Environmentalists should be pleased with Hillary Clinton's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night, because it was largely recycled talking points we have heard for decades.
Putting aside the theatrics
designed to make Hillary Clinton appear to be something she is not -- the white
pantsuit was a nice touch, as white is traditionally the color of purity and
also the color of the suffragettes -- we've heard it all before.
First there was the charge that
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump cannot be trusted with the nuclear
codes. The same was said about Ronald Reagan in 1980. Democrats called him a
"cowboy" who might blow up the world. Instead, he rebuilt America's
military, as Trump has promised to do, and helped bring down the Soviet Union.
Can Hillary be trusted with classified documents?
What would an acceptance speech
by a Democrat be without promises of more programs? She'd have done better
listing past and current programs that have not worked and vowing to get rid of
them. But that's not the way of Democrats. They pile on more programs so
distracted voters won't notice the failure of the old ones. For the left,
intentions matter more than results.
Hillary Clinton's proposals will
add hugely to the debt, now approaching $20 trillion. But wait. She will pay
for all this new stuff by taxing those obscenely wealthy Wall Street people,
who paid her and her husband millions to speak to them. No one knows what
about. She won't release the transcripts.
Americans for Tax Reform (ATR)
has analyzed Clinton's proposed $1 trillion list of tax increases. They
include:
-- Increasing income taxes by
$350 billion in the form of a 28 percent cap on itemized deductions.
-- Businesses would be slapped
with a tax hike of $250 billion through "undefined business tax
reform."
-- There's the euphemistically
named "fairness tax" of $400 billion she says would restore
"basic fairness" to our tax code and an increase in the death tax.
Real fairness would eliminate the undecipherable tax code and replace it with a
fair tax, but Democrats would never go for that.
ATR notes: "...there are
even more Clinton tax hike proposals not included in the tally above. Her
campaign has failed to release specific details for many of her proposals. The
true Clinton net tax hike figure is likely much higher than $1 trillion."
Read more at: http://www.atr.org/full-list-hillary-s-planned-tax-hikes.
To my surprise, many in the
mainstream media, who couldn't stop talking about the historical significance
of the first woman nominated for president by a major political party, thought
her speech fell flat. Robert Draper of The New York Times tweeted: "Not
well written, not well delivered." Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics
tweeted: "Clinton is giving the eighth best speech of the
convention."
Ben Dreyfuss of the far-left magazine, Mother Jones, tweeted:
"This speech isn't great."
Despite the claims of her husband
that she is the best "change maker" he's ever known, change was what
President Obama promised, but failed to deliver. She would be Obama's third
term.
Polls increasingly indicate a
majority of voters want real change this time around. More people are being
drawn to Trump's message that the political system is rigged and that Hillary
Clinton is "crooked."
It's difficult to disprove a
negative, especially when the public has made up its mind. The latest Wall
Street Journal/NBC News analysis has found that one-fifth of Democrats view her
unfavorably, "more than any previous Democratic presidential nominee on
the eve of their party's convention."
