Broken Promises and the Politicians Who Break Them

New York Post 7/2/24 (Fair Use)

Is it too much to ask politicians not to lie to us?  They tell us what we want to hear far too many times.  Sometimes it’s in the throes of a campaign.  Sometimes it’s about an issue that is in the news.

Bill Clinton said, “I did not have sexual relations with that women, Miss Lewinski.” Barack Obama is famous for his line “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.”  Joe Biden promised to unify the country, but he did just the opposite.

Rep. James Comer of the House Oversight Committee promised that he had the goods on Joe Biden.  But nothing ever happened.  Donald Trump promised to release the Epstein files, but later changed his mind.  And he promised to punish Vladimir Putin with more crippling sanctions if the peace talks failed.

It’s on me, I suppose, for believing them in the first place.

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Promises not made could never be broken.

Take Joe Biden’s “Cancer Moon Shot.”  On the radio, I praised him for that.  Joe Biden was going to be the president that pushed science into the breakthrough we all want.  If anything ever came of that, I don’t know about it.  He never should have made the promise if it was just for show.

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Biden’s other promises, made during his inaugural address was to unite the country after the previous four years of Donald Trump.

Video:  Biden promises unity.

But the country got divided even more, especially when Biden decided to open the southern border, while claiming he could do nothing about it unless Congress acted.  That was a lie, too.

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Trump and Epstein and Putin.

I’ve never been particularly fascinated with the Epstein files.  Everyone knows about the Lolita Express and Epstein Island, and that well-known political names are involved.  Hopefully, none of them had sex with underaged girls, but the case was running a bit cold as far as news coverage.  Big shot Republicans decided they wanted to make an issue of it, and that was fine with me, too.  So, I expected to see all the gory details, except that Trump changed his mind, saying it was stupid to even think about the Epstein Files.

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The only reason I was determined to get them released is that Trump promised it.  After he backtracked on the promise, then Democrats decided they wanted the files released.  Ain’t politics wonderful?

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Now, about Putin: yes, we have sanctions on Russia, because if Russia can’t sell oil, it can’t fund the Ukraine War.  But Trump promised even stiffer sanctions if the summit meetings did not get Putin to the negotiating table with Ukrainian President Zelenskiy.  They didn’t so far.

Video:  Rubio on Meet the Press – more promises of sanctions…

But instead of slapping on the sanctions – as promised – Trump sent Secretary of State Marco Rubio to the Sunday shows to say that more sanctions would only prolong the war.  Which is B.S.

Video:  Rep. Comer’s investigation about Biden’s lies.  But nothing came of it.

Politicians that do not over promise and do not lie are a rare pleasure.

I’ve always liked Austin-area Congressman Chip Roy, who’s leaving Congress to run for Texas Attorney General.  Roy was a pain the butt for House Speaker Mike Johnson – and that’d why I liked him.

Roy took the National Debt seriously.  He tried to rein in spending, in way that most members of Congress do not.  In that way, he was unique and usually unbending.  I will miss him in Congress, especially as the National Debt soars above $37,000,000,000,000.

Broken promises are a form of lying.

There are outright lies – such as 51 members of the Intelligence Community signing a letter that claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian Disinformation.”  Of course, all of Biden’s little self-aggrandizing stories – he grew up in a black church; he drove a truck; he stood down the mighty Corn Pop; he was arrested with Nelson Mandela – can be sloughed off as Bidenisms from old Uncle Joe who doesn’t know what day of the week it is.   Then again, the man was President of the United States.

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Also, there’s promises made to get elected or promises made to satisfy the base.  Biden’s promises at his inauguration ought to mean something.  Unity, he promised, but that’s not what he gave us.   Trump’s promises about the Epstein files and the Russian sanctions may have been slammed by reality.  Why make such promises in the first places?  So you can look silly later?

Video:  Corn Pop was a bad dude.

Here’s what I’d like to hear!

From the Democrats:  Climate Change is an issue, but it’s not going to kill us.  Open borders was a bad idea implemented for political purposes that caused a lot of people to be hurt or killed.  Spending copious amounts of money using the pandemic as an excuse was a terrible idea and led to the obnoxiously high prices we have today.  We defunded the police and elected George Soros DAs and crime skyrocketed.  There’s more, but you get the idea.

From the Republicans:  Yes, the Democrats are big spenders, but we’re just slightly better and that’s because we talk a good game.  Yes, we’re pretty sure that Joe Biden committed crimes through his “family business” of selling influence, and no, we’re not going to do a thing about it.  Maybe Putin sweet-talked Trump yet again and that’s why he hasn’t put more crippling sanctions on Russia.

Or better yet:  Stop lying to us, and don’t make promises just to get elected or to satisfy the base when you know you can’t follow through.  I never vote on the basis of what politicians say in television commercials or in those ubiquitous mailers that many of us throw away without reading.  I vote for them on the basis of their past records in business and in politics.  And whether I’ve ever caught them in a lie.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter.  Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us.  Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. 

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