"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand." Milton Friedman, American Economist
April 26, 2017
By: Linda Case Gibbons
Why would anyone want to be a Republican? Democrats are so much more fun.
"Colorful," free wheeling, and always, always unrepentant, these folks are definitely not Islamaphobes.
During the campaign, Hillary needed lots of help, and her most "colorful" supporters came from right inside the Democratic National Committee.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz worked the back room for Hillary, and like a skilled hit man, knocked out Bernie, never blinking an eye.
Donna Brazile was a super-duper choice to follow in Debbie's footsteps. She had no qualms about slipping Hillary the debate questions before the debate, then "mis-speaking" about it.
And now we have Tom Perez.
"Salty Tom" worked hard to rally the crowds in his recent "Unity Tour." Using expletive un-deleted language, and out-of-control anger to bash President Trump, he stunned the audience of men, women and children.
Attendees were waiting for the new DNC chairman to explain where the Party was going after its humiliating defeat to Donald Trump. But he didn't. And he didn't at the top of his lungs.
Nothing has changed. Liberal Democrats are still clinging to the old, non-issues: Women's rights and their hatred for Donald Trump.
Last month Hillary resurfaced, wearing a black leather jacket similar to one daughter Chelsea wore on a recent Variety cover.
It was a new look for both, but Hillary's message to the Professional Businesswomen of California was the same: Women's rights. Income inequality. Universal pre-kindergarten. Paid family leave. Remorse at losing the White House. And Trump bashing.
For some reason, Hillary has always assumed that she deserved to be the First Woman President, and that because she was a woman, she automatically was an advocate for women. But what's the reason she should be president? And what evidence is there that she advocates for women at all?
There is none.
Like members of the National Organization for Women, Hillary talks a good game, but is more comfortable with a glass of Chardonnay at an affair in California or Chappaqua, surrounded by women like herself.
They lunch. Some march. They give each other awards, but they never defend anyone who isn't a Liberal, or any woman who isn't a Democrat.
How many ordinary women needed Hillary Clinton to encourage professional women in California last month, advising them to "Resist, insist, persist, and enlist?" And what the heck does that even mean?
And how many ordinary women needed Ivanka Trump to advocate for female entrepreneurship at the W20 Summit in Berlin, shoulder to shoulder with German Chancellor Angela Merkel?
None and none.
Where were NOW and Hillary when Sharia law defender, Linda Sarsour, organized and led the 2017 Women's March in Washington? Sharia! A system of law which is antithetical to the U.S. Constitution and women.
Last week the Trump Department of Justice announced that federal charges were being brought against two Michigan doctors, and an assistant, for performing Female Genital Mutilation on two seven-year-old girls, in the United States of America.
This law has been on the books since 1996. Where were NOW and Hillary for 21 years?
On April 19, Ayaan Hirsi Ali appeared on FOX' Tucker Carlson to respond to the story. A respected critic of Islam and champion of the treatment of woman under Sharia law, she herself endured FGM as a child. When Carlson found it painful to describe the procedure, she did it for him.
The procedure, she explained, entails removal of the female genitalia, and closure of the vagina, leaving a hole for the passage of urine and menstrual fluid.
An important women's issue, certainly, but one shockingly ignored by three of the major TV networks. The Media Research Center summed it up this way:
"By ignoring the imported FGM practice, the TV networks are guilty of aiding and abetting violence against women out of a politically correct fear of offending Muslims."
The New York Times Health and Science Editor, Celia Dugger, avoided using the term, explaining that it was fear that it would "widen the chasm" between "Africa and the West."
But some women's issues are celebrated. Last week Variety handed out a bundle of awards in their Power of Women Awards event, to women for their humanitarian work.
Gayle King received one. Actress Jessica Chastain received one for supporting Planned Parenthood. And Chelsea Clinton, as vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, was honored for work empowering kids to develop lifelong healthy habits.
I'm sure they deserved the awards, but isn't it ironic that the recipients were all Liberal Democrats? And no, Hirsi Ali didn't receive one.
As Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google and human rights activist expressed it:
"I don't see how anyone who believes in the Rule of Law and the rights of women could do anything other than support efforts to end female genital mutilation, forced marriage and honor killings, practices that have no place in the 21st Century."
So here's my two cents: Hillary should go back to the woods, hang up her political spurs, kick back and gab about the good old days with the Ladies Who Lunch. And stop wearing leather.
And President Trump should keep his kids out of the White House and far from Germany. It only distracts from the important work he must do as president. The work only he can do. This is his time.
And ours.
Hold the line, America.