“Question: What did Democrats use before candles? Answer: Electricity.” Anonymous
June 8, 2022, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
(Check out Lest We Forget and FYI.)
Everyone loves George Washington. And it’s not just because of the whole “I cannot tell a lie-cherry-tree” thing.
(Although it was swell to learn about a president who wasn’t a liar.)
It’s because George, like Queen Elizabeth and her mother and father, King George VI and the Queen Mother, stuck around when the going got tough.
People tend to like that.
In 1778, Washington and his troops spent a winter of disease, starvation and unbearable cold in Valley Forge.
Two thousand soldiers died. It looked like a lost cause, and Washington’s leadership was called into question.
Members of the Continental Congress wanted Gen. Horatio Gates, the hero of the Battle of Saratoga, to replace Washington as commander in chief. But Washington’s troops said no.
They said they would not serve under anyone but Washington as their commander.
It was because he was there, with them. He suffered, along with them. He fought, alongside them.
Soldiers tend to like that.
The king and queen of England were there for their people during World War II. As a symbol of that support, the royal couple remained in Buckingham Palace, which was bombed during one of the raids.
They didn’t high tail it off to Rehoboth Beach.
The king and queen visited factory workers, and residents. They showed concern about what was being done to help people who had lost their homes. And the king visited the troops in France and North Africa.
On turning 18, their daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, joined the women’s branch of the British Army.
These leaders had a plan. And they searched for solutions. That is, after all, what leaders do.
During that winter, the Washington and his aide, Alexander Hamilton, prepared a 38-page document for the Continental Congress detailing “the numerous defects” in the Continental Army.
And included recommendations to correct them.
Assistance was solicited from France as part of the solution. In short, they did something when things looked grim.
We all have chapters in our lives that could be called, “Gee, I Wish I Hadn’t Done That.’”
Some, like Joe Biden have whole lives that are nothing but examples of what not to do.
And today, his actions as president, are as different from what is good leadership as night is to day.
Joe has no solutions. And neither do the members of his administration.
“I do expect inflation to remain high, although I very much hope that it will be coming down now,” Biden’s Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen told the Senate Finance Committee yesterday in an odd sweet, old lady voice.
This was after last week when she told CNN she was not aware the impact inflation would have on the economy.
Dr. Janet Yellen holds a doctorate in economics from Yale. She was chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Central Bank of the United States.
She taught economics at Harvard.
But inflation, and its solution, puzzles her?
On June 5, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told This Week anchor George Stephanopoulos, in that way that he has, “The president has made clear, inflation is his top economic priority, and he’s laid out a very clear strategy for doing that.”
That was after Kitchen Table Joe met with White House officials and baby formula manufacturers on June 1, and said he didn't have a solution.
“We can’t take immediate action that I’m aware of yet to figure out how we’re bringing down the prices of gasoline back to $3 a gallon,” Joe sputtered. “And we can’t do that immediately with regard to food prices either.
And then went on to blame everyone but himself.
The problem is one that Joe has had all his life, one he shares with his Democrat colleagues.
He's not a stand up guy.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) is like that, too.
This lady boasted at the Senate Finance Committee hearing that gas prices “didn’t matter” to her. She has an electric car.
“I’m looking forward to the opportunity for us to move to vehicles that aren’t going to be dependent on the whims of the oil companies and the international markets,” she said, blaming everyone but herself and Joe , and missing the point in so many ways it was hard to keep track.
It does, however, make you thank your lucky stars Joe wasn’t Commander-in-Chief during the Revolutionary War.
And it makes you wish Joe was a leader who would solve problems that face the American people.
George Washington was. So is Queen Elizabeth. Even Paddington Bear thinks so.
But Joe’s just not that kind of man. And he never has been.
Hold the line, America.
Fight against political imprisonment.
Be strong, Patriots.