So, Where's the Beef?

By Rich Kozlovich

Many years ago there was a hamburger commercial with a little old lady asking:  "Where's the Beef"? A legitimate question considering how small some beef patties are at some fast food joints. Well, I also think it's a legitimate question for what's going on in American politics and society today.  So, let's see if we can find it?

Commonsense & Wonder is a news blog that links something from Paradigms and Demographics on most days, which I appreciate.  But yesterday they also posted a link to an October 19th article by Joe Schoffstall entitled, GOP Women’s Group Attacking Trump Funded Solely by Male Democratic Donor, which reports:

"A new Republican women's group who is "fed up with Trump" and pouring cash into toss-up congressional districts is bankrolled solely by a male billionaire venture capitalist who is a major donor to Democratic campaigns and causes, Federal Election Commission filings show." 

"Republican Women for Progress, a Washington, D.C.-based "grassroots" nonprofit, was founded by Jennifer Pierotti Lim and Meghan Milloy and is comprised of "right-leaning" women who are opposed to President Donald Trump. The group has garnered glowing national media profiles that include a ten-minute segment on CBS News and articles in publications such as Glamour, Slate, and others."  

"We think the best thing that we can do for the party and for the country right now is to make sure there are good women—Democrat or Republican—that are elected to office and who can serve as a check on this administration and on the president," Milloy told the Detroit Metro Times. "[This effort] really was inspired by us talking to Republican women in these districts where they said there was just no way that they could vote for the Republican."  

"The group established a political action committee, the Republican Women for Progress PAC, on Sept. 13 to support their work for the midterms and has since spent $231,000 on independent expenditures for voter recruitment and advertisement productions in the toss-up districts in three states."

 And guess who's the sole donor bankrolling this effort?

"The PAC's October quarterly filing—the first from the group—also shows that the group of Republican women is bankrolled by just one donor: Reid Hoffman, a venture capitalist and co-founder of LinkedIn, who is a major donor to Democrats. Hoffman cut a $400,000 to the PAC on Sept. 27, its filings show."

I have some questions.

• Does this seem just a little bit wacky to anyone else besides me?
• How did they connect with Hoffman?
• Should we really think this is truly all about finding "good women", irrespective of party to run for office?  
• What qualifies as a "good woman" politician?
• Are these women really members of the Republican party?
• Is this nothing more than a leftist scheme to fool Republican women?

The left has been infiltrating and infesting every American institution - education, entertainment, news, unions and government - since the late 1800's.  Why would we believe they've not done the same thing to the Republican party becoming a Fifth Column foundationally undermining the Republican party base?

Hoffman has donated millions to far left politicians, and since he's the only person funding this "grass roots" group why would anyone believe he's open minded, or would support anyone who really is open minded?  That seems to be a far more important question to be answered, especially since "The co-founders of Republican Women for Progress previously led Republican Women for Hillary during the 2016 elections." 

Well, maybe this is legitimate, but if so, I have to ask:  If they can stomach Hillary Clinton, an exemplar of corruption and crime, what has Trump done that could possibly upset them so much? 

Where's the Beef?

On October 22 Dov Fischer published an article entitled, Ever Get the Feeling Someone Out there Is Bi-Poller?, saying maybe they want:

 "Maxine Waters to chair the House Committee on Financial Services. Indeed, what Caucasian married woman in America does not wear a button that says “Please, Maxine, Destroy My Family’s Finances”?  .............That appeals to women voters:" 

"Eric Holder urging them to kick Republicans. Cory Booker urging them to get in Republicans’ faces. And Hillary telling them that the only thing holding them back is that their husbands and sons control their minds and tell them how to vote?"

Or perhaps these Fifth Columnists think America wants to return to the "Obama pseudo-economy that never exceeded 2 percent GDP growth because — as President Trump always has feared — they just are sick-and-tired of winning."

