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Liberal: Wake up, Dems!
“It’s important to be clear-eyed about the various factors that will make it all too easy for Democrats to ignore or soft-pedal the need for a decisive reckoning with their ‘toxic brand,’ argues The Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira.
They include “the dirty little secret” that the Democrats’ current coalition is “extremely well-engineered for low turnout elections,” the “comfort food of thermostatic reaction against the GOP” and the fact that Dems “do not consider cultural issues,” like gender extremism, to be “real issues.”
No wonder “the concept that Democrats have delusions about their current situation — that they are in denial about the implications of the 2024 election and other trends — is having a moment.” And “their delusions, it is likely, will prove quite difficult to get rid of.”
Waste watch: GOP Must ‘Musk’ Up
“This GOP Congress is effusive in its praise of Elon Musk’s effort to cut waste and fraud,” thunders The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley A. Strassel, but that’s just “words, words, words” until “their blab becomes a plan.”
Luckily, “A handful of Senate Republicans have a plan for that, and the ear of Donald Trump.”
Led by Sen. Ron Johnson, they want a “formal process” to get spending to “prepandemic levels.”
The basic idea? “A review panel — populated by a representative span of GOP House and Senate members and the president’s budget team” would review “the budget line-by-line” and find cuts.
“The plan would take political will — the Trump team and GOP leadership would need to commit fully.”
So “bring on ‘one big, beautiful, budget committee.’”
Conservative: Liberals vs. the Constitution
“We should replace our piece of crap Constitution,” says MSNBC regular Elie Mystal, and such “radical rhetoric is becoming mainstream on the left,” warns Jonathan Turley at The Hill, as “leading academics and commentators” now “are denouncing the Constitution and core American values.”
UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky has authored “No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States”; in The New York Times, two law profs from Harvard and Yale call to “reclaim America from constitutionalism.”
All too many say “the Constitution itself is a threat and that the legal system has been corrupted by oligarchs, white supremacists, or reactionaries.”
Libertarian: Take Back Tariff Power
After President Trump “made good on his promise to impose tariffs on nearly every nation,” Reason’s Joe Lancaster flags the “small but growing bipartisan movement in the U.S. Senate to narrow or undo Trump’s tariffs.”
Led by Sen. Rand Paul, the Senate passed a resolution “that would undo tariffs Trump had previously imposed on Canada.”
Reason’s Eric Boehm praised Rand’s resolution as “the first serious attempt by Congress at limiting the president’s ability to smash free trade.”
However, notes Lancaster, Congress for decades has “repeatedly abdicated its powers to the executive branch — including the power to impose tariffs.”
Today, “Senators like Paul, [Tim] Kaine, [Chuck] Grassley, and [Maria] Cantwell should be lauded for their efforts to claw back their constitutionally appropriated power of the purse.”
From the right: No Reckoning on Joe’s Decline
“There was never a real reckoning with Biden’s condition and all the false statements his representatives and defenders and supporters had made,” but it might “be starting,” observes the Washington Examiner’s Byron York.
“A new book, titled ‘Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House’” reveals “that top Democrats, many of whom vouched for Biden in public,” knew “what bad shape he was in,” and that Reps. Nancy Pelosi and James Clyburn and other Biden insiders chose to watch the June debate alone because they feared it “would turn into a disaster.”
The anecdotes “add to the confirmation of what we already know.” But the question remains: Will Biden’s defenders in his party and the media ever “admit what they did and explain why they did it”?
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board