SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET: 

NEW HAMPSHIRE MOVES AGAINST PP – From Daily Caller:  New Hampshire legislators stripped the state’s six Planned Parenthood clinics of state funds Wednesday, deleting roughly one third of their public funding.  The state’s Republican-led Executive Council rejected a $639,000 funding contract with Planned Parenthood, reported local ABC affiliate WMUR9. The Council cited a series of undercover videos in the meeting, which show top Planned Parenthood doctors discussing and participating in the harvesting, dissection, and distribution of aborted fetuses.  The Center for Medical Progress plans to release more footage, and has alleged Planned Parenthood is illegally selling the aborted baby parts for profit. But Planned Parenthood maintains the fees it charges are legally legitimate and that they do not profit from the exchange.  Hard to know how this issue will develop.  Planned Parenthood's support is down since the videos surfaced, but not by much.  The organization is extremely powerful, with wide political support, especially on the feminist left.  But it has handled the videos arrogantly.  Let's see what the GOP candidates say about the subject in tomorrow's Fox debate.

ELEANOR WINS POLL FOR FIRST WOMAN ON BILLS – From The New York Times:   Eleanor Roosevelt, who spent 12 years in the White House as first lady and traveled the world as a human-rights advocate, is the front-runner for the new face of the $10 bill, according to a poll.  Released on Wednesday, results from a Marist poll show that 27 percent of those surveyed would choose Mrs. Roosevelt. Harriet Tubman, the African-American abolitionist, was the second choice, with 17 percent. Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman who served as a translator and guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition, garnered 13 percent of the vote.  There were no numbers for Hillary Clinton  or Nancy Pelosi.  On balance, I think the respondents got it right.  Regardless of politics, Eleanor Roosevelt was a towering figure in American life until her death in 1962.  She was also a firm anti-Communist who worked to keep the ultra-left from controlling the Democratic Party.  She's the right person for the honor, although I would have loved to see Margaret Chase Smith, the great Republican senator from Maine, and Oveta Culp Hobby, the founding director of the WAC, in the running. 

JON STEWART OUTFOXED – From Hollywood Reporter:   As Jon Stewart's final Daily Show approaches, the comedian has mercilessly mocked Fox News Channel, even comparing Roger Ailes to Death. It’s almost like he’s daring the network’s chairman and CEO to respond. Now, he has.  "He’s been after us for years. Occasionally we pay attention. We think he’s funny. We never took it seriously and he never made a dent in us," Ailes told The Hollywood Reporter after being contacted on Wednesday.  The Fox News chief added: "As he faces the end of his career, he’s beginning to wonder: ‘Is this as popular as I’m ever going to get? Is this as much power as I’ll ever have? The one person I could never get rid of was Roger Ailes. I tried. I did everything I could.’ This was all a plea to his lefty friends. I think he’s disappointed that he didn’t accomplish that goal, and we, of course, supplied him with half of his comedy. It’s just a matter of disappointment."  Bye, bye, Jon.  You're a fairly funny guy at times, but don't start taking yourself seriously.  Then you'll truly see the end of your career.

OUTRAGEOUS – President Obama, showing his usual smallness, made a speech defending his Iran deal.  He made a number of ridiculous statements, but one in particular has outraged many.  From Gateway Pundit: Barack Obama pushed his Iranian nuclear deal today in a major speech in Washington DC.  During his speech he compared the Iranian “hardliners” to the Republican Caucus.  What an offensive remark. Indeed it was.  Obama, in the seventh year of his unfortunate presidency, still comes off as a minor Chicago politician with a golden voice. 

THE NEW YORK REVOLUTION BEGINS – From the New York Post:   Mayor de Blasio would be booted from City Hall if it were Election Day, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.  Forty-seven percent of New York City voters polled said de Blasio doesn’t deserve a second term, while 41 percent believe he does.  De Blasio also scored the lowest Q Poll approval ratings of his mayoral career, with a split of 44 percent giving him a thumbs down and 44 percent of voters saying he’s doing a good job. The rest were undecided.  That’s a 4-point increase in voters dissatisfied in his performance compared to earlier Quinnipiac polls this year.  His election was a fluke.  He's up for re-election in 2017, if he decides to run again.  He's proving a radical, unpopular mayor, anti-cop and pro-socialist, and he must go.  He won't get all that much support from his own party.  Governor Cuomo loathes him, and he refuses to endorse Hillary.  He can become mayor of Havana.

August 5, 2015