The ideological earthquake and the aftermath

"If Trump is a great big middle finger aimed at a Republican establishment that has abandoned its principles, isn’t it curious that the party has chosen a man without any?"

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Charles Krauthammer   . . . "This is the narrative: GOP political leaders made promises of all kinds and received in return, during President Obama’s years, major electoral victories that gave them the House, the Senate, 12 new governorships and 30 state houses. Yet they didn’t deliver. Exit polls consistently showed that a majority of GOP primary voters (60 percent in some states) feel “betrayed” by their leaders.

"Not just let down or disappointed. Betrayed. By RINOs who, corrupted by donors and lobbyists, sold out. Did they repeal Obamacare? No. Did they defund Planned Parenthood? No. Did they stop President Obama’s tax-and-spend hyperliberalism? No. Whether from incompetence or venality, they let Obama walk all over them.

"But then comes the paradox. If insufficient resistance to Obama’s liberalism created this sense of betrayal, why in a field of 17 did Republican voters choose the least conservative candidate? A man who until yesterday was himself a liberal. Who donated money to those very same Democrats to whom the GOP establishment is said to have caved, including Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid and Hillary Clinton."

"The ideological realignment is stark. On major issues — such as the central question of retaining America’s global pre-eminence as leader of the free world, sustainer of Western alliances and protector of the post-World War II order — the GOP candidate stands decidedly to the left of the Democrat.
And who knows on what else. On entitlements? On health care? On taxes? We will soon find out. But as Trump himself says of being a conservative — at this point, who cares?"

"As of Tuesday night, certainly not the GOP."

Will I vote for Trump? You better believe it; a vote for any Republican candidate is a vote against Hillary.

We must under no circumstances allow the Clinton's or ANY Democrat for that matter near the White House.

We are voting for a Supreme Court and Hillary is the most destructive choice, though Heaven only knows who Trump will choose.  TD

Meeting With Bill Clinton, Donation To Foundation Preceded Businessman’s Release From Iran Jail

Daily Caller

"Just before an Iranian-American businessman was freed from jail in Iran in Oct. 2010, his son met with Bill Clinton and also made the first of what would become more than $1 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation.

"Sources tell The Daily Caller that Nima Taghavi, who owns businesses in California, grew impatient in 2010 with negotiations to secure his father Reza’s release from an Iranian prison, and so he turned to the former president for help.

"To arrange the meeting with Clinton, Taghavi first contacted Doug group that Clinton advised.

"The elder Taghavi was detained in May 2008 during a trip to the Islamic regime and accused of financing terrorist activity after he gave $200 to an Iranian man who turned out to have ties to a terrorist group suspected in a mosque bombing in Shiraz. Taghavi, who was 69 years old when arrested, said he was only doing a favor for his friend in the U.S. and had no idea that the man who would receive the money was involved in terrorism."

George W. Bush Sitting Out Election With H.W., No Plans to Endorse Trump

NewsMax 

"George W. Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush, will be sitting out the presidential election and have no plans to endorse Donald Trump, a spokesman said on Wednesday. 

"The Washington Post reported that it is the first time in five presidential election cycles that Bush 41 is not endorsing the Republican nominee.

"A spokesman for his son, Bush 43, made a statement Wednesday evening after Ohio Gov. John Kasich followed U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to the exit, noted The Guardian.

" 'President George W. Bush does not plan to participate in or comment on the presidential campaign," said the spokesman for the two-term president before President Barack Obama.
Jim McGrath, spokesman for George H. W. Bush, told The Guardian that the elder Bush has stepped away from politics.

" 'At age 91, President Bush is retired from politics," McGrath said. "He naturally did a few things to help Jeb, but those were the 'exceptions that proved the rule.'" . . .

Mayor de Blasio Urges New Yorkers to Avoid Chick-fil-A

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"Chick-fil-A's New York invasion has finally gotten real enough to trouble the mayor. The chain's third New York City location will land at Queens Center Mall this fall, and Chick-fil-A's growing footprint is starting to frighten city officials in general, and Bill de Blasio in particular. Not because the first stand-alone location was closed over health concerns, or because Chick-fil-A's sandwiches aren't nearly as good as some of NYC's excellent roster of homegrown chicken sandwiches, but because the mayor still takes issue with the owners' history of anti-LGBT policies. Per DNAinfo, he told reporters Tuesday, "What the ownership of Chick-fil-A has said is wrong," adding, "I'm certainly not going to patronize them and I wouldn't urge any other New Yorker to patronize them. But they do have a legal right."

"The Queens location is still months from opening, but Councilman Danny Dromm, who's gay, says it's nevertheless time to boycott. Dromm held a completely unrelated press event of his own yesterday criticizing Chick-fil-A for "forcing their employees and volunteers to adhere to a policy that prohibits same-sex love," and for funding anti-LGBT organizations. "It is outrageous that Chick-fil-A is quietly spreading its message of hate by funding these types of organizations," he said.

"A Chick-fil-A rep simply reiterated that the chain's new culture is "to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect — regardless of their beliefs, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender.' " 

Maybe there should be a tax on all uses of the word "hate".

Lib Rage Salon Pleads With Feminists Not To Abandon Bernie Sanders…

Weasel Zippers
"Supposedly Bernie is a man (hence he has a penis) so I’m guessing that disqualifies him among many feminazis."

Feds appear to be removing website posts claiming glaciers will be melted from Glacier National Park by 2030

Thomas Lifson  "Either there is a cover-up of embarrassingly overstated fear-mongering or (barely plausibly) it coincidentally happens that routine updating of United States Geological Survey web postings has temporarily removed those posts.  Writing at Wattsupwiththat, Dr. Roger Roots:

. .  . (I have often pointed out that the government’s photos from prior decades tended to not specify calendar dates. Because glaciers tend to build up in winter and then melt all summer long, the specificity of calendar dates is quite important.) . . .

"The USGS has some explaining to do.  I would say that a congressional committee hearing would be appropriate, calling in USGS officials to explain the disappearance.

"It is time to hold warmists, especially those in official positions, responsible for the fear-mongering, which has had severe fiscal consequences for the federal government and which has pushed individuals and companies to make decisions they would otherwise not make."

Two warmists pictured here: