A nightmare for Democrats in South Texas

 (My new American Thinker post)

As expected, the Texas 28 runoff was going to be close.  What I didn't expect was that it'd be 177 votes close.  Both sides are tweeting:   

Cisneros:  Thank you to every single voter that came out to support our campaign for #TX28. This election is still too close to call, and we are still waiting for every ballot and eligible vote to be counted.

Cuellar:  The votes are in, the margin will hold. We have won by 177 votes. 

The result is not official so this will go on a bit longer.  Perhaps a recount is coming.  Honestly, recounts don't normally change results.

Assuming he wins, and it looks like he did, Cuellar now faces the mother of all "bringing the party together" campaigns.  He is pro-life and gets a good report from the NRA.  He will have to convince all those Cisneros voters to give him a chance after a really nasty and personal campaign.

According to Texas Tribune:   

Whoever wins will ultimately face off against Republican Cassy Garcia, former U.S. Senate staffer, who won her own primary Tuesday night.

This once Democratic stronghold is now being labeled a “toss up” seat in the November general election, as Republicans turn their efforts toward South Texas domination. 

Cuellar won but he is likely to lose in November, another sign that South Texas is changing.

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Texas 28 too close to call and Uvalde school shooting plus more

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I don't remember that talk of 'transitioning' during the campaign

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President Biden is a walking "gaffe machine." You can't put him behind a microphone because God only knows what he is going to say.  We understand now why they hid him in his basement in 2020 with infrequent trips to the ice cream shop.  It's tough to make a gaffe when you buy ice cream unless you order a pizza.

This is from the current overseas trip:    

"When it comes to the gas prices, we're going through an INCREDIBLE transition".

Yes, that gasoline pump that goes from $20 to $30 to $40 to $50 and $60.... it's just a transition to a future where we are using green energy and no more fossil fuels.  In other words, this is what we need go through to arrive at the green energy paradise. What happens to your family budget before we make it to paradise? Don't worry, Joe is on it.

So gasoline prices are part of a plan?  I thought that it was Putin's fault.  What's going on?   

We are watching a man imploding on the job. He has no idea of what to say about the # 1 problem in the country -- the price of filling up your tank.

So let me give President Biden a word of advice, courtesy of Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a lady who knows energy:   

If Biden really wants to cut inflation, he should begin by reversing his policies on domestic oil and natural gas production. Energy prices have risen by 30 percent over the past year; these prices are set by expectations of future production. That is why oil prices rise when meteorologists predict that a hurricane will turn toward the Gulf of Mexico, before it has destroyed any oil rigs. The United States, the world’s largest oil and gas producer, has demonstrated the ability to influence the price of oil.

The president could lower the price of a barrel of oil by $10 to $20 with new energy policies. Yet on Biden’s first day in office, he reduced oil and gas production by banning offshore drilling, expanding the boundaries of national monuments, placing a moratorium on leasing activities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have brought Canadian oil to U.S. refineries for processing into gasoline and heating oil.

That's right!  Drill, Joe, drill!  I'm pretty sure that most of the voters would love a transition back to $2 gasoline.  Even the environmentalists could use a little relief, unless they ride a bicycle to work.  Even Tesla would love cheap gasoline, because people would have more money to buy an electric car.

So drill, Joe.  It's the only way out of this mess you've created.

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Biden on Taiwan and gasoline prices in transition....Elections today plus more

Biden and Taiwan and now Biden and gasoline prices in transition....Elections across the country...What did Hillary Clinton and the role of the media........Bob Dylan # 81.......

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Thanks for getting us confused again

 

(My new American Thinker post)

Every single day, we learn two things about the Biden administration.  First, they are stubborn and stick to policies that even Democrats can't defend, like dropping Title 42.  Second, it's clearer day by day why this administration has the cleanup squad ready to go out and clean up after the commander in chief.   My guess is that they travel with him anytime the President has to answer a question in public.

Across the Pacific, President Biden said something a bit shocking about going to war:    

President Joe Biden said Monday that the U.S. would intervene militarily if China were to invade Taiwan, saying the burden to protect Taiwan is “even stronger’ after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It was one of the most forceful presidential statements in support of self-governing in decades.

Biden, at a news conference in Tokyo, said “yes” when asked if he was willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if China invaded. 

"That’s the commitment we made,” he added.

Thanks for the update, Mr. President. I guess that I miss that story about a "commitment we made".

I'm old enough to remember President Nixon going to China in 1972 and then President Carter going on TV in 1978 to tell us about establishing relations with Peking.    Then I remember something called "The 1979 Taiwan Relations Act" which did not require the U.S. to defend Taiwan if China invaded but something along the lines of keeping Taiwan well armed to defend itself.   Ever since, we've spoken with "strategic ambiguity," another one of those terms used by diplomats when they want to avoid the subject.

This is not the first time that President Biden has referred to a "commitment."  He did it back in October 2021 and the cleanup crew had to clean up again.

So President Biden needs to stop talking "tough" or come to the U.S. Congress for a resolution, like President Bush did in Kuwait and the second President Bush did in Iraq and Afghanistan.  You can't commit to the defense of other countries without checking it with the American people. After all, it is the sons of  the American people who will be fighting this war.

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The week in review with Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda

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GOP voters and Attorney General Ken Paxton

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On Tuesday, GOP voters will choose AG Ken Paxton over George P. Bush, the challenger serving as the commissioner of the Texas General Land Office since 2015.  The Bush campaign has focused on the stories and allegations regarding AG Paxton's ethics.  However, most GOP voters are looking the other way.   This is from Texas Tribune:    

Paxton was indicted for felony securities fraud charges several months after he first became attorney general in 2015. In 2020, the FBI began investigating him over claims by former deputies that he abused his office to help a wealthy donor. He has denied wrongdoing in both cases.

Bush has said the legal issues make Paxton unfit for office and could risk the important seat for Republicans in November. And he has increasingly attacked Paxton over an even more personal issue: an extramarital affair that he reportedly had that is connected to the FBI probe.

Separately, Paxton is openly feuding with the state bar, which is suing him over his lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results in four battleground states.

But after an action-packed primary with two other prominent GOP challengers -- U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert of Tyler and Eva Guzman, a former Texas Supreme Court justice -- the race is ending on a relatively low-key note. 

Public and private polls point to a Paxton victory, though a Dallas Morning News-University of Texas at Tyler poll released Sunday proved to be an outlier in giving Paxton only a single-digit lead. 

More Republican officials, like Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, have coalesced behind Paxton, while Gohmert and Guzman have declined to endorse Bush despite their well-documented objections to Paxton. 

And Paxton has refused to debate Bush, confident he is already on a winning trajectory.

So why are GOP voters looking the other way? I see two reasons:

First, AG Paxton has done a good job.  He has been a tough advocate for Texas and on attacking the Biden administration over the border chaos; and, 

Second, I think that a lot of GOP voters are very skeptical of the media.  They see all these anti-Paxton stories and wonder if it means anything.  After all, didn't we hear stories about President Trump and Russia for three years only to learn that there was nothing to it.  Can you blame GOP voters in Texas for distrusting the media?

Paxton will defeat Bush on Tuesday.  It will be the first time that a Bush has lost a statewide race since former President George H.W. Bush lost the 1964 U,S, Senate race.   

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