Dems’ shutdown contradictions, Chicago’s vile – Latest News
Eye on DC: Dems’ Shutdown Contradictions
Democrats “are selling two conflicting messages” to justify their refusal to fund the federal government and keep it operating, observes Dan McLaughlin at The Telegraph. “One school of thought” holds that Dems shouldn’t fund President Trump’s vengeful, “authoritarian” authorities. But if he’s “not a normal president, how do you end up shaking hands with him?” “On the other hand,” Chuck Schumer is demanding Republicans roll back Medicaid reforms they handed this yr and “spend more” on health care. Yet that’s “the opposite of standing up for democracy”: Schumer “is trying to use leverage to win a victory he didn’t have the votes to get. It completely contradicts the Democrats’ theme that they’re the ones standing up” for “representative government.”
Conservative: Chicago’s Vile Teachers Union
“When I first saw the Chicago Teachers Union’s post honoring Assata Shakur, I thought it was a headline from the Babylon Bee,” fumes Corey DeAngelis at The Spectator World. But it was “real and beyond parody.” “The union, entrusted with educating Chicago’s children,” was mourning “the death of a convicted cop killer.” The post “is a glaring sign that the CTU can’t be trusted to educate children.” “Chicago Public Schools are failing spectacularly” and “not a single child is proficient in math.” CTU President Stacy Davies Gates claims public-school children belong to her union; have been that true, she “would be in jail for child abuse, given the horrifying academic outcomes.” Chicago “children deserve a chance to succeed, not a union that honors killers while failing them in the classroom.”
Mideast beat: Peace Plan Means Business
The Trump peace plan places the “ball” in “many different courts but not Bibi’s,” explains Commentary’s Seth Mandel. Qatar, having extracted a public apology from Israel for bombing Doha, “has no excuses now” to keep away from pushing Hamas to conform to the deal. And “if Hamas says no, it will be because Hamas has no intention of ever saying yes.” Nevertheless, “now that Netanyahu has agreed to end the war, the narrative undergirding Israeli politics shifts.” The UK-French-etc. “recognition stunt does nothing at all for the Palestinians”; solely the US/Israeli strategy “treats the Palestinians as if they are something more than a reality TV show.” Netanyahu’s dedication to the method “will make it easier even for skeptics to picture the light at the end of this tunnel.”
Republican: Trump’s Duty in Oregon
Oregon and Portland sued President Trump after he mentioned he was sending National Guard troops to the town to guard ICE amenities, remembers USA Today’s Nicole Russell. Gov. Tina Kotek claims the town faces no public-safety risk that warrants “military intervention.” Counters Russell: “Violent protests” concentrating on federal amenities show “local leaders and law enforcement are either unable or unwilling to maintain law and order.” Shootings have additionally trended up since 2019, and “Oregonians have reported some of the highest rates of substance-abuse disorder in the nation.” Local officers “have the responsibility to provide Portlanders with public safety”; in the event that they don’t, “particularly with federal agents and property, it is Trump’s right and duty to employ the National Guard to reinstate order.”
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Election watch: Smack the Partisan Nonprofits
“If the goal is to dismantle the left-wing NGO complex” that many “believe enables and encourages left-wing extremism,” then “voter registration groups are the best place to start,” argues Parker Thayer at The Federalist. “It’s an open secret that a small army of voter registration nonprofits operates as an extension of the Democratic Party.” E.g., members of the Everybody Votes Campaign “have been repeatedly investigated for submitting thousands of fraudulent registration forms in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Arizona,” whereas the Voter Participation Center “was caught filtering their Facebook and Instagram voter registration ads” to keep away from accounts with conservative-coded pursuits. Dozens of state-level associates downstream from these outfits “do more than just register voters.” “At a minimum, the worst offenders — the VPC, EVC, and others like them — should have their tax-exempt statuses revoked.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
