Cal Thomas - Death, debt, and debauchery

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REICHARD: Alright, well, it has been an eventful week in Washington. And commentator Cal Thomas has some thoughts on what some of the recent legislative moves tell us about the Democratic Party.

CAL THOMAS, COMMENTATOR: Last week, all but one Democrat voted for the Women's Health and Protection Act. It would establish a federal right to an abortion. And with that vote, the party that once claimed to stand for “the little guy” has now hit the trifecta. It has become the party of death, debt, and debauchery. I could add deception, but that would require changing the metaphor to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

If the Democrats' multi-trillion-dollar spending bill clears both houses of Congress (at the moment a dubious proposition, but stay tuned), it will increase the national debt past already unsustainable levels.

President Biden plans to pay for the spending by raising taxes on "the rich" and corporations, a refrain Democrats have sung for decades, along with the "pay their fair share" lyric. It isn't true. Even if the government imposed a 100 percent tax on the rich and corporations it would not be enough to pay the bill, according to the Manhattan Institute and others who have done the math.

When it comes to deception, just look at what we once called the southern border. It no longer exists. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has claimed on several occasions that “the border is closed.” But last Sunday, he acknowledged the Biden administration has admitted as many as 12,000 Haitians to the United States.

Why is the Biden administration doing so little about this uncontrolled migration? Cynics might argue President Biden and his fellow Democrats are importing future voters for the party. Notice they are less hospitable to Cuban migrants, perhaps because, according to Pew Research Center, Cubans are mostly conservative and vote for Republicans, especially in Florida. And that is a critical swing state in presidential elections.

As for debauchery, look no further than the definition of the word: “Excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; intemperance.” How many Democrats are known for legislatively supporting what we once considered traditional values?

Some on the right, and occasionally in the center, already suggest the eight-month-old Biden administration is a failure. Last Sunday, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat listed just some of Biden's failures as president, including his increasingly obvious lack of clear-headedness, to put it charitably.

Whether he is a failure depends on how you define success. It appears to me that Biden and his fellow Democrats in Congress are a raging success at advancing policies that undermine American economic strength, military preparedness, and the destruction of what is left of our moral foundation. That foundation once defined right and wrong, good and bad. It also recognized enemies that want to destroy us from without. Why should they bother when we are doing the job for them from within?

I’m Cal Thomas.

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