you thinking?’” She insists many in her party are “unhappy with me for not being a socialist.”

“Remember November,” she added. “You must win the Electoral College.”

A few thoughts. First, Pelosi is the (arguably reluctant) leader of the impeachment coup attempt12, a charade she attempted to legitimize with the veneer of guiding process rules — passed on a party-line vote13. Impeaching a duly elected president over what amounts to general derangement over his victory is about as left-wing as it gets.

Second, Pelosi perhaps realizes that Medicare for All isn’t popular with the overall American electorate, but she rammed ObamaCare through Congress on a party-line vote a decade ago. As we have long argued, ObamaCare was designed as a beachhead for single-payer government healthcare. That it took only a few years before Democrat presidential candidates were pushing for single-payer is, to the far Left, a feature of ObamaCare, not a bug. Pelosi cannot claim ignorance of that strategy, however restrained she publicly claims to be.

The same goes for climate change. Pelosi may deride “the green dream, or whatever they call it,” but her party insists “the science is settled” that humans are destroying the planet and drastic measures are needed.

Third, was her comment about the Electoral College what Leftmedia types would call a “dog whistle”? In other words, Democrats have been grumbling loudly about — and seeking to subvert14 — the Electoral College ever since Donald Trump lost the popular vote but won the presidency, as did George W. Bush in 2000. Pelosi just gave them a subtle reminder of their frustrations.

Finally, if Democrats wish to be the center-left party, perhaps their leader shouldn’t be a self-described San Francisco liberal. Pelosi may be more power broker than political ideologue, but she’s no moderate. Indeed, she is a big reason why her party has charged as hard and fast as possible toward socialism, so forgive us if we take the lectures on moderation with a big grain of salt.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66546-pelosis-empty-warning-to-her-party-2019-11-04

Bye Bye, Beto15

The candidate who famously declared when he first jumped into the crowed field of Democrat presidential contenders that he was simply “born to run16” announced Friday evening that he is quitting the race. Robert Francis “Beto” O'Rourke, who enjoyed a wave of Leftmedia hype during his failed bid to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in 2018, ironically faulted the media for his inability to gain any serious traction with his presidential campaign. Popularity is a fleeting thing, and O'Rourke offered little in the way of any substantive policy proposals. Instead, he ran a campaign that consisted largely of passionately and often vulgarly expressing social-justice platitudes.

From his declaration that he would tear down the walls that already exist on the U.S.-Mexico border to his support for slavery reparations and his repeated assertion that America is a racist nation to his plan to confiscate firearms17 (because Americans should not be allowed to own “weapons of war”), O'Rourke aimed to set himself apart as the most “woke” candidate.

The reality is that good political campaigns are run on more than passionately expressed platitudes. As Politico observes, “While other candidates were assembling campaign staffs and volunteer armies in early nominating states, O'Rourke lacked the infrastructure necessary to organize his own supporters. Lawmakers and major Democratic donors could not get calls returned. When the campaign’s skeletal staff promised to reach out, it sometimes forgot.” In other words, O'Rourke wasn’t much of a leader either.

The one service O'Rourke provided was his aforementioned gun policy, which exposed the Democrats’ long-term but rarely spoken agenda on firearms. While his calls for gun confiscation caused his fellow Democrats to issue words of caution about political feasibility, notably, none of them stood up against O'Rourke’s blatant assault on Americans’ Second Amendment rights. In this respect, Americans can thank O'Rourke for running.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66547-bye-bye-beto-2019-11-04

ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY

Featured Analysis: Transgenderism, Child Abuse, and Medical Malpractice18 — Medical decisions must now be informed by “woke” political considerations.
Want Better Schools? Parents, It’s Up to You19 — The “Nation’s Report Card” continues revealing bad signs about public education.
Ukraine’s 2016 Anti-Trump Interference20 — Donald Trump cares about Ukraine because it tried to keep him from winning.
Grassroots Perspective: Redemption: The Ribbon Tying Trump and Kanye Together21 — Freedom — spiritual or ideological — is a concept the radical Left cannot comprehend.
Video: This Meme Triggered the Media22 — Michael Knowles laughs at the humorless media after they overreact to a meme.
Video: Gen Z, Millennial Snowflakes Mock Boomer Elders23 — The #OkBoomer hashtag is meant to dismiss the complaints of Boomers.

TOP NEWS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

HISTORIC DEBT: Federal government debt surpasses $23 trillion for first time as annual deficits once again near $1 trillion (The Hill25)

THE PROBE THAT NEVER ENDS: First batch of Mueller-probe interview notes involving Rick Gates, Steve Bannon, and Michael Cohen have been released (The Daily Caller26