Plus, Election Integrity Matters Fighting For Faith, Family & Freedom Thursday, July 28, 2022 To: Friends & Supporters From: Gary Bauer The Biden Recession Is Here Well, the news we all knew was coming arrived this morning. The Biden recession is here. The latest gross domestic product (GDP) figures show the economy shrank by 0.9% in the second quarter. The “experts” had predicted minimal but still positive 0.3% growth. As you’ll recall, economic activity fell 1.6% in the first quarter. Now, Biden Administration officials and their media allies can argue all they want about whether that meets the “technical” definition of a recession. The American people have already made up their minds. 65% of Americans believe we’re already in a recession 75% of middle-class Americans say they are falling behind financially. Consumer confidence has cratered, and 52% of Americans say they are worse off today than they were one year ago. Good luck telling them, “Everything is just fine. Don’t believe your lying eyes.” Manchin Caves West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin stunned Washington late yesterday afternoon. He announced that he had struck a deal with Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer to advance Joe Biden’s latest tax and spend socialist scheme. They’re calling it the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.” Right. Just like Obamacare was the “Affordable Healthcare Act.” In fact, a big part of this bill involves putting hundreds of billions of additional dollars into Obamacare because it is NOT affordable. Progressives were facing an existential crisis with massive Obamacare premium increases set to take effect at the end of year. That largely explains why Manchin caved on this reconciliation bill. But his “coal country” constituents will likely be furious over the $370 billion price tag allocated for so-called “alternative” energy. All the solar energy stocks were soaring this morning because we’re going to run the world’s largest economy on solar power, right? Wrong! Not surprisingly, leftists are celebrating Manchin’s first installment on the “Green New Deal.” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, praised the Manchin-Schumer agreement as a “very, very major step forward.” Chuck Schumer said the bill will be, “By a wide margin . . . the greatest pro-climate legislation that has ever been passed by Congress.” Schumer also hailed the bill for including “$60 billion in environmental justice priorities.” We all know what that means – more giveaways to far-left activist groups and progressive pet projects. We should call this bill, “Building Biden’s Boondoggles.” Remember how those “green energy” projects from the Obama/Biden stimulus deal went? Bust and belly up. Why are we doing it again? Well, because the same leftists who failed then are in charge now. There’s $20 billion to “cut emissions in the agriculture sector.” That’s not exactly going well in other nations that have tried it. The bill provides billions of dollars in subsidies for expensive electric cars. Meanwhile, Ford announced it is laying off thousands of workers in order to comply with green energy mandates. Adding insult to injury, Ford and GM are building electric cars in Mexico! Sen. Mitch McConnell blasted this monstrosity, saying: “[Democrats] want job-killing tax hikes so they can finance new handouts for wealthy households earning up to $300,000 a year to buy an $80,000 electric car. Democrats want to subsidize rich people buying electric cars that cost more than the median American household earns in an entire year.” But if the Democrats stick together they will pass it with cackling Kamala Harris, whose pronouns are she/her, breaking the tie. Sadly for America, we cannot count on Joe Manchin to resist the demands of the left. “Shooting For Three” Law enforcement officials have released additional, chilling details about the plot to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. And it wasn’t just Kavanaugh who was in danger. The deranged man who traveled from California to the Washington, D.C., suburbs searched the Internet for terms like the most “effective place to stab someone,” “assassin skills” and “quietest semi auto rifle.” He also researched the assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan. In online chats and forums, he was very open about his intentions. In one women’s forum, he wrote, “Would Kavanaugh being removed from the [Supreme Court] help women long term?” In a chatroom, he admitted that he was going to “remove some people from the Supreme Court,” adding that he was “shooting for 3,” in the hopes of “changing the votes for decades to come.” In other words, he clearly understood what he was doing. He was prepared to wipe out half of the court’s conservative majority to preserve abortion on demand and so that the left could rule the country. Every major news outlet wants to drop this story. Meanwhile, the entire left-wing complex, every pro-abortion group in the country, the president, the vice president, the attorney general and congressional liberals continue to use rhetoric that is going to result in dead Supreme Court justices. Clarence vs. Cancel Culture For the past 11 years, Justice Clarence Thomas has taught a course on constitutional law at George Washington University. The students who took those courses benefitted greatly from Justice Thomas’s knowledge and experience. But this year is different. Radical, pro-abortion students launched a petition to get Thomas fired. While the reasons are not immediately known, the university announced yesterday that Thomas would not be participating in this year’s constitutional law seminar. George Washington Law Professor Jonathan Turley, who is no conservative, said on Fox News this morning that this decision was a “tragedy.” Thomas was known on campus for how much he cared about the students, how he went out of his way to help them and give them guidance, regardless of their ideology. Thomas has more decency in his right pinky finger than today’s intolerant leftist students! In fact, Justice Sonia Sotomayor recently praised Thomas for his kindness and humility. He is a genuinely good man who treats everyone equally. In addition, he has a tremendous story to tell about America and what people can overcome in this land of opportunity. Clarence Thomas is a living testament to the American Dream. Born into abject poverty in the segregated South, today he is the longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court. Every day, Thomas disproves the left’s false narrative that America is a “systemically racist country.” And that’s why the left despises him so much! The attempt to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh’s character during his confirmation hearings and the refusal to tone down their rhetoric after an assassination attempt on his life, combined with the campaign to cancel a black justice and smear his wife tells you everything you need to know. Today’s left is driven by nothing other than the desire to rule or ruin. They will use whatever tactic they have to use. They will deploy left-wing stormtroopers and encourage assassins. This is who they are. Traditional conservatives who don’t understand that are not going to succeed in saving the country. This is not Ronald Reagan’s “morning in America.” This is potentially the “mourning of America” unless we wake up! The conservative movement’s biggest problem is not Donald Trump. Its biggest problem is that far too many “leaders” still don’t understand the nature of the battle we’re in. Election Integrity Matters While the economy is certainly a critical issue for many voters, there’s another issue that is high on their list but most pundits and politicians don’t want to talk about it. That is the issue of cheating in the 2020 election and election integrity going forward. A recent Rasmussen poll found that 55% of voters believe that cheating impacted the results of the 2020 election. Rasmussen also found that 83% of the public is concerned about election integrity going forward. Conservatives cannot allow the left and their media allies to stop us from talking about fair elections for fear they will say we are “undermining democracy.” It’s the cheating in our elections that’s undermining our democracy, not conservatives demanding that something be done about it! Conservative leaders need to stop internalizing what Washington Beltway elites think, and start articulating what American voters believe! 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