There’s a dark rumour being whispered in some quarters that the whole point of the farcical Trump impeachment process isn’t actually to get Trump at all. After all, it’s patently obvious that even Democrats know that they’re never going to succeed. Instead, the whisper goes, the real object of the proceedings is to nobble Democrat front-runner Joe Biden by exposing his own dodgy dealings in Ukraine. With Uncle Joe gone, the path is clear for Hillary 2.0, Elizabeth Warren.
It’s a ridiculous conspiracy theory, of course. Just like the exaggerated rumours that the Democrats conspired to get rid of Bernie Sanders by hook or by crook in 2016. Oh, wait…
Meanwhile, Fauxahontas is sharpening her tomahawk and eying Biden’s scalp. And questions are being raised about the world’s dodgiest Indian.
At last, serious questions are being asked in the US about the radical agenda of rising Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren.
The overdue scrutiny has been prompted by a series of new polls showing the populist left-winger fast gaining on the moderate Joe Biden as the frontrunner for her party’s nomination.
This has coincided with the release of an extraordinary document from Warren which seeks to explain the magic pudding-style funding plan for her $US20.5 trillion ‘Medicare for all’ proposal to create a universal healthcare program across the US.
Yes, the American healthcare system is a horrorshow. But the way it currently is, is almost entirely thanks to the Democrat trifecta of the Clintons and Obama. As Christopher Hitchens detailed in No-one left to lie to, Hillary Clinton’s “reforms” in the 90s delivered an unprecedented windfall to the vulturous American private health mega-corporations. Obamacare made things even worse.
Now, Crockagewa wants to socialise the whole lot.
What Warren proposes goes even beyond the universal health care schemes in Australia and Britain by scrapping the option of private health insurance entirely, forcing the cancellation of private insurance for around 160 million Americans.
She has costed the scheme – a costing which the Wall Street Journal describes as a ‘fiscal and health-care fantasy’ – at $US20.5 trillion over ten years despite three other major US studies costing it at far more, between $US31 trillion and $US34 trillion.
Warren’s grandiose plan is so ludicrous that even Bernie Sanders thinks it’s nuts. Think about that: a socialist program that’s too crazy even for Crazy Bernie.
Warren is campaigning on a broad far-left agenda far more radical than anything ever proposed by the two-term Democrat presidents Obama and Bill Clinton.
She is, in effect, proposing to remake the US economy, including lifting the corporate tax rate from 21 per cent to 35 per cent, a 2 per cent wealth tax on the richest Americans and steep cuts to defence spending.
She would use these proceeds to pay for universal health and child care, a cancellation of student debt and aggressive action on climate change.
Even other Democrats can see what a pox-ridden blanket Warren will be to their chances in 2020.
Democrat house leader Nancy Pelosi is understandably worried that the Democrats are marching towards electoral suicide if they nominate either Warren or Sanders to run against Trump.
“What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan,” Pelosi said this week in a thinly-veiled jab at Warren and Sanders.
Interesting choice of references: both are areas long-run by the Democrat left. San Francisco is a wasteland of skyrocketing house prices and piles of human excrement in the streets. Michigan can’t even supply its people with clean water.
Warren’s mantra on the campaign trail is that ‘our democracy has been hijacked by the rich and powerful.’
theaustralian.com.au/world/democrats-hijacked-by-ideologically-extreme-elizabeth-warren
Warren’s personal worth is in the tens of millions. Largely earned by demanding astronomical tuition fees from the very students whose cause she claims to champion.
But at least one person will be popping the champagne if Warren wins the nomination: Donald Trump.