The Three Stooges meet Wynken, Blinken and Nod
Tuesday Morning No. 30
And then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth – George Orwell, 1984
Alejandro Mayorkas has never made a living as anything but a lawyer. He is now the director of Homeland Security but to our knowledge has never worked in law enforcement and has never headed a large organization. To Democrats, this makes no difference. Look who they elected president of the United States: two lawyers who couldn’t manage a hot dog stand at the Home Depot. Mr. Mayorkas does have the ability to lie with a straight face, a helpful skill for politicians.
His statement that “The border is closed” is reminiscent of that MSNBC reporter who described riots in Minneapolis as “not, generally speaking, unruly.” To frame this scene on camera, he stood in front of downtown Minneapolis burning to the ground behind him.
Mayorkas repeatedly claims the border is secure while advising Central and South Americans not to come – for now – until the Biden Administration works out the kinks of its come-one, come-all amnesty apparatus for bringing in future Democrat voters.
And the Ministry of Truth in 1984 calmed our nerves by assuring us that War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. The border is closed. Everything is under control.
Mayorkas’ ability to lie is matched only by his spectacular incompetence. As of Thursday the Border Patrol and HHS together held 16,513 illegal alien children. How many slipped through our porous security is anyone’s guess. Mayorkas calls this a “challenge” but denies it’s a crisis.
Candice Owens says it’s not even a crisis – it’s a plan, an intentional act of destruction.
Biden is so clueless that he washed his hands of it all, turning the disaster over to arguably the worst person imaginable to handle it: Let-them-all-in Kamala Harris.
Here is how Rich Lowrey describes the situation in the National Review:
Biden “has begun to dismantle the policies that Trump put in place to control the migrant crisis of 2018–2019. As numbers predictably surge again, Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has absurdly called out Trump for having ‘dismantled our nation’s immigration system in its entirety.’
“Nancy Pelosi chimed in over the weekend, claiming that ‘what the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border.’
“To the contrary,” Lowery continues, “Biden has done the breaking. The Trump administration had found ways, entirely in keeping with our laws, to turn away illegal immigrants during the pandemic, and to discourage bogus asylum-seekers by making them wait in Mexico while their claims are adjudicated.”
If you think Mayorkas is dangerous, ask one of these six Republican Senators why they voted to confirm him: Sullivan and Murkowski of Alaska, Romney of Utah, Capito of West Virginia, Collins of Maine, and Portman of Ohio. Most of these don’t surprise us anymore, Republicans without principle, eager to please the ruling class and even more eager to keep poking President Trump in the eye.
It’s not that Republicans should vote against every Biden appointment as all Democrats almost always voted against Trump’s. It’s that Mayorkas is unfit to hold office and every one of the six Republicans who voted for him knows it: He was forced to resign as Obama’s deputy HHS secretary after he was caught, earlier as director of the agency’s citizens and immigration services, fast-tracking some visa applications for a company run by future Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe and Hillary Clinton’s brother, Anthony Rodham.
One could throw a dart at the Harris-Biden manning table and find a good subject for ridicule. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken comes to mind. He was in over his head in Anchorage last week as Yang Jiechi, a Chinese foreign policy official, steamrolled him with a lecture on how the United States mistreats members of Black Lives Matter and “slaughters black Americans.” Mike Pompeo would have left Mr. Yang in a bloody heap.
This incident, among many, illustrates the consequences of overthrowing a government because of an irrational hatred of the president, not for what he accomplished but for how he talks. Some of these consequences are irreversible.
I have begun interviewing Biden voters from around the country to understand their thinking. It’s early in the project, but those I’ve spoken with generally agree that Biden is doing a good job, that opening our southern borders to throngs of uneducated illegal aliens and destroying our energy industry is generally good policy, in the best interests of the country. That is what we are dealing with. (One interview subject, a former Republican, did keep saying, “Well, I never thought of that.” Too late.)
One might assume, then, that when President Biden said at his news conference last week that illegal aliens are overrunning our borders because he is the good guy, our Biden voters would approve.
The danger can’t be overstated. Our sovereignty is threatened by uninvited trespassers. Our public schools and universities are turning out brigades of Stepford Wives indoctrinated to hate this country and all of Western Civilization. China is a menace to the world, and we have a president who is compromised both by his family’s corrupt dealings with the Communist Chinese Party and by his own dementia.
Only the states can save us
We don’t pay enough attention to our state legislatures. That is understandable in light of how the federal government has been siphoning power from the states ever since 17th Amendment ratification in 1913, making itself more intrusive in our daily lives. Thanks to Democrat overreach, that may be changing.
Constitutional conservatives in state legislatures are beginning to realize that only they can save the country until the Harris-Biden juggernaut is run aground. Unfortunately, some of their Republican governors still haven’t received the memo. And when push comes to shove, even some of the legislatures are caving.
South Dakota legislators passed a law that bars boys from playing on girls’ sports teams even if the boy pretends he is a girl. Republican Gov. Kristie Noem, a rising star and our pick for the VP slot in 2024, said she was excited to sign the bill – until the NCAA, South Dakota Chamber of Commerce, and monopolist Amazon came calling. All of a sudden, Kristie changed her mind. She blames the lawyers.
“If South Dakota passes a law that’s against their policy, they will likely take punitive action against us,” Noem told Tucker Carlson last week. “That means they can pull their tournaments from the state of South Dakota, they could pull their home games, they could even prevent our athletes from playing in their league.”
She vetoed the bill, tried to change it with an exclusion for college sports, and the Republican-dominated South Dakota Legislature said no thanks.
This is hardly a Reagan-Trumpian stand on principle. Sadly, she is probably finished. She is so good in so many ways. But if we learn anything from the Trump presidency, it is that the nation needs a leader who will never compromise on principle.
In Arkansas, Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson vetoed a bill that would refund fines imposed on business during the CCP coronavirus lockdown crisis. Most of the fines were on bars and restaurants for violating capacity limits. Though the bill passed 19-14 in the Senate and 67-20 in the House, the Arkansas General Assembly failed to override Hutchinson’s veto.
“I’m very disappointed in the Arkansas House that has a 78-22 GOP majority and passed the bill with 67 votes, but can't sustain a veto override with 51,” said Dan Sullivan, who sponsored the bill.
“This exemplifies the GOP in half the country,” Daniel Horowitz writes at The Blaze. “Republicans have squandered shockingly large majorities with Republicans in name only and can’t stand for a bold contrast from what the political elites are pushing. In the case of COVID regulations, none of this is either constitutional or rooted in science, yet Republicans are barely distinguishable from Democrats on the issue.”
It will be interesting to see what comes down in Georgia, where Gov. Brian Kemp is under fire for botching both the 2020 election and the Senate run-offs by caving to the demands of Stacey Abrams, who still thinks she beat him in 2019. He’s now blustering that he will sign legislation to bleed corruption from the state’s election laws, but that is understandable, as he faces a certain primary challenge when he seeks re-election in 2023.