Trump and Pence are at odds? The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) will take place this Thursday, with Trump scheduled to speak and Pence declining to attend.
We reported yesterday that President Trump met with the House Republican Whip in Florida on Sunday, following House Republican Leader McCarthy. Now, the House Republican Whip is speaking to the media about the meeting.
Surprise! America’s Founding Fathers left behind six chilling prophecies that are now coming true.
Rupert Darwall, a strategic adviser and policy analyst and English-language Epoch Times columnist, analyzes that Biden‘s economy will be a disaster, and that they are working to allow the Inflation of the 1970s to play out.
Trump to talk future and lessons in speech at Conservative Political Action Conference
Trump will speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Feb. 28, during which he will talk about the future of the Republican Party and lessons learned for 2020, Trump’s senior adviser Jason Miller said Saturday (Feb. 20).
Miller told Newsmax on Saturday that Trump intends to share his views on the growing Republican support for his “America First” agenda and how the GOP can win in the 2022 and 2024 elections.
I think you’re going to hear President Trump next Sunday the 28th talking about the future of the Republican Party and the lessons we learned in 2020 when we saw President Trump bring in a record number of African-American and Latino voter supporters,” Miller said. That’s more numbers than we’ve seen in recent Republican presidential election history. We have to get these voters involved in this party.”
Other confirmed speakers for the event, included South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, and former acting National Security Advisor Richard Grenell.
U.S. media: Pence declined to attend this week’s CPAC speech
On Feb. 21, U.S. media Fox reported that former Vice President Mike Pence declined an invitation to speak at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
A person with knowledge of the conference group told the outlet that Pence was invited to speak at the annual event, but he declined.
Former Pence chief of staff Mark Short said on Feb. 19 that Trump and Pence are still talking at this Time. Apollo.com compiled a report yesterday: Navarro exposed a lot of shocking insider: Pence behind the scenes with 50 billion worth of anti-Trump big money? (with video)
Republican Whip talks about meeting with Trump: He cares about the country
U.S. House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (Steve Scalise) met with former President Trump (Trump) in Florida last week. Scalise said he noted in the meeting that Trump still cares deeply about America.
“He still cares very much about this country, the direction of our country,” Scalise said. “But this conversation was more about where he is now, and what he intends to do, and how his Family is doing.”
Photo: Then-President Donald Trump (R-Texas) shakes hands with Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) in greeting after arriving at Louisiana International Airport on Jan. 14, 2019.
Scalise revealed the details of their meeting in an interview this Sunday (Feb. 21).
Scalise said on ABC that he was fundraising across Florida when he was contacted by Trump, and that he soon traveled to Sea Lake Lodge to meet with Trump.
I haven’t seen him since he left the White House,” Scalise said. And it was actually nice to catch up with him. I noticed he was much more relaxed than he was in his four years in the White House.”
Scalise added, “Let’s say across the board that anyone, anyone who resorts to violence to resolve a political dispute, there’s no place in America (that) allows it, and it should be clearly contentious.”
Trump’s meeting with Scalise was seen as another sign that Trump retains influence with House Republicans, and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) had previously traveled to Florida to meet with former President Trump.
Six prophecies the Founding Fathers shuddered at are being fulfilled
When the U.S. Constitution was written, America’s Founding Fathers recognized the fragility of human failings, with greed and corruption as inevitable features of the human condition. They left behind six chilling prophecies that are now being fulfilled.
Photo: America’s Founding Fathers / Founding Fathers.
From Washington to Jefferson, the Founding Fathers used the Constitution to give the American people a framework for success, while also leaving prophetic warnings that the great American experiment could go wrong, New York-based Writer Rikki Schlott wrote in the Daily Wire on Feb. 19. Let’s look at the first two of these prophecies today.
In 1787, Franklin stood before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and warned against a high salary for Congress (members).
“Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence on the affairs of mankind: these are ambition and avarice – the love of power and the love of money …… Place before the eyes of these men a position of honor, and at the same time a lucrative one, and they will get it with a mountain of power.”
Franklin’s concerns were apparently not heeded. The first members of Congress were paid $6 a day, while today’s base salary for members of Congress is $174,000, more than 90 percent of American earners. This does not include additional annual allowances, which can run into millions of dollars.
Franklin also warned that a high salary would attract leaders of such quality that “it will not attract the wise and moderate, the peace-loving and well-ordered, the most trusted; but the bold and violent, those with strong passions and endless selfish pursuits. These men will enter your government and become your rulers.”
Indeed, political office has been transformed from a civil service status into a lucrative career path that breeds the dreaded “career politician.” There is perhaps no better example than Biden, who was the sixth-youngest senator at age 30 and is now the nation’s oldest president at age 78. Public service has not been easy – according to Forbes, the Biden family made $16.7 million just after leaving the Obama White House.
The second prediction was Jefferson’s fear of a politicized Supreme Court.
In an 1821 letter to Nathaniel Macon, Jefferson expressed concern about the politicization of judicial power.
