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Progressive Pushback
The economic policies Harris advocated in her address were roundly condemned, even by left-wing economists.
Jason Furman, a top economic adviser in the Obama administration, said, “This is not sensible policy, and I think the biggest hope is that it ends up being a lot of rhetoric and no reality. There’s no upside here, and there is some downside.”
Liberal columnist and CNN commentator Catherine Rampell blasted Harris’s price control policies as “totally unworkable,” saying, “We’ve seen this kind of thing tried in lots of other countries before – Venezuela, Argentina, the Soviet Union, et cetera – it leads to shortages, it leads to black markets, and plenty of uncertainty.”
In a column for the Washington Post, Rampell wrote:
“It’s hard to exaggerate how bad this policy is. It is, in all but name, a sweeping set of government-enforced price controls across every industry, not only food. Supply and demand would no longer determine prices or profit levels. Far-off Washington bureaucrats would.”
There’s been some attempt at damage control, with Harris campaign operatives saying, “We’re not going to set prices.” Well, who decides what is “price gouging,” and how is that not setting prices?
Maybe it doesn’t matter. If you’re a recent college graduate struggling to make ends meet, you were likely never taught real economics, and here comes Harris to help you buy a house. It’s possible that terrible economics is good politics.
By the way, it’s not a stretch to point out Harris’s Marxist leanings. She had a voting record to the left of Bernie Sanders. She chose a running mate who has praised Chinese communism. And her father is a Marxist economist.
Dowd & The Democrats
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is very connected with progressive politics and the Democrat Party, which is what makes her latest column so interesting.
Dowd wrote that the backdrop to this week’s Democrat National Convention and the “glorious coronation” of Kamala Harris is the bitterness and resentment festering among Democrat leaders after what Dowd described as the “jaw-dropping putsch” to oust Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, the Hamas wing of the progressive movement took to the streets of Chicago. Nobody knows whether law enforcement will be able to successfully isolate the convention from the pro-Hamas demonstrators. I believe Chicago officials will do whatever they have to do to keep the fringe extremists away from the convention.
But radical Islamists and their leftist allies have now coined the phrase, “Killer Kamala.” That’s not a nickname any candidate wants.
A Big Win – For Now
We got a big win from the Supreme Court late last week. A majority of the justices rejected an appeal from the Biden/Harris administration to enforce its radical rewrite of Title IX, mandating that schools accommodate boys claiming to be girls. The new rule has been blocked by judicial injunctions in multiple states, while cases challenging the constitutionality of the rule proceed in lower courts.
To be clear, the court gave us a temporary procedural win by declaring that it will not allow this radical rewrite to take effect until the cases challenging the new rule are settled. The vote was 5 to 4. I’m disappointed it wasn’t 6 to 3.
The justices urged lower courts to issue their judgments with “appropriate dispatch” so that the case can get to the Supreme Court for its final ruling.
Impeachable Offenses
The House committees investigating the corruption of the Biden family released a joint report this morning. Running nearly 300 pages, the report declares that then-Vice President Joe Biden committed impeachable offenses when he abused his office to enrich his family through foreign influence peddling schemes that raked in $27 million.
Moreover, the report states that, as president, Joe Biden obstructed justice by stonewalling the congressional investigation and by providing his son, Hunter, with special treatment from the Justice Department.
It remains to be seen how much of an impact, if any, this report will have now.
Tune In To Family Talk
Please tune in to Dr. James Dobson’s Family Talk radio show. On today’s broadcast, I discuss the current state of America with John Stemberger, president of Liberty Counsel Action. Be encouraged as John and I urge Christian citizens to fight for our religious freedoms, the sanctity of human life, and the family!
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