Democrat Mistakes With Predictable Results
Segment #619
Democrats Shutdown The Government
Well, so much for the Democrats being the party of good government. Yesterday, Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats rolled the dice and filibustered a clean short-term CR, thus triggering a shutdown of non-essential federal government operations.
The cloture vote to break the filibuster got 55 votes, with Democrats Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, and Angus King of Maine (who calls himself an independent) the only defectors from the Schumer line. (Rand Paul was the only Republican who joined the filibuster, because he opposes extending spending at current levels without cuts.)
Schumer’s goal is to repeal all of the spending reforms in the Big Beautiful Tax Law (Medicaid work requirements, anti-fraud protections, limiting benefits for illegal aliens, etc) and extend COVID-emergency supersized subsidies to health insurance companies. It's about a $1.5 trillion spending hole Schumer wants to add to the debt. Federal spending on health care is what is already massively driving up out debt.
Republicans have the moral and fiscal high ground here and they houldn’t budge.
Will Wall Street Say Good Bye To New York?
We've been arguing for a long time that New York’s days as the financial capital of the world are numbered. New York has the highest taxes on investment income and the most onerous financial regulations in the country.
We just didn't think the exodus would happen so quickly. But this headline from the WSJ confirms we were right: As the WSJ notes, this is yet another clear example of a Dallas-based company "taking aim at New York's [former] dominance."
Financiers and banks have been gradually pulling investment capital out of New York for financial companies, but now it's a stampede. JPMorgan Chase, for instance, now has more employees in Texas than in New York.
Why? The climate change extremism, the high taxes, the noose of regulation, and now the prospects of a Socialist Mayor means Wall Street soon may have repelled the very capitalist spirit that made New York great in the first place.
The only question is whether the new Wall Street will be located in Dallas or Miami - where the state and city income taxes are zero.
Gavin Newsom to Silicon Valley - Tech Companies: You Didn't Build That
Meanwhile, on the left coast, California Governor Gavin Newsom, is taking credit for California's tech boom. Last week, he told the Clinton Global Initiative: “We created the market. There is no Elon Musk, there's no Tesla without California's regulatory framework, period, full stop. It wouldn't exist. It was because of the regulations."
Newsom is riffing off of Barack Obama’s famous lecture to business leaders:"Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
Silicon Valley is still clearly the tech capital of the world, thanks in part to its proximity to Stanford. And it has the geographical advantage of beautiful weather, beaches and mountains. But just as New York is losing its financial sector, California’s tech sector is slowly headed south.
Our prediction is that if California doesn’t change, its lead in tech will be gone within 10 years.
The Least Essential Government Employee in Washington
From Iowa Senator Joni Ernst: "On behalf of all Americans-- for his rudderless leadership, his petty partisanship, and his silly shut down shenanigans - the recipient of the non-essential government employee of the year for 2025 is Senator Chuck Schumer."
Chuck Schumer is sweating bullets as he faces the reality that his political career is now about to be destroyed by a primary defeat from AOC. Such an ignominious way to exit suggests he will not run again.
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Jackie Norris seeks “radical empathy” for an illegal alien Superintendent of Schools in Des Moines
Representative Morris just proved that it is better to not speak before you know how bad the disaster of your making really is. But Norris went out on the internet and asked for “radical empathy” for an illegal alien who was working without a permit, is facing possession of a loaded firearm (his second in four years), and was in the United States illegally. Norris school board hired JG Consulting to condcut the search for Superintendent candidates and Baker-Eubanks to conduct a comprhensive criminal and background check.
JG Consulting The founder and owner of JG Consulting is James Guerra.1He holds the title of President and CEO of the firm.2 James Guerra founded the company in 2014 with a focus on providing executive search and consulting services for pre-K-12 education leaders. The firm is also noted as being the first Latino-owned executive search firm in the country.
Baker-Eubanks?
The company is described as a minority and female-owned firm. The current President and CEO is Kim Cockerham. The firm was founded in 1997 in Chicago, Illinois.`
Schumer and Jeffries Get Their Feelings Hurt
Politics is hard ball and not for those lacking in the ability to accept a little heat in exchange for what they dish out. Schumer and Jeffries have called Trump a racist, a Nazi, a white supremacist, laughed as he suffered at least two assassination attempts, indictments, lawsuits, attempts to bankrupt him and his family. Trump is a man among among petulant, entitled, pampered children.
But gosh Trump made fun of them and re-posted a meme because they shut down the government in support of healthcare for illegal aliens (many from Mexico.
The Dems are making this far too easy..
