*Selections from our analysis topics this week… *

Joe Biden announced his wealth redistribution scheme to 40 million adults who have student loan obligations, and it may be a win-win for Democrats, regardless of whether it is green-lighted or red-lighted by the courts. The Demos’ political calculus: If the scheme does not pass legal muster, that will leave millions of voters mad at Republicans for not forcing somebody else to pay their loans.

In “Joe Biden’s Great Student Loan Heist,” Nate Jackson noted, “Either Biden buys those votes with loan forgiveness, or he inspires bitterness against stingy Republican opponents who block it in court. Heads he wins, tails the rest of us lose.” He notes that it amounts to a transfer of wealth from skilled labor to higher-income Americans, as Biden has widened his vote-buying scheme to include “loan forgiveness” to individuals with income up to $125,000, and $250,000 for couples.

ABC’s Nancy Travers dared to ask Joe Biden, “Is this unfair to people who paid their student loans or chose not to take out loans?” He angrily deflected the question with this non sequitur: “Is it fair to people who, in fact, do not own multibillion-dollar businesses if they see one of these guys getting all the tax breaks? Is that fair? What do you think?”

He then let loose this ethnic and racial stereotype zinger: “Black and Hispanic borrowers … they don’t own their homes to borrow against to be able to pay for college.” You know, they are just not smart enough to survive without government handouts.

After another reporter asked, “What about people who paid their loans, though, struggled to pay their loans, and now others don’t have to?” Biden turned and left the podium without answering.

Biden’s spokes-parrot Karine Jean-Pierre was asked six times who is going to pay for those loans — the answer being obvious — but she refused to give an answer six times. She also fudged answers about the taxpayer cost of Biden’s giveaway, but it is now estimated to be between $440 billion and $600 billion.

And there are emerging objections about the legality of Biden’s claimed authority under the 2003 HEROES Act, which provided loan relief to military personnel and veterans. And more protests about all the military personnel who earned their education support. As the Marine mom in our house says: “How about all the very fine men and women who have EARNED their educational benefits through enormous sacrifice by serving our nation our nation in uniform? Their commander-in-chief just slapped them in the face, again.”

Here is the template for the Demo spin on this in the coming weeks from leftist political strategist Leslie Marshall: “American people pay for our military … pay for public schools who don’t have children … pay for interstate highways who don’t drive out of state … I could go on and on and on and on. There are a lot of things that our tax dollars pay for that we don’t necessarily like or necessarily partake of…” So, according to Marshall, taxpayer funding for the common good is equivalent to taxpayers being forced to pay for other people’s loans?

Marshall also declared a majority of Americans support Biden’s scheme, but that assertion was based on a rigged poll from a leftist polling outfit designed to support such claims. But reputable polls indicate fewer than 35% believe loan obligations should be “forgiven,” and a solid majority of Americans are concerned about the inflationary effect.

Indeed, no question this giveaway dumps more inflationary fuel on top of Biden’s so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” lie.

There was a time when Demos bought votes with a pint of cheap whiskey. This ain’t one of those times.

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In other key analysis this week, Douglas Andrews took on the questionable legal basis for the DoJ warrant seizures from Donald Trump’s home, noting: “Perhaps unimpressed by the Fourth Amendment’s clear-cut proscription, or perhaps believing that the Founders would never have wanted the Bill of Rights to protect such a Trump-like character, the Biden Justice Department went forward with its search of Mar-a-Lago and the seizure of its documents. Never let a constitution get in the way of a good raid, we suppose.”

I highlighted the abject hypocrisy of this DoJ raid in “Demos Indict Trump for Clinton’s Crimes,” noting: “Remember when Demos tried to impeach Trump, TWICE, for what Biden actually did? Now they want to indict him of what Hillary Clinton actually did.”

Andrews also noted the overcounting and undercounting in the 2020 Census, saying there’s no surprise about the political party that will benefit in 2022 and beyond: “In the 2020 Census, the eight states that were significantly overcounted were Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Utah, and the six states that were undercounted were Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. Notice a pattern? Of the eight overcounted states, six are deep-blue Democrat states; one, Utah, is a deep-red Republican state; and one, Ohio, leans slightly Republican. As for the six undercounted states, four are solidly Republican; one, Florida, leans slightly Republican; and only one, Illinois, is a blue state.”

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And speaking of midterms, there are significant concerns about that presumptive “red wave,” as Thomas Gallatin notes: “As things stand today, Republicans gaining control of Senate seems to be more of a toss-up than an inevitability. Especially if they don’t stop the circular firing squad and start uniting around beating Democrats.” Historian Victor Davis Hanson set the course straight: “If the Republicans advance a coherent national plan of action to restore a pre-Biden America, if Trump will focus positively on national issues and not take the bait to obsess on the wrongs done to him, and if grass-roots conservatives this time around prepare to preempt massive left-wing vote harvesting, they will achieve their blowout.”

Select quotes from our daily Short Cuts section…

This week’s BIG Lie: “We passed the Inflation Reduction Act while keeping my campaign commitment: No one earning less than $400,000 a year will pay a single penny more in federal taxes.” —President Joe Biden

And plenty of “missing context” this week. Biden insisted: “Americans all across the country are back at work in record numbers. [Twenty-two] states — a record high — have unemployment rates at or below 3 percent, and 14 states now have their lowest unemployment rate on record. This is the latest sign that my Administration’s economic plan is working.” He failed to mention almost all of those states are Republican-led!

Memo to Fauci: “In January, a GOP Congress should hold Fauci fully accountable for his dishonesty, corruption, abuse of power, and multiple lies under oath. Never in our nation’s history has one arrogant bureaucrat destroyed more people’s lives.” —Senator Ted Cruz

“Someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac.” —Ron DeSantis

Non Compos Mentis: “I was trained to read and understand the Bible, and I will tell you this, there is nothing about the decision to eliminate access to abortion care that is grounded in anything other than cruelty and meanness.” —Stacey Abrams

On Biden’s student loan heist: “Instead of demanding accountability from an underperforming higher education sector that pushes so many young Americans into massive debt, the Administration’s unilateral plan baptizes a broken system.” —Senator Ben Sasse

“The people with the lowest unemployment rate in the country took out the loans, spent them, and received a product for the money. Joe Biden intends to violate his oath of office to transfer the liability for repayment to the people who didn’t do any of that.” —Charles Cooke

“Pay your own damn loans. Ex-college students aren’t the only people with debt. And why should blue collar workers subsidize college graduates. And where’s Biden’s constitutional authority to forgive loans?” —Mark Levin

And last…

“My mortgage identifies as a student loan. Can I stop paying now?” —Benny Johnson

“I’m not actually worried about the cost of college because my son is 6 foot 5 so he’s gonna get a women’s basketball scholarship.” —Jimmy Failla