Dear Editor:
It is rare that I find common ground with Warren Hecht on anything, but his observation that the only functional branch of government is judicial is spot on. Mr. Hecht, however, failed to note the obvious reason why this is so: It’s because it is the only branch of government where there’s a clear majority of conservative and intelligent people running it.
Mr. Hecht’s assessment of Kamala Harris as “mediocre” is laughably generous of him. She enjoys approximately the same disapproval rating as Biden and that is inclusive of those with the same political leanings as Mr. Hecht. She has been an abysmal failure at every assignment she has been tasked with. When the worst President in modern American history, Joe Biden, is mad at you because you’re terrible at your job, that’s next-level incompetence.
Mr. Hecht characterized the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as “ridiculous” but does not state why he feels that way. I can only speculate as to why Mr. Hecht feels this way: Either Mr. Hecht is not bothered at all that major American cities are being overrun by illegal immigrants, or he views the Mayorkas impeachment as a waste of time, since the Democratic-majority Senate will never convict him. In truth, I partially agree with Mr. Hecht here, as it is Joe Biden who should be impeached over his failure to protect Americans from the current illegal invasion, not his secretary, who is just following Biden’s orders.
Mr. Hecht’s blaming the Republicans’ rejection of a proposed border bill on Donald Trump is specious. The proposed bill would allow up to 5,000 illegal immigrant crossings a day for a week, or 8,500 illegal immigrant crossings in a single day, before tougher sanctions would be imposed. Given that approximately ten percent of our country is made up of illegal immigrants, and hundreds of thousands if not millions of military age men from countries that are hostile to the US have arrived here under Biden, signing a bill that would allow for more of this nonsense is insane.
If Mr. Hecht wants to focus on weaponizing a situation for political gain, he should look at Biden. Our President has been leaning hard on Netanyahu to prematurely end Israel’s dismantling of Hamas. He has made remarks that Israel’s response to 1,200 murdered Jews was “over the top” and has gone out of his way to demonize Israel on the world stage. Why would our wonderful President be doing this to an allied country, you might wonder. Well, it’s an election year, and Biden is far more concerned with losing Muslim support in the swing state of Michigan than he is about protecting the security of Jews from radical Islamists. Truly disgraceful!
Avi Goldberg
Sorry!
Dear Editor:
Sorry! This is such a lame word. It’s the name of a board game. It’s something that a driver says to you when he has rear-ended your car. (Really? You’re sorry that while you were texting, you hit me?) It’s also something that a person says to you when he cuts the line at a kiddush and grabs the last piece of kishka. Cinematic historians have noted that Ali McGraw and Ryan O’Neal never understood the famous line from Love Story: “Love is never having to say you’re sorry.”
Saying you feel sorry for someone is also not a great line to hear, but since King Charles and I don’t have each other’s e-mail addresses, I will admit that I feel sorry for him. Imagine toiling for a firm for 50 years and never getting a promotion. Granted, Charles didn’t make the best husband, but he certainly is a hardworking member of the royal family, and he is an intellectual. No offense to the late Queen Elizabeth, but did she really need to hold on to the throne for 71 years? Wouldn’t it have been better to hand over the keys, so to speak, when Charles was 50? She didn’t have to abdicate the throne and have him become king at 12 like Shlomo was. Instead, Charles has been king for fewer than 18 months, and unfortunately, he’s got cancer.
The lesson we learn from this is that we, as parents, should derive as much nachas as possible from our children and remind them that we love them. Love is always saying to our parents, spouses, and children that we care about them. Pick up the phone now (unless it’s Shabbos) and make the call. You’ll be happy you did.
Debbie Horowitz
Biden’s Declining Condition
Dear Editor:
There is something very, very wrong with Joe Biden. Everyone knows this. All the signs are there. The daily gaffes, the stiff gait, the failing memory. The fact that he refused to do a softball interview on Super Bowl Sunday with CBS’ Gail King showed everyone that his team knows he can’t handle any interviews at this point.
Instead of the interview, the White House released pre-recorded videos of him enjoying an awkward fried chicken meal with a black family. Also, during the Super Bowl, we were treated to another tone deaf, inane, pre-recorded message of Biden complaining about “Shrinkflation.” In the video, which given Biden’s near comatose mental state likely required a few hundred takes to produce, Biden pretends that corporations charging more for less is the cause, rather than the result of inflation.
