Two editorials by the Washington Examiner.
(Biden, Harris, Trump, and Vance all wrong about Japanese steel company, Sept. 8): By moving toward blocking a Japanese purchase of U.S. Steel, the Biden-Harris administration is putting short-term political considerations ahead of both sound economics and wise diplomacy.
Blocking the deal will endanger, not save, American jobs. The almost certain result of the Biden-Harris fake nod to “made in America” values is that thousands of Pennsylvanians will lose their livelihoods. It’s far better to have Japanese corporate owners support American jobs than to have U.S. corporate owners cut jobs while ordinary American stockholders and pension funds lose billions of dollars from their savings. Blocking the deal also could undermine one of the United States’s most important alliances, weakening the U.S. position against the rapacious Chinese communist regime…. [The full editorial is at this link.]
(Biden administration short-changes national security, big-time, Sept. 14):
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was on target in Sept. 12 floor remarks lambasting President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats for failing to take national defense seriously.
Democrats’ refusal to meet security obligations was put into stark relief by a July 29 report from a special Commission on the National Defense Strategy, which, as McConnell noted, describes sobering challenges that Democrats are determined to ignore.
As we editorialized the day the report came out, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had by then already been sitting on the National Defense Authorization Act for more than six weeks after the Senate Armed Service Committee approved it for full Senate consideration. More than another six weeks later, Schumer has still done nothing, and commander in chief Biden has not publicly urged him to get moving. Even the NDAA falls short of urgent security needs identified by the commission’s report, yet the president and majority leader can’t stir themselves, the former from weeks lolling on the beach, to take even the necessary first step of passing the NDAA, much less acknowledge broader needs.
The strategy commission’s assessment is chilling, beginning with its opening sentence: “The threats the United States faces are the most serious and most challenging the nation has encountered since 1945 and include the potential for near-term major war.”…. [The full editorial is at this link.]
