A 50-50 Senate should produce compromises. But the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill is largely a Republican surrender to Democrats. It includes no major Republican priorities -- no border wall, no Keystone XL pipeline; it includes no guarantee that Democrats will relent from a proposed $3.5 trillion in additional spending; and much of the spending has nothing to with infrastructure (less than 10% is for the proverbial "roads and bridges" ).
Ken Blackwell adds at Breitbart that Republicans who vote for this bill will join Joe Biden and the Democrats in "owning" the ongoing inflation problem. His argument makes sense: if you're voting for something that spends money without raising economic growth, while adding at least $256 billion to the federal budget deficit, you're just pouring wasted dollars into the money supply.
A worthy read: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/08/08/blackwell-republicans-will-own-inflation-infrastructure-trap/
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