“Our government is now on a steady course to show by what road it will go to ruin, namely, first consolidation, then corruption ……. The engine of consolidation will be the federal judiciary; the other two branches (of power) will be the instruments of corruption and of being corrupted.”
The record of congressional confirmation votes in the history of the Court shows the sudden politicization of the Supreme Court since Jefferson’s warning. This is a relatively new phenomenon —- Only in the 1980s, appointees were regularly confirmed unanimously, including three nominations by President Reagan.
Since then, confirmation of appointments has turned into a partisan sideshow, reflecting an abandonment of appointments based on legal merit in favor of partisan loyalty. The latest iteration was the October 2020 appointment of Amy Coney Barrett (D-NY). Not a single Democrat voted for her, and the rhetoric critical of her became so harsh that she was even called “a danger to future civilization.
Our Founding Fathers envisioned a Supreme Court that would defend the Constitution regardless of political affiliation. In 2020, with only 17 percent of Americans expressing a great deal of confidence in the Supreme Court, it is clear that the institution is failing the people it was designed to protect.
Biden’s economy would be a disaster
Rupert Darwall is a strategic adviser and policy analyst. He read economics and history at Cambridge University and then worked in finance as an investment analyst and corporate finance before becoming a special advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Darvall is currently a columnist for the English-language Epoch Times. He recently wrote that the warning lights should come on. With less than a month to go, there are growing signs that President Joe Biden’s economic policies are likely to end in disaster. The economy is misdiagnosed, the political strategy is unable to defuse any of the crises, and the future economic policy mix will be as destructive as it has been in decades.
The government, bound by the Keynesian paradigm of demand management, treats every major economic downturn as a potential replay of the Great Depression and therefore requires massive fiscal and monetary stimulus to restore demand. However, the recession caused by the neo-coronavirus was not caused by a lack of demand, but by deliberate policies of the federal and state governments to shut down economic activity for public health reasons.
In the present case, the neo-coronavirus policy is the economic policy. The 11 states with the highest unemployment rates are all deep blue states that have implemented some of the toughest shutdown policies in the country, and 11 of the 12 states with the lowest unemployment rates are red states. Thus, the pace of economic recovery will depend on whether the brakes on measures taken to contain the Epidemic are released in time.
However, in response to a deliberately designed supply-side contraction, the Biden Administration‘s prescription was a $1.9 trillion stimulus package. This idea was sharply criticized by former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who argued that Biden’s stimulus plan was three times larger than the projected output gap. Summers argued that we are facing “the risk of a sharp rise in inflation expectations” given the unprecedentedly accommodative monetary environment under the supervision of Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell.
As if on cue, the Fed chairman added fuel to the fire of these expectations. Powell declared last month that “frankly, we welcome slightly rising inflation.” He said, “The kind of troubling inflation that people like me encountered growing up seems unlikely in the domestic and global context that we’ve been experiencing for some time.” If inflation ramps up, his remark could well backfire on him.
The Biden administration is trying to let the inflation of the 1970s play out
The article also said that during the campaign, Biden said the United States faced four historic crises, but what he wanted to talk about was the “painful reality of climate change” (the other crises were the New Coronavirus, the economy and “racial reckoning”). By the time the White House released its climate change briefing on Jan. 27, the number of crises had grown by 50 percent. At that event, Biden’s climate envoy, John Kerry, spoke of “all six major crises” currently facing the president (one reporter added immigration to the list, which Kerry listed as a sixth), saying “each one is a matter of Life and death. “
Photo: Joe Biden and his staff discuss the bailout bill in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Feb. 9, 2021.
The Biden administration will soon face a crisis of its own making – a policy-driven jobs crisis. As workers on the Keystone XL pipeline have discovered, creating the jobs of the future clearly means destroying the jobs of the present.
According to Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute, one worker in the nuclear and natural gas industry produces as much electricity as 1.1 workers in the coal industry, 5.2 workers in the wind industry and as many as 45.8 workers in the solar industry. The loss of productivity from wind, and especially solar, necessarily means lower wages.
Gina McCarthy, the White House national climate adviser, said that “jobs in the solar industry will be everywhere,” meaning that plenty of low-paying jobs will replace the high-paying ones the government is determined to eliminate.
The benefits of climate policies, if any, will only become apparent in the future, as their success depends on emissions reductions in all major economies, not just the United States. The benefits will be in reduced adverse impacts, not investments that lead to faster economic growth and higher living standards.
Far from being an economic win-win, climate policy is a lose-lose situation. Replacing hydrocarbon energy with wind and solar power will reduce the productive potential of the economy. In addition, decarbonized energy means that it will cost more to make products and do other things, such as heating homes and powering factories. This is why energy costs in Europe are several times higher than in the United States.
Therefore, decarbonization is a double whammy to curb inflation. As the economy becomes less productive, it causes the output gap to narrow. At the same time, by sending more wind and solar power to the grid, it makes the grid more vulnerable, pushing up energy costs and injecting cost-driven inflation into the economy.
Chairman Powell may think that the inflation of the 1970s is on its last legs, but he and the Biden administration are doing everything they can to bring it back in the 1920s.
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