When asked whether Biden’s upcoming physical would include a much-needed cognitive exam, our DEI Press Secretary obfuscated and refused to answer the question. Biden and his staff took umbrage at Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report that stated that he could not remember when he was Vice President and when his son died. Those surrounding Biden and the liars in the media savaged Hur, saying his comments were partisan, gratuitous, and flat out wrong.
This case of “he said, he said” has a simple solution: Release the transcripts of Hur’s interview with Biden. This, of course, will never happen, as it will out Biden as prime candidate for round-the-clock nursing-home care, and will cause the percentage of Americans who believe Biden is unfit to be President to rise faster than inflation.
Jason Stark
Dear Editor:
Moshe Hill’s latest column is just a bit over the top, and while it might really only be intended for the true believers, let’s take it at face value.
First, there’s his attempt to project some of former President Trump’s many deficiencies onto President Biden, including his contention that Biden is the true pathological liar in the presidential race. Sure, Biden has a history of having a few falsehoods that he stubbornly keeps on repeating. Does that manifest itself literally every time he opens up his mouth as it does with Trump? Not even close. Even in the cesspool of lies that is politics, Trump truly stands out.
I could pick any one of Trump’s rambling speeches and list example after example, and I would challenge Mr. Hill to do that with one of Biden’s in a way that wasn’t just pointing out things he disagrees with politically. An easy one is Trump’s continued insistence that he won the 2020 election, and the cascading series of specific lies he tells to prop that up. In the lead-up to the Iowa caucus, he even said that he won that contest in 2016, when in fact it was Ted Cruz (of course, at the time, Trump said there was cheating there, too).
Maybe you can argue that rather than those being true lies, they are just delusions caused by his extreme narcissism, but in many ways that is even worse. And Mr. Hill’s odd contention that it is actually Biden, not Trump, who regularly belittles people is even more bizarre when you Google one of the examples he was actually able to find, Biden saying, “lying dog-faced pony soldier,” and see that it was said in a joking manner. I can come up with more examples from Trump from just last week.
As for the Hur report, Mr. Hill’s claim that Hur didn’t recommend charges only because he felt a jury wouldn’t convict Biden based on his memory just isn’t what the report actually says. Sure, that is a gratuitous line included in the report by Hur, a Republican seemingly trying to keep his future job prospects in a potential Trump administration intact. But Hur spends most of the report jumping through some hoops trying to prove Biden willfully kept certain documents with national securitysays,ormation, but admits in the paragraph right before the one Mr. Hill refers to that there is a “shortage of evidence” and “other innocent explanations for the documents that we cannot refute,” and then says, “the evidence is not enough to convict.”
Ironically, given the premise of his column, Mr. Hill’s contention that charges were not recommended only because of a technicality is actually true of the Mueller report, in which Mueller essentially said that he is not recommending charges against Trump only because of a DOJ memo that says you can’t charge a sitting President. Conversely, Hur specifically says he is not recommending charges regardless of that policy. Mr. Hill also says Biden did the “exact same thing as Trump,” but Hur details why Trump’s case is different from Biden’s. It has nothing to do with Biden’s memory, and everything to do with how Trump acted after he was asked for the docs back. (Guess what? There was a lot of lying!)
The rest of the column is more of the usual. Mr. Hill attacks Biden’s age, mental acumen and health without acknowledging Trump’s own challenges in those areas. For every verbal mistake, gaffe, and sign of infirmity that you can point to with Biden, you can find something at least similar with Trump, to say nothing of the obvious personality disorder. He attacks Biden on the border, but it is Trump who just single-handedly killed, through his control of Speaker Mike Johnson, a negotiated border security agreement that included the most conservative immigration reform seen in a long while, as he prefers being able to use it to attack Biden over having the situation improve. Apparently, the border is a huge emergency, but not one that can’t wait a year!
He gives his usual view on inflation and the economy, which differs from the general consensus of economists. And he dismisses Biden’s ability to deal with Putin, while it seems to be Trump’s goal to just give Putin everything he wants with Ukraine. He’s having the Speaker refuse to bring to a vote the Senate’s package of vital aid that would almost certainly pass, and has been dropping hints about abandoning NATO. Trump also has (as of this writing) declined to condemn the death of Alexei Navalny, similar to how he reacted when Navalny was poisoned during his presidency. (Ever the victim, he did compare himself to Navalny.) Truly the person we need to stand up to Putin! And on it goes. But at least with some of those issues it’s just a question of politics, and not ignoring what is right there for everyone to see.
