I’m amazed at this, but I actually find myself inspired by Mitt Romney. It’s purely by accident, of course, as Romney is one of the least inspiring political figures of the last 50 years.
But Romney actually said something earlier this week that provoked some thought, and I’ll be darned if I didn’t amuse myself with the results.
Anyway, that’s coming up, plus a few other things I’m throwing out as this week comes to a blessed end.
The snarky comebacks certainly write themselves, but Mitt Romney might finally have said something absolutely true on the virtual eve of his own political sunset. Romney cautioned the Democrats that the Jan. 6 obsession is getting boring:
But Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee and one of the most vocal GOP critics of Trump, recently panned Biden’s approach, telling the The New York Times that Biden’s democracy push is a “bust.”
“Jan. 6 will be four years old by the election. People have processed it, one way or another,” Romney told the newspaper via text message. “Biden needs fresh material, a new attack, rather than kicking a dead political horse.”
Romney, who voted to convict Trump for incitement of insurrection for his role on Jan. 6 and has warned against the former president’s potential return to the White House, has been critical of the Biden administration at times. But the senator was a key player in crafting the bipartisan infrastructure bill that has become one of Biden’s top domestic policy achievements and has expressed openness to backing the president’s reelection bid.
Yes, yes. Mitt Romney is the last guy who should be talking about “busts” and dead political horses. After all, he’s not running for reelection this year largely because he would have a hell of a time getting Utah Republicans to vote for him.
Nevertheless, he’s right.
The Democrats have been dining out on Jan. 6 roadkill for three years now. It’s like they saw something nasty in the woodshed. And the rest of us are done with that, especially since two things are true: one, it looks more and more like Jan. 6 was a Fedsurrection (more on that below), aimed quite possibly at stopping Congress from airing the dirty laundry of just how illegally the 2020 presidential election was conducted, and two, the overkill of the Biden Justice Department’s efforts at retribution against not the rioters of Jan. 6 but the protesters, too, has really taken the life out of J6 advocacy.
There isn’t a lot of blood left in that turnip, and yet it — and veiled exhortations to the Left’s crazies to kill Donald Trump in order to “save America” — seems like all Joe Biden and the rest of the Obama marionettes in the Democrat Party want to do.
Should we start calling Biden Joe Deadhorse? Hmmm. I was debating with myself whether I’d use the real names of all of these politicians in the upcoming satirical/scare-the-hell-out-of-you political novel King of the Jungle that will begin appearing in serialized form here at The American Spectator later this month, but thanks to Romney that debate is over.
Joe Deadhorse it is, at least where the novel is concerned. Or maybe he’s Brandon Deadhorse. Hmmm.
If you didn’t see this Tucker Carlson interview with U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-Louisiana), it’s well worth 40 minutes of your time. Higgins has been raising lots of questions about federal involvement in stoking the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, and whether it was a setup, and, even without laying out all of the evidence he says he’s seen but can’t divulge quite yet, it’s a forceful case.
Enjoy:
Ep. 61 This the smartest, best informed account of what actually happened on January 6th. pic.twitter.com/U9yCWRVJSd
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) January 6, 2024
Since apparently I’m making all of these 5QT entries about me today, a bit of housekeeping — on Wednesday, I also did an interview with Tucker about Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It’s All Obama, and that should be out for public view in the next few days.
If you’re a football fan, the world is going to take some adjusting to, and your mind is probably blown right now. After all, Pete Carroll is getting kicked upstairs after 14 years as the Seattle Seahawks’ Super Bowl–winning head coach.
And Bill Belichick is done in New England after winning oodles of titles in his own right.
But Nick Saban’s retirement as college football’s most dominant coach, having won seven national championships, the last six at Alabama, is the real head-turner.
None of these seismic changes are really all that unexpected. Belichick had a terrible year with the Patriots, and it really looked like he’d had it. Carroll had a pretty good team this year, but he’s 72, and it shows.
As for Saban, at some point this was going to happen. What more was he going to accomplish? Not to mention the fact that the transfer portal and the new NIL (name, image, and likeness) rules in college football — which a cynic would argue ruined the advantage Alabama formerly had in recruiting since NIL simply takes what was going on under the table and moves it above the table, meaning that some of the tactics that used to have Bama’s competitors howling are now what everybody does — clearly would make life tougher.
Georgia is recruiting on the same level as Alabama. Other schools are poaching transfers off Saban’s roster with increasing frequency. The game is different, and it’s clear he’s not enjoying things the way he used to.
But at the end of the day, we’re talking about septuagenarians. It’s hard to last that long in football coaching. The competition is brutal and standing out in a dog-eat-dog crowd gets harder and harder. Don’t be surprised to see a complete turnover of the long-standing big names in the game over the next few years.
But we’ll miss Belichick, Carroll, and Saban patrolling those sidelines even if we hated their teams.
Well, not exactly. At least, not because of this clip:
NADLER: “Our vegetables would rot in the ground if they weren't being picked by many immigrants — many illegal immigrants”
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 11, 2024
It’s mindblowing that they actually think this is an argument people are going to buy when the cities are bursting at the seams with illegals who are drawing federal checks NOT to work.
But Jerry Nadler (D-Poopy Pants) has never been a particularly persuasive guy. So maybe he isn’t the right spokesman to judge their message by.
What you’re about to see is an evisceration of the DEI beast. It’s gorgeous.
And not necessarily because it’s delivered by Clifton Duncan, a great Broadway and TV actor, singer, and podcaster who happens to be black.
Duncan is currently canceled by Hollywood because he refused to take the jab, and that means he’s free to speak his mind. Which he did in an X soliloquy for the ages:
READ MORE:
The Spectacle Ep. 56: Nobody Pays Attention When Biden Calls for an Insurrection
The Devil Just Went Down in Georgia
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