“I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto.”
Dorothy's line from “The Wizard of Oz” keeps coming to mind since the inauguration of Donald Trump and the blazing speed at which everything that was before January 20 is somehow different today.
It's a good thing. (Pundit Megyn Kelley says it's like waking up every morning to news that you got another raise.)
Call it a sea change, a new sheriff in town, or “a come-to-Jesus moment,” but Donald Trump is making good on promises, and bringing common sense back into fashion.
Did you see Kristi Noem – our freshly-minted Secretary of Homeland Security – on horseback last week along the Mexican border with members of Immigration and Customs Enforcement?
It was almost a “Gunsmoke” moment.
Who could forget that other time at the border, when officers were reining cutting horses to block illegal immigrants from crossing into our country. The hysterical left, along with the media and President Joe Biden, jumped to the conclusion that they were “whipping” immigrants. Those officers were put on leave while it was investigated. They were exonerated, but never got an apology.
Noem looked right at home on horseback, because as a South Dakota rancher (she took over running the family ranch when her dad died young), she's spent plenty of time around horses.
Anybody ever see Alejandro Mayorkas riding along with border patrol officers? Me either. So much for the man who insisted that the border was “secure” as millions walked across, including some very dangerous characters.
ICE Director Tom Homan is deporting illegals – starting with criminals and gang members – even as die-hard sanctuary city (ninny) officials refuse to assist ICE officers.
How could anyone vote for a mayor, or that governor in New Jersey who says he's harboring an illegal immigrant above his garage, in the face of murders of young girls by illegals, rioting in New York, drugs flooding into our country, and that Venezuelan gang that took over an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado? Who votes for local officials like that?
Meanwhile back in Washington, Democrat elected officials have gone full bat-guano crazy over Elon Musk heading up the new Department of Government Efficiency, uncovering countless examples of wasteful spending, most notably so far in the USAID program.
Our Democrat friends, incredibly, took the bait, hook, line, sinker, bait bucket and trolling motor, loudly protesting Musk's crew pointing out wasteful spending, like $20 million for a Sesame Street production in Iraq, and a tourism grant to Lebanon, at the same time the State Department advised against travel to Lebanon.
The latest revelation is that a dozen people receiving Social Security checks are 150 years old.
Does the Constitution require us to keep paying Social Security to 150-year-olds? Can't we stop that?
While Democrats wail about who has the “power of the purse,” the issue looks more like taking the whiskey and keys away from teenagers.
One would think even liberals would appreciate someone pointing out such disgusting waste. But the Democrats apparently see it as a constitutional right to waste money on every crazy DEI and LGBTQ boondoggle they can think up. Couldn't those hurricane victims in North Carolina who are wintering in tents put that $20 million Sesame Street grant to better use?
But, then, our Democrat friends have some remarkable folks in their ranks. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said last week she doubts the intelligence of Elon Musk. Which is remarkable when you consider that he builds the electric cars liberals love so much (AOC drives a Tesla), and he will soon rescue two astronauts from space, because NASA and Boeing can't get the job done.
Reminds me of when Rep. Maxine Waters said Dr. Ben Carson - groundbreaking pediatric neurosurgeon who first separated Siamese twins conjoined at the head – isn't very bright.
Yup. Maxine said that.
If you wrote this stuff in a book, no publisher would print it. Too unbelievable. But it's happening, and as Sen. Chuck Schumer stupidly chants “WE WILL WIN, WE WILL WIN,” we can all sit back and enjoy the spectacle of Democrats going enthusiastically down the drain.
Pass the popcorn.
Dave Simpson can be reached at: DaveSimpson145@hotmail.com
