Interest Rates "Gamble"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/as-it-faces-pressure-from-trump-and-investors-the-fed-prepares-to-take-its-biggest-gamble-in-years/2019/07/28/38edfc52-af22-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html?utm_term=.5acc7777ba39

Further proof that Trump changes EVERYTHING! The WaPo complains about potential lower interest rates! Pretty easy to understand the WaPo "concern", when even they admit that the economy is good -- they obviously don't want it to continue to be good in 2020 since a good economy will help re-elect Trump.

I'm not going to go searching for any negative thoughts they had about the rate being at a historical low of .25% under BO! https://www.thebalance.com/fed-funds-rate-history-highs-lows-3306135

Mueller Fizzles

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-the-mueller-hearings-were-so-alarming?utm_social-type=owned&mbid=social_facebook&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_brand=tny&fbclid=IwAR0pyF6T_aOdNA2_Bb9fYhK8YEn3EyXq-KQn2VqCObuf79mKCTORNbarC0o&sfns=xmwa

Has Mueller changed his title to "lifetime Republican"? One wonders if the Deep State doesn't require a couple RINOs for "diversity"? I mean if you are using the FBI to do opposition research on candidates, it is nice to at least CLAIM that they at least once were supposed members of that deplorable party !

If you get your "news" from the New Yorker and actually believe it, then clearly you are worried.

Democrats ALWAYS treat witnesses with an actual  conservative bent SO nicely!

Oh, a touching age based defense ... I remember they NEVER tried to make Reagan out as senile!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/28/leave-conspiracy-theories-out-muellers-testimony-he-did-his-job/?utm_term=.8d8db1b89e2e

Democrats Disaster Cities

https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2019/07/28/why-do-democrats-run-all-of-the-dangerous-and-rodent-infested-cities-n2550734?utm_content=buffer0cef9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

If one is results oriented vs ideology oriented, the choice if governing philosophy would be obvious. All it takes for leftist philosophy to be seen as "successful" is to kill all the opposition ... see USSR, China, N Korea, etc.

The Conservative Sensibility, George Will

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-defense-of-conservatism-that-veers-toward-liberalism/2019/06/21/b6467a36-8d3e-11e9-adf3-f70f78c156e8_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b981243bf2e6

I enjoyed this book because I'm an iconoclastic tweak with a pseudo intellectual bent. I nearly worshipped WF Buckley, and must confess oft felt envy of his intellect, erudition, and elite station in life. At times I had similar thoughts of Will.

As I've aged and life has shown me more and more that "elite" in this mortal coil is eternally problematic, my objective has moved to being a disciple of Jesus Christ -- so pride in anything but Christ is at best counterproductive if not eternally fatal.

The biggest message of this book for me is that when you don't believe that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, you will quickly find new gods. For Will, his gods are the American Founders. His bible, the Constitution. I completely agree that the founders are admirable, and the nation returning to following the Constitution is likely imperative if further slippage into tyranny is to be avoided.

The book tries to make the case that this can be done in a secular and rational manner ... yet as he harkens back to the founders, what he seems to admire most is their creation of a REPUBLIC that LIMITED government.  He makes a good case that the "egg" of that creation has been thoroughly  scrambled by progressivism ... he clearly wishes to see it unscrambled. however unscrambling an egg is a task not likely to be accomlished by even the most fervent of wishes.

I highly recommend the Deneen review. Rather than reading this book, read "Why Liberalism Failed"!

Limits For The Administrative State?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-supreme-court-is-one-vote-away-from-changing-how-the-us-is-governed?fbclid=IwAR17ngi2HcjrJkCMzh-ndabffxNz5qj3lddPYZuVSoUp72vpvZrNOVDxGIk

We are now explicitly on notice that the Court will likely abandon its longstanding tolerance of Congress delegating broadly to agencies. What’s at stake is the potential upending of the constitutional foundations of the so-called “administrative state.” Today’s reality is that agencies, not Congress, make most federal laws. As Justice Kagan put it, if the delegation in Gundy were unconstitutional, “then most of Government is unconstitutional.”

I happen to be reading George Will's excellent "The Conservative Sensibility" which is a fairly lengthy (but worth it) explanation  of how we got from Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution --  "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives." ...  to today's sorry condition where we have government by an unlimited and unlawful Administrative State.

As my old blog often covered, the simple answer is "Progressivism" (which I refer to as "regressivism"). Our founders invented the completely new idea of LIMITED government and vouchsafed it via the mechanism of Separation of Powers locked in place by a hard to change Constitution. Starting in 1900, the regressives, decided to remove the limits and go back to the very OLD idea of UNlimited government via the also very old mechanism of breaking the law (the Constitution).

There is no such thing as an "easy fix", but a way to at least have a hope to START on the PAINFUL path of getting back to limited government would be getting that one more SCOTUS vote.