November, 2019, Part 1, Political Class Insanity: Wasting $2.4 Million On Bathrooms, Liberals Turn on Hillary,and Obama's Ego Is Alive and Still Huge

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) We have often showed that public education is not in a really good place in this country and has not been in a good place for years. Our kids constantly score less on standardized tests vs. the kids of other nations despite us spending far more on education than every other country. And yet we constantly come across idiocy when it comes to spending and educational priorities in the public education system as Pennsylvania recently illustrated:

• The Eastern Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) School District has apparently resolved all of the problems they have regarding education their kids because no other reason can explain what they recently decided to do.
• Their leadership decided to spend a whopping $2.4 million at their Garden Spot High School to get rid of “gendered” locker rooms.
• They are going to be replaced with so-called “zoned” facilities that can be used by any student regardless of their sex, natural or “identified.”
• In other words, the schools district is going to incur a $2.4 million expense to cater to the needs of any transgender students, who are likely a very, very small portion of the student body.
• According to the Lancaster Online website: “The step forward represents a “huge win” for Elanco students, district Superintendent Bob Hollister said. I think the privacy is going to be well-received.” Privacy has been a major issue of late. Elanco school board members, administrators and residents had debated for months a student privacy policy following community backlash over the district’s decision to allow a transgender boy to use the boys’ facilities at the high school.”
• According to Board President Glenn Yoder: “This is going to be for the good of all students.” 

It appears that this is not about a very, very small percentage of students, this is about a single student. But this is not the school board’s money so why not waste on a $2.4 million project for one student, it is the taxpayers’ money. Are we saying that there was not a much more economical solution where everyone gave a little and most of the $2.4 million could have been steered to better, education use?

The average teacher salary in the state of Pennsylvania is about $68,000 which means that this $2.4 million idiocy could have hired about 35 teachers for a single year, or five teachers for seven years. I am pretty sure that adding five teachers for a long period of time would have been a much better use of $2.4 million regardless of how inane someone thinks that “this is going to be for the good of all students.” Stupid statement and another example of government wasting hard earned taxpayer wealth.

2) Bill Maher is a raging Hollywood liberal. A lot of his previous statements about politics and politicians has been down right crude and disgusting and directed at conservatives and Republicans. As always, who really cares what a Hollywood liberal thinks?

But you do stand up and take notice when someone like Maher actually criticizes a Democrat. Hillary Clinton kind of made a fool of herself at the recent funeral of Elijah Cummings. She continues to prove that she has the warmth of a cold Arctic night.

And she has finally gotten under the skin of a Hollywood liberal in Maher:

• Maher went on TV and suggested that Clinton skip the Democratic convention next year and just “go away.”
• Specifically, Maher said: “It seems like every few months, Hillary Clinton bubbles up again. And people are like, ‘Oh, she’s thinking about running.’ Or she says something crazy...The Clintons, they’ve got to go away.”
• And he also took a shot at Hillary’s husband: “And Bill is damaged goods. And I just think they’ve got to go away. We can’t be associating them with the Democratic Party.”

Again, I never listen to the many repulsive and disgusting things Maher has said over the years about people who have a different opinion than his. But you know it is time for Hillary to hang it up if even Bill Maher cannot stand you anymore.

3) We have previously discussed the unbridled ego of Barack Obama. When Neil Armstrong died, the Obama White House released a picture not of Neil Armstrong but of Obama looking up in the sky. When the anniversary of Rosa Parks bus protest came around, rather publish a picture of Rosa Parks, the Obama White House released a picture of Obama sitting in the seat where Rosa Parks sat. When speaking at the funeral of Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye, Obama mentioned himself many more times than he mentioned the late Senator.

And apparently his self centeredness has not changed since leaving office:

• According to David Curl, writing for the Daily Wire website, Obama spoke at the funeral of Congressman Elijah Cumnings.
• According to Mr. Curl: “Cummings was a civil rights icon. Born in 1951 to sharecropper parents, he was destined for big things. When he was just 11, he led a group of boys to a whites-only pool in Baltimore and jumped in. Whites protested, holding up signs that said, “Keep Our Pool Germ Free” and “White People Have Rights Too,” the Washington Post reported. At one point, a mob “surrounded the pool, held back by a line of police with K-9 dogs, while the kids tried to splash and play. Then, over the police officers’ heads, the mob threw rocks and bottles. One of them hit Cummings in the face, cutting his eyebrow and leaving a scar he carried all his life.”
• He went on: “Cummings attended college and then got his law degree. He served for 14 years in the Maryland House of Delegates and then won election to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served until his death Oct. 17 at age 68.”
• Obviously, Cummings did a lot of good, courageous stuff in his life.
• But when Obama got up to speak at his funeral, in just a 15 minute speech, Obama mentioned HIMSELF 30 times, or two times a minute.
• Obama used the word “I” 24 times, the word “me” 3 times and the word “my” another three times.
• But his out sized vanity should not surprise us.
• Back in April he gave a speech in Germany where he was supposed to talk about community leadership and civic engagement relative to his foundation.
• But during a 90 minute town hall style meeting he somehow mentioned himself a mind boggling 467 times, more than 5 times a minute over a 90 minute session.

I never trusted people with big egos because they do things for the wrong reasons, their own self esteem rather than what is best for the people they are leading. Given the failed legacy of the Obama administration, where nothing good came out of it with the exception being the killing of Bin Laden, it should not surprise us that Obama continues to try and assure himself he is more important than he or his administration ever were. Given that his big ego resulted in a failed Presidency, maybe a little humility would have served him well.

Wasting $2.4 million of taxpayer money for no good reason, even liberals are turning on Hillary, and Obama’s ego is still high inflated, a good start for this month's political class insanity.