Elon Musk is right about Soros, libs’ trouble with truth and other commentary
Iconoclast: Musk Is Right About Soros
“Elon Musk has been accused of anti-Semitism because of his criticism” of fellow billionaire George Soros, notes Alan Dershowitz at The Wall Street Journal. Yet Soros is “an active participant in politics, and his Jewishness shouldn’t shield him from criticism.” And: “No single person has done more to damage Israel’s standing in the world,” particularly via his financial support of the two groups that “have done the most to shift the left-wing paradigm against Israel”: Human Rights Watch and J Street. Plus, Soros’ “pernicious influence” on domestic issues includes funding anti-law-enforcement DAs. Musk’s right that Soros’ acts contribute “to fraying the ‘fabric of civilization.’ ” And Musk “has shown no hostility toward Israel or the Jewish people.”
Libertarian: Spending, Not Debt Limit, Is Key
“For all of the posturing over the debt ceiling, it’s easy to forget that” the borrowing limit isn’t the “real issue,” but that the government “spends more money than it brings in,” argues Reason’s J.D. Tuccille. The feds are now collecting “less tax revenue than anticipated,” showing that “spending is the one component” officials “can, but rarely attempt to, control.” Now Team Biden’s “flirting” with the “ridiculous idea” that it can ignore the limit. Yet if government fails to control spending, the economic consequences will be “massive.”
Conservative: Libs’ Trouble With Truth
The New York Times’ Ezra “Klein and those who share his politics seem to live in a completely lawless world, in which there is no such thing as truth, in which ridiculous ideas that were arrived at yesterday by transparent political hacks are as worthwhile as centuries of universal understanding, and in which the only reason to avoid violating the Constitution is that one might get caught,” thunders National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke of a Klein column arguing that the main reason not to try a 14th Amendment strategy to ignore the debt limit is simply that the Supreme Court’s conservative majority won’t go along. Huh? Nobody “believes that the 14th Amendment took the power of the purse away from Congress” — not the president, nor the lawmakers pushing the idea. “We might as well have a debate about whether the president should ‘decide’ to serve a five-year term.” It’s cowardly to cast “the dispute as if it’s just more quotidian politics.” So much for the “supposed love of ‘democracy’ ” by “prestigious” “left-leaning journalists.”
Disinfo watch: Schiff’s Shifty Russia Narrative
“For more than three years, [Rep. Adam] Schiff had been the face of the Democrats’ failed attempt to connect former President Donald Trump to the Russians,” and now he plans to “fail upward” by running for the Senate seat of retiring Dianne Feinstein, warns Elizabeth Stauffer at Washington Examiner. Schiff “quickly became a cheerleader for the Democrats’ narrative that the Russians had hacked the DNC’s computer to help Trump win the election,” but “the narrative that put this repellent man on the map in Washington, that Trump colluded with the Kremlin to win the 2016 election, has now been thoroughly discredited” by the Durham report, which found the probe of Trump was purely political. “This corrupt man, who has so flagrantly abused his position of power, deserves to be expelled from Congress and shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the U.S. Senate.”
From the Right: Silence Equals Assent
“A silence kept in order to hide the truth is a lie,” gripes Fox News’ Gregg Jarrett of the Durham report’s revelation that high government officials knew the “damning Trump-Russia collusion narrative” was a hoax. CIA chief John Brennan had presented President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden with reliable word “that ‘Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ ” — “the dirtiest trick ever perpetrated in American politics.” The silence of Obama, Biden, Brennan and FBI boss Jim Comey “speaks volumes about their absence of character and integrity.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
