Rosie O'Donnell, the former actress and daytime TV host, continues to make headlines, much like a persistent cold sore that refuses to disappear.
While Ellen Degeneres has made good on her promise to relocate to the British countryside, O'Donnell remains a constant presence on social media, akin to Keith Richards' enduring presence in rock music. Last Friday, O'Donnell took to the internet to announce that she may have contracted the oral strain of Herpes. This revelation is a physical manifestation of a disease suffered by a Democrat, but it is just one example of the chronic conditions plaguing many on the political left since the November 5th election.
According to Hot Air, Rita Panahi on Sky News Australia has compiled a list of the top five left-wing meltdowns from the past week alone. This list doesn't even include the most recent examples. Despite a week of international ridicule following a donor video call that featured Vice-President Kamala Harris, complete with an awkward hiccup, Harris has made another public appearance. This marks her second public appearance in the five weeks since the election, a frequency much more acceptable than during the presidential campaign.
Harris, who is still technically the Vice-President, was the keynote speaker at the National Black Conference of State Legislators in Washington, D.C. It didn't take long for her lack of self-awareness to become apparent. This is the woman who oversaw a campaign that burned through $1.5 billion and ended up an additional $20 million in debt. Another Democratic SuperPAC reportedly ended up $50 million in the hole after the 2024 cycle. Yet, this is the person Democrats are looking to for advice on managing scarce resources.
Tim Walz, Harris' second-in-command in every sense of the term, is back in Minnesota and has given a series of interviews for the first time since realizing that America doesn't consider him a father figure. In an interview with Caroline Cummins on WCCO, Walz made a startling admission. He needs to spend more time understanding and learning about America because he cannot comprehend why Americans chose Trump's vision for the future over that of Harris and Walz. Walz, who is 60 years old, has allegedly been studying and learning about America for 59 years, yet he still doesn't have a good understanding. Walz's conclusion is that he and Kamala lost because of America's fault, not theirs. As with many other diseases, if one doesn't admit they have a problem, they're not going to get better anytime soon.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden was at the White House to recognize this year's Kennedy Center Honorees. He called on Robert DeNiro. Is DeNiro still a box office draw? Probably not. Perhaps the President can issue a preemptive pardon to DeNiro to absolve him from this crime against sanity.
Speaking of pardons, the left continues to tie themselves in rhetorical knots after Biden's unprecedented, yet predictable move to protect his son, Hunter, from further legal liability and/or jail time for an 11-year saga of vice and grift that would make Caligula blush. The concept of preemptive pardons, which would have been laughed at before the Hunter action, is now being justified as a prudent course of action for the next 42 days. Here's former Solicitor General Neal Katyal. Following along in this train of thought is Andrew Weissmann, the former lead prosecutor for Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
These two don't have to run for political office, so they can try to sell the idea that pardons like the one Hunter got are a good thing because of what they perceive will happen with Trump returning to the White House as president. Dick Durbin, long-time Senator from Illinois, who at least purportedly still wants to be re-elected, put on his dancing shoes and showed off his best moves on CNN's State of the Union Sunday with Jake Tapper. Tapper was grilling Durbin about the Hunter pardon, especially after the White House promised a dozen times it would never happen, and the senior senator from the Land of Lincoln pivoted to the Kamala Harris defense.
Did Joe Biden lie repeatedly about the pardon? Durbin can't and won't answer the question honestly, has nothing positive to offer as an alternative, so he offers up a clone of the Harris interview strategy that cost her all seven swing states. If Durbin's interview could be distilled into a song, it would be 1974's Nothing From Nothing by Billy Preston. Nothing from nothing is nothing.
Finally, Jake Sullivan, the outgoing National Security Advisor, was in Southern California at the Reagan National Defense Forum. With all the fast-breaking news out of Syria, Bashar al-Assad finally fleeing the country after a multi-generational stranglehold on Damascus for over half a century, Sullivan offered up this analysis.
Jake Sullivan now boasts that Israel is stronger and Iran is weaker as a result of Bidens foreign policy. This is true, except for that Israel is stronger and Iran is weaker as a result of Israel ignoring Bidens foreign policy.
If delusion could be measured in people, Sullivan would be China. The Biden administration's foreign policy has been the most hostile to Israel since its creation as a nation state in 1948, and the friendliest to Iran since the fall of the Shah in 1979. Israel's actions this year in the Middle East happened in spite of the White House's warnings not to engage, not with their blessing. And the resulting collapse of the Iranian crescent across the Mediterranean is exactly the opposite outcome Team Biden envisioned. To now claim credit for recent developments is the ultimate in chutzpah.
Whatever contagion afflicts the differing wings of the modern day Democratic Party, the good news is there is only a month and change until they will be in political isolation. The damage they can do, the possibility of their lunacy spreading will be contained for at least the next couple of years.
Democrats are a lot less dangerous out of power, but even during this transition period, with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris still theoretically running the country but doing so while being the lamest of all ducks, the holidays are bringing relief and hope for the future on the political front to go along with the hope for the future we have in the birth of Christ we celebrate this month. As for Rosie O'Donnell, perhaps we should all adopt Cousin Eddie's approach from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
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