Nancy Pelosi

Internal polling at the Trump campaign shows "likely voters still care significantly more about jobs and the economy than any other issue heading into the 2020 election.” No doubt the Democrats have found the same thing. Many have been perplexed at the inexplicable decisions by Democrats keeping major American cities like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco shut down. But by shutting down those economic engines perhaps they imagine this will harm Trump. You, they don’t even think about. Their hatred for Trump is completely consuming them. At our expense.

The problem with Mrs. Pelosi’s and Mrs. Clinton’s comments and the surliness of the mob is, if the election is marked by uncertainty, delay and competing claims of legitimacy, it is imperative that leaders on both sides maintain their composure and optionality. Identifying a rival party as a domestic enemy, or foreclosing any possible remedy to a crisis, is not wise. We all hope that the election is safe and straightforward, and the results conclusive. But if it isn’t, and they aren’t, we all need to be proceed as if our republic is at risk.

“The investment of private retirement funds into Chinese companies that do not comply with basic transparency standards, and in many cases rely upon child- and slave-labor, is incompatible with fundamental American values and must be discontinued.” The repugnant practice of investing U.S. pension funds in Communist China makes unwitting private U.S. retirees investors in Chinese companies which use child- and slave-labor, “effectively making individual 401(k) owners or pensioners parties to and profiteers from the exploitation of the victims of such cruel abuse.”

As police are being cursed and showered with debris, it is hard to see how this country reunites, and around what, no matter which party prevails in November. While the country was disgusted and outraged at George Floyd's death from that cop kneeling on his neck, and supported the protests and the calls for police reform, two months of leftist rampages have taken their toll. When the protests turned into riots, when the looting and arson began, when the statues began to be pulled down, when the rampages went on and on for weeks and months after Floyd's death, support began to wane. And it is dissipating quickly.

Our friend Rick Manning, President of Americans for Limited Government, sent a letter to the Governors of all 50 states demanding that they end the dangerous practice of investing state worker pension funds in Communist Chinese enterprises. We applaud this effort and urge CHQ readers and friends to call their Governor’s office to demand that their state worker pension funds divest themselves of all investments in Communist China.

The Capitol Switchboard is (1-866-220-0044) we urge CHQ readers and friends to call their Senators and Representative, tell them congressional action to repeal the 2018 Defense Department policy would do nothing to support the troops or to strengthen mission readiness and morale, and that you demand they vote NO on any amendment to the 2021 NDAA that would repeal President Trump’s sensible 2018 “deployability” policy on transgenders serving in the military.

We urge CHQ readers and friends to call the White House (202-456-1111) to demand that the President use his executive authority to prohibit companies owned or controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, the Red Chinese government, the People’s Liberation Army of China and other Chinese military and intelligence entities from accessing U.S. capital markets.

Robert Hunter, Howell Cobb, James Orr, and Charles Crisp had three things in common. All were Democrats, all served the Confederacy in some capacity, and all preceded Pelosi as Speakers of the House. So, is Madam Speaker really worried about tainting “the hallowed halls of Congress” by “memorializing men who embody the violent bigotry and grotesque racism of the Confederacy”? Or is she concerned that the Democratic record on race is so egregious that the urgent call for the removal of portraits and statues will look more like the need to remove the evidence of her party’s multifarious racial sins?

On January 22, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively overruled four district judge preliminary injunctions against President Trump’s call for changes in military transgender policies. Following that 5-4 ruling, the Pentagon announced plans to begin implementation of the 2018 policy on April 12, 2019. Absent congressional action there is still strong Supreme Court precedent to uphold the Trump policy should the cases currently in litigation get that far.

Like the continued persecution of LTG Mike Flynn, and the many other Trump administration actions that are mired in serial litigation, the goal of Chief Justice John Roberts and the four liberal Justices was to push the final decision on DACA back beyond the 2020 election into a political environment that the DC establishment assumes will be more favorable to the interests of the Deep State and their Leftwing allies.

