Democrats have been claiming every Republican in the nation wants to eliminate the pre-existing conditions requirement in health care laws. It doesn’t matter whether they actually do or don’t (most do not). Public polling shows if you can convince voters the Republican candidate is going to take away their healthcare, it’s a winning message.

Scott Wallace, a Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives in Pennsylvania’s 1st district, has been participating in spreading the leftist lies about healthcare. Specifically, he’s been running ads claiming Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) attempted to vote down the pre-existing conditions clause.

He didn’t. Even left-leaning Washington Post had to acknowledge that Wallace’s claims were a lie, giving him four Pinocchios for the outrageous claim.

When Fitzpatrick tried to question Wallace about the blatantly false ad and the continued claims by his campaign that Fitzpatrick tried to vote down pre-existing conditions, Wallace erupted. In the middle of debate. In a synagogue.

My Take

Wallace is a proud man who doesn’t like the fact that his entire campaign is built around a blatant lie. How would you feel if you had to destroy another person’s reputation by pretending they did something they did not do? His frustration over the lies his campaign is built upon are the real reason his frustration came out.

Wallace realizes he cannot win based on his ideologies or his accomplishments. His only path to victory is by continuing to lie in hopes the people of Pennsylvania are as stupid as he thinks they are.

Voters in Pennsylvania need to get this unhinged guy as far away from weapons, synagogues, and political office as possible. He’s a liar and a loose cannon. Keep Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in there to continue working for the state and the nation.

Saudi Arabia is extending their investigation into the murder Jamal Khashoggi by at least a month. This has brought further condemnation on the Kingdom from the press and some world leaders, including President Trump.

My Take

Talking heads on mainstream media bug the tar out of me, as do activist news reporters passing of biased stories as factual reports. It took a while to find this story on USA Today. Most tried to tilt the story to claim Saudi Arabia was acting on behalf of President Trump to extend the investigation until after the election. USA Today only implied it.

The sad part is that it’s far from the truth. Saudi Arabia hasn’t taken the timing of our elections into account at all with anything associated with the mess they created. They have much more important issues of their own to deal with and the inconvenience of this all happening around American election time is no concern of theirs.

If anything, the President would love for this to get resolved sooner rather than later. The beginning of October would have been nice. He could have scolded them, slapped sanctions on them, and made it a non-issue during the election. Now, the actions of a foreign government are going to have a minor impact because of the association between the two governments. Voters won’t recall that President Obama was cozier with the Saudis than just about any American President. That’s ancient history to mainstream media.

If the left tries to make this an election issue, the American people should rebuke them. The press is already doing it for them. We’ll see if it has any impact at all. I doubt it.

It really shouldn’t be the job of a small news outlet to tell the American people they are saving a lot of money because of the tax cuts the GOP enacted last year. It also shouldn’t just be us reminding people that job growth, pay increases, and those unexpected bonuses they’ve been receiving have been a response by corporate America to the tax cuts.

Unfortunately, one of the Republican Party’s biggest weaknesses is rearing its ugly head with two weeks left before election day. Their inability to educate the people about something as basic yet important as tax cuts is the second biggest reason (hatred by the left for President Trump is the biggest) a blue wave may be on our horizon. I’m leaning away from believing the blue wave will manifest anywhere near the degree that many analysts are anticipating, but the fact that there’s a potential for a blue wave at all is a direct result of the GOP not knowing how to explain tax cuts to the American people.

The tax cuts were far from perfect, but they had a dramatic effect on many aspects of the vast majority of American families. This was the thunder the GOP needed for these elections and they’ve squandered them. The saddest part is that their quiet roll out last year was because even Republicans underestimated the impact. They downplayed it all because they didn’t know corporate America’s response would be so powerful.

Roll back the clocks. It’s a month after the tax cuts were signed and at that point dozens of major companies had announced some variation of “giving back” to their employees. Some gave bonuses. Others gave raises. It was a welcome bit of extra cash just before the holidays. Mainstream media couldn’t help but report most of it because they were that significant.

Most Republican law makers and analysts said, “See, told ya so!” Unfortunately, they moved on. They fell into one of two camps with their assumptions. Some thought the American people were aware because the news they were watching was filled with talks of the tax cuts’ effects. The others assume the American people will never really understand it.

Both were wrong. They’re always wrong when it comes to understanding what the American people know and how to make them know more.

Now, we’re two weeks away from the election and many Democrats are actually running on REPEALING the tax cuts.

There were many ways to educate the people, but they lost the “information war” to the Democrats. Now, tax cuts are being painted as a gift to corporate America with no benefit to the people.

The GOP expected people would understand the benefits of cutting their taxes. They thought they’d look at their paychecks and see a difference. They thought the people would attribute job growth to the tax cuts. They even through people would read the news thoroughly and properly translate quotes from obscure CEOs.

Some Republicans gave the people too much credit for researching this on their own. Others didn’t give them enough credit and didn’t even attempt to explain the tax cuts. Both groups have failed their party and left Americans in the dark.

Whether through direct increases in take-home pay or through trickle down effects of business growth, the tax cuts have helped Americans and the economy. If the GOP knew how to communicate that, talk of a blue wave would have died from the start.