“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt in your philosophy.” When William Shakespeare penned these immortal words in Hamlet, he may unwittingly have been predicting the future arrival of the criminally inept Karen Bass as Mayor of Los Angeles by reminding his readers that there are mysterious and unexplained things in life beyond logic or understanding.
In November of 2022, LA voters had the opportunity to elect businessman Rick Caruso—a developer with eye-level experience in building, improving and protecting Los Angeles from the corruption and malfeasance that has riddled it for decades. But as a former Republican seeking office in the bluest of blue sanctuary cities in California, Caruso was only able to draw 45.2% of the citywide balloting.
The majority of voters instead opted to send then-Congresswoman Karen Bass to City Hall, a woman who clearly has a view of the world similar to that of an ant. How else to understand that she presided over a 17% slash in budgeting for LA firefighters…allowed the local Santa Ynez reservoir to run dry…and had department heads so incompetent that they managed to oversee a network of fire hydrants that literally failed to function during the worst wildfire crisis in Los Angeles history.
All of this came to a head as flames swept out of control, leveling 37,000 acres and destroying over 12,000 homes and businesses from Palisades to Brentwood and Encino and into the Hollywood Hills. Hundreds of thousands of residents have been evacuated, their lives forever altered; at least a dozen have died so far….the worst municipal fire disaster since the Great Chicago Fire back in 1871.
Meantime, as her city was in flames and residents were fleeing for their lives Karen Bass was whooping it up in Ghana attending the inauguration of President John Dramani Mahama. (Oddly, a Google search for photos of Bass with Mahama turns up empty…meaning either she wasn’t actually at the ceremony or else someone has used Hillary Clinton’s bleach bits to expunge her African festivity appearances while folks back home were watching their over-taxed homes burn to the ground.)
If Bass seems eerily familiar to non Californians, it might be that they recall her hysterical attack on U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) for being on vacation with his family in Cancun during a 2021 winter storm that plunged portions of Texas into darkness as ice crippled the power grid. Those words boomeranged on her this week, but not on legacy media which—of course—virtually ignored the Democrat being AWOL in Ghana during this disaster.
Confronted by a reporter at LAX airport as she landed back in the U.S., Bass stared silently ahead, refusing to answer and offering literally nothing to the residents of her city including the 510,000 who actually cast ballots for her. In the past few days, she has held several news conferences with every local and state official she could dragoon into joining her…claiming “we all speak with one voice,” while simultaneously saying literally nothing of substance. The scenes represent a DEI version of a Village People concert replete with the colorful mosaic of officials who inspire as much confidence as the stupid “Gun Free Zone” signs posted at Los Angeles City Hall.
On Saturday, Mayor Bass outdid even her already rock bottom public image by declaring that she was “griefed” by the wildfires but offered her positive spin that one of them had been “800% contained;” apparently she did not attend the Wharton School of Business. Oh, and she added that people who need emergency help or shelter information can find it—actual quote—“All of this can be found at URL.” Huh? I always believed it would be impossible to find a mayor with an IQ lower than former Chicago chief executive Lori Lightfoot, but Karen Bass clearly is the bellringer.
Not surprisingly, emergency petitions are already being organized…with phones at their organizers’ offices ringing so hard they are practically levitating; one petition gathered over 60,000 signatures in the first 24 hours.
True to form, Democrats from (mercifully) short timer Joe Biden to California Governor Gavin Newsom quickly closed ranks around Bass…lauding her “leadership” and how she is “directing” efforts to control the fires. It is probably understandable in a one-party state like California that Democrats swarm like lemmings to support Bass (whose ineptitude as mayor was only eclipsed by her forgettable 10 years in Congress) rather than running her out of town after an old fashioned tar-and-feathering rally.
Thankfully, California’s pro-Democrats-at-any-cost policy is not evident as the 119th Congress is set to open. On the Salem Media Group news program THIS WEEK ON THE HILL with Tony Perkins, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) offered a positive vision of potential Washington bipartisan cooperation on issues ranging from Border Security to Energy Policy. And even the often bizarre Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) announced he is set to meet privately with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar A Lago estate to discuss legislation on Trump’s agenda during his first 100 days.
The MAGA movement that swept the GOP into unified government last November—with the GOP controlling the House, the Senate and the White House—hasn’t cleansed California of the stain of its liberal Democratic domination just yet…but that day is coming. Seeing their homes burn and their businesses destroyed while their mayor is partying in Ghana usually tends to provide a wakeup call that will eventually strike even Los Angeles and Sacramento.
Assuming Shakespeare was right, after all.
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