Then the author says perhaps they're upset over:

• a robust economy. 
• deregulation of the Obama strangleholds on business.
• expansion of energy exploration from hydraulic fracturing to ANWR leading to American energy independence.
• strengthening and complete rebuilding of the United States military. 
• revamping healthcare for veterans.
• moving the American Israeli embassy to Jerusalem.
• staring down North Korea and stopping the Doughboy’s missile launchings. 
• staring down Vladimir Putin and arming Ukrainians as Obama never did.
• destroying the ISIS caliphate in Raqqa.
• forcing NATO countries to pony up on their payments before America withdraws from protecting their derrieres. 
• successfully renegotiating NAFTA by inducing Mexico to agree to new terms that advantage American workers and then leaving Trudeau with no choice but to back down and agree likewise to America’s terms of renegotiation.
• pulling out of the ridiculous Paris Climate Accord that allowed everyone to sit back and watch American industry handcuff itself and allow our jobs to go to China, India, and other emerging powers.
• walking out of the perilous Iran Deal.

He goes on to say: "maybe suburbanites really are getting disgusted with and nauseated by winning so much"..... "tax cuts, pride in the flag, security at the border". 

So we have to ask, if this upsets them what exactly do they want?  Fischer mockingly goes on to say: 

• If only we could have a return to Hillary and Benghazi.
• Eric Holder and “Fast and Furious”.
•  Susan Rice and her television interviews attributing the 9-11 Benghazi massacres to a YouTube video that only she and Hillary saw.
• Susan returning to glory by hailing Bo Bergdahl for his “distinguished” service.
• Lois Lerner weaponizing the IRS to use tax levies and withdraw tax accreditations based on politics.
• Loretta Lynch meeting with #MeToo Bill at the tarmac to pervert justice.
• [a] corrupt FBI upper-echelon made a mockery of investigation and justice when they confronted Hillary’s felonious spoliation of evidence during the scandal over her bathroom computer server.
• Maybe......[they] miss the days when we were losing our manufacturing base to China and India. Maybe they have identified blocs of voters who are nervous that, in the event of a serious war, we now are assured that we always will have a thriving steel and aluminum industrial base at home.
• Maybe they felt more comfortable knowing that, in war time, we always could rely on other countries to divert all their aluminum and steel to us. Like, why would Great Britain or Japan or Germany give themselves priority over America in supplying aluminum and steel during war time? 
•  Maybe [there are] districts of people who can’t stand winning the re-shaping of the federal judiciary to reflect a respect for the Constitution as it is written and as it was conceived by our Founders. Maybe the suburban voters rue the reduction of judges who basically skip over the Constitution, ignore precedent, defy stare decisis, and just wake up in the morning and decide: “Here’s the new law I am going to legislate today from the bench — and then I will issue a nationwide injunction coercing every other court in America to follow the great idea that I came up with over my organic corn flakes and almond milk.”
• Maybe there is a wave of voters breathlessly panting for their homes to become Sanctuary Cities, too, where Illegals can return again and again — after being deported again and again — and , sooner or later, kill someone innocent like a Kate Steinle… and then have a jury let them off.

So, I come right back to the original question. Where's the beef?

Well, here's something to beef about.  "The world has now amassed $247 trillion in debt, including $63 trillion borrowed by central governments".  Some day there will be a reckoning for all this debt.  Are we to believe Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Kamala Harris, Diane Feinstein, the Democrat party, and many in the Republican party are the solution?

Picture Diane Feinstein as Senate Judicial Committee chairman, Bernie Sanders as Senate Budget Committee chairman, Adam Schiff as Intelligence Committee chairman and Maxine Waters as Financial Services Committee’s chairman.  Are we to believe any of them are better at fixing this than Trump? If so, I've not seen one thing any of them has done in their careers that could possibly make any rational person believe that.

We've been told by Democrats over and over again that character doesn't count when determining who should be elected. All those listed above keep getting elected so it shows that must be true. 

You don't have to like Trump, but that's a separate issue that's largely immaterial, especially since all he's been criticized for was while he was a private citizen, not a public official, unlike all those listed whose corruption while in the public's service has been largely ignored by the media.

Now that's something to beef about.