Briefly Noted: The Current Shape Of Politics

I’m almost written out for the day—I think, maybe. However, I want to draw attention to two political stories.

I read Don Surber’s blog without fail, and those who do know that Don is a real politics junkie. He’s been on a roll with the Red Wave appearing to surge, with two weeks still to go. Today brought another insightful post:

Republicans divorce the Chamber of Commerce ahead of the wave election

Read it all for the background to the story. The bottom line is this:

The Chamber overlooked the first rule of virtue signaling: It must not cost you a thing.

I would argue that this cost them everything because while McConnell and McCarthy may have been happy to see Trump leave, they knew the Chamber did this to suck up to Pelosi who orchestrated the J6 riot by having the Capitol Police allow protesters inside.

[Quoting The Rolling Stone]

"House GOP candidates have decided they don't need corporate money, and big business doesn't want to deal with the baggage — or the insurrection."

And of course, Republicans do not need the Chamber. 

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By becoming irrelevant to the party that will soon hold Congress, the Chamber will become a luxury item for Corporate America just in time for a recession that will see companies cutting back on expenses.

There will be no tears shed for the Chamber. However, the bigger picture is that Trump did this, and in doing so transformed the GOP from begging for handouts from the Chamber into a Populist party that gets vast amounts of money from, relatively speaking, little people. But for Trump, none of this would likely have happened. The GOP has had an identity transplant that will likely endure at least through 2024—unless the Big Money senses another major GOP victory coming up. In the meantime, the Republican party, no matter what Mitch and Kevin think, will need to pay more attention to what We the People think.

The next article appeared this morning at American Thinker. It’s a topic that we’ve addressed here several times, but the author does a very thorough job:

The Democrat Dilemma -- What to Do about Joe

The author goes through the various options, as I’ve done in the past—25th Amendment, forced resignation, impeachment—and ends up where I have: There are no good choices for the Dems. He also agrees that the GOP actually has a fairly strong incentive to keep Zhou in place, down in the basement, digging a deeper hole—for the Dem party.

Sorry, I’m just not seeing any chess moves to remove the king without losing the game. The Dems, and America, are stuck with Joe Biden for another couple of years. And he doesn’t need the help of Congress to continue his “Sherman’s march” through America. Just look at what he’s already done with his pen, all by himself. The Dems are going to have a lot to answer for, and there’s no avoiding it.

There are, however, two wild cards: The war on Russia and the globalist war on the West’s economies. These are two problems that go far beyond the ordinary, and could require removing—as I have suggested is a possibility—a Dem WH tandem to allow a GOP president. Wild? Yes, but desperate times, and all that.