“Just 29 percent of voters” back the idea of a “rapid green transition to end the use of fossil fuels,” notes The Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira, while “69 percent of very liberal Democrats (about a quarter of the party)” support it.
Per Pew, by “68 percent to 31 percent, the public favors” using “a mix of energy sources including oil, coal and natural gas”; “only 30 percent think getting to net zero as quickly as possible is very important.”
And “even liberal white college graduates can’t bring themselves to vote in favor” of a hypothetical green policy that would hike electric bills by $75 a month.
All this proves that the “Democrats’ approach to energy and climate change” has “left the center of the electorate far behind.”
The Washington Post recently implied “that debating issues in Congress is part of the culture war and is bad for democracy,” yet Democrats air the term “culture war” selectively, fumes The Washington Times’ Robert Knight: “Any ground the left gains is automatically considered settled and beyond debate.”
That’s why the paper took umbrage with the Republican-led House’s National Defense Authorization Act, which “rolls back some of the Democrats’ schemes,” including “tax-subsidized travel for abortions, transgender drugs and surgeries.”
Democrats “are right about one thing: There is a culture war raging in America.” And they “touched it off, expecting little resistance. Now there’s serious pushback, and they don’t like it.”
“President Biden has of late attempted to convince Americans to ignore the financial realities of their day-to-day lives by insisting that his stewardship of the economy has been a success,” scoffs David Catron at The American Spectator.
Yet a 3% drop in real wages, plus a “cumulative increase” in inflation exceeding 16% “since Biden was inaugurated,” mean “no amount of happy talk from the President or cheerleading from a complicit corporate media will erase this grotesque reality.”
“This is why Biden’s approval rating is so low” when it comes to people’s view of his handling of the economy.
Voters “know Biden’s policies created the problem,” and “Biden has consistently lied about the effect of his economic ineptitude” — despite a media “willing to repeat” his “rubbish.”
“I’d say I’m shocked, shocked! to see an administration that pledged to hose its predecessor’s corruption out of the White House embroiled in its own scandal, but let’s be real,” snarks Reason’s J.D. Tuccille.
Two IRS whistleblowers allege “political interference in the investigation of Hunter Biden in a case that has implications regarding suspicions of sleaze that have long dogged his father.”
Progressive Democrat Zephyr Teachout warned that Biden practiced “transactional politics.”
In a newly released FBI document, a confidential informant alleged that Hunter and then-Vice President Joe Biden “squeezed Mykola Zlochevsky, the chief executive of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm, for $5 million each in bribes.”
The “White House may have motivations beyond paternal love for interfering in a criminal investigation.”
The Declaration of Independence holds that government’s authority to secure people’s “unalienable rights” derives from the “consent of governed,” yet voters today feel government “no longer has” that consent, frets the Washington Examiner’s Christopher Tremoglie.
In recent polls, almost “6 out of 10” voters feel government lacks the public’s approval, and a majority don’t believe congressional members listen to them.
Instead, “Democrats (59%), Republicans (69%), and unaffiliated voters (74%)” feel it’s the party leaders who direct congressional representatives, not voters.
This “disconnect” points to “a troubling concern”: “If the people who elect the politicians to govern no longer have faith they are upholding the tenets of the declaration,” at some point the country will no longer be “a government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board