When Congress fails to pass spending bills or to scrutinize the executive branch of the federal government, there are legitimate grumbles. Those are the two main elements of its job, so it should do them.
Less legitimate, especially among us conservatives, are complaints one sometimes hears that Congress is not passing other legislation. There is no proper quota, and if you prefer less government to more government, raise a cheer when the House and Senate don’t interfere more deeply in the lives of free people.
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It is thus satisfactory when Congress takes its summer vacation. Until Labor Day, the news will be blessedly free of stories about new restrictions or mandates with which the nanny state claims it will improve our lives — or at least our behavior. We can enjoy blue skies over our recreations, unclouded by the shadow of ideological busybodies.
With Congress out, the Washington Examiner magazine will also take a break. There will be no magazines on Aug. 15 and Aug. 22. Our website will continue to work 24/7, bringing readers the most reliable news and incisive conservative commentary in America. Our next print issue will come out the week of Aug. 29, so the one you’re reading is a triple issue.
When we return before Labor Day, we’ll have our sleeves rolled up, ready for an election season gathering speed. The first Republican primary debate will already have offered voters a chance to assess the candidates, and it will be scarcely more than four months until caucus and primary voting begins. Who will Republicans nominate for possession of the Oval Office?
It seems certain that the blue party will renominate President Joe Biden despite his wide unpopularity. Senior Democrats’ discontented rumblings about Biden’s age and failing faculties have fallen silent since the GOP’s midterm election failure. Democrats have made peace with a chief executive who stumbles and mumbles embarrassingly. They seem intent on giving him a second term at age 82, so he’ll be 86 at the end of his second term should he get one.
Biden is not the only unpopular candidate bidding to return to the White House. Former President Donald Trump wishes to persuade the nation that he deserves a second term, separated from his first by Biden’s four years of shambolic misgovernment.
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The ambitions of these two incompetents ignore the wishes of voters, who don’t want either of them. It is probably now beyond hope that Democrats will choose someone new. But there is no such certainty among Republicans. Will they be brave enough to pick a nominee more electable and capable than Trump?
The Washington Examiner will be here to report and analyze every step to Election Day 2024. Readers will get straight, reliable, and compelling news coverage. In addition, we will offer our thoughtful opinions, and we have strong ones. Central to them is our belief that the country would be a great deal better off with neither Biden nor Trump. Even if the former will inevitably be the choice of the Left, it is fervently to be wished that the latter will not be the choice of the Right.