According to research posted on the BeijingBiden.com website, since 1979, Joe Biden has been a key supporter and enabler of Communist China; a fact he often brags about and highlights in interviews and speeches, seemingly oblivious to the economic damage his positions have inflicted on America and American Workers. And now, Beijing Biden has the gall to attack Donald Trump as being weak on China.

By attacking President Trump, who is governing as the best friend Christians and especially Catholics have had in the White House in generations, Archbishop Gregory gives a pass to those alleged Catholics in politics and government who routinely and actively undermine the Church’s teachings and betray their professed Catholic faith.

Since 2013, through a sweetheart deal negotiated by then-Vice President Joe Biden, Chinese companies have been allowed to participate in U.S. stock and bond exchanges without having to fully comply with the same Sarbanes-Oxley Act accounting practices and risk disclosure required of American companies. Now the Committee on the Present Danger: China has launched a campaign demanding the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board:cancel the agreement.

Whatever the Senate negotiates with the House will certainly add to the previous $2 trillion measure, which didn’t trickle down to some of the neediest individuals and small businesses, but contained horror stories such as checks going to dead people or to multimillion-dollar businesses or millionaires. Anyone curious as to why in March the Gallup poll found public disapproval of Congress at 74 percent (it was 64 percent in April possibly because of the stimulus money) need look no further than the way the professional class operates. They act more in their own self-interest instead of the long-term public good.

We need a replacement word for hypocrisy when it reaches the Pelosi level of extreme dissimulation for political ends. But what of the unintended consequences of the hypocrisy-spin-lies (whatever you wish to call it) of Pelosi and others in her party aided and abetted by the media? Some say it has put #MeToo in rigor mortis. But the other unintended victim is something more significant—feminism. We have gone from “Sisterhood is powerful!” to “Screw you, sister!” in a heartbeat, thanks to the first female Speaker of the House. If #MeToo and feminism itself can be thrown over for Joe Biden, then anything’s possible.

Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell on Monday informed House intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff that some 6,000 pages of until-now secret testimony from the House investigation of President Trump are ready for release.We urge Mr. Grenell to release the transcripts at the earliest moment propriety allows – especially if he doesn’t hear back expeditiously from Schiff. You can communicate directly with ODNI Grenell via Twitter by tweeting him @RichardGrenell

The toll-free Capitol Switchboard number (1-866-220-0044), we urge CHQ readers and friends to call Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to demand that they schedule hearings and pass the Cotton – Crenshaw bill to immediately end Red China’s sovereign immunity for Wuhan virus claims.

The GOP balked on money for states and local governments. "This was a debate that was largely about nothing," Politico Playbook declared, accurately. The effect of the debate about nothing was to delay help for those millions of small-business owners and employees who needed it while Pelosi played politics and showed off her ice cream stash. The bill, now expanded to nearly $500 billion, passed yesterday. That was April 23, 16 days after the first letter to Capitol Hill. Why did it take 16 days for Congress to pass money for small-business owners that could have been passed in a small fraction of that time? Because Pelosi stopped it. Pure and simple.

What is clear now is that more than a few officials around the country were slow to act. And some of them in high positions -- not as high as President of the United States, but quite powerful -- are reluctant to admit it. Take House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She has said that the president's downplaying of coronavirus has cost American lives. It would be reasonable to argue that this time is no time to discuss blame. But anyone listening to the national conversation knows that horse is long out of the barn. At some point, amid never-ending discussions of President Trump's alleged culpability, the conversation will turn to some prominent Democrats, as well.

The Marie Antoinette parallel is a little eerie. A few more luxurious lifestyle appearances by Pelosi, while she’s killing small business, will make the election this fall a referendum on the job-killing, ice cream-eating liberal Democrats. This will be a hard argument for Pelosi and the Democrats to win. Further, in the midst of this crisis of the economy, small business, and unemployment, where is former Vice President Joe Biden? Does he support the job-killing, ice cream-eating liberal Democrats? If he does not, when is he going to speak out? The case is being made for a deep repudiation of an elite Democratic Party that now has total contempt for Americans.