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From the best: Dems Scapegoat Schumer
“Seemingly overnight, almost everybody in the Democratic Party is rhetorically whacking” Senate Dem chief Chuck Schumer,” writes National Review’s Jim Geraghty. But the very fact is, he “got a weak hand” — not that “he played the hand he was dealt particularly badly.” Had Schumer “encouraged Democrats to filibuster the recent spending bill, he and his party would have effectively accepted responsibility for shutting down the government.” Democrats “probably would have been forced to accept the same deal” ultimately anyway. “Schumer is a Senate minority leader with little leverage,” however “what really bedevils Democrats is that Republicans in the House of Representatives . . . have somehow figured out a way to pull together and pass legislation,” whereas their celebration is floundering.
Mideast beat: Oct. 7 Broke Civilization
“In 2023, a fascist army burnt Jews to death,” thunders Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill: Ram and Lili Itamari, burned past recognition. “This detail from the new UK parliamentary report” on the atrocities “leaves no doubt”: That day “was a savage rupturing of human civilisation itself”; “1,182 people were murdered and more than 4,000 were wounded. Of the dead, 863, or 73 per cent, were civilians.” “The methods of murder included shooting, burning, asphyxiation, grenade explosions and missile attacks.” Many victims had been subjected to mutilation and sexual violence. “This was not the Wretched of the Earth ‘breaking out’ of their ‘prison camp’ to wreak desperate revenge.” It was “a highly disciplined act of fascist terror with the express purpose of killing as many Jews as possible.”
Campus watch: Elite Universities’ Ugly Cynicism
“Elite schools are under enormous fire from the Trump administration,” however, argues prof Jonathan Zimmerman at The Hill, their actual drawback “isn’t racism, or antisemitism or wokeism. It’s cynicism.” At his own University of Pennsylvania, for instance, “50 percent of graduates enter one of two fields: consulting or finance.” So “despite what you hear on Fox News,” the academy isn’t producing many precise “Marxists” however fairly “cynics capable of mouthing a few progressive pieties on their way to Wall Street.” Instead, universities ought to return to their roots. “Humanities courses ask students to think about what makes for a good life and for a good world.” “And does anyone think that sending more Penn students to consulting and finance will make a better world?”
More From Post Editorial Board
Eye on Albany: Hit the Brakes on Medicaid
As Congress prepares “to reduce future federal Medicaid spending,” the Empire Center’s Bill Hammond warns, it “would be prudent” for Albany to “hit the brakes on spending now,” fairly than “go forward with a budget that could balloon state Medicaid spending by 17 percent or more.” Gov. Hochul’s declare that the House Republicans’ funds plan would “rip” health care away from susceptible populations are a “gross exaggeration” — as “more than half of the state’s enrollees have incomes above the federal poverty level.” But if lawmakers need “to protect vulnerable Medicaid recipients,” they may “focus their cost-cutting on the substantial share of spending that is not directly related to patient care.” Albany ought to stop “subsidizing money-losing providers,” “rewarding political allies” and “covering the well-to-do.”
Energy professional: The ‘Transition’ That Isn’t
Former Veep Al Gore, like quite a few different climate warriors, claims the “energy transition is inevitable,” notes City Journal’s Mark P. Mills. Yet regardless of the $9 trillion spent on it globally over the past decade, the “renewable share of final energy consumption is slowly advancing at 0.3%-0.6% per year.” Some “ ‘unstoppable’ juggernaut”! In reality, nearly “no energy transition has ever occurred in history”: The “primary energy sources for millennia” have been round for ages, and although we’ve “seen reductions in the share of energy supplied by these sources,” the thought of an “energy transition” implies an finish to their use. So Team Trump’s struggle on “the Green New Scam” shines “a welcome light” on huge wasteful spending in “pursuit of the unachievable.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