Regards,
Yaakov Ribner
Dear Editor:
I am concerned that we have a President who is so far into dementia that he repeatedly confused the House Speaker with our UN Ambassador.
A President who looked at the picture of a woman he says he never met then claims the woman is his wife.
A President who believes Hungary borders on Russia.
A President whose closest aides and advisors of his own party call him: a dope, unhinged, a 5th grader, and shockingly detached from reality.
Clearly, we cannot permit him to have access to nuclear codes. Fortunately, he doesn’t.
Because he is Donald Trump, who President Biden beat with the most votes in US history in 2020.
The best the Republicans have on President Joe Biden is a Trump appointee questioning his memory without any medical training, while our President was trying to keep the world from blowing apart in the aftermath of the genocidal Hamas terrorist attack of October 7. At that moment, while he was focusing on more important things, President Biden said he couldn’t remember a few unrelated matters.
Does President Biden make verbal errors? Yes, just like every single honest reader of this paper. He’s made them for years, and I’m pretty sure he will do it again.
Is President Biden over 80? Yes, he is.
And if Trump is elected again (Heaven-forbid), so would he.
The difference? President Biden is fit mentally, morally, and physically, with the experience that has led America to our lowest unemployment for the longest time in our history with falling inflation, wages rising faster than prices, and record highs on the Dow and S&P 500, among so many accomplishments that I would need pages to list them all.
Another difference? Former Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said President Biden is “sharp,” “smart,” and “tough” after besting the Speaker in negotiations. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said,
“I engage with him frequently and he’s alert, sound, does his homework, reads the papers, reads all the read-ahead material. And he’s very, very engaging in issues of very serious matters of war and peace and life and death...”
But the most important thing is, while Joe Biden has celebrated 81 birthdays without being indicted, Trump is 77 with 91 indictments in every city in the NL East except for Philadelphia.
Joe Biden is a mensch who will be attending mass every weekend and will visit the graves of his first wife, infant daughter, and adult son Beau because he remembers when it really matters.
David S Pecoraro
Former Vice President
Rosedale Jewish Center
The System Is Rigged!
Dear Editor:
We are supposed to believe that Donald Trump lost Georgia fair and square by 12,000 votes. This is what our moral superiors in the media have been telling us for years. Anyone who questions this narrative over the past three years has been labeled a tin-foil-hat-wearing, conspiracy theorist. On the basis of this narrative, Trump was charged with racketeering for challenging the results of the election, an act I will remind readers here is entirely legal!
In the past two weeks, we have discovered that the leading law enforcement agent in Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis, hired her unqualified boyfriend to prosecute the case, paid him way more than market rate on the taxpayer dime, and then traveled the world with her boyfriend’s ill-gotten gains. While testifying this past week at a hearing on whether she should be thrown off the case, she was caught in several lies about her inappropriate relationship and also admitted to pocketing leftover campaign funds for herself. It took only a few questions by defense’s counsel to expose what an arrogant, ignorant, and extremely unethical person she is. This woman represents law enforcement and is likely indicative of the type of people that were in charge of the elections and vote counts in Georgia.
I’m not positing that Trump won Georgia; I’m only bringing to light what immoral, disreputable and vindictive people we have filling very high positions within our government, specifically in the area of law enforcement. Those, such as Warren Hecht, who have enjoyed needling Trump supporters for three years how Trump lost every election challenge should perhaps take a time-out and reconsider their positions, before putting so much faith in our law enforcement.
Fani Willis was the one who had her corruption exposed, but anyone who thinks that she’s an outlier, and everyone else has clean hands, should be fitted themselves with tin-foil hats.
Jonathan Goldgrab
Dear Editor:
With a $34.2 trillion and growing national debt, the United States Senate’s proposed $95 billion aid package, which includes $60 billion to Ukraine, $14 billion to Israel, $8 billion to Taiwan, and $9 billion for humanitarian aid to Gaza should be paid for by reprogramming existing funding within our $5.5 trillion-dollar federal budget. Every billion sent to all four should be matched by providing a billion more to secure our own southern border with Mexico and our northern border with Canada. There should be separate votes for each of these funding initiatives.
The private sector and citizens must make difficult financial decisions on how to use existing resources. Americans prioritize their own family budgets. They make the difficult choices in how existing household funds will be spent. President Biden and Congress must also do the same.
Sincerely,
Larry Penner
